Deck no. 33 Flashcards

Question

cotton-candy

Answer 1

**wata cukrowa** …..…......................................…....................................... On my way, I observe a young **cotton-candy** vendor blowing pink clouds into the wind; motorboats ripple the Nile waters with their neon lights.

Answer 2

**whoop** …..…......................................…....................................... At the exhibition opening later that day, a hearty **whoop** from Houseago signals the trio’s arrival. “We’re like a boy band!” he booms of the disparate crew: 65-year-old Cave, characteristically gothic, bordering on vampiric, in an ultra-slim dark suit (by his friend Bella Freud); Pitt, still ruggedly handsome at 58, in a jumpsuit and yet effortlessly cool; and Houseago, 50, wearing jeans with a white, stretchy button-down shirt – through which you can just make out his tattoos.

Answer 3

**pleasantry** …..…......................................…....................................... After examining me in his rear-view mirror for a bit, the taxi driver engages me in a conversation that very quickly drifts from **pleasantries** (where I am from, what I am doing in Cairo) to his life, his job, then the traffic, then the people. “I don’t know why everyone is always running here. The country is not in its best state, but oddly enough tourists are back and things are working without us knowing how.”

Answer 4

**kłopotliwy (o sytuacji), nieciekawy (o rozwoju wypadków)** …..…......................................…....................................... The growing challenge from locals is putting many multinationals in a **sticky** situation: maintaining competitiveness in China demands increased investment even as the geopolitical risks are mounting. For now most multinationals have time on their hands. Of the list of 200 companies we examined, 144 have still grown in China over the past three years.

Answer 5

**dokuczliwy, przykry** …..…......................................…....................................... Yet what he doesn’t admit is that grooming a replacement is psychologically tough. It brings leaders face-to-face with their own mortality. It brings up the **vexing** question of legacy.

Answer 6

**fair game** …..…......................................…....................................... The strategy helped make Huawei China’s first genuinely multinational corporation. Huawei’s new businesses are not expected to make headway in America. But the company thinks much of the rest of the world is **fair game**.

Answer 7

**nieskuteczny** …..…......................................…....................................... **Ineffectual** people like me are drawn to business books about successful people in the hope that some of their success will rub off on us. So we study Jeff Bezos and his ideas about leadership, or the tale of how Amazon grew from Mr. Bezos’s garage to an international empire.

Answer 8

**rzucający się w oczy** …..…......................................…....................................... His fall 2022 collection, inspired by the British poet, heiress and activist Nancy Cunard, was a level up. A progression of **striking** coats (pea, faux fur, tuxedo) were shown layered over pieces including slinky bias-cut satin dresses. Cunard—an inspiration to Constantin Brâncuşi, who sculpted her—often wore chunky bangles, another motif in the collection. (Mostly gone were the slightly-too-short skirts and slightly-too-high heels that had given some editors pause in previous seasons.) These were enduring pieces, to be treasured in cedar closets.

Answer 9

**to check out** …..…......................................…....................................... Still, there are fears about Miley’s state of mind. “Some people are concerned that she’s completely lost and alone,” says the second source. “It’s like she’s slowly **checking out** — and she says she doesn’t feel like she owes anyone an explanation,” says the first source.

Answer 10

**porywający** …..…......................................…....................................... Dressed in a skintight black dress and oversize black sunglasses, Miley belted out a **rousing** version of “Photograph” with 80s rockers Def Leppard. “I miss Taylor so much,” she wrote on Instagram the following day. “It was such an honor to celebrate him last night.”

Answer 11

**knuć, przygotowywać (np. spisek)** …..…......................................…....................................... With relations between China and the West on shaky grounds, notably over the issue of Taiwan, even multinationals that operate outside so-called strategic sectors are **hatching** contingency plans for a world without access to the country.

Answer 12

**dziwaczny, ekscentryczny (np. o człowieku)** …..…......................................…....................................... **Quirky** metaphors pepper the presentations. In 2017, a slide with a goose said “Soft-Bank = goose that lays the golden eggs.” The golden eggs next to the goose were labeled as being worth more than $100 billion.

Answer 13

**błazen** …..…......................................…....................................... Masayoshi Son, the billionaire boss of SoftBank Group Corp., has long presided over a quarterly earnings ritual of **zany** slide presentations. One included a goose laying multibillion-dollar golden eggs and another flock of unicorns flying upward along a chart of growth in artificial intelligence.

Answer 14

**to put something on ice** …..…......................................…....................................... On the same day it added 30 Chinese companies to a list of “unverified” firms its officials had been unable to inspect. Apple had reportedly been about to sign a deal to buy iPhone memory chips from one such company, YMTC, which can offer low prices thanks in part to Chinese government subsidies. Following America’s export controls that deal was **put on ice**.

Answer 15

**lentil** …..…......................................…....................................... After a lunch at Koshary Abou Tarek – a cornerstone of Cairene cuisine, where people queue for the inimitable koshary made of chickpeas, pasta and **lentils** – I meet Karim El Hayawan, an interiors architect and photographer who in 2014 launched Cairo Saturday Walks.

Answer 16

**bransoleta** …..…......................................…....................................... His fall 2022 collection, inspired by the British poet, heiress and activist Nancy Cunard, was a level up. A progression of striking coats (pea, faux fur, tuxedo) were shown layered over pieces including slinky bias-cut satin dresses. Cunard—an inspiration to Constantin Brâncuşi, who sculpted her—often wore chunky **bangles**, another motif in the collection. (Mostly gone were the slightly-too-short skirts and slightly-too-high heels that had given some editors pause in previous seasons.) These were enduring pieces, to be treasured in cedar closets.

Answer 17

**stado** …..…......................................…....................................... Masayoshi Son, the billionaire boss of SoftBank Group Corp., has long presided over a quarterly earnings ritual of zany slide presentations. One included a goose laying multibillion-dollar golden eggs and another **flock** of unicorns flying upward along a chart of growth in artificial intelligence.

Answer 18

**to encroach** …..…......................................…....................................... While bosses are busy **encroaching** on foreign affairs, foreign affairs are gradually encroaching on them. The result is a tangle. Western politicians—along with consumers and employees—now want companies to speak out against issues like China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority in Xinjiang.

Answer 19

**podstawa czegoś (idei)** …..…......................................…....................................... After a lunch at Koshary Abou Tarek – a **cornerstone** of Cairene cuisine, where people queue for the inimitable koshary made of chickpeas, pasta and lentils – I meet Karim El Hayawan, an interiors architect and photographer who in 2014 launched Cairo Saturday Walks.

Answer 20

**testament** …..…......................................…....................................... The use of Geiger counters, microscopes and academic research methods are **testament** to the increasing values of certain vintage models, with tiny and near-undetectable differences moving prices by six figures or more. “A big-crown Rolex Submariner with original radium can go for over half a million. But if the radium has been replaced, it drops down way below $200,000,” explains Milan-based dealer Max Bernardini, a charming Italian marquis who cuts a Byronic figure in cobalt-coloured tailoring.

Answer 21

**na widoku** …..…......................................…....................................... Social jet lag is more insidious. It’s often hiding **in plain sight**, though it may have an impact on our health.

Answer 22

**equanimity** …..…......................................…....................................... As much as any fable consists of its narrative arc, it’s always also about the epimythia at its core. Courage, **equanimity**, resilience in the face of upheaval or tragedy: all of these are things Caterina and her children have for better or worse gained experience of in the past two years.

Answer 23

**powściągliwy** …..…......................................…....................................... Cave adds: “Talking about things like trauma, I’m much more **circumspect** [than Houseago]. It’s much more controlled.” He recalls a time when he and Houseago were modelling some clothes for Susie Cave’s fashion label, The Vampire’s Wife. “We were all sitting there having our hair shampooed, and within 30 seconds of talking to [the hairdresser], Thomas had revealed the most mind-boggling, traumatic events,” says Cave.

Answer 24

**to take it from there** …..…......................................…....................................... His first customer of note was Diego Maradona. “He told me, ‘I was born poor. I have all this money. And I don’t know how to behave.’ He showed up with five big, blingy gold watches,” he recalls. “I **took it from there** and changed his tastes.”

Answer 25

**morski** …..…......................................…....................................... **Maritime** metaphors abound. After WeWork’s valuation plunged in 2019, Mr. Son flipped through a slide with choppy seas that said “We-Work problem,” and “significant decrease in profit.” The presentation ended with a slide showing calm seas.

Answer 26

**self-contained** …..…......................................…....................................... This route however will only be viable in cases where China can be operated as a **self-contained** unit; it is off the cards for firms like Boeing or LVMH that rely on manufacturing abroad.

Answer 27

**powściągliwy, skryty** …..…......................................…....................................... When I tell him that my husband seems to suffer from this as well, Pitt goes wild. “Nobody believes me!” he cries. “I wanna meet another.” He’s making uncannily good eye contact as he his, and it’s at this point that I realize that Brad Pitt is definitely not aloof or **reserved**.

Answer 28

**run-down** …..…......................................…....................................... It’s a journey that, like Siwa, makes one feel slightly out of time. Luxor, the legendary Winter Palace – intact, **rundown**, but as lavish as ever – still echoes with British-colonial influences: the silverware, the untouched furniture, the maîtres d’hôtel and the abundant gardens.

Answer 29

**vexing** …..…......................................…....................................... Yet what he doesn’t admit is that grooming a replacement is psychologically tough. It brings leaders face-to-face with their own mortality. It brings up the **vexing** question of legacy.

Answer 30

**zany** …..…......................................…....................................... Masayoshi Son, the billionaire boss of SoftBank Group Corp., has long presided over a quarterly earnings ritual of **zany** slide presentations. One included a goose laying multibillion-dollar golden eggs and another flock of unicorns flying upward along a chart of growth in artificial intelligence.

Answer 31

**udzielać się komuś** …..…......................................…....................................... Ineffectual people like me are drawn to business books about successful people in the hope that some of their success will **rub off on** us. So we study Jeff Bezos and his ideas about leadership, or the tale of how Amazon grew from Mr. Bezos’s garage to an international empire.

Answer 32

**tułać się** …..…......................................…....................................... “I lived here for a few years, then I **bounced around** everywhere, just let friends crash here, and then somewhere in the aughts I fixed it up. Been pretty much hiding out here.”

Answer 33

**to reel** …..…......................................…....................................... According to sources, the “Wrecking Ball” singer was hit hard by Taylor’s death, and has also been **reeling** in the wake of her parents divorce.

Answer 34

**licznik** …..…......................................…....................................... The use of Geiger **counters**, microscopes and academic research methods are testament to the increasing values of certain vintage models, with tiny and near-undetectable differences moving prices by six figures or more. “A big-crown Rolex Submariner with original radium can go for over half a million. But if the radium has been replaced, it drops down way below $200,000,” explains Milan-based dealer Max Bernardini, a charming Italian marquis who cuts a Byronic figure in cobalt-coloured tailoring.

Answer 35

**grassroots** …..…......................................…....................................... “Professionally, I don’t have to talk about my recovery over and over again; it’s clear in the work,” he says. “But personally, I want to make sure that everybody who looks at my work and sees this show knows that I am open to talking about trauma, about solutions, in a very **grassroots** way. If there is a need for me to come and talk somewhere about how you survive pre-verbal trauma, I’m there.”

Answer 36

**sediment** …..…......................................…....................................... A car ride here feels like a journey through numerous settlements condensed into one – all different in shape, like **sediments** from different layers of time: Fatimid, Mamluk, Khedival, then the modernist architecture, all connected by their sandy hues and the gleaming desert light.

Answer 37

**wkradać się w czyjeś łaski** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Musk has used political statements to **curry favor with** Beijing, most recently by implying that Taiwan should be part of China. This game will likely get a lot harder now that he is running Twitter. For example, if he continues with the social-media platform’s efforts to close down Chinese networks that tweet about U.S. elections, he might find himself less welcome with Chinese authorities. If he doesn’t, Washington will plainly object.

Answer 38

**finicky** …..…......................................…....................................... This summer Apple reportedly had to ask Taiwanese manufacturers to label their products “Made in Chinese Taipei” to appease newly **finicky** Chinese customs officials (at the risk of angering Taiwanese ones).

Answer 39

**przenocować (np. u koleżanki)** …..…......................................…....................................... “I lived here for a few years, then I bounced around everywhere, just let friends **crash** here, and then somewhere in the aughts I fixed it up. Been pretty much hiding out here.”

Answer 40

**flock** …..…......................................…....................................... Masayoshi Son, the billionaire boss of SoftBank Group Corp., has long presided over a quarterly earnings ritual of zany slide presentations. One included a goose laying multibillion-dollar golden eggs and another **flock** of unicorns flying upward along a chart of growth in artificial intelligence.

Answer 41

**halcyon days** [halsjon] …..…......................................…....................................... The **halcyon days** of total growth and number of subscribers, those days are over, said Chris Legg, senior managing director at investment bank Progress Partners, which advises companies in the media and advertising technology space. “Disney is still in the mind-set of go-and-grab more subscribers, whether it’s locally or internationally. They probably have a few quarters to keep playing that game, but Wall Street is definitely getting less patient with this spend-for-subs model.”

Answer 42

**forlorn** …..…......................................…....................................... “You know, you do a month of therapy,” Pitt says about his character, “you have one epiphany, and you think you’ve got it all figured out, and you’re never going to be **forlorn** ever again. That was that. I got this, I’m good to go!”

Answer 43

**to be stuck in one's ways** …..…......................................…....................................... So I’d always put it out there: I’ll never fly again; I’m never going to Brazil, never going anywhere unless people find a way for me to get there. I’d travel six days to New York on a bus, and ten days from New York to London in a cruise ship. It was hell, but it was all I knew. I was **stuck in my ways**, and really cool with not flying again; I was just married to music, good with being in the studio 20 hours a day and coming home just to sleep.

Answer 44

**pokonać kogoś z niewielką przewagą** …..…......................................…....................................... The technical difficulty of installing Huawei to replace American systems that run on Oracle’s and IBM’s products, which are much more compatible with Microsoft’s, is high, says Boris Van of Bernstein, a broker. **Edging out** the American firms in China is one thing; doing so abroad is quite another.

Answer 45

**świst, szmer** …..…......................................…....................................... Every three months, reporters pack into a hotel conference room for one to two hours to watch Mr. Son. With flash bulbs flickering, he delivers a lengthy PowerPoint highlighting SoftBank’s quarter and updates on its plans for rapid growth, typically adorned with charts zooming up, big **swooshing** arrows and stock images of people smiling on phones.

Answer 46

**glaze** …..…......................................…....................................... What started as a desire to create a single small devil figure as a vehicle for an intense red **glaze** “became a journey towards some kind of absolution from a series of shattering events. This [the ceramic works] – and in fact, all the songs that I write – are about the idea of forgiveness, the idea that there is a moral virtue in beauty. It’s a kind of balancing of our sins.” Like his music, the result is both beautiful and heart-stoppingly poignant.

Answer 47

**awantura, kłótnia** …..…......................................…....................................... The death of FTX, an exchange declared bankrupt on November 11th after a spectacular **blow-up**, will encourage some people to turn their attention elsewhere.

Answer 48

**współwinny** …..…......................................…....................................... “It’s all about self-reflection,” he explains. “I was looking at my own life and really concentrating on owning my own shit: where was I **complicit** in failures in my relationships, where have I mis-stepped. For me, it was born out of ownership of what I call a radical inventory of self, getting really brutally honest with me, and taking account of those I may have hurt.”

Answer 49

**uważać się za kogoś** …..…......................................…....................................... Others **fancy themselves as** latter-day Kissingers. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, recently put forward a peace proposal for Ukraine and recommended that Taiwan become a “special administrative zone” of China. Jamie Dimon, boss of JPMorgan Chase, opined this week that America should stop pursuing an “everything our way” attitude towards Saudi Arabia.

Answer 50

**to give somebody pause** …..…......................................…....................................... His fall 2022 collection, inspired by the British poet, heiress and activist Nancy Cunard, was a level up. A progression of striking coats (pea, faux fur, tuxedo) were shown layered over pieces including slinky bias-cut satin dresses. Cunard—an inspiration to Constantin Brâncuşi, who sculpted her—often wore chunky bangles, another motif in the collection. (Mostly gone were the slightly-too-short skirts and slightly-too-high heels that had **given some editors pause** in previous seasons.) These were enduring pieces, to be treasured in cedar closets.

Answer 51

**shed** …..…......................................…....................................... The other morning I cycled around the Dutch town where I grew up. Behind our old house, the field where I spent half my childhood is now covered with homes. So is my old football club. My high school is now in a built-up area. At the local train station, the bike **shed** was full on a Saturday afternoon.

Answer 52

**been there, done that** …..…......................................…....................................... She’s over the party scene. “Miley still enjoys going to certain things, but she picks and chooses instead of randomly showing up to lots of parties like she used to,” says the second source, adding, “she’s **been there and done that** in terms of partying — it bores her now.”

Answer 53

**pozbyć się czegoś, wyeliminować coś** …..…......................................…....................................... Her inner circle has gotten much smaller. Miley — who’s been dating Lilly drummer Maxx Morando, 23, since late January — “is still tight with her more mature and trustworthy friends,” says the second source, “but she **weeded out** all the hangers-on and bad influences.”

Answer 54

**sticky** …..…......................................…....................................... The growing challenge from locals is putting many multinationals in a **sticky** situation: maintaining competitiveness in China demands increased investment even as the geopolitical risks are mounting. For now most multinationals have time on their hands. Of the list of 200 companies we examined, 144 have still grown in China over the past three years.

Answer 55

**to get the sense** …..…......................................…....................................... “Obsessive,” Ive calls himself, half joking. Entering his domain is like walking into a Gesamtkunstwerk (a German term for “total artwork”), something that arts and crafts movement founder William Morris might have created, but for a 21st-century Englishman who loves music, French-inspired gardens, Zen Buddhism and classic cars. One **gets the sense** that Ive created the space in part to prevent the pain of seeing anything he might deem poor design. “It’s very good for thinking,” he says.

Answer 56

**ochronić; łagodzić (np. złe skutki czegoś)** …..…......................................…....................................... During his time at Steve Jobs’s side, the designs that flowed from his pen spanned items as wideranging as Apple Store shopping bags, an oak display table and the company’s most-sold product, the iPhone. In Ive’s 55 years, he’s filled piles of sketchbooks with door handles, drills, landscape plans and AirPods, almost all with his trademark rounded corners, as though he wants to **buffer** the world against its harsher edges.

Answer 57

**to bounce around** …..…......................................…....................................... “I lived here for a few years, then I **bounced around** everywhere, just let friends crash here, and then somewhere in the aughts I fixed it up. Been pretty much hiding out here.”

Answer 58

**zdeklarowany** …..…......................................…....................................... An **avowed** traditionalist, partial to the elegance of red burgundy, he bucked the then fashion, driven primarily by the US market, for big, tannic, high-alcohol red wines, instead producing ultra-traditional Chiantis (with a trace amount of Trebbiano, a local white grape, an orthodoxy that dates back centuries) and IGT blends of exceptional balance and finesse.

Answer 59

**niezależny, samowystarczalny** …..…......................................…....................................... This route however will only be viable in cases where China can be operated as a **self-contained** unit; it is off the cards for firms like Boeing or LVMH that rely on manufacturing abroad.

Answer 60

**pochlebca // a person who associates with another person or a group in a sycophantic manner or for the purpose of gaining some personal advantage** …..…......................................…....................................... Her inner circle has gotten much smaller. Miley — who’s been dating Lilly drummer Maxx Morando, 23, since late January — “is still tight with her more mature and trustworthy friends,” says the second source, “but she weeded out all the **hangers-on** and bad influences.”

Answer 61

**świecznik** …..…......................................…....................................... The **candlesticks** are painted black and gold and are very handsome. “That’s porcelain,” he says. “Everything I read, porcelain’s about being thin so that light penetrates, the thinner you get. It’s a cardinal sin to make it thick.”

Answer 62

**to bring somebody on** …..…......................................…....................................... In his memoir, “The Ride of a Lifetime”, published in 2019, he acknowledges that all CEOs like to think that they are irreplaceable. Yet good leadership, he adds, demands the opposite. It is about **bringing on** a successor, identifying skills they need to develop and being honest with them when they are not ready for the next step.

Answer 63

**on the cards** …..…......................................…....................................... This route however will only be viable in cases where China can be operated as a self-contained unit; it is **off the cards** for firms like Boeing or LVMH that rely on manufacturing abroad.

Answer 64

**wezwanie do podjęcia działań; wezwanie do służby wojskowej** …..…......................................…....................................... The book is an invitation to remember the city through its urban fabric, but also **a call to arms** to protect its inestimable heritage; those buildings that each echo back to a moment in time, or at least remind us of its passage.

Answer 65

**all the better** …..…......................................…....................................... ANTHONY VACCARELLO is wearing all black—a T-shirt and jeans of his own design. He often wears head-to-ankle black (with white sneakers), **all the better** to recede into the background.

Answer 66

**kolejny (następujący po sobie)** …..…......................................…....................................... The American government had other plans. **Successive** administrations have regarded Huawei as a national security risk, claiming that it has deep links with the People’s Liberation Army and that its gear could be used for spying (allegations that have not been proven and that Huawei denies).

Answer 67

**aloof** …..…......................................…....................................... When I tell him that my husband seems to suffer from this as well, Pitt goes wild. “Nobody believes me!” he cries. “I wanna meet another.” He’s making uncannily good eye contact as he his, and it’s at this point that I realize that Brad Pitt is definitely not **aloof** or reserved.

Answer 68

**to hatch** …..…......................................…....................................... With relations between China and the West on shaky grounds, notably over the issue of Taiwan, even multinationals that operate outside so-called strategic sectors are **hatching** contingency plans for a world without access to the country.

Answer 69

**obejmować** …..…......................................…....................................... During his time at Steve Jobs’s side, the designs that flowed from his pen **spanned** items as wideranging as Apple Store shopping bags, an oak display table and the company’s most-sold product, the iPhone. In Ive’s 55 years, he’s filled piles of sketchbooks with door handles, drills, landscape plans and AirPods, almost all with his trademark rounded corners, as though he wants to buffer the world against its harsher edges.

Answer 70

**to cap off** …..…......................................…....................................... The night before we meet at Manhattan’s Baccarat Hotel, Barker **capped off** an appearance at Tommy Hilfiger’s New York Fashion Week show with a live performance of an original song just a few minutes long that he nonetheless practiced 10 hours for. “Music is my religion; it’s all I do,” he says, very seriously, from his seat in the hotel dining room. “From the time I wake up until the time I go to sleep every day, I’m either producing or writing or performing. Besides my kids, that’s all I know.”

Answer 71

**to drive** …..…......................................…....................................... Covid-19, costs and geopolitics are **driving** Apple to make and sell its gadgets elsewhere.

Answer 72

**przedstawiać, ujmować, wyjaśniać** …..…......................................…....................................... After all, as Jeffrey Cole, a communications expert at USC Annenberg **puts** it, “Disney has had a 40-year succession problem”. During his decade-and-a-half as CEO, Mr Iger postponed his retirement four times, elevating and nixing potential successors. His predecessor, Michael Eisner, expensively jettisoned possible replacements twice during his 21-year reign, before finally settling on Mr Iger. Disney’s board has now given Mr Iger two years—a deadline unlikely to be set in stone—to have another go at finding a suitable heir.

Answer 73

**zmuszać; doprowadzić (do złej kondycji, do złego stanu)** …..…......................................…....................................... Covid-19, costs and geopolitics are **driving** Apple to make and sell its gadgets elsewhere.

Answer 74

**rozgrzeszenie** …..…......................................…....................................... What started as a desire to create a single small devil figure as a vehicle for an intense red glaze “became a journey towards some kind of **absolution** from a series of shattering events. This [the ceramic works] – and in fact, all the songs that I write – are about the idea of forgiveness, the idea that there is a moral virtue in beauty. It’s a kind of balancing of our sins.” Like his music, the result is both beautiful and heart-stoppingly poignant.

Answer 75

**odd** …..…......................................…....................................... And yet, for all his high-mindedness as a producer and his increasing selectivity as an actor, Pitt is glad to lend his talents to the **odd** blockbuster when the timing is right, especially when there’s a personal connection. That includes this summer’s Bullet Train, directed by David Leitch, whose relationship with Pitt goes back to 1999’s Fight Club, when Leitch served as the star’s stunt double, a role Leitch would reprise in a number of films, including Troy and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Answer 76

**high-touch** …..…......................................…....................................... This new foray into hospitality is a natural extension of Fulk’s **high-touch** design practice. His offices in New York and San Francisco often organize celebrations for their clients. “Whether it’s a 40th birthday or you’re like, ‘We’re going to get married,’ I got you!” Fulk says.

Answer 77

**mający określony wpływ lub efekt** …..…......................................…....................................... Two forces are **at work**. The first, especially important for consumer goods, is that foreign brands are losing their cachet. Knowing how to design products and build demand has given an important competitive edge to multinational consumer-goods firms.

Answer 78

**łączyć** …..…......................................…....................................... Chesky, who studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, adds, “I always thought I knew about design, but I never understood design on a deeper level until I worked with Jony.” Ive is able to **meld** classic analog design with techy ideas about user experience and interface design—more typically the province of engineers, he says. Chesky and Ive speak almost daily, a practice they began during the pandemic, when Airbnb’s bookings dropped 80 percent.

Answer 79

**to cripple** …..…......................................…....................................... I was **crippled** by it; I wouldn’t even look at a plane. I remember when my daughter Alabama was little, maybe five or six years after my accident, she had an aviation field trip. I’m not gonna make my little girl go by herself, but deep down I’m like, Damn, I don’t want to go either. But it’s hard for her because she knows what happened, and she’s never flown either. And then we couldn’t even walk on the plane; she ran out bawling, and I was just so upset.

Answer 80

**opanowywać, najechać (np. wyspę turystyczną)** …..…......................................…....................................... At the oasis-like centre he created in 1951 – a paragon of his architectural language with domed mud-brick structures and a garden **overrun** by bougainvillaea and date-tree leaves – Wassef made it his mission to protect the imperilled artistry of weaving.

Answer 81

**sprzeciw; oburzenie** …..…......................................…....................................... A muted statement by Nike, a sportswear brand, noting that it was “concerned about reports of forced labour” in Xinjiang was enough to cause a social-media **outcry** in China and a temporary slump in sales.

Answer 82

**to add to** …..…......................................…....................................... A zero-covid policy that causes intermittent local lockdowns, such as the one that recently began in the southern city of Guangzhou, has disrupted supply chains and made the country inhospitable to foreign managers. A fractious workforce **is adding to** the woes.

Answer 83

**wypielęgnowany, zadbany** …..…......................................…....................................... Once upon a modern-day time there was a castle, high on a hill in Tuscany, overlooking acres of **well-tended** vineyards and dense woodland. Its medieval brick tower, rising tall and straight between inky silhouettes of cypresses, was visible for miles in every direction.

Answer 84

**przeciwstawić się, przeciwstawiać się czemuś (np. zmianom, zasadom)** …..…......................................…....................................... An avowed traditionalist, partial to the elegance of red burgundy, he **bucked** the then fashion, driven primarily by the US market, for big, tannic, high-alcohol red wines, instead producing ultra-traditional Chiantis (with a trace amount of Trebbiano, a local white grape, an orthodoxy that dates back centuries) and IGT blends of exceptional balance and finesse.

Answer 85

**worldliness** …..…......................................…....................................... The blend of wine, wisdom and **worldliness** at the 16th-century Castello Sonnino is so exquisite that even Gucci wants to stay.

Answer 86

**wdzierać się, wkraczać (do czegoś)** …..…......................................…....................................... While bosses are busy **encroaching** on foreign affairs, foreign affairs are gradually encroaching on them. The result is a tangle. Western politicians—along with consumers and employees—now want companies to speak out against issues like China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority in Xinjiang.

Answer 87

**wybitny** …..…......................................…....................................... In this castle lived a family, descended from an **illustrious** line of adventurers and statesmen and benefactors. They grew grapes for wine, olives for oil and grain for flour, and worked their land the way it had been worked for several centuries, which is to say respectfully, with skill, diligence and prudence in equal measure.

Answer 88

**unsavoury** …..…......................................…....................................... Like diplomats, chief executives often deal with **unsavoury** regimes. The two groups have other things in common. For one thing, both are invited to talk on panels with titles like “The New Global Order” (an example from this week’s junket). Both also spend lots of time jetting around the world.

Answer 89

**epiphany** …..…......................................…....................................... “You know, you do a month of therapy,” Pitt says about his character, “you have one **epiphany**, and you think you’ve got it all figured out, and you’re never going to be forlorn ever again. That was that. I got this, I’m good to go!”

Answer 90

**bangle** …..…......................................…....................................... His fall 2022 collection, inspired by the British poet, heiress and activist Nancy Cunard, was a level up. A progression of striking coats (pea, faux fur, tuxedo) were shown layered over pieces including slinky bias-cut satin dresses. Cunard—an inspiration to Constantin Brâncuşi, who sculpted her—often wore chunky **bangles**, another motif in the collection. (Mostly gone were the slightly-too-short skirts and slightly-too-high heels that had given some editors pause in previous seasons.) These were enduring pieces, to be treasured in cedar closets.

Answer 91

**z głowy (przemówienie); spontanicznie** …..…......................................…....................................... Jamie Dimon had to apologise (twice) for an **off the cuff** comment last year that JPMorgan Chase would outlive the Chinese Communist Party.

Answer 92

**świadectwo (dowód istnienia czegoś), potwierdzenie** …..…......................................…....................................... The use of Geiger counters, microscopes and academic research methods are **testament** to the increasing values of certain vintage models, with tiny and near-undetectable differences moving prices by six figures or more. “A big-crown Rolex Submariner with original radium can go for over half a million. But if the radium has been replaced, it drops down way below $200,000,” explains Milan-based dealer Max Bernardini, a charming Italian marquis who cuts a Byronic figure in cobalt-coloured tailoring.

Answer 93

**odnieść wrażenie** …..…......................................…....................................... “Obsessive,” Ive calls himself, half joking. Entering his domain is like walking into a Gesamtkunstwerk (a German term for “total artwork”), something that arts and crafts movement founder William Morris might have created, but for a 21st-century Englishman who loves music, French-inspired gardens, Zen Buddhism and classic cars. One **gets the sense** that Ive created the space in part to prevent the pain of seeing anything he might deem poor design. “It’s very good for thinking,” he says.

Answer 94

**dostrzegać coś** …..…......................................…....................................... At the exhibition opening later that day, a hearty whoop from Houseago signals the trio’s arrival. “We’re like a boy band!” he booms of the disparate crew: 65-year-old Cave, characteristically gothic, bordering on vampiric, in an ultra-slim dark suit (by his friend Bella Freud); Pitt, still ruggedly handsome at 58, in a jumpsuit and yet effortlessly cool; and Houseago, 50, wearing jeans with a white, stretchy button-down shirt – through which you can just **make out** his tattoos.

Answer 95

**to flicker** …..…......................................…....................................... Every three months, reporters pack into a hotel conference room for one to two hours to watch Mr. Son. With flash bulbs **flickering**, he delivers a lengthy PowerPoint highlighting SoftBank’s quarter and updates on its plans for rapid growth, typically adorned with charts zooming up, big swooshing arrows and stock images of people smiling on phones.

Answer 96

**skromny, trzymający się na uboczu, unikający rozgłosu** …..…......................................…....................................... The character is a familiar type for Pitt— likable, flawed, a little eccentric—and he plays the part with an easy charm and **self-effacing** humor that evokes some of his other recent roles, like Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.

Answer 97

**to fill somebody's shoes** …..…......................................…....................................... What makes it so hard to **fill such oversized shoes**? One clue comes from Mr Iger himself. It is hubris. In his memoir, “The Ride of a Lifetime”, published in 2019, he acknowledges that all CEOs like to think that they are irreplaceable.

Answer 98

**at work** …..…......................................…....................................... Two forces are **at work**. The first, especially important for consumer goods, is that foreign brands are losing their cachet. Knowing how to design products and build demand has given an important competitive edge to multinational consumer-goods firms.

Answer 99

**fable** …..…......................................…....................................... As much as any **fable** consists of its narrative arc, it’s always also about the epimythia at its core. Courage, equanimity, resilience in the face of upheaval or tragedy: all of these are things Caterina and her children have for better or worse gained experience of in the past two years.

Answer 100

**wygadać się; wyspowiadać się** …..…......................................…....................................... “I had a really cool men’s group here that was really private and selective, so it was safe,” he says. “Because I’d seen things of other people who had been recorded while they were **spilling their guts**, and that’s just atrocious to me.”

Answer 101

**to overrun** …..…......................................…....................................... At the oasis-like centre he created in 1951 – a paragon of his architectural language with domed mud-brick structures and a garden **overrun** by bougainvillaea and date-tree leaves – Wassef made it his mission to protect the imperilled artistry of weaving.

Answer 102

**zwiększać coś** …..…......................................…....................................... A zero-covid policy that causes intermittent local lockdowns, such as the one that recently began in the southern city of Guangzhou, has disrupted supply chains and made the country inhospitable to foreign managers. A fractious workforce **is adding to** the woes.

Answer 103

**hue** …..…......................................…....................................... A car ride here feels like a journey through numerous settlements condensed into one – all different in shape, like sediments from different layers of time: Fatimid, Mamluk, Khedival, then the modernist architecture, all connected by their sandy **hues** and the gleaming desert light.

Answer 104

**podszkolić kogoś; wspomagać czyjś rozwój** …..…......................................…....................................... In his memoir, “The Ride of a Lifetime”, published in 2019, he acknowledges that all CEOs like to think that they are irreplaceable. Yet good leadership, he adds, demands the opposite. It is about **bringing on** a successor, identifying skills they need to develop and being honest with them when they are not ready for the next step.

Answer 105

**obraźliwy (np. komentarz)** …..…......................................…....................................... By the following week, Mr. Corden appeared more contrite and addressed the incident in an Oct. 24 episode of his show, saying he became frustrated after the restaurant messed up an order for his wife, who has a severe food allergy. When the order was delivered wrong a third time, he said he made “a sarcastic, rude comment” that he should cook the food himself. He said he didn’t shout or use any **derogatory** language.

Answer 106

**czasy świetności** …..…......................................…....................................... The **halcyon days** of total growth and number of subscribers, those days are over, said Chris Legg, senior managing director at investment bank Progress Partners, which advises companies in the media and advertising technology space. “Disney is still in the mind-set of go-and-grab more subscribers, whether it’s locally or internationally. They probably have a few quarters to keep playing that game, but Wall Street is definitely getting less patient with this spend-for-subs model.”

Answer 107

**bezinteresowny** …..…......................................…....................................... “It’s at the root of so much social dysfunction and conflict…. Part of why I get so furious when people dismiss creativity is that [when] it’s an activity practiced in its most noble and collaborative form, it means a bunch of people who come together in an empathic and **selfless** way. What I have come to realize is that the process of creating with large groups of people is really hard and is also unbelievably powerful.”

Answer 108

**to curry favor with somebody** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Musk has used political statements to **curry favor with** Beijing, most recently by implying that Taiwan should be part of China. This game will likely get a lot harder now that he is running Twitter. For example, if he continues with the social-media platform’s efforts to close down Chinese networks that tweet about U.S. elections, he might find himself less welcome with Chinese authorities. If he doesn’t, Washington will plainly object.

Answer 109

**zniszczony, w marnym stanie** …..…......................................…....................................... It’s a journey that, like Siwa, makes one feel slightly out of time. Luxor, the legendary Winter Palace – intact, **rundown**, but as lavish as ever – still echoes with British-colonial influences: the silverware, the untouched furniture, the maîtres d’hôtel and the abundant gardens.

Answer 110

**soczewica** …..…......................................…....................................... After a lunch at Koshary Abou Tarek – a cornerstone of Cairene cuisine, where people queue for the inimitable koshary made of chickpeas, pasta and **lentils** – I meet Karim El Hayawan, an interiors architect and photographer who in 2014 launched Cairo Saturday Walks.

Answer 111

**niszczyć; rozstrzaskać** …..…......................................…....................................... What started as a desire to create a single small devil figure as a vehicle for an intense red glaze “became a journey towards some kind of absolution from a series of **shattering** events. This [the ceramic works] – and in fact, all the songs that I write – are about the idea of forgiveness, the idea that there is a moral virtue in beauty. It’s a kind of balancing of our sins.” Like his music, the result is both beautiful and heart-stoppingly poignant.

Answer 112

**płaszczyzna** …..…......................................…....................................... All three works offer fresh takes on what is now a well-worn subject. Although remote on their own stratospheric **plane** of existence, the gods of technology may want to listen to what these critics have to say.

Answer 113

**avowed** …..…......................................…....................................... An **avowed** traditionalist, partial to the elegance of red burgundy, he bucked the then fashion, driven primarily by the US market, for big, tannic, high-alcohol red wines, instead producing ultra-traditional Chiantis (with a trace amount of Trebbiano, a local white grape, an orthodoxy that dates back centuries) and IGT blends of exceptional balance and finesse.

Answer 114

**candlestick** …..…......................................…....................................... The **candlesticks** are painted black and gold and are very handsome. “That’s porcelain,” he says. “Everything I read, porcelain’s about being thin so that light penetrates, the thinner you get. It’s a cardinal sin to make it thick.”

Answer 115

**angażować się** …..…......................................…....................................... “There are lots of wonderful landmark places on the planet that for whatever reason are not surviving or not prospering,” says Lyda. “The opportunity to **step in** and give them a more sustainable economic base and bring them up to their best self again is pretty intriguing.”

Answer 116

**wyśpiewać, zaśpiewać głośno** …..…......................................…....................................... Dressed in a skintight black dress and oversize black sunglasses, Miley **belted out** a rousing version of “Photograph” with 80s rockers Def Leppard. “I miss Taylor so much,” she wrote on Instagram the following day. “It was such an honor to celebrate him last night.”

Answer 117

**asortyment; obsada; skład; układ; program wydarzeń** …..…......................................…....................................... The Chinese consumer has been changing, too. Many now prefer products that incorporate distinctive Chinese cultural imagery, a phenomenon known as guochao (literally “national trend”). What started with a China-themed **lineup** by LiNing at New York Fashion Week in 2018 has spread to everything from make-up to soup.

Answer 118

**swoosh** …..…......................................…....................................... Every three months, reporters pack into a hotel conference room for one to two hours to watch Mr. Son. With flash bulbs flickering, he delivers a lengthy PowerPoint highlighting SoftBank’s quarter and updates on its plans for rapid growth, typically adorned with charts zooming up, big **swooshing** arrows and stock images of people smiling on phones.

Answer 119

**odrzucić; sprzeciwić się; nie** …..…......................................…....................................... After all, as Jeffrey Cole, a communications expert at USC Annenberg puts it, “Disney has had a 40-year succession problem”. During his decade-and-a-half as CEO, Mr Iger postponed his retirement four times, elevating and **nixing** potential successors. His predecessor, Michael Eisner, expensively jettisoned possible replacements twice during his 21-year reign, before finally settling on Mr Iger. Disney’s board has now given Mr Iger two years—a deadline unlikely to be set in stone—to have another go at finding a suitable heir.

Answer 120

**zmuszać do refleksji** …..…......................................…....................................... His fall 2022 collection, inspired by the British poet, heiress and activist Nancy Cunard, was a level up. A progression of striking coats (pea, faux fur, tuxedo) were shown layered over pieces including slinky bias-cut satin dresses. Cunard—an inspiration to Constantin Brâncuşi, who sculpted her—often wore chunky bangles, another motif in the collection. (Mostly gone were the slightly-too-short skirts and slightly-too-high heels that had **given some editors pause** in previous seasons.) These were enduring pieces, to be treasured in cedar closets.

Answer 121

**to flip-flop** …..…......................................…....................................... The developing world still seems open to Huawei’s cheap equipment. The company is furnishing 5G networks in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey. Brazil, another potentially large market, has **flip-flopped** but does not appear poised to issue a ban.

Answer 122

**okrzyk radości** …..…......................................…....................................... At the exhibition opening later that day, a hearty **whoop** from Houseago signals the trio’s arrival. “We’re like a boy band!” he booms of the disparate crew: 65-year-old Cave, characteristically gothic, bordering on vampiric, in an ultra-slim dark suit (by his friend Bella Freud); Pitt, still ruggedly handsome at 58, in a jumpsuit and yet effortlessly cool; and Houseago, 50, wearing jeans with a white, stretchy button-down shirt – through which you can just make out his tattoos.

Answer 123

**blow-up** …..…......................................…....................................... The death of FTX, an exchange declared bankrupt on November 11th after a spectacular **blow-up**, will encourage some people to turn their attention elsewhere.

Answer 124

**follow-on** …..…......................................…....................................... Some high-profile successions work, too, most notably the transition at Apple, maker of the iPhone, from the late Steve Jobs to Tim Cook, and, indeed, Mr Iger’s **follow-on** from Mr Eisner.

Answer 125

**well-tended** …..…......................................…....................................... Once upon a modern-day time there was a castle, high on a hill in Tuscany, overlooking acres of **well-tended** vineyards and dense woodland. Its medieval brick tower, rising tall and straight between inky silhouettes of cypresses, was visible for miles in every direction.

Answer 126

**disrepair** …..…......................................…....................................... But the house itself, Caterina recalls, was in an almost absurd state of **disrepair**. No one had really lived there for any length of time for at least 70 years, and it showed.

Answer 127

**wykończyć się; zaharować się** …..…......................................…....................................... As he finishes this story, Pitt offers me a nicotine mint. He chews them mindlessly. He explains that he quit smoking during the pandemic after realizing that simply cutting back on cigarettes wasn’t going to suffice—he had to cut them out. “I don’t have that ability to do just one or two a day,” he says. “It’s not in my makeup. I’m all in. And I’m going to **drive into the ground**. I’ve lost my privileges.”

Answer 128

**to get one's head down** …..…......................................…....................................... Of course, it’s work that often keeps him anchored to L.A., and his friends tell me that he’s happiest when **he’s got his head down in** a project. One close confidant, Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist, explains, “When Brad’s lost in the process of creating, there’s something magical about that. It’s like this thing that lights something inside a human being that gives them power and opens them up.”

Answer 129

**to set the scene** …..…......................................…....................................... “Can I tell you something that happened this morning?” says Cave, **setting the scene** of the lakeside house in which they’re all staying, and where they were celebrating the birthday of his wife – fashion designer Susie Cave – the night before. “This is what it’s been like: I woke up this morning, made a coffee in my underwear and noticed that Brad was sitting there. He started playing the guitar and sang one of my songs to me – “Palaces of Montezuma” – and then Thomas walked in [in his pyjamas] and joined in.”

Answer 130

**rów** …..…......................................…....................................... Early in the pandemic, Mr. Son flipped through a series of slides in which white horses ran into a **ditch** labeled the “valley of the coronavirus” while a flying unicorn soared over, signifying how some so-called unicorn startups would emerge stronger after the crisis.

Answer 131

**symbolika** …..…......................................…....................................... The Chinese consumer has been changing, too. Many now prefer products that incorporate distinctive Chinese cultural **imagery**, a phenomenon known as guochao (literally “national trend”). What started with a China-themed lineup by LiNing at New York Fashion Week in 2018 has spread to everything from make-up to soup.

Answer 132

**maritime** …..…......................................…....................................... **Maritime** metaphors abound. After WeWork’s valuation plunged in 2019, Mr. Son flipped through a slide with choppy seas that said “We-Work problem,” and “significant decrease in profit.” The presentation ended with a slide showing calm seas.

Answer 133

**selfless** …..…......................................…....................................... “It’s at the root of so much social dysfunction and conflict…. Part of why I get so furious when people dismiss creativity is that [when] it’s an activity practiced in its most noble and collaborative form, it means a bunch of people who come together in an empathic and **selfless** way. What I have come to realize is that the process of creating with large groups of people is really hard and is also unbelievably powerful.”

Answer 134

**do rozważenia (np. o ofercie)** …..…......................................…....................................... Growing up, Vaccarello did not think that a creative career was necessarily **on the table**. “Even when I was a kid, I always loved fashion, but didn’t know it could be a job,” he says. As a teen, he furthered his fashion education through MTV, becoming obsessed with designers including Gianni Versace, Azzedine Alaïa and Jean Paul Gaultier, and musicians like Madonna and Tina Turner. “In the ’90s, music and fashion were very linked,” he says.

Answer 135

**tym lepiej** …..…......................................…....................................... ANTHONY VACCARELLO is wearing all black—a T-shirt and jeans of his own design. He often wears head-to-ankle black (with white sneakers), **all the better** to recede into the background.

Answer 136

**mieć swoje przyzwyczajenia** …..…......................................…....................................... So I’d always put it out there: I’ll never fly again; I’m never going to Brazil, never going anywhere unless people find a way for me to get there. I’d travel six days to New York on a bus, and ten days from New York to London in a cruise ship. It was hell, but it was all I knew. I was **stuck in my ways**, and really cool with not flying again; I was just married to music, good with being in the studio 20 hours a day and coming home just to sleep.

Answer 137

**mieć coś za sobą** …..…......................................…....................................... **She’s over the party scene**. “Miley still enjoys going to certain things, but she picks and chooses instead of randomly showing up to lots of parties like she used to,” says the second source, adding, “she’s been there and done that in terms of partying — it bores her now.”

Answer 138

**pieczołowicie przechowywać; cenić sobie** …..…......................................…....................................... These were enduring pieces, to be **treasured** in cedar closets.

Answer 139

**lineup** …..…......................................…....................................... The Chinese consumer has been changing, too. Many now prefer products that incorporate distinctive Chinese cultural imagery, a phenomenon known as guochao (literally “national trend”). What started with a China-themed **lineup** by LiNing at New York Fashion Week in 2018 has spread to everything from make-up to soup.

Answer 140

**rendition** …..…......................................…....................................... While Houseago says they did “a pretty damn good” **rendition**, Pitt laughs and adds, “We actually did not! But I was more taken with the elegance, man. Thomas comes out with his hair out to here, I’ve got luggage under the eyes. And Nick comes out in matching shorts and a button shirt, a spectre of elegance.”

Answer 141

**pretty much** …..…......................................…....................................... “I lived here for a few years, then I bounced around everywhere, just let friends crash here, and then somewhere in the aughts I fixed it up. Been **pretty much** hiding out here.”

Answer 142

**duty-bound** …..…......................................…....................................... “That stuff’s been pulled out of me by people who relate to my situation; you have to respond to that with a full heart. There’s a certain period of loss where you’re just terrified and everything’s collapsed; your life is destroyed. And I know that there is a way through that. I know because I’ve gone through it and it just seems **duty-bound** to talk to people on some level from the other side of the chasm.”

Answer 143

**przyłożyć się do pracy** …..…......................................…....................................... Of course, it’s work that often keeps him anchored to L.A., and his friends tell me that he’s happiest when **he’s got his head down in** a project. One close confidant, Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist, explains, “When Brad’s lost in the process of creating, there’s something magical about that. It’s like this thing that lights something inside a human being that gives them power and opens them up.”

Answer 144

**noose** …..…......................................…....................................... Given the growing rift between America and China, it is sensible for Apple to place some side-bets, before restrictions go any further. Chinese firms outside China are safe for now, says one Western investor in Asia. But “the **noose** is tightening”.

Answer 145

**to excavate** …..…......................................…....................................... I also think back to Pitt’s dreams about stalkers coming out of the darkness to stab him, and about how he learned to control those dreams by simply asking “Why?” That inquisitive side of him has come into clearer focus now, his need to **excavate** life’s most complex truths. I write back, asking what he interprets these dreams to mean.

Answer 146

**to bawl** …..…......................................…....................................... I was crippled by it; I wouldn’t even look at a plane. I remember when my daughter Alabama was little, maybe five or six years after my accident, she had an aviation field trip. I’m not gonna make my little girl go by herself, but deep down I’m like, Damn, I don’t want to go either. But it’s hard for her because she knows what happened, and she’s never flown either. And then we couldn’t even walk on the plane; she ran out **bawling**, and I was just so upset.

Answer 147

**dociekliwy, ciekawski** …..…......................................…....................................... I also think back to Pitt’s dreams about stalkers coming out of the darkness to stab him, and about how he learned to control those dreams by simply asking “Why?” That **inquisitive** side of him has come into clearer focus now, his need to excavate life’s most complex truths. I write back, asking what he interprets these dreams to mean.

Answer 148

**nic nowego (ironicznie), już to znam (już tego doświadczyłem i nie jest to dla mnie interesujące)** …..…......................................…....................................... She’s over the party scene. “Miley still enjoys going to certain things, but she picks and chooses instead of randomly showing up to lots of parties like she used to,” says the second source, adding, “she’s **been there and done that** in terms of partying — it bores her now.”

Answer 149

**to step in** …..…......................................…....................................... “There are lots of wonderful landmark places on the planet that for whatever reason are not surviving or not prospering,” says Lyda. “The opportunity to **step in** and give them a more sustainable economic base and bring them up to their best self again is pretty intriguing.”

Answer 150

**to shatter** …..…......................................…....................................... What started as a desire to create a single small devil figure as a vehicle for an intense red glaze “became a journey towards some kind of absolution from a series of **shattering** events. This [the ceramic works] – and in fact, all the songs that I write – are about the idea of forgiveness, the idea that there is a moral virtue in beauty. It’s a kind of balancing of our sins.” Like his music, the result is both beautiful and heart-stoppingly poignant.

Answer 151

**bardzo prawdopodobnie** …..…......................................…....................................... This route however will only be viable in cases where China can be operated as a self-contained unit; it is **off the cards** for firms like Boeing or LVMH that rely on manufacturing abroad.

Answer 152

**zmienić zdanie, wypiąć się na coś (zlekceważyć)** …..…......................................…....................................... The developing world still seems open to Huawei’s cheap equipment. The company is furnishing 5G networks in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey. Brazil, another potentially large market, has **flip-flopped** but does not appear poised to issue a ban.

Answer 153

**brzydzić się (czegoś)** …..…......................................…....................................... “I don’t know anything about business,” Ive demurs, but he **abhors** the current fascination with disruption. “I’m not interested in breaking things,” he says. “We have made a virtue out of destroying everything of value,” he says. “It’s associated with being successful and selling a company for money. But it’s too easy—in three weeks we could break everything.”

Answer 154

**wrzeszczeć** …..…......................................…....................................... I was crippled by it; I wouldn’t even look at a plane. I remember when my daughter Alabama was little, maybe five or six years after my accident, she had an aviation field trip. I’m not gonna make my little girl go by herself, but deep down I’m like, Damn, I don’t want to go either. But it’s hard for her because she knows what happened, and she’s never flown either. And then we couldn’t even walk on the plane; she ran out **bawling**, and I was just so upset.

Answer 155

**take** …..…......................................…....................................... All three works offer fresh **takes** on what is now a well-worn subject. Although remote on their own stratospheric plane of existence, the gods of technology may want to listen to what these critics have to say.

Answer 156

**derogatory** …..…......................................…....................................... By the following week, Mr. Corden appeared more contrite and addressed the incident in an Oct. 24 episode of his show, saying he became frustrated after the restaurant messed up an order for his wife, who has a severe food allergy. When the order was delivered wrong a third time, he said he made “a sarcastic, rude comment” that he should cook the food himself. He said he didn’t shout or use any **derogatory** language.

Answer 157

**successive** …..…......................................…....................................... The American government had other plans. **Successive** administrations have regarded Huawei as a national security risk, claiming that it has deep links with the People’s Liberation Army and that its gear could be used for spying (allegations that have not been proven and that Huawei denies).

Answer 158

**odrzucać; wyrzucać** …..…......................................…....................................... After all, as Jeffrey Cole, a communications expert at USC Annenberg puts it, “Disney has had a 40-year succession problem”. During his decade-and-a-half as CEO, Mr Iger postponed his retirement four times, elevating and nixing potential successors. His predecessor, Michael Eisner, expensively **jettisoned** possible replacements twice during his 21-year reign, before finally settling on Mr Iger. Disney’s board has now given Mr Iger two years—a deadline unlikely to be set in stone—to have another go at finding a suitable heir.

Answer 159

**outcry** …..…......................................…....................................... A muted statement by Nike, a sportswear brand, noting that it was “concerned about reports of forced labour” in Xinjiang was enough to cause a social-media **outcry** in China and a temporary slump in sales.

Answer 160

**zobowiązany** …..…......................................…....................................... “That stuff’s been pulled out of me by people who relate to my situation; you have to respond to that with a full heart. There’s a certain period of loss where you’re just terrified and everything’s collapsed; your life is destroyed. And I know that there is a way through that. I know because I’ve gone through it and it just seems **duty-bound** to talk to people on some level from the other side of the chasm.”

Answer 161

**opuszczony, samotny** …..…......................................…....................................... “You know, you do a month of therapy,” Pitt says about his character, “you have one epiphany, and you think you’ve got it all figured out, and you’re never going to be **forlorn** ever again. That was that. I got this, I’m good to go!”

Answer 162

**to stall** …..…......................................…....................................... Premium carmakers such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz continue to grow robustly in China, but sales from mid-range ones like Volkswagen and General Motors are shrinking as homegrown rivals including Chery and BYD expand rapidly. Sales for Nike, a sportswear brand, are also **stalling** as LiNing and Anta, two local competitors, gain ground.

Answer 163

**oddly enough** …..…......................................…....................................... After examining me in his rear-view mirror for a bit, the taxi driver engages me in a conversation that very quickly drifts from pleasantries (where I am from, what I am doing in Cairo) to his life, his job, then the traffic, then the people. “I don’t know why everyone is always running here. The country is not in its best state, but **oddly enough** tourists are back and things are working without us knowing how.”

Answer 164

**umierać** …..…......................................…....................................... Still, there are fears about Miley’s state of mind. “Some people are concerned that she’s completely lost and alone,” says the second source. “It’s like she’s slowly **checking out** — and she says she doesn’t feel like she owes anyone an explanation,” says the first source.

Answer 165

**zakończyć (coś czymś)** …..…......................................…....................................... The night before we meet at Manhattan’s Baccarat Hotel, Barker **capped off** an appearance at Tommy Hilfiger’s New York Fashion Week show with a live performance of an original song just a few minutes long that he nonetheless practiced 10 hours for. “Music is my religion; it’s all I do,” he says, very seriously, from his seat in the hotel dining room. “From the time I wake up until the time I go to sleep every day, I’m either producing or writing or performing. Besides my kids, that’s all I know.”

Answer 166

**hanger-on** …..…......................................…....................................... Her inner circle has gotten much smaller. Miley — who’s been dating Lilly drummer Maxx Morando, 23, since late January — “is still tight with her more mature and trustworthy friends,” says the second source, “but she weeded out all the **hangers-on** and bad influences.”

Answer 167

**off the cuff** …..…......................................…....................................... Jamie Dimon had to apologise (twice) for an **off the cuff** comment last year that JPMorgan Chase would outlive the Chinese Communist Party.

Answer 168

**zamrozić coś na jakiś czas, odkładać coś na później** …..…......................................…....................................... On the same day it added 30 Chinese companies to a list of “unverified” firms its officials had been unable to inspect. Apple had reportedly been about to sign a deal to buy iPhone memory chips from one such company, YMTC, which can offer low prices thanks in part to Chinese government subsidies. Following America’s export controls that deal was **put on ice**.

Answer 169

**niesforny, marudny** …..…......................................…....................................... A zero-covid policy that causes intermittent local lockdowns, such as the one that recently began in the southern city of Guangzhou, has disrupted supply chains and made the country inhospitable to foreign managers. A **fractious** workforce is adding to the woes.

Answer 170

**być na granicy czegoś (np. obłędu, absurdu)** …..…......................................…....................................... At the exhibition opening later that day, a hearty whoop from Houseago signals the trio’s arrival. “We’re like a boy band!” he booms of the disparate crew: 65-year-old Cave, characteristically gothic, **bordering on** vampiric, in an ultra-slim dark suit (by his friend Bella Freud); Pitt, still ruggedly handsome at 58, in a jumpsuit and yet effortlessly cool; and Houseago, 50, wearing jeans with a white, stretchy button-down shirt – through which you can just make out his tattoos.

Answer 171

**to border on** …..…......................................…....................................... At the exhibition opening later that day, a hearty whoop from Houseago signals the trio’s arrival. “We’re like a boy band!” he booms of the disparate crew: 65-year-old Cave, characteristically gothic, **bordering on** vampiric, in an ultra-slim dark suit (by his friend Bella Freud); Pitt, still ruggedly handsome at 58, in a jumpsuit and yet effortlessly cool; and Houseago, 50, wearing jeans with a white, stretchy button-down shirt – through which you can just make out his tattoos.

Answer 172

**powściągliwy (w słowach i w czynach), z dystansem** …..…......................................…....................................... When I tell him that my husband seems to suffer from this as well, Pitt goes wild. “Nobody believes me!” he cries. “I wanna meet another.” He’s making uncannily good eye contact as he his, and it’s at this point that I realize that Brad Pitt is definitely not **aloof** or reserved.

Answer 173

**to edge out** …..…......................................…....................................... The technical difficulty of installing Huawei to replace American systems that run on Oracle’s and IBM’s products, which are much more compatible with Microsoft’s, is high, says Boris Van of Bernstein, a broker. **Edging out** the American firms in China is one thing; doing so abroad is quite another.

Answer 174

**ineffectual** …..…......................................…....................................... **Ineffectual** people like me are drawn to business books about successful people in the hope that some of their success will rub off on us. So we study Jeff Bezos and his ideas about leadership, or the tale of how Amazon grew from Mr. Bezos’s garage to an international empire.

Answer 175

**inquisitive** …..…......................................…....................................... I also think back to Pitt’s dreams about stalkers coming out of the darkness to stab him, and about how he learned to control those dreams by simply asking “Why?” That **inquisitive** side of him has come into clearer focus now, his need to excavate life’s most complex truths. I write back, asking what he interprets these dreams to mean.

Answer 176

**zmierzyć czyjś puls** …..…......................................…....................................... As in many Arab cities, a conversation with a taxi driver in Cairo – or sometimes simply a ride in one – **takes the pulse** of the place.

Answer 177

**absolution** …..…......................................…....................................... What started as a desire to create a single small devil figure as a vehicle for an intense red glaze “became a journey towards some kind of **absolution** from a series of shattering events. This [the ceramic works] – and in fact, all the songs that I write – are about the idea of forgiveness, the idea that there is a moral virtue in beauty. It’s a kind of balancing of our sins.” Like his music, the result is both beautiful and heart-stoppingly poignant.

Answer 178

**reserved** …..…......................................…....................................... When I tell him that my husband seems to suffer from this as well, Pitt goes wild. “Nobody believes me!” he cries. “I wanna meet another.” He’s making uncannily good eye contact as he his, and it’s at this point that I realize that Brad Pitt is definitely not aloof or **reserved**.

Answer 179

**circumspect** …..…......................................…....................................... Cave adds: “Talking about things like trauma, I’m much more **circumspect** [than Houseago]. It’s much more controlled.” He recalls a time when he and Houseago were modelling some clothes for Susie Cave’s fashion label, The Vampire’s Wife. “We were all sitting there having our hair shampooed, and within 30 seconds of talking to [the hairdresser], Thomas had revealed the most mind-boggling, traumatic events,” says Cave.

Answer 180

**sizeable** …..…......................................…....................................... In The Economist’s analysis of 20 industries with a **sizeable** multinational presence, foreign companies have lost share in 14 over the past three years.

Answer 181

**insidious** …..…......................................…....................................... Social jet lag is more **insidious**. It’s often hiding in plain sight, though it may have an impact on our health.

Answer 182

**niedawno (kilka dni temu)** …..…......................................…....................................... **The other morning** I cycled around the Dutch town where I grew up. Behind our old house, the field where I spent half my childhood is now covered with homes. So is my old football club. My high school is now in a built-up area. At the local train station, the bike shed was full on a Saturday afternoon.

Answer 183

**to weed out** …..…......................................…....................................... Her inner circle has gotten much smaller. Miley — who’s been dating Lilly drummer Maxx Morando, 23, since late January — “is still tight with her more mature and trustworthy friends,” says the second source, “but she **weeded out** all the hangers-on and bad influences.”

Answer 184

**to own** …..…......................................…....................................... “It’s all about self-reflection,” he explains. “I was looking at my own life and really concentrating on **owning** my own shit: where was I complicit in failures in my relationships, where have I mis-stepped. For me, it was born out of ownership of what I call a radical inventory of self, getting really brutally honest with me, and taking account of those I may have hurt.”

Answer 185

**pętla, stryczek** …..…......................................…....................................... Given the growing rift between America and China, it is sensible for Apple to place some side-bets, before restrictions go any further. Chinese firms outside China are safe for now, says one Western investor in Asia. But “the **noose** is tightening”.

Answer 186

**the other day** …..…......................................…....................................... **The other morning** I cycled around the Dutch town where I grew up. Behind our old house, the field where I spent half my childhood is now covered with homes. So is my old football club. My high school is now in a built-up area. At the local train station, the bike shed was full on a Saturday afternoon.

Answer 187

**opanowanie, spokój** …..…......................................…....................................... As much as any fable consists of its narrative arc, it’s always also about the epimythia at its core. Courage, **equanimity**, resilience in the face of upheaval or tragedy: all of these are things Caterina and her children have for better or worse gained experience of in the past two years.

Answer 188

**wybredny, przesadny** …..…......................................…....................................... This summer Apple reportedly had to ask Taiwanese manufacturers to label their products “Made in Chinese Taipei” to appease newly **finicky** Chinese customs officials (at the risk of angering Taiwanese ones).

Answer 189

**być wstrząśniętym** …..…......................................…....................................... According to sources, the “Wrecking Ball” singer was hit hard by Taylor’s death, and has also been **reeling** in the wake of her parents divorce.

Answer 190

**grzać się, wygrzewać (np. jaszczurka w słońcu)** …..…......................................…....................................... In the fireplace, there’s a barely smoldering log, and Pitt pulls up a chair as though to **bask** in its warmth. His eyes are clear and pale blue and they catch the light as he turns to me.

Answer 191

**to have time on your hands** …..…......................................…....................................... The growing challenge from locals is putting many multinationals in a sticky situation: maintaining competitiveness in China demands increased investment even as the geopolitical risks are mounting. For now most multinationals **have time on their hands**. Of the list of 200 companies we examined, 144 have still grown in China over the past three years.

Answer 192

**imagery** …..…......................................…....................................... The Chinese consumer has been changing, too. Many now prefer products that incorporate distinctive Chinese cultural **imagery**, a phenomenon known as guochao (literally “national trend”). What started with a China-themed lineup by LiNing at New York Fashion Week in 2018 has spread to everything from make-up to soup.

Answer 193

**an awful lot** …..…......................................…....................................... I CAN ALWAYS WRITE **an awful lot** that I can’t draw,” Jony Ive, the mastermind behind Apple’s most revolutionary products, says as he holds up a Space Age–style coffee cup. “If I draw this, it only captures certain attributes.”

Answer 194

**strasznie dużo** …..…......................................…....................................... I CAN ALWAYS WRITE **an awful lot** that I can’t draw,” Jony Ive, the mastermind behind Apple’s most revolutionary products, says as he holds up a Space Age–style coffee cup. “If I draw this, it only captures certain attributes.”

Answer 195

**uprzejmość** …..…......................................…....................................... After examining me in his rear-view mirror for a bit, the taxi driver engages me in a conversation that very quickly drifts from **pleasantries** (where I am from, what I am doing in Cairo) to his life, his job, then the traffic, then the people. “I don’t know why everyone is always running here. The country is not in its best state, but oddly enough tourists are back and things are working without us knowing how.”

Answer 196

**self-effacing** …..…......................................…....................................... The character is a familiar type for Pitt— likable, flawed, a little eccentric—and he plays the part with an easy charm and **self-effacing** humor that evokes some of his other recent roles, like Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.

Answer 197

**bajka; fabuła** …..…......................................…....................................... As much as any **fable** consists of its narrative arc, it’s always also about the epimythia at its core. Courage, equanimity, resilience in the face of upheaval or tragedy: all of these are things Caterina and her children have for better or worse gained experience of in the past two years.

Answer 198

**to rub off on somebody** …..…......................................…....................................... Ineffectual people like me are drawn to business books about successful people in the hope that some of their success will **rub off on** us. So we study Jeff Bezos and his ideas about leadership, or the tale of how Amazon grew from Mr. Bezos’s garage to an international empire.

Answer 199

**osad (na dnie płynu)** …..…......................................…....................................... A car ride here feels like a journey through numerous settlements condensed into one – all different in shape, like **sediments** from different layers of time: Fatimid, Mamluk, Khedival, then the modernist architecture, all connected by their sandy hues and the gleaming desert light.

Answer 200

**wapień** …..…......................................…....................................... In each of these, the depth of Egyptian civilisation simply hits you, and reduces shifts in cultures to mere instants. What explains the infinite power of the Pyramids, however, is not the just the grandiosity of those eternal **limestone** mountains but the mystery of their making: 4,500 years into their existence, archaeologists are still trying to understand how their builders managed to move more than two million limestone and granite blocks, each weighing between 2.5 and 15 tonnes, from the banks of the Nile to Giza, passing through a desert en route.

Answer 201

**socialite** …..…......................................…....................................... Since its launch in 2018, guest speakers have included ethnobotanist Wade Davis, the Hungarian-Canadian physician and trauma specialist Gabor Maté and Camilla Fayed, a **socialite** turned vegan activist. Tickets, with accommodation, start at €3,918 and guests jet in from all over the world. This October’s event was its sixth and, like previous incarnations, was sold out.

Answer 202

**sporadyczny** …..…......................................…....................................... And yet, for all his high-mindedness as a producer and his increasing selectivity as an actor, Pitt is glad to lend his talents to the **odd** blockbuster when the timing is right, especially when there’s a personal connection. That includes this summer’s Bullet Train, directed by David Leitch, whose relationship with Pitt goes back to 1999’s Fight Club, when Leitch served as the star’s stunt double, a role Leitch would reprise in a number of films, including Troy and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Answer 203

**to make out** …..…......................................…....................................... At the exhibition opening later that day, a hearty whoop from Houseago signals the trio’s arrival. “We’re like a boy band!” he booms of the disparate crew: 65-year-old Cave, characteristically gothic, bordering on vampiric, in an ultra-slim dark suit (by his friend Bella Freud); Pitt, still ruggedly handsome at 58, in a jumpsuit and yet effortlessly cool; and Houseago, 50, wearing jeans with a white, stretchy button-down shirt – through which you can just **make out** his tattoos.

Answer 204

**migotać, mienić się (o świetle, płomieniu)** …..…......................................…....................................... Every three months, reporters pack into a hotel conference room for one to two hours to watch Mr. Son. With flash bulbs **flickering**, he delivers a lengthy PowerPoint highlighting SoftBank’s quarter and updates on its plans for rapid growth, typically adorned with charts zooming up, big swooshing arrows and stock images of people smiling on phones.

Answer 205

**to put** …..…......................................…....................................... After all, as Jeffrey Cole, a communications expert at USC Annenberg **puts** it, “Disney has had a 40-year succession problem”. During his decade-and-a-half as CEO, Mr Iger postponed his retirement four times, elevating and nixing potential successors. His predecessor, Michael Eisner, expensively jettisoned possible replacements twice during his 21-year reign, before finally settling on Mr Iger. Disney’s board has now given Mr Iger two years—a deadline unlikely to be set in stone—to have another go at finding a suitable heir.

Answer 206

**instant** …..…......................................…....................................... In each of these, the depth of Egyptian civilisation simply hits you, and reduces shifts in cultures to mere **instants**. What explains the infinite power of the Pyramids, however, is not the just the grandiosity of those eternal limestone mountains but the mystery of their making: 4,500 years into their existence, archaeologists are still trying to understand how their builders managed to move more than two million limestone and granite blocks, each weighing between 2.5 and 15 tonnes, from the banks of the Nile to Giza, passing through a desert en route.

Answer 207

**cornerstone** …..…......................................…....................................... After a lunch at Koshary Abou Tarek – a **cornerstone** of Cairene cuisine, where people queue for the inimitable koshary made of chickpeas, pasta and lentils – I meet Karim El Hayawan, an interiors architect and photographer who in 2014 launched Cairo Saturday Walks.

Answer 208

**rousing** …..…......................................…....................................... Dressed in a skintight black dress and oversize black sunglasses, Miley belted out a **rousing** version of “Photograph” with 80s rockers Def Leppard. “I miss Taylor so much,” she wrote on Instagram the following day. “It was such an honor to celebrate him last night.”

Answer 209

**co dziwne** …..…......................................…....................................... After examining me in his rear-view mirror for a bit, the taxi driver engages me in a conversation that very quickly drifts from pleasantries (where I am from, what I am doing in Cairo) to his life, his job, then the traffic, then the people. “I don’t know why everyone is always running here. The country is not in its best state, but **oddly enough** tourists are back and things are working without us knowing how.”

Answer 210

**pendulum swing** …..…......................................…....................................... “As a curator I don’t guarantee returns… I can guarantee quality and expertise.” The slowdown in modern steel sports watches has seen the **pendulum swing** back. “I’ve recently been called by some of the family offices for whom I consult to reassess investments in vintage watches. They are not so convinced by these 20-year-old kids after all.”

Answer 211

**slinky** …..…......................................…....................................... His fall 2022 collection, inspired by the British poet, heiress and activist Nancy Cunard, was a level up. A progression of striking coats (pea, faux fur, tuxedo) were shown layered over pieces including **slinky** bias-cut satin dresses. Cunard—an inspiration to Constantin Brâncuşi, who sculpted her—often wore chunky bangles, another motif in the collection. (Mostly gone were the slightly-too-short skirts and slightly-too-high heels that had given some editors pause in previous seasons.) These were enduring pieces, to be treasured in cedar closets.

Answer 212

**podejrzany (np. interes)** …..…......................................…....................................... Like diplomats, chief executives often deal with **unsavoury** regimes. The two groups have other things in common. For one thing, both are invited to talk on panels with titles like “The New Global Order” (an example from this week’s junket). Both also spend lots of time jetting around the world.

Answer 213

**u podstaw, na najniższym szczeblu, oddolny** …..…......................................…....................................... “Professionally, I don’t have to talk about my recovery over and over again; it’s clear in the work,” he says. “But personally, I want to make sure that everybody who looks at my work and sees this show knows that I am open to talking about trauma, about solutions, in a very **grassroots** way. If there is a need for me to come and talk somewhere about how you survive pre-verbal trauma, I’m there.”

Answer 214

**plane** …..…......................................…....................................... All three works offer fresh takes on what is now a well-worn subject. Although remote on their own stratospheric **plane** of existence, the gods of technology may want to listen to what these critics have to say.

Answer 215

**limestone** …..…......................................…....................................... In each of these, the depth of Egyptian civilisation simply hits you, and reduces shifts in cultures to mere instants. What explains the infinite power of the Pyramids, however, is not the just the grandiosity of those eternal **limestone** mountains but the mystery of their making: 4,500 years into their existence, archaeologists are still trying to understand how their builders managed to move more than two million limestone and granite blocks, each weighing between 2.5 and 15 tonnes, from the banks of the Nile to Giza, passing through a desert en route.

Answer 216

**a person's depressive state which becomes difficult to control leading to the negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors getting worse very quickly** …..…......................................…....................................... Her heartbreak over their divorce has sent her **spiraling**. “She’s still processing Billy Ray’s relationship with Firerose, who is much younger than he is,” says the second source. “She wants her dad to be happy but she’s also protective of her mom. She feels caught in the middle and has basically distanced herself from the situation.”

Answer 217

**spojrzenie, punkt widzenia** …..…......................................…....................................... All three works offer fresh **takes** on what is now a well-worn subject. Although remote on their own stratospheric plane of existence, the gods of technology may want to listen to what these critics have to say.

Answer 218

**sedate** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Son is planning to step back from the routine when the giant technology investor delivers its earnings Friday, instead greeting attendees with short remarks before handing the baton to his chief financial officer, according to a SoftBank agenda for the event. It is slated to be a more **sedate** presentation than those from Mr. Son, who also isn’t planning on taking questions from the media, according to people familiar with the company.

Answer 219

**kontynuacja** …..…......................................…....................................... Some high-profile successions work, too, most notably the transition at Apple, maker of the iPhone, from the late Steve Jobs to Tim Cook, and, indeed, Mr Iger’s **follow-on** from Mr Eisner.

Answer 220

**utknąć w martwym punkcie** …..…......................................…....................................... Premium carmakers such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz continue to grow robustly in China, but sales from mid-range ones like Volkswagen and General Motors are shrinking as homegrown rivals including Chery and BYD expand rapidly. Sales for Nike, a sportswear brand, are also **stalling** as LiNing and Anta, two local competitors, gain ground.

Answer 221

**ditch** …..…......................................…....................................... Early in the pandemic, Mr. Son flipped through a series of slides in which white horses ran into a **ditch** labeled the “valley of the coronavirus” while a flying unicorn soared over, signifying how some so-called unicorn startups would emerge stronger after the crisis.

Answer 222

**crackdown** …..…......................................…....................................... The question is whether shifting production out of China will be enough to avoid future **crackdowns**. Even as Apple makes more of its gadgets outside China, it is no less reliant on Chinese-owned companies to build them. Chinese manufacturers such as Luxshare, Goertek and Wingtech are taking an increasing share of Apple’s business beyond China’s borders.

Answer 223

**cel** …..…......................................…....................................... The strategy helped make Huawei China’s first genuinely multinational corporation. Huawei’s new businesses are not expected to make headway in America. But the company thinks much of the rest of the world is **fair game**.

Answer 224

**to animate** …..…......................................…....................................... From the beginning of his tenure with blink-182, Travis Barker was the “serious” one—an oasis of relative calm and maturity among the dick jokes and dirtbag expressions that **animated** his bandmates.

Answer 225

**tu: przykręcanie śruby (represje)** …..…......................................…....................................... The question is whether shifting production out of China will be enough to avoid future **crackdowns**. Even as Apple makes more of its gadgets outside China, it is no less reliant on Chinese-owned companies to build them. Chinese manufacturers such as Luxshare, Goertek and Wingtech are taking an increasing share of Apple’s business beyond China’s borders.

Answer 226

**przyznawać (że coś jest prawdą)** …..…......................................…....................................... “It’s all about self-reflection,” he explains. “I was looking at my own life and really concentrating on **owning** my own shit: where was I complicit in failures in my relationships, where have I mis-stepped. For me, it was born out of ownership of what I call a radical inventory of self, getting really brutally honest with me, and taking account of those I may have hurt.”

Answer 227

**to nix** …..…......................................…....................................... After all, as Jeffrey Cole, a communications expert at USC Annenberg puts it, “Disney has had a 40-year succession problem”. During his decade-and-a-half as CEO, Mr Iger postponed his retirement four times, elevating and **nixing** potential successors. His predecessor, Michael Eisner, expensively jettisoned possible replacements twice during his 21-year reign, before finally settling on Mr Iger. Disney’s board has now given Mr Iger two years—a deadline unlikely to be set in stone—to have another go at finding a suitable heir.

Answer 228

**ustąpić** …..…......................................…....................................... Such hard-to-reverse commitments will be most common in industries where keeping a strong position in China is critical for global competitiveness. Carmakers fear that **giving ground** to local champions, many of whom are already at the cutting edge of electric vehicles and software, would give them a launch pad to enter other big markets.

Answer 229

**przeszukiwać (np. ruiny, czyjąś przeszłość)** …..…......................................…....................................... I also think back to Pitt’s dreams about stalkers coming out of the darkness to stab him, and about how he learned to control those dreams by simply asking “Why?” That inquisitive side of him has come into clearer focus now, his need to **excavate** life’s most complex truths. I write back, asking what he interprets these dreams to mean.

Answer 230

**dokuczać, drażnić** …..…......................................…....................................... Over time the situation will become more **vexing**. China has lacked the expertise to manufacture its own large commercial jets, with Boeing and Airbus controlling the industry. At an airshow on November 8th Comac, a local manufacturer, debuted its long-awaited c919 , a short-haul passenger aircraft, and will soon start deliveries to Chinese carriers.

Answer 231

**to abhor** …..…......................................…....................................... “I don’t know anything about business,” Ive demurs, but he **abhors** the current fascination with disruption. “I’m not interested in breaking things,” he says. “We have made a virtue out of destroying everything of value,” he says. “It’s associated with being successful and selling a company for money. But it’s too easy—in three weeks we could break everything.”

Answer 232

**cotton-candy** …..…......................................…....................................... On my way, I observe a young **cotton-candy** vendor blowing pink clouds into the wind; motorboats ripple the Nile waters with their neon lights.

Answer 233

**intoxicating** …..…......................................…....................................... It’s an **intoxicating** blend that has stirred the hearts of many travellers. Rarely before 2022 have its monuments and museum institutions attracted so much interest – and so much tourism, local and foreign alike.

Answer 234

**odcień** …..…......................................…....................................... A car ride here feels like a journey through numerous settlements condensed into one – all different in shape, like sediments from different layers of time: Fatimid, Mamluk, Khedival, then the modernist architecture, all connected by their sandy **hues** and the gleaming desert light.

Answer 235

**pomysłowy** …..…......................................…....................................... But Mr. Musk’s amicable relations with the Chinese Communist Party, which has a history of steering consumer tastes, can’t hurt. A big question for Tesla investors is how **adroitly** he can maintain them while pursuing his goal of improving “free speech” at Twitter—a socialmedia platform blocked for most users in China precisely because that is what it offers.

Answer 236

**zmiana opinii lub nastawienia** …..…......................................…....................................... “As a curator I don’t guarantee returns… I can guarantee quality and expertise.” The slowdown in modern steel sports watches has seen the **pendulum swing** back. “I’ve recently been called by some of the family offices for whom I consult to reassess investments in vintage watches. They are not so convinced by these 20-year-old kids after all.”

Answer 237

**to bask** …..…......................................…....................................... In the fireplace, there’s a barely smoldering log, and Pitt pulls up a chair as though to **bask** in its warmth. His eyes are clear and pale blue and they catch the light as he turns to me.

Answer 238

**światowość, doświadczenie życiowe; ziemskość, doczesność** …..…......................................…....................................... The blend of wine, wisdom and **worldliness** at the 16th-century Castello Sonnino is so exquisite that even Gucci wants to stay.

Answer 239

**szopa; wiata; hangar** …..…......................................…....................................... The other morning I cycled around the Dutch town where I grew up. Behind our old house, the field where I spent half my childhood is now covered with homes. So is my old football club. My high school is now in a built-up area. At the local train station, the bike **shed** was full on a Saturday afternoon.

Answer 240

**spory** …..…......................................…....................................... In The Economist’s analysis of 20 industries with a **sizeable** multinational presence, foreign companies have lost share in 14 over the past three years.

Answer 241

**hearty** …..…......................................…....................................... At the exhibition opening later that day, a **hearty** whoop from Houseago signals the trio’s arrival. “We’re like a boy band!” he booms of the disparate crew: 65-year-old Cave, characteristically gothic, bordering on vampiric, in an ultra-slim dark suit (by his friend Bella Freud); Pitt, still ruggedly handsome at 58, in a jumpsuit and yet effortlessly cool; and Houseago, 50, wearing jeans with a white, stretchy button-down shirt – through which you can just make out his tattoos.

Answer 242

**to take somebody's pulse** …..…......................................…....................................... As in many Arab cities, a conversation with a taxi driver in Cairo – or sometimes simply a ride in one – **takes the pulse** of the place.

Answer 243

**beza; bezowy** …..…......................................…....................................... I stop for a coffee and chocolate-coated dates at an outpost of the cult Groppi café where, among the pastel **meringues**, mounted like sculptures on silver platters and satin tablecloths, poets, writers, journalists and politicians used to gather and rethink the world.

Answer 244

**opisać sytuację** …..…......................................…....................................... “Can I tell you something that happened this morning?” says Cave, **setting the scene** of the lakeside house in which they’re all staying, and where they were celebrating the birthday of his wife – fashion designer Susie Cave – the night before. “This is what it’s been like: I woke up this morning, made a coffee in my underwear and noticed that Brad was sitting there. He started playing the guitar and sang one of my songs to me – “Palaces of Montezuma” – and then Thomas walked in [in his pyjamas] and joined in.”

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**być lepszym, niż można by oczekiwać** …..…......................................…....................................... The bull case for Twitter under Mr. Musk, which isn’t easily dismissed, starts with the judgment that the company has long **punched under its weight**—a popular platform whose true potential has been stifled by uninspired leadership, moribund innovation, and the way public ownership focuses attention on quarterly results.

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**to crash** …..…......................................…....................................... “I lived here for a few years, then I bounced around everywhere, just let friends **crash** here, and then somewhere in the aughts I fixed it up. Been pretty much hiding out here.”

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**to belt out** …..…......................................…....................................... Dressed in a skintight black dress and oversize black sunglasses, Miley **belted out** a rousing version of “Photograph” with 80s rockers Def Leppard. “I miss Taylor so much,” she wrote on Instagram the following day. “It was such an honor to celebrate him last night.”

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**to vex** …..…......................................…....................................... Over time the situation will become more **vexing**. China has lacked the expertise to manufacture its own large commercial jets, with Boeing and Airbus controlling the industry. At an airshow on November 8th Comac, a local manufacturer, debuted its long-awaited c919 , a short-haul passenger aircraft, and will soon start deliveries to Chinese carriers.

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**w tym** …..…......................................…....................................... Bangladesh and Malaysia are becoming more attractive to clothes-makers. But for many multinationals China is more than just a cheap place to make things, and **therein** lies a less tractable problem.

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**celestial body** …..…......................................…....................................... He is also, notably, a new **celestial body** within the Kardashian universe, following his public courtship of and marriage to Kourtney Kardashian. The future holds a great many plans he’s excited about, though he politely refused to hand out any spoilers (most notably regarding the persistent rumors that guitarist Tom DeLonge will rejoin blink-182, years after his departure).

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**striking** …..…......................................…....................................... His fall 2022 collection, inspired by the British poet, heiress and activist Nancy Cunard, was a level up. A progression of **striking** coats (pea, faux fur, tuxedo) were shown layered over pieces including slinky bias-cut satin dresses. Cunard—an inspiration to Constantin Brâncuşi, who sculpted her—often wore chunky bangles, another motif in the collection. (Mostly gone were the slightly-too-short skirts and slightly-too-high heels that had given some editors pause in previous seasons.) These were enduring pieces, to be treasured in cedar closets.

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**ożywić; pobudzać** …..…......................................…....................................... From the beginning of his tenure with blink-182, Travis Barker was the “serious” one—an oasis of relative calm and maturity among the dick jokes and dirtbag expressions that **animated** his bandmates.

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**zająć się resztą; przejąć sprawę; przejąć inicjatywę** …..…......................................…....................................... His first customer of note was Diego Maradona. “He told me, ‘I was born poor. I have all this money. And I don’t know how to behave.’ He showed up with five big, blingy gold watches,” he recalls. “I **took it from there** and changed his tastes.”

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**obcisły (o ubraniu)** …..…......................................…....................................... His fall 2022 collection, inspired by the British poet, heiress and activist Nancy Cunard, was a level up. A progression of striking coats (pea, faux fur, tuxedo) were shown layered over pieces including **slinky** bias-cut satin dresses. Cunard—an inspiration to Constantin Brâncuşi, who sculpted her—often wore chunky bangles, another motif in the collection. (Mostly gone were the slightly-too-short skirts and slightly-too-high heels that had given some editors pause in previous seasons.) These were enduring pieces, to be treasured in cedar closets.

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**to spill one's guts** …..…......................................…....................................... “I had a really cool men’s group here that was really private and selective, so it was safe,” he says. “Because I’d seen things of other people who had been recorded while they were **spilling their guts**, and that’s just atrocious to me.”

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**to treasure** …..…......................................…....................................... These were enduring pieces, to be **treasured** in cedar closets.

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**a call to arms** …..…......................................…....................................... The book is an invitation to remember the city through its urban fabric, but also **a call to arms** to protect its inestimable heritage; those buildings that each echo back to a moment in time, or at least remind us of its passage.

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**illustrious** …..…......................................…....................................... In this castle lived a family, descended from an **illustrious** line of adventurers and statesmen and benefactors. They grew grapes for wine, olives for oil and grain for flour, and worked their land the way it had been worked for several centuries, which is to say respectfully, with skill, diligence and prudence in equal measure.

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**tu: spowodować uraz psychiczny u kogoś** …..…......................................…....................................... I was **crippled** by it; I wouldn’t even look at a plane. I remember when my daughter Alabama was little, maybe five or six years after my accident, she had an aviation field trip. I’m not gonna make my little girl go by herself, but deep down I’m like, Damn, I don’t want to go either. But it’s hard for her because she knows what happened, and she’s never flown either. And then we couldn’t even walk on the plane; she ran out bawling, and I was just so upset.

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**wykonanie (utworu), interpretacja (w muzyce, sztuce)** …..…......................................…....................................... While Houseago says they did “a pretty damn good” **rendition**, Pitt laughs and adds, “We actually did not! But I was more taken with the elegance, man. Thomas comes out with his hair out to here, I’ve got luggage under the eyes. And Nick comes out in matching shorts and a button shirt, a spectre of elegance.”

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**chwila, moment** …..…......................................…....................................... In each of these, the depth of Egyptian civilisation simply hits you, and reduces shifts in cultures to mere **instants**. What explains the infinite power of the Pyramids, however, is not the just the grandiosity of those eternal limestone mountains but the mystery of their making: 4,500 years into their existence, archaeologists are still trying to understand how their builders managed to move more than two million limestone and granite blocks, each weighing between 2.5 and 15 tonnes, from the banks of the Nile to Giza, passing through a desert en route.

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**dirtbag** …..…......................................…....................................... From the beginning of his tenure with blink-182, Travis Barker was the “serious” one—an oasis of relative calm and maturity among the dick jokes and **dirtbag** expressions that animated his bandmates.

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**opłakany stan, ruina** …..…......................................…....................................... But the house itself, Caterina recalls, was in an almost absurd state of **disrepair**. No one had really lived there for any length of time for at least 70 years, and it showed.

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**to span** …..…......................................…....................................... During his time at Steve Jobs’s side, the designs that flowed from his pen **spanned** items as wideranging as Apple Store shopping bags, an oak display table and the company’s most-sold product, the iPhone. In Ive’s 55 years, he’s filled piles of sketchbooks with door handles, drills, landscape plans and AirPods, almost all with his trademark rounded corners, as though he wants to buffer the world against its harsher edges.

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**mieć dużo czasu** …..…......................................…....................................... The growing challenge from locals is putting many multinationals in a sticky situation: maintaining competitiveness in China demands increased investment even as the geopolitical risks are mounting. For now most multinationals **have time on their hands**. Of the list of 200 companies we examined, 144 have still grown in China over the past three years.

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**silny, krzepki (o osobie)** …..…......................................…....................................... At the exhibition opening later that day, a **hearty** whoop from Houseago signals the trio’s arrival. “We’re like a boy band!” he booms of the disparate crew: 65-year-old Cave, characteristically gothic, bordering on vampiric, in an ultra-slim dark suit (by his friend Bella Freud); Pitt, still ruggedly handsome at 58, in a jumpsuit and yet effortlessly cool; and Houseago, 50, wearing jeans with a white, stretchy button-down shirt – through which you can just make out his tattoos.

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**meringue** …..…......................................…....................................... I stop for a coffee and chocolate-coated dates at an outpost of the cult Groppi café where, among the pastel **meringues**, mounted like sculptures on silver platters and satin tablecloths, poets, writers, journalists and politicians used to gather and rethink the world.

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**on the table** …..…......................................…....................................... Growing up, Vaccarello did not think that a creative career was necessarily **on the table**. “Even when I was a kid, I always loved fashion, but didn’t know it could be a job,” he says. As a teen, he furthered his fashion education through MTV, becoming obsessed with designers including Gianni Versace, Azzedine Alaïa and Jean Paul Gaultier, and musicians like Madonna and Tina Turner. “In the ’90s, music and fashion were very linked,” he says.

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**to jettison** …..…......................................…....................................... After all, as Jeffrey Cole, a communications expert at USC Annenberg puts it, “Disney has had a 40-year succession problem”. During his decade-and-a-half as CEO, Mr Iger postponed his retirement four times, elevating and nixing potential successors. His predecessor, Michael Eisner, expensively **jettisoned** possible replacements twice during his 21-year reign, before finally settling on Mr Iger. Disney’s board has now given Mr Iger two years—a deadline unlikely to be set in stone—to have another go at finding a suitable heir.

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**spiraling** …..…......................................…....................................... Her heartbreak over their divorce has sent her **spiraling**. “She’s still processing Billy Ray’s relationship with Firerose, who is much younger than he is,” says the second source. “She wants her dad to be happy but she’s also protective of her mom. She feels caught in the middle and has basically distanced herself from the situation.”

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**drań; gnojek** …..…......................................…....................................... From the beginning of his tenure with blink-182, Travis Barker was the “serious” one—an oasis of relative calm and maturity among the dick jokes and **dirtbag** expressions that animated his bandmates.

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**in plain sight** …..…......................................…....................................... Social jet lag is more insidious. It’s often hiding **in plain sight**, though it may have an impact on our health.

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**podstępny, pozornie niewinny (np. wróg, choroba)** …..…......................................…....................................... Social jet lag is more **insidious**. It’s often hiding in plain sight, though it may have an impact on our health.

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**opanowany (o osobie), spokojny (np. o miasteczku)** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Son is planning to step back from the routine when the giant technology investor delivers its earnings Friday, instead greeting attendees with short remarks before handing the baton to his chief financial officer, according to a SoftBank agenda for the event. It is slated to be a more **sedate** presentation than those from Mr. Son, who also isn’t planning on taking questions from the media, according to people familiar with the company.

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**ciało niebieskie** …..…......................................…....................................... He is also, notably, a new **celestial body** within the Kardashian universe, following his public courtship of and marriage to Kourtney Kardashian. The future holds a great many plans he’s excited about, though he politely refused to hand out any spoilers (most notably regarding the persistent rumors that guitarist Tom DeLonge will rejoin blink-182, years after his departure).

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**prawie** …..…......................................…....................................... “I lived here for a few years, then I bounced around everywhere, just let friends crash here, and then somewhere in the aughts I fixed it up. Been **pretty much** hiding out here.”