跨文化交际 Unit 4.pptVIP

Unit 4 Verbal Communication Contents Shoes for Street WalkingCome in and have a fit! Foreign language learners should pay special attention to the slang and idiomatic expressions used by native speakers. Meanings will vary depending on the context.(P69) Effective communication requires the sharing of vital internal pictures that each bearer carries.P70 Beauty=fat/skinny? Same words, different meaning Same ideas, different meaning Example 1： Same ideas, different meaning Example 2： Same ideas, different meaning Example 3： Same ideas, different meaning Example 4： Same ideas, different meaning Example 5: + Names for less common animals/birds Title signifying the one next to the principal or chief leader VS. Major semantic differences between English and Chinese terms: All rivers run into sea. 海纳百川。 A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. 平静的海洋练不出熟练的水手。 Better are small fish than an empty dish.有胜于无。 Fish begins to stink at the head. 上梁不正下梁歪。 It is a good horse that never stumbles. 良马不失蹄。 There is a black sheep in every flock. 群群羊中有黑羊。 jackal of the same lair.一丘之貉。 姜是老的辣。/家有一老如有一宝。 女子无才便是德。 红颜祸水。 There are three ways of spreading news. -- telegraph, telephone, and tel-a-woman. 传播新闻有三种方法∶电报、电话和告诉女人。 The only secret a woman can keep is that of her age. 女人能保守的唯一秘密是她的年龄。 A new broom sweeps clean. 新官上任三把火。 Where there’s smoke there’s fire. 无风不起浪。 Beauty is only skin deep. 美貌是肤浅的。 Spare the rod and spoil the child. 玉不琢不成器。 Give a person a dose of his own medicine. 以其人之道还治其人之身。 良药苦口利于病，忠言逆耳利于行。 Frank’s advice is like good herbal medicine: Hard to take, but ultimately beneficial. 瓜田不纳履，李下不整冠。 Never adjust your shoe in a melon patch; nor your hat under a plum tree. 一人得道，鸡犬升天。 Even the dog swaggers when its master wins favor. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 越是不见越想念。 An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 一天一苹果，医生远离我。 Let sleeping dogs lie. 莫惹是非。 You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. 年逾花甲不堪教。 You can’t have your cake and eat it too. 鱼与熊掌不可兼得。 It t