17 Flashcards
Justice has been done
Adalet yerini buldu
Get off my back
Peşimi bırak
Level with me
Benimle açık konuş
Go, jump in a lake
Defol, git başımdan
Too little too late
İş işten gecti
I only have eyes for you
Gözüm senden başkasını görmüyor
See if I care
Çok da umrumdaydı
be well versed in (something)
Christopher Nolan explained that even the #Oppenheimer’s extras were well-versed in the source material — which was rather easy for them, because he made a point to cast actual scientists as background actors: bit.ly/3pAuVIS
= To be very knowledgeable about, skillful in, or competent at something.
“John is well versed in lying, so he’s always able to talk his way out of trouble.
You should talk to my friend Ana, she’s very well versed in the ins and outs of income tax.”
What a shame
Ne yazık
Yazık
Rather you than me
Yerinde olmak istemezdim
Runoff
Seçimde 2. Tur
ingratitude
Ingratitude is the most potent information about someone’s future.
I’ve never see an ingrate who did’nt end up a bitter loser. By a built-in myopia; the focus is:
+ local never global
+ static never dynamic
+ transactional never relational
+ efficient never robust
It’s a mental defect.
Taleb
Nankörlük
= : forgetfulness of or poor return for kindness received : UNGRATEFULNESS
Lacuna
Weber’s neglect of material factors is the most evident lacuna in his analysis. There is little discussion of how colonialism in the shape of the East India Company or the Opium Wars waged by Britain for its right to impose drug trafficking on the people of China hindered the development of capitalism in these countries.
kemikte bulunan boşluk
(lacune) boşluk, aralık, boş yer, eksiklik
1 : a blank space or a missing part : GAP
//the evident lacunae in his story
— Shirley Hazzard
also : DEFICIENCY sense 1
//despite all these lacunae, those reforms were a vast improvement
— New Republic
2 : a small cavity, pit, or discontinuity in an anatomical structure
Hand it over
Ver şunu bana
Get well soon
Geçmiş olsun
I told you so
Sana söylemiştim
or so
yaklaşık olarak
(after a quantity) approximately.
“a dozen or so people”
That’s more like it
Bak bu iyi işte
= If you say that’s more like it, you mean thatthe thing that you are referring to is more satisfactory than it was on earlier occasions.
it is what it is
“Asked if he was disappointed, he said, “It is what it is. I’m abigbelieverthat when onedoorclosesanother oneopens.”
Yapacak bir şey yok
Neyse o
Olan oldu
= used to say that asituationcannot bechangedand must beaccepted:
“We’re allimperfecthumanbeingsin animperfectworld. It is what it is.”
To turn to someone
to ask a person or organization for help or support:
= Akıl almak, danışmak için birine başvurmak
” Without someone to turn to for advice, making the most appropriate choice can be difficult.”
“Her family lived a long way away, and she had no one to turn to.”
in no time
Çabucak, hemen
very quickly or very soon.
“the video has sold 30,000 copies in no time”
Did I get my point across
Anlatabildim mi?
Anladın mı?
Before long
“With a littleexercise, you’ll be back inshapebeforelong.”
Çok geçmeden
It is hoped that the war will end before long.
in a day or two
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