"A price on my head" nghĩa là gì?

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"A price on (one's) head" = ra giá cho (cái) đầu của ai -> Phần thưởng cho kẻ bắt hoặc giết ai đó/sát thủ, thường liên quan đến các vụ phạm tội.

Ví dụ
She was also known as “Moses” when the white Southerners put a price on her head, thinking she was a male. The story has a spiritual significance (sự quan trọng về mặt tâm linh) in that she insisted that she talked with God and he responded, guiding her away from trouble on her journeys north.

"Two weeks before the [March 6] shooting, I was getting threats and was warned that there was a price on my head. I notified police (báo cảnh sát) and people thought I was being dramatic and looking for media attention (sự chý ý của giới truyền thông). But when gangsters (giang hồ) make a threat, they mean it," she said.

But for the moment he faces all the dilemmas (song đề, thế tiến thoái lưỡng nan) of a political exile (đi ải, đi đày). “They have taken my nationality from me. My passport expires in a year and if I claim political asylum (nơi ẩn nấp), I must stay here for a long time and not travel.” Regime loyalists in Egypt, he said, have put a price on his head, or threatened to sue (kiện) him.

Bin Kuan

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