【正文】 arious books, surfing Internet, exchanging ideas with teachers, classmates and friends. Learners should respect each other’s culture.Key Words: culture connotation animal words differences摘 要 由于不同的自然環(huán)境，歷史，經(jīng)濟(jì)和政治因素，每個(gè)國(guó)家都有它自己的文化。語(yǔ)言是文化的載體。動(dòng)物與人類有密切的關(guān)系，它逐漸成為文化的一部分。因此，了解動(dòng)物詞匯可以開闊我們的視野。并且，通過兩國(guó)文化的對(duì)比我們可以了解自己本國(guó)文化的優(yōu)勢(shì)與劣勢(shì)，以更好地發(fā)展自己的文化?？偨Y(jié)了到底這四方面存在什么不同點(diǎn)及為什么會(huì)出現(xiàn)這樣的不同點(diǎn)，然后給了例子加以說明。關(guān)鍵詞：文化 內(nèi)涵 動(dòng)物詞匯 差異ContentsAcknowledgements……………………………………………………..……………iAbstract (English)………………………………………………..…………………...iiAbstract (Chinese)……………………………………………………..……………..iiiContents……………………………………………………………..………………..iv1. Introduction……………………………………………………………………...…12. Review culture and animal words………………………..….……………………..1 The definition of culture ...……………………… .……………………………1 The relationship between culture and animal words. ..…………………………23. Cultural differences………………..…….…………………………………… .. ….2 Differences in religions and mythologies…………………….…………………2 Differences……………………………………………….…………………...3 Examples………………..………….……........................................................5 Differences in literature………………..………………………….…………...8 Differences…………………………………………..……..…………………8 Examples……………………………………………………………………...9 Differences in ways of thinking………………………………………………10 Differences………………………………………………………..............10 Examples…………………………………………………………….........12 Differences in modes of production…………………………………………..13………………………………………………………………...13 Examples…………………………………………………………….........144. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………….15References………………………………………………………………..…………1819 The Cultural Differences in Animal Words in Chinese and English1. Introduction Language and culture, intrinsically dependend on each other, have evolved together through the history. (Dai Weidong，He Zhaoxiong, 2002:127). “On the one hand, language as an integral part of human being, permeates his thinking and way of viewing the world, language both expresses and embodies cultural reality. On the other, language, as a product of culture, helps permeate the culture, and the changes in language uses reflect the cultural changes in return”. (Dai Weidong，He Zhaoxiong, 2002:130 ). Language is the base of entire culture, and it is only in language that culture can be wellpresented and handed down from generation to generation. On the other hand, language is influenced and shaped by culture。 Chinese people realize that their power is too weak in front of nature and society, and thus they need to turn to gods for help. The former was originated in the sense of guilt, while the latter one was originated in reverence. Western religion has absolutely exclusiveness, but Chinese religion has relativity and patibility. (Zheng Chunmiao, 1994). In the west, one people just can believe in only one God and one religion. It’s illegal that there’s another religion, and anyone who believe in that must be punished. In China, because it doesn’t involve whoever is given mission by God, no religion has higher status than another. Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism get along well. And they have more freedom in choosing which gods to worship.Because the beliefs are different between China and western countries, the people’s characters have shown their great differences between the two sides. Firstly, Chinese people lay stress on groups while western people on individual. The mainstream in traditional ideas is maintaining the whole country and people’s harmony. Oppositely, western world is a society that lays stress on individual. God says that person born equally but if he works hard he can go into the heaven. Secondly, morality and justice are more important to Chinese people while utilitarianism to western people. Chinese gods don’t pay any attention to their own need or money. In fact, they have no need, no hunger and they don’t even feel thirsty. With the example of gods, Chinese people are dedicatory. However, the western gods have all needs that our human beings have. The relationship between the gods and ordinary person is mercial, which makes the people utilitarianism and cold. Thirdly, Chinese people attach importance to peace and harmony but western people like to struggle. So peace and harmony have bee one of the living principles of Chinese people. On the contrary, western people are affected by the concept of superpower and struggle. (Liu Chenghua, 2002) ExamplesAs when the Lord was in the world He was innocence itself in respect to his human, and as consequently everything that belongs to innocence proceeds from Him, the Lord is called “the Lamb”, and the “Lamb of God”, as in these passages:Send ye the Lamb of the Ruler of the land from the rock toward the wilderness, unto the mountain of the daughter of Zion ().The Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters ().Whale in Bible signifies a serpent, that is, a waterserpent. It was given the meaning of evilness. In Ezekiel:Speak and say, thus said the Lord Jehovih, Behold I am against thee, Pharaoh King of Egypt, the great whale that lieth in the midst of his rivers ().Son of man, take up a lamentation upon Pharaoh King of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art bee like a young lion of the nations。 and thou hast e forth with thy streams, thou hast troubled thy streams ().However, in Chinese, lamb and whale don’t have such kind of cultural connotations. Lamb just means innocence and simplicity. And whale stands for hugeness. In the earliest Chinese Buddhist literature Li Huo Lun(理惑論)(Net. 3)，we have “對(duì)牛彈琴”(dui niu tan qin, to cast pearls before swine。 hope to see one’s son have a bright future). But its literal translation “to expect one’s son to bee a dragon” would sound ridiculous to the English speaking people, because in their minds the dragon is some evil monster which can spit fire and possesses three t