Deck no. 35 Flashcards
odwrotny
inverse …..…………………………………..…………………………………… That is also true of people who, like your columnist, a guest Bartleby, more often suffer from the inverse affliction—having trouble putting things off even if they probably ought to be. Still, as someone with a perennial itch for completion, she has some tips for self-professed dawdlers who wish to make their lives more naval.
ktoś kto się liczy; na serio; prawdziwa okazja
the real deal …..…………………………………..…………………………………… New York wants cannabis trade to be the real deal.
encrusted with something
wysadzany czymś (np. diamentami), pokryty warstwą czegoś …..…………………………………..…………………………………… To think of Williams is to think of his most famous looks: the oversized Vivienne Westwood “Buffalo” hat he wore to the 2014 Grammy Awards, or the tiny diamond-encrusted teardrop sunglasses that are the product of a recent collaboration with Tiffany & Co.
to muffle
tłumić …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Restraints on free speech could stifle innovation; governments could muffle market forces, reducing the incentive to develop new ideas. They devote too little space to climate change , but their main suggestion - that more research will be required to make nuclear power cheaper and safer - is right as far as it goes.
zwiastować
to portend …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The proposed Fox-News Corp merger could portend a realignment of the interests of the tycoon’s children. When the time comes, will the rest of the family let the patriarch’s chosen heir run the show?
to creak
skrzypieć, trzeszczeć (np. łóżko, drzwi) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… For VW and Porsche it may seem an odd moment for such a bold manoeuvre. The car industry is facing uncertain times as supply chains creak and the global economy sputters.
siła napędowa
driving force …..…………………………………..…………………………………… That sentiment is noted by researchers at Georgetown university’s McDonough business school who studied data gathered from 70,000 home workers and found that bad bosses were a driving force behind a desire to go remote.
tłumić (np. rozruchy), zdławić (np. powstanie)
to snuff out …..…………………………………..…………………………………… More regulators now fret that such unorthodox mergers, where two firms have no overlapping business, snuff out innovation—including, as in Grail’s case, in markets that scarcely exist.
waypoint
punkt orientacyjny (np. na trasie wycieczki) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Once you have got moving, consider your waypoints. That may mean breaking a job down into smaller, more readily achievable chunks. A seminal paper from 2005 by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology examined how conceptual knowledge is processed. The authors found that the brain prefers concrete and discrete tasks to broad and abstract ones. Set your sights on completing a document first, rather than starting out with the goal of crafting a complete strategy.
mniej więcej, w przybliżeniu, coś koło tego
thereabouts …..…………………………………..…………………………………… With a fortune of $270bn or thereabouts, Elon Musk is not a man strapped for cash. Thank goodness, for the entrepreneur may soon be compelled to make a size able donation to his favourite social-media platform.
tour of duty
okres służby wojskowej; służba (przez kilka miesięcy, np. w obcym kraju) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… On Mr. Sheridan’s productions (which include non-“Yellowstone” shows like Sylvester Stallone’s “Tulsa King” and Jeremy Renner’s “Mayor of Kingstown”) most crew members have completed multiple tours of duty.
savant
wybitnie uzdolniony; erudyta …..…………………………………..…………………………………… And Williams’ fingerprints are still everywhere in music. From the boisterously charismatic Tyler, the Creator, to the fashion savant A$AP Rocky, to the Gen Z wunderkind Billie Eilish, his influence is palpable in a new generation of stars.
prawie nic
next to nothing …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Why pasta? It’s pure pleasure. A joyful indulgence. Comfort that costs next to nothing.
charakteryzujący się osobistym podejściem
high-touch …..…………………………………..…………………………………… His cast‑offs, most of which have had some creative input from him, will launch the site when it goes live this month; later, it will expand to selling other curators’ collections as part of what Williams refers to as a “high-touch, white-glove” operation.
limp
wiotki, kulawy …..…………………………………..…………………………………… He himself was soon lamed by osteom yelitis, a dise ase caused by radiation. Among the striding and dancing models in his free and easy creations he walked with a broad smile, and with a limp.
zwykły tok czynności biznesowych
ordinary course of business …..…………………………………..…………………………………… His lawyers also argue that Zatko’s $7.75mn severance package constitutes fresh grounds to terminate the merger agreement, because it was “out of the ordinary course of business” and not signed off by Musk.
heartland
centrum …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The executive’s strategy, which involved moving the summer show to higher-profile Sunday nights in the fall, helped attract coastal audiences to what was already a heartland hit.
to nail down
ustalić coś (ostatecznie) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… That is why, during a Paramount investor event last Feb. 15, Mr.McCarthy announced an “1883” follow-up that he had nailed down two weeks earlier with Mr. Sheridan and 101 Studios, the company that produces his shows.
wykorzystywać
to embrace …..…………………………………..…………………………………… In contrast, executives at Facebook’s parent Meta have embraced virtual working as a permanent alternative, with a growing list of its top executives dispersing to different countries and time zones, including Adam Mosseri, head of Meta’s Instagram service.
hermit
pustelnik …..…………………………………..…………………………………… She fled North Korea and endured servitude in China before eventually becoming a Conservative candidate in England’s north-west. Over fish and chips, the exile talks to Christian Davies about her escape from the hermit kingdom, the case for Brexit — and how she built a new life in Bury.
inclement weather
brzydka pogoda …..…………………………………..…………………………………… This evening, however, she is throwing a pyjama party. Owing to the inclement forecast, her friend and fellow businesswoman Amy Griffin, the preternaturally smooth and sunny-founding partner of G9 Ventures married to John Griffin, has offered to host the evening in her barn.
drażliwy (temat), trudny (problem)
thorny …..…………………………………..…………………………………… This is not the first time since Vladimir Putin’s tanks rolled into Ukraine in February that Germany has expropriated Russian assets. In April it did the same to gasstorage facilities operated in the country by Gazprom Germania, a subsidiary of Russia’s national gas behemoth. The seizure of Rosneft’s assets , in particular PCK, of which the Russian firm owned 54%, has proved quite a bit thornier.
przybity, przygnębiony, zniechęcony
despondent …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Freud’s wry sense of humor had not deserted him, but it could not disguise the gravity of the situation. Anna was especially despondent. “Wouldn’t it be better if we all killed ourselves?” she asked her father. Freud’s pointed response indicated he was not about to contemplate anything of the sort. “Why? Because they would like us to?”
radość, euforia
elation …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Yet, evidence suggests that the rewards go far beyond the elation of performing well in front of others - those who play instruments have often been found to perform better on cognitive tests too.
to lose one’s moorings
stracić poczucie tego, co jest słuszne; zagubić się; …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Several bosses promptly lost their moorings. Kevin O’Leary, a businessman-cum-television personality, called it “the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard”. Arianna Huffington, another entrepreneur, wrote a LinkedIn post in which she described quiet quitting “as a step towards quitting on life”.
concrete
konkretny; zwarty, zespolony …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Once you have got moving, consider your waypoints. That may mean breaking a job down into smaller, more readily achievable chunks. A seminal paper from 2005 by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology examined how conceptual knowledge is processed. The authors found that the brain prefers concrete and discrete tasks to broad and abstract ones. Set your sights on completing a document first, rather than starting out with the goal of crafting a complete strategy.
to stand in for somebody
zastępować kogoś (np. w pracy) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Intense snow and polar-vortex temperatures bumped a handful of outdoor scenes into January, which producers now plan to shoot at a site near Los Angeles standing in for Montana.
homestead
gospodarstwo rolne // w USA: ziemia przyznana osadnikom przez państwo …..…………………………………..…………………………………… One of the first series to come out of the deal was “1883,” the first prequel, featuring Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Sam Elliott as leaders of a beleaguered wagon train that brings the Duttons to their eventual homestead in Montana.
nie spełniać; nie dorównywać
to fall short of …..…………………………………..…………………………………… On top of that, Twitter is facing increased scrutiny after its former security chief testified before Congress on September 13th that the firm had fallen short of industry standards.
trudne zadanie, wygórowane żądanie
a tall order …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Winning that would be a tall order: the Murdoch family holding across both classes of shares is under 15 per cent.
quixotic
idealistyczny, naiwny …..…………………………………..…………………………………… It may seem quixotic to enlist a deceased pope for the competition with China and Russia.
odbiegać (np. od normy, prawdy, tematu)
to swerve …..…………………………………..…………………………………… When I ask if that chapter involves working on Rihanna’s long-awaited ninth studio album, as indicated by an Instagram post by the artist last February, he politely swerves the question: “Let’s get through this first.”
pachnący
fragrant …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The evening is fragrant, businesslike and reeks of oestrogen and money: a Goop time is had by all.
poddawać się (czyjejś woli), ustępować (komuś)
to defer …..…………………………………..…………………………………… American authorities gave their blessing, finding no threat to competition (GE made jet engines but not avionics). Regulators elsewhere were expected to defer to America in a merger involving two American firms. So it came as a shock when, in 2001, the European Commission killed it.
lineage
ród, rodowód, pochodzenie …..…………………………………..…………………………………… That’s not a typo; producers later changed the title after doing the math on the Dutton family’s fictional lineage, and deciding there was richer story fodder in the 1920s, when Montana was in a crisis that predated the Great Depression.
to be had
do wzięcia; które można uzyskać …..…………………………………..…………………………………… As sales of smartphones plateau, the company is looking for new ways to capture revenue from the 1.8bn devices, from smartphones to smart earphones, it already has in circulation. So far it is only dabbling in ads and does not report sales figures . But Bloomberg reported recently that Apple’s ad business was already generating sales of $4bn a year, making it about as big an ad platform as Twitter. Apple executives believe there is much more to be had.
generalne porządki
clear-out …..…………………………………..…………………………………… “Spiritually it’s a very rich experience, an enlightening experience, to let… stories go,” he says of the mental benefits of having a massive clear out – one of several nods to a higher realm over the course of our conversation.
zdobyć
to clinch …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Presumably, Wolff has not clinched 15 of the past 16 F1 world championships (for drivers and constructors) by being overly accommodating. Yet courtesy of the hit Netflix documentary series Drive to Survive, the man who can credibly claim to be the most successful sports manager of all time has achieved celebrity status less for his executive nous than for his impish on-screen charm.
nie z tego świata, nieziemski
otherworldly …..…………………………………..…………………………………… In June, he released “Cash In Cash Out”, a moody, otherworldly banger featuring Tyler, the Creator and the Atlanta rapper 21 Savage, the video for which currently has more than 16 million views on YouTube.
stracić, zaprzepaścić
to forfeit …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Once you tell your children that you have paid $1,100 for jeans, the right to lecture them about the value of money — that most time-honoured and pleasurable prerogatives of fatherhood — is forfeit.
to swerve
odbiegać (np. od normy, prawdy, tematu) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… When I ask if that chapter involves working on Rihanna’s long-awaited ninth studio album, as indicated by an Instagram post by the artist last February, he politely swerves the question: “Let’s get through this first.”
jednoczesny
concurrent …..…………………………………..…………………………………… But the very design that made BeReal a hit has led to widespread glitches. Because millions of users try to access the platform at the same time, the so-called data throughput or concurrency is comparable to some of the world’s largest internet platforms.
non-starter
pomysł, plan lub osoba bez szans …..…………………………………..…………………………………… And if the fears are of conglomerate effects or killer acquisitions, no remedy short of the combined firm’ s full retreat from a jurisdiction would be satisfactory. For acquiring firms with a large existing business in a given market, that is a non-starter.
klauzula dająca kompetencje do wypowiedzenia umowy, gdy nastąpi jakieś zdarzenie, które może mieć istotny niekorzystny wpływ na sytuację dłużnika
material adverse effect …..…………………………………..…………………………………… “But for this to affect the trial, it has to amount to a material adverse effect or fraud, which is a very high standard. I’m not sure it will amount to that unless more egregious violations come out of the investigation.”
w nagrodę za coś, w uznaniu czegoś
in a nod to …..…………………………………..…………………………………… In a nod to its most famous model, the IPO will comprise 911m shares. Only 114m, with no voting rights, will be sold to the public and big investors, including the Qatar Investment Authority. The rest will be held by VW, which has owned Porsche since 2012, and VW’s largest shareholders, the Porsche (yes, the same one) and Piëch families.
odejść z kwitkiem
to come up empty …..…………………………………..…………………………………… But success on a cable network didn’t benefit its parent company’s push into streaming, because potential subscribers searching for “Yellowstone” on Paramount+ were coming up empty.
a film that is expected to be very successful and so able to fund a range of related products or films // kura znosząca złote jaja, dochodowy interes
tentpole …..…………………………………..…………………………………… “It’s been a big passion of mine, to break those [sexual health] taboos down, because I think that women are entitled to feel good at every chapter, every phase of their lives, and should not be embarrassed if their hormones are changing,” says Paltrow, who describes the Netflix shows as being a big “tentpole for getting people familiar with the brand”.
tłumić
to muffle …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Restraints on free speech could stifle innovation; governments could muffle market forces, reducing the incentive to develop new ideas. They devote too little space to climate change , but their main suggestion - that more research will be required to make nuclear power cheaper and safer - is right as far as it goes.
to embrace
wykorzystywać …..…………………………………..…………………………………… In contrast, executives at Facebook’s parent Meta have embraced virtual working as a permanent alternative, with a growing list of its top executives dispersing to different countries and time zones, including Adam Mosseri, head of Meta’s Instagram service.
przypadłość, schorzenie, dolegliwość
affliction …..…………………………………..…………………………………… That is also true of people who, like your columnist, a guest Bartleby, more often suffer from the inverse affliction—having trouble putting things off even if they probably ought to be. Still, as someone with a perennial itch for completion, she has some tips for self-professed dawdlers who wish to make their lives more naval.
to fall short of
nie spełniać; nie dorównywać …..…………………………………..…………………………………… On top of that, Twitter is facing increased scrutiny after its former security chief testified before Congress on September 13th that the firm had fallen short of industry standards.
pojawiać się, zjawiać się
to turn up …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Firms, like people, have limited bandwidth and that bandwidth is being expended on navigating work from home policies. At one extreme is Elon Musk, who has told Tesla’s employees to turn up in the office for at least 40 hours a week or “pretend to work somewhere else”.
to turn up
pojawiać się, zjawiać się …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Firms, like people, have limited bandwidth and that bandwidth is being expended on navigating work from home policies. At one extreme is Elon Musk, who has told Tesla’s employees to turn up in the office for at least 40 hours a week or “pretend to work somewhere else”.
bromide [bromajd]
frazes …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The video itself is amazingly anodyne. A piano tinkles. Bromides such as “Work is not your life” and “Your worth is not defined by your productive output” flash on the screen.
nieokiełznany (np. o gniewie), niepohamowany (np. optymizm)
unbridled …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The first was that thousands of employees at the company had unbridled access to reams of sensitive user data, raising grave privacy concerns. He also alleged that Twitter struggled to monitor how employees used that data, which left it vulnerable to infiltration by foreign spies.
not before time
w ostatniej chwili; to najwyższy czas …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Neuroscience is experiencing a renaissance. Not before time.
lame
tu: kulawy …..…………………………………..…………………………………… He himself was soon lamed by osteom yelitis, a dise ase caused by radiation. Among the striding and dancing models in his free and easy creations he walked with a broad smile, and with a limp.
whirlwind
tu: błyskawiczny (np. kariera) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… He will join Starbucks in October as chief executive-in-waiting. Initially he will acquire privilege but not power, learning the ropes on a whirlwind tour of coffee farms and city stores before taking over as chief executive proper in April 2023.
kompromisowy
accommodating …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Presumably, Wolff has not clinched 15 of the past 16 F1 world championships (for drivers and constructors) by being overly accommodating. Yet courtesy of the hit Netflix documentary series Drive to Survive, the man who can credibly claim to be the most successful sports manager of all time has achieved celebrity status less for his executive nous than for his impish on-screen charm.
gospodarstwo rolne // w USA: ziemia przyznana osadnikom przez państwo
homestead …..…………………………………..…………………………………… One of the first series to come out of the deal was “1883,” the first prequel, featuring Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Sam Elliott as leaders of a beleaguered wagon train that brings the Duttons to their eventual homestead in Montana.
nie spieszyć się robiąc coś
to potter around …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Today, Williams’ teenage son Rocket potters around the room taking videos with a handheld camera, surrounded by scattered nuggets from his father’s life in fashion: the Moncler vest from 2010 draped over another couch to our left, featuring a print by Japanese artist Keita Sugiura; chunky red Timberland boots from 2014, a year after Williams won three Grammy Awards for his work on Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, on which he has handwritten “Equality via education”.
to decease
umierać …..…………………………………..…………………………………… It may seem quixotic to enlist a deceased pope for the competition with China and Russia.
cierpiący na brak czegoś
strapped for …..…………………………………..…………………………………… With a fortune of $270bn or thereabouts, Elon Musk is not a man strapped for cash. Thank goodness, for the entrepreneur may soon be compelled to make a size able donation to his favourite social-media platform.
impervious to
odporny na coś …..…………………………………..…………………………………… For the past decade there have been two universally acknowledged truths about digital advertising. First, the rapidly growing industry was largely impervious to the business cycle. Second, it w as dominated by the duopoly of Google (in search ads) and Meta (in social media), which one jealous rival has compared to John Rockefeller’s hold on oil in the late 19th century.
być w pogotowiu, czekać w gotowości
to be waiting in the wings …..…………………………………..…………………………………… If Starbucks is to succeed in the long run, that is what both he and Mr Schultz must understand. And if the new CEO disappoints, at least shareholders know there is business’ s biggest barista waiting in the wings.
around-the-clock
całodobowy …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Unlike mom-and-pop investors, who tend to own no more than a handful of homes, the biggest institutions hold tens of thousands, which are offered renovated and have around-the-clock maintenance.
set
krąg, grupa ludzi …..…………………………………..…………………………………… EV buyers, for their part, are becoming less willing than early adopters to overlook Tesla’s questionable build quality and the interior of a much cheaper car. And the natural Tesla-owners among the wealthy progressive set are less prepared to overlook Mr Musk’s libertarian antics at Twitter, which he bought in October and has mismanaged with gusto—especially now that they have plenty of consciencesalving EV alternatives to choose from.
bomba, sensacyjny materiał
scoop …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Thirty or so women have gathered to celebrate the launch of the exfoliating night serum, and all have been instructed to wear their best nightwear: Paltrow’s long-time stylist Elizabeth Saltzman is fresh from an “epic” Gucci party that took place in her garden, while Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie chats amiably about her scoop interview with Amber Heard and those cruelly early-morning starts.
przerwa, odpoczynek, zluzowanie
let up …..…………………………………..…………………………………… In London, Paul Welch, mortgage broker to the super-rich, claims to be enjoying a record year. “In 2022, I have arranged more 100 per cent mortgages for home purchases above £10mn than at any time before over my 20-year career — and September has seen no let up,” he says, adding that such loans require additional assets, such as an equity portfolio, as collateral.
rozwiać; uspokoić; załagodzić problem
to put something to rest …..…………………………………..…………………………………… When regulators raised concerns about market power, a firm like AB InBev could put them to rest by offloading a brewery here and there.
odd
okazyjny, sporadyczny (np. opad deszczu) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Time-prices suggest the world is getting richer at a cracking pace (with the odd hiccup when there is a pandemic or war).
affliction
przypadłość, schorzenie, dolegliwość …..…………………………………..…………………………………… That is also true of people who, like your columnist, a guest Bartleby, more often suffer from the inverse affliction—having trouble putting things off even if they probably ought to be. Still, as someone with a perennial itch for completion, she has some tips for self-professed dawdlers who wish to make their lives more naval.
scoop
bomba, sensacyjny materiał …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Thirty or so women have gathered to celebrate the launch of the exfoliating night serum, and all have been instructed to wear their best nightwear: Paltrow’s long-time stylist Elizabeth Saltzman is fresh from an “epic” Gucci party that took place in her garden, while Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie chats amiably about her scoop interview with Amber Heard and those cruelly early-morning starts.
to sublimate
idealizować …..…………………………………..…………………………………… “Honest about what you’re sublimating, what you’re white-knuckling your way through, honest about what’s not working for you. I think abundance and longevity and happiness follows ruthless loyalty to yourself. But sometimes that turns your life upside-down, so a lot of people don’t do it because you could be making decisions that upset the apple cart. You might quit your job or leave a relationship. Those are the big things, but also, what are you holding back?”
chunky
tu: masywny …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Today, Williams’ teenage son Rocket potters around the room taking videos with a handheld camera, surrounded by scattered nuggets from his father’s life in fashion: the Moncler vest from 2010 draped over another couch to our left, featuring a print by Japanese artist Keita Sugiura; chunky red Timberland boots from 2014, a year after Williams won three Grammy Awards for his work on Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, on which he has handwritten “Equality via education”.
glare
blask …..…………………………………..…………………………………… For roughly four decades, Murdoch’s reign depended on the goodwill of his siblings, three Australian women far from the public glare.
idealistyczny, naiwny
quixotic …..…………………………………..…………………………………… It may seem quixotic to enlist a deceased pope for the competition with China and Russia.
poważny (np. błąd); jawny (np. niekompetencja); wierutny (np. kłamstwo); bezczelny
egregious …..…………………………………..…………………………………… “But for this to affect the trial, it has to amount to a material adverse effect or fraud, which is a very high standard. I’m not sure it will amount to that unless more egregious violations come out of the investigation.”
niewystarczający
lacking …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Cement-makers are heading in the same direction, albeit more slowly. Heating limestone generates about 60% of the sector’s carbon emissions and a replacement technology, such as direct reduction in steelmaking, is lacking.
to lend support
wspierać, pomagać …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Findings from experimental studies with children have also lent support to the idea that musical training might cause an improvement in cognitive ability. Indeed, there is evidence that just two years of such training enhances cognition.
być wstrząśniętym
to reel …..…………………………………..…………………………………… A s we settle into our corner table at Rowntree’s Cafe in Bury town centre, my North Korean lunch companion is chatting to our Indonesian waitress about their adopted home. I am still reeling from Jihyun Park’s recent memoir, which I finished the night before.
otherworldly
nie z tego świata, nieziemski …..…………………………………..…………………………………… In June, he released “Cash In Cash Out”, a moody, otherworldly banger featuring Tyler, the Creator and the Atlanta rapper 21 Savage, the video for which currently has more than 16 million views on YouTube.
kłaść się spać
to retire …..…………………………………..…………………………………… In Paltrow’s ideal world, her evening would mean eating very early with her children – “mostly paleo, dairy‑free, largely alcohol-free. I haven’t really had a drink in about two years” – and then retiring to bed with Brad to watch TV. “We’re watching Alone, it’s a survival show – we’re very into it,” she tells me.
to sweep something under the rug
tuszować coś, zamiatać coś pod dywan …..…………………………………..…………………………………… “He showed Twitter was in firefight mode all the time and . . . tucking all that information under the rug,” he said, adding that it appeared from the testimony that Twitter failed to have in place even the most “foundational 101”security practices.
przetrwać; znieść; wytrwać
to endure …..…………………………………..…………………………………… She fled North Korea and endured servitude in China before eventually becoming a Conservative candidate in England’s north-west. Over fish and chips, the exile talks to Christian Davies about her escape from the hermit kingdom, the case for Brexit — and how she built a new life in Bury.
a date where both parties have agreed in advance that if the merger or acquisition has not yet completed either side can terminate the merger agreement and walk away from the deal free of any penalties
outside dates …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Lawyers report that break-up fees in merger contracts are already rising and “outside dates”, before which parties can w alk away scot-free, are stretching from a few months to as many as 18 in the Microsoft-Activision paperwork.
okres służby wojskowej; służba (przez kilka miesięcy, np. w obcym kraju)
tour of duty …..…………………………………..…………………………………… On Mr. Sheridan’s productions (which include non-“Yellowstone” shows like Sylvester Stallone’s “Tulsa King” and Jeremy Renner’s “Mayor of Kingstown”) most crew members have completed multiple tours of duty.
odwieczny
perennial …..…………………………………..…………………………………… That is also true of people who, like your columnist, a guest Bartleby, more often suffer from the inverse affliction—having trouble putting things off even if they probably ought to be. Still, as someone with a perennial itch for completion, she has some tips for self-professed dawdlers who wish to make their lives more naval.
preternatural
nadprzyrodzony …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Not that she really cares about the haters any more. “Basically, nothing ruffles my feathers at this point,” she says. And I believe her. Paltrow has an almost preternatural ability to shrug things off. “I think one of Gwyneth’s superpowers is her ability to ignore the noise and focus on what she wants to do and what she believes in,” says her friend Derek Blasberg. “I wish she could bottle that and sell it in a Goop store.”
driving force
siła napędowa …..…………………………………..…………………………………… That sentiment is noted by researchers at Georgetown university’s McDonough business school who studied data gathered from 70,000 home workers and found that bad bosses were a driving force behind a desire to go remote.
poradzić sobie z czymś bez problemów
to sail through something …..…………………………………..…………………………………… None of this means corporate M&A is dead. Last year saw $3.8 trn-worth of deals, a near-record. Most will sail through. Illumina is appealing against the EU decision and may get its way. Even so, Grail-like ordeals raise the costs for everyone.
powściągliwy (w słowach i w czynach), z dystansem
aloof …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Being a bit aloof and entitled is a large part, I suspect, of Paltrow’s brand MO. And while she doesn’t love being a punch bag for bad feedback, stoking the flames of controversy has made her a lot of money. “It really isn’t any of my business…” of being a magnet for so much media negativity. “But it does deliver a lot of traffic to the site.”
to be over somebody’s head
być dla kogoś za trudnym do zrozumienia …..…………………………………..…………………………………… But he also laid blame on the FTC, claiming that the agency was “a little over their head” and “letting companies grade their own homework”.
scramble
walka (o byt) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Still, when it comes to hiring workers in the here and now, it is a scramble. “You just need to be able to turn up on time and show some willingness and commitment,” he says of his target applicant. “No previous experience is required.”
to snuff out
tłumić (np. rozruchy), zdławić (np. powstanie) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… More regulators now fret that such unorthodox mergers, where two firms have no overlapping business, snuff out innovation—including, as in Grail’s case, in markets that scarcely exist.
to muddle through
przezwyciężać kolejne problemy; dawać sobie radę …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Many business dynasties have coped with difficult transitions across generations simply by muddling through. And the structure of the trust holding the family’s interests favours continuity over change.
to work oneself to the bone
to work extremely hard, especially for a long time …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The quiet-quitting kerfuffle tells a tale of two alienated groups. One comprises those disenchanted employees who wonder what the point is of working themselves to the bone. The other is a less obvious tribe: those in the corporate elite whose way of thinking about the workplace is under threat.
drwiący, kpiący
wry …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Freud’s wry sense of humor had not deserted him, but it could not disguise the gravity of the situation. Anna was especially despondent. “Wouldn’t it be better if we all killed ourselves?” she asked her father. Freud’s pointed response indicated he was not about to contemplate anything of the sort. “Why? Because they would like us to?”
asystent osoby na wysokim stanowisku
handler …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Before our Lunch has even begun, Toto Wolff has bent the FT’s rules. It is hard enough to pin down the globetrotting leader of Mercedes’ Formula 1 team to a specific continent, let alone a city, so when his handlers suggest a late dinner in Wolff’s native Vienna rather than a rushed midday meeting, I relent.
pomysł, plan lub osoba bez szans
non-starter …..…………………………………..…………………………………… And if the fears are of conglomerate effects or killer acquisitions, no remedy short of the combined firm’ s full retreat from a jurisdiction would be satisfactory. For acquiring firms with a large existing business in a given market, that is a non-starter.
gravity
powaga (np. sytuacji) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Freud’s wry sense of humor had not deserted him, but it could not disguise the gravity of the situation. Anna was especially despondent. “Wouldn’t it be better if we all killed ourselves?” she asked her father. Freud’s pointed response indicated he was not about to contemplate anything of the sort. “Why? Because they would like us to?”
accommodating
kompromisowy …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Presumably, Wolff has not clinched 15 of the past 16 F1 world championships (for drivers and constructors) by being overly accommodating. Yet courtesy of the hit Netflix documentary series Drive to Survive, the man who can credibly claim to be the most successful sports manager of all time has achieved celebrity status less for his executive nous than for his impish on-screen charm.
crack
próba, okazja …..…………………………………..…………………………………… I’m also going to convince you to give homemade pasta a crack, build Prosecco towers and get dressed up.
to forfeit
stracić, zaprzepaścić …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Once you tell your children that you have paid $1,100 for jeans, the right to lecture them about the value of money — that most time-honoured and pleasurable prerogatives of fatherhood — is forfeit.
zastępować kogoś (np. w pracy)
to stand in for somebody …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Intense snow and polar-vortex temperatures bumped a handful of outdoor scenes into January, which producers now plan to shoot at a site near Los Angeles standing in for Montana.
white space
nieokreślona i niewykorzystywana część rynku …..…………………………………..…………………………………… “I wasn’t a celebrity who wanted to do a skincare line,” she says. “I made it because, eight years ago, there was that huge white space in the market. And now everybody wants to do one, which is great.”
działać komuś na nerwy
to ruffle somebody’s feathers …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Not that she really cares about the haters any more. “Basically, nothing ruffles my feathers at this point,” she says. And I believe her. Paltrow has an almost preternatural ability to shrug things off. “I think one of Gwyneth’s superpowers is her ability to ignore the noise and focus on what she wants to do and what she believes in,” says her friend Derek Blasberg. “I wish she could bottle that and sell it in a Goop store.”
łobuzerski
impish …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Presumably, Wolff has not clinched 15 of the past 16 F1 world championships (for drivers and constructors) by being overly accommodating. Yet courtesy of the hit Netflix documentary series Drive to Survive, the man who can credibly claim to be the most successful sports manager of all time has achieved celebrity status less for his executive nous than for his impish on-screen charm.
centrum
heartland …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The executive’s strategy, which involved moving the summer show to higher-profile Sunday nights in the fall, helped attract coastal audiences to what was already a heartland hit.
the only game in town
jedyna opcja …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Tesla is, in other words, no longer the only game in town—and certainly no tech behemoth. As EV makers go, though, it still looks impressive. In 2022 it delivered 1.3m cars, 40% more than the year before, and opened two new assembly plants.
brzydka pogoda
inclement weather …..…………………………………..…………………………………… This evening, however, she is throwing a pyjama party. Owing to the inclement forecast, her friend and fellow businesswoman Amy Griffin, the preternaturally smooth and sunny-founding partner of G9 Ventures married to John Griffin, has offered to host the evening in her barn.
sztruks
corduroy …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The new store has been fitted out by Daniel Hopwood in what the interior designer calls “a découpage approach to art deco”, featuring angular panels of golden corduroy on the walls, and a “giant central marble table that can be for cutting, coffee, or cocktails.”
do wzięcia; które można uzyskać
to be had …..…………………………………..…………………………………… As sales of smartphones plateau, the company is looking for new ways to capture revenue from the 1.8bn devices, from smartphones to smart earphones, it already has in circulation. So far it is only dabbling in ads and does not report sales figures . But Bloomberg reported recently that Apple’s ad business was already generating sales of $4bn a year, making it about as big an ad platform as Twitter. Apple executives believe there is much more to be had.
to be waiting in the wings
być w pogotowiu, czekać w gotowości …..…………………………………..…………………………………… If Starbucks is to succeed in the long run, that is what both he and Mr Schultz must understand. And if the new CEO disappoints, at least shareholders know there is business’ s biggest barista waiting in the wings.
vertical
branża; nisza // specific industry or market that focuses on a particular niche …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Recent months have revealed the company’s strengths and fissures. “We learned that our blessing is our curse,” she says. “The fact that I started as a content brand in so many verticals gave us the latitude to create business lines, but it’s very difficult to spread focus like that.
w pewnym stopniu, jeśli chodzi o
as far as it goes …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Restraints on free speech could stifle innovation; governments could muffle market forces, reducing the incentive to develop new ideas. They devote too little space to climate change , but their main suggestion - that more research will be required to make nuclear power cheaper and safer - is right as far as it goes.
touchstone
kryterium, podstawa, baza (do porównań) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… All clothing in ancient times had started like this, as a simple rectangle of woven stuff from a hand-loom. That simplicity remained the touchstone from which his ideas sprang.
despondent
przybity, przygnębiony, zniechęcony …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Freud’s wry sense of humor had not deserted him, but it could not disguise the gravity of the situation. Anna was especially despondent. “Wouldn’t it be better if we all killed ourselves?” she asked her father. Freud’s pointed response indicated he was not about to contemplate anything of the sort. “Why? Because they would like us to?”
dzwonić
to tinkle …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The video itself is amazingly anodyne. A piano tinkles. Bromides such as “Work is not your life” and “Your worth is not defined by your productive output” flash on the screen.
mieć kontrolę nad czymś
to get a hold on something …..…………………………………..…………………………………… For the past decade there have been two universally acknowledged truths about digital advertising. First, the rapidly growing industry was largely impervious to the business cycle. Second, it w as dominated by the duopoly of Google (in search ads) and Meta (in social media), which one jealous rival has compared to John Rockefeller’s hold on oil in the late 19th century.
