【正文】 Tiger, Hidden Dragon（臥虎藏龍）got the Best NonEnglish Language Movie Prize of Oscar in 2001, which broke the record of boxoffice value of the nonEnglish movies. They directly translated “龍” in the Chinese movie’s title into “dragon”, which shows that the Chinese cultural connotation of the Chinese “龍” , dragon, with a mendatory sense, has already been accepted by foreigners nowadays, though it was often changed into tiger in English or something like it in the past. This year, the third part of a famous movie Mummy(木乃伊) will be produced in August in Xi An, a historically famous city in China. The main actor of this movie is the famous Chinese star Li Lianjie. The name of this part is Mummy3 : The Curse of Dragon(木乃伊3：龍的詛咒). I believe this movie will be a great success, and the Chinese cultural connotation of dragon will make another great sensation in the world. At that time, the Chinese dragon and its Chinese cultural connotation will be well known by more foreigners all over the world. 5. ConclusionThis paper analyses the cultural connotations between the English and Chinese animal words, and pares the animal images and their cultural connotations. We have learned that animal words have their own features and cultural connotations in their own languages. Some of their cultural connotations and images are the same, but most of them are different, and some even exist only in their own language and make the vacancies between the two languages. These differences are caused by religion, history, geographical environment, customs, and so on. We can not always translate directly the animal words of the original from the source language into the target language. We must be well acquainted with the habits and environments of both the source language and the target language before translating them into the target language, and try our best to know the cultural connotations carried by animal words. In the process of translation, we should pay special attention to the cultural connotations of animal words of the two languages, keep objectivity of the original and shun subjectivity. Only in this way, can we translate properly both the real meaning and the style of the original from the source language into the target language. Bibliography1. Chen Wenbo. English and Chinese Idioms[M]. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 1982.2. Cobuild, Collins. Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary[M]. London: London and Glasgow, 1987.3. Hornb A. S. Oxford Advanced Learner’s EnglishChinese Dictionary (Fourth Edition)[M].England: Commercial Press and Oxford University Press, 1997.4. Ivor H Evans. Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Centenary Edition) [M]. London: Cassell, 1975.5. Nida, Engine A. amp。 some support the inspirations for some inventions of science and technology。 translation method漢英動物詞的文化內(nèi)涵對比及翻譯摘要 中英文里都含有大量和動物有關(guān)的詞語、習(xí)語和表達(dá)。它們的詞義、文化內(nèi)涵及其應(yīng)用范圍都有相同或相似之處，也有不同之處。 and some are a kind of close friends of people, playing an important role in the mankind’s society. Thus animal words and expressions have slowly bee a significant member of the basic vocabulary of many languages in the world. Chinese and English are no exception. Some animal words in Chinese and English are the same or similar in cultural connotations, because the Chinese people and the English people have some same capabilities of thought, some same laws of cognition, and some animals have the same important role in the human life of these two nations, and have the same attributes and features. But some of them are dissimilar or different. The cause of it is that the English people and the Chinese people are different in religion, history, geographical environment, customs and so on. This paper tries to elaborate the similarities and the differences between the cultural connotations carried by animal words in Chinese and English, find out the causes of differences, and then discuss some methods and techniques for translating these animal words.2. Cultural connotations of animal words in Chinese and English In linguistics, English lexicon includes simple words, pounds and idioms. And the meaning of a word includes grammatical meaning and lexical meaning. Lexical meaning has two parts. They are conceptual meaning and cognitive meaning. The former is the center of the meaning of the word, and it indicates definitely the object. Conceptual meaning has parative stability, so it is also called referential meaning. Cognitive meaning has the meaning of emotional color, it shows emotions and attitudes to the contents that the word refers to. So cognitive meaning is also called connotative meaning. Cultural connotation contains cognitive meanings and cultural meanings. Cultural connotation of a word refers to the cultural information that a word has been given by the society, including the added meaning or the implied meaning given by the social background, and the special feelings conveyed among a certain social group. A Comparison of cultural connotations of animal words in Chinese and English According to the linguisticdomain category, there are three cases in correspondence of Chinese and English animal words. They are basic correspondence, partial correspondence, and no correspondence. Basic correspondence of cultural connotationsThere are variou