Deck no. 32 Flashcards

Question

nienaturalny; naciągany; zaaranżowany

Answer 1

**contrived** …..…......................................…....................................... When reporters revealed that Bree was in fact the creation of two filmmakers and a hired actress, her YouTube fans didn’t abandon her. They didn’t seem to care that the footage they were watching was **contrived**, as long as it was entertaining.

Answer 2

**zacinający się, mający zakłócenia** …..…......................................…....................................... Nearly a year after Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook as Meta Platforms Inc. in a bet-the-company move on the metaverse, internal documents show the transition grappling with **glitchy** technology, uninterested users and a lack of clarity about what it will take to succeed.

Answer 3

**to give somebody a wide berth** …..…......................................…....................................... Levandowski was aware of how controlled the environment was: The car **was given a wide berth** on public streets as it made its way from downtown San Francisco across the Bay Bridge and onto Treasure Island, because there was a 16‑vehicle motorcade protecting it from other cars and vice versa.

Answer 4

**to get into the swing of** …..…......................................…....................................... Central Banks are finally **getting into the swing of** quantitative tightening.

Answer 5

**goody-two-shoes** …..…......................................…....................................... Global property’s **goody-two-shoes** are in trouble.

Answer 6

**by design** …..…......................................…....................................... To Levandowski, who rigged up his first self‑driving vehicle in 2004, the most advanced driverless‑car companies are all still running what amount to very sophisticated demos. And demos, as he well knows, are misleading **by design**.

Answer 7

**przekleństwo** …..…......................................…....................................... “It’s a misconception that people in the fashion industry are wearing head-to-toe designer—that’s absolutely not the case,” said Alexa Chung, the British designer and model. “They’re thrifty as [**expletive**].”

Answer 8

**nie spełniać czyichś oczekiwań** …..…......................................…....................................... While Mr. Zuckerberg has said the transition to a more immersive online experience will take years, the company’s flagship metaverse offering for consumers, Horizon Worlds, is **falling short of** internal performance expectations.

Answer 9

**gra polegająca na uderzaniu młotkiem pojawiających się co jakiś czas figurek** *próbuje się rozwiązać problem, ale nowe problemy pojawiają się szybciej niż można je rozwiązać* …..…......................................…....................................... “Financial regulation is a game of **whack-a-mole**,” Lawless says. “There’s always going to be some new device or transaction that the existing statutes don’t cover, so we need a regulatory agency to track these things, because Congress—even a functioning one—can’t keep up.”

Answer 10

**zwiększyć** …..…......................................…....................................... The car companies know this, which is why they do it. **Amping up** the baseline tension of a drive makes their software’s screw‑ups seem like less of an outlier, and the successes all the more remarkable.

Answer 11

**uderzyć jednym samochodem w tył drugiego** …..…......................................…....................................... What the smartest self‑driving car “sees,” on the other hand, is a small obstacle. It doesn’t know where the obstacle came from or where it may go, only that the car is supposed to safely avoid obstacles, so it might respond by hitting the brakes. The best‑case scenario is a small traffic jam, but braking suddenly could cause the next car coming down the road to **rear‑end** it.

Answer 12

**trifling** …..…......................................…....................................... In the US it took root in 2018 as a way to buy clothing, cosmetics, and other discretionary items and exploded in popularity amid the pandemic. You can buy now and pay later for just about anything, including aspirational bigticket items, like Pelotons and designer couches; **trifling** and small things, like socks and underwear; and dire necessities, like groceries and gas.

Answer 13

**z założenia** …..…......................................…....................................... To Levandowski, who rigged up his first self‑driving vehicle in 2004, the most advanced driverless‑car companies are all still running what amount to very sophisticated demos. And demos, as he well knows, are misleading **by design**.

Answer 14

**a tad** …..…......................................…....................................... Ms. Smilovic has an equally neat trick to amend her Feiyue canvas kicks, which cost $30 from Walmart. Furnished with a green-arrow logo, the unisex sneakers attract more compliments than almost any other item in Ms. Smilovic’s wardrobe—but she finds them **a tad** flimsy underfoot.

Answer 15

**punkt odniesienia** …..…......................................…....................................... The car companies know this, which is why they do it. Amping up the **baseline** tension of a drive makes their software’s screw‑ups seem like less of an outlier, and the successes all the more remarkable.

Answer 16

**to honor** …..…......................................…....................................... Indigenous chefs are gaining national attention—and acclaim—for their takes on heritage-**honoring** dishes.

Answer 17

**pain point** …..…......................................…....................................... Meta’s researchers found that, though many of Horizon’s early creators became unengaged, they could be won back. “Many say they would return if **pain points** are fixed,” read one memo about creation attrition.

Answer 18

**nausea** …..…......................................…....................................... A night out in VR lacks some of the atmosphere of a real bar, though it does cause authentic dizziness and **nausea**.

Answer 19

**head-to-toe** …..…......................................…....................................... “It’s a misconception that people in the fashion industry are wearing **head-to-toe** designer—that’s absolutely not the case,” said Alexa Chung, the British designer and model. “They’re thrifty as [expletive].”

Answer 20

**daredevil** …..…......................................…....................................... But it’s the same exact trip every time, with no edge cases—no rush hour, no school crossings, no **daredevil** scooter drivers—and instead of executing an awkward multipoint turn before dumping their loads, the robot trucks back up the hill in reverse, speeding each truck’s reloading.

Answer 21

**obfite łupy // good things that you get very easily** …..…......................................…....................................... Buyers hesitate amid uncertainty while wealthy foreigners enjoy **rich pickings**.

Answer 22

**wnosić coś korzystnego, oferować coś przydatnego** …..…......................................…....................................... Ghesquière revels in the expertise with which he is now surrounded. He adores working with the petites mains and developing new techniques with them. He’s also learnt to delegate more and be less didactic. “I say ‘no’ far less than before,” he explains, “and ‘yes’ much more. It makes me happy. At a certain time in your career, it’s normal to be very directional. And I still am, but today I welcome ideas. People **bring things to the table** that are surprising,” he grins. “And I like them.”

Answer 23

**zniesławienie** …..…......................................…....................................... On Thursday, Mr. Niemann filed a $100 million federal lawsuit against Mr. Carlsen, the platform Chess.com and others for slander, **libel** and colluding to blacklist him. Mr. Niemann in the suit alleges that tournament organizers have shunned him after allegations of cheating surfaced.

Answer 24

**przeszkadzać komuś, ograniczać kogoś (np. w zachowywaniu się na swój sposób)** …..…......................................…....................................... Soon after, the deal his new company, Pronto.ai, had been negotiating with a truck manufacturer—to try out Pronto’s more modest driver‑assist feature for trucks—fell apart. “It turns out a federal indictment does **cramp your style**,” he says.

Answer 25

**legendarny** …..…......................................…....................................... Two highlights from his trajectory: Mr. Ghesquière first interned for Paris designer Jean Paul Gaultier and later helmed Balenciaga, a **storied** fashion house he helped put back on the map after a trio of sleepy decades.

Answer 26

**to rig up** …..…......................................…....................................... To Levandowski, who **rigged up** his first self‑driving vehicle in 2004, the most advanced driverless‑car companies are all still running what amount to very sophisticated demos. And demos, as he well knows, are misleading by design.

Answer 27

**kosmetyczka (torebka/kuferek na kosmetyki)** …..…......................................…....................................... For a brand that depends so heavily on its accessories, the success of a high-fashion bag that has moved from catwalk to shop so seamlessly is reassuring. Ghesquière’s contributions may only account for a proportion of total sales, but his new handbag lines, like the Triangle bag (£2,660), the Alma (£1,500) with its jaunty new logo, or the Boîte Promenade (£27,000), a sci-fi-esque **vanity case**, have helped create a halo effect for the entire brand.

Answer 28

**to subscribe to** …..…......................................…....................................... “Terence’s view — one I **subscribe to** — was that one of [the UK’s] tragedies is that we don’t make things,” says Marlow as we sit in his office (sleek, low-key, orderly). “We lost the manufacturing that emphasised the importance of design, and how and why it matters.”

Answer 29

**osoba jak z żurnala (lubiąca nosić bardzo modne ubrania)** …..…......................................…....................................... Things don’t always go to plan. Last Christmas she was browsing in & Other Stories, an H&M-owned brand, when a stranger confronted her. The woman, perplexed that a famous **fashion plate** would be in such a place, blurted, “What are you doing here?” To which Ms. Chung replied: “What are you doing? I’m shopping!”

Answer 30

**facile** …..…......................................…....................................... Never mind that this doesn’t comport with the data (a September study by TransUnion showed that BNPL users possess more credit cards than the general “credit-active” population), the narrative has been repeated so many times it’s become practically gospel. But a deeper look into the pay-in-four model suggests some less **facile** explanations.

Answer 31

**margines; rąbek, brzeg (ubrania, tkaniny)** …..…......................................…....................................... New York stylist Michael Fisher feels the same way about his no-frills Dickies painter’s pants. At just $30 from Lowe’s, they’re as inexpensive as they are sturdy. And once a pair is well-worn, Mr. Fisher will often take scissors to the **hems** to “give them a new life” as cropped pants.

Answer 32

**out on his ear** …..…......................................…....................................... It wasn’t, because shortly before the performance started, a bombshell landed. Its hospitality tent at the stadium was convulsed by the news that Bob Iger, the Walt Disney Company’s own Rocket Man, was coming out of semi-retirement, aged 71, to retake control of the firm he left only 11 months previously, leaving Bob Chapek, his handpicked successor, **out on his ear**.

Answer 33

**ustalony na stałe, pewny** …..…......................................…....................................... After all, as Jeffrey Cole, a communications expert at USC Annenberg puts it, “Disney has had a 40-year succession problem”. During his decade-and-a-half as CEO, Mr Iger postponed his retirement four times, elevating and nixing potential successors. His predecessor, Michael Eisner, expensively jettisoned possible replacements twice during his 21-year reign, before finally settling on Mr Iger. Disney’s board has now given Mr Iger two years—a deadline unlikely to be **set in stone**—to have another go at finding a suitable heir.

Answer 34

**gość, osoba jedząca (np. w restauracji)** …..…......................................…....................................... Want to try the oldest cuisine in America? Expect to wait. At least that’s the case at Owamni in Minneapolis, where **diners** have to book seven weeks ahead. The year-old dining room was popular even before it was named best new restaurant at the James Beard Awards in June.

Answer 35

**nużyć się czymś** …..…......................................…....................................... And to avoid impulse buys you’ll quickly **tire of**, remember your style codes when faced with a bargain, said Ms. Smilovic.

Answer 36

**odroczenie** …..…......................................…....................................... “The most cynical view would be that Musk is trying to make a strong play publicly to get Twitter to agree to a **stay**, after which he will nonetheless not go through with it or find some new excuse, and then we’ll be back to square one,” Ladig says. The judge hasn’t yet granted a stay on the case, and—as with other sagas in Musk’s world—it’s best to keep in mind a range of potential outcomes.

Answer 37

**zawroty głowy** …..…......................................…....................................... Across the rich world, house prices are now starting to fall after years of **vertiginous** growth.

Answer 38

**trzymać się z daleka, nie zbliżać się, omijać szerokim łukiem** …..…......................................…....................................... Levandowski was aware of how controlled the environment was: The car **was given a wide berth** on public streets as it made its way from downtown San Francisco across the Bay Bridge and onto Treasure Island, because there was a 16‑vehicle motorcade protecting it from other cars and vice versa.

Answer 39

**ostateczny (np. o decyzji, zwycięstwie, walce)** …..…......................................…....................................... Hanging around for a tournament promotion, they played on a board in the sand, watched by only a handful of people, including Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri. The games were casual, but the results were **decisive**.

Answer 40

**the tendency for an impression created in one area to influence opinion in another area** …..…......................................…....................................... For a brand that depends so heavily on its accessories, the success of a high-fashion bag that has moved from catwalk to shop so seamlessly is reassuring. Ghesquière’s contributions may only account for a proportion of total sales, but his new handbag lines, like the Triangle bag (£2,660), the Alma (£1,500) with its jaunty new logo, or the Boîte Promenade (£27,000), a sci-fi-esque vanity case, have helped create a **halo effect** for the entire brand.

Answer 41

**to adjourn** …..…......................................…....................................... His surprise return to the original deal terms came with a provision that the Delaware Chancery court “enter an immediate stay” of Twitter’s suit “and **adjourn** the trial and all other proceedings related” to the case.

Answer 42

**eagle-eyed** …..…......................................…....................................... Mass-market brands known for basics are often unwilling to take chances on design because their wares must have broad appeal, said Ms. Chung. That means for a small price, you can find spartan items that go with anything. And **eagle-eyed** fashionistas can spot the unassuming gems worth snapping up.

Answer 43

**krój, fason (ubrania)** …..…......................................…....................................... Sexton’s product is now available at various price points but, ultimately, it will remain niche. You can’t really do anything similar, on the cheap, with Sexton’s kind of **cut**.

Answer 44

**on the up** …..…......................................…....................................... “I’ve got a dozen bars on my doorstep and I feel like the area is **on the up**. I like the lack of snobbery,” says Rowe, who works in marketing. “I only intended staying in Paris for a year but can’t imagine leaving now. I think I can have a much higher living standard here than in London.”

Answer 45

**to bring something to the table** …..…......................................…....................................... Ghesquière revels in the expertise with which he is now surrounded. He adores working with the petites mains and developing new techniques with them. He’s also learnt to delegate more and be less didactic. “I say ‘no’ far less than before,” he explains, “and ‘yes’ much more. It makes me happy. At a certain time in your career, it’s normal to be very directional. And I still am, but today I welcome ideas. People **bring things to the table** that are surprising,” he grins. “And I like them.”

Answer 46

**refractory** …..…......................................…....................................... We know now that Mr. Xi’s own answer was to develop a social credit system, which uses information technology to control the actions of **refractory** Chinese nationals—preventing them from taking high-speed trains or traveling abroad, for instance.

Answer 47

**o sokolim wzroku** …..…......................................…....................................... Mass-market brands known for basics are often unwilling to take chances on design because their wares must have broad appeal, said Ms. Chung. That means for a small price, you can find spartan items that go with anything. And **eagle-eyed** fashionistas can spot the unassuming gems worth snapping up.

Answer 48

**opłata za zwłokę** …..…......................................…....................................... The arrangement is like layaway, but in reverse. Make your payments on time, and the pay-in-four model is all upside: You’ve borrowed money free of any interest. But fall behind on your payments, and you might get hit with **late fees** from the BNPL provider.

Answer 49

**sąd powszechny** …..…......................................…....................................... His surprise return to the original deal terms came with a provision that the Delaware **Chancery court** “enter an immediate stay” of Twitter’s suit “and adjourn the trial and all other proceedings related” to the case.

Answer 50

**effusive** …..…......................................…....................................... Each country was held up as a shining example to other crisis-stricken places, their officials **effusively** praised.

Answer 51

**gateway drug** …..…......................................…....................................... Lauded as a much needed alternative (and threat) to credit cards and predatory lenders and criticized as a **gateway drug** to debt for the young and inexperienced, BNPL represents one of the biggest and fastest changes to consumer credit in decades.

Answer 52

**to comport with** …..…......................................…....................................... Never mind that this doesn’t **comport with** the data (a September study by TransUnion showed that BNPL users possess more credit cards than the general “credit-active” population), the narrative has been repeated so many times it’s become practically gospel. But a deeper look into the pay-in-four model suggests some less facile explanations.

Answer 53

**dostać bzika na punkcie czegoś** …..…......................................…....................................... The devil can’t resist a pack of six-for-$19 Hanes ribbed tank tops. The devil **goes gaga for** a bargain.

Answer 54

**zawiesić, odroczyć (spotkanie, posiedzenie)** …..…......................................…....................................... His surprise return to the original deal terms came with a provision that the Delaware Chancery court “enter an immediate stay” of Twitter’s suit “and **adjourn** the trial and all other proceedings related” to the case.

Answer 55

**ująć się za kimś** …..…......................................…....................................... Levandowski says that he and Thiel have some mutual friends who **spoke up for** him but that they never talked until after the pardon was announced. He says he doesn’t know why Thiel took up his cause, but Thiel’s antipathy for Google is legendary, and pardoning Levandowski would’ve been an opportunity to stick a thumb in the company’s eye.

Answer 56

**levelheaded** …..…......................................…....................................... Eventually Google dispatched Susan Wojcicki, an early Google employee who had earned the trust of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. While Mr. Bergen portrays her as a competent and **levelheaded** executive, her management style at YouTube proved too plodding to deal nimbly with the frequent crises over content that erupted on the platform.

Answer 57

**indigenous** …..…......................................…....................................... **Indigenous** chefs are gaining national attention—and acclaim—for their takes on heritage-honoring dishes.

Answer 58

**być przekonanym (np. żeby coś zrobić); lubić coś** …..…......................................…....................................... If you’re not **sold on** high fidelity, you will be after trying Focal’s new $5,000 headphones.

Answer 59

**osoby oglądające daną reklamę, widzowie** …..…......................................…....................................... It also functions as something more clever: an online shopping mall, where you can browse the wares of brands that have formed partnerships to accept that BNPL provider as a form of payment. Copious **eyeballs**, dollars, and data flow as a result.

Answer 60

**heirloom** …..…......................................…....................................... Many fashionistas spoke about their basics in heartfelt terms more typically associated with pricey **heirlooms.**

Answer 61

**wysyłka, partia towaru, przesyłka** …..…......................................…....................................... Sotheby’s lands $100mn **consignment**.

Answer 62

**udzielić kredytu** …..…......................................…....................................... Particularly in the US, BNPL companies haven’t been subject to much of the regulatory oversight normally applicable to entities **extending credit**. Take the Truth in Lending Act, a landmark law enacted in 1968 and amended many times since, which requires extensive disclosures for unsecured consumer loans split into payments of five or more.

Answer 63

**to putter** …..…......................................…....................................... Autonomous driving, they say, needs a fundamental breakthrough that allows computers to quickly use humanlike intuition rather than learning solely by rote. That is to say, Google engineers might spend the rest of their lives **puttering** around San Francisco and Phoenix without showing that their technology is safer than driving the old‑fashioned way.

Answer 64

**to be a thing** …..…......................................…....................................... King lives on a dead‑end street at the edge of the Presidio, a 1,500‑acre park in San Francisco where through traffic **isn’t a thing**. Outside she saw a white Jaguar SUV backing out of her driveway. It had what looked like a giant fan on its roof—a laser sensor—and bore the logo of Google’s driver less car division, Waymo.

Answer 65

**turnaround** …..…......................................…....................................... Ku started the auction platform with business partner Justin Gruenberg during Covid and describes it as a more efficient way of selling watches compared with traditional auction houses, where the process can take from six months to a year. Loupe This charges a flat seller fee of $500, a 10 per cent buyer fee and counts its **turnaround** in weeks rather than months.

Answer 66

**podstawowy, uproszczony (np. podejście)** …..…......................................…....................................... New York stylist Michael Fisher feels the same way about his **no-frills** Dickies painter’s pants. At just $30 from Lowe’s, they’re as inexpensive as they are sturdy. And once a pair is well-worn, Mr. Fisher will often take scissors to the hems to “give them a new life” as cropped pants.

Answer 67

**diner** …..…......................................…....................................... Want to try the oldest cuisine in America? Expect to wait. At least that’s the case at Owamni in Minneapolis, where **diners** have to book seven weeks ahead. The year-old dining room was popular even before it was named best new restaurant at the James Beard Awards in June.

Answer 68

**nieprzerwanym ciągiem** …..…......................................…....................................... Consignments are coming in **thick and fast** for New York’s auction season in November. The latest collection to hit the block comes from the late David Solinger, a media and art lawyer who was president of the board of New York’s Whitney Museum and who died in 1996.

Answer 69

**od stóp do głów** …..…......................................…....................................... “It’s a misconception that people in the fashion industry are wearing **head-to-toe** designer—that’s absolutely not the case,” said Alexa Chung, the British designer and model. “They’re thrifty as [expletive].”

Answer 70

**jaywalker** …..…......................................…....................................... On the display, little red or green boxes hover perfectly over every car, bike, **jaywalker**, stoplight, etc. you pass. All this input feels subliminal when you’re driving your own car, but on a readout that looks like a mix between the POVs of the Terminator and the Predator, it’s overwhelming.

Answer 71

**jawnie, otwarcie** …..…......................................…....................................... Unions want to arm-wrestle value from capital and force higher wage payouts than is economically sound. This **blatantly** disregards human capital—what workers learn on the job is theirs to keep. We increase productivity and wealth by having workers figure out how to do more with less from the bottom up.

Answer 72

**to set in stone** …..…......................................…....................................... After all, as Jeffrey Cole, a communications expert at USC Annenberg puts it, “Disney has had a 40-year succession problem”. During his decade-and-a-half as CEO, Mr Iger postponed his retirement four times, elevating and nixing potential successors. His predecessor, Michael Eisner, expensively jettisoned possible replacements twice during his 21-year reign, before finally settling on Mr Iger. Disney’s board has now given Mr Iger two years—a deadline unlikely to be **set in stone**—to have another go at finding a suitable heir.

Answer 73

**uszlachetniać, podnosić status** …..…......................................…....................................... There’s also been a shift away from the classic established areas of the 6th, 7th and 8th arrondissements and the Marais — towards the **gentrifying** 10th, 12th arrondissements and parts of the 20th, such as Belleville, where buyers are hoping to benefit from greater price growth.

Answer 74

**rozległy (np. o obszarze)** …..…......................................…....................................... The restaurant, on the upper level of a park pavilion by the ruins of an old mill, has large windows that offer an **expansive** view of the Mississippi River. Pennsylvania sedge and other native plants surround the patio.

Answer 75

**lekceważyć** …..…......................................…....................................... Unions want to arm-wrestle value from capital and force higher wage payouts than is economically sound. This blatantly **disregards** human capital—what workers learn on the job is theirs to keep. We increase productivity and wealth by having workers figure out how to do more with less from the bottom up.

Answer 76

**kwestionować** …..…......................................…....................................... Waymo **disputes** that its tech failed and said in a statement that its vehicles had been “obeying the same road rules that any car is required to follow.” The company, like its peers in Silicon Valley and Detroit, has characterized incidents like this as isolated, potholes on the road to a steering‑wheel‑free future.

Answer 77

**no mean feat** …..…......................................…....................................... Meta executives compare the company’s predicament now to ten years ago, when it was managing the transition of its social network to mobile. Shifting a billion Facebook users from desktop to phone was **no mean feat**, made harder by the fact that Mr Zuckerberg was late to spot the importance of mobile.

Answer 78

**nieumyślne spowodowanie śmierci** …..…......................................…....................................... The idea that the secret to self‑driving was hidden on Levandowski’s laptop has come to seem less credible over time. A year after Uber fired him, one of its self‑driving cars killed a pedestrian in Phoenix. (The safety driver was charged with **negligent homicide** and has pleaded not guilty; Uber suspended testing on public roads and added additional safety measures before resuming testing. The company was never charged.)

Answer 79

**zrównoważony, opanowany** …..…......................................…....................................... Eventually Google dispatched Susan Wojcicki, an early Google employee who had earned the trust of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. While Mr. Bergen portrays her as a competent and **levelheaded** executive, her management style at YouTube proved too plodding to deal nimbly with the frequent crises over content that erupted on the platform.

Answer 80

**siedzieć z założonymi rękoma // accept an insult, setback, or rebuke without protest** …..…......................................…....................................... At a Shanghai convention later that month, Mr. Ma delivered an astonishingly ill-judged speech in which he extolled financial innovation and criticized the stifling effect of financial regulation. His argument may have been sound, but Beijing didn’t **take the challenge lying down**. Ant’s IPO was canceled, new regulations were imposed and Mr. Ma briefly disappeared from public view. His “aura of untouchability crumbled,”.

Answer 81

**to go gaga over something** …..…......................................…....................................... The devil can’t resist a pack of six-for-$19 Hanes ribbed tank tops. The devil **goes gaga for** a bargain.

Answer 82

**nieistotny (np. problem); błahy** …..…......................................…....................................... In the US it took root in 2018 as a way to buy clothing, cosmetics, and other discretionary items and exploded in popularity amid the pandemic. You can buy now and pay later for just about anything, including aspirational bigticket items, like Pelotons and designer couches; **trifling** and small things, like socks and underwear; and dire necessities, like groceries and gas.

Answer 83

**to go for** …..…......................................…....................................... In May Mr Zuckerberg admitted as much when he told Protocol, a news site: “If people invest in our company, we want to be profitable for them…But I also feel a responsibility to **go for** it…[Meta] is a controlled company, so I can make more of these decisions than most companies would.”

Answer 84

**in tow** …..…......................................…....................................... PARIS FASHION WEEK just wrapped—and if you saw any snaps of A-listers, editors and stylists sitting front row, you may have noticed they were invariably wrapped in luxurious coats, calfskin handbags **in tow**.

Answer 85

**zmusić kogoś do pokazania kart** …..…......................................…....................................... Was pay-in-four even credit? New services can be hard to categorize, and, just as deferred-presentment providers (aka payday lenders) did back in the 1990s, BNPL companies took semantic liberties. Afterpay referred to itself as a “budgeting tool.” Klarna called itself a “global payments and shopping service.” As time passed, people **called their bluff**.

Answer 86

**to revise** …..…......................................…....................................... Meta initially set a goal of reaching 500,000 monthly active users for Horizon Worlds by the end of this year, but in recent weeks **revised** that figure to 280,000.

Answer 87

**jaunty** …..…......................................…....................................... For a brand that depends so heavily on its accessories, the success of a high-fashion bag that has moved from catwalk to shop so seamlessly is reassuring. Ghesquière’s contributions may only account for a proportion of total sales, but his new handbag lines, like the Triangle bag (£2,660), the Alma (£1,500) with its **jaunty** new logo, or the Boîte Promenade (£27,000), a sci-fi-esque vanity case, have helped create a halo effect for the entire brand.

Answer 88

**tu: pilny** …..…......................................…....................................... In the US it took root in 2018 as a way to buy clothing, cosmetics, and other discretionary items and exploded in popularity amid the pandemic. You can buy now and pay later for just about anything, including aspirational bigticket items, like Pelotons and designer couches; trifling and small things, like socks and underwear; and **dire** necessities, like groceries and gas.

Answer 89

**halo effect** …..…......................................…....................................... For a brand that depends so heavily on its accessories, the success of a high-fashion bag that has moved from catwalk to shop so seamlessly is reassuring. Ghesquière’s contributions may only account for a proportion of total sales, but his new handbag lines, like the Triangle bag (£2,660), the Alma (£1,500) with its jaunty new logo, or the Boîte Promenade (£27,000), a sci-fi-esque vanity case, have helped create a **halo effect** for the entire brand.

Answer 90

**to plod** …..…......................................…....................................... Eventually Google dispatched Susan Wojcicki, an early Google employee who had earned the trust of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. While Mr. Bergen portrays her as a competent and levelheaded executive, her management style at YouTube proved too **plodding** to deal nimbly with the frequent crises over content that erupted on the platform.

Answer 91

**to wipe up the floor with somebody** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Carlsen, the five-time world champion from Norway and the highest-rated player of all time, **wiped the beach with** Mr. Niemann, according to Mr. Giri.

Answer 92

**przedpłata, depozyt** …..…......................................…....................................... The arrangement is like **layaway**, but in reverse. Make your payments on time, and the pay-in-four model is all upside: You’ve borrowed money free of any interest. But fall behind on your payments, and you might get hit with late fees from the BNPL provider.

Answer 93

**przełom roku** …..…......................................…....................................... High levels of immigration in all three countries mean that, since **the turn of the millennium**, population growth has exceeded the average in the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries.

Answer 94

**on one's doorstep** …..…......................................…....................................... “I’ve got a dozen bars **on my doorstep** and I feel like the area is on the up. I like the lack of snobbery,” says Rowe, who works in marketing. “I only intended staying in Paris for a year but can’t imagine leaving now. I think I can have a much higher living standard here than in London.”

Answer 95

**krzątać się, obijać się, pałętać się** …..…......................................…....................................... Autonomous driving, they say, needs a fundamental breakthrough that allows computers to quickly use humanlike intuition rather than learning solely by rote. That is to say, Google engineers might spend the rest of their lives **puttering** around San Francisco and Phoenix without showing that their technology is safer than driving the old‑fashioned way.

Answer 96

**to amp up** …..…......................................…....................................... The car companies know this, which is why they do it. **Amping up** the baseline tension of a drive makes their software’s screw‑ups seem like less of an outlier, and the successes all the more remarkable.

Answer 97

**standout** …..…......................................…....................................... The **standout** pieces are a vast leopard-print shearling coat (£8,838), an oriental jacquard minidress (£3,447) with a jellyfish motif and, as an alternative proposition to the now ubiquitous polo, a series of macro-rib knits (£795) with fluted sleeves and a giant slash across the bust, in citrus orange and navy and white.

Answer 98

**osoba przechodząca przez jezdnię w niedozwolonym miejscu** …..…......................................…....................................... On the display, little red or green boxes hover perfectly over every car, bike, **jaywalker**, stoplight, etc. you pass. All this input feels subliminal when you’re driving your own car, but on a readout that looks like a mix between the POVs of the Terminator and the Predator, it’s overwhelming.

Answer 99

**about** …..…......................................…....................................... The watch almost doubled the previous record for the model when it sold for more than $1.5mn at auction. It was **about** as desirable as a Crash can get, made in the London workshops in 1967 and new to the market… even so, $1.5mn?

Answer 100

**dependable** …..…......................................…....................................... These are not flimsy knockoffs of highend designs bought to wear once in pursuit of a fad. Rather, they are **dependable**, unadorned staples that fill gaps in outfits, like sartorial grout.

Answer 101

**to gentrify** …..…......................................…....................................... There’s also been a shift away from the classic established areas of the 6th, 7th and 8th arrondissements and the Marais — towards the **gentrifying** 10th, 12th arrondissements and parts of the 20th, such as Belleville, where buyers are hoping to benefit from greater price growth.

Answer 102

**prawie** …..…......................................…....................................... In the US it took root in 2018 as a way to buy clothing, cosmetics, and other discretionary items and exploded in popularity amid the pandemic. You can buy now and pay later for **just about** anything, including aspirational bigticket items, like Pelotons and designer couches; trifling and small things, like socks and underwear; and dire necessities, like groceries and gas.

Answer 103

**to speak up for somebody** …..…......................................…....................................... Levandowski says that he and Thiel have some mutual friends who **spoke up for** him but that they never talked until after the pardon was announced. He says he doesn’t know why Thiel took up his cause, but Thiel’s antipathy for Google is legendary, and pardoning Levandowski would’ve been an opportunity to stick a thumb in the company’s eye.

Answer 104

**najwyższej klasy** …..…......................................…....................................... One of the industry’s favorite maxims is that humans are terrible drivers. This may seem intuitive to anyone who’s taken the Cross Bronx Expressway home during rush hour, but it’snot even close to true. Throw a **top‑of‑the‑line** robot at any difficult driving task, and you’ll be lucky if the robot lasts a few seconds before crapping out.

Answer 105

**przestac się patyczkować** ***be ready to act in an uncompromising or ruthless way*** …..…......................................…....................................... Google’s $1.8 billion claim for damages suggested it had done the math based on just how imminent the fortunes to be made from driverless technology were. “People were playing for this trillion‑dollar prize of automating all transportation,” Levandowski says. “And if you think it’s really just a year away, you **take the gloves off**.”

Answer 106

**mdłości, nudności** …..…......................................…....................................... A night out in VR lacks some of the atmosphere of a real bar, though it does cause authentic dizziness and **nausea**.

Answer 107

**square one** …..…......................................…....................................... “The most cynical view would be that Musk is trying to make a strong play publicly to get Twitter to agree to a stay, after which he will nonetheless not go through with it or find some new excuse, and then we’ll be back to **square one**,” Ladig says. The judge hasn’t yet granted a stay on the case, and—as with other sagas in Musk’s world—it’s best to keep in mind a range of potential outcomes.

Answer 108

**przesadny** …..…......................................…....................................... Each country was held up as a shining example to other crisis-stricken places, their officials **effusively** praised.

Answer 109

**wyjątkowo dobry, najlepszy** …..…......................................…....................................... The **standout** pieces are a vast leopard-print shearling coat (£8,838), an oriental jacquard minidress (£3,447) with a jellyfish motif and, as an alternative proposition to the now ubiquitous polo, a series of macro-rib knits (£795) with fluted sleeves and a giant slash across the bust, in citrus orange and navy and white.

Answer 110

**potomność, przyszłe pokolenia** …..…......................................…....................................... In 2008, Levandowski kludged together his first self‑ driving Prius, which conducted what the industry widely recognizes as the first successful test of an autonomous vehicle. (The event was recorded for **posterity** on a Discovery Channel show called Prototype This!.)

Answer 111

**pothole** …..…......................................…....................................... Waymo disputes that its tech failed and said in a statement that its vehicles had been “obeying the same road rules that any car is required to follow.” The company, like its peers in Silicon Valley and Detroit, has characterized incidents like this as isolated, **potholes** on the road to a steering‑wheel‑free future.

Answer 112

**to cramp somebody's style** …..…......................................…....................................... Soon after, the deal his new company, Pronto.ai, had been negotiating with a truck manufacturer—to try out Pronto’s more modest driver‑assist feature for trucks—fell apart. “It turns out a federal indictment does **cramp your style**,” he says.

Answer 113

**to bump up** …..…......................................…....................................... People generally are paid what they are worth. Well, except for jobs with artificial shortages such as doctors, lawyers and those requiring occupational licensing. Or those **bumped up** by minimum-wage laws. Or public-sector-union jobs such as teachers.

Answer 114

**no-frills** …..…......................................…....................................... New York stylist Michael Fisher feels the same way about his **no-frills** Dickies painter’s pants. At just $30 from Lowe’s, they’re as inexpensive as they are sturdy. And once a pair is well-worn, Mr. Fisher will often take scissors to the hems to “give them a new life” as cropped pants.

Answer 115

**utracone przychody** …..…......................................…....................................... Meta has said that Apple’s changes will cost it $10bn this year in **forgone revenue**. Companies are shifting their advertising to what admen call the bottom of the funnel: points at which the consumer is close to a purchase (Amazon, which serves ads to customers based on what they have just searched for, has been a big beneficiary).

Answer 116

**higher‑order** …..…......................................…....................................... Simulations might help with some well‑ defined scenarios such as left turns, but they can’t manufacture edge cases. In the meantime the companies are relying on pesky humans for help navigating **higher‑order** problems.

Answer 117

**sounding board** …..…......................................…....................................... Ghesquière’s ongoing conversation with his “woman” is both literal and metaphorical; he continues to work closely with Marie-Amélie Sauvé, the stylist with whom he first joined forces at Balenciaga, and the actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, whom he describes as his best friend and **sounding board**. “He watches what they wear, how they wear it, and he also listens to what they say,” observes Delphine Arnault of the women who surround him.

Answer 118

**nieco, trochę** …..…......................................…....................................... Ms. Smilovic has an equally neat trick to amend her Feiyue canvas kicks, which cost $30 from Walmart. Furnished with a green-arrow logo, the unisex sneakers attract more compliments than almost any other item in Ms. Smilovic’s wardrobe—but she finds them **a tad** flimsy underfoot.

Answer 119

**contention** …..…......................................…....................................... Even if that’s legal boilerplate, it leaves room for skepticism about whether this is the end of the story; there’s still enough **contention** between the two parties that no joint statement surfaced the following day.

Answer 120

**stracić, zaprzepaścić** …..…......................................…....................................... At a subsequent tournament, Mr. Carlsen **forfeited** a game against Mr. Niemann after one move. Mr. Carlsen nonetheless went on to win the event.

Answer 121

**godny zaufania, niezawodny** …..…......................................…....................................... These are not flimsy knockoffs of highend designs bought to wear once in pursuit of a fad. Rather, they are **dependable**, unadorned staples that fill gaps in outfits, like sartorial grout.

Answer 122

**serendipitous** …..…......................................…....................................... Some Horizon users said in interviews they already spend many hours a day in the metaverse, entranced by the **serendipitous** interaction it can yield. One user who said she was homebound after a kidney transplant said it was her principal source of recreation.

Answer 123

**nic takiego, nic strasznego, nic wielkiego** …..…......................................…....................................... She was observing what looked like a glitch in the self‑ driving software: The car seemed to be using her property to execute a three‑point turn. This would’ve been **no biggie**, she says, if it had happened once. But dozens of Google cars began doing the exact thing, many times, every single day.

Answer 124

**negligent homicide** …..…......................................…....................................... The idea that the secret to self‑driving was hidden on Levandowski’s laptop has come to seem less credible over time. A year after Uber fired him, one of its self‑driving cars killed a pedestrian in Phoenix. (The safety driver was charged with **negligent homicide** and has pleaded not guilty; Uber suspended testing on public roads and added additional safety measures before resuming testing. The company was never charged.)

Answer 125

**forgone revenue** …..…......................................…....................................... Meta has said that Apple’s changes will cost it $10bn this year in **forgone revenue**. Companies are shifting their advertising to what admen call the bottom of the funnel: points at which the consumer is close to a purchase (Amazon, which serves ads to customers based on what they have just searched for, has been a big beneficiary).

Answer 126

**blatantly** …..…......................................…....................................... Unions want to arm-wrestle value from capital and force higher wage payouts than is economically sound. This **blatantly** disregards human capital—what workers learn on the job is theirs to keep. We increase productivity and wealth by having workers figure out how to do more with less from the bottom up.

Answer 127

**eyeballs** …..…......................................…....................................... It also functions as something more clever: an online shopping mall, where you can browse the wares of brands that have formed partnerships to accept that BNPL provider as a form of payment. Copious **eyeballs**, dollars, and data flow as a result.

Answer 128

**poważać, szanować** …..…......................................…....................................... Indigenous chefs are gaining national attention—and acclaim—for their takes on heritage-**honoring** dishes.

Answer 129

**game** …..…......................................…....................................... Co-founder Sean Sherman—aka the Sioux Chef—highlights ingredients rarely seen on American menus, such as toasted crickets. He sources from Indigenous vendors and features fish and **game** from the Minneapolis area.

Answer 130

**szczęście, powodzenie** …..…......................................…....................................... A housing crash sent the global economy into recession between 2007 and 2009. But three countries—Australia, Canada and Sweden— cruised through the commotion. Even as property prices plummeted elsewhere, all three recorded double-digit growth. Some of this was **good fortune**.

Answer 131

**to heap** …..…......................................…....................................... These fees from merchants make up the single biggest source of revenue for many BNPL companies, a fact they cite as proof that their interests, unlike the interests of credit card issuers, align with those of customers. Card issuers, by contrast, earn the vast majority of their revenue from fees and interest **heaped** onto users who don’t pay off balances in full and on time.

Answer 132

**cut** …..…......................................…....................................... Sexton’s product is now available at various price points but, ultimately, it will remain niche. You can’t really do anything similar, on the cheap, with Sexton’s kind of **cut**.

Answer 133

**to hold fire** …..…......................................…....................................... Although mortgage rates are still relatively low at around 2 to 3 per cent, further increases from the European Central Bank are being anticipated, and with the uncertainty of the cost of living and energy crises, buyers have started **holding fire**. “Three months ago properly priced properties were selling in a fortnight, but now there are not enough buyers,” says Helena Hermanns of Leggett Immobilier. “It’s the quietest we have been for five years.”

Answer 134

**to clasp** …..…......................................…....................................... Owners in the city centre are also planning on cashing in on the Olympics, utilising their right to let out their homes on Airbnb for up to 120 days per year. “All my friends are planning on renting out their flats,” says Rowe. She is relieved to be out of the “flat-hunting horrors” of the competitive long-term rentals market. “It’s common to see 30 people queueing outside an unappealing ‘shoebox’ apartment **clasping** their paperwork,” she says.

Answer 135

**to harry** …..…......................................…....................................... As it faces these market headwinds Meta is also being **harried** by regulators.

Answer 136

**wynajmować (komuś, np. mieszkanie)** …..…......................................…....................................... Owners in the city centre are also planning on cashing in on the Olympics, utilising their right to **let out** their homes on Airbnb for up to 120 days per year. “All my friends are planning on renting out their flats,” says Rowe. She is relieved to be out of the “flat-hunting horrors” of the competitive long-term rentals market. “It’s common to see 30 people queueing outside an unappealing ‘shoebox’ apartment clasping their paperwork,” she says.

Answer 137

**lenić się** …..…......................................…....................................... Think of pay as personal profits. Every (legal) job adds value, and if you **slack off** or don’t deploy your human capital and live up to your potential, you’re stealing societal wealth from the rest of us. That’s selfish.

Answer 138

**konsekwencje** …..…......................................…....................................... The **fallout** continued for Levandowski in 2019, when federal prosecutors announced that a grand jury had indicted him on 33 counts of trade secrets theft.

Answer 139

**to slam** …..…......................................…....................................... If you use a credit card and don’t pay off the balance in full, you’ll end up paying interest indirectly. BNPL companies **slam** the evils of credit cards but accept them as a way for users to pay on their platforms.

Answer 140

**by rote** …..…......................................…....................................... Autonomous driving, they say, needs a fundamental breakthrough that allows computers to quickly use humanlike intuition rather than learning solely **by rote**. That is to say, Google engineers might spend the rest of their lives puttering around San Francisco and Phoenix without showing that their technology is safer than driving the old‑fashioned way.

Answer 141

**you name it** …..…......................................…....................................... “Everybody I know with style mixes and matches high and low [priced items],” said Edward Enninful, the editor in chief of British Vogue. “All my friends do: Kate Moss, Naomi [Campbell], **you name it**.”

Answer 142

**nieposłuszny, oporny** …..…......................................…....................................... We know now that Mr. Xi’s own answer was to develop a social credit system, which uses information technology to control the actions of **refractory** Chinese nationals—preventing them from taking high-speed trains or traveling abroad, for instance.

Answer 143

**wybój, wgłębienie, dziura (w jezdni)** …..…......................................…....................................... Waymo disputes that its tech failed and said in a statement that its vehicles had been “obeying the same road rules that any car is required to follow.” The company, like its peers in Silicon Valley and Detroit, has characterized incidents like this as isolated, **potholes** on the road to a steering‑wheel‑free future.

Answer 144

**rich pickings** …..…......................................…....................................... Buyers hesitate amid uncertainty while wealthy foreigners enjoy **rich pickings**.

Answer 145

**oszczerstwo, pomówienie** …..…......................................…....................................... On Thursday, Mr. Niemann filed a $100 million federal lawsuit against Mr. Carlsen, the platform Chess.com and others for **slander**, libel and colluding to blacklist him. Mr. Niemann in the suit alleges that tournament organizers have shunned him after allegations of cheating surfaced.

Answer 146

**bardzo, aż za bardzo** …..…......................................…....................................... Executives he later worked with at Google and Uber were **all too** happy to insist that the science was already there, that his proto types could already handle any challenge, that all that was left was “going commercial.”

Answer 147

**nabrać wprawy; wciągnąć się, wkręcić się (w coś)** …..…......................................…....................................... Central Banks are finally **getting into the swing of** quantitative tightening.

Answer 148

**rutynowa lub powtarzalna praca (mało ważna, nieznacząca)** …..…......................................…....................................... Advice from Mike Rowe: “Stop looking for the ‘right’ career, and start looking for a job. Any job. Forget about what you like. Focus on what’s available. Get yourself hired. Show up early. Stay late. Volunteer for the **scut** work. Become indispensable.” He’s right—and build human capital. A job already has a purpose. And please don’t ask for pet-bereavement benefits.

Answer 149

**nieprzemyślany, nierozsądny** …..…......................................…....................................... At a Shanghai convention later that month, Mr. Ma delivered an astonishingly **ill-judged** speech in which he extolled financial innovation and criticized the stifling effect of financial regulation. His argument may have been sound, but Beijing didn’t take the challenge lying down. Ant’s IPO was canceled, new regulations were imposed and Mr. Ma briefly disappeared from public view. His “aura of untouchability crumbled,”.

Answer 150

**commotion** …..…......................................…....................................... A housing crash sent the global economy into recession between 2007 and 2009. But three countries—Australia, Canada and Sweden— cruised through the **commotion**. Even as property prices plummeted elsewhere, all three recorded double-digit growth. Some of this was good fortune.

Answer 151

**reassuring** …..…......................................…....................................... For a brand that depends so heavily on its accessories, the success of a high-fashion bag that has moved from catwalk to shop so seamlessly is **reassuring**. Ghesquière’s contributions may only account for a proportion of total sales, but his new handbag lines, like the Triangle bag (£2,660), the Alma (£1,500) with its jaunty new logo, or the Boîte Promenade (£27,000), a sci-fi-esque vanity case, have helped create a halo effect for the entire brand.

Answer 152

**homebound** …..…......................................…....................................... Some Horizon users said in interviews they already spend many hours a day in the metaverse, entranced by the serendipitous interaction it can yield. One user who said she was **homebound** after a kidney transplant said it was her principal source of recreation.

Answer 153

**szczery (np. współczucie), serdeczny (np. słowa)** …..…......................................…....................................... Many fashionistas spoke about their basics in **heartfelt** terms more typically associated with pricey heirlooms.

Answer 154

**powierzchowny** …..…......................................…....................................... Never mind that this doesn’t comport with the data (a September study by TransUnion showed that BNPL users possess more credit cards than the general “credit-active” population), the narrative has been repeated so many times it’s become practically gospel. But a deeper look into the pay-in-four model suggests some less **facile** explanations.

Answer 155

**używka, której zażywanie prowadzi do sięgnięcia po silniejszy środek odurzający (np. heroinę)** …..…......................................…....................................... Lauded as a much needed alternative (and threat) to credit cards and predatory lenders and criticized as a **gateway drug** to debt for the young and inexperienced, BNPL represents one of the biggest and fastest changes to consumer credit in decades.

Answer 156

**zeznawać (pod przysięgą), składać zeznania** …..…......................................…....................................... The provision hints at what might have sparked Musk’s change of heart: His closest contacts are being **deposed**, and their private messages with him are becoming public via the court.

Answer 157

**heartfelt** …..…......................................…....................................... Many fashionistas spoke about their basics in **heartfelt** terms more typically associated with pricey heirlooms.

Answer 158

**to call somebody's bluff** …..…......................................…....................................... Was pay-in-four even credit? New services can be hard to categorize, and, just as deferred-presentment providers (aka payday lenders) did back in the 1990s, BNPL companies took semantic liberties. Afterpay referred to itself as a “budgeting tool.” Klarna called itself a “global payments and shopping service.” As time passed, people **called their bluff**.

Answer 159

**dire** …..…......................................…....................................... In the US it took root in 2018 as a way to buy clothing, cosmetics, and other discretionary items and exploded in popularity amid the pandemic. You can buy now and pay later for just about anything, including aspirational bigticket items, like Pelotons and designer couches; trifling and small things, like socks and underwear; and **dire** necessities, like groceries and gas.

Answer 160

**podbijać (np. cenę)** …..…......................................…....................................... People generally are paid what they are worth. Well, except for jobs with artificial shortages such as doctors, lawyers and those requiring occupational licensing. Or those **bumped up** by minimum-wage laws. Or public-sector-union jobs such as teachers.

Answer 161

**złożyć (np. komputer z różnych części); prowizorka** …..…......................................…....................................... In 2008, Levandowski **kludged** together his first self‑ driving Prius, which conducted what the industry widely recognizes as the first successful test of an autonomous vehicle. (The event was recorded for posterity on a Discovery Channel show called Prototype This!.)

Answer 162

**dręczyć** …..…......................................…....................................... As it faces these market headwinds Meta is also being **harried** by regulators.

Answer 163

**subliminal** …..…......................................…....................................... On the display, little red or green boxes hover perfectly over every car, bike, jaywalker, stoplight, etc. you pass. All this input feels **subliminal** when you’re driving your own car, but on a readout that looks like a mix between the POVs of the Terminator and the Predator, it’s overwhelming.

Answer 164

**ill-judged** …..…......................................…....................................... At a Shanghai convention later that month, Mr. Ma delivered an astonishingly **ill-judged** speech in which he extolled financial innovation and criticized the stifling effect of financial regulation. His argument may have been sound, but Beijing didn’t take the challenge lying down. Ant’s IPO was canceled, new regulations were imposed and Mr. Ma briefly disappeared from public view. His “aura of untouchability crumbled,”.

Answer 165

**decisive** …..…......................................…....................................... Hanging around for a tournament promotion, they played on a board in the sand, watched by only a handful of people, including Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri. The games were casual, but the results were **decisive**.

Answer 166

**na pamięć (uczyć się)** …..…......................................…....................................... Autonomous driving, they say, needs a fundamental breakthrough that allows computers to quickly use humanlike intuition rather than learning solely **by rote**. That is to say, Google engineers might spend the rest of their lives puttering around San Francisco and Phoenix without showing that their technology is safer than driving the old‑fashioned way.

Answer 167

**to disregard** …..…......................................…....................................... Unions want to arm-wrestle value from capital and force higher wage payouts than is economically sound. This blatantly **disregards** human capital—what workers learn on the job is theirs to keep. We increase productivity and wealth by having workers figure out how to do more with less from the bottom up.

Answer 168

**to have got to hand it to someone** …..…......................................…....................................... You **have to hand it to** Sir Elton John. Not only is he the only musician ever to have top-ten hit singles in Britain for six decades in a row. He is also a rare septuagenarian megastar who knows how to bow out in style. On November 20th at a relatively tender 75 years old, he performed what he said would be his last ever concert in America at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. One of the showstoppers was “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, the theme song for graceful retirements.

Answer 169

**to take the gloves off** …..…......................................…....................................... Google’s $1.8 billion claim for damages suggested it had done the math based on just how imminent the fortunes to be made from driverless technology were. “People were playing for this trillion‑dollar prize of automating all transportation,” Levandowski says. “And if you think it’s really just a year away, you **take the gloves off**.”

Answer 170

**pokrywać się z (np. faktami)** …..…......................................…....................................... Never mind that this doesn’t **comport with** the data (a September study by TransUnion showed that BNPL users possess more credit cards than the general “credit-active” population), the narrative has been repeated so many times it’s become practically gospel. But a deeper look into the pay-in-four model suggests some less facile explanations.

Answer 171

**wymięknąć** …..…......................................…....................................... One of the industry’s favorite maxims is that humans are terrible drivers. This may seem intuitive to anyone who’s taken the Cross Bronx Expressway home during rush hour, but it’snot even close to true. Throw a top‑of‑the‑line robot at any difficult driving task, and you’ll be lucky if the robot lasts a few seconds before **crapping out**.

Answer 172

**spiętrzać się** …..…......................................…....................................... These fees from merchants make up the single biggest source of revenue for many BNPL companies, a fact they cite as proof that their interests, unlike the interests of credit card issuers, align with those of customers. Card issuers, by contrast, earn the vast majority of their revenue from fees and interest **heaped** onto users who don’t pay off balances in full and on time.

Answer 173

**trzeba to oddać komuś (respektować daną osobę, za to co zrobiła)** …..…......................................…....................................... You **have to hand it to** Sir Elton John. Not only is he the only musician ever to have top-ten hit singles in Britain for six decades in a row. He is also a rare septuagenarian megastar who knows how to bow out in style. On November 20th at a relatively tender 75 years old, he performed what he said would be his last ever concert in America at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. One of the showstoppers was “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, the theme song for graceful retirements.

Answer 174

**prawie** …..…......................................…....................................... The watch almost doubled the previous record for the model when it sold for more than $1.5mn at auction. It was **about** as desirable as a Crash can get, made in the London workshops in 1967 and new to the market… even so, $1.5mn?

Answer 175

**nieoczekiwany, przypadkowy, sprawiający miłą niespodziankę** …..…......................................…....................................... Some Horizon users said in interviews they already spend many hours a day in the metaverse, entranced by the **serendipitous** interaction it can yield. One user who said she was homebound after a kidney transplant said it was her principal source of recreation.

Answer 176

**istnieć (używane, gdy jest to zaskakujące)** …..…......................................…....................................... King lives on a dead‑end street at the edge of the Presidio, a 1,500‑acre park in San Francisco where through traffic **isn’t a thing**. Outside she saw a white Jaguar SUV backing out of her driveway. It had what looked like a giant fan on its roof—a laser sensor—and bore the logo of Google’s driver less car division, Waymo.

Answer 177

**spisać na straty** …..…......................................…....................................... In that same quarter, Klarna said credit losses jumped 51%, to 1.19 billion Swedish krona ($115 million) because of its expansion in the US, France, and elsewhere. At Affirm, **charge-offs** jumped 362%, to $67.2 million. (Lenders charge off a loan they’ve decided a consumer isn’t going to repay, refer it to a debt collector, and record it as a loss on their books.)

Answer 178

**something is off** …..…......................................…....................................... “Probably when he saw Hans’s play in Miami, and on the beach…it didn’t match with the level of the play in the actual event,” said American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura. “When you combine it with the long-existing rumors, Magnus became convinced **something was off**.”

Answer 179

**rdzenny** …..…......................................…....................................... **Indigenous** chefs are gaining national attention—and acclaim—for their takes on heritage-honoring dishes.

Answer 180

**czas transportu, czas wykonania (czegoś)** …..…......................................…....................................... Ku started the auction platform with business partner Justin Gruenberg during Covid and describes it as a more efficient way of selling watches compared with traditional auction houses, where the process can take from six months to a year. Loupe This charges a flat seller fee of $500, a 10 per cent buyer fee and counts its **turnaround** in weeks rather than months.

Answer 181

**glitchy** …..…......................................…....................................... Nearly a year after Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook as Meta Platforms Inc. in a bet-the-company move on the metaverse, internal documents show the transition grappling with **glitchy** technology, uninterested users and a lack of clarity about what it will take to succeed.

Answer 182

**to do the math** …..…......................................…....................................... Google’s $1.8 billion claim for damages suggested it had **done the math** based on just how imminent the fortunes to be made from driverless technology were. “People were playing for this trillion‑dollar prize of automating all transportation,” Levandowski says. “And if you think it’s really just a year away, you take the gloves off.”

Answer 183

**zawracanie na trzy (manewr samochodowy)** …..…......................................…....................................... King complained to Google that the cars were driving her nuts, but the **K‑turns** kept coming. Sometimes a few of the SUVs would show up at the same time and form a little line, like an army of zombie driver’s‑ed students.

Answer 184

**nienaturalny; naciągany; zaaranżowany** …..…......................................…....................................... When reporters revealed that Bree was in fact the creation of two filmmakers and a hired actress, her YouTube fans didn’t abandon her. They didn’t seem to care that the footage they were watching was **contrived**, as long as it was entertaining.

Answer 185

**posterity** …..…......................................…....................................... In 2008, Levandowski kludged together his first self‑ driving Prius, which conducted what the industry widely recognizes as the first successful test of an autonomous vehicle. (The event was recorded for **posterity** on a Discovery Channel show called Prototype This!.)

Answer 186

**yours to keep** …..…......................................…....................................... Unions want to arm-wrestle value from capital and force higher wage payouts than is economically sound. This blatantly disregards human capital—what workers learn on the job is **theirs to keep**. We increase productivity and wealth by having workers figure out how to do more with less from the bottom up.

Answer 187

**to crap out** …..…......................................…....................................... One of the industry’s favorite maxims is that humans are terrible drivers. This may seem intuitive to anyone who’s taken the Cross Bronx Expressway home during rush hour, but it’snot even close to true. Throw a top‑of‑the‑line robot at any difficult driving task, and you’ll be lucky if the robot lasts a few seconds before **crapping out**.

Answer 188

**zamieszanie; rozruchy** …..…......................................…....................................... A housing crash sent the global economy into recession between 2007 and 2009. But three countries—Australia, Canada and Sweden— cruised through the **commotion**. Even as property prices plummeted elsewhere, all three recorded double-digit growth. Some of this was good fortune.

Answer 189

**to let out** …..…......................................…....................................... Owners in the city centre are also planning on cashing in on the Olympics, utilising their right to **let out** their homes on Airbnb for up to 120 days per year. “All my friends are planning on renting out their flats,” says Rowe. She is relieved to be out of the “flat-hunting horrors” of the competitive long-term rentals market. “It’s common to see 30 people queueing outside an unappealing ‘shoebox’ apartment clasping their paperwork,” she says.

Answer 190

**to dispute** …..…......................................…....................................... Waymo **disputes** that its tech failed and said in a statement that its vehicles had been “obeying the same road rules that any car is required to follow.” The company, like its peers in Silicon Valley and Detroit, has characterized incidents like this as isolated, potholes on the road to a steering‑wheel‑free future.

Answer 191

**nie lada wyczyn** …..…......................................…....................................... Meta executives compare the company’s predicament now to ten years ago, when it was managing the transition of its social network to mobile. Shifting a billion Facebook users from desktop to phone was **no mean feat**, made harder by the fact that Mr Zuckerberg was late to spot the importance of mobile.

Answer 192

**expletive** …..…......................................…....................................... “It’s a misconception that people in the fashion industry are wearing head-to-toe designer—that’s absolutely not the case,” said Alexa Chung, the British designer and model. “They’re thrifty as [**expletive**].”

Answer 193

**storied** …..…......................................…....................................... Two highlights from his trajectory: Mr. Ghesquière first interned for Paris designer Jean Paul Gaultier and later helmed Balenciaga, a **storied** fashion house he helped put back on the map after a trio of sleepy decades.

Answer 194

**niepierwszej potrzeby (relating to things that you pay for that are not considered completely necessary)** …..…......................................…....................................... In the US it took root in 2018 as a way to buy clothing, cosmetics, and other **discretionary** items and exploded in popularity amid the pandemic. You can buy now and pay later for just about anything, including aspirational bigticket items, like Pelotons and designer couches; trifling and small things, like socks and underwear; and dire necessities, like groceries and gas.

Answer 195

**wahać się, być rozdartym** …..…......................................…....................................... Where will this cashless revolution take us? As Mao’s premier Zhou Enlai said of the French Revolution, it’s too soon to say. Mr. Chorzempa appears to be **of two minds**. He suggests that Chinese fintech poses a threat to Western payments systems while acknowledging that Tencent and Ant have made little progress outside their home turf. Nor is he sure whether financial technology represents a liberating force or a “privacy nightmare.”

Answer 196

**policzyć; wyciągnąć wnioski** …..…......................................…....................................... Google’s $1.8 billion claim for damages suggested it had **done the math** based on just how imminent the fortunes to be made from driverless technology were. “People were playing for this trillion‑dollar prize of automating all transportation,” Levandowski says. “And if you think it’s really just a year away, you take the gloves off.”

Answer 197

**just about** …..…......................................…....................................... In the US it took root in 2018 as a way to buy clothing, cosmetics, and other discretionary items and exploded in popularity amid the pandemic. You can buy now and pay later for **just about** anything, including aspirational bigticket items, like Pelotons and designer couches; trifling and small things, like socks and underwear; and dire necessities, like groceries and gas.

Answer 198

**to forfeit** …..…......................................…....................................... At a subsequent tournament, Mr. Carlsen **forfeited** a game against Mr. Niemann after one move. Mr. Carlsen nonetheless went on to win the event.

Answer 199

**dziczyzna** …..…......................................…....................................... Co-founder Sean Sherman—aka the Sioux Chef—highlights ingredients rarely seen on American menus, such as toasted crickets. He sources from Indigenous vendors and features fish and **game** from the Minneapolis area.

Answer 200

**przynosić czemuś złą sławę, psuć opinię na temat czegoś** …..…......................................…....................................... Under President Xi Jinping, China had already taken an authoritarian turn. Swashbuckling financial tycoons (known as “crocodiles”) faced arrest and the dismantling of their business empires. Widespread fraud among local peer-to-peer lenders had **given fintech a bad name** and produced calls for more regulation. Mr. Xi was also seeking to restrain the explosive growth of debt in China.

Answer 201

**dziki zachód (obszar, gdzie nikt wcześniej nie mieszkał)** …..…......................................…....................................... Other tech giants, including Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc., are developing products on the belief that the metaverse is the next digital **frontier**.

Answer 202

**slander** …..…......................................…....................................... On Thursday, Mr. Niemann filed a $100 million federal lawsuit against Mr. Carlsen, the platform Chess.com and others for **slander**, libel and colluding to blacklist him. Mr. Niemann in the suit alleges that tournament organizers have shunned him after allegations of cheating surfaced.

Answer 203

**zmieniać; poprawiać, korygować** …..…......................................…....................................... Meta initially set a goal of reaching 500,000 monthly active users for Horizon Worlds by the end of this year, but in recent weeks **revised** that figure to 280,000.

Answer 204

**wycofywać się (np. z konkursu)** …..…......................................…....................................... You have to hand it to Sir Elton John. Not only is he the only musician ever to have top-ten hit singles in Britain for six decades in a row. He is also a rare septuagenarian megastar who knows how to **bow out** in style. On November 20th at a relatively tender 75 years old, he performed what he said would be his last ever concert in America at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. One of the showstoppers was “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, the theme song for graceful retirements.

Answer 205

**krótko ostrzyżony** …..…......................................…....................................... With his **close-cropped** hair, neatly maintained moustache and fine-rimmed spectacles, Ku looks like a professor. I have heard rumours that he has an IQ of 180. Speaking in Gatling gun-like bursts, he outlines the research methods he applies.

Answer 206

**all too** …..…......................................…....................................... Executives he later worked with at Google and Uber were **all too** happy to insist that the science was already there, that his proto types could already handle any challenge, that all that was left was “going commercial.”

Answer 207

**whack-a-mole** …..…......................................…....................................... “Financial regulation is a game of **whack-a-mole**,” Lawless says. “There’s always going to be some new device or transaction that the existing statutes don’t cover, so we need a regulatory agency to track these things, because Congress—even a functioning one—can’t keep up.”

Answer 208

**consignment** …..…......................................…....................................... Sotheby’s lands $100mn **consignment**.

Answer 209

**artykuł pierwszej potrzeby** …..…......................................…....................................... In the US it took root in 2018 as a way to buy clothing, cosmetics, and other discretionary items and exploded in popularity amid the pandemic. You can buy now and pay later for just about anything, including aspirational bigticket items, like Pelotons and designer couches; trifling and small things, like socks and underwear; and dire **necessities**, like groceries and gas.

Answer 210

**vanity case** …..…......................................…....................................... For a brand that depends so heavily on its accessories, the success of a high-fashion bag that has moved from catwalk to shop so seamlessly is reassuring. Ghesquière’s contributions may only account for a proportion of total sales, but his new handbag lines, like the Triangle bag (£2,660), the Alma (£1,500) with its jaunty new logo, or the Boîte Promenade (£27,000), a sci-fi-esque **vanity case**, have helped create a halo effect for the entire brand.

Answer 211

**late fee** …..…......................................…....................................... The arrangement is like layaway, but in reverse. Make your payments on time, and the pay-in-four model is all upside: You’ve borrowed money free of any interest. But fall behind on your payments, and you might get hit with **late fees** from the BNPL provider.

Answer 212

**spóźniać się z (płatnościami); nie zdążyć zrobić czegoś** …..…......................................…....................................... The arrangement is like layaway, but in reverse. Make your payments on time, and the pay-in-four model is all upside: You’ve borrowed money free of any interest. But **fall behind on** your payments, and you might get hit with late fees from the BNPL provider.

Answer 213

**thick and fast** …..…......................................…....................................... Consignments are coming in **thick and fast** for New York’s auction season in November. The latest collection to hit the block comes from the late David Solinger, a media and art lawyer who was president of the board of New York’s Whitney Museum and who died in 1996.

Answer 214

**dokładać starań** …..…......................................…....................................... Meta will lift the wraps on its latest efforts in virtual reality next week, just as it is also working through an extensive cost-cutting effort that involves office closures, hiring freezes and staff cullings that Meta is **taking some pains** not to describe as layoffs.

Answer 215

**pod samym nosem, bardzo blisko** …..…......................................…....................................... “I’ve got a dozen bars **on my doorstep** and I feel like the area is on the up. I like the lack of snobbery,” says Rowe, who works in marketing. “I only intended staying in Paris for a year but can’t imagine leaving now. I think I can have a much higher living standard here than in London.”

Answer 216

**spacerować** …..…......................................…....................................... And the range of these “edge cases,” as AI experts call them, is virtually infinite. Think: cars cutting across three lanes of traffic without signaling, or bicyclists doing the same, or a deer **ambling** alongside the shoulder, or a low‑flying plane, or an eagle, or a drone.

Answer 217

**coś tu nie gra, coś tu jest nie tak** …..…......................................…....................................... “Probably when he saw Hans’s play in Miami, and on the beach…it didn’t match with the level of the play in the actual event,” said American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura. “When you combine it with the long-existing rumors, Magnus became convinced **something was off**.”

Answer 218

**być wyrzuconym na pysk (np. z pracy)** …..…......................................…....................................... It wasn’t, because shortly before the performance started, a bombshell landed. Its hospitality tent at the stadium was convulsed by the news that Bob Iger, the Walt Disney Company’s own Rocket Man, was coming out of semi-retirement, aged 71, to retake control of the firm he left only 11 months previously, leaving Bob Chapek, his handpicked successor, **out on his ear**.

Answer 219

**podświadomy** …..…......................................…....................................... On the display, little red or green boxes hover perfectly over every car, bike, jaywalker, stoplight, etc. you pass. All this input feels **subliminal** when you’re driving your own car, but on a readout that looks like a mix between the POVs of the Terminator and the Predator, it’s overwhelming.

Answer 220

**to depose** …..…......................................…....................................... The provision hints at what might have sparked Musk’s change of heart: His closest contacts are being **deposed**, and their private messages with him are becoming public via the court.

Answer 221

**libel** …..…......................................…....................................... On Thursday, Mr. Niemann filed a $100 million federal lawsuit against Mr. Carlsen, the platform Chess.com and others for slander, **libel** and colluding to blacklist him. Mr. Niemann in the suit alleges that tournament organizers have shunned him after allegations of cheating surfaced.

Answer 222

**to fall behind on** …..…......................................…....................................... The arrangement is like layaway, but in reverse. Make your payments on time, and the pay-in-four model is all upside: You’ve borrowed money free of any interest. But **fall behind on** your payments, and you might get hit with late fees from the BNPL provider.

Answer 223

**chancery court** …..…......................................…....................................... His surprise return to the original deal terms came with a provision that the Delaware **Chancery court** “enter an immediate stay” of Twitter’s suit “and adjourn the trial and all other proceedings related” to the case.

Answer 224

**to take something lying down** …..…......................................…....................................... At a Shanghai convention later that month, Mr. Ma delivered an astonishingly ill-judged speech in which he extolled financial innovation and criticized the stifling effect of financial regulation. His argument may have been sound, but Beijing didn’t **take the challenge lying down**. Ant’s IPO was canceled, new regulations were imposed and Mr. Ma briefly disappeared from public view. His “aura of untouchability crumbled,”.

Answer 225

**charge-off** …..…......................................…....................................... In that same quarter, Klarna said credit losses jumped 51%, to 1.19 billion Swedish krona ($115 million) because of its expansion in the US, France, and elsewhere. At Affirm, **charge-offs** jumped 362%, to $67.2 million. (Lenders charge off a loan they’ve decided a consumer isn’t going to repay, refer it to a debt collector, and record it as a loss on their books.)

Answer 226

**vertigo** …..…......................................…....................................... Across the rich world, house prices are now starting to fall after years of **vertiginous** growth.

Answer 227

**fashion plate** …..…......................................…....................................... Things don’t always go to plan. Last Christmas she was browsing in & Other Stories, an H&M-owned brand, when a stranger confronted her. The woman, perplexed that a famous **fashion plate** would be in such a place, blurted, “What are you doing here?” To which Ms. Chung replied: “What are you doing? I’m shopping!”

Answer 228

**close-cropped** …..…......................................…....................................... With his **close-cropped** hair, neatly maintained moustache and fine-rimmed spectacles, Ku looks like a professor. I have heard rumours that he has an IQ of 180. Speaking in Gatling gun-like bursts, he outlines the research methods he applies.

Answer 229

**wstrzymać się (np. przed podjęciem decyzji)** …..…......................................…....................................... Although mortgage rates are still relatively low at around 2 to 3 per cent, further increases from the European Central Bank are being anticipated, and with the uncertainty of the cost of living and energy crises, buyers have started **holding fire**. “Three months ago properly priced properties were selling in a fortnight, but now there are not enough buyers,” says Helena Hermanns of Leggett Immobilier. “It’s the quietest we have been for five years.”

Answer 230

**to scatter** …..…......................................…....................................... People driving down a city street with a few pigeons pecking away near the median know (a) that the pigeons will fly away as the car approaches and (b) that drivers behind them also know the pigeons will **scatter**. Drivers know, without having to think about it, that slamming the brakes wouldn’t just be unnecessary—it would be dangerous. So they maintain their speed.

Answer 231

**baseline** …..…......................................…....................................... The car companies know this, which is why they do it. Amping up the **baseline** tension of a drive makes their software’s screw‑ups seem like less of an outlier, and the successes all the more remarkable.

Answer 232

**financial fraud involving the use of telecommunications or information technology** …..…......................................…....................................... The UK dealer Robert Newland, who had worked at Christie’s, White Cube, Hauser & Wirth and, most recently, Superblue, has pleaded guilty in a US district court to one count of conspiracy to commit **wire fraud**, in connection with the $86mn scheme of Inigo Philbrick, who was sentenced to seven years in prison earlier this year.

Answer 233

**the turn of the year** …..…......................................…....................................... High levels of immigration in all three countries mean that, since **the turn of the millennium**, population growth has exceeded the average in the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries.

Answer 234

**knockoff** …..…......................................…....................................... These are not flimsy **knockoffs** of highend designs bought to wear once in pursuit of a fad. Rather, they are dependable, unadorned staples that fill gaps in outfits, like sartorial grout.

Answer 235

**to take pains** …..…......................................…....................................... Meta will lift the wraps on its latest efforts in virtual reality next week, just as it is also working through an extensive cost-cutting effort that involves office closures, hiring freezes and staff cullings that Meta is **taking some pains** not to describe as layoffs.

Answer 236

**chojrak; ryzykant; śmiałek** …..…......................................…....................................... But it’s the same exact trip every time, with no edge cases—no rush hour, no school crossings, no **daredevil** scooter drivers—and instead of executing an awkward multipoint turn before dumping their loads, the robot trucks back up the hill in reverse, speeding each truck’s reloading.

Answer 237

**sold on something** …..…......................................…....................................... If you’re not **sold on** high fidelity, you will be after trying Focal’s new $5,000 headphones.

Answer 238

**brand signifier** …..…......................................…....................................... We see new customers buying into Louis Vuitton, perhaps for the first time, because they admire the aesthetic and vision of Ghesquière specifically, says Selfridges’ Manes. Other customers, including those from the Middle East and Asia, may be more interested in the broader heritage of the label – for them, it’s often the **brand signifiers** that are important.

Answer 239

**ostro krytykować (publicznie)** …..…......................................…....................................... If you use a credit card and don’t pay off the balance in full, you’ll end up paying interest indirectly. BNPL companies **slam** the evils of credit cards but accept them as a way for users to pay on their platforms.

Answer 240

**stay** …..…......................................…....................................... “The most cynical view would be that Musk is trying to make a strong play publicly to get Twitter to agree to a **stay**, after which he will nonetheless not go through with it or find some new excuse, and then we’ll be back to square one,” Ladig says. The judge hasn’t yet granted a stay on the case, and—as with other sagas in Musk’s world—it’s best to keep in mind a range of potential outcomes.

Answer 241

**to convulse** …..…......................................…....................................... It wasn’t, because shortly before the performance started, a bombshell landed. Its hospitality tent at the stadium was **convulsed** by the news that Bob Iger, the Walt Disney Company’s own Rocket Man, was coming out of semi-retirement, aged 71, to retake control of the firm he left only 11 months previously, leaving Bob Chapek, his handpicked successor, out on his ear.

Answer 242

**good fortune** …..…......................................…....................................... A housing crash sent the global economy into recession between 2007 and 2009. But three countries—Australia, Canada and Sweden— cruised through the commotion. Even as property prices plummeted elsewhere, all three recorded double-digit growth. Some of this was **good fortune**.

Answer 243

**to slack off** …..…......................................…....................................... Think of pay as personal profits. Every (legal) job adds value, and if you **slack off** or don’t deploy your human capital and live up to your potential, you’re stealing societal wealth from the rest of us. That’s selfish.

Answer 244

**K-turn** …..…......................................…....................................... King complained to Google that the cars were driving her nuts, but the **K‑turns** kept coming. Sometimes a few of the SUVs would show up at the same time and form a little line, like an army of zombie driver’s‑ed students.

Answer 245

**layaway** …..…......................................…....................................... The arrangement is like **layaway**, but in reverse. Make your payments on time, and the pay-in-four model is all upside: You’ve borrowed money free of any interest. But fall behind on your payments, and you might get hit with late fees from the BNPL provider.

Answer 246

**do wyboru, do koloru; co tylko dusza zapragnie** …..…......................................…....................................... “Everybody I know with style mixes and matches high and low [priced items],” said Edward Enninful, the editor in chief of British Vogue. “All my friends do: Kate Moss, Naomi [Campbell], **you name it**.”

Answer 247

**to extend credit** …..…......................................…....................................... Particularly in the US, BNPL companies haven’t been subject to much of the regulatory oversight normally applicable to entities **extending credit**. Take the Truth in Lending Act, a landmark law enacted in 1968 and amended many times since, which requires extensive disclosures for unsecured consumer loans split into payments of five or more.

Answer 248

**top‑of‑the‑line** …..…......................................…....................................... One of the industry’s favorite maxims is that humans are terrible drivers. This may seem intuitive to anyone who’s taken the Cross Bronx Expressway home during rush hour, but it’snot even close to true. Throw a **top‑of‑the‑line** robot at any difficult driving task, and you’ll be lucky if the robot lasts a few seconds before crapping out.

Answer 249

**kwestia sporna** …..…......................................…....................................... Even if that’s legal boilerplate, it leaves room for skepticism about whether this is the end of the story; there’s still enough **contention** between the two parties that no joint statement surfaced the following day.

Answer 250

**scut** …..…......................................…....................................... Advice from Mike Rowe: “Stop looking for the ‘right’ career, and start looking for a job. Any job. Forget about what you like. Focus on what’s available. Get yourself hired. Show up early. Stay late. Volunteer for the **scut** work. Become indispensable.” He’s right—and build human capital. A job already has a purpose. And please don’t ask for pet-bereavement benefits.

Answer 251

**to kludge** …..…......................................…....................................... In 2008, Levandowski **kludged** together his first self‑ driving Prius, which conducted what the industry widely recognizes as the first successful test of an autonomous vehicle. (The event was recorded for posterity on a Discovery Channel show called Prototype This!.)

Answer 252

**readout** …..…......................................…....................................... On the display, little red or green boxes hover perfectly over every car, bike, jaywalker, stoplight, etc. you pass. All this input feels subliminal when you’re driving your own car, but on a **readout** that looks like a mix between the POVs of the Terminator and the Predator, it’s overwhelming.

Answer 253

**expansive** …..…......................................…....................................... The restaurant, on the upper level of a park pavilion by the ruins of an old mill, has large windows that offer an **expansive** view of the Mississippi River. Pennsylvania sedge and other native plants surround the patio.

Answer 254

**powiernik (osoba, z którą dyskutujemy o swoich pomysłach)** …..…......................................…....................................... Ghesquière’s ongoing conversation with his “woman” is both literal and metaphorical; he continues to work closely with Marie-Amélie Sauvé, the stylist with whom he first joined forces at Balenciaga, and the actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, whom he describes as his best friend and **sounding board**. “He watches what they wear, how they wear it, and he also listens to what they say,” observes Delphine Arnault of the women who surround him.

Answer 255

**przypadek brzegowy (problem występujący tylko na maksymalnych parametrach)** …..…......................................…....................................... And the range of these “**edge cases**,” as AI experts call them, is virtually infinite. Think: cars cutting across three lanes of traffic without signaling, or bicyclists doing the same, or a deer ambling alongside the shoulder, or a low‑flying plane, or an eagle, or a drone.

Answer 256

**frontier** …..…......................................…....................................... Other tech giants, including Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc., are developing products on the belief that the metaverse is the next digital **frontier**.

Answer 257

**rozsądny, logiczny** …..…......................................…....................................... Unions want to arm-wrestle value from capital and force higher wage payouts than is economically **sound**. This blatantly disregards human capital—what workers learn on the job is theirs to keep. We increase productivity and wealth by having workers figure out how to do more with less from the bottom up.

Answer 258

**necessity** …..…......................................…....................................... In the US it took root in 2018 as a way to buy clothing, cosmetics, and other discretionary items and exploded in popularity amid the pandemic. You can buy now and pay later for just about anything, including aspirational bigticket items, like Pelotons and designer couches; trifling and small things, like socks and underwear; and dire **necessities**, like groceries and gas.

Answer 259

**wstrząsać (np. krajem)** …..…......................................…....................................... It wasn’t, because shortly before the performance started, a bombshell landed. Its hospitality tent at the stadium was **convulsed** by the news that Bob Iger, the Walt Disney Company’s own Rocket Man, was coming out of semi-retirement, aged 71, to retake control of the firm he left only 11 months previously, leaving Bob Chapek, his handpicked successor, out on his ear.

Answer 260

**bezsprzeczny** …..…......................................…....................................... His collections have drawn on architecture, sci-fi, William Morris and Edie Sedgwick, but the references are seldom explicit. His influence is **incontrovertible**. For example, in his first collection he paired a thin-rib, high poloneck jumper with go-go boots, a lacquered leather minidress and a swing coat to create a modern take on a 1960s silhouette. Rare was the catwalk the following season in which these ideas weren’t replicated – and polonecks have become one of the statement pieces of the new season.

Answer 261

**punkt wyjścia, początek** …..…......................................…....................................... “The most cynical view would be that Musk is trying to make a strong play publicly to get Twitter to agree to a stay, after which he will nonetheless not go through with it or find some new excuse, and then we’ll be back to **square one**,” Ladig says. The judge hasn’t yet granted a stay on the case, and—as with other sagas in Musk’s world—it’s best to keep in mind a range of potential outcomes.

Answer 262

**to give something a bad name** …..…......................................…....................................... Under President Xi Jinping, China had already taken an authoritarian turn. Swashbuckling financial tycoons (known as “crocodiles”) faced arrest and the dismantling of their business empires. Widespread fraud among local peer-to-peer lenders had **given fintech a bad name** and produced calls for more regulation. Mr. Xi was also seeking to restrain the explosive growth of debt in China.

Answer 263

**rear‑end** …..…......................................…....................................... What the smartest self‑driving car “sees,” on the other hand, is a small obstacle. It doesn’t know where the obstacle came from or where it may go, only that the car is supposed to safely avoid obstacles, so it might respond by hitting the brakes. The best‑case scenario is a small traffic jam, but braking suddenly could cause the next car coming down the road to **rear‑end** it.

Answer 264

**ściskać, trzymać kurczowo** …..…......................................…....................................... Owners in the city centre are also planning on cashing in on the Olympics, utilising their right to let out their homes on Airbnb for up to 120 days per year. “All my friends are planning on renting out their flats,” says Rowe. She is relieved to be out of the “flat-hunting horrors” of the competitive long-term rentals market. “It’s common to see 30 people queueing outside an unappealing ‘shoebox’ apartment **clasping** their paperwork,” she says.

Answer 265

**żałoba** …..…......................................…....................................... Advice from Mike Rowe: “Stop looking for the ‘right’ career, and start looking for a job. Any job. Forget about what you like. Focus on what’s available. Get yourself hired. Show up early. Stay late. Volunteer for the scut work. Become indispensable.” He’s right—and build human capital. A job already has a purpose. And please don’t ask for pet-**bereavement** benefits.

Answer 266

**to tire of** …..…......................................…....................................... And to avoid impulse buys you’ll quickly **tire of**, remember your style codes when faced with a bargain, said Ms. Smilovic.

Answer 267

**to bow out** …..…......................................…....................................... You have to hand it to Sir Elton John. Not only is he the only musician ever to have top-ten hit singles in Britain for six decades in a row. He is also a rare septuagenarian megastar who knows how to **bow out** in style. On November 20th at a relatively tender 75 years old, he performed what he said would be his last ever concert in America at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. One of the showstoppers was “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, the theme song for graceful retirements.

Answer 268

**rozejść się (o ludziach), rozbiec się (o zwierzętach)** …..…......................................…....................................... People driving down a city street with a few pigeons pecking away near the median know (a) that the pigeons will fly away as the car approaches and (b) that drivers behind them also know the pigeons will **scatter**. Drivers know, without having to think about it, that slamming the brakes wouldn’t just be unnecessary—it would be dangerous. So they maintain their speed.

Answer 269

**to be of two minds about something** …..…......................................…....................................... Where will this cashless revolution take us? As Mao’s premier Zhou Enlai said of the French Revolution, it’s too soon to say. Mr. Chorzempa appears to be **of two minds**. He suggests that Chinese fintech poses a threat to Western payments systems while acknowledging that Tencent and Ant have made little progress outside their home turf. Nor is he sure whether financial technology represents a liberating force or a “privacy nightmare.”

Answer 270

**posuwać się z trudem, wlec się** …..…......................................…....................................... Eventually Google dispatched Susan Wojcicki, an early Google employee who had earned the trust of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. While Mr. Bergen portrays her as a competent and levelheaded executive, her management style at YouTube proved too **plodding** to deal nimbly with the frequent crises over content that erupted on the platform.

Answer 271

**problem lub potrzeba jaką dana firma ma zamiar rozwiązać** …..…......................................…....................................... Meta’s researchers found that, though many of Horizon’s early creators became unengaged, they could be won back. “Many say they would return if **pain points** are fixed,” read one memo about creation attrition.

Answer 272

**edge case** …..…......................................…....................................... And the range of these “**edge cases**,” as AI experts call them, is virtually infinite. Think: cars cutting across three lanes of traffic without signaling, or bicyclists doing the same, or a deer ambling alongside the shoulder, or a low‑flying plane, or an eagle, or a drone.

Answer 273

**shoulder** …..…......................................…....................................... And the range of these “edge cases,” as AI experts call them, is virtually infinite. Think: cars cutting across three lanes of traffic without signaling, or bicyclists doing the same, or a deer ambling alongside the **shoulder**, or a low‑flying plane, or an eagle, or a drone.

Answer 274

**hem** …..…......................................…....................................... New York stylist Michael Fisher feels the same way about his no-frills Dickies painter’s pants. At just $30 from Lowe’s, they’re as inexpensive as they are sturdy. And once a pair is well-worn, Mr. Fisher will often take scissors to the **hems** to “give them a new life” as cropped pants.

Answer 275

**zgadzać się z czymś, popierać coś** …..…......................................…....................................... “Terence’s view — one I **subscribe to** — was that one of [the UK’s] tragedies is that we don’t make things,” says Marlow as we sit in his office (sleek, low-key, orderly). “We lost the manufacturing that emphasised the importance of design, and how and why it matters.”

Answer 276

**wire fraud** …..…......................................…....................................... The UK dealer Robert Newland, who had worked at Christie’s, White Cube, Hauser & Wirth and, most recently, Superblue, has pleaded guilty in a US district court to one count of conspiracy to commit **wire fraud**, in connection with the $86mn scheme of Inigo Philbrick, who was sentenced to seven years in prison earlier this year.

Deck no. 32 Flashcards

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