【文章內容簡介】 is worth analyzing and exploring. Among the criteria of translation (faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance), faithfulness is the most difficult one to achieve. The foremost task for the translator is to assure of the accuracy of translation. Unfortunately, even the master of translation can not avoid making mistakes. Therefore, translation errors need studying thoroughly. We can probably find out ways to cope with translation errors only if we scientifically analyze the causes of errors, so as to improve translating skills. In this paper, the author firstly lists the mon errors in EnglishChinese translation, and then generalizes their causes。 and finally puts forward some countermeasures to solve these problems in order to draw all translators’ attention. Hopefully this paper will be beneficial to every reader. Factors Affecting English Majors’Listening Comprehension影響英語專業(yè)學生聽力的因素IntroductionFor a long time, “mute English”, a prevalent term, not only describes the status of Chinese students’ oral English petence, but also indicates an “underdeveloped” level of their listening proficiency. To understand authentic English is really a challenge even for English majors who have received formal English training for years. The final purpose of learning English is to understand authentic English, but not pass the listening test. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the factors affecting authentic English listening and put forward suggestions accordingly. The thesis consists of five parts. In the first part，a review of research on listening prehension is given. Some monly recognized factors hindering listening are discussed. The second part presents methods employed in the research. The third part es to the results and main findings of the study. In the fourth part, methods of listening prehension teaching and learning are suggested. Translation of Numbers between Chinese and EnglishIntroductionWhenever numbers are mentioned, people may think of mathematics or statistics and take their existence for granted. People thus think it is easy to translate numbers. In fact, numbers, an inseparable part of language, are endowed with nonquantitative and rich meanings. It is well recognized that language is a very important part of a culture and the main means by which people municate with each other. The development of a culture is directly or indirectly reflected in its vocabulary. Even within the same language family, words of the same spelling in different languages may have absolutely different meanings due to their history and cultural background. There is no doubt that people from different cultures will run into language barriers when municating with each other. In crosscultural munication, it is of vital importance for people to pay great attention to the differences of numeral meanings between cultures. Numbers, because of their different cultural background and varied contexts, are not simply used to measure or calculate now. A lot of works on translation theories and practice have been published one after another, with closer and meticulous studies on the languages between western and eastern countries, and focus on literature, law, economic and trade contracts and so on. However, few are about number translation. As discussed above, it is advisable to correctly translate numbers as well as their connotations in crosscultural and crosslanguage munication. On Vocabulary Acquisition through a Contextbased ApproachIntroductionVocabulary learning has long held the attentions of scholars abroad as well as in china. In recent years, college English learning in China has taken on a new role. In the past, when talking about the aims of English learning, people usually focused more on the socalled “l(fā)anguage skills” such as listening, speaking, reading and writing. Recently, however, college English learning has been aimed to enable students to acquire municative petence, in which it is fundamentally important to improve one’s word power. But in middle schools, grammartranslation teaching method still prevails。 that is most teachers organize their courses around a set of grammatical points, with vocabulary selected to support t