【正文】 ture,they also have quite a lot ways of sometimes the basic color words and color words indicating colors of objects are insufficient to express the color world we may use the following ways to reflect t the color slight change: 1 dark(deep)+ color words。 （魯迅：《故鄉(xiāng)》） As we set off , the green mountains on the two banks became deep blue in the dusk ,receding toward the stern of the boat. ( 楊憲益、戴乃迭 譯 ) 2 light(pale)+color words, or color words +ish。 She was attacted by the yellowish coat in the shopwindow. 3 pale(dull,darkling) + color words。 （茅盾：《子夜》） A pale yellow sunlinght threw shadows on the curtain and a faint breeze brought the hum of traffic from the distant street. （ 許孟雄 譯 ） 武漢科技大學(xué)本科畢業(yè)論文 4 4 vivid(lushi,bright)+ color words. Eg: 屋后是一塊翠綠的菜園。 we wear clothes in different colors。 however, they are varying from race to race, from culture to culture, from social group to social group, mostly owing to their different realizations and recognitions towards colors. All these reasons make human’s imagination of colors immensely rich. Basic Meaning of Color Words According to its scientific definition, color is a visual phenomenon caused by certain light waves being radiated from, reflected by, or perated through, a certain object. It is a fundamental feature of human eyes. [4]In Chinese and English dictionaries,most of color words are definited by describing their hue,consistency and use the objects which they have known best to describe the Oxford modern English dictionary we can find some color words and their basic meanings. Blue:having a color like that of a clear sky Brown:having the color produced by mixing red， yellow,and black,as of dark wood or rich soil . Green:of the color between blue and yellow in the spectrum 。藍(lán)顏料和紅顏料混合即呈現(xiàn)這種顏色。 白：是物體被日光或與日光相似的光線照時(shí) ,各種波長(zhǎng)的光都被反射時(shí)呈現(xiàn)的顏色（與 “黑 ”相對(duì)）。 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 Co