"Three score and ten" nghĩa là gì?

Photo courtesy Rajarshi MITRA.

'Three score and ten' có từ score là số 20 (dozen là 12), cụm từ này có nghĩa là 70 tuổi, 70 năm cuộc đời (The span of a life. In the days that this was coined that was considered to be seventy years).

Ví dụ
Although man cannot be immortal (bất tử) on earth these islanders seem to outlive (sống lâu hơn) their three score and ten with ease.

Even in 1950, the 50-year-olds in all of these fourteen countries could expect to live at least a couple of years beyond the biblical threescore and ten; this was true even in Japan, which was then the worst-performing country in the group.

The political landscape offers example after example of significant players well past the three-score-and-ten mark. Two of the Republican Party’s post-Reagan nominees—Bob Dole and John McCain—were older than Reagan was in 1980. The nation’s biggest state is governed by 76-year-old Jerry Brown, who might well have been a Presidential contender himself this year if he were just slightly younger. Most dramatically, Hillary Clinton’s path to the nomination was made much more difficult by 74-year old Bernie Sanders, who rolled up massive majorities among younger voters throughout the primary campaign.

Phạm Hạnh

Tags: word

Post a Comment

Tin liên quan

    Tài chính

    Trung Quốc