Definition

1. Verb:
   • To hide oneself: To conceal one's body or presence in a secret place to avoid being seen or found.
   • To run away, to flee: To leave a place or situation secretly, especially to avoid capture, punishment, or an unwanted obligation.
   • To shirk, to evade: To deliberately avoid a duty, responsibility, or task.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Đứa trẻ trốn sau cánh cửa. (The child hid behind the door.)
  • Tên tù nhân đã trốn khỏi nhà giam. (The prisoner fled from the jail.)
  • Cậu học sinh đó thường trốn học. (That student often skips school.)

Advanced Usage

• "trốn tránh": to evade, to dodge (often used for abstract responsibilities).
  • Anh ta không thể trốn tránh sự thật mãi được. (He cannot evade the truth forever.)

Variants and Related Words

• Chạy trốn (v): to run away, to escape (emphasizes the act of fleeing).

  • Kẻ gian chạy trốn khỏi hiện trường. (The culprit ran away from the scene.)

• Trốn học (v): to skip school, to play truant.

  • Bọn trẻ định trốn học đi xem phim. (The kids planned to skip school to see a movie.)

• Trốn thuế (v): to evade taxes.

  • Công ty đó bị điều tra vì tội trốn thuế. (That company is under investigation for tax evasion.)

Synonyms

• Hide: to put or keep out of sight.
• Flee: to run away from a place or situation of danger.
• Evade: to escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or trickery.
• Shirk: to avoid (work, duty, or responsibility).

Related Idioms

• Trốn việc đẩy thuyền: (Literally: to shirk work by pushing the boat) To shirk one's duty and push the responsibility onto others.

  • Làm việc nhóm, đừng có kiểu trốn việc đẩy thuyền. (When working in a team, don't shirk your duties and push them onto others.)

• Trốn chúa lộn chồng: (Literally: to flee from one's lord and tumble into one's husband) To run from one problem only to fall into a worse one.

  • Hành động vội vàng của anh ấy chẳng khác nào trốn chúa lộn chồng. (His hasty action was like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.)

verb

1. to hide oneself, to run away to evade, to shirk