BBC English 2000
Lekcja 085 - BODY PIERCING
We're talking about body piercing. Women have pierced their ears for ages, but now people are piercing their whole bodies... well, almost. Women and men pierce their ears, eyebrows, noses, tongues, lips, navels and other...sensitive parts of their bodies.
Cowboy piercers are inexperienced and untrained. They can injure your muscles. They don't monitor standards of hygiene. And they probably rip you off!
It's a rebellion against the older generation, the old fogies like me and you.
body piercing kolczykowanie ciała
to pierce przekłuwać
eyebrows brwi
navels pępki
sensitive parts czułe miejsca
cowboy piercers tu: fuszerzy, partacze
inexperienced niedoświadczony
untrained nieprzeszkolony
to injure zranić, skaleczyć
to monitor nadzorować, kontrolować
older generation starsze pokolenie
old fogies 'starzy'
Lekcja 086 - PHEROMONES
Today we've been talking about pheromones, chemical substances released by the body, which attract the opposite sex. Synthetic versions are now being added to aftershave. We've learned that women are attracted by these chemicals, detected on a sub-conscious level through the nose. However, humans rely heavily on sight and men can find a nice pair of legs, sorry - shoes, apparently - just as attractive.
It's all about money. Listen to this...scientists have taken pheromones from females...and put them in bottles... and then sold them... to women! They made a million dollars!
pheromones feromony
to attract przyciągać
aftershave woda po goleniu
sub-conscious podświadomy
to rely polegać
sight wzrok
female kobieta, płeć żeńska
Lekcja 087 - FALLING IN LOVE
They pinned advertisements around Pisa medical school seeking students who have fallen in love, who thought about their loved ones for at least four hours every day, but who had yet to have sexual relations. Surprisingly, they found some - 17 women and 3 men!
They measured the levels of serotonin in the lovestruck students' bloodstream and found them about 40 per cent below normal - about the same as they are in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Scientists think that there may be an evolutionary reason why lovers should lose their heads. Obsessive love creates an unrealistic mental image of the beloved. According to the theory, this ensures that interest is maintained long enough to produce offspring.
Tested a year later, the students' serotonin level were back to normal.
to fall in love zakochać się
to pin przypinać, przyczepiać
advertisements ogłoszenia
to seek szukać
the loved ones osoby ukochane
sexual relations stosunki płciowe
to measure mierzyć
serotonin serotonina
lovestruck zakochany (po uszy)
bloodstream układ naczyniowy, tu: krew
obsessive-compulsive disorder zachowanie obsesyjno-maniakalne
evolutionary ewolucyjny
to lose your head stracić głowę
to maintain interest utrzymywać zainteresowanie
offspring potomek, potomstwo
Lekcja 088 - ELECTRONIC DATING
Today we've been talking about electronic dating. About gizmos into which you input data about your perfect partner - their age, interests, education and profession. You also say what kind of relationship you are looking for - short-term, long-term, or just for the evening. Or maybe a one night stand, who knows? Then you go out and hope that you'll meet someone who's got a gizmo like you and has got the qualities you're looking for. If they have, then the gizmo vibrates to tell you it's found your ideal partner.
electronic dating elektroniczne romanse
gizmo aparacik
to input data zaprogramować dane
relationship związek, romans
short-term (o związku) krótki
long-term długi, na długie lata
one night stand znajomość na jedną noc
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