This paper, by sorting out and surveying the present studies of semantic transfer at home and abroad, proposes that current research on semantic transfer falls into three categories, namely, lexicosemantic transfer, propositional semantic transfer and conceptual transfer, and that six major types of evidence for semantic transfer can be summarized at present so that a tentative account is also offered for the six types of evidence in terms of a couple of relevant theoretical models or assumptions available so far, thereby portraying a picture of the present state of the art of semantic transfer research. Expectations concerning future research on semantic transfer are also offered.