"Armchair revolutionary" nghĩa là gì?
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"Armchair revolutionary" = nhà cách mạng ghế bành -> nghĩa là diễn giả hoặc nhà văn đưa ra mục tiêu cấp tiến nhưng không có bất kỳ hành động nào để hiện thực hóa những mục tiêu đó.
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This included all the predictable (dễ đoán) childish name-calling about Corbyn belonging to the so-called ‘loony left’, taking part in ‘student union‘ politics, and acting like an ‘armchair revolutionary‘. It also involved desperate (tuyệt vọng) attempts to tie him to controversial organisations such as Hamas and the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
On Saturday, barely 48 hours after Zuma was whisked (lôi cổ) out of his home at Nkandla at the 11th hour to begin serving his 15-month prison sentence, the violence began with the burning of trucks in Mooi River. Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, the woman who wed in an off-the shoulder gown encrusted with Swarovski crystals with her feet shod in Christian Louboutin, had become an armchair revolutionary a few weeks earlier.
A poet (nhà thơ) much better known is Heinrich Heine, who lived at around the same time (1797-1856). Whereas Petőfi fought on the battlefield, Heine was an armchair revolutionary who did his university studies thanks to the financial support of his uncle, Samuel Heine, a banker in Hamburg.
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