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"A man of the cloth" nghĩa là gì?
30 Jun, 2015
King John signs the Magna Carta and Burial of King John windows at Worcester Cathedral. Photo courtesy Ben Sutherland.
'A man of the cloth' có từ cloth là áo thầy tu; và vì thế cụm từ này nghĩa là linh mục, thầy tu.
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As first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Biden and other dignitaries looked on, Obama traced Pinckney's life— only 41 years long — as a man of the cloth and a state senator, lauding him as a "good man" who was "slain in his sanctuary."
Faced with a punitive, confiscating, murdering king, who's losing territory hand over fist, what is one to do? Gather your fellow barons, call in the weakened, discredited monarch and get a man of the cloth to preside while you thrash out a peace treaty. And so they did at Runnymede in the year 1215 in a bid to end the Civil War that had been tearing the place apart under King John, incidentally a man so awful that no king since has had that name.
In feudal systems, authority was personal; governance reflected (phản ánh) the ruler’s will (ý chí) but was also circumscribed (giới hạn, hạn chế) by tradition, limiting the resources available for a country’s national or international actions. France’s chief minister from 1624 to 1642, Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu, was the first statesman (chính khách) to overcome these limitations. A man of the cloth steeped in court intrigue (vận động ngầm), Richelieu was well adapted to a period of religious upheaval (biến động) and crumbling (vỡ vụn, đổ nát) established structures.
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