Conducting Mutual Verification between Language and Facts——AStudy Triggered by “Ningzhe Niaolong”(Taking a Birdcage)

On the basis of linguistic facts, this paper has compared the semantic features of “ningzhe” and “lingzhe”(both meaning “taking”). And it has pointed out that the most striking distinction between the two is with or without turning of direction. And this is the norm to decide whether the collocation of “ningzhe a birdcage” is grammatical or not and to judge rhetorically which one, “ningzhe a birdcage” or “lingzhe a bird cage”, is better. Linguistic researchers should make good verification between language and facts, and give advice and guidance to language use according to the objective reality.