Definitions

1. 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.

2. 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.)

1. Rise [again] from the dead resurrect (ít dùng), come to life again
2. Relive
   • Sống lại những ngày thơ ấu
     To relive the days of one's childhood