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"Common currency" nghĩa là gì?
16 Jul, 2022
"Common currency" = tiền tệ chung -> nghĩa là được chấp nhận, sử dụng rộng rãi, phổ biến.
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It is to our disgrace as a society that after more than 50 years of these invariably (vẫn luôn như vậy) premeditated (có tính toán trước) attacks, it is common currency to use the word ‘punishment’, which has the immediate effect of sanitising the violence, and shifting the blame from perpetrator (thủ phạm) to the victim.
While the word establishment is common currency in Pakistan for the military, intelligence agencies and perhaps some members of the senior bureaucracy and judiciary, the author’s concept of the state elite includes the whole of the middle class in which he, along with some Indian scholars, deviate (trệch hướng) from the traditional ways of perceiving political conflict.
"No, no, Father, I don't manufacture them, no, no. I only have my savings, my investments in arms factories. Ah! And why? Because the interest is somewhat higher. ... And being two-faced is common currency today — saying something and doing another. Hypocrisy! (đạo đức giả)" the pope preached.
What Hirsch had hit upon was a notion which is now pretty much universally accepted: While some people grow up in homes where all sorts of cultural knowledge is common currency - history, art, literature - others do not.
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