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  • 1 change for the worst

    Персональный Сократ > change for the worst

  • 2 change for the worst

    English-Russian base dictionary > change for the worst

  • 3 change for the worst

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > change for the worst

  • 4 a change for the better/worst

    a change for the better/worst
    un cambio para mejor/peor

    English-spanish dictionary > a change for the better/worst

  • 5 change

    English-Russian dictionary on nuclear energy > change

  • 6 change

     ein‹
    1. verb
    1) (to make or become different: They have changed the time of the train; He has changed since I saw him last.) cambiar, cambiarse
    2) (to give or leave (one thing etc for another): She changed my library books for me.) cambiar
    3) ((sometimes with into) to remove (clothes etc) and replace them by clean or different ones: I'm just going to change (my shirt); I'll change into an old pair of trousers.) cambiarse
    4) ((with into) to make into or become (something different): The prince was changed into a frog.) transformarse
    5) (to give or receive (one kind of money for another): Could you change this bank-note for cash?) cambiar

    2. noun
    1) (the process of becoming or making different: The town is undergoing change.) cambio
    2) (an instance of this: a change in the programme.) cambio
    3) (a substitution of one thing for another: a change of clothes.) cambio
    4) (coins rather than paper money: I'll have to give you a note - I have no change.) cambio, monedas
    5) (money left over or given back from the amount given in payment: He paid with a dollar and got 20 cents change.) cambio
    6) (a holiday, rest etc: He has been ill - the change will do him good.) cambio
    - change hands
    - a change of heart
    - the change of life
    - change one's mind
    - for a change

    change1 n cambio
    have you got change of a ten pound note? ¿tienes cambio de un billete de diez libras?
    we stayed in for a change para variar, nos quedamos en casa
    change2 vb
    1. cambiar
    2. cambiarse de ropa
    I won't be long, I'm changing no tardaré, me estoy cambiando de ropa
    tr[ʧeɪnʤ]
    1 (gen) cambio
    3 (coins) cambio, monedas nombre femenino plural; (money returned) cambio, vuelta
    have you got any loose change? ¿tienes monedas sueltas?
    have you got change of a ten-pound note? ¿me puedes cambiar un billete de diez libras?
    1 cambiar (de)
    1 cambiar, cambiarse
    all change! ¡cambio de tren!
    have I got time to change? ¿tengo tiempo para cambiarme (de ropa)?
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    a change for the better/worst un cambio para mejor/peor
    a change of air una cambio de aire(s)
    to have a change of heart cambiar de idea
    for a change para variar
    to get changed cambiarse (de ropa)
    to change into something convertirse en algo, transformarse en algo
    to change hands cambiar de dueño, cambiar de manos
    to change one's mind cambiar de opinión
    to change one's tune cambiar de parecer
    change ['ʧeɪnʤ] v, changed ; changing vt
    1) alter: cambiar, alterar, modificar
    2) exchange: cambiar de, intercambiar
    to change places: cambiar de sitio
    change vi
    1) vary: cambiar, variar, transformarse
    you haven't changed: no has cambiado
    2) or to change clothes : cambiarse (de ropa)
    1) alteration: cambio m
    2) : cambio m, vuelto m
    two dollars change: dos dólares de vuelto
    3) coins: cambio m, monedas fpl
    n.
    cambio s.m.
    evolución s.f.
    moneda suelta s.f.
    muda s.f.
    mudanza s.f.
    novedad s.f.
    transbordo s.m.
    trastrueque s.m.
    trocado s.m.
    variación s.f.
    variedad s.f.
    v.
    alterar v.
    cambiar v.
    demudar v.
    evolucionar v.
    inmutar v.
    mudar v.
    parar v.
    remudar v.
    tornar v.
    trocar v.
    variar v.
    volver v.
    tʃeɪndʒ
    I
    1)
    a) u c ( alteration) cambio m

    to make changes to something — hacerle* cambios a algo

    a change for the better/worse — un cambio para mejor/para peor

    b) c ( replacement) cambio m
    c) ( of clothes) muda f

    at least it's o it makes a change from chicken — por lo menos no es pollo

    to ring the changes — introducir* variaciones

    2) u
    a) ( coins) cambio m, monedas fpl, sencillo m (AmL), feria f (Méx fam), menudo m (Col)
    b) ( money returned) cambio m, vuelto m (AmL), vuelta f (Esp), vueltas fpl (Col)

    you won't get much change from o out of $1,000 — no te costará mucho menos de 1.000 dólares


    II
    1.
    1)
    a) \<\<appearance/rules/situation\>\> cambiar
    b) \<\<tire/oil/sheets\>\> cambiar

    to change one's address/doctor — cambiar de dirección/médico

    c) ( exchange) cambiar(se) de
    d) \<\<baby\>\> cambiar
    2) \<\<money\>\>

    can anyone change $20? — ¿alguien me puede cambiar 20 dólares?

    3) ( Transp)

    2.
    vi
    1)
    a) ( become different) cambiar

    to change INTO something — convertirse* or transformarse en algo

    the scene changes to wartime Romela escena pasa or se traslada a Roma durante la guerra

    c) changing pres p <needs/role/moods> cambiante
    2)
    a) ( put on different clothes) cambiarse
    b) ( Transp) cambiar, hacer* transbordo
    Phrasal Verbs:
    [tʃeɪndʒ]
    1. N
    1) (gen) cambio m ; (=transformation) transformación f ; (=alteration) modificación f ; (=variation) variación f ; [of skin] muda f

    change of addresscambio m de domicilio

    to have a change of aircambiar de aires

    a change for the betterun cambio para bien

    a change of clothes — ropa para cambiarse; (=underclothes) una muda

    just for a change — para variar

    change of heartcambio m de idea

    change of horsesrelevo m de los tiros

    a change in policy — un cambio de política

    the change of life — (Med) la menopausia

    change of ownershipcambio m de dueño

    change of scenecambio m de aires

    a change for the worseun cambio para mal

    - get no change out of sb
    ring II, 2., 1)
    2) (=small coins) cambio m, suelto m, sencillo m, feria f (Mex) *; (for a larger coin) cambio m ; (=money returned) vuelta f, vuelto m (LAm)

    can you give me change for one pound? — ¿tiene cambio de una libra?, ¿puede cambiarme una moneda de una libra?

    keep the change — quédese con la vuelta

    you won't get much change out of a pound if you buy sugar — con una libra no te va a sobrar mucho si compras azúcar

    2. VT
    1) (by substitution) [+ address, name etc] cambiar; [+ clothes, colour] cambiar de

    to change trains/buses/planes (at) — hacer transbordo (en), cambiar de tren/autobús/avión (en)

    to change gear — (Aut) cambiar de marcha

    to get changed — cambiarse

    to change handscambiar de mano or de dueño

    he wants to change his jobquiere cambiar de trabajo

    to change one's mindcambiar de opinión or idea

    to change placescambiar de sitio

    I'm going to change my shoesvoy a cambiarme de zapatos

    let's change the subjectcambiemos de tema

    2) (=exchange) (in shop) cambiar ( for por)

    can I change this dress for a larger size? — ¿puedo cambiar este vestido por otro de una talla mayor?

    3) (=alter) [+ person] cambiar; (fig) evolucionar; (=transform) transformar ( into en)
    4) [+ money] cambiar

    can you change this note for me? — ¿me hace el favor de cambiar este billete?

    5) (=put fresh nappy on) [+ baby] cambiar (el pañal de)
    3. VI
    1) (=alter) cambiar

    you've changed! — ¡cómo has cambiado!, ¡pareces otro!

    you haven't changed a bit! — ¡no has cambiado en lo más mínimo!

    2) (=be transformed) transformarse ( into en)
    3) (=change clothes) cambiarse, mudarse
    4) (=change trains) hacer transbordo, cambiar de tren; (=change buses) hacer transbordo, cambiar de autobús

    all change! — ¡fin de trayecto!

    4.
    CPD

    change machine Nmáquina f de cambio

    change management N — (Comm) gestión f del cambio empresarial

    change purse N(US) monedero m

    * * *
    [tʃeɪndʒ]
    I
    1)
    a) u c ( alteration) cambio m

    to make changes to something — hacerle* cambios a algo

    a change for the better/worse — un cambio para mejor/para peor

    b) c ( replacement) cambio m
    c) ( of clothes) muda f

    at least it's o it makes a change from chicken — por lo menos no es pollo

    to ring the changes — introducir* variaciones

    2) u
    a) ( coins) cambio m, monedas fpl, sencillo m (AmL), feria f (Méx fam), menudo m (Col)
    b) ( money returned) cambio m, vuelto m (AmL), vuelta f (Esp), vueltas fpl (Col)

    you won't get much change from o out of $1,000 — no te costará mucho menos de 1.000 dólares


    II
    1.
    1)
    a) \<\<appearance/rules/situation\>\> cambiar
    b) \<\<tire/oil/sheets\>\> cambiar

    to change one's address/doctor — cambiar de dirección/médico

    c) ( exchange) cambiar(se) de
    d) \<\<baby\>\> cambiar
    2) \<\<money\>\>

    can anyone change $20? — ¿alguien me puede cambiar 20 dólares?

    3) ( Transp)

    2.
    vi
    1)
    a) ( become different) cambiar

    to change INTO something — convertirse* or transformarse en algo

    the scene changes to wartime Romela escena pasa or se traslada a Roma durante la guerra

    c) changing pres p <needs/role/moods> cambiante
    2)
    a) ( put on different clothes) cambiarse
    b) ( Transp) cambiar, hacer* transbordo
    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > change

  • 7 for

    for [fɔ:(r)]
    pour1A (a)-(d), 1B (a), 1B (b), 1B (d), 1C (b)-(e), 1C (g), 1C (h) à l'intention de1A (c) dans la direction de1A (d) à1A (e) pendant1B (c) en raison de1C (e) de1C (f) car2
    A.
    we were in Vienna for a holiday/for work nous étions à Vienne en vacances/pour le travail;
    what for? pourquoi?;
    I don't know what she said that for je ne sais pas pourquoi elle a dit ça;
    what's this knob for? à quoi sert ce bouton?;
    it's for adjusting the volume ça sert à régler le volume;
    what's this medicine for? à quoi sert ce médicament?;
    can you give me something for the pain? est-ce que vous pouvez me donner quelque chose pour ou contre la douleur?;
    an instrument for measuring temperature un instrument pour mesurer la température;
    clothes for tall men vêtements mpl pour hommes grands;
    write for a free catalogue demandez votre catalogue gratuit;
    for further information write to… pour de plus amples renseignements, écrivez à…;
    they play for money ils jouent pour de l'argent
    (c) (indicating recipient or beneficiary) pour, à l'intention de;
    these flowers are for her ces fleurs sont pour elle;
    there's a phone call for you il y a un appel pour vous;
    I've got some news for you j'ai une nouvelle à vous annoncer;
    he left a note for them il leur a laissé un mot, il a laissé un mot à leur intention;
    opera is not for me l'opéra, ça n'est pas pour moi;
    you are the man for me/the job vous êtes l'homme qu'il me faut/qui convient pour ce poste;
    that is just the thing for you c'est juste ce qu'il vous faut;
    equal pay for women un salaire égal pour les femmes;
    parking for customers only (sign) parking réservé à la clientèle;
    what can I do for you? que puis-je faire pour vous?;
    he's doing everything he can for us il fait tout son possible pour nous;
    a collection for the poor une quête pour les ou en faveur des pauvres;
    it's for your own good c'est pour ton bien;
    he often cooks for himself il se fait souvent la cuisine;
    see for yourself! voyez par vous-même!;
    she writes for a sports magazine elle écrit des articles pour un magazine de sport;
    I work for an advertising agency je travaille pour une agence de publicité
    (d) (indicating direction, destination) pour, dans la direction de;
    they left for Spain ils sont partis pour l'Espagne;
    before leaving for the office avant de partir au bureau;
    she ran for the door elle s'est précipitée vers la porte en courant;
    he made for home il a pris la direction de la maison;
    the ship made for port le navire a mis le cap sur le port;
    the train for London le train pour ou à destination de ou en direction de Londres;
    trains for the suburbs les trains pour la banlieue;
    change trains here for Beaune changez de train ici pour Beaune;
    flight 402 bound for Chicago is now boarding les passagers du vol 402 à destination de Chicago sont invités à se présenter à l'embarquement
    for rent (sign) à louer;
    for sale (sign) à vendre;
    these books are for reference only ces livres sont à consulter sur place
    B.
    (a) (indicating span of time → past, future) pour, pendant; (→ action uncompleted) depuis;
    they're going away for the weekend ils partent pour le week-end;
    they will be gone for some time ils seront absents (pendant ou pour) quelque temps;
    they were in Spain for two weeks ils étaient en Espagne pour deux semaines;
    she won't be back for a month elle ne sera pas de retour avant un mois;
    I lived there for one month j'y ai vécu pendant un mois;
    I've lived here for two years j'habite ici depuis deux ans;
    I'd only lived there for a week when the heating went wrong je n'habitais là que depuis une semaine quand la chaudière est tombée en panne;
    my mother has been here for two weeks ma mère est ici depuis deux semaines;
    you haven't been here for a long time il y a ou voilà ou ça fait longtemps que vous n'êtes pas venu;
    we've known them for years nous les connaissons depuis des années, il y a des années que nous les connaissons;
    I have not seen him for three years il y a trois ans que je ne l'ai vu;
    she won't be able to go out for another day or two elle devra rester sans sortir pendant encore un jour ou deux;
    can you stay for a while? pouvez-vous rester un moment?;
    it's the worst accident for years c'est le pire accident qui soit arrivé depuis des années;
    we have food for three days nous avons des vivres pour trois jours
    I went home for Christmas je suis rentré chez moi pour Noël;
    he took me out to dinner for my birthday il m'a emmené dîner au restaurant pour mon anniversaire;
    we made an appointment for the 6th nous avons pris rendez-vous pour le 6;
    the meeting was set for five o'clock la réunion était fixée pour cinq heures;
    it's time for bed c'est l'heure de se coucher ou d'aller au lit;
    there's no time for that il n'y a pas de temps pour ça;
    for the last/third time pour la dernière/troisième fois
    you could see for miles around on voyait à des kilomètres à la ronde;
    we walked for several miles nous avons marché pendant plusieurs kilomètres;
    they drove for miles without seeing another car ils ont roulé (pendant) des kilomètres sans croiser une seule voiture;
    bends for one mile (sign) virages sur un mil(l)e
    they paid him £100 for his services ils lui ont donné 100 livres pour ses services;
    you can hire a car for twenty pounds a day on peut louer une voiture pour vingt livres par jour;
    it's £2 for a ticket c'est 2 livres le billet;
    he's selling it for £200 il le vend 200 livres;
    I wrote a cheque for £15 j'ai fait un chèque de 15 livres;
    three for £5 trois pour 5 livres;
    put me down for £5 inscrivez-moi pour 5 livres
    C.
    (a) (indicating exchange, equivalence)
    do you have change for a pound? vous avez la monnaie d'une livre?;
    he exchanged the bike for another model il a échangé le vélo contre ou pour un autre modèle;
    what will you give me in exchange for this book? que me donnerez-vous en échange de ce livre?;
    he gave blow for blow il a rendu coup pour coup;
    "salvia" is the Latin term for "sage" "salvia" veut dire "sage" en latin;
    what's the Spanish for "good"? comment dit-on "good" en espagnol?;
    F for François F comme François;
    what's the M for? qu'est-ce que le M veut dire?;
    red for danger rouge veut dire danger;
    he has cereal for breakfast il prend des céréales au petit déjeuner;
    to have sb for a teacher avoir qn comme professeur;
    I know it for a fact je sais que c'est vrai;
    I for one don't care pour ma part, je m'en fiche;
    do you take me for a fool? me prenez-vous pour un imbécile?
    there's one woman applicant for every five men sur six postulants il y a une femme et cinq hommes;
    for every honest politician there are a hundred dishonest ones pour un homme politique honnête, il y en a cent qui sont malhonnêtes
    I'm speaking for all parents je parle pour ou au nom de tous les parents;
    the lawyer was acting for his client l'avocat agissait au nom de ou pour le compte de son client;
    I'll go to the meeting for you j'irai à la réunion à votre place;
    the representative for the union le représentant du syndicat
    I'm all for it je suis tout à fait pour;
    for or against pour ou contre;
    vote for Smith! votez (pour) Smith!;
    they voted for the proposal ils ont voté en faveur de la proposition;
    he's for the ecologists il est pour les écologistes;
    I'm for shortening the hunting season je suis pour une saison de chasse plus courte;
    who's for a drink? qui veut boire un verre?;
    I'm for bed je vais me coucher;
    Law judgement for the plaintiff arrêt m en faveur du demandeur
    (e) (because of) pour, en raison de;
    candidates were selected for their ability les candidats ont été retenus en raison de leurs compétences;
    she couldn't sleep for the pain la douleur l'empêchait de dormir;
    he's known for his wit il est connu pour son esprit;
    the region is famous for its wine la région est célèbre pour son vin;
    she's in prison for treason elle est en prison pour trahison;
    he couldn't speak for laughing il ne pouvait pas parler tellement il riait;
    you'll feel better for a rest vous vous sentirez mieux quand vous vous serez reposé;
    if it weren't for you, I'd leave sans vous, je partirais;
    for this reason pour cette raison;
    for fear of waking him de crainte de le réveiller;
    do it for my sake faites-le pour moi;
    for old time's sake en souvenir du passé
    (f) (indicating cause, reason) de;
    the reason for his leaving la raison de son départ;
    there are no grounds for believing it's true il n'y a pas de raison de croire que c'est vrai;
    she apologized for being late elle s'est excusée d'être en retard;
    I thanked him for his kindness je l'ai remercié de ou pour sa gentillesse
    (g) (concerning, as regards) pour;
    so much for that voilà qui est classé;
    for my part, I refuse to go pour ma part ou quant à moi, je refuse d'y aller;
    I'm very happy for her je suis très heureux pour elle;
    what are her feelings for him? quels sont ses sentiments pour lui?;
    for sheer impudence his remarks are hard to beat pour ce qui est de l'effronterie, ses commentaires sont imbattables
    it's warm for March il fait bon pour un mois de mars;
    that's a good score for him c'est un bon score pour lui;
    she looks very young for her age elle fait très jeune pour son âge
    it's not for him to decide il ne lui appartient pas ou ce n'est pas à lui de décider;
    it's not for her to tell me what to do ce n'est pas à elle de me dire ce que je dois faire;
    it was difficult for her to apologize il lui était difficile de s'excuser;
    I have brought it for you to see je l'ai apporté pour que vous le voyiez;
    this job is too complicated for us to finish today ce travail est trop compliqué pour que nous le finissions aujourd'hui;
    there is still time for her to finish elle a encore le temps de finir;
    it took an hour for the taxi to get to the station le taxi a mis une heure pour aller jusqu'à la gare;
    for us to arrive on time we'd better leave now si nous voulons être à l'heure, il vaut mieux partir maintenant;
    the easiest thing would be for you to lead the way le plus facile serait que vous nous montriez le chemin;
    there's no need for you to worry il n'y a pas de raison de vous inquiéter;
    it is usual for the mother to accompany her daughter il est d'usage que la mère accompagne sa fille
    D.
    oh for a holiday! ah, si je pouvais être en vacances!;
    oh for some peace and quiet! que ne donnerais-je pour la paix!;
    familiar you'll be (in) for it if your mother sees you! ça va être ta fête si ta mère te voit!;
    familiar now we're (in) for it! qu'est-ce qu'on va prendre!
    there's nothing for it but to pay him il n'y a qu'à ou il ne nous reste qu'à le payer;
    that's the postal service for you! ça c'est bien la poste!
    formal car, parce que;
    I was surprised when he arrived punctually, for he was usually late je fus surpris de le voir arriver à l'heure, car il était souvent en retard
    (a) (in spite of) malgré;
    for all their efforts malgré tous leurs efforts;
    for all his success, he's very insecure malgré sa réussite, il manque vraiment de confiance en soi
    for all the use he is he might as well go and play pour ce qu'il fait d'utile il peut aussi bien aller jouer;
    for all the sense it made pour ce que c'était clair
    for all she may say quoi qu'elle en dise;
    for all the good it does pour tout l'effet que ça fait;
    it may be true for all I know c'est peut-être vrai, je n'en sais rien
    pour autant, malgré tout
    2 conjunction esp literary for all that he wanted to believe them pour autant qu'il veuille les croire
    (last, continue) pour toujours; (leave) pour toujours, sans retour;
    for ever and a day jusqu'à la fin des temps;
    for ever and ever à tout jamais, éternellement;
    for ever and ever, amen pour les siècles des siècles, amen;
    to live for ever vivre éternellement;
    Scotland for ever! vive l'Écosse!

    Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > for

  • 8 postural change

    The English-Russian dictionary general scientific > postural change

  • 9 перемена к худшему

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > перемена к худшему

  • 10 worse

    1. adjective compar. of
    academic.ru/5024/bad">bad 1. schlechter; schlimmer [Schmerz, Krankheit, Benehmen]

    things could not/could be worse — es kann nicht mehr schlimmer kommen/es könnte schlimmer sein

    the food is bad, and the service worse — das Essen ist schlecht und die Bedienung noch schlechter

    he's getting worsemit ihm wird es schlimmer; (his health) ihm geht es schlechter

    be worse than useless[Sache:] mehr als unbrauchbar sein; [Person:] ein hoffnungsloser Fall sein

    somebody is [none] the worse for something — jemandem geht es wegen etwas [nicht] schlechter

    worse and worse — immer schlechter/schlimmer

    to make matters worse,... — zu allem Übel...

    worse luck!so ein Pech!; see also drink 1. 3); wear 1. 1)

    2. adverb compar. of
    badly schlechter; schlimmer, schlechter [sich benehmen]

    worse and worse — immer schlechter/schlimmer; see also better 3. 1); off 1. 7)

    3. noun

    she might do worse than settle for that job — es wäre bestimmt kein Fehler, wenn sie sich für die Stelle entschiede

    take a turn for the worse — sich verschlechtern; [Krankheit:] sich verschlimmern

    there is worse to come — es kommt noch schlimmer; see also worst 3. 1)

    * * *
    ((of things or people) to become better or worse: His fortunes have taken a turn for the better; Her health has taken a turn for the worse.) sich verbessern,...schlimmern
    * * *
    [wɜ:s, AM wɜ:rs]
    1. (not as good) schlechter; (more difficult, unpleasant) schlimmer, ärger
    stop, I can't take any \worse! hör auf, ich kann nicht noch mehr ertragen!
    \worse luck! ( fam) so ein Pech [o fam Mist]!
    that only makes matters \worse das macht alles nur noch schlimmer
    and to make matters \worse... und was alles noch schlimmer macht,...
    it could have been [or come] \worse es hätte schlimmer sein [o kommen] können
    to be \worse than... schlechter/schlimmer sein als...
    2. MED (sicker) schlechter, schlimmer
    he's [got] \worse es geht ihm schlechter
    my cold seems to be getting \worse meine Erkältung scheint schlimmer zu werden [o sich zu verschlimmern
    3.
    [a bit] the \worse for drink ( dated fam) beschwipst
    to be [all] the \worse for sb für jdn schlimme Folgen haben
    \worse things have happened at sea! es gibt Schlimmeres!
    so much the \worse for sb um so schlimmer für jdn
    sb is none the \worse for sth jdm tut es um etw akk nicht leid
    you would be none the \worse for some basic manners, young man! etwas Benehmen würde Ihnen nicht schaden, junger Mann!
    [a bit] the \worse for wear ( fam) [ziemlich] mitgenommen, abgenutzt, abgenützt SCHWEIZ, ÖSTERR
    1. (less well) schlechter; (more seriously) schlimmer
    he did \worse than he was expecting in the exams er schnitt beim Examen schlechter als erwartet ab
    you could do a lot \worse than marry her dir kann doch gar nichts Besseres passieren, als sie zu heiraten
    to be \worse off [than...] schlechter dran sein [als...]
    to get \worse and \worse immer schlechter werden, sich akk immer mehr verschlechtern
    2. (to introduce statement)
    even \worse,... was noch schlimmer ist,...
    III. n no pl
    the \worse das Schlechtere
    to change for the \worse schlechter werden, sich akk verschlechtern [o verschlimmern], sich akk zum Schlechten verändern
    2. (circumstance) Schlimmeres nt
    * * *
    [wɜːs]
    1. adj comp
    schlechter; (morally, with bad consequences) schlimmer, ärger

    it gets worse and worse —

    the patient is worse than he was yesterdaydem Patienten geht es schlechter als gestern

    the patient is getting worseder Zustand des Patienten verschlechtert sich or wird schlechter

    his "corrections" only made it worse — er hat alles nur verschlimmbessert

    it will be the worse for youdas wird für dich unangenehme Folgen haben

    he's none the worse for it — er hat sich nichts dabei getan, es ist ihm nichts dabei passiert

    2. adv comp
    schlechter

    to be worse off than... — schlechter dran sein als... (inf), in einer schlechteren Lage sein als...

    I could do a lot worse than accept their offer — es wäre bestimmt kein Fehler, wenn ich das Angebot annähme

    3. n
    Schlechtere(s) nt; (morally, with regard to consequences) Schlimmere(s) nt
    * * *
    worse [wɜːs; US wɜrs]
    A adj (komp von bad1, evil, ill)
    1. schlechter, schlimmer ( beide auch MED), übler, ärger:
    worse and worse immer schlechter oder schlimmer;
    the worse desto schlimmer;
    so much ( oder all) the worse umso schlimmer;
    that only made matters worse das machte es nur noch schlimmer;
    make it worse (Redew) um das Unglück vollzumachen;
    he is worse than yesterday es geht ihm schlechter als gestern;
    worse still was noch schlimmer ist; luck A 1, wear1 C 3
    2. schlechter gestellt:
    (not) be the worse for (nicht) schlecht wegkommen bei, (keinen) Schaden erlitten haben durch, (nicht) schlechter gestellt sein wegen;
    he is none the worse for it es ist ihm dabei nichts passiert;
    you would be none the worse for a walk ein Spaziergang würde dir gar nichts schaden;
    be the worse for drink betrunken sein
    B adv schlechter, schlimmer, ärger:
    none the worse nicht schlechter;
    be worse off schlechter daran sein;
    you could do worse than get a haircut du könntest dir ruhig mal die Haare schneiden lassen
    C s Schlechteres n, Schlimmeres n:
    worse followed Schlimmeres folgte;
    if worse comes to worse schlimmstenfalls;
    have ( oder get) the worse den Kürzer(e)n ziehen, schlechter wegkommen; bad1 B 1, better1 B 1, change B 1, C 1 turn1 A 8 b
    * * *
    1. adjective compar. of
    bad 1. schlechter; schlimmer [Schmerz, Krankheit, Benehmen]

    things could not/could be worse — es kann nicht mehr schlimmer kommen/es könnte schlimmer sein

    the food is bad, and the service worse — das Essen ist schlecht und die Bedienung noch schlechter

    he's getting worse — mit ihm wird es schlimmer; (his health) ihm geht es schlechter

    be worse than useless[Sache:] mehr als unbrauchbar sein; [Person:] ein hoffnungsloser Fall sein

    somebody is [none] the worse for something — jemandem geht es wegen etwas [nicht] schlechter

    worse and worse — immer schlechter/schlimmer

    to make matters worse,... — zu allem Übel...

    worse luck! — so ein Pech!; see also drink 1. 3); wear 1. 1)

    2. adverb compar. of
    badly schlechter; schlimmer, schlechter [sich benehmen]

    worse and worse — immer schlechter/schlimmer; see also better 3. 1); off 1. 7)

    3. noun

    she might do worse than settle for that job — es wäre bestimmt kein Fehler, wenn sie sich für die Stelle entschiede

    take a turn for the worse — sich verschlechtern; [Krankheit:] sich verschlimmern

    there is worse to come — es kommt noch schlimmer; see also worst 3. 1)

    * * *
    adj.
    schlechter adj.
    schlimmer adj.

    English-german dictionary > worse

  • 11 prepared

    [prɪ'peəd] 1. 2.

    to be prepared for — essere pronto per, essere preparato a [event, change]

    to be well-, ill-prepared — (with materials) essere bene, male equipaggiato

    to be prepared for the worstessere pronti o preparati al peggio

    3) (ready-made) [ meal] già pronto; [ speech] preparato; [ response] pronto, preparato in precedenza
    * * *
    adjective ((negative unprepared) made ready.) preparato
    * * *
    [prɪ'peəd] 1. 2.

    to be prepared for — essere pronto per, essere preparato a [event, change]

    to be well-, ill-prepared — (with materials) essere bene, male equipaggiato

    to be prepared for the worstessere pronti o preparati al peggio

    3) (ready-made) [ meal] già pronto; [ speech] preparato; [ response] pronto, preparato in precedenza

    English-Italian dictionary > prepared

  • 12 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 13 worse

    adv. slechter; ernstiger; op grotere schaal
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    n. Heel slechte situatie, slechter
    worse1
    [ wə:s] zelfstandig naamwoord
    iets slechters/ergersslechtere/ergere dingen
    voorbeelden:
    1   worse is to follow het ergste komt nog
         a change for the worse een verandering ten kwade, een verslechtering
    Amerikaans-Engelsif worse comes to worst in het ergste geval
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    worse2
    I 〈bijvoeglijk naamwoord; vergrotende trap van bad〉
    slechtererger, minder (goed)
    voorbeelden:
    1   you're making matters worse je verergert de zaak (nog)
         to make things worse tot overmaat van ramp
         is worse off than … is slechter af dan …
         worse still erger/sterker nog
         worse and worse steeds erger/slechter
    the worse for drink/liquor aangeschoten
         worse luck! pech gehad!
         the worse for wear versleten; er niet op vooruitgegaan
         he is none the worse for hij is niet minder geworden van, hij heeft niet geleden onder
    zieker zwakker
    voorbeelden:
    1   she's getting worse every day ze gaat met de dag achteruit
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    worse3
    bijwoord
    slechter erger
    voorbeelden:
    1   this cheese is smelling worse than ever die kaas stinkt erger dan ooit
         he is worse off than me hij is slechter af dan ik
    I like him none the worse for it ik mag hem er niet minder om

    English-Dutch dictionary > worse

  • 14 худшее

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > худшее

  • 15 prepared

    prepared [prɪˈpεəd]
    [person, country] prêt ; [statement, answer] préparé à l'avance
    I am prepared for anything ( = can cope with anything) j'ai tout prévu ; ( = won't be surprised at anything) je m'attends à tout
    * * *
    [prɪ'peəd]
    1) ( willing)
    2) ( ready)

    to be prepared for[event, conflict, change] être prêt à

    to be well-/ill-prepared — ( with materials) être bien/mal équipé

    3) ( ready-made) [speech, response] préparé d'avance; [meal] tout prêt

    English-French dictionary > prepared

  • 16 prepared

    1 ( willing) to be prepared to do être prêt à faire ;
    2 ( ready) to be prepared for [disaster, strike, conflict, change] être prêt à ; to be well-/ill-prepared ( with materials) être bien/mal équipé ; to come prepared venir bien préparé ; be prepared! soyez prêt! ; to be prepared for the worst s'attendre au pire ; I really wasn't prepared for this! je ne m'attendais pas du tout à ça! ;
    3 ( ready-made) [meal] tout prêt ; [speech, statement, response, text] préparé d'avance.

    Big English-French dictionary > prepared

  • 17 modular data center

    1. модульный центр обработки данных (ЦОД)

     

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    Data Centers are a hot topic these days. No matter where you look, this once obscure aspect of infrastructure is getting a lot of attention. For years, there have been cost pressures on IT operations and this, when the need for modern capacity is greater than ever, has thrust data centers into the spotlight. Server and rack density continues to rise, placing DC professionals and businesses in tighter and tougher situations while they struggle to manage their IT environments. And now hyper-scale cloud infrastructure is taking traditional technologies to limits never explored before and focusing the imagination of the IT industry on new possibilities.

    В настоящее время центры обработки данных являются широко обсуждаемой темой. Куда ни посмотришь, этот некогда малоизвестный аспект инфраструктуры привлекает все больше внимания. Годами ИТ-отделы испытывали нехватку средств и это выдвинуло ЦОДы в центр внимания, в то время, когда необходимость в современных ЦОДах стала как никогда высокой. Плотность серверов и стоек продолжают расти, все больше усложняя ситуацию для специалистов в области охлаждения и организаций в их попытках управлять своими ИТ-средами. И теперь гипермасштабируемая облачная инфраструктура подвергает традиционные технологии невиданным ранее нагрузкам, и заставляет ИТ-индустрию искать новые возможности.

    At Microsoft, we have focused a lot of thought and research around how to best operate and maintain our global infrastructure and we want to share those learnings. While obviously there are some aspects that we keep to ourselves, we have shared how we operate facilities daily, our technologies and methodologies, and, most importantly, how we monitor and manage our facilities. Whether it’s speaking at industry events, inviting customers to our “Microsoft data center conferences” held in our data centers, or through other media like blogging and white papers, we believe sharing best practices is paramount and will drive the industry forward. So in that vein, we have some interesting news to share.

    В компании MicroSoft уделяют большое внимание изучению наилучших методов эксплуатации и технического обслуживания своей глобальной инфраструктуры и делятся результатами своих исследований. И хотя мы, конечно, не раскрываем некоторые аспекты своих исследований, мы делимся повседневным опытом эксплуатации дата-центров, своими технологиями и методологиями и, что важнее всего, методами контроля и управления своими объектами. Будь то доклады на отраслевых событиях, приглашение клиентов на наши конференции, которые посвящены центрам обработки данных MicroSoft, и проводятся в этих самых дата-центрах, или использование других средств, например, блоги и спецификации, мы уверены, что обмен передовым опытом имеет первостепенное значение и будет продвигать отрасль вперед.

    Today we are sharing our Generation 4 Modular Data Center plan. This is our vision and will be the foundation of our cloud data center infrastructure in the next five years. We believe it is one of the most revolutionary changes to happen to data centers in the last 30 years. Joining me, in writing this blog are Daniel Costello, my director of Data Center Research and Engineering and Christian Belady, principal power and cooling architect. I feel their voices will add significant value to driving understanding around the many benefits included in this new design paradigm.

    Сейчас мы хотим поделиться своим планом модульного дата-центра четвертого поколения. Это наше видение и оно будет основанием для инфраструктуры наших облачных дата-центров в ближайшие пять лет. Мы считаем, что это одно из самых революционных изменений в дата-центрах за последние 30 лет. Вместе со мной в написании этого блога участвовали Дэниел Костелло, директор по исследованиям и инжинирингу дата-центров, и Кристиан Белади, главный архитектор систем энергоснабжения и охлаждения. Мне кажется, что их авторитет придаст больше веса большому количеству преимуществ, включенных в эту новую парадигму проектирования.

    Our “Gen 4” modular data centers will take the flexibility of containerized servers—like those in our Chicago data center—and apply it across the entire facility. So what do we mean by modular? Think of it like “building blocks”, where the data center will be composed of modular units of prefabricated mechanical, electrical, security components, etc., in addition to containerized servers.

    Was there a key driver for the Generation 4 Data Center?

    Наши модульные дата-центры “Gen 4” будут гибкими с контейнерами серверов – как серверы в нашем чикагском дата-центре. И гибкость будет применяться ко всему ЦОД. Итак, что мы подразумеваем под модульностью? Мы думаем о ней как о “строительных блоках”, где дата-центр будет состоять из модульных блоков изготовленных в заводских условиях электрических систем и систем охлаждения, а также систем безопасности и т.п., в дополнение к контейнеризованным серверам.
    Был ли ключевой стимул для разработки дата-центра четвертого поколения?


    If we were to summarize the promise of our Gen 4 design into a single sentence it would be something like this: “A highly modular, scalable, efficient, just-in-time data center capacity program that can be delivered anywhere in the world very quickly and cheaply, while allowing for continued growth as required.” Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well, keep in mind that these concepts have been in initial development and prototyping for over a year and are based on cumulative knowledge of previous facility generations and the advances we have made since we began our investments in earnest on this new design.

    Если бы нам нужно было обобщить достоинства нашего проекта Gen 4 в одном предложении, это выглядело бы следующим образом: “Центр обработки данных с высоким уровнем модульности, расширяемости, и энергетической эффективности, а также возможностью постоянного расширения, в случае необходимости, который можно очень быстро и дешево развертывать в любом месте мира”. Звучит слишком хорошо для того чтобы быть правдой, не так ли? Ну, не забывайте, что эти концепции находились в процессе начальной разработки и создания опытного образца в течение более одного года и основываются на опыте, накопленном в ходе развития предыдущих поколений ЦОД, а также успехах, сделанных нами со времени, когда мы начали вкладывать серьезные средства в этот новый проект.

    One of the biggest challenges we’ve had at Microsoft is something Mike likes to call the ‘Goldilock’s Problem’. In a nutshell, the problem can be stated as:

    The worst thing we can do in delivering facilities for the business is not have enough capacity online, thus limiting the growth of our products and services.

    Одну из самых больших проблем, с которыми приходилось сталкиваться Майкрософт, Майк любит называть ‘Проблемой Лютика’. Вкратце, эту проблему можно выразить следующим образом:

    Самое худшее, что может быть при строительстве ЦОД для бизнеса, это не располагать достаточными производственными мощностями, и тем самым ограничивать рост наших продуктов и сервисов.

    The second worst thing we can do in delivering facilities for the business is to have too much capacity online.

    А вторым самым худшим моментом в этой сфере может слишком большое количество производственных мощностей.

    This has led to a focus on smart, intelligent growth for the business — refining our overall demand picture. It can’t be too hot. It can’t be too cold. It has to be ‘Just Right!’ The capital dollars of investment are too large to make without long term planning. As we struggled to master these interesting challenges, we had to ensure that our technological plan also included solutions for the business and operational challenges we faced as well.
    So let’s take a high level look at our Generation 4 design

    Это заставило нас сосредоточиваться на интеллектуальном росте для бизнеса — refining our overall demand picture. Это не должно быть слишком горячим. И это не должно быть слишком холодным. Это должно быть ‘как раз, таким как надо!’ Нельзя делать такие большие капиталовложения без долгосрочного планирования. Пока мы старались решить эти интересные проблемы, мы должны были гарантировать, что наш технологический план будет также включать решения для коммерческих и эксплуатационных проблем, с которыми нам также приходилось сталкиваться.
    Давайте рассмотрим наш проект дата-центра четвертого поколения

    Are you ready for some great visuals? Check out this video at Soapbox. Click here for the Microsoft 4th Gen Video.

    It’s a concept video that came out of my Data Center Research and Engineering team, under Daniel Costello, that will give you a view into what we think is the future.

    From a configuration, construct-ability and time to market perspective, our primary goals and objectives are to modularize the whole data center. Not just the server side (like the Chicago facility), but the mechanical and electrical space as well. This means using the same kind of parts in pre-manufactured modules, the ability to use containers, skids, or rack-based deployments and the ability to tailor the Redundancy and Reliability requirements to the application at a very specific level.


    Посмотрите это видео, перейдите по ссылке для просмотра видео о Microsoft 4th Gen:

    Это концептуальное видео, созданное командой отдела Data Center Research and Engineering, возглавляемого Дэниелом Костелло, которое даст вам наше представление о будущем.

    С точки зрения конфигурации, строительной технологичности и времени вывода на рынок, нашими главными целями и задачами агрегатирование всего дата-центра. Не только серверную часть, как дата-центр в Чикаго, но также системы охлаждения и электрические системы. Это означает применение деталей одного типа в сборных модулях, возможность использования контейнеров, салазок, или стоечных систем, а также возможность подстраивать требования избыточности и надежности для данного приложения на очень специфичном уровне.

    Our goals from a cost perspective were simple in concept but tough to deliver. First and foremost, we had to reduce the capital cost per critical Mega Watt by the class of use. Some applications can run with N-level redundancy in the infrastructure, others require a little more infrastructure for support. These different classes of infrastructure requirements meant that optimizing for all cost classes was paramount. At Microsoft, we are not a one trick pony and have many Online products and services (240+) that require different levels of operational support. We understand that and ensured that we addressed it in our design which will allow us to reduce capital costs by 20%-40% or greater depending upon class.


    Нашими целями в области затрат были концептуально простыми, но трудно реализуемыми. В первую очередь мы должны были снизить капитальные затраты в пересчете на один мегаватт, в зависимости от класса резервирования. Некоторые приложения могут вполне работать на базе инфраструктуры с резервированием на уровне N, то есть без резервирования, а для работы других приложений требуется больше инфраструктуры. Эти разные классы требований инфраструктуры подразумевали, что оптимизация всех классов затрат имеет преобладающее значение. В Майкрософт мы не ограничиваемся одним решением и располагаем большим количеством интерактивных продуктов и сервисов (240+), которым требуются разные уровни эксплуатационной поддержки. Мы понимаем это, и учитываем это в своем проекте, который позволит нам сокращать капитальные затраты на 20%-40% или более в зависимости от класса.

    For example, non-critical or geo redundant applications have low hardware reliability requirements on a location basis. As a result, Gen 4 can be configured to provide stripped down, low-cost infrastructure with little or no redundancy and/or temperature control. Let’s say an Online service team decides that due to the dramatically lower cost, they will simply use uncontrolled outside air with temperatures ranging 10-35 C and 20-80% RH. The reality is we are already spec-ing this for all of our servers today and working with server vendors to broaden that range even further as Gen 4 becomes a reality. For this class of infrastructure, we eliminate generators, chillers, UPSs, and possibly lower costs relative to traditional infrastructure.

    Например, некритичные или гео-избыточные системы имеют низкие требования к аппаратной надежности на основе местоположения. В результате этого, Gen 4 можно конфигурировать для упрощенной, недорогой инфраструктуры с низким уровнем (или вообще без резервирования) резервирования и / или температурного контроля. Скажем, команда интерактивного сервиса решает, что, в связи с намного меньшими затратами, они будут просто использовать некондиционированный наружный воздух с температурой 10-35°C и влажностью 20-80% RH. В реальности мы уже сегодня предъявляем эти требования к своим серверам и работаем с поставщиками серверов над еще большим расширением диапазона температур, так как наш модуль и подход Gen 4 становится реальностью. Для подобного класса инфраструктуры мы удаляем генераторы, чиллеры, ИБП, и, возможно, будем предлагать более низкие затраты, по сравнению с традиционной инфраструктурой.

    Applications that demand higher level of redundancy or temperature control will use configurations of Gen 4 to meet those needs, however, they will also cost more (but still less than traditional data centers). We see this cost difference driving engineering behavioral change in that we predict more applications will drive towards Geo redundancy to lower costs.

    Системы, которым требуется более высокий уровень резервирования или температурного контроля, будут использовать конфигурации Gen 4, отвечающие этим требованиям, однако, они будут также стоить больше. Но все равно они будут стоить меньше, чем традиционные дата-центры. Мы предвидим, что эти различия в затратах будут вызывать изменения в методах инжиниринга, и по нашим прогнозам, это будет выражаться в переходе все большего числа систем на гео-избыточность и меньшие затраты.

    Another cool thing about Gen 4 is that it allows us to deploy capacity when our demand dictates it. Once finalized, we will no longer need to make large upfront investments. Imagine driving capital costs more closely in-line with actual demand, thus greatly reducing time-to-market and adding the capacity Online inherent in the design. Also reduced is the amount of construction labor required to put these “building blocks” together. Since the entire platform requires pre-manufacture of its core components, on-site construction costs are lowered. This allows us to maximize our return on invested capital.

    Еще одно достоинство Gen 4 состоит в том, что он позволяет нам разворачивать дополнительные мощности, когда нам это необходимо. Как только мы закончим проект, нам больше не нужно будет делать большие начальные капиталовложения. Представьте себе возможность более точного согласования капитальных затрат с реальными требованиями, и тем самым значительного снижения времени вывода на рынок и интерактивного добавления мощностей, предусматриваемого проектом. Также снижен объем строительных работ, требуемых для сборки этих “строительных блоков”. Поскольку вся платформа требует предварительного изготовления ее базовых компонентов, затраты на сборку также снижены. Это позволит нам увеличить до максимума окупаемость своих капиталовложений.
    Мы все подвергаем сомнению

    In our design process, we questioned everything. You may notice there is no roof and some might be uncomfortable with this. We explored the need of one and throughout our research we got some surprising (positive) results that showed one wasn’t needed.

    В своем процессе проектирования мы все подвергаем сомнению. Вы, наверное, обратили внимание на отсутствие крыши, и некоторым специалистам это могло не понравиться. Мы изучили необходимость в крыше и в ходе своих исследований получили удивительные результаты, которые показали, что крыша не нужна.
    Серийное производство дата центров


    In short, we are striving to bring Henry Ford’s Model T factory to the data center. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Model_T. Gen 4 will move data centers from a custom design and build model to a commoditized manufacturing approach. We intend to have our components built in factories and then assemble them in one location (the data center site) very quickly. Think about how a computer, car or plane is built today. Components are manufactured by different companies all over the world to a predefined spec and then integrated in one location based on demands and feature requirements. And just like Henry Ford’s assembly line drove the cost of building and the time-to-market down dramatically for the automobile industry, we expect Gen 4 to do the same for data centers. Everything will be pre-manufactured and assembled on the pad.

    Мы хотим применить модель автомобильной фабрики Генри Форда к дата-центру. Проект Gen 4 будет способствовать переходу от модели специализированного проектирования и строительства к товарно-производственному, серийному подходу. Мы намерены изготавливать свои компоненты на заводах, а затем очень быстро собирать их в одном месте, в месте строительства дата-центра. Подумайте о том, как сегодня изготавливается компьютер, автомобиль или самолет. Компоненты изготавливаются по заранее определенным спецификациям разными компаниями во всем мире, затем собираются в одном месте на основе спроса и требуемых характеристик. И точно так же как сборочный конвейер Генри Форда привел к значительному уменьшению затрат на производство и времени вывода на рынок в автомобильной промышленности, мы надеемся, что Gen 4 сделает то же самое для дата-центров. Все будет предварительно изготавливаться и собираться на месте.
    Невероятно энергоэффективный ЦОД


    And did we mention that this platform will be, overall, incredibly energy efficient? From a total energy perspective not only will we have remarkable PUE values, but the total cost of energy going into the facility will be greatly reduced as well. How much energy goes into making concrete? Will we need as much of it? How much energy goes into the fuel of the construction vehicles? This will also be greatly reduced! A key driver is our goal to achieve an average PUE at or below 1.125 by 2012 across our data centers. More than that, we are on a mission to reduce the overall amount of copper and water used in these facilities. We believe these will be the next areas of industry attention when and if the energy problem is solved. So we are asking today…“how can we build a data center with less building”?

    А мы упоминали, что эта платформа будет, в общем, невероятно энергоэффективной? С точки зрения общей энергии, мы получим не только поразительные значения PUE, но общая стоимость энергии, затраченной на объект будет также значительно снижена. Сколько энергии идет на производство бетона? Нам нужно будет столько энергии? Сколько энергии идет на питание инженерных строительных машин? Это тоже будет значительно снижено! Главным стимулом является достижение среднего PUE не больше 1.125 для всех наших дата-центров к 2012 году. Более того, у нас есть задача сокращения общего количества меди и воды в дата-центрах. Мы думаем, что эти задачи станут следующей заботой отрасли после того как будет решена энергетическая проблема. Итак, сегодня мы спрашиваем себя…“как можно построить дата-центр с меньшим объемом строительных работ”?
    Строительство дата центров без чиллеров

    We have talked openly and publicly about building chiller-less data centers and running our facilities using aggressive outside economization. Our sincerest hope is that Gen 4 will completely eliminate the use of water. Today’s data centers use massive amounts of water and we see water as the next scarce resource and have decided to take a proactive stance on making water conservation part of our plan.

    Мы открыто и публично говорили о строительстве дата-центров без чиллеров и активном использовании в наших центрах обработки данных технологий свободного охлаждения или фрикулинга. Мы искренне надеемся, что Gen 4 позволит полностью отказаться от использования воды. Современные дата-центры расходуют большие объемы воды и так как мы считаем воду следующим редким ресурсом, мы решили принять упреждающие меры и включить экономию воды в свой план.

    By sharing this with the industry, we believe everyone can benefit from our methodology. While this concept and approach may be intimidating (or downright frightening) to some in the industry, disclosure ultimately is better for all of us.

    Делясь этим опытом с отраслью, мы считаем, что каждый сможет извлечь выгоду из нашей методологией. Хотя эта концепция и подход могут показаться пугающими (или откровенно страшными) для некоторых отраслевых специалистов, раскрывая свои планы мы, в конечном счете, делаем лучше для всех нас.

    Gen 4 design (even more than just containers), could reduce the ‘religious’ debates in our industry. With the central spine infrastructure in place, containers or pre-manufactured server halls can be either AC or DC, air-side economized or water-side economized, or not economized at all (though the sanity of that might be questioned). Gen 4 will allow us to decommission, repair and upgrade quickly because everything is modular. No longer will we be governed by the initial decisions made when constructing the facility. We will have almost unlimited use and re-use of the facility and site. We will also be able to use power in an ultra-fluid fashion moving load from critical to non-critical as use and capacity requirements dictate.

    Проект Gen 4 позволит уменьшить ‘религиозные’ споры в нашей отрасли. Располагая базовой инфраструктурой, контейнеры или сборные серверные могут оборудоваться системами переменного или постоянного тока, воздушными или водяными экономайзерами, или вообще не использовать экономайзеры. Хотя можно подвергать сомнению разумность такого решения. Gen 4 позволит нам быстро выполнять работы по выводу из эксплуатации, ремонту и модернизации, поскольку все будет модульным. Мы больше не будем руководствоваться начальными решениями, принятыми во время строительства дата-центра. Мы сможем использовать этот дата-центр и инфраструктуру в течение почти неограниченного периода времени. Мы также сможем применять сверхгибкие методы использования электрической энергии, переводя оборудование в режимы критической или некритической нагрузки в соответствии с требуемой мощностью.
    Gen 4 – это стандартная платформа

    Finally, we believe this is a big game changer. Gen 4 will provide a standard platform that our industry can innovate around. For example, all modules in our Gen 4 will have common interfaces clearly defined by our specs and any vendor that meets these specifications will be able to plug into our infrastructure. Whether you are a computer vendor, UPS vendor, generator vendor, etc., you will be able to plug and play into our infrastructure. This means we can also source anyone, anywhere on the globe to minimize costs and maximize performance. We want to help motivate the industry to further innovate—with innovations from which everyone can reap the benefits.

    Наконец, мы уверены, что это будет фактором, который значительно изменит ситуацию. Gen 4 будет представлять собой стандартную платформу, которую отрасль сможет обновлять. Например, все модули в нашем Gen 4 будут иметь общепринятые интерфейсы, четко определяемые нашими спецификациями, и оборудование любого поставщика, которое отвечает этим спецификациям можно будет включать в нашу инфраструктуру. Независимо от того производите вы компьютеры, ИБП, генераторы и т.п., вы сможете включать свое оборудование нашу инфраструктуру. Это означает, что мы также сможем обеспечивать всех, в любом месте земного шара, тем самым сводя до минимума затраты и максимальной увеличивая производительность. Мы хотим создать в отрасли мотивацию для дальнейших инноваций – инноваций, от которых каждый сможет получать выгоду.
    Главные характеристики дата-центров четвертого поколения Gen4

    To summarize, the key characteristics of our Generation 4 data centers are:

    Scalable
    Plug-and-play spine infrastructure
    Factory pre-assembled: Pre-Assembled Containers (PACs) & Pre-Manufactured Buildings (PMBs)
    Rapid deployment
    De-mountable
    Reduce TTM
    Reduced construction
    Sustainable measures

    Ниже приведены главные характеристики дата-центров четвертого поколения Gen 4:

    Расширяемость;
    Готовая к использованию базовая инфраструктура;
    Изготовление в заводских условиях: сборные контейнеры (PAC) и сборные здания (PMB);
    Быстрота развертывания;
    Возможность демонтажа;
    Снижение времени вывода на рынок (TTM);
    Сокращение сроков строительства;
    Экологичность;

    Map applications to DC Class

    We hope you join us on this incredible journey of change and innovation!

    Long hours of research and engineering time are invested into this process. There are still some long days and nights ahead, but the vision is clear. Rest assured however, that we as refine Generation 4, the team will soon be looking to Generation 5 (even if it is a bit farther out). There is always room to get better.


    Использование систем электропитания постоянного тока.

    Мы надеемся, что вы присоединитесь к нам в этом невероятном путешествии по миру изменений и инноваций!

    На этот проект уже потрачены долгие часы исследований и проектирования. И еще предстоит потратить много дней и ночей, но мы имеем четкое представление о конечной цели. Однако будьте уверены, что как только мы доведем до конца проект модульного дата-центра четвертого поколения, мы вскоре начнем думать о проекте дата-центра пятого поколения. Всегда есть возможность для улучшений.

    So if you happen to come across Goldilocks in the forest, and you are curious as to why she is smiling you will know that she feels very good about getting very close to ‘JUST RIGHT’.

    Generations of Evolution – some background on our data center designs

    Так что, если вы встретите в лесу девочку по имени Лютик, и вам станет любопытно, почему она улыбается, вы будете знать, что она очень довольна тем, что очень близко подошла к ‘ОПИМАЛЬНОМУ РЕШЕНИЮ’.
    Поколения эволюции – история развития наших дата-центров

    We thought you might be interested in understanding what happened in the first three generations of our data center designs. When Ray Ozzie wrote his Software plus Services memo it posed a very interesting challenge to us. The winds of change were at ‘tornado’ proportions. That “plus Services” tag had some significant (and unstated) challenges inherent to it. The first was that Microsoft was going to evolve even further into an operations company. While we had been running large scale Internet services since 1995, this development lead us to an entirely new level. Additionally, these “services” would span across both Internet and Enterprise businesses. To those of you who have to operate “stuff”, you know that these are two very different worlds in operational models and challenges. It also meant that, to achieve the same level of reliability and performance required our infrastructure was going to have to scale globally and in a significant way.

    Мы подумали, что может быть вам будет интересно узнать историю первых трех поколений наших центров обработки данных. Когда Рэй Оззи написал свою памятную записку Software plus Services, он поставил перед нами очень интересную задачу. Ветра перемен двигались с ураганной скоростью. Это окончание “plus Services” скрывало в себе какие-то значительные и неопределенные задачи. Первая заключалась в том, что Майкрософт собиралась в еще большей степени стать операционной компанией. Несмотря на то, что мы управляли большими интернет-сервисами, начиная с 1995 г., эта разработка подняла нас на абсолютно новый уровень. Кроме того, эти “сервисы” охватывали интернет-компании и корпорации. Тем, кому приходится всем этим управлять, известно, что есть два очень разных мира в области операционных моделей и задач. Это также означало, что для достижения такого же уровня надежности и производительности требовалось, чтобы наша инфраструктура располагала значительными возможностями расширения в глобальных масштабах.

    It was that intense atmosphere of change that we first started re-evaluating data center technology and processes in general and our ideas began to reach farther than what was accepted by the industry at large. This was the era of Generation 1. As we look at where most of the world’s data centers are today (and where our facilities were), it represented all the known learning and design requirements that had been in place since IBM built the first purpose-built computer room. These facilities focused more around uptime, reliability and redundancy. Big infrastructure was held accountable to solve all potential environmental shortfalls. This is where the majority of infrastructure in the industry still is today.

    Именно в этой атмосфере серьезных изменений мы впервые начали переоценку ЦОД-технологий и технологий вообще, и наши идеи начали выходить за пределы общепринятых в отрасли представлений. Это была эпоха ЦОД первого поколения. Когда мы узнали, где сегодня располагается большинство мировых дата-центров и где находятся наши предприятия, это представляло весь опыт и навыки проектирования, накопленные со времени, когда IBM построила первую серверную. В этих ЦОД больше внимания уделялось бесперебойной работе, надежности и резервированию. Большая инфраструктура была призвана решать все потенциальные экологические проблемы. Сегодня большая часть инфраструктуры все еще находится на этом этапе своего развития.

    We soon realized that traditional data centers were quickly becoming outdated. They were not keeping up with the demands of what was happening technologically and environmentally. That’s when we kicked off our Generation 2 design. Gen 2 facilities started taking into account sustainability, energy efficiency, and really looking at the total cost of energy and operations.

    Очень быстро мы поняли, что стандартные дата-центры очень быстро становятся устаревшими. Они не поспевали за темпами изменений технологических и экологических требований. Именно тогда мы стали разрабатывать ЦОД второго поколения. В этих дата-центрах Gen 2 стали принимать во внимание такие факторы как устойчивое развитие, энергетическая эффективность, а также общие энергетические и эксплуатационные.

    No longer did we view data centers just for the upfront capital costs, but we took a hard look at the facility over the course of its life. Our Quincy, Washington and San Antonio, Texas facilities are examples of our Gen 2 data centers where we explored and implemented new ways to lessen the impact on the environment. These facilities are considered two leading industry examples, based on their energy efficiency and ability to run and operate at new levels of scale and performance by leveraging clean hydro power (Quincy) and recycled waste water (San Antonio) to cool the facility during peak cooling months.

    Мы больше не рассматривали дата-центры только с точки зрения начальных капитальных затрат, а внимательно следили за работой ЦОД на протяжении его срока службы. Наши объекты в Куинси, Вашингтоне, и Сан-Антонио, Техас, являются образцами наших ЦОД второго поколения, в которых мы изучали и применяли на практике новые способы снижения воздействия на окружающую среду. Эти объекты считаются двумя ведущими отраслевыми примерами, исходя из их энергетической эффективности и способности работать на новых уровнях производительности, основанных на использовании чистой энергии воды (Куинси) и рециклирования отработанной воды (Сан-Антонио) для охлаждения объекта в самых жарких месяцах.

    As we were delivering our Gen 2 facilities into steel and concrete, our Generation 3 facilities were rapidly driving the evolution of the program. The key concepts for our Gen 3 design are increased modularity and greater concentration around energy efficiency and scale. The Gen 3 facility will be best represented by the Chicago, Illinois facility currently under construction. This facility will seem very foreign compared to the traditional data center concepts most of the industry is comfortable with. In fact, if you ever sit around in our container hanger in Chicago it will look incredibly different from a traditional raised-floor data center. We anticipate this modularization will drive huge efficiencies in terms of cost and operations for our business. We will also introduce significant changes in the environmental systems used to run our facilities. These concepts and processes (where applicable) will help us gain even greater efficiencies in our existing footprint, allowing us to further maximize infrastructure investments.

    Так как наши ЦОД второго поколения строились из стали и бетона, наши центры обработки данных третьего поколения начали их быстро вытеснять. Главными концептуальными особенностями ЦОД третьего поколения Gen 3 являются повышенная модульность и большее внимание к энергетической эффективности и масштабированию. Дата-центры третьего поколения лучше всего представлены объектом, который в настоящее время строится в Чикаго, Иллинойс. Этот ЦОД будет выглядеть очень необычно, по сравнению с общепринятыми в отрасли представлениями о дата-центре. Действительно, если вам когда-либо удастся побывать в нашем контейнерном ангаре в Чикаго, он покажется вам совершенно непохожим на обычный дата-центр с фальшполом. Мы предполагаем, что этот модульный подход будет способствовать значительному повышению эффективности нашего бизнеса в отношении затрат и операций. Мы также внесем существенные изменения в климатические системы, используемые в наших ЦОД. Эти концепции и технологии, если применимо, позволят нам добиться еще большей эффективности наших существующих дата-центров, и тем самым еще больше увеличивать капиталовложения в инфраструктуру.

    This is definitely a journey, not a destination industry. In fact, our Generation 4 design has been under heavy engineering for viability and cost for over a year. While the demand of our commercial growth required us to make investments as we grew, we treated each step in the learning as a process for further innovation in data centers. The design for our future Gen 4 facilities enabled us to make visionary advances that addressed the challenges of building, running, and operating facilities all in one concerted effort.

    Это определенно путешествие, а не конечный пункт назначения. На самом деле, наш проект ЦОД четвертого поколения подвергался серьезным испытаниям на жизнеспособность и затраты на протяжении целого года. Хотя необходимость в коммерческом росте требовала от нас постоянных капиталовложений, мы рассматривали каждый этап своего развития как шаг к будущим инновациям в области дата-центров. Проект наших будущих ЦОД четвертого поколения Gen 4 позволил нам делать фантастические предположения, которые касались задач строительства, управления и эксплуатации объектов как единого упорядоченного процесса.


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    Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > modular data center

  • 18 work

    1. noun
    1) no pl., no indef. art. Arbeit, die

    at work(engaged in working) bei der Arbeit; (fig.): (operating) am Werk (see also academic.ru/23063/e">e)

    be at work on somethingan etwas (Dat.) arbeiten; (fig.) auf etwas (Akk.) wirken

    set to work[Person:] sich an die Arbeit machen

    set somebody to workjemanden an die Arbeit schicken

    have one's work cut outviel zu tun haben; sich ranhalten müssen (ugs.)

    2) (thing made or achieved) Werk, das

    is that all your own work?hast du das alles selbst gemacht?

    work of art — Kunstwerk, das

    3) (book, piece of music) Werk, das

    a work of reference/literature/art — ein Nachschlagewerk/literarisches Werk/Kunstwerk

    4) in pl. (of author or composer) Werke
    5) (employment) Arbeit, die

    out of work — arbeitslos; ohne Arbeit

    at work(place of employment) auf der Arbeit (see also a)

    6) in pl., usu. constr. as sing. (factory) Werk, das
    7) in pl. (Mil.) Werke; Befestigungen
    8) in pl. (operations of building etc.) Arbeiten
    9) in pl. (machine's operative parts) Werk, das
    10) in pl. (coll.): (all that can be included)

    the [whole/full] works — der ganze Kram (ugs.)

    give somebody the works(fig.) (give somebody the best possible treatment) jemandem richtig verwöhnen (ugs.); (give somebody the worst possible treatment) jemanden fertig machen (salopp)

    2. intransitive verb,
    worked or (arch./literary) wrought

    work for a causeetc. für eine Sache usw. arbeiten

    work against something(impede) einer Sache (Dat.) entgegenstehen

    2) (function effectively) funktionieren; [Charme:] wirken (on auf + Akk.)

    make the washing machine/television work — die Waschmaschine/den Fernsehapparat in Ordnung bringen

    3) [Rad, Getriebe, Kette:] laufen
    4) (be craftsman)

    work in a materialmit od. (fachspr.) in einem Material arbeiten

    5) [Faktoren, Einflüsse:] wirken (on auf + Akk.)

    work against — arbeiten gegen; see also work on

    6) (make its/one's way) sich schieben

    work round to a question(fig.) sich zu einer Frage vorarbeiten

    3. transitive verb,
    worked or (arch./literary) wrought
    1) (operate) bedienen [Maschine]; fahren [Schiff]; betätigen [Bremse]
    2) (get labour from) arbeiten lassen
    3) (get material from) ausbeuten [Steinbruch, Grube]
    4) (operate in or on) [Vertreter:] bereisen
    5) (control) steuern
    6) (effect) bewirken [Änderung]; wirken [Wunder]

    work it or things so that... — (coll.) es deichseln, dass... (ugs.)

    7) (cause to go gradually) führen

    work one's way up/into something — sich hocharbeiten/in etwas (Akk.) hineinarbeiten

    8) (get gradually) bringen
    9) (knead, stir)

    work something into something — etwas zu etwas verarbeiten; (mix in) etwas unter etwas (Akk.) rühren

    work oneself into a state/a rage — sich aufregen/in einen Wutanfall hineinsteigern

    11) (make by needlework etc.) arbeiten; aufsticken [Muster] (on auf + Akk.)
    12) (purchase, obtain with labour) abarbeiten; (fig.)

    she worked her way through collegesie hat sich (Dat.) ihr Studium selbst verdient; see also passage 6)

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    [wə:k] 1. noun
    1) (effort made in order to achieve or make something: He has done a lot of work on this project) die Arbeit
    2) (employment: I cannot find work in this town.) die Arbeit
    3) (a task or tasks; the thing that one is working on: Please clear your work off the table.) die Arbeit
    4) (a painting, book, piece of music etc: the works of Van Gogh / Shakespeare/Mozart; This work was composed in 1816.) das Werk
    5) (the product or result of a person's labours: His work has shown a great improvement lately.) die Arbeit
    6) (one's place of employment: He left (his) work at 5.30 p.m.; I don't think I'll go to work tomorrow.) die Arbeit
    2. verb
    1) (to (cause to) make efforts in order to achieve or make something: She works at the factory three days a week; He works his employees very hard; I've been working on/at a new project.) arbeiten
    2) (to be employed: Are you working just now?) arbeiten
    3) (to (cause to) operate (in the correct way): He has no idea how that machine works / how to work that machine; That machine doesn't/won't work, but this one's working.) funktionieren
    4) (to be practicable and/or successful: If my scheme works, we'll be rich!) klappen
    5) (to make (one's way) slowly and carefully with effort or difficulty: She worked her way up the rock face.) sich arbeiten
    6) (to get into, or put into, a stated condition or position, slowly and gradually: The wheel worked loose.) sich arbeiten
    7) (to make by craftsmanship: The ornaments had been worked in gold.) arbeiten
    - -work
    - workable
    - worker
    - works
    3. noun plural
    1) (the mechanism (of a watch, clock etc): The works are all rusted.) das Werk
    2) (deeds, actions etc: She's devoted her life to good works.) das Werk
    - work-basket
    - work-box
    - workbook
    - workforce
    - working class
    - working day
    - work-day
    - working hours
    - working-party
    - work-party
    - working week
    - workman
    - workmanlike
    - workmanship
    - workmate
    - workout
    - workshop
    - at work
    - get/set to work
    - go to work on
    - have one's work cut out
    - in working order
    - out of work
    - work of art
    - work off
    - work out
    - work up
    - work up to
    - work wonders
    * * *
    [wɜ:k, AM wɜ:rk]
    I. NOUN
    1. no pl (useful activity) Arbeit f; ( fig)
    to be at \work am Werk sein
    forces of destruction are at \work here hier sind zerstörerische Kräfte am Werk
    various factors are at \work in this situation in dieser Situation spielen verschiedene Faktoren eine Rolle
    good \work! gute Arbeit!
    there's a lot of \work to be done yet es gibt noch viel zu tun
    the garden needs a lot of \work im Garten muss [so] einiges gemacht werden
    \work on the tunnel has been suspended die Arbeiten am Tunnel wurden vorübergehend eingestellt
    did you manage to get a bit of \work done? konntest du ein bisschen arbeiten?
    construction/repair \work Bau-/Reparaturarbeiten pl
    research \work Forschungsarbeit f
    it's hard \work doing sth (strenuous) es ist anstrengend, etw zu tun; (difficult) es ist schwierig, etw zu tun
    to be at \work doing sth [gerade] damit beschäftigt sein, etw zu tun
    to get [or go] [or set] to \work sich akk an die Arbeit machen
    to get [or go] [or set] to \work on sth sich akk an etw akk machen
    to make \work for sb jdm Arbeit machen
    to make \work for oneself sich dat unnötige Arbeit machen
    to put [or set] sb to \work doing sth jdn [damit] beauftragen, etw zu tun
    2. no pl (employment) Arbeit f
    what sort of \work do you have experience in? über welche Berufserfahrung verfügen Sie?
    she's got \work as a translator sie hat Arbeit [o eine Stelle] als Übersetzerin gefunden
    to look for \work auf Arbeitssuche sein
    he's looking for \work as a system analyst er sucht Arbeit [o eine Stelle] als Systemanalytiker
    to be in \work Arbeit [o eine Stelle] haben
    to be out of \work arbeitslos sein
    3. no pl (place of employment) Arbeit f, Arbeitsplatz m
    to be late for \work zu spät zur Arbeit kommen
    to have to stay late at \work lange arbeiten müssen
    to be at \work bei der Arbeit sein
    to be off \work frei haben; (without permission) fehlen
    to be off \work sick sich akk krankgemeldet haben
    to commute to \work pendeln
    to get to \work by car/on the train mit dem Auto/mit dem Zug zur Arbeit fahren
    to go/travel to \work zur Arbeit gehen/fahren
    to be injured at \work einen Arbeitsunfall haben
    to ring sb from \work jdn von der Arbeit [aus] anrufen
    \works pl Arbeiten pl
    building/road \works Bau-/Straßenarbeiten pl
    5. no pl (result, product) Arbeit f; (act) Werk nt
    this is the \work of professional thieves das ist das Werk professioneller Diebe
    good \works REL gute Werke
    6. ART, LIT, MUS Werk nt
    ‘The Complete W\works of William Shakespeare’ ‚Shakespeares gesammelte Werke‘
    \works of art Kunstwerke pl
    \work in bronze Bronzearbeiten pl
    \work in leather aus Leder gefertigte Arbeiten
    sb's early/later \work jds Früh-/Spätwerk nt
    to show one's \work in a gallery seine Arbeiten in einer Galerie ausstellen
    \works + sing/pl vb Werk nt, Fabrik f
    steel \works Stahlwerk nt
    \works pl of a clock Uhrwerk nt; of a machine Getriebe nt
    the \works pl das ganze Drum und Dran kein pl fam
    two large pizzas with the \works, please! esp AM zwei große Pizzen mit allem bitte!
    10. no pl PHYS Arbeit f
    11. MIL
    \works pl Befestigungen pl
    12.
    to be a [real] piece of \work ( fam) ganz schön nervig sein fam
    to have one's \work cut out ( fam) sich akk mächtig reinknien müssen fam
    to get [or go] [or set] to \work on sb ( fam) jdn bearbeiten fam
    to give sb the \works ( dated sl) jdn [ordentlich] in die Mangel nehmen fam
    1. (climate, report, week) Arbeits-
    \work clothes Arbeitskleidung f
    \work speed Arbeitstempo nt
    2.
    \works (canteen, inspection) Werks-
    \works premises Werksgelände nt
    1. (do a job) arbeiten
    where do you \work? wo arbeiten Sie?
    to \work as an accountant als Buchhalter arbeiten
    to \work a twelve-hour day/a forty-hour week zwölf Stunden am Tag/vierzig Stunden in der Woche arbeiten
    to \work from home zu Hause [o von zu Hause aus] arbeiten
    to \work at the hospital/abroad im Krankenhaus/im Ausland arbeiten
    to \work like a slave [or AM, AUS dog] ( fam) wie ein Tier schuften fam
    to \work like a Trojan BRIT wie ein Pferd arbeiten fam
    to \work hard hart arbeiten
    to \work together zusammenarbeiten
    to \work with sb mit jdm zusammenarbeiten
    2. (be busy, active) arbeiten
    we're \working to prevent it happening again wir bemühen uns [o arbeiten daran], so etwas in Zukunft zu verhindern
    to \work towards a degree in biology einen Hochschulabschluss in Biologie anstreben
    to \work at/on sth an etw dat arbeiten
    we're \working on it wir arbeiten daran
    to \work at a problem an einem Problem arbeiten
    to \work hard at doing sth hart daran arbeiten, etw zu tun
    to \work for/towards sth auf etw akk hinwirken [o hinarbeiten
    3. (have an effect) sich auswirken
    to \work both ways sich sowohl positiv als auch negativ auswirken
    to \work in sb's favour sich zu jds Gunsten auswirken
    to \work against sb/sth sich negativ für jdn/auf etw akk auswirken
    4. (function) funktionieren; generator, motor laufen
    my cell phone doesn't \work mein Handy geht nicht
    the boiler seems to be \working okay der Boiler scheint in Ordnung zu sein
    I can't get this washing machine to \work ich kriege die Waschmaschine irgendwie nicht zum Laufen
    to \work off batteries batteriebetrieben sein
    to \work off the mains BRIT mit Netzstrom arbeiten
    to \work off wind power mit Windenergie arbeiten
    5. (be successful) funktionieren, klappen fam; plan, tactics aufgehen
    to \work in practice [auch] in der Praxis funktionieren
    6. MED medicine, pill wirken
    7. (be based)
    to \work on the assumption/idea that... von der Annahme/Vorstellung ausgehen, dass...
    8. (move)
    to \work free/loose sich lösen/lockern
    to \work down clothes runterrutschen fam
    to \work windward NAUT gegen den Wind segeln
    9. ( liter: change expression) arbeiten; (contort) sich verzerren
    10. NAUT
    to \work windward [hart] am Wind segeln
    11.
    to \work like a charm [or like magic] Wunder bewirken
    to \work till you drop ( fam) bis zum Umfallen arbeiten
    to \work on sb jdn bearbeiten fam
    to \work oneself to death ( fam) sich akk zu Tode arbeiten [o fam schinden]
    to \work sb/oneself hard jdm/sich viel abverlangen
    to \work sth machine etw bedienen; piece of equipment etw betätigen
    to be \worked by electricity/steam elektrisch/dampfgetrieben sein
    to be \worked by wind power durch Windenergie angetrieben werden
    to \work sth out of sth etw aus etw dat herausbekommen
    to \work one's way through an article/a book sich akk durch einen Artikel/ein Buch durcharbeiten
    to \work one's way through a crowd/out of a crowded room sich dat einen Weg durch die Menge/aus einem überfüllten Zimmer bahnen
    to \work one's way down a list eine Liste durchgehen
    to \work one's way up sich akk hocharbeiten
    he's \worked his way up through the firm er hat sich in der Firma hochgearbeitet
    to \work sth free/loose etw losbekommen/lockern
    sth \works itself free/loose etw löst/lockert sich akk
    to \work sth [backwards and forwards] etw [hin- und her]bewegen
    sth \works itself out of sth etw löst sich aus etw dat
    to \work sth etw bewirken
    I don't know how she \worked it! ich weiß nicht, wie sie das geschafft hat!
    to \work oneself into a more positive frame of mind sich dat eine positivere Lebenseinstellung erarbeiten
    to \work a cure eine Heilung herbeiführen
    to \work a miracle ein Wunder vollbringen
    to \work miracles [or wonders] [wahre] Wunder vollbringen
    to \work oneself into a frenzy [or rage] in Rage geraten fam
    to \work sb into a frenzy [or rage] jdn in Rage bringen fam
    to \work oneself into a state sich akk aufregen
    to \work sb into a state of jealousy jdn eifersüchtig machen
    6. (shape)
    to \work sth etw bearbeiten
    to \work clay Ton formen
    7. (mix, rub)
    to \work sth into sth etw in etw akk einarbeiten; food etw mit etw dat vermengen; (incorporate) etw in etw akk einbauen [o einfügen]
    to \work the ingredients together die Zutaten [miteinander] vermengen
    to \work sth into the skin (rub) die Haut mit etw dat einreiben; (massage) etw in die Haut einmassieren
    to \work sth etw [auf]sticken
    to \work a monogram on sth etw mit einem Monogramm besticken, ein Monogramm auf etw akk sticken
    to \work the land das Land bewirtschaften; (exploit)
    to \work a mine/quarry eine Mine/einen Steinbruch ausbeuten
    10. (cover)
    to \work the inner city [area]/the East Side für die Innenstadt/die East Side zuständig sein
    11. (pay for by working)
    to \work one's passage sich dat seine Überfahrt durch Arbeit auf dem Schiff verdienen
    to \work one's way through university sich dat sein Studium finanzieren
    12.
    to \work one's fingers to the bone [for sb] ( fam) sich dat [für jdn] den Rücken krumm arbeiten fam
    to \work a treat BRIT ( fam) prima funktionieren fam
    * * *
    [wɜːk]
    1. n
    1) (= toil, labour, task) Arbeit f

    there are forces at work which... — es sind Kräfte am Werk, die...

    nice or good work!gut or super (inf) gemacht!

    we've a lot of work to do before this choir can give a concert — wir haben noch viel zu tun, ehe dieser Chor ein Konzert geben kann

    you need to do some more work on your accent/your technique — Sie müssen noch an Ihrem Akzent/an Ihrer Technik arbeiten

    to make short or quick work of sb/sth — mit jdm/etw kurzen Prozess machen

    time/the medicine had done its work — die Zeit/Arznei hatte ihr Werk vollbracht/ihre Wirkung getan

    2) (= employment, job) Arbeit f

    how long does it take you to get to work? — wie lange brauchst du, um zu deiner Arbeitsstelle zu kommen?

    at work — an der Arbeitsstelle, am Arbeitsplatz

    3) (= product) Arbeit f; (ART, LITER) Werk nt

    a chance for artists to show their work — eine Gelegenheit für Künstler, ihre Arbeiten or Werke zu zeigen

    4) pl (MIL) Befestigungen pl
    5) pl (MECH) Getriebe, Innere(s) nt; (of watch, clock) Uhrwerk nt
    6) sing or pl (Brit: factory) Betrieb m, Fabrik f

    gas/steel works — Gas-/Stahlwerk nt

    we had fantastic food, wine, brandy, the works — es gab tolles Essen, Wein, Kognak, alle Schikanen (inf)

    2. vi
    1) person arbeiten (at an +dat)

    to work toward(s)/for sth — auf etw (acc) hin/für etw arbeiten

    or favor (US) — diese Faktoren, die gegen uns/zu unseren Gunsten arbeiten

    2) (= function, operate) funktionieren; (plan) funktionieren, klappen (inf); (medicine, spell) wirken; (= be successful) klappen (inf)

    "not working" (lift etc) — "außer Betrieb"

    3) (yeast) arbeiten, treiben
    4) (mouth, face) zucken; (jaws) mahlen
    5)

    (= move gradually) to work loose — sich lockern

    he worked (a)round to asking her — er hat sich aufgerafft, sie zu fragen

    OK, I'm working (a)round to it — okay, das mache ich schon noch

    3. vt
    1) (= make work) staff, employees, students arbeiten lassen, herannehmen (inf), schinden (pej)

    to work oneself/sb hard — sich/jdn nicht schonen

    2) (= operate) machine bedienen; lever, brake betätigen

    to work sth by electricity/hand — etw elektrisch/mit Hand betreiben

    3) (= bring about) change, cure bewirken, herbeiführen

    to work it ( so that...) (inf)es so deichseln(, dass...) (inf)

    See:
    4) (SEW) arbeiten; design etc sticken
    5) (= shape) wood, metal bearbeiten; dough, clay also kneten, bearbeiten

    work the flour in gradually/the ingredients together — mischen Sie das Mehl allmählich unter/die Zutaten (zusammen)

    6) (= exploit) mine ausbeuten, abbauen; land bearbeiten; smallholding bewirtschaften; (salesman) area bereisen
    7) muscles trainieren
    8)

    (= move gradually) to work one's hands free — seine Hände freibekommen

    he worked his way across the rock face/through the tunnel — er überquerte die Felswand/kroch durch den Tunnel

    * * *
    work [wɜːk; US wɜrk]
    A s
    1. allg Arbeit f:
    a) Beschäftigung f, Tätigkeit f
    b) Aufgabe f
    c) Hand-, Nadelarbeit f, Stickerei f, Näherei f
    d) Leistung f
    e) Erzeugnis n:
    work done geleistete Arbeit;
    a beautiful piece of work eine schöne Arbeit;
    work in hand WIRTSCH Auftragsbestand m;
    work in process ( oder progress) WIRTSCH US Halbfabrikate pl;
    a) bei der Arbeit,
    b) am Arbeitsplatz,
    c) in Tätigkeit, in Betrieb (Maschine etc);
    be at work on arbeiten an (dat);
    do work arbeiten;
    I’ve got some work to do ich muss arbeiten;
    do the work of three (men) für drei arbeiten;
    be in (out of) work (keine) Arbeit haben;
    (put) out of work arbeitslos (machen);
    set to work an die Arbeit gehen, sich an die Arbeit machen;
    take some work home Arbeit mit nach Hause nehmen;
    have one’s work cut out (for one) zu tun haben, schwer zu schaffen haben;
    make work Arbeit verursachen;
    make light work of spielend fertig werden mit;
    make sad work of arg wirtschaften oder hausen mit;
    make short work of kurzen Prozess oder nicht viel Federlesen(s) machen mit umg
    2. PHYS Arbeit f:
    3. auch koll (künstlerisches etc) Werk:
    work of art Kunstwerk; fiction 2, reference A 8
    4. Werk n (Tat und Resultat):
    this is your work!;
    5. pl
    a) ARCH Anlagen pl, (besonders öffentliche) Bauten pl
    b) Baustelle f (an einer Autobahn etc)
    c) MIL (Festungs)Werk n, Befestigungen pl
    6. pl (oft als sg konstruiert) Werk n, Fabrik (-anlage) f, Betrieb m:
    works climate (council, outing, etc) Betriebsklima n (-rat m, -ausflug m etc);
    works manager Werksdirektor m, Betriebsleiter m
    7. pl TECH (Räder-, Trieb)Werk n, Getriebe n:
    works of a watch Uhrwerk; spanner 1
    8. Werk-, Arbeitsstück n, ( besonders Nadel)Arbeit f
    9. REL (gutes) Werk
    10. the works pl umg alles, der ganze Krempel:
    give sb the works umg jemanden fertigmachen;
    shoot the works (Kartenspiel) aufs Ganze gehen (a. fig); gum2 B 4
    B v/i prät und pperf worked, besonders obs oder poet wrought [rɔːt]
    1. (at, on) arbeiten (an dat), sich beschäftigen (mit):
    work at a social reform an einer Sozialreform arbeiten;
    worked ( oder wrought) in leather in Leder gearbeitet;
    work to rule WIRTSCH Br Dienst nach Vorschrift tun;
    make one’s money work sein Geld arbeiten lassen
    2. arbeiten, Arbeit haben, beschäftigt sein
    3. fig arbeiten, kämpfen ( beide:
    against gegen;
    for für eine Sache):
    work toward(s) hinarbeiten auf (akk)
    4. TECH
    a) funktionieren, gehen (beide auch fig)
    b) in Betrieb oder Gang sein:
    our stove works well unser Ofen funktioniert gut;
    your method won’t work mit Ihrer Methode werden Sie es nicht schaffen;
    get sth to work etwas reparieren
    5. fig klappen, gehen, gelingen, sich machen lassen
    6. (prät oft wrought) wirken, sich auswirken (on, with auf akk, bei):
    the poison began to work das Gift begann zu wirken
    7. work on jemanden bearbeiten, sich jemanden vornehmen (beide umg)
    8. sich gut etc bearbeiten lassen
    9. sich (hindurch-, hoch- etc) arbeiten:
    work into eindringen in (akk);
    work loose sich losarbeiten, sich lockern;
    her tights worked down die Strumpfhose rutschte ihr herunter
    10. in (heftiger) Bewegung sein, arbeiten, zucken ( alle:
    with vor dat; Gesichtszüge etc), mahlen ( with vor Erregung etc; Kiefer)
    11. SCHIFF (besonders gegen den Wind) segeln, fahren
    12. gären, arbeiten (beide auch fig: Gedanke etc)
    13. (hand)arbeiten, stricken, nähen
    C v/t
    1. arbeiten an (dat)
    2. verarbeiten:
    a) TECH bearbeiten
    b) einen Teig kneten
    c) (ver)formen, gestalten ( beide:
    into zu):
    work cotton into cloth Baumwolle zu Tuch verarbeiten
    3. eine Maschine etc bedienen, ein Fahrzeug führen, lenken
    4. (an-, be)treiben:
    worked by electricity elektrisch betrieben
    5. AGR den Boden bearbeiten, bestellen
    6. einen Betrieb leiten, eine Fabrik etc betreiben, ein Gut bewirtschaften
    7. Bergbau: eine Grube abbauen, ausbeuten
    8. WIRTSCH (geschäftlich) bereisen oder bearbeiten:
    9. jemanden, Tiere (tüchtig) arbeiten lassen, (zur Arbeit) antreiben
    10. fig jemanden bearbeiten umg, jemandem zusetzen ( beide:
    for wegen):
    11. a) work one’s way sich (hindurch- etc) arbeiten
    b) erarbeiten, verdienen: passage1 5
    12. MATH lösen, ausarbeiten, errechnen
    13. erregen, reizen, (in einen Zustand) versetzen oder bringen:
    work o.s. into a rage sich in eine Wut hineinsteigern
    14. bewegen, arbeiten mit:
    he worked his jaws seine Kiefer mahlten
    15. fig (prät oft wrought) hervorbringen, -rufen, zeitigen, Veränderungen etc bewirken, Wunder wirken oder tun, führen zu, verursachen:
    work hardship on sb für jemanden eine Härte bedeuten
    16. (prät oft wrought) fertigbringen, zustande bringen
    a) eine Arbeit etc einschieben in (akk),
    b) Passagen etc einarbeiten oder -flechten oder -fügen in (akk)
    18. sl etwas herausschlagen
    19. US sl jemanden bescheißen
    20. herstellen, machen, besonders stricken, nähen
    21. zur Gärung bringen
    22. work over 2
    w. abk
    2. wide
    4. wife
    5. with
    6. PHYS work
    wk abk
    1. week Wo.
    2. work
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) no pl., no indef. art. Arbeit, die

    at work (engaged in working) bei der Arbeit; (fig.): (operating) am Werk (see also e)

    be at work on somethingan etwas (Dat.) arbeiten; (fig.) auf etwas (Akk.) wirken

    set to work[Person:] sich an die Arbeit machen

    have one's work cut out — viel zu tun haben; sich ranhalten müssen (ugs.)

    work of art — Kunstwerk, das

    3) (book, piece of music) Werk, das

    a work of reference/literature/art — ein Nachschlagewerk/literarisches Werk/Kunstwerk

    5) (employment) Arbeit, die

    out of work — arbeitslos; ohne Arbeit

    at work (place of employment) auf der Arbeit (see also a)

    6) in pl., usu. constr. as sing. (factory) Werk, das
    7) in pl. (Mil.) Werke; Befestigungen
    8) in pl. (operations of building etc.) Arbeiten
    10) in pl. (coll.): (all that can be included)

    the [whole/full] works — der ganze Kram (ugs.)

    give somebody the works(fig.) (give somebody the best possible treatment) jemandem richtig verwöhnen (ugs.); (give somebody the worst possible treatment) jemanden fertig machen (salopp)

    2. intransitive verb,
    worked or (arch./literary) wrought

    work for a causeetc. für eine Sache usw. arbeiten

    work against something (impede) einer Sache (Dat.) entgegenstehen

    2) (function effectively) funktionieren; [Charme:] wirken (on auf + Akk.)

    make the washing machine/television work — die Waschmaschine/den Fernsehapparat in Ordnung bringen

    3) [Rad, Getriebe, Kette:] laufen

    work in a materialmit od. (fachspr.) in einem Material arbeiten

    5) [Faktoren, Einflüsse:] wirken (on auf + Akk.)

    work against — arbeiten gegen; see also work on

    6) (make its/one's way) sich schieben

    work round to a question(fig.) sich zu einer Frage vorarbeiten

    3. transitive verb,
    worked or (arch./literary) wrought
    1) (operate) bedienen [Maschine]; fahren [Schiff]; betätigen [Bremse]
    2) (get labour from) arbeiten lassen
    3) (get material from) ausbeuten [Steinbruch, Grube]
    4) (operate in or on) [Vertreter:] bereisen
    5) (control) steuern
    6) (effect) bewirken [Änderung]; wirken [Wunder]

    work it or things so that... — (coll.) es deichseln, dass... (ugs.)

    work one's way up/into something — sich hocharbeiten/in etwas (Akk.) hineinarbeiten

    8) (get gradually) bringen
    9) (knead, stir)

    work something into something — etwas zu etwas verarbeiten; (mix in) etwas unter etwas (Akk.) rühren

    work oneself into a state/a rage — sich aufregen/in einen Wutanfall hineinsteigern

    11) (make by needlework etc.) arbeiten; aufsticken [Muster] (on auf + Akk.)
    12) (purchase, obtain with labour) abarbeiten; (fig.)

    she worked her way through collegesie hat sich (Dat.) ihr Studium selbst verdient; see also passage 6)

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    (hard) for expr.
    erarbeiten v.
    sich etwas erarbeiten ausdr. v.
    arbeiten v.
    funktionieren v. n.
    Arbeit -en f.
    Werk -e n.

    English-german dictionary > work

  • 19 world

    wə:ld
    1) (the planet Earth: every country of the world.) mundo
    2) (the people who live on the planet Earth: The whole world is waiting for a cure for cancer.) mundo
    3) (any planet etc: people from other worlds.) mundo
    4) (a state of existence: Many people believe that after death the soul enters the next world; Do concentrate! You seem to be living in another world.) mundo
    5) (an area of life or activity: the insect world; the world of the international businessman.) mundo
    6) (a great deal: The holiday did him a/the world of good.) inmenso
    7) (the lives and ways of ordinary people: He's been a monk for so long that he knows nothing of the (outside) world.) mundo
    - worldliness
    - worldwide
    - World Wide Web
    - the best of both worlds
    - for all the world
    - out of this world
    - what in the world? - what in the world

    world n mundo
    tr[wɜːld]
    1 (earth) mundo
    2 (sphere) mundo
    3 (life) mundo, vida
    4 (people) mundo
    what is the world coming to? ¿a dónde iremos a parar?
    5 (large amount, large number)
    1 (population, peace) mundial; (politics, trade) internacional
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    not to do something for (all) the world no hacer algo por nada del mundo
    a man/woman of the world un hombre/una mujer de mundo
    it's a small world el mundo es un pañuelo
    it's not the end of the world no es el fin del mundo
    out of this world fenomenal, estupendo,-a, increíble, fantástico,-a
    the outside world el mundo exterior
    the world is one's oyster el mundo es suyo, tener el mundo a sus pies
    to be/mean all the world to somebody serlo todo para alguien
    to be dead/lost to the world estar profundamente dormido,-a
    to go up in the world prosperar, mejorar
    to have the best of both worlds tener todas las ventajas
    to live in a world of one's own vivir en su propio mundo
    to see the world ver mundo
    to set the world on fire comerse el mundo
    to think the world of somebody querer mucho a alguien, adorar a alguien
    World Bank Banco Mundial
    world champion campeón,-ona mundial
    World Cup el Mundial, los Mundiales
    world fair exposición nombre femenino internacional
    world music música étnica
    World War I primera guerra mundial
    World War II segunda guerra mundial
    world ['wərld] adj
    : mundial, del mundo
    world championship: campeonato mundial
    : mundo m
    around the world: alrededor del mundo
    a world of possibilities: un mundo de posibilidades
    to think the world of someone: tener a alguien en alta estima
    to be worlds apart: no tener nada que ver (uno con otro)
    adj.
    mundano, -a adj.
    mundial adj.
    mundo, -a adj.
    n.
    mundo s.m.
    orbe s.m.
    siglo s.m.
    tierra s.f.
    wɜːrld, wɜːld
    1) ( earth) mundo m

    to see the world — ver* mundo

    there were celebrations all over the world o the world over — hubo festejos en todo el mundo or en el mundo entero

    world's (AmE) o (BrE) world record time — récord m or marca f mundial

    (it's a) small world! el mundo es un pañuelo, qué pequeño or (AmL) chico es el mundo!

    the world is his/her oyster — tiene el mundo a sus pies

    to be dead o lost to the world — estar* profundamente dormido

    to be out of this world\<\<food/music\>\> ser* increíble or fantástico

    to bring somebody into the worldtraer* a alguien al mundo

    to come into the worldvenir* al mundo

    to have the best of both worlds — tener* todas las ventajas

    money makes the world go around — poderoso caballero es don dinero; (before n) <economy, peace> mundial; <politics, trade> internacional

    2)
    a) ( people generally) mundo m

    what is the world coming to? — ¿adónde vamos a ir a parar?

    to watch the world go by — ver* pasar a la gente

    b) ( society)

    a woman/man of the world — una mujer/un hombre de mundo

    3) (specific period, group) mundo m

    there's a world of difference between... — hay una diferencia enorme entre..., hay un abismo entre...

    we are worlds apart — no tenemos nada que ver, somos como el día y la noche

    to have all the time in the world — tener* todo el tiempo del mundo

    who in the world is going to believe that? — ¿quién diablos or demonios se va a creer eso? (fam)

    5) ( Relig)

    this/the other world — este/el otro mundo

    [wɜːld]
    1. N
    1) (=planet) mundo m

    since the world begandesde que el mundo es mundo

    in the best of all possible worlds — en el mejor de los mundos

    it's not the end of the world! * — ¡no es el fin del mundo!

    the tallest man in the world — el hombre más alto del mundo

    the New World — el Nuevo Mundo

    the Old World — el Viejo Mundo

    she has travelled all over the world — ha viajado por todo el mundo

    it's the same the world over — es igual en todo el mundo, es igual vayas a donde vayas

    in a perfect world this would be possible — en un mundo ideal or perfecto esto sería posible

    you have to start living in the real world — tienes que empezar a afrontar la vida or la realidad

    to go round the world — dar la vuelta al mundo

    on a world scalea escala mundial

    to see the world — ver mundo

    to take the world as it is — aceptar la realidad, aceptar las cosas como son

    the worst of all possible worlds — el peor de todos los mundos posibles

    - have the world at one's feet
    - live in a world of one's own
    - feel on top of the world
    dead 1., 1), money 1., 1), third 4.
    2) (=realm) mundo m

    the animal world — el reino animal

    the Arab world — el mundo árabe

    the business world — el mundo de los negocios

    the English-speaking world — el mundo de habla inglesa

    the plant world — el reino vegetal

    the world of sport — el mundo deportivo, el mundo de los deportes

    the sporting world — el mundo deportivo, el mundo de los deportes

    the Western world — el mundo occidental

    3) (=society) mundo m

    to be alone in the world — estar solo en el mundo, no tener a nadie en el mundo

    - come down in the world
    - go up in the world
    man 1., 1), outside 3., 1), way 1., 2)
    4) (=life) mundo m

    in this world — en esta vida, en este mundo

    to bring a child into the world — traer a un niño al mundo

    to come into the world — venir al mundo

    in the next world — en la otra vida, en el otro mundo

    the other world — el otro mundo

    - have the best of both worlds

    for all the world as if it had never happened — como si nunca hubiera ocurrido

    they're worlds apartson totalmente opuestos or diferentes, no tiene nada que ver el uno con el otro

    they're worlds apart politically — políticamente los separa un abismo, mantienen posiciones políticas totalmente diferentes

    there's a world of difference between... — hay un mundo or abismo entre...

    I'd give the world to know — daría todo el oro del mundo por saberlo

    it did him the world of good — le sentó de maravilla, le hizo la mar de bien *

    nothing in the world would make me do it — no lo haría por nada del mundo

    how in the world did you manage to do it? * — ¿cómo demonios or diablos conseguiste hacerlo?

    what in the world were you thinking of! * — ¡qué demonios or diablos estabas pensando! *

    where in the world has he got to? * — ¿dónde demonios or diablos se ha metido? *

    why in the world did you do that? * — ¿por qué demonios or diablos hiciste eso? *

    she means the world to me — ella significa muchísimo para mí

    not for all the world — por nada del mundo

    he promised me the world — me prometió la luna

    to think the world of sb — tener a algn en gran estima

    2.
    CPD [economy, proportions] mundial; [events, news] internacional; [trade] internacional, mundial; [tour] mundial, alrededor del mundo

    World Bank NBanco m Mundial

    world beater Ncampeón(-ona) m / f mundial

    world champion Ncampeón(-ona) m / f del mundo, campeón(-ona) m / f mundial

    world championship Ncampeonato m mundial, campeonato m del mundo

    the World Cup N — (Ftbl) la Copa Mundial, la Copa del Mundo

    world fair Nferia f universal

    World Heritage Site Nlugar m patrimonio de la humanidad

    world language Nlengua f universal

    world leader N[of country, company] líder m mundial; (=politician) jefe(-a) m / f de estado

    world market Nmercado m mundial

    world market price Nprecio m (del mercado) mundial

    world music Nmúsicas fpl del mundo, world music f

    world order Norden m mundial

    world power N(=country) potencia f mundial

    world premiere Nestreno m mundial

    world record Nrécord m mundial

    world's champion N(US) campeón(-ona) m / f del mundo, campeón(-ona) m / f mundial

    World Series N(US) campeonato m mundial de béisbol

    See:

    World Service N(Brit) servicio internacional de la BBC

    world title Ntítulo m mundial

    the World Trade Organization — la Organización Mundial del Comercio

    world war Nguerra f mundial

    World War One/Two — la Primera/Segunda Guerra Mundial

    * * *
    [wɜːrld, wɜːld]
    1) ( earth) mundo m

    to see the world — ver* mundo

    there were celebrations all over the world o the world over — hubo festejos en todo el mundo or en el mundo entero

    world's (AmE) o (BrE) world record time — récord m or marca f mundial

    (it's a) small world! el mundo es un pañuelo, qué pequeño or (AmL) chico es el mundo!

    the world is his/her oyster — tiene el mundo a sus pies

    to be dead o lost to the world — estar* profundamente dormido

    to be out of this world\<\<food/music\>\> ser* increíble or fantástico

    to bring somebody into the worldtraer* a alguien al mundo

    to come into the worldvenir* al mundo

    to have the best of both worlds — tener* todas las ventajas

    money makes the world go around — poderoso caballero es don dinero; (before n) <economy, peace> mundial; <politics, trade> internacional

    2)
    a) ( people generally) mundo m

    what is the world coming to? — ¿adónde vamos a ir a parar?

    to watch the world go by — ver* pasar a la gente

    b) ( society)

    a woman/man of the world — una mujer/un hombre de mundo

    3) (specific period, group) mundo m

    there's a world of difference between... — hay una diferencia enorme entre..., hay un abismo entre...

    we are worlds apart — no tenemos nada que ver, somos como el día y la noche

    to have all the time in the world — tener* todo el tiempo del mundo

    who in the world is going to believe that? — ¿quién diablos or demonios se va a creer eso? (fam)

    5) ( Relig)

    this/the other world — este/el otro mundo

    English-spanish dictionary > world

  • 20 over

    over [ˈəʊvər]
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    4. noun
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    ► When over is an element in a phrasal verb, eg come over, turn over, look up the verb.
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
       b. ( = there)
       c. ( = above) dessus
       d. (with adverb/preposition)
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    ► When followed by an adverb or a preposition, over is not usually translated.
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
       e. ( = more) plus
       g. ( = remaining) there are three over il en reste trois
    over and out! terminé !
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    ► When over occurs in a set combination, eg over the moon, an advantage over, look up the noun. When over is used with a verb such as jump, trip, step, look up the verb.
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
       a. ( = on top of) sur
       b. ( = above) au-dessus de
       c. ( = across) de l'autre côté de
       d. ( = during) over the summer pendant l'été
       f. ( = more than) plus de
    spending has gone up by 7% over and above inflation les dépenses ont augmenté de 7 %, hors inflation
    over and above the fact that... sans compter que...
       i. ( = recovered from)
    to be over sth [+ illness, bad experience] s'être remis de qch
    4. noun
    over-the-top adjective ( = exaggerated) délirant
    * * *
    Note: over is used after many verbs in English ( change over, fall over, lean over etc). For translations, consult the appropriate verb entry (change, fall, lean etc)
    over is often used with another preposition in English (to, in, on) without altering the meaning. In this case over is usually not translated in French: to be over in France = être en France; to swim over to somebody = nager vers quelqu'un
    over is often used with nouns in English when talking about superiority ( control over etc) or when giving the cause of something ( concern over, worries over etc). For translations, consult the appropriate noun entry (control, concern, worry etc)
    over is often used as a prefix in verb combinations ( overeat), adjective combinations ( overconfident) and noun combinations ( overcoat). These combinations are treated as headwords in the dictionary
    ['əʊvə(r)] 1.
    1) ( across the top of) par-dessus

    over here/there — par ici/là

    3) ( above) au-dessus de
    4) (covering, surrounding) gen sur
    6) ( more than) plus de

    temperatures over 40° — des températures supérieures à 40°

    to be overs'être remis de [illness, operation]

    10) ( everywhere)
    2.
    over and above prepositional phrase
    3.
    adjective, adverb
    2) ( finished)

    to be over[term, meeting] être terminé; [war] être fini

    3) ( more)
    4) ( remaining)
    5) (to one's house, country)

    to invite ou ask somebody over — inviter quelqu'un

    6) Radio, Television

    I had to do it overUS j'ai dû recommencer

    I've told you over and over (again)... — je t'ai dit je ne sais combien de fois...

    8) GB ( excessively)

    English-French dictionary > over

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