This article aims at cultural connotations of animal references in idioms of English and Chinese from aspects of different customs, ways of life, historical legends and literature works so that better communications can be made through languages sucessfully.

A Contrastive Analysis of Semantic Derogation in English and Chinese Animal Metaphor: A Cognitive Approach;

Culture is the basis of animal metaphor,since it influences the size of animal metaphor and takes the form of the stereotypes of animals which serve as the source domain of animal metaphors.

Some of the present contrastive studies of animal metaphors between English and Chinese are from the cultural perspective and some from the cognitive perspective.

On the image retaining and conversion of animal similes and metaphors in E-C translation;