Account for
- To explain or justify: Icouldn't account for what I was doing yesterday. [wyjaśniać , usprawiedliwiać]
- To constitute the primary factor: Bad weather accounted for the heavy traffice. [być głównym powodem]
Ache for
- To yearn: The refugee ached for his homeland. [bardzo tęsknić]
Act on
- To act in accordance with: She acted on his advice. [działać zgodnie z]
- To have an effect on: The speech acted on the emotions of all the listeners.[odziaływać]
Act out
- To demonstrate by pantomime or by words and gestures: The party guests acted out stories for one another.[odegrać]
Act up
- To fail to function properly: The TV is acting up again. [źle działać]
- To misbehave: What makes your child act up? [żle się zachowywać]
- To make itself felt: Her allergies acted up again. [dawać się we znaki]
Add in
-Include: Add in the tip too! [załączyć, dodać]
Add up
- To make total: These figures don't add up right. [dodawać się, dawać sumę]
- To seem reasonable: Some aspects of the story didn't add up. [mieć sens]
Add up to
- To indicate: The evidence adds up to a case of murder. [wskazywać, oznaczać]
Adhere to
- to hold closely or firmly: We have to adhere to our plan. [trzymać się]
Aim at
- Intend, drive at: What are you aiming at? [dążyć do, zmierzać, zamierzać]
Allow for
- To make provision for: Program allows for treatment of parents.[przewidywać, pozwalać na]
- To attempt to get something by artful means: He is angling for your heart. [próbować osiągnąć coś sposobem]
Answer back
- To reply rudely to someone: Students shouldn't answer back when reprimanded. [pyskować]
Answer for
- To be held liable: They will answer for their deeds. [ponosić odpowiedzialność]
Ask about
- Put a question; I want to ask you about your family. [pytać]
Ask after
- Enquire about someone's health: He aseked after your mother, who is sick in hospital. [pytać zazwyczaj o zdrowie]
Ask around
- Ask people for information or help: I asked around if anyone knew where the train station was. [ropytywać, pytać wokoło]
Ask for
- Request; He asked my for the book. [prosić]
Ask in
- To invite someone inside: She asked me in for coffee. [zaprosić do środka]
Ask out
- To invite someone for a date: Tom asked Mary out. They went to a café. [zaprosić na randkę]
Ask over
- To Invite someone home: I would like to ask our neighbours over tonight. [zaprosić]
Arrive at
- Come to an agreement: After a long discussion we finally manged to arrive at an agreement. [dojść do, osiągnąć]
- To Retreat: When the snake got closer he quickly backed away. [wycofać się]
Back down
- To abandon your position in an argument: He backed down as soon as he relized he was wrong. [wycofać się]
Back off
-To retreat: When the plane took off it was too late to back off. [wycofać się]
Back out (out of)
- To fail to keep an arrangement or promise: You can't back out now. [wycofać się]
Back up
- To make a copy of computer data: We backed up our system just in case. [kopiować dane]
- To support: or confirm: They backed up my story. [potwierdzać, wspierać]
- To backwards: Could you please back up your car? [wycofać]
Bail out
-Save, rescue: They bailed us out of the trouble. [wybawiać z kłopotu]
-To obtain someone's freedom by paying his/her bail: Having spent a day in jail, Tom was bailed out by his parents. [włpacić kaucję aby uwolnić kogoś z więzienia]
-Jump out of a plane because it is going to crash: He bailed out of the plane when it was about to crush. [wyskoczyć z samolotu]
Bail out on
-Stop supporting someone when they are in trouble: Susan bailed out on me when I needed her. [porzucić, opuścić]
Bail up (Australian)
-to force (one) to surrender
-the cry of challenge of a pioneer or person living in the bush
Bang about (around)
-Move in a place making a lot of noise: I could hear her banging around in her room. [robić hałas, przemieszczać się hałaśliwie]
Bang away
-Ask many questions rapidly: Reporters banged away at the president during the press conference. [zasypywać pytaniami ]
Bang on about
-Keep talking about something: They kept banging on about the homework. [gadać nonstop, nadawć]
Bang up
-Put someone in prison: He was banged up for stealing my precious socks:)[wsadzić do więzienia, British English]
-Damage badly: My car was banged up by a careless lady driver. [zniszczyć, poturbować]
Bank on
-Count or rely on: You can bank on it. [liczyć na coś, polegać na czymś].
Bank into
-To crush into. banging into trees is not a good idea. [walnąć, uderzyć w coś].
Barge in (into)
-Enter a place and interrupt: She's barged into the meeting as if she suddenly were on the Board od Directors. [wparować]
Bash away (on/at) British English
-To keep on working hard at something: She has been bashing away at her assignment all day. [ciężko pracować bez przerwy]
Bash on (with) (British English)
-To keep on working hard at something: She has been bashing away at her assignment all day. [ciężko pracować bez przerwy]
Bash in/down
-To destroy something by hitting it badly: The guy bashed the door down and enter the bar. [rozwalić, zniszczyć ]
Bash out
-To produce a lot but of low quality: He bashed out his essey and got a lousy mark. [odwalić robotę]
Bash up (British English)
-To attack verbally in a violent way: They bashed up the speaker for the remarks he made. [zaatakować, sprać]
Bawl out
-Scold or reprimend: The manager bawled him out for being impolite to the customer. [skrzyczeć, zbesztać]
Be along
-Arrive- nieformalnie : They should be along soon. [przybywać]
Be away
-Be elsewhere: They are away for two days. [wyjechać, być nieobecnym]
Be down
-Be depressed: She failed the test and has been down for a week. [mież depresję]
Be down with
-Be sick: Susan is down with flu. [być chorym an]
Be fed up
- Be bored, unhappy, or sick of something: I'm fed up with these phrasal verbs. [być znudzonym, mieć dosyć]
Be in
- Be in a particular place: Susan is in. Do you want to talk to her? [być w domu, pracy, etc, być obecnym]
- Arrive: They will be in soon. [przybywać]
Be in on
- Be involved in: He was in on this robbery. [być zaangażowanym w coś]
-To know about something: They both were in on our plan. [wiedzieć, być wtajemniczonym]
Be off
- Depart : They are off for the whole summer. [wyjechać]
- Have a particular amount of sth: They are well off. [mieć konkretną iość czegoś]
- Be not functioning (machines): The radio is off. [wyłączony]
Be on
- Be functioning ( machines): The TV is on. [włączony]
Be onto
- Pursue, be aware of someone's true nature: She is onto getting a job as an English teacher. [dążyć do, być świadomym czyjej prwawdziwej natury]
Be out
- Be absent: Is Mike out or still in his office? [być nieobecnym]
Be out of
- Have no more left: I'm out of money, yet still happy. [nie mieć]
Be out to
- Attempt: He is out to get you. You'd better watch out. [próbować]
Be snowed under
- Have too much work: She's been snowed under this paperwork for weeks. [być zasypanym pracą]
Be taken aback
- Be shocked or surprised: We were taken aback by the stupid look on his face. [być zaskoczonym, zdziwionym]
Be taken with
- Like something. She was taken with my charming smile. [lubić coś]
Be up
- Be out of bed: He's been up since 4. [być na nogach]
- When the time for something finishes or expires. The time is up! Please, stop writing and put away your pens. [skończyć się - o czasie]
Be up to
- Be good enough: She is up to this task. [nadawać się do]
- Doing something naughty or wrong: What are the kids up to this time? [broić, psocić]
Bear down on
- Move towards, approach rapidly: Hurricane Katrina bore down on Louisiana on Sunday. [zbliżać się gwałtownie, zbiżyć się]
Bear on
- Influence, affect: This information may bear on the case. [wpływać, oddziaływać]
Bear up
- Resist pressure: He bore up under the enormous strain. [opierać się]
Bear with
- Be patient: Could you bear with me for a moment? [być cierpliwym]
Beat down
- Strong sunshine. The sun is beating down terribly today. [o słońcu - mocno grzać]
Beat up
- Attack violently. He was beat up by a bunch of hooligans. [pobić]
Bed down
- Go to bed: They decided to bed down for the night. [iść spać]
Beef up
- Make something stronger: Security has been beefed up after the explotion. [wzmocnić]
Belt out
- Sing something loudly: She grabbed the mike and belted out a good chunk of "Hit Me with Your Best Shot". [głośno śpiewać]
Belt up
- Fasten your seatbelt : The kids belted up in their seats and waited for me to start the car. [zapiąć pasy]
Bend down
- Lower the top half of your body: I bent down to tie my shoe. [zginać się]
Bend over
- Lower the top part of your body: I bent over to tie my shoe. [wypiąć się, zginać się ]
Bend over backwards
- Do a lot to try to help or please someone. I bend over backwards for you and you don't appricate it. [starać się pomóc bardzo]
Black out
- Fall unconscious: When she blacked out for a second, she swang the car and almost hit the tree. [stracić przytomność]
- make a place black: Power shortages were the cause of the black out in the city. [zaciemnienie, zaciemniać]
Blank out
- Censor text: They blanked out the passage so that nobody could read it. [wyciąć, wymazać, zasłonić]
- Erase from memory: I blanked this out off my memory. [wymazać z pamięci]
Blare out
- Make a loud sound: The radio blared out an awful punk music. [wydzierać się, ryczeć]
Blast off
- Leave the ground: The racket blasted off and was on its way to the Moon. [odpalać, startować]
Blast out
- Make a loud sound: The radio blared out an awful punk music. [wydzierać się, ryczeć]
Blast for
- Criticize, scold: He blasted me for coming late for work. [krytykować, opieprzać]
Blast away
- Blow up: This house will be blasted away the next day. [wysadzać]
Blaze away
- Fire a gun repeatedly; The gunman started to blaze away at the police. [strzelać]
Blaze up
- Become angry; She blazed up at the very thought of going to school. [rozwścieczyć się]
Blaze with
- Shine brightly; She blazed with diamonds around her neck. [błyszczeć]
Blaze all over (across)
- Make news widely known; The story was blazed across all TV channels. [ropowrzechniać]
Bliss out
- Be extremely relaxed and happy; They could finally bliss out in their garden. [wypocząć]
Block in
- Park a car and obstruct another car; He blocked me in for 15 minutes. [zatarasować, zaplokować]
- Shade or fill in: Mary bloked in the shade of the city. [naszkicować]
Block off
- Obstruct an exit to prevent people from leaving. The police block off this section of the road. [zagradzać, blokować]
Block out
- Try not think about or feel something because it is upsetting: He tried to block out the accident permanently. [wymazać, zablokować]
Block up
- Fill a space so that nothing can pass: They block up our way to the garage. [zablokować]
Blow down
- When the wind forces something to fall. The man was blown down by the wind. [powalić, zdmuchnąć]
Blow on
- Spend money; I blew lots of cash on this game. [przepuścić pieniądze].
Blow out
- Extinguish candles, matches: Tommy blew out the candles when everyone was singing "Happy Birthday". [zdmuchiwać].
Blow over
- When a scandal gets forgotten; Our argument blow over rather fast. [przemijać]
Blow up
- Explode; The bomb blew up so suddenly but fortunately nobody was hurt. [wybuchać]
Blurt out
- Say something quickly without thinking: She blurted out all our secrets. [wypaplać]
- Get stucked: We bogged down in a number of problems. [utknąć]
Bog in (into)
- Eat enthusiatically; After they served the chocolate cake, we could finally bog into what we liked the most. [zajadać się]
Bog off
- Get lost [spadaj]
Boil down
- Simplify, reduce to the essentials; It all boils down to whether we should build the road or not. [sprowadzać się do]
Boil over
- When a hot liquid spills out of a container; Look1 We let the soup boil over. [wykipieć]
- When people lose their tempers and things get nasty; The CEO boiled over about the lost contract. [unieść się, wkurzyć się]
Boil up
- Feel a negative emotion strongly; My blood started to boil up in me. [gotować się, wrzeć]
Bone up on
- Study hard; We have been boning up on maths all night. [kuć]
Book in (into)
- Check in at a hotel. We booked into the hotel in the morning. [zameldować się]
- Make reservation; I booked him in the hotel. [zarezerwować pokój]
Book up
- Reserve; The play is booked up. [zarezerować, wykupić]
Boot up
- Start a computer, Boot up you computer and we see what programs you have. [butować, włączyć]
Boss about (around)
- Use excessive authority to control people; She bossed everyone around in the office. [rządzić kimś]
Bottle away
- Store up; I keep that all bottled away in a deep dark corner of my being. [przechowywać]
Bottle out
- Lack courage to do something, Mr Green has indeed bottled out of taking on the Beeb. [stchórzyć]
Bottle up
- Not express your feelings, This hate is bottled up inside my heart. [skrywać, zamykać w sobie]
Bottom out
- Pass the lowest point and start rising; The recession has finally bottomed out. [odbić się od dna]
Bounce into
- Force someone, They bounced me into this game and I lost a lot of money. [popędzać]
Bounce back
- Recover, She bounced back after the break up. [pozbierać się]
Bounce off
- Test ideas, We bounced our ideas off all our friends to see their opinions. [sprawdzać , testować pomysły]
Bowl over
- Surprise someone greatly; Fans were not quite bowled over. [wywracać, wprawić w podziw, zadziwiać]
Box in
- Prevent something from moving; The truck boxed us in for two hours. [zablokować]
Box up
- Pack things in boxes to move them; We have to box all these products up and ship them immediately. [zapakować]
Branch out
- Move into a different area of business, etc; The company has branched out into computer business. [poszerzać działalność]
Break away
- Run away, The prisoner decided to break away at midnight. [wyzwalać się, uciekać]
- Leave an organisation, party; [wyłamywać się, odłączać się]
Break down
- End negotiations unsuccessfully, The talks have broken down. [załamywać się, kończyć się niepowodzeniem]
- Start crying; She broke down in tears when she heard the test results. [załamywać się]
- Stop working, The TV has broken down and now we have to read books. [psuć się]
Break in
- Go into a building to steal something; The burglers broke into the house and stole all my debts:) [włamywać się]
- Interrupt something; She broke in with hher comments. [wtrącać się]
- The car's motor has to be broken in duriing the first 1000 miles. [docierać]
Break off
- Break a piece from something, Be careful or you breake off the handle! [odłamać]
- End a relationship, She broke off after two months. [zerwać]
Break out of
- Escape, The prisoner has broken out of jail and been remaining at large for several weeks. [uciekać]
Break through
- Pass a barrier or obstacle, I want to break through this wall, using my head. [przebić się]
Break up
- Break into many pieces, He broke up the vase and denied doing it. [rozbić]
- Close an educational institution for the holidays; The school broke up for the summer break.
- Finish a relationship; We will have to bbreak up because we are a total mismatch. [rozstać sie, zrywać]
Breeze along
- Move easily and quickly, We were breezing along the river when the boss spotted that we were not in the office. [przemykać, pędzić]
Breeze in (into)
- Enter a place quickly; She breezed into office unnoticed. [wpadać, przemykać]
Breeze through
- Pass easily, succeed; Sylwia breezed through the test and was just smiling. [przemknąć]
Bring about
- Make something happen, This brought about a big change in my life. [wywoływać]
Bring around
- Persuade or convince someone; She brought me around on this issue. [przekabacić, przekonać]
- Get someone talking about something, I finally brought the conversation around to the subject of real estate. [kierować rozmowę na jakiś temat]
Bring back
- Cause someone to remember; This brings back a lot of good memories. [przywodzić na myśl]
- Return; I brought up the book you gave mme. [zwracać]
Bring down
- Make a government, institution fall, How ATM fraud nearly brought down British banking. [obalać]
- Make something cheaper, The new act is expected to bring the prices down. [obniżać]
Bring forth
- Produce something, make it known or visible; The campaign has brought forth a tide of negative anecdotes. [przynosić, wnosić]
Bring forward
- Make something happen earlier than originally planned, The meeting was brought froward by three days. [przyśpieszyć termin]
Bring in
- Earn; This job can bring in a lot of money. [przynieść]
- Ask someone to do a job, We will bring in the best experts to fix this problem. [sprowadzać, zatrudniać]
Bring on
- Cause something to happen, This situation is brought on by our inability to stabilize the production. [powodować]
Bring out
- Release or publish, This book will be brought out in June. [publikować]
- Cause to show, appear; Difficulties make bring out the worst in people. [wyzwalać]
Bring round
- Make someone wake up from unconsciousness, She was brought round by our doctor five minutes after she passed out. [cucić]
Bring up
- Mention; They have brought up the subject of homelessness in the city. [poruszać}
- Raise a child; We were brought up in the South of Poland. [wychowywać]
- Vomit;
Brush aside
- Ignore, refuse to pay attention to; She brushed this topic aside and moved on to what she wanted to discuss. [ignorować, pomijać milczeniem, odsuwać na bok ]
Brush off
- Ignore, pay little attention; She brushed him off as usual. [ignorować, odprawić z kwitkiem ]
Brush up
- Improve a skill quickly; I have to brush up my English skills. [odświeżać]
- Become very excited. They are bubbling over with excitement. [tryskać np entuzjazmem]
Bubble under
- Likely to be successful soon; "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong bubbled under in 1967-68. [dobrze rokujący]
Budge up
- Move to make space for someone; Could you budge up a bit? [posunąć się, przesunąć się]
Buff up
- Clear, clean or make something shine; They've buffed the car up so it looks like a mirror now. [wypolerować]
- Improve; It was I who buffed up the Wikipedia. [polepszyć]
Buff up on
- Improve your knowledge; You will have to buff up on math over night. The test is tomorrow. [polepszyć]
Build on
- Use a base as a starting point;; Planck satellite will build on Nobel-prize-winning science. [budować na ]
Build in (into)
- Make sth a part of sth else; The modem is built into the motherboard. [wbudować, wmontować]
Build up
- Develop over a period; You have to build up you writing skills if you want to become a writer. [rozwijać, wzmacniać]
- Increase; The traffic is building up. Wee'd better take a different route. [wzrastać, wzmagać się]
Bulk out
- Make something bigger or thicker; The book is bulked out with a dossier of texts by Gorgias and Plato. [wypełnić, powiększyć]
Bump into
- Meet by chance; I bumped into Tom the other day. [wpaść na kogoś]
Bump off
- Kill; He was bumped off by a fellow gangster. [zabić]
Bump up
- Increase; The prices of oil will slightly bump up this year. [wzrastać]
Bunk down
- Go to bed: We bedded down at 10. [iść spać]
Bunk off
- Not go to school when you should; I bunked off school for eight days in a row to sit and watch TV. [wagarować]
Buoy up
- Make someone feel cheerful; His support buoyed her up during the crisis. [podtrzymywać na duchu]
Burn down
- Burn completely; The old church has burnt down to the ground. [spalić się doszczętnie]
Burn off
- Remove by burning or similar process; I think that burning off the old paint before putting on a new one is a good idea. [usunąć za pomocą ognia]
Burn out
- Lose enthusiasm and energy; I feek totally burnt out after this performance. [wypalać się]
Burst into
- Start doing sth suddenly; After looking at my CV, she burst into laughing. [wybuchać]
- Enter suddenly and noisily; He burst intto the office like a canon. [wtargnąć]
Butt in
- Interrupt, She was always butting in on our conversations. [wtrącać się]
Butter up
- Praise or flatter someone excessively; He buttered up the potential candidates with plenty of flattery. [schlebiać, podlizywać się]
Buy into
- Accept an idea, I bought into the scheme hoping to get some profits out of it.
Buy off
- Pay someone to stop them causing trouble; They wanted to buy her off so that she doesn't make any trouble. [przekupić]
Buy out
- Buy somebody's share in a company; Microhard will buy out all their potential competitors. [wykupić]
Buy up
- Buy all of something; They decided to buy up the entire orange juice market. [wykupić]
Buzz with
- Be full of sth (thoughts): The whole office was buzzing with rumours about their affair. [szumieć]
Buzz about (around)
- Move quickly around a place: She's been buzzing around trying to find the book. [krzątać się]
Buzz off
- Leave somewhere: We're buzzing off. Wanna come with us? [spadać, uciekać]
Buzz off!
- Go away (imperative): [spieprzaj, spadaj]
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