triền miên

Thân thiện

Bệnh nhân phải chịu đựng cơn đau triền miên.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Interminable; endless; prolonged without a clear end: Describes a state, situation, or action that continues for a very long time in a wearying, monotonous, or burdensome manner. It often carries a negative connotation of something being tiresomely persistent.
   • Constant; continual; unceasing: Refers to something that occurs without interruption or pause.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Cơn mưa triền miên kéo dài suốt tuần. (The interminable rain lasted the whole week.)
  • Cô ấy chịu đựng những cơn đau đầu triền miên. (She suffers from constant headaches.)
  • Cuộc khủng hoảng kinh tế triền miên đã làm kiệt quệ đất nước. (The prolonged economic crisis has exhausted the country.)

Advanced Usage

• The word is primarily used in written or formal contexts to emphasize the tedious, draining, and unbroken nature of a negative phenomenon.
• It can modify abstract nouns (e.g., worry, war, inflation) or natural phenomena (e.g., rain, drought).

Variants and Related Words

• Miên man (adj): prolonged, lingering (often with a more neutral or even poetic connotation, like thoughts or dreams drifting on).
  • Những suy nghĩ miên man. (Lingering thoughts.)

Synonyms

• Endless: having no end.
• Protracted: lasting for a long time or longer than expected.
• Perpetual: never ending or changing.
• Unremitting: never relaxing or slackening; incessant.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Triền miên trong đau khổ: to be mired in perpetual suffering.
  • Dân tộc ấy đã trải qua nhiều năm triền miên trong đau khổ. (That people went through many years mired in perpetual suffering.)
• Công việc triền miên: never-ending work.
  • Anh ấy chán ngấy với đống công việc triền miên. (He is fed up with the never-ending work.)

Học thuật

adj

1. interminable