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search on a lot of language material， scholars propose that in the expression of words， over 70% comes from conceptual metaphor. Metaphor maps one conceptual structure or image to another conceptual structure or image. There are countless examples in English， e.g: Love is a journey. In fact， people use the source domain Journey to conceptualize the target domain Love. 　　 There are three parts where we can use metaphor for vocabulary teaching of college English: 　　 i．Teaching vocabulary by the metaphorical contrast of English and Chinese 　　 From my own English teaching experience， I find that students often ask me how to grasp the deep meaning of words. Sometimes when they come across a sentence or an article， even there is no so called new words， they still feel difficult in understanding them. We had better use the way of metaphor to teach students vocabulary. If the teacher really wants his students to master a foreign language quite well， first， he canteach English vocabulary by the metaphorical contrast of English and Chinese， or we can say， he should teach vocabulary with the metaphorical way. For instance，the sentence Economy is machinery is a conceptual metaphor， which use our familiar concept machinery to construct the strange and abstract knowledge of economy. By the medium of conceptual metaphor， it won’t be difficult for us to understand such metaphorical expression: to tighten the screws on the economy， the economy is overheating. ii．Teaching new vocabulary from the angle of metaphor 　　 Second， besides the above， teachers can teach new words from the angle of metaphor. For example， there come many new words with the development of computer science and the internet. Then another example， the word mouse， can be translated as“老鼠”，“鼠标”. The metaphorical implication of these two explanations is that they have similar size， same colour and so on. There are some words like this such as modem（猫）， cyber nut（网虫）， surf the web（冲浪）. Teachers can divide them into different groups: Group one: combined words， such as software， chat -room， scrollbar， online， backspace. While teaching these words， the teacher can connect them with the vocabulary which students have learned before， so that students could quickly grasp them and keep them. 　　 iii．Teaching the collocation of phrases and verbs with metaphor 　　 Third， the teacher can teach the collocation of phrases and that of verbs with a metaphorical way. In college English vocabulary teaching， take the Up and Down as an example. The word up usually holds affirmative， positive， active meaning，whereas the word down often implies negative， passive meaning. For example， in the sentence I’m really down today， the word down means unhappy. Then， more examples: The phrase the upper strata of society refers to those who are near to the first-class and they lead a rich and stylistic life. An up-market resort refers to the resort where those multi-millionaires always go to. The down-market books refer to those cheap， unqualified ones which the poor people buy. 　　　　 In a word， when we relate vocabulary-learning to metaphor， it is not a simple category of memorizing words any more， but up to a new field of cognitive semantics and even pragmatics. So after that， when students come across such sentences as Age withered her， or He is a green hand， they won’t feel puzzled or confused， and even really feel joyful during the study. If teachers can put metaphor well into vocabulary teaching， students’ a