TO study ploysemy from the view of cognitive linguistics can not only help us to better understand polysemy, but also give us some inspirations in foreign language vocabulary teaching.

• 从认知语言学的角度研究一词多义现象不仅使我们对一词多义现象有了更深入的理解，同时对外语词汇教学也有一定的启发作用。