deck no. 04

Question 1

brim

Answer 1

krawędź, brzeg

At one point, he fills a 16-ounce cup nearly to the brim, then sets it down next to another full cup he’d forgotten he had.

Question 2

story line

Answer 2

fabuła

While the American media fell in love with the story line of a pair of baby-boomer, Sixties-child, Fleetwood Mac yuppies nesting in the White House, it also nursed an undisguised crush on Rubin, who was hyped as without a doubt the smartest person ever to walk the face of the Earth, with Newton, Einstein, Mozart and Kant running far behind.

Question 3

stumbling block

Answer 3

przeszkoda; trudność

For FCA the main stumbling-block was the French government, which has a habit of being a tricky counterparty in deals involving national champions.

Question 4

top-drawer

Answer 4

najwyższej jakości

During the 1970s and 1980s, Goldman may not have been the planet-eating Death Star of political influence it is today, but it was a top-drawer firm that had a reputation for attracting the very smartest talent on the Street.

Question 5

ślinić się

Answer 5

to drool

Like I relapsed on drugs. It was a little creepy. I certainly had some dark times with that shit, mostly due to taking a lot of pills and fucking drooling on myself.

Question 6

to adjust

Answer 6

dostosować się

But the bigger message is that, as the trade war rumbles on, the immensely complex global network of financial and commercial ties is adjusting.

Question 7

stosować się do czegoś

Answer 7

adhere to something

“Since the Depression, there were strict underwriting guidelines that Wall Street adhered to when taking a company public,” says one prominent hedge-fund manager.

Question 8

naturalnej wielkości, naturalnych rozmiarów

Answer 8

life-size

On the wall above his head is a huge print of the Paul’s Boutique album cover; a life-size, giant-tongued bust of the head of Venom, the Spider-Man villain, has a place of honor at Rosenberg’s desk.

Question 9

zabrać się za coś

Answer 9

to get around to something

By the time the Securities and Exchange Commission got around to fining your firm $110 million, the yacht you bought with your IPO bonuses was already six years old.

Question 10

obżerać się

Answer 10

to gorge oneself

The bank’s unprecedented reach and power have enabled it to turn all of America into a giant pump-and-dump scam, manipulating whole economic sectors for years at a time, moving the dice game as this or that market collapses, and all the time gorging itself on the unseen costs that are breaking families everywhere — high gas prices, rising consumer credit rates, half-eaten pension funds, mass layoffs, future taxes to pay off bailouts.

Question 11

pokonać

Answer 11

to trounce

A large painting of Biggie and 2Pac graces one wall, while a plaque leaning against another celebrates Eminem’s status as SoundScan’s Artist of the Decade: 32 million albums sold in the past 10 years, trouncing runners-up the Beatles.

Question 12

to pull a stunt

Answer 12

wykonać sztuczkę

They’ve been pulling this same stunt over and over since the 1920s — and now they’re preparing to do it again, creating what may be the biggest and most audacious bubble yet.

Question 13

clarion call

Answer 13

wezwanie

Kengor’s book is a true clarion call to those dismissive of religion or its impact on the 20th century.

Question 14

odrażający; dziwny

Answer 14

creepy

Like I relapsed on drugs. It was a little creepy. I certainly had some dark times with that shit, mostly due to taking a lot of pills and fucking drooling on myself.

Question 15

w pełni się zaangażować

Answer 15

to jump in with both feet

Beginning a pattern that would repeat itself over and over again, Goldman got into the investment trust game late, then jumped in with both feet and went hogwild.

Question 16

to circle the drain

Answer 16

zmierzać ku upadkowi; gwałtownie pogarszająca się sytuacja

What you need to know is the big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain — an extremely unfortunate loophole in the system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Question 17

to do away with

Answer 17

zrezygnować z czegoś

Some venture capitalists are thinking about ways that they might do away with the IPO entirely.

Question 18

to aggrieve

Answer 18

zasmucać

Eventually, lots of aggrieved investors agreed. In a virtual repeat of the Internet IPO craze, Goldman was hit with a wave of lawsuits after the collapse of the housing bubble, many of which accused the bank of withholding pertinent information about the quality of the mortgages it issued.

Question 19

pojąć, zrozumieć

Answer 19

to fathom

I’m a bad influence: “Hi, kids!” I’m aiming right at your kids, but never in a million years fathoming that it could even actually happen.

Question 20

wyparować; rozpłynąć się w powietrzu

Answer 20

to vanish into thin air

Goldman’s mantra of “long-term greedy” vanished into thin air as the game became about getting your check before the melon hit the pavement.

Question 21

na wielką skalę; w pełni rozwinięty

Answer 21

full-blown

Do you think you’ll ever do a full-blown tour again?

Question 22

to catch up with

Answer 22

dowiedzieć się co u kogoś słychać, nadrobić zaległości

The drummer caught up with Rolling Stone in advance of the film’s release for a revealing “exit interview,” where he looked back on the highs and lows of three decades of Mötley Crüe and opened up about the weirdness that surrounded the group’s farewell concert.

Question 23

volatile

Answer 23

niestabilny

Much has been made of the rapper’s volatile temper, not least by Eminem himself (he once spent two years on probation for felony weapons charges after an altercation outside a bar), but in conversation he’s thoughtful and polite, albeit not in a way you’d mistake for friendliness.

Question 24

kasowy (np. film)

Answer 24

bankable

A dozen years into his career, he remains one of pop’s most bankable stars – a rare feat for any artist, and, for a rapper, almost unprecedented.

Question 25

weryfikować

Answer 25

to vet If Alibaba invests in startups it could fall foul of a new law, known as firrma, that requires foreign purchases of "critical technology" to be **vetted**.

Question 26

sprawling

Answer 26

rozległy; rozciągnięty Amazon.com Inc. has a Facebook Inc.- size problem: It’s become such a **sprawling** business that its inevitable missteps are beginning to erode trust in its products and services, good will in Washington, and its ability to achieve globe-spanning dominance.

Question 27

to creep somebody out

Answer 27

przerażać kogoś Yeah. It fucking **creeps me out**. Letters all down the page – it was like my hand weighed 400 pounds.

Question 28

kazać komuś spadać; pokazać środkowy palec

Answer 28

to flip somebody off I really don’t know. I mean, if you’re getting divorced, you still give your ex a hug, or **flip her off** or something. You either get a kiss or a slap, or … something.

Question 29

tu: świeżo wyprasowany

Answer 29

crisp He’s wearing a **crisp** white T-shirt, below-the-knee cargo shorts, and blue and white low-top Nike Air Max Is with tags still on them.

Question 30

imponujący

Answer 30

imposing The current herd all seek to suggest that they offer the same sort of opportunity as that illustrious trinity: vast potential markets; limited physical plant and staff; high margins; **imposing** barriers to entry.

Question 31

zataić

Answer 31

to withhold Eventually, lots of aggrieved investors agreed. In a virtual repeat of the Internet IPO craze, Goldman was hit with a wave of lawsuits after the collapse of the housing bubble, many of which accused the bank of **withholding** pertinent information about the quality of the mortgages it issued.

Question 32

wrogość, rozgoryczenie

Answer 32

bad feeling But I didn’t have **bad feelings** about the tour. I looked around and smiled, going, "Fuck, we killed that shit." I’m just happy to be home and enjoying life.

Question 33

to amount to

Answer 33

być równoznacznym z I ask the manager how it could be that selling something to customers that you’re actually betting against — particularly when you know more about the weaknesses of those products than the customer — doesn’t **amount to** securities fraud.

Question 34

meniscus

Answer 34

łękotka (element stawu kolanowego) I’d somehow torn my **meniscus**. I’m just coming off Vicodin, my senses are coming back, and it’s hurting 10 million times worse than it had to.

Question 35

wrongdoing

Answer 35

zarzuty; przestępstwo And the Japanese firm felt rushed into making a huge strategic decision, not long after it had rejected Renault’s plan for a full merger under Carlos Ghosn, the firm’s former boss who is now fighting charges of financial **wrongdoing** at Nissan (which he denies).

Question 36

by one's own account

Answer 36

według swoich własnych słów **By his own account**, he lives a pretty solitary existence.

Question 37

on the grounds that

Answer 37

z powodu, że; ponieważ One former Goldman banker who left the firm in the early Nineties recalls seeing his superiors give up a very profitable deal **on the grounds that** it was a long-term loser.

Question 38

to stand out

Answer 38

wyróżniać się While the finale’s viewer-ship number **stands out** in today’s fragmented media landscape, it pales in comparison to the final episodes of other iconic shows such as "M\*A\*S\*H," which drew 105.9million viewers, and "Cheers," which attracted 80 million.

Question 39

to take a pass (on something)

Answer 39

odpuścić sobie (coś) Some pre-IPO Uber shareholders including BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest moneymanager, and prominent techinvestor Tiger Global Management **took a pass on** buying more shares in the listing, content that they already owned plenty, people familiar with the matter said. Instead, they tried to sell stock before or as partof the initial public offering

Question 40

być na odpowiednim poziomie; spełniać określone standardy

Answer 40

to be up to par I started to get the sleep problem in the first place when I was feeling the pressures of having to be places at a certain time to perform — and **be up to par** on every single thing that I did, because everyone is watching.

Question 41

mnóstwo

Answer 41

reams Much as in the 1990s, when new vehicles like day trading and e-trading attracted **reams** of new suckers from the sticks who wanted to feel like big shots, investment trusts roped a new generation of regular-guy investors into the speculation game.

Question 42

nielegalny; nieuczciwy

Answer 42

fraudulent "The spinning of hot IPO shares was not a harmless corporate perk," then-attorney general Eliot Spitzer said at the time. "Instead, it was an integral part of a **fraudulent** scheme to win new investment-banking business."

Question 43

zaszczepić

Answer 43

to inoculate Those efforts have thrust it further into controversial decisions over which content is acceptable, but haven’t **inoculated** it from criticism that the video site abounds with damaging information.

Question 44

brak; niedostatek

Answer 44

dearth A **dearth** of interesting alternative investments and endemic fear of missing out saw institutional investors, often from hedge and sovereign-wealth funds, eager to join in ever larger rounds of financing.

Question 45

otoczenie; środowisko życia

Answer 45

habitat This is not because it is perched on a spectacular, undulating building that itself looks quite like a mythical beast (Moby-Dick, in this case) nor because its tastefully planted flora, all native to flower-power California, offer a particularly enticing equine **habitat**.

Question 46

w połowie; na półmetku

Answer 46

midway through The rest of the film contains performances of "Shout at the Devil," "Kickstart My Heart" and "Home Sweet Home," among other hits, as well as Lee’s ill-fated final roller-coaster drum solo (the apparatus conked out **midway through**) and emotional interviews with the band members.

Question 47

chump

Answer 47

dureń In other words, the mortgages it was selling were for **chumps**.

Question 48

to pull off

Answer 48

dokonać czegoś; osiągnąć coś Ruiz’s dream, of course, was to win the heavyweight title, which he **pulled off** in shocking fashion, stopping Joshua via a seventh-round technical knockout on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden that instantly stands as one of boxing’s greatest upsets ever.

Question 49

bankable

Answer 49

kasowy (np. film) A dozen years into his career, he remains one of pop’s most **bankable** stars – a rare feat for any artist, and, for a rapper, almost unprecedented.

Question 50

overhaul

Answer 50

remont; restrukturyzacja Our performance across all major markets was deteriorating, and without a fundamental **overhaul**, our losses were posed to threaten the profitability of the entire Deutsche Post DHL Group.

Question 51

throwback

Answer 51

powrót do przeszłości; relikt You worked with Rick Rubin on parts of the new album, and there’s some **throwback** hip-hop production on there. What’s that about for you?

Question 52

to trail

Answer 52

przegrywać, pozostawać w tyle Its Pixel smartphone has less than 1% of the global market despite Google’s home-field advantage of owning the operating system that powers 85% of the world’s handsets. And Google **trails** both Amazon and Microsoft by a wide margin in the rapidly growing market for cloud-computing services.

Question 53

to cut out

Answer 53

wyeliminować "There’s aspartame in the cans," he says. "They say it’s been known to cause cancer, so I **cut that shit out**. There’s no aspartame in the fountain."

Question 54

do dzieła!, ruszajmy z koksem!

Answer 54

let it rip What was the band’s preshow ritual? Was it different for the final show? No. We just see each other up onstage and **let it rip**.

Question 55

to get around to something

Answer 55

zabrać się za coś By the time the Securities and Exchange Commission **got around to** fining your firm $110 million, the yacht you bought with your IPO bonuses was already six years old.

Question 56

to repress

Answer 56

tłumić Now, I don’t know if it was always there and it was just always **repressed** with drugs.

Question 57

charakter; usposobienie

Answer 57

temper Much has been made of the rapper’s volatile **temper**, not least by Eminem himself (he once spent two years on probation for felony weapons charges after an altercation outside a bar), but in conversation he’s thoughtful and polite, albeit not in a way you’d mistake for friendliness.

Question 58

przenośny; symboliczny

Answer 58

figurative All that money that you’re losing, it’s going somewhere, and in both a literal and a **figurative** sense, Goldman Sachs is where it’s going: The bank is a huge, highly sophisticated engine for converting the useful, deployed wealth of society into the least useful, most wasteful and insoluble substance on Earth — pure profit for rich individuals.

Question 59

to poke fun at

Answer 59

nabijać się z And, not saying it’s wrong or it’s right, but at this point in my career — man, I say so much shit that’s tongue-in-cheek. I **poke fun at** other people, myself.

Question 60

pozbycie się; sprzedaż

Answer 60

disposal Yet while the production of unicorns gathered pace and slickness, their **disposal** did not keep up. The rate at which venturebacked companies move on to the public markets has slowed. In 2013 the average age of a venture-backed American company putting on an ipo was seven years. By 2018 it had grown to ten.

Question 61

to tell somebody off

Answer 61

zbesztać kogoś He simply believed in giving harsh feedback in private, and was usually adept enough to make the recipient grateful for the **telling-off**.

Question 62

to get the hang of

Answer 62

nauczyć się; zrozumieć If you **get the hang of it**—and Apple appears to be making the coming version of Siri Shortcuts a little easier to use—you’d just need some vessel for Siri, so almost any Apple device would do.

Question 63

life-size

Answer 63

naturalnej wielkości, naturalnych rozmiarów On the wall above his head is a huge print of the Paul’s Boutique album cover; a **life-size**, giant-tongued bust of the head of Venom, the Spider-Man villain, has a place of honor at Rosenberg’s desk.

Question 64

speszyć

Answer 64

to faze I got up to between 220 and 230, about 80 pounds heavier than I am now. I was going to McDonald’s and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me – it wouldn’t even **faze** them.

Question 65

soft touch

Answer 65

łatwowierny While he was happy to dish out praise in group meetings, and was a generous man in his spare time, he was not a **soft touch**.

Question 66

cornucopia

Answer 66

róg obfitości; obfitość The ideological analysis is an odd combination of **cornucopianism** and constraints.

Question 67

ensemble cast

Answer 67

obsada (gwiazdy na takich samych warunkach jak inni) But on Monday at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif, the company made it look like the iPhone was just one member of an **ensemble cast**.

Question 68

niestabilny

Answer 68

volatile Much has been made of the rapper’s **volatile** temper, not least by Eminem himself (he once spent two years on probation for felony weapons charges after an altercation outside a bar), but in conversation he’s thoughtful and polite, albeit not in a way you’d mistake for friendliness.

Question 69

to vanish into thin air

Answer 69

wyparować; rozpłynąć się w powietrzu Goldman’s mantra of "long-term greedy" **vanished into thin air** as the game became about getting your check before the melon hit the pavement.

Question 70

feedback loop

Answer 70

sprzężenie zwrotne While this relatively high-margin business might please investors, it also creates a **feedback loop** in which more people start their search for goods on Amazon.

Question 71

urządzenie; maszyneria (np. biurokratyczna)

Answer 71

apparatus The rest of the film contains performances of "Shout at the Devil," "Kickstart My Heart" and "Home Sweet Home," among other hits, as well as Lee’s ill-fated final roller-coaster drum solo (the **apparatus** conked out midway through) and emotional interviews with the band members.

Question 72

loud-mouthed

Answer 72

pyskaty The bad guy in The King of Kong is named Billy Mitchell, a **loudmouthed** jerk not entirely unlike a certain white rapper.

Question 73

upon

Answer 73

od **Upon** arriving at Eminem’s recording studio – an anonymous gray hit factory in suburban Detroit – a first-time visitor will be met at his car by a large, possibly armed man named Big 8, who will have been watching from an alley across the street.

Question 74

środek (do osiągnięcia czegoś)

Answer 74

mean Thanks to Sidney Weinberg, who rose from the rank of janitor’s assistant to head the firm, Goldman became the pioneer of the initial public offering, one of the principal and most lucrative **means** by which companies raise money.

Question 75

pomóc zwyciężyć; osiągnąć coś

Answer 75

to put somone over the top The Ambien would **put me over the top** to go to sleep.

Question 76

oszukać

Answer 76

to bilk Back then, the main financial tool used to **bilk** investors was called an "investment trust."

Question 77

łamać (zasadę/prawo)

Answer 77

to fall foul If Alibaba invests in startups it could **fall foul** of a new law, known as firrma, that requires foreign purchases of "critical technology" to be vetted.

Question 78

compelling

Answer 78

interesujący In this **compelling** new study of the relationship between America’s 40th president and the Holy Father, Kengor reveals how these men of faith, these firm friends, navigated the economic turmoil and political unrest that ultimately led to the demise of the Soviet empire and the end of the Cold War.

Question 79

roadblock

Answer 79

przeszkoda When France pointed the finger at Nissan as a **roadblock**, fca lost patience.

Question 80

przychylny

Answer 80

amenable The French government, which has a 15% stake in Renault, seemed **amenable**. Nissan, Renault’s main alliance partner in which the French firm has a 43% stake, made reassuring noises.

Question 81

natychmiast

Answer 81

off the bat Just before noon, they opened the stock at $42 in an initial trade of more than 30 million shares.To help get to that level, Morgan Stanley had to buy stockright **off the bat**, people familiarwith the matter said.As part of the gre

Question 82

zasmucać

Answer 82

to aggrieve Eventually, lots of **aggrieved** investors agreed. In a virtual repeat of the Internet IPO craze, Goldman was hit with a wave of lawsuits after the collapse of the housing bubble, many of which accused the bank of withholding pertinent information about the quality of the mortgages it issued.

Question 83

końcówka

Answer 83

the tail end of something Around **the tail end of** [2004’s] Encore, the songs started getting really goofy.

Question 84

to have a chip on your shoulder

Answer 84

mieć pretensje do całego świata; żywić urazę I don’t know if it hurt back then. But the older you get, you start to realize, "Fuck. I would never do that to my kids." You start **getting a chip on your shoulder**, getting bitter.

Question 85

kiedy nadejdzie

Answer 85

come **Come this fall**, the iPad could become the right computer for many people.

Question 86

designated

Answer 86

wyznaczony As orders came in, traders at Citadel Securities, Uber’s **designated** market maker, and the team at Morgan Stanley tasked with stabilizing the stock on behalf of the underwriters realized they didn’t have enough demand to open at $45 or higher.

Question 87

to put somone over the top

Answer 87

pomóc zwyciężyć; osiągnąć coś The Ambien would **put me over the top** to go to sleep.

Question 88

to be bound to

Answer 88

zobowiązany do Lyft has threatened to sue Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, for offering a shortselling product to pre-ipo investors who are usually **bound by agreements not to** sell their shares for some time, typically six months (the bank denies the allegations).

Question 89

wrak psychiczny; wariat; beznadziejny przypadek

Answer 89

basket case I always get tweaked out 10 minutes before the show. I’m a fucking **basket case**.

Question 90

gawędzić

Answer 90

to schmooze You’ll price the stock, determine how many shares should be released and take the Bullshit.com CEO on a "road show" to **schmooze** investors, all in exchange for a substantial fee (typically six to seven percent of the amount raised).

Question 91

midway through

Answer 91

w połowie; na półmetku The rest of the film contains performances of "Shout at the Devil," "Kickstart My Heart" and "Home Sweet Home," among other hits, as well as Lee’s ill-fated final roller-coaster drum solo (the apparatus conked out **midway through**) and emotional interviews with the band members.

Question 92

to be on the up-and-up

Answer 92

być w porządku; być na prostej I speak to Elton [John]. He’s like my sponsor. He usually calls me once a week to check on me, just to make sure I’m **on the up-and-up**.

Question 93

być przeciwieństwem do kogoś

Answer 93

to be a foil to somebody Cocky and snide, **he’s an ideal dramatic foil for the sweet, modest family man Wiebe**. "It’s a perfect contrast," Eminem says of the pairing. "A hero and a villain."

Question 94

ogromny

Answer 94

immense But the bigger message is that, as the trade war rumbles on, the **immensely** complex global network of financial and commercial ties is adjusting.

Question 95

co godzinę

Answer 95

every hour on the hour And **every hour on the hour**, I’d pop four or five more. The Ambien would put me over the top to go to sleep.

Question 96

dać jasno do zrozumienia

Answer 96

to make clear You’ve **made it clear** again and again that you don’t actually have a problem with gay people — so why, in 2013, use the word "faggot"?

Question 97

podszewka

Answer 97

lining My everyday regimen would be, wake up in the morning and take an extra-strength Vicodin. I could never take more than one and a half, because it tore up my stomach **lining**.

Question 98

vessel

Answer 98

statek; naczynie If you get the hang of it—and Apple appears to be making the coming version of Siri Shortcuts a little easier to use—you’d just need some **vessel** for Siri, so almost any Apple device would do.

Question 99

to be a cut above something

Answer 99

być o niebo lepszym od czegoś Was communism **a cut above** the brutalities of Nazi Germany, a misguided Stalin versus a demonic Hitler?

Question 100

blown-up

Answer 100

powiększony The iPad, which used to be little more than a **blown-up** iPhone, is starting to look like a full fledge personal computer.

Question 101

manipulować; ubijać

Answer 101

to tamper But the real problem wasn’t the money that was lost by shareholders, it was the money gained by investment bankers, who received hefty bonuses for **tampering** with the market.

Question 102

to stifle

Answer 102

tłamsić Rejecting the framing that the only measure of whether a company is a harmful monopoly is when it unfairly raises prices, Ms. Khan argued that definitions of monopoly from the early 1900s should be revived. By its very bigness, Amazon **stifles** competition, she argued.

Question 103

porzucić; odstawić na bok

Answer 103

to cast aside You can't really see it under the plain black military scout’s cap he’s wearing this afternoon, but for the first time in half a decade or so, Eminem has reclaimed the Slim Shady platinum-blond look that he **cast aside** after beating a near-fatal pill addiction.

Question 104

to hang out with somebody

Answer 104

spędzać z kimś czas Who do you **hang out with**?

Question 105

tłumić

Answer 105

to repress Now, I don’t know if it was always there and it was just always **repressed** with drugs.

Question 106

lining

Answer 106

podszewka My everyday regimen would be, wake up in the morning and take an extra-strength Vicodin. I could never take more than one and a half, because it tore up my stomach **lining**.

Question 107

pertinent

Answer 107

istotny Eventually, lots of aggrieved investors agreed. In a virtual repeat of the Internet IPO craze, Goldman was hit with a wave of lawsuits after the collapse of the housing bubble, many of which accused the bank of withholding **pertinent** information about the quality of the mortgages it issued.

Question 108

stampede

Answer 108

popłoch Much the same might happen if a number of ipos failed to live up to their hype. So again the incentives are to go big and go quick. The move to the exits is not quite a **stampede**, but it is a pretty concerted group trot, even a canter.

Question 109

beztroski; na luzie

Answer 109

freewheeling Alibaba’s boss, Jack Ma, already a star in China, was toasted in Manhattan high society as the kind of **freewheeling** capitalist Americans could do business with. He was not alone: 174 other Chinese firms have their main listing in America today, with a total market value of $394bn, including tech stars like Baidu and jd.com.

Question 110

out there

Answer 110

szalony; niezwykły Goldman completed the snow job by pumping up the sham stocks: "Their analysts were **out there** saying Bullshit.com is worth $100 a share."

Question 111

samotny; pustelniczy

Answer 111

reclusive A look inside the very private world of hip-hop’s **reclusive** genius.

Question 112

to tout

Answer 112

zachwalać; reklamować Mr. Bezos proudly **touts** the fact that the majority of retail sales on Amazon now come from sellers paying Amazon to use its infrastructure.

Question 113

krytyka

Answer 113

flak And then there was all this negative attention for the same rhymes that I said when I was an underground artist, when I was nobody. Now that I’m somebody, I’m getting **flak**, so…

Question 114

to get clean

Answer 114

przestać brać It wasn’t until he nearly died from an accidental methadone overdose at the end of 2007 that Eminem finally decided to **get clean**. Last month, he celebrated two and a half years of sobriety.

Question 115

zobowiązany do

Answer 115

to be bound to Lyft has threatened to sue Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, for offering a shortselling product to pre-ipo investors who are usually **bound by agreements not to** sell their shares for some time, typically six months (the bank denies the allegations).

Question 116

small-time

Answer 116

drobny They were pioneers in the use of commercial paper, which is just a fancy way of saying they made money lending out short-term IOUs to **smalltime** vendors in downtown Manhattan.

Question 117

przyczyniać się do

Answer 117

to conspire to Such practices **conspired** to turn the Internet bubble into one of the greatest financial disasters in world history: Some $5 trillion of wealth was wiped out on the NASDAQ alone.

Question 118

atak (np. serca); napad (padaczki)

Answer 118

seizure I had surgery a couple of days later, came home… and had a **seizure**. Because I wasn’t detoxed. Boom, ambulance, right back to the hospital.

Question 119

much has been made of

Answer 119

poświęcono wiele uwagi **Much has been made of** the rapper’s volatile temper, not least by Eminem himself (he once spent two years on probation for felony weapons charges after an altercation outside a bar), but in conversation he’s thoughtful and polite, albeit not in a way you’d mistake for friendliness.

Question 120

to be on a par

Answer 120

dorównywać I started to get the sleep problem in the first place when I was feeling the pressures of having to be places at a certain time to perform — and **be up to par** on every single thing that I did, because everyone is watching.

Question 121

być w porządku; być na prostej

Answer 121

to be on the up-and-up I speak to Elton [John]. He’s like my sponsor. He usually calls me once a week to check on me, just to make sure I’m **on the up-and-up**.

Question 122

bravado

Answer 122

brawura I was fucked up inside, and people with those kinds of problems tend to put up this false **bravado** – let me attack everyone else, so the focus is off me.

Question 123

come

Answer 123

kiedy nadejdzie **Come this fall**, the iPad could become the right computer for many people.

Question 124

figurative

Answer 124

przenośny; symboliczny All that money that you’re losing, it’s going somewhere, and in both a literal and a **figurative** sense, Goldman Sachs is where it’s going: The bank is a huge, highly sophisticated engine for converting the useful, deployed wealth of society into the least useful, most wasteful and insoluble substance on Earth — pure profit for rich individuals.

Question 125

insoluble

Answer 125

nierozpuszczalny All that money that you’re losing, it’s going somewhere, and in both a literal and a figurative sense, Goldman Sachs is where it’s going: The bank is a huge, highly sophisticated engine for converting the useful, deployed wealth of society into the least useful, most wasteful and **insoluble** substance on Earth — pure profit for rich individuals.

Question 126

wykorzystać okazję

Answer 126

to make hay The firm’s profits have soared and investors **have made hay**. make hay while the sun shines = kuj żelazo póki gorące

Question 127

forerunner

Answer 127

poprzednik Many **forerunners** have agreed he was complicit in the takeover of Nazi Germany and in the horrors of the Holocaust.

Question 128

in the same breath

Answer 128

za jednym zamachem, jednocześnie "It’s sad it was the last show, but **in the same breath** it was also a celebration," the drummer says of the hometown gig, which bookended the pioneering L.A. glam-metal group’s so-called decades of decadence.

Question 129

compatriot

Answer 129

rodak The firm is not yet under attack, unlike its **compatriot**, Huawei, but the mood is tense.

Question 130

lejce; mieć kontrolę nad czymś; nerki

Answer 130

reins Then, when I got off probation for my felonies [in 2003], and I didn’t have to drop urine anymore, the **reins** came off.

Question 131

high finance

Answer 131

finansjera; wielkie pieniądze Hong Kong’s rise has been accompanied by an erosion of Western hegemony in Asian **high finance**.

Question 132

bitwa, starcie, potyczka

Answer 132

skirmish Amid the **skirmishes** over privacy, Apple is transitioning from an iPhone-driven company into one powered by a suite of services, such as streaming-music subscriptions, app-store sales and mobile payments.

Question 133

to second guess

Answer 133

podważać; *oceniać po fakcie; krytykować coś, kiedy to się już wydarzyło* Sources close to FCA say that the government was constantly **second-guessing** and renegotiating every aspect of the deal.

Question 134

statek; naczynie

Answer 134

vessel If you get the hang of it—and Apple appears to be making the coming version of Siri Shortcuts a little easier to use—you’d just need some **vessel** for Siri, so almost any Apple device would do.

Question 135

to get carried away

Answer 135

dać się ponieść (np. emocjom) That’s where I **get carried away**. Someone’s gotta literally come pry the fucking album from my fingers, because I’m still tweaking. And probably no one hears the difference.

Question 136

zgodzić się sprzedać taniej

Answer 136

to take a haircut Tiger indicated to potential buyers that it was willing **to take a big haircut** to getsome liquidity, the people said.

Question 137

red ink

Answer 137

poważne straty finansowe (firmy) The flow of **red ink** mainly represents subsidies from investors to riders: cash that allows average Joes to feel as though they have a personal car at their beck and call.

Question 138

szkopół

Answer 138

hitch The **hitch** is that the park is currently inaccessible.

Question 139

gładki; zręcznie przeprowadzony

Answer 139

slick Yet while the production of unicorns gathered pace and **slickness**, their disposal did not keep up. The rate at which venturebacked companies move on to the public markets has slowed. In 2013 the average age of a venture-backed American company putting on an ipo was seven years. By 2018 it had grown to ten.

Question 140

dogadywać komuś, dogryzać komuś

Answer 140

to snipe at Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai **sniped at** Apple in a New York Times editorial that "privacy cannot be a luxury good" available to people who buy expensive devices.

Question 141

drawn-out

Answer 141

przeciągający się, rozwlekły (np. dyskusja) Amid more than two hours of announcements—including the **drawn-out** unveiling of a ludicrously powerful new Mac Pro—the iPhone saw surprisingly little stage time.

Question 142

wycofać się z czegoś

Answer 142

to pull out So what went so wrong, so quickly, to compel fca to **pull out**? The deal, born out of reportedly convivial talks between Mr Elkann and Mr Senard, was greeted with approval by investors.

Question 143

stave off

Answer 143

oddalać, chwilowo powstrzymywać (np. groźbę niebezpieczeństwa) But once again, Goldman got off virtually scot-free, **staving off** prosecution by agreeing to pay a paltry $60 million — about what the bank’s CDO division made in a day and a half during the real estate boom.

Question 144

fiend

Answer 144

fanatyk Well, that and video games. Eminem is a vintage video-game **fiend**. The studio lobby is filled with arcade classics: Donkey Kong, Frogger, Space Invaders.

Question 145

zapped

Answer 145

wykończony; wyczerpany It had **zapped** all my strength – I couldn’t lift the fucking salt-and-pepper shaker.

Question 146

mean

Answer 146

środek (do osiągnięcia czegoś) Thanks to Sidney Weinberg, who rose from the rank of janitor’s assistant to head the firm, Goldman became the pioneer of the initial public offering, one of the principal and most lucrative **means** by which companies raise money.

Question 147

runner-up

Answer 147

zdobywca drugiego miejsca A large painting of Biggie and 2Pac graces one wall, while a plaque leaning against another celebrates Eminem’s status as SoundScan’s Artist of the Decade: 32 million albums sold in the past 10 years, trouncing **runners-up** the Beatles.

Question 148

wykręcić się; wymigać się

Answer 148

to cop out I could **cop out** and say it’s from music, but it’s not that. Once I got sober, I started noticing shit about myself. Like, if I ran on the treadmill, if I had it in my mind that I needed to burn 500 calories, I hit that exact number.

Question 149

dostawca

Answer 149

purveyor AIG, a major **purveyor** of default swaps, approached the New York State Insurance Department in 2000 and asked whether default swaps would be regulated as insurance.

Question 150

to skirt

Answer 150

omijać, unikać (np. odpowiedzi na pytanie) For years, YouTube, in addition to social-media companies Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. attempted to **skirt** the task of adjudicating content, justifying the hands-off approach with the view that their sites and apps are content-neutral technology platforms.

Question 151

to hold up as an example

Answer 151

stawiać za przykład In a chapter from The Great Crash, 1929 titled "In Goldman Sachs We Trust," the famed economist John Kenneth Galbraith **held up the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah trusts as classic examples** of the insanity of leveragebased investment.

Question 152

wianuszek; łańcuszek

Answer 152

daisy chain The end result (ask yourself if this sounds familiar) was a **daisy chain** of borrowed money, one exquisitely vulnerable to a decline in performance anywhere along the line.

Question 153

to make something clear

Answer 153

stawiać sprawę jasno Before our interview began, he **made it clear** that he preferred not to discuss his family.

Question 154

wyróżniać się

Answer 154

to stand out While the finale’s viewer-ship number **stands out** in today’s fragmented media landscape, it pales in comparison to the final episodes of other iconic shows such as "M\*A\*S\*H," which drew 105.9million viewers, and "Cheers," which attracted 80 million.

Question 155

in full swing

Answer 155

pełną parą; w najlepsze; na pełnych obrotach; w pełni The Masters champion has made his comeback without the help of a **full-swing** coach.

Question 156

to flip out

Answer 156

stracić nad sobą kontrolę; wściec się They’d say it behind my back. They didn’t say it to my face, because I would fucking **flip out**.

Question 157

całkowita izolacja

Answer 157

splendid isolation For decades, the striving working class has dreamed of the freedom to commute in the **splendid isolation** of a private car. "A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure," Margaret Thatcher is supposed to have said.

Question 158

to pull out

Answer 158

wycofać się z czegoś So what went so wrong, so quickly, to compel fca to **pull out**? The deal, born out of reportedly convivial talks between Mr Elkann and Mr Senard, was greeted with approval by investors.

Question 159

istotny

Answer 159

pertinent Eventually, lots of aggrieved investors agreed. In a virtual repeat of the Internet IPO craze, Goldman was hit with a wave of lawsuits after the collapse of the housing bubble, many of which accused the bank of withholding **pertinent** information about the quality of the mortgages it issued.

Question 160

wyznaczony

Answer 160

designated As orders came in, traders at Citadel Securities, Uber’s **designated** market maker, and the team at Morgan Stanley tasked with stabilizing the stock on behalf of the underwriters realized they didn’t have enough demand to open at $45 or higher.

Question 161

wasteful

Answer 161

marnotrawny All that money that you’re losing, it’s going somewhere, and in both a literal and a figurative sense, Goldman Sachs is where it’s going: The bank is a huge, highly sophisticated engine for converting the useful, deployed wealth of society into the least useful, most **wasteful** and insoluble substance on Earth — pure profit for rich individuals.

Question 162

przegrywać, pozostawać w tyle

Answer 162

to trail Its Pixel smartphone has less than 1% of the global market despite Google’s home-field advantage of owning the operating system that powers 85% of the world’s handsets. And Google **trails** both Amazon and Microsoft by a wide margin in the rapidly growing market for cloud-computing services.

Question 163

nawalić, wysiąść (np. maszyna)

Answer 163

to conk out The rest of the film contains performances of "Shout at the Devil," "Kickstart My Heart" and "Home Sweet Home," among other hits, as well as Lee’s ill-fated final roller-coaster drum solo (the apparatus **conked out** midway through) and emotional interviews with the band members.

Question 164

ace in the hole

Answer 164

as w rękawie There is another **ace in the hole** that helps: Amazon’s ambition. Much of the tech retail giant’s generous valuation is premised on the company defying gravity typical for such a large enterprise.

Question 165

paskudny

Answer 165

hideous The bank might be taking all these **hideous**, completely irresponsible mortgages from beneath-gangster-status firms like Countrywide and selling them off to municipalities and pensioners — old people, for God’s sake — pretending the whole time that it wasn’t grade D horseshit.

Question 166

zaszczycić

Answer 166

to grace A large painting of Biggie and 2Pac **graces** one wall, while a plaque leaning against another celebrates Eminem’s status as SoundScan’s Artist of the Decade: 32 million albums sold in the past 10 years, trouncing runners-up the Beatles.

Question 167

róg obfitości; obfitość

Answer 167

cornucopia The ideological analysis is an odd combination of **cornucopianism** and constraints.

Question 168

przeciągający się, rozwlekły (np. dyskusja)

Answer 168

drawn-out Amid more than two hours of announcements—including the **drawn-out** unveiling of a ludicrously powerful new Mac Pro—the iPhone saw surprisingly little stage time.

Question 169

sprzeczka

Answer 169

altercation Much has been made of the rapper’s volatile temper, not least by Eminem himself (he once spent two years on probation for felony weapons charges after an **altercation** outside a bar), but in conversation he’s thoughtful and polite, albeit not in a way you’d mistake for friendliness.

Question 170

to schmooze

Answer 170

gawędzić You’ll price the stock, determine how many shares should be released and take the Bullshit.com CEO on a "road show" to **schmooze** investors, all in exchange for a substantial fee (typically six to seven percent of the amount raised).

Question 171

adept

Answer 171

biegły, doświadczony (w jakiejś dziedzinie) He simply believed in giving harsh feedback in private, and was usually **adept** enough to make the recipient grateful for the telling-off.

Question 172

to fall back on something

Answer 172

uciekać się do czegoś Just being onstage in front of that many people, being able to command the crowd but not having to **fall back on** old crutches like drugs and drinking.

Question 173

apparatus

Answer 173

urządzenie; maszyneria (np. biurokratyczna) The rest of the film contains performances of "Shout at the Devil," "Kickstart My Heart" and "Home Sweet Home," among other hits, as well as Lee’s ill-fated final roller-coaster drum solo (the **apparatus** conked out midway through) and emotional interviews with the band members.

Question 174

to drool

Answer 174

ślinić się Like I relapsed on drugs. It was a little creepy. I certainly had some dark times with that shit, mostly due to taking a lot of pills and fucking **drooling** on myself.

Question 175

stawiać za przykład

Answer 175

to hold up as an example In a chapter from The Great Crash, 1929 titled "In Goldman Sachs We Trust," the famed economist John Kenneth Galbraith **held up the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah trusts as classic examples** of the insanity of leveragebased investment.

Question 176

apex

Answer 176

szczyt It became almost a national clichè that whatever Rubin thought was best for the economy — a phenomenon that reached its **apex** in 1999, when Rubin appeared on the cover of Time with his Treasury deputy, Larry Summers, and Fed chief Alan Greenspan under the headline The Committee To Save The World.

Question 177

chłodny

Answer 177

tepid The market’s **tepid** response stems in part from the fact that Uber was the most richly funded private tech company, raising about $20 billion in equity and debt.

Question 178

zmierzać ku upadkowi; gwałtownie pogarszająca się sytuacja

Answer 178

to circle the drain What you need to know is the big picture: If America is **circling the drain**, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain — an extremely unfortunate loophole in the system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Question 179

to delve

Answer 179

zagłębiać (się w coś), dociekać, badać His revalidation of faith **delves** into this utter madness, but what emerges is a message of hope, inspired by people of resilient faith.

Question 180

the tail end of something

Answer 180

końcówka Around **the tail end of** [2004’s] Encore, the songs started getting really goofy.

Question 181

vendor

Answer 181

sprzedawca; producent They were pioneers in the use of commercial paper, which is just a fancy way of saying they made money lending out short-term IOUs to smalltime **vendors** in downtown Manhattan.

Question 182

to branch out

Answer 182

rozszerzać działalność **Branching out**, the juggernaut is getting embroiled in controversies from Echo to cloud; a Twitter war with Elizabeth Warren.

Question 183

shitload

Answer 183

wiele, dużo You can probably guess the basic plotline of Goldman’s first 100 years in business: plucky, immigrant-led investment bank beats the odds, pulls itself up by its bootstraps, makes **shitloads** of money.

Question 184

spur of the moment

Answer 184

spontaniczny Yeah, it was **spur-of-the-moment**, it came together so fast, and it was organic, I guess — I hate that word. The rhymes were funny, but there was still some kind of MC’ing aspect to it.

Question 185

as w rękawie

Answer 185

ace in the hole There is another **ace in the hole** that helps: Amazon’s ambition. Much of the tech retail giant’s generous valuation is premised on the company defying gravity typical for such a large enterprise.

Question 186

reclusive

Answer 186

samotny; pustelniczy A look inside the very private world of hip-hop’s **reclusive** genius.

Question 187

niepokój; obawa

Answer 187

misgiving Despite its **misgivings**, Nissan could have been brought on board, fca believed.

Question 188

umieścić; osadzać

Answer 188

to perch This is not because it is **perched** on a spectacular, undulating building that itself looks quite like a mythical beast (Moby-Dick, in this case) nor because its tastefully planted flora, all native to flower-power California, offer a particularly enticing equine habitat.

Question 189

złośliwy

Answer 189

snide Cocky and **snide**, he’s an ideal dramatic foil for the sweet, modest family man Wiebe. "It’s a perfect contrast," Eminem says of the pairing. "A hero and a villain."

Question 190

keep somebody in the dark

Answer 190

utrzymywać kogoś w nieświadomości But, it then emerged, Nissan had been **kept in the dark** about the deal until the last minute.

Question 191

dzielny

Answer 191

plucky You can probably guess the basic plotline of Goldman’s first 100 years in business: **plucky**, immigrant-led investment bank beats the odds, pulls itself up by its bootstraps, makes shitloads of money.

Question 192

rozległy; rozciągnięty

Answer 192

sprawling Amazon.com Inc. has a Facebook Inc.- size problem: It’s become such a **sprawling** business that its inevitable missteps are beginning to erode trust in its products and services, good will in Washington, and its ability to achieve globe-spanning dominance.

Question 193

odeprzeć atak

Answer 193

to push back Facebook and Google have **pushed back with** privacy promises of their own.

Question 194

tu: popiersie

Answer 194

bust On the wall above his head is a huge print of the Paul’s Boutique album cover; a life-size, giant-tongued **bust** of the head of Venom, the Spider-Man villain, has a place of honor at Rosenberg’s desk.

Question 195

niepokoić; odgrywać ważną rolę; spędzać sen z powiek

Answer 195

to loom large Lack of support from key institutional shareholders like BlackRock **loomed large**, people close to the process said.

Question 196

crisp

Answer 196

tu: świeżo wyprasowany He’s wearing a **crisp** white T-shirt, below-the-knee cargo shorts, and blue and white low-top Nike Air Max Is with tags still on them.

Question 197

quest

Answer 197

dążenie His interest grew after seeing a documentary called The King of Kong, about a mild-mannered engineer named Steve Wiebe and his **quest** to capture the world Donkey Kong record.

Question 198

to push back

Answer 198

odeprzeć atak Facebook and Google have **pushed back with** privacy promises of their own.

Question 199

to pop

Answer 199

wystrzelić When Lyft went public its share price **popped** 8.7% on the first day of trading, giving it a market capitalisation of $22.4bn.

Question 200

oszustwo

Answer 200

sham But Wall Street took these guidelines and threw them in the trash." Goldman completed the snow job by pumping up the **sham** stocks: "Their analysts were out there saying Bullshit.com is worth $100 a share."

Question 201

to deteriorate

Answer 201

pogarszać się Our performance across all major markets was **deteriorating**, and without a fundamental overhaul, our losses were posed to threaten the profitability of the entire Deutsche Post DHL Group.

Question 202

to chisel

Answer 202

wyrzeźbić Ruiz’s body is not **chiseled** out of stone, as Joshua’s is. He is big, but he is definitely not ripped.

Question 203

hapless

Answer 203

niefortunny The existing giants took full advantage of Western governments’ **haplessness**. They successfully lobbied to avoid being held responsible for the content produced by their users, or restricted from doing what they pleased with personal data, or bothered by pesky antitrust laws.

Question 204

to be no more

Answer 204

już nie ma; przestać istnieć A merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Renault **is no more**.

Question 205

sprzedawca; producent

Answer 205

vendor They were pioneers in the use of commercial paper, which is just a fancy way of saying they made money lending out short-term IOUs to smalltime **vendors** in downtown Manhattan.

Question 206

flabby

Answer 206

zwiotczały The **flabby** Ruiz, who is listed as 6-foot-2, smiled and flexed his biceps as he tipped the scales at 268 pounds.

Question 207

to cop out

Answer 207

wykręcić się; wymigać się I could **cop out** and say it’s from music, but it’s not that. Once I got sober, I started noticing shit about myself. Like, if I ran on the treadmill, if I had it in my mind that I needed to burn 500 calories, I hit that exact number.

Question 208

tepid

Answer 208

chłodny The market’s **tepid** response stems in part from the fact that Uber was the most richly funded private tech company, raising about $20 billion in equity and debt.

Question 209

disposal

Answer 209

pozbycie się; sprzedaż Yet while the production of unicorns gathered pace and slickness, their **disposal** did not keep up. The rate at which venturebacked companies move on to the public markets has slowed. In 2013 the average age of a venture-backed American company putting on an ipo was seven years. By 2018 it had grown to ten.

Question 210

full-blown

Answer 210

na wielką skalę; w pełni rozwinięty Do you think you’ll ever do a **full-blown** tour again?

Question 211

shitter

Answer 211

kibel Sometimes. I think we do most of our best thinking on the **shitter**. What else do you have to do in there besides think?

Question 212

dążenie

Answer 212

quest His interest grew after seeing a documentary called The King of Kong, about a mild-mannered engineer named Steve Wiebe and his **quest** to capture the world Donkey Kong record.

Question 213

tu: powierzchowność

Answer 213

exterior He was probably born in a $4,000 suit, he had a face that seemed permanently frozen just short of an apology for being so much smarter than you, and he exuded a Spock-like, emotion-neutral **exterior**; the only human feeling you could imagine him experiencing was a nightmare about being forced to fly coach.

Question 214

smutny

Answer 214

dismal Thus every investment round is engineered to create a higher valuation than the previous one; the alternative, a "down round", is seen as a **dismal** sign.

Question 215

dokonać czegoś; osiągnąć coś

Answer 215

to pull off Ruiz’s dream, of course, was to win the heavyweight title, which he **pulled off** in shocking fashion, stopping Joshua via a seventh-round technical knockout on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden that instantly stands as one of boxing’s greatest upsets ever.

Question 216

nauczyć się; zrozumieć

Answer 216

to get the hang of If you **get the hang of it**—and Apple appears to be making the coming version of Siri Shortcuts a little easier to use—you’d just need some vessel for Siri, so almost any Apple device would do.

Question 217

spontaniczny

Answer 217

spur of the moment Yeah, it was **spur-of-the-moment**, it came together so fast, and it was organic, I guess — I hate that word. The rhymes were funny, but there was still some kind of MC’ing aspect to it.

Question 218

tycoon

Answer 218

potentat In November Mr Ma’s halo in America slipped when it was revealed he was a Communist Party member, like many Chinese **tycoon**s (he is due to retire from Alibaba this year).

Question 219

dać się ponieść (np. emocjom)

Answer 219

to get carried away That’s where I **get carried away**. Someone’s gotta literally come pry the fucking album from my fingers, because I’m still tweaking. And probably no one hears the difference.

Question 220

stracić okazję

Answer 220

to miss out A dearth of interesting alternative investments and endemic fear of **missing out** saw institutional investors, often from hedge and sovereign-wealth funds, eager to join in ever larger rounds of financing.

Question 221

imposing

Answer 221

imponujący The current herd all seek to suggest that they offer the same sort of opportunity as that illustrious trinity: vast potential markets; limited physical plant and staff; high margins; **imposing** barriers to entry.

Question 222

niefortunny

Answer 222

hapless The existing giants took full advantage of Western governments’ **haplessness**. They successfully lobbied to avoid being held responsible for the content produced by their users, or restricted from doing what they pleased with personal data, or bothered by pesky antitrust laws.

Question 223

daisy chain

Answer 223

wianuszek; łańcuszek The end result (ask yourself if this sounds familiar) was a **daisy chain** of borrowed money, one exquisitely vulnerable to a decline in performance anywhere along the line.

Question 224

to goof off

Answer 224

obijać się "Rain Man," "Big Weenie," "Ass Like That" – that’s when the wheels were coming off. Every day I had a pocketful of pills, and I would just go into the studio and **goof off**.

Question 225

uciekać

Answer 225

to flee While the collapse of the housing bubble sent most of the financial world **fleeing** for the exits, or to jail, Goldman boldly doubled down — and almost single-handedly created yet another bubble, one the world still barely knows the firm had anything to do with.

Question 226

to be premised on

Answer 226

być opartym na czymś There is another ace in the hole that helps: Amazon’s ambition. Much of the tech retail giant’s generous valuation **is premised on** the company defying gravity typical for such a large enterprise.

Question 227

to make clear

Answer 227

dać jasno do zrozumienia You’ve **made it clear** again and again that you don’t actually have a problem with gay people — so why, in 2013, use the word "faggot"?

Question 228

to chatter

Answer 228

paplać The deceptive practices also caught the attention of Nicholas Maier, the syndicate manager of Cramer & Co., the hedge fund run at the time by the now-famous **chattering** television asshole Jim Cramer, himself a Goldman alum.

Question 229

szalony; niezwykły

Answer 229

out there Goldman completed the snow job by pumping up the sham stocks: "Their analysts were **out there** saying Bullshit.com is worth $100 a share."

Question 230

poświęcono wiele uwagi

Answer 230

much has been made of **Much has been made of** the rapper’s volatile temper, not least by Eminem himself (he once spent two years on probation for felony weapons charges after an altercation outside a bar), but in conversation he’s thoughtful and polite, albeit not in a way you’d mistake for friendliness.

Question 231

to blow one’s own horn

Answer 231

przechwalać się I feel there were some technical aspects to that record. I don’t want to **toot my own horn** or anything like that.

Question 232

dotrzeć do świadomości, zrozumieć

Answer 232

to sink in I always said none of this is going to **sink in** until God knows how long afterward. You’re still coming off of that high of touring for nearly two years.

Question 233

mydlenie oczu, bajerowanie

Answer 233

snow job But Wall Street took these guidelines and threw them in the trash." Goldman completed the **snow job** by pumping up the sham stocks: "Their analysts were out there saying Bullshit.com is worth $100 a share."

Question 234

to trounce

Answer 234

pokonać A large painting of Biggie and 2Pac graces one wall, while a plaque leaning against another celebrates Eminem’s status as SoundScan’s Artist of the Decade: 32 million albums sold in the past 10 years, **trouncing** runners-up the Beatles.

Question 235

niebezpieczny

Answer 235

gnarly No, but I’ve had a lot of sparks land in my hair and you can smell the smoke. It’s **gnarly**.

Question 236

wysłuchać

Answer 236

to lend an ear Right now me and Dre are busy with Detox. It’s really close – I want to say we’re halfway done. I’m **lending an ear**, helping him write, laying hooks – whatever I can do.

Question 237

ogólnie rzecz biorąc

Answer 237

all in all **All in all**, it’s a remarkable comeback for a man who might not have lived to make another album.

Question 238

krawędź, brzeg

Answer 238

brim At one point, he fills a 16-ounce cup nearly to the **brim**, then sets it down next to another full cup he’d forgotten he had.

Question 239

fabuła

Answer 239

plotline You can probably guess the basic **plotline** of Goldman’s first 100 years in business: plucky, immigrant-led investment bank beats the odds, pulls itself up by its bootstraps, makes shitloads of money.

Question 240

pervasive

Answer 240

wszechobecny The move is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to stave off what it sees as China’s **pervasive** theft of U.S. science and technology, and it comes as tensions between Washington and Beijing continue to rise.

Question 241

rzucić okiem

Answer 241

to glimpse Still, from the few **glimpses** he offers, a picture emerges of a devoted, protective father trying to focus on the two things he loves most: his children and his work.

Question 242

obijać się

Answer 242

to goof off "Rain Man," "Big Weenie," "Ass Like That" – that’s when the wheels were coming off. Every day I had a pocketful of pills, and I would just go into the studio and **goof off**.

Question 243

let it rip

Answer 243

do dzieła!, ruszajmy z koksem! What was the band’s preshow ritual? Was it different for the final show? No. We just see each other up onstage and **let it rip**.

Question 244

zrezygnować z czegoś

Answer 244

to do away with Some venture capitalists are thinking about ways that they might **do away with** the IPO entirely.

Question 245

podróżować, zwiedzać

Answer 245

to go places Not having a record out, I could stop at a gas station, **go places** and not get recognized. That was actually a pretty good feeling.

Question 246

równowaga

Answer 246

footing I came out of some difficult things these past couple of years. I kind of feel like I’m just now finding my **footing**.

Question 247

to bilk

Answer 247

oszukać Back then, the main financial tool used to **bilk** investors was called an "investment trust."

Question 248

potępiać, piętnować

Answer 248

to denounce Then, in June 1998, Rubin went public to **denounce** her move, eventually recommending that Congress strip the CFTC of its regulatory authority. In 2000, on its last day in session, Congress passed the now-notorious Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which had been inserted into an 11,000-page spending bill at the last minute, with almost no debate on the floor of the Senate.

Question 249

mild-mannered

Answer 249

dobrze wychowany His interest grew after seeing a documentary called The King of Kong, about a **mild-mannered** engineer named Steve Wiebe and his quest to capture the world Donkey Kong record.

Question 250

to fathom

Answer 250

pojąć, zrozumieć I’m a bad influence: "Hi, kids!" I’m aiming right at your kids, but never in a million years **fathoming** that it could even actually happen.

Question 251

to screw around

Answer 251

wygłupiać się You acted spaced-out, and people didn’t get that you were **screwing around**.

Question 252

patronage

Answer 252

patronat; protektorat Then they hoover up vast sums from the middle and lower floors of society with the aid of a crippled and corrupt state that allows it to rewrite the rules in exchange for the relative pennies the bank throws at political **patronage**.

Question 253

za jednym zamachem, jednocześnie

Answer 253

in the same breath "It’s sad it was the last show, but **in the same breath** it was also a celebration," the drummer says of the hometown gig, which bookended the pioneering L.A. glam-metal group’s so-called decades of decadence.

Question 254

beat the odds

Answer 254

pokonać przeciwności You can probably guess the basic plotline of Goldman’s first 100 years in business: plucky, immigrant-led investment bank **beats the odds**, pulls itself up by its bootstraps, makes shitloads of money.

Question 255

nierozpuszczalny

Answer 255

insoluble All that money that you’re losing, it’s going somewhere, and in both a literal and a figurative sense, Goldman Sachs is where it’s going: The bank is a huge, highly sophisticated engine for converting the useful, deployed wealth of society into the least useful, most wasteful and **insoluble** substance on Earth — pure profit for rich individuals.

Question 256

off the bat

Answer 256

natychmiast Just before noon, they opened the stock at $42 in an initial trade of more than 30 million shares.To help get to that level, Morgan Stanley had to buy stockright **off the bat**, people familiarwith the matter said.As part of the gre

Question 257

snide

Answer 257

złośliwy Cocky and **snide**, he’s an ideal dramatic foil for the sweet, modest family man Wiebe. "It’s a perfect contrast," Eminem says of the pairing. "A hero and a villain."

Question 258

to faze

Answer 258

speszyć I got up to between 220 and 230, about 80 pounds heavier than I am now. I was going to McDonald’s and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me – it wouldn’t even **faze** them.

Question 259

to stave off

Answer 259

oddalać, chwilowo powstrzymywać (np. groźbę niebezpieczeństwa) The move is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to **stave off** what it sees as China’s pervasive theft of U.S. science and technology, and it comes as tensions between Washington and Beijing continue to rise.

Question 260

stracić nad sobą kontrolę; wściec się

Answer 260

to flip out They’d say it behind my back. They didn’t say it to my face, because I would fucking **flip out**.

Question 261

to step up

Answer 261

nasilić; zintensyfikować YouTube said it is **stepping up** efforts to scrub hateful content from its platform, including videos that deny historical events like the Holocaust, taking on more of the ask of judging the validity of information on its popular video-streaming site.

Question 262

gruba ryba, szycha

Answer 262

big shot Much as in the 1990s, when new vehicles like day trading and e-trading attracted reams of new suckers from the sticks who wanted to feel like **big shots**, investment trusts roped a new generation of regular-guy investors into the speculation game.

Question 263

gnarly

Answer 263

niebezpieczny No, but I’ve had a lot of sparks land in my hair and you can smell the smoke. It’s **gnarly**.

Question 264

to conk out

Answer 264

nawalić, wysiąść (np. maszyna) The rest of the film contains performances of "Shout at the Devil," "Kickstart My Heart" and "Home Sweet Home," among other hits, as well as Lee’s ill-fated final roller-coaster drum solo (the apparatus **conked out** midway through) and emotional interviews with the band members.

Question 265

to gorge oneself

Answer 265

obżerać się The bank’s unprecedented reach and power have enabled it to turn all of America into a giant pump-and-dump scam, manipulating whole economic sectors for years at a time, moving the dice game as this or that market collapses, and all the time **gorging** itself on the unseen costs that are breaking families everywhere — high gas prices, rising consumer credit rates, half-eaten pension funds, mass layoffs, future taxes to pay off bailouts.

Question 266

down the road

Answer 266

w przyszłości Excitement about Uber’s IPOhad been building for years.Bankers raced to help the company raise capital with the expectation of multimillion-dollar IPO fees **down the road**. But leading up to the offering there were warning signs.

Question 267

to conspire to

Answer 267

przyczyniać się do Such practices **conspired** to turn the Internet bubble into one of the greatest financial disasters in world history: Some $5 trillion of wealth was wiped out on the NASDAQ alone.

Question 268

enticing

Answer 268

atrakcyjny; kuszący This is not because it is perched on a spectacular, undulating building that itself looks quite like a mythical beast (Moby-Dick, in this case) nor because its tastefully planted flora, all native to flower-power California, offer a particularly **enticing** equine habitat.

Question 269

zacząć się pogarszać

Answer 269

the wheels come off "Rain Man," "Big Weenie," "Ass Like That" – that’s when the **wheels were coming off**. Every day I had a pocketful of pills, and I would just go into the studio and goof off.

Question 270

to make hay

Answer 270

wykorzystać okazję The firm’s profits have soared and investors **have made hay**. make hay while the sun shines = kuj żelazo póki gorące

Question 271

poważne straty finansowe (firmy)

Answer 271

red ink The flow of **red ink** mainly represents subsidies from investors to riders: cash that allows average Joes to feel as though they have a personal car at their beck and call.

Question 272

podważać; oceniać po fakcie; krytykować coś, kiedy to się już wydarzyło

Answer 272

to second guess Sources close to FCA say that the government was constantly **second-guessing** and renegotiating every aspect of the deal.

Question 273

to tout

Answer 273

zachwalać Jay Ritter, a professor of finance at the University of Florida who specializes in IPOs, says banks like Goldman knew full well that many of the public offerings they were **touting** would never make a dime.

Question 274

exquisite

Answer 274

wyśmienity The end result (ask yourself if this sounds familiar) was a daisy chain of borrowed money, one **exquisitely** vulnerable to a decline in performance anywhere along the line.

Question 275

to adjudicate

Answer 275

rozstrzygać; orzekać For years, YouTube, in addition to social-media companies Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. attempted to skirt the task of **adjudicating** content, justifying the hands-off approach with the view that their sites and apps are content-neutral technology platforms.

Question 276

przystopować

Answer 276

to put a brake on something Despite the strange way things ended, did any of you have last-minute regrets and want to **put the breaks on** retirement?

Question 277

zrealizować coś

Answer 277

to follow through on something There are three explanations for this population boom: an ideology that sees the rapid creation of companies with very large user bases as the best—possibly the only—business strategy available; an infrastructure that makes it ever easier **to follow through on** this belief; and a climate in which, until recently, there was not much pressure to take these new companies public.

Question 278

to rope

Answer 278

związać Much as in the 1990s, when new vehicles like day trading and e-trading attracted reams of new suckers from the sticks who wanted to feel like big shots, investment trusts **roped** a new generation of regular-guy investors into the speculation game.

Question 279

misgiving

Answer 279

niepokój; obawa Despite its **misgivings**, Nissan could have been brought on board, fca believed.

Question 280

adhere to something

Answer 280

stosować się do czegoś "Since the Depression, there were strict underwriting guidelines that Wall Street **adhered to** when taking a company public," says one prominent hedge-fund manager.

Question 281

to turn something on its head

Answer 281

wywrócić coś do góry nogami You might not even need a screen. IOS 13 will have an update to Siri Shortcuts which **turns the idea of an app on its head**.

Question 282

tongue-in-cheek

Answer 282

ironicznie, żartobliwie And, not saying it’s wrong or it’s right, but at this point in my career — man, I say so much shit that’s **tongue-in-cheek**. I poke fun at other people, myself.

Question 283

there is something afoot

Answer 283

coś wisi w powietrzu; na coś się zanosi But on closer inspection, **there is trouble afoot**. Look the market-bound herd of unicorns in the teeth and they are not as impressive as their myth might have you think.

Question 284

seizure

Answer 284

atak (np. serca); napad (padaczki) I had surgery a couple of days later, came home… and had a **seizure**. Because I wasn’t detoxed. Boom, ambulance, right back to the hospital.

Question 285

all in all

Answer 285

ogólnie rzecz biorąc **All in all**, it’s a remarkable comeback for a man who might not have lived to make another album.

Question 286

naćpany; półprzytomny

Answer 286

spaced-out You acted **spaced-out**, and people didn’t get that you were screwing around.

Question 287

to snipe at

Answer 287

dogadywać komuś, dogryzać komuś Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai **sniped at** Apple in a New York Times editorial that "privacy cannot be a luxury good" available to people who buy expensive devices.

Question 288

samodzielnie osiągnąć w życiu sukces

Answer 288

pull yourself up by your bootstraps You can probably guess the basic plotline of Goldman’s first 100 years in business: plucky, immigrant-led investment bank beats the odds, **pulls itself up by its bootstraps**, makes shitloads of money.

Question 289

atrakcyjny; kuszący

Answer 289

enticing This is not because it is perched on a spectacular, undulating building that itself looks quite like a mythical beast (Moby-Dick, in this case) nor because its tastefully planted flora, all native to flower-power California, offer a particularly **enticing** equine habitat.

Question 290

reins

Answer 290

lejce; mieć kontrolę nad czymś; nerki Then, when I got off probation for my felonies [in 2003], and I didn’t have to drop urine anymore, the **reins** came off.

Question 291

to break new ground

Answer 291

zacząć robić coś, czego jeszcze nikt nie robił; być pionierem w jakiejś dziedzinie Kengor **breaks ground** where others have chosen not to by seeing scholarly findings in a new light, the light of faith.

Question 292

remont; restrukturyzacja

Answer 292

overhaul Our performance across all major markets was deteriorating, and without a fundamental **overhaul**, our losses were posed to threaten the profitability of the entire Deutsche Post DHL Group.

Question 293

wynosić, sięgać

Answer 293

to total The trusts, he wrote, were a major cause of the market’s historic crash; in today’s dollars, the losses the bank suffered **totaled** $475 billion.

Question 294

to dupe sombody

Answer 294

nabrać kogoś, oszukać kogoś Goldman not only survived the crash that wiped out so many of the investors it **duped**, it went on to become the chief underwriter to the country’s wealthiest and most powerful corporations.

Question 295

kibel

Answer 295

shitter Sometimes. I think we do most of our best thinking on the **shitter**. What else do you have to do in there besides think?

Question 296

w przyszłości

Answer 296

down the road Excitement about Uber’s IPOhad been building for years.Bankers raced to help the company raise capital with the expectation of multimillion-dollar IPO fees **down the road**. But leading up to the offering there were warning signs.

Question 297

plotline

Answer 297

fabuła You can probably guess the basic **plotline** of Goldman’s first 100 years in business: plucky, immigrant-led investment bank beats the odds, pulls itself up by its bootstraps, makes shitloads of money.

Question 298

to exude

Answer 298

tryskać He was probably born in a $4,000 suit, he had a face that seemed permanently frozen just short of an apology for being so much smarter than you, and he **exuded** a Spock-like, emotion-neutral exterior; the only human feeling you could imagine him experiencing was a nightmare about being forced to fly coach.

Question 299

can only get you so far

Answer 299

tu: tylko do pewnego momentu It has even looked beyond its own devices with Apple TV software—which you can use on Samsung TVs and other non-Apple devices. But services revenue **can only get the company so far**.

Question 300

bust

Answer 300

tu: popiersie On the wall above his head is a huge print of the Paul’s Boutique album cover; a life-size, giant-tongued **bust** of the head of Venom, the Spider-Man villain, has a place of honor at Rosenberg’s desk.

Question 301

livelihood

Answer 301

środki do życia; utrzymanie Because you’re trying to destroy me and you’re trying to take away my **livelihood**, so I’m going to destroy you.

Question 302

powstrzymać od zrobienia czegoś

Answer 302

to stop short of doing something Facebook and Twitter also have taken steps to remove and reduce the spread of spammy and abusive posts, although they have **stopped short** of removing content for being inaccurate about welldocumented events.

Question 303

schmuck

Answer 303

przygłup That seemingly simple demand gives you inside knowledge of the IPO’s future, knowledge that wasn’t disclosed to the day trader **schmucks** who only had the prospectus to go by: You know that certain of your clients who bought X amount of shares at $15 are also going to buy Y more shares at $20 or $25, virtually guaranteeing that the price is going to go to $25 and beyond.

Question 304

upset

Answer 304

niespodziewany rezultat Ruiz’s dream, of course, was to win the heavyweight title, which he pulled off in shocking fashion, stopping Joshua via a seventh-round technical knockout on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden that instantly stands as one of boxing’s greatest **upsets** ever.

Question 305

to sprawl

Answer 305

rozsiadać się (np. na fotelu) Eminem **sprawls** on an ergonomic chair in manager Paul Rosenberg’s office, with a bottle of water and a can of diet Red Bull at his feet.

Question 306

zarzuty; przestępstwo

Answer 306

wrongdoing And the Japanese firm felt rushed into making a huge strategic decision, not long after it had rejected Renault’s plan for a full merger under Carlos Ghosn, the firm’s former boss who is now fighting charges of financial **wrongdoing** at Nissan (which he denies).

Question 307

powrót do przeszłości; relikt

Answer 307

throwback You worked with Rick Rubin on parts of the new album, and there’s some **throwback** hip-hop production on there. What’s that about for you?

Question 308

drobny

Answer 308

small-time They were pioneers in the use of commercial paper, which is just a fancy way of saying they made money lending out short-term IOUs to **smalltime** vendors in downtown Manhattan.

Question 309

gorąca temperatura

Answer 309

hot as balls It’s **hot as fucking balls** up there. At all of those shows, my drum tech was behind me with a Super Soaker.

Question 310

żywić urazę; mieć pretensje do całego świata

Answer 310

to have a chip on your shoulder I don’t know if it hurt back then. But the older you get, you start to realize, "Fuck. I would never do that to my kids." You start **getting a chip on your shoulder**, getting bitter.

Question 311

slick

Answer 311

gładki; zręcznie przeprowadzony Yet while the production of unicorns gathered pace and **slickness**, their disposal did not keep up. The rate at which venturebacked companies move on to the public markets has slowed. In 2013 the average age of a venture-backed American company putting on an ipo was seven years. By 2018 it had grown to ten.

Question 312

ironicznie, żartobliwie

Answer 312

tongue-in-cheek And, not saying it’s wrong or it’s right, but at this point in my career — man, I say so much shit that’s **tongue-in-cheek**. I poke fun at other people, myself.

Question 313

pyskaty

Answer 313

loud-mouthed The bad guy in The King of Kong is named Billy Mitchell, a **loudmouthed** jerk not entirely unlike a certain white rapper.

Question 314

spaced-out

Answer 314

naćpany; półprzytomny You acted **spaced-out**, and people didn’t get that you were screwing around.

Question 315

plucky

Answer 315

dzielny You can probably guess the basic plotline of Goldman’s first 100 years in business: **plucky**, immigrant-led investment bank beats the odds, pulls itself up by its bootstraps, makes shitloads of money.

Question 316

to lend an ear

Answer 316

wysłuchać Right now me and Dre are busy with Detox. It’s really close – I want to say we’re halfway done. I’m **lending an ear**, helping him write, laying hooks – whatever I can do.

Question 317

to embroil

Answer 317

wplątać się; uwikłać się Branching out, the juggernaut is getting **embroiled** in controversies from Echo to cloud; a Twitter war with Elizabeth Warren.

Question 318

in advance of something

Answer 318

przed czymś The drummer caught up with Rolling Stone **in advance of** the film’s release for a revealing "exit interview," where he looked back on the highs and lows of three decades of Mötley Crüe and opened up about the weirdness that surrounded the group’s farewell concert.

Question 319

for the most part

Answer 319

przez większość czasu; w przeważającej części Do you sleep well now? **For the most part**, I think so. I have nights every now and again where I’m just laying there in the bed and thinking, "I gotta get up. I gotta get this idea down for a song."

Question 320

oddalać, chwilowo powstrzymywać (np. groźbę niebezpieczeństwa)

Answer 320

to stave off But once again, Goldman got off virtually scot-free, **staving off** prosecution by agreeing to pay a paltry $60 million — about what the bank’s CDO division made in a day and a half during the real estate boom.

Question 321

wywrócić coś do góry nogami

Answer 321

to turn something on its head You might not even need a screen. IOS 13 will have an update to Siri Shortcuts which **turns the idea of an app on its head**.

Question 322

z powodu, że; ponieważ

Answer 322

on the grounds that One former Goldman banker who left the firm in the early Nineties recalls seeing his superiors give up a very profitable deal **on the grounds that** it was a long-term loser.

Question 323

to prop up

Answer 323

wzmocnić As part of the green shoe, the bank had discretion to sell 15% of the total offering size short, meaning it could borrow that stock to sell in the open market. If the shares dropped in the early days or weeks of trading the bank could buy them back to try to **prop up** the price.

Question 324

portier; dozorca

Answer 324

janitor Thanks to Sidney Weinberg, who rose from the rank of **janitor’s** assistant to head the firm, Goldman became the pioneer of the initial public offering, one of the principal and most lucrative means by which companies raise money.

Question 325

pełną parą; w najlepsze; na pełnych obrotach; w pełni

Answer 325

in full swing The Masters champion has made his comeback without the help of a **full-swing** coach.

Question 326

nabijać się z

Answer 326

to poke fun at And, not saying it’s wrong or it’s right, but at this point in my career — man, I say so much shit that’s tongue-in-cheek. I **poke fun at** other people, myself.

Question 327

rozszerzać działalność

Answer 327

to branch out **Branching out**, the juggernaut is getting embroiled in controversies from Echo to cloud; a Twitter war with Elizabeth Warren.

Question 328

to look back on something

Answer 328

wspominać coś The drummer caught up with Rolling Stone in advance of the film’s release for a revealing "exit interview," where he **looked back on** the highs and lows of three decades of Mötley Crüe and opened up about the weirdness that surrounded the group’s farewell concert.

Question 329

bardzo podekscytowany, rozentuzjazmowany

Answer 329

hog-wild Beginning a pattern that would repeat itself over and over again, Goldman got into the investment trust game late, then jumped in with both feet and went **hogwild**.

Question 330

to dish out

Answer 330

udzielać; rozdawać While he was happy to **dish out** praise in group meetings, and was a generous man in his spare time, he was not a soft touch.

Question 331

omijać, unikać (np. odpowiedzi na pytanie)

Answer 331

to skirt For years, YouTube, in addition to social-media companies Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. attempted to **skirt** the task of adjudicating content, justifying the hands-off approach with the view that their sites and apps are content-neutral technology platforms.

Question 332

przygłup

Answer 332

schmuck That seemingly simple demand gives you inside knowledge of the IPO’s future, knowledge that wasn’t disclosed to the day trader **schmucks** who only had the prospectus to go by: You know that certain of your clients who bought X amount of shares at $15 are also going to buy Y more shares at $20 or $25, virtually guaranteeing that the price is going to go to $25 and beyond.

Question 333

pełzać; ślizgać się

Answer 333

to slither According to a report by the House Financial Services Committee in 2002, Goldman gave special stock offerings to executives in 21 companies that it took public, including Yahoo! cofounder Jerry Yang and two of the great **slithering** villains of the financial-scandal age — Tyco’s Dennis Kozlowski and Enron’s Ken Lay.

Question 334

dodatek; dodatkowe świadczenie

Answer 334

perk "The spinning of hot IPO shares was not a harmless corporate **perk**," then-attorney general Eliot Spitzer said at the time. "Instead, it was an integral part of a fraudulent scheme to win new investment-banking business."

Question 335

miejsce honorowe

Answer 335

place of honor On the wall above his head is a huge print of the Paul’s Boutique album cover; a life-size, giant-tongued bust of the head of Venom, the Spider-Man villain, has a **place of honor** at Rosenberg’s desk.

Question 336

wykupić ubezpieczenie

Answer 336

to take out insurance A listing there would be a sign that Chinese firms **are taking out insurance** to lower their dependence on Western finance.

Question 337

środki do życia; utrzymanie

Answer 337

livelihood Because you’re trying to destroy me and you’re trying to take away my **livelihood**, so I’m going to destroy you.

Question 338

na oślep; na łeb, na szyję

Answer 338

headlong A week doesn’t pass without a mayor, governor or policy maker joining the **headlong** rush to pledge or demand a green energy future.

Question 339

along the line

Answer 339

w międzyczasie The end result (ask yourself if this sounds familiar) was a daisy chain of borrowed money, one exquisitely vulnerable to a decline in performance anywhere **along the line**.

Question 340

dowiedzieć się co u kogoś słychać, nadrobić zaległości

Answer 340

to catch up with The drummer **caught up with** Rolling Stone in advance of the film’s release for a revealing "exit interview," where he looked back on the highs and lows of three decades of Mötley Crüe and opened up about the weirdness that surrounded the group’s farewell concert.

Question 341

creepy

Answer 341

odrażąjący; dziwny Like I relapsed on drugs. It was a little **creepy**. I certainly had some dark times with that shit, mostly due to taking a lot of pills and fucking drooling on myself.

Question 342

fabuła

Answer 342

story line While the American media fell in love with the **story line** of a pair of baby-boomer, Sixties-child, Fleetwood Mac yuppies nesting in the White House, it also nursed an undisguised crush on Rubin, who was hyped as without a doubt the smartest person ever to walk the face of the Earth, with Newton, Einstein, Mozart and Kant running far behind.

Question 343

zmusić

Answer 343

to compel "Game of Thrones" is considered a "water cooler" show, meaning that fans feel **compelled** to watch it when it first airs, but it also attracts a significant number of viewers who watch the program on their own schedules.

Question 344

to sink in

Answer 344

dotrzeć do świadomości, zrozumieć I always said none of this is going to **sink in** until God knows how long afterward. You’re still coming off of that high of touring for nearly two years.

Question 345

odpuścić sobie (coś)

Answer 345

to take a pass (on something) Some pre-IPO Uber shareholders including BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest moneymanager, and prominent techinvestor Tiger Global Management **took a pass on** buying more shares in the listing, content that they already owned plenty, people familiar with the matter said. Instead, they tried to sell stock before or as partof the initial public offering

Question 346

perk

Answer 346

dodatek; dodatkowe świadczenie "The spinning of hot IPO shares was not a harmless corporate **perk**," then-attorney general Eliot Spitzer said at the time. "Instead, it was an integral part of a fraudulent scheme to win new investment-banking business."

Question 347

plaga

Answer 347

scourge In a statement, he encouraged "many more changes from YouTube and other tech companies to adequately counter the **scourge** of online hate and extremism."

Question 348

tłamsić

Answer 348

to stifle Rejecting the framing that the only measure of whether a company is a harmful monopoly is when it unfairly raises prices, Ms. Khan argued that definitions of monopoly from the early 1900s should be revived. By its very bigness, Amazon **stifles** competition, she argued.

Question 349

powiększony

Answer 349

blown-up The iPad, which used to be little more than a **blown-up** iPhone, is starting to look like a full fledge personal computer.

Question 350

every hour on the hour

Answer 350

co godzinę And **every hour on the hour**, I’d pop four or five more. The Ambien would put me over the top to go to sleep.

Question 351

gładki, bez zmarszczek

Answer 351

unlined He’s crazily fit, with huge biceps that almost don’t match his thin, still-**unlined** face — he’s 41, but doesn’t look it.

Question 352

to flee

Answer 352

uciekać While the collapse of the housing bubble sent most of the financial world **fleeing** for the exits, or to jail, Goldman boldly doubled down — and almost single-handedly created yet another bubble, one the world still barely knows the firm had anything to do with.

Question 353

to withhold

Answer 353

zataić Eventually, lots of aggrieved investors agreed. In a virtual repeat of the Internet IPO craze, Goldman was hit with a wave of lawsuits after the collapse of the housing bubble, many of which accused the bank of **withholding** pertinent information about the quality of the mortgages it issued.

Question 354

wyrzeźbić

Answer 354

to chisel Ruiz’s body is not **chiseled** out of stone, as Joshua’s is. He is big, but he is definitely not ripped.

Question 355

nasilić; zintensyfikować

Answer 355

to step up YouTube said it is **stepping up** efforts to scrub hateful content from its platform, including videos that deny historical events like the Holocaust, taking on more of the ask of judging the validity of information on its popular video-streaming site.

Question 356

big shot

Answer 356

gruba ryba, szycha Much as in the 1990s, when new vehicles like day trading and e-trading attracted reams of new suckers from the sticks who wanted to feel like **big shots**, investment trusts roped a new generation of regular-guy investors into the speculation game.

Question 357

bad feeling

Answer 357

wrogość, rozgoryczenie But I didn’t have **bad feelings** about the tour. I looked around and smiled, going, "Fuck, we killed that shit." I’m just happy to be home and enjoying life.

Question 358

potentat

Answer 358

tycoon In November Mr Ma’s halo in America slipped when it was revealed he was a Communist Party member, like many Chinese **tycoon**s (he is due to retire from Alibaba this year).

Question 359

felony

Answer 359

poważne przestępstwo, zbrodnia Much has been made of the rapper’s volatile temper, not least by Eminem himself (he once spent two years on probation for **felony** weapons charges after an altercation outside a bar), but in conversation he’s thoughtful and polite, albeit not in a way you’d mistake for friendliness.

Question 360

scourge

Answer 360

plaga In a statement, he encouraged "many more changes from YouTube and other tech companies to adequately counter the **scourge** of online hate and extremism."

Question 361

dearth

Answer 361

brak; niedostatek A **dearth** of interesting alternative investments and endemic fear of missing out saw institutional investors, often from hedge and sovereign-wealth funds, eager to join in ever larger rounds of financing.

Question 362

ciągnąć się; wlec się

Answer 362

to rumble on But the bigger message is that, as the trade war **rumbles on**, the immensely complex global network of financial and commercial ties is adjusting.

Question 363

the wheels come off

Answer 363

zacząć się pogarszać "Rain Man," "Big Weenie," "Ass Like That" – that’s when the **wheels were coming off**. Every day I had a pocketful of pills, and I would just go into the studio and goof off.

Question 364

wyeliminować

Answer 364

to cut out "There’s aspartame in the cans," he says. "They say it’s been known to cause cancer, so I **cut that shit out**. There’s no aspartame in the fountain."

Question 365

oszukać, robić sobie jaja

Answer 365

to pull a stunt They’ve been **pulling this same stunt** over and over since the 1920s — and now they’re preparing to do it again, creating what may be the biggest and most audacious bubble yet.

Question 366

zdobywca drugiego miejsca

Answer 366

runner-up A large painting of Biggie and 2Pac graces one wall, while a plaque leaning against another celebrates Eminem’s status as SoundScan’s Artist of the Decade: 32 million albums sold in the past 10 years, trouncing **runners-up** the Beatles.

Question 367

amenable

Answer 367

przychylny The French government, which has a 15% stake in Renault, seemed **amenable**. Nissan, Renault’s main alliance partner in which the French firm has a 43% stake, made reassuring noises.

Question 368

to rumble on

Answer 368

ciągnąć się; wlec się But the bigger message is that, as the trade war **rumbles on**, the immensely complex global network of financial and commercial ties is adjusting.

Question 369

habitat

Answer 369

otoczenie; środowisko życia This is not because it is perched on a spectacular, undulating building that itself looks quite like a mythical beast (Moby-Dick, in this case) nor because its tastefully planted flora, all native to flower-power California, offer a particularly enticing equine **habitat**.

Question 370

wystrzelić

Answer 370

to pop When Lyft went public its share price **popped** 8.7% on the first day of trading, giving it a market capitalisation of $22.4bn.

Question 371

to slither

Answer 371

pełzać; ślizgać się According to a report by the House Financial Services Committee in 2002, Goldman gave special stock offerings to executives in 21 companies that it took public, including Yahoo! cofounder Jerry Yang and two of the great **slithering** villains of the financial-scandal age — Tyco’s Dennis Kozlowski and Enron’s Ken Lay.

Question 372

finansjera; wielkie pieniądze

Answer 372

high finance Hong Kong’s rise has been accompanied by an erosion of Western hegemony in Asian **high finance**.

Question 373

hot as balls

Answer 373

gorąca temperatura It’s **hot as fucking balls** up there. At all of those shows, my drum tech was behind me with a Super Soaker.

Question 374

toward the end

Answer 374

pod koniec **Toward the end**, I don’t think the shit ever put me to sleep for more than two hours. It’s very similar to what I’ve read about Michael [Jackson].

Question 375

to be a foil to somebody

Answer 375

być przeciwieństwem do kogoś Cocky and snide, **he’s an ideal dramatic foil for the sweet, modest family man Wiebe**. "It’s a perfect contrast," Eminem says of the pairing. "A hero and a villain."

Question 376

rozstrzygać; orzekać

Answer 376

to adjudicate For years, YouTube, in addition to social-media companies Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. attempted to skirt the task of **adjudicating** content, justifying the hands-off approach with the view that their sites and apps are content-neutral technology platforms.

Question 377

snow job

Answer 377

mydlenie oczu, bajerowanie But Wall Street took these guidelines and threw them in the trash." Goldman completed the **snow job** by pumping up the sham stocks: "Their analysts were out there saying Bullshit.com is worth $100 a share."

Question 378

utrzymywać kogoś w nieświadomości

Answer 378

keep somebody in the dark But, it then emerged, Nissan had been **kept in the dark** about the deal until the last minute.

Question 379

dostosować się

Answer 379

to adjust But the bigger message is that, as the trade war rumbles on, the immensely complex global network of financial and commercial ties is **adjusting**.

Question 380

przeszkoda; trudność

Answer 380

stumbling block For FCA the main **stumbling-block** was the French government, which has a habit of being a tricky counterparty in deals involving national champions.

Question 381

walić, łomotać (o sercu)

Answer 381

to pound But my head was **pounding**. The blood was going to my head.

Question 382

to vet

Answer 382

weryfikować If Alibaba invests in startups it could fall foul of a new law, known as firrma, that requires foreign purchases of "critical technology" to be **vetted**.

Question 383

to total

Answer 383

wynosić, sięgać The trusts, he wrote, were a major cause of the market’s historic crash; in today’s dollars, the losses the bank suffered **totaled** $475 billion.

Question 384

być równoznacznym z

Answer 384

to amount to I ask the manager how it could be that selling something to customers that you’re actually betting against — particularly when you know more about the weaknesses of those products than the customer — doesn’t **amount to** securities fraud.

Question 385

janitor

Answer 385

portier; dozorca Thanks to Sidney Weinberg, who rose from the rank of **janitor’s** assistant to head the firm, Goldman became the pioneer of the initial public offering, one of the principal and most lucrative means by which companies raise money.

Question 386

full-fledged

Answer 386

stuprocentowy; pełnoprawny The iPad, which used to be little more than a blown-up iPhone, is starting to look like a **full-fledge** personal computer.

Question 387

skirmish

Answer 387

bitwa, starcie, potyczka Amid the **skirmishes** over privacy, Apple is transitioning from an iPhone-driven company into one powered by a suite of services, such as streaming-music subscriptions, app-store sales and mobile payments.

Question 388

borykać się z

Answer 388

to grapple with The real failure may be a widespread, persistent reluctance to **grapple with** the cost of travel in vehicular solitude—whether with or without the aid of an app.

Question 389

bronić (kogoś); odpowiadać na zarzuty oskarżenia; usprawiedliwiać (się); wstawiać się (za kimś); błagać

Answer 389

to plead Clinton’s reigning economic foursome — "especially Rubin," according to Greenberger — called Born in for a meeting and **pleaded** their case.

Question 390

marnotrawny

Answer 390

wasteful All that money that you’re losing, it’s going somewhere, and in both a literal and a figurative sense, Goldman Sachs is where it’s going: The bank is a huge, highly sophisticated engine for converting the useful, deployed wealth of society into the least useful, most **wasteful** and insoluble substance on Earth — pure profit for rich individuals.

Question 391

tweaked-out

Answer 391

spanikowany I always get **tweaked out** 10 minutes before the show. I’m a fucking basket case.

Question 392

to confide in

Answer 392

zwierzać się (komuś) Somebody **to confide in**, somebody who always had your back. At this point, it’s difficult to find people I know I can trust.

Question 393

to put a brake on something

Answer 393

przystopować Despite the strange way things ended, did any of you have last-minute regrets and want to **put the breaks on** retirement?

Question 394

to cast aside

Answer 394

porzucić; odstawić na bok You can't really see it under the plain black military scout’s cap he’s wearing this afternoon, but for the first time in half a decade or so, Eminem has reclaimed the Slim Shady platinum-blond look that he **cast aside** after beating a near-fatal pill addiction.

Question 395

prankster

Answer 395

dowcipniś There’s little evidence of the **prankster** you hear on his records, and when discussing his personal life, he has a tendency to retreat, gazing at the floor and covering his mouth like a football coach hiding his plays.

Question 396

splendid isolation

Answer 396

całkowita izolacja For decades, the striving working class has dreamed of the freedom to commute in the **splendid isolation** of a private car. "A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure," Margaret Thatcher is supposed to have said.

Question 397

tryskać

Answer 397

to exude He was probably born in a $4,000 suit, he had a face that seemed permanently frozen just short of an apology for being so much smarter than you, and he **exuded** a Spock-like, emotion-neutral exterior; the only human feeling you could imagine him experiencing was a nightmare about being forced to fly coach.

Question 398

wyśmienity

Answer 398

exquisite The end result (ask yourself if this sounds familiar) was a daisy chain of borrowed money, one **exquisitely** vulnerable to a decline in performance anywhere along the line.

Question 399

pull yourself up by your bootstraps

Answer 399

samodzielnie osiągnąć w życiu sukces You can probably guess the basic plotline of Goldman’s first 100 years in business: plucky, immigrant-led investment bank beats the odds, **pulls itself up by its bootstraps**, makes shitloads of money.

Question 400

wspominać coś

Answer 400

to look back on something The drummer caught up with Rolling Stone in advance of the film’s release for a revealing "exit interview," where he **looked back on** the highs and lows of three decades of Mötley Crüe and opened up about the weirdness that surrounded the group’s farewell concert.

Question 401

przez większość czasu; w przeważającej części

Answer 401

for the most part Do you sleep well now? **For the most part**, I think so. I have nights every now and again where I’m just laying there in the bed and thinking, "I gotta get up. I gotta get this idea down for a song."

Question 402

wplątać się; uwikłać się

Answer 402

to embroil Branching out, the juggernaut is getting **embroiled** in controversies from Echo to cloud; a Twitter war with Elizabeth Warren.

Question 403

to inoculate

Answer 403

zaszczepić Those efforts have thrust it further into controversial decisions over which content is acceptable, but haven’t **inoculated** it from criticism that the video site abounds with damaging information.

Question 404

immense

Answer 404

ogromny But the bigger message is that, as the trade war rumbles on, the **immensely** complex global network of financial and commercial ties is adjusting.

Question 405

przed czymś

Answer 405

in advance of something The drummer caught up with Rolling Stone **in advance of** the film’s release for a revealing "exit interview," where he looked back on the highs and lows of three decades of Mötley Crüe and opened up about the weirdness that surrounded the group’s farewell concert.

Question 406

to stop short of doing something

Answer 406

powstrzymać od zrobienia czegoś Facebook and Twitter also have taken steps to remove and reduce the spread of spammy and abusive posts, although they have **stopped short** of removing content for being inaccurate about welldocumented events.

Question 407

fraudulent

Answer 407

nielegalny; nieuczciwy "The spinning of hot IPO shares was not a harmless corporate perk," then-attorney general Eliot Spitzer said at the time. "Instead, it was an integral part of a **fraudulent** scheme to win new investment-banking business."

Question 408

popłoch

Answer 408

stampede Much the same might happen if a number of ipos failed to live up to their hype. So again the incentives are to go big and go quick. The move to the exits is not quite a **stampede**, but it is a pretty concerted group trot, even a canter.

Question 409

łatwy pieniądz

Answer 409

fast buck It also, oddly enough, had a reputation for relatively solid ethics and a patient approach to investment that shunned the **fast buck**; its executives were trained to adopt the firm’s mantra, "long-term greedy."

Question 410

hideous

Answer 410

paskudny The bank might be taking all these **hideous**, completely irresponsible mortgages from beneath-gangster-status firms like Countrywide and selling them off to municipalities and pensioners — old people, for God’s sake — pretending the whole time that it wasn’t grade D horseshit.

Question 411

to set out to do something

Answer 411

postanowić coś robić "It was really cool to finish where we started. We accomplished everything we **set out** to do."

Question 412

coś wisi w powietrzu; na coś się zanosi

Answer 412

there is something afoot But on closer inspection, **there is trouble afoot**. Look the market-bound herd of unicorns in the teeth and they are not as impressive as their myth might have you think.

Question 413

dołączyć

Answer 413

to get on board If Renault’s Japanese partners, Nissan and Mitsubishi, **got on board**, the firm would become a colossus making 15m cars a year—almost half as much again as their closest competitors.

Question 414

wykończony; wyczerpany

Answer 414

zapped It had **zapped** all my strength – I couldn’t lift the fucking salt-and-pepper shaker.

Question 415

to compel

Answer 415

zmusić "Game of Thrones" is considered a "water cooler" show, meaning that fans feel **compelled** to watch it when it first airs, but it also attracts a significant number of viewers who watch the program on their own schedules.

Question 416

pod koniec

Answer 416

toward the end **Toward the end**, I don’t think the shit ever put me to sleep for more than two hours. It’s very similar to what I’ve read about Michael [Jackson].

Question 417

uciekać się do czegoś

Answer 417

to fall back on something Just being onstage in front of that many people, being able to command the crowd but not having to **fall back on** old crutches like drugs and drinking.

Question 418

patronat; protektorat

Answer 418

patronage Then they hoover up vast sums from the middle and lower floors of society with the aid of a crippled and corrupt state that allows it to rewrite the rules in exchange for the relative pennies the bank throws at political **patronage**.

Question 419

korkociąg; niekontrolowany spadek

Answer 419

tailspin He tried rehab in 2005, then fell into an even deeper **tailspin** the next year, following the shooting death of his best friend, DeShaun "Proof" Holton.

Question 420

brawura

Answer 420

bravado I was fucked up inside, and people with those kinds of problems tend to put up this false **bravado** – let me attack everyone else, so the focus is off me.

Question 421

to tamper

Answer 421

manipulować; ubijać But the real problem wasn’t the money that was lost by shareholders, it was the money gained by investment bankers, who received hefty bonuses for **tampering** with the market.

Question 422

to take out insurance

Answer 422

wykupić ubezpieczenie A listing there would be a sign that Chinese firms **are taking out insurance** to lower their dependence on Western finance.

Question 423

według swoich własnych słów

Answer 423

by one's own account **By his own account**, he lives a pretty solitary existence.

Question 424

zwierzać się (komuś)

Answer 424

to confide in Somebody **to confide in**, somebody who always had your back. At this point, it’s difficult to find people I know I can trust.

Question 425

spędzać z kimś czas

Answer 425

to hang out with somebody Who do you **hang out with**?

Question 426

wygłupiać się

Answer 426

to screw around You acted spaced-out, and people didn’t get that you were **screwing around**.

Question 427

obsada (gwiazdy na takich samych warunkach jak inni)

Answer 427

ensemble cast But on Monday at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif, the company made it look like the iPhone was just one member of an **ensemble cast**.

Question 428

stuprocentowy; pełnoprawny

Answer 428

full-fledged The iPad, which used to be little more than a blown-up iPhone, is starting to look like a **full-fledge** personal computer.

Question 429

to grace

Answer 429

zaszczycić A large painting of Biggie and 2Pac **graces** one wall, while a plaque leaning against another celebrates Eminem’s status as SoundScan’s Artist of the Decade: 32 million albums sold in the past 10 years, trouncing runners-up the Beatles.

Question 430

dobrze wychowany

Answer 430

mild-mannered His interest grew after seeing a documentary called The King of Kong, about a **mild-mannered** engineer named Steve Wiebe and his quest to capture the world Donkey Kong record.

Question 431

wulgarny

Answer 431

foulmouthed He bears little resemblance to the **foulmouthed**, bleached-blond Slim Shady who once made it his mission to terrorize America.

Question 432

od

Answer 432

upon **Upon** arriving at Eminem’s recording studio – an anonymous gray hit factory in suburban Detroit – a first-time visitor will be met at his car by a large, possibly armed man named Big 8, who will have been watching from an alley across the street.

Question 433

to jinx

Answer 433

zapeszyć Why do I feel like something’s gonna fucking go wrong?" I don’t know if I **jinxed** it.

Question 434

dowcipniś

Answer 434

prankster There’s little evidence of the **prankster** you hear on his records, and when discussing his personal life, he has a tendency to retreat, gazing at the floor and covering his mouth like a football coach hiding his plays.

Question 435

przestać brać

Answer 435

to get clean It wasn’t until he nearly died from an accidental methadone overdose at the end of 2007 that Eminem finally decided to **get clean**. Last month, he celebrated two and a half years of sobriety.

Question 436

foulmouthed

Answer 436

wulgarny He bears little resemblance to the **foulmouthed**, bleached-blond Slim Shady who once made it his mission to terrorize America.

Question 437

dureń

Answer 437

chump In other words, the mortgages it was selling were for **chump**s.

Question 438

zwiotczały

Answer 438

flabby The **flabby** Ruiz, who is listed as 6-foot-2, smiled and flexed his biceps as he tipped the scales at 268 pounds.

Question 439

niespodziewany rezultat

Answer 439

upset Ruiz’s dream, of course, was to win the heavyweight title, which he pulled off in shocking fashion, stopping Joshua via a seventh-round technical knockout on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden that instantly stands as one of boxing’s greatest **upsets** ever.

Question 440

to follow through on something

Answer 440

zrealizować coś There are three explanations for this population boom: an ideology that sees the rapid creation of companies with very large user bases as the best—possibly the only—business strategy available; an infrastructure that makes it ever easier **to follow through on** this belief; and a climate in which, until recently, there was not much pressure to take these new companies public.

Question 441

to glimpse

Answer 441

rzucić okiem Still, from the few **glimpses** he offers, a picture emerges of a devoted, protective father trying to focus on the two things he loves most: his children and his work.

Question 442

sham

Answer 442

oszustwo But Wall Street took these guidelines and threw them in the trash." Goldman completed the snow job by pumping up the **sham** stocks: "Their analysts were out there saying Bullshit.com is worth $100 a share."

Question 443

napawać się

Answer 443

to soak up Millions of "Gameof Thrones" fans **soaked up** thefinal episode ofHBO’s long-running TV series—except in China, where the premium platform says the last installment got scrubbed due to trade tensions.

Question 444

przerażać kogoś

Answer 444

to creep somebody out Yeah. It fucking **creeps me out**. Letters all down the page – it was like my hand weighed 400 pounds.

Question 445

to pound

Answer 445

walić, łomotać (o sercu) But my head was **pounding**. The blood was going to my head.

Question 446

zachwalać

Answer 446

to tout Jay Ritter, a professor of finance at the University of Florida who specializes in IPOs, says banks like Goldman knew full well that many of the public offerings they were **touting** would never make a dime.

Question 447

basket case

Answer 447

wrak psychiczny; wariat; beznadziejny przypadek I always get tweaked out 10 minutes before the show. I’m a fucking **basket case**.

Question 448

reams

Answer 448

mnóstwo Much as in the 1990s, when new vehicles like day trading and e-trading attracted **reams** of new suckers from the sticks who wanted to feel like big shots, investment trusts roped a new generation of regular-guy investors into the speculation game.

Question 449

to jump in with both feet

Answer 449

w pełni się zaangażować Beginning a pattern that would repeat itself over and over again, Goldman got into the investment trust game late, then **jumped in with both feet** and went hogwild.

Question 450

szczyt

Answer 450

apex It became almost a national clichè that whatever Rubin thought was best for the economy — a phenomenon that reached its **apex** in 1999, when Rubin appeared on the cover of Time with his Treasury deputy, Larry Summers, and Fed chief Alan Greenspan under the headline The Committee To Save The World.

Question 451

pokonać przeciwności

Answer 451

beat the odds You can probably guess the basic plotline of Goldman’s first 100 years in business: plucky, immigrant-led investment bank **beats the odds**, pulls itself up by its bootstraps, makes shitloads of money.

Question 452

być opartym na czymś

Answer 452

to be premised on There is another ace in the hole that helps: Amazon’s ambition. Much of the tech retail giant’s generous valuation **is premised on** the company defying gravity typical for such a large enterprise.

Question 453

bezkarność

Answer 453

impunity Banks were now free to trade default swaps with **impunity**.

Question 454

sprzężenie zwrotne

Answer 454

feedback loop While this relatively high-margin business might please investors, it also creates a **feedback loop** in which more people start their search for goods on Amazon.

Question 455

hitch

Answer 455

szkopół The **hitch** is that the park is currently inaccessible.

Question 456

rodak

Answer 456

compatriot The firm is not yet under attack, unlike its **compatriot**, Huawei, but the mood is tense.

Question 457

to flip somebody off

Answer 457

kazać komuś spadać; pokazać środkowy palec I really don’t know. I mean, if you’re getting divorced, you still give your ex a hug, or **flip her off** or something. You either get a kiss or a slap, or … something.

Question 458

najwyższej jakości

Answer 458

top-drawer During the 1970s and 1980s, Goldman may not have been the planet-eating Death Star of political influence it is today, but it was a **top-drawer** firm that had a reputation for attracting the very smartest talent on the Street.

Question 459

tailspin

Answer 459

korkociąg; niekontrolowany spadek He tried rehab in 2005, then fell into an even deeper **tailspin** the next year, following the shooting death of his best friend, DeShaun "Proof" Holton.

Question 460

altercation

Answer 460

sprzeczka Much has been made of the rapper’s volatile temper, not least by Eminem himself (he once spent two years on probation for felony weapons charges after an **altercation** outside a bar), but in conversation he’s thoughtful and polite, albeit not in a way you’d mistake for friendliness.

Question 461

to grapple with

Answer 461

borykać się z The real failure may be a widespread, persistent reluctance to **grapple with** the cost of travel in vehicular solitude—whether with or without the aid of an app.

Question 462

tu: tylko do pewnego momentu

Answer 462

can only get you so far It has even looked beyond its own devices with Apple TV software—which you can use on Samsung TVs and other non-Apple devices. But services revenue **can only get the company so far**.

Question 463

headlong

Answer 463

na oślep; na łeb, na szyję A week doesn’t pass without a mayor, governor or policy maker joining the **headlong** rush to pledge or demand a green energy future.

Question 464

spanikowany

Answer 464

tweaked-out I always get **tweaked out** 10 minutes before the show. I’m a fucking basket case.

Question 465

to go places

Answer 465

podróżować, zwiedzać Not having a record out, I could stop at a gas station, **go places** and not get recognized. That was actually a pretty good feeling.

Question 466

to get on board

Answer 466

dołączyć do czegoś If Renault’s Japanese partners, Nissan and Mitsubishi, got **on board**, the firm would become a colossus making 15m cars a year—almost half as much again as their closest competitors.

Question 467

rozsiadać się (np. na fotelu)

Answer 467

to sprawl Eminem **sprawls** on an ergonomic chair in manager Paul Rosenberg’s office, with a bottle of water and a can of diet Red Bull at his feet.

Question 468

dismal

Answer 468

smutny Thus every investment round is engineered to create a higher valuation than the previous one; the alternative, a "down round", is seen as a **dismal** sign.

Question 469

zachwalać; reklamować

Answer 469

to tout Mr. Bezos proudly **touts** the fact that the majority of retail sales on Amazon now come from sellers paying Amazon to use its infrastructure.

Question 470

fanatyk

Answer 470

fiend Well, that and video games. Eminem is a vintage video-game **fiend**. The studio lobby is filled with arcade classics: Donkey Kong, Frogger, Space Invaders.

Question 471

to soak up

Answer 471

napawać się Millions of "Gameof Thrones" fans **soaked up** thefinal episode ofHBO’s long-running TV series—except in China, where the premium platform says the last installment got scrubbed due to trade tensions.

Question 472

wiele, dużo

Answer 472

shitload You can probably guess the basic plotline of Goldman’s first 100 years in business: plucky, immigrant-led investment bank beats the odds, pulls itself up by its bootstraps, makes **shitloads** of money.

Question 473

hog-wild

Answer 473

bardzo podekscytowany, rozentuzjazmowany Beginning a pattern that would repeat itself over and over again, Goldman got into the investment trust game late, then jumped in with both feet and went **hogwild**.

Question 474

temper

Answer 474

charakter; usposobienie Much has been made of the rapper’s volatile **temper**, not least by Eminem himself (he once spent two years on probation for felony weapons charges after an altercation outside a bar), but in conversation he’s thoughtful and polite, albeit not in a way you’d mistake for friendliness.

Question 475

paplać

Answer 475

to chatter The deceptive practices also caught the attention of Nicholas Maier, the syndicate manager of Cramer & Co., the hedge fund run at the time by the now-famous **chattering** television asshole Jim Cramer, himself a Goldman alum.

Question 476

flak

Answer 476

krytyka And then there was all this negative attention for the same rhymes that I said when I was an underground artist, when I was nobody. Now that I’m somebody, I’m getting **flak**, so…

Question 477

pogarszać się

Answer 477

to deteriorate Our performance across all major markets was **deteriorating**, and without a fundamental overhaul, our losses were posed to threaten the profitability of the entire Deutsche Post DHL Group.

Question 478

unlined

Answer 478

gładki, bez zmarszczek He’s crazily fit, with huge biceps that almost don’t match his thin, still-**unlined** face — he’s 41, but doesn’t look it.

Question 479

to fall foul

Answer 479

łamać (zasadę/prawo) If Alibaba invests in startups it could **fall foul** of a new law, known as firrma, that requires foreign purchases of "critical technology" to be vetted.

Question 480

to take a haircut

Answer 480

zgodzić się sprzedać taniej Tiger indicated to potential buyers that it was willing **to take a big haircut** to getsome liquidity, the people said.

Question 481

footing

Answer 481

równowaga I came out of some difficult things these past couple of years. I kind of feel like I’m just now finding my **footing**.

Question 482

place of honor

Answer 482

miejsce honorowe On the wall above his head is a huge print of the Paul’s Boutique album cover; a life-size, giant-tongued bust of the head of Venom, the Spider-Man villain, has a **place of honor** at Rosenberg’s desk.

Question 483

postanowić coś robić

Answer 483

to set out to do something "It was really cool to finish where we started. We accomplished everything we **set out** to do."

Question 484

już nie ma; przestać istnieć

Answer 484

to be no more A merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Renault **is no more**.

Question 485

poważne przestępstwo, zbrodnia

Answer 485

felony Much has been made of the rapper’s volatile temper, not least by Eminem himself (he once spent two years on probation for **felony** weapons charges after an altercation outside a bar), but in conversation he’s thoughtful and polite, albeit not in a way you’d mistake for friendliness.

Question 486

freewheeling

Answer 486

beztroski; na luzie Alibaba’s boss, Jack Ma, already a star in China, was toasted in Manhattan high society as the kind of **freewheeling** capitalist Americans could do business with. He was not alone: 174 other Chinese firms have their main listing in America today, with a total market value of $394bn, including tech stars like Baidu and jd.com.

Question 487

to perch

Answer 487

umieścić; osadzać This is not because it is **perched** on a spectacular, undulating building that itself looks quite like a mythical beast (Moby-Dick, in this case) nor because its tastefully planted flora, all native to flower-power California, offer a particularly enticing equine habitat.

Question 488

zapeszyć

Answer 488

to jinx Why do I feel like something’s gonna fucking go wrong?" I don’t know if I **jinxed** it.

Question 489

wzmocnić

Answer 489

to prop up As part of the green shoe, the bank had discretion to sell 15% of the total offering size short, meaning it could borrow that stock to sell in the open market. If the shares dropped in the early days or weeks of trading the bank could buy them back to try to **prop up** the price.

Question 490

fast buck

Answer 490

łatwy pieniądz It also, oddly enough, had a reputation for relatively solid ethics and a patient approach to investment that shunned the **fast buck**; its executives were trained to adopt the firm’s mantra, "long-term greedy."

Question 491

przechwalać się

Answer 491

to blow one’s own horn I feel there were some technical aspects to that record. I don’t want to **toot my own horn** or anything like that.

Question 492

stawiać sprawę jasno

Answer 492

to make something clear Before our interview began, he **made it clear** that he preferred not to discuss his family.

Question 493

to loom large

Answer 493

niepokoić; odgrywać ważną rolę; spędzać sen z powiek Lack of support from key institutional shareholders like BlackRock **loomed large**, people close to the process said.

Question 494

nabrać kogoś, oszukać kogoś

Answer 494

to dupe sombody Goldman not only survived the crash that wiped out so many of the investors it **duped**, it went on to become the chief underwriter to the country’s wealthiest and most powerful corporations.

Question 495

to miss out

Answer 495

stracić okazję A dearth of interesting alternative investments and endemic fear of **missing out** saw institutional investors, often from hedge and sovereign-wealth funds, eager to join in ever larger rounds of financing.

Question 496

exterior

Answer 496

tu: powierzchowność He was probably born in a $4,000 suit, he had a face that seemed permanently frozen just short of an apology for being so much smarter than you, and he exuded a Spock-like, emotion-neutral **exterior**; the only human feeling you could imagine him experiencing was a nightmare about being forced to fly coach.

Question 497

związać

Answer 497

to rope Much as in the 1990s, when new vehicles like day trading and e-trading attracted reams of new suckers from the sticks who wanted to feel like big shots, investment trusts **roped** a new generation of regular-guy investors into the speculation game.

Question 498

łękotka (element stawu kolanowego)

Answer 498

meniscus I’d somehow torn my **meniscus**. I’m just coming off Vicodin, my senses are coming back, and it’s hurting 10 million times worse than it had to.

Question 499

complicit

Answer 499

współwinny Many forerunners have agreed he was **complicit** in the takeover of Nazi Germany and in the horrors of the Holocaust.

Question 500

w międzyczasie

Answer 500

along the line The end result (ask yourself if this sounds familiar) was a daisy chain of borrowed money, one exquisitely vulnerable to a decline in performance anywhere **along the line**.