Abstract: Though there are lots of researches on the aestheticism and novels of Wilde, those researches on Wilde’s fairy tales are still considerably few at present. By narrating the development of metaphor, this article shows the importance of metaphor both in life and academic researches; metaphors also help Wilde a lot to create his fairy tales. This article helped the readers have a brief understanding of Wilde and his works. In Wilde’s fairy tales, color not only shows a colorful fairy world, but the true inner-world of Wilde. So color metaphors are indispensable in Wilde’s creating of fairy tales. Religion is also important, and religious metaphor could help the author clarify the profound meaning of the fairy tales.

Key words: Wilde; Wilde’s tales; Metaphors; Color Metaphor；Religious Metaphor

摘要：目前国内外对王尔德的唯美主义和小说作品的研究虽然比较多，但在王尔德童话方面隐喻的研究相对较少。本文通过叙述隐喻的发展，显示了隐喻在生活和学术研究中的重要性，而隐喻也很好帮助王尔德表达其童话。文章通过简单的介绍王尔德和其作品。而王尔德在其童话故事中，颜色不仅仅表现一个缤纷的童话世界，而且显示的是王尔德真实内心的世界。所以颜色隐喻也是王尔德童话中不可缺少的一部分。宗教也同样重要，王尔德通过宗隐喻来帮助其阐述童话中的深刻意义。

关键词：王尔德; 王尔德童话;隐喻; 色彩隐喻; 宗教隐喻