大声疾呼

大聲疾呼
dàshēng-jíhū
idiom #35,970

Meanings

  1. 1 to cry out loudly
  2. 2 to call attention to something urgently
  3. 3 to make an impassioned public appeal

Examples

HSK 4
Tā zài huìshàng dàshēngjíhū, xīwàng yǐnqǐ dàjiā de zhòngshì.
He made an urgent appeal at the meeting, hoping everyone would take notice.
HSK 4
Miànduì wūrǎn wèntí, wǒmen bìxū dàshēngjíhū.
In the face of pollution, we must sound the alarm loudly.
HSK 6
Huánbǎo rénshì dàshēngjíhū bǎohù sēnlín.
Environmentalists are loudly calling for the protection of forests.

Tips

history
From Han Yu's 《后十九日复上宰相书》 (Tang dynasty): "行且不息,以蹈于穷饿之水火,其既危且亟矣,大其声而疾呼矣" - the scholar described himself as shouting urgently like a man in the fires. The ('urgent, quick') here means 'with urgency', not 'illness'.
mistakes
is 'urgent' here, not 'illness'. Learners often mistranslate as 'to shout in sickness' - it means 'to shout urgently'.

Stroke Order

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