English and Vietnamese idioms

This article is focused on some similarities as well as differences of the idioms and proverbs between English and Vietnamese. Consequently, to assist close the multicultural divide and establish efficient communication, learners utilize idioms and proverbs linked to relationships in both languages.

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Money has existed and accompanied with people for a long time. It has an indispensable role in every society and is a measurement for the prosperity, power and influence of a nation. Due to its importance, money appears in a lot of idioms expressing people’s ideas, attitudes, preferences etc. The paper uses the methods of data collecting and analyzing to look into some major types of meaning of 100 idioms concerning money.

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Graduation thesis "A study on colors used in idiomatic expressions in English and Vietnamese equivalents" is aimed at: help readers to have better understanding about the basic background of idioms, its definition, types and classifications. Clarify the meaning of some English and Vietnamese idioms related to color. Research about the similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese idioms.

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The study is expected to reach the following objectives: To study how idioms are organized structurally and semantically in English and Vietnamese; to establish the similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese idioms in terms of structural and semantic components; to provide main factors lying behind the similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese idioms.

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This study aims to investigate idioms that carry conceptual metaphor about power based on the theory of Lakoff and Johnson. To go further, this study is done to explore the similarities and the differences between the use of metaphor about power in English and Vietnamese idioms that reflect the culture of each language community.

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Idioms are used a lot in English language by native speakers, sometimes as a simpler way to express a complicated idea, sometimes to be more creative in using language. There is a great deal idioms that are color-based idioms. The differences between Vietnamese and English culture resulted in many differences in their languages and idiom is not an exception.

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This study is done with the hope to reach some aims at: Giving knowledge of idioms. Distinguishing the similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese idioms. Helping the leaners solve problems when studying idioms as well as understand the meaning and usage of English idioms.

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Examine the description of semantic features of metaphor in English and Vietnamese idioms denoting human feelings; discover some similarities and differences in using idiomatic metaphor especially those used in English and Vietnamese idioms denoting human feelings.

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Examining the syntactic and semantic features of adjective and verb phrases as idioms using the words of body parts in expressing emotion in English and Vietnamese; finding out the similarities and differences in adjective and verb phrases as idioms using the words of body parts in expressing emotion in English and Vietnamese.

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The study is basically studied the syntactic, semantic and cultural characteristics of English idioms and proverbs relating to women in comparison with Vietnamese ones. More importantly, providing language learners with a basic knowledge of this field will help them master the meaning of idioms and proverbs, and easily and naturally translating them to each of these languages.

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Part 1 Oxford dictionary of idioms book introduces the reader to the English idiom that are arranged in alphabetical order from A to rhyme k. Hopefully this will be a useful document for those who want to learn English idioms common in life. Invite you to refer to the disclosures.

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This paper discusses a proposal by Alexander Gode that Interlingua be used as an intermediate language for mechanical translation. The wordby-word translations proposed by Gode from Interlingua into English are not always easily understandable or editable, because of the presence in Interlingua of idioms, reflexive verbs, multiple meanings for particles and other words, and non-English word-order. Some revisions in Interlingua are suggested which would make it more useful for mechanical translation....

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Idiom - A group of words (or a single word) which have a meaning that is not understood by combining the standard definitions of the individual words (though that meaning may sometimes be inferred). Idioms are a style or form of (often artistic) expression, characteristic of a particular language, group, subculture, school of thought, generation, or medium (for example, movies and television). Idioms can convey that the current situation being described has a resemblance with past history, and in that sense they may be similar to analogies or metaphors.

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We have prepared 100 American idioms in order to help you learn English better. These idioms are the most common in use today. And we hope that you “won’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” List of Idioms 1. “to have one’s finger in too many pies” - To be involved in too many things at the same time. (so you can’t do any of them well) 2. “to kill two birds with one stone” - To manage to do two things at the same time. 3. “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” -...

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