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"A black eye" nghĩa là gì?
10 Aug, 2019
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"A black eye" = con mắt đen, từ này nghĩa đen là mắt thâm quầng (do đánh nhau, hoặc đơn giản là do tô điểm/trang điểm quá đậm); ngoài ra, nghĩa (bóng) là nhược điểm, vết nhơ trong danh tiếng/thanh danh của một người.
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“That’s extremely disappointing (thất vọng) to me,” said City Commissioner (đại biểu) Curtis Richardson. “If he knew from the very start that there were things that might have been illegal (bất hợp pháp) that occurred (xảy ra) that he would have been forthright (thẳng thắn) early on and not put the city and the community through all of this. “It really has been a black eye on the city of Tallahassee," said Richardson, the only sitting commissioner who served alongside Maddox. "He could have saved us all of that for almost two years.”
Given the state of this Tigers’ rebuild -- combined with the notion that Matthew Boyd, Nicholas Castellanos, and Shane Greene’s value will never be this high -- if Al Avila and company don’t get something done by 4 p.m. Wednesday, it’s a black eye on the organization (tổ chức) and an unforgiveable lapse (sai sót).
The episode was hardly a black eye. But, just as Kerry’s smoothie contributed (cống hiến) to questions about the Massachusetts senator’s connection to regular folk, Thompson’s less-than-enthusiastic embrace of the time-honored Iowa tradition clashed with the down-home Southerner he often portrayed as an actor.
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