"Put to good account" nghĩa là gì?

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"Put/turn (something) to good account" = Tận dụng/sử dụng cái gì một cách hữu ích, theo hướng tích cực; tận dụng khả năng nào đó để kiếm ra tiền.

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Concern about a personal matter is due to increase over the next forty-eight hours, but this is all to the good if it alerts you to possible weaknesses. Put your time to good account by cleaning up your diet, improving your exercise and devoting more attention to your responsibilities.

To describe this as a ‘literary’ novel is not to suggest it is out of reach for any reader. Far from it. But it’s a book that could only have been written by someone whose life has been filled to every crevice (kẽ hở) with books and beautiful things – paintings, objects, lasting images, glimpses (ý nghĩ lờ mờ) and influences. All those years Smither spent as a New Plymouth librarian, and her habit of storing away things that are significant to her, have been put to good account.

Dawkins’s weakness is reflected in his revealing assumption that “true” science can be distinguished from sordid (bẩn thỉu, hám lợi) examples of abuse on the ground. The truth, in Robert Bellah’s memorable expression, is that there is no perfume without mustard gas. We have also noted that scientific knowledge put to good account in curing disease can assist the torturer in causing even greater pain. As Martin has argued, if Christianity can be blamed for Torquemada, then biology must carry the can for nuclear weapons (vũ khí hạt nhân), sociology (xã hội học) for neo-Darwinian eugenics (thuyết ưu sinh), and the Enlightenment for Stalin.

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