"Ring hollow" nghĩa là gì?


"Ring hollow" có hollow là giả dối, trống rỗng -> từ này nghĩa là giả dối, không thành thật; hứa hươu hứa vượn.

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Indeed, creating divisions is not the wisest (sáng suốt) of strategies. Northwest states must work together to promote our common interests, not impose self-inflicted wounds. Yet Brown’s complaints ring hollow as her state pursues tolls along Interstate 5 and Interstate 205 in Oregon.

Talk about the benefits of large, industrialized testing and accountability systems can ring hollow with parents who tend to like their schools, distrust test manufacturers and tech giants, and don’t see any evidence that all these bureaucratic (quan liêu) systems are improving what happens in their kid’s classroom.

It is especially frustrating (khó chịu) that there are prominent figures who are on record making harmful comments about the Jewish community and about Israel who then act sanctimonious (mộ đạo) about Holocaust Remembrance Day. Seventy-seven years on, “never again” must not ring hollow.

But his words appear to ring hollow: there has yet to be any announcement of an equivalent “operation warm welcome” for Ukrainians. All the government has done so far is allow Ukrainians in the UK to bring over immediate family members.

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