"He looks like a sheep-killing dog" nghĩa là gì?

"He looks like a sheep-killing dog" = như chó ăn thịt cừu -> nghĩa là xấu xa, độc ác, tồi tệ.

Ví dụ

Much of Burroughs’s work is a fictionalization (tiểu thuyết hóa) of his life, and Lawrence is probably the end of the myth-making odyssey (cuộc phiêu lưu) that provided the material. Much of his later work contains references to St. Louis, where he grew up and where a seemingly lifelong adolescent rage (đam mê tuổi niên thiếu) and sense of alienation was stoked by the hostility of the Protestant elite his parents belonged to. (His father was not connected with the Burroughs company; his parents ran a gift and arts shop, first in St. Louis, then in Palm Beach, Florida.) Burroughs often refers to Colonel Greenfield, a character from his childhood, whom he will apparently never forget or forgive for saying, ”I don’t want that boy in the house again. He looks like a sheep-killing dog.”

St. Louis grew exponentially (theo hàm mũ) throughout the first half of the twentieth century and then entered a period of steep decline. Counterculture (phản văn hóa) writer William S. Burroughs was born here in 1914. As a young man he felt out of place in the city (a friend's mother told him he had the look of "a sheep-killing dog") and dreamt of being a writer or an outlaw. As an adult he became both, creeping through the underworlds of multiple cities in pursuit of heroin, other homosexual (đồng tính luyến ái) men and illegal firearms. In time he became a leading light of the avant-garde (tiên phong) literary movement, publishing sprawling narratives that drew upon the nebulous regions of his mind, his pursuit of numerous illegal habits and his obsessions. (A major one was using the power of writing itself, cut up and reassembled into a new structure, to reshape reality around him; more on this later.)

Bài trước: "Rough as a cob" nghĩa là gì?