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after careful study of color words, it is easy to find that color words can produce various associations, which have a great effect on a person’s moods and behaviors. To summarize ,there are four main different methods which influence the meanings of color words:different living conditions， different customs， different religions believes and different history ,I will analizy them one by one. Influence of Different Living Conditions The culture of english is also the culture of color of sea has very important significance to english they call the sky and the sea”The Blue”.But in Chinese sentance”拨开云雾见青天 ”,”青天 ”indicates the white sky. The American dollar is green,so green in the . can replace money,forturn and rich. In English green also means lacking in experience ,not being trained and can see some examples : In American political elections the candidates that win are usually the ones who have green power backing them. 武汉科技大学本科毕业论文 8 在美国政治竞选中获胜的候选人通常都是些有财团支持的人物。 The new typist is green at her job. 刚来的打字员是个生手。 You cannot expect Mary to do business with such people. She is only eighteen and as green as grass. 你不能指望玛丽同这样的人做生意，她只有十八岁，还毫无经验。 English has the term greeneyed or green with envy,both meaned jealous and ,in chinese,the expression used to describe the same feeling is “眼红 ” and”红眼病 ”， which totally different from the the way,the chinese expression “戴绿帽子 ”means to be a cuckold,so if we translate it word by word,english people cannot understand it. Influence of Differenct Customs Talking about red and white, there is an interesting coincidence in Chinese and English， and that dissimilarrity couses by the influence of their different customs. In Chinese, those who are popular and find favor with their bosses are called 红人（ red guy literally） .But Irish people call them the whiteheaded boy. In this sense,red equals white in the two cultures. In English, white is usually related to spotlessness and purity. For example, “white war” means economic petition. Some objects get their names from their colors. For instance “white goods” are the huge and expensive domestic electric equipments (painted in white). And we also have “white money” refers to the silver coin, “white coal” is the hydraulic power, “white elephant”（昂贵却派不上用场的物体或物主不需要但又无法处置之物） , “white sale”（大减价） , “the white way”（白光大街 ,指城里灯 光灿烂的商业区） . The connotation of white in Chinese also includes something unhappy. At funerals, Chinese pay respect to the dead and express their sorrow by wearing white and writing elegiac couplets in white paper. In the West ,however ,white is the traditional color for the brides at weddings, and to wear white at funerals would be offensive. So care should be taken in translating the phrase 红白喜事 . To avoid 武汉科技大学本科毕业论文 9 misunderstanding, we can put it simply as weddings and funerals. Influence of Different Religious Beliefs Religious culture is an important ponent in the lives of many human the system of enfeoffment, Christianity, Catholicism and Roman Catholicism played a very important role and exert great influence on the western world. The western people including the British are still believed that the God, Heaven and Hell really exist. [8] White and black are the symbols of darkness and lightness respectively since human existence. In Bible darkness stands for evil and demon, luminosity for God, Christ, truth and virtue. In western culture white usually stands for the good and right, black for the bad and wrong. And this is also true in famous ballet opera Swan Lake, black swans for evil and hate while white ones for purity and love. We Chinese uses the idioms “清白无辜 ” for an innocent person and “洁白无暇 ” for purity as well. White doves are always regarded as the symbol of peace. In western countries the bride wears white robe in the hope of obtaining luckiness and happiness in the future. One of the “white days” of someone’s life stands for a good day. Whereas black is the color for seriousness and gravity, and for funeral as well. In the US and the UK, people wear black suit when attending funerals, signifying gravity and mourning for the dead. Idioms like black market, blackhearted, blacklist, Backhands, etc, shows that black is always connected with the bad and evil side of human characters Influence of Different History Allusions Historical culture refers to the culture that is formed by the developing process Of certain history and social heritage which varies between nations at often times. The yellow is the representative color of Chinese nation from ancient times, and also one of the colors, which Chinese nationality advocates. In ancient times, the yellow symbolized such cultural meaning as the sacredness, imperial power, honor, 武汉科技大学本科毕业论文 10 loftiness, solemnity, land, territory, etc. Zhu Xi, a great thinker, said in Song Dynasty: Countenance of the central soil. So the yellow symbolizes central imperial power and the state, at the same time it signifies the land of everything grows. Besides, one of the first ancestors in Chinese nationally Xuanyuan emperor had the lucky of soil morality . It was said that he often wore the yellow crown, so the yellow became the emperor39。 s favorite color later. Chinese officials wore more yellow robes in ancient times, thus forbade mon people to wear the yellow clothes. Acclaimed emperor means that coup succeeds, capture regime . On the other hand,in English yellow is always related to cowardice, villainous, undependable and so : yellow dog野狗，卑鄙的人； yellow boy金币，黑白杂种； have a yellow streak 懦怯，胆小，卑鄙的行为； yellow alert（空袭）预备警报； yellow belly可鄙的胆小鬼； yellow looks 可怕的脸色，诧异的眼神 l dislike Tom for he is a yellow dog. 我讨 厌汤姆，他是个卑鄙小 人。 He is too yellow to stand up and fight. 他太胆怯，不敢奋起战斗。