Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Ironlike; steely: Having the qualities of iron or steel, such as extreme hardness, strength, and resilience. Used figuratively to describe a person's character, will, or determination as unyielding and exceptionally strong.
   • Made of iron and steel: Literally pertaining to or composed of cast iron and steel, often in an industrial context.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (figurative):
  • Người lính ấy có ý chí gang thép. (That soldier has an ironlike will.)
  • Họ là những chiến sĩ gang thép, không khuất phục trước kẻ thù. (They are ironlike fighters, unyielding before the enemy.)
• Adjective (literal):
  • Khu công nghiệp tập trung nhiều nhà máy gang thép. (The industrial zone concentrates many iron and steel plants.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is almost exclusively used in a figurative, laudatory sense to describe collective or individual revolutionary spirit, military resolve, or political steadfastness.
• It functions as a compound adjective and is rarely separated.

Variants and Related Words

• Nhà máy gang thép (n): Iron and steel plant; steelworks.
  • Nhà máy gang thép mới đang được xây dựng. (The new steel plant is being constructed.)
• Ngành gang thép (n): The iron and steel industry.
  • Ngành gang thép là nòng cốt của công nghiệp nặng. (The iron and steel industry is the backbone of heavy industry.)

Synonyms

• Iron-willed: Having a very strong and determined will.
• Steely: Resembling steel in color, strength, or hardness; showing determination and firmness.
• Unyielding: Not giving way to pressure; firm or resolute.

Related Idioms

• Ý chí gang thép: An iron will; an unbreakable determination.
  • Với ý chí gang thép, anh ấy đã vượt qua mọi khó khăn. (With an iron will, he overcame all difficulties.)
• Tinh thần gang thép: A steely spirit; an indomitable attitude.
  • Đội quân đó nổi tiếng với tinh thần gang thép. (That army is famous for its steely spirit.)

1. Iron, ironlike
   • chiến sĩ gang thép
     an ironlike fighter, an ironside