GadFromItalki1

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sprowadzać się do
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come down to / boil down to
No matter what you want in life, your ability to attain or achieve that thing boils down to one thing and one thing only. Your thoughts.
pociągać za sobą
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entail
A high degree of independence entails considerable demands for transparency.
zadowalać kogoś
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please someone
You cannot live to please everyone else.
uciekać
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to flee (fled - fled), to run away, to escape
And rats are the first to flee a sinking ship.
utrzymywać kontakt wzrokowy
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to make eye contact / to maintain eye contact
It's essential to make eye contact when you're speaking to someone.
spotykać kogoś / nawiązywać kontakt
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come into contact with
On average, I come into contact with about twenty people a day.
umyślnie
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on purpose / deliberately / intentionally
plotkować
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to gossip
On the whole, women gossip more than men.
wtrącać się (niegrzecznie w trakcie rozmowy)
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butt in
In general, men butt in more than women, which women find very annoying.
podsłuchać
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overhear
If you overhear people having a row in public, you should intervene.
pokłócić się
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to have a row
If you overhear people having a row in public, you should intervene.
pleść bzdury, owijać w bawełnę
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witter on / beat around the bush
Politicians generally witter on without ever answering the interviewer's questions.
narzekać
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grumble / complain / moan
Elderly people have reason to grumble about the youth of today.
pogawędka
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chatting / chitchat
Adults spend more time chatting on the phone than teenagers.
sprzeczać się
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bicker / quarrel / argue
Couples who constantly bicker should split up.
podrywać
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chat up / hit on / pick up / flirt with
Women chat up men as often as men chat up women.
wgląd
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an insight
mieć dość
Też miałbym dość, gdybym był tobą.
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to be fed up
I'd be fed up if I was you, too.
monitorować, sprawdzać, podejmować działania następcze
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follow sth up
to discover more about sth or to take further action connected with it
dawać sobie radę
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to get by
Becoming fluent in a language will take years, but learning to get by takes a lot less.
to nie moja sprawa
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It's none of my business
traktuj innych tak jakbyś chciał żeby ciebie traktowali
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
to działa mi na nerwy
Po jakimś czasie, korki zaczęły mi działać na nerwy.
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it gets on my nerves
After a while, the traffic got on my nerves.
podjeżdzać
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to drive up
On Tuesday we drove up to New Hampshire.
pominięcie słów
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ellipsis of words
We sometimes miss out words in informal writing when it is clear who or what we are talking about.
leżakowanie, poleżeć sobie
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lie-in
Have you had a lie-in today?
w każdym razie
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at any rate
something you say to show that you are going to say something more exactly - I don't think they liked my idea. At any rate, they weren't very enthusiastic about it.
zagubiony
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adrift - without a purpose - aimless
If a person is adrift, they do not have a clear purpose in life or know what they want to do.
walczyć, zmagać się
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contend / fight / struggle
contend - compete in order to win something
przezwyciężać, pokonać
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overcome / surmount
to deal successfully with a difficulty or problem
wzajemny
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reciprocal / mutual
A reciprocal action or arrangement involves two people or groups of people who behave in the same way or agree to help each other and give each other advantages.
pełen urazy, rożalony
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resentful
feeling angry because you have been forced to accept someone or something that you do not like
utrzymywać, podtrzymywać
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maintain / sustain / uphold / secure
uphold - to defend or keep a principle or law, or to say that a decision that has already been made, especially a legal one, is correct
wynagradzać, nadrabiać
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make up for
to take the place of something lost or damaged or to compensate for something bad with something good - No amount of money can make up for the death of a child.
wyjaśniać, tłumaczyć
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account for / explain
account for - to explain the reason for something
uległy
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submissive
allowing yourself to be controlled by other people or animals
mieć wyrzuty sumienia
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to feel remorse / regret
a feeling of sadness and being sorry for something you have done: He felt no remorse for the murders he had committed. After the argument, she was filled with remorse.
predestynować kogoś
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predispose
to influence someone to behave or think in a particular way or to have a particular condition
predestynować kogoś do
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predispose sb to / towards sth
to make someone more likely to behave in a particular way or to suffer from a particular illness or condition - Smoking predisposes you to lung cancer.
bezwzględny
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cutthroat / ruthless / viscious
not involving considering or worrying about any harm caused to others - the cutthroat world of journalism / The advertising world can be a very cutthroat business.
nieustępliwy / nieugięty
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relentless
trening czyni mistrza
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practice makes perfect
said to encourage someone to continue to do something many times, so that they will learn to do it very well
zrównoważyć, znaleźć złoty środek, znaleźć odpowiednią równowagę
It's a question of striking the right balance between quality and productivity.
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strike a balance / fina a golden mean
If you strike a balance between two things, you accept parts of both things in order to satisfy some of the demands of both sides in an argument, rather than all the demands of just one side:
otwarty, towarzyski
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outgoing / open / sociable
przepraszam że informuję tak późno
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sorry for the short notice / sorry for having to inform you this late
i tak dalej, i tak dalej
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and so on and so forth
schronisko dla zwierząt
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animal shelter
I met her volunteering at the animal shelter.
przypisywać sobie zasługi
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to take credit for sth
That was her trying to take credit for my idea.
w ciągu
w ciągu tygodnia / na przestrzeni tygodnia
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over the course
over the course of the week
obfitość, dostatek
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abundance / excess
the situation in which there is more than enough of something: There was an abundance of food at the wedding. We had wine in abundance
niedobór
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scarcity
a situation in which something is not easy to find or get, the scarcity of skilled workers
rzadki
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scarce / rare
obfity / bogaty
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abundant
nieznane / niezbadane terytorium
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uncharted territory
I wish I could tell you but... this is uncharted territory for both of us.
rozwodzić się nad czymś
Możemy rozpamiętywać przeszłość albo spojrzeć w przyszłość.
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to dwell on sth - to think or talk about something a lot of the time
We can dwell on the past or look forward to the future.
przyznać
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to admit / to concede
zaleta
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advantage / upside
wada
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downside / flaw / drawback / disadvantage
konsternacja / przerażenie
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dismay
our wives and family watched us with dismay
nadawać na tych samych falach
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to be on the same wavelength
wniosek / argument
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claim
there's no scientific proof to back that claim
przestarzały
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dated / obsolete / old-fashioned
or is it just a dated stereotype?
wymyślać, pogodzić się
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make up
elokwentny
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articulate / eloquent
be articulate in your speaking
podglądać
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peep / peek at / spy on
mamrotać / bełkotać
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mumble
avoid mumbling
niepotrzebny pośpiech
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unnecessary rush / undue haste
w formie pisemnej / na piśmie
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in writing
if you have any comments send me them in writing
wiedza dorozumiana
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implicit knowledge
since birth I've been exposed to English - Implicit knowledge is the practical application of explicit knowledge.
explicit knowledge
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Knowledge that is easy to articulate, write down, and share
tacit knowledge
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Knowledge gained from personal experience that is more difficult to express.
bez skutku, bezskutecznie
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to no avail
godny zaufania
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trustworthy
Because unlike you, I'm trustworthy.
nakład
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print run
the number of copies of a book produced at one time - The first print run was limited to 5,000 copies, which w. ls an indication of how small a readership the author and the publishers were expecting.
czytelnictwo / liczba czytelników
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readership
the group of people who regularly read a particular newspaper, magazine - The magazine has a readership of over 250,000.
aż do teraz, do tej pory
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up until now / so far
p until now, I've never really had any contact with the guy in the ticket office.
po drugiej stronie ulicy
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across the street / across the road
There was a chemist's across the road.
wyczerpywać się
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run low on
On the way to a meeting, I remembered that I was running low on face cream.
przy kasie
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at the checkout / at the till / at the counter
Having a good day? asked the girl at the till smiling blissfully.
błogo
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blissfully
wyznaczyć, mianować
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appoint / designate
Perhaps the solution is to appoint people who are genuinely interested in people, not those who are trained to be insincere robots.
bezpośrednie sąsiedztwo
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immediate vicinity
There are several cafe bars in the immediate vicinity.
myśl przewodnia, mowa otwierająca, specjalny wykład
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keynote
złowieszczy / złowrogi / groźny
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ominous / sinister / threatening
modernizować
retrofit - it's about how sth works, redecorate - it's about how sth looks
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retrofit
They had to retrofit after the last earthquake.
przyłożyć, walnąć
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pummel
Larry was about to pummel me.
atakować / atak
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assault
wał
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levee
falochron
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breakwater / seawall
wynikać z czegoś
To może wynikać z...
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stem from something / result from something / be due to
It can stem from...
krótkoterminowe rozwiązanie
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short-term solution / band-aid solution
temporary solution, without solving a real problem focusing more on symptoms / effects.
wyluzowany
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easy-going / laid-back

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