Paper III Part 4 The Sound of Silence

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a seminar
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tu: sit around a seminar table (seminarium)
the stock market
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(giełda papierów wartościowych)
a participant
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(uczestnik)
at the front of one’s mind
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(~gotowy, ~z rękawa)
intellectual property
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(własność intelektualna)
to be at risk
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(być zagrożonym)
so
(tak zwany)
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called
complexity
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(złożoność)
hubbub
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a loud noise, especially caused by a lot of people all talking at the same time; general excitement and activity (zgiełk, hałas, gwar)
to gazump
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tu: the fear of being intellectually gazumped; to refuse to sell a house that you own to someone you have agreed to sell it to, and to sell it instead to someone who offers to pay more for it (przebić ofertę)
to be in the driving / driver’s seat
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(być u władzy, u steru)
cagey
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unwilling to give information (ostrożny, nieufny)
to echo to the sound of sth
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(wybrzmiewać, wracać echem do dźwięku)
received wisdoms
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(otrzymane mądrości)
to recycle sth
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(ponownie przetwarzać, wykorzystać)
a reluctance (to do sth)
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(niechęć)
to link sth to sth
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(powiązywać coś z czymś)
policy
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(polityka)
government departments
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(rządowe resorty)
a think tank
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a group of experts brought together, usually by a government, to develop ideason a particular subject and to make suggestions for action (grupa ekspertów; organizacja pozarządowa zajmująca się badaniami i analizami dotyczącymi spraw publicznych)
on an individual level
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(z punktu widzenia jednostki)
to hoard sth
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(zbierać, gromadzić)
to make sense
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(być logicznym, mieć sens)
collectively
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as a group (wspólnie, razem)
to impoverish sth
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(pogarszać, niszczyć)
the detriment of sth
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harm or damage (szkoda, uszczerbek czemuś)
policymaking
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(tworzenie polityki, formułowanie zasad)
coyness
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behaviour in which someone intentionally tries to keep something secret (rezerwa); behaviour in which someone is or pretends to be shy, or like a child (fałszywa skromność)
to highlight sth
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(podkreślać, uwydatniać coś)
peculiar
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unusual and strange, sometimes in an unpleasant way (dziwny, osobliwy)
the essential problem
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(zasadniczy, podstawowy problem)
to glean sth
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to collect information in small amounts and often with difficulty (zdobywać, np. informacje, growadzić)
an originator
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(pomysłodawca, autor, np. myśli, pomysłu)
intact
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(nietknięty, nienaruszony)
ideas make bad commodities
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(pomysły są złym towarem)
pricing
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(wycena)
to capture sth
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(przejąć, zdobyć)
to lick one’s lips
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to feel pleasure at the thought of something (oblizywać się)
to take out sth
ever patent on an idea; (uzyskiwać coś)
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tu: one academic has just taken out the first
first
(pierwszy)
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ever
a patent on sth
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(patent na coś)
contractual
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relating to or contained within a contract (=legal agreement) (kontraktowy, wynikający z umowy)
guarded
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(ostrożny, pełen rezerwy)
on the face of it
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used when you are describing how a situation seems on the surface (na pierwszy rzut oka)
a miser
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tu: intellectual misers; someone who has a strong wish to have money and hates to spend it (skąpiec, sknera)
the argument that... flies
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(argument, że... ulatnia się, ulatuje)
in the face of sth
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despite having to deal with a difficult situation or problem (w obliczu)
current developments
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(aktualny rozwój wypadków)
to democratise sth
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(demokratyzować coś)
at the heart of sth
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(w sercu, środku czegoś)
cyberspace
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(cyberprzestrzeń)
monastic
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tu: monastic silence (klasztorny, zakonny)
to be bombarded with sth
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(być bombardowanym, atakowanym werbalnie)
of limited value
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(o ograniczonej wartości)
to broadcast sth
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(rozgłaszać, np. w internecie; transmitować)
guff
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speech or writing that is nonsense (bzdury, nonsens)
all the more
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even more than before (tym bardziej)
generosity
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(hojność; wielkoduszność)
precious
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(bezcenne)
to elevate sth
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tu: it also elevates the role of trust; to make someone or something more important or to improve something (powiększać, np. rolę czegoś)
to pass sth on
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e. g an idea; (przekazywać coś dalej)
in print
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(w druku)
to tag sth
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to put a tag on something (oznaczyć etykietką, otagować w internecie); tagging (tagowanie)
to succumb to sth
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tu: succumbing to the temptation to pass it off as my own; to lose the determination to oppose something (ulegać czemuś)
to pass sth off as
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to pretend that something is a particularthing when it is not (podawać coś jako, podszywać się)
to reap sth
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e. g to reap the rewards for sth; to obtain or receive something as a result of your own actions (zbierać plony czegoś, wyniki czegoś)
intellectual labour
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(trud intelektualny)
the fear of theft
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(strach przed kradzieżą)
to come up with sth
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(wymyślić coś, wpaść na coś)
to store up sth
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(składować, magazynować coś)
online consultancy
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(doradztwo internetowe)
to run sth from home
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(kierować zdalnie, z domu)
to be recognised as
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(być uznanym, docenionym za)
sufficient
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(dostateczny, wystarczający)
incentive
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something that encourages a person to do something (bodziec, zachęta, motywacja)
to credit sth
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e.g. good ideas; to believe something that seems unlikely to be true (uznawać coś)
on board
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tu: to keep the best minds on board (zaangażowany, “na pokładzie”)
to foster sth
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to encourage the development orgrowth of ideas or feelings (wspierać coś)
unnecessarily
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(niepotrzebnie)
to be distrustful of sb
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(być nieufnym, podejrzliwym wobec kogoś)
to overvalue sth
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(przeceniać coś)
to exacerbate sth
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to make something that is already badeven worse (pogarszać, nasilać)
to stifle sth
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to prevent something from happening, being expressed, or continuing (tłumić, dusić)
to hinder sth
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to limit the development of something (hamować, utrudniać, powstrzymywać)
an over
a greater supply of something than is needed (nadmierna podaż, nadmiar)
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supply of sth
imaginative ideas
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(twórcze, oryginalne, kreatywne pomysły)
copious
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tu: copious information; in large amounts, or more than enough (obfity, obszerny)
productive
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(produktywny, wydajny)
unscrupulous
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willing to lie or cheat to succeed (nie przebierający w środkach)
to implement sth
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to start using a plan or system (wprowadzać, wdrażać coś)
to withhold sth
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tu: to withhold good ideas; to refuse to give something, or to keep back something (zatajać, zatrzymywać)

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