truyền lô
Definition
- Verb (informal, often used in spoken Vietnamese):
- To pass on a message or information through a chain of people or a public address system (loudspeaker): The primary meaning refers to the act of relaying information, often in a sequential or broadcast manner. It implies spreading news, an announcement, or instructions from one person to another or to a group.
- To spread (news, gossip): It can describe the informal dissemination of information, similar to "passing it along."
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Cô giáo bảo tôi truyền lô cho cả lớp biết về buổi họp. (The teacher told me to pass on the message to the whole class about the meeting.)
- Thông tin về cơn bão được truyền lô nhanh chóng khắp làng. (Information about the storm was quickly relayed throughout the village.)
- Đừng truyền lô những tin đồn đó nữa. (Don't spread those rumors anymore.)
Advanced Usage
- The term "truyền lô" is a colloquial fusion of "truyền" (to transmit, to relay) and "lô", which is likely a shortened, informal form of "loa" (loudspeaker). Therefore, its core imagery is related to making a loudspeaker announcement or having information travel like a broadcast.
- It often carries a nuance of information being spread within a community, organization, or group, not necessarily to the general public via media.
Variants and Related Words
Truyền đạt (v): to convey, to communicate (information) in a more formal or direct manner.
- Anh ấy truyền đạt chỉ thị của giám đốc. (He conveyed the director's instructions.)
Thông báo (v/n): to announce; an announcement.
- Công ty sẽ thông báo kết quả vào ngày mai. (The company will announce the results tomorrow.)
Loan tin (v): to spread news (can be neutral or negative).
- Họ loan tin vui cho mọi người. (They spread the good news to everyone.)
Synonyms
- Relay: to receive and pass on (information).
- Pass on: to tell someone something that another person has told you.
- Spread: to cause something to be known by many people.
- Circulate: to pass or spread something, especially information, among a group.
Related Idioms
Truyền miệng: to spread by word of mouth.
- Câu chuyện đó được truyền miệng từ người này sang người khác. (That story was spread by word of mouth from one person to another.)
Đồn thổi: to rumor (often with a negative connotation).
- Những tin đồn vô căn cứ được đồn thổi khắp nơi. (Baseless rumors were spread everywhere.)