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Originally Posted by masaegu
「〜のような特別な事態、状況に身をおいて」と言いた い時に使う。
This sentence means "It is used when wanting to say 'finding itself in a particular state or situation'."
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Thank you for the translation. I really should have realized that's what 身をおく meant, but oh well. I'm not an expert!
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Originally Posted by masaegu
There is not anything so special about the phrase ～～にあって. I surmise that your book introduces it because it is not a phrase many Japanese-learners are able to use actively. Even among native speakers, it is not something many people use on a daily basis. You will find it quite often in more formal speech, though.
The reason that you find that explanatory sentence difficult would be the very fact that the phrase itself is simple. If you tried to explain the English word "be", you could easily end up using big words, could you not?
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That makes sense. Thanks for the info.
This was also the last hiccup in my work on the next section, so once I clean up the translation a bit with what you two have said, I'll post the next thread for the learners to see.