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"Crackpot theory" nghĩa là gì?
25 Oct, 2016
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'Crackpot theory' có từ crackpot là người có suy nghĩ lập dị -> từ này nghĩa là ý tưởng lập dị, kỳ quặc, điên rồ (a statement or idea (not necessarily presented by a crackhead) that is extremely extensive in nature and ridiculous in realilty).
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While the kids these days like to crack jokes (nói chuyện phiếm, chuyện đùa) about jet fuel and steel beams, the JFK assassination is really the classic rock version of an event that attracts every crackpot theory (thuyết âm mưu) imaginable.
Sheldon Greene's new novel, “The Seed Apple,” features a nuclear submarine fleet, a Holocaust survivor and a tribe of California desert Indians descended from King Solomon’s ancient mariners. He based it on the not-entirely-crackpot theory that Judeo-Christian wayfarers made it to the New World before Columbus.
Mr Kaczynski has accused that government, led by the centre-right Civic Platform party, of being too friendly to Germany and Russia, Poland’s historic enemies. More recently he has threatened to oppose the re-election of Donald Tusk, the former Civic Platform prime minister, for a second term as president of the European Council. (His reasons are tied up with the crackpot theory that Civic Platform helped Russia conceal the truth about an aeroplane crash near Smolensk in 2010 that killed Mr Kaczynski’s twin brother Lech, who was Poland’s president at the time.)
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