物wù
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Meanings
1. (bound form) thing
2. (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
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In reality, translation is akin to working for peanuts, since the corresponding meaning of something in one language is often hidden in some deep and impenetrable recesses of the other. As a result, the translator is forced to search all over... Never mind that the picky reader is very difficult to fool.