习语翻译
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➢ Idioms: (in broad sense may include): set phrases, proverbs, sayings, epigrams, slang expressions, colloquialisms, quotations, twopart allegorical sayings
火上浇油 to pour oil on the flames / add fuel to the flames
滴水石穿 Constant dropping wears the stone.
浑水摸鱼 to fish in the troubled waters
自吹自擂 blow one's own trumpet
➢ 习语(又称熟语):短语,成语,俗语,谚语, 格言,箴言,名言(引语或语录),警句,隽语, 俚语,粗话,行话,歇后语(包括双关语)
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Features of Idioms
➢ 英汉习语的共同特征:
➢ 1、习语是一个民族的语言中最为精彩的一章,是民族文化的瑰宝与结晶。
➢ 2、习语是语言中独立、不规则而固定的因素,往往以短语或短句的形式 出现在句中,在句中多半是当做一个成分使用,有时它的作用就等于一 个词。它的意义往往不等于它的组成分子(单字)意义的总和。
➢ at sixes and sevens, spick and span, then and there
➢ through thick and thin
➢ tit for tat
➢ neither fish, flesh or fowl
➢ Care killed the cat.
➢ Money makes the mare to go.