【正文】 eat dog” 狗咬狗 . Dogs are representing of loyalty both in Englishspeaking countries and China. To the Englishspeaking people, dogs are often regarded as one of the best friend of human beings. Dogs can be kept not only as watchdog but also as pets. They are kept because they are intelligent, loyal, dependable and being able to make good panions. Therefore, the dog is usually associated with positive qualities in the West. “Every dog has his day”, in this proverb his way does not mean mon but mean the day when someone became success. We can translate it as 風水輪流轉 . “To put the dog”, It means that someone doesn’t t have lots of money in pocket when he or her makes the first appointment with lover he is also not dressed so brightly. And he or she borrows some money and clothes from their friends for the appointment. We can translate it as 充門面擺闊氣 . In chapter 3 named learning methods of animal proverbs。 8. 悶頭狗，暗下口。 16. 牛眼看人高，狗眼看人低。人咬人，沒藥醫(yī) 。 7. E： He is a lucky dog. C：他是個幸運兒。 15. E： like a dog with two tails C：高興得跟什么似的 16. E： Old dogs will learn no new tricks. C：老年人很難學會新事物。 23. E： Give a dog a bad name and hang him. C: 給人加個壞名聲，他就永遠洗不清。 31. E： Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread. C：狗兒把尾搖，愛的是面包。s life C： 過著豬狗不如的生活 。 42. E： Beware of a silent dog and still water. C： 提防不吠的狗 , 小心 靜止的水。s culture and they embody different people39。 霍恩比 (AS Hornby)編，李北達譯， 2021,《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》。北京 :商務印書館。北京 :金盾出版社。 郭建民， 1992《英語諺語研究》。s experiences and understandings of the world have some similar areas. Therefore, there are lots of similar of the same animal proverbs in English and Chinese. Dog in both China and foreign countries have many habits in mon. They all bite human beings if they are threaten. This is the reason why neutral description count for a part and witch could not being allowed to ignore. Both Chinese and English men tend 臨沂大學外國語學院本科畢業(yè)論文 13 to use the image of dog to express human native characteristics. So there is no surprise why dogs in both Chinese proverbs and English proverbs the negative is more than half. Dog39。 41. E： a dog in the manger C： 占馬槽的狗 。 35. E: When a dog is drowning, every one offers him drink. C:待到狗溺水，眾人給水喝。 29. E： The cat and dog may kiss, yet are none the better friends. C： 貓狗雖相吻，總難成好友。m trying to do my best for you. C：狗咬呂洞賓不識好人心。 13. E: An old dog cannot alter its way of barking. C:老狗難改常吠聲。 5. E： Better to be the head of dog than the tail of a lion. C: 寧為雞頭不當鳳尾。 22. 狡兔死，良狗亨 :高鳥盡，良弓履 。 14. 蒼蠅嘴巴狗鼻子：真靈 。 7. 愛叫的狗不咬人 。t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. Dogs e out in both Chinese and English proverbs. Previous Studies on Proverbs Containing Dogs In the graduation thesis of A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Proverbs Containing Animal and Plant Words written by Feng Xiaohui. The reason why different peoples can create different metaphorical proverbs about the same idea has discussed in detail. He made a parative study on the Rhetoric Level and on 臨沂大學外國語學院本科畢業(yè)論文 4 the cultural Level. He tried to find connections between language and culture. And he had noticed the effect of different living environments, different living styles, different religious beliefs, studies of different values on proverbs containing animals including dogs. In the thesis of English DOG and Chinese GOU:Comparison on English and Chinese Cultural Connotations in Terms of Animal Words written by Yang Jing. He found that the words or phrase people use and the culture in which people live are closely related. Connotations of the words or phrases are in general closely related to the culture they are rooted in. we should be aware that the words or phrases we choose to use may lead to misinterpretations and misunderstandings. And in the thesis of The Comparison in the ”Dog” image in the Idioms Between English and Chinese written by Dong Xiaojin, he said that dog is humble in Chinese. It is a curse if one uses it to describe human beings. However dog for British and American people, both can be used to guard, hunting。 因此，這篇文章致力于比較研究英漢語言中 關于狗的諺語，包括：此類諺語的不同含義，異同以及產生異同的原因 。 proverbs。 關鍵字 ： 狗 。 he proposed the theory of learning the cultural background of the animal idioms including dog idioms. 臨沂大學外國語學院本科畢業(yè)論文 5 Chapter Two Methods and Materials Methods Document analysis and parative method are adopted in the research. I spent much time searching proverbs containing dogs on the inter and read the books I borrowed from our library. Through the extensive data collection, I classified these data to three parts: positive, neutral, negative two table, and two charts came out. Document analysis is mainly used on the basis of the previous studies, different Chinese and English proverbs containing dogs and the achievements by other scholars. Document analysis method is used to set the research content or the research object. It is clear that the research deals with the contrastive analysis of pro