A Contrastive Study between English and Chinese Idioms（题目：二号，黑体，加粗，居中，除了英语小词外，其他单词首字母都要大写；另外：除了题目外，论文中所有英文的字体均采用“Times New Roman”）外国语学院 2001级英语教育1030120011XX XXX 指导老师：XXX（学院、专业、学号、作者姓名、指导教师姓名（小四号宋体字，加粗），依次排印在论文题目下，上空二行，居中）【Abstract】 This paper centers on the different expressions of ……（英文摘要：上空二行；题目采用五号“Times New Roman”字体，加粗，置于粗体方括号【】内，顶格放置；随后的内容与前面的粗体方括号【】之间空一格，不用其他任何标点符号；采用五号“Times New Roman”字体，不加粗；单倍行距。）【Key Words】 idiom; comparison; English; Chinese （英文关键词：题目采用五号“Times New Roman”字体，加粗，两个单词的首字母要大写，置于粗体方括号【】内，顶格放置；随后的内容与前面的粗体方括号【】之间空一格，不用任何其他标点符号，采用五号“Times New Roman”字体，不加粗，除了专有名词外，其他单词的首字母不大写，各单词之间用分号“；”隔开，分号之后空一格；最后一个关键词之后不用任何标点符号；单倍行距。） Introduction (顶格，除了第一个单词及专有名词外，其他单词首字母都不要大写；标题最后不用任何标点符号，上空两行) In both English and Chinese， … So， this essay is trying to focus on the differences between Chinese and English idoms in terms of their essential meaning， customary usage and typical expression (Chang Liang， 1993:44; Li Guangling， 1999) (段落第一行缩进4个英文字符；夹注的标注法：出现在夹注中的作者必须与文后的参考文献形成一一对应关系；注意一个或多个作者间的标点符号，时间、页码等的标注法；另外，汉语参考文献的作者要以拼音形式出现，不能出现汉语姓氏；夹注出现在标点符号之前) The similarities between English idioms and Chinese idioms In English， … And it can be clearly seen in the below examples: (1) I don’t know。我不知道。 (2) I am not a 我不是诗人。 (正文中的例子以（1），（2）…为序号排列，直至最后一个例子；而①， ②…则为脚注或尾注的上标序号)… The differences between English idioms and Chinese 1 The characteristics of English idioms（正文章节序号编制：章的编号： ，， ，…；节的编号：1，2…，1，2…；小节的编号为：1， 2…。小节以下层次，采用希腊数字加括号为序，如（i），（ii）…；之后再采用字母加括号，如(a)， (b)，…;每章题目左顶格，小四号字，加粗；每节（及小节以下）题目左顶格，小四号字，不加粗但要斜体；所有章节的题目都单独一行，最后不加任何标点符号） … In conclusion， …2 The characteristics of Chinese idioms … Feng (1998) found some problems as shown in the following examples (注意此句中夹注的另一种写法): (9) We never know the worth of water till the well is (10) People take no thought of the value of time until they lose …1 The analysis of the differences between English and Chinese idioms …(i) … …(ii) … … Conclusion …Bibliography (References) （小四号，加粗，后面不加任何标点符号）Sanved， The Oxford book of American literary anecdotes[C] New York: OUP，
American literature refers to written or literary work produced in the area of the United States and Colonial A For more specific discussions of poetry and theater， see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United SOverviewDuring its early history， America was a series of British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United S Therefore， its literary tradition begins as linked to the broader tradition of English However， unique American characteristics and the breadth of its production usually now cause it to be considered a separate path and Colonial literatureSome of the earliest forms of American literature were pamphlets and writings extolling the benefits of the colonies to both a European and colonist John Smith of Jamestown could be considered the first American author with his works: A True Relation of Virginia (1608) and The General Historie of Virginia， New England， and the Summer Isles (1624) Other writers of this manner included Daniel Denton， Thomas Ashe， William Penn， George Percy， William Strachey， John Hammond， Daniel Coxe， Gabriel Thomas， and John LThe religious disputes that prompted settlement in America were also topics of early A journal written by John Winthrop discussed the religious foundations of the Massachusetts Bay C Edward Winslow also recorded a diary of the first years after the Mayflower's Other religiously influenced writers included Increase Mather and William Bradford， author of the journal published as a History of Plymouth Plantation， 1620– Others like Roger Williams and Nathaniel Ward more fiercely argued state and church Some poetry also Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor are especially Michael Wigglesworth wrote a best-selling poem， The Day of Doom， describing the time of Nicholas Noyes was also known for his doggerel Other early writings described conflicts and interaction with the Indians， as seen in writings by Daniel Gookin， Alexander Whitaker， John Mason， Benjamin Church， and Mary R John Eliot translated the Bible into the Algonquin Jonathan Edwards and Cotton Mather represented the Great Awakening， a religious revival in the early 18th century that asserted strict C Other Puritan and religious writers include Thomas Hooker， Thomas Shepard， Uriah Oakes， John Wise， and Samuel W Less strict and serious writers included Samuel Sewall， Sarah Kemble Knight， and William BThe revolutionary period also contained political writings， including those by colonists Samuel Adams， Josiah Quincy， John Dickinson， and Joseph Galloway， a loyalist to the Two key figures were Benjamin Franklin and Thomas P Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin are esteemed works with their wit and influence toward the formation of a budding American Paine's pamphlet Common Sense and The American Crisis writings are seen as playing a key role in influencing the political tone of the During the revolution itself， poems and songs such as "Yankee Doodle" and "Nathan Hale" were Major satirists included John Trumbull and Francis H Philip Morin Freneau also wrote poems about the war's Early US literatureIn the post-war period， The Federalist essays by Alexander Hamilton， James Madison， and John Jay prepresented a historical discussion of government organization and republican Thomas Jefferson's United States Declaration of Independence， his influence on the Constitution， his autobiography， the Notes on the State of Virginia， and the mass of his letters have led to him being considered one of the most talented early American Fisher Ames， James Otis， and Patrick Henry are also valued for their political writings and The first American novel is sometimes considered to be William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy (1789) Much of the early literature of the new nation struggled to find a uniquely American European forms and styles were often transferred to new locales and critics often saw them as For example， Wieland and other novels by Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) are often seen as imitations of the Gothic novels then being written in EUnique American styleWith the War of 1812 and an increasing desire to produce uniquely American work， a number of key new literary figures appeared， perhaps most prominently Washington Irving， William Cullen Bryant， James Fenimore Cooper， and Edgar Allan P Irving， often considered the first writer to develop a unique American style (although this is debated) wrote humorous works in Salmagundi and the well-known satire A History of New York， by Diedrich Knickerbocker (1809) Bryant wrote early romantic and nature-inspired poetry， which evolved away from their European In 1835， Poe began writing short stories -- including The Masque of the Red Death， The Pit and the Pendulum， The Fall of the House of Usher， and The Murders in the Rue Morgue -- that explore previously hidden levels of human psychology and push the boundaries of fiction toward mystery and Cooper's Leatherstocking tales about Natty Bumppo were popular both in the new country and Humorous writers were also popular and included Seba Smith and Benjamin P Shillaber in New England and Davy Crockett， Augustus Baldwin Longstreet， Johnson J Hooper， Thomas Bangs Thorpe， Joseph G Baldwin， and George Washington Harris writing about the American The New England Brahmins were a group of writers connected to Harvard University and its seat in Cambridge， M The core included James Russell Lowell， Henry Wadsworth Longfellow， and Oliver Wendell Holmes， SIn 1836， Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)， an ex-minister， published a startling nonfiction work called Nature， in which he claimed it was possible to dispense with organized religion and reach a lofty spiritual state by studying and responding to the natural His work influenced not only the writers who gathered around him， forming a movement known as Transcendentalism， but also the public， who heard him Emerson's most gifted fellow-thinker was perhaps Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)， a resolute After living mostly by himself for two years in a cabin by a wooded pond， Thoreau wrote Walden， a book-length memoir that urges resistance to the meddlesome dictates of organized His radical writings express a deep-rooted tendency toward individualism in the American Other writers influenced by Transcendentalism were Bronson Alcott， Margaret Fuller， George Ripley， Orestes Brownson， and Jones VThe political conflict surrounding Abolitionism inspired the writings of William Lloyd Garrison and his paper The Liberator， along with poet John Greenleaf Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe in her world-famous Uncle Tom's CIn 1837， the young Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) collected some of his stories as Twice-Told Tales， a volume rich in symbolism and occult Hawthorne went on to write full-length "romances，" quasi-allegorical novels that explore such themes as guilt， pride， and emotional repression in his native New E His masterpiece， The Scarlet Letter， is the stark drama of a woman cast out of her community for committing Hawthorne's fiction had a profound impact on his friend Herman Melville (1819-1891)， who first made a name for himself by turning material from his seafaring days into exotic Inspired by Hawthorne's example， Melville went on to write novels rich in philosophical In Moby Dick， an adventurous whaling voyage becomes the vehicle for examining such themes as obsession， the nature of evil， and human struggle against the In another fine work， the short novel Billy Budd， Melville dramatizes the conflicting claims of duty and compassion on board a ship in time of His more profound books sold poorly， and he had been long forgotten by the time of his He was rediscovered in the early decades of the 20th Anti-transcendental works from Melville， Hawthorne， and Poe all comprise the Dark Romanticism subgenre of literature popular during this
