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"Be off your food" nghĩa là gì?
01 Feb, 2021
Photo by The New York Public Library
"Be off one's food" -> nghĩa là không muốn ăn, không đói do đau ốm.
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‘Ah well,’ observed the mate laconically (ngắn gọn, vắn tắt) as he poured himself another tumbler of rum. ‘It isn’t a dead loss. As the doctor said, if we keep taking our medicine and the wind ever drops, you won’t be off your food and the island girls better watch out when me and the boys get ashore (trên bờ, vào bờ).’
I ‘celebrated’ my diagnosis (chẩn đoán) with Prosecco but regretted that the next day. (In case my doctor reads this, I did not take any Valium that day!) Water is just fine. I am off my food, so it is little and often. One chunk of chocolate every two or three hours! Although, the lemon cake Pascoe has just wafted under my nose looks very tempting.
Siân said she felt "generally run down", had constant headaches and was off her food when she first started to become unwell in May 2020. "I just thought I was busy with work. It wasn't the classic symptoms of Covid so at first I didn't do anything about it," she recalled. "Then the week after I was in work again and I had a dry cough and my temperature was going up and down. I was told to go home and get a test.
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