| ABSTRACT | 第1-9页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第11-13页 |
| CHAPTER I RELEVANT LITERATURE REVIEW | 第13-23页 |
| ·A HISTORICAL RETROSPECT OF THE STUDIES ON IDIOMS IN THE WEST | 第13-19页 |
| ·Semantic perspective | 第13-15页 |
| ·Syntactic perspective | 第15-16页 |
| ·Pragmatic perspective | 第16-17页 |
| ·Problems with the western researches | 第17-19页 |
| ·A HISTORICAL RETROSPECT OF THE STUDIES ON IDIOMS IN CHINA | 第19-21页 |
| ·Linguistic characteristics of idioms | 第19-20页 |
| ·Sources and comparative study of idioms | 第20-21页 |
| ·Problems with the Chinese researches | 第21页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第21-23页 |
| CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS | 第23-35页 |
| ·CULTURE AND LANGUAGE | 第23-27页 |
| ·Culture | 第23-24页 |
| ·Language | 第24-26页 |
| ·Relationship of language and culture | 第26-27页 |
| ·VALUE AND IDIOM | 第27-35页 |
| ·Value | 第27-28页 |
| ·Idiom | 第28-33页 |
| ·The definition of idioms | 第29-31页 |
| ·The characteristics of idioms | 第31-33页 |
| ·The relationship of value, idiom and cross-culture competence | 第33-35页 |
| CHAPTER 3 A SURVEY OF THE CHINESE AND ENGLISH VALUES | 第35-48页 |
| ·A SURVEY OF THE CHINESE TRADITIONAL VALUES | 第35-42页 |
| ·Confucianism and its influence on Chinese value | 第35-37页 |
| ·Three main traditional Chinese values | 第37-42页 |
| ·Oneness between man and nature | 第37-40页 |
| ·Collectivism orientation | 第40-41页 |
| ·Hierarchy orientation | 第41-42页 |
| ·A SURVEY OF THE ENGLISH VALUES | 第42-48页 |
| ·Dividedness between man and nature | 第42-44页 |
| ·Individualism orientation | 第44-46页 |
| ·Equality orientation | 第46-48页 |
| CHAPTER 4 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHINESE AND ENGLISH IDIOMS FROM THE VALUE PERSPECTIVE | 第48-67页 |
| ·CHINESE IDIOMS VS. CHINESE VALUES | 第48-57页 |
| ·Chinese idioms vs. oneness between man and nature | 第48-51页 |
| ·Chinese idioms vs. collectivism orientation | 第51-55页 |
| ·Chinese idioms vs. hierarchy orientation | 第55-57页 |
| ·ENGLISH IDIOMS VS. ENGLISH VALUES | 第57-67页 |
| ·English idioms vs. dividedness between man and nature | 第57-59页 |
| ·English idioms vs. individualism orientation | 第59-64页 |
| ·English idioms vs. equality orientation | 第64-67页 |
| CHAPTER 5 IMPLICATIONS ON IDIOM LEARNING AND CROSS-CULTURE COMMUNICATION | 第67-73页 |
| ·IMPLICATIONS ON IDIOM LEARNING | 第67-70页 |
| ·Learning idioms through culture | 第67-68页 |
| ·Learning idioms through making a comparative study of Chinese and English idioms | 第68-70页 |
| ·IMPLICATIONS ON CROSS-CULTURE COMMUNICATION | 第70-73页 |
| ·Developing the English learners’cross-culture competence through the studying of our own culture | 第70-71页 |
| ·Developing the English learners’cross-culture competence through the studying of the English culture | 第71-73页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第73-75页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第75-78页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第78-79页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文目录 | 第79页 |
