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"Run sth into the ground" nghĩa là gì?
18 Feb, 2013
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Thành ngữ 'run something into the ground' có nghĩa là bàn luận một đề tài cho tới khi không còn gì để nói nữa, hay khiến cho người nghe phát chán.
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“At a school board meeting the other night, many people felt free to express their own ideas. While administrators talked about how teachers could be more accountable for their instruction, parents wanted to make the board more accountable for the citizens’ tax dollars. Everyone talked about accountability (trách nhiệm) until there was no more that could have been said about it. They had run it into the ground (nói đến chán chê mới thôi).”
Run something into the ground còn có nghĩa là làm cho cái gì bị kiệt quệ, hư hỏng.
“Kathy should never have been promoted to supervisor. Her bad decisions led to poor sales and the loss of talented employees. She almost ran the department into the ground (suýt nữa đẩy cả ban này đến chỗ kiệt quệ). Fortunately, a replacement (người thay thế) was hired, who slowly returned us to profitability.”
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