Deck no. 35

Question 1

odwrotny

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

ktoś kto się liczy; na serio; prawdziwa okazja

Answer 2

the real deal …..…………………………………..…………………………………… New York wants cannabis trade to be the real deal.

Question 3

encrusted with something

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

to muffle

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

zwiastować

Answer 5

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?

Question 6

to creak

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

siła napędowa

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

tłumić (np. rozruchy), zdławić (np. powstanie)

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

waypoint

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

mniej więcej, w przybliżeniu, coś koło tego

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

tour of duty

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

savant

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

prawie nic

Answer 13

next to nothing …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Why pasta? It’s pure pleasure. A joyful indulgence. Comfort that costs next to nothing.

Question 14

charakteryzujący się osobistym podejściem

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

limp

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

zwykły tok czynności biznesowych

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

heartland

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

to nail down

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

wykorzystywać

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

hermit

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

inclement weather

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

drażliwy (temat), trudny (problem)

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

przybity, przygnębiony, zniechęcony

Answer 23

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?”

Question 24

radość, euforia

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

to lose one's moorings

Answer 25

**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”.

Question 26

concrete

Answer 26

**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.

Question 27

to stand in for somebody

Answer 27

**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.

Question 28

homestead

Answer 28

**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.

Question 29

nie spełniać; nie dorównywać

Answer 29

**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.

Question 30

trudne zadanie, wygórowane żądanie

Answer 30

**a tall order** …..…......................................…....................................... Winning that would be **a tall order**: the Murdoch family holding across both classes of shares is under 15 per cent.

Question 31

quixotic

Answer 31

**idealistyczny, naiwny** …..…......................................…....................................... It may seem **quixotic** to enlist a deceased pope for the competition with China and Russia.

Question 32

odbiegać (np. od normy, prawdy, tematu)

Answer 32

**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.”

Question 33

pachnący

Answer 33

**fragrant** …..…......................................…....................................... The evening is **fragrant**, businesslike and reeks of oestrogen and money: a Goop time is had by all.

Question 34

poddawać się (czyjejś woli), ustępować (komuś)

Answer 34

**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.

Question 35

lineage

Answer 35

**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.

Question 36

to be had

Answer 36

**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**.

Question 37

generalne porządki

Answer 37

**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.

Question 38

zdobyć

Answer 38

**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.

Question 39

nie z tego świata, nieziemski

Answer 39

**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.

Question 40

stracić, zaprzepaścić

Answer 40

**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**.

Question 41

to swerve

Answer 41

**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.”

Question 42

jednoczesny

Answer 42

**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.

Question 43

non-starter

Answer 43

**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**.

Question 44

klauzula dająca kompetencje do wypowiedzenia umowy, gdy nastąpi jakieś zdarzenie, które może mieć istotny niekorzystny wpływ na sytuację dłużnika

Answer 44

**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.”

Question 45

w nagrodę za coś, w uznaniu czegoś

Answer 45

**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.

Question 46

odejść z kwitkiem

Answer 46

**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**.

Question 47

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

Answer 47

**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”.

Question 48

tłumić

Answer 48

**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.

Question 49

to embrace

Answer 49

**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.

Question 50

przypadłość, schorzenie, dolegliwość

Answer 50

**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.

Question 51

to fall short of

Answer 51

**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.

Question 52

pojawiać się, zjawiać się

Answer 52

**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”.

Question 53

to turn up

Answer 53

**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”.

Question 54

bromide [bromajd]

Answer 54

**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.

Question 55

nieokiełznany (np. o gniewie), niepohamowany (np. optymizm)

Answer 55

**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.

Question 56

not before time

Answer 56

**w ostatniej chwili; to najwyższy czas** …..…......................................…....................................... Neuroscience is experiencing a renaissance. **Not before time**.

Question 57

lame

Answer 57

**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.

Question 58

whirlwind

Answer 58

**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.

Question 59

kompromisowy

Answer 59

**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.

Question 60

gospodarstwo rolne // w USA: ziemia przyznana osadnikom przez państwo

Answer 60

**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.

Question 61

nie spieszyć się robiąc coś

Answer 61

**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”.

Question 62

to decease

Answer 62

**umierać** …..…......................................…....................................... It may seem quixotic to enlist a **deceased** pope for the competition with China and Russia.

Question 63

cierpiący na brak czegoś

Answer 63

**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.

Question 64

impervious to

Answer 64

**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.

Question 65

być w pogotowiu, czekać w gotowości

Answer 65

**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**.

Question 66

around-the-clock

Answer 66

**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.

Question 67

set

Answer 67

**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.

Question 68

bomba, sensacyjny materiał

Answer 68

**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.

Question 69

przerwa, odpoczynek, zluzowanie

Answer 69

**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.

Question 70

rozwiać; uspokoić; załagodzić problem

Answer 70

**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.

Question 71

odd

Answer 71

**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).

Question 72

affliction

Answer 72

**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.

Question 73

scoop

Answer 73

**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.

Question 74

to sublimate

Answer 74

**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?”

Question 75

chunky

Answer 75

**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”.

Question 76

glare

Answer 76

**blask** …..…......................................…....................................... For roughly four decades, Murdoch’s reign depended on the goodwill of his siblings, three Australian women far from the public **glare**.

Question 77

idealistyczny, naiwny

Answer 77

**quixotic** …..…......................................…....................................... It may seem **quixotic** to enlist a deceased pope for the competition with China and Russia.

Question 78

poważny (np. błąd); jawny (np. niekompetencja); wierutny (np. kłamstwo); bezczelny

Answer 78

**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.”

Question 79

niewystarczający

Answer 79

**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**.

Question 80

to lend support

Answer 80

**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.

Question 81

być wstrząśniętym

Answer 81

**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.

Question 82

otherworldly

Answer 82

**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.

Question 83

kłaść się spać

Answer 83

**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.

Question 84

to sweep something under the rug

Answer 84

**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.

Question 85

przetrwać; znieść; wytrwać

Answer 85

**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.

Question 86

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

Answer 86

**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.

Question 87

okres służby wojskowej; służba (przez kilka miesięcy, np. w obcym kraju)

Answer 87

**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**.

Question 88

odwieczny

Answer 88

**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.

Question 89

preternatural

Answer 89

**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.”

Question 90

driving force

Answer 90

**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.

Question 91

poradzić sobie z czymś bez problemów

Answer 91

**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.

Question 92

powściągliwy (w słowach i w czynach), z dystansem

Answer 92

**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.”

Question 93

to be over somebody's head

Answer 93

**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”.

Question 94

scramble

Answer 94

**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.”

Question 95

to snuff out

Answer 95

**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.

Question 96

to muddle through

Answer 96

**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.

Question 97

to work oneself to the bone

Answer 97

**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.

Question 98

drwiący, kpiący

Answer 98

**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?”

Question 99

asystent osoby na wysokim stanowisku

Answer 99

**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.

Question 100

pomysł, plan lub osoba bez szans

Answer 100

**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**.

Question 101

gravity

Answer 101

**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?”

Question 102

accommodating

Answer 102

**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.

Question 103

crack

Answer 103

**próba, okazja** …..…......................................…....................................... I’m also going to convince you to give homemade pasta a **crack**, build Prosecco towers and get dressed up.

Question 104

to forfeit

Answer 104

**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**.

Question 105

zastępować kogoś (np. w pracy)

Answer 105

**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.

Question 106

white space

Answer 106

**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.”

Question 107

działać komuś na nerwy

Answer 107

**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.”

Question 108

łobuzerski

Answer 108

**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.

Question 109

centrum

Answer 109

**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.

Question 110

the only game in town

Answer 110

**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.

Question 111

brzydka pogoda

Answer 111

**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.

Question 112

sztruks

Answer 112

**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.”

Question 113

do wzięcia; które można uzyskać

Answer 113

**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**.

Question 114

to be waiting in the wings

Answer 114

**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**.

Question 115

vertical

Answer 115

**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.

Question 116

w pewnym stopniu, jeśli chodzi o

Answer 116

**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**.

Question 117

touchstone

Answer 117

**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.

Question 118

despondent

Answer 118

**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?”

Question 119

dzwonić

Answer 119

**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.

Question 120

mieć kontrolę nad czymś

Answer 120

**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.

Question 121

in a nod to

Answer 121

**w nagrodę za coś, w uznaniu czegoś** …..…......................................…....................................... **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.

Question 122

tentpole

Answer 122

**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** …..…......................................…....................................... “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”.

Question 123

to defer

Answer 123

**poddawać się (czyjejś woli), ustępować (komuś)** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 124

to put something to rest

Answer 124

**rozwiać** **sprawić, by ktoś przestał wierzyć w coś (co nie jest prawdą) // stop doubt, uncertainty, or anxiety by resolving or explaining an issue** …..…......................................…....................................... When regulators raised concerns about market power, a firm like AB InBev could **put them to rest** by offloading a brewery here and there.

Question 125

all the more

Answer 125

**tym bardziej, jeszcze bardziej** …..…......................................…....................................... The average selling price of iPhones is a key Apple metric for Wall Street, as smartphone sales still account for roughly 50 per cent of the group’s revenues. The upward trajectory of these prices — from just $690 in late 2015 — is **all the more** significant given that Apple product release, a decision some analysts called the event’s biggest surprise.

Question 126

skromny, trzymający się na uboczu, unikający rozgłosu

Answer 126

**self-effacing** …..…......................................…....................................... He hid from the commercial side, leaving that to well-trained deputies, while he stayed as a small cog of creativity, playful but **self-effacing**, travelling constantly to see local textiles and materials and, over much tea drinking in his design laboratories, inspiring the team of daring minds he had gathered round him.

Question 127

to come up empty

Answer 127

**odejść z kwitkiem** …..…......................................…....................................... 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**.

Question 128

mileage

Answer 128

**tu: przydatność, możliwość wykorzystania** …..…......................................…....................................... “1883” was a proof of concept, but provided finite **mileage**. The series spanned just 10 episodes and ended with some core characters dead. “1883” had also established a seasonal schedule similar to the broadcast-television calendar. Fans now expected prequels to launch with each new season of the “Yellowstone” flagship, but that created a very short runway for producers to land new shows.

Question 129

nauczyć się fachu

Answer 129

**to learn the ropes** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 130

to clinch

Answer 130

**zdobyć** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 131

umierać

Answer 131

**to decease** …..…......................................…....................................... It may seem quixotic to enlist a **deceased** pope for the competition with China and Russia.

Question 132

wybitnie uzdolniony; erudyta

Answer 132

**savant** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 133

to retire

Answer 133

**kłaść się spać** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 134

używany (np. ubrania)

Answer 134

**cast‑off** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 135

być liderem; mieć wszystko pod kontrolą

Answer 135

**to run the show** …..…......................................…....................................... 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**?

Question 136

powaga (np. sytuacji)

Answer 136

**gravity** …..…......................................…....................................... 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?”

Question 137

siatka (np. druciana); zazębianie się

Answer 137

**mesh** …..…......................................…....................................... Even his Bao Bao bags, wildly popular constructions of polyvinyl triangles on a hard **mesh**, changed shape as they were filled and adjusted themselves to the wearer.

Question 138

tu: przydatność, możliwość wykorzystania

Answer 138

**mileage** …..…......................................…....................................... “1883” was a proof of concept, but provided finite **mileage**. The series spanned just 10 episodes and ended with some core characters dead. “1883” had also established a seasonal schedule similar to the broadcast-television calendar. Fans now expected prequels to launch with each new season of the “Yellowstone” flagship, but that created a very short runway for producers to land new shows.

Question 139

latitude

Answer 139

**swoboda** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 140

próżnować, obijać (się)

Answer 140

**to dawdle** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 141

the real deal

Answer 141

**ktoś kto się liczy; na serio; prawdziwa okazja** …..…......................................…....................................... New York wants cannabis trade to be **the real deal**.

Question 142

throughput

Answer 142

**przepustowość; wydajność** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 143

prowokacyjny; łatwopalny

Answer 143

**incendiary** …..…......................................…....................................... “The candles were not meant to be headlinegrabbing,” insists Paltrow. “We don’t ever do anything to be **incendiary**. They’re provocations, they’re about dismantling systems and injustices and stuff like that. It’s not like, what can we do to get headlines and shock people?

Question 144

rewelacyjny

Answer 144

**cracking** …..…......................................…....................................... Time-prices suggest the world is getting richer at a **cracking** pace (with the odd hiccup when there is a pandemic or war).

Question 145

zwariowany, dziwny, bezsensowny, od czapy

Answer 145

**off-the-wall** …..…......................................…....................................... America’s trustbusters pooh-poohed the commission’s theory of “conglomerate effects”. The treasury secretary, Paul O’Neill, called the ruling “**off-the-wall**”.

Question 146

lacking

Answer 146

**niewystarczający** …..…......................................…....................................... 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**.

Question 147

wysadzany czymś (np. diamentami), pokryty warstwą czegoś

Answer 147

**encrusted with something** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 148

handler

Answer 148

**asystent osoby na wysokim stanowisku** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 149

fragrant

Answer 149

**pachnący** …..…......................................…....................................... The evening is **fragrant**, businesslike and reeks of oestrogen and money: a Goop time is had by all.

Question 150

a tall order

Answer 150

**trudne zadanie, wygórowane żądanie** …..…......................................…....................................... Winning that would be **a tall order**: the Murdoch family holding across both classes of shares is under 15 per cent.

Question 151

arystokrata

Answer 151

**patrician** …..…......................................…....................................... Lest we forget, Paltrow was raised in an extremely wealthy showbusiness family, counts Steven Spielberg as a godfather, was engaged to Brad Pitt, and picked up her Oscar, sobbing in a pink princess gown by Ralph Lauren, when she was only 26 years old. But perhaps it’s that mix of Cali-woo-woo and **patrician** East Coast privilege that make Paltrow’s brand so potent.

Question 152

przezwyciężać kolejne problemy; dawać sobie radę

Answer 152

**to muddle through** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 153

stracić poczucie tego, co jest słuszne; zagubić się;

Answer 153

**to lose one's moorings** …..…......................................…....................................... 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”.

Question 154

tuszować coś, zamiatać coś pod dywan

Answer 154

**to sweep something under the rug** …..…......................................…....................................... “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.

Question 155

slow-burn

Answer 155

**coś co rozwija się, postępuje powoli** …..…......................................…....................................... China’s control of more energy reserves and the products that spring from them could be an important new contributor to inflation in the west. It’s a **slow-burn** problem, but perhaps not as slow as some market participants think.

Question 156

corduroy

Answer 156

**sztruks** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.”

Question 157

nieudolny, niekompetentny; pozbawiony taktu

Answer 157

**inept** …..…......................................…....................................... Social media platform bruised but defiant after US senators hear claims of **inept** security practices.

Question 158

wyczerpać możliwości ruchu

Answer 158

**to run out of road** …..…......................................…....................................... Until recently, that would have meant cutting non-digital ads but maintaining, or even raising, online spending. With most ad dollars now going online, that strategy is **running out of road**.

Question 159

to get a hold on something

Answer 159

**mieć kontrolę nad czymś** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 160

zastępować kogoś (np. w pracy)

Answer 160

**to stand in for somebody** …..…......................................…....................................... “All over the world people are taking notes as a way of postponing, putting off and **standing in for**,” Mr Dyer writes, including supposedly about himself.

Question 161

w ostatniej chwili; to najwyższy czas

Answer 161

**not before time** …..…......................................…....................................... Neuroscience is experiencing a renaissance. **Not before time**.

Question 162

walka (o byt)

Answer 162

**scramble** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.”

Question 163

tu: błyskawiczny (np. kariera)

Answer 163

**whirlwind** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 164

mesh

Answer 164

**siatka (np. druciana); zazębianie się** …..…......................................…....................................... Even his Bao Bao bags, wildly popular constructions of polyvinyl triangles on a hard **mesh**, changed shape as they were filled and adjusted themselves to the wearer.

Question 165

wielka ochota, chrapka

Answer 165

**itch** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 166

być dla kogoś za trudnym do zrozumienia

Answer 166

**to be over somebody's head** …..…......................................…....................................... 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”.

Question 167

próba, okazja

Answer 167

**crack** …..…......................................…....................................... I’m also going to convince you to give homemade pasta a **crack**, build Prosecco towers and get dressed up.

Question 168

zrobić więcej, niż jest spodziewane

Answer 168

**to go above and beyond** …..…......................................…....................................... It’s not the crime but the coverup. And it’s not the video but the reverberations. In the past few weeks the term “quiet quitting” has entered conversations about the workplace. A 17-second clip on TikTok, a social-media platform, in which an American called Zaid Khan embraces the notion of not **going above and beyond** at work, has caused an awful lot of noise.

Question 169

to go above and beyond

Answer 169

**zrobić więcej, niż jest spodziewane** …..…......................................…....................................... It’s not the crime but the coverup. And it’s not the video but the reverberations. In the past few weeks the term “quiet quitting” has entered conversations about the workplace. A 17-second clip on TikTok, a social-media platform, in which an American called Zaid Khan embraces the notion of not **going above and beyond** at work, has caused an awful lot of noise.

Question 170

nieokreślona i niewykorzystywana część rynku

Answer 170

**white space** …..…......................................…....................................... “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.”

Question 171

off-the-wall

Answer 171

**zwariowany, dziwny, bezsensowny, od czapy** …..…......................................…....................................... America’s trustbusters pooh-poohed the commission’s theory of “conglomerate effects”. The treasury secretary, Paul O’Neill, called the ruling “**off-the-wall**”.

Question 172

patrician

Answer 172

**arystokrata** …..…......................................…....................................... Lest we forget, Paltrow was raised in an extremely wealthy showbusiness family, counts Steven Spielberg as a godfather, was engaged to Brad Pitt, and picked up her Oscar, sobbing in a pink princess gown by Ralph Lauren, when she was only 26 years old. But perhaps it’s that mix of Cali-woo-woo and **patrician** East Coast privilege that make Paltrow’s brand so potent.

Question 173

zachwycać

Answer 173

**to rapture** …..…......................................…....................................... It is in vogue to criticise both California and tech: doing both at the same time left the audience in **raptures**. There is also a grain of truth to what Mr Thiel says . But there are two big problems with his theory.

Question 174

skrzypieć, trzeszczeć (np. łóżko, drzwi)

Answer 174

**to creak** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 175

perennial

Answer 175

**odwieczny** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 176

precyzyjny, skrupulatny, traktowany ze szczególną uwagą i troską

Answer 176

**white-glove** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 177

to tinkle

Answer 177

**dzwonić** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 178

thorny

Answer 178

**drażliwy (temat), trudny (problem)** …..…......................................…....................................... 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**.

Question 179

pełną mocą, z pełną siłą

Answer 179

**full-tilt** …..…......................................…....................................... The **full-tilt** effort to stock up on prequels and other streaming series from Mr. Sheridan can be traced back to one short-sighted business deal. In early 2020, the company now called Paramount Global, which owns Paramount Network, licensed the U.S. rights to stream old episodes of “Yellowstone” to Peacock, owned by rival Comcast Corp.

Question 180

wspierać, pomagać

Answer 180

**to lend support** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 181

elation

Answer 181

**radość, euforia** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 182

impish

Answer 182

**łobuzerski** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 183

cumbersome

Answer 183

**ciężki, nieporęczny (o przedmiocie); nieefektywny (o działaniach)** …..…......................................…....................................... While Williams’s musical contributions – which have earned 13 Grammys, two Oscar nominations and four Billboard number-one hits – can be contained within the infinite capacity of the streaming ether, his 20 years’ worth of fashion collaborations and creations are rather more **cumbersome**.

Question 184

ensemble

Answer 184

**tu: strój** …..…......................................…....................................... Paltrow, in a sunflower-yellow **ensemble**, seems even more golden as she chats over cocktails: she is wearing her pyjama top unbuttoned over a matching bra that allows for a good examination of her abs.

Question 185

w chwili obecnej

Answer 185

**in the here and now** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.”

Question 186

w gotowości; czaić się za rogiem; za kulisami // ready to do something or to be used at the appropriate time

Answer 186

**in the wings** …..…......................................…....................................... “I always take risks in a consumer-facing way but not in a financial way,” she says of her business acumen. Like many retail ventures, Goop has weathered a long period of disruption through Covid, and now it looks as if there’s a recession **in the wings**.

Question 187

inverse

Answer 187

**odwrotny** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 188

tapered

Answer 188

**zwężany (np. o spodniach, spódnicy); stożkowy** …..…......................................…....................................... While Sexton is creating his typically masculine cut for Taylor, he has a strong business among women who come to him for a **tapered** silhouette.

Question 189

coś co rozwija się, postępuje powoli

Answer 189

**slow-burn** …..…......................................…....................................... China’s control of more energy reserves and the products that spring from them could be an important new contributor to inflation in the west. It’s a **slow-burn** problem, but perhaps not as slow as some market participants think.

Question 190

całodobowy

Answer 190

**around-the-clock** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 191

wybielać

Answer 191

**to whitewash** …..…......................................…....................................... In a **whitewashed** loft apartment somewhere in lower Manhattan, Pharrell Williams is moving his hands through the air as if solving a giant floating jigsaw puzzle.

Question 192

wry

Answer 192

**drwiący, kpiący** …..…......................................…....................................... 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?”

Question 193

bargain

Answer 193

**porozumienie, układ, umowa, transakcja** …..…......................................…....................................... But times change, and 2023 may be remembered as the year that this grand **bargain** began to shift, as a new world energy order between China and the Middle East took shape.

Question 194

high-touch

Answer 194

**charakteryzujący się osobistym podejściem** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 195

incendiary

Answer 195

**prowokacyjny; łatwopalny** …..…......................................…....................................... “The candles were not meant to be headlinegrabbing,” insists Paltrow. “We don’t ever do anything to be **incendiary**. They’re provocations, they’re about dismantling systems and injustices and stuff like that. It’s not like, what can we do to get headlines and shock people?

Question 196

ciężki, nieporęczny (o przedmiocie); nieefektywny (o działaniach)

Answer 196

**cumbersome** …..…......................................…....................................... While Williams’s musical contributions – which have earned 13 Grammys, two Oscar nominations and four Billboard number-one hits – can be contained within the infinite capacity of the streaming ether, his 20 years’ worth of fashion collaborations and creations are rather more **cumbersome**.

Question 197

odporny na coś

Answer 197

**impervious to** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 198

pech

Answer 198

**tough luck** …..…......................................…....................................... Some deals which would once have been no-brainers are thus no longer worth the hassle . To enemies of big business like Ms Khan, that’s the point. If it means innovation forgone, consumer welfare unrealised or shareholder value not created, **tough luck**.

Question 199

to ruffle somebody's feathers

Answer 199

**działać komuś na nerwy** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.”

Question 200

pustelnik

Answer 200

**hermit** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 201

ordeal

Answer 201

**gehenna, droga przez mękę** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 202

to whitewash

Answer 202

**wybielać** …..…......................................…....................................... In a **whitewashed** loft apartment somewhere in lower Manhattan, Pharrell Williams is moving his hands through the air as if solving a giant floating jigsaw puzzle.

Question 203

idealizować

Answer 203

**to sublimate** …..…......................................…....................................... “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?”

Question 204

kluczowy produkt firmy

Answer 204

**flagship** …..…......................................…....................................... “1883” was a proof of concept, but provided finite mileage. The series spanned just 10 episodes and ended with some core characters dead. “1883” had also established a seasonal schedule similar to the broadcast-television calendar. Fans now expected prequels to launch with each new season of the “Yellowstone” **flagship**, but that created a very short runway for producers to land new shows.

Question 205

porozumienie, układ, umowa, transakcja

Answer 205

**bargain** …..…......................................…....................................... But times change, and 2023 may be remembered as the year that this grand **bargain** began to shift, as a new world energy order between China and the Middle East took shape.

Question 206

rozpustny, rozwiązły

Answer 206

**dissolute** …..…......................................…....................................... They made stunning clothes for musicians and artists who probably slept in them. I identified with that carefree, **dissolute** attitude.”

Question 207

luźno położyć się gdzieś

Answer 207

**to drape** …..…......................................…....................................... 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”.

Question 208

to potter around

Answer 208

**nie spieszyć się robiąc coś** …..…......................................…....................................... 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”.

Question 209

przeliczyć się, stracić więcej pieniędzy niż się ma

Answer 209

**to overextend oneself** …..…......................................…....................................... Numerous houses **overextended themselves** (Nutter himself did it in the 1970s, by launching a shirt range that flopped, and Gieves & Hawkes is currently up for sale after its Hong Kong owner went into liquidation in January), but Sexton has purposely remained small and stable, punching above his weight only in influence. Besides his bespoke service (around £6,000), he has a small seasonal core of ready-to-wear, launched in 2015 (jackets start at £1,100), and a made-tomeasure service. He also offers “offshore bespoke” (from £2,750) where the pattern is cut in London, but the suit is made by Sexton-trained tailors in China.

Question 210

to pooh-pooh

Answer 210

**wyśmiewać, odrzucać z pogardą** …..…......................................…....................................... America’s trustbusters **pooh-poohed** the commission’s theory of “conglomerate effects”. The treasury secretary, Paul O’Neill, called the ruling “off-the-wall”.

Question 211

material adverse effect

Answer 211

**klauzula dająca kompetencje do wypowiedzenia umowy, gdy nastąpi jakieś zdarzenie, które może mieć istotny niekorzystny wpływ na sytuację dłużnika** …..…......................................…....................................... “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.”

Question 212

strapped for

Answer 212

**cierpiący na brak czegoś** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 213

amiably

Answer 213

**uprzejmie** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 214

wiotki, kulawy

Answer 214

**limp** …..…......................................…....................................... 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**.

Question 215

osoba, która uzyskuje to, o co walczy

Answer 215

**go-getter** …..…......................................…....................................... Where have all the **go-getters** gone? At law firm Nixon Peabody LLP, associates have started saying no to working weekends, prompting partners to ask more people to help complete time-sensitive work.

Question 216

tu: strój

Answer 216

**ensemble** …..…......................................…....................................... Paltrow, in a sunflower-yellow **ensemble**, seems even more golden as she chats over cocktails: she is wearing her pyjama top unbuttoned over a matching bra that allows for a good examination of her abs.

Question 217

interesować się czymś powierzchownie, zajmować się czymś amatorsko

Answer 217

**to dabble in something** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 218

sweltering

Answer 218

**duszny, parny, nieprzyjemnie gorący (dzień)** …..…......................................…....................................... As such, Williams and I are sitting on a couch on a **sweltering** August morning discussing his plan to get rid of them all.

Question 219

next to nothing

Answer 219

**prawie nic** …..…......................................…....................................... Why pasta? It’s pure pleasure. A joyful indulgence. Comfort that costs **next to nothing**.

Question 220

to overextend oneself

Answer 220

**przeliczyć się, stracić więcej pieniędzy niż się ma** …..…......................................…....................................... Numerous houses **overextended themselves** (Nutter himself did it in the 1970s, by launching a shirt range that flopped, and Gieves & Hawkes is currently up for sale after its Hong Kong owner went into liquidation in January), but Sexton has purposely remained small and stable, punching above his weight only in influence. Besides his bespoke service (around £6,000), he has a small seasonal core of ready-to-wear, launched in 2015 (jackets start at £1,100), and a made-tomeasure service. He also offers “offshore bespoke” (from £2,750) where the pattern is cut in London, but the suit is made by Sexton-trained tailors in China.

Question 221

full-tilt

Answer 221

**pełną mocą, z pełną siłą** …..…......................................…....................................... The **full-tilt** effort to stock up on prequels and other streaming series from Mr. Sheridan can be traced back to one short-sighted business deal. In early 2020, the company now called Paramount Global, which owns Paramount Network, licensed the U.S. rights to stream old episodes of “Yellowstone” to Peacock, owned by rival Comcast Corp.

Question 222

rodzinny (interes)

Answer 222

**mom-and-pop** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 223

kryterium, podstawa, baza (do porównań)

Answer 223

**touchstone** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 224

cracking

Answer 224

**rewelacyjny** …..…......................................…....................................... Time-prices suggest the world is getting richer at a **cracking** pace (with the odd hiccup when there is a pandemic or war).

Question 225

charakter, natura (cechy charakteryzujące kogoś)

Answer 225

**make-up** …..…......................................…....................................... Consider the types of people who tend to make it to the corner office. These are individuals who almost certainly want to be on the highest rung of a career ladder, who are heavily influenced by monetary incentives and who have made work their life. Quiet quitting is simply not in their **makeup**.

Question 226

tym bardziej, jeszcze bardziej

Answer 226

**all the more** …..…......................................…....................................... The average selling price of iPhones is a key Apple metric for Wall Street, as smartphone sales still account for roughly 50 per cent of the group’s revenues. The upward trajectory of these prices — from just $690 in late 2015 — is **all the more** significant given that Apple product release, a decision some analysts called the event’s biggest surprise.

Question 227

jedyna opcja

Answer 227

**the only game in town** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 228

tu: kulawy

Answer 228

**lame** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 229

gromadzić coś

Answer 229

**to stock up on** …..…......................................…....................................... The full-tilt effort to **stock up on** prequels and other streaming series from Mr. Sheridan can be traced back to one shortsighted business deal. In early 2020, the company now called Paramount Global, which owns Paramount Network, licensed the U.S. rights to stream old episodes of “Yellowstone” to Peacock, owned by rival Comcast Corp.

Question 230

to run out of road

Answer 230

**wyczerpać możliwości ruchu** …..…......................................…....................................... Until recently, that would have meant cutting non-digital ads but maintaining, or even raising, online spending. With most ad dollars now going online, that strategy is **running out of road**.

Question 231

to drape

Answer 231

**luźno położyć się gdzieś** …..…......................................…....................................... 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”.

Question 232

dissolute

Answer 232

**rozpustny, rozwiązły** …..…......................................…....................................... They made stunning clothes for musicians and artists who probably slept in them. I identified with that carefree, **dissolute** attitude.”

Question 233

to portend

Answer 233

**zwiastować** …..…......................................…....................................... 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?

Question 234

okazyjny, sporadyczny (np. opad deszczu)

Answer 234

**odd** …..…......................................…....................................... Time-prices suggest the world is getting richer at a cracking pace (with the **odd** hiccup when there is a pandemic or war).

Question 235

to run the show

Answer 235

**być liderem; mieć wszystko pod kontrolą** …..…......................................…....................................... 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**?

Question 236

flagship

Answer 236

**kluczowy produkt firmy** …..…......................................…....................................... “1883” was a proof of concept, but provided finite mileage. The series spanned just 10 episodes and ended with some core characters dead. “1883” had also established a seasonal schedule similar to the broadcast-television calendar. Fans now expected prequels to launch with each new season of the “Yellowstone” **flagship**, but that created a very short runway for producers to land new shows.

Question 237

to work extremely hard, especially for a long time

Answer 237

**to work oneself to the bone** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 238

wyśmiewać, odrzucać z pogardą

Answer 238

**to pooh-pooh** …..…......................................…....................................... America’s trustbusters **pooh-poohed** the commission’s theory of “conglomerate effects”. The treasury secretary, Paul O’Neill, called the ruling “off-the-wall”.

Question 239

mom-and-pop

Answer 239

**rodzinny (interes)** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 240

to learn the ropes

Answer 240

**nauczyć się fachu** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 241

make-up

Answer 241

**charakter, natura (cechy charakteryzujące kogoś)** …..…......................................…....................................... Consider the types of people who tend to make it to the corner office. These are individuals who almost certainly want to be on the highest rung of a career ladder, who are heavily influenced by monetary incentives and who have made work their life. Quiet quitting is simply not in their **makeup**.

Question 242

punkt orientacyjny (np. na trasie wycieczki)

Answer 242

**waypoint** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 243

przepustowość; wydajność

Answer 243

**throughput** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 244

let up

Answer 244

**przerwa, odpoczynek, zluzowanie** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 245

branża; nisza // specific industry or market that focuses on a particular niche

Answer 245

**vertical** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 246

ród, rodowód, pochodzenie

Answer 246

**lineage** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 247

śmiały

Answer 247

**daring** …..…......................................…....................................... He hid from the commercial side, leaving that to well-trained deputies, while he stayed as a small cog of creativity, playful but self-effacing, travelling constantly to see local textiles and materials and, over much tea drinking in his design laboratories, inspiring the team of **daring** minds he had gathered round him.

Question 248

itch

Answer 248

**wielka ochota, chrapka** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 249

in the wings

Answer 249

**w gotowości; czaić się za rogiem; za kulisami // ready to do something or to be used at the appropriate time** …..…......................................…....................................... “I always take risks in a consumer-facing way but not in a financial way,” she says of her business acumen. Like many retail ventures, Goop has weathered a long period of disruption through Covid, and now it looks as if there’s a recession **in the wings**.

Question 250

white-glove

Answer 250

**precyzyjny, skrupulatny, traktowany ze szczególną uwagą i troską** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 251

1. namieszać w planach 2. popsuć wszystko

Answer 251

**to upset the apple cart** …..…......................................…....................................... “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?”

Question 252

go-getter

Answer 252

**osoba, która uzyskuje to, o co walczy** …..…......................................…....................................... Where have all the **go-getters** gone? At law firm Nixon Peabody LLP, associates have started saying no to working weekends, prompting partners to ask more people to help complete time-sensitive work.

Question 253

frazes

Answer 253

**bromide** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 254

to wilt

Answer 254

**usychać, więdnąć, marnieć (o roślinach)** …..…......................................…....................................... Apple’s Cook insists that collaboration is best done in person and that the company’s culture and creative advantage would **wilt** with a distanced and isolated workforce.

Question 255

be a non-starter

Answer 255

**nie mieć szans, być bez szans** …..…......................................…....................................... In international markets, where westerns are widely assumed to be a **nonstarter,** “1883” was the No. 3 series on Paramount+ last year. In second place was “Yellowstone,” which the service carries outside the U.S. (No. 1 was “Halo,” a sci-fi war series based on the videogame of the same name.)

Question 256

unbridled

Answer 256

**nieokiełznany (np. o gniewie), niepohamowany (np. optymizm)** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 257

ordinary course of business

Answer 257

**zwykły tok czynności biznesowych** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 258

inept

Answer 258

**nieudolny, niekompetentny; pozbawiony taktu** …..…......................................…....................................... Social media platform bruised but defiant after US senators hear claims of **inept** security practices.

Question 259

thereabouts

Answer 259

**mniej więcej, w przybliżeniu, coś koło tego** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 260

blask

Answer 260

**glare** …..…......................................…....................................... For roughly four decades, Murdoch’s reign depended on the goodwill of his siblings, three Australian women far from the public **glare**.

Question 261

self-effacing

Answer 261

**skromny, trzymający się na uboczu, unikający rozgłosu** …..…......................................…....................................... He hid from the commercial side, leaving that to well-trained deputies, while he stayed as a small cog of creativity, playful but **self-effacing**, travelling constantly to see local textiles and materials and, over much tea drinking in his design laboratories, inspiring the team of daring minds he had gathered round him.

Question 262

cast‑off

Answer 262

**używany (np. ubrania)** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 263

nadprzyrodzony

Answer 263

**preternatural** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.”

Question 264

concurrent

Answer 264

**jednoczesny** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 265

gehenna, droga przez mękę

Answer 265

**ordeal** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 266

song that makes you feel the need to headbang to the beat

Answer 266

**banger** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 267

to dawdle

Answer 267

**próżnować, obijać (się)** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 268

usychać, więdnąć, marnieć (o roślinach)

Answer 268

**to wilt** …..…......................................…....................................... Apple’s Cook insists that collaboration is best done in person and that the company’s culture and creative advantage would **wilt** with a distanced and isolated workforce.

Question 269

to stock up on

Answer 269

**gromadzić coś** …..…......................................…....................................... The full-tilt effort to **stock up on** prequels and other streaming series from Mr. Sheridan can be traced back to one shortsighted business deal. In early 2020, the company now called Paramount Global, which owns Paramount Network, licensed the U.S. rights to stream old episodes of “Yellowstone” to Peacock, owned by rival Comcast Corp.

Question 270

bez trudu, z łatwością

Answer 270

**readily** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 271

mile, uprzejmie

Answer 271

**amiably** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 272

as far as it goes

Answer 272

**w pewnym stopniu, jeśli chodzi o** …..…......................................…....................................... 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**.

Question 273

konkretny; zwarty, zespolony

Answer 273

**concrete** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 274

duszny, parny, nieprzyjemnie gorący (dzień)

Answer 274

**sweltering** …..…......................................…....................................... As such, Williams and I are sitting on a couch on a **sweltering** August morning discussing his plan to get rid of them all.

Question 275

egregious

Answer 275

**poważny (np. błąd); jawny (np. niekompetencja); wierutny (np. kłamstwo); bezczelny** …..…......................................…....................................... “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.”

Question 276

in the here and now

Answer 276

**w chwili obecnej** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.”

Question 277

outside dates

Answer 277

**termin używany w różnych umowach i transakcjach, określający konkretne daty, którymi transakcja, umowa lub proces powinien zostać zakończony. Te daty stanowią ramy czasowe lub terminy ostateczne, które muszą być przestrzegane zgodnie z warunkami umowy lub transakcji. Na przykład, w umowie kupna-sprzedaży nieruchomości "outside date" może określać ostateczny termin zawarcia umowy lub finalizacji transakcji. Jeśli termin ten nie zostanie spełniony, umowa może stracić ważność lub zastrzeżenia mogą zostać wdrożone, w zależności od postanowień umownych.** …..…......................................…....................................... Lawyers report that break-up fees in merger contracts are already rising and “**outside dates**”, before which parties can walk away scot-free, are stretching from a few months to as many as 18 in the Microsoft-Activision paperwork.

Question 278

to dabble in something

Answer 278

**interesować się czymś powierzchownie, zajmować się czymś amatorsko** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 279

banger

Answer 279

**song that makes you feel the need to headbang to the beat** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 280

to sail through something

Answer 280

**poradzić sobie z czymś bez problemów** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 281

clear-out

Answer 281

**generalne porządki** …..…......................................…....................................... “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.

Question 282

ustalić coś (ostatecznie)

Answer 282

**to nail down** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 283

to endure

Answer 283

**przetrwać; znieść; wytrwać** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 284

readily

Answer 284

**bez trudu, z łatwością** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 285

to respire

Answer 285

**oddychać** …..…......................................…....................................... The fact that some employees feel unenthused about their work is hardly new. In all workplaces employees show varying degrees of commitment to their jobs. Some work late, others leave at 5 o’clock sharp, a few seem to do little more than **respire**.

Question 286

to white-knuckle

Answer 286

**kurczowo się czegoś trzymać** …..…......................................…....................................... “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?”

Question 287

to upset the apple cart

Answer 287

**1. namieszać w planach 2. popsuć wszystko** …..…......................................…....................................... “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?”

Question 288

aloof

Answer 288

**powściągliwy (w słowach i w czynach), z dystansem** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.”

Question 289

swoboda

Answer 289

**latitude** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 290

to rapture

Answer 290

**zachwycać** …..…......................................…....................................... It is in vogue to criticise both California and tech: doing both at the same time left the audience in **raptures**. There is also a grain of truth to what Mr Thiel says . But there are two big problems with his theory.

Question 291

tough luck

Answer 291

**pech** …..…......................................…....................................... Some deals which would once have been no-brainers are thus no longer worth the hassle . To enemies of big business like Ms Khan, that’s the point. If it means innovation forgone, consumer welfare unrealised or shareholder value not created, **tough luck**.

Question 292

kurczowo się czegoś trzymać

Answer 292

**to white-knuckle** …..…......................................…....................................... “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?”

Question 293

daring

Answer 293

**śmiały** …..…......................................…....................................... He hid from the commercial side, leaving that to well-trained deputies, while he stayed as a small cog of creativity, playful but self-effacing, travelling constantly to see local textiles and materials and, over much tea drinking in his design laboratories, inspiring the team of **daring** minds he had gathered round him.

Question 294

to reel

Answer 294

**być wstrząśniętym** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 295

krąg, grupa ludzi

Answer 295

**set** …..…......................................…....................................... 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.

Question 296

to stand in for somebody

Answer 296

**zastępować kogoś (np. w pracy)** …..…......................................…....................................... “All over the world people are taking notes as a way of postponing, putting off and **standing in for**,” Mr Dyer writes, including supposedly about himself.

Question 297

zwężany (np. o spodniach, spódnicy); stożkowy

Answer 297

**tapered** …..…......................................…....................................... While Sexton is creating his typically masculine cut for Taylor, he has a strong business among women who come to him for a **tapered** silhouette.

Question 298

tu: masywny

Answer 298

**chunky** …..…......................................…....................................... 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”.

Question 299

nie mieć szans, być bez szans

Answer 299

**be a non-starter** …..…......................................…....................................... In international markets, where westerns are widely assumed to be a **nonstarter,** “1883” was the No. 3 series on Paramount+ last year. In second place was “Yellowstone,” which the service carries outside the U.S. (No. 1 was “Halo,” a sci-fi war series based on the videogame of the same name.)

Question 300

oddychać

Answer 300

**to respire** …..…......................................…....................................... The fact that some employees feel unenthused about their work is hardly new. In all workplaces employees show varying degrees of commitment to their jobs. Some work late, others leave at 5 o’clock sharp, a few seem to do little more than **respire**.