Deck no. 18 Flashcards
to resolve
postanawiać, zdecydować się
I had planned on a Big Mac but I am swayed by a poster advertising the “New! Hotter & Juicier” Quarter Pounder. I order it with a side of nuggets, accept the suggestion of a large fries and Coke and resolve to return for the hot caramel sundae.
quandary
rozterka, dylemat
The quandary investors now face is this: Will global oil demand recover before electric vehicles, renewable power, and environmental regulations permanently dent the market for fossil fuels?
tłoczyć (się), gromadzić (się), zapełniać (jakieś miejsce)
to throng
Although their worldly success was phenomenal, and they almost controlled the economic life of the country and made fabulous fortunes as bankers and merchants, and thronged the liberal professions, even attaining high rank in the Church, the vast majority of the Conversos remained faithful at heart to the religion of their fathers.
to amplify
wzmacniać (np. sygnał); powiększać (np. obawy)
“Smart cities essentially increase the downside risk considerably of cyber intrusions or abuses, both in terms of data security and cyber security,” says Andrew Davenport, chief operating officer at RWR Advisory. “The cyber risk that is associated with entities that are subject to Chinese laws and governance structures is amplified in this environment.”
issue
problem
The Jews who submitted to baptism were no longer subject to the head tax. They were also, as Christians, qualified for governmental office. Race was not an issue.
ilustrować, stanowić przykład, obrazować
to exemplify
The move exemplified the geopolitical chutzpah of America’s best-known energy producer — the kind of clout that persuaded Donald Trump to make Rex Tillerson, Exxon’s then chief executive, his first secretary of state.
tu: stworzyć przepaść; inne: ziewać
to yawn
In global development finance, such a sharp scaling back of lending by the Chinese banks amounts to an earthquake. If it persists, it will exacerbate an infrastructure funding gap that in Asia alone already amounts to $907bn a year, according to Asian Development Bank estimates. In Africa and Latin America — where Chinese credit has also formed a big part of infrastructure financing — the gap between what is required and what is available is also expected to yawn wider.
poruszenie
stir
“The strategy will also focus on standards to facilitate civil-military fusion — a concept that has gained considerable traction in China and has caused a stir in strategic communities overseas, particularly in Washington,” wrote research fellow John Seaman in a report this year for the French Institute of International Relations and the Policy Center for the New South.
to reek of something
śmierdzieć czymś
But the bumper price reeked of panic. Return on capital employed dropped from more than 30 per cent in 2008 to single digits in 2014. The production growth promised by Mr Tillerson failed to materialise.
zewrzeć szyki; przygotować się na odparcie ataków
to circle the wagons
He is determined not to “circle the wagons” against the company’s critics, he states, but he also argues that persuading franchisees to embrace its values will be more effective than prescribing more rules.
ryzyko potencjalnej straty; oszacowanie maksymalnych strat, jakie może ponieść firma, angażując się w dane przedsięwzięcie
downside risk
“Smart cities essentially increase the downside risk considerably of cyber intrusions or abuses, both in terms of data security and cyber security,” says Andrew Davenport, chief operating officer at RWR Advisory. “The cyber risk that is associated with entities that are subject to Chinese laws and governance structures is amplified in this environment.”
to exemplify
ilustrować, stanowić przykład, obrazować
The move exemplified the geopolitical chutzpah of America’s best-known energy producer — the kind of clout that persuaded Donald Trump to make Rex Tillerson, Exxon’s then chief executive, his first secretary of state.
niezdolny; niezdatny
unfit
Sarmiento then proclaimed all conversos of Jewish descent to be unfit for any public office whose occupants exercise authority over Old Christians in the city and the district.
uderzyć
to clobber
Debt renegotiations have proliferated as the pandemic has clobbered emerging economies in Africa and elsewhere. A report by Rhodium Group, a consultancy, says at least 18 processes of debt renegotiation with China have taken place in 2020 and 12 countries were still in talks with Beijing as of the end of September, covering $28bn in Chinese loans.
dyplomatyczny i geopolityczny termin, który oznacza sytuację w rzeczywistości, a nie abstrakcję.
facts on the ground
“It can roll out technologies using Chinese standards in foreign markets, creating ‘facts on the ground’.” Crucial to the goal of popularising Chinese standards overseas is the Belt and Road Initiative, which Mr Zhao described in a blog on the ITU’s website as holding “so much promise”.
walka; zawody; konkurs
contest
Video-streaming is a fight for supremacy between half a dozen firms. And cloud computing has become a fiercely contested market, too, as our analysis of the adventures of Microsoft shows.
mnóstwo
host of
The massive lending by Chinese financial institutions that supports the Belt and Road Initiative has fallen off a cliff. At the same time, Beijing finds itself mired in debt renegotiations with a host of countries.
nieprzemyślany
ill-conceived
Overall, though, China’s rethink betrays a tacit recognition that its overseas lending bonanza has been ill-conceived. Photographs from the 2017 Belt and Road Forum for International Co-operation — the venue at which Mr Xi declared his “project of the century” ambition — hint at what would become the programme’s fatal flaw.
odpowiadać komuś
to be to somebody’s liking
L’Oréal’s culture is ‘not to everyone’s liking’.
to sway
odciągnąć (kogoś od czegoś), odwieść (od planu, pomysłu)
I had planned on a Big Mac but I am swayed by a poster advertising the “New! Hotter & Juicier” Quarter Pounder. I order it with a side of nuggets, accept the suggestion of a large fries and Coke and resolve to return for the hot caramel sundae.
capacity utilization
wykorzystanie mocy produkcyjnych
Using this diagram, you should make the recommendation to the client to decrease its capacity utilization. This will cause the supply curve to shift towards the left, increasing the market clearing price from P1 to P2.
to dip one’s toe in
zaczynać coś, próbować czegoś
As wildcat drillers in the US were busting open a century’s worth of new shale gas reserves — the start of a supply revolution that would turn the global energy market on its head — Exxon demurred, backing big capital projects overseas instead. When it eventually dipped its toe into this new unconventional resource, the company focused on German and Polish shale fields.
reputedly
podobno; rzekomo
Because of the large number of converted Jews prominent in Spain, it was reputedly more secular than renaissance Italy.
szkodliwy
detrimental
The very openness of Spanish Society, though favorable in the short run, was ultimately detrimental to the status of the converted Jews.
duplicity
dwulicowość; obłuda
Second, Roth’s justification of duplicity condones subversion and makes it a Jewish characteristic.
to the vanishing point
do pomijalnego poziomu; nieomal do zera
The number of the Christianized Marranos was rising from generation to generation, while the number of clandestine Jews among them was rapidly dwindling to the vanishing point.
piętrzyć się, nagromadzać się (np. o problemach)
to mount
In America permanent job losses are mounting even as the headline unemployment rate falls. As more activity moves online, business will become more dominated by firms with the most advanced intellectual property and the biggest repositories of data; this year’s boom in technology stocks gives a sense of what is coming, as does the digital surge in the banking industry.
blokada; zamrożenia; wyłączność
lock-in
There is the risk of lock-in, a point after which switching becomes too costly.” Serbia is just one of many countries that has signed up to a Chinese-installed smart city package complete with surveillance cameras supplied by Hikvision, a company blacklisted by the US because of suspected human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
to be to somebody’s liking
odpowiadać komuś
L’Oréal’s culture is ‘not to everyone’s liking’.
przymus
coercion
The Infante Don Alfonso summarized the situation when criticizing conversions [which] resulted from overt pressure and coercion.’
niezgoda
discord
And the same political system that enabled our global progress and democracy after World War II now contributes to societal discord and discontent. Each was well intended but had unintended negative consequences.
jaded
zblazowany; znudzony
For a moment this week investors could afford to ignore stockmarket superstars like Amazon and Alibaba. As news of a vaccine broke, a motley crew of more jaded firms led Wall Street higher, with the shares of airlines, banks and oil firms soaring on hopes of a recovery.
unfit
niezdolny; niezdatny
Sarmiento then proclaimed all conversos of Jewish descent to be unfit for any public office whose occupants exercise authority over Old Christians in the city and the district.
wypłacać pieniądze, wydatkować
to disburse
They provide the overwhelming majority of China’s overseas development lending and the funds they disburse rival in scale those of the World Bank, the world’s largest multilateral lender.
usposobiony; nastawiony do czegoś
disposed
The Jews were initially well-disposed to the marriage.
squeeze
ograniczenie
The minimum rate of return required to finance long-term oil projects has increased to as much as 20%, according to Goldman, compared with as little as 3% for renewable projects. That gap suggests investors are factoring in higher regulatory costs for carbon producers, according to Goldman. The squeeze on capital has led to a dramatic pullback in spending.
regimen
reżim
The regimen of false conversions in Spain made a bad situation worse. The cynical Jewish converts continued to exploit the situation under the protection of the Church, while the sincere Jewish converts lived under constant and intolerable suspicion.
to induce
powodować, wywoływać
In both cases complete access to general culture induced an explosion of intellectual creativity. The Jewish New Christians and their children in the early 16th Century embraced Christian thought and learning with the same kind of creative enthusiasm as assimilated Jews contributed to modernism in literature and theory between 1900 and 1940.
overt
jawny
The Infante Don Alfonso summarized the situation when criticizing conversions [which] resulted from overt pressure and coercion.’
to circle the wagons
zewrzeć szyki; przygotować się na odparcie ataków
He is determined not to “circle the wagons” against the company’s critics, he states, but he also argues that persuading franchisees to embrace its values will be more effective than prescribing more rules.
externality
efekt uboczny; skutek uboczny
cost or benefit caused by a producer that is not financially incurred or received by that producer
The second change is the rising importance of externalities, costs that firms are responsible for but avoid paying. Today the value doctrine suggests you should load up on car firms and oil producers. But these firms’ prospects depend on the potential liability from their carbon footprint, the cost of which may rise as emissions rules tighten and carbon taxes spread.
wtrącać się; gmerać
to pry
He was also free to become a priest for the purpose of listening to the confessions of old Christians and to pry into their secrets.
negative
ujemny
This April, the pandemic briefly led U.S. oil prices to fall into negative territory for the first time ever. So much oil backed up in storage that investors literally paid people to take it off their hands.
zniszczyć
to shatter
Even before coronavirus shattered the global oil industry, Exxon, once the world’s most valuable company by market capitalisation, was struggling.
to venture,
ośmielić się zaryzykować
But say I had brought wine with me, I venture, am I right in thinking that New Jersey’s laws would let us drink it? He concurs that they would, so I push my bucket-sized Coke to one side and pull the bottle from my bag. “I’ll join you,” he gamely agrees.
jąkać się
to stammer
“I mean, for me, I think what I was proud of was our board, in my experience, has always made the right but sometimes tough decision,” Kempczinski stammers, his speech pattern betraying his discomfort.
specjalistyczny; wyróżniający się
differentiated
Various other variants of a case like this can come up in an interview, for example when products are differentiated instead of commodities, or if the industry is a monopoly or an oligopoly.
subversion
działalność wywrotowa
The only Jew ostracized by the synagogue was the sincere convert. The liar and dissembler were tolerated tacitly, in violation of the teaching of Moses and the scriptural principle articulated in the Book of Maccabees. As a result, the rabbis and unscrupulous anti-Semitic Christian politicians collaborated in creating an atmosphere where subversion flourished.
to be dealt a bad hand
otrzymać słabe karty, mieć pecha
Its samestore sales plunged 22 per cent in March, then 39 per cent in April. No McDonald’s boss has been dealt a tougher hand.
base-case
najbardziej prawdopodobny przypadek
The financial results from the base case should be better than those from conservative scenarios, but worse than those from upside cases.
That is, evaluate digital projects and strategies based on the cash flows they are expected to generate, making sure to factor in “do nothing” or base-case scenarios as well as the overarching objectives of the digital project or strategy being proposed.
script
scenariusz
Adjusted for inflation, this total was roughly seven times what the US spent through the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after the second world war, according to Jonathan Hillman, author of The Emperor’s New Road. But according to data published this week, reality is deviating sharply from Mr Xi’s script.
firepower
siła; wpływ; moc sprawcza
The build-up of institutional firepower is a sure sign that China is set to wield much more influence over global technological standards. But equally as sure is that the backlash from Washington is building.
to pry
wtrącać się; gmerać
He was also free to become a priest for the purpose of listening to the confessions of old Christians and to pry into their secrets.
to disburse
wypłacać pieniądze, wydatkować
They provide the overwhelming majority of China’s overseas development lending and the funds they disburse rival in scale those of the World Bank, the world’s largest multilateral lender.
to fuel
podsycać; napędzać
As the flurry of manipulated but aspirational posts made people feel bad about their normal lives, Frier writes, “Instagram ended up fuelling a problem not just about truth in advertising, but about truth in life.
zgodzić się
to concur
But say I had brought wine with me, I venture, am I right in thinking that New Jersey’s laws would let us drink it? He concurs that they would, so I push my bucket-sized Coke to one side and pull the bottle from my bag. “I’ll join you,” he gamely agrees.
reżim
regimen
The regimen of false conversions in Spain made a bad situation worse. The cynical Jewish converts continued to exploit the situation under the protection of the Church, while the sincere Jewish converts lived under constant and intolerable suspicion.
to get off the ground
zacząć działać; zacząć odnosić sukcesy
If the idea gets off the ground it could directly benefit State Grid, which is the global leader in making ultra-high voltage transmission lines.
poruszyć (np. wstydliwy temat)
to broach
In the 2014 film Kingsman, Samuel L Jackson tells Colin Firth that a McDonald’s cheeseburger “goes great with this ’45 Lafite”. The cheapest bottle of that vintage I could find is $2,999, so I grabbed a 2018 Josh Cellars Cabernet from home instead. I pour it into the two plastic cups I have brought, confirm that it helps the burger go down, and broach a more awkward subject.
to come on top of something
nastąpić zaraz po czymś
Indeed, the bad news related to COVID-19 came on top of the enormous economic, environmental, social and political challenges we were already facing before the pandemic.
stir
poruszenie
“The strategy will also focus on standards to facilitate civil-military fusion — a concept that has gained considerable traction in China and has caused a stir in strategic communities overseas, particularly in Washington,” wrote research fellow John Seaman in a report this year for the French Institute of International Relations and the Policy Center for the New South.
pozbierać się, dojść do siebie, wrócić do normy
to bounce back
That is not a concern for China, which so far seems to be emerging from the pandemic strongest—at least in the short run. Its economy has bounced back quickly.
pogarda
contempt
As apostate Jews, in many cases, they lavished hate and contempt on those who remained Jews. It proved impossible to stimulate popular abhorrence of the Jew without also stimulating the envy and jealousy excited by the ostentation and arrogance of the New Christians.
co przyniesie przyszłość
what the future holds
Even before the pandemic sapped the world’s thirst for fuel, the future of the fossil-fuel industry was already under threat due to the rise of electric cars, the proliferation of renewable energy and growing consciousness about the long-term impact of climate change. The biggest oil companies increasingly disagree on what the future holds.
ograniczenie
squeeze
The minimum rate of return required to finance long-term oil projects has increased to as much as 20%, according to Goldman, compared with as little as 3% for renewable projects. That gap suggests investors are factoring in higher regulatory costs for carbon producers, according to Goldman. The squeeze on capital has led to a dramatic pullback in spending.
to demur
odmawiać, sprzeciwiać (się)
As wildcat drillers in the US were busting open a century’s worth of new shale gas reserves — the start of a supply revolution that would turn the global energy market on its head — Exxon demurred, backing big capital projects overseas instead.
wielki szacunek; wysoka ocena
high regard
“I think it’s safe to say that, you know, Steve was a supremely talented executive who behaved very badly,” he continues. “There was no flinching about it,” he says, but for a protégé who held Easterbrook in high regard, “it was disappointing, and it just hit”.
zblazowany; znudzony
jaded
For a moment this week investors could afford to ignore stockmarket superstars like Amazon and Alibaba. As news of a vaccine broke, a motley crew of more jaded firms led Wall Street higher, with the shares of airlines, banks and oil firms soaring on hopes of a recovery.
cnotliwy; prawy
virtuous
Looking forward, such virtuous instincts can become a feature of our economic systems rather than a rare exception.
siła; wpływ; moc sprawcza
firepower
The build-up of institutional firepower is a sure sign that China is set to wield much more influence over global technological standards. But equally as sure is that the backlash from Washington is building.
czas realizacji
lead time
Businesses that successfully implemented a lean, global model of manufacturing achieved improvements in indicators such as inventory levels, on-time-in-full deliveries, and shorter lead times.
źle dobrany; niedopasowany
mismatch
In late 2011, ExxonMobil announced plans to drill for oil in disputed land between Kurdistan and the rest of Iraq. Baghdad’s government, fearing the move could break up the country, threatened to eject the company from a big project near Basra, in the south. Exxon ignored the threat, knowing the encounter was a mismatch. Iraq’s revenue from oil sales that year amounted to about $80bn. Exxon’s revenue came in at more than $430bn.
zaczynać coś, próbować czegoś
to dip one’s toe in
As wildcat drillers in the US were busting open a century’s worth of new shale gas reserves — the start of a supply revolution that would turn the global energy market on its head — Exxon demurred, backing big capital projects overseas instead. When it eventually dipped its toe into this new unconventional resource, the company focused on German and Polish shale fields.
dogmat; zasada
tenet
Netanyahu seems unaware of the contradiction at the heart of his book, a contradiction required by the unquestioned tenet of mainstream Jewish historiography, namely, that anti-Semitism is never a function ofJewish behavior.
spell
okres
As office workers continue to work in their kitchens and bedrooms for at least part of the week, lower-paid workers who previously toiled as waiters, cleaners and sales assistants will need to find new jobs in the suburbs. Until they do, they could face long spells of unemployment.
spektakularny; rzucający się w oczy
conspicuous
Conspicuous by its absence from Netanyahu’s book is any consideration of rabbinic theology on the issue of conversion under duress.
to lavish
hojnie rozdawać, nie szczędzić (np. pochwał, uczucia)
As apostate Jews, in many cases, they lavished hate and contempt on those who remained Jews. It proved impossible to stimulate popular abhorrence of the Jew without also stimulating the envy and jealousy excited by the ostentation and arrogance of the New Christians.
to bulge
puchnąć
In the 15 years up to 2019, capital expenditure hit $350bn but output ended lower. The balance sheet bulged. From 2015, cash flow from operations struggled to cover the sum of the company’s market-leading capex plus its dividend.
appearance
pozór
Cecil Roth says the opposite. Although within a generation or two, the Marranos became assimilated enough, Roth feels appearances were deceiving.
odciągnąć (kogoś od czegoś), odwieść (od planu, pomysłu)
to sway
I had planned on a Big Mac but I am swayed by a poster advertising the “New! Hotter & Juicier” Quarter Pounder. I order it with a side of nuggets, accept the suggestion of a large fries and Coke and resolve to return for the hot caramel sundae.
sterta, stos
stack
Strategic competition between the US and China raises the spectre of a fragmentation of standards that creates a new technological divide. Mr Segal says it is possible, for example, that 5G mobile telecoms — a bedrock technology that enables the “internet of things” — may be divided into two competing stacks.
przyjąć coś (np. pomysł)
to embrace
The concept had been embraced by the U.S. Business Roundtable—a major Washingtonbased lobbying group of U.S. firms— just months earlier.
to push the boat out
szarpnąć się (wydać więcej pieniędzy niż zwykle); zaszaleć (np. w zabawie)
“We should push the boat out,” I suggest, as we scan the bright digital menu screens, but I wonder how to do so. There are a couple of novelties (spicy Chicken McNuggets) but the menu hasn’t changed much since Ray Kroc died in 1984, 30 years after he went to sell Dick and Mac McDonald a milkshake mixer, taking the first step in the establishment of a global franchise.
to go about
zabrać się za robienie czegoś
Based on your proposed approach, how would you go about conducting the analysis and gathering the information required?
wypędzenie; wyparcie
expulsion
Race replaced religion as the source of the animosity, but now there was no instant theological cure, ie., baptism, for being of the wrong race. There was, in fact, no cure other than extermination or expulsion.
uczony
learned
Cantor says not only were the great majority of Jewish converts sincere, but from among learned and aristocratic New Christian families came some of the greatest names in early 16th Century Spanish ecclesiastical and cultural history.
to hit
osiągnąć (wynik)
In the 15 years up to 2019, capital expenditure hit $350bn but output ended lower. The balance sheet bulged. From 2015, cash flow from operations struggled to cover the sum of the company’s market-leading capex plus its dividend.
facts on the ground
dyplomatyczny i geopolityczny termin, który oznacza sytuację w rzeczywistości, a nie abstrakcję.
“It can roll out technologies using Chinese standards in foreign markets, creating ‘facts on the ground’.” Crucial to the goal of popularising Chinese standards overseas is the Belt and Road Initiative, which Mr Zhao described in a blog on the ITU’s website as holding “so much promise”.
host of
mnóstwo
The massive lending by Chinese financial institutions that supports the Belt and Road Initiative has fallen off a cliff. At the same time, Beijing finds itself mired in debt renegotiations with a host of countries.
friar
mnich
The mendicant friars, though, continued to preach sermon after sermon against Judaism and the Judaizers, urging the faithful to take matters into their own hands.
dwulicowość; obłuda
duplicity
Second, Roth’s justification of duplicity condones subversion and makes it a Jewish characteristic.
ośmielić się zaryzykować
to venture,
But say I had brought wine with me, I venture, am I right in thinking that New Jersey’s laws would let us drink it? He concurs that they would, so I push my bucket-sized Coke to one side and pull the bottle from my bag. “I’ll join you,” he gamely agrees.
tu: pomoc; inne: ulga
relief
If China is unable or unwilling to provide sufficient relief to its borrowers, it could find itself at the centre of a debt crisis in developing markets.” The data that describes China’s predicament comes from researchers at Boston University who maintain an independent database on China’s overseas development finance.
nie widzieć szerszego kontekstu
to miss the forest for the trees
But Mr Leggate says that the market is “missing the woods for the trees” by discounting the only company that will have capacity to boost production when oil prices rise.
to run errands
załatwiać sprawy
As an example, if the price of gasoline increases by 25 percent in one day, drivers wouldn’t be very happy about it, but they would still fill up their tanks, because they need gas to get to work, run errands, etc.
lock-in
blokada; zamrożenia; wyłączność
There is the risk of lock-in, a point after which switching becomes too costly.” Serbia is just one of many countries that has signed up to a Chinese-installed smart city package complete with surveillance cameras supplied by Hikvision, a company blacklisted by the US because of suspected human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
sizzle
podniecenie, wielkie podekscytowanie
Kempczinski, too, has achieved his success with more consistency than sizzle. With one wife, two kids and a goldendoodle, the clean-cut Ohioan seems cast to preach an ethics message.
deser lodowy
sundae
I had planned on a Big Mac but I am swayed by a poster advertising the “New! Hotter & Juicier” Quarter Pounder. I order it with a side of nuggets, accept the suggestion of a large fries and Coke and resolve to return for the hot caramel sundae.
kampania; akcja
drive
Military-civil fusion is a plan to use the best of civilian research and development to bolster the technological capacities of the People’s Liberation Army. The drive is led by Mr Xi himself, who heads the Commission for Military- Civil Fusion Development. It is believed to target civilian advances in “dual use” areas such as quantum computing, big data, semiconductors, 5G and AI, but concrete initiatives are shrouded in secrecy.
to mount
piętrzyć się, nagromadzać się (np. o problemach)
In America permanent job losses are mounting even as the headline unemployment rate falls. As more activity moves online, business will become more dominated by firms with the most advanced intellectual property and the biggest repositories of data; this year’s boom in technology stocks gives a sense of what is coming, as does the digital surge in the banking industry.
tenet
dogmat; zasada
Netanyahu seems unaware of the contradiction at the heart of his book, a contradiction required by the unquestioned tenet of mainstream Jewish historiography, namely, that anti-Semitism is never a function ofJewish behavior.
flurry
podmuch (deszczu, śniegu); tuman; nagłe ożywienie
As the flurry of manipulated but aspirational posts made people feel bad about their normal lives, Frier writes, “Instagram ended up fuelling a problem not just about truth in advertising, but about truth in life.
załatwiać sprawy
to run errands
As an example, if the price of gasoline increases by 25 percent in one day, drivers wouldn’t be very happy about it, but they would still fill up their tanks, because they need gas to get to work, run errands, etc.
quarter
tu: krąg (ludzi)
In Washington, the battle over technology standards is seen in some quarters as crucial to defending democracy from China’s influence, which Madeleine Albright, a former secretary of state, describes as “the world’s leading pioneer of what we call techno-authoritarianism”.
to be in the doghouse
być w niełasce
Wells Fargo’s struggle to escape the doghouse is not over yet.
przymus
duress
Conspicuous by its absence from Netanyahu’s book is any consideration of rabbinic theology on the issue of conversion under duress.
ułatwiać komuś zadanie, działać na czyjąś korzyść, być wodą na młyn
to play into somebody’s hands
The rabbis played into the hands of racists when they collaborated with unscrupulous Spanish politicians to allow false conversion.
scenariusz
script
Adjusted for inflation, this total was roughly seven times what the US spent through the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after the second world war, according to Jonathan Hillman, author of The Emperor’s New Road. But according to data published this week, reality is deviating sharply from Mr Xi’s script.
trwały; stały
ongoing
“But as we look closely at the facts and the various expert assessments, we conclude that the needs of society will drive more energy use in the years ahead — and an ongoing need for the products we produce.”
czynić w czymś postępy
to make inroads in something
Alibaba’s and Tencent’s cloud arms dominate in China and are making some inroads elsewhere in Asia. Europe is so anxious about American firms that it has launched a statebacked rival, called Gaia-x.
tu: zdobycz, łup
prize
Thus smart cities, which automate multiple municipal functions, represent a big prize for China’s standards drive. “China is setting standards from the bottom up through widespread export and foreign adoption of its technology,” says Jonathan Hillman, an analyst at CSIS, a Washington-based think-tank.
tu bust open something
otworzyć coś na siłe
As wildcat drillers in the US were busting open a century’s worth of new shale gas reserves — the start of a supply revolution that would turn the global energy market on its head — Exxon demurred, backing big capital projects overseas instead.
mdły; nijaki; bezbarwny
bland
A year into this bland-sounding regimen, he says stoically: “You get to know your way around the menu.”
to decompose
rozkładać na części składowe; gnić
We have already established that the client is the lowest cost producer, hence the costs cannot be lowered any further. Your solution will thus focus on increasing revenues. You can decompose revenues like so: Revenues = Price x Quantity.
powodować, wywoływać
to induce
In both cases complete access to general culture induced an explosion of intellectual creativity. The Jewish New Christians and their children in the early 16th Century embraced Christian thought and learning with the same kind of creative enthusiasm as assimilated Jews contributed to modernism in literature and theory between 1900 and 1940.
differentiated
specjalistyczny; wyróżniający się
Various other variants of a case like this can come up in an interview, for example when products are differentiated instead of commodities, or if the industry is a monopoly or an oligopoly.
encounter
potyczka, spotkanie (np. drużyn sportowych)
In late 2011, ExxonMobil announced plans to drill for oil in disputed land between Kurdistan and the rest of Iraq. Baghdad’s government, fearing the move could break up the country, threatened to eject the company from a big project near Basra, in the south. Exxon ignored the threat, knowing the encounter was a mismatch. Iraq’s revenue from oil sales that year amounted to about $80bn. Exxon’s revenue came in at more than $430bn.
akumulacja
build-up
“I had been over enthusiastic and aggressive, pushing the sales team too hard which led to a build-up of stocks in the channel,” he says.
to dig deeper into something
zagłębić się mocniej w coś
I peel open a pot of barbecue sauce, dip in a nugget and ask whether the company has dug deeply enough to be sure that Easterbrook’s alleged behaviour was the aberration it claims, rather than a reflection of a wider problem with the company’s culture.
zatem
thus
Netanyahu thus contradicts his original premise that the conversions were sincere. The crusade of Vincent Ferrer shows that preaching and persuasion led to the conversion of many Jews.
