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承受

chéng shòu

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

承受 (chéng shòu) means "to bear, endure". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 承受 means

1. to bear
2. to support
3. to inherit

The characters in 承受

• 承chéngto bear; to carry; to hold
• 受shòuto receive; to accept; to suffer

Example sentences

• 我不能再承受这种痛苦。
  Wǒ bù néng zài chéngshòu zhèzhǒng tòngkǔ.
  I can't bear this kind of pain.
• 这冰太薄不能承受你的重量。
  The ice is too thin to bear your weight.
• 湖上的冰太薄了，承受不了你的重量。
  The ice on the lake is too thin to bear your weight.
• 这个梯子是否足够坚固以承受我的重量？
  Zhège tīzi shìfǒu zúgòu jiāngù yǐ chéngshòu wǒ de zhòngliàng?
  Is this ladder strong enough to bear my weight?
• 他为美国承受了比我们大多数人所能想象的更多的牺牲。
  Tā wèi Měiguó chéngshòu le bǐ wǒmen dàduōshù rén suǒ néng xiǎngxiàng de gèng duō de xīshēng.
  He has endured sacrifices for the United States that most of us cannot begin to imagine.
• 贝茨曾在 1984 年洛杉矶夏季奥运会上获得三枚金牌，他是少数几位能够体会到像体操运动员西蒙拜尔斯 (她在日本奥运会上退出了一些比赛项目) 和网球名将大坂直美 (她在 6 月份退出了着名的温布尔登网球锦标赛) 这样的运动员所承受的压力和情绪的精英运动员之一。
  Bates, who won three gold medals at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, is one of the few elite athletes who has some idea of the stress and emotions that run through athletes like gymnast Simone Biles, who withdrew from some Olympic events at the Games in Japan, and tennis ace Naomi Osaka, who left the prestigious Wimbledon tournament in June.

Words starting with 承受

• 承受力chéng shòu lìtolerance; capability of adapting oneself

Where 承受 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Responsibility, Response & Control (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chéng shòu correctly.
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