Meanwhile, based on the frequency theory of Schmidt (1990) and Kellerman’(1978) theory on the semantic markedness influencing the semantic transfer of verb, the second hypothesis was proposed that frequency and semantic markedness of verb can contribute to the V-N collocation learning.

Verbal semantics can be studied from the 4 aspects: the verbal semantics of the nouns,the second part makes a study of the adjectives of the verbal semantics,the verbal semantics of the adverbs and the semantic connotations of the reversive and privative verbs.

Based on the markedness theory,this paper takes words used in The New York Times as research material,probes into marked feminine words,and finds out the changes of attitude of the society towards women,hoping to facilitate English learners to gain a deep insight into English words from the social perspective.

Starting from the stylistic features and the translating guideline of drama,this paper,based on stylistic markers theory,attempts to make a comparative analysis of lexical markers between the source text and the English version of Thunderstorm.