"Riveted to the spot" nghĩa là gì?

"Riveted to the spot" có từ rivet là đinh tán -> nghĩa là cố định một chỗ, không di chuyển được.

Ví dụ

Suddenly everything was deadly quiet. We were all riveted to the spot. We stared at the man on the ground. He moaned and rolled about on the dirty earth.

In an open letter recently circulated from inside Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, Farhad Meysami, a jailed human rights activist and medical doctor, slammed the Trump administration for shedding “crocodile tears” (nước mắt cá sấu) for him. “I was paging through a newspaper when I suddenly caught a glimpse of a story and got riveted to the spot. Apparently, [Donald] Trump’s State Department has called for the ‘freedom’ of this humble (khiêm nhường) civil activist,” Meysami wrote. “Actually, I prefer to serve my whole life in jail at the hands of a group of wrongdoing compatriot oppressors (kẻ áp bức đồng hương) and spend it endeavoring to rectify (điều chỉnh) their mistakes, but not be subject to the stigma (vết nhơ, điều sỉ nhục) of deal-breakers’ support,” he continued, ending his letter with a pointed plea: “I request the likes of Trump, [Mike] Pompeo and [John] Bolton to shed their crocodile tears for human rights elsewhere.”

Flipping through records in a department store, the 16-year-old me is hooked by the cover image: an ebony (gỗ mun) man in a white singlet, his body arching backwards as he plays his trumpet. Miles Davis, it says. A Tribute to Jack Johnson. I ask to hear it – in those days via headphones in a booth. Some crazy R&B shuffle starts that's wild, anarchic, relentless. It's also much too loud, but not only am I riveted to the spot by the music, I'm too wretchedly shy to ask them to turn it down. The pounding bass makes my nose start to bleed, the trumpet's shrieking (rít, kêu la), and when my handkerchief's saturated (thấm vào) in blood I admit defeat and flee.

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