"Jack the Lad" nghĩa là gì?

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"Jack the Lad" -> nghĩa là người thanh niên tự tin, vô tư, sôi nổi. 

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“I was getting distracted (xao nhãng) in school, being jack the lad, I didn’t get a good education and was kicked out of college after getting into a fight. “I started to hang around with gangs (băng đảng), friends who were making money. I was loyal to the wrong people.

Fred was, and is, a "jack the lad": a social animal who parties as hard as he bowled, who's quick with a joke and seemingly fearless.   

Ealing’s greatest comedy revolves (xoay quanh) around the slightly dotty (ngớ ngẩn), fading Victorian figure of Mrs Wilberforce, as does its stellar (ưu tú) cast of wrong-uns, led by a magnificent Alec Guinness, creepily made up with monstrous buck teeth to play criminal mastermind Professor Marcus, with Peter Sellers as rogueish jack-the-lad Harry Robinson sparring with Herbert Lom’s cruel-eyed gangster Louis Harvey.

Mr Britton, now 60, describes Gary as a typical teenager and "Jack the lad", who was once caught raving (thích thú) in an army uniform stolen from him. At the time of his death, Gary's girlfriend was pregnant – though unknown to him.

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