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Increase your Brainpower! Business / Medicine / Fitness (4 Registered Users)

Beginners:

  • outdoors – na świeżym powietrzu

Exercising outdoors is more beneficial to our body and mind- Ćwiczenie na świeżym powietrzu jest bardziej korzystne dla naszego ciała i umysłu.

Intermediate:

  • self- confidence – pewność siebie

Learning new language increases self-confidence and brainpower- Nauka nowego języka zwiększa pewność siebie i możliwości mózgu

Advanced:

  • take advantage of … – wykorzystać …

People should always take advantage of every opportunity to increase their brainpower- Ludzie zawsze powinni wykorzystywać wszystkie okazje do zwiększenia możliwości swojego mózgu.

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  • irrespective of … – niezależnie od …
  • enterprise – przedsięwzięcie/ firma
  • aspiring for … – dążący / aspirujący do …
  • expand – zwiększyć / poszerzyć / rozbudować

Irrespective of being the president  of successful business enterprise or a youngster aspiring for success, you may expand  your brainpower in four ways, which are both pleasant and inspiring:

Learn new language or musical instrument

  • take the advantage of – wykorzystać / wykorzystywać
  • acquire – nabywać
  • trigger – spowodować / wywołać
  • in charge of … – odpowiedzialny za …

It is said that we when we enter middle-age we stop taking the advantage of the plasticity of our brain. We mostly use the skills that we have already acquired . Doing something new, complex and challenging such as learning to play a musical instrument or a new foreign language will trigger  to action those areas of the brain which are responsible for making and keeping connections with the spheres in charge of learning new things and keeping concentration.

Pay attention to your voice

  • self-confidence – pewność siebie
  • win the crowd – zdobyć tłum 😉  / popularność  / przekonać innych do siebie

We know many speakers whose communication puts us to sleep and those who can keep interest of the audience for a long time. Its is said that we should listen very carefully to the way we speak and communicate messages. It allows to energize our voice, play with it and improve our listening skills, builds  self-confidence  and allows to win the crowd .

Run/walk/swim/cycle. OUTDOORS!

  • outdoors – na świeżym powietrzu
  • predecessors – przodkowie
  • kickstart – dynamicznie: rozpocząć / nadać impet
  • processing of many stimulations – przetwarzanie wielu bodźców
  • adjust to … – przystosować się do … / dostosować się do …

The neuroscience results show that exercise reduces dementia by up to 60%. Modern anthropology suggests that it is due to our animal predecessors. When the animal makes long walks, they enter new territories which kickstarts the processing of many stimulations  which are necessary to adjust to  the new territories.

Get the rest according to the needs of your body

  • carry out the studies – przeprowadzić badania
  • brain cells – komórki mózgu
  • indicate clearly – jasno wskazywać
  • … which in turn allows to – które z kolei umożliwia …
  • process and consolidate – przetwarzać i konsolidować

The study carried out at the University of Rochester indicates clearly  that during the sleep, the brain cells open the channels which allow the waste to be eliminated. It also shows that the new connections between the neurons are opened, which in turn allows to process and consolidate the knowledge and experience which we learnt during the previous day. In the western world we gradually reduce the amount of sleep due to the modern inventions: from the electric bulb to 24/7 access of the Internet which all makes us ingore the signals when it’s time to sleep.

Przykładowe zastosowania  niektórych słów:

1. Irrespective of the consequences the manager decided to defend his team.

2. The enterprise was very successful and allowed the company to open many branches in the whole Poland.

3. The young employee aspires for success in the company.

4. When the company expanded its territory of operation the costs grew automatically.

5. We need to take advantage of the new market tendencies.

6. The nationawide company acquired some local distributors.

7. The downfall of the big factory triggered the crisis in the region.

8. He is the manager in charge of the human resources.

9. In order to achieve success in leading the team you must build your own self-confidence.

10. Although he is a manager, he spends much time outdoors monitoring the construction works.

11.He inherited the company from his family predecessors.

12. Food processing industry is partly responsible for many modern diseases.

13. You have to adjust to the style of working in this team or change the job.

14. The control indicates clearly that some money has been lost in unclear circumstances.

On the basis of various sources accessed in February 2015. The Guardian, The University of Rochester publishings as well as New Musical Express.

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The First Car-Free District. Business / Fitness (4 Registered Users)

Utrecht: the “cyclist-first” city is constructing the Netherlands’ first car-free residential district for more than 12,000 people: one of the largest of its type in the world.

  • residential district – dzielnica mieszkalna
  • enhance – zwiększyć / poszerzyć,  enhance reputation – rozsławić
  • dead-end roads – ślepe ulice
  • protrude into … – sięgać w …/ wtargnąć w …

The 24-hectare site, located between two canals in the middle of the city hopes  the area will enhance Utrecht’s reputation as a bicycling capital of Europe.  The new-build Merwede district of 6,000 homes is expected to be serviced by about 20,000 bicycles Only four dead-end roads of 60 metres in length will protrude into the car-free idyll to allow “logistical” access for petrol vehicles into the district’s outer limits. The roofs of the district’s buildings will be filled with greenery or solar panels, which would cover three hectares if put side to side.

  • quit addiction to … – rzucić uzależnienie od …
  • households – gospodarstwa domowe
  • at a heavy cost – po bardzo wysokich cenach
  • remain unassigned – pozostają nieprzypisane
  • dissuade use – zniechęcić do używania

Underground garages alongside the “logistical roads“ will offer 1,800 parking spaces for those who cannot quit their addiction to the car: one car for every three households. The parking spaces will be available for use at a heavy cost and are to remain unassigned to dissuade use. Alongside them will be 300 shared cars for residents’ use. The closest alternative parking will be 3km away.

  • settlement – osiedle
  • per capita – na głowę
  • average household – przeciętne gospodarstwo domowe
  • especially counts for young generations – ma znaczenie przede wszystkim dla młodszych pokoleń

All project was inspired by smaller-scale designs  in Paris and a 600-home settlement in Amsterdam’s Gemeente Waterleiding district.

“We have the highest number of shared cars per capita in the Netherlands. It is amazing to see how the average household is changing its habits. This especially counts for the younger generations.”

  • confirm – potwierdzić
  • lie empty – pozostają puste / nieużywane

Residents  must confirm once a year that they do not own a car or otherwise purchase a space in a multistorey car park on the edge of the district. A space was initially provided for every two households, but car ownership has fallen over time, and many of spaces now lie empty.

0:05′ space dedicated to the cars – miejsce/ przestrzeń przeznaczona dla samochodów

0:56′ fail to meet targets – nie osiągnąć celu

1:24 urban design concept – koncepcja projektu miejskiego 

2:35′ pedestrian space – obszar dla pieszych

3:05′ economic decline – spadek/ załamanie gospodarcze

Obejrzyj TUTAJ film na temat podobnych rozwiązań w Barcelonie

Moduł językowy inspirowany artykułem ‘Utrecht: Forward Thinking City Builds Car-Free District for 12 000 people’, opublikowanym na theguardian.com

 

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How Vegan Trends Transform Traditional Brands. Business/ Medicine (dostęp abonamentowy)

  • it turns out to be very profitable – okazuje się to być bardzo dochodowe
  • aforementioned- wcześniej wspomniani/ wymienieni

Meat companies and bakeries  introducing vegan sausages, vegan beer, vegan furniture and Marten’s vegan boots… And it turns out to be very profitable for all the aforementioned.

  • leap-leapt-leapt – skoczyć/ zwiększyć się (często stosowane w kontekstach przenośnych)
  • keep up with demand – nadążyć/ sprostać / zaspokoić popyt
  • shares doubled in value – udziały podwoiły swoją wartość
  • distribute dividend – wypłacić dywidendę
  • look into … – przyglądać się/ analizować

What is certain is that it was good for Greggs: its profits leapt more than 50%, to £40.6m, in the first six months of the year. Queues were forming at Greggs and it was hard to keep up with demand for the  snack. It helped to  transform the 80-year-old Newcastle-upon-Tyne-based brand into a 21st-century trendy brand. Its shares have doubled in value over the past year. The vegan sausage roll is now one of Greggs’ five bestsellers, but sales of all of its ranges have increased to the point that  35-million-pound dividend was distributed among  shareholders in July. The company is looking into vegan versions of its other bestsellers.

One way of looking at this is that veganism is great for business. Another is that vegan sausage rolls are a great marketing tool for pork sausage rolls.

  • a lot of that is down to … – wiele wynika z …
  • jackfruit – owoc chlebowca 😉
  • prominently displayed – wyraźnie przedstawiany/ przedstawiany na pierwszym planie

In May, the “fast-casual” chain Leon reported that its sales for 2018 were up 24.5% to £95m. A lot of that is down to offerings such as jack wings, in which jackfruit replaces fried chicken, and the beetroot-based love burger. In January , 46% of Leon’s sales were vegetarian, while 34% were vegan. The Love burger is the chain’s third-most popular item, prominently displayed on menus and posters.

  • phenomenon – zjawisko
  • stroll in and out of fashion – stawać się modnym i wychodzić z mody
  • eco-conscious – eko świadomi
  • core mission – podstawowa misja
  • empower – wzmacniać/ umożliwiać/ podkreślać
  • rebellious- zbuntowany/ buntowniczy
  • self-expression – wyrażanie siebie

The phenomenon is not confined to food. Dr Martens boots have strolled in and out of fashion many times in the past few decades, but the brand has become a real hit hit with eco-conscious teenagers. The fact that you can buy vegan  boots made from polyurethane plastic is in line with  company’s core mission: “empowering rebellious self-expression”.

  • account for 30% of sales- stanowić 30% sprzedaży

In some supermarkets in selected  locations, vegan products account for 30% of sales even though only 1% od British are really vegan…

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Food Brings Cultures and Companies Together. Business (4 Registered Users)

  • convinced- przekonany
  • to found – założyć (czasownik regularny, który nie ma nic wspólnego z czasownikiem ‘to find’)
  • background- tło, tutaj pochodzenie
  • to encourage sb. to sth.- przekonywać kogoś do _____
  • community- społeczność
  • a mosque- meczet
  • a get-together- spotkanie (większej ilości znajomych, członków rodziny)

In the Bristol’s International the food is prepared by a group of Iranians, Russians, Eritreans, Sudanese and Somalis. Jamaicans, Australians. Poles and native English join. The event was organised by the former BBC head of production Kalpna Woolf, who is convinced that food can build bridges as nothing else can. Woolf founded an organisation in June called 91 ways ,which refers to the 91 languages and dialects spoken in Bristol.  It is the place for everyone to come and talk, to meet people from different backgrounds and hear their stories.

 “Food is a universal language that can bring people together,” Woolf says, and 91ways is encouraging people to share their memories of family dishes and recording them.

“We now have more than 120 recipes from many different communities, such as Susan from Syria, whose full medamas (dried broad beans (fasola)  recipe was a Friday ritual when her family gathered round the table after the men had gone to the mosque. Separated by the war, she knows those get-togethers will never happen again.”

  • to assemble- zebrać/ zmontować, etc.
  • fragrant- aromatyczny
  • featherlight- lekki jak piórko
  • heritage- dziedzictwo

In the Peace Cafe’s  kitchen, Zahra, an Iranian-born community worker, is assembling a rice dish called adas polo with the help of local chef Freddy Bird. She layers fried onions and potatoes with fragrant rice and lentils (soczewica) spiced with cumin and cinnamon. Normally, the dish would have meat in it but as so many of the day’s clientele are  vegetarian. On the other side of the kitchen are piles of featherlight falafel made by Aza, who arrived from Sudan 13 years go.

“She’s telling me I’m doing it all wrong,” says Bird. “Food is a great way of speaking to people,” says Woolf, whose family came from India. “When we share food, we share our national identity, our heritage and our culture. I often quote the story of my father who said: ‘When you eat with someone, you become a part of their memory and they become a part of yours. We have heard stories of love, happiness, family, loss, war, conflict, health, what works in this city and what doesn’t. When people get together over food, they can talk about anything”.

  • to run a company – prowadzić firmę
  • vital – niezwykle istotny/ ważny/ żywotny
  • to recognise sb.’s qualifications – uznać/ potwierdzić czyjeś kwalifikacje

What strikes me is that the cafe is dominated by women. Woolf is not surprised. “Women see the value of what we are doing. In many communities it is still traditional for them to be not only the cook of the family, but more socially active. Many of the women also run small catering companies and this is a vital way for them to earn a bit of money and to work – something they generally struggle with due to language problems or the fact that their qualifications aren’t recognised.”

Based on theguardian.com Lifestyles

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Growing Apetite for Vegan Products. Business / Medicine (4 Registered Users)

Beginners:

  • launch- uruchomić

Supermarkets launch vegan products promotional campaigns – Supermarkety uruchamiają kampanie promocyjne produktów wegańskich.

Intermediate:

  • rapidly expand- dynamicznie zwiększać/ poszerzać

The supermarkets rapidly expand their vegan product range to meet the customers’ expectations – Supermarkety dynamicznie poszerzają ofertę produktów wegańskich aby zaspokoić oczekiwania klientów.

Advanced:

  • grow fourfold/ manyfold in …- zwiększyć się czterokrotnie/ wielokrotnie w okresie …

The number of vegans In Europe  has grown manyfold in recent years- Ilość wegan w Europie zwiększyła się wielokrotnie w ostatnich latach.

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  •  keep up with their customers’ increasingly health-conscious food choices – nadążyć za …/ dotrzymywać tempa coraz większej ilości klientów dokonujących świadomych wyborów żywieniowych

Britain’s grocers are going vegan in an attempt to keep up with their customers’ increasingly health-conscious food choices. 

  • launch – uruchomić
  • increase vegan and vegetarian product range by 60% –  poszerzyć oferty produktów wegańskich i wegetariańskich o 60%
  • expand rapidly – zwiększać dynamicznie / gwałtownie
  • outsell (outsold-outsold) …  – sprzedać/ sprzedawać się  się w większej ilości niż…
  • counterpart – odpowiednik

Waitrose this week launched  dedicated vegan sections in more than 130 stores after increasing its vegan and vegetarian product range by 60% . Iceland is also rapidly expanding  its vegan range after its meat-free No Bull burgers outsold  their beef counterparts so far this year, while sales of its vegetable-based food have risen by 10% over the past 12 months.

  • for environmental and health reasons – z powodów środowiskowych i zdrowotnych

Chloe Graves, who runs the vegan and vegetarian range at Waitrose, said:

‘It is just becoming more normal now to have a couple of days a week meat-free for environmental or health reasons’ .

  • grow fourfold – zwiększyć się czterokrotnie

The number of vegans in the UK, who shun all animal products including dairy and eggs, has grown fourfold in the past 10 years  to about 550,000, according to the Vegan Society.

  • tap into new trends – wpisać się w nowe trendy / mody
  • take by surprise – zaskoczyć

Neil Nugent, the head chef at Iceland, where he is helping the frozen food specialist tap into new trends:

‘The company hoped to launch more meat-free products in the autumn after finding over-50s were just as keen on the idea as young millenials. It has taken us all by surprise. Customers are saying can you do more. I think the vegan and flexitarian market is the first major food trend that has come out of social media’.

Watch/ Read/ Listen: Supermarkets Increase their Vegan Range to Meet Demand.

Moduł językowy opracowany na podstawie artykułu ‘Apetite Grows for Vegan Products at UK Supermarkets’, opublikowanego na theguardian.com 

 

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10 Exercises to Make Your Willpower Strong! Business / Medicine/ Fitness (4 Registered Users)

10 minutes of meditation

  • willpower workout – ćwiczenie na siłę woli
  • resist – opierać się / nie zgadzać się / walczyć z …

Meditation will give you the fastest results of all of the willpower workouts listed. By meditating  you are training the brain to focus and resist. Research shows that after just 2-3 days of practising meditation for 10 minutes, your brain will be able to focus better, you will have more energy, and you will be less stressed.

Work on your posture

  • posture – postawa
  • slouch – garbić się
  • rep (repetition) – powtórzenie

When testing if willpower could be strengthened, researchers asked a group of participants to work on their posture for a 2-week period. Every time they caught themselves slouching, they were to correct themselves by sitting up straight.  To get started, simply correct your posture every time you catch yourself slouching at work or at home. It sounds extremely simple, but it takes willpower to sit up straight. Every time you do, you’re essentially doing “one rep” with your willpower muscle.

Keep a food diary

  • keep track of … – śledzić / zapisywać / notować
  • benefit – korzyść
  • increase ability – zwiększyć możliwości / umiejętności
  • resist temptations – opierać się pokusom

The same study also found that those who kept a food diary improved their willpower. Most of us don’t log all of the food we eat, so it takes willpower to keep track of it all. Any similar logging of information will also work, but I recommend a food diary because of all of its benefits. Just keep the diary for 2 weeks, and it will increase your ability to resist temptations!

Use your opposite hand

  • conduct studies – prowadzić badania
  • wired – tutaj: zaprogramowany
  • chunk of the day – okres / pora / fragment dnia
  • aim for … – zmierzać do … / mieć ambicję na / do …

Using the same methodology as with posture, researchers conducted further studies that tested other corrective actions. One that worked particularly well was to use your opposite hand. Your brain is wired to use your dominant hand, so it takes willpower to use the opposite.  To get started, select a chunk of the day to use your opposite hand. It doesn’t need to be any more than an hour in order to get results. And from personal experience, if you aim for  more than an hour, you will unnecessarily tire out your willpower muscle.

Correct your speech

  • urge to … – pragnienie / chęć
  • swear words – przekleństwa
  • consciously – świadomie
  • contractions- formy skrócone

Another test that the researchers conducted was to change subjects’ natural speech. This includes resisting the urge to use swear words, or to say “hello” instead of “hey”. Again, it takes willpower to consciously go against your instincts. It doesn’t matter how you correct your speech, as long as you change your natural speech habits.  To get started, select a chunk of the day to practise and choose the words you will change, i.e. stop using contractions:“do not” instead of “don’t”, etc.  during work hours and it worked very well. Like all exercises listed above, doing this for just 2 weeks can vastly improve your willpower!

Create and meet deadlines

  • pick a task – wybrać ćwiczenie / zadanie
  • put off – odkładać na później / opóźniać
  • set a deadline – ustalić ostateczny termin wykonania
  • accomplish – osiągnąć / zrealizować
  • adhere to … – dostosować się do … / dotrzymać …
  • cut back on … – ograniczyć …

Creating self-imposed deadlines you can work your willpower in the same way. To get started, simply pick a task on your to-do list that you may have been putting off. Set a deadline to accomplish it, and make sure you adhere to it. The participants who followed this process for 2 weeks not only got their old to-dos done, but also improved their diets, exercised more, and cut back on cigarettes and alcohol.

Keep track on your spendings

  • spendings – wydatki
  • researcher – naukowiec
  • keep track of … – być świadomym / zapisywać, etc.

In the same way most of us don’t track the food that we eat, many of us don’t track our spending either. Even if you don’t cut back on spending – which would also be a willpower workout – researchers found that simply keeping track of of where your money went will improve your willpower.

Deal with temptations

  • deal with … – radzić sobie z …
  • resist a craving – oprzeć się zachciance / pokusie
  • tempting – kuszący
  • consistent – nieustanny / konsekwentny / spójny

Resisting a craving will be hard. Carry something small but tempting with you. It doesn’t need to be for an entire day, but for long enough that you will be truly tempted. By consistently saying “no”, you will increase your ability to resist other temptations.

Be careful about automatic decisions

  • mindful – świadomy / ostrożny
  • make / take daily decisions – podejmować codzienne decyzje

A final exercise is to simply be more mindful of your decisions throughout the day. We are often so lost in thought, that our actions become automatic. Taking time to think about why you are making your daily decisions will increase your ability to focus and resist temptations.

Moduł językowy opracowany na podstawie artykułu: 10 Simple Exercises that will Strengthen Your Willpower opublikowanego na willpowered.co

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Stress is Good 4U;) Business/Medicine (4 Registered Users)

  • defining feature – najważniejsza cecha
  • contribute to … – mieć udział w … / przyczynić się do …
  • affect – mieć wpływ na …  (zwykle w kontekstach negatywnych, neutralnie: ‘influence’)
  • equip with … – wyposażyć w …
  • dull and meaningless – pusty i nic nie znaczący

Stress has become a defining feature of the 21st century, contributing to the mental-health crisis, affecting unborn children. But it is not always the villain it is made out to be. Psychologists are keen to equip us with the knowledge that some stress can be good, healthy and productive. This type is known as “eustress” and without it, they say, our lives would be dull and meaningless.

  • have a bad reputation – tutaj cieszyć się złą sławą/ mieć złą opinię
  • crucial to survival – niezbędny dla przetrwania
  • elevate performance (świetne!) zwiększać jakość, np. pracy, nauki, formę sportową
  • alertness – uważność
  • adapt to …  – przystosować się do …

Daniela Kaufer, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley.

“Stress has got such a bad reputation. There’s this perception that stress is always bad for the brain, but that’s not true. Your stress response is crucial to your survival. It elevates your performance, is super-important for alertness and prepares you to adapt to the next thing that comes along.  Exams being a good example”.

  • acquaint with … -zapoznać się z … / poznać …
  • take oneself out of comfort zone – wyjść ze strefy komfortu

This effect is something that business relationship mentors are  well acquainted with. If you take yourself out of your comfort zone, it stretches you and pushes you. It improves everything about you.

  • it is initially terrifying – na poczatku jest to przerażające
  • become second nature – staje się naturalne
  • habituate to … – przywyknąć do …
  • stimulus/stimuli – bodziec / bodźce

What initially is terrifying, getting up in front of numerous people, becomes second nature. We habituate to frequently experienced stimuli. And then, when you’re used to it, you don’t have that same physiological response.”

meet challenge – sprostać wyzwaniu

growth opportunity – szansa rozwoju

cope with … – radzić sobie z …

  • look at deadlines and workload as a challenge to be met or a growth opportunity rather than something that is impossible to cope with,
  • reflect on the positive sides of your work,
  • get used to your emotions and learn to live with them and be more accepting of them rather than trying to over-manage them

 

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Sweet Addiction. Medicine (dostęp abonamentowy)

Beginners:

ripe fruit – dojrzałe owoce

Ripe fruit are healthier than any sweet products – Dojrzałe owoce są zdrowsze niż jakiekolwiek inne słodkie produkty.

Intermediate:

display symptoms – ujawniać/ przejawiać/ pokazywać/ dawać symptomy

Cancer of  digestive system organs does not display symptoms for many years – Rak organów przewodu pokarmowego nie daje symptomów przez całe lata.

Advanced:

since the inception of … – od początku …/ od powstania …

Ripe fruit have been the source of sugar for us since the inception of humanity – Od początku ludzkości dojrzałe owoce są dla nas źródłem cukru.

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  • addictive – uzależniający
  • since the inception of humanity – od powstania / od początku ludzkości
  • ripe fruit – dojrzałe owoce
  • universally available – ogólnie dostępny

Science claims sugar is as addictive  as narcotics or nicotine. Sugar becomes the substance of first choice for the laboratory rats during the experiments. Sugar has given us the high since the inception of humanity … in the form of honey and ripe fruit. And now when sugar is so universally available  in the whole range of products- we are hooked.

  • excessive consumption – przesadne / zbyt duże / niebezpiecznie wysokie spożycie
  • obesity – otyłość
  • promote development of diabetes – przyczyniać się do … / wspierać rozwój cukrzycy
  • raise blood pressure – podnosić ciśnienie krwi
  • fatten liver – otłuszczać wątrobę

The excessive consumption  of sugar results in obesity, promotes the development of diabetes, raises blood pressure  and fattens liver. The problem is that in case of sugar consumption our body will not tell us ‘enough’… contrary to high doses of salt consumed. Giving up may be as hard as resigning from other addictive substances: attention deficit, depression, etc. Advanced science hopes there is the answer in genetics… as we respond to sugar differently.

  • develop addiction to … – uzależniać się od … 
  • on a daily basis – na co dzień / stale
  • display addiction symptoms – przejawiać symptomy uzależnienia
  • fall prey to addictions – padać ofiarą uzależnienia
  • so far, so good, so what – no dobrze, i co dalej

There some people who never develop addiction even if they are exposed to sugar on a daily basis . That’s also true with other addictive substances… there are individuals who drink a glass of wine daily for decades and don’t display addiction symptoms while other people fall prey to addiction  just after a couple of weeks of excessive drinking. So far, so good, so what:) ?

  • Giving up your favorite tiramisu, creme brûlée or a bar of chocolate…?
  • Ready for the sacrifice, challenge, decision?

Watch HERE the film on development of addiction to sugar

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Strawberries at Wimbledon:). Business Idioms (dostęp otwarty)

Beginners:

  • test perfectly- świetnie się sprawdzić

The sellers prefer to employ people who tested perfectly in the previous tournaments – Sprzedawcy wolą zatrudniać ludzi, którzy doskonale sprawdzili się w czasie poprzednich turniejów.

Intermediate:

  • cherish tradition- kultywować tradycję

Strawberry is one of the Wimbledon’s symbols and the British cherish this tradition – Truskawka jest jednym z symbol Wimbledon i Brytyjczycy kultywują tę tradycję.

Advanced:

  • turn up at the terraces- pojawić się/ przyjść na trybuny

In summer thousands of spectators turn up at the Wimbledon terraces with the bowl of strawberries- Latem tysiące widzów pojawiają się na trybunach Wimledonu z miseczką truskawek.

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  • go back to the 1950s – sięga lat pięćdziesiątych / pochodzi z …
  • premium – najwyższa jakość
  • meet high expectations – sprostać najwyższym oczekiwaniom
  • confectionary shops – cukiernie

A cup of strawberries is a symbol of the most famous tennis tournament in the world. The story of cooperation between the hosts and some strawberry farmers goes back to the 1950s. Only the premium  berries are accepted… only the special British varieties which meet the high expectations. Some London confectionary shops  have been supplying the strawberry cakes for almost a century.

  • suppliers – dostawcy
  • obtain – otrzymać / uzyskać
  • turn up at the terraces – pojawić się na widowni
  • volume of orders – wartość / wielkość zamówienia
  • scone – babeczka

All the suppliers have to obtain the offcial license. At first, the contracts were on a much smaller scale but as the size of the tournament grew and more people turned up at the terraces, the volume of orders grew as well. The final orders arrive daily, in the late hours. And the team of workers is ready to bake overnight the delivery of 10 000 scones, all handmade, all perfectly round. The volume of the order depends on the day… in the final stages of the tournament more people come and spend longer hours, if it’s going to rain people will eat more, etc.

  • test perfectly – świetnie się sprawdzać
  • rush nights – gorące noce / szalone wieczory, etc.
  • word of mouth – marketing szeptany
  • cherish tradition – kultywować tradycję
  • take by surprise – zaskoczyć
  • crepe – naleśnik
  • don’t go together – nie pasują do siebie

There are many criteria on the basis of which the hosts estimate the consumption. The confectionaries never advertise for the staff: they want well-trained employees who tested perfectly in the rush night of the previous years. On the basis of the word of mouth they get over 40% of people returning. Wimbledon cherishes the tradition , and the suppliers are sometimes taken by surprise … when some years ago they wanted to introduce strawberry crepe… and they even set up a nice crepe operation… they found out that the crepes and British don’t go together.

Stars’ Fav Way to Eat Wimbledon Strawberries

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Obsession with Healthy Lifestyle. Business / Medicine / Cosmetology / Fitness (dostęp abonamentowy)

  • distinct from – odmienny od…/ inny niż..
  • widespread condition – powszechna choroba/ popularne zaburzenie, etc.
  • currently – obecnie
  • to recognize – uznać/ uważać za …
  • to present symptoms – ukazywać/ “zdradzać” objawy.

Nagranie wymowy:

Distinct from other eating disorders, orthorexia is “an unhealthy obsession with otherwise healthy eating”. It’s unknown how widespread the condition is because it is not currently recognized as a clinical diagnosis. As awareness of healthy eating grows and more consumers than ever before go vegan and gluten free, clinicians say they are encountering more patients presenting orthorexia symptoms. Now, some health experts are calling for its formal recognition.

  • 0:33′ tied to …  – łączony z / kojarzony z …
  • 0:40′ create guidelines – kreować / tworzyć wytyczne
  • 0:44 disorders – zaburzenia
  • 1:16′ – in / with moderation – z umiarem

Watch here the Film about Orthorexia.

  • exclusively – wyłącznie/ jedynie
  • allergic to … – uczulony na …
  • blood tests – badania krwi
  • convenient – wygodne/ łatwe, etc.
  • it is estimated  that … – szacuje się/ uważa się, że …
  • to suffer from … – cierpieć na …

Twenty years ago, many of the patients  with anorexia were vegetarians. Now, they also talk about eating exclusively organic food or say that they are lactose intolerant and allergic to gluten, when their blood tests show that they are not. These explanations are convenient ways to hide their fear of eating high calorie foods or foods prepared by others. It is estimated that nowadays more than 30 million people may suffer from this condition in the US alone.

  • at a time – okresowo/ “co jakiś czas”, etc.
  • grocery aisles – alejka ( tutaj: w sklepach)  z produktami spożywczymi
  • stocked with … – wypchane/ pełne … 
  • slippery road – śliski grunt
  • to develop eating disorder – zachorować/ zapaść na zaburzenia związane z odżywianiem się 
  • to run out of … – skończyć się/ wyczerpać się

These days, most of us probably know at least one person who, in an effort to be healthy cut out entire food groups or restricted eating to juice drinking  for days at a time. Supermarket grocery aisles are stocked with gluten free products and soy cheese, while vegan restaurants seem to pop up every month in a big city.  But it’s a slippery road from trying to eat right to developing an eating disorder. People start to restrict certain food groups with the best of intentions. First they become vegetarian, then vegan, then raw and finally they may run out of the things to eat….

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