Influences of Roman and Greek Myths on English Idioms

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1、希腊罗马神话对英语习语的影响InfluencesofRomanandGreekMythsonEnglishIdiomsContentsAbstract…………………………………...…………………………………1Keywords……………………………………………………………….....1I.Introduction……………………………………………………………...2II.Literaturereview…………………………………………………….....3III.RomanandGreekmyths………………………………………….......31.RomanandGree

2、kmyths……………………………………………......32.TheinfluenceofRomanandGreekmyths………………...…………….5IV.Englishidioms……………………………………………………….....6V.TheEnglishidiomsaboutRomanandGreekmyths………………....71.SwordofDamocles……………………………………………….……...72.Pandora'sBox………………………………………………………....73.Anappleofdiscord……………………………………

3、…………………84.Gordianknot……………………………………………………......95.Mercury……………………………………………………………......9VI.Conclusion…………………………………………………………...9References………………………………………………………............10Abstract:Inthemodernsociety,acountryornationmustcommunicatewithothercountriesornationsforsurvivinganddevelopment.Forth

4、isreason,wemustlearnthelanguagesofothercountriesornations.Inthecourseoflearningforeignlanguages,aproblemappearedbeforeus:Wehaverememberedmanywordsandhavelearnedtherulesofthelanguages,butwhydowemakemanymistakes(can’tunderstandortheothermeaningsoftheword)?Atlast,wefoundthereasonsofthisprobl

5、em;thereasonisthatwedon’tknowthebackgroundofthelanguageandthecultureexpressedbythelanguage.Forthisreason,itisneedtolearnthebackgroundofthelanguage.AncientRomanandGreekcivilizationistheoriginofthewesterncivilization.Ithasproducedprofoundinfluenceuponwesterncivilization.TheGreco-Romanworldp

6、ervadeseverywesternandmanynon-westernsocieties;itincludesliterature,arts,architectureandlanguages,etc.TheRomanandGreekmythsarevitalinGreco-Romanworld,anditisthemainpowerintheinfluenceofGreco-Romanworld.InEnglishvocabulary,therearemanywordsoriginatedfromtheRomanandGreekmyths，thisthesiswill

7、talkabouttheinfluencesofRomanandGreekmythsonEnglishidioms.Keywords:Englishidioms;RomanandGreekmyths;influence摘要：在现代社会，一个国家或民族想要生存和发展，就必须对外进行交流。为了与外交流，就必须要学习其它国家或民族的语言。在学习外语的过程中，我们又发现一个问题，我们已经知道了很多的词汇，也知道了很多的语法规则，但是为什么我们在与外交流中，还是会出现很多无法理解或是产生歧义的情况呢？后来我们终于发现，这是因为我们对其语