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"A camel is a horse designed by a committee" nghĩa là gì?
09 Feb, 2017
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'A camel is a horse designed by a committee' = 'con lạc đà là kết quả của việc một ủy ban muốn tạo ra một con ngựa' nghĩa là các ủy ban làm việc thường dẫn đến những kết quả không hiệu quả, chất lượng thấp do phải dựa trên nhiều ý kiến và quan điểm khác nhau (Committees, due to their reliance on several different opinions and viewpoints, produce results that are fragmented, inefficient, or of poor quality, especially compared to the work of a single individual or a small team).
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Someone once said that a camel is a horse designed by a Committee. Well, in this case the horse is an effort to reduce carbon emissions by using market mechanisms. And the committee is the European Union.
There’s an old joke that a camel is a horse designed by a committee, which, like similar adages that hinge on “too many cooks,” implies that too many hands in any one thing will always end up perverting it. Despite fashion’s reliance on many, many hands—the petites mains celebrated by venerable houses like Maison Margiela and Dior and, most recently, Chanel—this is largely an industry that relies on some semblance of hero worship.
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B: "Well, a camel is a horse designed by a committee."