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Metaphor and vocabulary teaching on Abstract: metaphor rooted in the language of thinking and culture. Metaphor is the manipulation vocabulary teaching as a means of abstract concepts concrete. From Metaphor to start learning vocabulary in accordance with perceived rules, you can break through the traditional method of learning vocabulary and help students better learning vocabulary. Paper Keywords: metaphor vocabulary learning cultural awareness Metaphor as a linguistic phenomenon, is that people perceive and experience of existing social cognitive tools, which deeply embedded in human language, thought and culture, language understanding and language acquisition is an indispensable tool in the development of language and culture plays a major and decisive role. Cognitive linguists found that with the progress of human cognitive processes, the vocabulary of English is changing. ~ Ilenter, hit, memory, bus meaning in daily life are “ into combat, memory, bus, “while in the present computer terminology was” Enter, access number, memory, bus. “large numbers of new words, old words are given a broader meaning and content of the new extension. In fact the flexibility of English vocabulary is not comparable in other languages. English words with the vast majority of the characteristics of polysemy, polysemy mostly through the metaphor of the cognitive means to expand and deepen its basic meaning and achieved. The new meaning through repeated use will be generally accepted as the word after the other meanings determined. in the sense of vocabulary acquisition in the process of understanding the links between meaning and enhance the learner’s sense of metaphor is important. Therefore, this article from the cognitive perspective and cultural connotation, in terms of metaphor to explore the importance of teaching. 1 Vocabulary Vocabulary teaching is an important part of language learning, teaching in English plays a decisive role. English words are evolv