Ta-da-da-dam! It’s “Words of the week” time!
Ready! Steady! GO!
1. Smug– самодовольный (нап.: smugfeeling)
2. Complacent– самодовольный, благодушный (нап.: you can’t afford to be complacent about security)
3. Hubris – спесь, высокомерие, гордыня (нап.: Panic is a form of hubris.)
4. Upheavals – Перевороты (нап.: major upheavalsin the financial markets)
5. Verge – грани, граничат (нап.: we are on a vergeof a terrifying upheaval)
6. Heuristics – эвристика (нап.: they rely on heuristics, shortcuts and outdated circuits); Эвристика это–
- совокупность исследовательских методов, способствующих открытию ранее неизвестного.
или
- наука, изучающая процессы продуктивного творческого мышления.
7. Unbeknownst – неведомый (нап.: unbeknownto me, she made some inquiries)
8. Confluence – стечение, слияние (нап.: It results from the confluenceof infotech with biotech.)
9. Hitherto – до сихпор, до настоящего времени (нап.: there is a need to replace what has hithertobeen a haphazard method of payment)
10. Slavishly – по рабски, покорно (нап.: Whether you want to wallow in self-pity or jump for joy, the algorithm will slavishlyfollow your lead.)
11. Tinkering – возня, занятие ремеслом (нап.: The next step is for the algorithm to start tinkeringwith the songs and melodies themselves, changing them ever so slightly to git your quirks.)
12. Quirks – причуды, закидоны (нап.: The next step is for the algorithm to start tinkering with the songs and melodies themselves, changing them ever so slightly to git your quirks.)
13. Garnered – собравший, набравший (нап.: By using massive biometric databases garneredfrom millions of people, the algorithm could know which biochemical buttons to press in order to produce a global hit which would set everybody swinging like crazy on the dance floors.)
14. Leveraging – использование, мобилизация (нап.: The content worlds (publishing, music, etc.) shall be revolutionized by corporations leveraging the Internet.)
15. Unmanned – беспилотный (нап.:The US armed forces need thirty people to operate every unmannedPredator or Reaper drone..)
16. Feasible – выполнимо, осуществимо (нап.: Such occupational changes were feasible.)
17. Conscripts – Призывники, новобранцы (нап.: The new conscript army must have been rather unattractive for the samurai.)
18. By dint of – посредством (нап.: A forty-year-old unemployed Walmart cashier who by dint ofa superhuman efforts manages to reinvent herself as a drone pilot …)
19. Tug of war – перетягивание каната (нап.: tugof warbetween the humans and the computers)
20. Canary– канарейка, певичка, осведомитель, сортвина (нап.: The song of the canaries in a cage downstairs rings out throughout the whole restaurant.)
21. Watershed event – эпохальное событие (нап.: The AI revolution won’t be a single watershed event…)
22. Antediluvian – допотопный, архаичный (нап.: ..but even the idea of “a profession for life” might seem antediluvian..)
23. Affluent buyers – богатые покупатели (нап.: ..an almost insatiable demand from desperate affluent buyers.)
24. Circumscribed – ограниченный (нап.: their movements were strictly monitored and circumscribed.)
25. Sinecures– синекуры (Хорошо оплачиваемая должность, не требующая большого труда.) (нап.: We don’t really need them – their ‘jobs’ are little more than sinecures.)
26. Proletariat– пролетариат (Наёмные рабочие, лишённые орудий и средств производства.) (нап.: The industrial proletariat was the first to rally around it.)
27. Drudgery – нудная работа (нап.: The king does not have time for this drudgery.)
28. Coffers – казна (нап.: ..South Asia will now fill the coffersof a few tech-giants in California.)
29. Wrong side of the chasm – неправильная сторона пропасти (нап.: But those lagging behind find themselves stuck on the wrong side of the chasm, without any means of crossing over.
30. Ephemeral body – эфемерное тело (нап.: In medieval Europe, access to church services was even more important than food, because it took care of your eternal soul rather than your ephemeral body.)