Start To Feel Confident and To Deal With Things Successfully
Start To Feel Confident and To Deal With Things Successfully
Start To Feel Confident and To Deal With Things Successfully
Words of wisdom
1. Wise words – мудрі слова
2. find one’s feet – start to feel confident and to deal with things successfully; привикнути до нової
ситуації
3. Do the trick – to produce a desired result; зробити свою справу, спрацювати
4. Primatologist – a person who studies the members of older Primates especially other than recent
humans
5. Setback – a slowing of progress; невдача
6. Columnist – observer; оглядач
7. Learning curve – the course of progress made in learning something; крива навчання
8. Learn the ropes – find out how something is done in a particular place or situation: знати всі
тонкощі
9. Work (or run) oneself into the ground – exhaust oneself by working or running very hard.
10.Profound – very great and intense; глибокий
11.Gut feeling – шосте відчуття
12.over the hill - no longer young, and therefore no longer attractive or good at doing things
13.go far - if you think that someone will go far, you think they will be successful in the future
14.reach the peak – the time when something or someone is best, greatest, highest, most successful
15.go downhill - if a situation goes downhill, it gets worse
16.at a crossroads - a time when someone has to make very important decisions which will affect
their future
17.hard to swallow - difficult to believe
18.regurgitate - to repeat facts, ideas etc. that you have read or heard without thinking about them
yourself – used to show disapproval
19.food for thought - something that makes you think carefully
20.half-baked - a half-baked idea, suggestion, plan etc. has not been properly planned
21.wasting precious time – using time badly
22.put aside some time – keep time free
23.can’t afford to spend time – don’t have time to do something
24.live on borrowed time – survive after you would expect to be dead
25.flash of inspiration - if someone has a flash of inspiration they suddenly have a clever idea
26.bright - intelligent and able learn things quickly
27.shine - to be very good at something
28.dim - not intelligent
29.construct a theory - to form something such as a sentence, argument or system by joining words,
ideas etc. together
30.support a theory - to make people believe an idea or set of ideas that is intended to explain
something about life or the world, especially an idea that has not yet been proved to be true
31.fall down - to fail because of a particular reason or in a particular way
32.foundations - basic ideas, principles, situations etc. that something develops from
33.make a killing - to make a lot of money in a short time
34.launch a campaign - to start something, usually something big or important
35.target - to make something have an effect on a particular limited group or area
36.join forces - to work together so that you can deal with a problem, be more powerful etc.