truyền tụng
Definition
- Verb:
- To eulogize and pass down: To praise and recount the virtues, merits, or exploits of a person or event, causing the story to be transmitted from person to person and across generations.
- To be celebrated in lore: To be the subject of stories that are widely told and admired over time.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Truyền tụng công đức của các vị anh hùng dân tộc. (To eulogize and pass down the merits of national heroes.)
- Câu chuyện về lòng dũng cảm của ông ấy được mọi người truyền tụng. (The story of his bravery is celebrated and passed down by everyone.)
- Tác phẩm đó đã được truyền tụng qua nhiều thế kỷ. (That literary work has been eulogized and transmitted through many centuries.)
Advanced Usage
- The word carries a formal and literary tone, often used for historical, heroic, or morally exemplary figures and deeds. It implies a communal act of preserving and honoring memory through oral or written tradition.
Variants and Related Words
Truyền miệng (v): to pass on by word of mouth.
- Giai thoại được truyền miệng trong dân gian. (The anecdote is passed on by word of mouth among the people.)
Ca tụng (v): to praise, to extol.
- Ca tụng những hy sinh thầm lặng. (To praise silent sacrifices.)
Synonyms
- To extol: To praise highly.
- To celebrate: To honor with festivities or in story.
- To commemorate: To keep in memory by ceremony or observation.
Related Idioms
Lưu truyền hậu thế: to be handed down to posterity.
- Tấm gương hiếu học của ông được lưu truyền hậu thế. (His model of studiousness is handed down to posterity.)
Được đời đời nhớ ơn: to be remembered and grateful for eternally.
- Công lao của vị ấy được nhân dân đời đời nhớ ơn. (His contributions are remembered gratefully by the people for eternity.)