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"Cut one's teeth" nghĩa là gì?
04 Sep, 2014
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| Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg. Photo courtesy Sandra Cohen-Rose. |
'Cut one's teeth' dùng để chỉ khi chiếc răng đầu tiên của một em bé vừa nhú ra khỏi lợi. Thành ngữ này có nghĩa là bắt đầu học hỏi hay thu thập kinh nghiệm trong một ngành nghề mới.
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The brothers cut their professional teeth at Lusardi’s before starting their own restaurant.
As a finance (tài chính) major (môn học chính) at school, I was pretty excited about getting an internship at one of the city’s most important banks. But instead of cutting my teeth on loans and investments (đầu tư), I ended up having to count out money to customers (khách hàng).
The new players (cầu thủ) will get the chance to cut their teeth at the opening game (trận đấu) of the season. I feel that after a few games they should be experienced (có kinh nghiệm) enough to play the best of the league (liên đoàn).
Admittedly, Wilmot Mountain (elevation: about sea level) in southern Wisconsin is not a world-class resort on which to cut one's teeth. But that's where I began snowplowing at age 7, when boots had laces and skis were wood. (NYTimes, 12/1995)
In 1997 the young Milanese conductor Gianandrea Noseda was named principal guest conductor of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, becoming the first foreigner to occupy that post. With the theater's packed schedule and its hyperkinetic boss, Valery Gergiev, the Mariinksy cannot have been a placid place to cut one's teeth. (NYTimes, 10/2005)
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