| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Contents | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| ·Background to the Study | 第9-10页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter Two Studies on Metaphor and Lexicography | 第12-16页 |
| ·Semantics, Cognitive Linguistics and Lexicography | 第12-13页 |
| ·Metalexicography and Metaphor | 第13-16页 |
| Chapter Three Conceptual Metaphor Theory | 第16-25页 |
| ·Definition of Conceptual Metaphor | 第16-17页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor as a Set of Mappings Across Domains | 第17-20页 |
| ·Classification of Conceptual Metaphors | 第20-23页 |
| ·Structural metaphors | 第20-21页 |
| ·Orientational metaphors | 第21-22页 |
| ·Ontological metaphors | 第22-23页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor and Foreign Language Learning | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Four Deficiencies and Strong Points of Existing Dictionaries | 第25-36页 |
| ·The Treatment of Polysemy | 第25-30页 |
| ·"Train", "foundation", "up" and "in" | 第25-26页 |
| ·The treatment of the words in OALECD4 and NECD | 第26-30页 |
| ·The Treatment of Collocation | 第30-32页 |
| ·The Treatment of Idioms | 第32-33页 |
| ·Metaphor Boxes in MED | 第33-36页 |
| ·The published entries and the metaphor study pages | 第33-34页 |
| ·Criteria for selecting conceptual metaphors | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Five Applications of Conceptual Metaphor Theory in ECLDs | 第36-59页 |
| ·Metaphor and Polysemy | 第36-41页 |
| ·The case of "train" | 第36-37页 |
| ·The case of "foundation" | 第37-38页 |
| ·The case of "up" | 第38-40页 |
| ·The case of "in" | 第40-41页 |
| ·Metaphor and Collocation | 第41-48页 |
| ·The influence of metaphor on collocation | 第41-44页 |
| ·The importance of collocational precision | 第44-46页 |
| ·Sample entries of "knowledge" and "idea" | 第46-48页 |
| ·Metaphor and Idioms | 第48-53页 |
| ·Two different views of idioms | 第49-50页 |
| ·Analyses of examples | 第50-52页 |
| ·Suggested treatment of the idioms | 第52-53页 |
| ·Adapting MED Metaphor Boxes for ECLDs | 第53-59页 |
| ·The universality of and cultural variation in conceptual metaphors | 第53-54页 |
| ·Suggestions for'Metaphor Boxes'in ECLDs | 第54-59页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第59-61页 |
| References | 第61-64页 |
