trồng cây chuối
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trộm nghĩ
in my humble opinion
trời che đất chở
all-encompassing; totally inclusive; affecting all things
trời có sương mù hoặc bão
It’s foggy or stormy.
trời không cho hùm có vây
Heaven gives the tiger no wings — mercy in the design; armed ferocity is kept flightless.
trời không chịu đất, đất phải chịu trời
If heaven won't yield, earth must — someone has to bend, or nothing gets settled.
trời mưa rồi
"It's raining" — announcement, resignation, and plan-changer in one; the motorbike nation's least favorite sentence.
trời nắng hoặc nhiều mây
It’s sunny or cloudy.
trời rét buốt
It’s freezing cold.
trời sắp mưa phải không?
Is it going to rain?
trời tru đất diệt
the person in question shall be cursed/damned; the person in question shall suffer
trời đang mưa hoặc có tuyết rơi
It’s raining or snowing.
trời đánh
(phrase) the Heavenly Lord strikes
trời đánh thánh vật
(phrase) the Heavenly Lord strikes, the sages wrestle
trời đánh tránh bữa ăn
even the Heavenly Lord knows better not to strike at mealtime
trời đất quỷ thần ơi
The maximal invocation — calling heaven, earth, demons, and spirits at once; reserved for shocks one deity cannot handle.
trời ơi đất hỡi
Crying out to sky and soil — an exasperated "oh for heaven's sake" with folk-song bones.
trứng chọi với đá
Eggs against stone — a contest entered for the sake of the shattering.
trứng khôn hơn vịt
the egg is smarter than the duck
trứng rồng lại nở ra rồng, liu điu lại nở ra dòng liu điu
Dragon eggs hatch dragons; water-snakes hatch water-snake lines — lineage breeds true.
tu kỉ trị nhân
Perfect yourself to govern others — self-mastery as the root of leadership.
tu nhân tích đức
Cultivate the person, bank the virtue — the soul's compound interest.
tu phải đạo
Practicing the true way — cultivating oneself along the proper path to fruition.
tu tại gia
Practice at home — the lay cultivation that outranks any pilgrimage.
tu đâu cho bằng tu nhà Thờ cha kính mẹ, mới là chân tu
No cloister betters the home altar — honor father and revere mother: that is true practice — piety as the highest monastery.
tuyệt quá!
That’s great!
tuyệt sắc giai nhân
woman of unrivalled beauty
tuyệt đối điện ảnh
High praise for a moment so perfect it belongs on a movie screen — the Vietnamese rendering of the international "Absolute Cinema" meme.
tuần tự nhi tiến
Advancing in due order — moving step by measured step.
tuế bất ngả diên
The years wait for no one — arrow-swift, hare-quick, gone.
tuế hàn tri tòng bá chi tâm
Cold years reveal the pine and cypress — adversity is where the evergreen heart shows.
tuỳ cơ ứng biến
Reading the moment, shifting the move — improvising rightly as the situation turns.
tà thần bất cảm chánh
Crooked spirits dare not touch the upright — rectitude is its own talisman.
tài gia là cha ăn cướp
The claimant is the robber's father — losses always inflate in the filing; the injured party pads the bill.
tài khoản thanh toán hoặc tài khoản tiết kiệm
current/checking account or savings account
tài tán tắc dân tụ, tài tụ tắc dân tán
Wealth scattered gathers the people; wealth hoarded scatters them — a treasury's arithmetic runs backward.
tàn canh gió lạnh
very cold; freezing
tào khan chi thê bât khả hạ đường, bần tiện chi giao mạc khả vong
The wife of your husk-and-bran days is never sent below stairs; the friends of your poverty are never forgotten — loyalty's two unbreakable clauses.
tàu chở khách tuyến cố định
passenger liner
tác oai tác quái
Working havoc and playing the tyrant — riding roughshod exactly as one pleases.
tách trà và đĩa lót
cup and saucer
tái ông thất mã, nan tri họa phước
The old frontiersman lost his horse — who can say what is disaster, what blessing; every loss may be luck in harness.
tán hươu tán vượn
to chat idly; to shoot the breeze
táng tận lương tâm
to be cruel; to have no conscience
táng đởm kinh hồn
Gall-shattered and soul-stunned — terrified to the marrow.
tâm bất tại
The mind not at home — attention wandered off; instruction poured past its absent tenant.
tâm cam tình nguyện
Sweet-hearted and fully willing — consent without a grain of reluctance.
tâm phục khẩu phục
to be sincerely convinced; to be won over completely
tâm thần bất định
Heart and spirit unsettled — attention scattered past collecting.
tâm trung hữu quỷ
A demon in the heart — the guilty conscience that flinches before anyone accuses.
tâm trung hữu số
The tally already in the heart — knowing the answer before a word is said.
tâm động quỉ thần tri
A stirred heart, and the spirits already know — intention registers upstairs before the deed.
tây phương cực lạc
The Western Pure Land — the blissful realm beyond death; to have gone there is to have died.
té ngửa
To fall over backwards — figuratively floored by a reveal, usually one that rewrites what you thought you knew.
tên rơi đạn lạc
Falling arrows and stray bullets — war's random harms landing on the innocent.
tình ngay lí gian
when one's actions or results are objectively detrimental despite good intention
tình như giấc mộng tan
Love like a dream dissolving — the parting of lovers, fading as one wakes.
tía má ơi
Holy Mother of God!; Mother of mercy!; literally "Father and Mother!"
tích cốc phòng cơ
Store grain against hunger — foresight measured in full jars.
tích kim dĩ gi tử tôn, tử tôn vị tất năng thủ, bất như tích âm đức ư minh minh chi trung, dĩ vi tử tôn trường cữu chi kế
Gold hoarded for descendants they may not keep; hidden virtue is the only estate that compounds — bequeath conduct, not bullion.
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