to widen one’s horizon !*waIdn w0nz hE*raIzn? I find that travelling really widens my horizon. seinen Horizont erweitern Speaking skills: Communication in the workplace 1 to fetch sb. One moment, I’ll fetch him. jmdn. holen to hang on a moment Please, hang on a moment. kurz warten extension Ms Herbert’s extension is 405. Durchwahl, Klappe to put sb. through to I’ll put you through to Mr Kline. jmdn. verbinden mit to hold the line Could you please hold the line? am Apparat bleiben to be not available Sorry, she is not available. nicht verfügbar sein engaged Sorry, the line is engaged. hier: besetzt to enquire about sth. Please enquire about the departure details. nach etw. fragen to ring back later Sure, no problem. I will ring back later. später zurückrufen convenient !kEn*vi"njEnt? What time would be convenient? hier: günstig, passend reception The reception in this valley is really bad. Empfang 2 to be cut off Sorry, the line was cut off. unterbrochen werden to speak up a bit Excuse me, could you speak up a bit? etw. lauter sprechen to bear with sb. for a moment I would ask you to bear with me for a moment. Geduld haben, warten to fire away (coll.) OK, please fire away. losschießen 3 VAT !+vi"eI*ti"? How much VAT do you have to pay in the US? Mehrwertsteuer 5 invoice Please send the invoice back to us. Rechnung accounts department He works in the accounts department. Buchhaltungsabteilung Working life 1 minutes Who is writing the minutes today? Protokoll 2 private purposes School computers must not be used for private purposes. Privatzwecke 3 to schedule a meeting The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, July 15th. eine Besprechung vereinbaren für, ansetzen to postpone a meeting Our boss was late, so the meeting had to be postponed. verschieben 4 connectives However, but, etc. are connectives. Bindewörter monotonous His voice is monotonous. monoton to address the audience You should address the audience directly and not talk to yourself. das Publikum ansprechen to involve sb. Involve people from the audience! jmdn. miteinbeziehen Jobless 1 roller coaster A new roller coaster opened last week at the fun fair. Hochschaubahn job prospects (pl.) Job prospects for school leavers are getting worse. Beschäftigungschancen 2 to turn sb./sth. down My application was turned down within 48 hours. jdn./etw. ablehnen Artificial intelligence benefit At the moment, I see no benefit in AI. Nutzen 2 bombshell announcement A bombshell announcement is a piece of news which is unexpected and usually unpleasant. Ankündigung mit Knalleffekt to quit Peter is quitting his job. kündigen to shift gears The first half is a comedy, but then the movie shifts gears. die Gänge wechseln, schalten self-censorship I had too much self-censorship and wasn’t allowed to say what I thought. Selbstzensur executive The executive board has agreed. Präsidium, Vorstand credible Ms Smith would be a credible candidate. glaubwürdig poor attempt The student’s homework assignment was a poor attempt. schlechter Versuch to mimic AI tries to mimic biological brains. nachahmen sudden flip A sudden flip is a complete change of plans or opinions. plötzlicher Ruck to pretrain A pretrained AI model is a deep learning model that’s trained on large datasets to accomplish a specific task. vortrainieren to evolve AI was evolving much faster than most people realised. entwickeln, entstehen huge claim It’s a huge claim that AI might be a better form of intelligence. riesiger Anspruch polarised field AI is a polarised field, with many benefits and dangers. umstrittenes Feld odds The odds are that she will win. Chancen 197 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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