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”.
