chắp vá
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Definition
Verb:
- To patch up: To repair or assemble something by joining together disparate or mismatched parts, often in a makeshift or temporary manner.
- To cobble together: To create or compose something from a collection of varied, often unsuitable, elements, resulting in a non-uniform whole.
Adjective:
- Patchwork; Makeshift: Describing something that is poorly constructed or planned from an assortment of different, often incompatible, parts or ideas. It implies a lack of coherence, system, or permanence.
Usage Examples
Verb:
- Họ phải chắp vá những mảnh vải cũ để làm chăn. (They had to patch up old pieces of cloth to make a blanket.)
- Anh ấy chắp vá bài báo cáo từ nhiều nguồn khác nhau. (He cobbled together the report from many different sources.)
Adjective:
- Đây là một kế hoạch chắp vá và không khả thi. (This is a patchwork plan and is not feasible.)
- Chiếc xe chắp vá đó không thể chạy lâu được. (That makeshift car cannot run for long.)
Advanced Usage
- Used to criticize a non-systematic, disorganized, or temporary approach to solving problems, managing work, or creating something.
- Lối quản lý chắp vá (a patchwork management style)
- Giải pháp chắp vá (a stopgap solution)
Variants and Related Words
- Chắp nối (v): To connect or join parts, often implying a rough or temporary connection. It can be less negative than "chắp vá."
- Chắp nối dây điện (to splice electrical wires)
Synonyms
- To patch: To mend by putting a piece over a hole.
- To jury-rig: To assemble or repair something with whatever materials are at hand.
- Haphazard: Lacking any obvious principle of organization.
- Disparate: Essentially different in kind; not allowing comparison.
Related Idioms
Làm ăn chắp vá: To work in an unsystematic, piecemeal, or improvised manner.
- Công ty sẽ phá sản nếu cứ làm ăn chắp vá như vậy. (The company will go bankrupt if it keeps working in such a haphazard way.)
Chắp vá đầu Ngô mình Sở: (A classical idiom) Literally "to patch a Ngô head onto a Sở body." It means to clumsily combine mismatched parts, resulting in something incongruous and dysfunctional.
- Bản thiết kế này giống như chắp vá đầu Ngô mình Sở. (This design is like patching a Ngô head on a Sở body—it's a mismatched mess.)
- To patch up
- góp nhặt phụ tùng cũ để chắp vá thành một chiếc máyto patch up gathered old parts into a machine
- kế hoạch chắp váa patchedup plan
- lối làm ăn chắp váa style of work consisting in patching up things, an unsystematic style of work