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1 defend
di'fend1) (to guard or protect against attack: The soldiers defended the castle; I am prepared to defend my opinions.) defender2) (to conduct the defence of (a person) in a law-court.) defender•- defender
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defend vb defendertr[dɪ'fend]1 SMALLSPORT/SMALL jugar de defensa\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto defend oneself defendersedefend [di'fɛnd] vt: defendern.• defender s.m.v.• defender v.• escudar v.• sostener v.(§pres: -tengo, -tienes...-tenemos) pret: -tuv-fut/c: -tendr-•)• sustentar v.dɪ'fend
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transitive verb defender*to defend oneself — defenderse*
to defend something/somebody FROM/AGAINST something/somebody — defender* algo/a alguien de algo/alguien
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vi1) ( Law) actuar* por la defensa2) ( Sport)[dɪ'fend]1.to defend o.s. — defenderse
2.VI (Sport) jugar de defensa* * *[dɪ'fend]
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transitive verb defender*to defend oneself — defenderse*
to defend something/somebody FROM/AGAINST something/somebody — defender* algo/a alguien de algo/alguien
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vi1) ( Law) actuar* por la defensa2) ( Sport) -
2 Vermuyden, Sir Cornelius
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering[br]b. c. 1590 St Maartensdijk, Zeeland, the Netherlandsd. 4 February 1656 probably London, England[br]Dutch/British civil engineer responsible for many of the drainage and flood-protection schemes in low-lying areas of England in the seventeenth century.[br]At the beginning of the seventeenth century, several wealthy men in England joined forces as "adventurers" to put their money into land ventures. One such group was responsible for the draining of the Fens. The first need was to find engineers who were versed in the processes of land drainage, particularly when that land was at, or below, sea level. It was natural, therefore, to turn to the Netherlands to find these skilled men. Joachim Liens was one of the first of the Dutch engineers to go to England, and he started work on the Great Level; however, no real progress was made until 1621, when Cornelius Vermuyden was brought to England to assist in the work.Vermuyden had grown up in a district where he could see for himself the techniques of embanking and reclaiming land from the sea. He acquired a reputation of expertise in this field, and by 1621 his fame had spread to England. In that year the Thames had flooded and breached its banks near Havering and Dagenham in Essex. Vermuyden was commissioned to repair the breach and drain neighbouring marshland, with what he claimed as complete success. The Commissioners of Sewers for Essex disputed this claim and whthheld his fee, but King Charles I granted him a portion of the reclaimed land as compensation.In 1626 Vermuyden carried out his first scheme for drainage works as a consultant. This was the drainage of Hatfield Chase in South Yorkshire. Charles I was, in fact, Vermuyden's employer in the drainage of the Chase, and the work was undertaken as a means of raising additional rents for the Royal Exchequer. Vermuyden was himself an "adventurer" in the undertaking, putting capital into the venture and receiving the title to a considerable proportion of the drained lands. One of the important elements of his drainage designs was the principal of "washes", which were flat areas between the protective dykes and the rivers to carry flood waters, to prevent them spreading on to nearby land. Vermuyden faced bitter opposition from those whose livelihoods depended on the marshlands and who resorted to sabotage of the embankments and violence against his imported Dutch workmen to defend their rights. The work could not be completed until arbiters had ruled out on the respective rights of the parties involved. Disagreements and criticism of his engineering practices continued and he gave up his interest in Hatfield Chase. The Hatfield Chase undertaking was not a great success, although the land is now rich farmland around the river Don in Doncaster. However, the involved financial and land-ownership arrangements were the key to the granting of a knighthood to Cornelius Vermuyden in January 1628, and in 1630 he purchased 4,000 acres of low-lying land on Sedgemoor in Somerset.In 1629 Vermuyden embarked on his most important work, that of draining the Great Level in the fenlands of East Anglia. Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, was given charge of the work, with Vermuyden as Engineer; in this venture they were speculators and partners and were recompensed by a grant of land. The area which contains the Cambridgeshire tributaries of the Great Ouse were subject to severe and usually annual flooding. The works to contain the rivers in their flood period were important. Whilst the rivers were contained with the enclosed flood plain, the land beyond became highly sought-after because of the quality of the soil. The fourteen "adventurers" who eventually came into partnership with the Earl of Bedford and Vermuyden were the financiers of the scheme and also received land in accordance with their input into the scheme. In 1637 the work was claimed to be complete, but this was disputed, with Vermuyden defending himself against criticism in a pamphlet entitled Discourse Touching the Great Fennes (1638; 1642, London). In fact, much remained to be done, and after an interruption due to the Civil War the scheme was finished in 1652. Whilst the process of the Great Level works had closely involved the King, Oliver Cromwell was equally concerned over the success of the scheme. By 1655 Cornelius Vermuyden had ceased to have anything to do with the Great Level. At that stage he was asked to account for large sums granted to him to expedite the work but was unable to do so; most of his assets were seized to cover the deficiency, and from then on he subsided into obscurity and poverty.While Cornelius Vermuyden, as a Dutchman, was well versed in the drainage needs of his own country, he developed his skills as a hydraulic engineer in England and drained acres of derelict flooded land.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1628.Further ReadingL.E.Harris, 1953, Vermuyden and the Fens, London: Cleaver Hume Press. J.Korthals-Altes, 1977, Sir Cornelius Vermuyden: The Lifework of a Great Anglo-Dutchman in Land-Reclamation and Drainage, New York: Alto Press.KM / LRDBiographical history of technology > Vermuyden, Sir Cornelius
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3 choose
1. I1)it is difficult (hard, easy, etc.) to choose выбирать трудно и т. д.; you must choose вы должны сделать выбор; why do you take so long to choose? почему вы так долго выбираете?; he cannot choose but obey (but come, etc.) у него нет другого выбора как повиноваться и т. д; he cannot choose but help me он не может не помочь мне2)if you choose если желаете; just as you choose как хотите, как угодно; I'll do as I choose! я буду действовать / поступать/ по-своему /как мне заблагорассудится/!; do smth. when one chooses делать что-л., когда вздумается /когда (захочется/; whether he chooses or not хочет он [этого] или нет2. IIchoose in some manner choose well (wisely, carefully, badly, etc.) хорошо и т. д. выбрать; choose at random выбрать наугад3. IIIchoose smth. choose a new hat (a house, one of these, the biggest of them, a novel, etc.) выбирать новую шляпу и т. д., choose a method (a course of action, war or peace, etc.) избирать метод и т. д.; which room did you choose? на какой из этих комнат вы остановились?; take whichever you choose возьмите любой; choose smb. choose a wife (a roommate, friends, etc.) выбрать /избрать/ жену и т д.4. IV1) choose smth., smb. in some manner choose books (a house, etc.) carefully (deliberately, discreetly, shrewdly, critically, etc.) тщательно и т. д. выбирать книги и т. д.; he invariably chooses the best story we have он неизменно останавливает свой выбор на лучшем из наших рассказов; he doesn't know how to choose good assistants он не умеет подбирать хороших сотрудников2) choose smb. in some manner ' smb. unanimously (arbitrarily, unaccountably, mistakenly, etc.) единодушно и т. д. выбирать кого-л.5. V1) choose smb. smth., smb. choose me a good apple (him the biggest one, them a good assistant, him a wife, her a husband, etc.) подберите /выберите/ мне хорошее яблоко и т. д.2) choose smb. smb. choose him president (my friend headmaster of Harrow, this able politician Speaker, me chairman, etc.) избирать /выбирать/ его президентом /на пост президента/ и т. д.6. VIIchoose smb., smth. to do smth. choose the man to go there (to test the food, to take the blame, etc.) найти человека, который пойдет туда и т. д.; choose friends to play with (a companion to travel with, etc.) найти друзей, с которыми можно играть и т. д., choose a place to settle in выбрать место, где поселиться /обосноваться/7. XIbe chosen smb, my brother was chosen headmaster ( president, leader, ate.) моего брата назначили директором [школы] и т. д.8. XIIIchoose to do smth. choose to go (to stay where he was, to remain in one's room, to obey orders, etc.) хотеть /желать, предпочитать/ поехать и т. д.; what would you choose to do? что вам больше всего хотелось бы делать?; he chose to run for election он решил баллотироваться; I would choose to be a doctor rather than a lawyer я, пожалуй /скорее/, предпочел бы быть врачом, чем юристом; I do not choose to speak with you (to be a candidate, to be laughed at, etc.) у меня нет желания с вами разговаривать и т. д.9. XVI1) choose from smth., smb. choose from these three hats (from the goods we have in stock, from the three brothers, etc.) выбирать одну из этих трех шляп и т. д.; there are only five books to choose from выбирать можно только из пяти книг; choose between smb., smth. choose between him and his brother (between the candidates, between several persons, between two things, between duty and inclination, between a fine and imprisonment, etc.) выбирать между ним и его братом и т. д.; choose for smb. choose for oneself самому выбирать; choose for yourself выбирайте сами!2) choose by smth. choose by vote (by election, by show of hands, etc.) выбирать голосованием и т. д.10. XVIIchoose by doing smth. choose by voting (by casting lots, etc.) выбирать /избирать/ голосованием и т. д.11. XXI1choose smb. by smth. choose delegates (representatives, etc.) by vote (by a show of hands, by secret ballot, by election, etc.) выбирать делегатов и т. д. голосованием и т. д.; choose smth. from lout of, of, among/ (in) smth. choose an apple from the basket (a book from /among/ many, one out of a hundred, a few books in the library, the largest piece in the dish, etc.) выбирать яблоко из корзины и т. д.; I have too much to choose from у меня слишком большой выбор; choose the lesser of two evils выбрать меньшее из двух зол; choose smth. for smth. choose a book for the exhibition (a title for the book, a name for his new film, a heading for this article, etc.) выбирать /подбирать/ книгу для выставки и т. д.; choose smb., smth. for smb., smth. choose a good assistant for them (a hat for the boy, etc.) подобрать им хорошего помощника и т. д.; choose a good book for her library подобрать хорошую книгу для ее библиотеки; choose her for his wife (him for her husband, their mother for her companion, etc.) выбирать ее ему в жены и т. д.; choose him for our delegate ( this man for our speaker, her for our president, Mr. X for my defending barrister, her brother for our umpire, him for the office, etc.) выбирать /избирать/ его нашим делегатом и т. д.', choose smb., smth. for smth. choose a judge for his fairness (a wife for her beauty, the room for its size, etc.) выбирать судьи за его справедливость и т. д.; choose smth. before smth. choose death before dishonour предпочесть смерть бесчестью; choose smth. instead of smth. choose happiness instead of riches предпочесть счастье богатству12. XXIIchoose smth. by doing smth. choose delegates by voting выбирать делегатов голосованием и т. д.13. XXIV1choose smb. as smb. choose my brother as their leader (him as chairman, etc.) выбирать моего брата своим вожаком и т. д.
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