bơ vơ
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Lonely and adrift: Describes a state of being alone, isolated, and without support, guidance, or a place to belong. It conveys a sense of vulnerability and being lost.
- Desolate and forlorn: Expresses a feeling of bleakness and abandonment, often in an unfamiliar or unwelcoming environment.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Đứa trẻ mồ côi cảm thấy rất bơ vơ. (The orphaned child felt very lonely and adrift.)
- Cô ấy đứng bơ vơ giữa sân ga đông đúc. (She stood forlorn in the middle of the crowded train station.)
- Sau trận lũ, nhiều người sống bơ vơ không nhà cửa. (After the flood, many people lived desolate and without homes.)
Advanced Usage
- The word "bơ vơ" often carries a stronger emotional weight than simply "alone" (). It implies not just solitude but a profound lack of connection, direction, or refuge.
- It is frequently used to describe the emotional state of orphans, refugees, or anyone separated from their family or homeland.
Variants and Related Words
- Lẻ loi (adj): solitary, lone. Focuses more on the physical state of being by oneself.
- Trơ trọi (adj): bare, exposed, starkly alone. Emphasizes being isolated and conspicuous in one's solitude.
- Cô độc (adj): lonely, lonesome. Focuses more on the subjective feeling of loneliness.
Synonyms
- Adrift: floating without direction or control.
- Forlorn: pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.
- Desolate: feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness.
Related Idioms
- Bơ vơ như gà mất mẹ: (to be) as lost as a chick separated from its mother. A common simile intensifying the meaning of "bơ vơ", emphasizing helplessness and vulnerability.
- Mới chuyển đến thành phố, tôi bơ vơ như gà mất mẹ. (Having just moved to the city, I was as lost as a chick without its mother.)
adj
- Lonely, desolate
- cuộc đời bơ vơa lonely life
- bơ vơ nơi đất khách quê ngườito be desolate in a strange land
- bơ vơ như gà mất mẹlonely like a chick straying from its mother