Research Elementary Chinese Textbooks Into English Words In

The Chinese vocabulary teaching begins with the learning of the newwords on textbooks. The quality of the translation of the new words has a greatinfluence on the acquiring vocabulary for the English-speaking students. This essayfixes its attention upon the translation of the words in“HANYU JIAOCHENG”(Vol.1&2) and “Short-term spoken Chinese”(Threshold Vol.1&2,Elementary)to get ageneral understanding of the elementary Chinese textbooks. Through the analysis ofthe translation, several problems in the textbooks are discovered: the Englishtranslation and the meaning of the word in text have distance; lacking necessarylimitations on the meaning and the usage of the words; the translation of the measurewords and function words is incomplete.The paper explores the causes from the standard of the choosing of the words,the comparison of Chinese-English vocabulary，intercultural communication. Finally,using contrastive linguistics findings in combination with the students’ vocabularyerrors, the author makes some suggestions on the translation of the new words on thetextbooks.