英語顏色詞之黃色.ppt

1、The sense of yellow color in Chinese and English,In Chinese,Yellow is one of the colors that the Han people most advocate, which culturally implies “sacredness, imperial power, honor, solemnity, territory”, etc. It has been the color of Chinese nation since ancient times.,In Chinese,Ancient Chinese

2、belived that yellow is the natural color that will never change. The Yellow River, also called “huanglong”(黃龍yellow dragon ), is the craddle of Chinese nation.The Yellow River Valley is the birthplace of the Han culture.For thousands of years, people of the Han nation live and farm by the Yellow Riv

3、er Valley,eat “huangmi”(the glutinous millet, rice grown on the Yellow Earth), drink the water from the Yellow River, and then have the Yellow Skin, so the color “yellow” has always been in the mind of the Han people.,Gold is similarly yellow , so yellow also implies “wealth, rank and brilliance”. I

4、n history, the rich families wear all kinds gold personal ornaments and have gold household utensils. Because of the value of gold, people today call”huangjin shijian”（黃金時間）to refer to the most precious time, “huangjinjijie”(黃金季節(jié)) means the best season of a year, and “huangjinzhou”(黃金周the golden wee

5、k) the one week long holiday in Nation Day in October in China today, people also called “huanjinshidai”(黃金時代)to mean “the most precious life timethe time of youth.,When people say “huangse”(黃色) today, it usually has a strong derogatory sense related with “sex or porn”.So the saying today”huangsedia

6、nying”(黃色電影sex movies), “huangse gequ”（黃色歌曲decadent songs）and the whole business is thus called “huangdu”(黃毒porn epidemics).,In English,Yellow in English is different from the word in Chinese, which used to mean “cowardly”, for example: 1) turn yellow is to say becoming a coward. 2) he is too yellow

7、 to stand up and fight or turn yellow means he is too timid to stand up and fight; Yellow never means “pornography” in English, it refers to some newspapers that deliberately include sensational reports to attract readers, as in “the yellow press”,In English,In English, sometimes yellow used on spec

8、ial things, for example: 1)“Yellowstone National Park”is a famouse American park; 2)the taxi is represented by “yellow”but not the word of “taxi” in some of American cities,because the taxi there painted with yellow color; And both in English and Chinese, there is yellow page. That is a book with the telephone number of different shapes, business, organizations, etc, arranged in order of different categories. Yellow page is a very useful handbook whose pages are yellow, but the content is