Luận văn A study of idioms containing terms for plants in english and vietnamese

Tóm tắt Luận văn A study of idioms containing terms for plants in english and vietnamese: ...mese and Vietnamese-English dictionaries. - English journals. - The Internet webpages. 3.3. DATA ANALYSIS After collecting 400 idioms containing TsFPs from English and Vietnamese books, novels, dictionaries and journals respectively, we categorize them into two main aspects: syntactic a...b a tree, give someone beans, hand someone a lemon. In Vietnamese
• Verb + Noun / NP + Verb There are only 2 English idioms of this type containing TsFPs (1%) and only one corresponding Vietnamese idiom (0.5%). In English bear the grass grow don’t let grass grow under one's feet ... n s Human relationship 4 2.0 8 4.0 Idioms Having Non- human Implications 35 17.5 17 8.5 Total Number 200 100 200 100 20 Idioms containing TsFPs in the form of verb phrases are the most popular in both languages with a large number of examples collected in the corpus. As a result, the...