摘  要

改革开放以来，经济全球化的趋势愈发明显，伴随中国加入世界贸易组织，中国经济迅猛发展，而经济迅猛发展带来的是对传统的解构和重构，商务活动日益频繁，经济交流也更加增进。因此，商务相关的新闻也大量出现，商务英语新闻中存在大量隐喻，而前人诸如莱考夫对于隐喻的研究多集中在文学方面，对于商务英语新闻这一新语体中的隐喻却鲜有研究。出于此，本文意在结合前人经验，从传统文学隐喻认识入手，由隐喻的识别、隐喻的分类和隐喻的理解三方面对商务英语新闻中的隐喻进行研究，希望能够结合时事发展，通过对实例的分析，进而帮助商务人士更好的理解商务英语新闻，更好的把握国际形势，减少谬误。

关键词：商务英语新闻；隐喻

Abstract

Since the reform and opening up, the trend of economic globalization is becoming increasingly apparent. Meanwhile, with accession to WTO, China's economy has developed rapidly, and this has brought the deconstruction and reconstruction of the traditional culture. Business activities have become increasingly frequent and the communication between economic parts has greatly increased. At the same time, business-related news has also appeared in large numbers, and there are a lot of metaphors in business English news. But the predecessors as Lakoff’s studies of metaphors are more focused on its functions in the literature, and fewer people put their attention to the metaphors in business English. Based on this reason, this thesis intends to make a clear view of the identification of metaphors with the predecessors’ experience in traditional literature study, make the classification of metaphors and the understanding of metaphors in business English news, make a combination of theory and current events through the case study, in order to help business people make a better understanding of business English News, have a better grasp of the international situation, and reduce the fallacies.

Key words: business English news; metaphors