Difference between Chinese and English culture in the figurative meaning and association of animal;

Generally speaking,Chinese idioms have double meanings: image meaning and connotation meaning.

Animal idioms of both English and Chinese can be compared in the following three aspects:(1) Same referent,same metaphorical meaning;(2) Same referent,different metaphorical meaning;(3) Different referent,same metaphorical meaning.

The results showed that these students mainly comprehend literal meaning of Chinese idioms in non and middle contexts,and they mainly comprehend metaphorical meaning of Chinese idioms in strong context.

Because of the Chinese-Western cutural differences,one cannot fully understand or properly use such idioms without having comprehended the metaphorical meanings of the animal words by analyzing their development of associative meanings.

The Polysemy and Variability of the Metaphorical Meaning and Their Understanding;

Construction of metaphorical meanings in animal terms by relevance blending theory;

This paper attempts at an analysis of the cognitive characteristics in both the Chinese and English languages by comparing the metaphorical meanings of Chinese and English animal terms.

Through the analysis of Le Corbusier s representative construction works and design philosophy,this article divides his development process of creative style into three stages:machine aesthetic,savagerism and metaphorism,and expounds the style characteristics at each stage,to increase the cognition of people to the architectural works of Le Corbusier.