16 Flashcards
alacrity
Şevk
= Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm
This evening, however, he was struck by the beaming alacrity of the aide-de-camp’s greeting.
go way back
: to have known each other for a long time
“He and I go way back.”
meaning you’ve known someone for a long time.
“me and him - we go way back, man.”
Lay bare
“The incident on the train not only revealed the intransigent Jewish consciousness in Isaiah’s mother; it also laid bare his own identity. ”
Isaiah Berlin by Michael Ignatieff
= to reveal or uncover private information or feelings
“He laid bare his soul.“
“The book is an attempt to lay bare the secrets of this very powerful political family.”
pensive
“She was a ‘pensive, slightly melancholy girl with the most beautiful manners”
Isaiah Berlin by Michael Ignatieff
düşünceli (dalgın)
“O onu düşünceli bıraktı. - That left him pensive.”
= Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness
“Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce.”
= Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking
far removed from
““Convention does not in itself imply slavery; it is largely that instinctive law that arises out of men’s fear of anarchy, which is as far removed from freedom as tyranny itself. ”
Isaiah Berlin by Michael Ignatieff
: very different from (something)
“a pampered life far removed from the poverty of his youth”
“Hockey and soccer are not that far removed from each other.”
Something is off
Bir terslik var
You set me up
Beni oyuna getirdin
divvy up
: to divide something into
to divide something into parts or shares:
” They finally decided how to divvy up the money.”
dereliction of duty
Görevi ihmal
= the shameful failure to fulfil one’s obligations.
“the prosecution team were guilty of
dereliction of duty for failing to disclose evidence”
Dereliction = sahipsizlik, terkedilmiş
Get it over it
Elini çabuk tut
jack sth. up
“If you noticed that corporations’ costs are down & they are still jacking up their prices for consumers…”
[kd]fiyat vb. yükseltmek, artirmak
{f}kriko ile kaldırmak
get into something
“We didn’t want to get into politics at dinner table so we quickly change the subject”
= to start a conversation/discussion about a something
“Let’s get into why he likes his job so much”
Drive
Bir şeyi harekete geçirmek
Dürtü
“What is your drive in life (sizi hayatta harekete geçiren, motivasyon kaynağınız nedir?)”
“You got to have inner drive”
Stick with it
Keep doing it - don’t give up
vaguely
“He is 95 years old. He vaguely remembers his college years”
Hayal meyal
