close up c2 unit 11 social crime paparazzi

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slander

tội phỉ báng

conman

kẻ lừa đảo

recluse

người sống ẩn dật

lampoon /læmˈpuːn/

châm biến chỉ trích chế nhạo

• His cartoons mercilessly lampooned the politicians of his time.

satirize

verb satire

deranged

điên loạn trí

be mentally deranged

a deranged criminal/mind/personality

scoop on sb/st

tin sốt dẻo

• I got the inside scoop on his new girlfriend.

memoir

hồi kí

anecdote

chuyện vặt, giai thoại

excerpt /ˈek.sɜːpt/

trích đoạn phim speech book

An excerpt from her new thriller will appear in this weekend's magazine.

libel (suit)

tội, lời phỉ báng = văn bản noun verb

obscurity

• sống vô danh, bị lãng quên\

  The actress was only 17 when she was plucked from obscurity and made a star.

• quá khó hiểu

  a speech full of obscurities

• darkness literary

instalment

= episode newspaper, tele

• Now for the second instalment of our exclusive three-part series.

print media

pt in ấn newspaper magazine

discreet

tinh ý, kín kẽ giữ bí mật cẩn thận

• He was always very discreet about his love affairs.

discrete

dời dạc, đứt đoạn

correspondent

• phóng viên thường trú

• btv chuyên về 1 lĩnh vực

  a foreign/war/sports correspondent

sb on the inside

ng trong nghề có tt bí mật, ng nằm vùng

• Who do we know on the inside who can help us?

fabled

nổi tiếng đc nhắc đến nhiều có nhiều câu chuyện lq

• the fabled movie director Cecil B. De Mille

A-list><Z-list

sao hạng A>< tuyến 18

A-list celebrities

eminent

kiệt suất, xs trong 1 lĩnh vực

an eminent historian

string of st

1 chuỗi st liên tiếp nhau

• The band had a string of hits in the nineties.

limelight

tâm điểm chú ý

• in><out of the limelight

• steal/hog the limelight (= take attention away from other people)

make, cause,.. a splash

làm gì thu hút attention

• Her first book made a big splash.

fifteen minutes of fame

khoảng tgian nổi tiếng ngắn ngủi

hit/make the big time

become famous successful

• She finally hit the big time

legend

huyền thoại

• She was a legend in her own lifetime.

conspiracy theory

thuyết âm mưu

• A lot of people subscribe to the conspiracy theory.

conspiracy theorists

người tin theo thuyết âm mưu

• Conspiracy theorists believe the moon landings were faked.

misinformation

tt sai sự thật

flashbulb

đèn phụ camera để chụp sáng hơn chụp đc bóng tối

bureau /ˈbjʊə.rəʊ/

organization or a business that collects or provides information

decimate

kill a large number of something, or to reduce something severely passive usually

• Populations of endangered animals have been decimated.

proverbial

• adj proverb

• well known ai cũng biết

  his proverbial good humour

emphatically

• +deny nài nỉ, khăng khăng

Johnson has emphatically denied the allegations against him.

• dùng để nhấn mạnh

He most emphatically does not speak for me.