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2.1 About Business – IT solutions - 2.1

1. pressurized	feeling worried, or making you feel worried, because of the number of things you have to do	находящийся под давлением
2. to become an addiction	to start having a strong desire to do or have something regularly	Становиться зависимостью
3. fierce competition	a competition involving a lot of energy and strong feelings, and being violent sometimes	жестокая конкуренция
4. to justify the quest for speed	A long difficult search for a possibility to work faster	оправдывать поиск скорости в поиске возможности увеличения скорости
5. to occur magically	to happen in a strange or special way	произойти волшебным образом
6. to take a breather	to have a short break to regain strengths	сделать короткую передышку
7. sales pitch	a short presentation with the aim of selling something	Короткая коммерческая презентация
8. handouts and transparency	A piece of paper with information which is given to people who are attending a lesson, meetings, etc.	Раздаточный материал
9. likely outcome	the final result of a meeting, discussion that will probably happen or is probably true	вероятный исход
10. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence	the things other people have or their situations always look better than your own, even when they are not really so	там хорошо, где нас нет

2.2 Vocabulary – Information systems and communication - 2.2

1. an update on software applications	an addition of latest computer programs to a computer so that it has the most recent information	обновление приложения
2. a server went down	A situation when the main computer on a network, which controls all the others stopped working	сервер вышел из строя (упал)
3. to install a patch	to add a small computer program that is added to software to solve problems to a computer	установить патч\заплатку (временное соединение, вставка в программу)
4. laptops / palmtops	a small computer that you can carry with you/ a very small computer that you can hold in your hand	портативный компьютер / карманный персональный компьютер
5. suite	a group of related computer programs	пакет (программ)
6. a virus / a bug	a set of instructions secretly put into a computer, usually especially spread through emails, which can destroy information stored on the computer	вирус / неполадка
7. a plug-in	a piece of computer software that can be used in addition to existing software in order to make particular programs work properly	дополнительный программный модуль
8. a hard-disc failure	a situation when a disk inside a computer that is used for storing information stops working properly	поломка жесткого диска
9. intranet	a computer network used for exchanging or seeing information within a company	внутрикорпоративная сеть

2.4 Speaking –Telephoning - 2.4

1. Do you happen to know..?	Haven’t you heard by chance?	Вы случайно не знаете..?
2. Anyway I won’t keep you any longer / from you work	In any case, I’m not going to make you stay or talk longer / not going to not let you do your job	В любом случае, я не собираюсь долго вас задерживать / мешать вам работать
3. I was wondering	used to politely ask someone to help you / or whether they would like to do something	Я задумывался тут думал / хотел бы знать / интересовался
4. How is it going?	Used to ask about current situation	Как идут дела?
5. I’m not disturbing you, am I?	Am I interrupting or make you feel worried?	Я не потревожу?
6. Bye for now.	used to say that you will see or speak to someone again soon	Ладно, пока.
7. If I could ask you a favor	Used to ask somebody for a help politely	Я хотел бы попросить об одолжении..
8. Go ahead.	Continue talking	Слушаю / продолжай –те Продолжай, давай!
9. Sorry to bother you	Sorry for annoying you Used when interrupting someone when they are trying to do something	Прошу прощения за беспокойство
10. Hang on a sec	Wait a second Used when you’re busy and cannot deal with a question straight away	Подожди –те секундочку

2.5 Writing -– Memos - 2.5

1. ambiguous / unambiguous	unclear, confusing, or not certain, especially because it can be understood in more than one way/ clear, exact	двусмысленный, неясый / точно выраженный, понятный
2. rigid rules	very strict and difficult to change rules	жёсткие правила
3. to solicit decisions	to ask someone for particular ideas on how to decide solve a problem	запрашивать решения \ добиваться решения
4. to face heavy fines	to be in a situation where when you cannot avoid paying a certain great sum of money for doing something bad	грозить большим штрафом быть вынужденным заплатить большой штраф
5. criminal prosecution	when a charge is made against someone for a crime, or when someone is judged for a crime in a court of law	уголовное судебное преследование
6. shareware programmes	free or cheap computer software, usually produced by small companies, that you can use for a short time before you decide whether to buy it	условно бесплатные программы
7. officialese	a way of talking or writing used by government officials, that is unnecessarily difficult to understand	стиль официальных документов
8. adjacent to	Being physically next to something else	прилегающий
9. emergency vehicle	A car such as fire-engine or police-car which comes very quickly to solve some problem	спецмашина (пожарная, полицейская)
10. forthwith	Instantly, at this very moment	незамедлительно

2.6 Case Study – Meteor Bank - 2.6

1. consequence	something that happens as a result of a particular action or set of conditions	следствие
2. staff turnover	the rate at which people leave an organization and are replaced by others	текучка кадров
3. downtime	the time when a computer or another machine is not working and as a result the production process stops	Простой
4. to increase capacity	To increase one’s ability to do something	увеличивать способность, мощность
5. deliberate failures	a lack of success in achieving or doing something which is intended or planned	умышленное бездействие
6. to imply	to suggest that something is true, without saying this directly	подразумевать
7. grid computing	a system of running a computer program using a lot of small computers that are connected together in order to do very complicated tasks	распределенные вычисления
8. accusation / to accuse	a statement saying that someone is guilty of a crime or of doing something wrong/ to say that you believe someone is guilty of a crime or of doing something bad	обвинение / обвинять
9. malicious damage	Harm or very unkind and cruel effect on someone or something, which is deliberately done in a way that is likely to upset or hurt someone	злонамеренное повреждение
10. to evaluate performance	To assess how well or badly a person, company etc does a particular job or activity	оценивать выполнение

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