物
wù
Pinyin
Definition
物
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- thing
- object
- matter
- abbr. for physics 物理
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一物降一物
- 1 lit. one object bests another object
- 2 every item has a weakness (idiom)
- 3 there is a rock to every scissor, a scissor to every paper, and a paper to every rock
仁民爱物
- 1 love to all creatures (idiom, from Mencius); universal benevolence
价廉物美
- 1 inexpensive and of good quality (idiom)
博物洽闻
- 1 to have a wide knowledge of many subjects (idiom)
厚德载物
- 1 with great virtue one can take charge of the world (idiom)
Sample Sentences
英国、法国、比利时等欧洲多国宣布,高等院校开学将推迟至9月。这意味着,高校本学期将全部采取网络教学。对于很多高校而言,网课并不是新鲜事物。但面对如此大规模将课堂授课改为线上授课,各国教育机构和师生们都仍在探索和调整。
Several European countries including the UK, France, and Belgium have announced that colleges and universities are postponing the new semester to September. This means that universities are implementing online teaching for this whole semester. For many universities, online courses are not something new. But when facing the replacement of physical classrooms with online courses on such a large scale, the educational institutions, teachers, and students in these countries are still exploring and adjusting accordingly.
张助理,这位是王经理,他负责的是公司的物流管理。
Assistant Chang, this is Manager Wang. He is responsible for our company's logistics.
动物在不同的自然环境中,为了生存它们会慢慢透过繁殖、变异而演化出形形色色功能不同的颜色,而这些颜色是由自然选择决定的。
Animals living in different natural environments will mutate and evolve into having a variety of functions and different colors for their survival. These mutations are based on natural selection.
但动物身上颜色的形成常常不只是因为一朵花、一株草或一棵树,而是整个自然环境。
However, the camouflage is usually not just a flower, a bead of grass, or a tree, it is often the entire environment.
比如沙漠里的动物—狮子、鸟、蜥蜴、蜘蛛、青蛙等等—大多数都有微黄的“沙漠色”作为它们的保护色;深海生物则因为红光不易穿透到深海,所以这里的鱼大多是红色的;而雪地上的动物—比如北极熊、北极兔—则会披上一层白色,让它们能安稳地藏在雪白世界中。
For example, in the desert, lions, birds, lizards, spiders, frogs and so on all have a light yellow “desert color” as their camouflage. Creatures in the deep ocean are often red because light cannot be easily shunned through in the deep sea. Lastly, animals that live in the snow, such as Polar Bears and Arctic Rabbits, will have a coat of white so that they can hide peacefully in the snowfield.
我们都知道常年冰天雪地的地方少之又少,由此可见白色的动物为何如此罕见了。
We all know that there are only a few places in the world that are covered in snow so that’s why it is quite rare to see animals that are white.
一看到酸的食物就不自觉地流下口水是一种后天形成的条件反射现象。
It is an acquired conditioned reflex that one drools unconsciously when seeing sour food.
我们看到酸的食物就流口水也是一样的。
It goes the same for us. When seeing sour food, we salivate.
我们进食的时候,口腔内部会受到刺激,大脑就会下令分泌能帮助消化食物的唾液,其中又以酸的食物所产生的刺激最为强烈。
When we are eating, we get oral stimulation. Our brain would command the mouth to secrete saliva in order to help digest the food. Among which, sour food induces the most stimulation.
时间一久,就算还没尝到酸的食物,光是想像,大脑也会习惯性地发出信号让口腔内部分泌唾液。
As time passes by, even though we haven't eaten sour food yet, our brain would customarily send signals to make our mouth secrete saliva by simply imagining sour food.