nan trị
Definition
- Adjective:
- Incurable / untreatable: Describes a disease, illness, or medical condition that is very difficult or impossible to cure or treat effectively.
- Ungovernable / intractable: Describes a person (often a child), behavior, or situation that is very difficult to manage, control, or reform; stubbornly disobedient.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Các bác sĩ đang đối mặt với một căn bệnh nan trị. (Doctors are facing an incurable disease.)
- Đó là một vấn đề xã hội nan trị. (That is an intractable social problem.)
- Cô giáo cảm thấy bất lực với cậu học sinh nan trị. (The teacher felt helpless with the ungovernable student.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is often used in formal or serious contexts, such as medicine, psychology, sociology, and education, to emphasize extreme difficulty and resistance to solutions.
- It can be applied metaphorically to abstract issues like economic crises or political conflicts that seem to have no solution.
Variants and Related Words
- Nan y (adj): Another formal term meaning "incurable" or "terminal," used almost exclusively for severe, untreatable diseases.
- Bệnh nhân được chẩn đoán mắc chứng bệnh nan y. (The patient was diagnosed with a terminal illness.)
Synonyms
- Incurable: (for diseases) not able to be cured.
- Intractable: (for problems/people) hard to control or deal with.
- Refractory: resistant to treatment or control.
- Ungovernable: impossible to control or govern.
Related Idioms
- Bệnh nan y: An incurable/terminal disease. This is a common collocation.
- Sự ra đi của ông ấy do một căn bệnh nan y. (His passing was due to an incurable disease.)
- Trẻ hư nan trị: A deeply spoiled or incorrigible child.
- Những đứa trẻ hư nan trị thường cần sự can thiệp đặc biệt. (Incorrigible children often need special intervention.)