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well-heeled
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nadziany (bogaty)Seven years ago Uber launched itself as an app connecting well-heeled users with nearby limousines.
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prominent
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wiodący, czołowy, rzucający się w oczyIt has since become the most prominent tech startup in the world, with a valuation of $70bn.
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hard-charging
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agresywny, zdeterminowany, ambitnyThe company’s hard-charging culture—embodied in Travis Kalanick, Uber’s co-founder and boss—was celebrated, not questioned.
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to embody
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uosabiaćThe company’s hard-charging culture—embodied in Travis Kalanick, Uber’s co-founder and boss—was celebrated, not questioned.
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to fend off
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odpieraćThe firm is fending off accusations of stealing autonomous-car technology.
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allegedlyÂ
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rzekomoIt is being investigated for allegedly designing software to identify and evade transport regulators.
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to evade
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unikaćIt is being investigated for allegedly designing software to identify and evade transport regulators.
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reminiscent of sth
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przypominajÄ…cy coÅ›, przywoÅ‚ujÄ…cy coÅ› Mr Kalanick and his band of brothers created a workplace more reminiscent of a bar than a business.Â
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belated
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spóźnionyUber is belatedly making efforts to fix things.
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underling
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podwładnyThe firm will do other things differently, too: more performance reviews, less booze and no sex between a manager and an underling.
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indefiniteÂ
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nieokreÅ›lony, bezterminowyHe said this week that he will take an indefinite leave of absence, in part to grieve for his mother, who was killed in a recent accident, and in part to “work on himselfâ€.Â
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culpableÂ
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winny, karygodnyHe is culpable for its failings; its culture was created in his image.
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to take a toll
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zbierać żniwoThe firm’s problems have started to take a toll.
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to loom large
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spędzać sen z powiekThe spectre of the past will continue to loom large, thanks to litigation and government probes.
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probe
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śledztwoThe spectre of the past will continue to loom large, thanks to litigation and government probes.
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to inflict
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wyrządzić, zadać, zadawać One is that a tolerance of casual sexism can inflict real commercial damage.
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to be wary of
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mieć siÄ™ na bacznoÅ›ci przedAnother is to be wary of the power handed to founders.Â
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misstep
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gafaUber’s missteps would have become clear much sooner with better governance and a visible share price.
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nadziany (bogaty)
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well-heeledSeven years ago Uber launched itself as an app connecting well-heeled users with nearby limousines.
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wiodący, czołowy, rzucający się w oczy
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prominentIt has since become the most prominent tech startup in the world, with a valuation of $70bn.
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agresywny, zdeterminowany, ambitny
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hard-chargingThe company’s hard-charging culture—embodied in Travis Kalanick, Uber’s co-founder and boss—was celebrated, not questioned.
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uosabiać
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to embody The company’s hard-charging culture—embodied in Travis Kalanick, Uber’s co-founder and boss—was celebrated, not questioned.
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odpierać
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to fend offThe firm is fending off accusations of stealing autonomous-car technology.
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rzekomo
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allegedlyÂIt is being investigated for allegedly designing software to identify and evade transport regulators.
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unikać
to evade It is being investigated for allegedly designing software to identify and evade transport regulators.
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przypominający coś, przywołujący coś
reminiscent of sth Mr Kalanick and his band of brothers created a workplace more reminiscent of a bar than a business.Â
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spóźniony
belated Uber is belatedly making efforts to fix things.
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podwładny
underling The firm will do other things differently, too: more performance reviews, less booze and no sex between a manager and an underling.
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nieokreślony, bezterminowy
indefinite He said this week that he will take an indefinite leave of absence, in part to grieve for his mother, who was killed in a recent accident, and in part to “work on himselfâ€.Â
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winny, karygodny
culpable He is culpable for its failings; its culture was created in his image.
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zbierać żniwo
to take a toll The firm’s problems have started to take a toll.
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spędzać sen z powiek
to loom large The spectre of the past will continue to loom large, thanks to litigation and government probes.
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śledztwo
probe The spectre of the past will continue to loom large, thanks to litigation and government probes.
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wyrządzić, zadać, zadawać
to inflict One is that a tolerance of casual sexism can inflict real commercial damage.
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mieć się na baczności przed
to be wary of Another is to be wary of the power handed to founders.Â
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gafa
misstep Uber’s missteps would have become clear much sooner with better governance and a visible share price.
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pot
pula, garnek To compete with the Vision Fund’s pot of moolah, and with the forays of other unconventional investors, incumbents are having to bulk up.
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foray
najazd To compete with the Vision Fund’s pot of moolah, and with the forays of other unconventional investors, incumbents are having to bulk up.
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to bulk up
budować mięśnie, zyskać masę ciała To compete with the Vision Fund’s pot of moolah, and with the forays of other unconventional investors, incumbents are having to bulk up.
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to be in short supply
brakować Mr Son is also bringing capital to places where it is still in fairly short supply—to India, to South-East Asia and to several European countries.
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sheer
tu: sam; zwykły, kompletny The concept of portfolio companies collaborating is familiar from private equity, but the fund’s sheer breadth marks it out.
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to nurture
wspierać And it may nurture competition against the tech giants.
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fraught with
pełen (czegoś), obarczony (czymś) HERMAN NARULA named his company Improbable for a business plan so outlandish and fraught with computing problems that only two outcomes are plausible.
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flop
fiasko, klapa But even if the fund ends up flopping, it will have several lasting effects on technology investing.
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to deploy
rozlokować The first is that the deployment of so much cash now will help shape the industries of the future.
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to outgun
pokonać Its money, often handed to entrepreneurs in multiples of the amounts they initially demand and accompanied by the threat that the cash will go to the competition if they balk, gives startups the wherewithal to outgun worse-funded rivals.
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to notch up
zdobyć He has notched up some triumphs in his career, including an early bet on Alibaba.
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singular
niezwykÅ‚y His pursuit of the “singularityâ€, the point at which computer intelligence exceeds the human kind, might make him a visionary—or just an eccentric.
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gargantuan
olbrzymi This combination of gargantuanism, grandiosity and guaranteed payouts may end up in financial disaster.
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grandiosity
pretensjonalność This combination of gargantuanism, grandiosity and guaranteed payouts may end up in financial disaster.
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giddy
przyprawiający o zwrot głowy Indeed, the Vision Fund could mark the giddy top of the tech boom.
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pula, garnek
pot To compete with the Vision Fund’s pot of moolah, and with the forays of other unconventional investors, incumbents are having to bulk up.
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najazd
foray To compete with the Vision Fund’s pot of moolah, and with the forays of other unconventional investors, incumbents are having to bulk up.
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budować mięśnie, zyskać masę ciała
to bulk up To compete with the Vision Fund’s pot of moolah, and with the forays of other unconventional investors, incumbents are having to bulk up.
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brakować
to be in short supply Mr Son is also bringing capital to places where it is still in fairly short supply—to India, to South-East Asia and to several European countries.
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tu: sam; zwykły, kompletny
sheer The concept of portfolio companies collaborating is familiar from private equity, but the fund’s sheer breadth marks it out.
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wspierać
to nurture And it may nurture competition against the tech giants.
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pełen (czegoś), obarczony (czymś)
fraught with HERMAN NARULA named his company Improbable for a business plan so outlandish and fraught with computing problems that only two outcomes are plausible.
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fiasko, klapa
flop But even if the fund ends up flopping, it will have several lasting effects on technology investing.
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rozlokować
to deploy The first is that the deployment of so much cash now will help shape the industries of the future.
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pokonać
to outgun Its money, often handed to entrepreneurs in multiples of the amounts they initially demand and accompanied by the threat that the cash will go to the competition if they balk, gives startups the wherewithal to outgun worse-funded rivals.
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zdobyć
to notch up He has notched up some triumphs in his career, including an early bet on Alibaba.
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niezwykły
singular His pursuit of the “singularityâ€, the point at which computer intelligence exceeds the human kind, might make him a visionary—or just an eccentric.
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olbrzymi
gargantuan This combination of gargantuanism, grandiosity and guaranteed payouts may end up in financial disaster.
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pretensjonalność
grandiosity This combination of gargantuanism, grandiosity and guaranteed payouts may end up in financial disaster.
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przyprawiający o zwrot głowy
giddy Indeed, the Vision Fund could mark the giddy top of the tech boom.
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to chuck
wyrzucić If you no longer wanted it, you sold it or chucked it away.
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to muscle in
rozpychać się łokciami; wpychać się (np. do kolejki) Some firms found tricks to muscle in on the aftermarket, using warranties, authorised repair shops, and strategies such as selling cheap printers and expensive ink.
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aftermarket
rynek części zapasowych, zamienników i dodatkowych akcesoriów (także nieoryginalnych) Some firms found tricks to muscle in on the aftermarket, using warranties, authorised repair shops, and strategies such as selling cheap printers and expensive ink.
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to squeeze out
wyciskać (np. sok) But these ways of squeezing out more profit did not challenge the nature of what it means to be an owner.
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slippery
śliski; drażliwy; delikatny (np. o temacie rozmowy) In the digital age ownership has become more slippery.
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advent
pojawienie się, nadejście Since the advent of smartphones, consumers have been forced to accept that they do not control the software in their devices; they are only licensed to use it.
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malign
zły, szkodliwy, wrogi The trend is not always malign.
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to seek
starać się; usiłować; próbować Manufacturers seeking to restrict what owners do with increasingly complex technology have good reasons to protect their copyright, ensure that their machines do not malfunction, uphold environmental standards and prevent hacking.
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to malfunction
psuć się Manufacturers seeking to restrict what owners do with increasingly complex technology have good reasons to protect their copyright, ensure that their machines do not malfunction, uphold environmental standards and prevent hacking.
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to uphold
przestrzegać Manufacturers seeking to restrict what owners do with increasingly complex technology have good reasons to protect their copyright, ensure that their machines do not malfunction, uphold environmental standards and prevent hacking.
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rudimentary
elementarny, pierwotny AVA, a customer-service chatbot for Autodesk, has rudimentary emotional intelligence.
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proprietary
prawnie zastrzeżony Almost to the day 17 years ago Steve Ballmer, then boss of Microsoft, the world’s biggest software firm, called Linux a “cancerâ€, meaning that the open-source operating system would spell the death of proprietary software.
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to gobble up
wchÅ‚aniać The founder of SoftBank, a Japanese telecoms and internet firm, has put together an enormous investment fund that is busy gobbling up stakes in the world’s most exciting young companies.Â
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to disrupt
zdezorganizować, przerwać, zakłócić The Vision Fund is disrupting both the industries in which it invests and other suppliers of capital.
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moolah
mamona To compete with the Vision Fund’s pot of moolah, and with the forays of other unconventional investors, incumbents are having to bulk up.
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wyrzucić
to chuck If you no longer wanted it, you sold it or chucked it away.
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rozpychać się łokciami; wpychać się (np. do kolejki)
to muscle in Some firms found tricks to muscle in on the aftermarket, using warranties, authorised repair shops, and strategies such as selling cheap printers and expensive ink.
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rynek części zapasowych, zamienników i dodatkowych akcesoriów (także nieoryginalnych)
aftermarket Some firms found tricks to muscle in on the aftermarket, using warranties, authorised repair shops, and strategies such as selling cheap printers and expensive ink.
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wyciskać (np. sok)
to squeeze out But these ways of squeezing out more profit did not challenge the nature of what it means to be an owner.
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śliski; drażliwy; delikatny (np. o temacie rozmowy)
slippery In the digital age ownership has become more slippery.
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pojawienie się, nadejście
advent Since the advent of smartphones, consumers have been forced to accept that they do not control the software in their devices; they are only licensed to use it.
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zły, szkodliwy, wrogi
malign The trend is not always malign.
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starać się; usiłować; próbować
to seek Manufacturers seeking to restrict what owners do with increasingly complex technology have good reasons to protect their copyright, ensure that their machines do not malfunction, uphold environmental standards and prevent hacking.
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psuć się
to malfunction Manufacturers seeking to restrict what owners do with increasingly complex technology have good reasons to protect their copyright, ensure that their machines do not malfunction, uphold environmental standards and prevent hacking.
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przestrzegać
to uphold Manufacturers seeking to restrict what owners do with increasingly complex technology have good reasons to protect their copyright, ensure that their machines do not malfunction, uphold environmental standards and prevent hacking.
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elementarny, pierwotny
rudimentary AVA, a customer-service chatbot for Autodesk, has rudimentary emotional intelligence.
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prawnie zastrzeżony
proprietary Almost to the day 17 years ago Steve Ballmer, then boss of Microsoft, the world’s biggest software firm, called Linux a “cancerâ€, meaning that the open-source operating system would spell the death of proprietary software.
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wchłaniać
to gobble up The founder of SoftBank, a Japanese telecoms and internet firm, has put together an enormous investment fund that is busy gobbling up stakes in the world’s most exciting young companies.Â
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zdezorganizować, przerwać, zakłócić
to disrupt The Vision Fund is disrupting both the industries in which it invests and other suppliers of capital.
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mamona
moolah To compete with the Vision Fund’s pot of moolah, and with the forays of other unconventional investors, incumbents are having to bulk up.
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watershed
punkt zwrotny The Year of Living Dangerously. Was 2014 a watershed?
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consensual
kompromisowy One of their biggest concerns is “I don’t want to hurt youâ€â€¦ when in reality, I’m into it! (consensually).
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predicament
tarapaty Walter Russell Mead paints a disturbing portrait of the United States’ geopolitical predicament.
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to depict
przedstawić It is a misreading of the logic and character of the existing world order, which is more stable and expansive than Mead depicts, leading him to overestimate the ability of the “axis of weevils†to undermine it.
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appealing
przyciągający; interesujący But even these conflicts are fueled more by weakness—their leaders’ and regimes’—than by strength. They have no appealing brand.
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overriding
nadrzędne And when it comes to their overriding interests, Russia and, especially, China are deeply integrated into the world economy and its governing institutions.
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to enforce
egzekwować But it has no enforcement mechanism and its decision-making process is highly politicized and easy for the manipulators to block.
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turf
teren, terytorium, obaszar wpływów Each coterie guards its turf jealously, and coordination between them is infrequent.
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shortcoming
brak, wada Their likes, dislikes, and even shortcomings are something they are thankful for.
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to strive
dążyć do czegoś, walczyć o coś, starać się, próbować Nobody is perfect, but you should always strive to be better and to have more meaningful encounters with people.
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topical
tutaj: miejscowy; aktualny She had resigned herself to buying tube after tube of topical painkillers - until she discovered the menstrual cup.
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to discern
rozpoznać A hundred years ago it was perhaps already possible to discern the rising powers whose interaction and competition would shape the 20th century.
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caveat
zastrzeżenie So caveats abound. Yet as the years roll forward, the chances are that it will increasingly come down once again to the two Asian giants facing each other over a disputed border
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to burgeon
rosnąć Witness America’s alliances with Japan and South Korea, its legal obligation to help Taiwan defend itself and its burgeoning friendships with China’s rivals, notably India but also now Vietnam.
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to fall out
poróżnić się Recent weeks have seen China fall out with South Korea (as well as the West) over how to respond to the sinking in March, apparently by a North Korean torpedo, of a South Korean navy ship.
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punkt zwrotny
watershed The Year of Living Dangerously. Was 2014 a watershed?
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kompromisowy
consensual One of their biggest concerns is “I don’t want to hurt youâ€â€¦ when in reality, I’m into it! (consensually).
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tarapaty
predicament Walter Russell Mead paints a disturbing portrait of the United States’ geopolitical predicament.
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przedstawić
to depict It is a misreading of the logic and character of the existing world order, which is more stable and expansive than Mead depicts, leading him to overestimate the ability of the “axis of weevils†to undermine it.
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przyciÄ…gajÄ…cy; interesujÄ…cy
appealing But even these conflicts are fueled more by weakness—their leaders’ and regimes’—than by strength. They have no appealing brand.
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nadrzędne
overriding And when it comes to their overriding interests, Russia and, especially, China are deeply integrated into the world economy and its governing institutions.
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egzekwować
to enforce But it has no enforcement mechanism and its decision-making process is highly politicized and easy for the manipulators to block.
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teren, terytorium, obaszar wpływów
turf Each coterie guards its turf jealously, and coordination between them is infrequent.
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brak, wada
shortcoming Their likes, dislikes, and even shortcomings are something they are thankful for.
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dążyć do czegoś, walczyć o coś, starać się, próbować
to strive Nobody is perfect, but you should always strive to be better and to have more meaningful encounters with people.
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tutaj: miejscowy; aktualny
topical She had resigned herself to buying tube after tube of topical painkillers - until she discovered the menstrual cup.
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rozpoznać
to discern A hundred years ago it was perhaps already possible to discern the rising powers whose interaction and competition would shape the 20th century.
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zastrzeżenie
caveat So caveats abound. Yet as the years roll forward, the chances are that it will increasingly come down once again to the two Asian giants facing each other over a disputed border
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rosnąć
to burgeon Witness America’s alliances with Japan and South Korea, its legal obligation to help Taiwan defend itself and its burgeoning friendships with China’s rivals, notably India but also now Vietnam.
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poróżnić się
to fall out Recent weeks have seen China fall out with South Korea (as well as the West) over how to respond to the sinking in March, apparently by a North Korean torpedo, of a South Korean navy ship.
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to conceive
pojąć It is no longer inconceivable that its growth could outpace China’s for a considerable time.
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bargaining chip
karta przetargowa It has the territory it really wants and has maintained its claim to Arunachal Pradesh only as a bargaining chip.
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bout
atak Gripped by a bout of madness, they overpaid for firms at the top of the economic cycle and loaded them with too much debt.
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murky
mroczny Unsurprisingly, clients are disillusioned. Measuring performance is a depressingly murky affair, but the typical endowment or pension fund saw its private-equity holdings drop by 20-30% in fiscal 2009 alone, and their illiquidity also proved a serious pain during the crisis.
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endowment
fundacja Unsurprisingly, clients are disillusioned. Measuring performance is a depressingly murky affair, but the typical endowment or pension fund saw its private-equity holdings drop by 20-30% in fiscal 2009 alone, and their illiquidity also proved a serious pain during the crisis.
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prickly
kąśliwy; złośliwy The prickly inner confidence that most buy-out firms have in their DNA can seem insular when applied to other fields.
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vintage
rocznik (wina) Blackstone’s 2003 buy-out fund had a net internal rate of return (IRR) of nearly 40%. The 2006 vintage had a net IRR of -11.2% as of March.
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to abound
obfitować; tu: się mnożyć się He’s drawing rock star crowds, but questions abound. As this issue went to press, it was unclear what team he would be riding for when the Tour begins on July 4 in Monaco.
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superstition
przesÄ…d Armstrong imported industrial-grade efficiency to a romantic sport rich with superstition. He left nothing to chance: Training was no-expenses-spared, beta teammates were handpicked to serve the Lance alpha, every inch of body and bike was examined in a wind tunnel to reduce aerodynamic drag.
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to rankle
nurtować, dręczyć Still, the media hype over “clean teams†seemed to rankle Armstrong, as if the subtext was that all others were dirty.
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pristine
dziewiczy He’d hired Catlin, he said, to publish his drug test results online. You want a clean rider? Armstrong appeared to be saying. I’ll give you pristine.
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deadbeat
leń, skonany As a protest, Astana’s riders at the Giro start wearing uniforms that obscure the logos of their deadbeat underwriters. Armstrong begins scrambling to find new sponsors, and it’s possible he’ll be riding for a new team for the Tour de France. Meanwhile, rumors are flying that Contador will jump to another team.
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underwriter
gwarant, ubezpieczyciel, asekurant As a protest, Astana’s riders at the Giro start wearing uniforms that obscure the logos of their deadbeat underwriters. Armstrong begins scrambling to find new sponsors, and it’s possible he’ll be riding for a new team for the Tour de France. Meanwhile, rumors are flying that Contador will jump to another team.
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to scramble
ubiegać się As a protest, Astana’s riders at the Giro start wearing uniforms that obscure the logos of their deadbeat underwriters. Armstrong begins scrambling to find new sponsors, and it’s possible he’ll be riding for a new team for the Tour de France. Meanwhile, rumors are flying that Contador will jump to another team.
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merit
zasługa And because India does not threaten the West, it has powerful friends both on its own merits and as a counterweight to China.
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pojąć
to conceive It is no longer inconceivable that its growth could outpace China’s for a considerable time.
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karta przetargowa
bargaining chip It has the territory it really wants and has maintained its claim to Arunachal Pradesh only as a bargaining chip.
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atak
bout Gripped by a bout of madness, they overpaid for firms at the top of the economic cycle and loaded them with too much debt.
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mroczny
murky Unsurprisingly, clients are disillusioned. Measuring performance is a depressingly murky affair, but the typical endowment or pension fund saw its private-equity holdings drop by 20-30% in fiscal 2009 alone, and their illiquidity also proved a serious pain during the crisis.
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fundacja
endowment Unsurprisingly, clients are disillusioned. Measuring performance is a depressingly murky affair, but the typical endowment or pension fund saw its private-equity holdings drop by 20-30% in fiscal 2009 alone, and their illiquidity also proved a serious pain during the crisis.
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kąśliwy; złośliwy
prickly The prickly inner confidence that most buy-out firms have in their DNA can seem insular when applied to other fields.
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rocznik (wina)
vintage Blackstone’s 2003 buy-out fund had a net internal rate of return (IRR) of nearly 40%. The 2006 vintage had a net IRR of -11.2% as of March.
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obfitować; tu: się mnożyć się
to abound He’s drawing rock star crowds, but questions abound. As this issue went to press, it was unclear what team he would be riding for when the Tour begins on July 4 in Monaco.
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przesÄ…d
superstition Armstrong imported industrial-grade efficiency to a romantic sport rich with superstition. He left nothing to chance: Training was no-expenses-spared, beta teammates were handpicked to serve the Lance alpha, every inch of body and bike was examined in a wind tunnel to reduce aerodynamic drag.
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nurtować, dręczyć
to rankle Still, the media hype over “clean teams†seemed to rankle Armstrong, as if the subtext was that all others were dirty.
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dziewiczy
pristine He’d hired Catlin, he said, to publish his drug test results online. You want a clean rider? Armstrong appeared to be saying. I’ll give you pristine.
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leń, skonany
deadbeat As a protest, Astana’s riders at the Giro start wearing uniforms that obscure the logos of their deadbeat underwriters. Armstrong begins scrambling to find new sponsors, and it’s possible he’ll be riding for a new team for the Tour de France. Meanwhile, rumors are flying that Contador will jump to another team.
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gwarant, ubezpieczyciel, asekurant
underwriter As a protest, Astana’s riders at the Giro start wearing uniforms that obscure the logos of their deadbeat underwriters. Armstrong begins scrambling to find new sponsors, and it’s possible he’ll be riding for a new team for the Tour de France. Meanwhile, rumors are flying that Contador will jump to another team.
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ubiegać się
to scramble As a protest, Astana’s riders at the Giro start wearing uniforms that obscure the logos of their deadbeat underwriters. Armstrong begins scrambling to find new sponsors, and it’s possible he’ll be riding for a new team for the Tour de France. Meanwhile, rumors are flying that Contador will jump to another team.
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zasługa
merit And because India does not threaten the West, it has powerful friends both on its own merits and as a counterweight to China.
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relevant
istotny It is giving new opportunities to entrepreneurs and forcing Silicon Valley's best to stay relevant
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outright
absolutny, niekwestionowany As the British entrepreneur tells it, the result will be outright failure or success unmatched.
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immersive
wciÄ…gajÄ…cy He wants to create virtual worlds as detailed, immersive and persistent as reality, where millions of people can live as their true selves, earn their main income and interact with artificially intelligent robots.Â
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outsize
bardzo duży, nietypowej wielkości An outsize investment in an unconventional business is typical of a fund that itself is both vast and resistant to definition.
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brainchild
pomysł, owoc wyobraźni It is the brainchild of Masayoshi Son, an unusually risk-loving Japanese telecoms and internet entrepreneur.
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to eschew
unikać, powstrzymać się (od czegoś) It eschews many of the practices of private-equity funds, such as shaking up management and applying plenty of debt.
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mind-boggling
zadziwiajÄ…cy, niesamowity This is partly because of his belief in mind-boggling futuristic scenarios such as the “singularityâ€, when computer intelligence is meant to overtake the human kind.
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to shy away
cofać się, wzbraniać się But it is also because Mr Son’s method is to do things rapidly and on a scale other investors would shy away from.
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old hand
stary wyga Many old hands of the tech industry snootily dismiss his bets on Yahoo and Alibaba as flukes.
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fluke
fuks Many old hands of the tech industry snootily dismiss his bets on Yahoo and Alibaba as flukes.
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bent
skłonność Mr Son is bent on proving them wrong.
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to beat a retreat
dać sygnał do odwrotu He spent a decade focusing on SoftBank’s Japanese telecoms and internet-infrastructure businesses and on trying to turn around struggling Sprint, an American mobile-phone operator acquired in 2013 (on April 29th Mr Son beat a retreat, agreeing to merge it with T-Mobile to create an enterprise worth $146bn)
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to wean off
odzwyczaić się Muhammad bin Salman, now Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, was preparing to launch a programme to wean the country off oil and diversify the economy.
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sales pitch
zachwalanie towaru przez sprzedawcę, pozyskiwanie klienta Mr Son’s sales pitch on how he could use the kingdom’s wealth to grab a stake in future technologies, rather than buying the usual Western trophy assets, saw him leave with a pledge of $45bn.
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to set about
przystÄ…pić [do czegoÅ›] Having amassed the wherewithal, Mr Son set about collecting stakes.Â
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istotny
relevant It is giving new opportunities to entrepreneurs and forcing Silicon Valley's best to stay relevant
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absolutny, niekwestionowany
outright As the British entrepreneur tells it, the result will be outright failure or success unmatched.
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wciÄ…gajÄ…cy
immersive He wants to create virtual worlds as detailed, immersive and persistent as reality, where millions of people can live as their true selves, earn their main income and interact with artificially intelligent robots.Â
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bardzo duży, nietypowej wielkości
outsize An outsize investment in an unconventional business is typical of a fund that itself is both vast and resistant to definition.
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pomysł, owoc wyobraźni
brainchild It is the brainchild of Masayoshi Son, an unusually risk-loving Japanese telecoms and internet entrepreneur.
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unikać, powstrzymać się (od czegoś)
to eschew It eschews many of the practices of private-equity funds, such as shaking up management and applying plenty of debt.
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zadziwiajÄ…cy, niesamowity
mind-boggling This is partly because of his belief in mind-boggling futuristic scenarios such as the “singularityâ€, when computer intelligence is meant to overtake the human kind.
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cofać się, wzbraniać się
to shy away But it is also because Mr Son’s method is to do things rapidly and on a scale other investors would shy away from.
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stary wyga
old hand Many old hands of the tech industry snootily dismiss his bets on Yahoo and Alibaba as flukes.
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fuks
fluke Many old hands of the tech industry snootily dismiss his bets on Yahoo and Alibaba as flukes.
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skłonność
bent Mr Son is bent on proving them wrong.
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dać sygnał do odwrotu
to beat a retreat He spent a decade focusing on SoftBank’s Japanese telecoms and internet-infrastructure businesses and on trying to turn around struggling Sprint, an American mobile-phone operator acquired in 2013 (on April 29th Mr Son beat a retreat, agreeing to merge it with T-Mobile to create an enterprise worth $146bn)
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odzwyczaić się
to wean off Muhammad bin Salman, now Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, was preparing to launch a programme to wean the country off oil and diversify the economy.
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zachwalanie towaru przez sprzedawcÄ™, pozyskiwanie klienta
sales pitch Mr Son’s sales pitch on how he could use the kingdom’s wealth to grab a stake in future technologies, rather than buying the usual Western trophy assets, saw him leave with a pledge of $45bn.
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przystąpić [do czegoś]
to set about Having amassed the wherewithal, Mr Son set about collecting stakes.Â
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to startle
zaskoczyć About three hours into the trading day, Mr. Musk startled investors by writing on Twitter: “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.â€
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guessing game
zgadywanka It immediately set off a guessing game of where Mr. Musk would get the funds.
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to break the news [to sb]
powiadomić The way Mr. Musk broke the news added to the drama, disclosing in a casually worded tweet the prospect of a buyout that would be an enormously complicated transaction for a company struggling to generate cash.
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comprehensive
wyczerpujÄ…cy, obszerny Companies usually spell out the details of such proposed complex transactions in comprehensive, lawyered documents.
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testy
rozdrażniony, drażliwy The surprise tweets on Tuesday came as Mr. Musk’s long-combative stance against Tesla’s short sellers has grown testier in recent months.
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to ramp up
zwiększyć Mr. Musk has been embattled for several months amid investor concern over whether the company’s Fremont, Calif., factory can ramp up production of the Model 3 sedan.
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plaintiff
powódka, powód Regulators, who unlike private plaintiffs can subpoena information before filing a lawsuit, could examine the facts behind Mr. Musk’s statement if Tesla doesn’t follow through with regulatory filings that explain the terms of the deal.
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to subpoenaÂ
wezwać do sądu Regulators, who unlike private plaintiffs can subpoena information before filing a lawsuit, could examine the facts behind Mr. Musk’s statement if Tesla doesn’t follow through with regulatory filings that explain the terms of the deal.
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przyziemny Tesla bulls and bears can surely agree on one thing: Chief Executive Elon Musk is capable of making the surreal seem mundane.
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to beckon
kusić, wabić Beckoning the barbarians.
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madcap
ekscentryk Elon Musk’s latest madcap scheme: taking Tesla private.
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to exasperate
irytować “I wish we could be private with Tesla.†So said an exasperated and exhausted Elon Musk to Rolling Stone last November.
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whiz
bystrzak Of late Mr Musk says his company has been in “production hell†trying to increase output of the Model 3, a whizzy mass-market saloon.
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to deride
szydzić [z kogoś, czegoś] Feeling the heat, Mr Musk earlier this year lashed out at share analysts for “bonehead†questions, and has derided the army of short sellers targeting it.
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zaskoczyć
to startle About three hours into the trading day, Mr. Musk startled investors by writing on Twitter: “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.â€
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zgadywanka
guessing game It immediately set off a guessing game of where Mr. Musk would get the funds.
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powiadomić
to break the news [to sb] The way Mr. Musk broke the news added to the drama, disclosing in a casually worded tweet the prospect of a buyout that would be an enormously complicated transaction for a company struggling to generate cash.
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wyczerpujÄ…cy, obszerny
comprehensive Companies usually spell out the details of such proposed complex transactions in comprehensive, lawyered documents.
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rozdrażniony, drażliwy
testy The surprise tweets on Tuesday came as Mr. Musk’s long-combative stance against Tesla’s short sellers has grown testier in recent months.
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zwiększyć
to ramp up Mr. Musk has been embattled for several months amid investor concern over whether the company’s Fremont, Calif., factory can ramp up production of the Model 3 sedan.
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powódka, powód
plaintiff Regulators, who unlike private plaintiffs can subpoena information before filing a lawsuit, could examine the facts behind Mr. Musk’s statement if Tesla doesn’t follow through with regulatory filings that explain the terms of the deal.
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wezwać do sądu
to subpoena Regulators, who unlike private plaintiffs can subpoena information before filing a lawsuit, could examine the facts behind Mr. Musk’s statement if Tesla doesn’t follow through with regulatory filings that explain the terms of the deal.
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przyziemny
mundane Tesla bulls and bears can surely agree on one thing: Chief Executive Elon Musk is capable of making the surreal seem mundane.
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kusić, wabić
to beckon Beckoning the barbarians.
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ekscentryk
madcap Elon Musk’s latest madcap scheme: taking Tesla private.
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irytować
to exasperate “I wish we could be private with Tesla.†So said an exasperated and exhausted Elon Musk to Rolling Stone last November.
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bystrzak
whiz Of late Mr Musk says his company has been in “production hell†trying to increase output of the Model 3, a whizzy mass-market saloon.
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szydzić [z kogoś, czegoś]
to deride Feeling the heat, Mr Musk earlier this year lashed out at share analysts for “bonehead†questions, and has derided the army of short sellers targeting it.
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to bear out
potwierdzać They will be watching to see if his claim of having “funding secured†is borne out
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zmagać się z Google would need to contend with other obstacles.
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wymóg When Google announced in 2010 that it would no longer censor results on its Chinese service, a prerequisite for operating in the communist state, internet users laid flowers at the search giant’s Beijing headquarters to mourn its exit.
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news outlet
serwis informacyjny The extent of this blacklist is unknown, even to local internet firms, and it is constantly mutating. It includes social-media websites, like Twitter and Facebook, and news outlets (including The Economist).
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to elicit
wywoływać Big technology firms elicit extreme and conflicting reactions.
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to morph
przeistaczać się Since its founding in 1997, the company has morphed from a DVD-rental service to a streaming-video upstart to the world’s first global TV powerhouse.
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powerhouse
potęga Since its founding in 1997, the company has morphed from a DVD-rental service to a streaming-video upstart to the world’s first global TV powerhouse.
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heyday
najlepsze czasy In the heyday of the talkie, Louis B. Mayer, head of the biggest studio, was Hollywood’s lion king.
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film z dzwiękiem In the heyday of the talkie, Louis B. Mayer, head of the biggest studio, was Hollywood’s lion king.
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to be on the wane
słabnąć In the 1980s, with the studio system on the wane, “superagent†Michael Ovitz was often described as the most powerful man in town.
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statement of intent
oświadczenie woli The nine-figure statement of intent was widely derided as profligate, showing that Netflix might be a source of cash but scarcely offered serious competition.
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to deride
wyśmiewać The nine-figure statement of intent was widely derided as profligate, showing that Netflix might be a source of cash but scarcely offered serious competition.
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profligate
rozrzutny The nine-figure statement of intent was widely derided as profligate, showing that Netflix might be a source of cash but scarcely offered serious competition.
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in and of itself
samo w sobie Instead it has become an industry in and of itself
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to plough back
reinwestować With an average subscription of $10 a month, those customers represent some $14bn in annual revenue which the company will plough straight back into programming, marketing and technology—along with billions more that it will borrow.
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to bear out They will be watching to see if his claim of having “funding secured†is borne out
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to contend with Google would need to contend with other obstacles.
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prerequisite When Google announced in 2010 that it would no longer censor results on its Chinese service, a prerequisite for operating in the communist state, internet users laid flowers at the search giant’s Beijing headquarters to mourn its exit.
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serwis informacyjny
news outlet The extent of this blacklist is unknown, even to local internet firms, and it is constantly mutating. It includes social-media websites, like Twitter and Facebook, and news outlets (including The Economist).
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wywoływać
to elicit Big technology firms elicit extreme and conflicting reactions.
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przeistaczać się
to morph Since its founding in 1997, the company has morphed from a DVD-rental service to a streaming-video upstart to the world’s first global TV powerhouse.
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potęga
powerhouse Since its founding in 1997, the company has morphed from a DVD-rental service to a streaming-video upstart to the world’s first global TV powerhouse.
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najlepsze czasy
heyday In the heyday of the talkie, Louis B. Mayer, head of the biggest studio, was Hollywood’s lion king.
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film z dzwiękiem
talkie In the heyday of the talkie, Louis B. Mayer, head of the biggest studio, was Hollywood’s lion king.
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słabnąć
to be on the wane In the 1980s, with the studio system on the wane, “superagent†Michael Ovitz was often described as the most powerful man in town.
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oświadczenie woli
statement of intent The nine-figure statement of intent was widely derided as profligate, showing that Netflix might be a source of cash but scarcely offered serious competition.
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wyśmiewać
to deride The nine-figure statement of intent was widely derided as profligate, showing that Netflix might be a source of cash but scarcely offered serious competition.
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rozrzutny
profligate The nine-figure statement of intent was widely derided as profligate, showing that Netflix might be a source of cash but scarcely offered serious competition.
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samo w sobie
in and of itself Instead it has become an industry in and of itself
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reinwestować
to plough back With an average subscription of $10 a month, those customers represent some $14bn in annual revenue which the company will plough straight back into programming, marketing and technology—along with billions more that it will borrow.
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to entice
kusić, wabić Enticed by such prospects, the market values Netflix at $170bn, which is more than Disney.
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outlandish
dziwaczny Some analysts see this as outlandish for a company which is spending far more than it collects in revenues, which has $8.5bn in debt and hasn’t even had that many hit programmes.
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reversal
zwrot For Mr Bewkes that was quite a reversal.
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scorn
pogarda At the beginning of this decade he poured scorn on the idea that Netflix could be a competitor, comparing it to the “Albanian armyâ€.
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morsel
kÄ…sek That company would need two things: a big, broad, frequently renewed range of programming; and an understanding of its consumers deep enough to serve up to each of them the morsels most likely to appeal.
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haste
pośpiech One of the reasons that Netflix is spending in such haste is that Netflixonomics is a winner-takes-most proposition.
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to splash out
zaszaleć If you can provide them with entertainment they genuinely enjoy for that length of time, they will have little reason to pay anyone else for further screen-based entertainment—though they may splash out more for sport, and put up with adverts for news, real or fake.
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to put up
znosić If you can provide them with entertainment they genuinely enjoy for that length of time, they will have little reason to pay anyone else for further screen-based entertainment—though they may splash out more for sport, and put up with adverts for news, real or fake.
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advert
reklama If you can provide them with entertainment they genuinely enjoy for that length of time, they will have little reason to pay anyone else for further screen-based entertainment—though they may splash out more for sport, and put up with adverts for news, real or fake.
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to drive up
powodować wzrost And the dash towards size has the helpful side-effect of driving up rivals’ production costs at the same time as it eats into their revenues.
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dash
wyścig, sprint And the dash towards size has the helpful side-effect of driving up rivals’ production costs at the same time as it eats into their revenues.
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on top of
oprócz With investors expecting further growth on top of that, its market value would be a lot higher.
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to pursue
realizować, wykonać Decisions about what projects to pursue, and whether to make them, are up to the executives in Hollywood; Mr Sarandos has 20 people working for him who have the coveted power to “green light†a project.
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to covet
pożądać Decisions about what projects to pursue, and whether to make them, are up to the executives in Hollywood; Mr Sarandos has 20 people working for him who have the coveted power to “green light†a project.
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boffin
spec But the boffins at headquarters in Los Gatos help set the budgets.
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kusić, wabić
to entice Enticed by such prospects, the market values Netflix at $170bn, which is more than Disney.
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dziwaczny
outlandish Some analysts see this as outlandish for a company which is spending far more than it collects in revenues, which has $8.5bn in debt and hasn’t even had that many hit programmes.
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zwrot
reversal For Mr Bewkes that was quite a reversal.
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pogarda
scorn At the beginning of this decade he poured scorn on the idea that Netflix could be a competitor, comparing it to the “Albanian armyâ€.
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kÄ…sek
morsel That company would need two things: a big, broad, frequently renewed range of programming; and an understanding of its consumers deep enough to serve up to each of them the morsels most likely to appeal.
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pośpiech
haste One of the reasons that Netflix is spending in such haste is that Netflixonomics is a winner-takes-most proposition.
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zaszaleć
to splash out If you can provide them with entertainment they genuinely enjoy for that length of time, they will have little reason to pay anyone else for further screen-based entertainment—though they may splash out more for sport, and put up with adverts for news, real or fake.
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znosić
to put up If you can provide them with entertainment they genuinely enjoy for that length of time, they will have little reason to pay anyone else for further screen-based entertainment—though they may splash out more for sport, and put up with adverts for news, real or fake.
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reklama
advert If you can provide them with entertainment they genuinely enjoy for that length of time, they will have little reason to pay anyone else for further screen-based entertainment—though they may splash out more for sport, and put up with adverts for news, real or fake.
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powodować wzrost
to drive up And the dash towards size has the helpful side-effect of driving up rivals’ production costs at the same time as it eats into their revenues.
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wyścig, sprint
dash And the dash towards size has the helpful side-effect of driving up rivals’ production costs at the same time as it eats into their revenues.
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oprócz
on top of With investors expecting further growth on top of that, its market value would be a lot higher.
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realizować, wykonać
to pursue Decisions about what projects to pursue, and whether to make them, are up to the executives in Hollywood; Mr Sarandos has 20 people working for him who have the coveted power to “green light†a project.
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pożądać
to covet Decisions about what projects to pursue, and whether to make them, are up to the executives in Hollywood; Mr Sarandos has 20 people working for him who have the coveted power to “green light†a project.
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spec
boffin But the boffins at headquarters in Los Gatos help set the budgets.
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corny
kiczowaty Once a show is ready for delivery, it is up to executives in Los Gatos like Todd Yellin, vice-president of product, to work out how to get it to the appropriate users and check that they are, in the corny parlance of the company, “delighted†by it.
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parlance
żargon Once a show is ready for delivery, it is up to executives in Los Gatos like Todd Yellin, vice-president of product, to work out how to get it to the appropriate users and check that they are, in the corny parlance of the company, “delighted†by it.
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to tweak
poprawiać The choice can come down to details like the poster art, which Netflix tweaks algorithmically according to the aspects of a film or show that would appeal most to a given user.
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to turn down
odrzucić Its quantitative understanding, and personalised marketing, of niche projects has seen Netflix revive cancelled shows with loyal fan bases, such as “Gilmore Girlsâ€, and take up shows others turned down, such as “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidtâ€.
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to dispense [with]
zrezygnować [z czegoś] It has also led millions of American households to dispense with pay-TV.
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to commission
zamówić To stay in the game, cable networks and other streaming services have commissioned hundreds of hours of high-quality scripted programming, providing an unprecedented glut of good television drama.
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glut
przesyt To stay in the game, cable networks and other streaming services have commissioned hundreds of hours of high-quality scripted programming, providing an unprecedented glut of good television drama.
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mark-up
podwyzka, narzut Netflix usually buys up exclusive worldwide rights to the shows it makes and acquires, paying a mark-up over production costs.
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to forgo
rezygnować Creators forgo lucrative licensing of their shows to secondary markets because, in Netflixonomics, there are no secondary markets.
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to unwind
rozwijać [się] It is investing more in shows developed outside America, too, and unwinding partnerships with foreign distributors so that it can stream its own wares worldwide.
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ware
wyroby It is investing more in shows developed outside America, too, and unwinding partnerships with foreign distributors so that it can stream its own wares worldwide.
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to pull off
ściągać Disney is pulling its films off Netflix and launching its own streaming service next year, hoping that its roster of Pixar, Marvel and “Star Wars†movies, not to mention copious princesses, gives it a must-have edge.
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roster
wykaz; lista; spis Disney is pulling its films off Netflix and launching its own streaming service next year, hoping that its roster of Pixar, Marvel and “Star Wars†movies, not to mention copious princesses, gives it a must-have edge.
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copious
obfity Disney is pulling its films off Netflix and launching its own streaming service next year, hoping that its roster of Pixar, Marvel and “Star Wars†movies, not to mention copious princesses, gives it a must-have edge.
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precedence
pierszeństwo In markets that lack net-neutrality protections (such as America), dominant internet providers might decide to give their own streaming services precedence over Netflix.
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kiczowaty
corny Once a show is ready for delivery, it is up to executives in Los Gatos like Todd Yellin, vice-president of product, to work out how to get it to the appropriate users and check that they are, in the corny parlance of the company, “delighted†by it.
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żargon
parlance Once a show is ready for delivery, it is up to executives in Los Gatos like Todd Yellin, vice-president of product, to work out how to get it to the appropriate users and check that they are, in the corny parlance of the company, “delighted†by it.
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poprawiać
to tweak The choice can come down to details like the poster art, which Netflix tweaks algorithmically according to the aspects of a film or show that would appeal most to a given user.
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odrzucić
to turn down Its quantitative understanding, and personalised marketing, of niche projects has seen Netflix revive cancelled shows with loyal fan bases, such as “Gilmore Girlsâ€, and take up shows others turned down, such as “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidtâ€.
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zrezygnować [z czegoś]
to dispense [with] It has also led millions of American households to dispense with pay-TV.
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zamówić
to commission To stay in the game, cable networks and other streaming services have commissioned hundreds of hours of high-quality scripted programming, providing an unprecedented glut of good television drama.
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przesyt
glut To stay in the game, cable networks and other streaming services have commissioned hundreds of hours of high-quality scripted programming, providing an unprecedented glut of good television drama.
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podwyzka, narzut
mark-up Netflix usually buys up exclusive worldwide rights to the shows it makes and acquires, paying a mark-up over production costs.
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rezygnować
to forgo Creators forgo lucrative licensing of their shows to secondary markets because, in Netflixonomics, there are no secondary markets.
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rozwijać [się]
to unwind It is investing more in shows developed outside America, too, and unwinding partnerships with foreign distributors so that it can stream its own wares worldwide.
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wyroby
ware It is investing more in shows developed outside America, too, and unwinding partnerships with foreign distributors so that it can stream its own wares worldwide.
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ściągać
to pull off Disney is pulling its films off Netflix and launching its own streaming service next year, hoping that its roster of Pixar, Marvel and “Star Wars†movies, not to mention copious princesses, gives it a must-have edge.
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wykaz; lista; spis
roster Disney is pulling its films off Netflix and launching its own streaming service next year, hoping that its roster of Pixar, Marvel and “Star Wars†movies, not to mention copious princesses, gives it a must-have edge.
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obfity
copious Disney is pulling its films off Netflix and launching its own streaming service next year, hoping that its roster of Pixar, Marvel and “Star Wars†movies, not to mention copious princesses, gives it a must-have edge.
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pierszeństwo
precedence In markets that lack net-neutrality protections (such as America), dominant internet providers might decide to give their own streaming services precedence over Netflix.
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about-face
zwrot, obrót, zwrot o 180 stopni, wolta Aware of such risks, the company is increasingly persuading internet and pay-TV distributors like Comcast, T-Mobile and Sky to bundle its service with theirs, an about-face for some of these incumbents.
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slur
oszczerstwo Netflix dropped Mr Spacey from “House of Cards†after allegations of sexual misconduct and recently got rid of a senior executive over his use of a racial slur; there is no way to insure against future scandals.
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putative
domniemany And if the economy were to turn, reducing both consumers’ appetite for paid entertainment and investors’ appetite for junk bonds, a company which is valued entirely on the basis of putative profits after 2022 would be badly hit.
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to eat into
nadgryźć Such a setback would slow Netflix’s growth—and give deep-pocketed competitors like Amazon or Apple time to eat into its leads in inventory, tied-up talent and personalisation.
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setback
komplikacja, niepowodzenie Some think that, even without such a setback, Netflix’s prospects are being exaggerated.
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malicious
złośliwy It was not supposed to be this way. Bitcoin, the first and still the most popular cryptocurrency, began life as a techno-anarchist project to create an online version of cash, a way for people to transact without the possibility of interference from malicious governments or banks.
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proponent
orędownik Proponents believe these features can help solve all sorts of problems, from streamlining bank payments and guaranteeing the provenance of medicines to securing property rights and providing unforgeable identity documents for refugees.
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to streamline
usprawnić Proponents believe these features can help solve all sorts of problems, from streamlining bank payments and guaranteeing the provenance of medicines to securing property rights and providing unforgeable identity documents for refugees.
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provenance
pochodzenie Proponents believe these features can help solve all sorts of problems, from streamlining bank payments and guaranteeing the provenance of medicines to securing property rights and providing unforgeable identity documents for refugees.
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to stoke
podsycać Many are made by cryptocurrency speculators, who hope that stoking excitement around blockchains will boost the value of their related cryptocurrency holdings.
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to shuttle
kursować And shuttling data continuously between users makes them slower than conventional databases.
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on the face of it
na pierwszy rzut oka On the face of it, that hardly matters: Google+ is a ghost town.
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at length
szczegółowo Perhaps to soften such accusations, the rest of the blog post talked at length about better privacy protections for users of Google’s other products.
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to come into force
wchodzić w życie The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation came into force in May, two months after Google found its bug; it requires firms to disclose data breaches within 72 hours or face steep fines.
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hen
kura The foxes have decided their best bet is to try to help build the henhouse.
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zwrot, obrót, zwrot o 180 stopni, wolta
about-face Aware of such risks, the company is increasingly persuading internet and pay-TV distributors like Comcast, T-Mobile and Sky to bundle its service with theirs, an about-face for some of these incumbents.
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oszczerstwo
slur Netflix dropped Mr Spacey from “House of Cards†after allegations of sexual misconduct and recently got rid of a senior executive over his use of a racial slur; there is no way to insure against future scandals.
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domniemany
putative And if the economy were to turn, reducing both consumers’ appetite for paid entertainment and investors’ appetite for junk bonds, a company which is valued entirely on the basis of putative profits after 2022 would be badly hit.
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nadgryźć
to eat into Such a setback would slow Netflix’s growth—and give deep-pocketed competitors like Amazon or Apple time to eat into its leads in inventory, tied-up talent and personalisation.
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komplikacja, niepowodzenie
setback Some think that, even without such a setback, Netflix’s prospects are being exaggerated.
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złośliwy
malicious It was not supposed to be this way. Bitcoin, the first and still the most popular cryptocurrency, began life as a techno-anarchist project to create an online version of cash, a way for people to transact without the possibility of interference from malicious governments or banks.
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orędownik
proponent Proponents believe these features can help solve all sorts of problems, from streamlining bank payments and guaranteeing the provenance of medicines to securing property rights and providing unforgeable identity documents for refugees.
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usprawnić
to streamline Proponents believe these features can help solve all sorts of problems, from streamlining bank payments and guaranteeing the provenance of medicines to securing property rights and providing unforgeable identity documents for refugees.
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pochodzenie
provenance Proponents believe these features can help solve all sorts of problems, from streamlining bank payments and guaranteeing the provenance of medicines to securing property rights and providing unforgeable identity documents for refugees.
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podsycać
to stoke Many are made by cryptocurrency speculators, who hope that stoking excitement around blockchains will boost the value of their related cryptocurrency holdings.
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kursować
to shuttle And shuttling data continuously between users makes them slower than conventional databases.
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na pierwszy rzut oka
on the face of it On the face of it, that hardly matters: Google+ is a ghost town.
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szczegółowo
at length Perhaps to soften such accusations, the rest of the blog post talked at length about better privacy protections for users of Google’s other products.
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wchodzić w życie
to come into force The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation came into force in May, two months after Google found its bug; it requires firms to disclose data breaches within 72 hours or face steep fines.
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kura
hen The foxes have decided their best bet is to try to help build the henhouse.
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to let go of
puścić letting go of the wheel. Elon Musk’s grip on Tesla loosens.
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oft
często The resulting surge in Tesla’s share price, and Mr Musk’s oft-stated desire to “burn†the short sellers that have targeted his firm, stoked the SEC’s anger.
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to iron out
rozwiązać But Tesla still has big distribution problems to iron out.
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the nuts and bolts [of sth]
praktyczne aspekty [czegoÅ›] But the idea of appointing a new chief operating officer to oversee the nuts and bolts of the business has long hung in the air.
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hands-off
z dala The day-to-day running of SpaceX, his thriving rocket business, is handled by Gwynne Shotwell, a talented aerospace veteran, with Mr Musk taking more of a hands-off role
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steep
wygórowana (cena) On August 7th it announced it had managed to raise $2.3 billion in the capital markets, although at a steep price.
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tattered
nadszarpnięty Investors will take a lot of convincing that it is fully seaworthy, having looked so tattered just days ago
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wistful
smutny In quiet moments veteran hedge-fund managers sound a little wistful these days.
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accolade
zaszczyt The accolades bestowed upon Alan Greenspan ahead of his retirement on January 31st have a strong whiff of irrational exuberance.
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myopia
krótkowzroczność Monetary myopia
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to bestow
obdarzać The accolades bestowed upon Alan Greenspan ahead of his retirement on January 31st have a strong whiff of irrational exuberance.
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exuberance
wylewność The accolades bestowed upon Alan Greenspan ahead of his retirement on January 31st have a strong whiff of irrational exuberance.
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tenure
etat And after the accolades have faded, what will economists conclude about his tenure?
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dodgy
ryzykowny From dodgy American mortgages to the British high street
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to taint
skazić Like a toffee apple with a maggot inside, the debt markets have been tainted by their links with America's subprime mortgage crisis.
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puścić
to let go of letting go of the wheel. Elon Musk’s grip on Tesla loosens.
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często
oft The resulting surge in Tesla’s share price, and Mr Musk’s oft-stated desire to “burn†the short sellers that have targeted his firm, stoked the SEC’s anger.
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rozwiązać
to iron out But Tesla still has big distribution problems to iron out.
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praktyczne aspekty [czegoÅ›]
the nuts and bolts [of sth] But the idea of appointing a new chief operating officer to oversee the nuts and bolts of the business has long hung in the air.
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z dala
hands-off The day-to-day running of SpaceX, his thriving rocket business, is handled by Gwynne Shotwell, a talented aerospace veteran, with Mr Musk taking more of a hands-off role
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wygórowana (cena)
steep On August 7th it announced it had managed to raise $2.3 billion in the capital markets, although at a steep price.
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nadszarpnięty
tattered Investors will take a lot of convincing that it is fully seaworthy, having looked so tattered just days ago
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smutny
wistful In quiet moments veteran hedge-fund managers sound a little wistful these days.
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zaszczyt
accolade The accolades bestowed upon Alan Greenspan ahead of his retirement on January 31st have a strong whiff of irrational exuberance.
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krótkowzroczność
myopia Monetary myopia
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obdarzać
to bestow The accolades bestowed upon Alan Greenspan ahead of his retirement on January 31st have a strong whiff of irrational exuberance.
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wylewność
exuberance The accolades bestowed upon Alan Greenspan ahead of his retirement on January 31st have a strong whiff of irrational exuberance.
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etat
tenure And after the accolades have faded, what will economists conclude about his tenure?
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ryzykowny
dodgy From dodgy American mortgages to the British high street
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skazić
to taint Like a toffee apple with a maggot inside, the debt markets have been tainted by their links with America's subprime mortgage crisis.
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crackdown
rozprawienie się, atak, zastosowanie sankcji, China’s gaming crackdown should worry the industry elsewhere. Gaming firms’ skill at extracting money from players risks a regulatory backlash.
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backlash
ostry sprzeciw; gwałtowna reakcja China’s gaming crackdown should worry the industry elsewhere. Gaming firms’ skill at extracting money from players risks a regulatory backlash.
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old hat
przeżytek Moral panics over new media are old hat.
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grump
zrzęda The social effects of novels, films, comic books and pop music were condemned by the grumpy reactionaries of the time.
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to exasperate
irytować; drażnić Exasperated parents and opportunistic politicians have long fretted that they make players lazy and listless, or else unpredictable and violent.
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to fret
przejmować się Exasperated parents and opportunistic politicians have long fretted that they make players lazy and listless, or else unpredictable and violent.
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listless
apatyczny Exasperated parents and opportunistic politicians have long fretted that they make players lazy and listless, or else unpredictable and violent.
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misplaced
nieuzasadniony Those concerns turned out to be largely misplaced.
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to clamp down
ukrócić; podjąć zdecydowane kroki The government clamped down on the approval of new games earlier this year, and stopped approvals altogether in October.
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to fine-tune
wyrególować This allows publishers to monitor exactly how customers are playing games, and fine-tune them to make them as compelling as possible.
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compelling
istotny, robiący wrażenie, nie do odparcia This allows publishers to monitor exactly how customers are playing games, and fine-tune them to make them as compelling as possible.
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to nag
dręczyć That has given rise to a “freemium†business model, of which Tencent was a pioneer, whereby games are given away cheaply or free but players are constantly nagged to spend money on in-game items.
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to supercharge
wzmocnić All this has been supercharged by smartphones, which mean people can keep playing—and paying—at all hours of the day.
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to placate
udobruchać Tencent is trying to placate the Chinese government. It is expanding its age-verification scheme and limiting screen time for children.
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forbearance
wyrozumiałość A little voluntary forbearance now could save a lot of regulatory pain later.
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rozprawienie siÄ™, atak, zastosowanie sankcji,
crackdown China’s gaming crackdown should worry the industry elsewhere. Gaming firms’ skill at extracting money from players risks a regulatory backlash.
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ostry sprzeciw; gwałtowna reakcja
backlash China’s gaming crackdown should worry the industry elsewhere. Gaming firms’ skill at extracting money from players risks a regulatory backlash.
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przeżytek
old hat Moral panics over new media are old hat.
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zrzęda
grump The social effects of novels, films, comic books and pop music were condemned by the grumpy reactionaries of the time.
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irytować; drażnić
to exasperate Exasperated parents and opportunistic politicians have long fretted that they make players lazy and listless, or else unpredictable and violent.
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przejmować się
to fret Exasperated parents and opportunistic politicians have long fretted that they make players lazy and listless, or else unpredictable and violent.
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apatyczny
listless Exasperated parents and opportunistic politicians have long fretted that they make players lazy and listless, or else unpredictable and violent.
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nieuzasadniony
misplaced Those concerns turned out to be largely misplaced.
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ukrócić; podjąć zdecydowane kroki
to clamp down The government clamped down on the approval of new games earlier this year, and stopped approvals altogether in October.
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wyrególować
to fine-tune This allows publishers to monitor exactly how customers are playing games, and fine-tune them to make them as compelling as possible.
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istotny, robiący wrażenie, nie do odparcia
compelling This allows publishers to monitor exactly how customers are playing games, and fine-tune them to make them as compelling as possible.
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dręczyć
to nag That has given rise to a “freemium†business model, of which Tencent was a pioneer, whereby games are given away cheaply or free but players are constantly nagged to spend money on in-game items.
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wzmocnić
to supercharge All this has been supercharged by smartphones, which mean people can keep playing—and paying—at all hours of the day.
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udobruchać
to placate Tencent is trying to placate the Chinese government. It is expanding its age-verification scheme and limiting screen time for children.
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wyrozumiałość
forbearance A little voluntary forbearance now could save a lot of regulatory pain later.
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to champion
bronić; opowiadać się za The establishment of the European single market, a project championed by Margaret Thatcher, prised open stale domestic markets to dynamic foreign firms.
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to lurk
czaić się, czyhać Several old-economy industries with high prices and fat profits lurk beneath the surface of commerce: credit cards, pharmaceutical distribution and credit-checking.
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ire
gniew In some cases public ire opens the door to newcomers, such as Netflix.
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stingy
skÄ…py Despite low interest rates, firms have reinvested a stingy share of their bumper profits.
