khẩn cấp
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Urgent; pressing: Describes a situation, task, or need that requires immediate action or attention due to its critical importance. It conveys a sense of serious priority and cannot be delayed.
- Emergency: Used to characterize a state of serious danger or crisis that demands swift and decisive measures.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Đây là một tình huống khẩn cấp. (This is an urgent situation.)
- Bệnh nhân cần được chuyển đến bệnh viện khẩn cấp. (The patient needs to be transferred to the hospital urgently.)
- Chính phủ đã ban bố tình trạng khẩn cấp. (The government has declared a state of emergency.)
Advanced Usage
- "khẩn cấp" as an adverbial modifier: Often follows verbs to mean "urgently" or "in an emergency manner."
- Cứu hộ đã được triển khai khẩn cấp. (Rescue efforts were deployed urgently.)
Variants and Related Words
Cấp cứu (v/n): To provide emergency medical aid; emergency medical care.
- Xe cấp cứu đang trên đường. (The ambulance is on its way.)
Khẩn trương (adj): Pressing, requiring promptness and diligence (often for work/tasks, slightly less intense than "khẩn cấp").
- Công nhân đang làm việc khẩn trương. (The workers are working diligently and promptly.)
Synonyms
- Urgent: Requiring immediate action.
- Pressing: Of vital importance; demanding attention.
- Critical: Of the greatest importance; at a point of crisis.
- Emergency: A serious, unexpected situation requiring immediate action.
Related Idioms and Phrases
Tình thế khẩn cấp: A critical/emergency situation.
- Chúng ta đang đối mặt với một tình thế khẩn cấp. (We are facing a critical situation.)
Họp khẩn cấp: To hold an emergency meeting.
- Hội đồng quản trị đã họp khẩn cấp. (The board of directors held an emergency meeting.)
adj
- urgent; pressing
- trường hợp khẩn cấpurgent case