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"Be bred in the bones" nghĩa là gì?
07 Mar, 2015
Elegant is bred in the bone. Photo courtesy Timothy Marsee.
'To be bred in the bones' nghĩa là ăn vào tận xương tủy, không tẩy trừ được.
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With the help of well-designed experiments (thí nghiệm), you can see glimmers (ý niệm mơ hồ) of moral thought, moral judgment and moral feeling even in the first year of life. Some sense of good and evil seems to be bred in the bone. Which is not to say that parents are wrong to concern themselves with moral development or that their interactions with their children are a waste of time.
As for marriage, “What’s the point?” she said. “Right now things seem to be working.” Ms. Taylor’s wait-and-see attitude may well be bred in the bone, her discreetness (dè dặt, kín đáo) the product of a genteel (quý phái, thượng lưu) background. She was skiing at age 2, and spent much of her adolescence rowing, racing sailboats, playing tennis and lacrosse (môn thể thao dùng vợt để bắt và ném bóng).
Mr. Udé, who was born in 1964, was raised in Lagos, Nigeria. Dressing for photographic portraits may be bred in the bone. His family dressed up to have their pictures taken twice a month. He has lived in New York since the 1980s. “I qualify as a New Yorker, if you allow,” he said, his accent and wording showing a trace of the former British colony.
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Bây giờ mà gặp lại thì anh mày "soi" cho thủng hàng luôn nhen cưng. :)