Conclusion
The connection of different nations, countries, cultures, languages is tightening since the development of technology makes the transmission of messages, speeches, ideologies faster. And the interaction of countries, economic activities and politicians makes the lexeme “crisis” widely used in the global village, especially during the pandemic time, decline of global market, regional political conflicts, fight against terrorism, etc. With the spread of political media discourse, the study of concepts of “crisis” is no more an ignorable issue.  Concept is a way that a person first time understand the world, and it shapes the picture of the world by a person’s background, religious, ethnicity, nationality, culture and language. Given previous studies of concept, we know that there are numerous methods to analyze concept and each method features on the selection of the subject.  Media discourse is a borderless, fast, wide-spread medium which people grab information from. By mass media, people have possibility to know things happening around the world. Hence, political media discourse is influential. In our study, we focus on the lexeme “crisis” used in political media discourse and try to sort out the ways of the verbalization of “crisis”. By our analysis and comparisons of “crisis” in English and Chinese, we notice that dictionaries give a person basic concepts of “crisis”, and based on these concepts, the lexical units of “crisis” are realized in numerous ways. Therefore, definitions of dictionaries could be seen as the first gate of mankind to shape concepts of “crisis”. Ways of verbalization of “crisis” could be classified by the collocations of “crisis”; phases of the development of an issue which the word “crisis” refers to; statistics of meanings of “crisis” used in newspapers; and topics of “crisis” based on the contexts. According to our study, the results are the following points; 1) There are particular collocations of “crisis” used only in English or Chinses, such as (1) crisis + past participle, (2) crisis + noun, (3) number + crisis used in English; (1) crisis, (2) crisis + verb, (3) verb + adverb + crisis, (4) verb + noun + crisis in Chinese. 2) The verbalization of the lexeme “crisis” in Chinese is divers, and more flexible than in English.  3) The most frequently used meanings of “crisis” in English is “a time of great danger, difficulty or doubt when problems must be solved”. And the most frequently used meanings of “crisis” in Chinese is “the critical moment about life and death; crisis”. 4) The phrase of “crisis” that is the most frequently referred in newspapers is the developing phase in English and Chinese. The second is the settling phase. 5) The differences of the lexeme “crisis” in English and Chinese are: basic meanings of “crisis” from dictionaries; collocations shown in newspapers; phases of “crisis” originated from dictionaries.  6) The concepts of “crisis” stemmed from explanatory and etymological dictionaries in English and Chinese could be realized differently in political media discourse.  Thereby, we assume this study of concept of “crisis” and the verbalization in political media discourse has contribution in the sphere of cognitive linguistics, especially the consequences of comparisons in English and Chinese.         
The article discusses the concept of “crisis” and the verbalization of it in English and Chinses. The main focus is on the differences in the verbalization of the lexeme “crisis” in English and Chinses, and the influence of the mass media on the verbalization of this concept. The main results are: 1) The definitions of dictionaries are the first gate of mankind to shape concepts of “crisis”; 2) The verbalization of the lexeme “crisis” in English and Chinses is different; 3) The most frequently used meanings of “crisis” in English is “a time of great danger, difficulty or doubt when problems must be solved”, and the most frequently used meanings of “crisis” in Chineses is “the critical moment about life and death; crisis”.