Deck no. 36 Flashcards
to go ballistic
wkurzyć się, dostać szału …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Khloé made headlines in 2021 after a particularly unflattering, unfiltered photo of herself surfaced online. “She went ballistic over it,” the insider says of the image, which an assistant accidentally shared on a private account.
to cop to something
przyznać się do czegoś …..…………………………………..…………………………………… After initially lying about getting lip injections as a teen, Kylie finally copped to it, then turned her obsession into a business idea, making millions off of her Kylie Cosmetics lips kits and keeping her naturally thin pout over-plumped ever since.
unapologetic
bez poczucia winy; nieskruszony; bezwzględny …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Kris is unapologetic about going under the knife. She had a face- and neck-lift in 2011 (“Kim used to call me gobble-gobble,” the momager said of one reason she had the surgery) and later admitted to having Botox, fillers, laser treatments and at least two breast augmentations.
henceforth
odtąd …..…………………………………..…………………………………… He then cites with approval the medieval Persian philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, whose very un-Western observation “would henceforth ring” in Mr. Kaplan’s ears: that a year of anarchy is worse than a hundred years of tyranny.
for good measure
na dodatek, na dokładkę …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Anarchy, Mr. Kaplan writes, was for the Greeks the “greatest, most fundamental fear.” Greek history—and Shakespeare, too, for good measure— is replete with examples of how a fear of chaos is often the most effective kind of wisdom.
self-flagellation
ostra samokrytyka …..…………………………………..…………………………………… “The Tragic Mind” is Mr. Kaplan’s 21st book and the only one he has written as an act of self-flagellation.
to work out well for somebody
dobrze komuś służyć, wychodzić komuś na dobre …..…………………………………..…………………………………… When it comes to understanding what happens to people as they go through life, pictures of entire lives—of the choices people make and the paths they follow, and how it all works out for them—are almost impossible to get.
well-adjusted
przystosowany (np. do życia) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The first was a group of 268 sophomores at Harvard College, selected by Harvard professor of hygiene Arlie Bock because they were deemed likely to grow into healthy and well-adjusted adults. At least half of the young men chosen for the study attended Harvard with the aid of scholarships and by holding down jobs to help pay tuition, while others came from well-to-do families.
hold down a job
utrzymać pracę …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The first was a group of 268 sophomores at Harvard College, selected by Harvard professor of hygiene Arlie Bock because they were deemed likely to grow into healthy and well-adjusted adults. At least half of the young men chosen for the study attended Harvard with the aid of scholarships and by holding down jobs to help pay tuition, while others came from well-to-do families.
well-to-do
zamożny …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The first was a group of 268 sophomores at Harvard College, selected by Harvard professor of hygiene Arlie Bock because they were deemed likely to grow into healthy and well-adjusted adults. At least half of the young men chosen for the study attended Harvard with the aid of scholarships and by holding down jobs to help pay tuition, while others came from well-to-do families.
inner-city
podupadła część śródmieścia // the area near the centre of a city, especially when associated with social and economic problems …..…………………………………..…………………………………… When the researchers decided to combine the two studies, all of the inner-city and Harvard participants were interviewed.
walk of life
pozycja społeczna …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Over the following decades, these teenagers grew up into adults who entered all walks of life. They became factory workers and lawyers and bricklayers and doctors.
by hook or by crook
za wszelką cenę; wszelkimi sposobami …..…………………………………..…………………………………… By hook and by crook, the Harvard Study has maintained an 84% participation rate for 85 years.
to make a point of something
podkreślić coś, zaakcentować coś (np. czyjąś opinię na jakiś temat) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Over and over again, when the participants in the Harvard Study reached their 70s and 80s, they would make a point of saying that what they valued most were theirrelationships with friends and family.
to trawl
wyszukiwać (informacje) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Indulge me in a little exercise: Estimate how long you spend each week scrolling Instagram, reading news, streaming video, trawling Amazon and the like.
to rear
wychowywać …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The adage of child-rearing—the days are long but the years are short—shows how the lack of novelty plays a role.
in a flash
w mgnieniu oka …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The early days might have individually felt grueling, but later on you can’t remember every diaper change. When you look back, it seems like your kids grew up in a flash.
wheelhouse
specjalność (mocna strona) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Many of these workers were newly hired under the mistaken assumption that booming pandemic demand would become the new normal. But a good percentage were legacy employees working on projects that, given today’s market environment, range from fiscally irresponsible to projects that fall well outside their parent company’s wheelhouse.
to be so
to be true or correct …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Reinventing the wheel is so last year. The best tech investments of 2023 might be companies content to spend their coin greasing it.
going forward
w przyszłości …..…………………………………..…………………………………… TikTok has spent an estimated $1.5 billion setting up the Oracle data center, moving code, and hiring and paying the third-party monitors, according to people familiar with the proposal. They said they expect such expenses to cost TikTok $700 million to $1 billion annually going forward, if TikTok reaches a deal.
haute cuisine
wykwintna kuchnia …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The difficulties of running a U.S. eatery, whether selling hot dogs or haute cuisine, are well known, yet hope continues to triumph over experience.
eatery
restauracja, bar …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The difficulties of running a U.S. eatery, whether selling hot dogs or haute cuisine, are well known, yet hope continues to triumph over experience.
shakeout
odsiew (eliminacja) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Their struggles helped take some financial pressure off large chains, ranging from quick-serve ones such as McDonald’s or Yum Brands’ Taco Bell, to fast-casual operator Darden Restaurants’s Olive Garden or Dine Brands Global’s Applebee’s. The shakeout for Mom and Pop would have been even worse had many not been able to tap federal assistance.
plight
trudna sytuacja, niedola …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The killing of a former lawmaker highlights the plight of Afghan women.
to proof
uodparniać, impregnować …..…………………………………..…………………………………… How to jerk-proof a job search.
to rubber stamp
zatwierdzać bez zastanowienia i przemyślenia …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The dust-up comes a week after Disney replaced its board chair, Susan Arnold, with Nike Inc. Chairman Mark Parker, a move that Mr. Peltz has dinged as a rubber stamp for the return of Mr. Iger. Mr. Iger returned to Disney as CEO in November when the company’s board fired Bob Chapek from the top job.
to ding
speak angrily to or criticize someone …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The dust-up comes a week after Disney replaced its board chair, Susan Arnold, with Nike Inc. Chairman Mark Parker, a move that Mr. Peltz has dinged as a rubber stamp for the return of Mr. Iger. Mr. Iger returned to Disney as CEO in November when the company’s board fired Bob Chapek from the top job.
to let up
ustąpić …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Mr. Peltz didn’t let up even after Mr. Chapek’s firing in November, the Disney presentation said. That month, he met with Mr. Iger and Ms. McCarthy, and in December told Mr. Iger he would mount a proxy fight if not granted a board seat.
to tag
szufladkować (kogoś) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… In Mr. Peltz’s view, Disney overpaid for the assets and is now saddled with debt and absorption costs. Disney said on Tuesday the trio of acquisitions that preceded the Fox deal were similarly tagged as “overpaid.”
to take the long view
planować coś długofalowo …..…………………………………..…………………………………… “While we think that has provided incremental information to investors regarding the seasonality of the business, we have decided to cease providing monthly metrics to align our reporting cadence with our value of taking the long view,” Roblox said.
steeped in something
zanurzony w czymś (np. w historii) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The prospect of failure was unbearable to executives steeped in founder Jeff Bezos’ doctrine of customer obsession, according to a former employee.
to rustle up
skołować coś, skombinować coś …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Worried about a second straight holiday season meltdown, Dave Clark, then Amazon’s head of worldwide operations, ordered his transportation team to rustle up some airplanes, fast, according to a former employee.
to hallow
czcić …..…………………………………..…………………………………… At the same time, its corporate values are hallowed within the company walls. “Jeff Bezos came down from the mountain with 12 leadership principles,” jokes a former staffer. They urge a “bias for action,” declaring that “speed matters” and “many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study.”
to spew
wyrzucać z siebie, bluzgać (przekleństwami), wymiotować …..…………………………………..…………………………………… But as the program continues to expand, some former employees say these costly, emission-spewing airplanes are often underfilled or are used to ship goods that could be carried more cheaply and efficiently by road.
to cuss
przeklinać …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Bigger song catalog brings less choice for some customers; ‘a lot of cussing’.
hand over fist
w szybkim tempie …..…………………………………..…………………………………… If one includes ESPN+, Disney’s sports streamer, and Hulu, its general entertainment platform, Disney has more streaming subscriptions even than Netflix, and a lot more than everyone else. Yet the streaming business is losing money hand over fist.
thumping
bardzo głośny, ogłuszający (o muzyce) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Romantics ascribe cinema’s power to the magic of a shared experience, or to the sensory impact of a vast screen and thumping sound system.
pent-up demand
a rapid increase in demand for a service or product, usually following a period of subdued spending
“pent-up” odnosi się do czegoś, co jest powstrzymywane lub hamowane, i sugeruje silne nagromadzenie emocji lub energii, które szukają ujścia lub wyrażenia.
…..…………………………………..…………………………………… At its American properties Disney has harnessed pent-up demand, introducing airline-style pricing to charge more in busy periods.
to wring
wymuszać, wyciskać (uzyskiwać coś od kogoś siłą) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Mr Iger is said to be more sympathetic to these concerns than Mr Chapek was, but until other parts of the business pick up, Disney will need to wring what money it can from its parks.
the odd one out
niepasujący element …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Gaming is a blind spot for Mr Iger, who wound up Disney’s gaming arm during his previous stint as chief executive. Today Disney licenses its brands to developers like Electronic Arts, which makes Star Wars and Marvel games, among others. With Netflix, Amazon and Apple now offering gaming subscriptions alongside video, Disney looks like the odd one out.
to drag out
przeciągać, przedłużać …..…………………………………..…………………………………… People close to Mr Iger say he did not plot his return and is unlikely to drag out his second act. That makes the search for a successor urgent, and there is no obvious heir. Meanwhile, the job is getting ever more demanding.
quick fix
prowizorka, doraźne rozwiązanie …..…………………………………..…………………………………… These always-on purchasers, as McKinsey has christened them, often shun a weekly shop for quicker fixes of everything from fashion to furniture.
to spread
tu: rozkładać (w czasie) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Easy access to means of spreading payments may encourage splashing out.
be alive and well
dobrze się trzymać …..…………………………………..…………………………………… But Big Meat is still alive and well. After Beyond went public in 2019—at the time the most successful major initial public offering since the 2008 financial crisis — competitors rushed into the space, followed by a categorywide pandemic surge.
faux [foł]
fałszywy …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Under new CEO Peter McGuinness, Impossible has spun up new products such as animal‑shaped faux chicken nuggets and blitzed supermarkets, leading to more than 50% retail sales growth in the US in 2022.
to hit a brick wall
natrafić na ścianę (nie czynić postępów) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… While it has added restaurant partners, some of its long‑standing ones are finding consumer excitement has either hit a wall or is declining.
stan
nadgorliwy fan (celebryty) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Plant‑based meat’s most reliable enthusiasts at this point are those original veggie burger stans, vegans and vegetarians. The all‑important meat eaters do partake, but at a much lower frequency. “They’re just not that into it,” says Chris DuBois, head of IRI’s protein practice.
harrowing
wstrząsający, przerażający (np. o doświadczeniu) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Another movie sneaked into the Oscars conversation at the last minute: “All Quiet on the Western Front,” the harrowing World War I film told from a German perspective that earned nine nominations.
hand-me-down
używane ubranie …..…………………………………..…………………………………… She’s also taken hand-me-down clothing and gear from her friends, and has no qualms about putting her daughter in her son’s old stained and stretched onesies.
revenge shopping
a type of splurge shopping that occurs after a frugal spending period …..…………………………………..…………………………………… People are also looking for luxury at more affordable price points in the secondhand market, Ms. Willersdorf says. “That’s allowing them to do more revenge spending than they have been doing before,” she says.
headspace
sposób myślenia, stan umysłu; wolna głowa, czas na pomyślenie spokojnie …..…………………………………..…………………………………… “What keeps me in a good headspace is that I am saving the money [on essentials] and I am still able to get the things that I want and make those sorts of splurges.
onesie
jednoczęściowa piżama, body dziecięce …..…………………………………..…………………………………… She’s also taken hand-me-down clothing and gear from her friends, and has no qualms about putting her daughter in her son’s old stained and stretched onesies.
to pool
zbierać, zebrać (coś wspólnie), składać się na coś (np. na prezent) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… This mutual influence along with the built-in financial accountability couples get when they pool their assets are partly why married couples have a financial advantage over their single counterparts, researchers say.
it girl
dziewczyna, która ma to coś …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Taylor Russel is pefectly positioned to become Hollywood’s next it girl. But she has her eyes on a bigger prize.
pest
szkodnik (np. chwast, owad) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… They’re that pest at the office who destroys every Monday by recounting each unremarkable thing they did over the weekend. They’re that jerk who talks over everyone else at a dinner party while the rest of you fantasize about slipping hemlock into their pinot noir.
in plain sight
na widoku …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Another breakthrough in AI has just shaken up the tech world. This time, the machines are operating in plain sight — and they could finally be ready to follow through on the threat to replace millions of jobs.
to order
na zamówienie …..…………………………………..…………………………………… ChatGPT, a query-answering and text-generating system released at the end of November, has burst into the public consciousness in a way seldom seen outside the realm of science fiction. Created by San Francisco-based research firm OpenAI, it is the most visible of a new wave of so-called “generative” AI systems that can produce content to order.
best guess
coś najbardziej prawdopodobnego według kogoś; coś, co wydaje się komuś najpewniejsze …..…………………………………..…………………………………… They make their best guess based on probabilistic assumptions informed by studying mountains of data, with no real understanding of what they produce.
to spew out
wypluwać z siebie (słowa), bluzgać (przekleństwami) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The system was quickly found to be spewing out believable-sounding but fake research on request, leading Facebook to withdraw the system days later.
to spout
wygłaszać (mądrości), rozgadywać (się) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… It learnt the hard way that chatbots can go rogue: its Tay bot had to be hastily withdrawn in 2016 after spouting racism and other inflammatory responses.
to go rogue
działać wbrew uzgodnionemu scenariuszowi …..…………………………………..…………………………………… It learnt the hard way that chatbots can go rogue: its Tay bot had to be hastily withdrawn in 2016 after spouting racism and other inflammatory responses.
to price somebody out
wyeliminować kogoś z rynku …..…………………………………..…………………………………… That could make it possible to produce professional-looking images from products sold by “smaller retailers and brands that are priced out of doing photoshoots for their goods.”
aghast
przerażony, osłupiały (np. na widok czegoś) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Presented with songs written by ChatGPT to sound like his own work, singer and songwriter Nick Cave was aghast. “Songs arise out of suffering, by which I mean they are predicated upon the complex, internal human struggle of creation and, well, as far as I know, algorithms don’t feel,” he wrote online. “Data doesn’t suffer.”
ground rules
ogólne zasady …..…………………………………..…………………………………… According to a lawyer who represents two AI companies, everyone in the field has been braced for the inevitable lawsuits that will set the ground rules.
open season
sezon łowiecki …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Ultimately, it will take the courts to set the terms for the new era of AI — or even legislators, if they decide the technology breaks the old assumptions on which existing copyright law is based. Until then, as the computers race to suck up more of the world’s data, it is open season in the world of generative AI.
to humble
uczyć pokory; poskromić, zniszczyć (silnego przeciwnika w sporcie) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Humbled: Eubank Jnr takes defeat well but it may have a long-term effect on his confidence.
dough [dał]
kasa, szmal …..…………………………………..…………………………………… For too long, “Beefy” – one of Britain’s most consistent highend active boxers – has been forced to travel the globe or settle into the role as the B-side to earn his dough.
the last of something
pozostałości czegoś, resztki czegoś …..…………………………………..…………………………………… David Haye’s efforts to strip his body of fat ahead of his rematch with Tony Bellew stole the last of his punch resistance as much as the blows his opponent landed upon him.
in the extreme
nadzwyczajnie, skrajnie …..…………………………………..…………………………………… How he copes in there now, knowing deep down that his opponent can not only hurt him but turn his legs to spaghetti, could be a sobering realisation in the extreme.
bone of contention
kość niezgody …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The prices for PPV shows have always been a bone of contention in America because they’re so exorbitant, but the UK is beginning to edge closer, and increasingly this is happening with shows that lack the historic quality or star billing that was once a requisite for an added price tag.
to edge
przesuwać (w kierunku czegoś) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The prices for PPV shows have always been a bone of contention in America because they’re so exorbitant, but the UK is beginning to edge closer, and increasingly this is happening with shows that lack the historic quality or star billing that was once a requisite for an added price tag.
window-dressing
mydlenie oczu, gra pozorów …..…………………………………..…………………………………… There wasn’t any attempt to windowdress the undercard with competitive fights. That obviously helped to keep costs down, but it all offered scant return for viewers that stumped up for the event.
to join the dots
połączyć kropki, poskładać w całość (dojść do logicznego wniosku) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The dots weren’t joining and only Fury’s star power could help it generate the numbers needed to make it worthwhile.
off you go!
naprzód! …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Then it’s off to Saudi Arabia we go, where money is limitless and Fury and Usyk can negotiate to receive the tens of millions of dollars they’d expect to make their fight.
have a short fuse
być w gorącej wodzie kąpanym, być porywczym …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The firm’s boss, David Solomon, took over in 2018. A man with a short fuse, he has tried to rebrand himself and to renew the firm by expanding its core and diversifying into new areas.
whip hand
przewaga; władza …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Goldman has achieved digital scale by teaming up with Apple to provide a credit card. However, given that the tech giant has almost a billion paying subscribers, Apple holds the whip hand in that relationship.
self-regard
szacunek dla samego siebie …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Goldman’s culture of self-regard remains at odds with the facts. Instead it now needs to be selfcritical. For yesterday’s masters of the universe, that may be the hardest leap of all.
indignant
oburzony …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Rolling Stone was far from the only critic of all this, but Goldman revelled in the attention. Indignant commentators marvelled at how it managed to mint money through good times and bad, often accusing it of ruthlessness or predation.
in other respects
pod innymi względami, w innych przypadkach …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The wild swings in asset markets in 2020 pumped up trading volumes; the roaring bull market of 2021 led to a surge in initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions; in 2022, despite adverse conditions in other respects, Goldman’s bondtraders were able to capitalise on rising rates.
in that
ponieważ …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The comparison may be a little misleading, in that 2019 was the year that Goldman booked a $3bn fine for issuing billions of dollars of bonds for 1MDB, a Malaysian government investment fund, the proceeds of which promptly vanished. But returns in markets and investment banking climbed by around three percentage points from 2020 to 2022, which is nothing to be sneezed at.
to sneeze at something
mieć coś w nosie …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The comparison may be a little misleading, in that 2019 was the year that Goldman booked a $3bn fine for issuing billions of dollars of bonds for 1MDB, a Malaysian government investment fund, the proceeds of which promptly vanished. But returns in markets and investment banking climbed by around three percentage points from 2020 to 2022, which is nothing to be sneezed at.
also-ran
przegrany, słaby konkurent …..…………………………………..…………………………………… A similar strategy had worked wonders at Morgan Stanley, which in Goldman’s all-conquering era had been a perennial also-ran.
light-hearted
beztroski; niefrasobliwy …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Another thing that was supposed to change under Mr Solomon was Goldman’s corporate culture. Unlike his buttoned-up predecessors, he can be light-hearted. He once wore sweatpants to a meeting to woo the executives of Lululemon, the yoga-attire company.
powwow
spotkanie, konferencja …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Mr Solomon started inviting big investors to annual powwows in 2020—a common practice on Wall Street but a first for Goldman.
commanding
imponujący, majestatyczny …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Stand on the east side of the top floor of Goldman’s headquarters in lower Manhattan and you can look down on all of Wall Street. Despite the bank’s recent stumbles, its employees continue to enjoy the commanding view. But hardly anyone is looking up to them any more.
in a funk
zdołowany; spanikowany; w kryzysie; w impasie …..…………………………………..…………………………………… All the superlatives notwithstanding, it is equally hard not to recognise that Amazon finds itself in something of a funk.
deed
dokument, akt prawny …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The applicant signed the mortgage deed.
backbone
siła charakteru, odwaga …..…………………………………..…………………………………… You’ve got to have the backbone to stand up to him.
to shrivel [szrivel]
maleć (o zyskach); więdnąć
…..…………………………………..…………………………………… What is more, AWS is particularly vulnerable to shrivelling orders from startups, which tend to favour it over rivals such as Microsoft Azure.
to lay something at somebody’s door
obwiniać kogoś za coś …..…………………………………..…………………………………… In the past four quarters Amazon lost $26bn in free cashflow (the money companies generate after deducting capital investments). Little of this can be laid directly at Mr Jassy’s door.
ailment
choroba …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Last year Amazon bought One Medical, a provider of primary care, and launched Amazon Clinic, which offers virtual consultations for more than 20 ailments.
mischief-maker
intrygant …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Languishing Silicon Valley stocks attract Wall Street’s mischief-makers.
to be par for the course
być do przewidzenia …..…………………………………..…………………………………… For bosses and boards, dealing with the odd activist shareholder is par for the course. Contending with a swarm of such gadflies is unusual.
odd
rozmaity …..…………………………………..…………………………………… For bosses and boards, dealing with the odd activist shareholder is par for the course. Contending with a swarm of such gadflies is unusual.
gadfly
osa (kąśliwa osoba); akcjonariusz, który pojawia się na zebraniach akcjonariuszy i zadaje kłopotliwe pytania …..…………………………………..…………………………………… For bosses and boards, dealing with the odd activist shareholder is par for the course. Contending with a swarm of such gadflies is unusual.
to skim through something
przebiegać szybko wzrokiem przez coś …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Many who have met Satya Nadella like him. For those who haven’t, a skim through his autobiography endorses the view that the boss of Microsoft is an intelligent, decent sort of person.
giddy with something
oszołomiony czymś, upojony czymś …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Once again Mr Nadella is giddy with “this-is-the-future” euphoria. On January 23rd Microsoft announced its third investment, estimated at $10bn, in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.
a flash in the pan
jednorazowy wyczyn, chwilowy sukces; osoba o słomianym zapale …..…………………………………..…………………………………… HoloLens was reportedly affected by the firm’s 10,000 recent layoffs. That said, ChatGPT is already so accessible and intuitive to use that it is hard to imagine it will be a flash in the pan.
to pay heed to something
zwracać uwagę na coś …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Given the risk of an economic slowdown, which is cooling demand for Microsoft’s software and cloud services, investors have too many short-term concerns to pay much heed to Mr Nadella’s promises of AI-flavoured jam tomorrow.
inning [inin]
runda; rozgrywka …..…………………………………..…………………………………… First innings. In short, Microsoft has a valuable head start and Mr Nadella is loth to squander it. The big question, however, is not who will win. In these early days that would be like asking, at the dawn of the 19th century, who will come out top from the Industrial Revolution.
contained
opanowany; pod kontrolą …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Although they see the war in Ukraine as a humanitarian tragedy, the risks to the world economy look for now to be contained.
charm offensive
kokietowanie …..…………………………………..…………………………………… China’s Communist government has launched a charm offensive, signalling that the country is not just reopening after its harsh “zero-covid” regime but also reintegrating with the world. Globalisation may not be in the rudest of health, but news of its demise appears, to many bosses, exaggerated.
in rude health
tryskający zdrowiem …..…………………………………..…………………………………… China’s Communist government has launched a charm offensive, signalling that the country is not just reopening after its harsh “zero-covid” regime but also reintegrating with the world. Globalisation may not be in the rudest of health, but news of its demise appears, to many bosses, exaggerated.
to give someone the boot
wyrzucić kogoś z pracy …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Investment bankers got a particularly severe drubbing, as dealmaking collapsed amid economic uncertainty. Goldman Sachs is giving around 3,200 of its workers the boot.
weariness
zmęczenie, znużenie, wyczerpanie …..…………………………………..…………………………………… The first thing to which firms will be confessing is the weariness of consumers. In firms’ conference calls with analysts at the end of last year, many spoke of weak demand, as shoppers reined in spending on discretionary items.
to own up to
przyznawać się (do zrobienia czegoś) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… As demand falters, firms are owning up to excessive costs—their second confession. Technology companies, which saw demand for their products slow last year from pandemic-induced highs, are doing so with special zeal.
rip the band-aid off
szybko załatwić nieprzyjemną sprawę, szybko się z czymś rozprawić …..…………………………………..…………………………………… It was time to rip off the band-aid and let them know what their situation was.
pernicious
szkodliwy, groźny …..…………………………………..…………………………………… “Hello lower gas prices, bye-bye recession,” cheered analysts at JPMorgan Chase, a bank, on January 18th, in a report on the euro zone. Nomura, a Japanese lender, has revised its forecast of Britain’s recession “to something less pernicious [than] what we originally expected”.
few and far between
rzadko, nieczęsto …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Over the past half century, as governments and central banks teamed up ever more closely to manage economic growth, recessions became fewer and farther between.
to worm one’s way into
wkupić się (w czyjeś łaski); wcisnąć się …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Faith in government as a saviour in recessions has been worming its way into people’s minds for most of their lifetimes.
non-event
rozczarowanie …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Government bailouts in the pandemic came so fast and large that it felt to many people, particularly white-collar employees working from home, as if the recession never happened. Their incomes and credit scores went up. Their wealth exploded with rising stock and bond markets. Now this experience of recession as a non-event seems baked into the professional psyche.
to get it on
zacząć coś robić entuzjastycznie …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Let’s get it on!
to lay down the law
rozkazywać, rządzić się …..…………………………………..…………………………………… My older sister is always laying down the law to us.
juices flowing
krew w żyłach płynie szybciej. …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Overtures like that get my juices flowing.
to put things into perspective
spojrzeć na coś w szerszym kontekście; z innej perspektywy; z dystansem …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Surviving a plane crash puts things into perspective.
only so much / many
ograniczona liczba / tylko tyle (limitowana ilość) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… There are only so many houses for sale on the market currently.
to talk shop
rozmawiać o sprawach zawodowych …..…………………………………..…………………………………… They had a business meeting and were talking shop.
sideways market
rynek płaski (z cenami zmieniającymi się w bardzo wąskich przedziałach) …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Up market, down market, sideways market.
I’m down with
zgadzać się z …..…………………………………..…………………………………… Well, whatever you decide to do, I’m down with you.
steep
gwałtowny …..…………………………………..…………………………………… America’s hoped-for Asian semiconductor pact faces steep odds.
