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, yet it plays such an important role in language system. As Widdowson puts it: when the language context is rich, comparing the communicative ability between word and grammar, the latter holds less important. As we know, despite there are so many languages of different nationalities, each word in a certain language can be matched with a certain word in another language, this is the first term for trans-culture communication, yet “can be matched” doesn’t mean “to be the same”. On one hand, we may not find in the target language the proper words in our native language. For example: “饺子”，“馒头”and“炕”. The same in English, like “brunch”, “motel”, “bingo”, “Hippie”, “Punk” etc. Furthermore, because of the different connotations in some words which I have mentioned before, like “peasant”, “individualism”, “politics”, let me take “color” as an example to see what a complicated word it is, so as to prove the need of word’ teaching. Words of color in language have both literal and associated meanings, because color system is not solely based upon the physical features of color, but is partly determined by the cultural needs. The associated meanings of rose colors i n English are as the following: Red White Yellow Pink? Romantic love? I love you? Congratulations? Job well done? I am worthy of you? Purity? Keep a secret? Innocence? Joy and gladness? I care ? Welcome back? Friendship? Remember me? Perfect happiness? Gentleness? Please believe me People from different cultures can sometimes understand each other over the associated meanings symbolized by color words. Both in China and in English-speaking counties, people use color of red to indicate revolution, socialism and happiness, and the color of black to denote evil and immorality. In Chinese we say “红双喜”，“红色政权”，“红军”，“红运”，“红利”，“黑名单”，“黑市”，“黑店”，“黑手党”，“黑心的”and in English we have “The Red Army”, “red-cap”, “a red-letter day”, “black list” “black market”, “blackhand” and “black-hearted”. However, sometimes people from different culture backgrounds can not agree with each other over the associated meanings. A color in different languages usually carries different connotations. In western countries the color of white is used to show purity, cleanness and innocence, so it is very common for a bride to wear a white wedding grown in the wedding ceremony. But in China, white would be an inappropriate color of mourning. If a bride chooses a white wedding grown, she is inviting widowhood and unhappiness and her parents would probably not allow her to get married. According to Chinese custom, a bride is usually dressed in red so that it will bring her happiness and good luck. On the contrary, if a bride is dressed in red in west, her husband would be annoyed because of the fact that red is a prostitute color. That’s why in Hawthorn’s Scarlet Letter, the character Hester Prynne was punished to carry scarlet letter “A” as the punishment of crime of adultery. The associated meanings of colors in a language are closely related to its cultural background. It is easy for us to grasp the literal meaning of a language with the help of dictionaries. But sometimes it is impossible for us to translate the sentences into our target language without cultural understanding. For example,红眼病(green with envy), 红白喜事(weddings and funerals),红榜 (honor roll),红娘 (go-between). Here “红”has nothing to do with its literal color meaning. So in our English study, we must pa