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his expression suddenly changed

  • 1 visage

    visage [vizaʒ]
    masculine noun
    • un visage connu/ami a familiar/friendly face
    • le vrai visage de... the true face of...
    • à visage humain [capitalisme, entreprise] with a human face
    * * *
    vizaʒ
    nom masculin lit, fig face
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    vizaʒ nm

    Elle a le visage rond. — She's got a round face.

    * * *
    visage ⇒ Le corps humain nm lit, fig face; visage rond/familier/défait round/familiar/drawn face; l'angoisse se lisait sur son visage his distress was visible on his face; le vrai visage de qn/qch the true face of sb/sth; les visages de qn the faces of sb; à visage humain with a human face; à deux visages two-faced; les deux visages d'une politique/révolution the two aspects of a policy/revolution; le nouveau visage de l'Allemagne/Europe/industrie the new face of Germany/Europe/industry; sans visage faceless; à visage découvert openly; faire bon/mauvais visage à qn to give sb a warm/cool welcome; ⇒ lire.
    visage pâle Hist paleface.
    [vizaʒ] nom masculin
    1. [d'une personne] face
    a. [sans masque] unmasked
    b. [sans voile] unveiled
    c. [ouvertement] openly
    2. [aspect] aspect

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > visage

  • 2 strike

    1. past tense - struck; verb
    1) (to hit, knock or give a blow to: He struck me in the face with his fist; Why did you strike him?; The stone struck me a blow on the side of the head; His head struck the table as he fell; The tower of the church was struck by lightning.) pegar, golpear
    2) (to attack: The enemy troops struck at dawn; We must prevent the disease striking again.) atacar
    3) (to produce (sparks or a flame) by rubbing: He struck a match/light; He struck sparks from the stone with his knife.) encender
    4) ((of workers) to stop work as a protest, or in order to force employers to give better pay: The men decided to strike for higher wages.) hacer huelga
    5) (to discover or find: After months of prospecting they finally struck gold/oil; If we walk in this direction we may strike the right path.) encontrar
    6) (to (make something) sound: He struck a note on the piano/violin; The clock struck twelve.) sonar, hacer sonar, tocar
    7) (to impress, or give a particular impression to (a person): I was struck by the resemblance between the two men; How does the plan strike you?; It / The thought struck me that she had come to borrow money.) parecer, dar la impresión
    8) (to mint or manufacture (a coin, medal etc).) acuñar
    9) (to go in a certain direction: He left the path and struck (off) across the fields.) seguir (por)
    10) (to lower or take down (tents, flags etc).) desmontar

    2. noun
    1) (an act of striking: a miners' strike.) huelga
    2) (a discovery of oil, gold etc: He made a lucky strike.) hallazgo, descubrimiento
    •
    - striking
    - strikingly
    - be out on strike
    - be on strike
    - call a strike
    - come out on strike
    - come
    - be within striking distance of
    - strike at
    - strike an attitude/pose
    - strike a balance
    - strike a bargain/agreement
    - strike a blow for
    - strike down
    - strike dumb
    - strike fear/terror into
    - strike home
    - strike it rich
    - strike lucky
    - strike out
    - strike up
    strike1 n huelga
    strike2 vb
    1. dar / pegar
    2. hacer huelga
    3. parecer
    4. dar
    tr[straɪk]
    1 (by workers, students, etc) huelga
    3 (find) hallazgo; (of oil, gold, etc) descubrimiento
    4 SMALLMILITARY/SMALL ataque nombre masculino
    transitive verb (pt & pp struck tr[strʌk])
    1 (hit) pegar, golpear
    2 (knock against, collide with) dar contra, chocar contra; (ball, stone) pegar contra, dar contra; (lightning, bullet, torpedo) alcanzar
    3 (disaster, earthquake) golpear, sobrevenir; (disease) atacar, golpear
    4 (gold, oil) descubrir, encontrar, dar con; (track, path) dar con
    5 (coin, medal) acuñar
    6 (match) encender
    7 (of clock) dar, tocar
    8 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL (note) dar; (chord) tocar
    9 (bargain, deal) cerrar, hacer; (balance) encontrar, hallar; (agreement) llegar a
    10 (pose, attitude) adoptar
    11 (give impression) parecer, dar la impresión de
    ■ it struck me as strange that... me pareció muy extraño que...
    12 (occur to) ocurrírsele a; (remember) acordarse de
    13 (render) dejar
    14 (cause fear, terror, worry) infundir
    15 (take down - sail, flag) arriar; (- tent, set) desmontar
    16 (cutting) plantar
    1 (attack - troops, animal, etc) atacar; (- disaster, misfortune) sobrevenir, ocurrir; (- disease) atacar, golpear; (- lightning) alcanzar, caer
    2 (workers etc) declararse en huelga, hacer huelga
    3 (clock) dar la hora
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    strike a light! ¡caray!
    to be on strike estar en huelga
    to call a strike convocar una huelga
    to go on strike declararse en huelga
    to strike a chord sonarle a uno
    to strike a chord with somebody estar en sintonía con alguien
    to strike at the heart of something dar con el meollo de algo
    to strike camp levantar el campamento
    to strike (it) lucky tener suerte
    to strike the eye saltar a la vista
    to strike out on one's own (become independent) volar con sus propias alas 2 (set up own business) ponerse a trabajar por su propia cuenta
    to strike it rich hacerse rico,-a
    to strike while the iron's hot actuar de inmediato
    general strike huelga general
    strike fund caja de resistencia
    strike pay subsidio de huelga
    strike ['straɪk] v, struck ['strʌk] ; struck ; striking vt
    1) hit: golpear (a una persona)
    to strike a blow: pegar un golpe
    2) delete: suprimir, tachar
    3) coin, mint: acuñar (monedas)
    4) : dar (la hora)
    5) afflict: sobrevenir
    he was stricken with a fever: le sobrevino una fiebre
    6) impress: impresionar, parecer
    her voice struck me: su voz me impresionó
    it struck him as funny: le pareció chistoso
    7) : encender (un fósforo)
    8) find: descubrir (oro, petróleo)
    9) adopt: adoptar (una pose, etc.)
    strike vi
    1) hit: golpear
    to strike against: chocar contra
    2) attack: atacar
    3) : declararse en huelga
    1) blow: golpe m
    2) : huelga f, paro m
    to be on strike: estar en huelga
    3) attack: ataque m
    n.
    • cerradero s.m.
    • descubrimiento repentino s.m.
    • golpe s.m.
    • huelga s.f.
    v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: struck) or p.p.: stricken•) = batir v.
    • cascar v.
    • chocar v.
    • chocar con v.
    • dar con v.
    • embestir v.
    • golpear v.
    • pegar v.
    • percutir v.
    • pulsar v.
    • tropezar v.
    • varear v.

    I
    1. straɪk
    (past & past p struck) transitive verb
    1)
    a) ( hit) \<\<person\>\> pegarle* a, golpear; \<\<blow\>\> dar*, pegar*; \<\<key\>\> pulsar

    to strike somebody a blow — darle* un golpe a alguien, golpear a alguien

    b) (collide with, fall on) \<\<vehicle\>\> chocar* or dar* contra; \<\<stone/ball\>\> pegar* or dar* contra; \<\<lightning/bullet\>\> alcanzar*
    2)

    to strike somebody blind/dumb — dejar ciego/mudo a alguien

    I was struck dumb when I saw what she'd done — me quedé muda or sin habla cuando vi lo que había hecho

    b) ( introduce)

    to strike fear/terror into somebody — infundirle miedo/terror a alguien

    3)
    a) ( occur to) ocurrirse (+ me/te/le etc)

    it strikes me (that)... — me da la impresión de que..., se me ocurre que...

    b) ( impress) parecerle* a

    how did she strike you? — ¿qué impresión te causó?

    4) \<\<oil/gold\>\> encontrar*, dar* con

    to strike it lucky — tener* un golpe de suerte

    to strike it rich — hacer* fortuna

    5)
    a) \<\<match/light\>\> encender*
    b) \<\<coin/medal\>\> acuñar
    6)
    a) ( Mus) \<\<note\>\> dar*; \<\<chord\>\> tocar*
    b) \<\<clock\>\> dar*

    the clock struck the hour/five (o'clock) — el reloj dio la hora/las cinco

    7) (enter into, arrive at)

    to strike a deal — llegar* a un acuerdo, cerrar* un trato

    to strike a balance between... — encontrar* el justo equilibrio entre...

    8) ( adopt) \<\<pose/attitude\>\> adoptar
    9) ( take down) \<\<sail/flag\>\> arriar*; \<\<tent\>\> desmontar
    10) ( delete) suprimir

    his name was struck off the register — se borró su nombre del registro; see also strike off


    2.
    vi
    1) ( hit) \<\<person\>\> golpear, asestar un golpe; \<\<lightning\>\> caer*

    (to be) within striking distance (of something) — (estar*) a un paso (de algo)

    to strike lucky — (BrE) tener* un golpe de suerte

    2)
    a) ( attack) \<\<bombers/commandos\>\> atacar*; \<\<snake/tiger\>\> atacar*, caer* sobre su presa

    to strike AT something/somebody — atacar* algo/a alguien

    b) ( happen suddenly) \<\<illness/misfortune\>\> sobrevenir*; \<\<disaster\>\> ocurrir
    3) ( withdraw labor) hacer* huelga, declararse en huelga or (esp AmL) en paro

    to strike for higher pay — hacer* huelga or (esp AmL) hacer* un paro por reivindicaciones salariales

    4) \<\<clock\>\> dar* la hora
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    Phrasal Verbs:

    II
    1) ( stoppage) huelga f, paro m (esp AmL)

    to be on strike — estar* en or de huelga, estar* en or de paro (esp AmL)

    to come out o go (out) on strike — ir* a la huelga, declararse en huelga, ir* al paro (esp AmL), declararse en paro (esp AmL)

    hunger strike — huelga de hambre; (before n)

    to take strike action — ir* a la huelga

    strike fund — fondo m de resistencia

    strike pay — subsidio m de huelga or (esp AmL) de paro

    2) ( find) descubrimiento m

    a lucky strike — (colloq) un golpe de suerte

    3) ( attack) ataque m
    4) ( Sport)
    a) ( in bowling) pleno m, chuza f (Méx)
    b) ( in baseball) strike m
    [straɪk] (vb: pt, pp struck)
    1. N
    1) (by workers) huelga f, paro m

    to come out or go on strike — declarar la huelga; see hunger 3.

    2) (=discovery) [of oil, gold] descubrimiento m

    • to make a strike — hacer un descubrimiento

    3) (Baseball) golpe m ; (Bowling) strike m

    • you have two strikes against you — (esp US) (fig) tienes dos cosas en contra

    • three strikes and you're out — (US) (Jur) pena de cadena perpetua tras el tercer delito grave

    4) (Mil) ataque m ; (=air strike) ataque m aéreo, bombardeo m
    2. VT
    1) (=hit) golpear; (with fist etc) pegar, dar una bofetada a; (with bullet etc) alcanzar; [+ ball] golpear; [+ chord, note] tocar; [+ instrument] herir, pulsar

    • to strike sb a blow, strike a blow at sb — pegar or dar un golpe a algn, pegar a algn

    • to strike one's fist on the table, strike the table with one's fist — golpear la mesa con el puño

    • the clock struck the hour — el reloj dio la hora

    • to be struck by lightning — ser alcanzado por un rayo

    the tower was struck by lightning — la torre fue alcanzada por un rayo, cayó un rayo en la torre

    - strike a blow for sth
    - strike a blow against sth
    2) (=collide with) [+ rocks, landmine etc] chocar con, chocar contra; [+ difficulty, obstacle] encontrar, dar con, tropezar con

    his head struck the beam, he struck his head on the beam — dio con la cabeza contra or en la viga

    • a sound struck my ear — liter un ruido hirió mi oído

    • what strikes the eye is the poverty — lo que más llama la atención es la pobreza

    • a ghastly sight struck our eyes — se nos presentó un panorama horroroso

    3) (=produce, make) [+ coin, medal] acuñar; [+ a light, match] encender, prender (LAm)

    • to strike root — (Bot) echar raíces, arraigar

    • to strike sparks from sth — hacer que algo eche chispas

    • to strike terror into sb's heart — infundir terror a algn

    4) (=appear to, occur to)

    it strikes me as being most unlikely — me parece poco factible, se me hace poco probable (LAm)

    • how did it strike you? — ¿qué te pareció?, ¿qué impresión te causó?

    • it strikes me that..., the thought strikes me that... — se me ocurre que...

    has it ever struck you that...? — ¿has pensado alguna vez que...?

    5) (=impress)

    I'm not much struck (with him) — no me llama la atención, no me impresiona mucho

    6) (=find) [+ gold, oil] descubrir
    - strike gold
    - strike it lucky
    7) (=arrive at, achieve) [+ agreement] alcanzar, llegar a

    • to strike an average — sacar el promedio

    • to strike a balance — encontrar el equilibrio

    • to strike a bargain — cerrar un trato

    • to strike a deal — alcanzar un acuerdo, llegar a un acuerdo; (Comm) cerrar un trato

    8) (=assume, adopt)
    9) (=cause to become)

    • to strike sb blind — cegar a algn

    • to strike sb dead — matar a algn

    may I be struck dead if... — que me maten si...

    • to be struck dumb — quedarse sin habla

    10) (=take down)

    • to strike camp — levantar el campamento

    • to strike the flag — arriar la bandera

    11) (=remove, cross out) suprimir ( from de)
    3. VI
    1) (Mil etc) (=attack) atacar; [disaster] sobrevenir; [disease] golpear; [snake etc] morder, atacar

    when panic strikes — cuando cunde el pánico, cuando se extiende el pánico

    • to strike against sth — dar con algo, dar contra algo, chocar contra algo

    • to strike at sb — (with fist) tratar de golpear a algn; (Mil) atacar a algn

    we must strike at the root of this evil — debemos atacar la raíz de este mal, debemos cortar este mal de raíz

    • to be within striking distance of — [+ place] estar a poca distancia or a un paso de

    he had come within striking distance of the presidency — estuvo muy cerca de ocupar la presidencia; see home 1., 2); see iron 1., 1)

    2) [workers] declarar la huelga, declararse en huelga
    3) [clock] dar la hora
    4) [match] encenderse
    5)
    - strike lucky
    6) (=move, go)

    • to strike across country — ir a campo traviesa

    • to strike into the woods — ir por el bosque, penetrar en el bosque

    7) (Naut) (=run aground) encallar, embarrancar
    8) (esp Naut) (=surrender) arriar la bandera
    9) (Bot) echar raíces, arraigar
    4.
    CPD

    strike ballot N — votación f a huelga

    strike committee N — comité m de huelga

    strike force N — fuerza f de asalto, fuerza f de choque

    strike fund N — fondo m de huelga

    strike pay N — subsidio m de huelga

    strike vote N — = strike ballot

    * * *

    I
    1. [straɪk]
    (past & past p struck) transitive verb
    1)
    a) ( hit) \<\<person\>\> pegarle* a, golpear; \<\<blow\>\> dar*, pegar*; \<\<key\>\> pulsar

    to strike somebody a blow — darle* un golpe a alguien, golpear a alguien

    b) (collide with, fall on) \<\<vehicle\>\> chocar* or dar* contra; \<\<stone/ball\>\> pegar* or dar* contra; \<\<lightning/bullet\>\> alcanzar*
    2)

    to strike somebody blind/dumb — dejar ciego/mudo a alguien

    I was struck dumb when I saw what she'd done — me quedé muda or sin habla cuando vi lo que había hecho

    b) ( introduce)

    to strike fear/terror into somebody — infundirle miedo/terror a alguien

    3)
    a) ( occur to) ocurrirse (+ me/te/le etc)

    it strikes me (that)... — me da la impresión de que..., se me ocurre que...

    b) ( impress) parecerle* a

    how did she strike you? — ¿qué impresión te causó?

    4) \<\<oil/gold\>\> encontrar*, dar* con

    to strike it lucky — tener* un golpe de suerte

    to strike it rich — hacer* fortuna

    5)
    a) \<\<match/light\>\> encender*
    b) \<\<coin/medal\>\> acuñar
    6)
    a) ( Mus) \<\<note\>\> dar*; \<\<chord\>\> tocar*
    b) \<\<clock\>\> dar*

    the clock struck the hour/five (o'clock) — el reloj dio la hora/las cinco

    7) (enter into, arrive at)

    to strike a deal — llegar* a un acuerdo, cerrar* un trato

    to strike a balance between... — encontrar* el justo equilibrio entre...

    8) ( adopt) \<\<pose/attitude\>\> adoptar
    9) ( take down) \<\<sail/flag\>\> arriar*; \<\<tent\>\> desmontar
    10) ( delete) suprimir

    his name was struck off the register — se borró su nombre del registro; see also strike off


    2.
    vi
    1) ( hit) \<\<person\>\> golpear, asestar un golpe; \<\<lightning\>\> caer*

    (to be) within striking distance (of something) — (estar*) a un paso (de algo)

    to strike lucky — (BrE) tener* un golpe de suerte

    2)
    a) ( attack) \<\<bombers/commandos\>\> atacar*; \<\<snake/tiger\>\> atacar*, caer* sobre su presa

    to strike AT something/somebody — atacar* algo/a alguien

    b) ( happen suddenly) \<\<illness/misfortune\>\> sobrevenir*; \<\<disaster\>\> ocurrir
    3) ( withdraw labor) hacer* huelga, declararse en huelga or (esp AmL) en paro

    to strike for higher pay — hacer* huelga or (esp AmL) hacer* un paro por reivindicaciones salariales

    4) \<\<clock\>\> dar* la hora
    •
    Phrasal Verbs:

    II
    1) ( stoppage) huelga f, paro m (esp AmL)

    to be on strike — estar* en or de huelga, estar* en or de paro (esp AmL)

    to come out o go (out) on strike — ir* a la huelga, declararse en huelga, ir* al paro (esp AmL), declararse en paro (esp AmL)

    hunger strike — huelga de hambre; (before n)

    to take strike action — ir* a la huelga

    strike fund — fondo m de resistencia

    strike pay — subsidio m de huelga or (esp AmL) de paro

    2) ( find) descubrimiento m

    a lucky strike — (colloq) un golpe de suerte

    3) ( attack) ataque m
    4) ( Sport)
    a) ( in bowling) pleno m, chuza f (Méx)
    b) ( in baseball) strike m

    English-spanish dictionary > strike

  • 3 set

    set [set]
    jeu ⇒ 1 (a) série ⇒ 1 (a) ensemble ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (c) cercle ⇒ 1 (b) appareil ⇒ 1 (d) poste ⇒ 1 (d) set ⇒ 1 (e) fixe ⇒ 2 (a) arrêté ⇒ 2 (b) figé ⇒ 2 (b) résolu ⇒ 2 (c) prêt ⇒ 2 (d) mettre ⇒ 3 (a), 3 (c), 3 (d) poser ⇒ 3 (a), 3 (c), 3 (e), 3 (i) situer ⇒ 3 (b) régler ⇒ 3 (c) fixer ⇒ 3 (f), 3 (i) établir ⇒ 3 (f) faire prendre ⇒ 3 (h) se coucher ⇒ 4 (a) prendre ⇒ 4 (b)
    (pt & pp set, cont setting)
    1 noun
    (a) (of tools, keys, golf clubs, sails) jeu m; (of numbers, names, instructions, stamps, weights) série f; (of books) collection f; (of furniture) ensemble m; (of cutlery, dishes, glasses) service m; (of lingerie) parure f; (of wheels) train m; (of facts, conditions, characteristics, data) ensemble m; (of events, decisions, questions) série f, suite f; Typography (of proofs, characters) jeu m; Computing (of characters, instructions) jeu m, ensemble m;
    ∎ a set of matching luggage un ensemble de valises assorties;
    ∎ a set of table/bed linen une parure de table/de lit;
    ∎ a set of sheets une parure de lit;
    ∎ badminton/chess set jeu m de badminton/d'échecs;
    ∎ they're playing with Damian's train set ils jouent avec le train électrique de Damian;
    ∎ the cups/the chairs are sold in sets of six les tasses/les chaises sont vendues par six;
    ∎ I can't break up the set je ne peux pas les dépareiller;
    ∎ they make a set ils vont ensemble;
    ∎ to collect the (whole) set rassembler toute la collection, faire la collection;
    ∎ he made me a duplicate set (of keys) il m'a fait un double des clés; (of contact lenses) il m'en a fait une autre paire;
    ∎ a full set of the encyclopedia une encyclopédie complète;
    ∎ a full set of Tolstoy's works les œuvres complètes de Tolstoï;
    ∎ they've detected two sets of fingerprints ils ont relevé deux séries d'empreintes digitales ou les empreintes digitales de deux personnes;
    ∎ given another set of circumstances, things might have turned out differently dans d'autres circonstances, les choses auraient pu se passer différemment;
    ∎ the first set of reforms la première série ou le premier train de réformes;
    ∎ they ran a whole set of tests on me ils m'ont fait subir toute une série d'examens
    (b) (social group) cercle m, milieu m;
    ∎ he's not in our set il n'appartient pas à notre cercle;
    ∎ we don't go around in the same set nous ne fréquentons pas le même milieu ou monde;
    ∎ the riding/yachting set le monde ou milieu de l'équitation/du yachting;
    ∎ the literary set les milieux mpl littéraires;
    ∎ the Markham set Markham et ses amis
    (c) Mathematics ensemble m
    (d) (electrical device) appareil m; (radio, TV) poste m;
    ∎ a colour TV set un poste de télévision ou un téléviseur couleur
    (e) Sport set m, manche f;
    ∎ first set to Miss Williams set Williams
    (f) Cinema & Television plateau m; Theatre (stage) scène f; (scenery) décor m;
    ∎ on (the) set Cinema & Television sur le plateau; Theatre sur scène
    (g) (part of performance → by singer, group)
    ∎ he'll be playing two sets tonight il va jouer à deux reprises ce soir;
    ∎ her second set was livelier la deuxième partie de son spectacle a été plus animée
    (h) British School groupe m de niveau
    (i) (for hair) mise f en plis;
    ∎ to have a set se faire faire une mise en plis
    (j) (posture → of shoulders, body) position f, attitude f; (→ of head) port m;
    ∎ I could tell he was angry by the set of his jaw rien qu'à la façon dont il serrait les mâchoires, j'ai compris qu'il était en colère
    (k) (direction → of wind, current) direction f;
    ∎ suddenly the set of the wind changed le vent a tourné soudainement
    (m) Horticulture (seedling) semis m; (cutting) bouture f;
    ∎ tomato/tulip sets tomates fpl/tulipes fpl à repiquer
    (n) (clutch of eggs) couvée f
    (q) (of badger) terrier m
    (a) (specified, prescribed → rule, price, quantity, sum, wage) fixe;
    ∎ meals are at set times les repas sont servis à heures fixes;
    ∎ there are no set rules for raising children il n'y a pas de règles toutes faites pour l'éducation des enfants;
    ∎ the tasks must be done in the set order les tâches doivent être accomplies dans l'ordre prescrit;
    ∎ with no set purpose sans but précis
    (b) (fixed, rigid → ideas, views) arrêté; (→ smile, frown) figé;
    ∎ her day followed a set routine sa journée se déroulait selon un rituel immuable;
    ∎ he has a set way of doing it il a sa méthode pour le faire;
    ∎ to be set in one's ways avoir ses (petites) habitudes;
    ∎ to become set in one's views devenir rigide dans ses opinions
    (c) (intent, resolute) résolu, déterminé;
    ∎ to be set on or upon sth vouloir qch à tout prix;
    ∎ I'm (dead) set on finishing it tonight je suis (absolument) déterminé à le finir ce soir;
    ∎ he's dead set against it il s'y oppose formellement
    (d) (ready, in position) prêt;
    ∎ are you (all) set to go? êtes-vous prêt à partir?
    (e) (likely) probablement;
    ∎ he seems well set to win il semble être sur la bonne voie ou être bien parti pour gagner;
    ∎ house prices are set to rise steeply les prix de l'immobilier vont vraisemblablement monter en flèche
    (f) British School (book, subject) au programme;
    ∎ one of our set books is 'Oliver Twist' un des ouvrages au programme est 'Oliver Twist'
    ∎ he set his cases down on the platform il posa ses valises sur le quai;
    ∎ to set sth before sb (dish, glass) placer qch devant qn; (proposal, plan) présenter qch à qn;
    ∎ she set the steaming bowl before him elle plaça le bol fumant devant lui;
    ∎ to set a proposal before the board présenter un projet au conseil d'administration;
    ∎ to set sb on his/her feet again remettre qn sur pied;
    ∎ to set a match to sth mettre le feu à qch;
    ∎ to set sb ashore débarquer qn
    (b) (usu passive) (locate, situate → building, story) situer;
    ∎ the house is set in large grounds la maison est située dans un grand parc;
    ∎ his eyes are set too close together ses yeux sont trop rapprochés;
    ∎ the story is set in Tokyo l'histoire se passe ou se déroule à Tokyo;
    ∎ her novels are set in the 18th century ses romans se passent au XVIIIème siècle
    (c) (adjust → clock, mechanism) régler; (→ alarm) mettre; Computing (→ tabs, format) poser;
    ∎ I set my watch to New York time j'ai réglé ma montre à l'heure de New York;
    ∎ set your watches an hour ahead avancez vos montres d'une heure;
    ∎ he's so punctual you can set your watch by him! il est si ponctuel qu'on peut régler sa montre sur lui!;
    ∎ I've set the alarm for six j'ai mis le réveil à (sonner pour) six heures;
    ∎ how do I set the margins? comment est-ce que je fais pour placer les marges?;
    ∎ set the timer for one hour mettez le minuteur sur une heure;
    ∎ first set the control knob to the desired temperature mettez tout d'abord le bouton de réglage sur la température voulue;
    ∎ the lever was set in the off position le levier était sur "arrêt"
    (d) (fix into position) mettre, fixer; (jewel, diamond) sertir, monter;
    ∎ the handles are set into the drawers les poignées sont encastrées dans les tiroirs;
    ∎ there was a peephole set in the door il y avait un judas dans la porte;
    ∎ to set a stake in the ground enfoncer ou planter un pieu dans la terre;
    ∎ metal bars had been set in the concrete des barres en métal avaient été fixées dans le béton;
    ∎ the brooch was set with pearls la broche était sertie de perles;
    ∎ the ruby was set in a simple ring le rubis était monté sur un simple anneau;
    ∎ Medicine to set a bone réduire une fracture;
    ∎ figurative his face was set in a frown son visage était figé dans une grimace renfrognée;
    ∎ she set her jaw and refused to budge elle serra les dents et refusa de bouger;
    ∎ we had set ourselves to resist nous étions déterminés à résister
    (e) (lay, prepare in advance → trap) poser, tendre;
    ∎ to set the table mettre le couvert ou la table;
    ∎ to set the table for two mettre deux couverts;
    ∎ set an extra place at table rajoutez un couvert
    (f) (establish → date, price, schedule, terms) fixer, déterminer; (→ rule, guideline, objective, target) établir; (→ mood, precedent) créer;
    ∎ they still haven't set a date for the party ils n'ont toujours pas fixé de date pour la réception;
    ∎ you've set yourself a tough deadline or a tough deadline for yourself vous vous êtes fixé un délai très court;
    ∎ it's up to them to set their own production targets c'est à eux d'établir ou de fixer leurs propres objectifs de production;
    ∎ a deficit ceiling has been set un plafonnement du déficit a été imposé ou fixé ou décidé;
    ∎ to set a value on sth décider de la valeur de qch;
    ∎ figurative they set a high value on creativity ils accordent une grande valeur à la créativité;
    ∎ the price was set at £500 le prix a été fixé à 500 livres;
    ∎ the judge set bail at $1,000 le juge a fixé la caution à 1000 dollars;
    ∎ how are exchange rates set? comment les taux de change sont-ils déterminés?;
    ∎ to set an age limit at… fixer une limite d'âge à…;
    ∎ to set a new fashion or trend lancer une nouvelle mode;
    ∎ to set a new world record établir un nouveau record mondial;
    ∎ to set the tone for or of sth donner le ton de qch
    ∎ to set sth alight or on fire mettre le feu à qch;
    ∎ it sets my nerves on edge ça me crispe;
    ∎ also figurative she set me in the right direction elle m'a mis sur la bonne voie;
    ∎ to set sb against sb monter qn contre qn;
    ∎ he/the incident set the taxman on my trail il/l'incident a mis le fisc sur ma piste;
    ∎ to set the dogs on sb lâcher les chiens sur qn;
    ∎ the incident set the family against him l'incident a monté la famille contre lui;
    ∎ it will set the country on the road to economic recovery cela va mettre le pays sur la voie de la reprise économique;
    ∎ his failure set him thinking son échec lui a donné à réfléchir;
    ∎ the scandal will set the whole town talking le scandale va faire jaser toute la ville;
    ∎ to set the dog barking faire aboyer le chien;
    ∎ the wind set the leaves dancing le vent a fait frissonner les feuilles;
    ∎ to set a machine going mettre une machine en marche
    (h) (solidify → yoghurt, jelly, concrete) faire prendre;
    ∎ pectin will help to set the jam la pectine aidera à épaissir la confiture
    (i) (pose → problem) poser; (assign → task) fixer;
    ∎ the strikers' demands set the management a difficult problem les exigences des grévistes posent un problème difficile à la direction;
    ∎ I set them to work tidying the garden je les ai mis au désherbage du jardin;
    ∎ I've set myself the task of writing to them regularly je me suis fixé la tâche de leur écrire régulièrement
    (j) British School (exam) composer, choisir les questions de; (books, texts) mettre au programme;
    ∎ she set the class a maths exercise, she set a maths exercise for the class elle a donné un exercice de maths à la classe;
    ∎ who sets the test questions? qui choisit les questions de l'épreuve?
    ∎ to set sb's hair faire une mise en plis à qn;
    ∎ and I've just had my hair set! et je viens de me faire faire une mise en plis!;
    ∎ I set my own hair je me fais moi-même mes mises en plis
    (m) Typography (text, page) composer;
    ∎ to set type composer
    (n) Music (poem, words)
    ∎ to set sth to music mettre qch en musique
    (a) (sun, moon, stars) se coucher;
    ∎ we saw the sun setting nous avons vu le coucher du soleil
    (b) (become firm → glue, cement, plaster, jelly, yoghurt) prendre;
    ∎ her features had set in an expression of determination ses traits s'étaient durcis en une expression de très forte détermination
    (c) (bone) se ressouder
    (d) (start) se mettre;
    ∎ he set to work il s'est mis au travail
    (e) (plant, tree) prendre racine
    (f) (hen) couver
    (g) (wind, tide)
    ∎ the wind looks set fair to the east on dirait un vent d'ouest
    (h) Hunting (hound) tomber en arrêt
    ►► Theatre, Cinema & Television set designer décorateur(trice) m,f;
    Grammar set expression expression f figée;
    set figures (in skating) figures fpl imposées;
    Grammar set phrase expression f figée;
    (a) Art, Literature & Music morceau m de bravoure
    (b) (fireworks) pièce f (de feu) d'artifice
    (c) (of scenery) élément m de décor
    (d) Sport combinaison f préparée ou calculée;
    Sport set point (in tennis) balle f de set;
    Technology set screw vis f de réglage;
    Sport set scrum (in rugby) mêlée f fermée;
    set square équerre f (à dessiner);
    set task tâche f assignée;
    ∎ to give sb a set task to do assigner à qn une tâche bien précise;
    Mathematics set theory théorie f des ensembles
    (a) (start → task) se mettre à;
    ∎ she set about changing the tyre elle s'est mise à changer le pneu;
    ∎ I didn't know how to set about it je ne savais pas comment m'y prendre;
    ∎ how does one set about getting a visa? comment fait-on pour obtenir un visa?
    (b) (attack) attaquer, s'en prendre à;
    ∎ he set about the mugger with his umbrella il s'en est pris à son agresseur à coups de parapluie
    ∎ to set sth against sth comparer qch à qch;
    ∎ to set the benefits against the costs évaluer les bénéfices par rapport aux coûts;
    ∎ we must set the government's promises against its achievements nous devons examiner les promesses du gouvernement à la lumière de ses actions
    ∎ some of these expenses can be set against tax certaines de ces dépenses peuvent être déduites des impôts
    (c) (friends, family) monter contre;
    ∎ religious differences have set family against family les différences religieuses ont monté les familles les unes contre les autres;
    ∎ to set oneself or one's face against sth s'opposer résolument à qch
    ∎ to set the clock ahead avancer l'horloge;
    ∎ we're setting the clocks ahead tonight on change d'heure cette nuit
    (a) (place separately → object) mettre à part ou de côté;
    ∎ there was one deck chair set slightly apart from the others il y avait une chaise longue un peu à l'écart des autres;
    ∎ they set themselves apart ils faisaient bande à part
    (b) (distinguish) distinguer ( from de);
    ∎ her talent sets her apart from the other students son talent la distingue des autres étudiants
    (a) (put down → knitting, book) poser;
    ∎ could you set aside what you're working on for a while? pouvez-vous laisser ce que vous êtes en train de faire un moment?
    (b) (reserve, keep → time, place) réserver; (→ money) mettre de côté; (→ arable land) mettre en friche;
    ∎ I've set tomorrow aside for house hunting j'ai réservé la journée de demain pour chercher une maison;
    ∎ the room is set aside for meetings la pièce est réservée aux réunions;
    ∎ can you set the book aside for me? pourriez-vous me mettre ce livre de côté?;
    ∎ chop the onions and set them aside coupez les oignons et réservez-les
    (c) (overlook, disregard) mettre de côté, oublier, passer sur;
    ∎ they set their differences aside in order to work together ils ont mis de côté leurs différences pour travailler ensemble
    (d) (reject → dogma, proposal, offer) rejeter
    (e) Law (annul → contract, will) annuler; (→ verdict, judgment) casser
    ∎ the building is set back slightly from the road l'immeuble est un peu en retrait par rapport à la route
    (b) (delay → plans, progress) retarder;
    ∎ his illness set him back a month in his work sa maladie l'a retardé d'un mois dans son travail;
    ∎ the news may set him or his recovery back la nouvelle risque de retarder sa guérison;
    ∎ this decision will set the economy back ten years cette décision va faire revenir l'économie dix ans en arrière
    (c) familiar (cost) coûter à□ ;
    ∎ the trip will set her back a bit le voyage va lui coûter cher
    (a) (tray, bag etc) poser
    (b) British (passenger) déposer;
    ∎ the bus sets you down in front of the station le bus vous dépose devant la gare
    (c) (note, record) noter, inscrire;
    ∎ try and set your thoughts down on paper essayez de mettre vos pensées par écrit
    (d) (establish → rule, condition) établir, fixer;
    ∎ the government has set down a margin for pay increases le gouvernement a fixé une fourchette pour les augmentations de salaire;
    ∎ permissible levels of pollution are set down in the regulations les taux de pollution tolérés sont fixés dans les réglementations;
    ∎ to set sth down in writing coucher qch par écrit;
    ∎ it is clearly set down that drivers must be insured il est clairement signalé ou indiqué que tout conducteur doit être assuré
    formal (expound → plan, objections) exposer, présenter;
    ∎ the recommendations are set forth in the last chapter les recommandations sont détaillées ou énumérées dans le dernier chapitre
    literary partir, se mettre en route
    ➲ set in
    (problems) survenir, surgir; (disease) se déclarer; (winter) commencer; (night) tomber;
    ∎ if infection sets in si la plaie s'infecte;
    ∎ the bad weather has set in for the winter le mauvais temps s'est installé pour tout l'hiver;
    ∎ panic set in (began) la panique éclata; (lasted) la panique s'installa
    Sewing (sleeve) monter
    ➲ set off
    (a) (alarm) déclencher; (bomb) faire exploser; (fireworks) faire partir
    (b) (reaction, process, war) déclencher, provoquer;
    ∎ their offer set off another round of talks leur proposition a déclenché une autre série de négociations;
    ∎ it set her off on a long tirade against bureaucracy cela eut pour effet de la lancer dans une longue tirade contre la bureaucratie;
    ∎ to set sb off laughing faire rire qn;
    ∎ this answer set them off (laughing) cette réponse a déclenché les rires;
    ∎ one look at his face set me off again en le voyant, mon fou rire a repris de plus belle;
    ∎ if you say anything it'll only set him off (crying) again si tu dis quoi que ce soit, il va se remettre à pleurer;
    ∎ the smallest amount of pollen will set her off la moindre dose de pollen lui déclenche une réaction allergique;
    ∎ don't mention Maradona or you'll set him off again surtout ne prononce pas le nom de Maradona sinon il va recommencer;
    ∎ someone mentioned the war and of course that set Uncle Arthur off quelqu'un prononça le mot guerre, et évidemment, oncle Arthur embraya aussitôt sur le sujet;
    ∎ figurative to set sb off on the wrong track mettre qn sur une fausse piste
    (c) (enhance) mettre en valeur;
    ∎ the vase sets off the flowers beautifully le vase met vraiment les fleurs en valeur
    ∎ some of these expenses can be set off against tax certaines de ces dépenses peuvent être déduites des impôts
    partir, se mettre en route;
    ∎ he set off at a run il est parti en courant;
    ∎ I set off to explore the town je suis parti explorer la ville;
    ∎ after lunch, we set off again après le déjeuner, nous avons repris la route
    ➲ set on
    (attack) attaquer, s'en prendre à
    ∎ to set the police on the tracks of a thief mettre la police aux trousses d'un voleur;
    ∎ to set sb on his/her way mettre qn sur les rails
    ∎ to set a dog on sb lâcher un chien sur qn
    ➲ set out
    (a) (arrange → chairs, game pieces) disposer; (→ merchandise) étaler;
    ∎ the shopping centre is very well set out le centre commercial est très bien conçu
    (b) (present → ideas) exposer, présenter;
    ∎ the information is set out in the table below ces données sont présentées dans le tableau ci-dessous
    (a) (leave) se mettre en route, partir;
    ∎ just as he was setting out au moment de son départ;
    ∎ to set out for school partir pour l'école;
    ∎ to set out again repartir;
    ∎ to set out in pursuit/in search of sb se mettre à la poursuite/à la recherche de qn
    ∎ he has trouble finishing what he sets out to do il a du mal à terminer ce qu'il entreprend;
    ∎ I can't remember now what I set out to do je ne me souviens plus de ce que je voulais faire à l'origine;
    ∎ they all set out with the intention of changing the world au début, ils veulent tous changer le monde;
    ∎ she didn't deliberately set out to annoy you il n'était pas dans ses intentions de vous froisser;
    ∎ his theory sets out to prove that… sa théorie a pour objet de prouver que…
    (a) (begin work) commencer, s'y mettre;
    ∎ we set to with a will nous nous y sommes mis avec ardeur
    (b) familiar (two people → start arguing) avoir une prise de bec; (→ start fighting) en venir aux mains
    ➲ set up
    (a) (install → equipment, computer) installer; (→ roadblock) installer, disposer; (→ experiment) préparer;
    ∎ everything's set up for the show tout est préparé ou prêt pour le spectacle;
    ∎ set the chairs up in a circle mettez ou disposez les chaises en cercle;
    ∎ he set the chessboard up il a disposé les pièces sur l'échiquier;
    ∎ the equation sets up a relation between the two variables l'équation établit un rapport entre les deux variables;
    ∎ the system wasn't set up to handle so many users le système n'était pas conçu pour gérer autant d'usagers;
    ∎ he set the situation up so she couldn't refuse il a arrangé la situation de telle manière qu'elle ne pouvait pas refuser
    (b) (erect, build → tent, furniture kit, crane, flagpole) monter; (→ shed, shelter) construire; (→ monument, statue) ériger;
    ∎ to set up camp installer ou dresser le camp
    (c) (start up, institute → business, scholarship) créer; (→ hospital, school) fonder; (→ committee, task force) constituer; (→ system of government, republic) instaurer; (→ programme, review process, system) mettre en place; (→ inquiry) ouvrir; (→ dinner, meeting, appointment) organiser;
    ∎ to set up house or home s'installer;
    ∎ they set up house together ils se sont mis en ménage;
    ∎ to set up a dialogue entamer le dialogue;
    ∎ you'll be in charge of setting up training programmes vous serez responsable de la mise en place des programmes de formation;
    ∎ the medical system set up after the war le système médical mis en place après la guerre
    (d) (financially, in business → person) installer, établir;
    ∎ he set his son up in a dry-cleaning business il a acheté à son fils une entreprise de nettoyage à sec;
    ∎ she could finally set herself up as an accountant elle pourrait enfin s'installer comme comptable;
    ∎ the money would set him up for life l'argent le mettrait à l'abri du besoin pour le restant de ses jours;
    ∎ the army set him up as a dictator l'armée l'installa comme dictateur
    ∎ we're well set up with supplies nous sommes bien approvisionnés;
    ∎ she can set you up with a guide/the necessary papers elle peut vous procurer un guide/les papiers qu'il vous faut;
    ∎ I can set you up with a girlfriend of mine je peux te présenter à ou te faire rencontrer une de mes copines
    (f) (restore energy to) remonter, remettre sur pied;
    ∎ have a brandy, that'll set you up prends un cognac, ça va te remonter
    (g) familiar (frame) monter un coup contre;
    ∎ she claims she was set up elle prétend qu'elle est victime d'un coup monté;
    ∎ he was set up as the fall guy on a fait de lui le bouc émissaire□, il a joué le rôle de bouc émissaire□
    (h) Typography (text) composer
    s'installer, s'établir;
    ∎ he's setting up in the fast-food business il se lance dans la restauration rapide;
    ∎ to set up on one's own (business) s'installer à son compte; (home) prendre son propre appartement
    (physically or verbally) attaquer, s'en prendre à

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  • 4 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.

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  • 5 С-391

    ДО СМЕРТИ PrepP Invar
    1. убить кого, убиться \С-391 ( adv (intensif)) used to emphasize the finality and fatal result of the action
    kill s.o. ( o.s.) dead.
    2. ( adv (intensif) or modif) to an extreme degree: напугать (испугать, перепугать) кого - = scare (frighten) s.o. to death
    scare (frighten) s.o. out of his wits scare the (living) daylights out of s.o. give s.o. the fright of his life scare the pants off s.o.
    напугаться (испугаться, перепугаться) \С-391 - be scared (frightened) to death
    be scared (frightened) out of one's wits be scared stiff (silly)
    \С-391 надоел (наскучил) кому - s.o. is sick to death of him (it etc)
    s.o. is sick and tired of him (it etc) s.o. is fed up to here (with him (it etc))
    скучно кому \С-391 = s.o. is bored to death (to tears, out of his mind, stiff)
    s.o. is dying of boredom
    - хотеть ( \С-391 хочется кому) - one ( s.o.) is (just) dying (to get (do) sth.)
    \С-391 не хотеть ( — не хочется кому) — one ( s.o.) would (almost) rather die (than do sth.)
    - любить кого -love s.o. to death (to distraction)
    be crazy about s.o.
    - не любить что (что делать) - loathe (doing) sth.
    not be able to stand (doing) sth. have a mortal aversion to (doing) sth.
    \С-391 устать (измучиться) - be dead (deathly) tired
    be dead beat
    заговорить кого \С-391 - talk s.o. to death
    talk s.o. 's ear off.
    «Нянечка до смерти напугана случившимся» (Черненок 2). The nurse's aide is frightened out of her wits by what happened" (2a).
    Правда, и Зина, когда уже кончилось, болтала, что в кабинете, у камина, после того как Борменталь и профессор вышли из смотровой, её до смерти напугал Иван Арнольдович (Булгаков 11). It's true, also, that when everything was over, Zina babbled that Ivan Arnoldovich (Bormenthal) had given her the fright of her life in the office after he and the professor had left the examination room (1 la).
    Борисов хлопнул (гипсовый бюст) Сталина по голове и затряс рукой от боли, но тут же выражение боли на его лице сменилось выражением смертельного страха... Он раскрыл рот и смотрел на Голубева не отрываясь, словно загипнотизированный. А тот и сам до смерти перепугался. (Войнович 2)....Borisov whacked (the plaster bust of) Stalin on the head, then shook his hand in pain. Instantly, the expression of pain on his face changed into one of mortal fear....He opened his mouth and stared at Golubev as if hypnotized. Golubev, meanwhile, was scared to death himself (2a).
    К числу мелких литературных штампов Бунин... относил, например, привычку ремесленников-беллетристов того времени своего молодого героя непременно называть «студент первого курса»... «До смерти надоели все эти литературные студенты первого курса», - говорил Бунин (Катаев 3). Among the minor literary cliches Bunin..included, for example, the hack-writer's habit in those days of describing his hero as a "first-year student."..."I am sick to death of all these literary first-year students," Bunin would say (3a).
    Серафима:) Турку до смерти русского студня хочется, а не может на русском говорить (Эрдман 1). IS.:) The Turk was just dying to get some of the Russian meat-jelly but couldn't speak any Russian (1a).
    Даже по ушам его шапки было видно, что он до смерти не хочет ехать (Булгаков 6). The very ear flaps of his hat told me that he would almost rather die than go (6a).
    С тех пор как его любимая лошадь Кукла, во время войны мобилизованная для доставки боеприпасов на перевал, вдруг сама вернулась домой, до смерти замученная... он дал себе слово никогда не заводить лошадей (Искандер 5). Ever since his beloved horse Dolly had been mobilized during the war to deliver military supplies to the pass, and had suddenly come home by herself, deathly tired...he had made himself a vow never to raise horses (5a).
    «Дядя Сандро, может, и смог бы ее перепить, да ведь она его сначала заговорит до смерти, а там уж и перепьет!» (Искандер 5). "Maybe Uncle Sandro could outdrink her, but she'll talk him to death first and then she'll outdrink him!" (5a).

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  • 6 до смерти

    [PrepP; Invar]
    =====
    1. убить кого, убиться - [adv (intensif)]
    ⇒ used to emphasize the finality and fatal result of the action:
    - kill s.o. < o.s.> dead.
    2. [adv (intensif) or modif]
    ⇒ to an extreme degree:
    - напугать (испугать, перепугать) кого до смерти ≈ scare (frighten) s.o. to death;
    - scare (frighten) s.o. out of his wits;
    - scare the (living) daylights out of s.o.;
    - give s.o. the fright of his life;
    - scare the pants off s.o.;
    || напугаться (испугаться, перепугаться) до смерти ≈ be scared (frightened) to death;
    || до смерти надоел (наскучил) кому≈ s.o. is sick to death of him (it etc;
    - s.o. is sick and tired of him (it etc;
    - s.o. is fed up to here (with him <it etc>);
    || скучно кому до смерти ≈ s.o. is bored to death (to tears, out of his mind, stiff);
    - s.o. is dying of boredom;
    || до смерти хотеть < до смерти хочется кому> ≈ one (s.o.) is (just) dying (to get (do) sth.);
    || до смерти не хотеть < до смерти не хочется кому> - one (s.o.) would (almost) rather die (than do sth.);
    || до смерти любить кого≈ love s.o. to death (to distraction);
    - be crazy about s.o.;
    - not be able to stand (doing) sth.;
    - have a mortal aversion to (doing) sth.;
    - talk s.o.'s ear off.
         ♦ "Нянечка до смерти напугана случившимся" (Чернёнок 2). "The nurse's aide is frightened out of her wits by what happened" (2a).
         ♦ Правда, и Зина, когда уже кончилось, болтала, что в кабинете, у камина, после того как Борменталь и профессор вышли из смотровой, её до смерти напугал Иван Арнольдович (Булгаков И). It's true, also, that when everything was over, Zina babbled that Ivan Arnoldovich [Bormenthal] had given her the fright of her life in the office after he and the professor had left the examination room (11a).
         ♦...Борисов хлопнул [гипсовый бюст] Сталина по голове и затряс рукой от боли, но тут же выражение боли на его лице сменилось выражением смертельного страха... Он раскрыл рот и смотрел на Голубева не отрываясь, словно загипнотизированный. А тот и сам до смерти перепугался. (Войнович 2)....Borisov whacked [the plaster bust of] Stalin on the head, then shook his hand in pain. Instantly, the expression of pain on his face changed into one of mortal fear....He opened his mouth and stared at Golubev as if hypnotized. Golubev, meanwhile, was scared to death himself (2a).
         ♦ К числу мелких литературных штампов Бунин... относил, например, привычку ремесленников-беллетристов того времени своего молодого героя непременно называть "студент первого курса"... "До смерти надоели все эти литературные студенты первого курса", - говорил Бунин (Катаев 3). Among the minor literary cliches Bunin...included, for example, the hack-writer's habit in those days of describing his hero as a "first-year student."..."I am sick to death of all these literary first-year students," Bunin would say (3a).
         ♦ [Серафима:] Турку до смерти русского студня хочется, а не может на русском говорить (Эрдман 1). [S.:] The Turk was just dying to get some of the Russian meat-jelly but couldn't speak any Russian (1a).
         ♦ Даже по ушам его шапки было видно, что он до смерти не хочет ехать (Булгаков 6). The very earflaps of his hat told me that he would almost rather die than go (6a).
         ♦ С тех пор как его любимая лошадь Кукла, во время войны мобилизованная для доставки боеприпасов на перевал, вдруг сама вернулась домой, до смерти замученная... он дал себе слово никогда не заводить лошадей (Искандер 5). Ever since his beloved horse Dolly had been mobilized during the war to deliver military supplies to the pass, and had suddenly come home by herself, deathly tired...he had made himself a vow never to raise horses (5a).
         ♦ "Дядя Сандро, может, и смог бы ее перепить, да ведь она его сначала заговорит до смерти, а там уж и перепьет!" (Искандер 5). "Maybe Uncle Sandro could outdrink her, but she'll talk him to death first and then she'll outdrink him!" (5a).

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  • 7 face

    feɪs
    1. сущ.
    1) а) лицо;
    физиономия;
    лик to look smb. in the face ≈ смотреть кому-л. в глаза to powder one's face ≈ пудрить лицо to press one's face (against a window) ≈ прижиматься лицом( к окну) beautiful, handsome, pretty face ≈ хорошенькое, красивое лицо familiar face ≈ знакомое лицо oval face ≈ овальное лицо round face ≈ круглое лицо ruddy face ≈ румяное лицо ugly face ≈ некрасивое лицо face down ≈ лицом вниз I would never say that to her face. ≈ Я бы никогда не сказал ей это в глаза. to bring face to face ≈ сводить лицом к лицу to come face to face, meet face to face ≈ встречаться лицом к лицу to keep a straight face ≈ сохранять невозмутимый вид to laugh in smb.'s face ≈ смеяться кому-л. в лицо black in the face ≈ багровый( от гнева, усилий и т. п.) full face ≈ анфас half face ≈ в профиль straight face ≈ бесстрастное, ничего не выражающее лицо in the face of б) морда животного ∙ Syn: visage, countenance, features, facial features, physiognomy;
    mug, pan
    2) а) выражение лица angry face ≈ злой вид funny face ≈ забавный вид happy face ≈ счастливое лицо (лицо счастливого человека) sad, long face ≈ печальный, мрачный вид to keep a serious face ≈ сохранять серьезное выражение лица, сохранять внешнюю серьезность б) гримаса Don't make a face at me. ≈ Не строй мне рожи. to draw faces, make faces, pull a face, pull faces ≈ корчить рожи Syn: expression, aspect, look, countenance, air;
    grimace, pout
    3) внешний вид Pioneers cleared the forest and changed the face of the countryside. ≈ Пионеры очистили лес и изменили внешний вид местности. on the face of it ≈ судя по внешнему виду;
    на первый взгляд Syn: appearance, look, semblance, external aspect
    4) репутация, лицо, престиж, достоинство The scandal was hushed up in an effort to save face. ≈ Скандал замяли, чтобы спасти репутацию. to lose face ≈ ударить лицом в грязь, быть униженным, потерять престиж to save face ≈ не ударить лицом в грязь, спасти репутацию/престиж, не уронить достоинства Syn: reputation, good name, dignity, repute, image, prestige, self-respect
    5) передняя, лицевая сторона, лицо ( медали, ткани и т. п.) I scratched the face of my belt buckle. ≈ Я поцарапал пряжку пояса. Syn: front surface, obverse side, principal side, finished side, facade, frontage, forepart
    6) циферблат
    7) спорт струнная поверхность( теннисной ракетки)
    8) разг. нахальство, наглость, дерзость;
    самоуверенность After forgetting my lines, I didn't have the face to go back on stage. ≈ После того, как я забыл слова роли, у меня не хватило наглости снова выйти на сцену. to show a face ≈ держаться вызывающе, нагло Syn: nerve, boldness, daring, pluck, self-assurance, mettle, spunk, confidence, bravado, grit;
    cheek, front, sand, brass, gall, effrontery, impudence
    9) воен. фас
    10) а) облицовка б) макияж put one's face on Syn: make-up
    11) геом. грань
    12) тех.( лобовая) поверхность;
    торец;
    срез, фаска
    13) горн. забой;
    плоскость забоя
    14) полигр. очко (литеры)
    15) строит. ширина (доски) ∙ it's written all over his face ≈ это у него на лбу написано in the face of serious difficulties ≈ перед лицом серьезных трудностей to disappear from the face of the earth ≈ исчезать с лица земли to fly in the face of smth ≈ кинуться на что-л. to set one's face against ≈ (решительно) противиться чему-л. to open one's face ≈ заговорить, перестать отмалчиваться to travel on one's face, to run one's face ≈ использовать привлекательную внешность для достижения цели before smb.'s face ≈ перед (самым) носом у кого-л.
    2. гл.
    1) а) стоять лицом к( чему-л.) ;
    смотреть в лицо, в глаза The opponents faced each other across the chessboard. ≈ Оппоненты сояли лицом друг к другу у классной доски. Syn: encounter, confront, meet face to face, turn toward, look toward б) выходить, быть обращенным ( в определенную сторону) to face east ≈ быть обращенным на восток;
    "выходить" на восточную сторону to face page 20 ≈ к странице 20 (о рисунке) Syn: front on, give toward, overlook
    2) смело смотреть в лицо, смело встречать to face the facts ≈ прямо смотреть в лицо фактам I could not face going there alone. ≈ Я не мог поехать туда один.
    3) а) бросать в лицо (кому-л.) to face smb. with irrefutable evidence ≈ бросать кому-л. в лицо неопровержимые улики б) сталкиваться лицом к лицу (с чем-л.) to be faced with the necessity ≈ столкнуться с необходимостью
    4) а) покрывать, отделывать The cabinet is faced with a walnut veneer. ≈ Шкаф отделан ореховым шпоном. б) обкладывать, облицовывать( камнем) ∙ Syn: surface, cover, coat, overlay
    5) подкрашивать (чай) ∙ face about face down face off face out face up face the music face the knocker лицо, физиономия - * massage массаж лица - * angle( антропологоия) лицевой угол - black /blue,red/ in the * багровый (от гнева, напряжения и т. п.) морда (животного) выражение лица - * of a dying calf глуповато-меланхолическое выражение лица - his * fell у него вытянулась физиономия - straight * бесстрастное /ничего не выражающее/ лицо, "маска" - to straighten one's * пытаться принять невозмутимый вид, успокоиться, перестать смеяться - to keep a straigt *, to keep one's * straight сохранять невозмутимое /бесстрастное/ выражение;
    удерживаться от смеха - to make /to pull, to weer/ a long * иметь огорченный /печальный, кислый, мрачный, разочарованный/ вид - to read people's *s быть хорошим физиономистом (разговорное) гримаса - to make /to pull/ a * сделать гримасу, гримасничать - to make *s корчить /строить/ рожи - to make /to pull/ a pitiful * скорчить постную физиономию - to make a wry * скорчить рожу внешний вид - on /upon/ the * of (it) судя по внешнему виду;
    на первый взгляд - upon the * of the document если исходить из буквального смысла документа - on the * of it you are guilty похоже на то, что вы виновны - the idea is absurd on the * of it на первый взгляд эта мысль кажется абсурдной - to carry a /the/ * (of) казаться( кем-л., чем-л.) - this version carries no * of probability эта версия лишена правдоподобия /маловероятна/ - to carry on its * быть совершенно очевидным /ясным/ аспект, сторона (вопроса) (разговорное) наглость, нахальство - to have the * (to say smth.) иметь наглость (сказать что-л.) - to show a * нахально /нагло, вызывающе/ держаться поверхность, внешняя сторона - * of a door сторона двери (внешняя или внутренняя) - * of a racket( спортивное) струнная поверхность /ударная часть/ ракетки поверхность (земли, воды) - on the * of the earth на земле, на свете, в целом мире - from /off/ the * of the earth с лица земли - the north * of the mountain северный склон горы лицевая сторона, лицо (ткани, игральных карт, медали и т. п.) ;
    правая сторона - to lie on its * лежать обратной стороной кверху - put your cards on the table * down положите ваши карты рубашкой вверх циферблат фасад - the * of the building is covered with ivy фасад дома зарос плющом престиж;
    репутация;
    достоинство - (the) loss of * унижение;
    потеря престижа /доброго имени/ - to lose * быть униженным;
    потерять престиж - to save (one's) * избежать позора, спасти свою репутацию /свой престиж/, не уронить своего достоинства (разговорное) личность, человек с именем, знаменитость (сленг) детина, "лоб" (математика) грань (в геометрии) фас, грань (кристалла) (техническое) (лобовая) поверхность, торец;
    срез;
    фаска (военное) фас (горное) забой, плоскость забоя;
    лава - * cut забойка, вруб (полиграфия) очко (литеры) ;
    шрифт, рисунок шрифта;
    гарнитура шрифта, шрифт ширина ( доски) (телевидение) экран( трубки) (техническое) уровень (жидкости) (техническое) (плоский) боек( молота) (техническое) облицовка - * brick облицовочный кирпич > in /to/ smb.'s * в лицо, в глаза, открыто;
    в присутствии кого-л. > it's written all over his * это у него на лбу написано > to laugh in smb.'s * смеяться в лицо кому-л.;
    открыто смеяться над кем-л. > to look full in /into/ the * of smb. смотреть прямо в лицо /в глаза/ кому-л. > to be unable to look smb. in the * стыдиться взглянуть в лицо кому-л. > to cast /to fling, to throw/ smth. in smb.'s * бросать что-л. в лицо кому-л. > at /in, on/ the first * с первого взгляда;
    на первый взгляд > to bear /to carry, to have/ two *s under one hood, to have two *s быть двуличным, лицемерным;
    быть двусмысленным > to show a false * притворяться, лицемерить > before smb.'s * перед носом у кого-л. > in the * of перед лицом;
    открыто, на глазах;
    вопреки, наперекор;
    под угрозой > to act in the * of direct orders действовать вопреки прямому приказу > to succeed in the * of many difficulties добиться успеха несмотря на все трудности > in the * of day /of the sun/ не скрываясь, открыто;
    среди бела дня > * to * лицом к лицу;
    лично, наедине > let's get together and talk the whole thing over * to * давайте встретимся и потолкуем обо всем лично > to open one's * (американизм) открыть рот, заговорить > to fly in the * (of) держаться вызывающе, бравировать, бросать вызов( кому-л.) > to fly in the * of facts игнорировать факты, пренебрегать фактами > to fly in the * of nature действовать вопреки законам природы > to set one's * against smb., smth. решительно воспротивиться кому-л., чему-л.;
    бороться с кем-л., чем-л.;
    относиться враждебно к кому-л., чему-л. > to put a bold * on smth. казаться уверенным в чем-л., не растеряться > to put a good * on smth. делать довольное лицо по поводу чего-л. малоприятного;
    изображать что-л. в наилучшем виде, истолковывать что-л. в благоприятном свете > to put a new * on smth. представить что-л. в новом /другом/ свете > to run one's *, to travel on one's * (американизм) использовать приятную внешность, чтобы добиться продвижения, кредита и т. п.;
    выезжать на хорошеньком личике > to stare smb. in the * бросаться в глаза, быть очевидным /явным/;
    быть неминуемым /неотвратимым/ > death stared him in the * он был на пороге /на волосок от/ смерти > to fall on one's * провалиться( с треском) ;
    оскандалиться;
    потерпеть фиаско > a * as long as a fiddle унылое /мрачное/ лицо > the * is the index of the mind лицо - зеркало души > a fair * may hide a foul heart за приятной внешностью может скрываться низкая душонка > a good * is a letter of recommendation хорошее /приятное/ лицо - лучшая рекомендация находиться лицом к - they sat so as to * each other они сидели друг против друга /лицом друг к другу/ - the man now facing me человек, который сейчас находится передо мной - stand facing the light станьте лицом к свету быть обращенным к - the house *d eastwards дом выходил фасадом на восток - my window *s the street мое окно выходит на улицу - the picture *s page 7 рисунок к странице 7 смотреть в лицо - I can't * him now я не могу показаться ему на глаза - to * away отвернуться встречать (что-л.) смело;
    смотреть в лицо (чему-л.) без страха - to * the ordeal стойко выдержать испытание - to * the facts смотреть в лицо фактам - to * danger мужественно встретить опасность - I can't * the disgrace of a failure я не смогу перенести позор провала - you'll have to * it yourself вам самому придется с этим справиться сталкиваться лицом к лицу (с чем-л.) - to be *d with a difficulty встретиться /столкнуться/ с трудностью - to be *d with bankruptcy оказаться перед угрозой банкротства - he was suddenly *d with the necessity of... он внезапно очутился перед необходимостью... - the problem now facing us проблема, стоящая сейчас перед нами отделывать (платье) - to * a coat with gold braid отделать мундир золотым галуном облицовывать - to * a building with marble облицевать здание мрамором - to * a table with rose-wood veneering фанеровать стол розовым деревом полировать;
    обтачивать - this stone has not been properly *d этот камень плохо отполирован повертывать лицом вверх (игральную карту) (военное) скомандовать поворот - the captain *d his company left капитан скомандовал роте "налево" - right *! направо! подкрашивать (чай) > to * the knocker просить милостыню у дверей > to * the music храбро встречать трудности /неприятности/;
    держать ответ, расплачиваться за свои действия ~ value номинальная стоимость( монеты, марки и т. п.) ;
    to accept( или to take) (smth.) at its face value принимать( что-л.) за чистую монету back ~ вчт. невидимая поверхность before (smb.'s) ~ перед (самым) носом (у кого-л.) bold ~ выделительный шрифт bold ~ полигр. жирный шрифт ~ гримаса;
    to draw (или to make) faces корчить рожи elite ~ вчт. элитная печать face: to set one's face (against smth.) (решительно) противиться (чему-л.) ~ уст. вид спереди;
    фасад ~ внешний вид;
    on the face of it судя по внешнему виду;
    на первый взгляд;
    to put a new face on представить все в новом свете;
    придать другой вид;
    to put a bold face on не растеряться ~ встречать смело;
    смотреть в лицо без страха;
    to face the facts смотреть в лицо фактам;
    учитывать реальные обстоятельства ~ выражение лица;
    a sad (или long) face печальный, мрачный вид ~ геом. грань ~ гримаса;
    to draw (или to make) faces корчить рожи ~ горн. забой;
    плоскость забоя ~ лицо;
    лик;
    физиономия ~ наглость;
    to have the face (to say) иметь наглость (сказать что-л.) ;
    to show a face вызывающе держаться ~ обкладывать, облицовывать (камнем) ~ облицовка ~ отделывать (платье) ~ полигр. очко (литеры) ~ передняя, лицевая сторона, лицо (медали и т. п.) ;
    правая сторона (ткани;
    тж. face of cloth) ~ тех. (лобовая) поверхность;
    торец;
    срез, фаска ~ подкрашивать (чай) ;
    face about воен. поворачиваться кругом;
    face down осадить;
    запугать ~ полировать;
    обтачивать ~ сталкиваться (с необходимостью) ;
    наталкиваться( на трудности и т. п.) ;
    to face a task стоять перед необходимостью решать задачу;
    выполнить требование ~ стоять лицом (к чему-л.) ;
    смотреть в лицо;
    быть обращенным в определенную сторону;
    to face page 20 к странице 20 (о рисунке) ~ спорт. струнная поверхность (теннисной ракетки) ;
    to fling (или to cast, to throw) (smth.) in (smb.'s) face бросать в лицо ~ воен. фас;
    right about face! направо кругом! ~ циферблат ~ стр. ширина (доски) ~ сталкиваться (с необходимостью) ;
    наталкиваться (на трудности и т. п.) ;
    to face a task стоять перед необходимостью решать задачу;
    выполнить требование ~ card фигура( в картах) to ~ reality считаться( с реальной) действительностью;
    to face danger подвергаться опасности ~ out выполнить (что-л.) ~ out не испугаться, выдержать смело ~ стоять лицом (к чему-л.) ;
    смотреть в лицо;
    быть обращенным в определенную сторону;
    to face page 20 к странице 20 (о рисунке) to ~ reality считаться (с реальной) действительностью;
    to face danger подвергаться опасности ~ встречать смело;
    смотреть в лицо без страха;
    to face the facts смотреть в лицо фактам;
    учитывать реальные обстоятельства to ~ the music держать ответ, расплачиваться;
    to face the knocker просить милостыню у дверей to ~ the music встречать, не дрогнув, критику или трудности to ~ the music держать ответ, расплачиваться;
    to face the knocker просить милостыню у дверей ~ to ~ лицом к лицу ~ to ~ наедине, без посторонних to: ~ prep указывает на близость, соприкосновение( с чем-л.), соседство к, в;
    shoulder to shoulder плечо к плечу;
    face to face лицом к лицу ~ up быть готовым встретить (to) ~ up примириться( с чем-л.) неприятным (to) ~ value номинальная стоимость( монеты, марки и т. п.) ;
    to accept (или to take) (smth.) at its face value принимать (что-л.) за чистую монету value: face ~ видимая, кажущаяся ценность face ~ нарицательная цена face ~ номинал face ~ номинальная, нарицательная стоимость face ~ номинальная стоимость ~ спорт. струнная поверхность (теннисной ракетки) ;
    to fling (или to cast, to throw) (smth.) in (smb.'s) face бросать в лицо black( или blue, red) in the ~ обагровый (от гнева, усилий и т. п.) ;
    full face анфас;
    half face в профиль black (или blue, red) in the ~ обагровый (от гнева, усилий и т. п.) ;
    full face анфас;
    half face в профиль ~ наглость;
    to have the face (to say) иметь наглость (сказать что-л.) ;
    to show a face вызывающе держаться in the ~ of вопреки;
    in (или to) (smb.'s) face открыто, в лицо, в глаза;
    to laugh in (smb.'s) face открыто смеяться (над кем-л.) in the ~ of вопреки;
    in (или to) (smb.'s) face открыто, в лицо, в глаза;
    to laugh in (smb.'s) face открыто смеяться (над кем-л.) in the ~ of перед лицом to open one's ~ амер. заговорить, перестать отмалчиваться;
    it's written all over his face = это у него на лбу написано straight ~ бесстрастное, ничего не выражающее лицо;
    to keep a straight face сохранять невозмутимый вид in the ~ of вопреки;
    in (или to) (smb.'s) face открыто, в лицо, в глаза;
    to laugh in (smb.'s) face открыто смеяться (над кем-л.) to save one's ~ спасти репутацию, престиж;
    избежать позора;
    to lose face потерять престиж the man now facing me человек, который находится передо мной;
    my windows face the sea мои окна выходят на море the man now facing me человек, который находится передо мной;
    my windows face the sea мои окна выходят на море ~ внешний вид;
    on the face of it судя по внешнему виду;
    на первый взгляд;
    to put a new face on представить все в новом свете;
    придать другой вид;
    to put a bold face on не растеряться to open one's ~ амер. заговорить, перестать отмалчиваться;
    it's written all over his face = это у него на лбу написано pica ~ вчт. печать с плотностью 10 символов на дюйм poker ~ разг. бесстрастное, ничего не выражающее лицо ~ внешний вид;
    on the face of it судя по внешнему виду;
    на первый взгляд;
    to put a new face on представить все в новом свете;
    придать другой вид;
    to put a bold face on не растеряться ~ внешний вид;
    on the face of it судя по внешнему виду;
    на первый взгляд;
    to put a new face on представить все в новом свете;
    придать другой вид;
    to put a bold face on не растеряться ~ воен. фас;
    right about face! направо кругом! ~ выражение лица;
    a sad (или long) face печальный, мрачный вид to save one's ~ спасти репутацию, престиж;
    избежать позора;
    to lose face потерять престиж face: to set one's face (against smth.) (решительно) противиться (чему-л.) ~ наглость;
    to have the face (to say) иметь наглость (сказать что-л.) ;
    to show a face вызывающе держаться straight ~ бесстрастное, ничего не выражающее лицо;
    to keep a straight face сохранять невозмутимый вид to travel on (или to run) one's ~ амер. использовать располагающую внешность для достижения цели;
    выезжать на смазливой мордочке type ~ вчт. начертание шрифта

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > face

  • 8 idea

    1) (opinion; belief: I have an idea that it won't work.) creencia, impresión
    2) (a plan: I've an idea for solving this problem.) idea
    3) (mental picture: This will give you an idea of what I mean.) idea
    idea n idea

    Del verbo idear: ( conjugate idear) \ \
    idea es: \ \
    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo
    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo
    Multiple Entries: idea     idear
    idea sustantivo femenino idea;
    ◊ la idea de libertad the idea o concept of freedom;
    es de ideas fijas he has very set ideas about things; no tiene idea de cómo funciona he has no idea how it works; no tengo idea I don't have a clue; hacerse una idea de la situación to get an idea of the situation; se me ocurre una idea I've got an idea; cambió de idea she changed her mind; hacerse (a) la idea de algo to get used to the idea of sth
    idea sustantivo femenino
    1 idea
    idea fija, fixed idea
    2 (representación, concepto) idea: la simple idea de volver a verle me pone nervioso, the very thought of seeing him again makes me all jittery (noción) idea: para que te hagas una idea..., so that you can get an idea...
    tiene muy poca idea de lo que cuesta, she has very little idea of what it costs
    3 (opinión, juicio) idea, opinion: te lo advierto, ésta no es la idea que yo tengo de la diversión, mind you, that's not my idea of fun
    tiene ideas peligrosas sobre el poder, he has dangerous ideas about power
    cambiar de idea, to change one's mind
    4 (intención) intention
    a mala idea, on purpose
    5 (proyecto, plan, ocurrencia) idea: teme que le roben la idea, she's afraid someone might steal her idea
    vino con la idea de ir a la playa, she came with the idea of going to the beach exclamación ¡vaya una idea!, the very idea! Locuciones: hacerse a la idea de, to get used to the idea of familiar no tener ni idea, to have no idea o not to have a clue: no tenía ni idea de que hubieras regresado, I had no idea that you were back (ser ignorante) no tengo ni (la más remota/puñetera) idea de fútbol, I haven't got a clue about football
    ideas de bombero, absurd ideas
    idear verbo transitivo
    1 (un invento, diseño) to devise, invent
    2 (una teoría, un plan) to think up, conceive ' idea' also found in these entries: Spanish: abandono - acariciar - acierto - acoger - acogida - advertir - aferrarse - añadidura - anticipo - borrosa - borroso - bosquejar - bosquejo - buena - bueno - cabeza - cambiar - chifladura - concepto - confusa - confuso - convencer - cosa - decir - definida - definido - desechar - desterrar - dónde - exclusión - flor - formarse - fríamente - gestarse - gustar - hacerse - hoy - impracticable - inicialmente - intención - irse - leve - luminosa - luminoso - madurar - menor - mentalizarse - neta - neto - noción English: abandon - adjust - advance - afterthought - amusement - appealing - assumption - barmy - better - brainstorm - brainwave - brilliant - bring forward - bristle - catch - catch on - change - cling - clue - come up with - conception - confused - convey - crazy - daft - daring - dated - defunct - dismiss - distinct - downside - drift - embody - embrace - face - faint - fall in with - fanciful - fasten on to - flirt - fluid - foggy - fundamental - get across - get through - hit on - hit upon - idea - idiotic - illusion
    tr[aɪ'dɪə]
    1 (gen) idea; (opinion) idea, opinión nombre femenino
    ■ that's a good idea! ¡es una buena idea!
    ■ I've got an idea! ¡tengo una idea!, ¡se me ocurre una idea!
    ■ whose idea was this anyway? ¿de quién era la idea?, ¿a quién se le ocurrió esto?
    ■ whatever gave you that idea? ¿cómo se te ha ocurrido (pensar) eso?, ¿de dónde has sacado esta idea?
    ■ do you know where he is? --no, but I've got a very good idea! ¿sabes dónde está? --no, pero tengo una ligera sospecha
    ■ well, you might as well get used to the idea bueno, ya puedes irte haciendo a la idea
    ■ I've an idea you threw it away creo que lo tiraste, tengo la impresión de que lo tiraste
    3 (concept) concepto
    ■ what's your idea of happiness? ¿cuál es tu concepto de la felicidad?
    1 (aim, purpose) idea, intención nombre femenino, objetivo
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    the (very) idea of it! ¡vaya ocurrencia!, ¡qué ocurrencia!, ¡a quién se le ocurre!, ¡ni hablar!
    to get the idea (understand) comprender, entender, captar 2 (learn) aprender
    to get ideas hacerse ilusiones
    to give somebody ideas dar ilusiones a alguien
    to have no idea no tener idea, no tener ni idea
    ■ I've no idea! ¡ni idea!
    not to have the first idea about something no tener ni la más mínima idea de algo
    to hit on the idea of something ocurrírsele la idea a alguien
    to put ideas into somebody's head meter ideas en la cabeza a alguien
    that's the idea! ¡eso es!, ¡así se hace!
    what's the big idea? ¿qué pasa aquí?, ¿qué es esto?, ¿qué te has creído?
    idea [aɪ'di:ə] n
    : idea f
    n.
    • concepto s.m.
    • idea s.f.
    • magín s.m.
    • noción s.f.
    'aɪ'diːə, aɪ'diə
    1)
    a) (plan, suggestion) idea f
    b) (purpose, principle) idea f

    you get the idea don't you? — entiendes ¿no?

    2) (notion, impression) idea f

    my idea of Ireland — la idea que yo tengo or me hago de Irlanda

    can you give me some idea of what happened? — ¿me puedes dar una idea de lo que pasó?

    where is he? - (I've) no idea! — ¿dónde está? - (no tengo) ni idea

    whatever gave you that idea? — ¿de dónde sacaste esa idea?

    to put ideas in o into somebody's head, to give somebody ideas — meterle ideas en la cabeza a alguien

    3) ( view) idea f, opinión f
    [aɪ'dɪǝ]
    N
    1) (=thought, plan) idea f

    the idea is to sell it — la idea or el plan es venderlo

    • it wouldn't be a bad idea to paint it — no le vendría mal pintarlo

    • whose bright idea was it to come this way? — iro ¿quién ha tenido la bonita or feliz idea de venir por aquí? *

    • you'll have to buck up your ideas — tendrás que menearte

    • the idea never entered my head — ni se me pasó esa idea por la cabeza

    • to get an idea for a novel — encontrar una idea para una novela

    don't go getting ideas — (=build up one's hopes) no te hagas ilusiones; (=be presumptuous) no se te ocurra

    • to get used to the idea of sth — hacerse a la idea de algo

    • to give sb ideas — meter ideas en la cabeza a algn

    whatever gave you that idea? — ¿como se te ha ocurrido semejante cosa?

    • good idea! — ¡buena idea!

    what a good idea! — ¡qué idea más buena!

    • to have an idea — tener una idea

    I suddenly had the idea of going to see her — de repente se me ocurrió ir a verla, de repente tuve la idea de ir a verla

    • he hit on the idea of painting it red — se le ocurrió pintarlo de rojo

    • to put ideas into sb's head — meter ideas en la cabeza a algn

    • the very idea!, what an idea! — ¡qué ocurrencias!

    2) (=understanding) idea f

    • have you any idea how ridiculous you look? — ¿tienes idea de lo ridículo que estás?

    • I haven't the foggiest idea — no tengo ni la menor or más remota or más mínima idea

    • what(ever) gave you that idea? — ¿de dónde sacaste eso?

    • to get an idea of sth — hacerse una idea de algo

    • you're getting the idea — (=understanding) estás empezando a comprender; (=getting the knack) estás cogiendo el tino or truco

    where did you get that idea? — ¿de dónde sacaste eso?

    • I haven't the least idea — no tengo ni la menor or más remota or más mínima idea

    • I've no idea! — ¡ni idea!

    it was awful, you've no idea — no te puedes hacer una idea de lo horrible que fue

    I had no idea that... — no tenía ni idea or la menor idea de que...

    • I haven't the slightest idea — no tengo ni la menor or más remota or más mínima idea

    • he has some idea of French — tiene algo de idea de francés

    3) (=conception, notion) idea f

    there may be some truth in the idea that... — puede que haya algo de cierto en la idea de que...

    she has some odd ideas about how to bring up children — tiene unas ideas muy raras or una opinión muy rara de cómo criar a los niños

    • it wasn't my idea of a holiday — no era la idea que yo tengo de unas vacaciones

    • if that's your idea of fun — si eso es lo que tú entiendes por diversión

    4) (=vague idea) impresión f

    • to have an idea that... — tener la impresión de que...

    5) (=purpose) intención f, idea f

    • what's the big idea? * — ¿a qué viene eso? *

    6) (=estimate) idea f

    • can you give me a rough idea of how many you want? — ¿puede darme una idea aproximada de cuántos quiere?

    * * *
    ['aɪ'diːə, aɪ'diə]
    1)
    a) (plan, suggestion) idea f
    b) (purpose, principle) idea f

    you get the idea don't you? — entiendes ¿no?

    2) (notion, impression) idea f

    my idea of Ireland — la idea que yo tengo or me hago de Irlanda

    can you give me some idea of what happened? — ¿me puedes dar una idea de lo que pasó?

    where is he? - (I've) no idea! — ¿dónde está? - (no tengo) ni idea

    whatever gave you that idea? — ¿de dónde sacaste esa idea?

    to put ideas in o into somebody's head, to give somebody ideas — meterle ideas en la cabeza a alguien

    3) ( view) idea f, opinión f

    English-spanish dictionary > idea

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