汉英词汇在词义内涵上具有复杂的民族文化差异,归纳、解释造成其文化差异的原因,是对外汉语词汇教学中需要特别重视的。经过对汉英表吃喝动词的文化差异的形成原因进行初步探讨与阐释。我们认为,汉英民族不同的自然生态环境、不同的思维方式与价值观念、以及不同的民族习俗惯制等文化因素,是造成汉英表吃喝动词文化差异的主要原因。 Chinese and English vocabularies have complex national and cultural differences in word meaning connotation. To summarize and explain the reasons for their cultural differences, special attention should be paid to vocabulary teaching of Chinese as a foreign language. After the formation of the cultural differences between English and Chinese verb eating and drinking verb to explore and explain. We think that the cultural factors such as different natural ecological environments, different ways of thinking and values, as well as different customs and habits of peoples, are the main reasons for the cultural differences between Chinese and English eating and drinking verbs.