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The character "势" in its traditional form as "勢" is etymologically composed of the component "埶", depicting a hand planting a seedling, combined with "力" meaning strength or force, originally conveying the exertion involved in cultivation. This foundational idea of applied force or planted stability gradually broadened to encompass more abstract notions of inherent power, positional advantage, and directional tendency. Over time, its semantic field expanded significantly from concrete agricultural labor to describe the momentum of an army, the authority of a ruler, topographical configuration, and the latent energy within any situation. The modern simplified form "势" retains the essential "力" while condensing the phonetic and semantic component, yet the character continues to encapsulate a conceptual spectrum from tangible power and geographic form to intangible influence and the prevailing tendency of circumstances.
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我们的形势很好。
他在当地很有势力。
这种趋势很明显。
我们占据了优势。
经济发展的大势不可逆转。
在竞争激烈的市场中，保持优势至关重要。
该公司利用其技术优势，迅速扩大了市场份额。
尽管初期处于劣势，但通过创新和努力，他们最终扭转了局势。