Definition

1. Verb:
   • To remember; to recall: To bring back to mind a past event, experience, or period of time, often with a reflective or thoughtful quality.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Ông cụ thường hồi tưởng về những ngày tháng tuổi trẻ. (The old man often reminisces about his youthful days.)
  • Cô ấy ngồi yên lặng, hồi tưởng lại cuộc gặp gỡ quan trọng đó. (She sat quietly, recalling that important meeting.)
  • Hồi tưởng quá khứ đôi khi mang lại nhiều cảm xúc. (Remembering the past sometimes brings up many emotions.)

Advanced Usage

• The word "hồi tưởng" often implies a deliberate, conscious effort to think back and reconstruct past events in one's mind. It is more formal and literary than the common word "nhớ" (to remember).

Variants and Related Words

• Sự hồi tưởng (n): The act of reminiscing; a recollection or memory.
  • Sự hồi tưởng của bà về chiến tranh rất sống động. (Her recollection of the war is very vivid.)

Synonyms

• Recall: To bring a memory or fact back into the mind.
• Recollect: To remember something, often by making an effort.
• Reminisce: To indulge in enjoyable recollection of past events.

Related Idioms

• While "hồi tưởng" itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, it is central to phrases describing the act of looking back.
  • Sống trong hồi tưởng: To live in the past / in memories.

    • Sau khi nghỉ hưu, ông ấy dường như sống trong hồi tưởng. (After retirement, he seems to live in the past.)

verb

1. to remember; to recall