Unit 43: Criticising People - English Collocations in Use UNIT 43: CRITICISING PEOPLE I. Lý thuyết (Collocations) Học tập các cụm từ dùng để chỉ trích, phê bình hành vi hoặc tính cách của một người theo ngữ cảnh giáo trình: A. Lecturers and students (Giảng viên và sinh viên) Students these days are not what they used to be. Half of them are bone idle [informal: extremely lazy] and the others have an attitude problem [a negative, uncooperative attitude]. They seem to let anyone in to university these days – I have one very slippery customer [informal: someone who cannot be trusted] in one of my classes. He's more interested in mindless violence than books and is ready to pick a fight [provoke a fight] at any opportunity. Lecturers these days say that students have no respect for authority but they seem to hold us in contempt [despise]. I always seem to take the flak [be held responsible] if there's a problem in class, as they have decided that I am a disruptive influence [someone who encourages others to behave in a negative way]. But, as I see it, if a class is a disaster, the blame rests [it is the fault of] fairly and squarely with the lecturer. They shouldn't be allowed to shirk their responsibilities [pay no attention to their responsibilities] to us students. B. Critical exclamations (Lời cảm thán chỉ trích nặng nề) Các collocations sau mang tính chất ép buộc hoặc lên án mạnh mẽ, có thể giảm bớt sự gay gắt nếu đi kèm với một nụ cười: 'I am appalled that you would stoop to that level !' [do somet...