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"On the wrong side of the blanket" nghĩa là gì?
01 Aug, 2018
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'Born on the wrong side of the blanket' = được sinh ra trên chiếc chăn trải ngược/tồi tàn -> nghĩa là con ngoài giá thú, con hoang (a child born out of wedlock was said to have been born on the wrong side of the blanket, as if being under the covers was a luxury to which only legitimate babies were entitled. Other obsolescent phrases for an illegitimate baby are “natural child” and “love child.”)
Ví dụ
For that slight upward mobility, the family owed thanks to Winterhalter’s grandmother, and a dalliance (yêu đương lăng nhăng, ve vãn, chim chuột; chơi bời nhảm nhí mất thời giờ) on the wrong side of the blanket, quite likely with a monk (thầy tu, thầy dòng) from the nearby monastery (tu viện).
Jane’s childhood had been an unhappy one. Born “on the wrong side of the blanket”, given up by her mother and passed grudgingly (bất đắc dĩ, miễn cương) between aunts (cô, bác gái), she had an unfailing eye for private infant (thơ ấu, tuổi còn thơ) moments of complicated (phức tạp, rắc rối) longing (niềm khát khao, lòng ham muốn mãnh liệt).
Inside, the house is spotless (sạch sẽ, tinh tươm; không vết nhơ, không bị mang tai tiếng, đạo đức trong sạch) and gleaming (sáng bóng); the objets d’art and the Van Dyck paintings of the ancestral line (sired by Charles II, on the wrong side of the blanket) are clearly cherished, not only as heirlooms (của gia truyền) but also as business assets.
Set in Delhi, Trishul is a corporate revenge (báo thù) drama orchestrated (đạo diễn; dàn xếp cẩn thận, sắp đặt, bố trí) by the son born on the wrong side of the blanket. Some twists in the plot may look dated and amateurish, but the women — Waheeda Rehman as working woman-turned-unwed mom, Raakhee as the “human computer” secretary — perhaps the first time the word computer was used in a Hindi film — and Hema Malini as the glamorous (đẹp say đắm, đẹp quyến rũ) golf-playing boss woman — are still so now.
Phạm Hạnh
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