cam tâm

Thân thiện

Cô ấy cam tâm chịu thiệt thòi để gia đình được hạnh phúc.

Definition

1. Verb phrase:
   • To resign oneself to, to accept (often reluctantly): To consciously accept an unfavorable situation, outcome, or status, typically with a sense of submission or lack of alternative.
   • To make up one's mind to (something negative): To firmly decide to accept an unpleasant reality or consequence.

Usage Examples

• Verb phrase:
  • Kẻ thù chưa cam tâm chịu thất bại. (The enemy has not yet resigned themselves to defeat.)
  • Cô ấy cam tâm làm việc vất vả để nuôi con. (She resigned herself to doing hard work to raise her children.)
  • Anh ta đã cam tâm nhận tội. (He made up his mind to plead guilty.)

Advanced Usage

• "Cam tâm tình nguyện": To willingly and wholeheartedly accept, often used to emphasize voluntary acceptance without regret.

  • Tôi cam tâm tình nguyện làm tất cả vì gia đình. (I willingly and wholeheartedly do everything for my family.)

• "Cam tâm chịu thiệt": To accept a loss or disadvantage.

  • Để giữ hòa khí, anh ấy cam tâm chịu thiệt. (To maintain harmony, he accepted the disadvantage.)

Variants and Related Words

• Cam chịu (verb): To endure, to bear, to submit to (often implies passive suffering).

  • Cô ấy cam chịu số phận. (She endures her fate.)

• Bằng lòng (verb/adjective): To agree, to be content/satisfied (generally neutral or positive, unlike the often negative connotation of "cam tâm").

  • Tôi bằng lòng với kết quả này. (I am content with this result.)

Synonyms

• Chấp nhận: To accept (a more general, neutral term).
• Từ bỏ: To give up, to abandon (focuses on the act of relinquishing).

Related Phrases

• Cam tâm nhận lấy: To accept and take upon oneself (a responsibility or consequence).
  • Anh ấy cam tâm nhận lấy mọi hậu quả. (He accepted and took upon himself all the consequences.)

Related Idioms

• "Cam tâm chịu trói": Literally "to resign oneself to being tied up"; figuratively means to submit completely without resistance.
  • Trước sức ép, họ đành cam tâm chịu trói. (Under pressure, they had no choice but to submit completely.)

Học thuật

1. To resign oneself to, to make up one's mind to
   • kẻ thù chưa cam tâm chịu thất bại
     the enemy have not made up their mind to their defeat