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"Shoot your bolt" nghĩa là gì?
30 Oct, 2018
bolt. Photo courtesy Miguel Teixeira.
'Shoot (one's) bolt' nghĩa là cố gắng hết sức (tiền bạc, sức lực...) để làm việc gì (to exhaust oneself doing some task and thus struggle to complete it; to use all your money or energy in doing something); lãng phí cơ hội duy nhất để làm gì (to waste your only chance to do something).
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You might think she has shot her bolt before the album has even begun but actually she has just carved out her terrain.
She says she has shot her bolt, done all she can to try to persuade colleagues to soften the impact of equalisation, and failed.
It's also the most amazing race – 'the mare has shot her bolt' in the words of Peter Bromley's thrilling radio commentary, yet still she gets back up to nail the luckless Wayward Lad, who may have been just short of his best after a frost-hampered preparation.
The fact is that Usain has shot his bolt. The greatest champion of all time has stepped down: and that means that the future of the sprint races starts right there on the Gold Coast of Australia – on the B of Bang. Usain Bolt has left a legacy; he has also created a vacancy. Big-time sprinting is no longer a contest for the silver medal.
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