lí trí
Definition
- Noun:
- Reason; intellect; rationality: The human faculty for thinking logically, making judgments, and forming conclusions based on facts and evidence, as opposed to emotion or instinct.
- Mind; understanding: The capacity for rational thought and conscious mental processes.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Trong lúc nguy hiểm, cô ấy vẫn giữ được lí trí sáng suốt. (In a moment of danger, she still maintained clear reason.)
- Anh ấy quyết định dựa trên lí trí chứ không phải cảm xúc. (He made the decision based on intellect, not emotion.)
- Lí trí mách bảo tôi không nên đi. (My mind told me I shouldn't go.)
Advanced Usage
- "tỉnh lí trí": to be in one's right mind; to be rational.
- Lúc đó tôi không còn tỉnh lí trí nữa. (At that moment, I was no longer in my right mind.)
Variants and Related Words
Lý luận (n): reasoning, argumentation.
- Lý luận của anh ấy rất chặt chẽ. (His reasoning is very sound.)
Lý tính (n): rationality, the rational faculty.
- Đó là một kết luận thuần túy dựa trên lý tính. (That is a conclusion based purely on rationality.)
Synonyms
- Reason: the power of the mind to think and make judgments logically.
- Intellect: the faculty of reasoning and understanding objectively.
- Rationality: the quality of being based on or in accordance with reason or logic.
Related Idioms
Lấy lí trí áp chế tình cảm: to use reason to suppress emotion.
- Đôi khi bạn phải lấy lí trí áp chế tình cảm để đưa ra quyết định đúng. (Sometimes you must use reason to suppress emotion to make the right decision.)
Mất lí trí: to lose one's mind; to become irrational.
- Cơn tức giận khiến anh ta gần như mất lí trí. (The fit of anger caused him to almost lose his mind.)