"Warts and all" nghĩa là gì?

chúng ta nên chấp nhận cả cái hay cái dở của nhạc sĩ thiên tài Beethoven. photo courtesy Spencer Means.

'Warts and all' = 'including features or qualities that are not appealing or attractive' -> nghĩa là những cái hay cái dở.

Ví dụ
When I was a teenager, I had a tendency (khuynh hướng) to tweet my thoughts incessantly (không ngừng). I recognised, along with the help of my mates, that allowing the world to regularly peek into my brain, warts and all, wasn’t the best for me or my wellbeing. Ever since, I’ve written my thoughts and feelings down on anything I could get my hands on.

Major efforts are afoot in engineering to develop ventilators to assist in what is expected to be a shortfall. The same kind of innovation in industry could make great strides in developing a proper, and possibly transformative, testing regime. One way or the other, the public deserves to know the full story, warts and all, at a time when reserves of national solidarity are being called upon to serve the greater good.

Any fears I had about delving too closely into his life, warts and all, were dispelled the night I heard the Vienna Symphony recreate the epic (đậm chất sử thi) 1808 concert Beethoven had given at the Theater an der Wien. Listening to his “Pastoral” Symphony that night, the bird calls he wrote for the woodwinds took me back to the bird songs I’d heard retracing his footsteps on the Beethovengang. Its rustic dance rhythms reminded me of Mayer am Pfarrplatz, the old wine tavern. The five-hour concert flew by. Knowing more, I decided, made me appreciate him more, not less.

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* The tombs of Beethoven and Schubert flank a memorial to Mozart in the Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery), Vienna. Despite the memorial, Mozart is not buried here, but rather in St. Marx Cemetery (Sankt Marxer Friedhof) in Vienna's Landstraße District, although the exact location of his remains within the cemetery is not known. These three giants of Western music made their homes and careers in Vienna, but only Schubert was a native of the city. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Beethoven in Bonn.

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