An Analysis of Metaphor Comprehension Process from Psycholinguistic Perspective

科技信息人文社科torical allusions and legends which influence the understanding of the lan-Therefor, we should never neglect customary culture in diferent lan-guage. In ancient times, Britain was once conquered by Julius Caesar, andguages, or we may sonetines fall into a language trap and become a laughingClaudius from Rome Empire, s0 English is deeply inluenced by Roman cul-stick.ture and Greek culture. Some simple stnuctures express very profound mean-3. Conclusionings. The stories in the Bible, in Greek mythology, in Roman mythology, andLanguage and culture are very closely related. Trunslation means trans-in Aesops' fables influence English greatly, too. As for“Achille's hee!", if weating the culture of a language. Through this article, we can find that bothChinese and English vary in their respective cultures. There are also somenerale point. "'The Trojan Horse" also comes from the Trojan War. The hugeother factors infuence English -Chinese translation, which need our atentionwooden horse left in Trojan is full of danger, which causes the eity intoand research.Greeks' hands. There are some other idioms, suchas "Grek's git"(害人的English leamers should continue to enrich their mind with cultural礼物)，“Juda's kiss' (死亡之吻),“Pandora's box' (灾难之源)“the last sup-knowledge, and distinguish cultural differences between both languages. Forper' '(最后的晚簀) which are the rllction of historical culture.English teachers, they must change the teaching methods. If the teachers onlyLove is blind. Whe we translate it into Chinese, we ofen say“情人眼里focus on grammar and pronunciation teaching, studentsnot leam the出西施"."Love is blind" is from Westerm culure. It is about Cupid, who isfrom Roman mythology and Eros, but there are no Cupid or Eros in Chinese.Therefore, they can not do good translation work. Teachers should strengthenWhen we translate such idiom we do it in very chinese version.cuture education and guide students to contact with Westem eulture materials5)Customary Cultureextensively, and improve their eros8- -cultural awareness. Only in this way, canCustomary Culture shows thal, people in daily life, form their nationalEnglish leamers make fewer mistakes in comprehending the original and rep-customs and habits. In Chinese, we call offe table“茶几", but not“咖啡resenting the target language.桌". Because in the long history, Westermers have developed the habit ofdrinking clfe. but in China, people prefer drinking tea. 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