| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| List of Tables | 第7-9页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第9-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-21页 |
| ·The rationale of the research | 第14-15页 |
| ·Current research and hidden problems related to cultural provenance,grammatical usages and varieties of idioms in the mainstream English-Chinese learner's dictionaries | 第15-18页 |
| ·Current research | 第15-18页 |
| ·The cultural provenance,grammatical usages and varieties of English idioms | 第15-16页 |
| ·The necessity to integrate cultural provenance,grammatical usages and varieties into English idioms | 第16-18页 |
| ·Hidden problems | 第18页 |
| ·The aim of the present study | 第18-19页 |
| ·Methodologies of the study | 第19页 |
| ·General framework of the thesis | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two Definition,Features and Types of Idioms | 第21-33页 |
| ·Idioms,phrases and proverbs | 第21页 |
| ·Idioms | 第21-30页 |
| ·Definition of idioms | 第21-22页 |
| ·The developing stages of idioms | 第22-23页 |
| ·The minimum number of constituent parts required of an idiom | 第23-24页 |
| ·Linguistic features of idioms | 第24页 |
| ·The sources of English idioms | 第24-26页 |
| ·The scope of idioms | 第26-28页 |
| ·Types of idioms | 第28-30页 |
| ·Lexicon-syntactical idioms | 第28-29页 |
| ·Semantic idioms | 第29-30页 |
| ·Phrase | 第30-31页 |
| ·Proverb | 第31页 |
| ·Relation of idioms,phrases and proverbs | 第31-32页 |
| ·Summary | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Three Cultural Provenance of Idioms | 第33-41页 |
| ·What is culture? | 第33-34页 |
| ·Culture and idioms | 第34-35页 |
| ·Cultural contrast between English and Chinese idioms | 第35-39页 |
| ·Cultural difference between English and Chinese idioms | 第35-37页 |
| ·The degrees of equivalence between English and Chinese idioms | 第37-39页 |
| ·The significance of representation of cultural provenance of idioms | 第39页 |
| ·The English idioms chosen as samples of the cultural study | 第39-40页 |
| ·Summary | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter Four Grammatical Usages and Varieties of Idioms | 第41-47页 |
| ·Grammatical usages of English idioms | 第41-44页 |
| ·Varieties of English idioms | 第44-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter Five The Treatment of Idioms in Current ECLDs | 第47-68页 |
| ·Introduction | 第47-48页 |
| ·Provision of three kinds of information and their theoretical motivations | 第48-50页 |
| ·Relevance theory and idioms | 第48-50页 |
| ·Relevance theory | 第48-49页 |
| ·The semantic construction of idioms and relevance theory | 第49-50页 |
| ·The treatment of idioms in current mainstream ECLDs | 第50-67页 |
| ·The treatment of idioms with cultural provenance in current mainstream ECLDs | 第50-56页 |
| ·The treatment of grammatical usages of idioms in current mainstream ECLDs | 第56-64页 |
| ·The treatment of varieties of idioms in current mainstream ECLDs | 第64-67页 |
| ·The result of analysis of data | 第67页 |
| ·Questions to be resolved | 第67页 |
| ·Summary | 第67-68页 |
| Chapter Six Proposed Models and Principles for the Inclusion of Cultural Provenance,Grammatical Usages and Flexible Application in ECLDs | 第68-75页 |
| ·Introduction | 第68页 |
| ·Models for the cultural provenance | 第68-70页 |
| ·Models for the grammatical usages | 第70-73页 |
| ·Inflection information | 第70-71页 |
| ·Restricted usages of idioms in the internal structure of the sentences | 第71-72页 |
| ·A model for the flexible application of idioms | 第72-73页 |
| ·The principles on the inclusion of the information of idioms | 第73-74页 |
| ·Summary | 第74-75页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第75-79页 |
| ·Summary of the present study | 第75页 |
| ·Major issues solved in the present study | 第75-77页 |
| ·Significance of cultural provenance,grammatical usages and varieties of idioms in ECLDs | 第75-76页 |
| ·Insufficient information of cultural provenance,grammatical usages and varieties in the current mainstream ECLDs | 第76页 |
| ·Tentative models for the treatment of cultural provenance,grammatical usages and varieties of English idioms in ECLDs | 第76-77页 |
| ·Implications of the present study | 第77页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study | 第77-78页 |
| ·Suggestions for further study | 第78-79页 |
| Bibliography | 第79-84页 |
| Dictionaries Cited | 第84-85页 |
