作品介绍
this multicolored world is full of fantastic things. when people are enjoying the beautiful scene of nature, they created many words to describe colors. people formed a rich association with colors. colors are closely related to peoples real life, whether in english or chinese, so that a variety of different colors or color words are of various kinds. because of the differences of the nations cultural, historical background and cultural deposition, the same color has different symbolic meanings. these symbolic meanings are used in the common idioms. therefore, not only should we watch through their basic meanings, but also we should know far-reaching implications. in this mini-lecture, four colors such as red, black, white and yellow were explored in terms of their different implications in chinese and english backgrounds.