词汇作为语言中最活跃的因素,深深地铭刻着它赖以存在的社会文化烙印,忠实地反映了不同民族的社会生活和文化心理的变化历程。文章通过对“Dutch”一词追本溯源的详尽梳理,旨在说明在语篇阅读学习的过程中,社会历史和文化背景知识对语言学习有重要影响。语言的学习涵盖语言知识的习得和文化知识的习得两个方面,要想掌握英语语言,必须要熟稔英语文化。 Vocabulary, as the most active language in language, deeply inscribes the social and cultural imprint upon which it exists and faithfully reflects the changing course of social life and cultural psychology of different ethnic groups. Through a detailed review of the traceability of the word “Dutch”, the article aims to show that in the process of text reading learning, knowledge of social history and culture has an important influence on language learning. Language learning covers the acquisition of language knowledge and acquisition of cultural knowledge in two aspects, in order to master the English language, must be familiar with English culture.