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								Pinyin 
								shēn 
							
							
							
							
								Definition
								body / torso / person / life / status / pregnancy / (a measure word used for clothes) suit
							 
							
						 
						
         			                         
                                                                                                                                                  身 [shēn]
名  
【本义】:身躯的总称  
1. 人、动物的躯体,物体的主要部分: body  
   例如:~躯。人~。~材。~段。船~。树~。  
2. 指人的生命或一生: life  
   例如:~世。献~。  
3. 亲自,本人: oneself; self  
   例如:自~。亲~。~教。~体力行。  
4. 统指人的地位、品德: status  
   例如:出~。~分。~败名裂。  
5. 孕,娠: conceive; be pregnant  
   例如:~孕。  
6. 量词,指整套衣服: suit  
   例如:做了一~儿新衣服。
副  
1. 亲身,亲自: personally  
   例如:身历。  
动  
1. 怀孕: conceive; be pregnant  
   例如:身已; 身怀六甲; 身瑞。  
2. 体验: learn through practice  
   例如:尧、舜性之也;汤、武身之也。  
3. 担当: take on  
   例如:中有贤子自为家督。  
4. 担任: hold the post of  
   例如:自奉天入,琯身中军先锋。  
量  
用于衣服: suit  
例如:一身衣服。  
引文(如《说文》、文献示例等)  
1. 《说文》:身,躬也。象人之形。  
2. 《论语·乡党》:必有寝礼,长一身有半。  
3. 《诗·秦风·黄鸟》:人百其身。  
4. 《礼记·哀公问》:身也者,亲之枝也。  
5. 其他引用和例句示例如:身边人,身名俱泰等。  
(*引自繁体辞典解释)  
参见「身毒」条。                                                                                                                           
						 
						
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              posthumous / one's social background / behind the body
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              thrown into prison / behind bars
								                
                                                                    								               
									              body sculpting (weight loss and exercise)
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to dash on bravely with no thought of personal safety (idiom); undaunted by dangers / regardless of perils
								                
                                                                    								               
									              an indenture by which one sells oneself or a member of one's family
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              body / pregnancy / health
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to be all alone in the world
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              to fight at the head of one's troops / (fig.) to take the lead
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              corpse / remains / dead body
								                
                                                                    								               
									              without the freedom to act independently (idiom); involuntary / not of one's own volition / in spite of oneself
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to bend the body at the waist / to bow
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              posthumous / one's social background / behind the body
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to be born of / to come from / family background / class origin
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt / fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to throw oneself into sth
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              to get away from / to withdraw / to free oneself
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              to do a body search / to frisk
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              whole body / em (typography)
								                
                                                                    								               
									              holding two jobs simultaneously
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to change shape in a single shake / fig. to take on a new lease of life
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              beside / at the side / by the side
								                
                                                                    								               
									              stand-in / substitute / body double / stuntman / scapegoat / fall guy / to stand in for sb else
								                
                                                                    								               
									              itself / in itself / per se
								                
                                                                    								               
									              stature / build (height and weight) / figure
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to stay at / to live in (temporarily)
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              to exercise / to keep fit / to work out / physical exercise
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              physical and psychological health / sound in body and mind
								                
                                                                    								               
									              life partner / partner for life
								                
                                                                    								               
									              (to stand or move) sideways
								                
                                                                    								               
									              have a sudden rise in social status / receive a tremendous boost in one's prestige
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to half rise out of one's chair (a polite gesture)
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              all over / from head to foot
								                
                                                                    								               
									              clean-living and honest (idiom); to avoid immorality / to shun evil influence / to mind one's own business and keep out of trouble / to keep one's hands clean
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to give it your all / to go at it with all you've got / to throw your whole weight behind it / also pr. [hun2 shen1 jie3 shu4]
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              the body / one's health / CL:具[ju4],個|个[ge4] / in person
								                
                                                                    								               
									              social status / price of a slave / price of a person (a sportsman etc) / worth / value (of stocks, valuables etc)
								                
                                                                    								               
									              identity / status / capacity / dignity / position / rank
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
                                                                                                   
                                                                                                 牵 一 发 而 动 全 身 qiān yī fà ér dòng quán shēn 
 
									              lit. pull one hair and the whole body moves / fig. a slight change will affect everything else / the butterfly effect
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                                                   
                                                                                                 狮 身 人 面 像 shī shēn rén miàn xiàng 
 
									              sphinx
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to commit one's energy to / to devote oneself to / to sacrifice one's life for / (coll.) (of a woman) to give one's virginity to
								                
                                                                    								               
									              vital interests / immediate interests
								                
                                                                    								               
									              lit. torn body and crushed bones (idiom) / fig. to die horribly / to sacrifice one's life
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              escape narrowly / escape with one's bare life / escape from being killed
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to lean over / to bend over / to stoop / to bow
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to wear / wearing (a uniform)
								                
                                                                    								               
									              amulet / protective talisman / charm
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to leap / to spring / to throw oneself
								                
                                                                    								               
									              lifelong / all one's life / marriage
								                
                                                                    								               
									              (of an illness, debt etc) to plague sb / to preoccupy sb / difficult to get rid of
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to place oneself / to stay
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to turn over (when lying) / (fig.) to free oneself / to emancipate oneself / to bring about a change of one's fortunes
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              to get away / to escape (from obligations) / to free oneself / to disengage
								                
                                                                    								               
									              waistline / waist / girth / waist measurement
								                
                                                                    								               
									              on the body / at hand / among
								                
                                                                    								               
									              itself / oneself / one's own
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              to bury a corpse / to be buried
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to die without a burial site / to die a pauper / a tragic end
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to hide / to go into hiding / to take refuge
								                
                                                                    								               
									              lit. to take the yellow gown (idiom) / fig. to be made emperor / to take the crown
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to lose one's standing / to have one's reputation swept away / a complete defeat and fall from grace
								                
                                                                    								               
									              in a state of nature / in one's birthday suit / as naked as when one was born / in the altogether / stark naked
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              worn next to the skin / close-fitting / personal (servant etc)
								                
                                                                    								               
									              redeem oneself / buy back one's freedom
								                
                                                                    								               
									              to get up / to leave / to set forth
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              whole body / from head to toe / single person / a suit of clothes
								                
                                                                    								               
									              (of a person) to turn round / to face about / (of a widow) to remarry (archaic)
								                
                                                                    								               
									              variant of 身份 / identity / status / capacity / dignity / position / rank
								                
                                                                    								               
									              person / personal / human body
								                
                                                                    								               
                                                                    								               
									              bend the knee in obeisance / bow with the body slightly bent, as a sign of respect