"Set pen to paper" nghĩa là gì?

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"Put/set pen to paper" = đặt bút lên giấy -> viết, ghi lên giấy tờ hoặc ký kết hợp đồng.

Ví dụ
He said teachers had done their part in preparing the pupils and it was now time for the 98 candidates (ứng viên) to put pen to paper and prove their critics (phê bình) wrong.

Smith’s rise to household-name (nổi tiếng) status may seem swift (nhanh), but she was putting pen to paper at an early age. "I’ve been singing since I was eight and I’ve been writing songs from 11, and I just haven’t stopped," she says.

The discourse (bài diễn thuyết), though at times heated, stems from (nảy sinh từ) a sensitivity to issues of representation that is both well-meaning (có ý nghĩa) and born out of a place of love and respect, arguably (có thể cho rằng) the very same place from which Gershwin first set pen to paper all those years ago.

Thu Phương

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