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"Fiddle while Rome burns" nghĩa là gì?
05 Apr, 2019
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'Fiddle while Rome burns' có từ fiddle (động từ) là nghịch vớ vẩn, làm trò vớ vấn, (+ away) là lãng phí (thời gian, công sức), và danh từ là đàn violin -> nhắc tới lịch sử cho rằng khi thành La Mã cháy, hoàng đế Nero vẫn chơi đàn violin, hoàn toàn không quan tâm/lo lắng gì đến thần dân và đế quốc; -> thành ngữ này nghĩa là (hầu như) không làm gì hay làm việc vớ vẩn khi khủng hoảng.
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There are no guarantees that we will successful in the challenges of everyday life and the mortality rate remains 100%. Our leaders seem to fiddle while Rome burns and global climate changes. Tempted to give up hope and focus on the micro alone, trust in God places our efforts in the context of a larger story, God’s vision of Shalom.
President Trump wants to build a wall. Oh no, you can't do that! He's declared an emergency: Can't do that either. He's threatened to close the border: Oh no, too much pain. Whatever the president wants the Democrats reject. That is irresponsible. To do nothing in the face of an invasion (xâm lược) is to fiddle while Rome burns. And to keep pushing open borders (biên giới), sanctuary (nơi trú ẩn, ẩn náu; thánh đường; khu bảo tồn động vật hoang dã) cities and now amnesty (tha tội, ân xá) is simply encouraging invasion. Not only is it irresponsible, it is a chronic (kinh niên, mạn tính; thâm căn cố đế) political mistake (sai lầm chính trị). Voters will not react kindly to the sight of migrants wandering the streets of southern cities, caravans flying foreign flags.
Even if, as Mr Wallace-Wells does, you succeed in bringing your minatory vision of the future to sensual life, you walk a tricky line. You want to instil in your audience an idea of the future that is scary enough to inspire urgent action. But not so scary that they write it off as implausible (we have a strong cognitive bias in favour of not imagining the unimaginable, and taking the furniture of our lives to be more solid than it is); nor so scary that, having believed you, they take comfort in fatalism (thuyết định mệnh) and resolve to fiddle while Rome burns.
Phạm Hạnh
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