Obama lights into Trump Flashcards
Light into (v)
Tấn công, mắng mỏ ( Mỹ)
Eg. Obama lit into Donald Trump tuesday, turning the tables to make the impassioned case that Trump is the one who’s un-American.
Extraodinary (adj)
Lạ thường, khác thường, đặc biệt.
Denunciation (n)
Sự tố cáo, sự lên án, sự vạch mặt, phản đối
eg. Obama’s extraordinary denunciation of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was about far more than a personal intervention on behalf of Hillary Clinton in the ugly general election campaign.
Presumptive (adj)
cho là đúng, đoán chừng, giả định
Fury (n)
sự giận dữ, sự thịnh nộ
he commander in chief’s fury
- Seethe (v)
- Stunning (adj)
- Soliloquy (n)
- Castigate (v)
- Constitutional (adj)
- sôi lên, náo động, sôi sục, dao động
- Làm choáng váng, bất tỉnh nhân sự
- Sự nói một mình
- Trừng phạt, trừng trị, khiển trách
- ( thuộc) hiến pháp, theo hiến pháp, đúng với hiến pháp
The commander in chief’s fury, which seethed out of him in a stunning soliloquy on live television, amounted to a moment of historic significance: a president castigating one of the two people who could succeed him as beyond the constitutional and political norms of the nation itself.
Disgust (n)/ (v)
Làm ghê tởm, làm kinh tởm, làm phẫn nộ
- Ironic (adj)
- Terror (n)
- Hound (v)
- Insinuation (n)
- mỉa mai, châm biếm
- sự kinh hãi, khiếp sợ
- Săn đuổi, truy lùng, đuổi
- Sự nói bóng gió, nói ám chỉ
Obama’s remarks, motivated by his disgust over Trump’s response to the worst terror attack since 9/11, were also deeply ironic, given that Trump has hounded him for years with insinuations that he’s not a real American.
- Mogul (n)/ (adj)
2. Hint (v)
- người mông cổ
- Nói bóng gió, nói ám chỉ
The real estate mogul had returned to that theme on Monday, hinting that in some way the President was complicit or approved of Islamic terror attacks, saying on Fox News, “There is something going on.”
Conspiracy (n)
Âm mưu
Trump has based his attacks on conspiracy theories that Obama was born outside the country or a closeted Muslim ( hồi giáo)
- Threaten (v)
2. fabric (n)
- đe dọa
- công trình xây dựng, cơ cấu, kết cấu
Obama’s charge, in contrast, was based on his perception that the billionaire Republican’s views are so extreme that he threatens the fabric of America itself.
Squirm (n) (v)
sự ngoằn ngoèo
And Obama sought to shame Republican leaders, many of whom were left squirming by Trump’s views
Stance (n)
Thái độ, lập trường (mỹ)
And Obama sought to shame Republican leaders, many of whom were left squirming by Trump’s views. Though they differ with many of his views – House Speaker Paul Ryan again on Tuesday rejected the GOP presumptive nominee’s stance on Muslims
Heed (v)
lưu ý, để ý
they are trapped by his millions of primary voters, who made it clear to the party leadership that the billionaire businessman should be heeded.
- Drew :v- past (Draw)
- Implicit (adj)
- Analogy (n)
- Mistreat (v)
- Thu hút, kéo
- Ngầm, hàm ẩn, hàm súc, ngấm ngầm
- Sự tương tự, sự giống nhau
- Ngược đãi
Obama also drew an implicit analogy between Trump’s call for a ban on Muslim travel and the most “shameful” moments in American history when the government had mistreated its people, adding that then Constitution prohibited religious tests.