thâm sơn cùng cốc
Definition
- Noun Phrase:
- Remote mountains and deep valleys: A fixed literary phrase describing an extremely remote, isolated, and inaccessible place deep within the mountains and forests, far from civilization.
Usage Examples
- Noun Phrase:
- Nhà thám hiểm sống nhiều năm ở thâm sơn cùng cốc. (The explorer lived for many years in remote mountains and deep valleys.)
- Họ đi tìm loài hoa quý trong chốn thâm sơn cùng cốc. (They went to search for the precious flower in the remote wilderness.)
Advanced Usage
- The phrase is often used metaphorically in literature and formal writing to describe a state of extreme isolation, seclusion, or a place that is profoundly cut off from the modern world.
- Giấu mình nơi thâm sơn cùng cốc, ông ấy tìm kiếm sự tĩnh lặng tuyệt đối. (Hiding himself in the remote wilderness, he sought absolute peace.)
Variants and Related Words
- Nơi heo hút (n): a desolate, out-of-the-way place.
- Chốn hoang vu (n): a wild, uninhabited, and desolate place.
Synonyms
- The back of beyond: a very remote place.
- The middle of nowhere: a place far from populated areas.
- Wilderness: a wild, uncultivated, and uninhabited region.
Related Idioms
- While "thâm sơn cùng cốc" is itself a set phrase, it is conceptually related to idioms emphasizing remoteness.
- Chân trời góc bể: literally "the horizon and the corner of the sea," meaning a very faraway, distant place.