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声势

shēng shì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 聲勢

声势 (shēng shì) means "fame and power; prestige; influence". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 声势 means

1. fame and power
2. prestige
3. influence
4. impetus
5. momentum

The characters in 声势

• 声shēngsound; voice; tone
• 势shìpower; influence; potential

Example sentences

• 花子虚张声势。
  Huāzi xūzhāngshēngshì.
  Hanako called his bluff.
• 汤姆在虚张声势。
  Tom's bluffing.
• 竞选活动因为年轻人的支持而越来越有声势，他们拒绝了他们那一代对政治不感兴趣的神话，他们离开家，从事那些薪水少而且辛苦的工作。
  Jìngxuǎnhuódòng yīnwèi niánqīngrén de zhīchí ér yuèláiyuè yǒu shēngshì, tāmen jùjué le tāmen nà yīdài duì zhèngzhì bù gǎnxìngqù de shénhuà, tāmen líkāi jiā, cóngshì nàxiē xīnshuǐ shǎo érqiě xīnkǔ de gōngzuò.
  It drew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation's apathy, who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep.
• 人生如梦，如影随形，像个蹩脚的演员，在舞台上虚张声势、矫揉造作一小时，然后便销声匿迹。人生如白痴讲的故事，喧嚣吵杂，却毫无意义。
  Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
• 竞选活动的声势也来自那些已不再年轻的人们，他们冒着严寒酷暑，敲开陌生人的家门进行竞选宣传；竞选声势也源自数百万的美国民众，他们充当志愿者和组织者，他们证明了在两百多年以后，民有、民治、民享的政府并未从地球上消失。这是你们的胜利。
  Jìngxuǎnhuódòng de shēngshì yě láizì nàxiē yǐ bù zài niánqīng de rénmen, tāmen màozhe yánhán kùshǔ, qiāokāi mòshēngrén de jiāmén jìnxíng jìngxuǎn xuānchuán; jìngxuǎn shēngshì yě yuánzì shùbǎiwàn de Měiguó mínzhòng, tāmen chōngdāng zhìyuànzhě hé zǔzhīzhě, tāmen zhèngmíng le zài liǎng bǎi duō nián yǐhòu, mín yǒu, mín zhì, mín xiǎng de zhèngfǔ bìng wèi cóng dìqiú shàng xiāoshī. zhè shì nǐmen de shènglì.
  It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.

Words containing 声势

• 虚张声势xū zhāng shēng shì(idiom) to bluff; to bluster; to make an empty show of strength
• 大张声势dà zhāng shēng shìto spread one's voice wide (idiom); wide publicity

Sounds the same

Read shēng shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 生事to make trouble
• 升市rising prices; bull market

Where 声势 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shèng–shí (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shēng shì correctly.
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