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"Measure swords" nghĩa là gì?
10 Mar, 2020
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"Measure swords" = đấu kiếm -> chiến đấu, chống lại ai hoặc cũng có nghĩa là hiểu tường tận về đối phương (khả năng, trong lĩnh vực cụ thể).
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He must go to the false tsar (Sa hoàng giả) and measure swords with him.
“He is afraid to measure swords with you,” she said, “but he will find some other way to be rid of you. He is cunning (xảo quyệt), oh, so cunning, and treacherous (kẻ phụ bạc, bội tín).”
Situated as I am, it is necessary, however, that I should say thus much to him, in answer to his vehement declamations (tuyên bố hùng hồn) against the India Board (Hội đồng), that when the proper day comes, I shall not be afraid to measure swords with him on that subject.
I shall not refuse, in compliance with the request (theo yêu cầu) of my correspondent (phóng viên báo chí), to give my animadversions (phê bình) on this subject 5 but as I am not inclined to measure swords on this occasion with any of my predecessors (người tiền nhiệm) or contemporaries (đương thời), I shall take a different course, and appear in the cause as an advocate for duelling.
Thu Phương
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