在现代汉语普通话中,“肥”字用来形容一个人身上或者身体某一部分脂肪多时常带有非积极色彩。英语中同样表示身型庞大、脂肪多的形容词“fat”也具有此类非积极、甚至歧视意义。“肥”和“fat”在使用倾向、表达感情色彩的词语搭配以及委婉词的替代使用上存在着一定的共性,并折射出人类语言中的共同倾向。而中英在分别使用“肥”和“fat”时又有着一些差异,这与中西审美文化及语用习惯是分不开的。 In modern Mandarin Chinese, the term “fat” is used to describe that often, a person’s body or part of the body’s fat is often non-positive. In English, too, the adjective “fat”, which has a large body and fat, has such non-positive and even discriminatory meanings. “Fat ” and “fat ” have certain commonalities in using tendencies, words collocating emotional expressions and the alternative use of euphemisms and reflecting the common tendencies in human language. However, there are some differences between China and the United Kingdom in using “fat” and “fat” respectively, which is inseparable from the aesthetic culture and pragmatic habits of both China and the West.