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"Shabby gentility" nghĩa là gì?
17 Dec, 2023
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'shabby-genteel' = trying to maintain dignity and self respect despite shabbiness -> nghĩa là cố giữ phong cách hào hoa trong hoàn cảnh sa sút; "giấy rách phải giữ lấy lề".
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After Frank Morgan was cast as Professor Marvel/The Wizard of Oz, the wardrobe department went in search of coats for him to wear that communicated “shabby gentility.” After the production acquired a coat from a local secondhand shop that would fit the bill, Morgan later discovered that the coat actually belonged to author Baum, when he found a tag in the pocket with his name on it.
Menagerie holds a special place in the Williams canon. Definitely his most personal work, it's a naked, if poetic, treatment of his dysfunctional family (gia đình tan vỡ/bất hạnh): mother, sister, and himself. Dad abandoned (bỏ rơi, rời xa) the family long ago, leaving wife Amanda and children, Laura and Tom, in a dilapidated apartment (căn hộ tồi tàn) overlooking an alley (ngõ) in St. Louis. Shabby gentility is Amanda's fate (số phận, định mệnh). Facing life as best she can manage, she thrives on her faded dreams as a former coquette (người đàn bà hay làm đỏm, người đàn bà hay làm dáng) and debutante (cô gái mới bước vào đời, mới ra trình diễn lần đầu tiên).
These days, Bloomsbury rests in a state of elegant somnolence (sự buồn ngủ; sự ngủ lơ mơ; tình trạng mơ màng, tình trạng ngái ngủ). The ghosts of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell linger on (ám ảnh, vương vấn) in the shabby gentility of Russell Square and its environs, the bookish institutions that are the bones of the place conferring tranquility (sự yên bình), despite the many students and tourists. But so much for appearances – radicalism is the bricks and mortar of Bloomsbury’s university buildings and Georgian terraces, which in the early 20th century were home to countless figures who thrived in society's margins, among them artists and writers, academics and political thinkers.
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