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"A red herring" nghĩa là gì?
01 Feb, 2020
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| Flying kombi. Photo courtesy Jes. |
'A red herring' có từ herring là loại cá trích, sống ở vùng Bắc Đại Tây Dương. Loại cá này khi được sấy khô sẽ biến dạng sang màu đỏ và có một mùi hôi đặc biệt. Từ thế kỷ thứ 19, những tù nhân người Anh thường dùng cá trích sấy khô này bôi lên những chỗ ngược với lối chạy trốn của họ để các con chó săn bị lạc hướng và không đuổi theo họ được. Vì thế 'a red herring' được dùng để chỉ một sự việc hay lý lẽ dùng để đánh lạc sự chú ý về một vấn đề khác.
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It’s exciting (vui thích) to hear the boss talk about the new company headquarters (trụ sở chính), but I think it’s a red herring. He’s trying to keep employees from learning about his plans to reduce our job benefits (lợi nhuận cho nhân viên).
I really surprised (gây ngạc nhiên) my wife last Christmas. When she unwrapped (mở giấy bọc ngoài) this big box I gave her, she thought it was a vacuum cleaner (máy hút bụi), but it was just a red herring. Inside were two tickets (vé máy bay) for a trip to Florida!
"Moving it to the south is a red herring," Mr. Kimball said during a Crain's editorial board meeting Wednesday. The alternative site floated (cổ động tuyên truyền) by foes (kẻ thù) is just a block away, but would result in higher costs and thus generate less money for community benefits. It would also require building a new pier (cầu tàu), whereas the developer's plan calls for rebuilding the deteriorated (hư hỏng) one, as the administration wants.
Legendary (huyền thoại) investor Jeremy Grantham has delivered another stinging (nhức nhối) assessment of the global oil industry, suggesting that it is in inevitable decline. Grantham, the UK investor who founded the $130 billion Boston-based GMO Asset Management, says the US fracking boom, hailed by politicians, the fossil fuel and mainstream media for bringing cheap oil to the US – is the biggest red herring in the history of oil.
Huyền Trang
VOA
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...cheap traditional oil becomes increasingly difficult to find both in the U.S. and globally. Last year, despite spending nearly $700 billion globally – up from $250 billion in 2005 – the oil industry found just 4 1⁄2 months’ worth of current oil production levels, a 50-year low!
Solar and wind competing in ideal locations, but only the highest cost fossil fuels, and not the old oil” that cost $10/bbl on average 15 years ago.
“These alternatives are competitive today with only very high-cost fossil fuels but in 20 to 30 years, if encouraged, may replace $40 or $50 barrels of oil, at which price the global economic system may muddle through.
a tortuous argument: lý lẽ loanh quanh,