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watchdog

cơ quan giám sát, người giám sát

have someone over a barrel

to put someone in a very difficult situation in which the person has no choice (dồn ai đó vào chân tường)

haul

kéo, lôi

a usually large amount of something that has been stolen or is illegal

=> a .... of

without so much as a word

không nói một lời nào

without a backward glance

không ngoái đầu nhìn lại, không vương vấn

stand/stick out a mile

to be very obvious or easy to see

do your level best

to try as hard as you can

~ do/try your best

at a fair lick

at a fast speed

in the pipeline

being planned

stint

a period of time devoted to a job or some task (khoảng thời gian)

ex: He had a two-year .. as a teacher in Spain.

cast-off

clothes that you no longer want

dwarfism

condition of being abnormally small (chứng thấp lùn)

butterfingers

a clumsy person; someone who drops things a lot

excitatory

kích thích

=> .... neurotransmitter (chất dẫn truyền thần kinh kích thích)

pratfall

ngã đập mông xuống đất

an embarrassing defeat or failure

positive-sum

relating to a situation in which each of two sides gets an advantage (win-win)

=> .... game/outcome/process

ex: International trade is a ..... process

zero-sum

used to refer to a situation in which any win by one person always means a loss to another person involved

ex: The stock market is now a ... game, in which one party gains what the other loses.

platitudinously

sáo rỗng, nhàm chán

= tritely = banally

iridescence

the quality of showing many bright colours that change with movement (sự phát ngũ sắc, hiện tượng ánh kim)