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"Swing and roundabouts" nghĩa là gì?
11 Feb, 2015
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'Swing and roundabouts' = what you lose on the swings (cái đu), you gain on the roundabouts (vòng ngựa gỗ) để mô tả một tình huống có nhiều ưu điểm cũng như nhiều vấn đề (something that you say to describe a situation in which there are as many advantages as there are problems); vấn đề cân bằng lỗ lãi.
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If you make more money, you have to pay more tax, so what we gain on the swings, we lose on the roundabouts.
It's swings and roundabouts, really. If you save money by buying a house out of town, you pay more to travel to work.
"I just don't see the problem. You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. Whether he was older than him or younger than him, somebody's going to have something to say because you're in the public eye." She added: "If it works for him I say go ahead and do it. He's suffered bi-polar (rối loạn cảm xúc lưỡng cực) as I have and it's swing and roundabouts. People with bi-polar are intense and over-analyse things.
“There was a class bias to it. There were much tougher standards of self control for gentlemen and aristocrats (người quý tộc) but the same standards of self control weren’t expected of labourers or the working poor. “People think the stiff upper lip was the default position but really it was swing and roundabouts. “In the middle ages kings and aristocrats would cry. Key male figures in Shakespeare’s plays cry. And in the 18th and 19th centuries there were several U-turns.”
Its all swing and roundabouts! Women who are young and good looking get on the TV on account of those facts to the exclusion of better qualified but less good looking women. When those same women get older and less good looking they are replaced by younger women. Taken over a lifetime the women on TV benefit from and lose out from their looks. As for men: since they do not benefit from their looks in the first place they, in turn, do not lose out later in life.
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