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czas się ciągnie TIME WEARS ON
czas upływa TIME ELAPSES
zapoczątkować owocne dyskusje TO GENERATE FRUITFUL DISCUSSIONS
niestabilny traktat pokojowy nie był uhonorowany || ustanowić niestabilny pokój FRAGILE PEACE AGREEMENT WAS RENEGED ON/VIOLATED || BRING ABOUT FRAGILE PEACE /rɪ'neg/
cierpieć na napady niewyraźnego widzenia TO SUFFER BOUTS OF BLURRED VISION
strasznie uzależniony HOPELESSLY ADDICTED
lata formowania osobowości, pierwsze lata FORMATIVE YEARS
ujawnić nową politykę dotyczącą czegoś UNVEIL NEW POLICY ON
spełnić obietnicę TO HONOR THE PLEDGE TO
badać przeszłość DELVE INTO THE PAST
prawdziwie poruszony GENUINELY MOVED
kwestionować zasadność takiego podejścia TO QUESTION THE WISDOM of such an approach
wymagać katorżniczej pracy TO REQUIRE BACKBREAKING WORK
someone or something that is new and different and makes everything seem more exciting A BREATH OF FRESH AIR Angela's so cheerful and lively - she's like a breath of fresh air when she visits.
Zaraz wrócę. I'll be back IN A FLASH.
o ósmej punktualnie eight o'clock ON THE DOT
cały i zdrowy SAFE AND SOUND
kompletny wariat STARK RAVING MAD
Miał miejsce (niepotrzebny) wybuch przemocy na wielką skalę. AN OUTBREAK OF (GRATUITOUS) LARGE-SCALE VIOLENCE OCCURED.
posłużyć jako brutalne przypomnienie czegoś TO SERVE AS A STARK REMINDER OF
całkiem goły STARK NAKED
Gleba jest całkowicie wysuszona. The soil is BONE DRY.
gromadzić(2) majątek TO ACCUMULATE/AMASS wealth
odziedziczyć wielki(2) majątek. TO COME INTO CONSIDERABLE/VAST WEALTH
obnosić się ze swoim bogactwem TO FLAUNT ONE'S WEALTH
interesować się polityką (po amatorsku) TO DABBLE IN POLITICS TO DABBLE IN to take a slight and not very serious interest in a subject, or try a particular activity for a short period
porzucić politykę TO ABANDON POLITICS
ceny spadły(3) PRICES DROPPED / PLUMMETED / SLUMPED to plummet/to slump - NAGLE spaść
ceny strasznie się wahały PRICES FLUCTUATED WILDLY
ceny wahały się w różnych sezonach PRICES FLUCTUATED ACCORDING TO THE SEASON
żądać (zbyt) wysokich(2) sum za... TO CHARGE EXORBITANT/HIGH PRICES FOR exorbitant /ɪgzɔ.bɪ.t ə nt/ Exorbitant prices and demands, etc. are much too large The bill for dinner was exorbitant.
ceny pozostały stabilne PRICES REMAINED STEADY
ceny się podniosły PRICES ROSE
Ceny strzeliły(4) w górę. / Ceny strasznie poszły w górę. PRICES SHOT UP/SOARED/SPIRALLED/WENT THROUGH THE ROOF PRICES SOARED DRAMATICALLY. SOAR rise quickly Temperatures will soar into the eighties over the weekend./House prices soared a further twenty per cent. SPIRAL If costs, prices, etc. spiral, they increase faster and faster. Spiralling costs have squeezed profits.
Utracić pozycję na rynku w wyniku zawyżania cen PRICE ONESELF OUT OF THE MARKET If a company prices itself out of the market, it charges so much for a product or service that no one wants to buy it.
przytyć(2) GAIN/PUT ON SURPLUS WEIGHT
ograniczona ilość wody SCARCE WATER As diplomats wrangle over how to share the scarce water, downriver farmers in Texas and Mexico have grown desperate.
fala pływowa / (metafor.) ogromna fala czegoś (np. kontrowersji, winy) a TIDAL WAVE of controversy, guilt That attack on a mother of five caused a tidal wave of controversy, forcing top Democrats to abandon one of their own.
całkowicie się zgadzać(2) TO HEARTILY/WHOLE-HEARTEDLY AGREE
przyjechać punktualnie na... TO ARRIVE IN GOOD TIME FOR
Policja przyjechała w doskonałym(3) czasie, kiedy... Police arrived WITH PERFECT / IMMACULATE / EXQUISITE TIMING just as... IMMACULATE perfect and without any mistakes
mieć dokładny czas(2) (być zawsze dokładnie o czasie?) TO HAVE PRECISE / IMPECCABLE TIMING
czas leci TIME FLIES
powoli lecz systematycznie SLOWLY BUT SURELY They feel that things are getting better, slowly but surely.
w mgnieniu oka in the twinkling of a eye
bardzo szybko IN (NEXT TO) NO TIME We'll be home in next to no time.
od niepamiętnych czasów FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL
w ostatniej chwili IN THE NICK OF TIME
zabijać czas TO KILL TIME
praca pochłaniająca czas A TIME-CONSUMING JOB
długotrwała umowa A LONG-STANDING AGREEMENT
to była kwestia minut IN A MATTER OF MINUTES
burzyć miasto/budynek TO RAZE A BUILDING/A CITY TO THE GROUND The town was razed to the ground in the bombing raid - not a building was left standing. And, of course, it's much easier to raze a building and build something over it. The worst calamity in living memory left about 40,000 homes razed.
zaangażować się w politykę wewnętrzną TO ENTER DOMESTIC POLITICS
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