"Irish twins" nghĩa là gì?

"Irish twins" = cặp sinh đôi Ailen -> nghĩa là anh chị em sinh ra cách nhau chưa tới 1 tuổi (một số người dùng với nghĩa trìu mến, nhưng nó đặc trưng văn hóa người Ailen, nên hơi xúc phạm).

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“You can win some bar bets by saying I have a twin sister who is a year older,” Gynn said. “They’ll say, ‘How is that? Irish twins?’ Then you have to explain it to them and still sometimes they don’t get it.”

“Off-white twins… what’s it called? Irish twins? They’re Irish twins but they’re twins. Yeah, yeah, yeah,’” she said, referring to the fact that Kody and Kalea , who do not share the same mother and were born just three weeks apart.

Although it starts and ends with a train wreck, Evison’s latest is anything but. In between a flash-forward opening and the concluding crash of a Seattle-bound Amtrak, he constructs a clear-eyed account of some its passengers and their 19th century ancestors. From Jenny, the descendant of a successful Chinese immigrant, to Laila, whose forebear was Native American, and even Walter, the train conductor, grandson of orphaned (mồ côi) Irish twins, we learn not just that everyone has a story but that all their stories matter in a larger narrative: Of American opportunity and division, progress and disaster.

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