07 Flashcards
given
(bağlaç): dikkate alındığında.
Miser
“Ebenezer Scrooge was a stereotypical miser, he spent nothing he could save; neither giving to charity nor enjoying his wealth.”
Cimri
=Apersonwhohoardsmoneyratherthanspendingit;onewhoischeaporextremelyparsimonious
“The miser generally longs to gorge on other people’s food and drink.”
Conflate
“PEN Germany quickly put out a press release to the effect that deranged twenty-first-century politicians shouldn’t be conflated with great writers who happened to be from the same country. The header read “The enemy is Putin, not Pushkin.””
1a : to bring together : BLEND
//Even more often, outsiders conflate the couple, and credit them with each other’s characteristics.
— Alison Lurie
b : CONFUSE
//Given its name, St. Thomas in Houston has on occasion been conflated with St. Thomas in Minnesota …
— David Barron
2 : to combine (things, such as two versions of a text) into a composite whole
Stymie
“An archaeological dig that began last summer for the start of the Appian Way has been stymied by ground water.”
Engellemek, taş koymak
= to present an obstacle to : stand in the way of
//stymied by red tape
Candor
A highlight at this year’s @sxsw, Matthew Puccini’s short film DIRTY—now playing on @criterionchannl—depicts a moment of sexual intimacy between two young men with a candor that’s still rare in American independent cinema.
Samimiyet
=unreserved,honest, or sincere expression: FORTHRIGHTNESS
//the candor with which he acknowledged a weakness in his own case — AldousHuxley
hold sway
“The deportation system held sway over immigrant communities long before Trump became president, but under his direction it has become even more far-reaching, arbitrary, and cruel.”
= Bir şey üzerinde güç ve etki sahibi olmak
“Fundamentalist beliefs hold sway over whole districts, ensuring the popularity of religious leaders.”
hold sway over = üzerinde etkili olmak
Sprain
Re-reading Wuthering Heights is a great reminder that 150 years ago, if you, say, sprained an ankle at a neighbor’s house, you just lived there for five weeks until it healed.
(https://twitter.com/adamm0rgan/status/1223377950101442566?s=09)
Burkmak, burkulmak
:to injure by a sudden or severe twist
= wrench or twist theligamentsof (an ankle, wrist, or other joint)violentlyso as to cause pain andswellingbut notdislocation.
Egregious
“Let us mention a small selection of some other egregious errors in the book, which K-S find so commendable in terms of not compromising “from historical and philological scrutiny” (K-S), even invoking Erich Auerbach in their support.”
Romancing “American Selim” - K24
https://t24.com.tr/k24/yazi/romancing-american-selim,2892
1.fevkalade kötü
2.{s} fevkalade kötü, korkunç:
” an egregious mistake= korkunç bir yanlış”
:conspicuously bad: FLAGRANT
“egregious errors”
availed itself
“In 1917, in Buchanan v. Warley, the Supreme Court availed itself of the Fourteenth Amendment not to guarantee equal protection for blacks but to guarantee what the court had come to understand as the “liberty of contract”—the liberty of businesses to discriminate.16”
ByThese Truths
1.avail oneself of: değerlendirmek
2.avail oneself of: -den faydalanmak
3.avail oneself of an offer: (Politika, Siyaset) bir tekliften yararlanmak
4.avail oneself of: den yararlan(mak)
to make use of something:
“Employees should avail themselves of the opportunity to buy cheap shares in the company.”
cords
cords
fitilli kadife pantolon. (isim) fitilli kadife pantolon.
you got it
: used to say that you will quickly do what someone has asked you to do:
“Would you get me a coffee?” “Sure, you got it!”
Presuming
Haddini bilmez
Bogus
:not genuine: COUNTERFEIT, SHAM
Düzmece, sahte, taklit
//a bogus claim
//The evidence was completely bogus.
I’m on it
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