危言耸听 (危言聳聽)
wēi yán sǒng tīng
Pinyin

Definition

危言耸听 (危言聳聽)
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wēi yán sǒng tīng
  1. frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk
  2. reds under the beds

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

危机
wēi jī
  1. 1 crisis
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
危险
wēi xiǎn
  1. 1 danger
  2. 2 dangerous
留言
liú yán
  1. 1 to leave a message
  2. 2 to leave one's comments
  3. 3 message
箴言
zhēn yán
  1. 1 admonition
  2. 2 exhortation
  3. 3 dictum
  4. 4 the biblical Book of Proverbs
言
yán
  1. 1 words
  2. 2 speech
  3. 3 to say
  4. 4 to talk

Idioms (20)

一言一动
yī yán yī dòng
  1. 1 (one's) every word and deed (idiom)
一言一行
yī yán yī xíng
  1. 1 every word and action (idiom)
一言不发
yī yán bù fā
  1. 1 to not say a word (idiom)
一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
  1. 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
一言以蔽之
yī yán yǐ bì zhī
  1. 1 one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short
  2. 2 in a nutshell

Sample Sentences

这可不是危言耸听。在互联网时代，人们越来越依赖电脑，如果不积极防止各种病毒的危害，以免电脑故障和信息泄露，那将对我们的工作和生活造成巨大的影响。
zhè kěbùshì wēiyánsǒngtīng 。zài hùliánwǎng shídài ，rénmen yuèláiyuè yīlài diànnǎo ，rúguǒ bù jījí fángzhǐ gèzhǒng bìngdú de wēihài ，yǐmiǎn diànnǎo gùzhàng hé xìnxī xièlòu ，nà jiāng duì wǒmen de gōngzuò hé shēnghuó zàochéng jùdà de yǐngxiǎng 。
I'm not just trying to scare you. In the Internet era, people rely on computers more and more. If we don't pro-actively guard against the danger from all kinds of viruses to prevent computer crashes and information leaks, it will have a huge effect on our work and life.
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