Definition

1. Adverb: * Till the end of one's life, for the rest of one's life: Indicates a state or action that continues until death. It often carries a negative connotation of enduring hardship or misfortune throughout one's entire life.

Usage Examples

• Adverb:
  • Nếu không chịu thay đổi, anh ta sẽ lụn đời trong cảnh nghèo khó. (If he refuses to change, he will live in poverty for the rest of his life.)
  • Bà ấy đã chịu đựng lụn đời với căn bệnh hiểm nghèo. (She endured until the end of her life with a severe illness.)
  • Hắn cứ sống buông thả như vậy thì lụn đời cũng chẳng làm nên trò trống gì. (If he keeps living recklessly like that, he will never amount to anything for the rest of his life.)

Advanced Usage

• The phrase is often used in a fatalistic or pessimistic context to describe a seemingly unchangeable, unfortunate destiny.
• It can be used for emphasis in warnings or predictions about a negative long-term outcome.
  • Cứ mãi giữ thói lười biếng thì lụn đời cũng chỉ là kẻ thất bại. (If you keep your laziness, you will remain a failure for life.)

Variants and Related Words

• Suốt đời (Adverb): All one's life, lifelong. This is a more neutral term without the inherent negative connotation of .
  • Ông ấy suốt đời cống hiến cho khoa học. (He dedicated his entire life to science.)
• Đến cuối đời (Phrase): Until the end of one's life. A more literal and descriptive phrase.
  • Cô ấy giữ kín bí mật đó đến cuối đời. (She kept that secret until the end of her life.)

Synonyms

• Trọn đời: For one's whole life.
• Cả đời: All one's life.

Related Idioms

• Khổ *lụn đời:* To suffer for the rest of one's life.
  • Tội nghiệp người đàn bà ấy, chồng chết sớm, một mình khổ lụn đời. (That poor woman, her husband died early, she suffered for the rest of her life alone.)
• Nghèo *lụn đời:* To be poor for the rest of one's life.
  • Không có chí tiến thủ thì nghèo lụn đời là cái chắc. (Without ambition, being poor for life is certain.)

1. Till the end of one's life