bần bách

Thân thiện

Gia đình ông ấy sống trong cảnh bần bách suốt nhiều năm.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Very poor; in reduced circumstances: Describes a state of extreme poverty or destitution, where one lacks basic necessities and lives in severe hardship.
   • Impoverished; indigent: Characterizes a condition of being extremely poor and lacking financial resources.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Gia đình ông ấy sống trong cảnh bần bách. (His family lives in a state of extreme poverty.)
  • Những năm chiến tranh, người dân phải chịu cuộc sống bần bách. (During the war years, the people endured an impoverished life.)

Advanced Usage

• The term bần bách often carries a literary or formal tone and is used to emphasize a profound, grinding state of poverty rather than a temporary lack.

Variants and Related Words

• Bần cùng (adj): destitute, utterly poor. Often used similarly to bần bách but can imply a more absolute, desperate state.
  • Khu vực đó toàn những người bần cùng. (That area is full of destitute people.)

Synonyms

• Destitute: Lacking the means of subsistence.
• Impoverished: Reduced to poverty.
• Penniless: Having no money.

Related Idioms

• Bần cùng hóa: to impoverish; to reduce to poverty.
  • Chính sách đó có nguy cơ bần cùng hóa nông dân. (That policy risks impoverishing the farmers.)

Học thuật

1. Very poor; in reduced circumstances