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"Bring to his knees" nghĩa là gì?
07 Dec, 2023
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"Bring (someone or something) to (someone's or something's) knees" nghĩa là bắt ai phải quỳ gối, đầu hàng.
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Why did George Floyd’s death bring our nation to its knees? wondered Ava Marie DuVernay, the director of the 2014 film “Selma,” about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s organizing activities in Selma, Ala., in 1965.
The fruits of which we saw in full measure not just in the manner in which Pakistan was brought to its knees in 1971 but even earlier as Chinese aggression (xâm lược) was squelched (chấm dứt) at Nathu La, Sikkim, in 1967.
COVID-19 almost brought Tenino to its knees. Almost. "People say, 'yeah we're gonna do it again, we're gonna band together, we're gonna be a community, we're gonna get through this thing just like we did a hundred years ago,” Fournier said.
And what a wonderful moment it would be if Trump, witnessing the mass demo from his seat in the VIP box at the Olympic Stadium, gets up and walks out in a huff (bực tức). Let the IOC pick the political bones out of that! Will Black Lives Matter bring the IOC to its senses, or its knees?
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