Abstract: Any embodied cognition does require the participation of the body whatsoever. Well, there are very few empirical researches concerned in the past. Here by this paper employs the large-scaled corpora to conduct a survey of N-V representation of English body vocabulary, the results are shown as follows: 1) from the synchronic, they mainly appear in more eventual styles, such as novels or narratives; 2) from the diachronic, the frequency of nouns has not changed much in the past 200 years while that of verbs continued to increase; 3) from the national, the UK has always scored the maximal. In a word, no matter synchronic or diachronic, body vocabulary of nouns is far more than that of verbs; "hand" as a noun is used maximally, so does "face" as a verb, meanwhile the application of active voice is far more than that of the passive. The motivations of all above may be that people actively participate in the cognitive activities of the subjective and objective world, but because of the different functions of each part, some participate more, some less, mainly through metaphors or metonymy, with profound embodied, ego, economical and philosophical foundations.