"Staring contest" nghĩa là gì?
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"Staring contest" -> nghĩa là trò chơi đọ mắt, ai nhắm mắt trước hoặc nhìn ra chỗ khác sẽ thua; nghĩa khác là cuộc đối đầu giữa hai bên và không bên nào chịu lùi bước.
Ví dụ
“This gesture (cử chỉ) is it something that becomes the first domino that gets other countries involved,” Conde said, “then perhaps OPEC says, ‘well now we’re going to join the party to rather than be the only ones that aren’t involved,’ or does it just become a staring contest.”
Eighty days and counting and the staring contest between the Ford Government and the province’s optometrists (người đo thị lực) continues, with neither side willing to blink.
A typical day might find her in a staring contest with a cat, performing emergency surgery on a French bulldog, and probing (tìm kiếm) the "tiny, tiny" eyes of a Yorkie. And, yes, she will make house calls — if her patient's house is a farm or zoo.
He sang about a penguin who always donned a black-and-white tuxedo and never had to worry about what to wear when he got up in the morning. He told fantastical (viển vông) stories, like one about having an eye-staring contest with a squirrel.
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