tai họa
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Definition
- Noun:
- Disaster, catastrophe: A sudden, severe event causing great damage, suffering, or loss. It refers to a misfortune of significant scale.
- Calamity, great misfortune: An event or situation that results in profound distress or terrible consequences.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Trận động đất là một tai họa khủng khiếp. (The earthquake was a terrible disaster.)
- Lũ lụt gây ra tai họa cho cả vùng. (The floods caused a catastrophe for the entire region.)
- Gia đình họ đã trải qua nhiều tai họa. (Their family has endured many calamities.)
Advanced Usage
- The word "tai họa" is often used in formal or serious contexts to describe events of large-scale, collective impact, such as natural disasters or profound personal tragedies.
- It can be used metaphorically to describe a person who brings trouble.
- Thằng bé đó đúng là một tai họa. (That boy is a real disaster.)
Variants and Related Words
Thảm họa (n): catastrophe, tragedy. Often used interchangeably with "tai họa" but can imply an even greater scale or more tragic consequences.
- Vụ nổ nhà máy là một thảm họa môi trường. (The factory explosion was an environmental catastrophe.)
Tai ương (n): scourge, affliction. Often refers to a persistent cause of suffering.
- Chiến tranh là tai ương của nhân loại. (War is a scourge of humanity.)
Synonyms
- Disaster: a sudden accident or natural catastrophe causing great damage.
- Catastrophe: an event causing great and sudden damage or suffering.
- Calamity: an event causing great damage or distress.
- Misfortune: bad luck or an unfortunate condition.
Related Idioms
Tai bay vạ gió: misfortunes that come unexpectedly, like "trouble out of the blue."
- Đang yên đang lành, tai bay vạ gió. (Everything was fine, then trouble came out of the blue.)
Họa vô đơn chí: misfortunes never come singly; troubles often come in multiples.
- Bố mất việc, rồi mẹ ốm, đúng là họa vô đơn chí. (Father lost his job, then mother got sick—misfortunes never come singly.)
noun
- disaster, catastrophe