Human Beings Animals Metaphor

Metaphor is a creative cognitive way, which form the relationship between the human beings with the other things by conflicting language or eliminating the wrong place and metaphor is an unique complex mechanism that is attractive for human beings recognizing their ego. Metaphors are universal, systematic, and cultural unity.People have maintained a lasting and deep relationship with animals in a long history." The metaphor "human beings are animals" is a basic ideology, which is a cultural pattern via a long-term interaction between people and animals. Chinese and English idioms is a special form of cultural to be realized by analysing the essential meanings and express human and animal metaphors. Based on conceptual backgrounds, there are similarities and differences between chinese's and english's own cultural traditions and knowledge to understand the mal Idiom of animals,People and animals are in the differente quisites for the establishment of metaphor,and metaphor as the basis of similarity to the end to connect people and animals, which can map the characteristics of animals to the people, and promote the concept of our human awareness, we can structure of human knowledge " specific level schma " theory and the "existence of a large chain" model, as well as background knowledge for the mastery of cultural traditions to understand the metaphor.Human beings are high-level exsist and ainimals are low-level exsis, but there are very important recognition in human beings and ainimais.This paper aims to involve cognitive linguistics theories of metaphor as the key link, from the conceptual metaphors, such as context to understand the viewpoint of Animal Idioms, the imilarities and differences among the metaphorical meaning as well as the formation mechanism, and thus understand "human beings are animals".The basic meaning of a metaphor ideology.This article will start by introducing metaphors, including the history of metaphor, conceptual metaphor theory, metaphor working mechanism of the type of metaphor, and then applied analysis "human beings are animals "and show the relationship of animal idioms and cultural similarities and differences to reveal the similarities and differences between humans and animals, the relationship between people and animals and " human beings are ainimals"metaphor understanding model.