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Word Selection The difference shown in words of two languages lies in the following aspects: English: vacillation, flexibility “Words do not have meanings; people have meanings for words.” “Each word when used in a new context is a new word.” Chinese: rigorous, accurate, fixed in meaning The Chinese words depend less on the context and are comparatively independent of the context. So, sometimes, it is very difficult to make appropriate adaptations in the translation from English into Chinese due to the above-mentioned characteristics of Chinese words and no wonder Yan Fu said, “A new term e