đày ải
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
- Verb:
- To oppress: To exercise authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
- To persecute: To subject someone, especially a particular group, to hostility and ill-treatment, often because of their beliefs or identity.
- To ill-treat / To maltreat: To treat someone with cruelty or violence.
- To grind down: To weaken or destroy someone's spirit, health, or resistance through prolonged harsh treatment.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Bọn cai ngục đày ải tù nhân. (The jailers oppressed the prisoners.)
- Họ bị đày ải vì tín ngưỡng của mình. (They were persecuted for their beliefs.)
- Không nên đày ải súc vật. (One should not ill-treat animals.)
- Chế độ khắc nghiệt ấy đã đày ải người dân trong nhiều năm. (That harsh regime ground down the people for years.)
Advanced Usage
- The term often implies a continuous, systematic, and severe process of causing suffering, rather than a single act. It is frequently used in historical or political contexts describing tyranny, unjust imprisonment, or systemic cruelty.
Variants and Related Words
- Đày đọa (v): To torment, to torture. This is a very close synonym, often used interchangeably with "đày ải," but can sometimes imply even more severe physical or mental suffering.
- Kẻ thù đày đọa anh ấy cả về thể xác lẫn tinh thần. (The enemy tormented him both physically and mentally.)
Synonyms
- Oppress: To keep in subservience and hardship.
- Persecute: To pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment.
- Maltreat: To treat badly or cruelly.
- Tyrannize: To rule or treat someone with cruel and unjust power.
Related Idioms
- Bị đày ải lao lung: To be tormented and forced to wander; to suffer a life of hardship and displacement.
- Sau chiến tranh, nhiều người bị đày ải lao lung khắp nơi. (After the war, many people were tormented and forced to wander everywhere.)
- Opress, persecute, ill-treat, grind down
- Bị giam cầm đày ảiTo be held in custody and ground down