委婉语是一种语言现象,也是一种社会语言现象,更是一种文化现象的体现。任何一种语言的委婉语都与其存在的民族的文化背景密切相关。了解委婉语这一语言现象对更好地进行英语学习和实现跨文化交际有很大的帮助。本文介绍了英语委婉语的分类和它的社会功能。 Euphemism is a linguistic phenomenon, but also a social language phenomenon, but also a manifestation of cultural phenomena. The euphemism of any language is closely related to the ethnic background of its existence. Understanding the language phenomenon of euphemism is of great help for better English learning and cross-cultural communication. This article describes the classification of English euphemisms and its social functions.