01 Flashcards
Laity
“Or as the playwright George Bernard Shaw once said, “All professions are a conspiracy against the laity.”
Excerpt From
Tao of Charlie Munger
= lay people, as distinct from the clergy.
= ordinary people, as distinct from professionals or experts.
Nothing gets by you
Gözünüzden hiçbir şey kaçmıyor
New dawn
Yeni başlangıç
It dawn on me
“The solution finally dawned on him.”
” It suddenly dawned on me that I hadn’t eaten all day.”
Nihayet anladım
: to begin to be understood or realized by (someone) for the first time.
Duly noted
“Your disagreement is duly noted.”
Not edilmiştir
Kayda alındı
= It’s often used to make it known that something that has been said or done by another person goes against the desire or decision of the speaker:
“Their complaints were duly noted but not appreciated.”
The expression duly noted is a way of saying that something is “officially recognized” or “understood in full.”
In its most neutral use, duly noted is a way of saying “noticed and worth mentioning.” This use is often official or bureaucratic in tone.
Consonance
Ahenk
bring into consonance= ahenk sağlamak
Grovel
dizlerine kapanmak
(korku/vb.’den) yerlerde sürünmek
I wear the pants in the family
Evde benim borum öter
Don’t quote me on that
Benden duymuş olma
You can’t help yourself
Senin kendine hayrın yok
I’ll give you that
“I don’t really like his movies, but he’s a talented actor, I’ll give you that.”
Doğruya doğru
= used to say that one is willing to admit that at least part of something someone says is true.
fumble
yüzüne gözüne bulaştırmak, berbat etmek
= bungle
Chagrin
“The mob actively followed the actors and actresses around and hovered around the sets, much to the chagrin of the actors. Marlon Brando in particular wasn’t too pleased”
Üzmek, sıkmak, iç sıkıntısı
= A keen feeling of mental unease, as of annoyance or embarrassment, caused by failure, disappointment, or a disconcerting event:
“To her chagrin, the party ended just as she arrived.”
= To cause to feel chagrin; mortify or discomfit:
“He was chagrined at the poor sales of his book. “
Gulp
Yutkunmak
Stutter
Kekelemek
“When she began to stutter, her classmates couldn’t help laughing. = O kekelemeye başladığında sınıf arkadaşları gülmekten kendilerini alamadılar.”
reminisce
“At the reunion, the former classmates reminisced about their old teachers.”
= indulge in enjoyable recollection of past events.
“they reminisced about their summers abroad”
= To think about or tell of past experiences or events:
“At the reunion, the former classmates reminisced about their old teachers.”
Tough luck
Şansına küs
out of one’s depth
“I was out of my depth in the advanced class, so I moved to the intermediate class.”
= not having the knowledge, experience, or skills to deal with a particular subject or situation:
= If you say that someone is out of their depth, you mean that they are in a situation that is much too difficult for them to be able to cope with it.
“Mr Gibson is clearly intellectually out of his depth. I’d always struggled at school. I hated it and felt out of my depth.”
second to none
“the group has a reputation that is second to none in the building industry”
Bir benzeri daha yok
Tek geçerim
=better than all others of the same kind
“His cakes are second to none.”
“The city’s public transportation system is second to none.”
Killjoy
“I have been by profession a classicist, historian, teacher, sceptic and occasional killjoy.”
Oyunbozan
= a person who deliberately spoils the enjoyment of others.
“a few killjoys try to reform the seasonal activities”
Spoken for
“Apologies: my author’s copies are all spoken for. “
= If something is spoken for, it is not available because someone has already bought or asked for it:
“Most of the best paintings in the exhibition were already spoken for.”
Retainer
Uşak = servant
Çalışan, employee
shuteye
“when he was running Amazon, Jeff Bezos would aim for eight hours’ shuteye a night and try not to schedule meetings before 10am. “
Uyku
Feint
“…These feints couldn’t stop readers, or the authorities, from quickly figuring out that the “Tractatus” was the work of Baruch Spinoza.”
= (Askeri) yanıltma hareketi yapmak
: something feigned
specifically : a mock blow or attack on or toward one part in order to distract attention from the point one really intends to attack
“The boxer made a feint with his right, then followed with a left hook.”
