Deck no. 23 Flashcards
1
Q
otrzymać pożyczkę na coś (np. w celu zakupu domu)
A
to close on something
In 2018, in Zaslav’s last major move before the Warner deal, Discovery closed on its $14.6 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive, which is how Zaslav came to be the steward of HGTV, Food Network, Travel Channel, DIY Network, and a smattering of other properties.
2
Q
nakłonić kogoś
A
to cajole somebody into doing something
For much of the post–Cold War era, the United States was so powerful that few countries dared challenge it even if they wanted to. Others were cajoled by American soft power into wanting what the United States wanted.
3
Q
rehabilitować (się), kompensować (wady)
A
to redeem
“He’s back in his groove,” said Gene Munster, managing partner at the venture-capital firm Loup Ventures, an investor in Enjoy. Mr. Munster said he believes in Mr. Johnson’s latest vision, and if the company can deliver on it, “He’ll be redeemed.”
4
Q
okazja do porozmawiania
A
gabfest
Most of the arriving luminaries had simply ignored the assembled reporters, whose job was to stand around and shout questions that they knew probably wouldn’t be answered. But Zaslav obliged, which was lucky for the press, because he was the newsiest participant of the five-day gabfest, famous for its clandestine dealmaking.
5
Q
tentative
A
niepewny (np. gest), nieśmiały (np. uśmiech)
Prominent company bosses, including some notorious for their links to the AKP, have begun to make tentative approaches to the centre right IYI party, says Umit Ozlale, one of its vice-presidents.
6
Q
star-studded
A
pełen gwiazd (np. film)
Zaslav’s guy-next-door persona belies a social life that mere mortals can only dream of, exemplified by the star-studded Labor Day soirées that he and Pam had hosted until 2018.
7
Q
z zaburzeniami słuchu, słabosłyszący
A
hard of hearing
Isaac wanted to meet with Pope John XXIII, but he was sent instead to the prefect of the Holy Office, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, who then sent him to 83-year-old Andrea Cardinal Jullien, hoping that a meeting between two old men, both hard of hearing, would lead nowhere.
8
Q
thawing
A
ocieplanie się, polepszanie się (o relacjach)
I’m asking him about this perceived thawing, this idea of a “different” Tom Brady.
9
Q
to tiptoe around something
A
chodzić wokół czegoś na palcach
Perhaps most surprisingly, Brady, who has historically been loath to utter anything political—he used to tiptoe around his old friendship with Donald Trump—showed up with the Bucs at the White House in July and actually dared the third rail of political humor, deadpanning a 2020 election zinger to President Joe Biden.
10
Q
to cajole somebody into doing something
A
nakłonić kogoś
For much of the post–Cold War era, the United States was so powerful that few countries dared challenge it even if they wanted to. Others were cajoled by American soft power into wanting what the United States wanted.
11
Q
entuzjazm, zapał
A
gusto
“Time is the enemy,” Zaslav said. Mergers like this are always rolled out with bullish gusto. Sometimes, despite the best intentions, they turn out to be disasters.
12
Q
a fair amount
A
spora ilość
“I said I’ve spent the last three years working with MTV and Discovery. I spent a fair amount of time with [Discovery chairman] John Hendricks going around the country trying to raise money and grow Discovery Channel.
13
Q
middlebrow
A
pospolity
Zaslav is, in many ways, the mogul of Main Street America. That’s largely a virtue of the service-y middlebrow reality programming that his networks have turned into a cultural phenomenon, whether it’s cake competitions (Food Network), pimple popping (TLC), paranormal adventures (Travel Channel), home-renovation porn (HGTV), or, as I was binge-watching in my hotel room the night before our hangout, Shark Week (Discovery Channel).
14
Q
ząb
A
chomper
He stepped forward with a big smile, revealing a set of chompers fit for a Colgate commercial, and stopped for a chat with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin.
15
Q
gnębić (gdy kogoś gnębi jakiś problem lub pech)
A
to dog
Yet the Turkish president, surrounded by sycophants and dogged by rumours about his health, appears either unable or unwilling to listen to those urging him to change course.
16
Q
free rein
A
wolna ręka
To defend the immutable principles of Christian modesty and chastity,’ the Council warned of the energies spent by the world of fashion, movies, and the press to shake the foundations of Christian morality, as if the Sixth Commandment was outmoded and free rein should be given to all passions, even those against nature.
17
Q
przestrzenny
A
spatial
Users are represented by cartoonish avatar torsos with no legs, and spatial audio technology gives a heightened sense of presence — users hear from others around the room based on where they appear to be seated in the imaginary, shared space.
18
Q
przełączać
A
to toggle
“I feel like I’m living two lives,” he says. “My football life and then my post-football life.” Toggling between both, he admits, is tiring.
19
Q
monolog
A
soliloquy
I often ask young folks what they do. I can’t tell you how many times I hear, “I’m an activist.” My response is usually, “So what activity do you do?” Not picking up my ironic intonation, the answer usually is “social justice,” followed by a long soliloquy about patriarchies, systemic this or that, and the tragedy of food deserts.
20
Q
verdant
A
zielony (kolor); pokryty bujną zielenią
That includes a street-level test kitchen and production studio, a wellness center, an exercise room, and a verdant rooftop terrace with views, to the northwest, of Hudson Yards, where WarnerMedia has been headquartered since 2019.
21
Q
downright
A
wręcz
Later, in his autobiorgrpahy, he admitted knowing that the CIA was involved but tried to play down the scale of his involvement. Rothbard, however felt that Kristol was being disingenuous if not downright dishonest.
22
Q
to bring up somebody
A
wychować kogoś (np. dziecko)
Buckley later described Schlamm, who possessed all the patronizing charm of the Viennese cafe intellectual along with the cultural solemnity of the Jew brought up under German culture, as one of his two closest partners in founding NR.
23
Q
wymyślony; urojony
A
imaginary
Users are represented by cartoonish avatar torsos with no legs, and spatial audio technology gives a heightened sense of presence — users hear from others around the room based on where they appear to be seated in the imaginary, shared space.
24
Q
skrzyżować coś z czymś (dwie rośliny, dwa gatunki zwierząt)
A
to cross something with something
For the young people who buy his books, watch and rewatch his talks, and write social media odes to his genius, Thiel is like Ayn Rand crossed with one of her fictional characters.
25
przyprowadzić kogoś ze sobą; przynieść coś ze sobą
to bring along
Zaslav had **brought along** Discovery’s chief corporate operating officer, David Leavy, and the company’s H.R. boss, Adria Alpert Romm. Their driver deposited them at George Clooney’s former bungalow so Zaslav could prepare.
26
wychować kogoś (np. dziecko)
to bring up somebody
Buckley later described Schlamm, who possessed all the patronizing charm of the Viennese cafe intellectual along with the cultural solemnity of the Jew **brought up** under German culture, as one of his two closest partners in founding NR.
27
meltdown
kryzys
Mr. White so perfectly dissects society’s mental **meltdown**, I’m worried he might end up canceled.
28
to draw up
sporządzić (np. list, raport)
Buckley's sister Priscilla also worked for the CIA, as did almost everyone associated with founding National Review, including William Casey, who would later head the CIA. Casey **drew up** its legal documents.
29
mieć bzika na punkcie kogoś; ubustwiać
to dote
He’s a family man—a **doting** grandpa of two and a loving father to three ambitious millennials. (One works at CNN, one at Axios, and another is pursuing a master’s in education.) “He talks to his kids all the time,” said media investor Ken Lerer, who himself talks to Zaslav “almost every day.”
30
pimple
pryszcz
Zaslav is, in many ways, the mogul of Main Street America. That’s largely a virtue of the service-y middlebrow reality programming that his networks have turned into a cultural phenomenon, whether it’s cake competitions (Food Network), **pimple** popping (TLC), paranormal adventures (Travel Channel), home-renovation porn (HGTV), or, as I was binge-watching in my hotel room the night before our hangout, Shark Week (Discovery Channel).
31
właściciel (firmy, przedsiębiorstwa)
proprietor
Zaslav ordered a plate of scrambled eggs with lox and introduced me to the establishment’s third-generation **proprietor**, Gary Greengrass.
32
jawny; drastyczny (scena przemocy); bez ogródek (np. o wypowiedzi)
explicit
The Iran episode highlights an additional problem: the increasingly unilateral nature of U.S. economic pressure. Until recently, the United States had usually been able to impose financial sanctions with the **explicit** or implicit cooperation of allies.
33
klapa, niewypał
washout
He has also made the case for his political vision in college lectures, in speeches, and in his book Zero to One, which recounts his own personal journey from corporate law **washout** to dot-com billionaire.
34
wspierać w trudnej sytuacji (rząd, organizację, gospodarkę)
to prop up
Others believe that the president’s approach is more calculated. Burak Bilgehan Ozpek, a political scientist at Ankara’s TOBB University, says low interest rates and a cheap currency benefit the network of cronies, especially those in construction and tourism, who help **prop up** Erdogan’s government.
35
pachołek; sługus
lackey
President-elect Donald Trump was planted at a long table on the 25th floor of his Manhattan tower. Trump sat dead center, per custom, and, also per custom, looked deeply satisfied with himself. He was joined by his usual coterie of **lackeys** and advisers and, for a change, the heads of the largest technology companies in the world.
36
to cross something with something
skrzyżować coś z czymś (dwie rośliny, dwa gatunki zwierząt)
For the young people who buy his books, watch and rewatch his talks, and write social media odes to his genius, Thiel is like Ayn Rand **crossed with** one of her fictional characters.
37
to let rip
wybuchnąć, zacząć krzyczeć
Olivia, with her daughterly venomous scorn, then **lets this perfect line rip**: “Yeah. It’s not all about you, dad. It is time to recenter the narrative.” Mark shoots back, “That’s fine by me. I don’t want to be the center of the narrative. Believe me. Let’s center the narrative around, uh, Paula.” That’s Olivia’s friend, who happens to be, as today’s narrative calls it, a person of color.
38
pneumonia
zapalenie płuc
A recurring theme in my conversations with Zaslav’s nearest and dearest was his inveterate generosity. Canceling New Year’s Eve plans to spend the night in the hospital with a sick friend and a platter of Nobu sushi. Sending you chicken soup and matzo and fresh-squeezed orange juice when you’re home in bed with **pneumonia**. Flying a group of his oldest friends to Rome and hooking up a private tour of the Vatican to celebrate his 50th birthday.
39
dokładnie oceniać sytuację
to take stock of the situation
Poncins claimed the conservative majority had been taken entirely by surprise'lj by the November 1964 document. If so, they were regaining their composure, now that they had time to **take stock of the situation**.''
40
prawomyślny, postępujący zgodnie z linią polityczną
on message
Still, Florida’s a different vibe. Anyone can see that. New England, coached by the stone-faced legend Bill Belichick, prided itself on its hive mind, in which the institution always superseded the individual. No one embodied this discipline more than Brady, who loyally stayed **on message**, seldom offering any comment that could become a locker-room distraction.
41
kryzys
meltdown
Mr. White so perfectly dissects society’s mental **meltdown**, I’m worried he might end up canceled.
42
zatoczyć koło, wrócić do punktu wyjścia
to come full circle
WITH THE MARRIAGE of Discovery and WarnerMedia, Zaslav’s career **has come full circle**. He started as a corporate lawyer in the mid-1980s working for LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, a now defunct firm that specialized in public utilities.
43
hard of hearing
z zaburzeniami słuchu, słabosłyszący
Isaac wanted to meet with Pope John XXIII, but he was sent instead to the prefect of the Holy Office, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, who then sent him to 83-year-old Andrea Cardinal Jullien, hoping that a meeting between two old men, both **hard of hearing**, would lead nowhere.
44
babble
bełkot
“Recenter the narrative” is fatuous **babble** but somehow it means everything in today’s world. So many young folks I meet seem to have the same personal narrative: Change the world. Make the world a better place. I’m fine with that, but I often push back on how to accomplish it. Simply adding the word “sustainable” or “equity” doesn’t change the world.
45
tajny, potajemny, sekretny
clandestine
Most of the arriving luminaries had simply ignored the assembled reporters, whose job was to stand around and shout questions that they knew probably wouldn’t be answered. But Zaslav obliged, which was lucky for the press, because he was the newsiest participant of the five-day gabfest, famous for its **clandestine** dealmaking.
46
bełkot
babble
“Recenter the narrative” is fatuous **babble** but somehow it means everything in today’s world. So many young folks I meet seem to have the same personal narrative: Change the world. Make the world a better place. I’m fine with that, but I often push back on how to accomplish it. Simply adding the word “sustainable” or “equity” doesn’t change the world.
47
na przykład
for one
Facebook, **for one**, had a history of severely limiting what third-party developers could do on its services, said Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
48
jak zwykle
as per usual
It's a warm summer afternoon, and there he is, via Zoom from Tampa Bay, in a T-shirt and AirPods, TB12 himself, looking tanned and relaxed and, **per usual**, a solid 10 years younger than his actual age, which is now, amazingly, 44.
49
to be looking over one's shoulder
martwić się, obawiać się
Bureaucrats are **looking over their shoulder**, they say, amid warnings from Kilicdaroglu that they will be held to account for decisions they make now.
50
ukryty, dający się wywnioskować
implicit
The Iran episode highlights an additional problem: the increasingly unilateral nature of U.S. economic pressure. Until recently, the United States had usually been able to impose financial sanctions with the explicit or **implicit** cooperation of allies.
51
reticent
powściągliwy w słowach
But even the country’s largest business association, Tusiad, which is often **reticent** about criticising Erdogan’s policies, has warned that the government’s obsessive focus on growth at any cost is damaging the country.
52
potem, następnie, później
thereafter
How successful he proves could affect the future of online shopping. It will affect his legacy— whether he is remembered as a retailing trailblazer, or someone who did his best work at Apple only to struggle **thereafter**.
53
fatuous
bezmyślny, głupi
“Recenter the narrative” is **fatuous** babble but somehow it means everything in today’s world. So many young folks I meet seem to have the same personal narrative: Change the world. Make the world a better place. I’m fine with that, but I often push back on how to accomplish it. Simply adding the word “sustainable” or “equity” doesn’t change the world.
54
pryszcz
pimple
Zaslav is, in many ways, the mogul of Main Street America. That’s largely a virtue of the service-y middlebrow reality programming that his networks have turned into a cultural phenomenon, whether it’s cake competitions (Food Network), **pimple** popping (TLC), paranormal adventures (Travel Channel), home-renovation porn (HGTV), or, as I was binge-watching in my hotel room the night before our hangout, Shark Week (Discovery Channel).
55
promień (światła)
beam
One window off to the left, high up in the ceiling, is open, and a long **beam** of dust- and smoke-filled light descends diagonally to the carved, wooden choir benches otT to the right.
56
nagły koniec
screeching halt
WHEN THE WORLD came to a **screeching halt** in March 2020, Zaslav found himself in one of the most difficult moments of his career. For starters, a number of his employees were ill, including three he’d recently been in meetings with. (Zaslav dodged the bullet.) No one was hospitalized, but some were sick enough to be monitoring oxygen levels and praying they didn’t deteriorate.
57
a shot across the bows
sygnał ostrzegawczy (że się czegoś nie popiera i będzie temu przeciwdziałać)
We Christian innocents, she wrote, have been duped into our present godless condition by the unholy triumvirate of communism, psychoanalysis and relativity. These three symbolized by Marx, Freud and Einstein, are the result of the messianic impulse of the religiously frustrated Jewish ego. It didn't take long for the Jews to react to this **shot across their bow**.
58
to unburden
wywnętrzać się, zwierzać się (ze zmartwień, sekretów)
The man is indisputably a brilliant quarterback, one of the great champions in sports history, and, of course, with his wife, Gisele Bündchen, one half of one of the galaxy’s starriest couples—but candidly **unburdening** his innermost thoughts to the media?
59
installment
odcinek (serialu), część (np. trylogii)
In the first **installment**, Zaslav gave a tour of his home office, which consisted of a small desk outfitted with an iMac and a conference phone. The week-four video featured a coffee table covered in classic board games and a copy of Taschen’s “SUMO-size” illustrated history of the Rolling Stones (Zaslav’s favorite band).
60
dotrzymać obietnicę
to deliver on a promise
“He’s back in his groove,” said Gene Munster, managing partner at the venture-capital firm Loup Ventures, an investor in Enjoy. Mr. Munster said he believes in Mr. Johnson’s latest vision, and if the company can **deliver on** it, “He’ll be redeemed.”
61
czuć się obco
to feel out of place
To have one of the squares in a group video chat “filled up by a cartoon character that speaks to you is not going to **feel that out of place**”, predicted Jared Spataro, head of Teams.
62
stretch
tu: okres, czas
He is grateful for his time in New England. How could he not be? It was the most successful **stretch** of football anyone’s ever played—all those championships, Super Bowls, division titles, never a losing season since becoming the starter.
63
w zanadrzu
up one's sleeve
I asked him before he had to jump off our Zoom for a parade of meetings with producers and agents and talent and other Hollywood folk. Is there yet another megadeal **up his sleeve**? Will Warner Bros. Discovery need to get bigger still?
64
to slander
szkalować
This people was predestined to receive the Messiah and has long been waiting for him for thousands of years and was completely absorbed in this hope and certitude, but at the very moment, that is to say, when Christ came and spoke and showed himself, not only did they not recognize him, but fought him, **slandered** him, abused him and finally put him to death.''
65
co drugi
every other
**Every other** Friday during the frigid winter months, he and Pam would meet up with Peggy and Richard Gelfond, the CEO of IMAX, under heat lamps outside the American Hotel in Sag Harbor. “We were like the only ones there,” Gelfond said.
66
to bring along
przyprowadzić kogoś ze sobą; przynieść coś ze sobą
Zaslav had **brought along** Discovery’s chief corporate operating officer, David Leavy, and the company’s H.R. boss, Adria Alpert Romm. Their driver deposited them at George Clooney’s former bungalow so Zaslav could prepare.
67
innate
wrodzony
He is obviously he’s kind of superhuman in stature and looks and charisma and all those things, but he has an **innate** ability to always laugh at himself.
68
pokonać, dowalić, bić
to pummel
It’s defiant to the point of being comical. Athletes aren’t supposed to be so good for so long—in any sport, much less a sport in which the opposition is trying to **pummel** you to the ground.
69
unlikely
niezwykły, dziwny
So far, their **unlikely** alliance of the leftist CHP, rightwing IYI, Kurds and other smaller parties has managed to stay united despite Erdogan’s persistent attempts to break it up. But there could be a messy showdown over the choice of a unity candidate to run against the president.
70
lackey
pachołek; sługus
President-elect Donald Trump was planted at a long table on the 25th floor of his Manhattan tower. Trump sat dead center, per custom, and, also per custom, looked deeply satisfied with himself. He was joined by his usual coterie of **lackeys** and advisers and, for a change, the heads of the largest technology companies in the world.
71
zbiorowa świadomość
hive mind
Still, Florida’s a different vibe. Anyone can see that. New England, coached by the stone-faced legend Bill Belichick, prided itself on its **hive mind**, in which the institution always superseded the individual. No one embodied this discipline more than Brady, who loyally stayed on message, seldom offering any comment that could become a locker-room distraction.
72
skrywać
to belie
Zaslav’s guy-next-door persona **belies** a social life that mere mortals can only dream of, exemplified by the star-studded Labor Day soirées that he and Pam had hosted until 2018.
73
mores
obyczaje, zwyczaje
As Italian director Federico Fellini was saying in films like La Dolce Vita, American films as the vehicle for American **mores** were undermining the traditional way of life in Catholic Europe and in Italy in particular.
74
domicile
miejsce zamieszkania
He picked up his laptop and gave me a tour of the swanky bungalow that serves as his West Coast **domicile** until the Woodland property is completed. It has a private pool and giant portrait of Elizabeth Taylor, who spent six of her eight honeymoons at the hotel.
75
in lieu of
zamiast; w miejsce
It should come as no surprise that they have opted to endure economic pain **in lieu of** making such massive concessions.
76
for starters
na początek, na dzień dobry
WHEN THE WORLD came to a screeching halt in March 2020, Zaslav found himself in one of the most difficult moments of his career. **For starters**, a number of his employees were ill, including three he’d recently been in meetings with. (Zaslav dodged the bullet.) No one was hospitalized, but some were sick enough to be monitoring oxygen levels and praying they didn’t deteriorate.
77
venom
jad; złośliwość
Olivia, with her daughterly **venomous** scorn, then lets this perfect line rip: “Yeah. It’s not all about you, dad. It is time to recenter the narrative.” Mark shoots back, “That’s fine by me. I don’t want to be the center of the narrative. Believe me. Let’s center the narrative around, uh, Paula.” That’s Olivia’s friend, who happens to be, as today’s narrative calls it, a person of color.
78
otwarte (pytanie); luźna (uwaga)
open-ended
On the eve of the COP26 climate summit, that began on Sunday, Biden hinted at unspecified retaliation against Russia and Saudi Arabia if they didn’t increase oil output soon. The **open-ended** threat did not persuade the Opec+ oil exporter group to adjust its production quotas at a meeting yesterday.
79
chandelier
żyrandol
In the center nave there are a few **chandeliers** with a few dimly glowing bulbs, but for the most part the church is dark.
80
wyłapać coś, zauważyć coś
to pick up
I often ask young folks what they do. I can’t tell you how many times I hear, “I’m an activist.” My response is usually, “So what activity do you do?” **Not picking up** my ironic intonation, the answer usually is “social justice,” followed by a long soliloquy about patriarchies, systemic this or that, and the tragedy of food deserts.
81
wręcz
downright
Later, in his autobiorgrpahy, he admitted knowing that the CIA was involved but tried to play down the scale of his involvement. Rothbard, however felt that Kristol was being disingenuous if not **downright** dishonest.
82
frenzy
szał, szum, szaleństwo
Enjoy is one of many companies to take advantage of the **frenzy** around SPACs. Investors have poured billions of dollars into these so-called blank-check companies, which are traded on exchanges with the goal of merging with a private company, such as Enjoy.
83
to brush aside
odsuwać na bok
They **brush aside** concerns that elements of Turkey’s deep state — which includes the intelligence service, police, military and criminal elements, and has links to Erdogan’s ultranationalist coalition partner — could move to prop up an ailing president.
84
tu: jeszcze (lepszy/większy)
(bigger/better) still
I asked him before he had to jump off our Zoom for a parade of meetings with producers and agents and talent and other Hollywood folk. Is there yet another megadeal up his sleeve? Will Warner Bros. Discovery need to get **bigger still**?
85
gabfest
okazja do porozmawiania
Most of the arriving luminaries had simply ignored the assembled reporters, whose job was to stand around and shout questions that they knew probably wouldn’t be answered. But Zaslav obliged, which was lucky for the press, because he was the newsiest participant of the five-day **gabfest**, famous for its clandestine dealmaking.
86
sokół
falcon
“It’s from The Maltese **falcon**, which is a Warner Bros. movie,” he said. “It’s one of my favorite movies, and that line comes at the very end of the movie, when a police officer comes, and the Maltese falcon is sitting there and the police officer asks Humphrey Bogart, ‘What is that?’ And he says, ‘It’s the stuff that dreams are made of.’
87
odcinek (serialu), część (np. trylogii)
installment
In the first **installment**, Zaslav gave a tour of his home office, which consisted of a small desk outfitted with an iMac and a conference phone. The week-four video featured a coffee table covered in classic board games and a copy of Taschen’s “SUMO-size” illustrated history of the Rolling Stones (Zaslav’s favorite band).
88
sygnał ostrzegawczy (że się czegoś nie popiera i będzie temu przeciwdziałać)
a shot across the bows
We Christian innocents, she wrote, have been duped into our present godless condition by the unholy triumvirate of communism, psychoanalysis and relativity. These three symbolized by Marx, Freud and Einstein, are the result of the messianic impulse of the religiously frustrated Jewish ego. It didn't take long for the Jews to react to this **shot across their bow**.
89
on the back of
w następstwie czegoś
The president, who for years won elections **on the back of** ushering in greater prosperity for millions, continues to trumpet the country’s impressive headline growth figures.
90
być na coś przygotowanym
to be primed for something
At first, Zaslav rattled off a few brief and unsurprising remarks about how the media industry **was primed for** further consolidation. Then he uttered the four words that gave CNBC its headline: “We’re not done yet.”
91
zerwać z nałogiem; zerwać z nawykiem
to kick a habit
Can India **kick its coal habit**?
92
soirée [swarei]
wieczór towarzyski, przyjęcie wieczorowe
Zaslav’s guy-next-door persona belies a social life that mere mortals can only dream of, exemplified by the star-studded Labor Day **soirées** that he and Pam had hosted until 2018.
93
to drop
opublikować (najczęściej w internecie)
That moment finally came this week when the now-public company **dropped** an SEC filing stating it was heading into the adjusted black — provided you indulge it in its favoured form of accounting: the Silicon Valley-revered “adjusted Ebitda”.
94
to supersede
zastępować (ideę, produkt, metodę), wypierać (kogoś, coś)
Still, Florida’s a different vibe. Anyone can see that. New England, coached by the stone-faced legend Bill Belichick, prided itself on its hive mind, in which the institution always **superseded** the individual. No one embodied this discipline more than Brady, who loyally stayed on message, seldom offering any comment that could become a locker-room distraction.
95
żarliwy
fervent
But Silicon Valley also reflected the values of the man who’d organized the meeting, and Thiel—a gay immigrant technologist with two Stanford degrees, who’d somehow found his way to becoming a **fervent** Trump supporter— seemed to value the expansion of his own wealth above almost all else.
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to pummel
pokonać, dowalić, bić
It’s defiant to the point of being comical. Athletes aren’t supposed to be so good for so long—in any sport, much less a sport in which the opposition is trying to **pummel** you to the ground.
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open-ended
otwarte (pytanie); luźna (uwaga)
On the eve of the COP26 climate summit, that began on Sunday, Biden hinted at unspecified retaliation against Russia and Saudi Arabia if they didn’t increase oil output soon. The **open-ended** threat did not persuade the Opec+ oil exporter group to adjust its production quotas at a meeting yesterday.
98
odsuwać na bok
to brush aside
They **brush aside** concerns that elements of Turkey’s deep state — which includes the intelligence service, police, military and criminal elements, and has links to Erdogan’s ultranationalist coalition partner — could move to prop up an ailing president.
99
chodzić wokół czegoś na palcach
to tiptoe around something
Perhaps most surprisingly, Brady, who has historically been loath to utter anything political—he used to **tiptoe around** his old friendship with Donald Trump—showed up with the Bucs at the White House in July and actually dared the third rail of political humor, deadpanning a 2020 election zinger to President Joe Biden.
100
to throw back
zjeść lub wypić coś szybko
In another, shot in Zaslav’s kitchen, he gave everyone a taste of the comfort food he’d been **throwing back**: nonpareils, Pop Secret, Utz pretzels, and Reddi-wip. “I may be gaining a little bit of weight,” he said.
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to dote
mieć bzika na punkcie kogoś; ubustwiać
He’s a family man—a **doting** grandpa of two and a loving father to three ambitious millennials. (One works at CNN, one at Axios, and another is pursuing a master’s in education.) “He talks to his kids all the time,” said media investor Ken Lerer, who himself talks to Zaslav “almost every day.”
102
przytyk
dig
This is not a **dig**; Brady’s said this himself. “What I say versus what I think are two totally different things,” the quarterback said on an episode of the LeBron James–produced talk show, The Shop. “I would say 90 percent of what I say is probably not what I’m thinking.”
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to redeem
rehabilitować (się), kompensować (wady)
“He’s back in his groove,” said Gene Munster, managing partner at the venture-capital firm Loup Ventures, an investor in Enjoy. Mr. Munster said he believes in Mr. Johnson’s latest vision, and if the company can deliver on it, “He’ll be **redeemed**.”
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equity
słuszność, sprawiedliwość
“Recenter the narrative” is fatuous babble but somehow it means everything in today’s world. So many young folks I meet seem to have the same personal narrative: Change the world. Make the world a better place. I’m fine with that, but I often push back on how to accomplish it. Simply adding the word “sustainable” or “**equity**” doesn’t change the world.
105
nie przerywać
not miss a beat
Because of intense internecine communist hatred, the Trotskyites were willing, if not positively eager, to grasp the levers of the anti-Stalinist propaganda machine. According to Rothbard, the Neoconservatives moved from cafeteria Trotskyites to apologists for the US warfare state **without missing a beat**.''
106
profusely
wylewnie, gorąco (dziękować)
They were polite, even solicitous, thanking Trump **profusely** and repeatedly as he cracked wise at their expense. Trump negged Bezos over his ownership of the Washington Post and Cook over Apple’s balance sheet. “Tim has a problem,” Trump said. “He has too much cash.” The CEOs listened politely.
107
sporządzić (np. list, raport)
to draw up
Buckley's sister Priscilla also worked for the CIA, as did almost everyone associated with founding National Review, including William Casey, who would later head the CIA. Casey **drew up** its legal documents.
108
tania knajpa, melina
joint
Before the pandemic, Zaslav was part of an off-the-record monthly lunch gathering hosted by The New Yorker’s Ken Auletta at an Italian **joint** on the Upper East Side; Zaslav turned it into a biweekly Zoom session, and his office would send the invites.
109
zapalenie płuc
pneumonia
A recurring theme in my conversations with Zaslav’s nearest and dearest was his inveterate generosity. Canceling New Year’s Eve plans to spend the night in the hospital with a sick friend and a platter of Nobu sushi. Sending you chicken soup and matzo and fresh-squeezed orange juice when you’re home in bed with **pneumonia**. Flying a group of his oldest friends to Rome and hooking up a private tour of the Vatican to celebrate his 50th birthday.
110
protekcjonalny
patronizing
Buckley later described Schlamm, who possessed all the **patronizing** charm of the Viennese cafe intellectual along with the cultural solemnity of the Jew brought up under German culture, as one of his two closest partners in founding NR.
111
namesake
imiennik
Initially, the TB12 method got attention for its **namesake’s** rigorous lifestyle and diet—avoiding nightshades like tomatoes and strawberries, treating himself to avocado ice cream, etc.
112
to prop up
wspierać w trudnej sytuacji (rząd, organizację, gospodarkę)
Others believe that the president’s approach is more calculated. Burak Bilgehan Ozpek, a political scientist at Ankara’s TOBB University, says low interest rates and a cheap currency benefit the network of cronies, especially those in construction and tourism, who help **prop up** Erdogan’s government.
113
wylewnie, gorąco (dziękować)
profusely
They were polite, even solicitous, thanking Trump **profusely** and repeatedly as he cracked wise at their expense. Trump negged Bezos over his ownership of the Washington Post and Cook over Apple’s balance sheet. “Tim has a problem,” Trump said. “He has too much cash.” The CEOs listened politely.
114
to dog
gnębić (gdy kogoś gnębi jakiś problem lub pech)
Yet the Turkish president, surrounded by sycophants and **dogged** by rumours about his health, appears either unable or unwilling to listen to those urging him to change course.
115
frigid
zimny
Every other Friday during the **frigid** winter months, he and Pam would meet up with Peggy and Richard Gelfond, the CEO of IMAX, under heat lamps outside the American Hotel in Sag Harbor. “We were like the only ones there,” Gelfond said.
116
up one's sleeve
w zanadrzu
I asked him before he had to jump off our Zoom for a parade of meetings with producers and agents and talent and other Hollywood folk. Is there yet another megadeal **up his sleeve**? Will Warner Bros. Discovery need to get bigger still?
117
mogul
magnat
Thiel isn’t the richest tech **mogul**, but he has been, in many ways, the most influential.
118
tajny; dyskretny
surreptitious
A **surreptitious** deal was cut with one of the Freeman editors (presumably Schlamm) to turn the magazine over to Buckley.
119
mówienie z kamienną miną, śmiertelną powagą
deadpanning
Perhaps most surprisingly, Brady, who has historically been loath to utter anything political—he used to tiptoe around his old friendship with Donald Trump—showed up with the Bucs at the White House in July and actually dared the third rail of political humor, **deadpanning** a 2020 election zinger to President Joe Biden.
120
dig
przytyk
This is not a **dig**; Brady’s said this himself. “What I say versus what I think are two totally different things,” the quarterback said on an episode of the LeBron James–produced talk show, The Shop. “I would say 90 percent of what I say is probably not what I’m thinking.”
121
szkalować
to slander
This people was predestined to receive the Messiah and has long been waiting for him for thousands of years and was completely absorbed in this hope and certitude, but at the very moment, that is to say, when Christ came and spoke and showed himself, not only did they not recognize him, but fought him, **slandered** him, abused him and finally put him to death.''
122
miejsce zamieszkania
domicile
He picked up his laptop and gave me a tour of the swanky bungalow that serves as his West Coast **domicile** until the Woodland property is completed. It has a private pool and giant portrait of Elizabeth Taylor, who spent six of her eight honeymoons at the hotel.
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chomper
ząb
He stepped forward with a big smile, revealing a set of **chompers** fit for a Colgate commercial, and stopped for a chat with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin.
124
for one
na przykład
Facebook, **for one**, had a history of severely limiting what third-party developers could do on its services, said Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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every other
co drugi
**Every other** Friday during the frigid winter months, he and Pam would meet up with Peggy and Richard Gelfond, the CEO of IMAX, under heat lamps outside the American Hotel in Sag Harbor. “We were like the only ones there,” Gelfond said.
126
rozluźniać się
to loosen up
In the Florida sun, a noticeably more carefree version of Brady— Brady 2.0—has arisen. Playing for a team with a less formal, more let-it-all-hang-out vibe, under a veteran head coach known to utter stressless maxims like “Win or lose, we booze,” there appears to be a bit of a…**loosening up**.
127
zrelaksować się; nie przejmować się
let it all hang out
In the Florida sun, a noticeably more carefree version of Brady— Brady 2.0—has arisen. Playing for a team with a less formal, more **let-it-all-hang-out** vibe, under a veteran head coach known to utter stressless maxims like “Win or lose, we booze,” there appears to be a bit of a…loosening up.
128
to tuck
wkładać (np. koszulę w spodnie), chować (np. pieniądze do portfela)
Thiel sat next to Trump with his arms **tucked** under the table, as if trying to shrink away from the president-elect.
129
garstka (np. ludzi)
smattering
In 2018, in Zaslav’s last major move before the Warner deal, Discovery closed on its $14.6 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive, which is how Zaslav came to be the steward of HGTV, Food Network, Travel Channel, DIY Network, and a **smattering** of other properties.
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salient
główny, najistotniejszy
An equally **salient** concern is the capacity of the opposition, which first joined forces for national elections in 2018, to waste the opportunity.
131
to take stock of the situation
dokładnie oceniać sytuację
Poncins claimed the conservative majority had been taken entirely by surprise'lj by the November 1964 document. If so, they were regaining their composure, now that they had time to **take stock of the situation**.''
132
explicit
jawny; drastyczny (scena przemocy); bez ogródek (np. o wypowiedzi)
The Iran episode highlights an additional problem: the increasingly unilateral nature of U.S. economic pressure. Until recently, the United States had usually been able to impose financial sanctions with the **explicit** or implicit cooperation of allies.
133
smattering
garstka (np. ludzi)
In 2018, in Zaslav’s last major move before the Warner deal, Discovery closed on its $14.6 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive, which is how Zaslav came to be the steward of HGTV, Food Network, Travel Channel, DIY Network, and a **smattering** of other properties.
134
to toggle
przełączać
“I feel like I’m living two lives,” he says. “My football life and then my post-football life.” **Toggling** between both, he admits, is tiring.
135
beam
promień (światła)
One window off to the left, high up in the ceiling, is open, and a long **beam** of dust- and smoke-filled light descends diagonally to the carved, wooden choir benches otT to the right.
136
to hook up
spiknąć się (przyłączyć się do kogoś); spotykać się z kimś
A recurring theme in my conversations with Zaslav’s nearest and dearest was his inveterate generosity. Canceling New Year’s Eve plans to spend the night in the hospital with a sick friend and a platter of Nobu sushi. Sending you chicken soup and matzo and fresh-squeezed orange juice when you’re home in bed with pneumonia. Flying a group of his oldest friends to Rome and **hooking up** a private tour of the Vatican to celebrate his 50th birthday.
137
bezmyślny, głupi
fatuous
“Recenter the narrative” is **fatuous** babble but somehow it means everything in today’s world. So many young folks I meet seem to have the same personal narrative: Change the world. Make the world a better place. I’m fine with that, but I often push back on how to accomplish it. Simply adding the word “sustainable” or “equity” doesn’t change the world.
138
podnosić koszt (np. czynszu)
to hike
“We keep having these cycles: the Turkish central bank **hikes** rates, Erdogan gets upset, changes the staff, they cut rates and then when it is really bad it changes again and they hike rates.”
139
przedstawiać coś, wyjaśniać coś
to spell out
But important parts of this vision have yet to be **spelt out**, including the technical foundations that will make it possible and the terms on which the new metaverses will allow access to avatars that were created elsewhere.
140
dla odmiany
for a change
President-elect Donald Trump was planted at a long table on the 25th floor of his Manhattan tower. Trump sat dead center, per custom, and, also per custom, looked deeply satisfied with himself. He was joined by his usual coterie of lackeys and advisers and, **for a change**, the heads of the largest technology companies in the world.
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for a change
dla odmiany
President-elect Donald Trump was planted at a long table on the 25th floor of his Manhattan tower. Trump sat dead center, per custom, and, also per custom, looked deeply satisfied with himself. He was joined by his usual coterie of lackeys and advisers and, **for a change**, the heads of the largest technology companies in the world.
142
przymus
coercion
The democratic recession and the fraying of the liberal international order have created more revisionist states that disagree ideologically with Washington. At the same time, visible U.S. policy failures—in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria—have made the threat of U.S. **coercion** seem less scary.
143
to conjoin
łączyć; wiązać
The reference to moralities of race and class referred to Nazism and Communism. But they were **conjoined** in condemnation with the so-called morality of situation or individualistic morality, which could only refer to errors emanating from America.
144
powściągliwy w słowach
reticent
But even the country’s largest business association, Tusiad, which is often **reticent** about criticising Erdogan’s policies, has warned that the government’s obsessive focus on growth at any cost is damaging the country.
145
wkładać (np. koszulę w spodnie), chować (np. pieniądze do portfela)
to tuck
Thiel sat next to Trump with his arms **tucked** under the table, as if trying to shrink away from the president-elect.
146
nieszczery
disingenuous
Later, in his autobiorgrpahy, he admitted knowing that the CIA was involved but tried to play down the scale of his involvement. Rothbard, however felt that Kristol was being **disingenuous** if not downright dishonest.
147
stature
postura (osoby), wzrost
He is obviously he’s kind of superhuman in **stature** and looks and charisma and all those things, but he has an innate ability to always laugh at himself.
148
przedstawić sprawę, bronić sprawy lub kogoś (one's) w sądzie
to plead the case
After **pleading his case**, Isaac sat in silence, waiting. Jullien finally said the word that provided the key for the door Isaac wanted unlocked: Bea. Augustin Cardinal Bea, the German Jesuit and Biblical scholar who had authored Pius XII's encyclical on biblical scholarship, Divini Afflante Spiritu.
149
implicit
ukryty, dający się wywnioskować
The Iran episode highlights an additional problem: the increasingly unilateral nature of U.S. economic pressure. Until recently, the United States had usually been able to impose financial sanctions with the explicit or **implicit** cooperation of allies.
150
to lose one's hold on something
tracić kontrolę nad czymś
If the Church **lost its hold on** sexual morals, it would lose control of the ordinary way of sanctification for the majority of the human race.
151
tu: okres, czas
stretch
He is grateful for his time in New England. How could he not be? It was the most successful **stretch** of football anyone’s ever played—all those championships, Super Bowls, division titles, never a losing season since becoming the starter.
152
washout
klapa, niewypał
He has also made the case for his political vision in college lectures, in speeches, and in his book Zero to One, which recounts his own personal journey from corporate law **washout** to dot-com billionaire.
153
hive mind
zbiorowa świadomość
Still, Florida’s a different vibe. Anyone can see that. New England, coached by the stone-faced legend Bill Belichick, prided itself on its **hive mind**, in which the institution always superseded the individual. No one embodied this discipline more than Brady, who loyally stayed on message, seldom offering any comment that could become a locker-room distraction.
154
in the flesh
na żywo, we własnej osobie
Zaslav had flown into Burbank to introduce himself to WarnerMedia’s 27,000 employees. The vast majority of them would be tuning in via videoconference, but a hundred of Warner’s top executives were there **in the flesh**, their first time back since the start of the pandemic.
155
as per usual
jak zwykle
It's a warm summer afternoon, and there he is, via Zoom from Tampa Bay, in a T-shirt and AirPods, TB12 himself, looking tanned and relaxed and, **per usual**, a solid 10 years younger than his actual age, which is now, amazingly, 44.
156
zinger
dowcipna riposta
Perhaps most surprisingly, Brady, who has historically been loath to utter anything political—he used to tiptoe around his old friendship with Donald Trump—showed up with the Bucs at the White House in July and actually dared the third rail of political humor, deadpanning a 2020 election **zinger** to President Joe Biden.
157
along these lines; along those lines
podobnie; coś w tym stylu
Sensing an opening, Isaac told the pope this kindled great hopes in the people of the Old Testament.'' It was time to fulfill those expectations by issuing a condemnation of anti-Semitism. Pope John had been thinking **along those lines**, but he could not do this unilaterally because the Church was not a monarchie absolue.
158
podnieść fałszywy alarm
to cry wolf
Reading Martin's self-serving anonymous account of the council's proceedings in the Times, Morris Abram of the AJC professed to be reassured. If so, he was deceived too. The Jewish schema was, indeed, in trouble. Martin had **cried wolf** so many times that no one recognized the truth of what he was now saying.
159
trait
cecha (np. charakteru)
Leadership. It’s not a physical **trait**; it’s more of a mental/emotional trait. You know, I’m the one calling the plays. If I lack any confidence, [my teammates] see right through it.
160
łączyć; wiązać
to conjoin
The reference to moralities of race and class referred to Nazism and Communism. But they were **conjoined** in condemnation with the so-called morality of situation or individualistic morality, which could only refer to errors emanating from America.
161
skręcać, zmieniać kierunek (o drodze, o pojeździe)
to veer
For a moment here, Brady **veers** back to his careful self, because there can be an exasperating binary whenever he talks about his new life in Florida—that anything positive he says about Tampa is somehow a slight of his former life in New England.
162
to belie
skrywać
Zaslav’s guy-next-door persona **belies** a social life that mere mortals can only dream of, exemplified by the star-studded Labor Day soirées that he and Pam had hosted until 2018.
163
to dodge a bullet
uniknąć kłopotów w ostatniej chwili, ledwo uniknąć problemów
WHEN THE WORLD came to a screeching halt in March 2020, Zaslav found himself in one of the most difficult moments of his career. For starters, a number of his employees were ill, including three he’d recently been in meetings with. (Zaslav **dodged the bullet**.) No one was hospitalized, but some were sick enough to be monitoring oxygen levels and praying they didn’t deteriorate.
164
słuszność, sprawiedliwość
equity
“Recenter the narrative” is fatuous babble but somehow it means everything in today’s world. So many young folks I meet seem to have the same personal narrative: Change the world. Make the world a better place. I’m fine with that, but I often push back on how to accomplish it. Simply adding the word “sustainable” or “**equity**” doesn’t change the world.
165
magnat
mogul
Thiel isn’t the richest tech **mogul**, but he has been, in many ways, the most influential.
166
składać obietnice bez pokrycia;
nieszczere poparcie;
to pay lip service
The technical foundations for how the metaverses will be linked have yet to be laid, and though most of the companies involved **pay lip service** to building interoperable worlds, it is not clear how open these will be.
167
fervent
żarliwy
But Silicon Valley also reflected the values of the man who’d organized the meeting, and Thiel—a gay immigrant technologist with two Stanford degrees, who’d somehow found his way to becoming a **fervent** Trump supporter— seemed to value the expansion of his own wealth above almost all else.
168
to back down
wycofywać się, ustąpić, dać za wygraną
Days later, he risked the worst diplomatic crisis in decades by ordering the expulsion of 10 western ambassadors who had called for a jailed philanthropist to be released, before **backing down**.
169
coercion
przymus
The democratic recession and the fraying of the liberal international order have created more revisionist states that disagree ideologically with Washington. At the same time, visible U.S. policy failures—in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria—have made the threat of U.S. **coercion** seem less scary.
170
kpić, zadrwić, szydzić, patrzeć z pogardą (na kogoś)
to sneer
Olivia **sneers**: “Hmm, no, that’s just you, mom.” Nicole then puts her daughter back in her place—something mothers don’t seem to do anymore: “And what’s your system of belief, Olivia? Not capitalism. Not socialism. So just cynicism?”
171
soliloquy
monolog
I often ask young folks what they do. I can’t tell you how many times I hear, “I’m an activist.” My response is usually, “So what activity do you do?” Not picking up my ironic intonation, the answer usually is “social justice,” followed by a long **soliloquy** about patriarchies, systemic this or that, and the tragedy of food deserts.
172
gusto
entuzjazm, zapał
“Time is the enemy,” Zaslav said. Mergers like this are always rolled out with bullish **gusto**. Sometimes, despite the best intentions, they turn out to be disasters.
173
wrodzony
innate
He is obviously he’s kind of superhuman in stature and looks and charisma and all those things, but he has an **innate** ability to always laugh at himself.
174
wybuchnąć, zacząć krzyczeć
to let rip
Olivia, with her daughterly venomous scorn, then **lets this perfect line rip**: “Yeah. It’s not all about you, dad. It is time to recenter the narrative.” Mark shoots back, “That’s fine by me. I don’t want to be the center of the narrative. Believe me. Let’s center the narrative around, uh, Paula.” That’s Olivia’s friend, who happens to be, as today’s narrative calls it, a person of color.
175
to spell out
przedstawiać coś, wyjaśniać coś
But important parts of this vision have yet to be **spelt out**, including the technical foundations that will make it possible and the terms on which the new metaverses will allow access to avatars that were created elsewhere.
176
not miss a beat
nie przerywać
Because of intense internecine communist hatred, the Trotskyites were willing, if not positively eager, to grasp the levers of the anti-Stalinist propaganda machine. According to Rothbard, the Neoconservatives moved from cafeteria Trotskyites to apologists for the US warfare state **without missing a beat**.''
177
to hike
podnosić koszt (np. czynszu)
“We keep having these cycles: the Turkish central bank **hikes** rates, Erdogan gets upset, changes the staff, they cut rates and then when it is really bad it changes again and they hike rates.”
178
cecha (np. charakteru)
trait
Leadership. It’s not a physical **trait**; it’s more of a mental/emotional trait. You know, I’m the one calling the plays. If I lack any confidence, [my teammates] see right through it.
179
podobnie; coś w tym stylu
along these lines; along those lines
Sensing an opening, Isaac told the pope this kindled great hopes in the people of the Old Testament.'' It was time to fulfill those expectations by issuing a condemnation of anti-Semitism. Pope John had been thinking **along those lines**, but he could not do this unilaterally because the Church was not a monarchie absolue.
180
surreptitious
tajny; dyskretny
A **surreptitious** deal was cut with one of the Freeman editors (presumably Schlamm) to turn the magazine over to Buckley.
181
joint
tania knajpa, melina
Before the pandemic, Zaslav was part of an off-the-record monthly lunch gathering hosted by The New Yorker’s Ken Auletta at an Italian **joint** on the Upper East Side; Zaslav turned it into a biweekly Zoom session, and his office would send the invites.
182
deadpanning
mówienie z kamienną miną, śmiertelną powagą
Perhaps most surprisingly, Brady, who has historically been loath to utter anything political—he used to tiptoe around his old friendship with Donald Trump—showed up with the Bucs at the White House in July and actually dared the third rail of political humor, **deadpanning** a 2020 election zinger to President Joe Biden.
183
dowcipna riposta
zinger
Perhaps most surprisingly, Brady, who has historically been loath to utter anything political—he used to tiptoe around his old friendship with Donald Trump—showed up with the Bucs at the White House in July and actually dared the third rail of political humor, deadpanning a 2020 election **zinger** to President Joe Biden.
184
na żywo, we własnej osobie
in the flesh
Zaslav had flown into Burbank to introduce himself to WarnerMedia’s 27,000 employees. The vast majority of them would be tuning in via videoconference, but a hundred of Warner’s top executives were there **in the flesh**, their first time back since the start of the pandemic.
185
innermost
najskrytszy
The man is indisputably a brilliant quarterback, one of the great champions in sports history, and, of course, with his wife, Gisele Bündchen, one half of one of the galaxy’s starriest couples—but candidly unburdening his **innermost** thoughts to the media?
186
uniknąć kłopotów w ostatniej chwili, ledwo uniknąć problemów
to dodge a bullet
WHEN THE WORLD came to a screeching halt in March 2020, Zaslav found himself in one of the most difficult moments of his career. For starters, a number of his employees were ill, including three he’d recently been in meetings with. (Zaslav **dodged the bullet**.) No one was hospitalized, but some were sick enough to be monitoring oxygen levels and praying they didn’t deteriorate.
187
szał, szum, szaleństwo
frenzy
Enjoy is one of many companies to take advantage of the **frenzy** around SPACs. Investors have poured billions of dollars into these so-called blank-check companies, which are traded on exchanges with the goal of merging with a private company, such as Enjoy.
188
wychudły, wyniszczony (np. o twarzy, o osobie, o figurze)
gaunt
Though still a formidable politician, today Erdogan often looks tired and **gaunt**. The president momentarily appeared to fall asleep during a video message to party officials in July.
189
to come full circle
zatoczyć koło, wrócić do punktu wyjścia
WITH THE MARRIAGE of Discovery and WarnerMedia, Zaslav’s career **has come full circle**. He started as a corporate lawyer in the mid-1980s working for LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, a now defunct firm that specialized in public utilities.
190
imiennik
namesake
Initially, the TB12 method got attention for its **namesake’s** rigorous lifestyle and diet—avoiding nightshades like tomatoes and strawberries, treating himself to avocado ice cream, etc.
191
wycofywać się, ustąpić, dać za wygraną
to back down
Days later, he risked the worst diplomatic crisis in decades by ordering the expulsion of 10 western ambassadors who had called for a jailed philanthropist to be released, before **backing down**.
192
to close on something
otrzymać pożyczkę na coś (np. w celu zakupu domu)
In 2018, in Zaslav’s last major move before the Warner deal, Discovery **closed on** its $14.6 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive, which is how Zaslav came to be the steward of HGTV, Food Network, Travel Channel, DIY Network, and a smattering of other properties.
193
zielony (kolor); pokryty bujną zielenią
verdant
That includes a street-level test kitchen and production studio, a wellness center, an exercise room, and a **verdant** rooftop terrace with views, to the northwest, of Hudson Yards, where WarnerMedia has been headquartered since 2019.
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spora ilość
a fair amount
“I said I’ve spent the last three years working with MTV and Discovery. I spent **a fair amount** of time with [Discovery chairman] John Hendricks going around the country trying to raise money and grow Discovery Channel.
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główny, najistotniejszy
salient
An equally **salient** concern is the capacity of the opposition, which first joined forces for national elections in 2018, to waste the opportunity.
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imaginary
wymyślony; urojony
Users are represented by cartoonish avatar torsos with no legs, and spatial audio technology gives a heightened sense of presence — users hear from others around the room based on where they appear to be seated in the **imaginary**, shared space.
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to feel out of place
czuć się obco
To have one of the squares in a group video chat “filled up by a cartoon character that speaks to you is not going to **feel that out of place**”, predicted Jared Spataro, head of Teams.
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patronizing
protekcjonalny
Buckley later described Schlamm, who possessed all the **patronizing** charm of the Viennese cafe intellectual along with the cultural solemnity of the Jew brought up under German culture, as one of his two closest partners in founding NR.
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to pay lip service
składać obietnice bez pokrycia;
nieszczere poparcie;
The technical foundations for how the metaverses will be linked have yet to be laid, and though most of the companies involved **pay lip service** to building interoperable worlds, it is not clear how open these will be.
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disingenuous
nieszczery
Later, in his autobiorgrpahy, he admitted knowing that the CIA was involved but tried to play down the scale of his involvement. Rothbard, however felt that Kristol was being **disingenuous** if not downright dishonest.
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on message
prawomyślny, postępujący zgodnie z linią polityczną
Still, Florida’s a different vibe. Anyone can see that. New England, coached by the stone-faced legend Bill Belichick, prided itself on its hive mind, in which the institution always superseded the individual. No one embodied this discipline more than Brady, who loyally stayed **on message**, seldom offering any comment that could become a locker-room distraction.
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to pick up
wyłapać coś, zauważyć coś
I often ask young folks what they do. I can’t tell you how many times I hear, “I’m an activist.” My response is usually, “So what activity do you do?” **Not picking up** my ironic intonation, the answer usually is “social justice,” followed by a long soliloquy about patriarchies, systemic this or that, and the tragedy of food deserts.
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na początek, na dzień dobry
for starters
WHEN THE WORLD came to a screeching halt in March 2020, Zaslav found himself in one of the most difficult moments of his career. **For starters**, a number of his employees were ill, including three he’d recently been in meetings with. (Zaslav dodged the bullet.) No one was hospitalized, but some were sick enough to be monitoring oxygen levels and praying they didn’t deteriorate.
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niepewny (np. gest), nieśmiały (np. uśmiech)
tentative
Prominent company bosses, including some notorious for their links to the AKP, have begun to make **tentative** approaches to the centre right IYI party, says Umit Ozlale, one of its vice-presidents.
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spatial
przestrzenny
Users are represented by cartoonish avatar torsos with no legs, and **spatial** audio technology gives a heightened sense of presence — users hear from others around the room based on where they appear to be seated in the imaginary, shared space.
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wieczór towarzyski, przyjęcie wieczorowe
soirée [swarei]
Zaslav’s guy-next-door persona belies a social life that mere mortals can only dream of, exemplified by the star-studded Labor Day **soirées** that he and Pam had hosted until 2018.
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falcon
sokół
“It’s from The Maltese **falcon**, which is a Warner Bros. movie,” he said. “It’s one of my favorite movies, and that line comes at the very end of the movie, when a police officer comes, and the Maltese falcon is sitting there and the police officer asks Humphrey Bogart, ‘What is that?’ And he says, ‘It’s the stuff that dreams are made of.’
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thereafter
potem, następnie, później
How successful he proves could affect the future of online shopping. It will affect his legacy— whether he is remembered as a retailing trailblazer, or someone who did his best work at Apple only to struggle **thereafter**.
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najskrytszy
innermost
The man is indisputably a brilliant quarterback, one of the great champions in sports history, and, of course, with his wife, Gisele Bündchen, one half of one of the galaxy’s starriest couples—but candidly unburdening his **innermost** thoughts to the media?
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to kick a habit
zerwać z nałogiem; zerwać z nawykiem
Can India **kick its coal habit**?
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extensive
obszerny, rozległy, szczegółowy
There is broad consensus among those involved in language learning and assessment that **extensive** experience with the target language and culture is essential for achieving high levels of proficiency.
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zamiast; w miejsce
in lieu of
It should come as no surprise that they have opted to endure economic pain **in lieu of** making such massive concessions.
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to plead the case
przedstawić sprawę, bronić sprawy lub kogoś (one's) w sądzie
After **pleading his case**, Isaac sat in silence, waiting. Jullien finally said the word that provided the key for the door Isaac wanted unlocked: Bea. Augustin Cardinal Bea, the German Jesuit and Biblical scholar who had authored Pius XII's encyclical on biblical scholarship, Divini Afflante Spiritu.
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jad; złośliwość
venom
Olivia, with her daughterly **venomous** scorn, then lets this perfect line rip: “Yeah. It’s not all about you, dad. It is time to recenter the narrative.” Mark shoots back, “That’s fine by me. I don’t want to be the center of the narrative. Believe me. Let’s center the narrative around, uh, Paula.” That’s Olivia’s friend, who happens to be, as today’s narrative calls it, a person of color.
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pełen gwiazd (np. film)
star-studded
Zaslav’s guy-next-door persona belies a social life that mere mortals can only dream of, exemplified by the **star-studded** Labor Day soirées that he and Pam had hosted until 2018.
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zimny
frigid
Every other Friday during the **frigid** winter months, he and Pam would meet up with Peggy and Richard Gelfond, the CEO of IMAX, under heat lamps outside the American Hotel in Sag Harbor. “We were like the only ones there,” Gelfond said.
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obszerny, rozległy, szczegółowy
extensive
There is broad consensus among those involved in language learning and assessment that **extensive** experience with the target language and culture is essential for achieving high levels of proficiency.
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(bigger/better) still
tu: jeszcze (lepszy/większy)
I asked him before he had to jump off our Zoom for a parade of meetings with producers and agents and talent and other Hollywood folk. Is there yet another megadeal up his sleeve? Will Warner Bros. Discovery need to get **bigger still**?
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wywnętrzać się, zwierzać się (ze zmartwień, sekretów)
to unburden
The man is indisputably a brilliant quarterback, one of the great champions in sports history, and, of course, with his wife, Gisele Bündchen, one half of one of the galaxy’s starriest couples—but candidly **unburdening** his innermost thoughts to the media?
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screeching halt
nagły koniec
WHEN THE WORLD came to a **screeching halt** in March 2020, Zaslav found himself in one of the most difficult moments of his career. For starters, a number of his employees were ill, including three he’d recently been in meetings with. (Zaslav dodged the bullet.) No one was hospitalized, but some were sick enough to be monitoring oxygen levels and praying they didn’t deteriorate.
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to be primed for something
być na coś przygotowanym
At first, Zaslav rattled off a few brief and unsurprising remarks about how the media industry **was primed for** further consolidation. Then he uttered the four words that gave CNBC its headline: “We’re not done yet.”
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gaunt
wychudły, wyniszczony (np. o twarzy, o osobie, o figurze)
Though still a formidable politician, today Erdogan often looks tired and **gaunt**. The president momentarily appeared to fall asleep during a video message to party officials in July.
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wolna ręka
free rein
To defend the immutable principles of Christian modesty and chastity,' the Council warned of the energies spent by the world of fashion, movies, and the press to shake the foundations of Christian morality, as if the Sixth Commandment was outmoded and **free rein** should be given to all passions, even those against nature.
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pospolity
middlebrow
Zaslav is, in many ways, the mogul of Main Street America. That’s largely a virtue of the service-y **middlebrow** reality programming that his networks have turned into a cultural phenomenon, whether it’s cake competitions (Food Network), pimple popping (TLC), paranormal adventures (Travel Channel), home-renovation porn (HGTV), or, as I was binge-watching in my hotel room the night before our hangout, Shark Week (Discovery Channel).
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proprietor
właściciel (firmy, przedsiębiorstwa)
Zaslav ordered a plate of scrambled eggs with lox and introduced me to the establishment’s third-generation **proprietor**, Gary Greengrass.
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martwić się, obawiać się
to be looking over one's shoulder
Bureaucrats are **looking over their shoulder**, they say, amid warnings from Kilicdaroglu that they will be held to account for decisions they make now.
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to sneer
kpić, zadrwić, szydzić, patrzeć z pogardą (na kogoś)
Olivia **sneers**: “Hmm, no, that’s just you, mom.” Nicole then puts her daughter back in her place—something mothers don’t seem to do anymore: “And what’s your system of belief, Olivia? Not capitalism. Not socialism. So just cynicism?”
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pitch-perfect
w świetnym stylu, w idealnym tonie
The dad, Mark, has health issues, and their daughter, Olivia, and a friend are **pitch-perfect** judgy college sophomores, dreaming of utopia while dripping in mockery and ridicule.
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spiknąć się (przyłączyć się do kogoś); spotykać się z kimś
to hook up
A recurring theme in my conversations with Zaslav’s nearest and dearest was his inveterate generosity. Canceling New Year’s Eve plans to spend the night in the hospital with a sick friend and a platter of Nobu sushi. Sending you chicken soup and matzo and fresh-squeezed orange juice when you’re home in bed with pneumonia. Flying a group of his oldest friends to Rome and **hooking up** a private tour of the Vatican to celebrate his 50th birthday.
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obyczaje, zwyczaje
mores
As Italian director Federico Fellini was saying in films like La Dolce Vita, American films as the vehicle for American **mores** were undermining the traditional way of life in Catholic Europe and in Italy in particular.
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wzajemnie wykluczające się
mutually exclusive
In his history of neoconservatism, The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy, Murray Friedman claims even more convincingly that National Review was run by Jews. As the career of Irving Kristol demonstrates, we are not talking about **mutually exclusive** alternatives here.
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mutually exclusive
wzajemnie wykluczające się
In his history of neoconservatism, The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy, Murray Friedman claims even more convincingly that National Review was run by Jews. As the career of Irving Kristol demonstrates, we are not talking about **mutually exclusive** alternatives here.
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to cry wolf
podnieść fałszywy alarm
Reading Martin's self-serving anonymous account of the council's proceedings in the Times, Morris Abram of the AJC professed to be reassured. If so, he was deceived too. The Jewish schema was, indeed, in trouble. Martin had **cried wolf** so many times that no one recognized the truth of what he was now saying.
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to veer
skręcać, zmieniać kierunek (o drodze, o pojeździe)
For a moment here, Brady **veers** back to his careful self, because there can be an exasperating binary whenever he talks about his new life in Florida—that anything positive he says about Tampa is somehow a slight of his former life in New England.
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rzucać
to hurl
At Tampa Bay’s rowdy waterborne championship parade, the famously disciplined Brady recklessly decided to **hurl** the Lombardi Trophy across the seawater from boat to boat, and in the aftermath, didn’t hide the fact that he might have imbibed a little too much.
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żyrandol
chandelier
In the center nave there are a few **chandeliers** with a few dimly glowing bulbs, but for the most part the church is dark.
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w świetnym stylu, w idealnym tonie
pitch-perfect
The dad, Mark, has health issues, and their daughter, Olivia, and a friend are **pitch-perfect** judgy college sophomores, dreaming of utopia while dripping in mockery and ridicule.
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let it all hang out
zrelaksować się; nie przejmować się
In the Florida sun, a noticeably more carefree version of Brady— Brady 2.0—has arisen. Playing for a team with a less formal, more **let-it-all-hang-out** vibe, under a veteran head coach known to utter stressless maxims like “Win or lose, we booze,” there appears to be a bit of a…loosening up.
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opublikować (najczęściej w internecie)
to drop
That moment finally came this week when the now-public company **dropped** an SEC filing stating it was heading into the adjusted black — provided you indulge it in its favoured form of accounting: the Silicon Valley-revered “adjusted Ebitda”.
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niezwykły, dziwny
unlikely
So far, their **unlikely** alliance of the leftist CHP, rightwing IYI, Kurds and other smaller parties has managed to stay united despite Erdogan’s persistent attempts to break it up. But there could be a messy showdown over the choice of a unity candidate to run against the president.
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zjeść lub wypić coś szybko
to throw back
In another, shot in Zaslav’s kitchen, he gave everyone a taste of the comfort food he’d been **throwing back**: nonpareils, Pop Secret, Utz pretzels, and Reddi-wip. “I may be gaining a little bit of weight,” he said.
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to hurl
rzucać
At Tampa Bay’s rowdy waterborne championship parade, the famously disciplined Brady recklessly decided to **hurl** the Lombardi Trophy across the seawater from boat to boat, and in the aftermath, didn’t hide the fact that he might have imbibed a little too much.
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w następstwie czegoś
on the back of
The president, who for years won elections **on the back of** ushering in greater prosperity for millions, continues to trumpet the country’s impressive headline growth figures.
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to deliver on a promise
dotrzymać obietnicę
“He’s back in his groove,” said Gene Munster, managing partner at the venture-capital firm Loup Ventures, an investor in Enjoy. Mr. Munster said he believes in Mr. Johnson’s latest vision, and if the company can **deliver on** it, “He’ll be redeemed.”
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zastępować (ideę, produkt, metodę), wypierać (kogoś, coś)
to supersede
Still, Florida’s a different vibe. Anyone can see that. New England, coached by the stone-faced legend Bill Belichick, prided itself on its hive mind, in which the institution always **superseded** the individual. No one embodied this discipline more than Brady, who loyally stayed on message, seldom offering any comment that could become a locker-room distraction.
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to loosen up
rozluźniać się
In the Florida sun, a noticeably more carefree version of Brady— Brady 2.0—has arisen. Playing for a team with a less formal, more let-it-all-hang-out vibe, under a veteran head coach known to utter stressless maxims like “Win or lose, we booze,” there appears to be a bit of a…**loosening up**.
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postura (osoby), wzrost
stature
He is obviously he’s kind of superhuman in **stature** and looks and charisma and all those things, but he has an innate ability to always laugh at himself.
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clandestine
tajny, potajemny, sekretny
Most of the arriving luminaries had simply ignored the assembled reporters, whose job was to stand around and shout questions that they knew probably wouldn’t be answered. But Zaslav obliged, which was lucky for the press, because he was the newsiest participant of the five-day gabfest, famous for its **clandestine** dealmaking.
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ocieplanie się, polepszanie się (o relacjach)
thawing
I’m asking him about this perceived **thawing**, this idea of a “different” Tom Brady.
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tracić kontrolę nad czymś
to lose one's hold on something
If the Church **lost its hold on** sexual morals, it would lose control of the ordinary way of sanctification for the majority of the human race.
