"Play a losing game" nghĩa là gì?


"Play a losing game" = chơi một ván thua -> nghĩa là kiên trì, rất nỗ lực nhưng vẫn thất bại.

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It was reminiscent (nhớ lại, gợi lại) of the failed lotto player, successfully matching his numbers one-by-one until his hopes are dashed when that final digit proves ever elusive (khó nắm, hay lảng tránh). But that’s what happens when you play a losing game.

Trump is representative of a constituency trying to maintain what the United States has always been: a site of exploitation, brutality and oppression (sự đàn áp, sự áp bức). To try to fight with that constituency over redefining what “American” means and to try to prove ourselves worthy of citizenship is to play a losing game.

When food is deconstructed into “nutrients” and we start worrying about how much oat bran or how little saturated fat we eat, we play a losing game, one that gives the marketers of processed foods — a very high percentage of which is not food at all — the opportunity to sell high-oat-bran or low-saturated-fat products as “healthy,” regardless of their other properties.

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