Third, social amenities are one of the major problems which cause mistakes in communication between Chinese and foreigners. There are many examples of this kind of cultural differences in everyday conversations. When Chinese meet for the first time, there is no special expression for the occasion, but when most English-speaking people meet for the first time, they often say something like “I’m pleased to meet you”. And when they apart, they are expected to remark “It’s nice meeting you” or “It’s nice to have met you or something similar” (邓炎昌& 刘润清，1989: 29). Another obvious difference lies on the way people reply to compliments: Americans tend to accept the compliments while Chinese generally murmur some reply about not being worthy of the praise (ibid.:33).

　　Fourth, a Chinese character can be equivalent to an English word for their dictionary meanings, but their connotations may be different. For students of a foreign language, it is essential that they know not only the denotation of words, but also the connotations. Serious blunders may be committed because of ignorance of a connotation. When talking about the Chinese countryside, English-speaking people in China have occasionally asked: “Why do you call rural people peasants? I thought their status had changed and that they are now respected.” To many Chinese, the question itself might be puzzling. Why not call them peasants? Why should the term imply lack of respect? In fact, the English word peasant does not have exactly the same meaning as the Chinese 农民. The word peasant means a usually uneducated person of low social status, but the Chinese term农民 does not have such derogatory coloration (邓炎昌& 刘润清，1989: 21).

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