trùng điệp
Definition
- Adjective:
- Layer upon layer; successive and overlapping: Describes a landscape, typically mountains or hills, where one range follows another in an unbroken, continuous series, creating a sense of endless, overlapping repetition.
- Multitudinous and repetitive: Can describe things that appear in vast, repeated quantities, one after another, often implying a majestic, overwhelming, or monotonous succession.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Nhìn từ đỉnh cao, những dãy núi trùng điệp chạy dài đến tận chân trời. (Viewed from the peak, the layer-upon-layer mountain ranges stretch to the horizon.)
- Phía trước là một màu xanh trùng điệp của những cánh rừng già. (Ahead lies the layer-upon-layer green of the old forests.)
- Những khó khăn cứ chất chồng, trùng điệp. (The difficulties just keep piling up, one upon another.)
Advanced Usage
- The word is often used in its intensified, reduplicated form "trùng trùng điệp điệp" to express an even stronger sense of infinite, endless succession, often with a poetic or literary tone.
- Đoàn quân kéo đi trùng trùng điệp điệp. (The army marched on in an endless, massive column.)
Variants and Related Words
- Trùng trùng điệp điệp (adj): An intensified, reduplicated form meaning "in endless, multitudinous layers or succession."
Synonyms
- Successive: Following one after another in a series.
- Overlapping: Extending over and covering part of something else.
- Unending: Having no end.
Related Idioms
- While not a standalone idiom, "trùng điệp" is a key component in descriptive, often poetic, phrases depicting vast, repetitive landscapes or quantities, such as (layer-upon-layer mountains) or (successive waves).