chắp nhặt

Thân thiện

Người thợ may đang chắp nhặt những mảnh vải vụn nhiều màu sắc để khâu thành một tấm chăn lớn.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To glean: To collect information, ideas, or small amounts of something bit by bit from various sources, often with effort.
   • To scrape together: To gather or assemble something (like money, materials, or facts) from whatever is available, especially when resources are scarce or scattered.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Anh ấy chỉ chắp nhặt kiến thức từ vài trang web. (He only gleans knowledge from a few websites.)
  • Cô ấy chắp nhặt đủ tiền để mua một chiếc xe cũ. (She scraped together enough money to buy an old car.)
  • Bài báo này được viết từ những mẩu tin chắp nhặt. (This article is written from gleaned bits of news.)

Advanced Usage

• The word often carries a nuance of a haphazard, incomplete, or unrefined collection, implying the final result may be patchy or not from a unified source.
  • Tác phẩm của ông ấy chẳng qua là chắp nhặt ý tưởng của người khác. (His work is merely a scraping together of others' ideas.)

Variants and Related Words

• Chắp vá (v): To patch together, to mend. This emphasizes piecing things together in a makeshift or temporary way, often physically.
  • Chiếc quần được chắp vá bằng nhiều mảnh vải. (The pants were patched together with many pieces of fabric.)

Synonyms

• Glean: To gather gradually and bit by bit.
• Scrape together: To collect with difficulty.
• Patch together: To assemble from disparate parts.

Related Idioms

• While "chắp nhặt" itself is often used directly, it is conceptually related to the idea of a patchwork collection.
  • Lời quê chắp nhặt dông dài. (Rustic words, gleaned and long-winded.) – A famous line from poet Nguyễn Du, describing his work as a humble collection of common phrases.

Học thuật

verb

1. To glean, to scrape together