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Engleske reči i termini u medijima – ground zero

Engleski recnik - Ground zero, VerbalistiGround Zero

n.
1. The site directly below, directly above, or at the point of detonation of a nuclear weapon.
2. The center of rapid or intense development or change: “The neighborhood scarcely existed five years ago, but today it is the ground zero from which designer shops and restaurants radiate” (Robert Clark).
3. Informal. the most elementary level.
4. Words in the News. commonly used to describe a site of devastation, disaster, or violent attack

Engleski izraz Ground zero u medijima, Verbalisti
The disaster in the Philippines dominates the Guardian, which reports that survivors are having to scavenge food from the ruins of buildings

The term was first used in 1946 in a New York Times report about the bombing of Hiroshima in Japan, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, and it soon came to mean the ground underneath an exploding bomb.

Following the terrorist attack on 11 September 2001, the site of the devastated World Trade Center in New York became known as Ground Zero. “Ground Zero” is thought to have first been mentioned by a survivor in a television interview and subsequently by reporters.

The expression is now commonly used to describe a site of devastation, disaster, or violent attack.

Other example citations:

  • We’re now just a block away from the World Trade Center and the closer we get to “ground zero” the harder it is to breathe and to see. – NBC
  • The pictures from Indonesia’s ground zero are beyond description.

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Rečnik poslovnog engleskog jezika i žargon – heads-up

Recnik engleskih reci, Verbalisti
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heads-up (ˈhɛdzˌʌp)
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adj.
1. alert; resourceful.

n.
2. Chiefly Politics. a warning: sending a heads-up to the Pentagon about possible attacks.

3. Modern office jargon:
  • They promised we’d get a heads up on the new proposal tomorrow.
  • Just a heads-up that the customer is likely to escalate this problem.
  • Just wanted to give you a heads-up so you’ll be expecting his call.

History: 

“I just wanted to give you a heads-up on …” is now the correctly breath-wasting way to say “I just wanted to tell you about …”. Its origin, in American engineering and military circles of the early 20th century, is an exhortation for all the members of your squad or crew to pay attention because something potentially dangerous is about to happen. They should literally straighten their necks and raise their heads. So the call “Heads up!” means “Watch out!”

The 1970s saw the invention of the military technology called a heads-up display: crucial information from a fighter jet’s instruments was projected on to the cockpit windshield. So “heads-up” originated in situations where something hairy was about to happen, or where life-or-death information was being provided to an elite warrior. Naturally, neither of those things is ever true when the noun phrase “a heads-up” is used in the modern office. Time, perhaps, for a heads-down, when everyone takes a quiet snooze at their desks.

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Rečnik engleskih reči za kulinare

Cooking

Klikni ovde za naš “kuvarski” rečnik 🙂

Cooking is a lot more than just preparing food. It’s a form of culture, of hospitality, of enjoyment of life, and for many it’s a fun hobby that provides a prize at the end of the effort: a great meal! People may differ as to which national cuisine is best, but meals everywhere all start with one person: the cook!

Engleski recnik za kuvare

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Nove reči i izrazi u engleskom jeziku – citizen journalism

Citizen journalism, VerbalistiCitizen journalism

The concept of citizen journalism (also known as “public”, “participatory”, “democratic”, “guerrilla” or “street” journalism) is based upon public citizens “playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information.”

New media technology, such as social networking and media-sharing websites, in addition to the increasing prevalence of cellular telephones, have made citizen journalism more accessible to people worldwide. Due to the availability of technology, citizens often can report breaking news more quickly than traditional media reporters. Notable examples of citizen journalism reporting from major world events are, the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street movement, the 2013 protests in Turkey, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

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Rečnik novih engleskih reči – airpocalypse

Air polution in China
The “airpocalypse” in the city of Harbin
It’s fair to say that China isn’t exactly known for good air quality. But a recent spate of air pollution in northern China that nearly shut down a city of 11 million has put a spotlight on the problem, as well as China’s reliance on coal, which provides 70 percent of its energy and is a big contributor to the country’s pollution woes.
Verbalisti

airpocalypse
n. Extreme air pollution caused by a combination of smog, dust, and weather. Also: air-pocalypse. [air + apocalypse]

Example Citations:Engleski recnik - airpocalypse

Following the “airpocalypse” in the city of Harbin this week, a question now hovers in the minds of many residents across northern China. It was summed up in a headline that ran on Thursday with a commentary in People’s Daily, the Communist Party mouthpiece: “In this season of central heating, will PM 2.5 drop?”
—Edward Wong, “With Winter Ahead, Can China’s Smog Get Anything But Worse?,” The New York Times, October 24, 2013

The “airpocalypse” injected a new urgency into local debate about the environment—and produced a green-policy frenzy a few months later.
—“The East is grey,” The Economist, August 10, 2013

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Rečnik novih engleskih reči – wasband

Nove reči u engleskom, wasband, Verbalisti

n. A woman’s ex-husband

Wasband – Someone you were married to formerly and are now divorced from. Denotes merely a descriptive term. Can often connote fondness when in the right context.

This term is a clever and euphonious blend of the words was and husband.

Example Citation:
“The bride’s aunt dances with her ex-husband — he’s called a ‘wasband‘ — on the hay-strewn ‘dance floor’ in front of the barn.”
—Abigail Trafford, “Will You Still Catch Me When I’m Sixty-Four?,” The Washington Post

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Nove reči u engleskom jeziku – sapiosexual

Nove reci u engleskom jeziku, sapiosexual, VerbalistiDefinition: One who finds intelligence the most sexually attractive feature; behaviour of becoming attracted to or aroused by intelligence and its use.

Sapiosexual is a neologism word (recently constructed word) that has come into common usage, especially on social networking sites where some people are self-identifying as sapiosexual.

Origins: From Latin root sapien, wise or intelligent, and Latin sexualis, relating to the sexes.

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Nove reči i izrazi u engleskom jeziku – affluenza

A blend of ‘affluence’ and ‘influenza’.

Affluenza – A social disease resulting from extreme materialism and excessive consumerism: earning more money and consuming more, which can lead to overwork, debt, stress, anxiety, etc.

Recnik novih engleskih reci, Affluenza

Proponents of the term consider that the prizing of endless increases in material wealth may lead to feelings of worthlessness and dissatisfaction rather than experiences of a ‘better life’, and that these symptoms may be usefully captured with the metaphor of a disease. They claim some or even many of those who become wealthy will find the economic success leaving them unfulfilled and hungry only for more wealth, finding that they are unable to get pleasure from the things they buy and that increasingly material things may come to dominate their time and thoughts to the detriment of personal relationships and to feelings of happiness.

A potential criticism of the idea of affluenza is that it presents subjective social critique as an objective, inevitable and debilitating illness.

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