trùng trùng điệp điệp
Definition
- Adjective:
- Layer upon layer, range upon range: Describes a vast, continuous, and overlapping series of similar things, especially natural features like mountains or hills, creating an impression of immense, repetitive expanse.
- In endless succession, in serried ranks: Can describe large groups of people or objects arranged in dense, seemingly infinite rows or tiers.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Từ đỉnh cao nhìn xuống, những dãy núi trùng trùng điệp điệp. (Looking down from the peak, the mountain ranges stretched out layer upon layer.)
- Đoàn quân tiến về phía trước trùng trùng điệp điệp. (The troops advanced forward in endless, serried ranks.)
Advanced Usage
- This phrase is highly literary and poetic. It is used to evoke a sense of grandeur, vastness, and often awe-inspiring or overwhelming scale. It is more expressive and emphatic than the simpler "trùng điệp."
Variants and Related Words
- Trùng điệp (adj): overlapping, tiered, successive. A slightly less emphatic form of "trùng trùng điệp điệp."
- Những lớp sóng trùng điệp. (Overlapping waves.)
Synonyms
- In endless layers: arranged in countless tiers.
- Range upon range: successive lines of similar things (especially mountains).
- In multitudes: existing in very great numbers.
Related Idioms
- While "trùng trùng điệp điệp" itself is idiomatic, it is often used in classical Vietnamese poetry and descriptive prose to paint vivid imagery of landscapes or large assemblies.