面临 (miànlín) means Faced with (contronted with). Below are 4 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
公司 面临 很大的困难。
Gōngsī miànlín hěn dà de kùnnan.
The company faces great difficulties.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 面临
他 面临 一个重要的选择。
Tā miànlín yí ge zhòngyào de xuǎnzé.
He is faced with an important choice.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 面临
我们 面临 严峻的挑战。
Wǒmen miànlín yánjùn de tiǎozhàn.
We face a grim challenge.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 严峻
世界上仍有很多人 面临 饥饿。
Shìjiè shang réng yǒu hěn duō rén miànlín jī'è.
Many people in the world still face hunger.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 饥饿
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Questions about 面临
How is 面临 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 面临 (miànlín, "Faced with (contronted with)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 面临 an HSK word?
Yes — 面临 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 面临?
The dictionary page for 面临 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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