bình sinh

Thân thiện

Ông ấy đã dồn hết sức bình sinh để đẩy chiếc xe ra khỏi vũng lầy.

Definition

Noun (used as a supplementary element in a sentence) 1. One's lifetime, one's whole life: Refers to the entire duration of a person's existence. 2. One's (innate) strength, one's vital force: Refers to one's inherent physical capacity or life force.

Usage

• "Bình sinh" is a literary and somewhat formal word, rarely used in everyday conversation. It functions as a noun but is primarily used to modify other nouns (like - strength) or to provide temporal context for a statement about a person's lifelong character or actions.
• It is often used in set phrases.

Usage Examples

• Modifying a statement about lifelong character:
  • Bình sinh, ông ấy là người rất nhân hậu. (In his lifetime / All his life, he was a very kind person.)
• In the phrase "sức bình sinh":
  • Anh ta phải dồn hết sức bình sinh để đẩy chiếc xe. (He had to muster all his strength to push the car.)
  • Cô ấy chiến đấu bằng sức bình sinh cuối cùng. (She fought with the last of her strength / her vital force.)

Advanced Usage

• "Hết sức bình sinh": An adverbial phrase meaning "with all one's might," "using every ounce of one's strength."
  • Người lính gầm lên hết sức bình sinh. (The soldier roared with all his might.)

Variants and Related Words

• Cả đời: (Common synonym) One's whole life.
  • Ông ấy cả đời tận tụy với khoa học. (He devoted his whole life to science.)
• Sinh bình: (Archaic, rarely used) A reversed form with the same core meaning as "bình sinh," referring to one's lifetime or normal life.

Synonyms

• Cả đời: All one's life, lifetime.
• Suốt đời: Throughout one's life.
• Toàn bộ cuộc đời: The entirety of one's life.
• Sức lực: Strength, effort (when referring to "sức bình sinh").

Related Idioms/Phrases

• "Sức cùng lực kiệt": To be completely exhausted, at the end of one's tether. This is a common idiom describing a state of total fatigue, which is the result of using "hết sức bình sinh."
  • Sau trận đấu, các cầu thủ đã sức cùng lực kiệt.(After the match, the players were completely exhausted.)

Học thuật

1. danh từ (dùng làm phần phụ trong câu)
2. Lifetime
   • sức bình sinh
     all one's strength
   • phải đem hết sức bình sinh mới nhấc nổi quả tạ
     he had to use all his strength to lift the weight