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1、TheGreekMythandEnglishVocabularyAbstract:ModernEnglishisinconstantfusionofeachnation'slanguageandcultureandexperiencedalonghistoricaldevelopmentprocessaftergraduallyevolved.SotherearemanyloanwordsinEnglishvocabulary,andmostoftheloanwords,whichcomefromGreeklangu
2、ageoriginfromGreekmyth.TheGreekmythhasagreatimpactonEnglishvocabulary,ontheonehand,theproduceofsomeEnglishwordsdirectlytransformfromGreekmyth.Ontheotherhand,themythassociateswiththebasicwordsclosely.AnditalsohasanimportantpositioninEnglishidioms.KeyWords:Greekm
3、yth;Englishvocabulary;typesI.IntroductionAmythisafolkstoryexpressingandsymbolizingcertainfundamentalaspectsofhumanexistence.[1]Greekmythswerecreatedinancienttimes,buttheystillsurvivenow,andwerepassedgenerationbygenerationbecauseofthepermanentfascination.Theyare
4、ofgreatsignificanceinEnglishvocabulary.InRenaissance,EuropeanhumanismscholarsresearchandtranslateancientGreekandRomanclassicalliterature,sothatalargenumberofGreekmythvocabularydirectlyintoEnglish.[2]Withthenation’sconflictandcommunication,theEnglishvocabularyta
5、keinmoreandmoreGreekmyth’swordsbymanywaysandtypes,suchas,theroot,theaffix,andtheidiom.II.TypesofwaytobeabsorbedinGreekmyth2.1PartsofwordsdirectlyintoEnglishvocabularyInRenaissance,EuropeanhumanismscholarsresearchandtranslateancientGreekandRomanclassicalliteratu
6、re,sothatalargenumberofGreekmythvocabularydirectlyintoEnglish.2.1.1InfluenceonbasicEnglishvocabularyTheGreekmythhassomecharacters,whoeitherhaveacertaintypicalcharacteristics,eithertheyhadspecialexperience,sotheirnamedirectlytrans-formedintoEnglishcommonnouns.Co
7、nvertedintocommonnoun,retainedtheoriginalspelling,itsmeaningisthesymbolofthemythicalfiguremeaningandimpliedmeaning,thiskindoftransferorextendedandmythcharacterorexperienceincloserelations.Atthesametime,meaningoftheconnotationanddenotationofallhaveverybiggrow,an
8、dintheformisnotchanged,itsmeaningbyasingleconversionfordiversity,abstractintospecificcommon.Forexample,''Siren''isaseamonster,whosebodyisahalfofmanandahalf4ofbird,sheusually
