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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

尸体 [shītǐ]
  1. 1. noun corpse

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

尸体 [shītǐ]
  1. 1. corpse; carcass; body

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

尸体 [shītǐ]
  1. 1. 人和动物死后的躯体。

Examples

打捞尸体
retrieve a corpse from the water
一具尸体
a corpse
救生员已经沉潜下水,打捞遇难者的尸体
The lifeguards have gone down to the bottom of the water, searching for the bodies of the people who died in the accident.
谁也说不清楚这个丛冢到底埋了多少具尸体
No one can tell exactly how many people are buried in this group of graves.
他的尸体被丢在荒沟中,无人认领。
His corpse was abandoned in a deserted ditch, and no one claimed it.
停尸房中摆满了僵冷的尸体
In the mortuary there are many stiffened corpses.
经过法院的勘验,这确实是他的尸体
After the court's on the spot examination, they determined that the dead body was him.
他的尸体没人认领,只好埋入了乱葬岗子。
No one came to identify the body and take it away, so it was buried in an unmarked burial mound.
他的尸体将于三天后落葬。
His body will be buried in three days time.
他死后没有找到尸体,只能做了一个衣冠冢。
They haven't found his body, so they just make a cenotaph for him.

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