bê-tông
- Noun:
- Concrete: A heavy, durable building material made from a mixture of cement, sand, gravel or crushed stone, and water, which hardens into a stone-like mass. It is used for foundations, pavements, walls, and other structural elements.
- Noun:
- Công nhân đang đổ bê-tông cho nền nhà mới. (Workers are pouring concrete for the new house's floor.)
- Tòa nhà này được xây bằng bê-tông cốt thép rất kiên cố. (This building is constructed with reinforced concrete, making it very solid.)
- Bức tường bê-tông quá dày để xuyên thủng. (The concrete wall is too thick to penetrate.)
"bê-tông cốt thép" or "bê-tông cốt sắt": Reinforced concrete. This is concrete embedded with steel bars (rebar) or mesh to increase its tensile strength.
- Cầu mới được thiết kế bằng bê-tông cốt thép. (The new bridge is designed with reinforced concrete.)
"bê-tông hóa": To concretize (literally); often used metaphorically to mean making something fixed, rigid, or permanent.
- Không nên bê-tông hóa các quy tắc; chúng cần linh hoạt. (We shouldn't concretize the rules; they need to be flexible.)
Bê tông tươi (n): Ready-mix concrete, concrete delivered to a construction site in a plastic, unhardened state.
- Công trường sử dụng bê tông tươi để đảm bảo chất lượng. (The construction site uses ready-mix concrete to ensure quality.)
Bê tông nhựa (n): Asphalt concrete (or simply "asphalt"), a composite material used for road surfaces.
- Đường cao tốc được trải một lớp bê tông nhựa. (The highway is paved with a layer of asphalt.)
- Concrete: The direct and most common equivalent.
- Cement (Note: This is a common mistranslation. "Cement" () is the powder binder used to make concrete).
Cứng như bê-tông: As hard as concrete; used to describe something extremely hard or rigid, or a person who is very stubborn.
- Ý kiến của ông ấy cứng như bê-tông, không ai thay đổi được. (His opinion is as hard as concrete; no one can change it.)
Đầu bê-tông: A "concrete head"; a colloquial and mildly insulting term for someone who is very stubborn or slow to understand.
- Đừng có giải thích với nó, nó là cái đầu bê-tông. (Don't bother explaining to him; he has a concrete head.)