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1 fuel poverty
fuel ˈpov·er·tyn no pl Situation, in der Personen mit niedrigem Einkommen einen Großteil ihres Einkommens für Heizkosten u.ä. ausgeben müssen -
2 fuel poverty
Энергетика: топливная бедность (возникает, когда для отопления жилья в соответствии с достаточным стандартом тепла бытовой потребитель должен тратить более чем 10% своих доходов на общее потребление топлива) -
3 ♦ fuel
♦ fuel /ˈfju:əl/n. [cu]1 combustibile; ( per motore a scoppio) carburante: fossil fuel, combustibile fossile; nuclear fuel, combustibile nucleare; heating fuel, combustibile per riscaldamento● (chim., fis.) fuel cell, pila a combustibile □ (tecn.) fuel economizer, economizzatore di carburante □ (fis. nucl.) fuel element, elemento di combustibile nucleare □ (autom.) fuel filter, filtro del carburante □ (autom.) fuel indicator, indicatore del livello del carburante □ (autom.: di motore) fuel-injected, a iniezione □ (autom., mecc.) fuel injection, iniezione (di carburante) □ fuel oil, olio combustibile; nafta □ (GB, fig.) fuel poverty, impossibilità economica di riscaldare adeguatamente la propria abitazione □ (autom., mecc.) fuel pump, pompa della benzina; pompa dell'alimentazione □ (fis. nucl.) fuel rod, barra di combustibile □ (autom., mecc.) fuel system, alimentazione □ fuel tank, serbatoio del combustibile (o del carburante) □ (autom., fisc.) fuel tax, imposta sui carburanti.(to) fuel /ˈfju:əl/A v. t.3 (fig.) alimentare; accrescereB v. i.● fuelling station, stazione di rifornimento ( per navi, ecc.). -
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fuel [fjʊəl]1. noun• the statistics gave him fuel for further attacks on the government les statistiques lui ont fourni des munitions pour renouveler ses attaques contre le gouvernement[+ tension, speculation, controversy, fears] attiser3. compounds► fuel duty= fuel tax* * *['fjuːəl] 1.1) gen combustible m; (for car, plane) carburant m2) fig2.to provide fuel for — rajouter du poids à [claims]; attiser [hatred]
1) ( make run) alimenter [furnace, engine]2) ( put fuel into) ravitailler [plane]3) fig aggraver [tension]; attiser [hatred]; susciter [speculation]••to add fuel to the flames ou fire — jeter de l'huile sur le feu
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5 necessity
nɪˈsesɪtɪ сущ.
1) а) необходимость, настоятельная потребность to obviate a necessity ≈ избегать необходимости absolute, dire necessity ≈ крайняя необходимость military necessity ≈ военная необходимость There is agreement on the necessity of reforms. ≈ Имеется согласие о необходимости проведения реформ. of necessity ≈ по необходимости б) требование( чего-л.) Syn: requirement
2) а) неизбежность, неминуемость, неотвратимость doctrine of necessity Syn: inevitability б) сила обстоятельств
3) обыкн. мн. бедность, нищета, нужда Syn: poverty
4) мн. предметы первой необходимости food, fuel and other daily necessities ≈ еда, топливо и другие предметы первой необходимости Syn: necessary
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1), essential
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2), requisite
1. ∙ necessity is the mother of invention посл. ≈ голь на выдумки хитра;
нужда - мать изобретательности to make a virtue of necessity ≈ сама захотела, когда нужда повелела;
делать вид, что действуешь добровольно необходимость, нужда, настоятельная потребность - of * по необходимости - * for a decision неотложная необходимость принять решения - in case of * в случае необходимости - there is no * нет никакой необходимости /нужды/ - a * for action необходимость действовать - it is a * to me я без этого не могу обойтись - special necessities of the region особые нужды данного района - in accordance with the necessities of the times в соответствии с требованиями времени - to do smth. of *, to be under the * of doing smth. быть вынужденным сделать что-л. неизбежность;
неотвратимость - logical * логически неизбежный вывод;
логическая необходимость - of * непременно, неизбежно - it must of * be discovered это неизбежно должно раскрыться - to bow /to submit/ to * принять неизбежное предмет первой необходимости (тж. prime *) - household necessities предметы домашнего обихода - food and warmth are necessities без еды и тепла нельзя жить нужда, бедность - to be in great * нуждаться, жить в крайней бедности ( философское) необходимость - * and chance необходимость и случайность причинная обусловленность - doctrine of * детерминизм > to make a virtue of * делать вид, что действуешь добровольно > * is the mother of invention (пословица) голь на выдумки хитра > * knows no law (пословица) нужда закона не знает (а через шагает) ;
нужда свой закон пишет absolute ~ полная необходимость ~ (обыкн. pl) нужда, бедность, нищета;
to be in great necessity нуждаться ~ неизбежность;
doctrine of necessity детерминизм to make a virtue of ~ = сама захотела, когда нужда повелела;
делать вид, что действуешь добровольно virtue: to make a ~ of necessity из нужды делать добродетель necessity бедность ~ настоятельная потребность ~ неизбежность;
doctrine of necessity детерминизм ~ неизбежность ~ необходимость, настоятельная потребность;
of necessity по необходимости;
there is no necessity нет никакой необходимости ~ необходимость, настоятельная потребность ~ необходимость ~ неотвратимость ~ нищета ~ (обыкн. pl) нужда, бедность, нищета;
to be in great necessity нуждаться ~ нужда, бедность, нищета ~ нужда ~ предметы первой необходимости;
necessity is the mother of invention посл. = голь на выдумки хитра;
нужда - мать изобретательности ~ предметы первой необходимости;
necessity is the mother of invention посл. = голь на выдумки хитра;
нужда - мать изобретательности ~ необходимость, настоятельная потребность;
of necessity по необходимости;
there is no necessity нет никакой необходимости social ~ общественная необходимость ~ необходимость, настоятельная потребность;
of necessity по необходимости;
there is no necessity нет никакой необходимости under the ~ вынужденный under: ~ heavy penalty под страхом сурового наказания;
under the necessity (of smth.) под давлением( каких-л.) обстоятельств;
under cover под прикрытием urgent ~ крайняя необходимостьБольшой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > necessity
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6 starvation star·va·tion n
[stɒː'veɪʃ(ə)n]inedia, fame f -
7 necessity
[nə'sesətɪ]сущ.1)а) необходимость, настоятельная потребностьabsolute / dire necessity — крайняя необходимость
There is agreement on the necessity of reforms. — Имеется согласие о необходимости проведения реформ.
б) требование (чего-л.)Syn:2)а) неизбежность, неминуемость, неотвратимостьSyn:3) обычно мн. бедность, нищета, нуждаSyn:food, fuel and other daily necessities — еда, топливо и другие предметы первой необходимости
Syn:••to make a virtue of necessity — сама захотела, когда нужда повелела; делать вид, что действуешь добровольно
Necessity is the mother of invention. посл. — Голь на выдумки хитра.
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8 line
[laɪn]n1) строка, строчка, линейкаThe pen moved on down to the next line. — Перо двигалось дальше к следующей строчке.
There isn't a dull line in the whole play. — Во всей пьесе нет ни одной скучной строки.
The article (the paragraph) was cut down to two or three lines. — Статья была сокращена (параграф был сокращен) до двух-трех строчек.
- top line- few lines
- witty lines
- line ten
- line frequency
- line test
- line spectrum
- second line from the top
- line three from the top of the page
- line of print
- line of a poem
- line of symbols
- page of twenty five lines
- above the line
- crowd many facts into a few lines
- drop smb a few lines
- expect a line from him
- jump a line
- jump from one line to another
- keep in line
- miss out a line
- read between the lines
- read every line
- run out a line into the margin
- set these lines in a smaller type2) линия, черта, очертание, стильThe two lines meet/join here. — Две линии здесь сходятся.
The old woman's face was covered with lines. — Лицо старушки было в морщинах.
She was fined for parking on a single yellow line. — Ее оштрафовали за то, что она оставила машину на желтой полосе.
The building has strong, noble lines. — Здание выдержано в строгом, благородном стиле/в строгих, благородных линиях.
- contour line- straight line
- broken line
- horisontal line
- curving lines
- dividing line
- divergent lines
- white line
- double yellow line
- soft lines
- pencil line
- forward line
- finish line
- foul line
- side line
- sharpened lines
- base line
- state line
- city line
- fight lines
- assemble line
- pipe lines
- sewage lines
- plumb line
- clogged fuel line
- straight lines of her dress
- hard savaged lines of his mouth
- line of sight
- lines of the hand
- line of life
- lines in a rock
- lines in the face
- lines of premature age
- remote line of the sea
- line of the mountains
- blue line of the horizon
- hand covered with fine dry lines
- beauty of line in an artist's work
- on goal line
- be the first over the line
- draw a line from A to B
- draw two lines along the margin
- draw a line with a ruler
- make a line
- mark with lines
- run a line on the map3) ряд, очередь, цепь, строй, шеренгаThere were two lines at the box office. — В кассу за билетами было две очереди.
The children were all in line. — Дети выстроились в ряд.
He got first in line. — Он оказался первым в очереди.
There was a long line of cars ahead of us. — Перед нами была вереница машин.
The lines of the enemy gave way. — Ряды противника дрогнули.
- piket line- two lines abreast
- line troops
- line battalion
- line training
- line of trees
- line of policemen
- line of mountains
- line of workers on strike
- prestigeous line of authors
- lines of infantry
- line between these countries
- line of demarkation
- line of defence
- line of march of an army
- line of advance
- line of retreat
- line of aim
- line of fire
- line of battle
- line of departure
- line of contact
- officers of the line
- ships of the line
- in the line of duty
- at the beginning of the line
- arrange smth in a line
- be the first in the line
- drop out of line
- go into line
- be in the front line
- be next in line for promotion
- be in line for action
- break up a picket line
- form into a line
- go up the line
- lay smth out in a line
- march in line
- plant trees in a line
- see whether the wheels are in line
- stand in line for smth
- stand in one line
- step out of line
- suffer defeat all along the line
- have seven men in the line4) линия родства, родословнаяHe is the last of the royal line. — Он последний представитель королевского рода.
He decend in an unbroken line from Bruce. — Он прямой потомок Брюса.
- male line- decendent in a direct line
- come of a good line
- inheritance will go on the female line5) линия связиHe is on the line now. — Он сейчас говорит по телефону. /Он сейчас на линии.
They took the wrong line on the underground. — Они сели не на ту линию метро.
The tickets are sold at all points on the line. — Билеты продаются на всех пунктах линии.
There was silence on the other end of the line. Then her voice came back on the line. — На том конце телефон замолчал, затем на линии опять зазвучал ее голос.
- telephone line- main line
- local line
- single line
- communication lines
- air line
- branch line
- commuter line
- municipal bus line
- outside line
- long-distance line
- fallen power line
- line communication
- line maintenance
- supply lines to enemy formations
- line of force
- last stop on the local bus line
- all along the line
- somewhere along the line
- be on a party line
- do repairs to the lines
- fall from the platform onto the lines
- instal telephone lines in the neighbourhood
- open a new steamship line
- run a line of mail boats
- tie up the bus lines- line is engaged- line has gone dead6) верёвка, канат, провод, леса (удочки)Is your line strong enough to hol (to land) a ten-pound fish? — Ваше леска достаточно крепка, чтобы выдержать (вытянуть) пятикилограммовую рыбу?
- thin line- clothes line
- wire lines
- harpoon lines
- fish line
- end of the line
- hang the laundry on the line
- tie in a slack line
- tie a fish line to a fishing-rod
- line broke7) текст роли, слова ролиThe books are written along the same line. — Эти книги одного плана. /Эти книги написаны в одном и том же стиле.
You have dealt with the subject on the right lines, but your essay is lacking in detail. — Вы правильно подошли к вопросу, но в вашем очерке не хватает подробностей.
In spite of these gaps the broad line of the story remains clear. — Несмотря на эти пропуски, основной сюжет рассказа остается ясным.
- actor's lines- main line of the story
- just a few lines to tell you we are here
- go over one's lines
- learn one's lines8) тенденция, принцип, направление, курс, область деятельностиHe managed to keep the whole party in line. — Ему удалось поддерживать единство всей группы.
You need very strict directions to keep you in line. — Вам нужны очень точные указания, чтобы не сбиться с пути.
- policy lineIt all happened along the line. — Это все произошло на пути/во время пути.
- old propoganda line
- party line
- main line of the plan
- main line of the situation
- something along those lines
- rice pudding or something in that line
- men in the same line
- pay on the line
- on commercial line
- agree with smb's statement down the line
- be on a line with smth
- be successful all along the line
- be in the grocery line
- be in line with the statement
- be on line
- come on line
- be in line
- bring the theory in line with the facts
- change the line of conduct
- come into line with the majority
- do smth on scientific lines
- govern on conservative lines
- increase people's incomes in line with rising prices
- keep in line with the rules
- keep in line with the terms of the agreement
- keep smth on top line
- live below the poverty line
- pass instruction down the line
- reach the end of the line
- get to the end of the line
- set up a commitee on the following
- take a strong line over smth
- follow a strong line over smth
- throw a good line
- one's job is on the line
- paying on the line is cheaper than on credit
- try to bring the whole commitee into line
- population is split along religious lines
- conversation ran along familiar lines
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9 heavy
1. a тяжёлый, тяжеловесныйto be heavy — иметь большой вес; быть тяжёлым
too heavy for me to lift — такой тяжёлый, что мне не поднять
heavy spar — барит, тяжёлый шпат
2. a крупный, большой; массивныйheavy line — толстая линия, жирная черта
3. a мощный, крупный4. a усиленный, мощный5. a большой; высокийheavy percentage — высокий процент; высокое процентное содержание
heavy seeding — высокая норма высева, загущённый сев
6. a сильный, интенсивныйheavy fire — сильный огонь; сильная перестрелка
heavy eater — любитель поесть, обжора
7. a крепкийheavy wet — крепкое пиво; смесь пива с портером
8. a неэкономичный, много потребляющий9. a обильный, богатыйheavy tonal areas — участки, обильно насыщенные краской
10. a тяжёлый, отяжелённый; отягощённыйa tree heavy with fruit — дерево, гнущееся под тяжестью плодов
11. a беременная12. a отупевший, утомлённый13. a тяжёлый, трудныйheavy workload — большая нагрузка; большой объём работы
14. a тяжёлый; тягостный, тяжкий15. a суровый, строгий16. a строгий, требовательныйa teacher who is heavy on his pupils — учитель, который сурово обращается с
17. a тяжёлый, грузный; неуклюжий, неловкий18. a тяжеловесный, неповоротливый19. a вялый; медлительный20. a скучный, нудный21. a непропечённый; неподнявшийся22. a вязкий, глинистый23. a хим. тяжёлый, слаболетучийheavy fuel — тяжёлое топливо, нефть
24. a крутой; ухабистый25. a мрачный, хмурый26. a разг. незаконный; нечистый27. a разг. серьёзный, важный28. a театр. серьёзный; трагический; мрачныйheavy man — актёр, играющий роль почтенного пожилого человека, благородного отца или резонёра
to come the heavy father — читать нравоучения; давать советы с важным видом
29. a вет. страдающий запаломСинонимический ряд:1. burdensome (adj.) burdensome; depressing; distressing; harsh; onerous; troublesome2. clumsy (adj.) clumsy; listless; lumbering; slow; sluggish3. coarse (adj.) blunt; broad; coarse4. dense (adj.) concentrated; dense; gelatinous; heavyweight; massive; unwieldy; viscous5. depressed (adj.) crestfallen; crest-fallen; crushed; dejected; depressed; despondent; disconsolate; downcast; downhearted; melancholy; morose6. difficult (adj.) bothersome; complex; complicated; difficult; obscure; trying; vexatious7. dull (adj.) boring; dull; lifeless; tedious; tiresome; wearisome8. fat (adj.) corpulent; cumbrous; fat; fleshy; gross; huge; obese; overblown; overweight; porcine; portly; pursy; stout; upholstered9. hard (adj.) arduous; backbreaking; demanding; difficile; effortful; exacting; formidable; hard; knotty; labored; laborious; operose; rigorous; rough; rugged; severe; slavish; sticky; strenuous; taxing; terrible; toilful; toilsome; tough; uphill10. hefty (adj.) heavyset; hefty; thickset11. high (adj.) fierce; furious; high; strong12. intense (adj.) grave; grievous; important; intense; momentous; pithy; poignant; serious; weighty13. lethargic (adj.) comatose; dopey; hebetudinous; lethargic; slumberous; stupid; torpid14. overcast (adj.) cloudy; gloomy; louring; lowering; nubilous; oppressive; overcast; overclouded15. ponderous (adj.) cumbersome; elephantine; ponderous16. powerful (adj.) powerful; severe17. pregnant (adj.) big; childing; enceinte; expectant; expecting; gone; gravid; parous; parturient; pregnant18. recondite (adj.) abstruse; acroamatic; deep; esoteric; hermetic; occult; orphic; profound; recondite; secret19. rich (adj.) rich20. substantial (adj.) abundant; copious; substantial; voluminous21. thick (adj.) lush; luxuriant; profuse; rank; thick22. villain (noun) scoundrel; villainАнтонимический ряд:agile; buoyant; calm; gay; graceful; happy; immaterial; inconsequential; inconsiderable; insignificant; joyous; light; lighthearted; little; pleasant; slim; trivial -
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1. n недостаток, нехватка; отсутствие; нужда2. v испытывать недостаток, нуждаться, не иметьthey are not lacking in food — у них хватает продовольствия, они не испытывают нужды в питании
he lacks nothing — у него ни в чём нет недостатка; у него есть всё
for lack of — из-за отсутствия; из-за недостатка
3. v обыкн... недоставать, не хватать, быть недостаточнымСинонимический ряд:1. failure (noun) absence; dearth; defalcation; default; defect; deficiency; deficit; failure; inadequacy; insufficience; insufficiency; need; paucity; poverty; privation; scantiness; scarceness; scarcity; shortage; underage; want2. miss (verb) miss; need; require; wantАнтонимический ряд:enough; excess; have; plenty; profusion; supply; surplus -
11 low
1. n самый низкий уровень2. n обыкн. низина3. n метеор. область низкого барометрического давления; циклон4. n карт. младший козырь5. n фоска6. n спорт. самый маленький счёт7. n авт. первая, низшая скоростьon a low level — на низком уровне; в низших инстанциях
8. a низкий, невысокийlow frequency — радио, низкая частота
low cover — подрост, нижний ярус
9. a низкий, низменныйtrees growing in low, shady places — деревья, растущие в низких тенистых местах
10. a низкий, ниже обычного или желаемого уровняlow level of employment — низкий уровень занятости, большая безработица
low tide — отлив, малая вода
to get low — понижаться, падать
11. a открытый12. a тихий, негромкий13. a низкого происхождения, низкого социального положенияall sorts of people, high and low — всякие люди, люди разных классов
low area — циклон, область низкого давления
low level i/o — ввод - вывод низкого уровня
14. a невысокоразвитый, стоящий на низкой ступени цивилизацииlow tribes — племена, стоящие на низкой ступени развития
straddle over low bar — перемах ноги врозь над н.ж.
15. a биол. низшийlow quality — низкое качество; низший сорт
16. a вульгарный, грубый; низкий; невоспитанныйlow manners — плохие манеры; вульгарные манеры
low fellow — невоспитанный человек, хам
17. a низкий, подлыйlow cunning — коварство; изворотливость
18. a слабый, пониженный, небольшойlow volume — небольшой обьем; небольшой
19. a слабый, подавленный20. a подавленный, униженныйto bring low — подавлять, угнетать; унижать
21. a плохой, неблагоприятный22. a скудный, недостаточный; непитательный; истощённый, исчерпанныйoil is in low supply — нефти не хватает; нефть поступает в недостаточном количестве
23. a церк. принадлежащие к низкой церквиtoo low — слишком низко; слишком низкий
24. adv низкоto bow low — низко кланяться; отвесить низкий поклон
I hope I shall never fall as low as that — я надеюсь, что никогда не паду так низко
25. adv тихо, негромко26. adv на низких нотах27. adv дёшево, по дешёвой ценеto buy low — покупать дёшево, купить по дешёвке
28. adv скудно; бедно, в бедностиto live low — жить в бедности, скудно питаться
rear lying support hang on low bar — вис лежа сзади на н.ж.
front lying support hang on low bar — вис лежа на н.ж.
29. adv слабо30. adv поздно, недавно31. n мычание32. v мычатьСинонимический ряд:1. cheap (adj.) cheap; economical; inexpensive; low cost; low-cost; low-priced; popular; reasonable; uncostly; undear2. coarse (adj.) coarse; crass; crude; gross; incult; inelegant; raw; rough; rude; uncouth; uncultivated; uncultured; unpolished; unrefined; vulgar3. deep (adj.) bass; deep; low-pitched4. downcast (adj.) bad; blue; cast down; chapfallen; crestfallen; dejected; depressed; disconsolate; dispirited; doleful; down; downcast; downhearted; down-in-the-mouth; downthrown; droopy; dull; gloomy; heartsick; heartsore; heavy-hearted; hipped; low-spirited; melancholic; melancholy; miserable; moody; mopey; sad; saddened; soul-sick; spiritless; sunk; unhappy; woebegone5. flat (adj.) flat; level; squat; stumpy6. humble (adj.) humble; insignificant; paltry; unimportant7. ignoble (adj.) baseborn; ignoble; lowborn; meek; plain; plebeian; unennobled; unwashed8. mean (adj.) abhorrent; abject; base; contemptible; degraded; despicable; detestable; disgraceful; disgusting; dishonorable; dishonourable; disreputable; filthy; foul; loathsome; low-down; lowly; mean; menial; nasty; obnoxious; odious; reprehensible; repugnant; rotten; servile; shabby; sordid; sorry; squalid; ugly; unbecoming; undignified; vile; wretched9. poor (adj.) beggared; broke; destitute; dirt poor; fortuneless; impecunious; impoverished; indigent; necessitous; needy; penurious; poor; poverty-stricken; stone-broke; stony; strapped; unprosperous10. prone (adj.) dead; prone; prostrate; supine11. small (adj.) inferior; lesser; lower; minor; minor-league; nether; petty; secondary; small; subjacent; under12. soft (adj.) gentle; hushed; low-key; muffled; quiet; soft; subdued13. subaverage (adj.) subaverage; subnormal14. unwell (adj.) ailing; dying; exhausted; expiring; feeble; indisposed; off-color; offish; poorly; sickly; sinking; underly; unwell; weak15. bellow (verb) bellow16. cheaply (other) cheaply; inexpensivelyАнтонимический ряд:admirable; blatant; considerable; deafening; decent; elated; elevated; eminent; estimable; exalted; excited; exorbitant; happy; healthy; loud; substantial; tall -
12 pressure
1. n давление, надавливание; сжатие2. n давление, воздействие; нажимpopulation pressure — давление избытка населения; экономическое перенаселение; демографическое давление
3. n чрезмерная эксплуатация или использование4. n затруднительные обстоятельства, трудное положение5. n гнёт6. n неотложность, безотлагательность7. n спец. давление; сжатиеpressure zone — зона повышенного давления; зона нагнетания
8. n метеор. атмосферное давление9. n тех. прессование, вдавливание10. n редк. эл. напряжение11. n редк. печатаниеprinting pressure — давление печатания, натиск
12. n отпечатокСинонимический ряд:1. coercion (noun) coercion; constraint; insistence; persuasion2. force (noun) duress; force; influence; potency; power; violence3. strain (noun) burden; demand; obligation; repression; strain; stress; tension; urgency4. push (verb) coerce; compel; constrain; drive; force; impel; insist; make; oblige; overpress; press; prod; push; urgeАнтонимический ряд: -
13 World War II
(1939-1945)In the European phase of the war, neutral Portugal contributed more to the Allied victory than historians have acknowledged. Portugal experienced severe pressures to compromise her neutrality from both the Axis and Allied powers and, on several occasions, there were efforts to force Portugal to enter the war as a belligerent. Several factors lent Portugal importance as a neutral. This was especially the case during the period from the fall of France in June 1940 to the Allied invasion and reconquest of France from June to August 1944.In four respects, Portugal became briefly a modest strategic asset for the Allies and a war materiel supplier for both sides: the country's location in the southwesternmost corner of the largely German-occupied European continent; being a transport and communication terminus, observation post for spies, and crossroads between Europe, the Atlantic, the Americas, and Africa; Portugal's strategically located Atlantic islands, the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde archipelagos; and having important mines of wolfram or tungsten ore, crucial for the war industry for hardening steel.To maintain strict neutrality, the Estado Novo regime dominated by Antônio de Oliveira Salazar performed a delicate balancing act. Lisbon attempted to please and cater to the interests of both sets of belligerents, but only to the extent that the concessions granted would not threaten Portugal's security or its status as a neutral. On at least two occasions, Portugal's neutrality status was threatened. First, Germany briefly considered invading Portugal and Spain during 1940-41. A second occasion came in 1943 and 1944 as Great Britain, backed by the United States, pressured Portugal to grant war-related concessions that threatened Portugal's status of strict neutrality and would possibly bring Portugal into the war on the Allied side. Nazi Germany's plan ("Operation Felix") to invade the Iberian Peninsula from late 1940 into 1941 was never executed, but the Allies occupied and used several air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands.The second major crisis for Portugal's neutrality came with increasing Allied pressures for concessions from the summer of 1943 to the summer of 1944. Led by Britain, Portugal's oldest ally, Portugal was pressured to grant access to air and naval bases in the Azores Islands. Such bases were necessary to assist the Allies in winning the Battle of the Atlantic, the naval war in which German U-boats continued to destroy Allied shipping. In October 1943, following tedious negotiations, British forces began to operate such bases and, in November 1944, American forces were allowed to enter the islands. Germany protested and made threats, but there was no German attack.Tensions rose again in the spring of 1944, when the Allies demanded that Lisbon cease exporting wolfram to Germany. Salazar grew agitated, considered resigning, and argued that Portugal had made a solemn promise to Germany that wolfram exports would be continued and that Portugal could not break its pledge. The Portuguese ambassador in London concluded that the shipping of wolfram to Germany was "the price of neutrality." Fearing that a still-dangerous Germany could still attack Portugal, Salazar ordered the banning of the mining, sale, and exports of wolfram not only to Germany but to the Allies as of 6 June 1944.Portugal did not enter the war as a belligerent, and its forces did not engage in combat, but some Portuguese experienced directly or indirectly the impact of fighting. Off Portugal or near her Atlantic islands, Portuguese naval personnel or commercial fishermen rescued at sea hundreds of victims of U-boat sinkings of Allied shipping in the Atlantic. German U-boats sank four or five Portuguese merchant vessels as well and, in 1944, a U-boat stopped, boarded, searched, and forced the evacuation of a Portuguese ocean liner, the Serpa Pinto, in mid-Atlantic. Filled with refugees, the liner was not sunk but several passengers lost their lives and the U-boat kidnapped two of the ship's passengers, Portuguese Americans of military age, and interned them in a prison camp. As for involvement in a theater of war, hundreds of inhabitants were killed and wounded in remote East Timor, a Portuguese colony near Indonesia, which was invaded, annexed, and ruled by Japanese forces between February 1942 and August 1945. In other incidents, scores of Allied military planes, out of fuel or damaged in air combat, crashed or were forced to land in neutral Portugal. Air personnel who did not survive such crashes were buried in Portuguese cemeteries or in the English Cemetery, Lisbon.Portugal's peripheral involvement in largely nonbelligerent aspects of the war accelerated social, economic, and political change in Portugal's urban society. It strengthened political opposition to the dictatorship among intellectual and working classes, and it obliged the regime to bolster political repression. The general economic and financial status of Portugal, too, underwent improvements since creditor Britain, in order to purchase wolfram, foods, and other materials needed during the war, became indebted to Portugal. When Britain repaid this debt after the war, Portugal was able to restore and expand its merchant fleet. Unlike most of Europe, ravaged by the worst war in human history, Portugal did not suffer heavy losses of human life, infrastructure, and property. Unlike even her neighbor Spain, badly shaken by its terrible Civil War (1936-39), Portugal's immediate postwar condition was more favorable, especially in urban areas, although deep-seated poverty remained.Portugal experienced other effects, especially during 1939-42, as there was an influx of about a million war refugees, an infestation of foreign spies and other secret agents from 60 secret intelligence services, and the residence of scores of international journalists who came to report the war from Lisbon. There was also the growth of war-related mining (especially wolfram and tin). Portugal's media eagerly reported the war and, by and large, despite government censorship, the Portuguese print media favored the Allied cause. Portugal's standard of living underwent some improvement, although price increases were unpopular.The silent invasion of several thousand foreign spies, in addition to the hiring of many Portuguese as informants and spies, had fascinating outcomes. "Spyland" Portugal, especially when Portugal was a key point for communicating with occupied Europe (1940-44), witnessed some unusual events, and spying for foreigners at least briefly became a national industry. Until mid-1944, when Allied forces invaded France, Portugal was the only secure entry point from across the Atlantic to Europe or to the British Isles, as well as the escape hatch for refugees, spies, defectors, and others fleeing occupied Europe or Vichy-controlled Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Through Portugal by car, ship, train, or scheduled civil airliner one could travel to and from Spain or to Britain, or one could leave through Portugal, the westernmost continental country of Europe, to seek refuge across the Atlantic in the Americas.The wartime Portuguese scene was a colorful melange of illegal activities, including espionage, the black market, war propaganda, gambling, speculation, currency counterfeiting, diamond and wolfram smuggling, prostitution, and the drug and arms trade, and they were conducted by an unusual cast of characters. These included refugees, some of whom were spies, smugglers, diplomats, and business people, many from foreign countries seeking things they could find only in Portugal: information, affordable food, shelter, and security. German agents who contacted Allied sailors in the port of Lisbon sought to corrupt and neutralize these men and, if possible, recruit them as spies, and British intelligence countered this effort. Britain's MI-6 established a new kind of "safe house" to protect such Allied crews from German espionage and venereal disease infection, an approved and controlled house of prostitution in Lisbon's bairro alto district.Foreign observers and writers were impressed with the exotic, spy-ridden scene in Lisbon, as well as in Estoril on the Sun Coast (Costa do Sol), west of Lisbon harbor. What they observed appeared in noted autobiographical works and novels, some written during and some after the war. Among notable writers and journalists who visited or resided in wartime Portugal were Hungarian writer and former communist Arthur Koestler, on the run from the Nazi's Gestapo; American radio broadcaster-journalist Eric Sevareid; novelist and Hollywood script-writer Frederick Prokosch; American diplomat George Kennan; Rumanian cultural attache and later scholar of mythology Mircea Eliade; and British naval intelligence officer and novelist-to-be Ian Fleming. Other notable visiting British intelligence officers included novelist Graham Greene; secret Soviet agent in MI-6 and future defector to the Soviet Union Harold "Kim" Philby; and writer Malcolm Muggeridge. French letters were represented by French writer and airman, Antoine Saint-Exupery and French playwright, Jean Giroudoux. Finally, Aquilino Ribeiro, one of Portugal's premier contemporary novelists, wrote about wartime Portugal, including one sensational novel, Volframio, which portrayed the profound impact of the exploitation of the mineral wolfram on Portugal's poor, still backward society.In Estoril, Portugal, the idea for the world's most celebrated fictitious spy, James Bond, was probably first conceived by Ian Fleming. Fleming visited Portugal several times after 1939 on Naval Intelligence missions, and later he dreamed up the James Bond character and stories. Background for the early novels in the James Bond series was based in part on people and places Fleming observed in Portugal. A key location in Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953) is the gambling Casino of Estoril. In addition, one aspect of the main plot, the notion that a spy could invent "secret" intelligence for personal profit, was observed as well by the British novelist and former MI-6 officer, while engaged in operations in wartime Portugal. Greene later used this information in his 1958 spy novel, Our Man in Havana, as he observed enemy agents who fabricated "secrets" for money.Thus, Portugal's World War II experiences introduced the country and her people to a host of new peoples, ideas, products, and influences that altered attitudes and quickened the pace of change in this quiet, largely tradition-bound, isolated country. The 1943-45 connections established during the Allied use of air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands were a prelude to Portugal's postwar membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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