khối tình

Thân thiện

Một người đàn ông ôm khối tình nặng trĩu trong lòng.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A heavy, obsessive, and enduring love: "Khối tình" refers to a profound, often sorrowful, love that feels like a solid, heavy mass weighing on one's heart and soul. It is a love that is impossible to forget or dissolve.
   • A love story or legend: In some contexts, it refers to a specific tragic love story or legend, often involving unfulfilled love and a physical metaphor (like a solidified heart).

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • "Khối tình mang xuống tuyền đài chưa tan." (An obsessive love, impossible to dispel even when carried down to the netherworld.)
  • Trong lòng anh ấy chất chứa một khối tình nặng trĩu. (In his heart, he carries a heavy, burdensome love.)
  • Câu chuyện cổ tích kể về một khối tình bi thương. (The fairy tale tells of a tragic love story.)

Advanced Usage

• "Khối tình riêng": A private, personal love burden.

  • Ông ấy mang theo khối tình riêng suốt cuộc đời. (He carried his private love burden throughout his life.)

• "Khối tình chung": A shared love or a collective sentiment of love (less common, more poetic).

  • Khối tình chung ấy là di sản của dân tộc. (That shared love is the heritage of the nation.)

Variants and Related Words

• Khối (n): A mass, a lump, a block. This is the root word indicating solidity and weight.

  • khối đá (a block of stone), khối u (a tumor).

• Tình (n): Love, feeling, sentiment.

  • tình yêu (love), tình cảm (emotion/affection).

Synonyms

• Mối tình sâu nặng: A deep and heavy love affair.
• Mối tình vương vấn: A lingering, haunting love.
• Nỗi lòng: Heartfelt sentiment (broader, not exclusively love).

Related Phrases

• Canh cánh bên lòng: To be constantly weighed on one's mind/heart. This phrase is often used to describe the feeling associated with a "khối tình."
  • Khối tình ấy cứ canh cánh bên lòng. (That obsessive love constantly weighs on my heart.)

Related Idioms

• "Tình sâu nghĩa nặng": Deep love and heavy obligation. This idiom shares the theme of profound, weighty emotion but is more general.
• "Mang nặng đẻ đau": Literally "to carry heavy, give birth painfully." Sometimes used metaphorically for carrying a heavy emotional burden, though not specific to love.

Học thuật

1. Obsessive love, haunting passion.
   • "Khối tình mang xuống tuyền đài chưa tan " (Nguyễn Du)
2. An obsessive love impossible to dispel even when it is carried with one down into the nether regions