Deck no. 33 Flashcards
rozdarty (między dwiema rzeczami)
torn …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The men – yes, they were all men – were collectively torn, they said, over a particular choice: New Zealand or Alaska? They feared the world was heading for what they termed “The Event” – some kind of “environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus or malicious computer hack that takes everything down”, Rushkoff says. And they wanted to know which region would be safest to retreat to.
high-touch
charakteryzujący się osobistym podejściem …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
torn
rozdarty (między dwiema rzeczami) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The men – yes, they were all men – were collectively torn, they said, over a particular choice: New Zealand or Alaska? They feared the world was heading for what they termed “The Event” – some kind of “environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus or malicious computer hack that takes everything down”, Rushkoff says. And they wanted to know which region would be safest to retreat to.
uważać się za kogoś
to fancy oneself as something …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
być lepszym, niż można by oczekiwać
to punch above your weight …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
to fill somebody’s shoes
obejmować po kimś stanowisko, zajmować czyjeś miejsce …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
w tym
therein …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
przeciwstawić się, przeciwstawiać się czemuś (np. zmianom, zasadom)
to buck …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
ochronić; łagodzić (np. złe skutki czegoś)
to buffer …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
epiphany
objawienie …..…………………………………..…………………………………… “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!”
mieć coś za sobą
to be over something …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.”
built-up area
obszar zabudowany …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
współwinny
complicit …..…………………………………..…………………………………… “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.”
ustąpić
to give ground …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
wykończyć się; zaharować się
to drive to the ground …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.”
łączyć
to meld …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
pomysłowy
adroit …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
dziwaczny, ekscentryczny (np. o człowieku)
quirky …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
intoxicating
oszałamiający, upajający (o uczuciu) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
obszar zabudowany
built-up area …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
licznik
counter …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
socialite
bywalec, lew salonowy …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
niesforny, marudny
fractious …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
glaze
szkliwo; polewa (na cięście); śliska droga …..…………………………………..…………………………………… 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.
cotton-candy
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.
okrzyk radości
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.
uprzejmość
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.”
sticky
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.
vexing
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.
cel
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.
ineffectual
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.
striking
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.
umierać
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.
rousing
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.”
to hatch
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.
quirky
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.
zany
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.
zamrozić coś na jakiś czas, odkładać coś na później
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.
soczewica
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.
bangle
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.
flock
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.
wdzierać się, wkraczać (do czegoś)
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.
cornerstone
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.
świadectwo (dowód istnienia czegoś), potwierdzenie
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.
in plain sight
na widoku …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Social jet lag is more insidious. It’s often hiding in plain sight, though it may have an impact on our health.
opanowanie, spokój
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.
circumspect
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.
zająć się resztą; przejąć sprawę; przejąć inicjatywę
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.”
maritime
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.
niezależny, samowystarczalny
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.
reserved
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.
zniszczony, w marnym stanie
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.
dokuczliwy, przykry
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.
błazen
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.
to rub off on somebody
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.
to bounce around
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.”
być wstrząśniętym
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.
counter
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.
u podstaw, na najniższym szczeblu, oddolny
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.”
osad (na dnie płynu)
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.
to curry favor with somebody
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.
wybredny, przesadny
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).
to crash
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.”
stado
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.
czasy świetności
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.”
opuszczony, samotny
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!”
mieć swoje przyzwyczajenia
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.
to edge out
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.
swoosh
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.
szkliwo; polewa (na cięście); śliska droga
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.
blow-up
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.
complicit
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.”
to fancy oneself as something
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.
zmuszać do refleksji
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.
szopa; wiata; hangar
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.
nic nowego (ironicznie), już to znam (już tego doświadczyłem i nie jest to dla mnie interesujące)
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.”
to weed out
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.”
kłopotliwy (o sytuacji), nieciekawy (o rozwoju wypadków)
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.
odnieść wrażenie
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.
to buffer
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.
tułać się
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.”
avowed
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.
self-contained
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.
hanger-on
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.”
candlestick
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.”
podszkolić kogoś; wspomagać czyjś rozwój
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.
bardzo prawdopodobnie
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.
a call to arms
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.
tym lepiej
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.
successive
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).
powściągliwy (w słowach i w czynach), z dystansem
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.
knuć, przygotowywać (np. spisek)
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.
to span
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.
zakończyć (coś czymś)
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.”
zmuszać; doprowadzić (do złej kondycji, do złego stanu)
to drive …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Covid-19, costs and geopolitics are driving Apple to make and sell its gadgets elsewhere.
to put
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.
to drive
zmuszać; doprowadzić (do złej kondycji, do złego stanu) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Covid-19, costs and geopolitics are driving Apple to make and sell its gadgets elsewhere.
absolution
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.
sporadyczny
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.
charakteryzujący się osobistym podejściem
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.
at work
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.
to meld
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.
tu: spowodować uraz psychiczny u kogoś
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.
to overrun
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.
outcry
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.
zwiększać coś
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.
well-tended
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.
to buck
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.
światowość, doświadczenie życiowe; ziemskość, doczesność
worldliness …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The blend of wine, wisdom and worldliness at the 16th-century Castello Sonnino is so exquisite that even Gucci wants to stay.
to encroach
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.
illustrious
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.
podejrzany (np. interes)
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.
objawienie
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!”
bransoleta
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.
off the cuff
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.
testament
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.
to get the sense
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.
to make out
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.
migotać, mienić się (o świetle, płomieniu)
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.
self-effacing
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.