"Cock your ear" nghĩa là gì?


"Cock your ear" -> nghĩa là chăm chú/chú ý lắng nghe.

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Cock your ear and you can hear Donald Trump: “Exploiting (khai thác) the necessary restrictions of freedom during an epidemic to reinforce power? Who? Us?”

If you cock your ear to the west, you can right now hear the thundering of keyboards, as columnist after columnist, shock jock (người phát thanh radio nhưng thường nói những điều không được công chúng chấp nhận) after shock jock form up thundering rants about how this whole thing is a matter of freedom of speech, and religious freedom.

Times have changed, and the new philosophy (triết lý) that has revolutionized food, beer and wine — let’s called it gourmet-ization — has swept through whiskey’s formerly staid ranks. Cock your ear at a well-stocked whiskey bar and you’ll hear average Joes (người bình thường) batting around terms such as “angel’s share,” “mash bill” and “cask strength.”

Tucked along the candy-coated cars parked along the Miracle Mile, in an unassuming little shop of hair, reside the ghosts of Abe Lincoln, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Ronald Regan. Cock your ear and you almost can hear: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent (lục địa) a new nation …”

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