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"Strangle at birth" nghĩa là gì?
01 Dec, 2019
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"Strangle something at birth" có từ strangle nghĩa là bóp nghẹt, kìm hãm -> cụm từ này nghĩa là ngăn chặn cái gì phát triển hoặc tiếp tục ngay ở giai đoạn bắt đầu/ khởi đầu.
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Revolutionary communism was always an international project. Having survived attempts to strangle it at birth, Russia industrialised (công nghiệp hóa), supported fraternal (hữu nghị) parties abroad, survived invasion (xâm lăng) and emerged stronger from the second World War with a string of satellite states acting as a buffer on its borders.
"New ideas are like babies. It's easy to strangle them at birth," Cleese said, later continuing, "You don't want criticism (chỉ trích) at that stage, you want questions." After evaluating (đánh giá) ideas, it's back to the incubation (ấp trứng) stage to put the tortoise mind to work on improving the ideas.
Several strategies were meant to guarantee (đảm bảo) Corbyn and his radical wealth redistribution policies were strangled at birth. The powerful mainstream media across the UK almost exclusively owned and controlled by six individual (cá nhân) billionaires and their corporations would promote Johnson as the only viable PM, portray Corbyn as variously incompetent, dangerous, untrustworthy and anti-Semitic and ensure the election was primarily about Brexit in the hope Johnson’s ‘Get Brexit Done’ mantra (câu thần chú) would resonate (tạo ra tiếng vang) among those who voted Leave in 2016.
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