środa, 21 września 2011

Słówko dnia: bird

bird:
1. ptak
2. panienka (GB)
to pull the birds podrywać panienki
3. model/okaz
an old bird babsko

Idiomy:
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush lepszy wróbel w garści niż gołąb na dachu
birds of a feather flock together ciągnie swój do swego
to tell somebody about the birds and the bees powiedzieć komuś skąd się biorą dzieci
it's the early bird that catches the worm kto rano wstaje temu pan bóg daje
as free as a bird wolny jak ptak
the bird has flown ptaszek się ulotnił
a little bird told me (that) gdzieś słyszałem (że)
(strictly) for the birds bez sensu/dla głupich
to do bird odsiadywać/siedzieć w kiciu
to get the bird zostać wygwizdanym
to give/flip somebody a bird wygwizdać kogoś
to kill two birds with one stone upiec dwie pieczenie przy jednym ogniu
to sing like a bird śpiewać jak słowik

Cytaty:

Observe intently the birds of heaven, because they do not sow seed or reap or gather into storehouses; still YOUR heavenly Father feeds them. Are YOU not worth more than they are?

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray,
With joyous musick wake the dawning day!


You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.




Bird of prey,
Bird of prey,
Flying high,
Flying high.

In the summer sky,
Flying high.

Gently passing by,
Flying high.

Take me on your flight.
Flying high.

wtorek, 20 września 2011

Słówko dnia: bell

bell:
1. dzwon, dzwonek, dzwoneczek
to ring the bells bić w dzwony
2. dzwonek
door bell dzwonek u drzwi
3. dzwonek (np ostrzegawczy)
4. (rozmowa telefoniczna)
to give somebody a bell zadzwonić do kogoś
5. dzwonek (w botanice)
6. szklanka
to ring eight bells wybić osiem szklanek
7. dzwon, dzwonek, czara głosowa
tubular bells dzwony rurowe
8. gong (w boksie)

Idiomy:
the name rings a bell nazwisko wydaje mi się znajome
does that ring any bells with you? czy to ci się z czymś kojarzy?
with bell, book and candle uciekając się do wszelkich możliwych sposobów
to be as sound as a bell być zdrowym jak rydz
to be saved by the bell wyratować się w ostatniej chwili
to do something with bells on zrobić coś z największą przyjemnością
to bell the cat podjąc się ryzykowanego zadania

bell (2):
1. ryk, jazgot

Cytaty:

Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.

Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.


Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light.




I'm rolling thunder, pouring rain
I'm coming on like a hurricane
My lightning's flashing across the sky
You're only young but you're gonna die
I won't take no prisoners won't spare no lives
Nobody's putting up a fight
I got my bell I'm gonna take you to hell
I'm gonna get ya, satan get ya

Hells bells
Hells bells, you got me ringing
Hells bells, my temperature's high
Hells bells
l ]
I'll give you black sensations up and down your spine
If you're into evil, you're a friend of mine
See the white light flashing as I split the night
Cos if good's on the left then I'm sticking to the right
I won't take no prisoners won't spare no lives
Nobody's puttin' up a fight
I got my bell I'm gonna take you to hell
I'm gonna get ya satan get ya

Hells bells
Hells bells, you got me ringing
Hells bells, my temperature's high
Hells bells

Hells bells, satan's coming to you
Hells bells, he's ringing them now
Those hells bells, the temperature's high
Hells bells, across the sky
Hells bells, they're taking you down
Hells bells, they're dragging you down
Hells bells, gonna split the night
Hells bells, there's no way to fight
Hells bells

poniedziałek, 19 września 2011

Słówko dnia: beauty

beauty:
1. piękno, uroda
an area of outstanding natural beauty obszar o wyjątkowo pięknym krajobrazie
2. piękność (kobieta)
The Beauty and the Beast Piękna i Bestia
3. zaleta, urok
the beauty of it is that najlepsze w tym jest to
4. cudo
a beauty of a car cudo, nie samochód

Idiomy:
Age before beauty. Starsi mają pierwszeństwo.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Nie to ładne, co ładne, ale co się komu podoba.

Cytaty:

BEAUTY: An aesthetic radiance that delights the soul; a quality much admired in women, landscapes and tropical fish, but curiously out of favor in art throughout the modern era.

Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.


Glance at the sun.
See the moon and the stars.
Gaze at the beauty of the earth's greenings.
Now,
Think.
  • Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), tr. Gabriele Uhlein, Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen (1983), p. 45.






I know you’re fed up
Like a lead up for us
All they talk about is
What is going down?
What’s been messed up for us?
When I look around I see blue skies
I see butterflies for us

Listen to the sound and lose it
Its sweet music and dance with me
There is beauty in the world
So much beauty in the world
Always beauty in the world
So much beauty in the world
Shake your booty boys and girls for the beauty in the world
Pick your diamond pick your pearl there is beauty in the world
All together now

We need more lovin’
We need more money, they say
Change is gonna come
Like the weather
They say forever
They say
When they’re in between
Notice the blue skies
Notice the butterflies
Notice me

Stop and smell the flowers
And lose it the sweet music and dance with me
There is beauty in the world
So much beauty in the world
Always beauty in the world
There is beauty in the world
Shake your booty boys and girls for the beauty in the world
Pick your diamond pick your pearl there is beauty in the world
All together now

Heya throw your hands up and holla
Throw your hands up and holla
When you don’t know what to do
Don’t know if you’ll make it through
Remember god is giving you beauty in the world
So love (Beauty in the world)
Yeah love (Beauty in the world)

There is beauty in the world (Beauty in the world)
Beauty in the world (Beauty in the world)
Shake your booty boys and girls (Boys and Girls)
All the beauty in the world (Beauty in the world)
Pick your diamond pick your pearl (Pick your pearl)
There is beauty in the world (Beauty in the world)
All together now
Yeah love
Yeah love
Oh love
All together now

Hey baby when I’m looking at you
I know it’s fact is true
There is hope for love
There is beauty in the world
Hey baby
Hey baby when I’m looking at you
I know this vibe is true
There’s love
There’s hope for love
There’s beauty in the world

niedziela, 18 września 2011

Słówko dnia: bear

bear:
1. nieść
borne on the wind niesiony przez wiatr.
2. przynieść
the waves bore us to the shore fale zniosły nas na brzeg
3. nosić
envelopes bearing the compnay's logo koperty noszące logo firmy
4. nosić (np tytuł)
5. (zatrzymać, pamiętać)
to bear something in mind pamiętać o czymś/mieć coś w pamięci
6. znieść
it's more than I can bear to jest nie do zniesienia
7. udźwignąć, dźwigać
to bear the weight of something wytrzymać ciężar czegoś
8. ponieść (zaakceptować)
9. wytrzymywać
the plan won't bear close scrunity plan przy próbie głębszej analizy okazuje się nienajlepszy
10. (pielęgnować)
to bear somebody something darzyć kogoś czymś
11. urodzić/odnieść/przynieść
to bear interest przynosić odsetki
12. urodzić, powić
to bear somebody a son dać komuś syna

bear (2)
1. niedźwiedź, niedźwiedzica (zwierzę)
2. miś, niedźwiadek (zabawka)
3. "niedźwiedź" (pejoratywnie o człowieku)
4. niedźwiedź (spekulant grający na zniżkę)

Idiomy:
to be like a bear with sore head być złym jak osa

Cytaty:

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
  • Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain (1903), p. 60.



The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Magnificent bears of the Sierra are worthy of their magnificent homes. They are not companions of men, but children of God, and His charity is broad enough for bears. They are the objects of His tender keeping.
  • John Muir, reported in Linnie Marsh Wolfe, John of the Mountains: the Unpublished Journals of John Muir (1938), p. 82.







There's a bear inside your stomach
The cub's been kicking from within
He's loud, though without vocal chords
We'll put an end to him
We'll make all the right appointments
No one ever has to know
And then tomorrow I'll turn 21
We'll script another show
We'll play charades up in the Chelsea
Drink champagne although you shouldn't be
We'll be blind and dumb until we fall asleep
None of our friends will come
They dodge our calls
And they have for quite a while now
It's not a shock
You don't seem to mind and I just can't see how

We're too old
We're not old, old at all
Just too old
We're not old, old at all

There's a bear inside your stomach
The cub's been kicking you for weeks
And if this isn't all a dream
Well then we'll cut him from beneath
Well we're not scared of making caves
Or finding food for him to eat
We're terrified of one another
And terrified of what that means
But we'll make only quick decisions
And you'll just keep me in the waiting room
And all the while I'll know we're fucked
And not getting unfucked soon
When we get home we're bigger strangers than we've ever been before
You sit in front of snowy television, suitcase on the floor

We're too old
We're not old, old at all
Just too old
We're not old, old at all
Just too old
We're not old, old at all
Just too old
We're not old, old at all
Just too old
We're not old, old at all
Just too old
We're not old, old, old, old at all 

sobota, 17 września 2011

Słówko dnia: bat

bat (1):
1. nietoperz


Idiomy:
as blind as bat ślepy jak kret
like a bat out of hell na złamanie karku
to have bats in the belfry mieć bzika
old bat starucha, babsko


bat (2):
1. Kij baseballowy/krykietowy
table tenis bat rakieta do tenisa stołowego
2. pała, pałka
3. cios, uderzenie
4. gracz "przy kiju" (w sporcie)


Idiomy:
to do something off one's own bat zrobić coś z własnej inicjatywy
to go to bat for somebody brać stronę kogoś, być za kimś
off the bat natychmiast
to play a straight bat grać czysto


bat (3):
1. Tempo
at an awful bat na złamanie karku


bat (4)
1. mrugnięcie


Idiomy:
without batting an eye bez zmrużenia oka


bat (5)
1. popijawa
to go on a bat pójść w tango


Cytat:
The sun was set; the night came on apace,
And falling dews bewet around the place;
The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings,
And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.
  • John Gay, Shepherd's Week, Wednesday; or, The Dumps.





The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling,
way down in the valley tonight.
There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye,
and a blade shining oh so bright.
There's evil in the air and there's thunder in sky,
and A killer's on the bloodshot streets.
Oh and down in the tunnel where the deadly are rising,
Oh I swear I saw a young boy down in the gutter,
He was starting to foam in the heat.

Oh baby you're the only thing in this whole world,
that's pure and good and right.
And wherever you are and wherever you go,
there's always gonna be some light.
But I gotta get out,
I gotta break it out now,
Before the final crack of dawn.
So we gotta make the most of our one night together.
When it's over you know,
We'll both be so alone.

Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes.
When the night is over
Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone gone gone.
Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes.
But when the day is done and the sun goes down,
and the moonlights shining through,
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven,
I'll come crawling on back to you.

I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram,
on a silver black phantom bike.
When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry,
and we're all about to see the light.
Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole.
Everything is stunted and lost.
And nothing really rocks
And nothing really rolls
And nothing's ever worth the cost.
And I know that I'm damned if I never get out,
And maybe I'm damned if I do,
But with every other beat I've got left in my heart,
You know I'd rather be damned with you.
If I gotta be damned you know I wanns be damned,
dancing through the night with you.
If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned.
Gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned.
If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned,
Dancing through the night
Dancing through the night
Dancing through the night with you.

Oh baby you're the only thing in this whole world,
that's pure and good and right.
And wherever you are and wherever you go,
there's always gonna be some light.
But I gotta get out,
I gotta break it out now,
Before the final crack of dawn.
So we gotta make the most of our one night together.
When it's over you know,
We'll both be so alone.

Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes.
When the night is over
Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone gone gone.
Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes.
But when the day is done and the sun goes down,
and the moonlights shining through,
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven,
I'll come crawling on back to you.

I can see myself tearing up the road,
Faster than any other boy has ever gone.
And my skin is raw but my soul is ripe.
No-one's gonna stop me now,
I gotta make my escape.
But I can't stop thinking of you,
and I never see the sudden curve until it's way too late.
I never see the sudden curve 'till it's way too late.

Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun.
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike.
And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell.
And the last thing I see is my heart,
Still beating,
Breaking out of my body,
And flying away,
Like a bat out of hell.
Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun.
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike.
And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell.
And the last thing I see is my heart.
Still beating, still beating,
Breaking out of my body and flying away,
Like a bat out of hell.
Like a bat out of hell.
Like a bat out of hell.
Oh like a bat out of hell!
Oh like a bat out of hell!
Like a bat out of hell!

wtorek, 13 września 2011

Słówko dnia: base

base:
1. (spodnia część czegoś) podstawa, baza, podnóże, stelaż
a cake with sponge base tort na spodzie biszkoptowym
2. spód
3. centrala, baza
London was my base for exploring England. Londyn był moją bazą wypadową do zwiedzania Anglii.
4. (w wojsku) baza
naval base baza morska
5. podstawa, baza
this discovery became the base for further research to odkrycie stało się podstawą dalszych badań
6. podstawowy składnik
7. podłoże, spoiwo
8. podstawa, nasada, odcinek lędźwiowy (kręgosłupa)
9. (w matematyce) podstawa
in base 2 przy podstawie 2
10. (w geometrii) podstawa
11. (w chemii) zasada
12. (w baseballu) baza

Idiomy:
to be off the base mylić się
to catch somebody off base zaskoczyć kogoś/ zbić z pantałyku
to steal a base on somebody wysforować się przez kogoś
to touch all the bases wziąć wszystko pod uwagę
to touch base pogadać


Tym razem zamiast piosenki właściwej:


Co to? Po odpowiedź zapraszam na Wikipedię

wtorek, 6 września 2011

Słowko dnia: bar

bar:
1. pręt, sztaba, sztabka, belka, drążek
a bar of gold sztabka złota
2. tabliczka, baton, batonik, kostka
3. pręt (kraty), sztaba, antaba, sztacheta
to put somebody behind bars wsadzić kogoś z kraty
4. knajpa, bar, kontuar
coffe bar kawiarenka
5. stoisko
stocking bar stoisko z pończochami
6. szlaban, rogatka, przeszkoda zakaz
a total bar on imports of cars całkowity zakaz importu samochodów
7. adwokatura, palestra
to be called to the bar zostać adwokatem
8. sąd
9. drążek, poprzeczka
parallel bars poręcze
10. takt
two beats in a bar tak na dwie czwarte
11. ławica przybrzeżna, łacha
12. smuga, galon na wstążce orderowej
13. pasek
bar sinister skośnica w prawą
14. pasek, belka
15. element grzewczy

bar (2):
1. bar (meteorologia)

Idiomy:
No holds barred wszystkie chwyty dozwolone

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