Sonntag, 19. Mai 2024, 05:11
Website: OpenMoodle
Kurs: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Glossar: MEDIA

perform on camera

- objevit se před kamerou

1. If you wish to perform on camera next season, you must arrange to have eighth hour free. WebC

2. Have fun while learning to perform on camera! WebC

3. Guy gets sexy chicks to perform sex acts on camera. WebC

play back

- přehrávat, reprodukovat

1. Camcorders can play back their recordings immediately after they have put them onto the tape. BNC

2. You will also see a difference between the two recording speeds when you play back in slow-motion or still-frame. BNC

3. Record a good speaker on the radio, play back a sentence and then record your own utterance of the same sentence. BNC

prize competition

- soutěž o ceny

1. A different sort of exhibition which has had some success in attracting attention, and thus newspaper coverage, is the prize competition. BNC

2. There is an idea for a classroom project, an easy to enter prize competition plus a special cartoon. BNC

3. With a targeted cash prize competition and a tie-up with local radio, traffic, claims Ryan, was boosted by almost 5 per cent. BNC

press conference

- tisková konference, tiskovky

1. Dr Greenspan made his comments at a press conference after meetings with officials including Leonid Abalkin, the deputy prime minister in charge of economic reform, the state bank chairman (and his notional Soviet opposite number) Viktor Gerashchenko and Valentin Pavlov, the finance minister. BNC

2. After lunch I sat in the car and listened to a Bush press conference. BNC

3. At a press conference in Bonn, a senior official in the Chancellery said the West German and French governments had agreed that the inter-governmental conference on monetary union would begin at the end of next year --; as Paris had originally insisted. BNC

put right

- opravit

1. This is a technology, says the UK Genetics Forum, which should be looked at from the point of view that if something goes wrong, it can't be put right. BNC

2. Far better to be tested today and have the chance to put right what is shown to be wrong than to be tested tomorrow and be found wanting. BNC

3. In rewriting, the spellings can be put right, and the finished piece of work is more likely to be accurate. BNC

put under contract

- angažovat

1. I was put under contract with RAMA records and recorded "Baby Take Me Back" b/w "Teenage Blues". WebC

 2. Certainly being put under contract to Universal was incredibly fortunate! WebC

 3. Katharine Hepburn's career took off in the 1940's, once she was put under contract with MGM studios. WebC

radio play

- rozhlasová hra

1. The BBC is encouraging the fashion by offering an annual prize for the best Gaelic radio play. BNC

2. After starring in another radio play, Children of the Archbishop, Crawford arrived, with chaperon, in Coventry. BNC

3. For example, one might listen to a radio play while cooking, send a sonnet to a lover, or answer an exam question on the play or poem at A-level. BNC

remote control

- dálkové ovládání, dálkové řízení

1. This is what most owners say when confronted by cherished furnishings, door frames or personal items, such as books or the remote control for the TV, that have been torn to shreds by beloved Rover in their absence, or nearly as distressing the evidence of his lack of toilet control. BNC

2. The device in the attaché case would be activated by remote control from inside the limousine. BNC

3. Youmust use the video remote control that goes with the video. BNC

read the news

- hlásit, číst zprávy

1. And three of our aircraft have failed to return; the man who read the news would intone on the midday bulletin. BNC

2. In the end, I expect they'll make her read the news. BNC

3. And when the Orcadian came to Stronsay, the paper, the a man used to read he used to get the Orcadian and read the news on the pier. BNC

remove the make-up

- odlíčit

1. They ask Bina how to remove the make-up, how to cleanse and moisturize. WebC

2. After a busy day day one needs first to remove the make-up. WebC

3. It took just as long to remove the make-up, as it did to apply it. WebC

word for word

- slovo od slova

1. Many researchers are surprised and delighted at their ability to remember conversations almost word for word. BNC

2. Read out aloud, it seemed to bear out word for word what Alfred Wells had recalled on oath in court. BNC

3. Then the comrade had repeated, word for word, what he had just said. BNC

safety rules

- bezpečnostní předpisy

1. Visiting staff must use an observation area, if available; if not, they must conform to local safety rules, including the use of protective clothing. BNC

2. Most could be prevented by following simple safety rules or taking simple precautions. BNC

3. MEB has very stringent safety rules for its staff and customers will be concerned that it doesn't happen again. BNC

round-up

- stručný přehled

1. BBC Northern Ireland's 'Inside Ulster' will include a daily Festival round-up. BNC

2. First with a round-up of the day's local news, here's Paul Kirby. BNC

3. Our monthly round-up of economic forecasts is now based on the averages of 170 seers polled by Consensus Economics, up from 150 in the past; it also, for the first time, looks at prospects for 1992. BNC

provide substantive coverage of st

- věnovat značnou pozornost něčemu; referovat rozsáhle o něčem

1. Regional cable news channels, as a rule, provide substantive coverage of both state and local elections. WebC

 2. Second, requiring broadcasters to provide substantive coverage of campaigns will help educate the public and give candidates more opportunities to reach voters without paying for 30 second TV ads. WebC

3. It found that most CASs provided substantive coverage of the country context and government agenda including more explicit treatment of Bank-borrower policy differences. WebC

quality press

- seriózní tisk

1. According to Hirsch and Gordon, the quality press focuses on those issues which interest and reflect its middle and upper class readership. BNC

2. To return to the main point, the debate over academic freedom, whether in the columns of the quality press, or in academic conferences, or in the academic literature on academic freedom itself, is conducted by reference to the felt interests of the full members of the academic community. BNC

3. And that success led to television programmes about advertising, pages in the quality press about the media world, and, of course, the image that it is all Porsches, champagne and fun. BNC