trốn
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Definition
- Verb:
- To hide oneself: To conceal one's body or presence in a secret place to avoid being seen or found.
- To run away, to flee: To leave a place or situation secretly, especially to avoid capture, punishment, or an unwanted obligation.
- To shirk, to evade: To deliberately avoid a duty, responsibility, or task.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Đứa trẻ trốn sau cánh cửa. (The child hid behind the door.)
- Tên tù nhân đã trốn khỏi nhà giam. (The prisoner fled from the jail.)
- Cậu học sinh đó thường trốn học. (That student often skips school.)
Advanced Usage
- "trốn tránh": to evade, to dodge (often used for abstract responsibilities).
- Anh ta không thể trốn tránh sự thật mãi được. (He cannot evade the truth forever.)
Variants and Related Words
Chạy trốn (v): to run away, to escape (emphasizes the act of fleeing).
- Kẻ gian chạy trốn khỏi hiện trường. (The culprit ran away from the scene.)
Trốn học (v): to skip school, to play truant.
- Bọn trẻ định trốn học đi xem phim. (The kids planned to skip school to see a movie.)
Trốn thuế (v): to evade taxes.
- Công ty đó bị điều tra vì tội trốn thuế. (That company is under investigation for tax evasion.)
Synonyms
- Hide: to put or keep out of sight.
- Flee: to run away from a place or situation of danger.
- Evade: to escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or trickery.
- Shirk: to avoid (work, duty, or responsibility).
Related Idioms
Trốn việc đẩy thuyền: (Literally: to shirk work by pushing the boat) To shirk one's duty and push the responsibility onto others.
- Làm việc nhóm, đừng có kiểu trốn việc đẩy thuyền. (When working in a team, don't shirk your duties and push them onto others.)
Trốn chúa lộn chồng: (Literally: to flee from one's lord and tumble into one's husband) To run from one problem only to fall into a worse one.
- Hành động vội vàng của anh ấy chẳng khác nào trốn chúa lộn chồng. (His hasty action was like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.)
verb
- to hide oneself, to run away to evade, to shirk