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"Hollow mockery" nghĩa là gì?
20 Aug, 2022
"Hollow mockery" có hollow là rỗng tuếch, mockery là lời chế nhạo, nhạo báng -> từ này nghĩa là hành động chế giễu, nhạo báng người khác.
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As advanced as it was for its time, however, the Bill of Rights still fell critically short. It applied only to the actions of the federal government, allowing states to run roughshod (áp chế) over these rights. Even worse, these promised “great rights of mankind” stood in brutally stark contrast (đối lập) to the institution of slavery, ringing as “hollow mockery” in the face of the most fundamental deprivations of life and liberty.
I say unto you that this memorial which we erect (đứng thẳng) in token of our veneration is but a hollow mockery, a symbol of hypocrisy (đạo đức giả), unless we together can make real in our national life, in every state and in every section, the things for which he died.
The way the bassoon twists away from grief towards hollow mockery in the finale was chilling. The work itself has often been downgraded in favour of Shostakovich’s symphonies that came before and after it, but this was a reminder of just how fine a piece it is.
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