文档介绍：外国语学院语言学导论课程论文
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llusion, and religion, and there are an increasing number of English and Chinese idioms about them which are concise, readable and vivid. And with the development of economy and science, globalization is a more and more obvious phenomenon. The relationship between countries is becoming closer and closer. In order to understand these idioms more clearly and make the international communication more effectively, it is useful and necessary to compare such idioms.
Ⅱ. Reasons causing cultural differences
Culture is an extremely complex concept and an enormous subject. Culture consists of all the shared products of human society. This means not only material things such as cities, organizations and schools, but also non-material things such as ideas, customs, family patterns, short, culture refers to the entire way of a society, or the way of people.
Different geography
Geographic environment is the foundation of humans’ existence and development, so different geographic environments have different influences on the formation and development of the nations’ culture . China is located in Eastern Asia, the west coast of Pacific Ocean. China is always a country which agriculture plays an important role since ancient time, so a large number of idi