"Out of touch" nghĩa là gì?

"Out of touch" nghĩa là lạc hậu, lỗi thời, không hiểu vấn đề, không cập nhật thông tin mới, thiếu hiểu biết; thiếu cảm thông hoặc quan tâm.

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The recent letter writer who attacked Sen. Kamala Harris shows just how critically (trầm trọng) "out of touch" some Republicans are. The only items on the national agenda less sustainable (bền vững) than the 2017 tax cuts are the continued use of fossil fuels (nhiên liệu hóa thạch) and for-profit health insurance (bảo hiểm y tế).

“How could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him.” That’s what Pauline Kael, a film critic (nhà phê bình) for The New Yorker, supposedly said after the 1972 election. Nixon had just won a landslide (thắng phiếu lớn) reelection, carrying 49 of 50 states, so Kael’s line became a symbol for the “out-of-touch liberals,” who looked down their noses on the “Silent Majority.” (nhóm Đa số im lặng là nhóm người không công khai ý kiến).

In addition, the transcripts (bản ghi chép) show that some of the FBI agents (đặc vụ) who prepared the reports were astonishingly (đáng kinh ngạc) out of touch. For example, in one of the first transcripts, made on May 15, 1970, Lake tells his wife "that Bill has decided he is going off (từ chức)." He was referring to fellow Kissinger aide (phụ tá) Bill Watts. The FBI transcriber, however, has written Secretary Rogers? in parentheses (trong ngoặc đơn) next to Bill. From there on in the conversation, references to Bill Watts are recorded in the transcript as ROGERS, as if the secretary of state (ngoại trưởng) were thinking of quitting and going into a business venture with Tony Lake.

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