vô phương
Definition
Adjective:
- Incurable / Untreatable: Describes a disease, illness, or condition for which there is no cure or effective treatment.
- Hopeless / Irremediable: Describes a situation, problem, or state that is beyond remedy, solution, or hope of improvement.
Adjective (in fixed expressions):
- Impossible / Without means: Used to express that something is impossible to achieve or that one is without resources or recourse.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Căn bệnh ở giai đoạn cuối đã vô phương cứu chữa. (The terminal illness was incurable.)
- Tình thế lúc đó thực sự vô phương. (The situation at that time was truly hopeless.)
- Hắn ta đã sa vào một vòng xoáy vô phương thoát. (He fell into an inescapable spiral.)
Advanced Usage
"vô phương cứu chữa": incurable; beyond remedy (most common collocation).
- Sự thù hận của họ dường như vô phương cứu chữa. (Their hatred seems irremediable.)
"vô phương xoay xở": to have no way to manage; to be unable to cope.
- Trước khó khăn chồng chất, anh ấy cảm thấy vô phương xoay xở. (Faced with mounting difficulties, he felt he had no way to cope.)
Variants and Related Words
Bất trị (adj): incurable, untreatable (often for diseases or behavior).
- Một căn bệnh bất trị. (An incurable disease.)
Vô vọng (adj): hopeless, desperate.
- Một nỗ lực vô vọng. (A hopeless effort.)
Synonyms
- Incurable: not able to be cured.
- Irremediable: impossible to remedy or correct.
- Hopeless: having no hope; offering no prospect of improvement.
Related Idioms
- Vô phương bát kế: to be at the end of one's tether; to have exhausted all possible plans and resources.
- Đến bước đường cùng, họ rơi vào cảnh vô phương bát kế. (At the end of the road, they found themselves at their wits' end.)