"An ambulance at the bottom of a cliff" nghĩa là gì?


"An ambulance at the bottom of a cliff" = xe cứu thương ở đáy vực -> nghĩa là điều chỉ có ích khi ai đó đã bị thương hoặc gặp rắc rối.

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A new child-safety initiative aims (ngắm tới) to offer help before trouble starts, instead of being an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff. The Ngā Tini Whetū​ programme was unveiled on Friday and is a collaboration between multiple agencies aimed at supporting North Island whānau.

“So it’s like an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff. It’s a very expensive ambulance, it does help people who have severe (gay gắt) problems like Uaina, but it’s not an answer to obesity (béo phì) in society,” he said.

So while New Zealanders will now take their grocery shops home in reusable (tái sử dụng) bags, much of that same shop will end up in landfill. Yes, you can recycle the packaging but it's an 'ambulance at the bottom of a cliff' solution (giải pháp). For a variety of reasons, much of what we recycle ends up in landfill anyway.

This is partly because gambling mechanisms are ubiquitous (khắp mọi nơi) in Australia, and partly because responsible gambling measures are unconcerned with preventing harm. At best, these measures act as an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff – not the fence at the top.

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