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"Up a stump" nghĩa là gì?
28 Aug, 2019
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'Up a stump' = lên một gốc cây -> trong tình trạng khó xử, tiến thoái lưỡng nan, khó xoay xở; bí, bối rối
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"Tom went on whitewashing -- paid no attention to the steamboat (tàu thủy chạy bằng hơi nước). Ben stared a moment and then said: "Hi-yi! You're up a stump, ain't you!"
“The problem is clear,” says Schaffner. “The more antibiotics (kháng sinh) we use, the more we will develop bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and that will put us up a stump when a person develops a serious illness. We all have to be prudent (thận trọng).”
800-year-old tree could put $660m Western Highway project up a stump. Activists have set up a protest camp in Ararat, 200 kilometres west of Melbourne, to blockade (phong tỏa, bao vây) the planned removal of trees of 3000 trees - including 260 large old-growth trees - along the Western Highway.
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