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"A thing of shreds and patches" nghĩa là gì?
07 Nov, 2020
"A thing of shreds and patches" có shred là mảnh vụn, patch là chắp vá -> cụm từ này nghĩa là cái gì được tạo ra từ nhiều mảnh vụn nhỏ chắp vá với nhau.
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“I don’t envy (ghen tị) Adrian his death, but I envy him the clarity (sáng sủa) of his life,” Tony muses (trầm ngâm, suy tưởng) in old age. “When you are in your twenties…you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.”
Tennyson’s last great sequence, Idylls (thơ điền viên) of the King, proved a thing of shreds and patches, albeit packed with memorable lines: “My strength is as the strength of ten / Because my heart is pure."
Her narrative (chuyện kể) is as colourful as it is pacy. Where she’s less successful is in making sense of Turner’s contradictions (mâu thuẫn), of bringing them together into a cohesive (cố kết) whole - he remains more a thing of shreds and patches than a fully rounded person.
Putting a new institutional (cơ quan) structure on to what is “a thing of shreds and patches” is self-evidently unwise. One hopes the current reform project for employment rights and industrial relations structures and procedures will progress from structure to substance, bringing together individual employment rights into a consolidated (thống nhất) statute.
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