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halfhearted attempts |
Вялые попытки |
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vividly |
Vivid imagination Memories, dreams, descriptions etc are so clear that they seem real |
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engrossed in |
if something engrosses you, it interests you so much that you do not notice anything else |
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Practice of research |
It was a good discipline since it forced me to research and reflect every day. |
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analogous |
əˈnæləɡəs analogous version of this case" |
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Incrementally |
in a way that involves smt being done in a series of amounts |
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revamp |
riːˈvæmp |
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indivisible |
ɪn.dɪˈvɪz.ə.bəl |
Неделимый |
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immerse |
immerse yourself in smt to become completely involved in a activity |
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To make ends meet |
To make ends meet, I even had to borrow $4,000 from my dad until we could sell our second car. |
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INTRACTABLE |
Hard to control or deal with |
Непокорный |
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I had come to a fork in the road: Should I X or Y |
Fork |
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I had come to a fork in the road |
Fork in the road |
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Put it well when he said |
Хорошо сказал когда |
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You have a ghost of a chance |
Призрак шанса |
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Proclaim |
Announce officially or publicly
I learned (again) that no matter how much I knew and how hard I worked, I could never be certain enough to proclaim things like what I’d said on |
Декларировать |
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arrogant |
ˈærəɡənt because you think you are more important than other people |
Надменный |
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high likelihood |
ˈlaɪklihʊd the degree to which something can reasonably be expected to happen |
Вероятность |
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Shifted my mind-set |
I learned a great fear of being wrong that shifted my mind-set from thinking “I’m right” to asking myself “How do I know I’m right?” |
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Reasoning |
Seek out the smartest people who disagreed with me so I could try to understand their reasoning |
Рассуждения |
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Upside, Downside |
Upside, Downside Balance risks in ways that keep the big upside while reducing the downside. |
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Merits |
the quality of beingparticularly good or worthy, especially so as to deserve praise or reward.
in proportion to their merits |
Заслуги |
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Flip side |
I came to see that people’s greatest weaknesses are the flip sides of their greatest strengths. |
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Mental cards |
I would start out with my intuitions as I always did, but I would express them logically, as decision-making criteria, and capture them in a systematic way, creating a mental map of what I would do in each particular situation. |
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Word of mouth |
I hadn’t done any marketing; the business we got came from word of mouth |
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immerse |
immerse yourself in something |
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between a rock and a hard place. |
между молотом и наковальней |
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