Based on the theoretical process of athlete retirement, this study is designed to explore retirement awareness, for which athletes are divided into different groups based on the duration of their involvement with athletics, and also to examine the psychological state of athletes and retired athletes.

This paper attempts to illuminate the interrelations between metaphor,thoughts and language,probes into the necessity and feasibility of fostering English learners’ metaphor awareness and metaphorical competence,and explore a tentative teaching approach that conforms to the reform of College English teaching.

This study attempts to investigate the effect of metaphor awareness on English idiom learning with non-English major college students through the analysis of variance from four perspectives.

It thinks that metaphor awareness extends the dimension for both the teaching and learning and provides us another alternative to helping the students to overcome the common problems such as the poor vocabulary,logically incoherence and so on.

Based on the view of the nature and the function of metaphor,this paper intends to explore the roles of metaphoric awareness with special reference to in-depth reading comprehen.

Motivations for writing consist of social consciousness,consciousness for expression and inner consciousness.