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"Of mature years" nghĩa là gì?
28 Dec, 2020
"Of mature years" có mature là chín chắn, trưởng thành -> cụm từ này nghĩa là tuổi già.
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Among her papers has been found a first draft (bản phác họa) for a film titled Cakes on a Train, in which a dour (khắc khổ) woman of mature years suddenly finds fame as a television chef on a programme that travels round Britain on a steam train.
"This was a crude (thô thiển) and opportunistic (cơ hội) sexual offence by a man of mature years against a vulnerable woman in her workplace," Queensland Appeal Court Justices Walter Sofronoff, Anthe Philippides and Thomas Bradley said in a judgment published on Friday.
This was a softly-spoken man of mature years, not some venom-spitting (phun độc) member of a feral youth movement. He summed up the consequences of not winning the league by saying: “Next season there’ll be flags over the seats where people used to sit.”
Therefore, the best course of action was to adopt(nhận nuôi). One could adopt a son at any age. In fact, many people preferred to adopt a man of mature years, someone with a sense of responsibility (có trách nhiệm) and someone trustworthy (đáng tin cậy).
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