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"Fly off at a tangent" nghĩa là gì?
09 Jul, 2020
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"Fly/go off at a tangent" có tangent là đường tiếp tuyến (đường thẳng chạm vào bên ngoài một đường cong mà không đi xuyên qua) -> nghĩa là đi chệch ra ngoài vấn đề đang bàn; đi chệch ra khỏi nếp nghĩ (cách cư xử) hằng ngày.
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The segments crafted by Anurag Kashyap and Dibakar Banerjee, which constitute the two middle episodes of Ghost Stories, fly off at a tangent, each in its own way, and turn into horror yarns that go well beyond the strict parameters (thông số) of the genre.
Diplomatically (bằng con đường ngoại giao, bằng biện pháp ngoại giao) enough, he has stopped short of spelling out the “substantive improvements” that he wants WHO to effect. But he has resolved to go off at a tangent in his dealings with a global entity. At this catastrophic juncture (điểm nối thảm khốc), the comity (sự lễ độ) of nations deserved better than a trilateral conflict (sự xung đột ba bên) of bruised egos between the People’s Republic of China, the United States and WHO.
One way or another, Trump junior would be an enormous pain in the backside, and his termly reports would be full of reproving remarks about his boastfulness (tính hay khoe khoang, khoác loác), mendacity (sự nói láo, xuyên tạc), self-righteousness (tự cho là đúng đắn) and generally questionable character. And yet a fair-minded teacher would have to concede (thừa nhận) that, for all his defects, the wayward pupil is sometimes able to extract a nugget (quặng vàng) of truth which evades the notice of more conventional minds, even if he is then inclined to fly off at a tangent.
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