sobota, 4. května 2024, 13.21
Stránky: OpenMoodle
Kurz: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Slovník: MEDIA

flavour of the month

- hit měsíce, šlágr měsíce

1. But Portillo is fast becoming flavour of the month and will increasingly find himself in the public eye. BNC

2. Waikato are the flavour of the month in New Zealand. BNC

3. Hollywood bratpack style is flavour of the month at the moment, with 1970 the pivotal bratpack year in the new Burro autumn/winter range. BNC

daily paper

- deník

1. The book would have been sold from the row of shelves to be found in every public library for the price of a daily paper. BNC

2. No fewer than twenty-two countries were without any printed daily paper whatsoever. BNC

3. Yet starting a daily paper anywhere other than in a few large cities is scarcely an attractive investment. BNC

slip of the tongue

- přeřeknutí

1. To seasoned Bush watchers, a slip of the tongue is nothing new but the US president's mistake in Japan sent a shiver through jittery markets. WebC

2. Questioned by government lawyer Jonathan Sumption, Gilligan admitted a slip of the tongue. WebC

3. It was the kind of slip of the tongue that does happen often during live broadcasts. WebC

get a word in edgeways

- dostat se konečně ke slovu, říci také pár slov

 3. I wondered if I was going to get a word in edgeways some time. BNC

 

time signal

- časové znamení

radio station which reports the city's traffic jams locked below. BNC

3. Standard frequency stations transmit pratically continuously standard time intervals, standard radio frequences, time announcements time signal and radio propagation forecasts. WebC

program(me) trailer

- ukázka příštích pořadů

television as part of a BBC1 programme trailer. WebC

  2. That is when the closing credits of, say, Cocronation Streeet,are squeezed into half the screen while the other half shows a programme trailer. WebC

 3. In mid-March, after a programme trailer, Presentation got mixed-up. WebC

portable radio

- přenosné rádio

1. He lived alone in a log cabin beside the lake, his only company a portable radio and television. BNC

2. Now she held one finger to her lips, picked up a portable radio from the kneehole beneath her desk and switched it on. BNC

3. Zhang proudly demonstrated his portable radio to us, and said that he would even be buying a bicycle soon. BNC

fabricate a story

- vymyslet si historku

1. John Onanuga and David Newton have again admitted today that they fabricated the story of Mr Lamont visiting our Praed Street branch on Monday, November 16, 1992. BNC

2. If the drugs do not appear in the stool as planned, or if symptoms of intoxication develop, the smuggler may present to a casualty department, fearing a package has burst, fabricating a story to try to avoid criminal proceedings. BNC

3. I studied fellow patients fabricating their life stories. BNC

television addict/maniac

- posedlý televizí/televizní maniak

1. A bundle of light fibres, which together forms a cable smaller in diameter than a coaxial wire, can carry several hundred TV channels; more than even the most hardened television addict will ever require. BNC

2. If children regularly say, I am bored or show an inability to amuse themselves, then they are television addicts and the only cure is to pull the plug on the TV for a significant period of time. WebC

3. A television addict sat dimly in front of the television screen. WebC

inside information

- zasvěcené informace

1. A failure to sell based on inside information is neither illegal in the US nor in the UK because there has been no securities transaction. BNC

2. How does the market recognise that someone is trading on inside information? BNC

3. Almost any conversation with a company would probably put the analysts in possession of inside information. WebC

deceive the public

- oklamat veřejnost

1. FDR also suffered from paralysis and tried to deceive the public that he could still walk. BNC

2. If any Government were to bring in these pledges, they would either have to dishonour them and thereby deceive the public, or income tax payers at all levels of income would need to cough up and pay more to fund them. BNC

3. Her ostensible job is something in advertising or public relations, but this is laughable: people are always rushing off to catch planes or to have showdowns with clients or engage in unmotivated conspiracies to deceive the public. BNC

on display on the stall/newsstand

- vystavený v novinovém stánku

1. As I leaned over the girl pretending to look at what was on display on the newsstand. WebC

2. A second or two later, Maybelle, her attention drawn from what was on display on the stall to what stood beside it, also recognised Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall. BNC

3. She first saw Dogs Today on display the newsstand, reads it from cover to cover and then keeps it. BNC

deserve special attention

- zasluhovat zvláštní pozornost

1. We now consider some aspects of nationalized industry pricing that deserve special attention. BNC

2. Two characteristics of the new offence deserve special attention. BNC

3. The first factor suggests that women may deserve special attention in those information programmes which are discussed in chapter 4. BNC

dig up facts

- odhalit/odkrýt fakta

1. He was a thorough researcher and always managed to dig up facts that no one else had been able to find. WebC

2. You go out and interview people, you dig up facts, put it together, and write reports, Young said explaining the ins and out of rpivate investigation. WebC

3. Tom Stewart is an ambitious crime reporter which means having to dig up facts that not everyone would like to see unearthed and others would kill to have. WebC

do a paper round

- roznášet tisk

1. If a teenager decides to earn money doing a paper round, or a Saturday job, there is no reason why their mother should set her alarm in order to wake them at an unearthly hour. BNC

2. During the war when I was evacuated, I used to do a paper round. BNC

3. My brother does a paper round and delivers a hundred newspapers every morning. Wasps