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"One minute to midnight" nghĩa là gì?
08 Mar, 2021
"One minute to midnight" = một phút tới nửa đêm -> nghĩa là giờ phút, thời điểm cuối cùng trước khi điều gì xảy ra.
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Now in a last ditch effort, Quebec Green Party leader Alex Tyrrell organized a second protest against the development. “The trees have already been cut down, they’re blasting the rocks apart — it’s really one minute to midnight here,” he said.
One point is surely clear, however. It has been left very late in the day. If there is a deal, it is likely to come at one minute to midnight. That is the way the EU always works, and the way most political deadlocks are broken. And of course, that is the moment when there will be maximum political pressure (áp lực) on both sides.
“I think we are at one minute to midnight as far as a conflict with Turkey is concerned,” Kostas Grivas, who teaches geopolitics and weapons systems at the Hellenic Army Academy, told Al Jazeera.
In cases where tough negotiations (đàm phán) are making progress, but a deadline is about to run out, the members of the negotiation sometimes agree to stop the clock at one minute to midnight.
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