BBC Words

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ultra
She’s ultra-serious about becoming a famous singer.
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extremely
cap
There’s a cap on spending this year.
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limit
escape the cycle
They escaped the cycle of poverty through education.
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get away from a situation which keeps getting worse
photographic memory
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the ability to remember things in exact detail, like looking at a photograph
the odds of
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the chances or probability that something will happen
a one-off
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something that only happens once
suck at (something)
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be bad at (doing) something (US)
memorise
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learn something exactly so that you can repeat it later
resemble
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to look like or be like someone or something
night owl
I was a night owl at university. I always wrote my essays after midnight.
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people who like being active at night and go to bed late
chronic
After the accident, he suffered from chronic pain.
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lasting for a long time
suffer from
She suffers from severe depression.
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to have an illness or other health problem
shortage of
a shortage of water
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a situation in which there is not enough of something/ a lack; the state of not having enough
prone to something
She has weak legs and is prone to injury / I don’t believe him. He’s prone to lying
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likely to do or be affected by something bad
to turn something on its head
Cryptocurrency is turning the way we buy things on its head
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change our understanding of it
Kryptowaluta stawia na głowie sposób, w jaki kupujemy rzeczy
catch on
Hybrid cars really catching on
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become more popular
Hybrydowe samochody naprawdę stają się coraz bardziej popularne
to take the world by storm
Wearables are taking the world by storm
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to become very popular
Wearables szturmem zdobywają świat
to be a game changer
I reckon the Internet has been a game changer
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something that siginificantly changes the way we do this
Uważam, że Internet zmienił reguły gry
to take someone by suprise
3D printers have taken everyone by suprise
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to suprise, startle someone
Drukarki 3D zaskoczyły wszystkich
it's cutting edge
I think that robot waiters are cutting-edge
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it's very advanced, innovative and leading the field
Uważam, że kelnerzy-roboty to najnowocześniejsze rozwiązanie.
it won't be long before
It won't be long before we have flying cars
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in the near future
Niedługo będziemy mieli latające samochodyv
This will go down in history as...
I think VR will go down in history as the more important invention ever
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In the future, we will see this as
Myślę, że VR przejdzie do historii jako ważniejszy wynalazek w historii

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