bê tha

Thân thiện

Một người đàn ông bê tha ngồi bên vỉa hè với chai rượu.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Shabby, slovenly, unkempt: Describes a person's appearance as messy, untidy, or worn-out, often due to neglect.
   • Dissolute, debauched: Describes a person's way of life as morally corrupt, characterized by excessive indulgence in vices like drinking, gambling, or promiscuity.

2. Verb:

   • To lead a dissolute life, to wallow in vice: To plunge into or indulge excessively in a life of dissipation and moral neglect.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Anh ta ăn mặc bê tha. (He is shabbily dressed.)
  • Cuộc sống bê tha của hắn khiến gia đình xấu hổ. (His dissolute life shames his family.)
• Verb:
  • Sau khi thất bại, anh ấy bắt đầu bê tha trong rượu chè. (After the failure, he began to wallow in drinking.)

Advanced Usage

• The word often carries a strong negative moral judgment, implying a loss of dignity or character due to neglect of oneself or one's social duties.
• It can describe both a temporary state (e.g., a shabby appearance) and a permanent, ingrained lifestyle (e.g., a debauched existence).

Variants and Related Words

• Bệ rạc (adj): A close synonym meaning shabby, slovenly, or dilapidated.
• Trụy lạc (adj/verb): Specifically refers to depravity and decadence, often with a connotation of sexual vice.

Synonyms

• Shabby, unkempt (for appearance).
• Dissolute, debauched, depraved (for lifestyle).
• To carouse, to debauch (for the verb form).

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Sống bê tha: To live a dissolute life.
  • Hắn sống bê tha suốt những năm tháng tuổi trẻ. (He lived a dissolute life throughout his youth.)
• Bê tha rượu chè: To be addicted to/alcoholic; to wallow in drinking.
  • Cảnh bê tha rượu chè nơi quán bar. (The scene of debauchery and drinking in the bar.)

Học thuật

verb

1. To plunge into dissipation, to wallow in debauchery

adj

1. Shabby
   • ăn mặc bê tha
     to be shabbily dressed