Definition

1. Noun:

   • Stretcher: A portable bed or frame used to carry a sick, injured, or dead person, typically by two or more people.
   • Palanquin / Litter: A covered, box-like chair or bed mounted on poles and carried by bearers, historically used for transporting a single passenger.

2. Verb:

   • To carry on a stretcher: To transport someone using a stretcher.
   • To shoulder, to take on, to assume responsibility for: To undertake or bear the burden of a task, duty, or responsibility, often a heavy or difficult one.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • Các y tá dùng cáng để đưa bệnh nhân vào phòng cấp cứu. (The nurses used a stretcher to take the patient into the emergency room.)
  • Ngày xưa, quan lại thường di chuyển bằng cáng. (In the past, mandarins often traveled by palanquin.)

• Verb:

  • Họ phải cáng người bị nạn xuống núi. (They had to carry the victim down the mountain on a stretcher.)
  • Anh ấy một mình cáng hết việc của cả nhóm. (He alone shoulders all the work for the whole team.)

Advanced Usage

• The verb form meaning "to take on responsibility" is often used in a context implying a significant or burdensome load that one person handles for others.

Variants and Related Words

• Cáng cứu thương (n): Ambulance stretcher.
• Khiêng cáng (v): To carry a stretcher (literally "to carry by stretcher").

Synonyms

• Stretcher: Gurney, litter.
• Palanquin: Litter, sedan chair.
• To carry (on a stretcher): To transport, to bear.
• To shoulder (responsibility): To undertake, to assume, to bear, to take charge of.

Related Idioms

• Cáng đáng: To undertake and manage (a responsibility or task). This is a compound word derived from the verb "cáng."
  • Cô ấy có khả năng cáng đáng công việc quan trọng. (She is capable of undertaking important work.)

noun

1. Roofed hammock, palanquin, palankeen
2. Stretcher
   • chiếc cáng cứu thương
     a first-aid stretcher

verb

1. To carry on a stretcher
   • cáng anh thương binh về trạm quân y
     to carry a wounded soldier to a military infirmary
2. To take charge of, to assume the responsibility for
   • một mình mà cáng được công việc của mấy người
     to take charge alone of the job of some