Abstract
Chinese and English are of variant language systems, which account for some differences in their temporal concepts.In terms of the temporal concepts EARLIER and LATER between Chinese and English, Vyvyan Evans and MelanieGreen came to a conclusion that English tend to view time on a horizontal axis while Chinese on a vertical axis. Thepresent research intends to obtain a more general and objective view of temporal difference across Chinese andEnglish, by referring to definitions and examples in Chinese and English dictionaries and doing a survey amongsenior English majors in Wenzhou University.
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