gạn hỏi
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Definition
- Verb:
- To press with questions: To ask someone questions persistently and insistently in order to obtain information, often when the person is reluctant to speak.
- To interrogate insistently: To question someone thoroughly and with determination, leaving no point unexamined.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Phóng viên gạn hỏi thủ tướng về vụ bê bối. (The reporter pressed the prime minister with questions about the scandal.)
- Cô ấy gạn hỏi đứa trẻ xem ai đã lấy cái bánh. (She pressed the child with questions about who took the cake.)
- Dù bị gạn hỏi, anh ta vẫn giữ im lặng. (Even though he was pressed with questions, he remained silent.)
Advanced Usage
- The action often implies a one-sided effort where the questioner is active and determined, while the person being questioned is passive, evasive, or secretive.
- It can be used in both formal contexts (e.g., journalism, investigations) and informal contexts (e.g., within a family).
Variants and Related Words
- Gạn (v): To decant; figuratively, to extract (information or truth) by removing unnecessary elements.
- Hỏi (v): To ask.
- Chất vấn (v): To interrogate, to question (often in an official or confrontational context).
- Tra hỏi (v): To interrogate, to examine by questioning.
Synonyms
- To grill: To question intensely and persistently.
- To pump someone for information: To try to get information from someone by asking many questions.
- To cross-examine: To question closely, especially to check answers given previously.
Related Idioms
- Gạn đục khơi trong: Literally "to decant the murky and bring up the clear"; figuratively, to seek the truth or the good essence by filtering out bad information. While not containing "gạn hỏi," it shares the root "gạn" and the concept of extracting truth.
verb
- to press with questions