| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in English | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第7-10页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第10-13页 |
| 2. Review on the Study of Metaphors | 第13-23页 |
| ·Metaphors in Rhetorics | 第13-17页 |
| ·Metaphors in Cognitive Linguistics | 第17-23页 |
| 3. The Universality of Metaphorical Structures in Chinese Idioms | 第23-34页 |
| ·Sources of Chinese idioms | 第23-26页 |
| ·The Universality of the Use of Chinese Idioms in Communication | 第26-28页 |
| ·Metaphors in Chinese Idioms | 第28-34页 |
| 4. Thinking Patterns of Chinese People and Linguistic Features of the Chinese Language | 第34-58页 |
| ·Psychology of Chinese People | 第35-43页 |
| ·Linguistic Features of Chinese and Translation Problems | 第43-53页 |
| ·Relations Between Idiomatic Translating and Cultural Translating | 第53-58页 |
| 5. Metaphorical Patterns in Chinese Idioms and its Translating | 第58-72页 |
| ·Metaphorical Patterns in Chinese Idioms | 第58-62页 |
| ·Approaches to Translating Chinese Idioms | 第62-72页 |
| 6. Conclusion | 第72-75页 |
| Bibliography | 第75-78页 |
| Appendix | 第78页 |
