Deck no. 34 Flashcards

Question

uciec z restauracji bez płacenia rachunku

Answer 1

**dine-and-dash** …..…......................................…....................................... When we talk about Blink in late September, Barker doesn’t tell me this is happening. At that point DeLonge’s return to the fold is still a secret. But the external, pop-cultural reasons why a classic-Blink reunion tour makes sense right now are anything but. When Blink were at their commercial peak in the early 2000s, critics wrote them off as juvenile and derivative—a **dine-and-dash** Descendents, a boy band for kids who wore fake lip rings to school-picture day.

Answer 2

**przygotować naprędce (np. jakiś posiłek)** …..…......................................…....................................... Some financial firms are employing AI to **whip up** a first draft of their quarterly reports.

Answer 3

**gadka** …..…......................................…....................................... If you listen to the marketing **spiels** for some of today’s fastestcharging electric vehicles, including the Porsche Taycan and the Tesla Model Y, you might come away thinking that we have already achieved fast-charging technology of the kind that ARPA-E and others are funding.

Answer 4

**to meld** …..…......................................…....................................... “I think that’s why people turn to Travis,” Hughes says. “It’s a vibe. It’s a feeling—this **melding** and crunching together of different punk-related subgenres. He’s like the king of punk-adjacent.”

Answer 5

**przechodzień** …..…......................................…....................................... Although the show, mostly open to the public, was beset by a downpour and crowds of jostling **onlookers**, it was a happening in Milan, with taxi drivers and teenagers chattering about it for days.

Answer 6

**gouging** …..…......................................…....................................... Amid the genuine angst over high-priced tickets, and the overhyped politicisation of the matter (Representative Bill Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat, promotes the “BOSS Act” against ticket-price **gouging**, named before Mr Springsteen started to behave like any other fat cat), the brouhaha misses two points.

Answer 7

**patrzeć na coś nieprzychylnym wzrokiem** …..…......................................…....................................... Then there are the regulators, many of whom already **hold a dim view of** big tech and are watching its advances into finance closely.

Answer 8

**prompt** …..…......................................…....................................... In October Microsoft launched a tool which automatically wrangles data for users following **prompts**.

Answer 9

**house** …..…......................................…....................................... A few months later, **House** Barker and House Kardashian gathered at Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce’s villa in Portofino, Italy, for a gala wedding ceremony that was technically private, although anyone interested could follow the action on social media, where the Kardashians act as their own panopticon.

Answer 10

**to defuse** …..…......................................…....................................... Academics call this situation “weaponised interdependence”, in which, Miller writes, “rather than **defusing** conflicts and encouraging co-operation” the intertwined interests of the economic powers create “new venues for competition”.

Answer 11

**podżegać (do czegoś); pomagać (w zrobieniu czegoś nielegalnego)** …..…......................................…....................................... A cynic would call this music cynical, and you could certainly accuse Barker of aiding and **abetting** shameless/clueless opportunists looking to suck up to modern-rock radio programmers by draping themselves in borrowed rock clichés. On the other hand, anyone still policing who is and isn’t entitled to dress and sing punk (or self-identify as emo) is guarding a gate that’s been broken since the day Malcolm McLaren first pimped out the Sex Pistols.

Answer 12

**konik (sprzedawca biletów po zawyżonych cenach)** …..…......................................…....................................... The second is that a big part of the price inflation comes from secondary resellers (ie, **scalpers** or **touts**) who use bots and other means to acquire batches of tickets.

Answer 13

**uciec z restauracji bez płacenia rachunku** …..…......................................…....................................... When we talk about Blink in late September, Barker doesn’t tell me this is happening. At that point DeLonge’s return to the fold is still a secret. But the external, pop-cultural reasons why a classic-Blink reunion tour makes sense right now are anything but. When Blink were at their commercial peak in the early 2000s, critics wrote them off as juvenile and derivative—a **dine-and-dash** Descendents, a boy band for kids who wore fake lip rings to school-picture day.

Answer 14

**to cut through** …..…......................................…....................................... The secret to catching a person’s attention is not to **cut through** the noise but to boost the signal.

Answer 15

**nawiedzony (określenie pejoratywne)** …..…......................................…....................................... Roubini is the economist who warned in August 2006 that there was a 70 per cent chance of a US recession, due largely to a housing slump. He was initially dismissed as a **crank**.

Answer 16

**sparaliżować (np. strachem), oczarować (np. pięknem)** …..…......................................…....................................... Bale resists self-reflection, but it’s not hard to see that kid in him still: drawn to extremes, **transfixed** by reinvention, motivated by fixing what happened to his family, and ambivalent about what he had to do and what he had to sacrifice in order to take care of the people he loved.

Answer 17

**rozwiązywać (problem), zajmować się (jakąś sprawą), odnosić się (do czegoś)** …..…......................................…....................................... For almost two weeks the brand has been scrambling to **address** criticism over two ad campaigns that have angered its customers and tested the loyalty of reality TV star Kim Kardashian, its biggest ambassador.

Answer 18

**być w stałym pogotowiu; stać na świecy** …..…......................................…....................................... These days pessimism is widespread. To **keep his edge**, Roubini has turned up his own doom dial to eleven. His book Megathreats is a barrage about negative risks, from inflation to artificial intelligence, climate change and world war three, which he argues will combine for the maximum impact. “We must learn to live on high alert,” he writes. We will need luck, global co-operation and “almost unprecedented economic growth” for things to end well.

Answer 19

**to fit the bill** …..…......................................…....................................... To understand France’s nuclear predicament consider its roots in the oil shock of 1973. At the time, most French power plants ran on petroleum. As the fuel became scarce, French politicians concluded that true sovereignty required an energy source France could control. Nuclear power **fitted the bill**.

Answer 20

**idiosyncrasy** …..…......................................…....................................... A former senior employee claims they were warned by two Adidas executives about West’s peculiar **idiosyncrasies** shortly after joining Yeezy.

Answer 21

**whipsaw** …..…......................................…....................................... For instance, the pandemic had a **whipsaw** effect on demand for chips used in the automotive and other industries, creating shortages and underlining dependency on manufacturers such as TSMC, South Korea’s Samsung.

Answer 22

**odlewnia** …..…......................................…....................................... Chang proposed the worldchanging idea of a chip “**foundry**”, which manufactures semiconductors for multiple clients, in the 1970s. TI rejected the plan and later thwarted Chang’s ambition to become chief executive. As a result, he was at a loose end in 1985 when Taiwan’s government called and gave him a blank cheque to develop his foundry idea there.

Answer 23

**doom and gloom** …..…......................................…....................................... Nouriel Roubini: it’s not all **doom and gloom**.

Answer 24

**province** …..…......................................…....................................... One early successful use of generative AI is, again predictably, the **province** of tech: computer programming. Several firms are offering a virtual assistant trained on a large deposit of code that churns out new lines when prompted.

Answer 25

**katastrofa; porażka** …..…......................................…....................................... “I think that really the world is on a slow-motion **train wreck**. There are major new threats that did not exist before, and they’re building up and we’re doing very little about it,” he says.

Answer 26

**on the ground** …..…......................................…....................................... In November, as the worker protests in the facility grew, Apple issued a statement assuring it was **on the ground** looking to resolve the issue. “We are reviewing the situation and working closely with Foxconn to ensure their employees’ concerns are addressed,” a spokesman said at the time.

Answer 27

**deprecjonować, dyskredytować** …..…......................................…....................................... Some of Mr. Chapek’s recent moves weighed on her, including a programming strategy that also served as a way to shield losses in Disney’s streaming division. “Cute,” she said **disparagingly** of the move during a conference call with colleagues.

Answer 28

**połączenie się partnerów biznesowych** …..…......................................…....................................... In South-East Asia Grab competes with GoTo, formed by a **tie-up** between Gojek, a ride-hailing giant, and Tokopedia, an online marketplace. Both have lost over half of their market value this year, but the concept remains a resilient one. So much so that India’s richest man, Gautam Adani, recently indicated plans to get in on the act, too.

Answer 29

**pesymizm, ciemne barwy** …..…......................................…....................................... Nouriel Roubini: it’s not all **doom and gloom**.

Answer 30

**to freak out** …..…......................................…....................................... Barker has spent years managing the trauma of the crash using every tool at his disposal—therapy, running, boxing, breath work, CBD, and probably more than a little bit of benign workaholism, plus new tattoos of his parents and children to cover the burn scars on his back—but as of last year he hadn’t set foot on a plane since 2008. For years just seeing a plane would **freak him out**; the smell of jet fuel reminded him of his time in the burn unit.

Answer 31

**surcharge** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Chapek drew a few boos, a sign of how some of the Disney faithful had turned on the CEO. Some customers were upset by a theme-park reservation system that Mr. Chapek had championed. Park visitors could pay a **surcharge** to skip long lines at popular attractions— on top of rising admission prices—which seemed to turn the quintessential American middle- class vacation into a pastime for the affluent.

Answer 32

**to sniff at something** …..…......................................…....................................... Apple does not publish results for its consumer finance business, but analysts put its annual revenue at between $1.7bn and $3bn—less than 1% of Apple’s total but not to be **sniffed at**.

Answer 33

**pogarszać (np.sytuację); potęgować** …..…......................................…....................................... The property sector’s tech problem **compounds** an underlying malaise. Even as crowds have flocked to busy restaurants, concerts and other public spaces, companies are still questioning whether office life will return to something resembling the prepandemic normal.

Answer 34

**to rock the boat** …..…......................................…....................................... Whatever the outcome one thing is certain. Never before has such a fiddly set of measures hit the global oil market at once. Many of these have been signalled for so long that they may cause few problems. But there are reasons to think **the boat could be rocked**, at least for a while.

Answer 35

**breakthrough** …..…......................................…....................................... It’s also possible that engineers and car makers will get us closer to the dream of universal fast charging without **breakthroughs** in battery design. At Idaho National Laboratory, a federal research lab, scientists have discovered that they can safely charge existing vehicles much faster by using sophisticated software to ramp up and down the amount of current being fed into a vehicle’s battery.

Answer 36

**as of** …..…......................................…....................................... Barker has spent years managing the trauma of the crash using every tool at his disposal—therapy, running, boxing, breath work, CBD, and probably more than a little bit of benign workaholism, plus new tattoos of his parents and children to cover the burn scars on his back—but **as of** last year he hadn’t set foot on a plane since 2008. For years just seeing a plane would freak him out; the smell of jet fuel reminded him of his time in the burn unit.

Answer 37

**to drape oneself in something** …..…......................................…....................................... A cynic would call this music cynical, and you could certainly accuse Barker of aiding and abetting shameless/clueless opportunists looking to suck up to modern-rock radio programmers by **draping themselves in** borrowed rock clichés. On the other hand, anyone still policing who is and isn’t entitled to dress and sing punk (or self-identify as emo) is guarding a gate that’s been broken since the day Malcolm McLaren first pimped out the Sex Pistols.

Answer 38

**dowdy** …..…......................................…....................................... The fictional MI6 officer James Bond gropes his secretary, spices his operations with extravagant liaisons and encounters few female spies, the most famous being the **dowdy** Russian counter-intelligence officer Rosa Klebb. Film versions of Fleming’s books made famous an entire genre of “Bond girls”, conquests rather than fully drawn human beings.

Answer 39

**to cap it all** …..…......................................…....................................... A fatal run on the exchange exposed the gaping hole in its balancesheet. **to cap it all**, after FTX declared bankruptcy in America, hundreds of millions of dollars mysteriously flowed out of its accounts.

Answer 40

**expediency** …..…......................................…....................................... As understood and practiced by artists like Kelly, punk or emo might be an abstract pseudo-genre— born of nostalgia, commercial **expediency**, and the same streaming-age, historical context collapse that fuels alt-throwback DJ parties like LA’s long-running Emo Nite, where the definition of emo includes everything from post-hardcore to Linkin Park to Post Malone.

Answer 41

**jeszcze bardziej** …..…......................................…....................................... The life she describes is exciting: travelling, learning languages, “getting under the skin” of new people and cultures. The work **even more so**. She recounts the days before biometrics, of making her way unnoticed from one country to another, often on foot, and changing disguises en route.

Answer 42

**head-on** …..…......................................…....................................... Before the call, Ms. McCarthy suggested Mr. Chapek address the grim news **head-on**. He instead wrote a script that spent more time praising the return of in-person events, such as live attractions at theme parks.

Answer 43

**wściekać się; kipieć (ze złości)** …..…......................................…....................................... Some Chinese youth are no longer eager to work for modest wages assembling electronics for the affluent. They are **seething** in part because of Beijing’s heavy-handed Covid-19 approach, itself a concern for Apple and many other Western companies.

Answer 44

**mieć mało czegoś** …..…......................................…....................................... “While three-quarters of listed real estate companies have some sort of decarbonisation or climate change strategy in place, if you scratch the surface, you will find that many are very **light on** detail,” says Lars Dijkstra, chief sustainability officer at the bank.

Answer 45

**to tough something out** …..…......................................…....................................... “Because I was trying to get out of it,” he says. But Kourtney said she wouldn’t leave. “She’s like, ‘I’m gonna spend the night with you. I’m staying the night with you and we’re gonna go to the airport.’ She just knew, and she stuck by me and **toughed it out**. And it was the best flight. And I wasn’t scared once.”

Answer 46

**risqué** …..…......................................…....................................... Balenciaga rocketed to the heights of the fashion world with **risqué** designs and runway stunts, but now that edgy approach has backfired on the brand amid a public furor over the portrayal of children in its ads.

Answer 47

**mieć odwagę (mieć jaja)** …..…......................................…....................................... The problem is that this sort of backstop—reinsurance—demands deep pools of private capital hard to find outside the West. Perhaps the Chinese and Indian governments could be persuaded to offer sovereign reinsurance, though market insiders doubt they **have the stomach**.

Answer 48

**barring** …..…......................................…....................................... “We have to pick up the thread of the great adventure of civil nuclear energy,” he declared. **Barring** last-minute legal hiccups, the French state will have full control of EDF by the end of the year.

Answer 49

**to turn on somebody** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Chapek drew a few boos, a sign of how some of the Disney faithful had **turned on** the CEO. Some customers were upset by a theme-park reservation system that Mr. Chapek had championed. Park visitors could pay a surcharge to skip long lines at popular attractions— on top of rising admission prices—which seemed to turn the quintessential American middle- class vacation into a pastime for the affluent.

Answer 50

**transitory** …..…......................................…....................................... “The conventional wisdom, coming from policymakers or Wall Street, has been systematically wrong. First, they said inflation’s going to be **transitory**. Then there was a debate over whether rising inflation was due to bad policies or bad luck,” namely supply shocks such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Chinese zero-Covid restrictions. Roubini sees the consensus now as “six months of recession, big deal”. Again, he disagrees. “No, this is not going to be a short and shallow recession, it’s going to be deep and protracted.

Answer 51

**podobieństwo** …..…......................................…....................................... He spent the afternoon standing around mostly naked while being measured, photographed, and scanned by representatives from Madame Tussauds, where he’s being honored with a wax figure in his **likeness**.

Answer 52

**rozładować (napięcie), łagodzić (sytuację), zażegnać (kryzys)** …..…......................................…....................................... Academics call this situation “weaponised interdependence”, in which, Miller writes, “rather than **defusing** conflicts and encouraging co-operation” the intertwined interests of the economic powers create “new venues for competition”.

Answer 53

**ugoda (potwierdzona przez sąd)** …..…......................................…....................................... In America, the DoJ is almost exclusively focused on Live Nation and Ticketmaster. Since the merger in 2010, the concert giant has operated under a “**consent decree**” forbidding it from strong-arming venues to use Ticketmaster.

Answer 54

**zaciekły (np. o walce, dyskusji, wrogu)** …..…......................................…....................................... For nearly three years, Mr. Iger’s chosen successor at Disney, Bob Chapek, had faced one crisis after another: a pandemic that closed theme parks and movie theaters, a **bitter** fight with Florida’s governor and a previously unreported boardroom clash with his chief financial officer.

Answer 55

**ustabilizować się** …..…......................................…....................................... Batteries today are the biggest single factor keeping electric vehicles unaffordable for many. Their cost, which for decades has fallen rapidly, has finally **leveled off**. In 2022, the cost actually crept up compared with 2021.

Answer 56

**to get in on the act** …..…......................................…....................................... In South-East Asia Grab competes with GoTo, formed by a tie-up between Gojek, a ride-hailing giant, and Tokopedia, an online marketplace. Both have lost over half of their market value this year, but the concept remains a resilient one. So much so that India’s richest man, Gautam Adani, recently indicated plans to **get in on the act**, too.

Answer 57

**expanse** …..…......................................…....................................... Standing at the edge of the new neighbourhood, rimmed by a vast green **expanse**, Erfurt Hansen points to the building site from which UN17 will emerge and bemoans the challenges of building for a net zero pioneer: “You can say, ‘It’s a very good business case, it gets a lot of crosses on the sustainability card’, but it’s extremely hard to carry out in real life.”

Answer 58

**tie-up** …..…......................................…....................................... In South-East Asia Grab competes with GoTo, formed by a **tie-up** between Gojek, a ride-hailing giant, and Tokopedia, an online marketplace. Both have lost over half of their market value this year, but the concept remains a resilient one. So much so that India’s richest man, Gautam Adani, recently indicated plans to get in on the act, too.

Answer 59

**data wrangling** …..…......................................…....................................... In October Microsoft launched a tool which automatically **wrangles data** for users following prompts.

Answer 60

**zmniejszać, redukować (whittle=ciosać)** …..…......................................…....................................... He measures their readability using the Flesch-Kincaid scale, created in the 1940s, to show that the letters were written at a level an 11th-grader would understand. Eventually, Mr. Bezos **whittled his writing down** to even shorter sentences—16 words, instead of 18.8, with a readability score fit for an eighth-grader.

Answer 61

**a końca nie widać** …..…......................................…....................................... The Finnish project, at Olkiluoto, bankrupted Areva, whose reactors business EDF took over in 2017. The cost of Flamanville has gone from €3.3bn in 2007 (then $4.8bn) to €19bn (including financing) **and counting**.

Answer 62

**drop** …..…......................................…....................................... The Genius series of collaborations, a Ruffini brainchild that began in 2018, continues to bring high-concept fashion and a limited-edition **drop** mentality to the company.

Answer 63

**dopłata, opłata (dodatkowa)** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Chapek drew a few boos, a sign of how some of the Disney faithful had turned on the CEO. Some customers were upset by a theme-park reservation system that Mr. Chapek had championed. Park visitors could pay a **surcharge** to skip long lines at popular attractions— on top of rising admission prices—which seemed to turn the quintessential American middle- class vacation into a pastime for the affluent.

Answer 64

**narzucić ciuch na siebie // if someone or something is draped in a piece of cloth, they are loosely covered by it** …..…......................................…....................................... A cynic would call this music cynical, and you could certainly accuse Barker of aiding and abetting shameless/clueless opportunists looking to suck up to modern-rock radio programmers by **draping themselves in** borrowed rock clichés. On the other hand, anyone still policing who is and isn’t entitled to dress and sing punk (or self-identify as emo) is guarding a gate that’s been broken since the day Malcolm McLaren first pimped out the Sex Pistols.

Answer 65

**PDA // public display of affection** …..…......................................…....................................... The first rumors of them being more than friends made the rounds when they were seen leaving Crossroads Kitchen together in 2018; they went public as a couple last year, and—after a few months of intense and thoroughly documented **PDA**—got engaged in October 2021.

Answer 66

**incestuous** …..…......................................…....................................... Big personalities, **incestuous** loans, overnight collapses—these are the stuff of classic financial manias, from tulip fever in 17th century Holland to the South Sea Bubble in 18th century Britain to America’s banking crises in the early 1900s.

Answer 67

**znosić (coś)** …..…......................................…....................................... The further tech moves into finance, the more it may have to be treated like a bank. There is only so much disruption that financial regulators will **brook**.

Answer 68

**afera, sensacja, chwyt (reklamowy)** …..…......................................…....................................... Balenciaga rocketed to the heights of the fashion world with risqué designs and runway **stunts**, but now that edgy approach has backfired on the brand amid a public furor over the portrayal of children in its ads.

Answer 69

**wściekły** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Iger told the New York Times in April 2020 that his plan to take a back seat was undone by Covid-19. “A crisis of this magnitude, and its impact on Disney, would necessarily result in my actively helping Bob [Chapek] and the company contend with it, particularly since I ran the company for 15 years!” he said. Mr. Chapek was **livid**. Any hope Mr. Chapek would seek out Mr. Iger for counsel went from unlikely to out of the question.

Answer 70

**wrak (człowieka); katastrofa** …..…......................................…....................................... As documented in his 2015 memoir, Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums, the Barker who got on that plane was a textbook **train wreck**, drowning his consciousness in weed and pills and Coupe deVilles as his marriage (to former Miss USA Shanna Moakler) fell apart.

Answer 71

**moczyć** …..…......................................…....................................... Nuclear power seems tailor-made for this day and age. It emits next to no carbon. It provides reliable baseload electricity, vital when sun isn’t **drenching** solar panels or wind isn’t wafting through turbine blades.

Answer 72

**to retrofit** …..…......................................…....................................... “The challenge is very much to refurbish and **retrofit** the stock we have. We cannot build our way out of this crisis,” says Edward Dixon, head of environment, social and governance at Aviva Investors.

Answer 73

**to keep the edge** …..…......................................…....................................... These days pessimism is widespread. To **keep his edge**, Roubini has turned up his own doom dial to eleven. His book Megathreats is a barrage about negative risks, from inflation to artificial intelligence, climate change and world war three, which he argues will combine for the maximum impact. “We must learn to live on high alert,” he writes. We will need luck, global co-operation and “almost unprecedented economic growth” for things to end well.

Answer 74

**to get over something** …..…......................................…....................................... He told himself he wouldn’t fall in love and he’d never fly again, which was a way of telling himself he’d never **get over** what had happened, and gradually—he sees this now— his life got small, stuck, fixed.

Answer 75

**znoszony (o ubraniu), zszargany (o nerwach)** …..…......................................…....................................... Travis Barker shivers in a **threadbare** Subhumans T-shirt. He could conceivably ask the staff to turn down the AC a little—he’s an investor in this place, as it happens, not to mention, y’know, a rock star—but he doesn’t. “I think I’m, like, permanently cold, because I just spent the last four hours in my underwear,” he says.

Answer 76

**latchkey kid** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Chapek, a self-described **latchkey kid** from Hammond, Ind., was the son of a machinist who traveled to Walt Disney World during summer vacations with his family. He joined Disney in 1993 in its home-entertainment division, making direct-to-video movies.

Answer 77

**Brawo! Tak trzymać!** …..…......................................…....................................... **Way to go**, Joe: Maphosa eyes a title opportunity after beating Ahmed.

Answer 78

**fiddly** …..…......................................…....................................... Whatever the outcome one thing is certain. Never before has such a **fiddly** set of measures hit the global oil market at once. Many of these have been signalled for so long that they may cause few problems. But there are reasons to think the boat could be rocked, at least for a while.

Answer 79

**remont** …..…......................................…....................................... However, the French approach has created lingering problems. On the technical side, squeezing a lot of construction into a few years means that reactors undergo their big decennial **refit** around the same time.

Answer 80

**oprzeć się na czymś** …..…......................................…....................................... In addition to films, there is a substantive opportunity to enhance the presentation and communal experience of the most ambitious series by **leaning into** the theatrical environment.

Answer 81

**nadwyrężać** …..…......................................…....................................... The fastest chargers can be expensive to build and **strain** local grids, necessitating upgrades.

Answer 82

**potrzeba chwili** …..…......................................…....................................... As understood and practiced by artists like Kelly, punk or emo might be an abstract pseudo-genre— born of nostalgia, commercial **expediency**, and the same streaming-age, historical context collapse that fuels alt-throwback DJ parties like LA’s long-running Emo Nite, where the definition of emo includes everything from post-hardcore to Linkin Park to Post Malone.

Answer 83

**portrayal** …..…......................................…....................................... Balenciaga rocketed to the heights of the fashion world with risqué designs and runway stunts, but now that edgy approach has backfired on the brand amid a public furor over the **portrayal** of children in its ads.

Answer 84

**obgadać coś, przedyskutować coś** …..…......................................…....................................... He’s a little late to meet me at this diner in Santa Monica that he’d prefer I not name because he and the director of one of those movies, David O. Russell, come here a lot to **bat around** scripts and people-watch.

Answer 85

**incredulous** …..…......................................…....................................... The fact that China was spending more money importing chips than it was spending on oil — a data point so astonishing that an **incredulous** Miller downloaded it from the United Nations’ trade database several times to check — cemented his interest, even though he began with no deep technological knowledge.

Answer 86

**warts and all** …..…......................................…....................................... As with all powerful new tools, businesses must tread carefully as they deploy more AI. Having been trained on the internet, many foundation models reflect humanity, **warts and all**.

Answer 87

**refurbishment** …..…......................................…....................................... “There are going to be tonnes of stranded assets, let’s be honest,” says Jacob Loftus, founder and chief executive of General Projects, which specialises in green **refurbishments**. “Even for those owners which would like to improve [their buildings] there are vast numbers of buildings where it just won’t make sense.”

Answer 88

**graft** …..…......................................…....................................... Barker spent three months in the hospital, endured 26 surgeries, endless skin **grafts**, and a period of suicidal depression; he later told interviewers he’d offered friends a million dollars if they’d help him end his life.

Answer 89

**deft** …..…......................................…....................................... As Disney CEO, Mr. Iger was known for his **deft** touch with movie stars, agents and creative executives. He lives in Brentwood, a tony Los Angeles neighborhood bisected by Sunset Boulevard.

Answer 90

**bitter** …..…......................................…....................................... For nearly three years, Mr. Iger’s chosen successor at Disney, Bob Chapek, had faced one crisis after another: a pandemic that closed theme parks and movie theaters, a **bitter** fight with Florida’s governor and a previously unreported boardroom clash with his chief financial officer.

Answer 91

**zgodnie z czymś; pasować do czegoś** …..…......................................…....................................... The low profile of these three senior officers is **in keeping with** the history of women in British intelligence. In the past, women have been overlooked, relegated to secretarial roles or, before the SIS era, deployed as “honeytraps” to ensnare or blackmail enemies.

Answer 92

**dołączyć do czegoś; zaangażować się w cos ciekawego** …..…......................................…....................................... In South-East Asia Grab competes with GoTo, formed by a tie-up between Gojek, a ride-hailing giant, and Tokopedia, an online marketplace. Both have lost over half of their market value this year, but the concept remains a resilient one. So much so that India’s richest man, Gautam Adani, recently indicated plans to **get in on the act**, too.

Answer 93

**przebijać się przez coś (np. przez inne dźwięki)** …..…......................................…....................................... The secret to catching a person’s attention is not to **cut through** the noise but to boost the signal.

Answer 94

**niedobór (np. pieniędzy)** …..…......................................…....................................... Three bottlenecks stand out: a **crunch** in tankers, an insurance gap and a global shortage in risk appetite.

Answer 95

**to bisect** …..…......................................…....................................... As Disney CEO, Mr. Iger was known for his deft touch with movie stars, agents and creative executives. He lives in Brentwood, a tony Los Angeles neighborhood **bisected** by Sunset Boulevard.

Answer 96

**nietypowe (dla kogoś)** …..…......................................…....................................... He also told executives that she had lost focus, distracted by her husband’s ailing health, and had become unstable, comments repeated to some Disney directors. Ms. McCarthy learned about it from colleagues. People who know Mr. Chapek said such language would be **out of character** for him.

Answer 97

**spiel** …..…......................................…....................................... If you listen to the marketing **spiels** for some of today’s fastestcharging electric vehicles, including the Porsche Taycan and the Tesla Model Y, you might come away thinking that we have already achieved fast-charging technology of the kind that ARPA-E and others are funding.

Answer 98

**to uproot** …..…......................................…....................................... West persuaded Adidas to transplant much of Yeezy’s Calabasas showroom to his 3,888-acre ranch in Cody, Wyoming, and asked an estimated 90 employees to commute from L.A. or Portland — or else **uproot** their lives there.

Answer 99

**dziedzina** …..…......................................…....................................... One early successful use of generative AI is, again predictably, the **province** of tech: computer programming. Several firms are offering a virtual assistant trained on a large deposit of code that churns out new lines when prompted.

Answer 100

**gardzić czymś** …..…......................................…....................................... Apple does not publish results for its consumer finance business, but analysts put its annual revenue at between $1.7bn and $3bn—less than 1% of Apple’s total but not to be **sniffed at**.

Answer 101

**to pimp out** …..…......................................…....................................... A cynic would call this music cynical, and you could certainly accuse Barker of aiding and abetting shameless/clueless opportunists looking to suck up to modern-rock radio programmers by draping themselves in borrowed rock clichés. On the other hand, anyone still policing who is and isn’t entitled to dress and sing punk (or self-identify as emo) is guarding a gate that’s been broken since the day Malcolm McLaren first **pimped out** the Sex Pistols.

Answer 102

**in keeping with** …..…......................................…....................................... The low profile of these three senior officers is **in keeping with** the history of women in British intelligence. In the past, women have been overlooked, relegated to secretarial roles or, before the SIS era, deployed as “honeytraps” to ensnare or blackmail enemies.

Answer 103

**crank** …..…......................................…....................................... Roubini is the economist who warned in August 2006 that there was a 70 per cent chance of a US recession, due largely to a housing slump. He was initially dismissed as a **crank**.

Answer 104

**to have the stomach** …..…......................................…....................................... The problem is that this sort of backstop—reinsurance—demands deep pools of private capital hard to find outside the West. Perhaps the Chinese and Indian governments could be persuaded to offer sovereign reinsurance, though market insiders doubt they **have the stomach**.

Answer 105

**niedowierzający, sceptyczny** …..…......................................…....................................... The fact that China was spending more money importing chips than it was spending on oil — a data point so astonishing that an **incredulous** Miller downloaded it from the United Nations’ trade database several times to check — cemented his interest, even though he began with no deep technological knowledge.

Answer 106

**to play second fiddle** …..…......................................…....................................... Apple has told its manufacturing partners that it wants them to start trying to do more of this work outside China, according to people involved in the discussions. Unless places like India and Vietnam can do NPI too, they will remain stuck **playing second fiddle**, say supplychain specialists.

Answer 107

**hectic** …..…......................................…....................................... A detailed account of a **hectic** weekend.

Answer 108

**proces czyszczenia i ujednolicania danych w celu łatwiejszej analizy** …..…......................................…....................................... In October Microsoft launched a tool which automatically **wrangles data** for users following prompts.

Answer 109

**kiepska wymówka** …..…......................................…....................................... Real faint of heart will call back the restaurant with some **lame excuse** and proceed to drive back to the establishment with a 10 dollar bill clutched in their fist.

Answer 110

**intently** …..…......................................…....................................... Decision-makers from Adidas and members of his entourage waited **intently** for his feedback when, according to two people who attended the August 2017 meeting, West began to yell that the Yeezys were not yet up to his standards — then approached a senior female employee. The attendees say West looked down at his foot, stared up at the woman, and told her, “I want you to make me a shoe I can fuck.”

Answer 111

**jamboree** …..…......................................…....................................... Many of them attended a week-long **jamboree** hosted in Las Vegas by Amazon Web Services, the tech giant’s cloud-computing arm. The event, which ended on December 2nd, was packed with talks and workshops on AI. Among the busiest booths in the exhibition hall were those of AI firms such as Dataiku and Blackbook.ai.

Answer 112

**brylować (np. w towarzystwie)** …..…......................................…....................................... Despite the troubles, the contract renewal seemed to embolden Mr. Chapek. He **held court** at Disney’s D23 convention in September, showing off a new beard. He visited backstage with stars who were there to entertain some of Disney’s biggest fans.

Answer 113

**onlooker** …..…......................................…....................................... Although the show, mostly open to the public, was beset by a downpour and crowds of jostling **onlookers**, it was a happening in Milan, with taxi drivers and teenagers chattering about it for days.

Answer 114

**skandal** …..…......................................…....................................... Balenciaga rocketed to the heights of the fashion world with risqué designs and runway stunts, but now that edgy approach has backfired on the brand amid a public **furor** over the portrayal of children in its ads.

Answer 115

**to strain** …..…......................................…....................................... The fastest chargers can be expensive to build and **strain** local grids, necessitating upgrades.

Answer 116

**nie chcąc być gorszym** …..…......................................…....................................... In the early 2000s Framatome, the company that built reactors for EDF, developed ambitions of its own. Under new management—and a new name, Areva— it signed a contract with Finland to build a new type of plant, the European pressurised-water reactor (EPR), developed jointly with Siemens, a German conglomerate. **Not to be outdone**, EDF decided to build its own EPR at home in Flamanville, and sell others to China and Britain.

Answer 117

**in the wings** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Iger, 71 years old, felt slighted that Mr. Chapek didn’t lean on him for advice. He told confidants that Mr. Chapek, 63, was doing a terrible job and that he was incompetent. As Mr. Chapek struggled to find his footing, Mr. Iger hovered **in the wings**.

Answer 118

**napięte (stosunki); nadszarpnięte (nerwy)** …..…......................................…....................................... By October, relations between Ms. McCarthy and Mr. Chapek were so **frayed** that he didn’t include her in a board meeting. He also told executives that she had lost focus, distracted by her husband’s ailing health, and had become unstable, comments repeated to some Disney directors. Ms. McCarthy learned about it from colleagues.

Answer 119

**naradzać się** …..…......................................…....................................... By this point, I may be perspiring a bit. Gomez hugs me anyway, then scurries off down a hallway to **confer** with a young woman about the air conditioning.

Answer 120

**tu: placówka, firma** …..…......................................…....................................... Real faint of heart will call back the restaurant with some lame excuse and proceed to drive back to the **establishment** with a 10 dollar bill clutched in their fist.

Answer 121

**zaniedbany, nieelegancki** …..…......................................…....................................... The fictional MI6 officer James Bond gropes his secretary, spices his operations with extravagant liaisons and encounters few female spies, the most famous being the **dowdy** Russian counter-intelligence officer Rosa Klebb. Film versions of Fleming’s books made famous an entire genre of “Bond girls”, conquests rather than fully drawn human beings.

Answer 122

**frayed** …..…......................................…....................................... By October, relations between Ms. McCarthy and Mr. Chapek were so **frayed** that he didn’t include her in a board meeting. He also told executives that she had lost focus, distracted by her husband’s ailing health, and had become unstable, comments repeated to some Disney directors. Ms. McCarthy learned about it from colleagues.

Answer 123

**dziwactwo (specyficzne zachowanie)** …..…......................................…....................................... A former senior employee claims they were warned by two Adidas executives about West’s peculiar **idiosyncrasies** shortly after joining Yeezy.

Answer 124

**odkrycie; przełom** …..…......................................…....................................... It’s also possible that engineers and car makers will get us closer to the dream of universal fast charging without **breakthroughs** in battery design. At Idaho National Laboratory, a federal research lab, scientists have discovered that they can safely charge existing vehicles much faster by using sophisticated software to ramp up and down the amount of current being fed into a vehicle’s battery.

Answer 125

**policing** …..…......................................…....................................... A cynic would call this music cynical, and you could certainly accuse Barker of aiding and abetting shameless/clueless opportunists looking to suck up to modern-rock radio programmers by draping themselves in borrowed rock clichés. On the other hand, anyone still **policing** who is and isn’t entitled to dress and sing punk (or self-identify as emo) is guarding a gate that’s been broken since the day Malcolm McLaren first pimped out the Sex Pistols.

Answer 126

**downpour** …..…......................................…....................................... Although the show, mostly open to the public, was beset by a **downpour** and crowds of jostling onlookers, it was a happening in Milan, with taxi drivers and teenagers chattering about it for days.

Answer 127

**osiągać lub przekroczyć maksymalny poziom** …..…......................................…....................................... These days pessimism is widespread. To keep his edge, Roubini has turned up his own doom dial **to eleven**. His book Megathreats is a barrage about negative risks, from inflation to artificial intelligence, climate change and world war three, which he argues will combine for the maximum impact. “We must learn to live on high alert,” he writes. We will need luck, global co-operation and “almost unprecedented economic growth” for things to end well.

Answer 128

**odlot, haj** …..…......................................…....................................... One former confidant who worked closely with West in Wyoming fondly recalled “his Jesus **kick**” and their time working on the Yeezy partnership. But after witnessing West’s behavior in 2022 from afar — the all-caps Instagram posts lambasting Kardashian, the documentary in which he showed porn to Adidas executives, the hate-filled, antisemitic interviews — the confidant says, “Adidas enabled a lot of that kind of behavior.”

Answer 129

**nadawać się** …..…......................................…....................................... To understand France’s nuclear predicament consider its roots in the oil shock of 1973. At the time, most French power plants ran on petroleum. As the fuel became scarce, French politicians concluded that true sovereignty required an energy source France could control. Nuclear power **fitted the bill**.

Answer 130

**livid** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Iger told the New York Times in April 2020 that his plan to take a back seat was undone by Covid-19. “A crisis of this magnitude, and its impact on Disney, would necessarily result in my actively helping Bob [Chapek] and the company contend with it, particularly since I ran the company for 15 years!” he said. Mr. Chapek was **livid**. Any hope Mr. Chapek would seek out Mr. Iger for counsel went from unlikely to out of the question.

Answer 131

**zakończyć akrobację gimnastyczną idealnym lądowaniem** …..…......................................…....................................... A prime example Mr. Gallo cites is the famous line from Shakespeare’s popular hit “Macbeth” in which a messenger says “The Queen, my lord, is dead.” Shakespeare could have written, “The Queen is dead, my lord.” But he didn’t, because he knew that the sentence would be more powerful if he led with the locomotive and saved the shocker for the caboose. In the words of one writing expert, “Shakespeare **stuck the landing**.”

Answer 132

**to compound** …..…......................................…....................................... The property sector’s tech problem **compounds** an underlying malaise. Even as crowds have flocked to busy restaurants, concerts and other public spaces, companies are still questioning whether office life will return to something resembling the prepandemic normal.

Answer 133

**threadbare** …..…......................................…....................................... Travis Barker shivers in a **threadbare** Subhumans T-shirt. He could conceivably ask the staff to turn down the AC a little—he’s an investor in this place, as it happens, not to mention, y’know, a rock star—but he doesn’t. “I think I’m, like, permanently cold, because I just spent the last four hours in my underwear,” he says.

Answer 134

**lame excuse** …..…......................................…....................................... Real faint of heart will call back the restaurant with some **lame excuse** and proceed to drive back to the establishment with a 10 dollar bill clutched in their fist.

Answer 135

**to suck up to somebody** …..…......................................…....................................... A cynic would call this music cynical, and you could certainly accuse Barker of aiding and abetting shameless/clueless opportunists looking to **suck up to** modern-rock radio programmers by draping themselves in borrowed rock clichés. On the other hand, anyone still policing who is and isn’t entitled to dress and sing punk (or self-identify as emo) is guarding a gate that’s been broken since the day Malcolm McLaren first pimped out the Sex Pistols.

Answer 136

**rooted in** …..…......................................…....................................... The gulf in valuations cannot be justified on economic grounds. All firms face the same toxic cocktail of slowing growth, rising interest rates and stubborn inflation. If anything, private ones, often more leveraged, should be more exposed when credit tightens. Instead the gap is mostly an illusion **rooted in** the peculiarities of private investing.

Answer 137

**to arrive at something** …..…......................................…....................................... Other problems are specific to the world of business. Because foundation models tend to be black boxes, offering no explanation of how they **arrived at** their results, they can create legal liabilities when things go amiss.

Answer 138

**to level off** …..…......................................…....................................... Batteries today are the biggest single factor keeping electric vehicles unaffordable for many. Their cost, which for decades has fallen rapidly, has finally **leveled off**. In 2022, the cost actually crept up compared with 2021.

Answer 139

**zwrócić się przeciwko komuś; zaatakować kogoś (słownie)** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Chapek drew a few boos, a sign of how some of the Disney faithful had **turned on** the CEO. Some customers were upset by a theme-park reservation system that Mr. Chapek had championed. Park visitors could pay a surcharge to skip long lines at popular attractions— on top of rising admission prices—which seemed to turn the quintessential American middle- class vacation into a pastime for the affluent.

Answer 140

**zabezpieczenie; mechanizm ochronny** …..…......................................…....................................... The crunch in insurance coverage is a bigger potential snag. It is not that Middle-Eastern or Asian countries keen on Russian barrels do not have local firms with the financial muscle to insure tankers and cargo. What they may soon lack is cover for much bigger risks like oil spills, liabilities for which can easily reach half a billion dollars. Few insurers new to the market will look forward to becoming liable for an ageing Venezuelan vessel going through Danish straits a mere 15m deep without a big **backstop**.

Answer 141

**to stew over** …..…......................................…....................................... Inside Disney, creative leaders **stewed over** what they saw as dilution of their authority. Tension with Disney’s TV and film executives had started in his first year, when Mr. Chapek reorganized the company to empower business-side executives to decide content budgets and determine whether a movie or TV show premiered on a network, streaming platform or in theaters.

Answer 142

**tout // scalper** …..…......................................…....................................... The second is that a big part of the price inflation comes from secondary resellers (ie, **scalpers** or **touts**) who use bots and other means to acquire batches of tickets.

Answer 143

**krytykować kogoś na forum** …..…......................................…....................................... Throughout the job interview, the high-ranking employee claims, West “was trying to vet her to see if she would **call him out on** it, or if she would be able to roll with it.”

Answer 144

**dazzle** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Bezos’s commitment to narrative is so important that Mr. Gallo, who titled one chapter “Writing That **Dazzles**, Shines, and Sparkles,” chose a refreshingly hackneyed metaphor for it. “Narrative is to Amazon what an engine is to a Ferrari.” The point is not that a man writing about writing actually wrote that, but that Mr. Bezos believes in stories so passionately that in 2004 he banned the use of PowerPoint for senior executives.

Answer 145

**it is anything but** …..…......................................…....................................... When we talk about Blink in late September, Barker doesn’t tell me this is happening. At that point DeLonge’s return to the fold is still a secret. But the external, pop-cultural reasons why a classic-Blink reunion tour makes sense right now are **anything but**. When Blink were at their commercial peak in the early 2000s, critics wrote them off as juvenile and derivative—a dine-and-dash Descendents, a boy band for kids who wore fake lip rings to school-picture day.

Answer 146

**buzzing** …..…......................................…....................................... The **buzzing** AI scene is an exception to the downbeat mood across techdom, which is in the midst of a deep slump.

Answer 147

**zbłądzić, pomylić się** …..…......................................…....................................... Other problems are specific to the world of business. Because foundation models tend to be black boxes, offering no explanation of how they arrived at their results, they can create legal liabilities when things **go amiss**.

Answer 148

**to have goods** …..…......................................…....................................... Hawkins, who lived in Laguna and would soon join Alanis Morissette’s band (he’d meet Dave Grohl while touring with her), was a regular at those shows—and even back then, he could tell Barker **had the goods**.

Answer 149

**naiwny, żyjący w obłokach** …..…......................................…....................................... For decades **starry-eyed** technologists have claimed that AI will upend the business world, creating enormous benefits for firms and customers.

Answer 150

**to fester** …..…......................................…....................................... One of the former senior employees says that some management figures “were absent when they should have been present” and that West’s provocative behavior “was allowed to **fester**” because Yeezy was on its way to generating an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion in annual revenue.

Answer 151

**to drench** …..…......................................…....................................... Nuclear power seems tailor-made for this day and age. It emits next to no carbon. It provides reliable baseload electricity, vital when sun isn’t **drenching** solar panels or wind isn’t wafting through turbine blades.

Answer 152

**to undermine** …..…......................................…....................................... Bob Iger **undermined**, then succeeded, Bob Chapek, the man he had picked to replace him; a fed-up CFO dialed Mr. Iger, knowing he was the one who could dislodge Mr. Chapek.

Answer 153

**podjąć coś na nowo (np. karierę zawodową); powrócić do czegoś** …..…......................................…....................................... “We have to **pick up the thread** of the great adventure of civil nuclear energy,” he declared. Barring last-minute legal hiccups, the French state will have full control of EDF by the end of the year.

Answer 154

**backstop** …..…......................................…....................................... The crunch in insurance coverage is a bigger potential snag. It is not that Middle-Eastern or Asian countries keen on Russian barrels do not have local firms with the financial muscle to insure tankers and cargo. What they may soon lack is cover for much bigger risks like oil spills, liabilities for which can easily reach half a billion dollars. Few insurers new to the market will look forward to becoming liable for an ageing Venezuelan vessel going through Danish straits a mere 15m deep without a big **backstop**.

Answer 155

**to address** …..…......................................…....................................... For almost two weeks the brand has been scrambling to **address** criticism over two ad campaigns that have angered its customers and tested the loyalty of reality TV star Kim Kardashian, its biggest ambassador.

Answer 156

**podpowiedź (suflera)** …..…......................................…....................................... In October Microsoft launched a tool which automatically wrangles data for users following **prompts**.

Answer 157

**wymówka** …..…......................................…....................................... “The way that they protect them is they move them out of the team and push them out the back door,” says the senior employee who counseled the HR staffer. “Some people appreciate that, while some people think that it’s just a **cop-out**.”

Answer 158

**modny; popularny (głównie w mediach)** …..…......................................…....................................... The **buzzing** AI scene is an exception to the downbeat mood across techdom, which is in the midst of a deep slump.

Answer 159

**publiczne okazywanie uczuć // public display of affection** …..…......................................…....................................... The first rumors of them being more than friends made the rounds when they were seen leaving Crossroads Kitchen together in 2018; they went public as a couple last year, and—after a few months of intense and thoroughly documented **PDA**—got engaged in October 2021.

Answer 160

**to clip somebody's wings** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr Musk, who took Twitter private, will have no public-market investors attempting to **clip his wings**, but he will face more fundamental challenges if he seriously wishes to pursue a super-app strategy.

Answer 161

**to be in place** …..…......................................…....................................... Ruffini said he hadn’t seen the final bill when we spoke, but that the production costs were less than one might think because the main set **was already in place**: the Duomo cathedral, which dates to the 14th century.

Answer 162

**to be light on something** …..…......................................…....................................... “While three-quarters of listed real estate companies have some sort of decarbonisation or climate change strategy in place, if you scratch the surface, you will find that many are very **light on** detail,” says Lars Dijkstra, chief sustainability officer at the bank.

Answer 163

**to lean into** …..…......................................…....................................... In addition to films, there is a substantive opportunity to enhance the presentation and communal experience of the most ambitious series by **leaning into** the theatrical environment.

Answer 164

**foundry** …..…......................................…....................................... Chang proposed the worldchanging idea of a chip “**foundry**”, which manufactures semiconductors for multiple clients, in the 1970s. TI rejected the plan and later thwarted Chang’s ambition to become chief executive. As a result, he was at a loose end in 1985 when Taiwan’s government called and gave him a blank cheque to develop his foundry idea there.

Answer 165

**zaakceptować coś (np. mimo niezadowolenia)** …..…......................................…....................................... Throughout the job interview, the high-ranking employee claims, West “was trying to vet her to see if she would call him out on it, or if she would be able to **roll with it**.”

Answer 166

**to sign a bill into law** …..…......................................…....................................... The infrastructure **bill signed into law** in November 2021 sets aside $7.5 billion toward an eventual goal of building 500,000 charging stations in the U.S. through partnerships involving public and private investment. This program will prioritize building fast chargers, but states have struggled to do so in the past.

Answer 167

**to vet** …..…......................................…....................................... Throughout the job interview, the high-ranking employee claims, West “was trying to **vet** her to see if she would call him out on it, or if she would be able to roll with it.”

Answer 168

**tony** …..…......................................…....................................... As Disney CEO, Mr. Iger was known for his deft touch with movie stars, agents and creative executives. He lives in Brentwood, a **tony** Los Angeles neighborhood bisected by Sunset Boulevard.

Answer 169

**to stick the landing** …..…......................................…....................................... A prime example Mr. Gallo cites is the famous line from Shakespeare’s popular hit “Macbeth” in which a messenger says “The Queen, my lord, is dead.” Shakespeare could have written, “The Queen is dead, my lord.” But he didn’t, because he knew that the sentence would be more powerful if he led with the locomotive and saved the shocker for the caboose. In the words of one writing expert, “Shakespeare **stuck the landing**.”

Answer 170

**skomplikowany, wymagający zręczności** …..…......................................…....................................... Whatever the outcome one thing is certain. Never before has such a **fiddly** set of measures hit the global oil market at once. Many of these have been signalled for so long that they may cause few problems. But there are reasons to think the boat could be rocked, at least for a while.

Answer 171

**łączyć** …..…......................................…....................................... “I think that’s why people turn to Travis,” Hughes says. “It’s a vibe. It’s a feeling—this **melding** and crunching together of different punk-related subgenres. He’s like the king of punk-adjacent.”

Answer 172

**to brook** …..…......................................…....................................... The further tech moves into finance, the more it may have to be treated like a bank. There is only so much disruption that financial regulators will **brook**.

Answer 173

**consent decree** …..…......................................…....................................... In America, the DoJ is almost exclusively focused on Live Nation and Ticketmaster. Since the merger in 2010, the concert giant has operated under a “**consent decree**” forbidding it from strong-arming venues to use Ticketmaster.

Answer 174

**tu: paranoicznie bać się (czegoś); inne: wkrzurzać się** …..…......................................…....................................... Barker has spent years managing the trauma of the crash using every tool at his disposal—therapy, running, boxing, breath work, CBD, and probably more than a little bit of benign workaholism, plus new tattoos of his parents and children to cover the burn scars on his back—but as of last year he hadn’t set foot on a plane since 2008. For years just seeing a plane would **freak him out**; the smell of jet fuel reminded him of his time in the burn unit.

Answer 175

**stać komuś nad głową //to watch somebody very closely and checking everything they do** …..…......................................…....................................... Other chief executives might have weathered the setbacks. But none had Mr. Iger **breathing down their neck**.

Answer 176

**krążyć, nieść się (np. opowieść)** …..…......................................…....................................... The first rumors of them being more than friends **made the rounds** when they were seen leaving Crossroads Kitchen together in 2018; they went public as a couple last year, and—after a few months of intense and thoroughly documented PDA—got engaged in October 2021.

Answer 177

**kantowanie (oszukiwanie)** …..…......................................…....................................... Amid the genuine angst over high-priced tickets, and the overhyped politicisation of the matter (Representative Bill Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat, promotes the “BOSS Act” against ticket-price **gouging**, named before Mr Springsteen started to behave like any other fat cat), the brouhaha misses two points.

Answer 178

**renowacja** …..…......................................…....................................... “There are going to be tonnes of stranded assets, let’s be honest,” says Jacob Loftus, founder and chief executive of General Projects, which specialises in green **refurbishments**. “Even for those owners which would like to improve [their buildings] there are vast numbers of buildings where it just won’t make sense.”

Answer 179

**and counting** …..…......................................…....................................... The Finnish project, at Olkiluoto, bankrupted Areva, whose reactors business EDF took over in 2017. The cost of Flamanville has gone from €3.3bn in 2007 (then $4.8bn) to €19bn (including financing) **and counting**.

Answer 180

**bez upiększeń** …..…......................................…....................................... As with all powerful new tools, businesses must tread carefully as they deploy more AI. Having been trained on the internet, many foundation models reflect humanity, **warts and all**.

Answer 181

**dojść do czegoś (np. do jakiejś decyzji)** …..…......................................…....................................... Other problems are specific to the world of business. Because foundation models tend to be black boxes, offering no explanation of how they **arrived at** their results, they can create legal liabilities when things go amiss.

Answer 182

**to make the rounds** …..…......................................…....................................... The first rumors of them being more than friends **made the rounds** when they were seen leaving Crossroads Kitchen together in 2018; they went public as a couple last year, and—after a few months of intense and thoroughly documented PDA—got engaged in October 2021.

Answer 183

**pewne podejrzenia, domysły** …..…......................................…....................................... When the call to return as chief executive came, it was from someone on his old team. Mr. Iger later told people he had an **inkling** of how the script would go.

Answer 184

**przestrzeń; obszar; powierzchnia** …..…......................................…....................................... Standing at the edge of the new neighbourhood, rimmed by a vast green **expanse**, Erfurt Hansen points to the building site from which UN17 will emerge and bemoans the challenges of building for a net zero pioneer: “You can say, ‘It’s a very good business case, it gets a lot of crosses on the sustainability card’, but it’s extremely hard to carry out in real life.”

Answer 185

**cop-out** …..…......................................…....................................... “The way that they protect them is they move them out of the team and push them out the back door,” says the senior employee who counseled the HR staffer. “Some people appreciate that, while some people think that it’s just a **cop-out**.”

Answer 186

**wcale nie** …..…......................................…....................................... When we talk about Blink in late September, Barker doesn’t tell me this is happening. At that point DeLonge’s return to the fold is still a secret. But the external, pop-cultural reasons why a classic-Blink reunion tour makes sense right now are **anything but**. When Blink were at their commercial peak in the early 2000s, critics wrote them off as juvenile and derivative—a dine-and-dash Descendents, a boy band for kids who wore fake lip rings to school-picture day.

Answer 187

**to fly off the handle** …..…......................................…....................................... “If he likes you and wants you on the team, he’s super charming,” Fox explains, adding: “If he didn’t like you or if something happened, he’d **fly off the handle** and it’d be over.”

Answer 188

**zmodernizować** …..…......................................…....................................... “The challenge is very much to refurbish and **retrofit** the stock we have. We cannot build our way out of this crisis,” says Edward Dixon, head of environment, social and governance at Aviva Investors.

Answer 189

**pesymistyczny** …..…......................................…....................................... The buzzing AI scene is an exception to the **downbeat** mood across techdom, which is in the midst of a deep slump.

Answer 190

**czyjeś wpływy // clutches = szpony** …..…......................................…....................................... Although Alaïa may be the one that got away, not many potential Geniuses escape Ruffini’s **clutches**. Because Moncler collaborates with several designers a year, he’s always looking for new talent and meeting with young creatives.

Answer 191

**to take a dim view of something** …..…......................................…....................................... Then there are the regulators, many of whom already **hold a dim view of** big tech and are watching its advances into finance closely.

Answer 192

**podpisać akt prawny** …..…......................................…....................................... The infrastructure **bill signed into law** in November 2021 sets aside $7.5 billion toward an eventual goal of building 500,000 charging stations in the U.S. through partnerships involving public and private investment. This program will prioritize building fast chargers, but states have struggled to do so in the past.

Answer 193

**starry-eyed** …..…......................................…....................................... For decades **starry-eyed** technologists have claimed that AI will upend the business world, creating enormous benefits for firms and customers.

Answer 194

**to pick up the thread** …..…......................................…....................................... “We have to **pick up the thread** of the great adventure of civil nuclear energy,” he declared. Barring last-minute legal hiccups, the French state will have full control of EDF by the end of the year.

Answer 195

**stunt** …..…......................................…....................................... Balenciaga rocketed to the heights of the fashion world with risqué designs and runway **stunts**, but now that edgy approach has backfired on the brand amid a public furor over the portrayal of children in its ads.

Answer 196

**bezpośrednio** …..…......................................…....................................... Before the call, Ms. McCarthy suggested Mr. Chapek address the grim news **head-on**. He instead wrote a script that spent more time praising the return of in-person events, such as live attractions at theme parks.

Answer 197

**ulewa** …..…......................................…....................................... Although the show, mostly open to the public, was beset by a **downpour** and crowds of jostling onlookers, it was a happening in Milan, with taxi drivers and teenagers chattering about it for days.

Answer 198

**za kulisami** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Iger, 71 years old, felt slighted that Mr. Chapek didn’t lean on him for advice. He told confidants that Mr. Chapek, 63, was doing a terrible job and that he was incompetent. As Mr. Chapek struggled to find his footing, Mr. Iger hovered **in the wings**.

Answer 199

**even more so** …..…......................................…....................................... The life she describes is exciting: travelling, learning languages, “getting under the skin” of new people and cultures. The work **even more so**. She recounts the days before biometrics, of making her way unnoticed from one country to another, often on foot, and changing disguises en route.

Answer 200

**furor** …..…......................................…....................................... Balenciaga rocketed to the heights of the fashion world with risqué designs and runway stunts, but now that edgy approach has backfired on the brand amid a public **furor** over the portrayal of children in its ads.

Answer 201

**skimming the market** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr Musk has already hit his head on this ceiling. In November he used a dispute over Apple’s advertising on his site to complain about the fees Apple extracts from apps doing business in its ecosystem (a “secret 30% tax”, as he put it). Mr Musk is far from the first mogul to gripe about this **skimming**, but it will be a particularly unwelcome squeeze on the profit margins of Twitter’s new subscription-based model.

Answer 202

**blask** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Bezos’s commitment to narrative is so important that Mr. Gallo, who titled one chapter “Writing That **Dazzles**, Shines, and Sparkles,” chose a refreshingly hackneyed metaphor for it. “Narrative is to Amazon what an engine is to a Ferrari.” The point is not that a man writing about writing actually wrote that, but that Mr. Bezos believes in stories so passionately that in 2004 he banned the use of PowerPoint for senior executives.

Answer 203

**to roll with something** …..…......................................…....................................... Throughout the job interview, the high-ranking employee claims, West “was trying to vet her to see if she would call him out on it, or if she would be able to **roll with it**.”

Answer 204

**to ride on something** …..…......................................…....................................... A lot is **riding on** its resolution. Europe is counting on the French nuclear industry to stop being a drag on the continent’s strained energy system. Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, is counting on it for a national nuclear renaissance. And its success may determine whether the world’s newer nuclear converts see the French experience as an inspiration—or a cautionary tale.

Answer 205

**to dislodge** …..…......................................…....................................... Bob Iger undermined, then succeeded, Bob Chapek, the man he had picked to replace him; a fed-up CFO dialed Mr. Iger, knowing he was the one who could **dislodge** Mr. Chapek.

Answer 206

**namieszać, wprowadzać zamieszanie** …..…......................................…....................................... Whatever the outcome one thing is certain. Never before has such a fiddly set of measures hit the global oil market at once. Many of these have been signalled for so long that they may cause few problems. But there are reasons to think **the boat could be rocked**, at least for a while.

Answer 207

**nadzorowanie przestrzegania (np. zasad)** …..…......................................…....................................... A cynic would call this music cynical, and you could certainly accuse Barker of aiding and abetting shameless/clueless opportunists looking to suck up to modern-rock radio programmers by draping themselves in borrowed rock clichés. On the other hand, anyone still **policing** who is and isn’t entitled to dress and sing punk (or self-identify as emo) is guarding a gate that’s been broken since the day Malcolm McLaren first pimped out the Sex Pistols.

Answer 208

**nerwowy, gorączkowy** …..…......................................…....................................... A detailed account of a **hectic** weekend.

Answer 209

**spijanie śmietanki (osiąganie dużych zysków ze sprzedaży nowych produktów lub usług po zawyżonej cenie)** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr Musk has already hit his head on this ceiling. In November he used a dispute over Apple’s advertising on his site to complain about the fees Apple extracts from apps doing business in its ecosystem (a “secret 30% tax”, as he put it). Mr Musk is far from the first mogul to gripe about this **skimming**, but it will be a particularly unwelcome squeeze on the profit margins of Twitter’s new subscription-based model.

Answer 210

**zjazd (impreza, przyjęcie)** …..…......................................…....................................... Many of them attended a week-long **jamboree** hosted in Las Vegas by Amazon Web Services, the tech giant’s cloud-computing arm. The event, which ended on December 2nd, was packed with talks and workshops on AI. Among the busiest booths in the exhibition hall were those of AI firms such as Dataiku and Blackbook.ai.

Answer 211

**od (począszy od; stan na dzień)** …..…......................................…....................................... Barker has spent years managing the trauma of the crash using every tool at his disposal—therapy, running, boxing, breath work, CBD, and probably more than a little bit of benign workaholism, plus new tattoos of his parents and children to cover the burn scars on his back—but **as of** last year he hadn’t set foot on a plane since 2008. For years just seeing a plane would freak him out; the smell of jet fuel reminded him of his time in the burn unit.

Answer 212

**Way to go!** …..…......................................…....................................... **Way to go**, Joe: Maphosa eyes a title opportunity after beating Ahmed.

Answer 213

**dodawać gazu** …..…......................................…....................................... Disney+ offered a solution for the conundrum of how to release movies when many movie theaters were closed. Several would-be theatrical releases premiered on the platform, helping **goose** subscriptions and the stock.

Answer 214

**downbeat** …..…......................................…....................................... The buzzing AI scene is an exception to the **downbeat** mood across techdom, which is in the midst of a deep slump.

Answer 215

**odpicować (coś), ulepszać** …..…......................................…....................................... A cynic would call this music cynical, and you could certainly accuse Barker of aiding and abetting shameless/clueless opportunists looking to suck up to modern-rock radio programmers by draping themselves in borrowed rock clichés. On the other hand, anyone still policing who is and isn’t entitled to dress and sing punk (or self-identify as emo) is guarding a gate that’s been broken since the day Malcolm McLaren first **pimped out** the Sex Pistols.

Answer 216

**to make it** …..…......................................…....................................... The Batman was released in March; it went on to gross $770 million internationally and confirmed Kravitz’s instincts that, despite acting for more than half her life, Catwoman was the role in which she had finally **made it**.

Answer 217

**inkling** …..…......................................…....................................... When the call to return as chief executive came, it was from someone on his old team. Mr. Iger later told people he had an **inkling** of how the script would go.

Answer 218

**podlizywać się komuś, włazić komuś w dupę** …..…......................................…....................................... A cynic would call this music cynical, and you could certainly accuse Barker of aiding and abetting shameless/clueless opportunists looking to **suck up to** modern-rock radio programmers by draping themselves in borrowed rock clichés. On the other hand, anyone still policing who is and isn’t entitled to dress and sing punk (or self-identify as emo) is guarding a gate that’s been broken since the day Malcolm McLaren first pimped out the Sex Pistols.

Answer 219

**zaostrzać się (o konflikcie, problemie); jątrzyć się** …..…......................................…....................................... One of the former senior employees says that some management figures “were absent when they should have been present” and that West’s provocative behavior “was allowed to **fester**” because Yeezy was on its way to generating an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion in annual revenue.

Answer 220

**go amiss** …..…......................................…....................................... Other problems are specific to the world of business. Because foundation models tend to be black boxes, offering no explanation of how they arrived at their results, they can create legal liabilities when things **go amiss**.

Answer 221

**establishment** …..…......................................…....................................... Real faint of heart will call back the restaurant with some lame excuse and proceed to drive back to the **establishment** with a 10 dollar bill clutched in their fist.

Answer 222

**istnieć, działać** …..…......................................…....................................... Ruffini said he hadn’t seen the final bill when we spoke, but that the production costs were less than one might think because the main set **was already in place**: the Duomo cathedral, which dates to the 14th century.

Answer 223

**rough estimate** …..…......................................…....................................... **Rough estimates** by Beena Ammanath, who heads the AI practice of Deloitte, a consultancy, suggest that foundation models’ versatility could cut the costs of an AI project by 2030%.

Answer 224

**na miejscu; w społeczeństwie, wśród ludzi** …..…......................................…....................................... In November, as the worker protests in the facility grew, Apple issued a statement assuring it was **on the ground** looking to resolve the issue. “We are reviewing the situation and working closely with Foxconn to ensure their employees’ concerns are addressed,” a spokesman said at the time.

Answer 225

**to whip up** …..…......................................…....................................... Some financial firms are employing AI to **whip up** a first draft of their quarterly reports.

Answer 226

**faint of heart** …..…......................................…....................................... Real **faint of heart** will call back the restaurant with some lame excuse and proceed to drive back to the establishment with a 10 dollar bill clutched in their fist.

Answer 227

**likeness** …..…......................................…....................................... He spent the afternoon standing around mostly naked while being measured, photographed, and scanned by representatives from Madame Tussauds, where he’s being honored with a wax figure in his **likeness**.

Answer 228

**brouhaha** …..…......................................…....................................... Amid the genuine angst over high-priced tickets, and the overhyped politicisation of the matter (Representative Bill Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat, promotes the “BOSS Act” against ticket-price gouging, named before Mr Springsteen started to behave like any other fat cat), the **brouhaha** misses two points.

Answer 229

**uważnie, bacznie** …..…......................................…....................................... Decision-makers from Adidas and members of his entourage waited **intently** for his feedback when, according to two people who attended the August 2017 meeting, West began to yell that the Yeezys were not yet up to his standards — then approached a senior female employee. The attendees say West looked down at his foot, stared up at the woman, and told her, “I want you to make me a shoe I can fuck.”

Answer 230

**to call somebody out on something** …..…......................................…....................................... Throughout the job interview, the high-ranking employee claims, West “was trying to vet her to see if she would **call him out on** it, or if she would be able to roll with it.”

Answer 231

**przesiedlać** …..…......................................…....................................... West persuaded Adidas to transplant much of Yeezy’s Calabasas showroom to his 3,888-acre ranch in Cody, Wyoming, and asked an estimated 90 employees to commute from L.A. or Portland — or else **uproot** their lives there.

Answer 232

**to bat around** …..…......................................…....................................... He’s a little late to meet me at this diner in Santa Monica that he’d prefer I not name because he and the director of one of those movies, David O. Russell, come here a lot to **bat around** scripts and people-watch.

Answer 233

**znaczne skoki cen w krótkim czasie (np. na giełdzie)** …..…......................................…....................................... For instance, the pandemic had a **whipsaw** effect on demand for chips used in the automotive and other industries, creating shortages and underlining dependency on manufacturers such as TSMC, South Korea’s Samsung.

Answer 234

**surowy, autorytarny** …..…......................................…....................................... Some Chinese youth are no longer eager to work for modest wages assembling electronics for the affluent. They are seething in part because of Beijing’s **heavy-handed** Covid-19 approach, itself a concern for Apple and many other Western companies.

Answer 235

**zależeć od czegoś** …..…......................................…....................................... A lot is **riding on** its resolution. Europe is counting on the French nuclear industry to stop being a drag on the continent’s strained energy system. Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, is counting on it for a national nuclear renaissance. And its success may determine whether the world’s newer nuclear converts see the French experience as an inspiration—or a cautionary tale.

Answer 236

**przetrzymać coś** …..…......................................…....................................... “Because I was trying to get out of it,” he says. But Kourtney said she wouldn’t leave. “She’s like, ‘I’m gonna spend the night with you. I’m staying the night with you and we’re gonna go to the airport.’ She just knew, and she stuck by me and **toughed it out**. And it was the best flight. And I wasn’t scared once.”

Answer 237

**to save up for something** …..…......................................…....................................... Ruffini has expanded the brand awareness. Chartrand says that the younger Ssense customer **saves up to** buy Moncler.

Answer 238

**hackneyed** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Bezos’s commitment to narrative is so important that Mr. Gallo, who titled one chapter “Writing That Dazzles, Shines, and Sparkles,” chose a refreshingly **hackneyed** metaphor for it. “Narrative is to Amazon what an engine is to a Ferrari.” The point is not that a man writing about writing actually wrote that, but that Mr. Bezos believes in stories so passionately that in 2004 he banned the use of PowerPoint for senior executives.

Answer 239

**to abet** …..…......................................…....................................... A cynic would call this music cynical, and you could certainly accuse Barker of aiding and **abetting** shameless/clueless opportunists looking to suck up to modern-rock radio programmers by draping themselves in borrowed rock clichés. On the other hand, anyone still policing who is and isn’t entitled to dress and sing punk (or self-identify as emo) is guarding a gate that’s been broken since the day Malcolm McLaren first pimped out the Sex Pistols.

Answer 240

**to be breathing down somebody's neck** …..…......................................…....................................... Other chief executives might have weathered the setbacks. But none had Mr. Iger **breathing down their neck**.

Answer 241

**główna ulica handlowa; prestiżowy** …..…......................................…....................................... Since then, Woolworths has gone under, victim to the rise of online shopping and the financial crisis, which together have deprived British **high streets** of some of their most iconic brands.

Answer 242

**dziecko z kluczem na szyi (pozostawione po szkole bez opieki rodzica)** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Chapek, a self-described **latchkey kid** from Hammond, Ind., was the son of a machinist who traveled to Walt Disney World during summer vacations with his family. He joined Disney in 1993 in its home-entertainment division, making direct-to-video movies.

Answer 243

**chwilowy (stan rzeczy)** …..…......................................…....................................... “The conventional wisdom, coming from policymakers or Wall Street, has been systematically wrong. First, they said inflation’s going to be **transitory**. Then there was a debate over whether rising inflation was due to bad policies or bad luck,” namely supply shocks such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Chinese zero-Covid restrictions. Roubini sees the consensus now as “six months of recession, big deal”. Again, he disagrees. “No, this is not going to be a short and shallow recession, it’s going to be deep and protracted.

Answer 244

**usuwać (z miejsca); pozbawić władzy** …..…......................................…....................................... Bob Iger undermined, then succeeded, Bob Chapek, the man he had picked to replace him; a fed-up CFO dialed Mr. Iger, knowing he was the one who could **dislodge** Mr. Chapek.

Answer 245

**up to eleven** …..…......................................…....................................... These days pessimism is widespread. To keep his edge, Roubini has turned up his own doom dial **to eleven**. His book Megathreats is a barrage about negative risks, from inflation to artificial intelligence, climate change and world war three, which he argues will combine for the maximum impact. “We must learn to live on high alert,” he writes. We will need luck, global co-operation and “almost unprecedented economic growth” for things to end well.

Answer 246

**heavy-handed** …..…......................................…....................................... Some Chinese youth are no longer eager to work for modest wages assembling electronics for the affluent. They are seething in part because of Beijing’s **heavy-handed** Covid-19 approach, itself a concern for Apple and many other Western companies.

Answer 247

**przyciąć komuś skrzydła (ograniczyć swobodę)** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr Musk, who took Twitter private, will have no public-market investors attempting to **clip his wings**, but he will face more fundamental challenges if he seriously wishes to pursue a super-app strategy.

Answer 248

**mieć zadatki; mieć talent; mieć warunki // to legitimately have the skill or talent required to succeed in a particular pursuit; to have what it takes.** …..…......................................…....................................... Hawkins, who lived in Laguna and would soon join Alanis Morissette’s band (he’d meet Dave Grohl while touring with her), was a regular at those shows—and even back then, he could tell Barker **had the goods**.

Answer 249

**dynastia, linia, ród** …..…......................................…....................................... A few months later, **House** Barker and House Kardashian gathered at Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce’s villa in Portofino, Italy, for a gala wedding ceremony that was technically private, although anyone interested could follow the action on social media, where the Kardashians act as their own panopticon.

Answer 250

**crunch** …..…......................................…....................................... Three bottlenecks stand out: a **crunch** in tankers, an insurance gap and a global shortage in risk appetite.

Answer 251

**malaise** …..…......................................…....................................... The property sector’s tech problem compounds an underlying **malaise**. Even as crowds have flocked to busy restaurants, concerts and other public spaces, companies are still questioning whether office life will return to something resembling the prepandemic normal.

Answer 252

**dostawa** …..…......................................…....................................... The Genius series of collaborations, a Ruffini brainchild that began in 2018, continues to bring high-concept fashion and a limited-edition **drop** mentality to the company.

Answer 253

**przeszczep** …..…......................................…....................................... Barker spent three months in the hospital, endured 26 surgeries, endless skin **grafts**, and a period of suicidal depression; he later told interviewers he’d offered friends a million dollars if they’d help him end his life.

Answer 254

**not to be outdone** …..…......................................…....................................... In the early 2000s Framatome, the company that built reactors for EDF, developed ambitions of its own. Under new management—and a new name, Areva— it signed a contract with Finland to build a new type of plant, the European pressurised-water reactor (EPR), developed jointly with Siemens, a German conglomerate. **Not to be outdone**, EDF decided to build its own EPR at home in Flamanville, and sell others to China and Britain.

Answer 255

**wpadać w złość; wyjść z siebie** …..…......................................…....................................... “If he likes you and wants you on the team, he’s super charming,” Fox explains, adding: “If he didn’t like you or if something happened, he’d **fly off the handle** and it’d be over.”

Answer 256

**pogodzić się z czymś; otrząsnąć się** …..…......................................…....................................... He told himself he wouldn’t fall in love and he’d never fly again, which was a way of telling himself he’d never **get over** what had happened, and gradually—he sees this now— his life got small, stuck, fixed.

Answer 257

**grać drugie skrzypce** …..…......................................…....................................... Apple has told its manufacturing partners that it wants them to start trying to do more of this work outside China, according to people involved in the discussions. Unless places like India and Vietnam can do NPI too, they will remain stuck **playing second fiddle**, say supplychain specialists.

Answer 258

**wprowadzony, obowiązujący** …..…......................................…....................................... “While three-quarters of listed real estate companies have some sort of decarbonisation or climate change strategy **in place**, if you scratch the surface, you will find that many are very light on detail,” says Lars Dijkstra, chief sustainability officer at the bank.

Answer 259

**train wreck** …..…......................................…....................................... “I think that really the world is on a slow-motion **train wreck**. There are major new threats that did not exist before, and they’re building up and we’re doing very little about it,” he says.

Answer 260

**przedstawianie, ukazywanie** …..…......................................…....................................... Balenciaga rocketed to the heights of the fashion world with risqué designs and runway stunts, but now that edgy approach has backfired on the brand amid a public furor over the **portrayal** of children in its ads.

Answer 261

**to seethe** …..…......................................…....................................... Some Chinese youth are no longer eager to work for modest wages assembling electronics for the affluent. They are **seething** in part because of Beijing’s heavy-handed Covid-19 approach, itself a concern for Apple and many other Western companies.

Answer 262

**train wreck** …..…......................................…....................................... As documented in his 2015 memoir, Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums, the Barker who got on that plane was a textbook **train wreck**, drowning his consciousness in weed and pills and Coupe deVilles as his marriage (to former Miss USA Shanna Moakler) fell apart.

Answer 263

**out of character** …..…......................................…....................................... He also told executives that she had lost focus, distracted by her husband’s ailing health, and had become unstable, comments repeated to some Disney directors. Ms. McCarthy learned about it from colleagues. People who know Mr. Chapek said such language would be **out of character** for him.

Answer 264

**stylowy i drogi** …..…......................................…....................................... As Disney CEO, Mr. Iger was known for his deft touch with movie stars, agents and creative executives. He lives in Brentwood, a **tony** Los Angeles neighborhood bisected by Sunset Boulevard.

Answer 265

**o słabych nerwach; wrażliwy (np. na drastyczne sceny)** …..…......................................…....................................... Real **faint of heart** will call back the restaurant with some lame excuse and proceed to drive back to the establishment with a 10 dollar bill clutched in their fist.

Answer 266

**to confer** …..…......................................…....................................... By this point, I may be perspiring a bit. Gomez hugs me anyway, then scurries off down a hallway to **confer** with a young woman about the air conditioning.

Answer 267

**marazm** …..…......................................…....................................... The property sector’s tech problem compounds an underlying **malaise**. Even as crowds have flocked to busy restaurants, concerts and other public spaces, companies are still questioning whether office life will return to something resembling the prepandemic normal.

Answer 268

**nie licząć; wyjąwszy** …..…......................................…....................................... “We have to pick up the thread of the great adventure of civil nuclear energy,” he declared. **Barring** last-minute legal hiccups, the French state will have full control of EDF by the end of the year.

Answer 269

**wrzawa** …..…......................................…....................................... Amid the genuine angst over high-priced tickets, and the overhyped politicisation of the matter (Representative Bill Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat, promotes the “BOSS Act” against ticket-price gouging, named before Mr Springsteen started to behave like any other fat cat), the **brouhaha** misses two points.

Answer 270

**refit** …..…......................................…....................................... However, the French approach has created lingering problems. On the technical side, squeezing a lot of construction into a few years means that reactors undergo their big decennial **refit** around the same time.

Answer 271

**pospolity, oklepany, banalny** …..…......................................…....................................... Mr. Bezos’s commitment to narrative is so important that Mr. Gallo, who titled one chapter “Writing That Dazzles, Shines, and Sparkles,” chose a refreshingly **hackneyed** metaphor for it. “Narrative is to Amazon what an engine is to a Ferrari.” The point is not that a man writing about writing actually wrote that, but that Mr. Bezos believes in stories so passionately that in 2004 he banned the use of PowerPoint for senior executives.

Answer 272

**somebody's clutches** …..…......................................…....................................... Although Alaïa may be the one that got away, not many potential Geniuses escape Ruffini’s **clutches**. Because Moncler collaborates with several designers a year, he’s always looking for new talent and meeting with young creatives.

Answer 273

**to whittle down** …..…......................................…....................................... He measures their readability using the Flesch-Kincaid scale, created in the 1940s, to show that the letters were written at a level an 11th-grader would understand. Eventually, Mr. Bezos **whittled his writing down** to even shorter sentences—16 words, instead of 18.8, with a readability score fit for an eighth-grader.

Answer 274

**to scratch the surface** …..…......................................…....................................... “While three-quarters of listed real estate companies have some sort of decarbonisation or climate change strategy in place, if you **scratch the surface**, you will find that many are very light on detail,” says Lars Dijkstra, chief sustainability officer at the bank.

Answer 275

**pikantny, niecenzuralny (np. żart, uwaga)** …..…......................................…....................................... Balenciaga rocketed to the heights of the fashion world with **risqué** designs and runway stunts, but now that edgy approach has backfired on the brand amid a public furor over the portrayal of children in its ads.

Answer 276

**kick** …..…......................................…....................................... One former confidant who worked closely with West in Wyoming fondly recalled “his Jesus **kick**” and their time working on the Yeezy partnership. But after witnessing West’s behavior in 2022 from afar — the all-caps Instagram posts lambasting Kardashian, the documentary in which he showed porn to Adidas executives, the hate-filled, antisemitic interviews — the confidant says, “Adidas enabled a lot of that kind of behavior.”