“Not stand the sight of" nghĩa là gì?

“Not stand the sight of (someone/something)” = không chịu được cái mặt của ai/cái gì-> nghĩa là không thể thích, chịu đựng, chấp nhận; rất ghét, bị kinh tởm.

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Surprisingly, Utesov also noted that Yaponchik did not stand the sight of blood — a rather odd weakness for a person of his occupation.

TV personality, actor, singer and businesswoman Relebogile Mabotja, who is expecting her first child in two months, has not had an easy journey to motherhood as she had been struggling with fibroids (có dạng xơ, sợi) and pregnancy complications. Mabotja has been apprehensive since the early stages of her pregnancy (mang thai) that she could not stand the sight of baby clothes.

At one level, the ugliness of the moment seems a trite (cũ rích, sáo, lặp đi lặp lại) observation to make. And yet it gets to the core of the complicated relationship the rest of the world has with America. In Tinker Tailor, Haydon at first attempts to justify his betrayal with a long political apologia (lời biện hộ, biện giải), but, in the end, as he and le Carré’s hero, the master spy George Smiley, both know, the politics are just the shell. The real motivation lies underneath: the aesthetic, the instinct (bản năng). Haydon—upper-class, educated, cultured, European—just could not stand the sight of America. For Haydon and many others like him in the real world, this visceral (nội tạng, theo bản năng, không theo lý trí) loathing proved so great that it blinded them to the horrors of the Soviet Union, ones that went far beyond the aesthetic (thẩm mỹ).

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