身世
shēn shì
Pinyin

Definition

身世
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shēn shì
  1. one's life experience
  2. one's lot
  3. one's past history

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

世界
shì jiè
  1. 1 world
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
乱世
luàn shì
  1. 1 the world in chaos
  2. 2 troubled times
  3. 3 (in Buddhism) the mortal world
单身
dān shēn
  1. 1 unmarried
  2. 2 single
身
shēn
  1. 1 body
  2. 2 life
  3. 3 oneself
  4. 4 personally
  5. 5 one's morality and conduct
  6. 6 the main part of a structure or body
  7. 7 pregnant
  8. 8 classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset
  9. 9 Kangxi radical 158
身份
shēn fèn
  1. 1 identity
  2. 2 status
  3. 3 capacity
  4. 4 dignity
  5. 5 position
  6. 6 rank

Idioms (20)

一日为师，终身为父
yī rì wéi shī , zhōng shēn wéi fù
  1. 1 lit. teacher for one day, father for ever (idiom)
一生一世
yī shēng yī shì
  1. 1 a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life
一身是胆
yī shēn shì dǎn
  1. 1 devoid of fear (idiom)
  2. 2 intrepid
世上无难事，只怕有心人
shì shàng wú nán shì , zhǐ pà yǒu xīn rén
  1. 1 there is nothing the determined person can't accomplish (idiom)
  2. 2 persistence will overcome
世代相传
shì dài xiāng chuán
  1. 1 passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down

Sample Sentences

这样啊？我们中国人要是收养了孩子，孩子的身世简直就是一个天大的秘密......
zhèyàng a ？wǒmen Zhōngguórén yàoshì shōuyǎng le háizi ，háizi de shēnshì jiǎnzhí jiùshì yī ge tiāndà de mìmì ......
Is that so? If we Chinese adopt a child, the child's background is always a big secret...
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妈，难道我对自己的身世都没有知情权吗？我不再是个少不更事的孩子了，有什么事你就告诉我吧，我承受得住。
mā ，nándào wǒ duì zìjǐ de shēnshì dōu méiyǒu zhīqíngquán ma ？wǒ bùzài shì ge shàobùgēngshì de háizi le ，yǒu shénme shì nǐ jiù gàosu wǒ ba ，wǒ chéngshòudezhù 。
Mom, do you really mean to say that I don't even have the right to know about my own life story? I'm not a little kid anymore. Whatever it is, just tell me. I can take it.
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