westrzeSłówka z Angielskiego - Prezentacje - C1
16.11.2009
Untapped resources - niewykorzystane zasoby
to scramble - ubiegać się, rozchwytywać
to protract - przedłużać, przeciąga
ridge - grzbiet, grań
barrel - baryłka
Gas field - złoże gazu
Oil deposit - złoże roponośne
Maritime law - prawo morskie
bore - odwiert
Oil - rig - platforma wiertnicza
Prolix - rozwlekły
To resurrect - ożywiać, wskrzeszać
An amendment - poprawka
A pail - kubełek, wiaderko
A cot - łóżko dziecięce
A mail merge - korespondencja seryjna
Germane - właściwy, odpowiadający
Recodify - dekodować…
Creole - an American or Caribbean language, which is a combination of a European language and another language and which is a main language In parts of the southern US and In the Caribbean 2) someone who is related to the first Europeans who came back to the Caribbean or the southern US
Lingua franca - language which is used for communication between groups of people who speak different languages but which is not used between members of the same group
Pidgin - a language which has developed from a mixture of two languages, it is used as a way of communicating by people who do not speak each other's languages
Cashew (nut) - a small nut from a tropical American tree which can be eaten - nerkowiec
Fully - fledged - adj completely developed or trained
Sizeable - adj large
Nigger - an extremely offensive word for a black person
Loanword - a word taken from one language and used in another
Derivative - a form of something, such as a word, made or developed from another word
23.11.2009
Separation of power - podział władz(y)
Branches - gałęzie
To enforce - egzekwować
To prohibit - zabraniać
Officeholder
To restrain - powstrzymywać
Entities - podmioty
Principal -główny
Interdependent - wpółzależny
Prevalent race - rasa rządząca
Acts of genocide - akty ludobójstwa
Inprecedent cruelty - niespotykane okrucieństwo
Weapon stock - skład broni
Humanitarny treatment of captivates - humanitarne traktowanie jeńców
To adjudicate about crimes - orzekać o zbrodniach
To nourish - kultywować
Pre - Rapaelite
N a painter or writer belonging to or infuenced by the Per-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a society fouded in England in 1848 to advance the style and spirit of Italian painting before Raphael
Adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelites
Attentive
Adj. 1. giving care or attention; watchful; attentive to detail
2. marked by or offering devoted and assiduous attention to the pleasure or comfort of others
3. expressing affectionate interest though close observation and gallant gestures; he played the attentive suitor, complete with roses and bonbons
Revivalism
N 1. the spirit or activities characteristic of religious revivals
2. a desire or inclination to revive what belongs to an earlier time
Persecution
N systematic mistreatment of an individual/group by another group. The most common forms are religious persecution, ethnic persecution, and political persecution, though there is naturally some overlap between these terms. The act of killing an offender of the law.
Clumsiness
N an euphemism for someone with Down syndrome or motor skills disorder
07.12.2009
Encyclic - encyklika
Dogma - dogmat
Interdicted - zakazany
Lay- brother - laik
Avow - uznawać
Inculate - wpajać
Cosmic rays - promieniowanie kosmiczne
Outer space - przestrzeń kosmiczna
Particie - cząstki
Proton - proton
Elektron - elektron
Nuclei - jądro
Aurora - zorza
Woodwind instruments - wind instruments Rother than brass instruments forming a section o fan orchestra, including flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons (instrumenty dęte drewniane)
Molecules - a group of atoms bonded together, representing the smallest fundamental unit of a chemical compound that can take part in a chemical reaction (molekuła)
Frequency - the rate at which a vibration occurs that constitutes a wave, either in a material (as in sound waves), or in an electromagnetic field (as in radio waves and light), usually measured per second (częstotliwość)
Note - a single tone of definite pitch made by a musicial instrument or the human voice (dźwięk)
Reeds - a piece of thin cane or metal, sometimes doubled, that vibrates an a current of air to produce the sound of various musical instruments, as in the mouthpiece of a clarinet or oboe, at the base of some organ pipes, and as part of a set in the accordion and harmonica (stroik)
Harmonics - a component frequency of an oscillation or wave (harmoniczna)
Sound pressure - the difference between the instantaneous pressure at a point in the presence of a sound wave and the static pressure of the medium
Pitch - the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a ton
Standing wave - a vibration of a system in which some particular points remain fixed while others between them vibrate with the maximum amplitude (fala stojąca)
Node - a point at which the amplitude of vibration in a standing wave system is zero (węzeł)
Fingering - play (a passage) with a particular sequence of positions of the fingers (palcowanie)
30.11.2009
assembly- zgromadzenie
ballot- karta do głosowania
bicameral- bikameralny (dwuzibowy)
endorse- popierać
first past the post system- system większościowy
lower house- izba niższa
parallel system- system mieszany
party affiliation- przynależność partyjna
proportional representation system- system proporcjonalny
single-member constituency- okręg jednomandatowy
threshold- próg wyborczy
upper house- izba wyższa
enlargement - making sth bigger
enter into - to start to think or talk about sth
suspend - to stop or delay sth for a time
revive - to begin to do or use sth again
affiliate - to accept as a member
rejection - refusal
słówka Eweliny:
autumn of nations
round table talks
Polish United Worker's Party - PZPR
Democratic Party - SD
United Peasant's Party - ZSL
Confederation for an Independent Polsnd - KPN
voters disillusioned - voters whose are free from deprove of illusion
withdrawal of Russian forces - retreat of Russian forces
chancellor - prime minister in Germany
sovereignty - independence
People's Republic of Poland - PRL