"Tất tần tật" Collocation bắt đầu với P nên học trong tiếng anh

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a memory that's upsetting or disturbing - trí nhớ đau đớn

Ví dụ:

• Somewhere at the back of his mind her death remains as a painful memory to be endured.
• The use of a highly textured piercing sound whose layers cannot be easily untangled makes his painful memory visceral for the viewer.
• An example is the notion of eugenics, a painful memory in the history of science.
• A tooth decay vaccine developed by British scientists could soon make the dentist's drill a painful memory.

If something's a painful reminder, it reminds you of something you find upsetting or disturbing - vật khiến bạn đau đớn/ đau buồn

Ví dụ:

• A hairline fracture of his cheekbone is a painful reminder of his escapade.
• It was the wrong thing to say, for he grabbed her wrist in his hand, clamping down on it with iron strength in a painful reminder of what he was.
• The match must have been a painful reminder of her loss in last year's final.
• Harry said the movie was a painful reminder of how little he's achieved in his life.

extremely shy, or so shy that other people find it disturbing - cực kì ngại ngùng

Ví dụ:

• Once considered painfully shy, he is now notorious for being surly and unwilling to suffer fools.
• She was an elegant, very composed lady, said to be painfully shy, but not the time I met her.
• Her painfully shy, stuttering father doted on her while her more powerful mother spoiled her.
• Friends allege he is painfully shy and a borderline social inadequate.
• Maugham was painfully shy, and Haxton the extrovert gathered human material which the author converted to fiction.

a type of learning activity in which two students work together - việc nhóm

Ví dụ:

• Exploring the potential of rehearsal via automatized structured tasks versus face-to-face pair work to facilitate pragmatic and oral development.
• After learning new expressions, we do some pair work to practise them.
• Pair work often involves students exchanging information of some sort.

to do something to fill in time when you're bored or have nothing to do - bán thời gian

Ví dụ:

• At night, his teammates help him pass the time in his house, playing cards, dominoes and video games.
• To pass the time, he spies on his neighbours, watching the real-life soap opera in the building across from his.
• The bumper cars, near the entrance, appeared to be an excellent way to pass the time between queueing for the bigger rides.
• Tom said he started bringing a book to work to pass the time after the initial novelty wore off.
• The book is an easy-going page turner that will help you pass the time if you are stuck at an airport.

to bring in a new law by voting in parliament or by decree – ban hành luật

Ví dụ:

• That's why it's important to pass a law that would protect the industry from frivolous lawsuits.
• Have all administrative, legal and legislative avenues to pass a law truly been exhausted?
• It is possible that the Parliament could pass a law, having extraterritorial effect, which might invalidate a contrary law.
• And you can't rise up every time someone does something stupid and pass a law for the masses to stop the stupidity.
• Marcus Aurelius, a pretty decent Caesar as Caesars go, could not pass a law against his depraved son, Commodus.

to not fail a test – thi đậu

Ví dụ:

• Do they have to hold a licence, to pass a test, be insured, display L-plates, or are they exempt and not obliged to wear crash helmets?
• To qualify as a professional fiduciary, CPAs would have had to pass a test, meet minimum educational requirements and agree to abide by a separate code of ethics.
• Obviously, in order to enable a person who has been disqualified to pass a test, he would have to be able to drive and obtain a provisional licence to do so.
• The right to grant a licentia docendi was originally reserved to the church which required the applicant to pass a test, to take oath of allegiance and pay a fee.

to pay the amount stated on a bill - trả hóa đơn

Ví dụ:

• By using the Act the Government can pass a bill into law without the Lords ' agreement after a year.
• He urged Congress to pass a bill giving him special powers to fast-track development projects in the city.
• It also inspired me to work with our state legislature to pass a bill so our children received a certificate of Stillbirth.
• Gladstone attempted to pass a bill granting Ireland home rule, but to Victoria's glee it was defeated.
• The city of Tempe considered legal advice about a civil union ordinance, but it did not pass a bill.

to visit someone or something - thăm ai/ nơi nào

Ví dụ:

• If you have given up trying to resemble a stick insect, pay a visit to Peck, the ultimate Italian deli.
• To break the monotony, we hopped along the road in a westerly direction to pay a visit to a large furniture and furnishings store.
• If you can't pay a visit but want to try some artisan cheeses, the cheeseries will let you order products either by mail or on-line.
• Otherwise people can go there in person and pay a visit to the kids since the center is not that far.
• So if you're hungry, hard luck, although certainly pay a visit if you value a decent pint and good company in congenial surroundings.

to watch closely or listen carefully to someone or something - tập trung

Ví dụ:

• I'm trying to conjure up the good-fairy presence, trying to get her to pay attention to me.
• Find other clear-headed thinkers like yourself and pay attention exclusively to their work.
• She's mature beyond her years in terms of her ability to pay attention to every single detail of her preparation.
• It is a fairly straightforward game where you just have to pay attention and be thorough.
• If the sounds in music do not combine in a way that excites interest, then there is no reason to pay attention.

no noise or disturbance - yên tĩnh

Ví dụ:

• But when it comes to protecting our peace and quiet, we Beggarsdalians make the Sicilians sound like a bunch of loud-mouthed gossips.
• My ideal destinations would be the Isle of Lewis for peace and quiet, and the Algarve for the sunshine.
• This house seems ideal for a family looking for privacy or a bit of peace and quiet.
• I feel it is imperative the Government provides adequate laws to empower local authorities to provide council tax payers with peace and quiet.
• We offer peace and quiet, no resident children, structured control and security.

not unusual at all - cực kì hoàn hảo

Ví dụ:

• After all, it is perfectly normal, indeed, deeply human to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty.
• What's more, this time-wasting seemed perfectly normal for London and I thought nothing of it.
• That is a perfectly normal human motivation but one that is pursued by Leftists more or less to the exclusion of all else.
• At the nail bar were sleek women for whom it was perfectly normal to stop by for a weekly mani-pedi after work.
• There were pieces of clothing, breeks and cloaks that looked perfectly normal, but these produced their own warmth.

personal possessions that belong to you - hành lí cá nhân

Ví dụ:

• We quickly unload cases, leave them with our bags and personal belongings in the store room and lock the door with the sliding bolt and padlock.
• No personal belongings were found on the body which had been in the river for anywhere between three and 12 months.
• They fled their homes with a few personal belongings, escaping the acrid sulphuric fumes and lava of an erupting volcano.
• Officers raided his room at the college that day to search his personal belongings and took five letters away.
• Their coats, wallets, mobile phones and other personal belongings were stolen.

If your phone rings, it makes a noise to let you know someone's calling you - chuông điện thoại

Ví dụ:

• You can't put a price on the embarrassment when you are sitting in the auditorium during a performance and your phone rings.
• I am perched on an old stone fountain surrounded by red flowers when the phone rings.
• When the phone rings, or when someone walks in that he knows, he intonates differently.
• When the red phone rings the crew have 90 seconds to get suited up and get the boat out on the water.
• And within a minute, the hands-free phone rings and a woman with a kindly and reassuring voice is asking me what it is that I desire.

to use a finger to remove dried mucus from inside your nose - móc ráy mũi

Ví dụ:

• Tommy! Quit picking your nose, that's a filthy habit!
• No wonder we're losing so much money—half our staff just stands around picking their noses for most of the day!
• Stop picking your nose, Johnny!
• When you're talking to the queen, try not to pick your nose.

a particular suggestion given as advice - lời khuyên

Ví dụ:

• He has taken the odd piece of advice from Middlesbrough boss McClaren, whom he pits his wits against today.
• Mr Hewitt said one important piece of advice was for people to watch out for any strangers hanging about stables or yards.
• Having delivered myself of that Friday afternoon piece of advice and homily, can we turn then to the preposed orders and directions.
• We question the value of this piece of advice in the otherwise useful protocol.
• Several years ago, while studying for a postgraduate degree, I was given a piece of advice by my tutor for which I will always be thankful.

one particular item used as equipment - một nguyên vật liệu

Ví dụ:

• How screws and such can work loose when a piece of equipment is left undisturbed and unused I do not know.
• For heavy swaging, forming, bending and many other similar jobs, a swage block is a useful piece of equipment.
• Their new laptop seems to be a well-featured piece of equipment at a competitive price.
• Everyone associated with a particular piece of equipment must be familiar with it and competent to use it correctly.
• This spurred him to work on lasers, a necessary piece of equipment for his measurement.

a particular fact or item of information - mẫu thông tin

Ví dụ:

• We primarily had overlapping data that led to multiple entries for a given piece of information.
• She muttered inaudibly, miserable for the rest of the day as she brooded on that dark piece of information.
• Finding out how bocaccios move is a critical piece of information in establishing marine reserves to protect them.
• I am writing to enquire about a piece of information that sounds to me like an urban legend.
• However, when we take social networking online, we lose this vital piece of information and categorization.

any musical work, including musical compositions, traditional works, improvised music, pop songs, etc. - tác phẩm âm nhạc

Ví dụ:

• Never has such a beautiful piece of music been played on the electric guitar.
• People seem to be latching on to the idea that if they own a piece of music in one format, they have a right to duplicate it in another.
• Now I don't think a composer who is actually writing a piece of music should be conscious of self-expression.
• The creative part was turning this menagerie into a new piece of music without using anything other than those sounds.
• And in a classroom on one of the floors of the high school, musicians are sight-reading a piece of music.

one sheet or scrap of paper - mẫu giấy

Ví dụ:

• One of the most infamous of these illustrations shows the draughtsman using a sight to locate his subject on a piece of paper.
• Becky was sitting in one of the pews nervously folding and unfolding a piece of paper, which was her speech.
• I held my breath as I opened the envelope and unfolded the piece of paper in it.
• The most important aspect is to have the person write on an unlined piece of paper, allowing the writer to create her own space and lines.
• Those tested have their hand wiped with a piece of paper, then placed under an electronic drug sniffer.

put in an order to buy something - đặt hàng

Ví dụ:

• Some e-tailers have a nasty habit of taking your money as soon as you place an order, then not dispatching the goods for several months.
• Each kiosk allows a customer to place an order directly with the kitchen, using a touchscreen with pictures of food, English or Spanish text and verbal prompts.
• A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer.
• Place an order with your local cheesemonger or somewhere that does mail order.
• Do not fail to place an order for them with your newsdealer.

perform a particular role, or be involved in a particular way - góp phần

Ví dụ:

• The wide man did play a part in the build-up when the deadlock was broken in the 33rd minute.
• Any effects of rhino horn are almost certainly placebo effects, of which scarcity, improbability, and high cost play a part.
• A fair process requires publicity about the reasons and rationales that play a part in decisions.
• A fiber-rich diet may also play a part in lowering your risk of colon and rectal cancer.
• It can play a part in locating old mines by detecting voids and fractures and profiling old workings within the seam.

to make music with an instrument, or to broadcast recorded music - chơi nhạc

Ví dụ:

• While I was in the coma, the doctors told Jim and my family, who'd flown over, to keep talking to me and play music.
• It seems the car park has become something of a focal point for young people to meet and play music from car stereos.
• You only have to listen to them play music and perform to see how good they are.
• We formed a commune, to share our wallets, share our tools, share our ideas, share our love, play music.
• The pictures will speak, play music or produce sound effects when a potential customer passes.

a particular perspective or way of seeing things – quan điểm

Ví dụ:

• Usually crystallization takes place too late from the point of view of the floating chargee.
• Examined from the learner's point of view, the standard approach is heavily biased against beginning students.
• Which might seem reasonable to some, but from my point of view it may as well be taking place on Mars.
• It is bad medicine from the community's point of view, because it adds increasing costs.
• Well chapter 7 is done, and with it the first real action in the story so far, from my point of view at least.

not very good eyesight - thị lực kém

Ví dụ:

• Ford himself had been rejected by the navy during World War I for his poor eyesight.
• In addition, many children suffer from poor eyesight, cuts and perforations on their hands and twisted fingers.
• Traffic police have criticised motorists who risk lives by driving with poor eyesight.
• They suffer malnutrition, poor eyesight, bone deformation and respiratory diseases.
• This makes it easy for people with poor eyesight to enlarge the fonts on a page to make the site more readable.

not very good health - sức khỏe kém

Ví dụ:

• If poverty leads to lead exposure, and lead abets crime and poor health, then lead can be said to nudge indigent people toward crimes.
• The salt pan workers are exploited and often suffer from poor health but get no protection since it is an unorganised industry.
• It is demonstrable, for that matter, that poverty and poor health go together.
• Despite his poor health, the pontiff has a busy agenda, with regular public appearances and private audiences.
• Working from dawn until dark can become the breeding ground toward poor health in both mind and body.

an idea that most people believe is true - điều mà nhiều người tin

Ví dụ:

• Contrary to popular belief, there will not be a mass exodus of age and experience.
• Contrary to popular belief, the adverts will not feature a blaring soundtrack or other audio.
• And this crisis provides a useful reminder that, contrary to popular belief, our media are often not nearly as troublemaking as they should be.
• Contrary to popular belief, simply bringing up suicide will not put the idea in their head.
• She is a portrait painter and, contrary to popular belief, this is not a dead art.

create the threat of danger or harm - đe dọa

Ví dụ:

• Confined within proper bounds, such measures need not pose a threat to civil liberties in general or to academic freedom in particular.
• But nearby residents claim that extra traffic generated would pose a threat to safety.
• The conflicts in both areas now pose a threat to burgeoning American economic and strategic interests in the region.
• If members of the Gardai are of the opinion that a person does not pose a threat, then we would accept that.
• I am not criminal, I do not pose a threat to the nation and I resent being treated like I am because I like to smoke ganja.

quite good or fairly good - khá tốt

Ví dụ:

• We have spent quite a lot of time and money on decorating the ground floor and the upstairs was in pretty good condition.
• Andrew's had great fun from a remote control car, one that flips, spins, and does a pretty good impression of break-dancing.
• On a nice breezy day in the Canyon, it could feel pretty good to feel clammy, so cotton would be a wise move.
• Hotels in the area are pretty good value and are nearly all new builds but are nevertheless in keeping with the local rustic style.
• I can easily see anything in the distance, and I have pretty good night vision.

fairly well or reasonably well - tốt

Ví dụ:

• Now, if I'd managed to make any headway in checking the proofs of my book, my day would have been pretty well perfect.
• The apprentice turners and fitters, although moved around, were kept pretty well to their trade.
• For about 12 quid, one can join this boat and get pretty well bladdered as the price includes as much beer as you can drink.
• The odd pub sells mulled wine on tap, but generally it's expensive and of such poor quality that it's pretty well undrinkable.
• He gave them the slip, and now he's pretty well hidden, because this laboratory is underground.

aspects of someone's life that aren't related to work or other public roles - cuộc sống cá nhân

Ví dụ:

• Why he was so severely afflicted with this nostalgie de la boue remains something of a mystery, like much else in his impenetrable private life.
• His background may account for his reticence to expose his private life to public scrutiny.
• What does it mean to have a professional life or a private life for that matter?
• There were also more general mechanisms which brought private life under the public gaze.
• It is not merely a question of blurring the lines between public and private life.

the opinions of the majority of people in a society – ý kiến số đông

Ví dụ:

• The creeping fear of what might happen next is influencing public opinion even in the American heartlands.
• Yet however imperfect, however crude, they afford the historian's best access to even a rough estimate of public opinion of the period.
• The master alchemist of election victories claims to have detected a sea change in public opinion.
• Given the importance of public opinion, let us counter misinformation with a modicum of information.
• For every fan there has been a critic and no player has polarised public opinion more.

to become heavier or fatter, of a person or an animal - tăng cân

Ví dụ:

• Sadly, she became deconditioned, put on weight, became progressively more inactive and remains painfully disabled years later.
• Supposedly he managed to retain his agility as he put on weight, which should help him in pulling and getting out to block linebackers.
• She did student stuff, put on weight, and was asked if she had really ever been an Olympic diver.
• Robbie said that he would still be a drug user if the substances did not cause him to put on weight.
• Because peanuts are packed with energy it's best not to overindulge in peanut butter unless you're trying to put on weight.

to stop a fire from burning - dập lửa

Ví dụ:

• A quick-acting police officer managed to put out a fire after a petrol bomb was thrown through a shop window.
• An elderly man died from inhaling poisonous fumes as he tried to put out a fire at his home.
• They are designed to be used by trained staff in an attempt to put out a fire while waiting for the fire department to arrive.
• It took fire fighters an hour to put out the fire.
• The fire took a long time to put out.

to increase prices: tăng giá

Ví dụ:

• Of course I am not consulted by State-owned enterprises before they put up prices.
• We haven't put up our prices for over three years.
• They've all put up their prices, but none of the companies put up their workers' wages.
• It is alleged companies conspired to put up the price of the antibiotic amoxycillin by up to 260 per cent.

to increase wages - tăng lương

Ví dụ:

• It's time the government put up the minimum wage.
• When was the last time your company put up the wages they pay their workers?

to raise your arm if you want to say something, ask or answer a question, show you're present, etc. - giơ tay

Ví dụ:

• If you think you know the answer, put up your hand.
• Linda put up her hand when I called her name.
• Don't yell out your questions, kids—put up your hands!
• I do put up my hand in class, Mom, but the teacher never calls on me!
• Everyone who wants to come, put up your hands now.

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