Chapter One Introduction Chapter Two Theories of Relation Between Language, Thought and Culture 1.Culture, Thought and Language 2.Standpoints on Language and Thought 3.Thought Patterns 4.Cultural Thought Patterns Chapter Three English and Chinese Cultural Thought Patterns(CTP) 1.General Depictions of CTP 2.Synthesis VS Analysis Synthetic(Holistic VS Analytic ThoughtPatterns) 3.Unity VS Dichotomy Dualism Unitive VS Dichotomous(DualisticThinking) 4.Subjective Consciousness VS Objective Consciousness 5.Intuition VS Logic 6.Imagination and Concreteness VS Abstraction 7.Indirectness VS Directness in the Process of Expressing Ideas Chapter Four The Reflection of CTP in Chinese and English Languages 1.Parataxis VS Hypotaxis 2.Topic-comment Structure VS Subject-predicate Structure 3.Dynamic VS Static Preference 4.Preference in Applying Animate Subjects VS Inanimate Subjects 5.Preference of Active Form VS Passive Form 6.Spiral Preference VS Linear Preference Chapter Five Enlightenment in English Learning and Teaching 1.Interference of Chinese CTP with Chinese EFL(English as a ForeignLanguage) Learners 2.Interference with English Sentence Writing by Chinese Learners 3.Interference with English Discourse Writing by Chinese Learners 4.Suggested Ways of Reducing the Interference by Chinese CTP andChinese Language Chapter Six Conclusion Appendix References