The paper puts forward four methods to understand the word meaning correctly To understand the word meaning by word matching, context clues, grammatical characteristics and extended meaning.

It is pointed out that the teaching of word meaning comprehension in the context must be emphasised so that students′ reading comprehension ability can be improved.

Vagueness of lexical meaning both in English and Chinese synonyms;

Interpretation of lexical meaning: semantic and pragmatic interaction——taking after all for example;

This paper analyzes the importance of the correct understanding of lexical meanings in the translation of business English and discusses, with illustrative examples, how to choose and determine the specific meaning of a word according to the context and specialty field where it appears.

The skill of determinining the meaning of a word in English-Chinese translation;