bấn

Thân thiện

Ông ấy cảm thấy rất bấn vì công việc dồn dập.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Hard-pressed / Overwhelmed: Describes a state of being under great pressure or strain due to a lack of necessary resources, such as manpower or time, making it difficult to manage tasks.
   • Flustered / Flurried: Refers to a state of agitated confusion or being in a pother, often caused by an overwhelming amount of work, questions, or simultaneous demands.
   • In dire straits / Financially strained: Indicates a situation of severe economic difficulty or hardship.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Nhà máy đang bấn người làm. (The factory is hard-pressed for workers.)
  • Bị mọi người hỏi dồn dập, cô ấy cứ bấn lên. (Under a barrage of questions from everyone, she became completely flustered.)
  • Dạo này công việc kinh doanh bấn quá. (The business has been in dire straits lately.)

Advanced Usage

• The adjective "bấn" is often used in the phrase "bấn lên", which intensifies the meaning to describe a sudden onset of being overwhelmed or flustered.
  • Cứ đến mùa cao điểm là cả đội lại bấn lên. (Every peak season, the whole team becomes overwhelmed.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bấn bịu (adj): An intensified, more colloquial form meaning very overwhelmed or tied up with difficulties.
  • Tuần trước deadline dồn, tôi bấn bịu cả ngày. (Last week with piled-up deadlines, I was tied up all day.)

Synonyms

• Overwhelmed: Burdened with too much to handle.
• Flustered: Agitated or confused.
• Hard-pressed: Experiencing severe difficulty or shortage.
• In a bind: In a difficult situation with limited options.

Related Idioms

• Bấn như canh hẹ: An idiom comparing a state of confusion or being overwhelmed to a tangled mess (like chive soup), meaning extremely flustered or in a chaotic situation.
  • Bị hỏi quá nhiều câu một lúc, anh ấy bấn như canh hẹ. (Asked too many questions at once, he was as flustered as a tangled mess.)

Học thuật

adj

1. Hard pressed
   • đang bấn người
     to be hard pressed for manpower
2. Flustering, pothering (because of too much work)
   • lo bấn lên vì nhiều việc
     to fluster because of much work to do
   • ai cũng tranh hỏi, làm anh cứ bấn lên, không còn biết trả lời ai trước nữa
     under a barrage of questions, he was flustered, not knowing whom to answer first