Come tell me how you live nghĩa là gì năm 2024

A memoir of several years spent with her husband, the archaeologist Max Mallowan, excavating in Syria entre deux guerres. It's not meant to be about archaeology, really, although they did some very important work; it's about trying to wrangle several hundred people and massive quantities of supplies into some semblance of a dig while dependent on sparse train lines, no roads, and communications by letter. (I particularly enjoy the way that whenever they go to the post office the postmaster, who is literate in Arabic but not other languages, has a bin for letters addressed in languages he does not speak and keeps trying to give the entire bin to anyone who comes in and asks for something that ought to be in it. They keep speculating about who all these people are whose mail they are declining, and hoping said people do the same for them.)

This is one of those books that is a fast, funny, intelligent read marred drastically by having been published in 1946 by a person who has not thought at all about the race and class issues built into the way she expects things in Syria to go for her as an English gentlewoman. Which is to say it has not, in some aspects, aged remotely pleasantly. If one uses the rubric of good for its time, normal for its time, bad for its time, I am afraid it is on the normal-trending-to-bad part of that spectrum.

Still, I think I now know where Elizabeth Peters got her model for the Amelia Peabody books. Agatha Christie was a person of great aplomb and a way of laughing at herself (and other people, when called for: there is the friend of hers who had pajamas specially designed to cover every inch of his body but his eyes, nose, and mouth, to keep off the mosquitoes, and kept saying he was going to be the only one not to get malaria, and of course the second he got them buckled and zipped on for the first time he realized there was a mouse inside his waistband; apparently no one could get anywhere near him to assist, since everyone had collapsed in fits of hysterical giggling). She appears to have been able to write mystery novels in a room actually containing people reconstructing pottery, a feat of concentration beyond my ability to comprehend.

So, the bits that do not have one gritting one's teeth are very pleasant, and as a record of a mindset and a way of doing things and of how archaeology used to work, it is continuously interesting. But there is a lot of teeth-gritting.

She did write a very nice poem for the front of the book, which I am going to include here in full as it is too enjoyable not to, and certainly is not the sort of thing that would be excerpted anywhere. Also, it's a fun example of the geek love poem, a genre that has a long history.

/tel/

Thông dụng

Ngoại động từ .told

Nói; nói với; nói lên, nói ra

to tell jokes nói đùa tell me where you live anh hãy cho tôi biết anh sống ở đâu

Nói cho biết, thông tin cho (ai)

we are told that... người ta nói với chúng tôi rằng..., người ta bảo chúng tôi rằng... a book which will tell you all you need to know about personal taxation một cuốn sách sẽ nói cho anh biết tất cả những gì anh cần biết về sự đóng thuế của cá nhân

Chỉ cho, cho biết

to tell the way chỉ đường to tell the time cho biết giờ

Diễn đạt, phát biểu, nói ra; bày tỏ, biểu lộ

her face told her joy nét mặt cô ta biểu lộ nỗi vui mừng to tell the truth nói sự thật to tell one's love bày tỏ tình yêu

Kể lại, thuật lại

to tell a story kể một câu chuyện

Khẳng định, cả quyết

I can tell you it's not easy tôi khẳng định với anh cái đó không dễ đâu

Ra lệnh, bảo

tell him to come bảo nó đến

Tiết lộ, phát giác

to tell a secret tiết lộ một điều bí mật

(từ cổ, nghĩa cổ) đếm, lần

to tell the votes kiểm phiếu to tell one's beads lần tràng hạt (khi tụng kinh)

( + A from B) phân biệt A với B (nhất là với can/could/be able to)

I can't tell the difference between margarine and butter tôi không thể phân biệt được sự khác nhau giữa macgarin và bơ to tell right from wrong phân biệt phải trái

Nội động từ

Có hiệu quả, có tác dụng, ảnh hưởng đến, có kết quả

it tells upon his health điều đó ảnh hưởng đến sức khoẻ của anh ta every blow told cú đánh nào cũng có hiệu lực

Tiết lộ một bí mật

promise you won't tell hãy hứa là anh sẽ không tiết lộ kiss and tell (thông tục) tiết lộ chuyện yêu đương của mình all told tất cả, cả thảy I told you (so) (thông tục) tôi đã bảo mà tell me another! (thông tục) bốc phét!; tôi không tin anh!

You're telling me!

(thông tục) tôi hoàn toàn đồng ý với anh!

to tell somebody off for something/to do something phân công (nhiệm vụ, bổn phận..) to tell on somebody (thông tục) phát giác; mách, tiết lộ

Cấu trúc từ

to tell against

làm chứng chống lại, nói điều chống lại

to tell off

định, chọn, lựa; phân công (thông tục) nói thẳng vào mặt, rầy la, kể tội

to tell on

làm mệt, làm kiệt sức (thông tục) mách

to get told off

bị làm nhục, bị mắng nhiếc

to tell the tale

(từ lóng) bịa ra một câu chuyện đáng thương để làm động lòng

tell that to the marines!

nói cho ma nó nghe!; tôi không tin anh!

to tell the world

công bố

there is no telling

không thể nào biết được

you can never tell

ai mà biết chắc được

hình thái từ

• V-ing: telling
• Past: told
• PP: told

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verb

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phrasal verb

bawl out , berate , rate

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