中文和英文中有許多和動物相關的詞彙。由於中西方文化的差異，中英兩種語言中的動物辭彙也傳達出不同的含義。中文中“狗”常用在含貶義的詞語中，如“狐朋狗友”、“狗嘴吐不出象牙”；而英文中的"dog"常常被視為人類的伴侶和愛物，常用來比喻人或人的生活，比如"top dog"(有優勢的人、團體)，"see dog"(老練的水手)等。又比如，龍在中國人的心中佔有崇高的地位，和龍相關的詞語多是褒義。而在英文中，"dragon"常含有貶義，比如"dragon's teeth"用來指“相互爭鬥的根源”，"the Old Dragon"用來指“魔鬼”。再如，中文說“非驢非馬”，英文卻說"Neither fish nor fowl"；英文說"to work like a horse"，中文中則用“老黃牛”來形容辛勤工作的人。下面，我們就進一步詳細地分類列舉一些和動物相關的辭彙的有趣翻譯。
1. The American economic system is, organized around a basically private-enterprise, market- oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most。
2. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it。
