"Burned to a cinder" nghĩa là gì?


"Burned to a cinder" có cinder là than, xỉ -> cụm từ này nghĩa là cháy rụi, cháy thành than.

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Most significantly, Syria’s economy is in tatters (tan vỡ), torn apart by a decade of unaffordable conflict, shredded (xé nát) by rife corruption and burned to a cinder by financial collapse next-door in Lebanon. 

Now, it is certainly true that justifications (bào chữa) of sport can sound absurd (vô lý) in times of extremity (đường cùng). A year ago it was the prime minister, as the nation burned to a cinder, prating about Australians “gathered whether it’s at the SCG or around television sets all around the country and they’ll be inspired by the great feats of our cricketers from both sides of the Tasman and I think they’ll be encouraged by the spirit shown by Australians and the way that people have gone about remembering the terrible things that other Australians are dealing with at the moment….”

Michael Crawford’s Broadway reputation (danh tiếng) was burned to a cinder; he never returned. A few in the Steinman orbit refuse to speak about it even now, worried about reprisals (trả thù) and remaining bad blood.

For library staff, there was no doubt that whatever could be salvaged (cứu vớt), should be. Around 50,000 books were burned to a cinder and lost forever—but 12 years later, a new permanent exhibition at the library examines how a further 118,000 damaged books were saved. By the beginning of this year, 95,660 of these had been restored.

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