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| scrape |
v. achieve or win with difficulty
eg. the Western coalition could have to scrape for the nine votes needed to sanction Iran. |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 13:57:28 GMT |
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| veto-wielders |
n. các bên có quyển phủ quyết
eg. Even if none of the veto-wielders bolts, the Western coalition could have to scrape for the nine votes needed. |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 13:57:28 GMT |
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| crumbling |
adj. breaking or falling apart in to pieces
eg. The case against sanctions, in other words, seemed to be crumbling |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 13:57:28 GMT |
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| desist |
v. stop doing sth
eg. The West want Iran to desist completely from nuclear programs. |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 13:51:03 GMT |
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| faint |
adv. slightly, barely perceptible
eg. France's foreign ministry and the European Commission both faintly praised the deal. |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 13:51:03 GMT |
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| hammer |
v. hit or criticize repeatedly
eg. Details of the new deal have yet to be hammered out. |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 13:51:03 GMT |
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| clutch |
n/v. a tight grasp
eg. he clutched at the idea. |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 13:51:02 GMT |
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| flinty |
adj. cứng rắn như đá lửa, unyielding
eg. a flinty heart: trái tim sắt đá |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 05:11:51 GMT |
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| notary |
n. công chứng viên
eg. in Germany it is enough for a notary to draft the agreement on behalf of both parties |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 05:11:51 GMT |
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| matrimonial |
adj. conjugal, pertaining to marriage |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 05:11:51 GMT |
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| landmark |
n. - bước ngoặt, milestone
- mốc ranh giới
eg. The ceasefire was seen as a major landmark in the fight against terrorism |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 05:08:25 GMT |
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| lucrative |
adj. profitable, advantageous
eg. a Frenchman who dumped a lucrative career as a banker to become a humble Oxford don |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 05:08:25 GMT |
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| clout |
n. heavy blown, influence or power
eg. the Supreme Court in London is likely to give such agreements more clout |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 05:08:25 GMT |
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| overrule |
v. reject or change a decision with superior power
eg. English courts often choose to overrule clauses in prenuptial agreements, especially foreign ones |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 05:08:25 GMT |
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| colossi |
n. colossus, huge thing
eg. the most of the competition among the American colossi in IT realm. |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 03:10:27 GMT |
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| abuzz |
adj. with continuous humming sound
(xì xào, vo ve)
eg. The blogosphere is abuzz with rumors that Apple is talking to publishers about offering their content on its device. |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 03:08:54 GMT |
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| heave |
v. lift or throw thing with great effort, rise up
eg. I managed to heave the trunk down the stairs |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 03:08:54 GMT |
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| upheaval |
n. a violent or sudden change or disruption. (sự chấn động, sự nổi lên)
eg. a political upheaval |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 03:08:54 GMT |
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| upend |
v. turn sb/sth upside down, overthrow
eg. If Apple cracked the handwriting function, it could upend the PC industry. |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 03:08:54 GMT |
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| hullabaloo |
n. uproar, commotion (great noise and excitement), fuss
eg. the hullabaloo caused by Google that they want to create a vast library online |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 02:59:38 GMT |
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| seamless |
adj. smooth as without any seams
eg. Microsoft can more easily create what it calls “seamless experiences” |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 02:57:32 GMT |
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| relegate |
v. assign an inferior rank or position to, hạ thấp vị trí của ai đó
eg. Windows relegated its rival operating systems to mere sideshows. |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 02:57:32 GMT |
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| pitch |
v. plant, set up, toss, throw (đưa lên cao)
eg. there is a system of teams that pitch projects to Steve Jobs |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 02:57:32 GMT |
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| sneeze at |
v. - to treat as unimportant
- hắt xì hơi
eg. it is not to be sneezed at: điều đó là không thể xem thường |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 02:49:18 GMT |
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| co-ordination |
n. sự ăn ý giữa các bộ phận
eg. teams are bigger, work with more co-ordination and get more guidance from above |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 02:49:18 GMT |
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| traction |
n. the action of pulling a thing along a surface (sự kéo, sức kéo)
eg. Microsoft is starting to gain traction after losing billions developing online services. |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 02:49:18 GMT |
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| hitherto |
adv. until now (cho den nay)
eg. The weather, which had hitherto been sunny and mild, suddenly turned cold. |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 02:49:18 GMT |
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| antitrust |
adj. preventing or controlling monopoly
eg. Tellingly, Apple recently hired a lawyer with antitrust experience: Bruce Sewell |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 02:41:57 GMT |
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| curl |
v. move or cause to move in a spiral or curved course
eg. to curl the hair, to keep the hair in curl |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 02:41:57 GMT |
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| toe-curling |
adj. very embarrassing or excessive sentimental
eg. It is a toe-curling attempt by Microsoft to create some buzz for its new software |
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 02:41:57 GMT |
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| pretzel |
n. twisted biscuit (banh quy)
v. twist, contort, bend
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thangtt_teet Tue, 18 May 2010 02:41:57 GMT |
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| mute |
v. reduce the strength or intensity
eg. As a result of the model, subsequent warming, even if emissions continue full bore, will be muted too. |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:24:46 GMT |
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| sloppy |
adj. unsystematic and careless
eg. the errors, misprisions and sloppiness in a number of different types of climate science ... |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:24:46 GMT |
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| misprision |
n. Neglect in preventing or reporting (tội không làm tròn nhiệm vụ) |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:24:46 GMT |
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| sooty |
adj. có màu đen như nhọ nồi
eg. Some aerosols cool the atmosphere. Other, sootier, ones warm it |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:24:46 GMT |
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undue (adj)
unduly (adv) |
excessive
eg. Many climate scientists suspect this phenomenon was given undue prominence by climatologists of earlier generations with an unduly Eurocentric view of the world |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:18:11 GMT |
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| rein |
v. to restrain
n. dây cương (ngựa)
eg. kept expenses on a tight rein. |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:18:11 GMT |
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| monsoon |
n. gió mùa
eg. climate models do capture various aspects of the real world’s climate: seasons, trade winds, monsoons,... |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:18:11 GMT |
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| gross |
adj. - total, overall
- fat, corpulent
eg. these climate models are gross oversimplifications |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:18:11 GMT |
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| altitude |
n. the height of object compared to the sea level
eg. The plane made a dive to a lower altitude. |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:10:45 GMT |
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| stratosphere |
n. tầng bình lưu, below mesosphere
mesosphere: tâng giữa của khí quyển
thermosphere: thượng tầng khí quyển |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:10:45 GMT |
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| asphalt |
n. a thick black sticky substance from crude oil (nhựa đường)
eg. whether they are situated close to asphalt or affected by sources of bias. |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:10:45 GMT |
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| vexatious |
adj. causing annoyance or worry
eg. Data are vexatious; theory is quite straightforward |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:10:45 GMT |
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| consilience |
n. agreement
eg. The defenders of the consensus tend to stress the general consilience of their efforts |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:00:07 GMT |
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| spectacle |
n. quang cảnh, sự trình diễn
eg. unedifying spectacle of last December’s climate-change summit in Copenhagen |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:00:06 GMT |
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| antsy |
adj. impatient, restless
eg. Increased antsiness about action on climate change |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:00:06 GMT |
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| attest |
v. affirm, prove with evidence
eg. Contemporary accounts attest to his courage and determination |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 11:00:06 GMT |
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| dosage |
n. dose of medicine or radiation
eg. Do not exceed the recommended dosage |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 09:34:19 GMT |
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| opium |
n. thuốc ngủ, thuốc phiện |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 09:34:18 GMT |
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| ingest |
v. take (a substance) into the body by swallowing or absorbing it.
eg. Food is the major source of ingested bacteria. |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 09:34:18 GMT |
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| fraught |
adj. tense, causing worry and anxiety
eg. research into therapeutic uses of banned drugs is fraught with political considerations |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 09:34:18 GMT |
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| recreational |
adj. refreshing, of enjoyment or pastime
eg. You can't accept recreational drug use and expect to control the drug problem. |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 09:26:44 GMT |
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| bout |
n. a short period of intense activity
(cơn, đợt)
eg. bouts of depression, a bad coughing bout |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 09:26:44 GMT |
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| acquaintance |
n. người quen |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 09:26:44 GMT |
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| trauma |
n. mental injury, deeply distressing experience |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 09:26:44 GMT |
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| mend |
v. repair, improve
phr. on the mend: improving in health or condition |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 09:20:13 GMT |
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| veteran |
n. cựu chiến binh
eg. veterans were still experiencing stress from the Vietnam war, that PTSD has been a formal psychiatric diagnosis. |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 03:26:34 GMT |
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| immemorial |
n. Reaching beyond the limits of memory, thời xa xưa |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 03:26:34 GMT |
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| basin |
n. vùng lòng chảo, chỗ trũng
eg. the Pacific Basin |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 03:26:34 GMT |
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| livelihood |
n. means of earning money in order to live
eg. the livelihood and culture of people in the Omo river basin could be ruined by Gibe III |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 03:26:34 GMT |
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| wheeze |
n. a trick or clever plan
eg.He came up with a clever wheeze. |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 03:11:28 GMT |
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| oligopoly |
n. thị trường có sự độc quyền nhóm bán |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 03:11:28 GMT |
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| reckon |
v. estimate, consider, deem
eg. Critics of the Canadian banks reckon that their conservatism was the flip side of a cozy oligopoly |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 03:11:28 GMT |
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| strain |
n. sự căng thẳng
v. sketch or pull to the limit
eg. Canada’s fiscal health will soon come under strain from expensive health care system |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 03:11:28 GMT |
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| dollop |
n. an amount of Sth
eg. there is also a large dollop of good fortune behind Canada’s resilience |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 03:01:50 GMT |
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| embody |
v. include, represent
eg. Many of these rules embody lessons learned the hard way from banking collapses in the mid-1980s |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 03:01:50 GMT |
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| stockbroking |
n. công việc mua bán chứng khoáng |
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thangtt_teet Mon, 17 May 2010 03:01:50 GMT |
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| snap up |
buy or obtain sth quickly, bắt lấy, chộp lấy
eg. The big five banks snapped up the leading stockbroking firms in the 1990s, becoming universal banks |
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