Basic features of cognitive metaphor can be classified as following:来*自~优|尔^论:文+网www.youerw.com +QQ752018766*

Firstly, metaphor is universal with cultural features (Lakoff & Johnson, 2003)。 Metaphor is the basic way of human life and cognitive means (Zhou, 2012)。 Instead of the production of similarity, metaphor originates from human body and physical experience。 To summarize, cognitive  metaphor is the product of human cognition, and promotes the development of cognition at the same time (Chen, Wang & Huang, 2015)。 The well-known cognitive metaphor “TIME is MONEY” can fully illustrate this feature。 In most cultures all over the world, time is a limited resource that people use to accomplish their goals (Lakoff & Johnson, 2003)。 Our predecessors produced such a cognitive metaphors through their life experience and it has become the foundation for us to accept related

metaphors in daily life。 Thus, in people’s opinion, time can be “spent, wasted, budgeted, invested wisely or poorly, saved, or squandered” (Lakoff & Johnson, 2003, p。9)。 However, “TIME is MONEY” isn’t a necessary metaphor for hum