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"Bet my life" nghĩa là gì?
06 Jun, 2020
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"Bet (one's) life" = cược cả tính mạng -> nghĩa là hoàn toàn chắc chắn điều gì đó sẽ xảy ra đến nổi cược cả tính mạng/sự sống cho việc đó.
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It felt good to bet my life on something so simple yet fascinating as a migrating songbird (chim sẻ di cư). Sometimes in spring, however, all bets are off.
Lupe could kind of understand how it must feel, having spent much of her life being shuttled between Vermont and her father’s family in Puerto Rico. Javier was another reason she started to feel at home on the island. But a few months ago, after the hurricane, he started to act slightly distant, and seemed impatient to get off their chats. He insisted there was nothing wrong, that it was just the nightmare after Maria, but she knew she was not imagining his distance. She would bet her life on it.
“Her credentials (thư ủy nhiệm, giới thiệu) are long and impeccable (hoàn hảo, không sai sót), and her references are glowing (sinh động, sôi nổi),” Lewis Von Thaer, who chaired Ohio State’s presidential search committee, said Wednesday during a Board of Trustees meeting in which her hire was officially approved. “Everyone we talked to praised her boundless energy (năng lượng vô hạn), unwavering integrity (tính hoàn toàn kiên định) and keen ability to unite people around a shared vision. One person even went so far as to say I would bet my life on Kristina. To me, that speaks volumes.”
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