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"Polish off" nghĩa là gì?
24 Feb, 2020
Eat faster! Photo courtesy: Jake Wong
"Polish something off" -> làm một việc một cách gấp gáp, thường nói về việc ăn uống và còn có nghĩa đánh bại đối thủ.
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No matter what he is offered to eat he polishes it off in an instant.
Prior to (trước khi) turning professional, the 26-year old polished off a head-turning collegiate (đại học) career at the University of Southern Florida, winning twice and being named to the Big East All-Conference team three times. Additionally, Valentine was named the conference’s Freshman of the Year in 2012.
She nods. “[It] would be darker. I thought at that time that I was describing the world that was to come. That we had reached a level of openness that would only develop further. In that sense Flights is no longer a timely (hợp thời) book. It no longer describes the world that we live in. I would never have expected such nostalgia (hoài cổ) for nationality (dân tộc), for national identity,” she says as I polish off the last of my California rolls, which are good enough that I wish I had ordered more.
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