tương cách
Definition
- Adjective:
- Separated from each other; apart from one another: Describes a state where two or more entities, often people or places, are physically or metaphorically distanced, not together.
- Mutually distant; remote from each other: Indicates a significant spatial or relational gap between parties.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Hai anh em sống tương cách từ nhỏ. (The two brothers have lived apart from each other since childhood.)
- Quan điểm của họ hoàn toàn tương cách. (Their viewpoints are completely separated from one another.)
- Hai thành phố bị tương cách bởi một ngọn núi lớn. (The two cities are separated from each other by a large mountain.)
Advanced Usage
- This term is formal and literary, often used in written Vietnamese to describe separation in a philosophical, emotional, or geographical sense. It emphasizes the mutual or reciprocal nature of the distance.
Variants and Related Words
Cách biệt (adj, v): to be separated, to be isolated; often implies a gap or disparity.
- Khoảng cách giàu nghèo ngày càng cách biệt. (The wealth gap is increasingly wide.)
Xa cách (adj, v): to be far apart, to be distant.
- Họ xa cách nhau hàng ngàn cây số. (They are thousands of kilometers apart from each other.)
Synonyms
- Separated: No longer living or being together.
- Apart: Into pieces or parts; separated by a distance.
- Distant: Far away in space or time; not closely related.
Related Idioms
- Tương cách thiên lý: (Literally: separated by a thousand ) An idiom meaning to be very far apart, separated by a great distance.
- Sau khi tốt nghiệp, đôi bạn thân trở nên tương cách thiên lý. (After graduation, the close friends became separated by a great distance.)