To strengthen the professional competence and basic ability is the objective requirements of the Chinese higher vocational college English teaching, while the positioning of the teaching objectives is partial to a "prisoner's dilemma" in game situations that any party will result in. To get rid of the "dilemma", we have to adopt strategies to coordinate them by cultivating students' ability to transform their English knowledge to English applying, select or prepare a variety of professional-oriented materials, increase ESP elective courses and application assessment projects of English test.