bảo

Từ điển Việt Anh (Vietnamese English Dictionary)

verb
To tell, to say
bảo sao nghe vậy to believe what one is told
ai bảo anh thế? who told you?
ai không đi thì bảo let him who doesn't want to go just say so
bảo gì làm nấy to do what one is told
bảo nó ở lại tell him to stay
khẩu ngữ
It serves one right
thi hỏng là phải, ai bảo lười học his failure at the exam was no surprise, it serves him right for being lazy

	[bảo]
	động từ (như) biểu
		to tell, to say, to mean
			bảo sao nghe vậy
			to believe what one is told
			ai bảo anh thế?
			who told you?
			ai không đi thì bảo
			let him who doesn't want to go just say so
			bảo gì làm nấy
			to do what one is told
			bảo nó ở lại
			tell him to stay
		point out, explain
		talk to, scold, reprimand
	khẩu ngữ
		It serves one right
			thi hỏng là phải, ai bảo lười học
			his failure at the exam was no surprise, it serves him right for being lazy
			ai bảo đi nắng không đội mũ, bị cảm nắng là phải
			his sunstroke served him right for having gone into the sun without a hat
			bụng bảo dạ
			to think to oneself, to take counsel of oneself
		bảo sao nghe vậy
			(he) did what he was told, eatirely obedient, at orders