phí phạm

Thân thiện

Một người đàn ông đổ hết thức ăn thừa vào thùng rác một cách phí phạm.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To waste, to squander: To use or expend something valuable (such as time, money, resources, or talent) carelessly, extravagantly, or without a useful purpose, resulting in loss or lack of benefit.

Usage

• The verb phí phạm is used to express the action of wasting something, often with a strong connotation of regret or criticism regarding the unnecessary loss. It implies that the thing wasted had significant value or potential.
• It is commonly used with objects like time, money, effort, natural resources, opportunities, or talent.
• It often appears in contexts advising against waste or expressing disapproval of wasteful behavior.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Đừng phí phạm thức ăn. (Don't waste food.)
  • Anh ấy đã phí phạm cả thanh xuân vào những trò chơi vô bổ. (He wasted his entire youth on useless games.)
  • Phí phạm tài năng như vậy thật đáng tiếc. (Squandering talent like that is such a pity.)
  • Chúng ta không nên phí phạm nguồn nước sạch. (We should not waste clean water.)

Advanced Usage

• "phí phạm một cách...": to waste in a [certain] manner.
  • Cô ấy phí phạm một cách vô ý thức số tiền mình kiếm được. (She unconsciously squanders the money she earns.)
• The word carries a stronger emotional weight than the more neutral lãng phí, often implying a sense of extravagance or senseless loss.

Variants and Related Words

• Phí (verb): To waste, to spend (often money). Can be used similarly but is sometimes less intense than phí phạm.
  • phí tiền (to waste money)
• Lãng phí (verb): To waste. This is a very close synonym and is commonly used in both spoken and written Vietnamese. The nuance can be slightly more formal or neutral than phí phạm.
• Hoang phí (verb): To squander, to waste recklessly. Emphasizes reckless extravagance.

Synonyms

• Lãng phí: to waste.
• Hoang phí: to squander, to waste recklessly.
• Tiêu pha hoang phí: to spend extravagantly.

Related Phrases (Collocations)

• phí phạm thời gian: to waste time.
• phí phạm tiền bạc: to waste money.
• phí phạm cơ hội: to waste an opportunity.
• phí phạm công sức: to waste effort.
• phí phạm tài nguyên: to waste resources.

Related Idioms

• Của thiên trả địa: (Literally: Heaven's goods returned to earth). An idiom meaning to waste or squander something valuable, often an inheritance or fortune.
  • Gia tài cha để lại, anh ta coi như của thiên trả địa. (He squandered his father's inheritance as if it were nothing.)

Học thuật

verb

1. to waste, to squander exceptional