lận đận
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Unsuccessful, unfortunate, full of hardship: Describes a state of experiencing repeated difficulties, failures, or misfortunes in life, career, or a specific endeavor. It implies a prolonged struggle against adversity.
- Hard, rough, arduous: Describes a life or situation that is difficult, filled with obstacles, and requires great effort to endure.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Anh ấy đã có một cuộc sống lận đận từ nhỏ. (He has had an unfortunate/hard life since childhood.)
- Cô ấy lận đận mãi trong chuyện thi cử. (She has been unsuccessful for a long time in her studies/exams.)
- Con đường lập nghiệp của anh ta rất lận đận. (His path to building a career has been very arduous/full of hardship.)
Advanced Usage
- "lận đận tình duyên": to have an unfortunate/unlucky love life; to experience repeated setbacks in romantic relationships.
- Cô ấy than thở về chuyện lận đận tình duyên. (She lamented her unfortunate love life.)
- "số phận lận đận": a fate full of hardship; an unlucky destiny.
- Ông ấy tin rằng mình có một số phận lận đận. (He believes he has a fate full of hardship.)
Variants and Related Words
- Vất vả (adj): hard, toilsome. (Focuses more on the physical labor and effort involved.)
- Chật vật (adj): struggling, having a hard time. (Emphasizes the feeling of being trapped or squeezed by difficulties.)
- Khốn khó (adj): destitute, in dire straits. (Often implies severe poverty or distress.)
- Long đong (adj): drifting, unstable, experiencing vicissitudes. (Often describes an unstable life with many ups and downs.)
Synonyms
- Bất hạnh: unfortunate, unlucky.
- Truân chuyên: full of trials and tribulations (more literary).
- Gian truân: arduous, full of hardship.
Related Phrases / Idioms
- "Lận đận như con thuyền lênh đênh": (To be) adrift and full of hardship like a drifting boat. (An idiom emphasizing instability and misfortune.)
- "Lận đận kiếp người": the hardships of human life. (A poetic phrase about the struggles inherent in life.)
adj
- unsucessful