xung trận
Definition
- Verb:
- To charge into battle: To rush or advance forward energetically and bravely into a combat or battle situation. This is the primary and most specific meaning.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Người lính dũng cảm xung trận. (The brave soldier charged into battle.)
- Sau hồi kèn lệnh, toàn quân xung trận. (After the command trumpet, the entire army charged into battle.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is almost exclusively used in a military or highly competitive, conflict-oriented context. It conveys a sense of decisive, forceful, and often collective action against an opponent.
- It can be used metaphorically in modern contexts to describe entering a fierce competition or tackling a difficult challenge with great determination.
- Đội bóng xung trận với quyết tâm cao. (The football team took to the field [charged into the match] with high determination.)
Variants and Related Words
- Xung phong (v): to volunteer; to step forward. While also used in military contexts ("xung phong vào quân đội" - to volunteer for the army), it is broader and can apply to non-combat situations, lacking the specific "into the heat of battle" connotation of "xung trận."
Synonyms
- Charge: to rush forward in attack.
- Advance into combat: to move forward to engage in fighting.
Related Idioms
- While "xung trận" itself is not typically part of a longer idiom, its imagery is central to many Vietnamese phrases about bravery and conflict.
- Xung trận như vũ bão: To charge into battle like a storm. This emphasizes the overwhelming force and speed of the charge.