the shell of the egg
one egg
egg yolks
egg production
crazy egg
egg protein
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"Walk on eggshells" = đi trên vỏ trứng -> rất cẩn thận về lời nói hay hành động của mình.
Ví dụ
People can take offense [cảm thấy bị xúc phạm] to different things — to anything. Trying to avoid offending others will cause you to walk on eggshells in any conversation. It will cause you to avoid topics [chủ đề] that some people may find interesting or important, and it will lead us closer to the dystopian world [thế giới đầy thống khổ và bất công] of 1984.
This requires you to hear someone else’s hurt or displeasure [không hài lòng] without responding with anger, mistrust [nghi ngờ], withdrawal or defensiveness [phòng thủ]. To do this means that other people will not feel as if they have to walk on eggshells around you. Eggshells diminish [giảm dần] how close you will allow someone to get to you.
Yet Guterres continues to walk on eggshells around the US and other major powers [cường quốc]. For example, he has been unwilling [không thật lòng] to publicly condemn [lên án công khai] China’s mass detention [giam giữ] of one million Turkic Muslims in “political education” camps while praising Beijing’s rights-free “Belt and Road Initiative.” The victims [nạn nhân] of this mass arbitrary detention have reason to feel abandoned by the UN chief, as do victims of severe [nghiêm trọng] repression [đàn áp, trấn áp] elsewhere.
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