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置身

zhì shēn

2-character word

What 置身 means

1. to place oneself; to be (in a place or situation)

The characters in 置身

• 置zhìto install; to place; to put
• 身shēnbody; life; oneself

Example sentences

• 人获得自由，究竟意味着什么？难道就是从一个牢笼里巧妙地逃出来，其实只是置身于另一个更大的牢笼。
  Rén huòdé zìyóu, jiūjìng yìwèizhe shénme? Nándào jiù shì cóng yī gè láolóng lǐ qiǎomiào de táo chūlái, qíshí zhǐ shì zhìshēn yú lìng yī gè gèng dà de láolóng.
  What does obtaining freedom really mean? It may seem like cleverly escaping out of a cage, but one just ends up in another bigger cage.
• 人获得自由，究竟意味着什幺？难道就是从一个牢笼里巧妙地逃出来，其实只是置身于另一个更大的牢笼。
  What does obtaining freedom really mean? It may seem like cleverly escaping out of a cage, but one just ends up in another bigger cage.
• 2022 年 2 月 27 日早上，我正要离开卢卢岛的家，却碰见了邻居——红头发的俄罗斯门诺派血统的罗谢尔，以及来自蒙特利尔英语区、留着灰白小胡子的阿尔；阿尔好几代都是加拿大人。他说他住在蒙特娄的时候不懂法语。我在披萨店吃了一块香蒜起司披萨。小贩来自孟买。透过窗户，我看到一个棕金色头发的年轻男子，穿着深灰色连帽夹克和蓝色短裤，看起来像个「大男孩」。咖啡馆外面坐着十个不到 30 岁的人，其中一个看起来像个英俊的犹太人。里面有一桌五、六个 30 岁以上的人，其中一个穿着深绿色夹克和军绿色裤子，是个英俊的假小子。我喝着冰红茶。走出咖啡馆，我看到那个「大男孩」在树林茂密的公园抽烟。我绕了很长一段路回家，穿过散落着鹅粪的校园草坪，北边白雪皑皑的山脉被云雾笼罩，一派泛灵论佛教的景象，彷佛置身于另一个星球。我家附近，奥莉维亚和丹尼尔停放一辆卡车。奥莉维亚正在学习生物化学。卡车后座坐着一只全身黑色的德国牧羊犬。
  In the morning of the 27th of February of 2022, on my way out of my Lulu Island house, I saw my neighbours the redhead Rochelle of Russian-Mennonite ancestry and the grey-haired moustached Al from the Anglophone section of Montreal; he was from many generations of Canadians. He said that he did not know French, when he lived in Montreal. I ate a slice of pesto cheese pizza at the pizzeria. The vendor was from Mumbai. Through the window, I could see a young brown-blond-haired man in a dark-grey hooded jacket and blue shorts, which made him look like a "big boy." At the cafe, there was an under-age-30 crowd of ten outside, of whom one looked like a handsome Jew. Inside was a table of five or six over-age-30 people, of whom one was a handsome tomboy in a dark-green jacket and army-green pants. I drank my iced black tea. Heading out of the cafe, I saw the "big boy" smoking in the wooded park. I took the long route home, through the grassy school field littered with goose poop, the northern snowcapped mountains obscured by clouds, an Animistic-Buddhistic view seemingly of a different planet. Near my house, parked in a truck were Olivia and Daniel. Olivia was studying Biochemistry. In the back seat of the truck was a fully black German Shepherd.
• 2015 年 4 月 14 日，我步行前往列治文公共市场，先是爬上了外面的阶梯。市场内部宽敞的中庭式建筑，让我感觉彷佛置身于丛林之中。我当时已经有点饿了，便小跑到小吃摊「瓦船长」那里，点了一份面和一杯热茶。面里有鱿鱼、鱼和豆腐。我吃着吃着，一位穿着紫色 T 恤的英俊原住民男子从我身边走过。接着，一位身材魁梧、相貌英俊的犹太人也走了过来。几分钟后，我开始觉得口渴，于是在「QQ 珍珠奶茶与咖啡」买了一杯冰镇薄荷珍珠绿茶。我坐在阶梯旁慢慢品尝。附近坐着一家三口吃东西，男人是黑人，女人是东亚人，小孩是混血儿。我喝珍珠奶茶上瘾，于是在「花生家」又买了一杯。这次是冰镇青苹果珍珠绿茶，味道好极了。我搭扶梯下楼。去洗手间的路上，我注意到一个大水族箱，里面养着大概是体型巨大的阿拉斯加红帝王蟹，蟹腿上长满了藤壶。不知怎的，它们让我想起了外星生物。在书店里，我买了一本图文并茂的绿色植物学书籍，上面用的是汉字。一个月前我把它放在一个箱子上，现在还在那里。这本书 14 块钱。我搭扶梯上楼。我对珍珠奶茶还是有瘾，于是用剩下的零钱买了一杯冰荔枝珍珠绿茶。味道好极了，里面甚至还有白色的荔枝果肉。
  On the 14th of April of 2015, I walk to the Richmond Public Market, I first climbing the stairs outside. Inside, the wide atrium-like building is like a garden in a jungle surrounding, I imagine. Already quite hungry, I trot to Captain Wa, the food vendor, to get noodles with squid, fish, and tofu, as well as hot tea. As I eat, a handsome First Nations man in a purple T-shirt walks by. Then a handsome, stocky Jewish fellow walks by. A few minutes later, I begin to thirst, so I get a cold Mint Bubble Green Tea at the vendor QQ Bubble Tea and Coffee. I sit by the stairs to sip. A threesome family sits eating nearby, the man being black, the woman being Oriental, and the child being a hybrid. Addicted to Bubble Tea, I get another one, this time at Peanut's. It is a cold Green Apple Bubble Green Tea. It is delicious. I take the escalator down. On my way to the washroom, I notice a big aquarium full of probably giant red Alaskan king crabs with barnacles on their legs. They remind me of extraterrestrials, somehow. At the bookstore, I buy a heavily illustrated green botany book in sinograms. I left it on top of a box a month ago and it is still there. It is $14. I take the escalator up. Addicted to Bubble Tea, I spend my remaining coins on a cold Lychee Bubble Green Tea. It is delicious with even bits of white lychee flesh.

Words starting with 置身

• 置身事外zhì shēn shì wài(idiom) not to get involved; to stay out of it