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"Put to the torch" nghĩa là gì?
13 Feb, 2020
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"Put (something) to the torch" = Châm ngọn đuốc lên cái gì -> Cố tình thiêu cháy để phá hủy cái gì.
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But strong as the city was, it was not able to stand up to the invading army of Tiglat Pileser the Third, who put it to the torch in 732 BCE along with most of the rest of Samaria.
The Time Lords are dead. And it’s the Master that put it to the torch, so enraged by his own revelation that everything Time Lord society taught itself has been predicated on some unseen lie that he has been completely undone, left unhinged and driven to genocide (tội diệt chủng).
If any lingering (mỏng manh, kéo dài) doubt remained that Irish citizens need far greater transparency from the State on this regularly morphing (kỹ xảo morphing), biometric (sinh trắc học), wannabe national identity card, then the searing presentation in Dublin this week from the UN’s special rapporteur (người có nhiệm vụ chuẩn bị báo cáo) on extreme poverty, Philip Alston, surely has put it to the torch.
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