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"Set the table" nghĩa là gì?
01 Mar, 2024
Xếp được bàn ăn là cả một nghệ thuật. Photo by mali maeder from Pexels
"Set/lay the table" nghĩa là chuẩn bị, bày biện lên bàn ăn (thìa, nĩa, đĩa, bát...). Nghĩa bóng là khiến kết quả mong muốn xảy ra.
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Since I spend much of my time in the part of our house near the kitchen these days, I often earn at least part of my meals by setting the table according (theo) to the likely menu of the day.
Bill Gates steered (lèo lái) the company through a period of massive growth (tăng trưởng lớn) but also set the table for his successor (người kế nhiệm), Steve Ballmer, to deal with antitrust (chống độc quyền) issues.
It was supposed to be the day to imagine the possibilities (khả năng): all the tantalizing (trêu ngươi) matchups, the favorites, and, of course, the underdogs (kẻ thua)— so many underdogs — that would pop up on the 68 lines to set the table for America over the next three weeks.
A PUnS-based robot only made six mistakes (lỗi) in 20,000 attempts (lần thử) at setting the table, even when the researchers (nhà nghiên cứu) threw in complications (phức tạp) like hiding a fork -- the automaton (máy tự động) just finished the rest of the tasks and came back to the fork when it popped up.
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