Deck no. 21 Flashcards
uroczystości ślubne, zaślubiny
nuptials
But none of these assets alone would help a company to leap to global scale. Those that have not already arranged their nuptials may face the corporate equivalent of unceremonious deportation.
to flog
opylić (sprzedać)
Facebook, the world’ s largest social network, has built a $92bn per year advertising business by selling space alongside posts by its 2.8bn happily unpaid user suppliers. Twitter makes $3.4bn a year flogging ads among the free editorial typed by its 350m contributors . Being on the platform can feel like “the greatest unpaid internship of all” , Samhita Mukhopadhyay, an American journalist, recently tweeted.
zyskać sobie przychylność
to win favor
The firm won favour with tiny businesses by making it easier to embed payments in their websites. It has expanded into payroll and cash management services.
that of
z czego
The prices of some technologies have fallen dramatically, making them competitive with fossil fuel firms. The cost of solar power has shrunk by around 80% in the past decade. That of lithiumion batteries, which power EVS, is falling by about 20% a year.
w ścisłej współpracy, nierozłączni
hand in glove
In reality the government and the bishops had been hand in glove with each other since January.
captive audience
publiczność mimo woli
The shotgun wedding may be awkward, but it is necessary. Competition in streaming, already brutal, is about to become more so. The lockdowns of 2020 provided a captive audience.
an options contract that gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell a certain amount of the underlying asset, at a set price within a specific time. The buyer of a put option believes that the underlying stock will drop below the exercise price before the expiration date.
put
The Tinder equity options came with four “scheduled puts” starting in 2017 when Rad and his colleagues would have windows to cash in their shares.
to snoop
węszyć
The digital in volvement of the central bank in everyday transactions would not only increase the risk of such interference but also be a gift to those wishing to snoop on citizens.
to permeate
przenikać, wypełniać, przesiąkać
However, in November 1961, other extracts of this “Memorandum reserved to the bishops” began doing the rounds in the press. They referred to far more serious faults: in the Cité Catholique “the systemization of certain ways of thinking leads to the death of true thought,” and, “the thinking expressed in Verbe permeates everything, and prevents Catholic Action from being fruitful.”
meme stocks
stock that has seen an increase in volume not because of the company’s performance, but rather because of hype on social media and online forums like Reddit. For this reason, these stocks often become overvalued, seeing drastic price increases in just a short amount of time
The meme stocks are back. Shares of companies that set the stock market and social media abuzz earlier this year are rallying again this week, rewarding individual investors who have held on for months. GameStop Corp., AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. and Express Inc. are all up 37% or more in the week to date, pushing each stock to levels not seen in months.
karuzela
merry-go-round
Cranking Up the Merry-Go-Round. The man behind every morning’s must-read for Washington’s movers and shakers: He was hated, admired and feared.
przewrócić coś
to knock over
At one point, Amazonians were instructed to knock over the coffee, stand up, and loudly object if they heard colleagues hint at price-setting or collusion in internal meetings.
goździk
carnation
Later in the presence of Jean Montalat, deputy mayor of Tulle, he placed a wreath of carnations on the war memorial and another at the memorial for the Martyrs of the Resistance (he was, of course, the son of a Resistance Vghter who had died after being deported).
nieuchronny; bliski
imminent
The court said Shell wasn’t in breach of its obligation to reduce carbon emissions but that there was an “imminent breach,” and it therefore set the reduction requirement.
highbrow
intelektualista
Aside from renown in the rarefied realm of highbrow cinema, until the 1990s South Korean popular culture went largely unnoticed beyond the country’s borders.
supernatural
nadprzyrodzony
As a parting shot the Archbishop added that the Cité Catholique was criticized for not wanting to put up with “the sight of your children growing up in a climate of materialism, secularism, and atheism.… While this atmosphere is ruining the supernatural spirit, i.e., the spirit of prayer and self-denial, and consequently the birth of priestly vocations, they want to stop you rechristianizing society. Your initiatives are crucial and only strengthen Catholic Action.”
cry
tu: slogan, hasło
“The stone age did not end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of petroleum.” That battle cry animates critics of Big Oil, who dream of phasing out hydrocarbons in favour of cleaner fuels and technologies.
crossover
decydujący, krytyczny (np. punkt)
While attracting large numbers of Asian-American fans to his shows, the crossover success that would later be achieved by acts such as Psy, BTS, and Blackpink eluded him.
zorganizować publiczne wydarzenie, urządzić, organizować (jakieś wydarzenie)
to stage
Snap has since staged one of the greatest turnarounds in tech history.Whenit reported its latest quarterly results in April, it pleasantly surprised analysts again, just as it has for the past few quarters.
to adorn
dekorować; przyozdabiać
Even in places like Auckland, Mexico City or Jakarta, the logos adorning the tallest buildings are those of ANZ, BBVA or HSBC.
plakat; transparent; tabliczka (np. na drzwiach)
placard
“These were fans I didn’t even know existed, French teenage girls excitedly waving placards,” says Cho. “Then in Cannes, hundreds more turned up — some even explained their love for K-pop in fluent Korean.
tworzyć, stwarzać (np. pomysł)
to conceive
So the firm has instead recast “Stories” as a platform on which curated partners, such as big media companies, can offer original content. Snapchat’s four other main offerings are conceived as platforms, too.
to compensate
wynagradzać
The upstarts are forcing incumbents such as Facebook to compensate users for the unpaid work they may not have realised they were doing.
to stand to
być w gotowości do ataku
To analyse the boom The Economist has constructed a portfolio of companies that stand to benefit from the energy transition, with a total market capitalisation of $3.7trn.
deska rozdzielcza (np. w samochodzie)
in-dash
Want better acceleration, longer range, an enhanced self-driving system, or your in-dash entertainment system to play fart noises every time you flip your turn signal? Tesla has shown they’re just a software upgrade away.
distressing
alarmujący; bolesny
A cyberattack on the American financial system that closed JP Morgan Chase for a time would be distressing. A similar attack that shut down a Federal Reserve digital currency could be devastating.
to beat somebody at their own game
pokonać kogoś jego własną bronią
Twitter was in danger of becoming a promotional tool for Substack writers and Clubhouse broadcasters. It is now trying to beat both at their own game.
corps [ko:r]
korpus (np. wojskowy, dyplomatyczny)
In the universal Church, jurisdiction belongs not only to the Pope, but “collegially to the episcopal corps participating in the supreme jurisdiction of the Pope as head of the Church.”
męczyć, dręczyć, torturować
to torment
It was the deepest the tormented franchise has ever gotten, but without Leonard, Los Angeles ended up falling in the conference final to Phoenix and former Clipper Chris Paul.
repentant
skruszony, pełen żalu (o człowieku)
Their bête noire is ExxonMobil, long the richest and mightiest of Western oil supermajors—and the most unrepentant in its defence of crude.
alarmujący; bolesny
distressing
A cyberattack on the American financial system that closed JP Morgan Chase for a time would be distressing. A similar attack that shut down a Federal Reserve digital currency could be devastating.
szybko się z czymś uporać
to make short work of something
While analysts for years predicted that big auto makers would make short work of Tesla, it turns out electric vehicles are more about software than hardware.
to veer
skręcać, zmieniać kierunek (o drodze, o pojeździe)
Critics of the world’s largest asset manager have said that BlackRock shouldn’t veer into areas that should be tackled by policy makers, but the firm’s chief executive, Larry Fink, has said “climate risk is investment risk.”
wynagradzać
to compensate
The upstarts are forcing incumbents such as Facebook to compensate users for the unpaid work they may not have realised they were doing.
łapówka (slang)
sweetener
Tech firms are using their platforms to reverse-engineer banking. This has even caught on in America, where creditcard sweeteners keep users hooked and payments tech has lagged.
to recast
przekształcać (np. dokument), przerabiać (utwór literacki)
So the firm has instead recast “Stories” as a platform on which curated partners, such as big media companies, can offer original content. Snapchat’s four other main offerings are conceived as platforms , too.
damages
odszkodowanie
Tinder founders, including Sean Rad, three years ago sued IAC Corp and its online dating unit Match Group, alleging that the two companies controlled by the media mogul had cheated the entrepreneurs out of billions of dollars in a 2017 share acquisition that valued the Tinder business at $3bn. They are seeking more than $2bn in damages.
actor
uczestnik
And the concentration of the economy in digital money, whether it is run by private firms or by a central bank, could provide a new route for malicious actors to destabilise systems through cyberwarfare.
deptać po piętach
to snap at the heels of
Smaller companies are snapping at the heels of the tech titans.
proceeding
postępowanie (sądowe), proces (sądowy)
Longtime court observers caution against reading too much into any judge’s statements during a proceeding. Judge Gonzalez Rogers’s questions came after Mr. Cook had tried to spend much of his time emphasizing that user security motivates Apple.
frills
bajery, dodatki
Ballmer’s ambition is a state-of-the-art barn where fans can lock in like he does. An unintended consequence of recent sports arena overhauls (improved food options, lounges and other frills) is an audience too distracted to return to its seats.
skręcać, zmieniać kierunek (o drodze, o pojeździe)
to veer
Critics of the world’s largest asset manager have said that BlackRock shouldn’t veer into areas that should be tackled by policy makers, but the firm’s chief executive, Larry Fink, has said “climate risk is investment risk.”
imminent
nieuchronny; bliski
The court said Shell wasn’t in breach of its obligation to reduce carbon emissions but that there was an “imminent breach,” and it therefore set the reduction requirement.
to erect
budować, ustanawiać, powoływać
Several more tier two firms have also erected robust platforms . “Shopify does not compete with Amazon. We are not a retailer. We are a piece of software that powers other brands,” explains Harley Finkelstein, the company’s president.
odious
ohydny
One or two well-aimed arrows were meant for La Croix, the “newspaper rightly or wrongly considered as the voice of the Church in France” that used its columns “in this odious campaign.”
facet od brudnej roboty
hatchet man
Hollywood traditionalists were scandalised; many now feel some satisfaction. “AT&T backstabs its own hatchet man” ran a headline in Variety, an industry magazine.
kierunkowskaz
turn signal
Want better acceleration, longer range, an enhanced self-driving system, or your in-dash entertainment system to play fart noises every time you flip your turn signal? Tesla has shown they’re just a software upgrade away.
ostry, bezkompromisowy
hard-hitting
Nothing is missing from this lucid and hard-hitting defense. One or two well-aimed arrows were meant for La Croix, the “newspaper rightly or wrongly considered as the voice of the Church in France” that used its columns “in this odious campaign.”
sąd; osąd
reckoning
Now a new architecture is emerging that promises a reckoning.
opylić (sprzedać)
to flog
Facebook, the world’ s largest social network, has built a $92bn per year advertising business by selling space alongside posts by its 2.8bn happily unpaid user suppliers. Twitter makes $3.4bn a year flogging ads among the free editorial typed by its 350m contributors . Being on the platform can feel like “the greatest unpaid internship of all” , Samhita Mukhopadhyay, an American journalist, recently tweeted.
blowout
niespodziewanie duży (np. wyniki, sprzedaż)
The comeback reveals a broader trend. While the largest Western tech companies have had a blowout first quarter, firms that fall in the category below—call them “tier two tech”—are growing briskly, too.
crucible
tygiel; ciężka próba
The relentless founder’s intensity, however, is likely to be harder to replicate. As Stone points out, executives assigned to a “Jeff project”, where Bezos insisted on regular updates, were in “the hottest crucible at Amazon”.
wariant, odmiana
variant
Soriot told the Financial Times that the jab was only slightly less effective against the variant first found in India than against the strain identified in Kent. He added that a new booster had performed well against other variants in animal studies.
to lowball
celowo zaniżać (np. koszty lub ofertę), oferować coś po niższej cenie lub stawce
Dating app developers face IAC and Match bosses in court over alleged lowball valuation.
to notch up
zdobywać
Yet apart from a few megastar “influencers”, most creators receive no reward beyond the thrill of notching up “likes”.
bajery, dodatki
frills
Ballmer’s ambition is a state-of-the-art barn where fans can lock in like he does. An unintended consequence of recent sports arena overhauls (improved food options, lounges and other frills) is an audience too distracted to return to its seats.
to reverse-engineer
rozkładać w celu poznania konstrukcji czegoś
Tech firms are using their platforms to reverse-engineer banking. This has even caught on in America, where creditcard sweeteners keep users hooked and payments tech has lagged.
staid
poważny, stateczny (o osobie)
The risk of losing control over the monetary system has lit a fire underneath usually staid central bankers.
tuszować (np. faktów); wybielać; rozgromić
to whitewash
Rad, however, would accuse IAC of whitewashing the incident in order to keep Blatt in his position as chief executive in 2017 so he could manipulate the Tinder valuation exercise.
selekcjonować
to curate
So the firm has instead recast “Stories” as a platform on which curated partners, such as big media companies, can offer original content. Snapchat’s four other main offerings are conceived as platforms , too.
kajdany
shackles
Negligent banks can create boom and bust cycles that inflict economic hardship. So it is easy to assume that the sidelining of banks might be just another shackle broken by technological advance.
z czego
that of
The prices of some technologies have fallen dramatically, making them competitive with fossil fuel firms. The cost of solar power has shrunk by around 80% in the past decade. That of lithiumion batteries, which power EVS, is falling by about 20% a year.
przyglądać się (badawczo czemuś)
to peer
Look at you down there, trying to run for your life, jeers Summer Solesis, peering down at the camera. You don’t stand a chance against my giant, size 11 feet!” Standing over her phone, she pretends to stamp on the viewer, who gets the effect—sort of—that Ms Solesis is a “giantess with dirty feet getting rid of the tiny men infesting my house”, as one video is captioned.
friction
tarcie
The ability to sign up for a newsletter or join an audio room directly from Twitter, without the friction of moving apps, gives the company an edge over its startup rivals, says Mark Shmulik of Bernstein, a research firm.
nieprzyjemny; podejrzany (np. interes)
unsavory
If providing the brains for other auto makers’ vehicles is unlikely, and competing directly with Tesla and every other electric vehicle startup unsavory, that still leaves another option for Apple.
day trader
spekulant
Green stocks are no longer the preserve of niche sustainable funds. Conventional funds have piled in; stocks are also touted on online forums for day traders, such as WallStreetBets. Many investors draw comparisons between clean energy today and tech at the turn of the millennium—both in terms of the signs of froth, and the emergence of an industry with big structural effects on the economy.
to animate
ożywić; pobudzać
“The stone age did not end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of petroleum.” That battle cry animates critics of Big Oil, who dream of phasing out hydrocarbons in favour of cleaner fuels and technologies.
węszyć
to snoop
The digital in volvement of the c entral bank in everyday transactions would not only increase the risk of such interference but also be a gift to those wishing to snoop on citizens.
self-denial
wyrzeczenie
As a parting shot the Archbishop added that the Cité Catholique was criticized for not wanting to put up with “the sight of your children growing up in a climate of materialism, secularism, and atheism.… While this atmosphere is ruining the supernatural spirit, i.e., the spirit of prayer and self-denial, and consequently the birth of priestly vocations, they want to stop you rechristianizing society. Your initiatives are crucial and only strengthen Catholic Action.”
unikalny, własny
of its own
On May 17th Discovery announced that it was to form a marriage of necessity of its own, joining forces with WarnerMedia, which is to be spun off from its owner, AT&T, a telecoms giant.
along the way
w międzyczasie
The Clippers assembled a history-making season in 2020-21, reaching the Western Conference Finals for the first time, despite losing star Kawhi Leonard to a knee injury along the way.
placard
plakat; transparent; tabliczka (np. na drzwiach)
“These were fans I didn’t even know existed, French teenage girls excitedly waving placards,” says Cho. “Then in Cannes, hundreds more turned up — some even explained their love for K-pop in fluent Korean.
należycie
duly
Therefore, the ACA was required to issue its own interpretation; a duly solemn warning was inevitable. To prevent this, Archbishop Lefebvre intervened straightaway. “I would be failing in my duty to the truth,” he wrote to Jean Ousset and his collaborators on March 4, “if I kept silent.”
sprawiać, że coś powoduje gniew
causes anger without making something (such as an issue under discussion) better understood
more heat than light
The issue of diversity on boards is also emotional, and it often creates more heat than light. Both sides have plenty of anecdotes to draw from.
to do the rounds
krążyć, nieść się (np. opowieść)
However, in November 1961, other extracts of this “Memorandum reserved to the bishops” began doing the rounds in the press. They referred to far more serious faults: in the Cité Catholique “the systemization of certain ways of thinking leads to the death of true thought,” and, “the thinking expressed in Verbe permeates everything, and prevents Catholic Action from being fruitful.”
zabezpieczyć
to fail-safe
Pivoting through disruption has everything to do with being able to see the revolutionary changes around the corner, recognizing your strengths, and having the confidence to let go of the old vine of doing business and grab onto the new.are book of economics offering actionable takeaways in easy-to-understand language, Tarzan Economics is the must-read book for anyone staring at their own Napster moment and wishing they knew how to fail-safe their business.
być w gotowości do ataku
to stand to
To analyse the boom The Economist has constructed a portfolio of companies that stand to benefit from the energy transition, with a total market capitalisation of $3.7trn.
unsavory
nieprzyjemny; podejrzany (np. interes)
If providing the brains for other auto makers’ vehicles is unlikely, and competing directly with Tesla and every other electric vehicle startup unsavory, that still leaves another option for Apple.
shackles
kajdany
Negligent banks can create boom and bust cycles that inflict economic hardship. So it is easy to assume that the sidelining of banks might be just another shackle broken by technological advance.
pokonać kogoś jego własną bronią
to beat somebody at their own game
Twitter was in danger of becoming a promotional tool for Substack writers and Clubhouse broadcasters. It is now trying to beat both at their own game.
to snap at the heels of
deptać po piętach
Smaller companies are snapping at the heels of the tech titans.
odszkodowanie
damages
Tinder founders, including Sean Rad, three years ago sued IAC Corp and its online dating unit Match Group, alleging that the two companies controlled by the media mogul had cheated the entrepreneurs out of billions of dollars in a 2017 share acquisition that valued the Tinder business at $3bn. They are seeking more than $2bn in damages.
to sneak
przemycić
Epic filed its lawsuit against Apple in August after the iPhone maker kicked “Fortnite” out of the App Store for violating its rules. Epic’s team had created an in-app payment system aimed at circumventing Apple’s and sneaked it into “Fortnite” that month.
turn signal
kierunkowskaz
Want better acceleration, longer range, an enhanced self-driving system, or your in-dash entertainment system to play fart noises every time you flip your turn signal? Tesla has shown they’re just a software upgrade away.
to win favor
zyskać sobie przychylność
The firm won favour with tiny businesses by making it easier to embed payments in their websites. It has expanded into payroll and cash management services.
reckoning
sąd; osąd
Now a new architecture is emerging that promises a reckoning.
kluczowy fakt, kwestia, wniosek
takeaway
Pivoting through disruption has everything to do with being able to see the revolutionary changes around the corner, recognizing your strengths, and having the confidence to let go of the old vine of doing business and grab onto the new. Book of economics offering actionable takeaways in easy-to-understand language, Tarzan Economics is the must-read book for anyone staring at their own Napster moment and wishing they knew how to fail-safe their business.
ohydny
odious
One or two well-aimed arrows were meant for La Croix, the “newspaper rightly or wrongly considered as the voice of the Church in France” that used its columns “in this odious campaign.”
tarcie
friction
The ability to sign up for a newsletter or join an audio room directly from Twitter, without the friction of moving apps, gives the company an edge over its startup rivals, says Mark Shmulik of Bernstein, a research firm.
inner workings
tajniki działania
A legal fight in a New York state court this week over the multibillion-dollar fortune created by the hit dating app, Tinder, threatens to expose the inner-workings of Barry Diller’s sprawling media empire.
to head something off
zapobiegać czemuś; zatrzymać coś
Central bankers that run reserve currencies can head off the potential nightmare of leaving Facebook or China’s government in charge of global payment systems by issuing digital currencies of their own.
spekulant
day trader
Green stocks are no longer the preserve of niche sustainable funds . Conventional funds have piled in; stocks are also touted on online forums for day traders, such as WallStreetBets. Many investors draw comparisons between clean energy today and tech at the turn of the millennium—both in terms of the signs of froth, and the emergence of an industry with big structural effects on the economy.
to stage
zorganizować publiczne wydarzenie, urządzić, organizować (jakieś wydarzenie)
Snap has since staged one of the greatest turnarounds in tech history.When it reported its latest quarterly results in April, it pleasantly surprised analysts again, just as it has for the past few quarters.
uczestnik
actor
And the concentration of the economy in digital money, whether it is run by private firms or by a central bank, could provide a new route for malicious actors to destabilise systems through cyberwarfare.
to dwarf
przyćmić
The total assets of the world’ s biggest 1,000 banks were worth some $ 128trn in 2020, dwarfing annual global gross product of $84.5trn.
krążyć, nieść się (np. opowieść)
to do the rounds
However, in November 1961, other extracts of this “Memorandum reserved to the bishops” began doing the rounds in the press. They referred to far more serious faults: in the Cité Catholique “the systemization of certain ways of thinking leads to the death of true thought,” and, “the thinking expressed in Verbe permeates everything, and prevents Catholic Action from being fruitful.”
przenikać, wypełniać, przesiąkać
to permeate
However, in November 1961, other extracts of this “Memorandum reserved to the bishops” began doing the rounds in the press. They referred to far more serious faults: in the Cité Catholique “the systemization of certain ways of thinking leads to the death of true thought,” and, “the thinking expressed in Verbe permeates everything, and prevents Catholic Action from being fruitful.”
to stick around
pozostać w pobliżu, zostać na miejscu, poczekać
Facebook is also trying to make creators stick around. Last year it made paid subscriptions widely available and enabled tips.
stock that has seen an increase in volume not because of the company’s performance, but rather because of hype on social media and online forums like Reddit. For this reason, these stocks often become overvalued, seeing drastic price increases in just a short amount of time
meme stocks
The meme stocks are back. Shares of companies that set the stock market and social media abuzz earlier this year are rallying again this week, rewarding individual investors who have held on for months. GameStop Corp., AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. and Express Inc. are all up 37% or more in the week to date, pushing each stock to levels not seen in months.
uciekać w celu ocalenia życia, ratować się
to run for one’s life
Look at you down there, trying to run for your life, jeers Summer Solesis, peering down at the camera. You don’t stand a chance against my giant, size 11 feet!” Standing over her phone, she pretends to stamp on the viewer, who gets the effect—sort of—that Ms Solesis is a “giantess with dirty feet getting rid of the tiny men infesting my house”, as one video is captioned.
