Deck no. 24 Flashcards
grać ostro, grać nie fair
to play hardball
If the United States had played hardball on trade and investment, China would surely have turned to other countries for help.
spiffy
stylowy, elegancki
The concept of this “twinworld”, as the enterprise metaverse might be called (a spiffy moniker will surely be found), is not new.
below-the-line
pozamedialny, poza środkami przekazu
Below-the-line workers, such as cameramen and sound engineers, are also busier. Competition among studios has created a “sellers’ market”, says Spencer MacDonald of Bectu, a union in Britain, where Netflix makes more shows than anywhere outside North America.
integracja (np. w szkole)
inclusion
“Chainsaw Al” and “Neutron Jack” sounded more like wrestlers than men in suits. That kind of moniker would jar today. inclusivity and empathy are what matter: think “Listening Tim” and “Simpatico Satya”.
at the very least
najmniej, najkrócej, przynajmniej
In some cases, their contributions to the exercise or augmentation of power derives from the nations who possess them refusing to acknowledge their existence or, at the very least, their full range of capabilities. So traditional strategic verities—what constitutes conflict or its belligerents; what rivals can do or how quickly they can do it—do not translate directly to the digital world.
suknia
frock
One new virtual world deserves real attention: the “enterprise metaverse”. Forget rock stars and fancy frocks, this is essentially a digital carbon copy of the physical economy.
zaliczać, uważać za (np. kogoś za przyjaciela)
to count
“There’s an overwhelming demand and need for talent, driven by the streaming platforms and the amount of money that they’re spending,” says Patrick Whitesell, boss of Endeavour, whose WME talent agency counted Charlie Chaplin among its clients.
to lose track of
stracić poczucie czegoś (np. rzeczywistości)
No, it takes Keanu a second because he’s been in Paris for two days—no, wait it’s . . . yeah, this is the third day—and in Berlin for six months before that, filming nights and sleeping until midafternoon (he calls them vampire hours), and he’s just packed and unpacked without a stop at home, and, well, you sometimes lose track.
to count
zaliczać, uważać za (np. kogoś za przyjaciela)
“There’s an overwhelming demand and need for talent, driven by the streaming platforms and the amount of money that they’re spending,” says Patrick Whitesell, boss of Endeavour, whose WME talent agency counted Charlie Chaplin among its clients.
bezduszny, bezwzględny
callous
Hollywood labour disputes have a certain theatrical flair. When Scarlett Johansson sued Disney in July , claiming she had been underpaid for her role in “Black Widow”, the studio launched an Oscarworthy broadside against the actress’s “callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the covid19 pandemic”.
to punctuate
przerywać od czasu do czasu (np. przemówienie); stosować interpunkcję
He turns back to his phone, focused. He scrolls through dozens of messages, a blur of alternating blue and gray text bubbles, the gray ones—the other person’s—punctuated sometimes with emojis and hearts.
to stomach
tolerować, znosić
The burger chain says labour expenses have risen by 10% at its franchised restaurants and 15% at its companyowned locations. Add the rising cost of ingredients and the result is higher prices for burgers and fries. For now, it seems, customers can stomach it.
in the works
w przygotowaniu, w planach
“This has been in the works for a while. It was part of a long-held plan,” the person said. In a regulatory filing from November 2020, Twitter noted that it had “updated the CEO succession plan in line with best practices”.
ślizgać się
to glide
On July 27, China became the first nation to fly a hypersonic glide vehicle — a manoeuvrable craft that travels at more than five times the speed of sound — around the Earth.
to chase after
ścigać
Back in person en masse for the first time since early 2019, collectors chased after high-end art with a voraciousness not seen since a few years before the pandemic.
to venerate
czcić, otaczać czcią
But their unwillingness to venerate A-listers also has an economic rationale. The star system, in which actors like Archibald Leach were transformed into idols like Cary Grant, was created by studios to de-risk the financially perilous business of moviemaking.
fleeting
przelotny, krótki
A blockbuster, which today might cost $200m to shoot plus the same in marketing, has one fleeting chance to break even at the box office. The gamble is less risky if a star guarantees an audience.
maître d’ [meiter di]
maitre d’hotel = główny kelner
He was wearing a surgical mask, a black knit cap over his long black straw hair, a black motorcycle jacket, and jeans. He showed his proof of vaccination to the maître d’. And he walked into the bright salon of a place, thirty-foot ceilings and big round bistro lights and brass railings and clinking glasses and waitstaff in clean white shirts and dark aprons.
brinkmanship
taktyka balansowania na krawędzi (np. wojny)
The Perils of Military brinkmanship in the Age of AI.
a bolt out of the blue
grom z jasnego nieba
“China is not developing its nuclear forces for some bolt out of the blue attack on America,” says Caitlin Talmadge, a nuclear expert at Georgetown University. “It’s trying to lock the US and China into a deeper ‘mutual vulnerability’ stalemate, so that the US cannot play the nuclear card in a conventional war, for example over Taiwan.”
kolejny (nie różniący się wiele od poprzedników)
more of the same
The Obama administration was more of the same. “Since I’ve been president, my goal has been to consistently engage with China in a way that is constructive, to manage our differences and to maximize opportunities for cooperation,” Barack Obama said in 2015.
workaround
obejście
James Mulvenon, a PLA expert at Sosi, a defence contractor, says a Chinese general once told US experts that China could not abandon “no first use” for reputational reasons but would find “operational workarounds”.
leading light
czołowa postać, przywódca
Leading lights in the media also embraced engagement, including the editorial boards of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
to make for
powodować coś
The demands on chief executives make for an increasingly strange mixture. Be more talented than others in the firm, but don’t tell them what to do.
asekurować się; zabezpieczać się na dwie strony
to hedge one’s bets
Some engagers now maintain that the United States hedged its bets, pursuing containment side by side with engagement in case a friendship with China did not flourish.
kurtka polarowa
fleece
Paris is cloudy today, low sixties, and he’s got the cap and a black zippered fleece.
zmiejszać ryzyko (zwłaszcza finansowe)
de-risk
But their unwillingness to venerate A-listers also has an economic rationale. The star system, in which actors like Archibald Leach were transformed into idols like Cary Grant, was created by studios to de-risk the financially perilous business of moviemaking.
fire in one’s belly
zapał, entuzjazm
Most have new ranks of hungry executives but even the veter ans still have fire in the belly. Michael Dell has remained at the wheel of the firm he founded in 1984, except for a hiatus in 2004-07. Asked about his future, he replies: “I love what we do: It’s fun, it’s interesting, it’s exciting. I have no plans to change my involvement.”
sprzedawać; proponować seks (nierząd)
to solicit
They became sufficiently close that Staley visited Epstein while he was serving a prison sentence in Florida in 2009 for procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.
fałszywy; mylny
misguided
Beguiled by misguided theories about liberalism’sinevitable triumph and the obsolescence of great-power conflict, both Democratic and Republican administrations pursued a policy o engagement, which sought to help China grow richer.
to underwrite
ręczyć (za coś), gwarantować (wsparcie finansowe)
We are watching the government literally underwrite a new industry before our eyes, steering capital to EV makers come what may. In post-capitalist America, you can still become a billionaire overnight—if you’re in a business favored by politicians.
fungible
zamienny
The artist known as Beeple, who launched the global craze for non-fungible art tokens, was able to watch Christie’s auction off his first real-life sculpture, “HUMAN ONE.” It sold for $29 million, over its $15 million estimate.
to map
odwzorować
In gaming, achievements like AlphaGo and AlphaZero—Google DeepMind programs that mastered Go and chess by playing themselves, then defeated human experts by employing strategies that surprised, even befuddled, those experts—have proven this principle. In the security realm, it is possible, even probable, that the mapping of AI onto the planning for or simulation of war will yield similarly surprising results.
higher-up
szefostwo
Its latest poll, released in October, found that executives are far keener to get back to the office than other employees. Of those higher-ups who were working remotely, 75% wanted to be in the office three days a week or more; only 34% of non-executives felt the same way.
given
pewnik
Despite all this activity, it is not a given that the enterprise meta verse will take off as fast as its champions expect, if ever.
przyciągać spojrzenia (o czymś interesującym, atrakcyjnym)
to turn heads
Smaller rivals with ambitious growth plans have found they can turn the heads of Big Four partners who feel underpaid, unloved or constrained from winning clients because of conflicts with the firms’ audit practices.
przelotny, krótki
fleeting
A blockbuster, which today might cost $200m to shoot plus the same in marketing, has one fleeting chance to break even at the box office. The gamble is less risky if a star guarantees an audience.
wyskakiwać, pojawiać się
to pop up
Call it the multiplication of the metaverses. Ever since Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook—sorry, Meta—laid out his vision in late October for immersive virtual worlds he thinks people will want to spend lots of time in, new ones are popping up all over.
niemoralność; brak kręgosłupa moralnego
sleaze
In Ashfield, the Tories’ main political opposition believes sleaze will help their cause. Jason Zadrozny, who leads the Ashfield Independents party and the district council, said the allegations were “washing over people at the moment” but warned they corroded politics generally. “It just makes parliament seem more remote,” he said.
wymachiwać
to brandish
In September film crews marched to demand better conditions, brandishing placards designed by America’s finest propmakers.
ukryty
latent
Given its market reforms and latent power potential, China would still have risen despite these policies.
to clink
brzękać
He was wearing a surgical mask, a black knit cap over his long black straw hair, a black motorcycle jacket, and jeans. He showed his proof of vaccination to the maître d’. And he walked into the bright salon of a place, thirty-foot ceilings and big round bistro lights and brass railings and clinking glasses and waitstaff in clean white shirts and dark aprons.
poręcz; ogrodzenie
railing
He was wearing a surgical mask, a black knit cap over his long black straw hair, a black motorcycle jacket, and jeans. He showed his proof of vaccination to the maître d’. And he walked into the bright salon of a place, thirty-foot ceilings and big round bistro lights and brass railings and clinking glasses and waitstaff in clean white shirts and dark aprons.
grom z jasnego nieba
a bolt out of the blue
“China is not developing its nuclear forces for some bolt out of the blue attack on America,” says Caitlin Talmadge, a nuclear expert at Georgetown University. “It’s trying to lock the US and China into a deeper ‘mutual vulnerability’ stalemate, so that the US cannot play the nuclear card in a conventional war, for example over Taiwan.”
upalny; namiętny, ze śmiałymi scenami erotycznymi; skwierczący (np. tłuszcz na patelni)
sizzling
The art market is sizzling. The world’s chief auction houses sold more than $2.3 billion worth of art during a two-week sale series in New York that ended Friday.
innocuous
nieszkodliwy
Kathleen Harris, a lawyer for Staley, said: “We wish to make it expressly clear that our client had no involvement in any of the alleged crimes committed by Mr Epstein, and code words were never used by Mr Staley in any communications with Mr Epstein, ever.” She said all the emails were innocuous.
latent
ukryty
Given its market reforms and latent power potential, China would still have risen despite these policies.
przodować
to lead the way
Clinton led the way in convincing Congress to grant China permanent most-favored-nation status, which laid the groundwork for its entry into the WTO.
to brandish
wymachiwać
In September film crews marched to demand better conditions, brandishing placards designed by America’s finest propmakers.
to backfire
obracać się przeciw komuś, odnosić odwrotny skutek
So far the strategy has largely backfired. Warsaw’s spat with Brussels over rule-of-law issues is now on the back burner, and Brussels rightly has laid blame for the humanitarian crisis on Belarus. One senior EU official, reversing Brussels’ previous position, has said financing a border wall with Belarus is possible.
czołowa postać, przywódca
leading light
Leading lights in the media also embraced engagement, including the editorial boards of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
to field
wystawiać (np. drużynę, zespół)
If policy makers conclude that AI’s assistance in scouring the deepest patterns of reality is necessary to understand the capabilities and intentions of adversaries (who may field their own AI) and respond to them in a timely manner, delegation of critical decisions to machines may grow inevitable.
wielbiciel
aficionado
As aficionados developed new digital coins, Binance had more trading offerings than many other exchanges. They included fan tokens for European soccer clubs as well as dogecoin, a spoof currency that took off early this year.
to play hardball
grać ostro, grać nie fair
If the United States had played hardball on trade and investment, China would surely have turned to other countries for help.
celny, trafny, w punkt, idealny, bezbłędny
on point
“It’s weird going back through these,” he says, lost in the text messages the way you get when you scroll back in time. “This is very on-point for Resurrections.”
overall
całkowity, ogólny
And then there is the question of how the overall metaverse economy will function. Since most business activity will be digitally replicated, economists may ha ve unprecedented insight into what is going on.
szuler, kanciarz
sharpie
Foley is a sharpie and ladies’ man who likes to play cards and tells stories.
high-water mark
szczyt osiągnięć
high water = przypływ
Barrow Island, off the coast of Western Australia, is an unlikely place to find what will with luck become the high-water mark of the hubris of the West’s international oil companies.
fleece
kurtka polarowa
Paris is cloudy today, low sixties, and he’s got the cap and a black zippered fleece.
jak można się było spodziewać
sure enough
Sure enough, the paper shows that demand for these skills goes up in larger and more information intensive firms. Social skills matter more when bosses need to persuade as much as instruct.
główny kelner
maître d’ [meiter di]
He was wearing a surgical mask, a black knit cap over his long black straw hair, a black motorcycle jacket, and jeans. He showed his proof of vaccination to the maître d’. And he walked into the bright salon of a place, thirty-foot ceilings and big round bistro lights and brass railings and clinking glasses and waitstaff in clean white shirts and dark aprons.
going concern
prosperujące przedsiębiorstwo
a business whose operations are not threatened or in danger of liquidation within at least a 12 month period
This summer, less than a year after going public, Lordstown alerted investors that there was “substantial doubt regarding our ability to continue as a going concern.” It has since received a capital infusion by selling its factory in Lordstown, Ohio, to Foxconn for $230 million.
fold
wspólnota, organizacja (ludzie dzielący te same wyznania, wartości)
George W. Bush also embraced efforts to bring China into the global economic fold, promising as a presidential candidate that “trade with China will promote freedom.”
wysokie szacunki
high estimate
high estimate means an optimistic estimate of the quantity that will actually be recovered. It is unlikely that the actual remaining quantities recovered will exceed the high estimate
Younger, trendy artists also saw price jumps, including Lisa Brice’s $3.2 million “No Bare Back, after Embah,” which drew nine bidders and sold for more than 10 times its high estimate at Sotheby’s on Thursday.
big-ticket
bardzo drogi, bardzo kosztowny
Without Deloitte and KPMG’s global networks, rivals say the newly independent businesses at Interpath and Teneo might struggle to win big-ticket international roles.
hard line
twarde stanowisko (np. wobec jakiegoś problemu)
Not only did the United States produce the bulk of the world’s most sophisticated technologies, but it also had several levers—including sanctions and security guarantees—that it could have used to persuade other countries to take a harder line on China.
augmentation
wzrost; powiększenie
In some cases, their contributions to the exercise or augmentation of power derives from the nations who possess them refusing to acknowledge their existence or, at the very least, their full range of capabilities. So traditional strategic verities—what constitutes conflict or its belligerents; what rivals can do or how quickly they can do it—do not translate directly to the digital world.
to set foot
pójść; pojawić się gdzieś
It’s called Le Grand Colbert, and he was last here for one very long night with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, filming the end of the 2003 movie Something’s Gotta Give. He hasn’t set foot in the place since.
prawda, rzeczywistość, autentyczność
verity
In some cases, their contributions to the exercise or augmentation of power derives from the nations who possess them refusing to acknowledge their existence or, at the very least, their full range of capabilities. So traditional strategic verities—what constitutes conflict or its belligerents; what rivals can do or how quickly they can do it—do not translate directly to the digital world.
earnest
poważny; szczery; sumienny
Some are stone-faced and earnest to the point of seeming implacable—Thomas Anderson in The Matrix, Wick, Point Break’s Johnny Utah.
przesądzony, z góry skazany
doomed
Why are great powers doomed to compete? For starters, there is no higher authority to adjudicate disputes among states or protect them when threatened.
dzianina; robić na drutach
knit
He was wearing a surgical mask, a black knit cap over his long black straw hair, a black motorcycle jacket, and jeans. He showed his proof of vaccination to the maître d’. And he walked into the bright salon of a place, thirty-foot ceilings and big round bistro lights and brass railings and clinking glasses and waitstaff in clean white shirts and dark aprons.
błazenada, wybryki; przekręty
shenanigans
He twists his hand around and looks down at it, showing a gash that extends from his pinkie clear down the side of his palm, all the way to the wrist bone. “Oh, yeah,” he says, then gives a quick tilt of his head and smiles. “Movie shenanigans!”
przeszukiwać
to scour
If policy makers conclude that AI’s assistance in scouring the deepest patterns of reality is necessary to understand the capabilities and intentions of adversaries (who may field their own AI) and respond to them in a timely manner, delegation of critical decisions to machines may grow inevitable.
najmniej, najkrócej, przynajmniej
at the very least
In some cases, their contributions to the exercise or augmentation of power derives from the nations who possess them refusing to acknowledge their existence or, at the very least, their full range of capabilities. So traditional strategic verities—what constitutes conflict or its belligerents; what rivals can do or how quickly they can do it—do not translate directly to the digital world.
obejście
workaround
James Mulvenon, a PLA expert at Sosi, a defence contractor, says a Chinese general once told US experts that China could not abandon “no first use” for reputational reasons but would find “operational workarounds”.
punter
klient
For streamers, a show’s value is harder to calculate, lying in its ability to recruit and retain subscribers rather than draw punters to the box office.
stracić poczucie czegoś (np. rzeczywistości)
to lose track of
No, it takes Keanu a second because he’s been in Paris for two days—no, wait it’s . . . yeah, this is the third day—and in Berlin for six months before that, filming nights and sleeping until midafternoon (he calls them vampire hours), and he’s just packed and unpacked without a stop at home, and, well, you sometimes lose track.
doniosły, ważny, wielkiej wagi
momentous
It was a momentous choice. Three decades ago, the Cold War ended, and the United States had won. It was now the sole great power on the planet.
zamienny
fungible
The artist known as Beeple, who launched the global craze for non-fungible art tokens, was able to watch Christie’s auction off his first real-life sculpture, “HUMAN ONE.” It sold for $29 million, over its $15 million estimate.
contingent
przypadkowy
War has always been uncertain and contingent. But it has also been guided by one logic, as well as one set of limitations: that of humans.
to glide
ślizgać się
On July 27, China became the first nation to fly a hypersonic glide vehicle — a manoeuvrable craft that travels at more than five times the speed of sound — around the Earth.
sizzling
upalny; namiętny, ze śmiałymi scenami erotycznymi; skwierczący (np. tłuszcz na patelni)
The art market is sizzling. The world’s chief auction houses sold more than $2.3 billion worth of art during a two-week sale series in New York that ended Friday.
film
flick
As cinemas closed, studios scrambled to find screens for their movies . Some, like MGM’s latest James Bond flick, were delayed by more than a year. Others were sent to streaming platforms—sometimes without the agreement of actors or directors.
wczesne nagranie (np. jakiegoś artysty)
back-catalogue
Netflix’s biggest acquisition is the back-catalogue of Roald Dahl, a children’s author, which it bought in September for around $700m.
wantaway
used by sports journalists to refer to a football player who publicly says that they want to leave their current club
A Big Four firm with unsettled partners faces a choice similar to a football club negotiating with a “wantaway” player: arrange a quick sale to raise cash and reshape itself, or stand firm and run the risk that its team disintegrates anyway with no financial windfall.
brzękać
to clink
He was wearing a surgical mask, a black knit cap over his long black straw hair, a black motorcycle jacket, and jeans. He showed his proof of vaccination to the maître d’. And he walked into the bright salon of a place, thirty-foot ceilings and big round bistro lights and brass railings and clinking glasses and waitstaff in clean white shirts and dark aprons.
to turn on something
zależeć od czegoś
Disney, which dominates the box office, relies on franchises such as Marvel, whose success does not turn on which actors are squeezed into the spandex leotards. Amazon’s priciest project so far is a $465m “Lord of the Rings” spin-off with no megastar attached.
kości zostały rzucone
the die is cast
He says, however, that the die has now been cast. After the way Russia has behaved in Ukraine, “now I consider, one way or the other, formally or not, Ukraine has to be treated in the aftermath of this as a member of NATO.”
implacable
nieugięty
Some are stone-faced and earnest to the point of seeming implacable—Thomas Anderson in The Matrix, Wick, Point Break’s Johnny Utah.
to scour
przeszukiwać
If policy makers conclude that AI’s assistance in scouring the deepest patterns of reality is necessary to understand the capabilities and intentions of adversaries (who may field their own AI) and respond to them in a timely manner, delegation of critical decisions to machines may grow inevitable.
odwzorować
to map
In gaming, achievements like AlphaGo and AlphaZero—Google DeepMind programs that mastered Go and chess by playing themselves, then defeated human experts by employing strategies that surprised, even befuddled, those experts—have proven this principle. In the security realm, it is possible, even probable, that the mapping of AI onto the planning for or simulation of war will yield similarly surprising results.
ścigać
to chase after
Back in person en masse for the first time since early 2019, collectors chased after high-end art with a voraciousness not seen since a few years before the pandemic.
to root for
kibicować
Then there are the characters themselves. With the notable exception of Father Vincent, it’s hard to root for any of them.
wspólnota, organizacja (ludzie dzielący te same wyznania, wartości)
fold
George W. Bush also embraced efforts to bring China into the global economic fold, promising as a presidential candidate that “trade with China will promote freedom.”
more of the same
kolejny (nie różniący się wiele od poprzedników)
The Obama administration was more of the same. “Since I’ve been president, my goal has been to consistently engage with China in a way that is constructive, to manage our differences and to maximize opportunities for cooperation,” Barack Obama said in 2015.
momentous
doniosły, ważny, wielkiej wagi
It was a momentous choice. Three decades ago, the Cold War ended, and the United States had won. It was now the sole great power on the planet.
sleaze
niemoralność; brak kręgosłupa moralnego
In Ashfield, the Tories’ main political opposition believes sleaze will help their cause. Jason Zadrozny, who leads the Ashfield Independents party and the district council, said the allegations were “washing over people at the moment” but warned they corroded politics generally. “It just makes parliament seem more remote,” he said.
tryskać, wytrysnąć (np. o krwi, ropie)
to gush
The streaming revolution has sent money gushing into Hollywood as studios vie to attract subscribers.
przezwisko, pseudonim
moniker
“Chainsaw Al” and “Neutron Jack” sounded more like wrestlers than men in suits. That kind of moniker would jar today. Inclusivity and empathy are what matter: think “Listening Tim” and “Simpatico Satya”.
gash
rozcięcie, rana
He twists his hand around and looks down at it, showing a gash that extends from his pinkie clear down the side of his palm, all the way to the wrist bone. “Oh, yeah,” he says, then gives a quick tilt of his head and smiles. “Movie shenanigans!”
sortie
wypad; szybki atak na pozycje wroga; próba (np. wejście z nowym produktem na rynek)
By far the most dangerous hotspot is Taiwan, as China flies record sorties of warplanes into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone, testing the country’s defences and trying to intimidate the government in Taipei.
voracious
zachłanny; chętny
Back in person en masse for the first time since early 2019, collectors chased after high-end art with a voraciousness not seen since a few years before the pandemic.
kończyć coś
to call time on something
It is not yet time to call time on old fashioned narcissism.
ciągły i coraz szybszy spadek
downward spiral
Engagement’s remaining defenders now portray the downward spiral in U.S.-Chinese relations as the work of individuals who are bent on creating a U.S.-Soviet-style confrontation—“New Cold Warriors,” in the words of the former George W. Bush administration official Robert Zoellick.
to be on the back burner
być odstawionym na boczny tor, być odłożonym na później
So far the strategy has largely backfired. Warsaw’s spat with Brussels over rule-of-law issues is now on the back burner, and Brussels rightly has laid blame for the humanitarian crisis on Belarus. One senior EU official, reversing Brussels’ previous position, has said financing a border wall with Belarus is possible.
połysk
burnish
A fatal accident on the set of “Rust”, a movie starring Alec Baldwin, has stirred a debate about the frantic pace of production. But the streamers’ short, wellpaid seasons allow more time for cv-burnishing sideprojects, and the work is more creatively rewarding.
zachłanny; chętny
voracious
Back in person en masse for the first time since early 2019, collectors chased after high-end art with a voraciousness not seen since a few years before the pandemic.
bardzo drogi, bardzo kosztowny
big-ticket
Without Deloitte and KPMG’s global networks, rivals say the newly independent businesses at Interpath and Teneo might struggle to win big-ticket international roles.
aficionado
wielbiciel
As aficionados developed new digital coins, Binance had more trading offerings than many other exchanges. They included fan tokens for European soccer clubs as well as dogecoin, a spoof currency that took off early this year.
riches
bogactwo, majątek
Private equity funds and independents are tempting partners with promises of fewer turf wars, quicker decisions and investment in neglected areas — but the chance of greater riches also helps.
nieugięty
implacable
Some are stone-faced and earnest to the point of seeming implacable—Thomas Anderson in The Matrix, Wick, Point Break’s Johnny Utah.
sharpie
szuler, kanciarz
Foley is a sharpie and ladies’ man who likes to play cards and tells stories.
disgrace
kompromitacja
They urged the board to review the new information and check if the CEO had played down his links with the disgraced financier.
zgarniać (zarabiać)
to clear
Create a hit show that ran for six or seven seasons and you might earn $100m on the back-end; make a phenomenon like “Seinfeld” and you could clear $1bn.
A-lister
informal: a very famous film star, musician etc – used especially in newspapers and magazines
But their unwillingness to venerate A-listers also has an economic rationale. The star system, in which actors like Archibald Leach were transformed into idols like Cary Grant, was created by studios to de-risk the financially perilous business of moviemaking.
to huff
oburzać się
And when WarnerMedia decided to release “Dune” on its streaming service on the same day it hit cinemas on October 21st, the movie’s director, Denis Villeneuve, huffed magnificently that “to watch ‘Dune’ on a television is to drive a speedboat in your bathtub.”
dochodowy, opłacalny (o pracy)
rewarding
A fatal accident on the set of “Rust”, a movie starring Alec Baldwin, has stirred a debate about the frantic pace of production. But the streamers’ short, wellpaid seasons allow more time for cv-burnishing sideprojects, and the work is more creatively rewarding.
frantic
szalony
A fatal accident on the set of “Rust”, a movie starring Alec Baldwin, has stirred a debate about the frantic pace of production. But the streamers’ short, wellpaid seasons allow more time for cv-burnishing sideprojects, and the work is more creatively rewarding.
belligerent
będący w stanie wojny, walczący, strona wojująca
In some cases, their contributions to the exercise or augmentation of power derives from the nations who possess them refusing to acknowledge their existence or, at the very least, their full range of capabilities. So traditional strategic verities—what constitutes conflict or its belligerents; what rivals can do or how quickly they can do it—do not translate directly to the digital world.
shindig
balanga
Microsoft, the world’s largest software firm, earlier this month put it at the centre of its annual customer shindig, as did Nvidia, a big maker of graphics processors, on November 9th.
szefostwo
higher-up
Its latest poll, released in October, found that executives are far keener to get back to the office than other employees. Of those higher-ups who were working remotely, 75% wanted to be in the office three days a week or more; only 34% of non-executives felt the same way.
come what may
co by się nie działo; niech się dzieje co chce
We are watching the government literally underwrite a new industry before our eyes, steering capital to EV makers come what may. In post-capitalist America, you can still become a billionaire overnight—if you’re in a business favored by politicians.
obsolescence
wychodzenie z użycia, starzenie się
Beguiled by misguided theories about liberalism’sinevitable triumph and the obsolescence of great-power conflict, both Democratic and Republican administrations pursued a policy o engagement, which sought to help China grow richer.
odwodzić, odwieść (np. od jakiegoś pomysłu)
to dissuade
“The Bush and Obama administrations claimed that if we kept a nuclear weapons stockpile three or four times bigger than China, Beijing would be dissuaded from trying to match the US,” he says. “How’s that working out?”
całkowity, ogólny
overall
And then there is the question of how the overall metaverse economy will function. Since most business activity will be digitally replicated, economists may ha ve unprecedented insight into what is going on.
railing
poręcz; ogrodzenie
He was wearing a surgical mask, a black knit cap over his long black straw hair, a black motorcycle jacket, and jeans. He showed his proof of vaccination to the maître d’. And he walked into the bright salon of a place, thirty-foot ceilings and big round bistro lights and brass railings and clinking glasses and waitstaff in clean white shirts and dark aprons.
frock
suknia
One new virtual world deserves real attention: the “enterprise metaverse”. Forget rock stars and fancy frocks, this is essentially a digital carbon copy of the physical economy.
used by sports journalists to refer to a football player who publicly says that they want to leave their current club
wantaway
A Big Four firm with unsettled partners faces a choice similar to a football club negotiating with a “wantaway” player: arrange a quick sale to raise cash and reshape itself, or stand firm and run the risk that its team disintegrates anyway with no financial windfall.
majątek; spadek; posiadłość; osiedle
estate
Vincent Van Gogh had a huge week at Christie’s, with four works from the estate of Texas oilman Edwin Cox selling for $161 million combined.
informal: a very famous film star, musician etc – used especially in newspapers and magazines
A-lister
But their unwillingness to venerate A-listers also has an economic rationale. The star system, in which actors like Archibald Leach were transformed into idols like Cary Grant, was created by studios to de-risk the financially perilous business of moviemaking.
sposób rozwiązania czegoś (jakiegoś problemu)
way around something
To the contrary, Chinese leaders view liberal values as a threat to their country’s stability, and as rulers of rising powers normally do, they are pursuing an increasingly aggressive foreign policy. There is no way around it: engagement was a colossal strategic mistake.
broadside
ostry atak, ostra krytyka
Hollywood labour disputes have a certain theatrical flair. When Scarlett Johansson sued Disney in July , claiming she had been underpaid for her role in “Black Widow”, the studio launched an Oscarworthy broadside against the actress’s “callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the covid19 pandemic”.
mound
wzgórek, kopiec
It is a nature reserve dotted with termite mounds. Since it was severed from the mainland about 8,000 years ago, its local species, including golden bandicoots and spectacled hare-wallabies, have lived free from predators.
będący w stanie wojny, walczący, strona wojująca
belligerent
In some cases, their contributions to the exercise or augmentation of power derives from the nations who possess them refusing to acknowledge their existence or, at the very least, their full range of capabilities. So traditional strategic verities—what constitutes conflict or its belligerents; what rivals can do or how quickly they can do it—do not translate directly to the digital world.
oburzać się
to huff
And when WarnerMedia decided to release “Dune” on its streaming service on the same day it hit cinemas on October 21st, the movie’s director, Denis Villeneuve, huffed magnificently that “to watch ‘Dune’ on a television is to drive a speedboat in your bathtub.”
czcić, otaczać czcią
to venerate
But their unwillingness to venerate A-listers also has an economic rationale. The star system, in which actors like Archibald Leach were transformed into idols like Cary Grant, was created by studios to de-risk the financially perilous business of moviemaking.
estate
majątek; spadek; posiadłość; osiedle
Vincent Van Gogh had a huge week at Christie’s, with four works from the estate of Texas oilman Edwin Cox selling for $161 million combined.
wychodzenie z użycia, starzenie się
obsolescence
Beguiled by misguided theories about liberalism’sinevitable triumph and the obsolescence of great-power conflict, both Democratic and Republican administrations pursued a policy o engagement, which sought to help China grow richer.
co by się nie działo; niech się dzieje co chce
come what may
We are watching the government literally underwrite a new industry before our eyes, steering capital to EV makers come what may. In post-capitalist America, you can still become a billionaire overnight—if you’re in a business favored by politicians.
klient
punter
For streamers, a show’s value is harder to calculate, lying in its ability to recruit and retain subscribers rather than draw punters to the box office.
to gut
doszczętnie zniszczyć, trawić (o ogniu, pożarze)
“A bigger, more accurate and diverse Chinese arsenal kept on higher alert would be consistent with a retaliatory only strategy, but it also gives China options to use nuclear weapons first that it has not previously had,” she says, adding that this and dismal US-China ties mean “China’s nuclear modernisation has gutted US confidence in Beijing’s nuclear restraint.”
prop
rekwizyt
In September film crews marched to demand better conditions, brandishing placards designed by America’s finest propmakers.
przypadkowy
contingent
War has always been uncertain and contingent. But it has also been guided by one logic, as well as one set of limitations: that of humans.
downward spiral
ciągły i coraz szybszy spadek
Engagement’s remaining defenders now portray the downward spiral in U.S.-Chinese relations as the work of individuals who are bent on creating a U.S.-Soviet-style confrontation—“New Cold Warriors,” in the words of the former George W. Bush administration official Robert Zoellick.
rozcięcie, rana
gash
He twists his hand around and looks down at it, showing a gash that extends from his pinkie clear down the side of his palm, all the way to the wrist bone. “Oh, yeah,” he says, then gives a quick tilt of his head and smiles. “Movie shenanigans!”
sure enough
jak można się było spodziewać
Sure enough, the paper shows that demand for these skills goes up in larger and more information intensive firms. Social skills matter more when bosses need to persuade as much as instruct.
all over
wszędzie
Users popped up from all over, including countries with less-developed financial systems such as South Africa, Russia and India. Binance became the largest crypto exchange within six months, and just as quickly ran into problems with authorities.
wystawiać (np. drużynę, zespół)
to field
If policy makers conclude that AI’s assistance in scouring the deepest patterns of reality is necessary to understand the capabilities and intentions of adversaries (who may field their own AI) and respond to them in a timely manner, delegation of critical decisions to machines may grow inevitable.
prosperujące przedsiębiorstwo
going concern
a business whose operations are not threatened or in danger of liquidation within at least a 12 month period
This summer, less than a year after going public, Lordstown alerted investors that there was “substantial doubt regarding our ability to continue as a going concern.” It has since received a capital infusion by selling its factory in Lordstown, Ohio, to Foxconn for $230 million.
to be in overdrive
działać na najwyższych obrotach
The Art Market in Overdrive. Auction houses set sales records, as did prices for artists such as Frida Kahlo, as part of a two-week, $2.3 billion frenzy of buying and selling.
być odstawionym na boczny tor, być odłożonym na później
to be on the back burner
So far the strategy has largely backfired. Warsaw’s spat with Brussels over rule-of-law issues is now on the back burner, and Brussels rightly has laid blame for the humanitarian crisis on Belarus. One senior EU official, reversing Brussels’ previous position, has said financing a border wall with Belarus is possible.
zależeć od czegoś
to turn on something
Disney, which dominates the box office, relies on franchises such as Marvel, whose success does not turn on which actors are squeezed into the spandex leotards. Amazon’s priciest project so far is a $465m “Lord of the Rings” spin-off with no megastar attached.
back-catalogue
wczesne nagranie (np. jakiegoś artysty)
Netflix’s biggest acquisition is the back-catalogue of Roald Dahl, a children’s author, which it bought in September for around $700m.
bogactwo, majątek
riches
Private equity funds and independents are tempting partners with promises of fewer turf wars, quicker decisions and investment in neglected areas — but the chance of greater riches also helps.
tolerować, znosić
to stomach
The burger chain says labour expenses have risen by 10% at its franchised restaurants and 15% at its companyowned locations. Add the rising cost of ingredients and the result is higher prices for burgers and fries. For now, it seems, customers can stomach it.
to clear
zgarniać (zarabiać)
Create a hit show that ran for six or seven seasons and you might earn $100m on the back-end; make a phenomenon like “Seinfeld” and you could clear $1bn.
szczyt osiągnięć
high-water mark
Barrow Island, off the coast of Western Australia, is an unlikely place to find what will with luck become the high-water mark of the hubris of the West’s international oil companies.
nieszkodliwy
innocuous
Kathleen Harris, a lawyer for Staley, said: “We wish to make it expressly clear that our client had no involvement in any of the alleged crimes committed by Mr Epstein, and code words were never used by Mr Staley in any communications with Mr Epstein, ever.” She said all the emails were innocuous.
podekscytować kogoś
to fire up somebody
Asian collectors remain fired up for contemporary art, bidding heavily in Sotheby’s sale of the Macklowe collection and winning at least a dozen works in its contemporary art sales Thursday.
steady
stały
Those with pricing power can push costs onto customers, keeping margins steady.
to pop up
wyskakiwać, pojawiać się
Call it the multiplication of the metaverses. Ever since Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook—sorry, Meta—laid out his vision in late October for immersive virtual worlds he thinks people will want to spend lots of time in, new ones are popping up all over.
rewarding
dochodowy, opłacalny (o pracy)
A fatal accident on the set of “Rust”, a movie starring Alec Baldwin, has stirred a debate about the frantic pace of production. But the streamers’ short, wellpaid seasons allow more time for cv-burnishing sideprojects, and the work is more creatively rewarding.
w zasadzie, zasadniczo
at root
All great powers, be they democracies or not, have little choice but to compete for power in what is at root a zero-sum game.
to befuddle
zamroczyć
In gaming, achievements like AlphaGo and AlphaZero—Google DeepMind programs that mastered Go and chess by playing themselves, then defeated human experts by employing strategies that surprised, even befuddled, those experts—have proven this principle. In the security realm, it is possible, even probable, that the mapping of AI onto the planning for or simulation of war will yield similarly surprising results.
up close
z bliska
“It was never the feeling of, Oh, he’s the movie star. His work ethic is unlike anyone I’ve ever met, and I’ve seen it up close: He trains harder, works harder, cares more, always asks more and more questions to understand the depth of what we’re doing.
to gush
tryskać, wytrysnąć (np. o krwi, ropie)
The streaming revolution has sent money gushing into Hollywood as studios vie to attract subscribers.
ever since
odkąd
Call it the multiplication of the metaverses. Ever since Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook—sorry, Meta—laid out his vision in late October for immersive virtual worlds he thinks people will want to spend lots of time in, new ones are popping up all over.
slew
ogrom
Both platforms have already attracted a slew of startups and other firms that base some of their business on this technology.
zamroczyć
to befuddle
In gaming, achievements like AlphaGo and AlphaZero—Google DeepMind programs that mastered Go and chess by playing themselves, then defeated human experts by employing strategies that surprised, even befuddled, those experts—have proven this principle. In the security realm, it is possible, even probable, that the mapping of AI onto the planning for or simulation of war will yield similarly surprising results.
kompromitacja
disgrace
They urged the board to review the new information and check if the CEO had played down his links with the disgraced financier.
ręczyć (za coś), gwarantować (wsparcie finansowe)
to underwrite
We are watching the government literally underwrite a new industry before our eyes, steering capital to EV makers come what may. In post-capitalist America, you can still become a billionaire overnight—if you’re in a business favored by politicians.
callous
bezduszny, bezwzględny
Hollywood labour disputes have a certain theatrical flair. When Scarlett Johansson sued Disney in July , claiming she had been underpaid for her role in “Black Widow”, the studio launched an Oscarworthy broadside against the actress’s “callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the covid19 pandemic”.
ostry atak, ostra krytyka
broadside
Hollywood labour disputes have a certain theatrical flair. When Scarlett Johansson sued Disney in July , claiming she had been underpaid for her role in “Black Widow”, the studio launched an Oscarworthy broadside against the actress’s “callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the covid19 pandemic”.
napój gazowany
fizzy drink
A growing number of companies are raising prices as costs for labour and raw materials rise, often with no ill effects. This summer PepsiCo, an American food giant, lifted prices for its fizzy drinks and snacks to offset higher commodity and transport costs; it plans further increases early next year.
to dissuade
odwodzić, odwieść (np. od jakiegoś pomysłu)
“The Bush and Obama administrations claimed that if we kept a nuclear weapons stockpile three or four times bigger than China, Beijing would be dissuaded from trying to match the US,” he says. “How’s that working out?”
kibicować
to root for
Then there are the characters themselves. With the notable exception of Father Vincent, it’s hard to root for any of them.
high estimate
wysokie szacunki
high estimate means an optimistic estimate of the quantity that will actually be recovered. It is unlikely that the actual remaining quantities recovered will exceed the high estimate
Younger, trendy artists also saw price jumps, including Lisa Brice’s $3.2 million “No Bare Back, after Embah,” which drew nine bidders and sold for more than 10 times its high estimate at Sotheby’s on Thursday.
A way for the author of the source material, or anybody else participating who may be eligible, to get some “profit participation.” This means that they are then paid some of the profit the film makes after it breaks even.
back-end
More controversial is the streamers’ payment model, which is creating new winners and losers. Creative stars used to get an upfront fee and a “back-end” deal that promised a share of the project’ s future earnings.
stylowy, elegancki
spiffy
The concept of this “twinworld”, as the enterprise metaverse might be called (a spiffy moniker will surely be found), is not new.
to turn heads
przyciągać spojrzenia (o czymś interesującym, atrakcyjnym)
Smaller rivals with ambitious growth plans have found they can turn the heads of Big Four partners who feel underpaid, unloved or constrained from winning clients because of conflicts with the firms’ audit practices.
pójść; pojawić się gdzieś
to set foot
It’s called Le Grand Colbert, and he was last here for one very long night with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, filming the end of the 2003 movie Something’s Gotta Give. He hasn’t set foot in the place since.
way around something
sposób rozwiązania czegoś (jakiegoś problemu)
To the contrary, Chinese leaders view liberal values as a threat to their country’s stability, and as rulers of rising powers normally do, they are pursuing an increasingly aggressive foreign policy. There is no way around it: engagement was a colossal strategic mistake.
flick
film
As cinemas closed, studios scrambled to find screens for their movies . Some, like MGM’s latest James Bond flick, were delayed by more than a year. Others were sent to streaming platforms—sometimes without the agreement of actors or directors.
burnish
połysk
A fatal accident on the set of “Rust”, a movie starring Alec Baldwin, has stirred a debate about the frantic pace of production. But the streamers’ short, wellpaid seasons allow more time for cv-burnishing sideprojects, and the work is more creatively rewarding.
obracać się przeciw komuś, odnosić odwrotny skutek
to backfire
So far the strategy has largely backfired. Warsaw’s spat with Brussels over rule-of-law issues is now on the back burner, and Brussels rightly has laid blame for the humanitarian crisis on Belarus. One senior EU official, reversing Brussels’ previous position, has said financing a border wall with Belarus is possible.
szalony
frantic
A fatal accident on the set of “Rust”, a movie starring Alec Baldwin, has stirred a debate about the frantic pace of production. But the streamers’ short, wellpaid seasons allow more time for cv-burnishing sideprojects, and the work is more creatively rewarding.
to solicit
sprzedawać; proponować seks (nierząd)
They became sufficiently close that Staley visited Epstein while he was serving a prison sentence in Florida in 2009 for procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.
działać na najwyższych obrotach
to be in overdrive
The Art Market in Overdrive. Auction houses set sales records, as did prices for artists such as Frida Kahlo, as part of a two-week, $2.3 billion frenzy of buying and selling.
odkąd
ever since
Call it the multiplication of the metaverses. Ever since Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook—sorry, Meta—laid out his vision in late October for immersive virtual worlds he thinks people will want to spend lots of time in, new ones are popping up all over.
dogłębny, intensywny (np. o zmęczeniu, zrozumieniu)
bone deep
Dorsey, 45, gave no explanation for his resignation but said the company was “ready to move on from its founders”. In an email to staff, he said he had a “bone deep” trust in Agrawal, who joined Twitter 10 years ago as a software engineer and worked his way up.
rekwizyt
prop
In September film crews marched to demand better conditions, brandishing placards designed by America’s finest propmakers.
wzgórek, kopiec
mound
It is a nature reserve dotted with termite mounds. Since it was severed from the mainland about 8,000 years ago, its local species, including golden bandicoots and spectacled hare-wallabies, have lived free from predators.
budowa; zabudowa; nowe budownictwo
development
Yet a sliver of it is also home to one of the world’ s biggest liquefied natural gas (lng) developments, mostly owned by Chevron (47%), ExxonMobil (25%) and Royal Dutch Shell (25%).
to constrain
zahamowywać, ograniczać
As part of an effort to constrain China’s role in global trade, Washington could have enlisted such allies as Japan and Taiwan, reminding them that a powerful China would pose an existential threat to them.
przestrzegać (np. prawa)
to observe
Bill Clinton criticized Bush for “coddling” China during the 1992 presidential campaign and tried playing tough with Beijing after moving into the White House. But he soon reversed course, declaring in 1994 that the United States should “intensify and broaden its engagement” with China, which would help it “evolve as a responsible power, ever growing not only economically, but growing in political maturity so that human rights can be observed.”
de-risk
zmiejszać ryzyko (zwłaszcza finansowe)
But their unwillingness to venerate A-listers also has an economic rationale. The star system, in which actors like Archibald Leach were transformed into idols like Cary Grant, was created by studios to de-risk the financially perilous business of moviemaking.
wypad; szybki atak na pozycje wroga; próba (np. wejście z nowym produktem na rynek)
sortie
By far the most dangerous hotspot is Taiwan, as China flies record sorties of warplanes into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone, testing the country’s defences and trying to intimidate the government in Taipei.
wzrost; powiększenie
augmentation
In some cases, their contributions to the exercise or augmentation of power derives from the nations who possess them refusing to acknowledge their existence or, at the very least, their full range of capabilities. So traditional strategic verities—what constitutes conflict or its belligerents; what rivals can do or how quickly they can do it—do not translate directly to the digital world.
w przygotowaniu, w planach
in the works
“This has been in the works for a while. It was part of a long-held plan,” the person said. In a regulatory filing from November 2020, Twitter noted that it had “updated the CEO succession plan in line with best practices”.
to call time on something
kończyć coś
It is not yet time to call time on old fashioned narcissism.
stały
steady
Those with pricing power can push costs onto customers, keeping margins steady.
inclusion
integracja (np. w szkole)
“Chainsaw Al” and “Neutron Jack” sounded more like wrestlers than men in suits. That kind of moniker would jar today. inclusivity and empathy are what matter: think “Listening Tim” and “Simpatico Satya”.
wzbudzać, cieszyć się (np. uznaniem)
to command
While the Pentagon monitors the full range of military expansion being conducted by the People’s Liberation Army, the nuclear scale-up has commanded huge attention because it has happened so quickly.
to flaunt
obnosić się, wystawiać na pokaz, paradować
An entertainment metaverse will delight music fans, influencers will flock to a fashion metaverse to flaunt digital clothes, and there is even a shark metaverse (it has something to do with cryptocurrencies).
ogrom
slew
Both platforms have already attracted a slew of startups and other firms that base some of their business on this technology.
zdrowy rozsądek
nous /naus/
Cognitive skills, operational nous and financial knowledge are prerequisites for success.
wszędzie
all over
Users popped up from all over, including countries with less-developed financial systems such as South Africa, Russia and India. Binance became the largest crypto exchange within six months, and just as quickly ran into problems with authorities.
pozamedialny, poza środkami przekazu
below-the-line
Below-the-line workers, such as cameramen and sound engineers, are also busier. Competition among studios has created a “sellers’ market”, says Spencer MacDonald of Bectu, a union in Britain, where Netflix makes more shows than anywhere outside North America.
to jar
drażnić (coś kogoś, np. hałas)
“Chainsaw Al” and “Neutron Jack” sounded more like wrestlers than men in suits. That kind of moniker would jar today. Inclusivity and empathy are what matter: think “Listening Tim” and “Simpatico Satya”.
shenanigans
błazenada, wybryki; przekręty
He twists his hand around and looks down at it, showing a gash that extends from his pinkie clear down the side of his palm, all the way to the wrist bone. “Oh, yeah,” he says, then gives a quick tilt of his head and smiles. “Movie shenanigans!”
skład
make-up
Advocates say that by manipulating the genetic make-up of certain viruses and isolating individual characteristics, scientists can work out what makes them most deadly, and how to identify future threats.
znajomy
acquaintance
She said Mr. Zhao has been transparent about his location recently, spending the past two years under the pandemic in Singapore. According to an acquaintance, he rides to meetings on an electric scooter.
to fire up somebody
podekscytować kogoś
Asian collectors remain fired up for contemporary art, bidding heavily in Sotheby’s sale of the Macklowe collection and winning at least a dozen works in its contemporary art sales Thursday.
verity
prawda, rzeczywistość, autentyczność
In some cases, their contributions to the exercise or augmentation of power derives from the nations who possess them refusing to acknowledge their existence or, at the very least, their full range of capabilities. So traditional strategic verities—what constitutes conflict or its belligerents; what rivals can do or how quickly they can do it—do not translate directly to the digital world.
woke
świadomy, obeznany, ogarnięty, poinformowany
alert to injustice in society, especially racism
Detroit automakers also won an additional $4,500 bonus tax credit for EVs produced in unionized U.S. factories. Rivian’s factory in Normal, Ill., isn’t unionized—at least not yet. Rivian’s nonunion shop hasn’t put off woke institutional investors.
at root
w zasadzie, zasadniczo
All great powers, be they democracies or not, have little choice but to compete for power in what is at root a zero-sum game.
to observe
przestrzegać (np. prawa)
Bill Clinton criticized Bush for “coddling” China during the 1992 presidential campaign and tried playing tough with Beijing after moving into the White House. But he soon reversed course, declaring in 1994 that the United States should “intensify and broaden its engagement” with China, which would help it “evolve as a responsible power, ever growing not only economically, but growing in political maturity so that human rights can be observed.”
bone deep
dogłębny, intensywny (np. o zmęczeniu, zrozumieniu)
Dorsey, 45, gave no explanation for his resignation but said the company was “ready to move on from its founders”. In an email to staff, he said he had a “bone deep” trust in Agrawal, who joined Twitter 10 years ago as a software engineer and worked his way up.
taktyka balansowania na krawędzi (np. wojny)
brinkmanship
The Perils of Military brinkmanship in the Age of AI.
acquaintance
znajomy
She said Mr. Zhao has been transparent about his location recently, spending the past two years under the pandemic in Singapore. According to an acquaintance, he rides to meetings on an electric scooter.
poważny; szczery; sumienny
earnest
Some are stone-faced and earnest to the point of seeming implacable—Thomas Anderson in The Matrix, Wick, Point Break’s Johnny Utah.
make-up
skład
Advocates say that by manipulating the genetic make-up of certain viruses and isolating individual characteristics, scientists can work out what makes them most deadly, and how to identify future threats.
fizzy drink
napój gazowany
A growing number of companies are raising prices as costs for labour and raw materials rise, often with no ill effects. This summer PepsiCo, an American food giant, lifted prices for its fizzy drinks and snacks to offset higher commodity and transport costs; it plans further increases early next year.
z bliska
up close
“It was never the feeling of, Oh, he’s the movie star. His work ethic is unlike anyone I’ve ever met, and I’ve seen it up close: He trains harder, works harder, cares more, always asks more and more questions to understand the depth of what we’re doing.
drażnić (coś kogoś, np. hałas)
to jar
“Chainsaw Al” and “Neutron Jack” sounded more like wrestlers than men in suits. That kind of moniker would jar today. Inclusivity and empathy are what matter: think “Listening Tim” and “Simpatico Satya”.
knit
dzianina; robić na drutach
He was wearing a surgical mask, a black knit cap over his long black straw hair, a black motorcycle jacket, and jeans. He showed his proof of vaccination to the maître d’. And he walked into the bright salon of a place, thirty-foot ceilings and big round bistro lights and brass railings and clinking glasses and waitstaff in clean white shirts and dark aprons.
back-end
A way for the author of the source material, or anybody else participating who may be eligible, to get some “profit participation.” This means that they are then paid some of the profit the film makes after it breaks even.
More controversial is the streamers’ payment model, which is creating new winners and losers. Creative stars used to get an upfront fee and a “back-end” deal that promised a share of the project’ s future earnings.
misguided
fałszywy; mylny
Beguiled by misguided theories about liberalism’sinevitable triumph and the obsolescence of great-power conflict, both Democratic and Republican administrations pursued a policy o engagement, which sought to help China grow richer.
to hedge one’s bets
asekurować się; zabezpieczać się na dwie strony
Some engagers now maintain that the United States hedged its bets, pursuing containment side by side with engagement in case a friendship with China did not flourish.
moniker
przezwisko, pseudonim
“Chainsaw Al” and “Neutron Jack” sounded more like wrestlers than men in suits. That kind of moniker would jar today. Inclusivity and empathy are what matter: think “Listening Tim” and “Simpatico Satya”.
zejść, sprać się (o plamie)
to come off
He looks at me, momentarily confused, then realizes I’m the one who’s confused. “Oh, no, this is all movie blood,” he says, amused. “It doesn’t all come off in the first wash.”
zahamowywać, ograniczać
to constrain
As part of an effort to constrain China’s role in global trade, Washington could have enlisted such allies as Japan and Taiwan, reminding them that a powerful China would pose an existential threat to them.
doszczętnie zniszczyć, trawić (o ogniu, pożarze)
to gut
“A bigger, more accurate and diverse Chinese arsenal kept on higher alert would be consistent with a retaliatory only strategy, but it also gives China options to use nuclear weapons first that it has not previously had,” she says, adding that this and dismal US-China ties mean “China’s nuclear modernisation has gutted US confidence in Beijing’s nuclear restraint.”
pewnik
given
Despite all this activity, it is not a given that the enterprise meta verse will take off as fast as its champions expect, if ever.
doomed
przesądzony, z góry skazany
Why are great powers doomed to compete? For starters, there is no higher authority to adjudicate disputes among states or protect them when threatened.
nous /naus/
zdrowy rozsądek
Cognitive skills, operational nous and financial knowledge are prerequisites for success.
świadomy, obeznany, ogarnięty, poinformowany
alert to injustice in society, especially racism
woke
Detroit automakers also won an additional $4,500 bonus tax credit for EVs produced in unionized U.S. factories. Rivian’s factory in Normal, Ill., isn’t unionized—at least not yet. Rivian’s nonunion shop hasn’t put off woke institutional investors.
zapał, entuzjazm
fire in one’s belly
Most have new ranks of hungry executives but even the veter ans still have fire in the belly. Michael Dell has remained at the wheel of the firm he founded in 1984, except for a hiatus in 2004-07. Asked about his future, he replies: “I love what we do: It’s fun, it’s interesting, it’s exciting. I have no plans to change my involvement.”
balanga
shindig
Microsoft, the world’s largest software firm, earlier this month put it at the centre of its annual customer shindig, as did Nvidia, a big maker of graphics processors, on November 9th.
to come off
zejść, sprać się (o plamie)
He looks at me, momentarily confused, then realizes I’m the one who’s confused. “Oh, no, this is all movie blood,” he says, amused. “It doesn’t all come off in the first wash.”
development
budowa; zabudowa; nowe budownictwo
tu: an area of land that is used for its natural resources, or the use of an area of land for its natural resources:
Yet a sliver of it is also home to one of the world’ s biggest liquefied natural gas (lng) developments, mostly owned by Chevron (47%), ExxonMobil (25%) and Royal Dutch Shell (25%).
twarde stanowisko (np. wobec jakiegoś problemu)
hard line
Not only did the United States produce the bulk of the world’s most sophisticated technologies, but it also had several levers—including sanctions and security guarantees—that it could have used to persuade other countries to take a harder line on China.
powodować coś
to make for
The demands on chief executives make for an increasingly strange mixture. Be more talented than others in the firm, but don’t tell them what to do.
to lead the way
przodować
Clinton led the way in convincing Congress to grant China permanent most-favored-nation status, which laid the groundwork for its entry into the WTO.
obnosić się, wystawiać na pokaz, paradować
to flaunt
An entertainment metaverse will delight music fans, influencers will flock to a fashion metaverse to flaunt digital clothes, and there is even a shark metaverse (it has something to do with cryptocurrencies).
on point
celny, trafny, w punkt, idealny, bezbłędny
“It’s weird going back through these,” he says, lost in the text messages the way you get when you scroll back in time. “This is very on-point for Resurrections.”
przerywać od czasu do czasu (np. przemówienie); stosować interpunkcję
to punctuate
He turns back to his phone, focused. He scrolls through dozens of messages, a blur of alternating blue and gray text bubbles, the gray ones—the other person’s—punctuated sometimes with emojis and hearts.
to command
wzbudzać, cieszyć się (np. uznaniem)
While the Pentagon monitors the full range of military expansion being conducted by the People’s Liberation Army, the nuclear scale-up has commanded huge attention because it has happened so quickly.
the die is cast
kości zostały rzucone
He says, however, that the die has now been cast. After the way Russia has behaved in Ukraine, “now I consider, one way or the other, formally or not, Ukraine has to be treated in the aftermath of this as a member of NATO.”
