"Curtain lecture" nghĩa là gì?

Mới la mắng xong giờ ngọt ngào quá ha! Photo by Valerie Elash on Unsplash

"Curtain lecture" có từ curtain nghĩa là màn treo trên giường -> cụm từ này nghĩa là lời trách móc của người vợ lúc thanh vắng. 

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Politically incorrect and old-fashioned, perhaps, but the henpecked (sợ vợ) husband remains a fact. In considering the future curtain lecture I hear my wife’s voice echo (tiếng vang) Val’s admonition (lời khiển trách) to the redecorators of his gay father’s flat….

Motaung, who might take over the reigns (uy quyền) as the Chiefs supremo (lãnh tụ tối cao) when his father retires, also alleged his wife henpecked him in front of his domestic worker and read him curtain lecture when he watches soccer matches in his bedroom.

Impatient for her critique (lời phê bình), he opens and closes the bed curtains, a scene that’s a nice play on the eighteenth-century phrase “curtain lecture” (a shrewish (hay gắt gỏng, bẳn tính) version of what we mean by “pillow talk”). “Vanity. You have overburdened (chất nặng, đè nặng) your argument with ostentatious (phô trương) erudition (học vấn uyên bác),” Abigail observes, steering her husband, as always, onto a better course.

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