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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

身处

shēnchǔ

in (some place)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

in (some place)

02

to be in (adversity, a difficult situation, danger, turmoil etc)

03

to find oneself in

04

placed in

05

surrounded by

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 身处 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 身处 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我们身处核能时代。wǒ men shēn chù hé néng shí dài。

We are in the era of atomic energy.

有时候,我感觉自己身处迷雾之中,不知该去往何方。yǒu shí hòu, wǒ gǎn jué zì jǐ shēn chù mí wù zhī zhōng, bù zhī gāi qù wǎng hé fāng。

At times, I felt like I was living in a fog, unable to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

即便身处如日中天的巅峰,她依然保持低调,从不以此自矜。jí biàn shēn chù rú rì zhōng tiān de diān fēng, tā yī rán bǎo chí dī diào, cóng bù yǐ cǐ zì jīn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 身处.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 身处.

Directly before

  • 我们身处1
  • 即便身处1
  • 自己身处1

Directly after

  • 身处核能1
  • 身处如日中天1
  • 身处迷雾1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 身处

What does 身处 mean in Chinese?

身处 (shēnchǔ) means in (some place).

How do you pronounce 身处?

身处 is pronounced shēnchǔ.

Is 身处 an HSK word?

身处 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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