"A Horatio Alger story" nghĩa là gì?
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"A Horatio Alger story" = câu chuyện về Horatio Alger -> nghĩa là câu chuyện tiêu biểu cho những người đi từ nghèo khó lên giàu sang; 'tay trắng làm nên'. Horatio Alger Jr. là một nhà văn chuyên viết chuyện cùng chủ đề cho lứa tuổi thiếu niên.
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Brown is only half-kidding about his memoir’s (hồi kí) ambitions, but what follows is closer to a Horatio Alger story about a bootstrapping outsider’s rise to consummate (tuyệt vời) insider.
Rigoberto Alcaraz, whose parents immigrated (nhập cư) from Mexico to Batavia, Illinois, comes through with a Horatio Alger story for the ages.
For her feature debut, Swedish filmmaker Ninja Thyberg expands on her 2013 short of the same name and cooks up something of the bitter fruits of a Horatio Alger story if set against the porn industry.
Carvalho brought an immigrant’s drive and a Horatio Alger story to bear. He grew up in his native (bản địa) Portugal with much in common with the students in the Miami-Dade district he later headed.
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