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"Muddy the waters" nghĩa là gì?
27 Jan, 2021
Trong bùn mà chẳng hôi tanh mùi bùn. Photo by Bruno
"Muddy the waters" = khuấy đục dòng nước -> nghĩa là khiến vấn đề thêm phức tạp, khó hiểu, gây nhầm lẫn.
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A Brexit deal has seemed exasperatingly (khó chịu) near, only for a series of conflicting (xung đột) messages, denials (phủ nhận, từ chối) and clarifications (sự sáng tỏ) to muddy the waters.
"What we're trying to do is limit the parameters (thông số, tham số) we're studying, so the data shows us clearly whether the seat pitch and width is affecting the problem. We don't want to muddy the waters with all these other parameters. It's just not good science," DeWeese said.
In the first, Trump dangled (nhử, bám sát) a bilateral meeting (cuộc gặp song phương) the Ukrainians desperately sought with the American president while strongly hinting that they open an investigation into a conspiracy theory (thuyết âm mưu) that would muddy the waters around Russia's attack on the 2016 election.
Trump said he didn’t see any reason not to proceed with withdrawing as he had said, but he didn’t object to making a formal announcement on December 4, which was contradictory (gây mâu thuẫn) and ignored (phớt lờ) the new reality his own statement had created. After the Trump meeting, Mattis, Pompeo, and Ricardel argued over Mattis’s draft statement, which at best muddied the waters, but which in fact was aimed at rolling back what Trump had said. I told Ricardel to do everything she could to kill it.
Trump said he didn’t see any reason not to proceed with withdrawing as he had said, but he didn’t object to making a formal announcement on December 4, which was contradictory (gây mâu thuẫn) and ignored (phớt lờ) the new reality his own statement had created. After the Trump meeting, Mattis, Pompeo, and Ricardel argued over Mattis’s draft statement, which at best muddied the waters, but which in fact was aimed at rolling back what Trump had said. I told Ricardel to do everything she could to kill it.
Bin Kuan
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