The numeral phrases have the rhetoric meaning of comparison,exaggeration,circumbendibus and antitheses besides original ideas and the source of them mainly coming from Holy Bible,literature work and social life.

On the basis of affirming idioms with cultural characters,by analyzing and comparing numbers\' value orientation in different cultures,the paper sums up translation skills in English-Chinese numeral idioms and stresses that understanding of the numbers\' indicative meanings in idioms is the key to success of translation.

A Brief Review of Oxford Idioms Dictionary of English and Chinese;

To divide the verbal idiom into three transforming levels:looseness,tightness and frozenness,is benefit to analyze the syntactic features of the verbal idiom and the semantic restrictions in passive transformation and to completely master the usage of verbal idiom of "V+ NP+ Prep".

There are some selection and restriction between measure classifiers and number words.