thiển lậu
Definition
- Adjective:
- Shallow and narrow-minded: Describes a person's knowledge, understanding, or perspective as superficial, lacking depth, and limited in scope. It implies a deficiency in learning and breadth of vision.
- Ignorant and ill-informed: Characterizes views, opinions, or arguments as being based on insufficient knowledge and poor judgment.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Quan điểm của hắn thật thiển lậu. (His viewpoint is truly shallow and narrow-minded.)
- Không nên đưa ra những nhận định thiển lậu về văn hóa các nước. (One should not make ignorant and ill-informed judgments about the cultures of other countries.)
- Tư tưởng thiển lậu sẽ cản trở sự phát triển. (A shallow and narrow-minded mentality will hinder development.)
Advanced Usage
- This term is considered formal and somewhat literary or archaic. It is often used in critical, analytical, or scholarly contexts to denounce a lack of intellectual rigor or openness.
Variants and Related Words
- Thiển cận (adj): short-sighted, narrow-minded (often implying a lack of foresight).
- Lối suy nghĩ thiển cận. (A short-sighted way of thinking.)
- Nông cạn (adj): shallow, superficial (primarily referring to depth of knowledge or thought).
- Kiến thức nông cạn. (Shallow knowledge.)
Synonyms
- Ignorant: lacking knowledge or awareness.
- Narrow-minded: not willing to accept ideas different from one's own.
- Superficial: concerned only with the obvious or apparent; lacking depth.
- Ill-informed: having or showing inadequate knowledge.
Related Idioms
- "Ếch ngồi đáy giếng": Literally "a frog sitting at the bottom of a well"; a metaphor for someone with a very limited, parochial worldview due to a lack of experience.
- Anh ta như ếch ngồi đáy giếng, suy nghĩ thiển lậu về thế giới bên ngoài. (He is like a frog at the bottom of a well, with a shallow and narrow-minded view of the outside world.)