Definition

1. Noun:
   • Driftwood (on a river in flood): Refers to wood that has been washed onto the shore or is floating in a river, especially during a flood. It often consists of broken branches, logs, or other debris carried by the water's current.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Sau trận lũ, người dân nhặt rều dọc theo bờ sông. (After the flood, people collected driftwood along the riverbank.)
  • Những khúc rều trôi nổi trên mặt nước là dấu hiệu của lũ lụt. (Pieces of driftwood floating on the water are a sign of flooding.)

Advanced Usage

• "Rều rều": An informal, reduplicative form sometimes used to describe an abundance or scattered presence of driftwood.
  • Bờ sông đầy rều rều sau cơn bão. (The riverbank was full of scattered driftwood after the storm.)

Variants and Related Words

• Củi rều: Specifically refers to driftwood collected for use as firewood.
  • Họ đốt củi rều để sưởi ấm. (They burned driftwood to keep warm.)
• Gỗ trôi: A more general term for floating or drifting wood, similar to "driftwood."

Synonyms

• Gỗ vụn trôi nổi: Floating wood debris.
• Cành cây trôi dạt: Drifting branches.

Related Phrases

• Nhặt rều: To gather or collect driftwood.
  • Công việc nhặt rều giúp họ có củi đốt. (The work of gathering driftwood provided them with firewood.)

Related Idioms

• Nghèo như rều: (As poor as driftwood) – An idiom describing extreme poverty, likening a person's lack of possessions or stability to the worthless, scattered nature of driftwood.
  • Gia đình ấy nghèo như rều sau trận lũ. (That family is as poor as driftwood after the flood.)

1. Drift-wood (on a river in flood)