The problem might be in the word itself.

问题可能在于这个词汇本身。

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For example, when a card with the word 'blue' on it appears but the word itself is green.

比如，当一张卡片上写有单词“蓝色的”，但是这个单词本身是绿色的。

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The word itself comes from the German words “poltern”, meaning to make noise, and “geist”, meaning ghost.

单词来源于德文“POLTERN”和“GEIST” 意为制造噪音和鬼。

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The word itself came to mean death and destruction.

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And then of course, there's the word sugar itself and then things like high fructose corn syrup, so there are a lot of ways that sugar gets put into foods and you wouldn't expect it to be there.

当然,还有糖本身这个词,还有像高果糖玉米糖浆这类东西,所以食品中含有很多形式的糖,而且你不知道它的存在

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In fact, the trouble began with the word itself: interior.

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The word itself seems quaint -- civility.

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