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"Be nothing but skin and bone" nghĩa là gì?
02 Mar, 2015
Sculpture Girl Chemistry , Johannesfriedhof, Bielefeld, Germany. Photo courtesy martin.
'To be nothing but skin and bone' nghĩa là tiều tụy thảm thương, chỉ còn da bọc xương (be very thin).
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It’s West Yorkshire not long before the Yorkshire Ripper starts his killing spree, and two police officers make a grisly (ghê rợn) discovery (khám phá). Behind a locked door in a block of flats lies the decomposing body (xác chết đang phân hủy) of a woman. But that’s not the worst of it. The worst of it is there’s a child locked in with her, “filthy, nothing but skin and bone,” looking “like a famine (nạn đói) victim.”
Woolf battled with anorexia (chứng biếng ăn) for many years. Along with her disorder (rối loạn tiêu hóa), Woolf had to deal with feeling like her body was on display as people openly commented (bình phẩm) on her appearance. Of one older and plumper (phúng phính, đầy đặn) coworker who told the whole room Woolf was nothing but “skin and bone,” she comments, “She was drawing attention to my size in a way that would have been unacceptable had I done the same to her.” Recovered from her unhealthy weight loss, Woolf wrote The Ministry of Thin to get us to focus on health rather than size.
I am obsessed (ám ảnh) with the pedicabs (xe xích lô). I can’t stop thinking about the first, and only time, I rode in one. I was in Xiamen, China, in 1985, when foreigners were few and far between outside of the biggest cities (and not so common there, either). A friend and I had just gotten off a minibus around midnight, and were looking for transportation to lodging recommended by the Lonely Planet. The only means available was a pedicab operated by a man who looked about 80 years old and appeared to weigh about 80 pounds. He was nothing but skin and bone and gristle (xương sụn), but he happily agreed to take us to our hostel for some infinitesimal (rất nhỏ, vi phân) price.
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