thể tình
Definition
- Verb:
- To show consideration or leniency based on circumstances: To take someone's specific situation or feelings into account, often leading to a more favorable or forgiving judgment.
- To pardon out of sympathy: To forgive or excuse someone's fault or shortcoming due to feelings of compassion for their predicament.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Xin anh thể tình cho nó, nó mới làm việc lần đầu. (Please show leniency towards him; it's his first time doing the job.)
- Thể tình mẹ góa con côi, hàng xóm thường giúp đỡ gia đình ấy. (Considering the situation of a widow with an orphaned child, the neighbors often help that family.)
- Ông chủ đã thể tình mà không phạt tôi. (The boss showed consideration and did not punish me.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is often used in appeals or requests, as in "xin thể tình," to ask someone to be understanding and make an exception based on compassionate grounds.
Variants and Related Words
Thông cảm (v): to sympathize, to understand and share the feelings of another.
- Tôi thông cảm cho hoàn cảnh của bạn. (I sympathize with your situation.)
Khoan hồng (v): to be merciful, to show clemency.
- Tòa án đã khoan hồng với bị cáo. (The court showed mercy to the defendant.)
Synonyms
- To make allowances for: To consider mitigating circumstances.
- To show compassion: To act with sympathy and concern.
- To be lenient: To be less strict than usual.
Related Idioms
- Thể tình thể lí: To consider both the emotional and rational aspects; to be thoroughly considerate.
- Giải quyết việc này phải thể tình thể lí. (To resolve this matter, one must consider both feelings and reason.)