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Research Proposal 班级 11级英语9班 学号1105020272 姓名 王小进 ⅠTitle of my thesis The Influence of English Idioms on Chinese and Their Misuses 英语习语对中文的影响和习语的误用 ⅡLiterature review English is full of idioms, an idiom is “a phrase, construction, or expression that is recognized as a unit in the usage of a given language and either differs from usual syntactic patterns or has a meaning that differs from the literal meaning of its parts taken together” (Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 1991: 7-9). Idioms have many features such as the “single unit”, then the “institutionalization”, at last the “irreplaceability”… Idioms are widely chosen in English daily conversations because of their liveliness, their concision and their wit. Native speakers usually use idioms in their language to show wisdom, a good humor and command of their languages. Researchers have been paying abundant attention on the exploration of English idioms, they published such great number of books about the idioms researches, the idioms’ dictionaries, the idioms origins, the structure of idioms, the figures of speech in idioms and so on. Nowadays studies on idioms have been conducted for decades. As many as 3347 books have been published with idioms as part of their titles from the year 1999 to 2014 (from CNKI, 2014). In the past decades we all have talked about how to translate the English idioms into Chinese. Some researched the principals and theories in English idioms translation. Some explored the background and originals of the idioms and analyzed their own native cultures to the effects on English idioms. Some studied the English idioms’ structures, features, characteristics, even the differences between English idioms and Chinese “Cheng Yu” and “Yan Yu”（it is conventional phrases or sentences, and are widely acknowledged and accepted by Chinese. So much exploration has been conducted, Most of them can be divided into 3 categories: 1).At the very beginning of idioms study, most of them focus on