cản
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Definition
Verb:
- To block; to obstruct: To physically stand in the way of something or someone, preventing movement or passage.
- To prevent; to stop; to hinder: To take action to stop an event, action, or process from happening or continuing.
- To resist; to oppose: To act against a force, movement, or influence.
Noun:
- A barrier; a dam; an obstruction: A physical structure built to block or control the flow of something, like water.
Usage Examples
Verb:
- Hàng cây cản gió. (The row of trees blocks the wind.)
- Cảnh sát cản đường không cho xe đi qua. (The police blocked the road, not letting vehicles pass.)
- Anh ấy cản tôi không cho tôi nói. (He stopped me from speaking.)
Noun:
- Người ta đắp một cái cản trên sông. (They built a dam on the river.)
Advanced Usage
"cản bước": To block someone's path or progress.
- Không khó khăn nào có thể cản bước anh ấy. (No difficulty can block his progress.)
"cản phá": To obstruct and destroy; often used in military or sports contexts.
- Hậu vệ cản phá thành công cú sút. (The defender successfully blocked the shot.)
Variants and Related Words
Cản trở (v): To obstruct; to impede; to hinder (often used for abstract obstacles).
- Thiếu vốn cản trở sự phát triển của dự án. (Lack of capital hinders the project's development.)
Ngăn cản (v): To prevent; to stop (emphasizing the act of prevention).
- Bố mẹ không ngăn cản ước mơ của con. (Parents do not prevent their child's dreams.)
Synonyms
- Block: To obstruct a path or passage.
- Prevent: To stop something from happening.
- Hinder: To create difficulties, resulting in delay or obstruction.
- Obstruct: To be in the way of.
Related Idioms
- Sạch nước cản:
- (Literally from chess) To know all the rules thoroughly; to be an expert.
- Anh ấy chơi cờ sạch nước cản. (He plays chess knowing all the rules perfectly.)
- (Colloquial) To describe a woman who is reasonably good-looking; "not bad-looking."
- Cô ấy cũng sạch nước cản. (She's also quite good-looking.)
verb
- To prevent, to stop, to bar
- rừng cây cản gióthe forest of trees stops the wind
- cản bước tiếnto prevent someone's advance
- cản đườngto block the way
- hắn cản địch cho đồng đội rút luito lay a barrage for fellow combatants to withdraw; to cover fellow combatants' retreat with a barrage
- sức cảnresistance force
noun
- Barrage, dam
- đắp cản trên sôngto build a dam on the river