19 Flashcards
Oyster
İstiridye
Slam
:to shut forcibly and noisily: BANG
2a:to set or slap down violently or noisily
//slammed down the phone
çarpmak hız ve gürültü ile vurmak veya yere çalmak
güm
Condone
“Mandela believed de Klerk knew about this and condoned it, though de Klerk disputed that. ”
Mandela’s Way
Richard Stengel
Göz yummak, görmezden gelmek
Mazur görmek
Bağışlamak
to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless
//a government accused of condoning racism
//condone corruption in politics
(there’s) no telling
“Mandela saw no utility in denying that he had been a man of integrity. After all, there was no telling whether he would need de Klerk for something, so why alienate him?”
Mandela’s Way
Richard Stengel
= There is no way one can be sure; no one knows or can tell.
“He’s already very volatile at the moment—no telling how he’ll react to bad news like this.”
“Unfortunately, there’s no telling if such an effort will actually translate to a meaningful, long-lasting improvement in the economy.”
“The CEO acts so erratically that there’s no telling what she will do next.”
go out on a limb
“But Mandela believes in and takes emotional risks. He goes out on a limb and makes himself vulnerable by trusting others. We sometimes do that by confiding in others we don’t know well. Yet we rarely equate risk with trying to see what is decent, honest, and good in the people in our daily lives.”
Mandela’s Way
Richard Stengel
Riski göze almak
= If you go out on a limb, you do something or say something that is different from what most people do or say and is therefore risky.
“He does not want to go out on a limb and try something completely new.”
“There’s nothing wrong with politicians going out on a limb sometimes and risking their reputation.”
abstemious
“I went to see Swart, who become the cook for the whole prison after Mandela was released. He was a rather gruff fellow, but it was obvious that he had great affection for Mandela. The two men were alike in many ways: deliberate, careful, abstemious”
Mandela’s Way
Richard Stengel
çok yemek ve içmekten sakınan
prerogative
İmtiyaz
Ayrıcalık
incontinent
We see this in rare tragic cases like that of Genie — the mid-twentieth-century child locked away by her father from the age of twenty months to thirteen years. Her isolation left her severely disabled, incontinent, and unable to speak or make any noise beyond a croaking sound.
İdrarını tutamayan
whopping
This means that 98 percent of the income of the contemporary median worker, and a whopping 99.9 percent of the income of the top centile, cannot be attributed to individual effort or talent but is in fact due to the social inheritance provided by the understructure. It is therefore entirely underserved.
Very large
Çok büyük, kocaman, okkalı
Benefit of doubt
Hüsnü zan
in any case
her halükarda
by and large
Genellikle
as times go by
Zaman geçtikçe
What’s your take?
Senin görüşün ne?
from the get-go
She didn’t like me from the get-go.”
en baştan
“They were involved in the project from the get-go.”
