Ted talk:
1. Obligatory words:
to distort - deform, misconstrue
To twist out of shape.
- A grimace distorted her beautiful face, when she saw her ex-boyfriend.
- If you bend a drinking straw it won't work because it wull be distorted and the liquid will leak out.
perception - consciousness, recognition.
The ability to be aware of something throught the senses.
- While making the first tattoo I discovered that I have high perception of pain.
- Her perception of the world aroung her is little, she always seemed to daydream all the time.
high blood pressure - hypertension, nadciśnienie
- People who suffer from high blood pressure can change their diet and it should help to lower the pressure.
- High blood pressure is the most important preventable risk factor for premature death.
shortcoming - flaw, defect
A failure to meet a certain standard.
- I could speak months about my boyfriend's shortcomings.
- The biggest shortcoming of this solution is that it is too epensive for us.
urge - impulse, longing
A strong desire or impuls.
- I had the strong urge to quarrel with him becase I saw him with another girl.
- In raising children extremely important are appropriate urges, which make them ambitious.
2. The rest:
to sustain sth - to endure, to experience
speaking of which - according to, skoro o tym mowa
to splurge - an act of spending money freely or extravagantly
to bend - for a curve (wygiąć)
in the grip of - dominated or afected by something, clutch
solely /ˈsəʊlli/ - only, exclusively
