Through a semantic study of animal words in English and Chinese, the paper discusses three points covering lexical equivalent with semantic equivalent, lexical equivalent without semantic equivalent and semantic equivalent without lexical equivalent.

• 对汉语和英语中动物词汇的语义进行分析比较，发现它们之间存在着词汇对应、语义对应；词汇对应，语义小对应以及词汇不对应，但语义对应三大特点。