ula 9th Dec 2014

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węszyć, wtykać nos w cudze sprawy
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to snoop around / about
reporters snooping on celebrities
I caught him snooping around/about in my office.
a person who snoops
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snooper
stanąć w obronie czegoś
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stand up for sth/sb
uciszyć (sprawić, by ktoś przestał rozmawiać)
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to silence
rwać, szarpać, zrywać
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to pluck
He plucked a couple of plastic bags from the roll.
wyrywać brwi
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pluck your eyebrows to make your eyebrows the shape you want, by pulling out some of the hairs
wyciągać kogoś skądś (np. z tarapatów)
Three survivors were plucked TO safety after being in the sea for 7 hours.
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pluck somebody/something from/out of something
Some refugee children were plucked out of the country in a number of mercy missions.
She was plucked from obscurity (=made suddenly famous) by a Hollywood film producer.
niejasność
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obscurity
mówić za dużo o czymś
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GO ON ABOUT
pinta
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PT - a unit for measuring an amount of liquid, especially beer or milk. In Britain a pint is equal to 0.568 litres, and in the US it is equal to 0.473 litres
a pint glass (=a glass which will hold a pint of liquid)
GOŚĆ
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visitors from overseas
Rina is a frequent visitor TO the city.
sieszyć się, żeby coś zrobić
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to rush to do sth / to rush off to do sth
w życiu codziennym
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in my daily life
stopnie celcjiusza
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12 degrees Celsius (=12 degrees on the Celsius scale) = Centigrade
a scale of temperature in which water freezes at 0º and boils at 100º
Fahrenheit
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a scale of temperature in which water freezes at 32º and boils at 212º
72º Fahrenheit (=72 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale)
z rzędu
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at a time
If you raise your hands, I'll answer questions one at a time.
if someone deals with things one, three, ten etc at a time, they deal with them separately or in groups of three, ten etc
spójrz, która godzina
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look at the time (=used when you realize that it is later than you thought it was)
w tamtym momencie / w tamtej chwili
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at the time
at a particular moment or period in the past when something happened, especially when the situation is very different now:
I was about ten or eleven at the time.
nadrobić coś (np. zaległości w pracy, zaległości w spaniu)
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to catch up on sth
I need to catch up on some sleep (=after a period without enough sleep).
I have some work to catch up on.
to shoot
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to shootto deliberately kill or injure someone using a gun:
wygnany
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Exiled
przodek
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forefathers
elderly
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used as a polite way of saying that someone is old or becoming old
żaden z...
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None of the boys dared to say anything.
obrzezać
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to circumcise
to cut off a woman's clitoris (=part of her sex organs)
to cut off the skin at the end of the penis (=male sex organ)
łechtaczka
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clitoris
wydzielić, wydzielać, krwawić, ropieć, ociekać
A cut on his cheek was still oozing blood.
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ooze out
The ice cream was melting and oozing out of its wrapper.
if a thick liquid oozes from something or if something oozes a thick liquid, that liquid flows from it very slowly
mason /meisn/
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a glass pot with a tight lid, used for preserving fruit and vegetables [= Kilner jar British English
dlaczego nie włożysz kaptura...
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Why don't you put your hood up if you're cold?
zapłodnienie, inseminacja
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insemination
a process in which a human egg is fertilized outside a woman's body
EAD
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CPR

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