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"Roll with the punches" nghĩa là gì?
12 Mar, 2017
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| Statue of Molly on Grafton Street*. Photo courtesy William Murphy. |
'Roll with the punches' (shared via VOA) có từ roll là lăn tròn hay cuốn tròn, và punches là những cú đấm. 'Roll with the punches' dùng để mô tả những võ sĩ nhà nghề biết cách lăn người đi để chống đỡ những cú đấm của đối phương để bớt bị thương tích nặng.
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Arguably, Ireland has rolled with the punches and adapted to necessary change.
Of course, one of the NYT.com strengths is its ability to roll with the punches and stick with things that are working and drop things that don’t. Also, this paywall is still a ways off, and as I said, I wouldn’t be surprised if it got dropped in the interim.
The economy (nền kinh tế) has been very difficult but our airline seems to have rolled with the punches (thích ứng với hoàn cảnh mới). We had to cut a lot of costs and find ways to provide (cung cấp) better service (dịch vụ) for less.
My brother and his wife are celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary (lễ kỉ niệm). A lot has happened in 30 years. Of course, there were some tough (khó khăn) times but they learned to roll with the punches (tìm được cách giải quyết vấn đề) and stayed together. Congratulations!
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* "Molly Malone" (also known as "Cockles and Mussels") is a popular song which has acquired the status of an Irish anthem. It has become the unofficial anthem of Dublin City in Ireland. The song is sung by supporters of Dublin GAA, Leinster Rugby teams and Irish international rugby team, and tells the tale of a beautiful fishmonger who plied her trade on the streets of Dublin, but died young, of a fever.
Molly is commemorated in a statue designed by Jeanne Rynhart , placed at the bottom of Grafton Street in Dublin, erected to celebrate the city's first millennium in 1987; this statue is known colloquially as 'The Tart With The Cart', 'The Dish With The Fish' and 'The Trollop With The Scallops'. The statue portrays Molly as a busty young woman in seventeenth-century dress, and is claimed to represent the real person on whom the song is based. Her low-cut dress and large breasts were justified on the grounds that as 'women breast-fed publicly in Molly's time, breasts were popped out all over the place'.
An urban legend has grown up around the figure of the historical Molly, who has been presented variously as a hawker by day and part-time prostitute by night, or - in contrast - as one of the few chaste female street-hawkers of her day...
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