CulturalDifferencesOnNumbersA1201楊曉倩CulturalDifferencesOnNumber1Numbersareoriginallythesignsforcalculating,buttheyhavedifferentconnotationsunderdifferentcultures.Bycomparingthemindifferentcountries,wecanhaveabetterunderstandingaboutdifferentcultures.Thus,wecancommunicatewithforeignerswell.Introduction1

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…NumbersareoriginallythesigPart.1SymbolofNumbersPart.1SymbolofNumbers3NumberChinaWestencountriesOneisthechildofthedivinelaw.Afteronecometwo,Aftertwocomethree,Afterthreecomeallthings.道生一，一生二，二生三，三生萬物。1Pythagoreamholdsthattheoriginofallthingsisone.畢達哥拉斯學派認為萬物的本源是一。Onegoodturndeservesanother.

禮尚往來,善有善報。Onetodayisworthtwotomorrow.今日事,今日畢。Seeonemountainandseeall.

窺一斑而見全豹。NumberChinaWestencountries1PNumberChinaWestencountrieskilltwobirdswithonestone一箭雙雕Goodthingscomeinpairs.雙喜臨門bestofbothworlds兩全其美flywingtowing比翼雙飛2two-time欺騙，出賣two-timer騙子，愛情不專一的人twoofatradeneveragree同行相輕puttwofingersupatsb.生氣diceNumberChinaWestencountries2dNumberChinaWestencountriesluckforthreeincarnations三生有幸almightiness三頭六臂writteninaforcefulhand入木三分3threebluebeansinabluebladder

虛張聲勢的空話threesheetsinthewind酩酊大醉threesquares衣食無憂的日子trinity三位一體三NumberChinaWestencountriesluNumberChinaWestencountries“四”=“死”Amuffledcatcatchesnomice.四體不勤betornapart

四分五裂

underfirefromallquarters四面楚歌

fallonhisback四腳朝天4fourflush

吹牛four-letter下流的

Heisatotal404.他一頭霧水。404notfound搜尋未果fourstar極好的fourhundred名流afourleafclover幸運四葉草f@@ksh@@NumberChinaWestencountries“四NumberChinaWestencountriestheOlympicRings奧運五環(huán)abumpergrainharvest五谷豐登ariotofcolour五彩繽紛bewealthyinknowledge學富五車fiveelements

五行5five-fingers

小偷，扒手thefifthwheel多余的人或物

blackFriday

黑色星期五（耶穌死去的日子）thefifthcolumn

(第五縱隊)通敵的內(nèi)奸NumberChinaWestencountriesthNumberChinaWestencountriesEverythingwillgosmoothly.

六六大順。bepregnant

身懷六甲acycleofsixtyyears六十甲子6atsixesandsevens

亂七八糟；迷糊的hit/knocksb.forsix給某人以毀滅性的打擊

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懲罰NumberChinaWestencountriesEvPart.2ApplicationsofNumbersPart.2ApplicationsofNumbers10ApplicationChinaWestencountries100000000Thenamechangeseveryfourdigits.thousand1,000million1,000,000billion1,000,000,000Thenamechangeseverythreedigits.億萬千百十個ApplicationChinaWestencountriApplicationPartsofEuropeanstilluseRomannumbers.MostpeopleuseArabicnumbers.ApplicationPartsofEuropeansWecan'tjudgeforeigners'attitudestowardssomethingthroughourownviewaboutourculture.Weneedtoandshouldrespectthedifferencesandputourselvesintheirshoes.Conclusion1

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…Wecan'tjudge