bụi hồng
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Definition
- Noun:
- Red dust; the mundane world, earthly life: A literary and somewhat archaic term derived from Sino-Vietnamese roots, referring to the physical world or earthly existence, often with connotations of its transient, dusty, or sorrowful nature.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Anh ấy đã rời bỏ bụi hồng để đi tu. (He left the red dust [the mundane world] to become a monk.)
- Kiếp người trong bụi hồng thật ngắn ngủi. (A human life in this dusty world is truly brief.)
Advanced Usage
"Lăn lộn trong bụi hồng": To struggle or toil in the mundane world.
- Sau bao năm lăn lộn trong bụi hồng, ông ấy chỉ mong được an nhàn. (After many years of toiling in the dusty world, he only wishes for peace and leisure.)
"Cõi bụi hồng": The realm of red dust; the mortal world.
- Thi nhân thường cảm thán về cõi bụi hồng đầy biến động. (Poets often lament the ever-changing mortal world.)
Variants and Related Words
- Hồng trần (n): A more common and direct synonym, also meaning "the red dust" or "the mundane world."
- Phim ấy kể về một tiên nữ giáng thế hồng trần. (That film is about a fairy who descends to the mortal world.)
Synonyms
- Cõi tục: The secular world.
- Trần gian: The human world, the earthly realm.
- Cõi đời: This life, the world.
Related Idioms
- "Bụi hồng lấm áo trắng": Literally "red dust stains the white robe"; meaning the impurities or troubles of the world taint one's purity or peace.
- Ra ngoài xã hội, đừng để bụi hồng lấm áo trắng. (When you go out into society, don't let the world's dust stain your purity.)
- Red dust; the earth, this world