Abstract:This thesis makes a contrastive study of English and Chinese euphemism with an attempt to explore and demonstra......

众所周知，“恭”是个褒义词，那么，怎么把含有恭敬之意的“恭”字与具有入厕如厕之意的“出恭”一词扯到一起呢？这要从明代的科举考试说......