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"Leave in ruins" nghĩa là gì?
21 Jul, 2020
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"Leave (something) in ruins" -> nghĩa là để lại cái gì trong tình trạng đổ nát; hoàn toàn phá hủy cái gì.
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Four years later, the KMT finds itself in a position superficially similar to that of the DPP in 2008, but in reality, far worse. The DPP, post 2008, was a demoralised, badly beaten party. However, it had a trump card that is yet to fully materialise: rapidly changing demographics that leave in ruins the traditional “green” south, “blue” north divide.
The last few days of spontaneous (tự động, tự ý) and uncontainable protests, looting, and arson (sự đốt phá, cố ý gây hỏa hoạn) will leave in ruins a regime (đế chế, chế độ) that in the eyes of the working and poor masses has long worn out its welcome. This is just the beginning they tell us, and as the fires spread and burn out, Chile will be transformed irreversibly. But when the smoke clears, what will the new Chile look like?
Somewhere along the way, a bunch of people decided prioritizing shareholders (cổ đông) above success and fan experience was just the way things ought to be. That making an extra buck at everyone else’s expense was the cost of doing business. That because a company or a corporation was incentivized to do something — or more accurately, was not incentivized not to do something — they bore no responsibility for their actions. None of this holds objective truth. We have agency and responsibility that extends beyond our incentives, or else they would be called mandates (chỉ thị, lệnh). We can hold people responsible for the communities they leave in ruins in the reckless pursuit of the bottom line. We can choose differently.
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