语言是文化的载体,比喻作为一种重要的语言修辞手段承载着很多文化信息。不同语言中喻体的选择必然会反映出立喻者的文化认知和思维方式。本文对比分析了汉英两种语言中喻体的选择与立喻者所处的社会文化背景之间的关系,进而发现了中西方思维方式的差异。 Language is the carrier of culture. Analogy as an important linguistic rhetorical device carries a lot of cultural information. The choice of metaphors in different languages ​​will inevitably reflect the cultural cognition and way of thinking of metaphors. This article compares and analyzes the relationship between the choice of metaphors in Chinese and English languages ​​and the socio-cultural background in which the metaphysicians are located, and then finds out the differences between Chinese and Western ways of thinking.