语言是社会文化的一面镜子，英语委婉语是人们在社会交往中为谋求理想的交际效果而创造的一种适当的表达形式。它是用比喻、含蓄、借代、迂回、缩略和谐韵喻指等手法来表达生活中那些使人尴尬、惹人不快、招人厌恶和令人恐惧的事物。“人生必有老”，然而，英、美国家的人大都? Language is a mirror of social culture. English euphemism is an appropriate form of expression that people create for their ideal communicative effect in social interaction. It uses metaphor, subtle, metonymy, circuitous, abbreviated and harmonious metaphor means to express those embarrassing, unpleasant, annoying and frightening things in life. “Life must be old,” however, most of the people in Britain and the United States.