Definition

1. Verb:
   • To let drift / to let slide: To allow a situation, process, or matter to continue without guidance, control, or proper attention, often leading to neglect or a worsening state.
   • To abandon to fate / to give up on: To cease making an effort to manage or improve something, accepting whatever outcome may happen as inevitable.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Công việc kinh doanh đang bị buông trôi. (The business is being left to drift.)
  • Anh ấy buông trôi mọi thứ sau thất bại. (He let everything slide after the failure.)
  • Không thể buông trôi việc giáo dục con cái. (You cannot neglect your children's education.)

Advanced Usage

• The term often implies a passive negligence or a conscious decision to stop intervening, resulting in a lack of progress or decline. It carries a negative connotation of irresponsibility.

Variants and Related Words

• Buông xuôi (v): To give up completely, to surrender to circumstances. This has a stronger sense of finality and despair than "buông trôi."
  • Đừng buông xuôi, hãy cố gắng lên. (Don't give up, try harder.)

Synonyms

• Neglect: To fail to care for or give proper attention to.
• Let things slide: To allow standards or conditions to deteriorate by not taking action.
• Abandon: To cease to support or look after.

Related Idioms

• Buông trôi phó mặc: To let go and entrust to fate; to completely abandon responsibility.
  • Số phận đứa trẻ bị buông trôi phó mặc. (The child's fate was abandoned to chance.)

1. To let drift
   • lãnh đạo mà buông trôi khoán trắng thì hỏng việc
     if the leadership lets things drift and gives carte blanche, it is sure to fail