"Mopping-up operation" nghĩa là gì?


"Mopping-up operation" -> nghĩa là giai đoạn giải quyết các công việc còn lại trong một kế hoạch, giai đoạn dọn dẹp. 

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"Since then it has been a mopping-up operation. We've got everything out, all the carpets (thảm), and everyone's safe. "I had the added problem of my wife being quite ill, so we had to get her out quickly. 

A mopping-up operation is still underway in Machhil sector of frontier (biên giới) district of Kupwara in north Kashmir where four security personnel and three militants were killed in a gunfight on Sunday, said an official today.

After a lengthy mopping-up operation, the umpires (trọng tài) decided that play would resume after an early tea interval (giờ nghỉ), with 52 overs due to be bowled in a mammoth evening session. Abid and Masood edged towards a half-century stand, compiling the highest opening partnership by a touring team this summer in the process, but ended up falling a solitary run short.

Harold Macmillan should be with us at this hour, delivering the line “Events, my dear boy, events”, in a stylishly nonchalant (thờ ơ) drawl (lè nhè). Our leaders always expected 2020 to be a tough year, but they had just won an election fought on getting Brexit done; so they were expecting a mopping-up operation and transitional turbulence, rather than a mega-crisis which has transformed, well, everything.

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