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fertility/productivity
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płodność (Fertility is the natural capability of producing offsprings.)
spare/save
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oszczędzać (We paid our bills and had money some spare money left.)
superb/brilliant
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wspaniały (It was such a superb performance!)
stretch/extend
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rozciągać (After work-out it’s good to stretch our muscles.)
ambience/atmosphere
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klimat (Dublin has the ambience of a country town.)
dense/compact
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zwarty (The body was found hidden in dense undergrowth.)
lapped/surrounded
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okrążony (A building is lapped by police officers.)
hepatitis
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żółtaczka (Currently, there is no guaranteed hepatitis C cure.)
fringe/edge
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skraj (It was believed that there’s the edge of the world somewhere.)
sprawling/sweeping
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zamaszysty (Sprawling moves are very important in boxing.)
health precautions
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zdrowotne środki ostrożności (It’s important to obey health precautions.)
suitable/proper
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odpowiedni (Yelling is not a suitable behavior in the management strategy.)
binoculars/field-glasses
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lornetka (I always take my binoculars with me going on trips.)
to hold up/to support
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podtrzymywać (I think she needs you to hold her up.)
first aid kit
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apteczka (It’s improstant to take the first aid kit on longer journeys.)
go via/go through
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iść przez (Flight via Berlin to Paris has been cancelled.)
set off/set out
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wyruszać (We have to set off in the morning.)
to head/to aim
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zmierzać (Where is it heading to? –In my opinion it’s heading for Warsaw.)
bypass/ringroad
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obwodnica (You have to drive through the bypass to get there.)
dual carriageway/divided highway
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droga dwupasmowa (Dual carriageway is a class of highway with to carriageways.)
travelling companion
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towarzysz podróży (Your travelling companion doesn’t need to be your soul mate.)
package holiday
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wakacje zorganizowane (They offered him a package holiday in Croatia but the price was too high.)
hitchhiking
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autostop (There is only one concrete warning in all 128 pages: 'Hitch-hiking is not allowed.')
ferry
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prom (And the nearest ferry crossing from Fife is from Burntisland.)
lane
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pas ruchu drogowego (The new motorway has three lanes in each direction.)
flyover
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wiadukt (A Flyover will make their travel easier.)
rambler/wanderer
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wędrowiec (There are many wonderful walks for the enthusiastic rambler.)
flying visit/short visit
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krótka wizyta (He wanted to hear all about my flying visit to his old stamping grounds.)
arrive in/arrive at (to reach a place)
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przybyć (They arrived in Warsaw at the railway station last night.)
track/trail
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szlak (We went down the rough track until we reached the river that went across the road.)
insect repellent
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środek odstraszający owady; a chemical substance that repels (stops) insects, for example Autan, Off.
beads
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koraliki (Instead of a door into the hall there was curtain, it was made of beads.)
chopsticks
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pałeczki do jedzenia (She' s so bad with chopsticks that she throws food on you.)
fan/ventilator
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wachlarz, wentylator (The vehicle in the enclosure shall not be subjected to a direct stream of air from the fans or blowers.)
tool belt
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pas na narzędzia (He works as a builder so he bought a tool belt.)
postponement/put off
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odłożenie, odroczenie (The postponement was due to a dispute over where the talks should be held.)
broaden the mind
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poszerzać horyzonty (Travels broaden your mind.)
hit the road/hit the trail
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wyruszać w drogę (Let's hit the road early. We have many miles to go.)
rough/scratchy
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szorstki (Her skin felt rough.)
soaked/wet
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przemoczony (It's raining heavily. You'll get soaked to the skin if you go out right now.)
peninsula
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półwysep (We have to make the Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons.)
bounded/surrounded
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ograniczony/otoczony (He found himself surrounded by an admiring crowd.)
mountain range
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pasmo górskie (Each day begins before dawn with a performance to greet the sun as it peeps above a distant mountain range.)
plateau/land mass
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płaskowyż (While you ascend a highland plateau you will notice the changes in nature as you reach higher ground.)
densely/bushy
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gęsto/gęsty (Dense fog is over all things.)
the equator/the longest parallel
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równik/najdłuższy równoleżnik (The Galapagos islands straddle the Equator 600 miles west of the Ecuador.)
latitude
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szerokość geograficzna (The plant grows best in cooler latitudes.)
altitude/height
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wysokość (nad poziomem morza) (The Rocky Mountains are lower in altitude than the Himalayas.)
slop/spill
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rozlewać (Slop on the sunscreen.)
mountain chain
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łańcuch górski (These hills are the remains of an ancient mountain chain, once larger and higher than the himalayas are today.)
peak/mountain top
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szczyt (Peaks of the Himalayas)
exhilarating/cheerful
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radosny (It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.)
scrawny/thin
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chudy/cienki/wychudły (A male calf, too scrawny for the meat industry, is often shot.)
outrageous/revolting
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oburzający (Outrageous that people are encouraged to train to become nurses only to find themselves without a job.)
dazzling/blinding
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oślepiający (Blind as a bat " is entirely wrong, bats can see perfectly well although not in color.)
refugees/exile
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uchodźcy ("Serbs out, Nato in, refugees back." - Baron Robertson)
asylum/sanctuary
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schronienie (People seeking asylum are not normally allowed to work in the UK.)
persecuted
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prześladowany (The Sudanese government have brutally persecuted the Nuba tribes people of central Sudan.)
genuine/honest
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szczery (The whole community needs to understand this: at times they can, and at times they can't, for perfectly genuine reasons.)
leaflet
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ulotka (We have produced an information leaflet for patients visiting the hospital.)
lad/fellow
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chłopak (I knew him when he was a lad.)
shallow
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płytki (There are dangerous rocks and shallows near the island.)
bonnet
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maska samochodu (After the accident the bonnet was completely crashed.)
boot/trunk
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bagażnik (The new model has a bigger boot.)
overtake/catch
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wyprzedzać (He overtook a police-car.)
steering-wheel
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kierownica (The driving instructor showed me the proper way to hold steering-wheel.)
contradict/disagree
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przeczyć (It's unwise to contradict your boss.)
to utter/ to voice
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wydawać dźwięk (She uttered a cry.)
to pull out/ to depart
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wyjechać (The train pulls out at noon.)
cautious/careful
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ostrożny (The air-pollution board has reacted with cautious optimism to the announcement.)
irrelevant/unimportant
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nieistotne/nieważne (Students viewed Latin as boring and irrelevant.)
reverse into a parking space
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parkować tyłem (When I was learning how to drive, I had big problems with reversing into a parking space.)
rowing boat/rowboat
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łódź wiosłowa (Please, take two oars for our rowing boat.)
freight train
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pociąg towarowy (In the museum you can see old freight trains.)
runway/airstrip
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pas startowy (Can you see this huge airplane on the runway?)
assess/estimate
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szacować (Can you assess my chances of winning?)
risk/danger
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ryzyko (Cars may be parked here at their owner's risk.)
gender/sex
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płeć (Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.)
efficient/effective
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wydajny (The new lawn mower is much more efficient than the old one.)
junction
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crossroad skrzyżowanie (There's an accident at the junction of the Ventura and San Diego Freeways.)

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