【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 turned to gold. His lovely daughter, at his loving touch, turned hard and fast to goldHis water, his bed, his clothes, his friends, and eventually the whole palace became gold. King Midas saw that soon his whole kingdom would turn to gold unless he did something right away. He asked Dionysus to turn everything back to the way it had been and take back his golden touch. Because the king was ashamed and very sad, Dionysus took pity on him and granted his request. Instantly, King Midas was poorer than he had been, but richer, he felt, in the things that really counted. And as long as he lived, he rejoiced in all that was simple and natural.According to this story, the Midas touch refers to the ability to make a lot of money , The ability of making money of everything and everywhere. The phrase is often used with verbs “have”.4 Today39。s English proverbs derived from Greek mythologyEnglish idioms are the quintessence of the language.It helps English vocabularies bee more and more abundant and vigor.Through study the definition and characteristics of English idiom, and the English idioms from myths of Greek and Roman.We get the better understanding in English idioms and culture.English idioms is an important part of the English language, it is the epitome of the language.It includes the special and fixed phrase and short sentences that only the English language has.The structure of English idioms is flexible, it can be long or short, and it is pendious.There’s muchinfluence of the Myths of Greek on English.The Greek mythology is an important part of the ancient culture that has vast and deep influence on the whole western culture.So many expressions from myths of Greek, specially some idioms, are getting into the society life of Britain and America, through the works of literature and art.It is not only enriching the English vocabularies, but also enhancing the sense of express. The direct use of proverbs in Greek mythology English idioms are concise, prehensive and vivid, and are generally used figuratively.The meanings of idioms are often implied in the images and figures they contain.Therefore, during the course of study, one should not ignore the idioms。 their strong national and cultural characteristics should be taken into consideration for the purpose of better crosscultural munication. Many idioms of Greek mythology are still being used in the same way. They are widely used now and have a farreaching influence. For example: “apple of discord” These words are often used to refer to dispute arises or curse. Like “His lawyer tried to persuade him to make a more equitable disposal of his property. ‘What you have here.’ He said, ‘is not so much a will as an apple of discord.” The indirect use of proverbs of Greek mythologyThose proverbs and stories bee the treasure and literary creation source of western culture and art, was favored by numerous literary artist. Shakespeare and Milton, Tennyson, Yeats, Keats39。s literary works all get inspiration from mythology, a large number of references of allusions. The astronomers use their pen to write articles. In their articles, proverbs of Greek mythology bee more imaginable and fantastic.5 The influence of Greek mythology proverbs on the current literatureThe Greek culture is the cradle of western culture, and Greek mythology is the cradle of Greek culture. In the long development of the history of literature, Brilliant ancient Greek39。s artistic style is like bright scenery. It can be said like this: Greek mythology is one of the origins of human’s literature development. Especially the basis for the development of European literature had a great influence on the development and progress of literary. Greek mythology proverbs provide a solid foundation for the development of British and American literatureGreek mythology is one of the origins of human literary development and it’s also one of the foundations of the development of literary. Greek mythology story appear repeatedly in Homer and later the Roman poet Virgil, three ancient Greek tragedy writer Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and drama writer Aristophanes, the medieval poet Dante. A large number of works of famous writers of modern European。 Hesiod39。s “Theogony” describes Greek mythology in the form of poem is the initial attempt。 Poet Pindar Ross, etc and the historian Herodotus also describes the myths in their works. In the revolution of Marx, Engels and other great works also can be seen the influence of Greek mythology. Greek mythology provides the unique way of thinking for literaryIndividual character of the gods is adored in Greek mythology,. The created god or hero image often contains profound philosophy, flashing the glory of thought. Such as Julius slip into the Trojan army and killed the Thracian king, he make Achilles and Agamemnon to be reconciled. Then e with The Trojan Horse, in particular, make the Greek army won the victory of the Trojan War. In the story, it’s every important behavior contains profound philosophy. Every proverb has a story. Thoselegendary storiesstillspreadabroadamong thepeople. The way they pay attention to the style of individuality has a very deep influence to British and American nowadays. People in European love the real life, the positive pursuit of nature and humanity, peopleoriented, emphasis on the power of the people such as ideas, and constantly enterprising spirit of optimism, promoting people39。s perceptual experience and rational thinking, pay attention to personal giving. For the British and American literature works provide a rich source of storyIn Greek mythology, stories eulogizing love, kindness and the struggle with evil, the stories also praise the beauty of humanistic spirit. In praising of heroism, inscribing personal pain and struggle, it has attracted a lot of readers, American and British literature and art creation provide a rich source of materials. Even many American and British astronomers use fairy tales for the subject matters of their space experiments. There are many ship named after the gods in Gr