Deck no. 45 Flashcards
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to-and-fro
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wte i wewte; kręcenie się …..…………………………………..………………………….. The to-and-fro of Goldman’s postfinancial crisis strategy has a long history. Goldman initially didn’t want to develop into a big retail or commercial bank, but executives started to explore a shift when its trading revenues declined.
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run-of-the-mill
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zwyczajny, szablonowy, sztampowy, przeciętny …..…………………………………..………………………….. Goldman emerged from the financial crisis transformed into a run-of-the-mill deposit-taking bank, a status regulators insisted on so it income could access emergency funds from the Federal Reserve. It has spent the last 15 years trying to figure out how to be one.
3
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go home
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zrezygnować …..…………………………………..………………………….. Yet Goldman can’t go home again. The archetypical Wall Street trading powerhouse and investment bank—famously dubbed a vampire squid by Rolling Stone more than a decade ago—doesn’t exist anymore.
4
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to snarl
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wstrzymać (ruch uliczny), zablokować (ruch uliczny) …..…………………………………..………………………….. When the pandemic hit, supplychain snarls and rising prices during the pandemic fueled an uptick in commodities trading. The Federal Reserve’s moves to fight inflation reinvigorated the moribund business of trading around interest rates. The endof free money has made financing trading clients harder, but also quite lucrative for the remaining players.
5
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the third time’s the charm
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do trzech razy sztuka …..…………………………………..………………………….. Time to dust off that deck, Marc. That day is now. And who knows, another co-CEO may be in the offing, as well. Third time’s a charm, right?
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to drop the ball
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spieprzyć, zawalić …..…………………………………..………………………….. Shiv is my favourite sartorial conundrum. Every time I think I’ve got her number, she confounds me with another maddening choice. She’s either the manifestation of the most brilliantly devious wardrobe mistress or the result of a costumier who very often drops the ball.
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to have (got) someone’s number
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to understand someone or realize the true purpose of their actions …..…………………………………..………………………….. Shiv is my favourite sartorial conundrum. Every time I think I’ve got her number, she confounds me with another maddening choice. She’s either the manifestation of the most brilliantly devious wardrobe mistress or the result of a costumier who very often drops the ball.
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to madden
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irytować …..…………………………………..………………………….. Shiv is my favourite sartorial conundrum. Every time I think I’ve got her number, she confounds me with another maddening choice. She’s either the manifestation of the most brilliantly devious wardrobe mistress or the result of a costumier who very often drops the ball.
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devious
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przebiegły, nieszczery (o osobie) …..…………………………………..………………………….. Shiv is my favourite sartorial conundrum. Every time I think I’ve got her number, she confounds me with another maddening choice. She’s either the manifestation of the most brilliantly devious wardrobe mistress or the result of a costumier who very often drops the ball.
10
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restitution
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rekompensata …..…………………………………..………………………….. Her clothes are a costume for a character who can’t reveal herself completely or simply doesn’t know herself at all. Maybe that’s a good thing. She drives me bloody mad. But maybe out of chaos will come restitution. Maybe she will ultimately come good.
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to come good
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wyjść na prostą
to recover and perform well after a bad start or setback …..…………………………………..………………………….. Her clothes are a costume for a character who can’t reveal herself completely or simply doesn’t know herself at all. Maybe that’s a good thing. She drives me bloody mad. But maybe out of chaos will come restitution. Maybe she will ultimately come good.
12
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clout
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znaczenie (np. polityczne), siła przebicia, duże wpływy …..…………………………………..………………………….. ‘Yellowstone’ creator has clout.
13
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pushback
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niechęć, sprzeciw …..…………………………………..………………………….. The actor-turned-writer and ranch owner dictates where and how his shows are filmed with little pushback, according to executives and crew workers. Among his favorite locations are his own Texas ranches, where he can charge Paramount as much as $50,000 a week.
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going
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robienie określonej czynności …..…………………………………..………………………….. Speaking earlier this year at a convention for cattle owners, Mr. Sheridan said, “There’s nothing better than a movie company showing up and filming for about a month and paying you a bunch of money and leaving. It’s about the greatest deal going.”
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on the back of something
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w następstwie czegoś …..…………………………………..………………………….. Its service Paramount+ added nearly 10 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2022 on the back of Mr. Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” prequels “1883” and “1923.” On Thursday, the company said it added about 4.1 million subscribers in the first quarter, bringing total subscribers to more than 60 million.
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wrangler
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kowboj …..…………………………………..………………………….. “Are you kidding me? We can’t find a local person?” asked David Glasser, the head of 101 Studios, in an email to several production staffers reviewed by the Journal. “Taylor only uses these people to do his horses,” responded Bobby Lovgren, the show’s head animal wrangler.
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receptive
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otwarty (na pomysły, sugestie) …..…………………………………..………………………….. After Ms. Stuart, the Texas horse wrangler, submitted time cards, Mr. Glasser called Mr. Sheridan to discuss the personal employees who were billing the productions, according to emails. “He is now completely aware of the problem and was pretty [receptive] in trying to fix it,” Mr. Glasser wrote to some production officers.
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to lock horns with somebody
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wdawać się z kimś w kłótnię …..…………………………………..………………………….. “He is not writing ‘shoot at my ranch’ in the script. Those demands are never made.When the [line producer] or I go to Taylor and ask him to cut a day out of the schedule for budget purposes, he is more than willing to accommodate,” said Mr. Glasser. “However, when a line producer comes in and says, ‘Why don’t you cut the river crossing sequence out of the show on “1883,”’ that for sure will be something he is prepared to lock horns over.”
19
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sake
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powód, cel (dla którego coś się robi), wzgląd (na coś, kogoś) // wyrażenia tego najczęściej nie tłumaczy się dosłownie - występuje ono w konstrukcjach for somebody’s sake, for the sake of something …..…………………………………..………………………….. A keep-dry-sake.
20
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to get the ball rolling
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rozpoczynać coś, zacząć coś …..…………………………………..………………………….. The age of generative artificial intelligence has well and truly arrived. Open AI’s chatbots, which use large language model (LLM) technology, got the ball rolling in November.
21
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in a timely manner
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na czas; terminowo …..…………………………………..………………………….. AI also cannot do anything about the biggest thing holding back rich world productivity growth: misfiring planning systems. When the size of cities is constrained and housing costs are high, people cannot live and work where they are most efficient. No matter how many brilliant new ideas your society may have, they are functionally useless if you cannot build them in a timely manner.
22
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to slack off
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lenić się …..…………………………………..………………………….. A paper in 2016 by researchers at the University of California at Irvine, Microsoft Research and mit found that “the longer daily time spent on email, the lower was perceived productivity”. Some bosses now believe that working from home, once seen as a productivity booster, gives too many people the excuse to slack off.
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godsend
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ratunek, wybawienie; dar niebios …..…………………………………..………………………….. Generative AI itself could act as a drain on productivity. What happens, for instance, if AI can create entertainment perfectly tailored to your every desire? Moreover, few people have thought through the implications of a system that can generate vast amounts of text instantly. GPT4 is a godsend for a NIMBY facing a planning application.
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to spruce-up
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wystroić się; poprawić wygląd …..…………………………………..………………………….. After a four-year spruce-up Tiffany & Co, an upmarket American jeweller, reopened the doors of its flagship store on New York’s Fifth Avenue to the public on April 28th. At first glance the grand unveiling seems conspicuously ill timed. Hours earlier the Bureau of Economic Analysis had reported that nominal consumer spending in America barely grew in March, amid stubbornly high inflation and a slowing job market.
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throng
**tłum** …..…......................................…............................. Yet the **throng** of well-heeled New Yorkers who queued up on opening day to enter what Tiffany has modestly rechristened “The Landmark” hints at a more nuanced story.
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footwork
**manewry, manipulacje** …..…......................................…............................. After interviewing for a few weeks, Matt found a promising J2: data engineering at a startup. He suspected that demands on his time would be as low as they were at his first job. He was mostly right, though striking a balance required some **footwork**.
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to reappropriate
**adaptować (dostosowywać coś do użytku innego niż pierwotne przeznaczenie)** …..…......................................…............................. To deal with the “scale problem”, Marino has used art as interventions. There are more than 40 artworks (a mixture of newly commissioned and LVMH-owned pieces) throughout the Tiffany Landmark store on 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, including Jean-Michel Basquiat’s joyous 1982 Equals Pi (which appeared in the Jay-Z and Beyoncé About Love campaign), pieces by Damien Hirst, Julian Schnabel, Hans Hartung, Daniel Arsham and a series of **reappropriated** Tiffany advertising campaigns by Richard Prince.
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upstate
**w północnej części stanu** …..…......................................…............................. We called him and went to his studio in **upstate** NYC and I grabbed as many as I could… and said, they are mine!” says Marino of the haul.
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proverbial
**słynny, legendarny; przysłowiowy** …..…......................................…............................. The café, first rolled out as a pop-up experiment in 2017, is now a permanent fixture, with Daniel Boulud overseeing the menu (including the **proverbial** Breakfast) in the blue-accented dining space.
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bashful
**nieśmiały** …..…......................................…............................. “It is the most extraordinary project in my professional lifetime,” says Anthony Ledru, Tiffany president and CEO. “It is the renovation of the century and I believe the largest for any luxury brand in terms of size and probably investment.” He’s more **bashful**, however, about putting a figure on it: “The first renovation cost $1mn and it is a little more today,” he says.
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open-and-shut case
**oczywista sprawa** …..…......................................…............................. Loma needs Haney as much as Haney needs him, though for different reasons. Should he win and win well against a boxer deemed younger and quicker, Lomachenko’s **case for true greatness becomes open and shut**. For Haney, victory over an older and slower rival will only strengthen his reputation in the here and now. For both, however, anything less than a triumph could be seen as a disaster.
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emphatic
**wyraźny; zdecydowany** …..…......................................…............................. Vasiliy returned in June 2021 with an **emphatic** ninth round stoppage of Masayoshi Nakatani, followed six months later with a lopsided 12-round points win over Richard Commey and, most recently, in October 2022, a more competitive distance win over the talented but unproven Jamaine Ortiz.
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lopsided
**nierówna (walka)** …..…......................................…............................. Vasiliy returned in June 2021 with an emphatic ninth round stoppage of Masayoshi Nakatani, followed six months later with a **lopsided** 12-round points win over Richard Commey and, most recently, in October 2022, a more competitive distance win over the talented but unproven Jamaine Ortiz.
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shutout
**wygrać do zera; mecz, w którym przeciwnicy nie zdobył żadnych punktów (one of the teams wins and prevents the opposing team from scoring)** …..…......................................…............................. That’s not to say that Haney is the pick to win a **shutout**. Even if the fight is slipping away, expect Lomachenko to have success. Though his best years are behind him, the feeling here is that he will be buoyed by the occasion and a desire to prove his doubters wrong.
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abandon
**żywiołowość; pasja** …..…......................................…............................. If Lomachenko is to win, one senses he’ll have to do so from the front, make Haney miss early and regularly, and take control from the start. But if Haney bosses the opening three rounds, for example, Lomachenko – even with his wise old head – could be forced to take chances, the kind that Haney can exploit, just to play catchup. And though the younger man, the American does not fight with **abandon** of youth.
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showpiece
**eksponat, rzecz warta zobaczenia** …..…......................................…............................. It’s what the greatest boxers can do. As they get older, and when they need it most, some can deliver a majestic **showpiece** that strengthens their legacy.
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buoyed
**wzmocniony; napędzany przez** …..…......................................…............................. That’s not to say that Haney is the pick to win a shutout. Even if the fight is slipping away, expect Lomachenko to have success. Though his best years are behind him, the feeling here is that he will be **buoyed** by the occasion and a desire to prove his doubters wrong.
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target practice
**ćwiczenia na strzelnicy** …..…......................................…............................. In 10-rounders, Californian lightweight starlet Raymond Muratalla, 17-0 (14), could be taught a thing or two by the robust but likely rusty Namibian Jeremia Nakathila, 23-2 (19), while Mexico’s Oscar Valdez, 30-1 (23), fights for the first time since losing to Shakur Stevenson 13 months ago. Glendale’s Adam Lopez, 16-4 (6), provides the **target practice**.
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truncated
**okrojony; skrócony** …..…......................................…............................. The circle of life, particularly in its **truncated** boxing form, is agonisingly cruel. No sooner have all the hours in the gym paid off, when everything is flowing beautifully, the shots crack and the target unmissable than the trigger gets jammed, the bullets fall short and the ability to withstand or avoid any return fire diminishes. It’s a familiar story with an inevitable end.
40
run-off
**druga tura wyborów** …..…......................................…............................. Recep Tayyip Erdogan fails to win Turkey’s presidential election outright, but heads confidently into the **run-off**.
41
marksman
**snajper** …..…......................................…............................. The world lightweight champion is unbeaten in 29 fights (14 inside) and since he stepped up to outclass an ageing Yuriorkis Gamboa in November 2019, he’s been harvesting a reputation as a premier – if slightly risk averse – **marksman**.
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by virtue of
**z racji czegoś, ze względu na coś** …..…......................................…............................. But if you’re going to follow the logic that Lopez beat Lomachenko, as he did in 2020,therefore Kambosos must be better than Lomachenko **by virtue of** his victory over Teofimo, you could – just about – argue that Haney is about to hand the Ukrainian his most comprehensive loss since his amateur days.
43
vest
**to: podkoszulka** …..…......................................…............................. Lomachenko, the two-time Olympic and three-time World champion in the **vest**, blamed injuries for his loss to Lopez. Though wide on the cards (116-112, 119-109 and 117-111), plenty felt that Lomachenko had hacked away at an early deficit and was only pipped by a round or two at the contest’s conclusion. Whatever the reasons for the defeat, or the margins of it, it was the latest encounter that seemed to confirm Loma was fading.
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to pip
**pokonać** …..…......................................…............................. Lomachenko, the two-time Olympic and three-time World champion in the vest, blamed injuries for his loss to Lopez. Though wide on the cards (116-112, 119-109 and 117-111), plenty felt that Lomachenko had hacked away at an early deficit and was only **pipped** by a round or two at the contest’s conclusion. Whatever the reasons for the defeat, or the margins of it, it was the latest encounter that seemed to confirm Loma was fading.
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deficit
**różnica (punktów)** …..…......................................…............................. Lomachenko, the two-time Olympic and three-time World champion in the vest, blamed injuries for his loss to Lopez. Though wide on the cards (116-112, 119-109 and 117-111), plenty felt that Lomachenko had hacked away at an early **deficit** and was only pipped by a round or two at the contest’s conclusion. Whatever the reasons for the defeat, or the margins of it, it was the latest encounter that seemed to confirm Loma was fading.
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to hack away at something
**redukować, obcinać coś (np. koszty)** …..…......................................…............................. Lomachenko, the two-time Olympic and three-time World champion in the vest, blamed injuries for his loss to Lopez. Though wide on the cards (116-112, 119-109 and 117-111), plenty felt that Lomachenko had **hacked away at** an early deficit and was only pipped by a round or two at the contest’s conclusion. Whatever the reasons for the defeat, or the margins of it, it was the latest encounter that seemed to confirm Loma was fading.
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to change beyond recognition
**zmienić się nie do poznania** …..…......................................…............................. Over the past two decades the ways people pay, receive and transfer money have **changed beyond recognition**. The revolution began in 2007 when m-pesa made it possible for Kenyans to make payments with a text message. In 2011 Alipay launched payment by QR code in China, a system that has all but replaced cash in cities.
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all but
**prawie, całkiem, niemalże (przymiotnik)
wszystko/wszyscy oprócz (rzeczownik) ………………………………………………………………..
all but zmienia swoje znaczenie w zależności od części mowy, którą poprzedza** …..…......................................…............................. Over the past two decades the ways people pay, receive and transfer money have changed beyond recognition. The revolution began in 2007 when m-pesa made it possible for Kenyans to make payments with a text message. In 2011 Alipay launched payment by QR code in China, a system that has **all but** replaced cash in cities.
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to duke it out
**walczyć, bić się (szczególnie na pięści)** …..…......................................…............................. Having transformed how people use money at home, the race to transform payments is now going global. Crossborder retail spending (including tourism) and remittances will hit $5trn this year; business-to-business payments are worth eight times that. Three big players are **duking it out** to process these vast flows of funds.
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merchant
**sprzedawca; handlowiec** …..…......................................…............................. The competition among the three blocs is heating up fast. Alipay is now accepted by 2.5m **merchants** overseas.
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to be overdue
**spóźniać się** …..…......................................…............................. The average cost of a remittance has been cut by a third in the past decade partly because of new fintechs. The Western card networks **are overdue** a shake-up.
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to cook up
**zmyślać, preparować** …..…......................................…............................. The food industry—by recruiting compliant scientists, funding studies, pushing clever marketing and influencing policy—has been able to **cook up** a self-serving narrative that shifts the blame for theharm their products cause.
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guilt trip
**wyrzuty sumienia** …..…......................................…............................. Get ahead of the autumn accessories trend with earth tones and gold accents. **Guilt trip**.
54
is on borrowed time
**jego dni są policzone** …..…......................................…............................. Premier League’s pay TV model is **on borrowed time**
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escape artist
**uciekinier // someone (such as a performer or criminal) unusually adept at escaping from confinement** …..…......................................…............................. The great **escape artists**.
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brownstone
**kamienica (w NY)** …..…......................................…............................. Lily Allen lives in Brooklyn, New York, these days, in an elegant Carroll Gardens **brownstone**, with her husband since 2020, the actor David Harbour, and her daughters from her first marriage, Ethel, 11, and Marnie, 10. Now 38, the millennial pop sensation and perennial tabloid magnet has become a svelte and sober star of stage and screen, comfortably domiciled in the land of the oat-matcha-latte slurpers, where the hysterical notoriety she first attracted in her 20s does not pursue her with anything like the doggedness it does elsewhere.
57
in spitting range
**bardzo blisko (very close proximity or distance)** …..…......................................…............................. The stock had more than doubled for the year up to that point, so the additional lift has been especially noteworthy. It also has put the company’s market value in **spitting range** of $1 trillion: The stock has breached that level a couple of times since on an intraday basis but has yet to close above it.
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skittish
**słowo, które odnosi się do stanu niepokoju, nerwowości lub ostrożności u inwestorów lub uczestników rynku finansowego. Może oznaczać, że inwestorzy są bardziej ostrożni i niepewni co do dalszego kierunku wartości akcji lub rynku** …..…......................................…............................. But investors are evidently growing more **skittish**; Nvidia’s shares are down nearly 2% since peaking on May 30.
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high priest
**autorytet (metaforyczne określenie używane do opisania osoby uznawanej za prominentną i wpływową postać w określonej dziedzinie)** …..…......................................…............................. Back then, Guardiola was viewed as the **high priest** of a style of play perfected by his mentor, the Dutch master Johan Cruyff. It required technical mastery and an urge to protect the ball at all costs.
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to woo
**przyciągać, zachęcać lub uwodzić** …..…......................................…............................. Elon Musk hated advertising. She has built a career **wooing** big brands. He teased her arrival before she had a contract. And Linda Yaccarino hasn’t even gotten to the hard part yet.
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hard sell
**nachalna sprzedaż** …..…......................................…............................. Musk has long harbored a disdain for the **hard sell**, preferring that products sell themselves.
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time-honored
**istnieje od dawna, jest szanowana i uznawana za tradycyjną** …..…......................................…............................. She has spent more than three decades in the television industry perfecting the **time-honored** art of schmoozing ad buyers and brand leaders — spending big on events and doling out thoughtful gifts. Her effort has won her a reputation throughout the industry as someone who works hard to win over clients and build a business.
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to burn
**tu: rozczarować; zawieść** …..…......................................…............................. “Product matters incredibly because, if you’re going to recommend something to somebody, you’ve got to really love the product experience,” he said in 2003 at a Stanford University event. “Otherwise, you’re not going to recommend it because you don’t want to **burn** your friend.”
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scrappy
**zdeterminowany, pomysłowy i wytrwały, zwłaszcza w obliczu trudności lub ograniczonych zasobów** …..…......................................…............................. It was just one of the unorthodox efforts he made in the past roughly two decades to build Tesla from a **scrappy** startup into a consistently profitable car company. Along the way, he needed every dollar to keep the company afloat and has often touted sleeping on the factory floor while dealing with various crises.
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swag bag
**torba z upominkami** …..…......................................…............................. Guests at the all-expenses paid retreats were often greeted with **swag bags** in their rooms that included goodies such as Lululemon workout gear.
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to schmooze
**umiejętne nawiązywanie relacji, budowanie kontaktów towarzyskich i przekonywanie innych ludzi do swojej osoby lub pomysłów. W praktyce oznacza to przyjemne rozmowy, nawiązywanie luźnych więzi, zadbanie o dobre wrażenie i utrzymanie pozytywnych relacji biznesowych lub społecznych** …..…......................................…............................. She has spent more than three decades in the television industry perfecting the time-honored art of **schmoozing** ad buyers and brand leaders — spending big on events and doling out thoughtful gifts. Her effort has won her a reputation throughout the industry as someone who works hard to win over clients and build a business.
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to come through
**spełnić oczekiwania** …..…......................................…............................. In those hectic periods, Musk would swoop in, helping deliver cars himself, or, in an especially dire time, ask customers for help on Twitter. And if the fate of the company wasn’t enough of a motivator, Musk was known to threaten people’s jobs if they didn’t **come through** or, in a fit of pique, oust them outright in what’s been dubbed by outside observers as “rage firings.”
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in a fit of pique
**w przypływie gniewu** …..…......................................…............................. In those hectic periods, Musk would swoop in, helping deliver cars himself, or, in an especially dire time, ask customers for help on Twitter. And if the fate of the company wasn’t enough of a motivator, Musk was known to threaten people’s jobs if they didn’t come through or, **in a fit of pique**, oust them outright in what’s been dubbed by outside observers as “rage firings.”
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tell-tale sign
**sygnał ostrzegawczy** …..…......................................…............................. Its net debt is now more than four times its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (a figure above three is considered risky). Indeed, the firm’s debts now exceed the book value of its assets, leaving it with negative shareholder equity on its balancesheet, a **telltale sign** of dangerously high leverage.
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to the tune of something
**na kwotę (do jakiejś kwoty)** …..…......................................…............................. Olaf Scholz’s centreleft coalition government has agreed to prop up Intel’s megasite in Magdeburg **to the tune of** €6.8bn ($7.4bn), a big chunk of Intel’s €17bn investment in the east German town.
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the purse strings
**kasa; budżet (pieniądze np. rodziny, organizacji)** …..…......................................…............................. Christian Lindner, Germany’s promarket finance minister, recently said there was no money in the budget to meet Intel’s demands for an extra €3bn or so in state aid to close a “cost gap” caused by the higher prices of energy and construction. Yet the Social Democratic chancellor appears open to loosening the **purse strings**, provided that Intel expands its project.
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to beaver away
**ciężko pracować** …..…......................................…............................. According to sources close to the government, he is expected to meet Mr Scholz in Berlin on June 19th to make his case. The talks could seal the fate of the giant endeavour, which would be the biggest foreign direct investment in German history. He will also visit Magdeburg, where 30 Intel employees, including Bernd Holthaus, head of personnel in Germany, are already **beavering away**.
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to make his case
**przedstawić swoje argumenty** …..…......................................…............................. According to sources close to the government, he is expected to meet Mr Scholz in Berlin on June 19th **to make his case**. The talks could seal the fate of the giant endeavour, which would be the biggest foreign direct investment in German history. He will also visit Magdeburg, where 30 Intel employees, including Bernd Holthaus, head of personnel in Germany, are already beavering away.
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pushy
**natrętny; arogancki; bezczelny** …..…......................................…............................. Moreover, its advocates argue, the chip plant will help to reach the EU’s goal of increasing the bloc’s share of global chip production from around 10% today to 20% by 2030. This would reduce Europe’s dependence on suppliers in Taiwan, South Korea and other countries in the backyard of an increasingly **pushy** China.
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fillip
**zachęta, bodziec** …..…......................................…............................. The firm needs a **fillip**. In recent years it has fallen behind rivals such as TSMC of Taiwan and Samsung of South Korea in cutting-edge technology. In April it reported a quarterly net loss of $2.8bn, its steepest ever, as global demand for many types of chip cooled.
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stodgy
**nudny (np. o sztuce), drętwy (np. o atmosferze)** …..…......................................…............................. Zuckerberg and other executives have called AI a third leg to Meta’s stool, believing it essential to the company’s long-term growth and relevance, alongside global connectivity and virtual and augmented reality. Lagging behind in AI threatens to make Meta appear **stodgy** and slow, instead of the nimble, aggressive upstart that coined the phrase “move fast and break things” and set the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley.
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to take turns in doing something
**zmieniać się; dokonowyć zmian w robieniu czegoś** …..…......................................…............................. Meta **has taken sharp turns** before at moments when it has appeared behind, such as when it transitioned Facebook from a desktop to a mobile-first ads business or in 2016, when it launched its Stories feature on Instagram to lure people away from Snapchat, which had introduced a similar feature a decade ago.
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to relinquish
**rezygnować z czegoś; oddawać coś** …..…......................................…............................. Meta divvied up hardware into small pools across each project: Some researchers, given more computer chips than they needed, would tie them up in unnecessary tasks to avoid **relinquishing** them, some of the people said.
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creepy
**odrażający** …..…......................................…............................. The concern around public scrutiny was also on display when Meta released its BlenderBot 3 chatbot in August 2022. Within a week of launching, BlenderBot 3 was panned for making false statements, offensive remarks and racist comments. The system also called Zuckerberg “**creepy** and manipulative.”
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to stop somebody in their tracks
**stanąć jak wryty (bardzo kogoś zaskoczyć)** …..…......................................…............................. And while all the hallmarks of what makes a great Extreme song — high-energy, rock-solid riffs and rhythms; sticky hooks and choruses; a forceful and expressive Gary Cherone vocal — are present and intact, it was Nuno’s guitar solo that **stopped fans, peers, industry pros and even guitar legends in their tracks**.
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to name-check
**wymienić z nazwiska** …..…......................................…............................. Howard Stern **namechecked** him on his SiriusXM show. Popular YouTuber Rick Beato released a fawning instructional video titled “The Nuno Bettencourt Solo Everyone Is Talking About” that racked up more than a million views in its first week.
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to fawn
**płaszczyć się, nadskakiwać komuś** …..…......................................…............................. Howard Stern namechecked him on his SiriusXM show. Popular YouTuber Rick Beato released a **fawning** instructional video titled “The Nuno Bettencourt Solo Everyone Is Talking About” that racked up more than a million views in its first week.
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to strike a nerve
**trafić w czuły punkt** …..…......................................…............................. What’s happening is that Bettencourt has **struck a nerve** like few guitarists of late. As for why? In his humble estimation, Bettencourt believes that people have connected to not just the playing on “Rise,” but also the passion that is evident in the performance itself.
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as for why
**Jeśli chodzi o to, dlaczego** …..…......................................…............................. What’s happening is that Bettencourt has struck a nerve like few guitarists of late. **As for why**? In his humble estimation, Bettencourt believes that people have connected to not just the playing on “Rise,” but also the passion that is evident in the performance itself.
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broadly speaking
**ogólnie mówiąc** …..…......................................…............................. **Broadly speaking**, what was your approach on Six from a guitar perspective?
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to go for blood
**pójść na całość (to go all out, to put in maximum effort, or to be extremely aggressive or competitive in pursuing a goal or achieving success)** …..…......................................…............................. As I was doing the album I was re-inspired to kind of **go for blood** again. I basically said, “I want to bring guitar playing back.” But I didn’t mean it in an innovative, I’m-gonna-change-the-game sort of way. I just wanted to make it fun again — what’s fun for me.
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to latch onto
**natknąć się na coś** …..…......................................…............................. Because when it’s fast, I don’t hear those things. And I’ve never played it slow once. I never broke it down. It’s just something I **latched onto** when I was playing it.
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to comp
**komponować** …..…......................................…............................. I wanna really go on instinct and see what I would do if I didn’t have anything worked out.” I’ll do a few passes, and then I listen back and I go, “That’s cool. And that’s cool.” And I might **comp** the solo, but at least I know it was played live in the sense of, I was feeling whatever the band was giving me and whatever I was doing. It’s way more exciting for me that way.
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palpable
**wyraźny, wyczuwalny (np. napięcie, różnica)** …..…......................................…............................. Let’s talk about your tone on Six. It’s so full and present, with tons of bite and definition. To borrow a word from Steve Vai, it’s “**palpable**.” What was your setup in the studio?
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for one
**na przykład** …..…......................................…............................. If some fans believe it to be a strange place **for one** of hard rock’s most lauded six-string shredders to end up, well, there’s precedent (Eddie Van Halen’s star turn with Michael Jackson on “Beat It,” for one; Bettencourt’s guest appearance on Janet Jackson’s radio edit of “Black Cat,” for another).
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in the first place
**przede wszystkim; po pierwsze** …..…......................................…............................. Indeed, as much as Bettencourt is known for his amped-up and advanced rock chops, he is also recognized as one of the genre’s most versatile, not to mention funkiest, players. All of which no doubt contributed to his being tapped for the Rihanna position **in the first place**.
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on tap
**w zanadrzu; w ofercie** …..…......................................…............................. Despite the various styles **on tap**, the good news was that Bettencourt was also told, “ ‘You can be you and you can do you,’ ” he says. “Which was a nice thing to hear. Because I was like, ‘Why do you need me? There’s no guitar.’ And Tony goes, ‘Exactly. She wants to rock out the show.’ ”
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for fuck’s sake
**do kurwy nędzy** …..…......................................…............................. “And then I’m playing with some of the greatest musicians I’ve ever played with. These were player’s players — our drummer did a Stevie Wonder tour, **for fuck’s sake**. It was like having the R&B version of Neil Peart next to me. The fusion and the jazz and all the jams that were going on, it was beyond belief.”
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beyond belief
**nie do wiary** …..…......................................…............................. “And then I’m playing with some of the greatest musicians I’ve ever played with. These were player’s players — our drummer did a Stevie Wonder tour, for fuck’s sake. It was like having the R&B version of Neil Peart next to me. The fusion and the jazz and all the jams that were going on, it was **beyond belief**.”
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to wear many hats
**mieć wiele ról (np. prac)** …..…......................................…............................. Bettencourt points to one Rihanna song, “Where Have You Been,” as a standout. “That’s a synth riff on the album version,” he says. “But onstage we were replacing it with a live band and crazy playing. It was all fast funk, really clean. You had to **wear five hats** to be able to do that.
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meet-and-greet
**spotkanie gwiazdy z fanami** …..…......................................…............................. While we were on tour and doing **meet-and-greet**s, kids would come in with an N4 and they’d go, “Sign my guitar.” And you could see it was dusty, that they didn’t play it anymore. So I’d be like, “What year is this?”
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tune
**melodia** …..…......................................…............................. In general, I think Nuno’s just a glorious player. He’s so colorful, and obviously his dexterity is extraordinary. There’s plenty of fast, accurate guitarists, but what he brings to it is this amazing spirit. It’s energetic and it’s lyrical, and he doesn’t lose sight of the fact that there are **tunes**. I don’t know where that stuff comes from. It makes my jaw drop, in a very good way.
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live wire
**pełen życia (energiczna osoba)** …..…......................................…............................. He’s a **live wire**. You can see why he plays the way he can play. There’s a visceral approach that’s just very different from guys that are sitting in their rooms gathering tremendous amounts of chops. Nuno’s a rockstar.
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visceral
**instynktowny, ekspresywny** …..…......................................…............................. He’s a live wire. You can see why he plays the way he can play. There’s a **visceral** approach that’s just very different from guys that are sitting in their rooms gathering tremendous amounts of chops. Nuno’s a rockstar.
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to be head and shoulders above somebody
**być dużo lepszym niż ktoś inny** …..…......................................…............................. Then I would also point to ‘Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee,’ of course, which is on my ‘Guitars Rule the World’ playlist. That is a standalone sort of exercise in awesomeness that really sets him **head and shoulders above the pack**.
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to cut to the chase
**przejść do rzeczy, przejść do sedna** …..…......................................…............................. Then **let’s cut to** the present with ‘Rise,’ and the guitar solo that everyone’s talking about. It’s been a long time since people have been talking about a guitar solo, frankly.
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gunslinger
**rewolwerowiec** …..…......................................…............................. The thing about Nuno is that, from day one, he had the chops of all those folks in the upper echelon of that **gunslinging** era. But there’s also a playfulness. There’s an emotional content.
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angst
**niepokój; obawa** …..…......................................…............................. It made me realize people are starved for this kind of music: not just the guitar playing, but with the **angst** and intensity someone like Edward played with. I told the band, “I want to make a rock album and bring guitar into it in a joyful, fiery, passionate and emotional way.
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to be there for somebody
**być dla kogoś wsparciem** …..…......................................…............................. “Man, no matter what the song is, the guitar stays in the culture and stays in the wheelhouse of what the melody and the lyrics are feeding you. Whatever the song needed, the guitar **was there for** it.”
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swinging-dick
**ważniak** …..…......................................…............................. If it looks like Alexander Skarsgård is having the time of his life playing Lukas Matsson, the **swinging-dick** tech mogul trying like hell to outmaneuver the Roy boys — while rocking a gold jacket and limited-edition kicks, no less — in Succession, it’s because he very much is.
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humdrum
**przeciętny; zwyczajny; nudny** …..…......................................…............................. A surge in the S&P 500 is dominated by tech stocks, masking **humdrum** performances for the vast majority. Some warn the concentration is unsustainable or a sign of treacherous conditions ahead.
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to rock
**być w czymś bardzo dobrym lub w czymś dobrze wyglądać** …..…......................................…............................. If it looks like Alexander Skarsgård is having the time of his life playing Lukas Matsson, the swinging-dick tech mogul trying like hell to outmaneuver the Roy boys — while **rocking** a gold jacket and limited-edition kicks, no less — in Succession, it’s because he very much is.
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no less
**nie mniej ni więcej** …..…......................................…............................. If it looks like Alexander Skarsgård is having the time of his life playing Lukas Matsson, the swinging-dick tech mogul trying like hell to outmaneuver the Roy boys — while rocking a gold jacket and limited-edition kicks, **no less** — in Succession, it’s because he very much is.
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screwball
**zwariowany // w kinie screwball comedy to gatunek komedii romantycznej, charakteryzujący się absurdalnym humorem i konfliktami między bohaterami** …..…......................................…............................. Though the 46-year-old actor had already embodied memorable characters in a trio of other critically-acclaimed HBO series — sexy vampire Eric in True Blood; an abusive husband in Big Little Lies; a Marine sergeant in Generation Kill — his winning streak continues in Jesse Armstrong’s Shakespearean **screwball** about three adult children that go to war over their family’s right-wing media empire when the King Lear of it all, Logan Roy (Brian Cox), falls ill.
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to fall ill
**zachorować** …..…......................................…............................. Though the 46-year-old actor had already embodied memorable characters in a trio of other critically-acclaimed HBO series — sexy vampire Eric in True Blood; an abusive husband in Big Little Lies; a Marine sergeant in Generation Kill — his winning streak continues in Jesse Armstrong’s Shakespearean screwball about three adult children that go to war over their family’s right-wing media empire when the King Lear of it all, Logan Roy (Brian Cox), **falls ill**.
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penultimate
**przedostatni** …..…......................................…............................. Naturally, comparisons have been made between Matsson and Elon Musk. He appears to have a special connection with Shiv Roy (Sarah Snook), and, at the conclusion of Succession’s **penultimate** episode, which is mostly set at Logan’s funeral, promises her the position of U.S. CEO should the acquisition go through.
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to go through
**dojść do skutku** …..…......................................…............................. Naturally, comparisons have been made between Matsson and Elon Musk. He appears to have a special connection with Shiv Roy (Sarah Snook), and, at the conclusion of Succession’s penultimate episode, which is mostly set at Logan’s funeral, promises her the position of U.S. CEO should the acquisition **go through**.
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to tussle
**bić się** …..…......................................…............................. He’s not only one of the richest and most powerful men in the world, but a massive Swedish troll who, when he’s not tweeting out crazy Holocaust memes or harassing his communications director, seems to relish **tussling** with the Roys over control of their inheritance, and whose personal motto is, “Privacy, pussy, pasta.”
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treat
**1. niespodzianka
2. przyjemność, rozrywka, urozmaicenie
3. smakołyk** …..…......................................…............................. I’m havin’ a blast. Every single day was such a **treat** to work on that show.
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to swing your dick around
**very confident and arrogant, and that he does whatever he wants without caring about the consequences** …..…......................................…............................. You’re in those track suits just **swinging your dick around**, basically.
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offbeat
**niekonwencjonalny, nietypowy** …..…......................................…............................. It gives you such a rush of adrenaline when you step onto that set because it’s so forceful, fun, and collaborative, and it gives you the opportunity to work with some of the finest actors and writers out there. The material is so deliciously wonderful, **offbeat**, and weird.
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to be after something
**chcieć czegoś** …..…......................................…............................. But it was basically the introduction to the character — the first time you meet Lukas at Kendall’s weird birthday party, and he’s really bored, and he’s surrounded by sycophants that he finds incredibly boring. All he wants is to sit in the corner, eat pasta, and find some pussy. That’s kind of what **he’s after** there.
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gamesmanship
**wybieg (coś, co ma na celu zmylenie przeciwnika) // the art of winning games by using various ploys and tactics to gain a psychological advantage - nieczysta gra** …..…......................................…............................. I think there are a couple of different factors that come into play. He loves a good deal. He loves to win. The **gamesmanship**.
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to take somebody down
**nauczyć kogoś pokory, utrzeć komuś nosa** …..…......................................…............................. The fact that he can **take them down** and be the bigger shark is very exciting for him. It’s not so much about saving GoJo or making more money, because he’s beyond wealthy. It’s about making the deal, doing something people didn’t think was possible, and walking away victorious.
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on the nose
**dosłownie; dokładnie** …..…......................................…............................. We wanted to leave it open to interpretation from the audience as to whether it’s a sexual connection, whether they’re playing each other, whether he’s manipulating her or testing her. The writing is so spectacular that it’s never **on the nose**.
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to lock horns with somebody
**wdawać się z kimś w kłótnię** …..…......................................…............................. So, what was it like to be **locking horns with** Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong on top of a mountain in Norway while your character is peeing on a rock?
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to stand by something
**trwać przy czymś; trzymać się czegoś (swojego zdania)** …..…......................................…............................. This is my opinion, and I will **stand by** it.
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to have a hard time
**trudno (mi coś przychodzi); mam trudności (ze zrobieniem czegoś)** …..…......................................…............................. I **have a hard time** believing that any woman who's truly in love would really turn down a marriage proposal.
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be hanging on
**trzymać się** …..…......................................…............................. And Betty's having surgery on her brain, and poor vincent here is barely **hanging on**…
Wyrażenie “be hanging on” ma kilka znaczeń w zależności od kontekstu. Oto kilka możliwych interpretacji:
1. Czekać na coś z niecierpliwością: “I’ve been hanging on for hours, waiting for your call.” (Czekałem godzinami na twój telefon.)
2. Trzymać się czegoś mocno: “She was hanging on to the edge of the cliff.” (Trzymała się krawędzi klifu.)
3. Być w niepewnej sytuacji: “His job is hanging on by a thread.” (Jego praca jest w niepewnej sytuacji.)
4. Zależeć od czegoś: “The success of the project is hanging on the client’s decision.” (Sukces projektu zależy od decyzji klienta.)
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to quiver
**drżeć** …..…......................................…............................. During one of Mourning Widows’ most aggressive tracks, Bettencourt turns up the heat with a chugging, yet frenetic burst of molten lava, leaving listeners **quivering** in his wake.
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frenetic
**szalony** …..…......................................…............................. During one of Mourning Widows’ most aggressive tracks, Bettencourt turns up the heat with a chugging, yet **frenetic** burst of molten lava, leaving listeners quivering in his wake.
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order of magnitude
**rząd wielkości** …..…......................................…............................. Consequently, there are no granular estimates of the number of people who work in annotation, but it is a lot, and it is growing. A recent Google Research paper gave an **order-of-magnitude** figure of “millions” with the potential to become “billions.”
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to pull back the curtain
**rozsunąć zasłonę** …..…......................................…............................. You might miss this if you believe AI is a brilliant, thinking machine. But if you **pull back the curtain** even a little, it looks more familiar, the latest iteration of a particularly Silicon Valley division of labor, in which the futuristic gleam of new technologies hides a sprawling manufacturing apparatus and the people who make it run.
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to throw somebody a curveball
**dać komuś zagwozdkę (trudne pytanie, problem)** …..…......................................…............................. Feeling confident in my ability to distinguish between real clothes that can be worn by real people and not-real clothes that cannot, I proceeded to the test. Right away, it **threw an ontological curveball**: a picture of a magazine depicting photos of women in dresses. Is a photograph of clothing real clothing?
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to tool around
**jeździć sobie dla przyjemności** …..…......................................…............................. Hermès artisans train for years and work for dozens of hours to hand-make a single bag. Introduced in 1984 and named for the chic Brit-in-Paris actress and singer Jane Birkin, the bag is a status symbol that transcends fashion. Back in 2001 on the show “Sex and the City,” the character Samantha said, “When I’m **tooling around** town with that bag, I’ll know I’ve made it.”
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to make it
**odnieść sukces** …..…......................................…............................. Hermès artisans train for years and work for dozens of hours to hand-make a single bag. Introduced in 1984 and named for the chic Brit-in-Paris actress and singer Jane Birkin, the bag is a status symbol that transcends fashion. Back in 2001 on the show “Sex and the City,” the character Samantha said, “When I’m tooling around town with that bag, I’ll know I’ve **made it**.”
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to come to be
**powstać (coś powstało)** …..…......................................…............................. Sway and Kim enjoy telling the story about how the bag **came to be**, though they have moved on to more practical pursuits. They are saving up for a camper van.
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teeming with something
**obfitujący w coś** …..…......................................…............................. While hardly a surprise—no one thinks of Häagen-Dazs as a food source **teeming with** healthy nutrients—the disclosure is emblematic of a wider problem. Nestlé is one of many purveyors of the ultraprocessed foods that now account for about 60% of adult calorie consumption in the U.S.
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shady
**podejrzany (interes), nieczysty (np. zamiar)** …..…......................................…............................. Chris van Tulleken, a physician and BBC broadcaster based in the U.K., argues that ultra-processed foods “subvert the systems in the body that regulate weight and many other functions.” In “Ultra-Processed People,” a persuasive mix of analysis and commentary, he shows how these foods affect our bodies and how their popularity stems in part from **shady** marketing and slanted science.
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slanted
**nieobiektywny; stronniczy** …..…......................................…............................. Chris van Tulleken, a physician and BBC broadcaster based in the U.K., argues that ultra-processed foods “subvert the systems in the body that regulate weight and many other functions.” In “Ultra-Processed People,” a persuasive mix of analysis and commentary, he shows how these foods affect our bodies and how their popularity stems in part from shady marketing and **slanted** science.
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electric blue
**kolor jaskrawoniebieski, metaliczny błękit** …..…......................................…............................. Last year American singer Selena Gomez wore a €150 **electric blue** Zara suit to Britney Spears’ wedding. Inditex’s sales reflect the shift.
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bracket
**przedział** …..…......................................…............................. Analysts reckon that Inditex’s third biggest country is Mexico, followed by the UK, France and Italy, each estimated to contribute about 5 per cent of sales. China is in that **bracket** too, and what happens there will have a big influence on Zara’s future.
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to acquaint
**zaznajomić, zapoznać (kogoś z kimś)** …..…......................................…............................. Nearly 10 years after the “War Horse” incident, I became **acquainted** with a new psychological technique called Functional Imagery Training, developed by academic researchers at the University of Plymouth in the U.K, and I became the first U.S. therapist to be trained in the method.
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bona fides
**wiarygodność** …..…......................................…............................. Pearce was a trained analyst with a medical degree from the University of Chicago; Newton, who lacked such **bona fides**, seemed to be riding her coattails into the profession.
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on somebody's coattails
**po czyichś plecach (np. awansować)** …..…......................................…............................. Pearce was a trained analyst with a medical degree from the University of Chicago; Newton, who lacked such bona fides, seemed to be **riding her coattails** into the profession.
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for that matter
**również, tak samo** …..…......................................…............................. Is it possible, I suggest, that in 2023 (and **for that matter** 2022, 2021 and 2020), absurdist memes may actually be the most acute language to understand our collective bafflement with the financial system? The market has become its own best gag man. “I’m leaning into it,” Litquidity says. “It’s like, this is beyond satire, this is real life.”
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game
**skory, chętny** …..…......................................…............................. Let the record reflect that Litquidity was **game** to order the tasting menu at Le Bernardin, but I panicked. It costs almost $300 per person, before tax and tip. With wine, the price shoots to $445. Suddenly, I was overcome with anxiety that the Financial Times expenses system would not appreciate my receipt for a $1,250 lunch.
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glossy
**lśniący, błyszczący** …..…......................................…............................. Our appetisers arrive, and Lit’s **glossy** tartare with a snowfall of chives looks painted on the plate. My octopus with chorizo emulsion tastes, somehow, elegant. I am briefly distracted by a dish being set on fire at a neighbouring table. Someone brave enough to order the tasting menu.
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to pick apart
**wypominać komuś niedoskonałości, krytykować każdy ruch** …..…......................................…............................. Lit has no desire to be known, he says. Social media can be toxic, and cruel. “People will **pick apart** any imperfections,” he says.
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trigger-happy
**narwany** …..…......................................…............................. You can see why trustbusters are **trigger-happy**. They took flak for letting Facebook gobble up social-media competitors like Instagram and WhatsApp.
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on the strength of something
**pod wpływem czegoś (np. rekomendacji); na podstawie** …..…......................................…............................. In March, Ben Browning, the film producer hired to oversee Archewell’s content slate **on the strength of** such credits as the Oscar-winning “Promising Young Woman,” left the company to return to his prior job. Archewell’s head of marketing parted ways with the company, as did its head of scripted content.
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credit
**zasługa; osiągnięcie** …..…......................................…............................. In March, Ben Browning, the film producer hired to oversee Archewell’s content slate on the strength of such **credits** as the Oscar-winning “Promising Young Woman,” left the company to return to his prior job. Archewell’s head of marketing parted ways with the company, as did its head of scripted content.
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fly-on-the-wall
**być niezauważonym obserwatorem sytuacji** …..…......................................…............................. “Harry & Meghan,” the **fly-on-the-wall** documentary about the couple’s love story, was the first major project produced under the deal. It featured intimate moments between the pair—Harry on the tears of his mother, Princess Diana; Meghan on her miscarriage— and delved into British colonialism as well as the racism the couple experienced.
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to prune
**przycinać, przystrzygać (np. żywopłot) // zmniejszyć ofertę poprzez wycofanie przestarzałych produktów** …..…......................................…............................. The downturn rattled Hollywood, leading to what is now called the “Netflix Correction,” a period in which studios began to **prune** their catalogs and become choosier about which projects to back.
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tell-all
**odsłaniający (np. fakty), ukazujący wszystko (np. całą prawdę) // książka lub artykuł, które zawierają wcześniej nieznane i często intymne bądź skandaliczne szczegóły z czyjegoś życia** …..…......................................…............................. For Harry and Meghan, the broader streaming slowdown couldn’t come at a more uncertain time. They have indicated they want to move on from talking about the Royal Family following a **tell-all** interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Netflix documentary and Prince Harry’s autobiography, “Spare.”
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wte i wewte; kręcenie się
**to-and-fro** …..…......................................…............................. The **to-and-fro** of Goldman’s postfinancial crisis strategy has a long history. Goldman initially didn’t want to develop into a big retail or commercial bank, but executives started to explore a shift when its trading revenues declined.
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zwyczajny, szablonowy, sztampowy, przeciętny
**run-of-the-mill** …..…......................................…............................. Goldman emerged from the financial crisis transformed into a **run-of-the-mill** deposit-taking bank, a status regulators insisted on so it income could access emergency funds from the Federal Reserve. It has spent the last 15 years trying to figure out how to be one.
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zrezygnować
**go home** …..…......................................…............................. Yet Goldman can’t **go home** again. The archetypical Wall Street trading powerhouse and investment bank—famously dubbed a vampire squid by Rolling Stone more than a decade ago—doesn’t exist anymore.
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wstrzymać (ruch uliczny), zablokować (ruch uliczny)
**to snarl** …..…......................................…............................. When the pandemic hit, supplychain **snarls** and rising prices during the pandemic fueled an uptick in commodities trading. The Federal Reserve’s moves to fight inflation reinvigorated the moribund business of trading around interest rates. The endof free money has made financing trading clients harder, but also quite lucrative for the remaining players.
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do trzech razy sztuka
**the third time's the charm** …..…......................................…............................. Time to dust off that deck, Marc. That day is now. And who knows, another co-CEO may be in the offing, as well. **Third time’s a charm**, right?
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spieprzyć, zawalić
**to drop the ball** …..…......................................…............................. Shiv is my favourite sartorial conundrum. Every time I think I’ve got her number, she confounds me with another maddening choice. She’s either the manifestation of the most brilliantly devious wardrobe mistress or the result of a costumier who very often **drops the ball**.
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to understand someone or realize the true purpose of their actions
**to have (got) someone's number** …..…......................................…............................. Shiv is my favourite sartorial conundrum. Every time I think **I’ve got her number**, she confounds me with another maddening choice. She’s either the manifestation of the most brilliantly devious wardrobe mistress or the result of a costumier who very often drops the ball.
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irytować
**to madden** …..…......................................…............................. Shiv is my favourite sartorial conundrum. Every time I think I’ve got her number, she confounds me with another **maddening** choice. She’s either the manifestation of the most brilliantly devious wardrobe mistress or the result of a costumier who very often drops the ball.
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przebiegły, nieszczery (o osobie)
**devious** …..…......................................…............................. Shiv is my favourite sartorial conundrum. Every time I think I’ve got her number, she confounds me with another maddening choice. She’s either the manifestation of the most brilliantly **devious** wardrobe mistress or the result of a costumier who very often drops the ball.
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rekompensata
**restitution** …..…......................................…............................. Her clothes are a costume for a character who can’t reveal herself completely or simply doesn’t know herself at all. Maybe that’s a good thing. She drives me bloody mad. But maybe out of chaos will come **restitution**. Maybe she will ultimately come good.
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to recover and perform well after a bad start or setback
**to come good** …..…......................................…............................. Her clothes are a costume for a character who can’t reveal herself completely or simply doesn’t know herself at all. Maybe that’s a good thing. She drives me bloody mad. But maybe out of chaos will come restitution. Maybe she will ultimately **come good**.
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znaczenie (np. polityczne), siła przebicia, duże wpływy
**clout** …..…......................................…............................. ‘Yellowstone’ creator has **clout**.
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niechęć, sprzeciw
**pushback** …..…......................................…............................. The actor-turned-writer and ranch owner dictates where and how his shows are filmed with little **pushback**, according to executives and crew workers. Among his favorite locations are his own Texas ranches, where he can charge Paramount as much as $50,000 a week.
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robienie określonej czynności
**going** …..…......................................…............................. Speaking earlier this year at a convention for cattle owners, Mr. Sheridan said, “There’s nothing better than a movie company showing up and filming for about a month and paying you a bunch of money and leaving. It’s about the greatest deal **going**.”
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w następstwie czegoś
**on the back of something** …..…......................................…............................. Its service Paramount+ added nearly 10 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2022 **on the back of** Mr. Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” prequels “1883” and “1923.” On Thursday, the company said it added about 4.1 million subscribers in the first quarter, bringing total subscribers to more than 60 million.
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kowboj
**wrangler** …..…......................................…............................. “Are you kidding me? We can’t find a local person?” asked David Glasser, the head of 101 Studios, in an email to several production staffers reviewed by the Journal. “Taylor only uses these people to do his horses,” responded Bobby Lovgren, the show’s head animal **wrangler**.
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otwarty (na pomysły, sugestie)
**receptive** …..…......................................…............................. After Ms. Stuart, the Texas horse wrangler, submitted time cards, Mr. Glasser called Mr. Sheridan to discuss the personal employees who were billing the productions, according to emails. “He is now completely aware of the problem and was pretty [**receptive**] in trying to fix it,” Mr. Glasser wrote to some production officers.
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wdawać się z kimś w kłótnię
**to lock horns with somebody** …..…......................................…............................. “He is not writing ‘shoot at my ranch’ in the script. Those demands are never made.When the [line producer] or I go to Taylor and ask him to cut a day out of the schedule for budget purposes, he is more than willing to accommodate,” said Mr. Glasser. “However, when a line producer comes in and says, ‘Why don’t you cut the river crossing sequence out of the show on “1883,”’ that for sure will be something he is prepared to **lock horns over**.”
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powód, cel (dla którego coś się robi), wzgląd (na coś, kogoś)
**sake** …..…......................................…............................. A keep-dry-**sake**.
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rozpoczynać coś, zacząć coś
**to get the ball rolling** …..…......................................…............................. The age of generative artificial intelligence has well and truly arrived. Open AI’s chatbots, which use large language model (LLM) technology, **got the ball rolling** in November.
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na czas; terminowo
**in a timely manner** …..…......................................…............................. AI also cannot do anything about the biggest thing holding back rich world productivity growth: misfiring planning systems. When the size of cities is constrained and housing costs are high, people cannot live and work where they are most efficient. No matter how many brilliant new ideas your society may have, they are functionally useless if you cannot build them **in a timely manner**.
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lenić się
**to slack off** …..…......................................…............................. A paper in 2016 by researchers at the University of California at Irvine, Microsoft Research and mit found that “the longer daily time spent on email, the lower was perceived productivity”. Some bosses now believe that working from home, once seen as a productivity booster, gives too many people the excuse to **slack off**.
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ratunek, wybawienie; dar niebios
**godsend** …..…......................................…............................. Generative AI itself could act as a drain on productivity. What happens, for instance, if AI can create entertainment perfectly tailored to your every desire? Moreover, few people have thought through the implications of a system that can generate vast amounts of text instantly. GPT4 is a **godsend** for a NIMBY facing a planning application.
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wystroić się; poprawić wygląd
**to spruce-up** …..…......................................…............................. After a four-year **spruce-up** Tiffany & Co, an upmarket American jeweller, reopened the doors of its flagship store on New York’s Fifth Avenue to the public on April 28th. At first glance the grand unveiling seems conspicuously ill timed. Hours earlier the Bureau of Economic Analysis had reported that nominal consumer spending in America barely grew in March, amid stubbornly high inflation and a slowing job market.
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tłum
**throng** …..…......................................…............................. Yet the **throng** of well-heeled New Yorkers who queued up on opening day to enter what Tiffany has modestly rechristened “The Landmark” hints at a more nuanced story.
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manewry, manipulacje
**footwork** …..…......................................…............................. After interviewing for a few weeks, Matt found a promising J2: data engineering at a startup. He suspected that demands on his time would be as low as they were at his first job. He was mostly right, though striking a balance required some **footwork**.
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adaptować (dostosowywać coś do użytku innego niż pierwotne przeznaczenie)
**to reappropriate** …..…......................................…............................. To deal with the “scale problem”, Marino has used art as interventions. There are more than 40 artworks (a mixture of newly commissioned and LVMH-owned pieces) throughout the Tiffany Landmark store on 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, including Jean-Michel Basquiat’s joyous 1982 Equals Pi (which appeared in the Jay-Z and Beyoncé About Love campaign), pieces by Damien Hirst, Julian Schnabel, Hans Hartung, Daniel Arsham and a series of **reappropriated** Tiffany advertising campaigns by Richard Prince.
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w północnej części stanu
**upstate** …..…......................................…............................. We called him and went to his studio in **upstate** NYC and I grabbed as many as I could… and said, they are mine!” says Marino of the haul.
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słynny, legendarny; przysłowiowy
**proverbial** …..…......................................…............................. The café, first rolled out as a pop-up experiment in 2017, is now a permanent fixture, with Daniel Boulud overseeing the menu (including the **proverbial** Breakfast) in the blue-accented dining space.
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nieśmiały
**bashful** …..…......................................…............................. “It is the most extraordinary project in my professional lifetime,” says Anthony Ledru, Tiffany president and CEO. “It is the renovation of the century and I believe the largest for any luxury brand in terms of size and probably investment.” He’s more **bashful**, however, about putting a figure on it: “The first renovation cost $1mn and it is a little more today,” he says.
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oczywista sprawa
**open-and-shut case** …..…......................................…............................. Loma needs Haney as much as Haney needs him, though for different reasons. Should he win and win well against a boxer deemed younger and quicker, Lomachenko’s **case for true greatness becomes open and shut**. For Haney, victory over an older and slower rival will only strengthen his reputation in the here and now. For both, however, anything less than a triumph could be seen as a disaster.
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wyraźny; zdecydowany
**emphatic** …..…......................................…............................. Vasiliy returned in June 2021 with an **emphatic** ninth round stoppage of Masayoshi Nakatani, followed six months later with a lopsided 12-round points win over Richard Commey and, most recently, in October 2022, a more competitive distance win over the talented but unproven Jamaine Ortiz.
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nierówna (walka)
**lopsided** …..…......................................…............................. Vasiliy returned in June 2021 with an emphatic ninth round stoppage of Masayoshi Nakatani, followed six months later with a **lopsided** 12-round points win over Richard Commey and, most recently, in October 2022, a more competitive distance win over the talented but unproven Jamaine Ortiz.
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wygrać do zera; mecz, w którym przeciwnicy nie zdobył żadnych punktów (one of the teams wins and prevents the opposing team from scoring)
**shutout** …..…......................................…............................. That’s not to say that Haney is the pick to win a **shutout**. Even if the fight is slipping away, expect Lomachenko to have success. Though his best years are behind him, the feeling here is that he will be buoyed by the occasion and a desire to prove his doubters wrong.
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żywiołowość; pasja
**abandon** …..…......................................…............................. If Lomachenko is to win, one senses he’ll have to do so from the front, make Haney miss early and regularly, and take control from the start. But if Haney bosses the opening three rounds, for example, Lomachenko – even with his wise old head – could be forced to take chances, the kind that Haney can exploit, just to play catchup. And though the younger man, the American does not fight with **abandon** of youth.
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eksponat, rzecz warta zobaczenia
**showpiece** …..…......................................…............................. It’s what the greatest boxers can do. As they get older, and when they need it most, some can deliver a majestic **showpiece** that strengthens their legacy.
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wzmocniony; napędzany przez
**buoyed** …..…......................................…............................. That’s not to say that Haney is the pick to win a shutout. Even if the fight is slipping away, expect Lomachenko to have success. Though his best years are behind him, the feeling here is that he will be **buoyed** by the occasion and a desire to prove his doubters wrong.
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ćwiczenia na strzelnicy
**target practice** …..…......................................…............................. In 10-rounders, Californian lightweight starlet Raymond Muratalla, 17-0 (14), could be taught a thing or two by the robust but likely rusty Namibian Jeremia Nakathila, 23-2 (19), while Mexico’s Oscar Valdez, 30-1 (23), fights for the first time since losing to Shakur Stevenson 13 months ago. Glendale’s Adam Lopez, 16-4 (6), provides the **target practice**.
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okrojony; skrócony
**truncated** …..…......................................…............................. The circle of life, particularly in its **truncated** boxing form, is agonisingly cruel. No sooner have all the hours in the gym paid off, when everything is flowing beautifully, the shots crack and the target unmissable than the trigger gets jammed, the bullets fall short and the ability to withstand or avoid any return fire diminishes. It’s a familiar story with an inevitable end.
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druga tura wyborów
**run-off** …..…......................................…............................. Recep Tayyip Erdogan fails to win Turkey’s presidential election outright, but heads confidently into the **run-off**.
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snajper
**marksman** …..…......................................…............................. The world lightweight champion is unbeaten in 29 fights (14 inside) and since he stepped up to outclass an ageing Yuriorkis Gamboa in November 2019, he’s been harvesting a reputation as a premier – if slightly risk averse – **marksman**.
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z racji czegoś, ze względu na coś
**by virtue of** …..…......................................…............................. But if you’re going to follow the logic that Lopez beat Lomachenko, as he did in 2020,therefore Kambosos must be better than Lomachenko **by virtue of** his victory over Teofimo, you could – just about – argue that Haney is about to hand the Ukrainian his most comprehensive loss since his amateur days.
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tu: podkoszulka
**vest** …..…......................................…............................. Lomachenko, the two-time Olympic and three-time World champion in the **vest**, blamed injuries for his loss to Lopez. Though wide on the cards (116-112, 119-109 and 117-111), plenty felt that Lomachenko had hacked away at an early deficit and was only pipped by a round or two at the contest’s conclusion. Whatever the reasons for the defeat, or the margins of it, it was the latest encounter that seemed to confirm Loma was fading.
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pokonać
**to pip** …..…......................................…............................. Lomachenko, the two-time Olympic and three-time World champion in the vest, blamed injuries for his loss to Lopez. Though wide on the cards (116-112, 119-109 and 117-111), plenty felt that Lomachenko had hacked away at an early deficit and was only **pipped** by a round or two at the contest’s conclusion. Whatever the reasons for the defeat, or the margins of it, it was the latest encounter that seemed to confirm Loma was fading.
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różnica (punktów)
**deficit** …..…......................................…............................. Lomachenko, the two-time Olympic and three-time World champion in the vest, blamed injuries for his loss to Lopez. Though wide on the cards (116-112, 119-109 and 117-111), plenty felt that Lomachenko had hacked away at an early **deficit** and was only pipped by a round or two at the contest’s conclusion. Whatever the reasons for the defeat, or the margins of it, it was the latest encounter that seemed to confirm Loma was fading.
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redukować, obcinać coś (np. koszty)
**to hack away at something** …..…......................................…............................. Lomachenko, the two-time Olympic and three-time World champion in the vest, blamed injuries for his loss to Lopez. Though wide on the cards (116-112, 119-109 and 117-111), plenty felt that Lomachenko had **hacked away at** an early deficit and was only pipped by a round or two at the contest’s conclusion. Whatever the reasons for the defeat, or the margins of it, it was the latest encounter that seemed to confirm Loma was fading.
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zmienić się nie do poznania
**to change beyond recognition** …..…......................................…............................. Over the past two decades the ways people pay, receive and transfer money have **changed beyond recognition**. The revolution began in 2007 when m-pesa made it possible for Kenyans to make payments with a text message. In 2011 Alipay launched payment by QR code in China, a system that has all but replaced cash in cities.
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prawie
wszystko oprócz
**all but** …..…......................................…............................. Over the past two decades the ways people pay, receive and transfer money have changed beyond recognition. The revolution began in 2007 when m-pesa made it possible for Kenyans to make payments with a text message. In 2011 Alipay launched payment by QR code in China, a system that has **all but** replaced cash in cities.
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walczyć, bić się (szczególnie na pięści)
**to duke it out** …..…......................................…............................. Having transformed how people use money at home, the race to transform payments is now going global. Crossborder retail spending (including tourism) and remittances will hit $5trn this year; business-to-business payments are worth eight times that. Three big players are **duking it out** to process these vast flows of funds.
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sprzedawca; handlowiec
**merchant** …..…......................................…............................. The competition among the three blocs is heating up fast. Alipay is now accepted by 2.5m **merchants** overseas.
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spóźniać się
**to be overdue** …..…......................................…............................. The average cost of a remittance has been cut by a third in the past decade partly because of new fintechs. The Western card networks **are overdue** a shake-up.
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zmyślać, preparować
**to cook up** …..…......................................…............................. The food industry—by recruiting compliant scientists, funding studies, pushing clever marketing and influencing policy—has been able to **cook up** a self-serving narrative that shifts the blame for theharm their products cause.
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wyrzuty sumienia
**guilt trip** …..…......................................…............................. Get ahead of the autumn accessories trend with earth tones and gold accents. **Guilt trip**.
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jego dni są policzone
**is on borrowed time** …..…......................................…............................. Premier League’s pay TV model is **on borrowed time**
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uciekinier
**escape artist** …..…......................................…............................. The great **escape artists**.
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kamienica (w NY)
**brownstone** …..…......................................…............................. Lily Allen lives in Brooklyn, New York, these days, in an elegant Carroll Gardens **brownstone**, with her husband since 2020, the actor David Harbour, and her daughters from her first marriage, Ethel, 11, and Marnie, 10. Now 38, the millennial pop sensation and perennial tabloid magnet has become a svelte and sober star of stage and screen, comfortably domiciled in the land of the oat-matcha-latte slurpers, where the hysterical notoriety she first attracted in her 20s does not pursue her with anything like the doggedness it does elsewhere.
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bardzo blisko (very close proximity or distance)
**in spitting range** …..…......................................…............................. The stock had more than doubled for the year up to that point, so the additional lift has been especially noteworthy. It also has put the company’s market value in **spitting range** of $1 trillion: The stock has breached that level a couple of times since on an intraday basis but has yet to close above it.
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słowo, które odnosi się do stanu niepokoju, nerwowości lub ostrożności u inwestorów lub uczestników rynku finansowego. Może oznaczać, że inwestorzy są bardziej ostrożni i niepewni co do dalszego kierunku wartości akcji lub rynku
**skittish** …..…......................................…............................. But investors are evidently growing more **skittish**; Nvidia’s shares are down nearly 2% since peaking on May 30.
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autorytet (metaforyczne określenie używane do opisania osoby uznawanej za prominentną i wpływową postać w określonej dziedzinie)
**high priest** …..…......................................…............................. Back then, Guardiola was viewed as the **high priest** of a style of play perfected by his mentor, the Dutch master Johan Cruyff. It required technical mastery and an urge to protect the ball at all costs.
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przyciągać, zachęcać lub uwodzić
**to woo** …..…......................................…............................. Elon Musk hated advertising. She has built a career **wooing** big brands. He teased her arrival before she had a contract. And Linda Yaccarino hasn’t even gotten to the hard part yet.
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nachalna sprzedaż
**hard sell** …..…......................................…............................. Musk has long harbored a disdain for the **hard sell**, preferring that products sell themselves.
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istnieje od dawna, jest szanowana i uznawana za tradycyjną
**time-honored** …..…......................................…............................. She has spent more than three decades in the television industry perfecting the **time-honored** art of schmoozing ad buyers and brand leaders — spending big on events and doling out thoughtful gifts. Her effort has won her a reputation throughout the industry as someone who works hard to win over clients and build a business.
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tu: rozczarować; zawieść
**to burn** …..…......................................…............................. “Product matters incredibly because, if you’re going to recommend something to somebody, you’ve got to really love the product experience,” he said in 2003 at a Stanford University event. “Otherwise, you’re not going to recommend it because you don’t want to **burn** your friend.”
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zdeterminowany, pomysłowy i wytrwały, zwłaszcza w obliczu trudności lub ograniczonych zasobów
**scrappy** …..…......................................…............................. It was just one of the unorthodox efforts he made in the past roughly two decades to build Tesla from a **scrappy** startup into a consistently profitable car company. Along the way, he needed every dollar to keep the company afloat and has often touted sleeping on the factory floor while dealing with various crises.
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torba z upominkami
**swag bag** …..…......................................…............................. Guests at the all-expenses paid retreats were often greeted with **swag bags** in their rooms that included goodies such as Lululemon workout gear.
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umiejętne nawiązywanie relacji, budowanie kontaktów towarzyskich i przekonywanie innych ludzi do swojej osoby lub pomysłów. W praktyce oznacza to przyjemne rozmowy, nawiązywanie luźnych więzi, zadbanie o dobre wrażenie i utrzymanie pozytywnych relacji biznesowych lub społecznych
**to schmooze** …..…......................................…............................. She has spent more than three decades in the television industry perfecting the time-honored art of **schmoozing** ad buyers and brand leaders — spending big on events and doling out thoughtful gifts. Her effort has won her a reputation throughout the industry as someone who works hard to win over clients and build a business.
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spełnić oczekiwania
**to come through** …..…......................................…............................. In those hectic periods, Musk would swoop in, helping deliver cars himself, or, in an especially dire time, ask customers for help on Twitter. And if the fate of the company wasn’t enough of a motivator, Musk was known to threaten people’s jobs if they didn’t **come through** or, in a fit of pique, oust them outright in what’s been dubbed by outside observers as “rage firings.”
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w przypływie gniewu
**in a fit of pique** …..…......................................…............................. In those hectic periods, Musk would swoop in, helping deliver cars himself, or, in an especially dire time, ask customers for help on Twitter. And if the fate of the company wasn’t enough of a motivator, Musk was known to threaten people’s jobs if they didn’t come through or, **in a fit of pique**, oust them outright in what’s been dubbed by outside observers as “rage firings.”
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sygnał ostrzegawczy; znamienny objaw
**tell-tale sign** …..…......................................…............................. Its net debt is now more than four times its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (a figure above three is considered risky). Indeed, the firm’s debts now exceed the book value of its assets, leaving it with negative shareholder equity on its balancesheet, a **telltale sign** of dangerously high leverage.
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na kwotę (do jakiejś kwoty)
**to the tune of something** …..…......................................…............................. Olaf Scholz’s centreleft coalition government has agreed to prop up Intel’s megasite in Magdeburg **to the tune of** €6.8bn ($7.4bn), a big chunk of Intel’s €17bn investment in the east German town.
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kasa; budżet (pieniądze np. rodziny, organizacji)
**the purse strings** …..…......................................…............................. Christian Lindner, Germany’s promarket finance minister, recently said there was no money in the budget to meet Intel’s demands for an extra €3bn or so in state aid to close a “cost gap” caused by the higher prices of energy and construction. Yet the Social Democratic chancellor appears open to loosening the **purse strings**, provided that Intel expands its project.
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ciężko pracować
**to beaver away** …..…......................................…............................. According to sources close to the government, he is expected to meet Mr Scholz in Berlin on June 19th to make his case. The talks could seal the fate of the giant endeavour, which would be the biggest foreign direct investment in German history. He will also visit Magdeburg, where 30 Intel employees, including Bernd Holthaus, head of personnel in Germany, are already **beavering away**.
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przedstawić swoje argumenty
**to make his case** …..…......................................…............................. According to sources close to the government, he is expected to meet Mr Scholz in Berlin on June 19th **to make his case**. The talks could seal the fate of the giant endeavour, which would be the biggest foreign direct investment in German history. He will also visit Magdeburg, where 30 Intel employees, including Bernd Holthaus, head of personnel in Germany, are already beavering away.
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natrętny; arogancki; bezczelny
**pushy** …..…......................................…............................. Moreover, its advocates argue, the chip plant will help to reach the EU’s goal of increasing the bloc’s share of global chip production from around 10% today to 20% by 2030. This would reduce Europe’s dependence on suppliers in Taiwan, South Korea and other countries in the backyard of an increasingly **pushy** China.
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zachęta, bodziec
**fillip** …..…......................................…............................. The firm needs a **fillip**. In recent years it has fallen behind rivals such as TSMC of Taiwan and Samsung of South Korea in cutting-edge technology. In April it reported a quarterly net loss of $2.8bn, its steepest ever, as global demand for many types of chip cooled.
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nudny (np. o sztuce), drętwy (np. o atmosferze)
**stodgy** …..…......................................…............................. Zuckerberg and other executives have called AI a third leg to Meta’s stool, believing it essential to the company’s long-term growth and relevance, alongside global connectivity and virtual and augmented reality. Lagging behind in AI threatens to make Meta appear **stodgy** and slow, instead of the nimble, aggressive upstart that coined the phrase “move fast and break things” and set the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley.
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zmieniać się; dokonować zmian w robieniu czegoś
**to take turns in doing something** …..…......................................…............................. Meta **has taken sharp turns** before at moments when it has appeared behind, such as when it transitioned Facebook from a desktop to a mobile-first ads business or in 2016, when it launched its Stories feature on Instagram to lure people away from Snapchat, which had introduced a similar feature a decade ago.
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rezygnować z czegoś; oddawać coś
**to relinquish** …..…......................................…............................. Meta divvied up hardware into small pools across each project: Some researchers, given more computer chips than they needed, would tie them up in unnecessary tasks to avoid **relinquishing** them, some of the people said.
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odrażający
**creepy** …..…......................................…............................. The concern around public scrutiny was also on display when Meta released its BlenderBot 3 chatbot in August 2022. Within a week of launching, BlenderBot 3 was panned for making false statements, offensive remarks and racist comments. The system also called Zuckerberg “**creepy** and manipulative.”
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stanąć jak wryty (bardzo kogoś zaskoczyć)
**stop somebody in their tracks** …..…......................................…............................. And while all the hallmarks of what makes a great Extreme song — high-energy, rock-solid riffs and rhythms; sticky hooks and choruses; a forceful and expressive Gary Cherone vocal — are present and intact, it was Nuno’s guitar solo that **stopped fans, peers, industry pros and even guitar legends in their tracks**.
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wymienić z nazwiska
**to name-check** …..…......................................…............................. Howard Stern **namechecked** him on his SiriusXM show. Popular YouTuber Rick Beato released a fawning instructional video titled “The Nuno Bettencourt Solo Everyone Is Talking About” that racked up more than a million views in its first week.
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płaszczyć się, nadskakiwać komuś
**to fawn** …..…......................................…............................. Howard Stern namechecked him on his SiriusXM show. Popular YouTuber Rick Beato released a **fawning** instructional video titled “The Nuno Bettencourt Solo Everyone Is Talking About” that racked up more than a million views in its first week.
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trafić w czuły punkt
**to strike a nerve** …..…......................................…............................. What’s happening is that Bettencourt has **struck a nerve** like few guitarists of late. As for why? In his humble estimation, Bettencourt believes that people have connected to not just the playing on “Rise,” but also the passion that is evident in the performance itself.
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Jeśli chodzi o to, dlaczego
**as for why** …..…......................................…............................. What’s happening is that Bettencourt has struck a nerve like few guitarists of late. **As for why**? In his humble estimation, Bettencourt believes that people have connected to not just the playing on “Rise,” but also the passion that is evident in the performance itself.
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ogólnie mówiąc
**broadly speaking** …..…......................................…............................. **Broadly speaking**, what was your approach on Six from a guitar perspective?
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pójść na całość (to go all out, to put in maximum effort, or to be extremely aggressive or competitive in pursuing a goal or achieving success)
**to go for blood** …..…......................................…............................. As I was doing the album I was re-inspired to kind of **go for blood** again. I basically said, “I want to bring guitar playing back.” But I didn’t mean it in an innovative, I’m-gonna-change-the-game sort of way. I just wanted to make it fun again — what’s fun for me.
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natknąć się na coś
**to latch onto** …..…......................................…............................. Because when it’s fast, I don’t hear those things. And I’ve never played it slow once. I never broke it down. It’s just something I **latched onto** when I was playing it.
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komponować
**to comp** …..…......................................…............................. I wanna really go on instinct and see what I would do if I didn’t have anything worked out.” I’ll do a few passes, and then I listen back and I go, “That’s cool. And that’s cool.” And I might **comp** the solo, but at least I know it was played live in the sense of, I was feeling whatever the band was giving me and whatever I was doing. It’s way more exciting for me that way.
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wyraźny, wyczuwalny (np. napięcie, różnica)
**palpable** …..…......................................…............................. Let’s talk about your tone on Six. It’s so full and present, with tons of bite and definition. To borrow a word from Steve Vai, it’s “**palpable**.” What was your setup in the studio?
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na przykład
**for one** …..…......................................…............................. If some fans believe it to be a strange place **for one** of hard rock’s most lauded six-string shredders to end up, well, there’s precedent (Eddie Van Halen’s star turn with Michael Jackson on “Beat It,” for one; Bettencourt’s guest appearance on Janet Jackson’s radio edit of “Black Cat,” for another).
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przede wszystkim; po pierwsze
**in the first place** …..…......................................…............................. Indeed, as much as Bettencourt is known for his amped-up and advanced rock chops, he is also recognized as one of the genre’s most versatile, not to mention funkiest, players. All of which no doubt contributed to his being tapped for the Rihanna position **in the first place**.
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w zanadrzu; w ofercie
**on tap** …..…......................................…............................. Despite the various styles **on tap**, the good news was that Bettencourt was also told, “ ‘You can be you and you can do you,’ ” he says. “Which was a nice thing to hear. Because I was like, ‘Why do you need me? There’s no guitar.’ And Tony goes, ‘Exactly. She wants to rock out the show.’ ”
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do kurwy nędzy
**for fuck’s sake** …..…......................................…............................. “And then I’m playing with some of the greatest musicians I’ve ever played with. These were player’s players — our drummer did a Stevie Wonder tour, **for fuck’s sake**. It was like having the R&B version of Neil Peart next to me. The fusion and the jazz and all the jams that were going on, it was beyond belief.”
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nie do wiary
**beyond belief** …..…......................................…............................. “And then I’m playing with some of the greatest musicians I’ve ever played with. These were player’s players — our drummer did a Stevie Wonder tour, for fuck’s sake. It was like having the R&B version of Neil Peart next to me. The fusion and the jazz and all the jams that were going on, it was **beyond belief**.”
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mieć wiele ról (np. prac)
**to wear many hats** …..…......................................…............................. Bettencourt points to one Rihanna song, “Where Have You Been,” as a standout. “That’s a synth riff on the album version,” he says. “But onstage we were replacing it with a live band and crazy playing. It was all fast funk, really clean. You had to **wear five hats** to be able to do that.
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spotkanie gwiazdy z fanami
**meet-and-greet** …..…......................................…............................. While we were on tour and doing **meet-and-greet**s, kids would come in with an N4 and they’d go, “Sign my guitar.” And you could see it was dusty, that they didn’t play it anymore. So I’d be like, “What year is this?”
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melodia
**tune** …..…......................................…............................. In general, I think Nuno’s just a glorious player. He’s so colorful, and obviously his dexterity is extraordinary. There’s plenty of fast, accurate guitarists, but what he brings to it is this amazing spirit. It’s energetic and it’s lyrical, and he doesn’t lose sight of the fact that there are **tunes**. I don’t know where that stuff comes from. It makes my jaw drop, in a very good way.
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pełen życia (energiczna osoba)
**live wire** …..…......................................…............................. He’s a **live wire**. You can see why he plays the way he can play. There’s a visceral approach that’s just very different from guys that are sitting in their rooms gathering tremendous amounts of chops. Nuno’s a rockstar.
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instynktowny, ekspresywny
**visceral** …..…......................................…............................. He’s a live wire. You can see why he plays the way he can play. There’s a **visceral** approach that’s just very different from guys that are sitting in their rooms gathering tremendous amounts of chops. Nuno’s a rockstar.
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być dużo lepszym niż ktoś inny
**to be head and shoulders above somebody** …..…......................................…............................. Then I would also point to ‘Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee,’ of course, which is on my ‘Guitars Rule the World’ playlist. That is a standalone sort of exercise in awesomeness that really sets him **head and shoulders above the pack**.
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przejść do rzeczy, przejść do sedna
**to cut to the chase** …..…......................................…............................. Then **let’s cut to** the present with ‘Rise,’ and the guitar solo that everyone’s talking about. It’s been a long time since people have been talking about a guitar solo, frankly.
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rewolwerowiec
**gunslinger** …..…......................................…............................. The thing about Nuno is that, from day one, he had the chops of all those folks in the upper echelon of that **gunslinging** era. But there’s also a playfulness. There’s an emotional content.
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niepokój; obawa
**angst** …..…......................................…............................. It made me realize people are starved for this kind of music: not just the guitar playing, but with the **angst** and intensity someone like Edward played with. I told the band, “I want to make a rock album and bring guitar into it in a joyful, fiery, passionate and emotional way.
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być dla kogoś wsparciem
**to be there for somebody** …..…......................................…............................. “Man, no matter what the song is, the guitar stays in the culture and stays in the wheelhouse of what the melody and the lyrics are feeding you. Whatever the song needed, the guitar **was there for** it.”
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ważniak
**swinging-dick** …..…......................................…............................. If it looks like Alexander Skarsgård is having the time of his life playing Lukas Matsson, the **swinging-dick** tech mogul trying like hell to outmaneuver the Roy boys — while rocking a gold jacket and limited-edition kicks, no less — in Succession, it’s because he very much is.
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przeciętny; zwyczajny; nudny
**humdrum** …..…......................................…............................. A surge in the S&P 500 is dominated by tech stocks, masking **humdrum** performances for the vast majority. Some warn the concentration is unsustainable or a sign of treacherous conditions ahead.
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być w czymś bardzo dobrym lub w czymś dobrze wyglądać
**to rock** …..…......................................…............................. If it looks like Alexander Skarsgård is having the time of his life playing Lukas Matsson, the swinging-dick tech mogul trying like hell to outmaneuver the Roy boys — while **rocking** a gold jacket and limited-edition kicks, no less — in Succession, it’s because he very much is.
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nie mniej ni więcej
**no less** …..…......................................…............................. If it looks like Alexander Skarsgård is having the time of his life playing Lukas Matsson, the swinging-dick tech mogul trying like hell to outmaneuver the Roy boys — while rocking a gold jacket and limited-edition kicks, **no less** — in Succession, it’s because he very much is.
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zwariowany // w kinie ______ comedy to gatunek komedii romantycznej, charakteryzujący się absurdalnym humorem i konfliktami między bohaterami
**screwball** …..…......................................…............................. Though the 46-year-old actor had already embodied memorable characters in a trio of other critically-acclaimed HBO series — sexy vampire Eric in True Blood; an abusive husband in Big Little Lies; a Marine sergeant in Generation Kill — his winning streak continues in Jesse Armstrong’s Shakespearean **screwball** about three adult children that go to war over their family’s right-wing media empire when the King Lear of it all, Logan Roy (Brian Cox), falls ill.
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zachorować
**to fall ill** …..…......................................…............................. Though the 46-year-old actor had already embodied memorable characters in a trio of other critically-acclaimed HBO series — sexy vampire Eric in True Blood; an abusive husband in Big Little Lies; a Marine sergeant in Generation Kill — his winning streak continues in Jesse Armstrong’s Shakespearean screwball about three adult children that go to war over their family’s right-wing media empire when the King Lear of it all, Logan Roy (Brian Cox), **falls ill**.
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przedostatni
**penultimate** …..…......................................…............................. Naturally, comparisons have been made between Matsson and Elon Musk. He appears to have a special connection with Shiv Roy (Sarah Snook), and, at the conclusion of Succession’s **penultimate** episode, which is mostly set at Logan’s funeral, promises her the position of U.S. CEO should the acquisition go through.
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dojść do skutku
**to go through** …..…......................................…............................. Naturally, comparisons have been made between Matsson and Elon Musk. He appears to have a special connection with Shiv Roy (Sarah Snook), and, at the conclusion of Succession’s penultimate episode, which is mostly set at Logan’s funeral, promises her the position of U.S. CEO should the acquisition **go through**.
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bić się
**to tussle** …..…......................................…............................. He’s not only one of the richest and most powerful men in the world, but a massive Swedish troll who, when he’s not tweeting out crazy Holocaust memes or harassing his communications director, seems to relish **tussling** with the Roys over control of their inheritance, and whose personal motto is, “Privacy, pussy, pasta.”
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1. niespodzianka
2. przyjemność, rozrywka, urozmaicenie
3. smakołyk
**treat** …..…......................................…............................. I’m havin’ a blast. Every single day was such a **treat** to work on that show.
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to be very confident and arrogant, and that he does whatever he wants without caring about the consequences
**to swing your dick around** …..…......................................…............................. You’re in those track suits just **swinging your dick around**, basically.
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niekonwencjonalny, nietypowy
**offbeat** …..…......................................…............................. It gives you such a rush of adrenaline when you step onto that set because it’s so forceful, fun, and collaborative, and it gives you the opportunity to work with some of the finest actors and writers out there. The material is so deliciously wonderful, **offbeat**, and weird.
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chcieć czegoś
**to be after something** …..…......................................…............................. But it was basically the introduction to the character — the first time you meet Lukas at Kendall’s weird birthday party, and he’s really bored, and he’s surrounded by sycophants that he finds incredibly boring. All he wants is to sit in the corner, eat pasta, and find some pussy. That’s kind of what **he’s after** there.
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wybieg (coś, co ma na celu zmylenie przeciwnika) // the art of winning games by using various ploys and tactics to gain a psychological advantage - nieczysta gra
**gamesmanship** …..…......................................…............................. I think there are a couple of different factors that come into play. He loves a good deal. He loves to win. The **gamesmanship**.
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nauczyć kogoś pokory, utrzeć komuś nosa
**to take somebody down** …..…......................................…............................. The fact that he can **take them down** and be the bigger shark is very exciting for him. It’s not so much about saving GoJo or making more money, because he’s beyond wealthy. It’s about making the deal, doing something people didn’t think was possible, and walking away victorious.
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dosłownie; dokładnie
**on the nose** …..…......................................…............................. We wanted to leave it open to interpretation from the audience as to whether it’s a sexual connection, whether they’re playing each other, whether he’s manipulating her or testing her. The writing is so spectacular that it’s never **on the nose**.
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wdawać się z kimś w kłótnię
**to lock horns with somebody** …..…......................................…............................. So, what was it like to be **locking horns with** Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong on top of a mountain in Norway while your character is peeing on a rock?
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trwać przy czymś; trzymać się czegoś (swojego zdania)
**to stand by something** …..…......................................…............................. This is my opinion, and I will **stand by** it.
273
trudno (mi coś przychodzi); mam trudności (ze zrobieniem czegoś)
**to have a hard time** …..…......................................…............................. I **have a hard time** believing that any woman who's truly in love would really turn down a marriage proposal.
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trzymać się
**be hanging on** …..…......................................…............................. And Betty's having surgery on her brain, and poor vincent here is barely **hanging on**…
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drżeć
**to quiver** …..…......................................…............................. During one of Mourning Widows’ most aggressive tracks, Bettencourt turns up the heat with a chugging, yet frenetic burst of molten lava, leaving listeners **quivering** in his wake.
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szalony
**frenetic** …..…......................................…............................. During one of Mourning Widows’ most aggressive tracks, Bettencourt turns up the heat with a chugging, yet **frenetic** burst of molten lava, leaving listeners quivering in his wake.
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rząd wielkości
**order of magnitude** …..…......................................…............................. Consequently, there are no granular estimates of the number of people who work in annotation, but it is a lot, and it is growing. A recent Google Research paper gave an **order-of-magnitude** figure of “millions” with the potential to become “billions.”
278
rozsunąć zasłonę
**to pull back the curtain** …..…......................................…............................. You might miss this if you believe AI is a brilliant, thinking machine. But if you **pull back the curtain** even a little, it looks more familiar, the latest iteration of a particularly Silicon Valley division of labor, in which the futuristic gleam of new technologies hides a sprawling manufacturing apparatus and the people who make it run.
279
dać komuś zagwozdkę (trudne pytanie, problem)
**to throw somebody a curveball** …..…......................................…............................. Feeling confident in my ability to distinguish between real clothes that can be worn by real people and not-real clothes that cannot, I proceeded to the test. Right away, it **threw an ontological curveball**: a picture of a magazine depicting photos of women in dresses. Is a photograph of clothing real clothing?
280
jeździć sobie dla przyjemności
**to tool around** …..…......................................…............................. Hermès artisans train for years and work for dozens of hours to hand-make a single bag. Introduced in 1984 and named for the chic Brit-in-Paris actress and singer Jane Birkin, the bag is a status symbol that transcends fashion. Back in 2001 on the show “Sex and the City,” the character Samantha said, “When I’m **tooling around** town with that bag, I’ll know I’ve made it.”
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odnieść sukces
**to make it** …..…......................................…............................. Hermès artisans train for years and work for dozens of hours to hand-make a single bag. Introduced in 1984 and named for the chic Brit-in-Paris actress and singer Jane Birkin, the bag is a status symbol that transcends fashion. Back in 2001 on the show “Sex and the City,” the character Samantha said, “When I’m tooling around town with that bag, I’ll know I’ve **made it**.”
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powstać (coś powstało)
**to come to be** …..…......................................…............................. Sway and Kim enjoy telling the story about how the bag **came to be**, though they have moved on to more practical pursuits. They are saving up for a camper van.
283
obfitujący w coś
**teeming with something** …..…......................................…............................. While hardly a surprise—no one thinks of Häagen-Dazs as a food source **teeming with** healthy nutrients—the disclosure is emblematic of a wider problem. Nestlé is one of many purveyors of the ultraprocessed foods that now account for about 60% of adult calorie consumption in the U.S.
284
podejrzany (interes), nieczysty (np. zamiar)
**shady** …..…......................................…............................. Chris van Tulleken, a physician and BBC broadcaster based in the U.K., argues that ultra-processed foods “subvert the systems in the body that regulate weight and many other functions.” In “Ultra-Processed People,” a persuasive mix of analysis and commentary, he shows how these foods affect our bodies and how their popularity stems in part from **shady** marketing and slanted science.
285
nieobiektywny; stronniczy
**slanted** …..…......................................…............................. Chris van Tulleken, a physician and BBC broadcaster based in the U.K., argues that ultra-processed foods “subvert the systems in the body that regulate weight and many other functions.” In “Ultra-Processed People,” a persuasive mix of analysis and commentary, he shows how these foods affect our bodies and how their popularity stems in part from shady marketing and **slanted** science.
286
kolor jaskrawoniebieski, metaliczny błękit
**electric blue** …..…......................................…............................. Last year American singer Selena Gomez wore a €150 **electric blue** Zara suit to Britney Spears’ wedding. Inditex’s sales reflect the shift.
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przedział
**bracket** …..…......................................…............................. Analysts reckon that Inditex’s third biggest country is Mexico, followed by the UK, France and Italy, each estimated to contribute about 5 per cent of sales. China is in that **bracket** too, and what happens there will have a big influence on Zara’s future.
288
zaznajomić, zapoznać (kogoś z kimś)
**to acquaint** …..…......................................…............................. Nearly 10 years after the “War Horse” incident, I became **acquainted** with a new psychological technique called Functional Imagery Training, developed by academic researchers at the University of Plymouth in the U.K, and I became the first U.S. therapist to be trained in the method.
289
wiarygodność
**bona fides** …..…......................................…............................. Pearce was a trained analyst with a medical degree from the University of Chicago; Newton, who lacked such **bona fides**, seemed to be riding her coattails into the profession.
290
po czyichś plecach (np. awansować)
**on somebody's coattails** …..…......................................…............................. Pearce was a trained analyst with a medical degree from the University of Chicago; Newton, who lacked such bona fides, seemed to be **riding her coattails** into the profession.
291
również, tak samo
**for that matter** …..…......................................…............................. Is it possible, I suggest, that in 2023 (and **for that matter** 2022, 2021 and 2020), absurdist memes may actually be the most acute language to understand our collective bafflement with the financial system? The market has become its own best gag man. “I’m leaning into it,” Litquidity says. “It’s like, this is beyond satire, this is real life.”
292
skory, chętny
**game** …..…......................................…............................. Let the record reflect that Litquidity was **game** to order the tasting menu at Le Bernardin, but I panicked. It costs almost $300 per person, before tax and tip. With wine, the price shoots to $445. Suddenly, I was overcome with anxiety that the Financial Times expenses system would not appreciate my receipt for a $1,250 lunch.
293
lśniący, błyszczący
**glossy** …..…......................................…............................. Our appetisers arrive, and Lit’s **glossy** tartare with a snowfall of chives looks painted on the plate. My octopus with chorizo emulsion tastes, somehow, elegant. I am briefly distracted by a dish being set on fire at a neighbouring table. Someone brave enough to order the tasting menu.
294
wypominać komuś niedoskonałości, krytykować każdy ruch
**to pick apart** …..…......................................…............................. Lit has no desire to be known, he says. Social media can be toxic, and cruel. “People will **pick apart** any imperfections,” he says.
295
narwany
**trigger-happy** …..…......................................…............................. You can see why trustbusters are **trigger-happy**. They took flak for letting Facebook gobble up social-media competitors like Instagram and WhatsApp.
296
pod wpływem czegoś (np. rekomendacji); na podstawie
**on the strength of something** …..…......................................…............................. In March, Ben Browning, the film producer hired to oversee Archewell’s content slate **on the strength of** such credits as the Oscar-winning “Promising Young Woman,” left the company to return to his prior job. Archewell’s head of marketing parted ways with the company, as did its head of scripted content.
297
zasługa; osiągnięcie
**credit** …..…......................................…............................. In March, Ben Browning, the film producer hired to oversee Archewell’s content slate on the strength of such **credits** as the Oscar-winning “Promising Young Woman,” left the company to return to his prior job. Archewell’s head of marketing parted ways with the company, as did its head of scripted content.
298
być niezauważonym (obserwatorem lub słuchaczem)
**fly-on-the-wall** …..…......................................…............................. “Harry & Meghan,” the **fly-on-the-wall** documentary about the couple’s love story, was the first major project produced under the deal. It featured intimate moments between the pair—Harry on the tears of his mother, Princess Diana; Meghan on her miscarriage— and delved into British colonialism as well as the racism the couple experienced.
299
przycinać, przystrzygać (np. żywopłot) // zmniejszyć ofertę poprzez wycofanie przestarzałych produktów
**to prune** …..…......................................…............................. The downturn rattled Hollywood, leading to what is now called the “Netflix Correction,” a period in which studios began to **prune** their catalogs and become choosier about which projects to back.
300
odsłaniający (np. fakty), ukazujący wszystko (np. całą prawdę) // książka lub artykuł, które zawierają wcześniej nieznane i często intymne bądź skandaliczne szczegóły z czyjegoś życia
**tell-all** …..…......................................…............................. For Harry and Meghan, the broader streaming slowdown couldn’t come at a more uncertain time. They have indicated they want to move on from talking about the Royal Family following a **tell-all** interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Netflix documentary and Prince Harry’s autobiography, “Spare.”
