| Chapter One: Introduction | 第1-16页 |
| 1．1 What is metaphor | 第9-12页 |
| 1．2 Metaphor's meaning and purpose | 第12-14页 |
| 1．3 The aim of this paper | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two: How human beings communicate? | 第16-36页 |
| 2．1 Basic theoretical notions | 第16-29页 |
| 2．2 Relevance and comprehension | 第29-36页 |
| Chapter Three: Metaphor comprehension | 第36-48页 |
| 3．1 What is metaphor- a concept revisited | 第36-37页 |
| 3．2 Understanding loose uses of words | 第37-44页 |
| 3．3 How to understand a metaphor | 第44-48页 |
| Chapter Four: Idiom comprehension | 第48-62页 |
| 4．1 The idioms' linguistic form and meaning | 第48-51页 |
| 4．2 The mechanisms involved | 第51-54页 |
| 4．3 Idiom comprehension | 第54-62页 |
| Chapter Five: Metaphor translation | 第62-84页 |
| 5．1 What is translation | 第62-63页 |
| 5．2 How to translate | 第63-79页 |
| 5．3 Image-centred approach to translation | 第79-84页 |
| Conclusions | 第84-88页 |
| References | 第88-91页 |
