sống lại
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Definitions
Intransitive Verb:
- To come back to life; to be revived: To return to a living state after being dead or appearing dead. This meaning is often used in a literal, physical sense.
- To be revived; to be restored: To regain strength, vitality, or activity after a period of decline, inactivity, or near-extinction.
Transitive Verb:
- To relive: To experience again, vividly in one's memory or imagination. This is the most common figurative usage.
Usage Examples
Intransitive Verb:
- Sau cơn mưa, cánh đồng khô hạn dường như sống lại. (After the rain, the parched field seemed to come back to life.)
- Truyền thống đó đang sống lại trong giới trẻ. (That tradition is being revived among the youth.)
Transitive Verb:
- Qua những trang nhật ký, bà sống lại thời thanh xuân của mình. (Through the diary pages, she relived her youth.)
- Bộ phim giúp khán giả sống lại không khí hào hùng của lịch sử. (The film helps the audience relive the heroic atmosphere of history.)
Advanced Usage
- "sống lại trong ký ức": to live again in memory; to be vividly remembered.
- Khu vườn cũ sống lại trong ký ức tôi mỗi mùa hoa cải. (The old garden lives again in my memory every mustard flower season.)
Variants and Related Words
- Hồi sinh (v): to revive, to resurrect. Often used for abstract concepts (hope, tradition) or in medical/biological contexts.
- niềm hy vọng hồi sinh (hope is revived)
- Phục sinh (v): to resurrect. Used in religious contexts (e.g., the resurrection of Christ) or for major revivals.
- Tái hiện (v): to recreate, to reproduce (a scene, event). Focuses on the act of portrayal.
- tái hiện lịch sử (to recreate history)
Synonyms
- Hồi phục: to recover, to recuperate (often for health).
- Tỉnh lại: to regain consciousness.
- Nhớ lại / Hồi tưởng lại: to remember, to recall (less vivid than "sống lại").
Related Phrases
- Làm sống lại (ph.v): to revive, to bring back to life (transitive).
- Nhạc sĩ ấy làm sống lại các làn điệu dân ca. (That musician revives folk melodies.)
- Rise [again] from the dead resurrect (ít dùng), come to life again
- Relive
- Sống lại những ngày thơ ấuTo relive the days of one's childhood