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Whenpassingthroughprismsunshineareanalyzedintosevendifferentcolors:

red,orange,yellow,green,verdant,blue,andpurple.Infact,objectsthemselvesinnaturedonothavefixedcolorsasweseeinourdailylife.Wemankinddistinguishtheircolorsbyseeingthereflectedlightbeamsonthesurfaceoftheobjects.Thespecificcolorisdecidedbythereflectionofthelightandabsorptionoftheobjects.However,wehumanbeingsadded“color”toemotionsandmake“colors”haveemotionalvaluesandconceivingwondrousculturalmeanings.

Insocialanthropology,”culture”isacatchwordforallthosepatternsofthinking,feeling,andacting.ltisalwaysacollectivephenomenon,becauseitisatleastpartlysharedwithpeoplewholiveorlivedwithinthesamesocialenvironment.Culturecanbeclassifidintoseverallayersofwhichhistorioal,regonal,religious,andsocialcultures.Languagesandculturearecloselyrelated.Certainlanguagereflectscertaincultureinwhichthelanguageisused.Astwodifferentlanguages,ChineseandEnglishhavetheirownculturalcharacteristicsandconnotations.WecomparestheculturalconnotationsofChineseandEnglishcolorwordstoseehowimportanttheculturalbackgroundofalanguageisincrossculturalcommunication.

ColorwordsarefrequentlyusedbothinChineseandEnglish.AmongEnglishwordstermsofcolormakeupagroupofwordsthatareparticularlyrichinculturalassociations.Thismeansthattheycanbeusedeitherliterallytorefertodifferentcolorsormetaphoricallytoconveytheirassociativemeaningsindifferentlanguagesandcultures.TheconceptualmeaningsconveyedbythetermsofcolorareroughlythesameinEnglishandtheirequivalentsinChinese.Butthesametermsofcolorinthesetwolanguagesmayhavedifferentculturalassociation.ItisnaturalthatEnglishtermsofcolormayhaveculturalassociationthatisnottransparenttoChineselearnersofEnglishasaforeignlanguage.Alotofcolorwordsareproducedunderspecialhistoricalandgeographicalbackground.Ifwedonotunderstandthesecolorwords,theirsocialcustomandculturalbackground,itwouldbehardforustocommunicatewitheachother.Itisveryimportantforustograspthedifferencebetweentheliteralmeaningandassociativemeaning.Further,itispracticallyusefultoknowandstudythedifferences,thuspromotingtheculturalcommunicationandtranslationpractice.Thisarticlefocusesondiscussingthesimilaritiesanddifferencesofcolorwordsindifferentculturalfieldstohelppeopletohaveabetterunderstandingofdifferentcultures.

2colorwords

Thecolorisakindofhumanbeing'

saesthesiaintheobjectiveworld.Variouscolorsexistinthenatureorinsociallife.Theso-called"

beautifulworld"

or"

colorfullife"

provesthatpeople'

sactuallifeiscloselyrelatedtocolor.“Scientificresearchindicatesthatsevenmillionkindsofcolorscanbefoundintheworld.However,colorexpressionsareonlylimitedtoseveralhundredsinclassification.Thenumberofwordsforexpressingcolorinlanguagesofvariousnationalitiesdiffersanditsclassificationvariesaswell.”[1]

2.1classification

EnglishandChineseExpressionsonColorscanbecategorizedintotwokinds:

oneisthebasiccolorwords,suchasred（红）、yellow（黄）、blue（蓝）、green（绿）、white（白）、purple（紫）、gray（灰）、brown（棕）、black（黑）andsoon;

anotheriscolorwordsindicatingcolorsofobjects,suchasgold（金黄）、silver（银白）、orange（橘黄）、lead-gray（铅灰）、fish-belly-gray（鱼肚白）、waxy-yellow（蜡黄）、orange-red（橘红）、chestnut-brown（栗色）、blue（天青）andothercolors.[2]

2.2DiverseExpressionsofColorWords

Thousandsofcolorsexistinthenature,theyalsohavequitealotwaysofchanges.sosometimesthebasiccolorwordsandcolorwordsindicatingcolorsofobjectsareinsufficienttoexpressthecolorworldnumerous.Thereforewemayusethefollowingwaystoreflecttthecolorslightchange:

1dark（deep）+colorwords;

Eg:

我们的船向前走，两岸的青山在黄昏后，都成了深黛颜色，连着退向船后梢去。

（鲁迅：

《故乡》）

Aswesetoff,thegreenmountainsonthetwobanksbecamedeepblueinthedusk,recedingtowardthesternoftheboat.

（杨宪益、戴乃迭译）

2light（pale）+colorwords,orcolorwords+ish;

粉红色的吴少奶奶，苹果绿色的一位女郎，浅黄色的又一女郎，都在那里疯狂的跳、跳！

（茅盾：

《子夜》）

Mrs.Wusunfuinpink,agirlinapple-green,anotherinlightyellow,allwerefranticallyleapingandwhirlingaroudhim.

（许孟雄译）

橱窗里的那件浅黄色的外衣吸引了她。

Shewasattactedbytheyellowishcoatintheshopwindow.

3pale（dull,darkling）+colorwords;

Eg：

惨黄的太阳在窗前弄影，远远的微风吹来了浑浊的市声。

Apaleyellowsunlinghtthrewshadowsonthecurtainandafaintbreezebroughtthehumoftrafficfromthedistantstreet.

4vivid（lushi,bright）+colorwords.

屋后是一块翠绿的菜园。

Therewasavegetablegardenofavivid