One of the main distinctions is that Eng- lish language abounds in abstract nouns and expressions describing the nature and qualities of things and people.

This paper,from the view of vocabulary,discusses the English-Chinese translation in business English,mainly including the translation of polysemy,layers of word meaning,single and plural nouns and abstract nouns.

After studying the abstract nouns in 130,000 words of literary works through the limited - method investigation, the author reached the following conclusions: A sub - classification of verb extracted from the abstract - noun - and - verb collocation; semantic shift in the various collocation patterns; semantic bias aroused from the semantic shift, etc.