【正文】 thesis. 臨沂大學外國語學院本科畢業(yè)論文 3 Chapter One Proverbs Containing Dogs and Previous Studies on It The Roles of Dog and Proverbs Containing Dogs The role of dogs with humans is different in different periods. In their early roles, wolves, their dog descendants, would have derived significant benefits from living in human camps—more safety, more reliable food, lesser caloric needs, and more chance to breed. Humans would also have derived enormous benefit from the dogs associated with their camps. For example, dogs would have improved sanitation by cleaning up food scraps. The relationship between the presence of a dog and success in the hunt is one of the primary reasons for the domestication of the wolf. The most widespread form of interspecies bonding occurs between humans and dogs and the keeping of dogs as panions, particularly by elites, it has a long history. They have earned the unique nickname, man39。s face he will get mad at you? And he will stick his head out the window if you take it for a ride in the car. Cats are smarter than dogs. You can39。 it can also be seen as partner and love. In the thesis of A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Idioms Containing Animals written by Dong tao. In ancient times, people around the world lived on farming。 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 proverbs containing dogs between Chinese and English. Many other methods are also used with the parative method, such as the statistical method, categorization, and exemplification. In the process of collecting the relevant proverbs the methods are used. From two chat and tables we can see both in Chinese and English the negative account for the most part about 45 percent. In Chinese proverbs containing dogs, positive only account for 4 percent. But in English its account for 15 percent. In the part of data analysis appeared in the next chapter, methods of categorization and exemplification are adopted. I classified these data to three parts: positive, neutral, negative. Materials Chinese Proverbs Containing Dogs In China dogs are often used to watch over its master39。 4. 好狗不咬雞，好漢不打妻。 6. 狗咬人，有藥治；人咬人，沒藥醫(yī)。咬人的狗不露齒。 Negative: 9. 肉包子打狗：一去不回頭 。 11. 見狗扔骨頭：投其所好 。 13. 瘋狗咬月亮：狂妄 。 15. 狗拿耗子 ，多管閑事。 17. 狗仗人勢，雪仗風勢。 19. 畫人難畫手，畫樹難畫柳，畫馬難畫走，畫獸難畫狗。 21. 畫虎不成反類犬 。 Most proverbs on dog in Chinese is negative. From“虎父無犬子 ”、 “牛眼看人高，狗眼看人低 ”、 “ 狗仗人勢，學長風勢 ”or other proverbs we can see that sometimes dog is used to express bad image. However many proverbs on dog is used to express the neutral habit of dog such as “人怕沒理，狗怕夾尾巴 ”、 “好狗不咬雞，好漢不打妻子 ”. Dogs in Chinese proverbs sometimes be used to contrast to human beings in the proverbs “狗咬人，有藥醫(yī)。 ”. 臨沂大學外國語學院本科畢業(yè)論文 7 English Proverbs Containing Dogs Dog is considered as the best friend of human in most Englishspeaking countries. Many proverbs containing dogs in English is positive. From the examples of “Love me, love my dog”。 2. E: Love me, love my dog. C: 愛屋及烏。 4. E： If the old dog barks, he gives counsel. C：老狗叫是忠告。 6. E： Help the dog over the stile. C： 助人度過難關。 Neutral: 8. E: Barking dogs seldom bite. C: 咬人的 狗 不露齒。 臨沂大學外國語學院本科畢業(yè)論文 8 10. E： While the dog gnaws bone, panions would be none. C：狗啃骨頭無需伴。 12. E： In every country dogs bite. C：是狗就會叫。 14. E： An old dog bites sore. C：老狗咬得很。 Negative: 17. E: When a dog is drowning every one offers him drink. C: 救了落水狗反咬你一口。 20. E ： Out of a dog39。 21. E： Don’t snap and snarl at me when I39。 22. E： Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread. C：醉翁之意不在酒。 臨沂大學外國語學院本科畢業(yè)論文 9 24. E： Despair gives courage to a coward. C：人急造反，狗急跳墻。 26. E： Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it. C：鷸蚌相爭漁翁得利。 28. E: Into the mouth of a bad dog often falls a good bone. C: 好骨頭常 常含 在壞狗的嘴里。 30. E： Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings. C：饑不擇食。 32. E： Every dog has his day. C：片瓦也有翻身 之 日 。 33. E： Give a dog a bad name and hang him. C:欲加之罪，何患無辭。欲加之罪，何患無辭。 36. E： lead a dog39。 37. E: not have dog39。 38. E:a lazy dog C: 懶漢 。 臨沂大學外國語學院本科畢業(yè)論文 10