【正文】 The were still fresh in color. One was purplishred, another pink, still another a sickly ivoryyellow slightly tinged with bloodred. 2 紅的火紅，白的雪白，青的靛青，綠的碧綠，更有那一株半株的丹楓夾在里面┅┅ The red were as red as fire, the white as white as snow, the blue as blue as indigo and the green as green as emerald, while here and there were a few red maples. 3 Through a crack in the wall, the sky was a fishbelly grey. 魚(yú)肚白從土壁的破洞里鉆進(jìn)來(lái)了。 Symbolic Meaning of Color Words The symbolic connotations of colors in the western culture are fairly direct by emblematizing some abstract cultural connotations with the specific colors of an object, making it easier to trace back their semasiological and logical foundation. Fro instance, Red mainly indicates blood in western cultures, which, in westerners’ minds, is the “l(fā)iquid of life” running in human bodies. Once blood runs up, the blossom of life dies. Consequently, the red color brings about a taboo which is associated with “violence” and “danger”.Similarly ,Chinese people traditionally cut red couplets and appllique to celebrate occasions like wedding and New Year. Besides,We have a very famous trademark “double red happiness”(紅雙喜 ) which is symbolic of good that we can see the symbolic meanings of colors has been established in the long historical development and reflects a certain mental function. Mary Jo Meadow, director of Religion Researching Center of Ivory University and physiatrist, once made a metaphor: At the very beginning of Chaotic, God created two types of people: purple and green. The two had very similar appearance. Only the green people could regenerate, yet the purple are much more taller and stronger than the green. In the world of Natural Competition, the purple had the priority and mastered the green. If the God one day wants to bee a human being, he chooses purple with no hesitation. This tells why people in the west have the 武漢科技大學(xué)本科畢業(yè)論文 6 custom of cherishing “purple”. [5] In western world, purple is the color of nobility, elegance and the symbol of power. In English we have “be born in the purple”, meaning “born in the family of an emperor or a noble”, “raise somebody to the purple” meaning “set somebody the emperor or the bishop”, “marry into the purple” meaning “to marry to the noble”. Pragmatic Meaning of Color Words “Affective meaning is municated when the feeling or attitudes are expressed in language. In interpersonal munication it is important to understand the emotional and attitudinal meaning the speaker is conveying. In each language there are a small number of words primarily used to express the speaker’s emotions or attitudes.” [6] Various colors express different feelings. Generally speaking, red is used when a person is angry while green is used when someone is jealous. White means frightening, blue means a person is in a sulk and yellow means cowardice. Although both two languages use color words to figure other people or things, the same color means differently between two languages. We all know that blue is the color of sea. It indicates peace and serenity. But when it turns to the emotion, it has the meaning of depression and melancholy. Eg: It was blue (boring) Monday and john nodded sleepily over his books. You get a chance like this in a blue moon (vary rare). He is a person who is always a blue nose (put on air). Color words can produce various associations of ideas, which make a great affection on person’s mood. That is why people use color to explain a person’s moral character, mood and his opinion to things. We can see many metaphors when we use color words to describe a person’s moods and behaviors. Eg: He was looking rather green (feel not good) the other day. He has been feeling blue (gloomy) today. I hope he’ll soon be in the pink (pull himself together) again. When I saw him, he was in a brown mood (worried). Mr. White is a very white (loyal) man. He was looking rather green (feel not 武漢科技大學(xué)本科畢業(yè)論文 7 good) the other day. He has been feeling blue (gloomy) today. When I saw him, he was in a brown mood (worried). I hope he’ll soon be in the pink (pull himself together) again. [7] 3 Influence of Cultural Differences on the Meaning of Color Words Every nation has its own way of living and thinking, cultural environment and traditional culture. Because of this, the cultural information reflected by different languages is quite different. Color words are very abundant in both Chinese and English, and substantial differences exist in English and Chinese in terms of cultural meaning of the color words due to the different cultural and historical background. Their symbolic meanings often have different characteristics in the two nations, and some of them even bee the diversified factors or dislikes for different people. And after careful study of color words, it is easy to find that color words can produce various associations, which have a great effect on a person’s moods and behaviors. To summarize ,there are four main different methods which influence the meanings of color words:different living conditions， different customs， different religions believes and different history ,I will analizy them one by one. Influence of Different Living Conditions The culture of english is also the culture of color of sea has very important significance to english they call the sky and the sea”The Blue”.But in Chinese sentance”撥開(kāi)云霧見(jiàn)青天 ”,”青天 ”indicates the white sky. The American dollar is green,so green in the . can replace money,forturn and rich. In English green also means lacking in experience ,not being trained and can see some examples : In American political elections the candidates that win are usually the ones who have green power backing them. 武漢科技大學(xué)本科畢業(yè)論文 8 在美國(guó)政治競(jìng)選中獲勝的候選人通常都是些有財(cái)團(tuán)支持的人物。 another is c