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“Tell the time” nghĩa là gì?
17 Jun, 2020
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“Tell the time” -> nghĩa là nhìn đồng hồ để biết mấy giờ.
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A girls school is now teaching its teenage students how to tell the time after staff found its senior pupils were lacking in the basic skill.
While cats can’t tell the time from a clock (as far as we know), they do have a general sense of time. They keep track of when things usually happen and know full well if you’re not sticking to their allotted (được phân chia) mealtime or you’ve overslept. Cat behaviourist Anita Kelsey explains that like humans, cats have a sort of internal clock that keeps their waking and sleeping hours fairly regular. Anita tells Metro.co.uk: ‘Cats are crepuscular, meaning that they are primarily active around dawn (bình minh, rạng đông) and dusk (chạng vạng). This is evolutionary, meaning all cats instinctively (theo bản năng) and naturally do the same.’
It has long been a rite of passage (nghi thức đi qua, trôi qua) for young children; the moment they first begin to grasp how to tell the time as their parents patiently explain the significance of the “big hand” and the “little hand”. But the ubiquity (sự có mặt khắp nơi) of mobile phones and tablets, with their digital 24-hour clock, is threatening to make the art of telling the time from a traditional timepiece (đồng hồ truyền thống) redundant. So much so that a school in Scotland has found that pupils as old as 13 are unable to tell the time from the ‘analogue’ (mô hình, tương tự) clocks hanging in classrooms and corridors.
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