"Get into a lather" nghĩa là gì?

Chuyện đâu còn có đó mà. Photo by Supply

"Get into a lather" = có từ lather là bọt (xà phòng), (nghĩa bóng) là trạng thái bị kích động, trạng thái sục sôi -> cụm từ này nghĩa là bị kích động, căng thẳng, hồi hộp và lo lắng.

Ví dụ
Harry Billinge, 101 years old, said he was ‘choked beyond measure’ to receive an MBE the other day. The D-Day veteran has devoted his later life to raising £1 for every British soldier who died in Normandy to fund a permanent memorial. And to think some people get into a lather about certain sportsmen and women not getting knighthoods (tầng lớp hiệp sĩ).

That’s the trouble Hirst – or any artist – has in putting on an exhibition (cuộc triển lãm, trưng bày) in such a charismatic (lôi cuốn) and history-laden house: its vivid (sinh động) atmosphere turns his works into mere decorations. As such they are fine. I don’t see how any critic manages to get into a lather about Hirst’s crimes against good taste. Good taste be damned, sir, as they said in Walpole’s day. Out on the lawn – the kind that recedes further than the naked eye can see – Hirst’s statues are a laugh. A flayed unicorn (con kỳ lân bị lột da), a couple of colossal (khổng lồ) people with their skin off. All good fun. Yet it is Lord Cholmondeley’s herd of white deer that elicit gasps when they wander through the woods like a cloud.

If someone were to ask me the question of what I'd do differently, knowing what I know now, this is what I'd say. I would worry less about hitting the ground running and try to focus instead on being in the moment. I wouldn't be so afraid of the baby crying that didn't try to help him figure out how to sleep better earlier on. I would buy a hospital grade breast pump instead of the handpump that took hours to get anything remotely resembling (giống nhau) a drink out of me. I wouldn't compare what he was doing with what other babies were doing, and let myself get into a lather about the things I thought he might be behind on. I would smell his head more often, because nothing beats that baby smell. I would try not to feel so terrified of the responsibility that stretched out before me for years and years to come.

Ka Tina

Tags: phrase

Post a Comment

Tin liên quan

    Tài chính

    Trung Quốc