With McCarthy's semantic field as the theoretical basis, and adopting Sinclair's corpus-based approach, the vocabulary characteristics of English for the coverage of earthquakes are de-scribed from key words graphs, lexical chunks and the semantic preference of lexical chunks, hoping to provide references for the teaching and research of news English.%以McCarthy的语义场为理论基础,采用Sinclair的语料库方法,从主题词图、词块和词块的语义偏好来描述地震报道英语的词汇特征,以期对新闻英语教学和研究提供借鉴。
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