隐喻是人类重要的认知模式,也是人们认识世界和理解世界的工具。隐喻的本质是将所熟悉的认知域概念映射到陌生的认知域里,生成新的概念,借以理解陌生事物。本文通过身体词“脸”(face)的汉英语料对比,对汉语“脸”和英语“face”所产生的隐喻性词语的使用情况进行分析,进而得出“脸”(face)在各隐喻义项中的相似和不同之处。 Metaphor is an important human cognitive model, but also a tool for people to understand the world and understand the world. The essence of metaphor is to map the familiar concept of cognitive domain into a strange cognitive domain and generate new concepts so as to understand strange things. This article analyzes the use of metaphorical terms produced by Chinese “face ” and English “face ” by comparing the Chinese-English corpus of the body word “face ”(face) in the metaphorical similarities and differences.