"Take a beating" nghĩa là gì?
Portugal v North Korea, Green Point Stadium 21/07/2010. Photo courtesy George M. Groutas.
'Take/get a beating' có beating là sự thất bại nặng nề; vì thế cụm từ này nghĩa là bị thua nặng, nhận một trận đòn đích đáng (to be severely defeated in a game or competition); ngoài ra còn có nghĩa là bị mất nhiều tiền, thua lỗ nặng, bị chỉ trích nặng nề (to lose a lot of money; to be severely criticized).
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Hotels take a beating through the oil downturn.
Salcete beaches take a beating despite anti-sand erosion measures.
Bank of America, Wells Fargo stocks take a beating after 'Brexit' vote.
THE decision (plan of including pros in Olympics) of AIBA — the Alliance of Boxing Associations—the international governing body for the sport under the umbrella of the International Olympic Committee—continues to take a beating from various professional boxing organizations and renowned world champions, led by former heavyweight king Lennox Lewis.
Global investment firms with real estate holdings took a beating in markets on Monday as China Evergrande inched closer to missing interest payments on its debt. While global markets slumped, U.S. real estate stocks held their ground.
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This time around the UK was probably hurt somewhat; British stocks are down around 4% as I write. But French and German stocks are down 7% to 8%. The markets in southern Europe are down 10% to 15%. Brexit’s most powerful effect is to make the eurozone crisis worse, by increasing doubts as to whether the eurozone will stay together.
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The [1707] Act of Union was a legislative measure agreed in Scotland by a tiny patrician elite against some internal parliamentary opposition and much external popular hostility.
That is from T.M. Devine’s new and useful Independence or Union: Scotland’s Past and Scotland’s Present.
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London is the richest city in Europe. Real output per person is central London is nearly four times the average in the European Union, and nearly twice that Europe’s other large, rich metropolitan areas, such as Amsterdam and Paris. Strikingly, London is more than twice as rich as the next richest region within Britain. However one slices it, the city is an extraordinary economic outlier.
That is from the forthcoming Work, Power and Status in the Twenty-First Century, by the always worth reading Ryan Avent.