| Introduction | 第1-8页 |
| Chapter 1 General Review on the Previous Study of Metaphor | 第8-17页 |
| ·The Definition of Metaphor | 第8-11页 |
| ·Historical Study on Metaphor | 第11-17页 |
| ·Three Traditional Theories ofMetaphor | 第11-14页 |
| ·Cognitive View on Metaphor | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter 2 The Nature and Classification of Metaphor | 第17-27页 |
| ·Features of Metaphor | 第17-19页 |
| ·Lakoff's Classification of Conceptual Metaphors | 第19-25页 |
| ·Orientational Metaphor | 第19-21页 |
| ·Ontological Metaphor | 第21-23页 |
| ·Structural Metaphor | 第23-25页 |
| ·The Universality and the Variation in Using Metaphor | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter 3: Metaphorical Study of Time | 第27-50页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction about Time | 第28-32页 |
| ·The Historical Development of Measuring and Defining time | 第28-31页 |
| ·Two Prominent and Widely Used Ways of Defining Time | 第31-32页 |
| ·A Survey about the Employment of Metaphor in Expressing Time | 第32-35页 |
| ·Purpose | 第32页 |
| ·Method | 第32-34页 |
| ·Result | 第34-35页 |
| ·Detailed Illustration about the Typical Structural Dimensions | 第35-50页 |
| ·Space as the Prototype for Metaphorical Representation of Time | 第35-44页 |
| ·Time as a Valuable Object | 第44-46页 |
| ·Time as an Entity | 第46-49页 |
| ·Time as a Human | 第49-50页 |
| Chapter 4: A Comparison between Chinese and English Metaphorical Representation of Time | 第50-56页 |
| ·Differences | 第50-54页 |
| ·Preference for Vertical and Horizontal Distribution of Time | 第50-52页 |
| ·The Personification and Plantification of Time | 第52-53页 |
| ·Morphological Motivation | 第53-54页 |
| ·The Causes for the Difference | 第54页 |
| ·Implications for Lexicology, FLT and Translation | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter 5: Conclusion | 第56-59页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第56-57页 |
| ·Significance and Limitation of the Study | 第57-59页 |
| References | 第59-62页 |
| Appendix I | 第62-64页 |
| Appendix II | 第64-67页 |
| Appendix III | 第67-71页 |
| Aknowledgements | 第71页 |
