势焰[shì yàn]
arrogance and power
1. 因为这种火焰既然能将一副胸臆深处的片片余烬重新点燃，或被一颗芳心所迸发的流逸火花所触发，必将势焰赫，愈燃愈大，直到后来，它的温暖与光亮必将达到千千万万的男女，达到一切人们的共同心灵，以致整个世界与整个自然都将受到它的熙和光辉的煦煦普照。
For it is a fire that, kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom, caught from a wandering spark out of another private heart, glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women, upon the universal heart of all, and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flames.
2. 势焰的意思
2. 这种观点将迫使政府削减公共开支——在英国，更是要打击势焰熏天的工会：他们勒索式地要求增加工资，却未给生产力带来任何提高。
This would force them to cut public spending—and in Britain to demolish overmighty trade unions, which extorted wage rises without any increase in productivity.