众所周知,在两种语言对译时,很难找到完全等同的一对词。在对外汉语教学实践中,我们发现,很多表面上“完全对等”的汉外词汇,在实际操作中,却使外国留学生感到疑惑,或是使他们在运用汉语时出现母语的负迁移(negative transfer)现象。在这样的“对等”词汇中,汉语的“东”、“西”与英语的“east”、“west”即为一例。通常,人们多 It is well known that it is difficult to find exactly one pair of words in the translation of two languages. In the practice of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, we find that many foreign words that are “completely equivalent” in Chinese actually confuse foreign students or cause them to have a negative transfer of their native language when using Chinese transfer phenomenon. In such “equivalence” terms, “east” and “west” of Chinese and “east” and “west” of English are examples. Often, people are many