"In the last analysis" nghĩa là gì?

Retired Gen. Douglas MacArthur and President John F. Kennedy meet in the White House, July 20, 1961. Photo credit: Robert L. Knudsen/JFK Library.

'In the final (or last) analysis' nghĩa là phân tích cho đến cùng, suy cho cùng, xét cho cùng (when everything has been considered (used to suggest that a statement expresses the basic truth about a complex situation); to indicate that the statement you are making is the most important or basic aspect of an issue).

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Trotsky said: “Comrades, none of us wishes to be nor can be right against our party. In the last analysis, the party is always right (đảng luôn luôn đúng).”

New lines were granted land along the right-of-way, and these in turn sought generally to sell them to independent farmers. These were preferred, not because they were more lovable, but because they generated more freight than ranchers. In the last analysis, nature had its say: as one went west and rainfall diminished, more of the land went in large tracts for livestock and herding.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church is brilliantly succinct, "Consulting horoscopes (cung hoàng đạo, lá số tử vi), astrology (thuật chiêm tinh), palm reading, interpretation (diễn giải) of omens (điềm báo) and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance (khả năng giả định nhìn thấy những sự kiện tương lai hoặc những tồn tại, ngoài tầm mắt; sáng suốt), and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate (thu phục được, chiếm được) hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone"

“The greatest weapon of war is the blockade (phong tỏa),” he told Kennedy. “If war comes, that is the weapon we should use.” MacArthur then added that, while the Russians and Chinese could always outnumber the Americans on the ground and even in the air, easily deploying more troops and aircraft in any stand-off, that wasn’t true when it came to the world’s oceans. “The sea, beyond question, is ours,” he said, “and that’s the key to the blockade. Missiles and air will neutralize each other. In the last analysis, the difference will be the Navy.” After a moment’s hesitation, MacArthur capped his views by citing his own experience against the Japanese in the Pacific and against the Chinese on the Korean peninsula. “I had command of the sea and air,” he said, “but on the ground I was hopelessly outnumbered.” Kennedy remained silent, but it is clear from the resulting conversation that he not only understood MacArthur’s points, he embraced them. We know that to be true because two months after speaking with MacArthur, Kennedy faced down the Soviet Union when they deployed nuclear missiles to Cuba. Pushed by his military commanders to bomb Cuban missile sites, to gather military units for an invasion—to even contemplate the use of nuclear weapons—Kennedy decided otherwise. He chose instead a naval blockade. It was a brilliant choice, though not simply because it worked: the Russians couldn’t match the U.S. Navy, not anywhere, and particularly not in the Caribbean.

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