củi vụn
Definition
- Noun:
- Small pieces of firewood, kindling: Refers to small, thin pieces of wood, often used to start a fire or for quick burning.
- Wood chips, wood scraps: Can also refer to wood fragments or scraps, typically leftover from chopping or processing wood.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Anh ấy dùng củi vụn để nhóm bếp. (He used kindling to start the stove.)
- Những mảnh củi vụn này đủ để đun một ấm nước. (These pieces of small firewood are enough to boil a kettle of water.)
- Sau khi đốn cây, họ thu gom củi vụn lại. (After felling the tree, they gathered the wood scraps.)
Advanced Usage
- "Chỉ là củi vụn": An idiom meaning something is insignificant, trivial, or of little value, like mere scraps.
- Đừng lo lắng về những lời chỉ trích đó, chúng chỉ là củi vụn thôi. (Don't worry about those criticisms, they are just trivial matters.)
Variants and Related Words
- Củi (n): Firewood (general term for wood used as fuel).
- Củi khô (n): Dry firewood.
- Mùn cưa (n): Sawdust (a different byproduct of wood processing, finer than ).
Synonyms
- Thanh củi nhỏ: Small stick of firewood.
- Vụn gỗ: Wood chips/fragments.
Related Phrases/Idioms
- Chụm *củi vụn ba năm thiêu một giờ: A proverb similar to "Rome wasn't built in a day," implying that something valuable (like a large pile of firewood) is accumulated slowly over time (củi vụn* represents the small, incremental efforts), but can be destroyed or used up very quickly. It highlights the contrast between slow accumulation and rapid consumption.
- Sự nghiệp xây dựng khó khăn, chụm củi vụn ba năm thiêu một giờ. (Building a career is hard; it's like gathering kindling for three years to burn in an hour.)