niedziela, 20 stycznia 2013

#10 Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity


PLAY STH OUT - realise sth, respond

1) I didn't know how to play my card out when he had gone all-in.
2) If you know how to play it out, you will win.

NONETHELESS - nevertheless

1) Nonetheless, we achieved something extraordinary in our simple life by going there.
2) Nonetheless, it was worth to go there.

BEARING - direction

1) If you lose your way with no sense of bearing, you will be in big troubles.
2) Having no sense of bearing in a forest means that you gonna have a bad time.

CAPACITY - ability (to learn for example)

1) My capacity to learn new things connected with IT is pretty good.
2) His capacity of mastering characters in League of Legends is really at low level.

SEAMLESS - without interruptions

1) Seamless learning is all I need to pass an examination.
2) Seamless data transfering at rush hours is something that rarely happens.

FROM WAIST UP - from a waist to head

1) Being naked from the waist up is common thing while being examined by a doctor.
2) He was seen naked from waist up while going to a bathroom.

POP INTO - coming in suddenly with momentum

1) I popped into a party and drank 2 shots.
2) Having popped into a classroom, he made an excuse for being late.

#9 Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration


HUMUNGOUS - huge, tremendous

1) I've just consumed a humungous meal.
2) Humungous dinner is all I need today.

DIGITIZE - change to digital signal

1) I dignitized my books so as to make them more available to students.
2) A dignitized book isn't as good as traditional one.

POKE - nudge

1) I poked him since he was trying to steal butter from a shop.
2) People are constantly poking me in trams.

LARGE-SCALE - widely-ranging

1) It was a large-scale investition conducted by Spanish government.
2) Our products are being sold large-scale currently.

PREAMBLE - introduction, introductory information

1) He started his speech with an awesome preamble.
2) Preamble data is now being exposed on his screen.

TINY - small, little

1) He is such a tiny man. He's only 150.
2) She was able to hold tight heavy weight in her tiny hands.

INHERENTLY - by nature

1) He is demonstrative inherently
2) Dogs are inherently pacific.

czwartek, 10 stycznia 2013

#8 Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am!



LOOK STH UP - look for something, search

1) I will try to look this word up in a dictionary.
2) I need to look it up in order to check if I am right.

RATTY - messy

1) Our hotel room was really ratty.
2) Ratty places make me sad.

ODD - weird

1) He is very odd. He buries money in his socks.
2) Although she is odd, I like her.

CROSS-REFERENCE - link, referent

1) There was a cross-reference between these two murders.
2) A cross-reference between these 2 people seems weird.

OBSOLETE - dated, old-fashioned

1) I got rid of some of my obsolete clothes.
2) This furniture is really obsolete.

COVERAGE - report, tale, dispatch

1) I prepared a coverage concerning my project.
2) He was given a coverage while going to work.

SHOW UP - come into sight, occur

1) They showed up suddenly and startled me.
2) All unclear proofs were shown up.