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"You know better than that" nghĩa là gì?
20 Aug, 2020
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"You know better than that" = bạn phải biết nhiều hơn thế chứ -> cụm từ này nghĩa là ai đó phải biết điều gì nên làm, điều gì là không đúng. Thường được dùng khi một ai đó mắc lỗi sai mà họ không nên mắc phải.
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“You put a lot of guilt on yourself, not the person that did it to you, you beat yourself up for why you made that decision,” she said. “You worry about your family members asking you why you did that. That you’re smarter than that, you know better than that, which puts a lot more guilt on you and a lot more hurt. I wasn’t strong enough then at 14-years-old to deal with that.”
“It was a little intimidating (đáng sợ) the first few times we got together,” Anderson said. “He was tough. He would look right at me and point his finger at me and say, ‘You know better than that; you were raised better than that.’ It was like a good Methodist preacher pushing his congregation to do better.” Lowery had been the pastor of Cascade United Methodist Church in Atlanta. As a result of those informal sermons, the Atlanta-based carrier set new diversity requirements for hiring and promotion.
It’s the the sort of thing an exasperated (bực tức) parent would say to their child, so when one adult says it to another, they sound like a scold. Say you’re having a debate over politics and someone says, “Come on, you know better than that.” You can’t help but feel like they’re belittling your perspective as short-sighted and childish. Even if you’re doing something objectively bad for you—say, smoking a cigarette—when someone says, “Come on, you know better than that,” it’s such a parental rebuke that you’ll probably relapse into adolescent “don’t tell me what to do” mode and smoke more cigarettes to spite them. If you disagree with someone’s opinion, there’s no problem with saying that directly. If you disagree with their lifestyle choices, it’s usually best to mind your own business.
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