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"Put flesh on" nghĩa là gì?
17 Feb, 2020
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"Put flesh on (the bones of) (something)" = Thêm da/thêm thịt cho cái gì -> Bổ sung thêm/cung cấp thông tin chi tiết về cái gì để giải thích hoặc minh họa về nó rõ ràng và đầy đủ hơn.
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It is two months since he was handed a huge majority to put flesh on the bones of his plans and already he’s confirmed the HS2 project will go ahead and has revived talk of a £20 billion bridge across the Irish Sea. Next up? Heathrow’s third runway must be decided soon.
As of October, she was the presumptive (có cơ sở, giả định) nominee. She was leading in New Hampshire; she was leading in Iowa; she was picking up ground in places like South Carolina. And then she presented her “Medicare For All” plan. She tried to put flesh on the bones of Bernie Sanders’ garbage plan, and she completely fell apart.
“Studying genealogy (phả hệ) makes me painfully aware of the absolute horror of all that slavery was,” she read. “The pathos (tính chất bi ai) emerges vividly through underground research. When I started researching my family, it almost instantly became an obsession (sự ám ảnh). In confirming slaves on both sides of my family, I was filled with horror and sorrow. With every name I uncovered, I yearned to put flesh on the bones of people who made me but were now long dead. I read everything I could find.”
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