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| topic | Communication | Crime and Punishment | Education | Environment | Ethical Issues | Health | Mass Media | Politically Correct Language | Politics | Relationships | Science and Technology | Communication |
| Słówko | Definicja | Tłumaczenie | Przykład | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
in decline |
going downhill, deteriorating! | Many a person's memory may go into decline as they get older. | ||
to come a cropper |
to succumb to some misfortune, fail. | If you don't study hard for your exams you'll come a cropper - like my grandmother who wasn't concentrating when she was walking on the ice! | ||
to be up a gum tree |
to be in a difficult position. | With only one parachute between the three of them and the plane about to crash, they were definitely up a gum tree - or at least the other two were, decided Gerald! | ||
to have one's work cut out |
to face a situation in which one has a lot of work to do if one is to succeed. | Tony Blair has his work cut out for him if he is going to create peace in the middle east. | ||
to be in the soup |
to be in trouble. | Gerald's in the soup - he's smashed yet another window while playing football! | ||
to be no great shakes at sth |
to not be very good at sth. | I'm afraid I'm no great shakes at decorating - I'd only make a mess of things if I tried to help! | ||
to go to pot |
to go to rack and ruin, to go wrong. | With the defection of our top spy all our plans have gone to pot! | ||
to come up to scratch |
to meet required standards. | The manager wondered if his new recruit would really come up to scratch - as he seemed very nervous? | ||
to be sitting pretty |
to be in a comfortable position. | With five games left and only one more point needed to win the league, there was no doubt Portsmouth football club were sitting pretty. | ||
institutional |
formal, | formalny | He had no institutional education. | |
to muck up |
fail, as in an exam, | zawalać | He mucked up his speaking exam, so now he'll have to repeat the year. | |
expressive ability |
how well one expresses his/her thoughts, | umiejętność wysławiania się | I have no expressive abilities. No one knows what I'm talking about. | |
freshman |
first year student in an university, | pierwszak | When I was a freshman I walked in on the wrong class three times. | |
sophomore |
second year student in a university, | drugoklasista | My sophomore year was the most difficult. | |
to hone |
improve, esp. Skills, | rozwijać | Teachers constantly hone their skills and become better teachers. | |
retentive |
said of memory; able to hold facts and remember them, | dobra pamięć | He had great retentive memory, so he passed the exam. | |
drudgery |
hard and uninteresting work, | harówka | Homework is sheer drudgery. | |
vocational school |
schools teaching specific skills for a job, | szkoła zawodowa | My brother graduated from a vocational school in engineering. | |
curriculum |
all the subjects that are taught in a school, college or university, | program nauczania | Computer studies is not on the curriculum at our school. | |
curriculum |
Latin has been introduced into the school curriculum this year. | |||
valedictorian |
the student who has received the best marks overall in his or her years in high school, college or university, | najlepszy uczen | Jane has been working really hard for the last four years to be valedictorian. | |
valedictorian |
Valedictorian is a person who gives the farewell speech at commencement. | |||
enroll |
officially join a school or course, | zapisac na kurs | You must enroll in your courses before August. | |
educational |
that teaches sth, | edukacyjna | This book is very educational | |
tutor |
a private teacher who teaches one person or a very small group, | korepetytor | She has a tutor who helps her in English. | |
tutor |
I need a few tutorial classes in math because I don't understand anything. | |||
educator |
any person who teaches, | pedagog, nauczyciel | Contemporary educators must take several methods into account nowadays. | |
pedagogue |
a teacher who teaches strictly for memorization, | pedagog | An educator must be more than a pedagogue these days. | |
sewage treatment plant |
a place where sewage is treated to render it harmless. | oczyszczalnia ścieków | The people of the community were up in arms about the proposed sewage treatment plant. The shortage of sewage treatment plants is among Poland's major environmental problems. | |
catalytic converter |
an antipollution device used in motor vehicles to render some pollutants in the exhaust gases harmless, thereby reducing emissions damage to the environment. | This old bus cranks out such noxious fumes because it has no catalytic converter. | ||
wetlands |
land that has wet and spongy soil, as a marsh, swamp, or bog. | The developers managed to get around the law by creating new wetlands elsewhere to replace those they sought to destroy. | ||
monsoon |
a season of heavy rain that comes in the summer. Also: a type of wind. | I was caught off guard by the monsoon floods but the locals took it all in stride. | ||
carbon dioxide |
a colorless, odorless, incombustible gas, CO2, present in the atmosphere and formed during respiration. | Dry ice, carbonated beverages and fire extinguishers all use carbon dioxide. | ||
stench |
an offensive smell or foul odor; a terrible stink. | The stench of burnt plastic was unmistakable. | ||
to alleviate |
to make sth easier to endure; lessen in intensity; mitigate. | The program was intended to alleviate inner city poverty. This medication should alleviate the soreness. | ||
to deplete |
to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of sth. | The drought has depleted our supply of water. The panel expressed concern over the continued depletion of the ozone layer. | ||
afforestation |
to convert (bare or cultivated land) into forest. | Afforestation efforts have met with no lack of volunteers. | ||
to deforest |
to divest or clear of forests or trees. | Local politicians turned a blind eye when the industry deforested thousands of acres of virgin wilderness. | ||
mangrove |
a tropical shrub or low tree growing in marshes or tidal shores, noted for interlacing above-ground roots sent down from its branches. | Our guide took us to see a beautiful mangrove forest. | ||
dissolve |
to make a solid become liquid; remove or destroy; disappear. | Dissolve the chocolate in the top of a double boiler: melt, render, soften. The final decree dissolved their marriage: end, terminate, finish, conclude. The mysterious rider dissolved into the mists: vanish, fade. | ||
malaise |
a condition of general bodily weakness, discomfort or vague unease, often marking the onset of a disease. Also: an unhealthy or disordered condition. | There seems to be no remedy for this global malaise. Mother isn't really sick, but she's had a malaise all winter. | ||
desertification |
the processes by which an area becomes a desert, usu. involving drought combined with the overexploitation of existing plant life. | The government revised its land use policy in an effort to halt desertification. | ||
submerged |
under the surface of water (esp. the sea) or any other enveloping medium; inundated; hidden, covered, or unknown. | The submarine submerged The raging waters submerged the tiny village. She submerged the clothes in the sudsy water. | ||
fumes |
any smokelike or vaporous exhalation, esp. of an odorous or harmful nature. | The fumes from his cigar made dining disagreeable. The smokestack fumed in great black billows. When he hung up the phone, he was really fuming: furious. | ||
to fell sth |
to knock, strike, shoot, or cut down; cause to fall: to fell a moose; to fell a tree. | Gilgamesh felled the great cedar forests where now only desert reigns. As a boy, George Washington confessed to having felled his father's cherry tree. | ||
to disseminate |
to scatter or spread widely, as if sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse. | Plato's philosophy has been disseminated throughout the world. Not only despots seek to control the dissemination of accurate information. | ||
contamination |
being dirty and dangerous because of chemicals or poison. | skażenie | Contamination of the environment is one of the burning issues. | |
paddy |
a rice field or the rice itself, esp. in the husk, either uncut or gathered. | After half a day in the rice paddies my feet began to itch like hell. | ||
to wallow |
to indulge oneself; luxuriate; revel, bask in, relish. | Pigs love to wallow: roll or lie in the mud. Since the inheritance she's been wallowing in luxury. He's been wallowing in selfpity ever since she left him. | ||
pebble |
a small, rounded stone, esp. one worn by the action of water. | He tossed pebbles at her window, trying to get her attention without waking the whole house. Djoompeeniman was an ancient board game played using pebbles of various colors. | ||
Jeśli dla niektórych z Państwa brak polskiego tłumaczenia, to co robicie na tym dziale, skoro jest to dla studentów filologii? Skoro student filologii jest poziomu B2/C1 powinien, jak nie musi, być w stanie zrozumieć znaczenie
z kontekstu. Jeśli znów rozchodzi się o wymowę, to jakim problemem jest wejść na stronę słownika takiego jak, longman, czy oxford, wpisać słowo i przeczytać transkrypcję/odsłuchać wymowę? Wystarczy odrobinę pomyśleć i odpowiedź się sama nasunie. ;) Pozdrawiam serdecznie.
Na jaki poziomie są te słówka ? Czy ich znajomość jest potrzebna do zdawania CAE ?
Wielka szkoda że, nie ma możliwości wydruku w pdf...
No właśnie w pdf by się przydało ;)
ma ktoś te wszystkie słówka w PDF ??
Zdania w przykładach są proste, co tu tłumaczyć? Zwłaszcza na tym poziomie. Ja bym raczej poprosiła o wymowę słówek. Czasem akcent albo głoska wymówiona nie tak -i klapa. Ale to drobiazg. Strona świetna, dziękuję i pozdrawiam.
Jest napisane, że to dla osób, które myślą o języku poważnie. Ucząc się zaawansowanego słownictwa, przeważnie już na poziomie B2/C1 rozumie się podaną po ang. definicję. Nie ma zatem co marudzić. :)
Moim zdaniem jeżeli ktoś już jest na filologii to powinien znać podstawowe zdania, sformułowania czy słowa jakie zostały zastosowane w tych przykładach słów ciut bardziej unikalnych, jak dla mnie bajka. Świetna strona, pozdrawiam.
Brak. Mnie np brakuje tłumaczenia zdania. I to jest też głównie największy problem w książkach. Tłumaczy się słówko a nie całe zdanie. I przez to niby zastosowanie jest - no jest... ale niepełne.
Genialny pomysł, ale nieprecyzyjne wykonanie...brak polskich tłumaczeń utrudnia pracę.
Brak?
nursery school - oznacza również ŻŁOBEK (tak podaje słownik Cambridge), kindergarten - tłumaczy się jako PRZEDSZKOLE.