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EastAnimalThe Connotation of Animal Words and Translation
Skills
contentsWhat do animal words mean?How to translate animal
words?12
monkeydogdragonsheephorsemousechickenpigsnake
catturtlefishlionduckotter giraffepandadolphinfoxwolfChinese
ZodiacOXtigerrabbit5dog
You are a lucky dog!I won the lottery!Dog= DOG
Every dog has his day.
Love me, love my dog. SnakeSwanVSVSThe Same Animal with Similar
Cultural Connotation
SnakeSwanVSVSThe Same Animal with Similar Cultural
Connotation
a snake in the grass
SnakeSwanVSVSThe Same Animal with Similar Cultural
Connotation
ungrateful treacherousSnakeSwanVSVSThe Same Animal with Similar
Cultural Connotation
All your swans are geese purity elegance beauty
Link
the swan of Avon
VS Dragon
The Same Animal with Different Cultural Connotations VS
Dragon
The Same Animal with Different Cultural Connotations Dragon the
great dragon (Satan)
The woman is a dragon.Tiger vs Lion
Different Animals with Similar Cultural Connotation
powercourageroyaltyLion as brave as a lion The British Lion
the lion heart
to fish in the air to have other fish to fry No Correspondence
with Identical Cultural Connotations
Fish
a pretty kettle of fishcontentsWhat do animal words mean?How to
translate animal words?12
?How to translate animal words?Literal Translation Substitution
Explanation Free Translation
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheeps clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Literal Translation
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?How to translate animal words?Literal Translation Substitution
Explanation Free Translation
Substitution
Institutional and structural problems in Greece have become a
lion in the path holding up the development. as timid as a
rabbit
drink like a fish
a hen on a hot girdle
goose flesh
a black sheep ?How to translate animal words?Literal Translation
Substitution Explanation Free Translation
Explanation
A black hen will lay a white egg. ?How to translate animal
words?Literal Translation Substitution Explanation Free
Translation
Free Translation The ticket tout sold tickets of the concert for
ten times the original price.
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Translation Substitution Explanation Free Translation
Free Translation
When Mr. Brown planned to sell his house, his expensive
furniture became white elephants.
, expensive but uselessADDREMOVEAssignment
Figure out the cultural connotations of the animal words in
these following movie clips.
Assignment Figure out the cultural connotations of the animal
words in these following movie clips.The hospitals people said it
made me look like a duck in water. It was like a beautiful bird
flapped into our drab cage and made those walls dissolve away.
Thank you!235718.05
