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  • 1 avoid

    transitive verb
    1) (keep away from) meiden [Ort]

    avoid an obstacle/a cyclist — einem Hindernis/Radfahrer ausweichen

    2) (refrain from) vermeiden

    avoid doing something — vermeiden, etwas zu tun

    3) (escape) vermeiden
    * * *
    [ə'void]
    (to keep away from (a place, person or thing): He drove carefully to avoid the holes in the road; Avoid the subject of money.) ausweichen; vermeiden
    - academic.ru/4668/avoidance">avoidance
    * * *
    [əˈvɔɪd]
    vt
    1. (stay away from)
    ▪ to \avoid sb/sth jdn/etw meiden [o aus dem Weg gehen]
    to \avoid sb's eyes jds Blicken ausweichen
    to \avoid sb/sth like the plague jdn/etw wie die Pest meiden fam
    2. (prevent sth happening)
    ▪ to \avoid sth etw vermeiden [o umgehen]
    I'm not going if I can possibly \avoid it wenn ich es irgendwie vermeiden kann, werde ich nicht [hin]gehen
    to \avoid the danger die Gefahr meiden; (specific occasion) der Gefahr entgehen
    to narrowly \avoid sth etw dat knapp entgehen
    to studiously \avoid sth etw sorgfältig vermeiden
    3. (not hit)
    ▪ to \avoid sth obstacle etw dat ausweichen
    * * *
    [ə'vɔɪd]
    vt
    vermeiden; damage, accident also verhüten; person meiden, aus dem Weg gehen (+dat); obstacle ausweichen (+dat); difficulty, duty, truth umgehen

    to avoid danger (in general) — die Gefahr meiden; (on a specific occasion) der Gefahr (dat) entgehen

    in order to avoid being seen — um nicht gesehen zu werden

    he'd do anything to avoid washing the dishes — er würde alles tun, um nur nicht abwaschen zu müssen

    I'm not going if I can possibly avoid it — wenn es sich irgendwie vermeiden lässt, gehe ich nicht

    ... you can hardly avoid visiting them —... dann kommst du wohl kaum darum herum or kannst du es wohl schlecht vermeiden, sie zu besuchen

    to avoid sb's eye — jds Blick (dat) ausweichen, es vermeiden, jdn anzusehen

    * * *
    avoid [əˈvɔıd] v/t
    1. (ver)meiden, jemandem oder einer Sache ausweichen oder (fig) aus dem Wege gehen, eine Pflicht oder Schwierigkeit umgehen, einer Gefahr entgehen, -rinnen:
    avoid sb jemanden meiden;
    avoid arrest sich seiner Verhaftung entziehen;
    avoid doing sth es vermeiden, etwas zu tun;
    he avoided answering my questions er wich meinen Fragen aus; → plague A 1
    2. JUR
    a) aufheben, annullieren
    b) anfechten
    * * *
    transitive verb
    1) (keep away from) meiden [Ort]

    avoid an obstacle/a cyclist — einem Hindernis/Radfahrer ausweichen

    2) (refrain from) vermeiden

    avoid doing something — vermeiden, etwas zu tun

    3) (escape) vermeiden
    * * *
    v.
    aus dem Weg gehen ausdr.
    meiden v.
    (§ p.,pp.: mied, gemieden)
    vermeiden v.

    English-german dictionary > avoid

  • 2 issue

    1.
    ['ɪʃuː], ['ɪsjuː]noun
    1) (point in question) Frage, die

    what is at issue here? — worum geht es [hier] eigentlich?

    evade or dodge the issue — ausweichen

    the point at issue — der strittige Punkt; worum es geht

    take issue with somebody over something — sich mit jemandem auf eine Diskussion über etwas (Akk.) einlassen

    2) (giving out) Ausgabe, die; (of document) Ausstellung, die; (of shares) Emission, die

    date of issue — Ausgabedatum, das; (of document) Ausstellungsdatum, das; (of stamps) Ausgabetag, der

    3) (of magazine, journal, etc.) Ausgabe, die
    4) (total number of copies) Auflage, die
    5) (quantity of coins) Emissionszahl, die; (quantity of stamps) Auflage, die
    6) (result, outcome) Ergebnis, das; Ausgang, der

    decide the issue — den Ausschlag geben

    2. transitive verb
    1) (give out) ausgeben; ausstellen [Pass, Visum, Zeugnis, Haft-, Durchsuchungsbefehl]; erteilen [Lizenz, Befehl]

    issue somebody with something — etwas an jemanden austeilen

    2) (publish) herausgeben [Publikation]; herausbringen [Publikation, Münze, Briefmarke]; emittieren [Wertpapiere]; geben [Warnung]
    3) (supply) ausgeben (to an + Akk.)
    3. intransitive verb
    [Personen:] herausströmen ( from aus); [Gas, Flüssigkeit:] austreten ( from aus); [Rauch:] heraus-, hervorquellen ( from aus); [Ton, Geräusch:] hervor-, herausdringen ( from aus)
    * * *
    ['iʃu:] 1. verb
    1) (to give or send out, or to distribute, especially officially: The police issued a description of the criminal; Rifles were issued to the troops.) (her)ausgeben
    2) (to flow or come out (from something): A strange noise issued from the room.) herauskommen
    2. noun
    1) (the act of issuing or process of being issued: Stamp collectors like to buy new stamps on the day of issue.) die Ausgabe
    2) (one number in the series of a newspaper, magazine etc: Have you seen the latest issue of that magazine?) die Ausgabe
    3) (a subject for discussion and argument: The question of pay is not an important issue at the moment.) die Streitfrage
    * * *
    is·sue
    [ˈɪʃu:]
    I. n
    1. (topic) Thema nt; (question) Frage f; (dispute) Streitfrage f; (affair) Angelegenheit f; (problem) Problem nt
    she has changed her mind on many \issues sie hat ihre Einstellung in vielen Punkten geändert
    they had prepared a report on the \issues of management and staff sie hatten einen Bericht über Management- und Personalfragen vorbereitet
    what is the \issue? worum geht es [hier]?
    that's not the \issue! darum geht es doch gar nicht!
    what I want isn't the \issue es geht hier nicht darum, was ich will
    the main \issue is how/whether... die zentrale Frage ist, wie/ob...
    familiy \issues Familienangelegenheiten pl
    the point at \issue der strittige Punkt
    side \issue Nebensache f
    don't worry, that's just a side \issue keine Sorge, das ist nur nebensächlich
    the \issue at stake der springende Punkt
    a burning \issue eine brennende Frage
    ethical \issue ethische Frage
    the real \issues die Kernprobleme pl
    to address an \issue ein Thema ansprechen
    to avoid the \issue [dem Thema] ausweichen
    to [not] be at [or an] \issue [nicht] zur Debatte stehen
    to confuse an \issue etwas durcheinanderbringen
    to make an \issue of sth etw aufbauschen, um etw akk Aufsehen machen
    to raise an \issue eine Frage aufwerfen
    to take \issue with sb [over sth] ( form) sich akk mit jdm auf eine Diskussion [über etw akk] einlassen
    at \issue strittig
    2. (edition) of a magazine, newspaper Ausgabe f
    date of \issue Erscheinungsdatum nt
    latest \issue aktuelle Ausgabe
    3. no pl (copies produced) Auflage f
    there was an \issue of 60,000 in March im März lag die Auflage bei 60.000
    4. no pl (making available) of goods, notes, stamps Ausgabe f; of shares Emission f, Ausgabe f; of a fund, loan Auflegung f; of a cheque, document Ausstellung f
    date of \issue of a passport, cheque Ausstellungsdatum nt
    the \issue of a statement die Abgabe einer Erklärung
    6. FIN, STOCKEX
    \issue at par Pari-Emission f fachspr
    \issue of securities Wertpapieremission f
    new \issue Neuemission f
    special \issue Sonderausgabe f; (stamp) Sondermarke f
    7. no pl (coming out)
    \issue of blood Blutung f
    8. no pl LAW ( or dated: offspring) Nachkommen pl
    9. no pl ( liter or dated: result) Ausgang m
    to carry sth to a successful \issue etw zu einem erfolgreichen Abschluss bringen
    II. vt
    1. (produce)
    ▪ to \issue sth licence, permit etw ausstellen [o ausfertigen]
    to \issue an arrest warrant AM einen Haftbefehl erlassen [o erteilen]
    to \issue banknotes Banknoten in Umlauf bringen
    to \issue bonds FIN Obligationen ausgeben [o emittieren]
    to \issue a newsletter ein Rundschreiben veröffentlichen
    to \issue a passport einen Pass ausstellen
    to \issue a patent ein Patent erteilen
    to \issue shares/a fund Aktien/einen Fonds auflegen
    2. (make known)
    to \issue a call for sth zu etw dat aufrufen
    to \issue a communique ein Kommuniqué herausgeben
    to \issue an invitation/a warning eine Einladung/Warnung aussprechen
    to \issue an order to sb jdm einen Befehl erteilen
    to \issue a statement eine Stellungnahme abgeben
    to \issue an ultimatum ein Ultimatum stellen
    ▪ to \issue sb with sth jdn mit etw dat ausstatten [o versorgen]; (distribute to) etw an jdn austeilen
    III. vi ( form)
    1. (come out) ausströmen; smoke hervorquellen
    ▪ to \issue from sth aus etw dat dringen; liquid, gas also aus etw dat strömen; smoke aus etw dat quellen
    2. (be born out of)
    ▪ to \issue from sth einer S. gen entspringen
    * * *
    ['ɪʃuː]
    1. vt
    1) (= give, send out) passport, documents, certificate, driving licence ausstellen; tickets, library books ausgeben; shares, banknotes ausgeben, emittieren; stamps herausgeben; coins ausgeben; order erteilen (
    to +dat); warning, declaration, statement abgeben, aussprechen; proclamation erlassen; details bekannt geben; ultimatum stellen

    to issue sb with a visa, to issue a visa to sb — jdm ein Visum ausstellen

    2) (= publish) book, newspaper herausgeben
    3) (= supply) rations, rifles, ammunition ausgeben

    to issue sth to sb/sb with sth — etw an jdn ausgeben

    all troops are issued with... — alle Truppen sind mit... ausgerüstet

    2. vi
    (from aus) (liquid, gas) austreten; (smoke, blood, water) quellen, austreten; (sound) (hervor- or heraus)dringen; (people etc) (heraus)strömen

    his actions issue from a desire to help — seine Handlungen entspringen dem Wunsch zu helfen

    the sewage/river issues into the sea — das Abwasser fließt/der Fluss mündet ins Meer

    3. n
    1) (= question) Frage f; (= matter) Angelegenheit f; (problematic) Problem nt

    the main or key issue is reducing unemployment — das Wichtigste ist es, die Arbeitslosigkeit zu verringern

    she raised the issue of human rights —

    the issue is whether... — es geht darum or die Frage ist, ob...

    this matter/question is not at issue — diese Angelegenheit/Frage steht nicht zur Debatte

    do you want to make an issue of it? (inf) — du willst dich wohl mit mir anlegen?

    to avoid the issue — ausweichen; (in reply also) ausweichend antworten

    2) (= outcome, result) Ergebnis nt

    that decided the issue — das war entscheidend or ausschlaggebend

    3) (= giving out, that given out) (of banknotes, shares, coins, stamps etc) Ausgabe f; (of shares) Emission f, Ausgabe f

    issue desk — Ausgabe(schalter m ) f

    4) (= handing-out) Ausgabe f; (= supplying, thing supplied) Lieferung f

    the issue of guns to the troops —

    5) (of book etc) Herausgabe f; (= book etc) Ausgabe f
    6) (of liquid, gas) Ausströmen nt
    7) (JUR: offspring) Nachkommenschaft f
    * * *
    issue [ˈıʃuː; Br auch ˈısjuː]
    A s
    1. Ausgabe f, Erlass m (von Befehlen etc):
    issue of orders Befehlsausgabe
    2. WIRTSCH Ausgabe f (von Banknoten, Wertpapieren etc), Emission f (von Wertpapieren), Begebung f, Auflegung f (einer Anleihe), Ausstellung f (eines Dokuments, Schecks, Wechsels etc):
    issue of securities Effektenemission;
    issue of shares (bes US stocks) Aktienausgabe;
    issue price Zeichnungs-, Emissionspreis m; → academic.ru/5327/bank">bank1 A 1
    3. TYPO
    a) Heraus-, Ausgabe f, Veröffentlichung f, Auflage f (eines Buches)
    b) Ausgabe f, Nummer f (einer Zeitung)
    4. Streitfall m, -frage f, -punkt m, (strittiger oder wesentlicher) Punkt:
    issue of fact (law) JUR Tatsachen-(Rechts)frage f;
    at issue strittig, streitig, zur Debatte stehend;
    point at issue umstrittener Punkt, strittige Frage;
    the point at issue is … es dreht sich darum, …;
    the national prestige is at issue es geht um das nationale Prestige, das nationale Prestige steht auf dem Spiel;
    be at issue with sb mit jemandem im Streit liegen oder uneinig sein;
    that decided the issue das war ausschlaggebend oder entscheidend;
    evade the issue ausweichen;
    make an issue of sth etwas aufbauschen oder dramatisieren;
    join ( oder take) issue with sb sich auf eine Auseinandersetzung einlassen mit jemandem (on über akk)
    5. Kernfrage f, (akutes) Problem, Angelpunkt m:
    this question raises the whole issue diese Frage schneidet den ganzen Sachverhalt an
    6. Ausgang m, Ergebnis n, Resultat n, Schluss m:
    in the issue schließlich;
    bring sth to an issue etwas zur Entscheidung bringen;
    force an issue eine Entscheidung erzwingen
    7. besonders MIL Ausgabe f, Zu-, Verteilung f
    8. JUR Nachkommen(schaft) pl(f), (Leibes)Erben pl, Abkömmlinge pl:
    die without issue ohne Nachkommen oder kinderlos sterben
    9. Abfluss m, Abzug m, Öffnung f, Mündung f
    10. MED
    a) Ausfluss m (von Eiter, Blut etc)
    b) eiterndes Geschwür
    11. WIRTSCH Erlös m, Ertrag m, Einkünfte pl (aus Landbesitz etc)
    12. Herausgehen n, -kommen n:
    free issue and entry freies Kommen und Gehen
    B v/t
    1. Befehle etc ausgeben, auch JUR einen Haftbefehl erlassen
    2. WIRTSCH Banknoten, Wertpapiere etc ausgeben, in Umlauf setzen, emittieren, eine Anleihe begeben, auflegen, ein Dokument, einen Wechsel, Scheck etc ausstellen:
    issued capital effektiv ausgegebenes Kapital
    3. ein Buch, eine Zeitung herausgeben, veröffentlichen, auflegen, publizieren
    4. besonders MIL
    a) Essen, Munition etc ausgeben, zu-, verteilen
    b) ausrüsten, beliefern ( beide:
    with mit)
    C v/i
    1. heraus-, hervorkommen
    2. hervorstürzen, -brechen
    3. herausfließen, -strömen
    4. a) (from) entspringen (dat), herkommen, -rühren (von)
    b) abstammen ( from von)
    5. herauskommen, herausgegeben werden (Schriften etc)
    6. ergehen (Befehl etc)
    7. enden (in in dat)
    * * *
    1.
    ['ɪʃuː], ['ɪsjuː]noun
    1) (point in question) Frage, die

    what is at issue here? — worum geht es [hier] eigentlich?

    evade or dodge the issue — ausweichen

    the point at issue — der strittige Punkt; worum es geht

    2) (giving out) Ausgabe, die; (of document) Ausstellung, die; (of shares) Emission, die

    date of issue — Ausgabedatum, das; (of document) Ausstellungsdatum, das; (of stamps) Ausgabetag, der

    3) (of magazine, journal, etc.) Ausgabe, die
    4) (total number of copies) Auflage, die
    5) (quantity of coins) Emissionszahl, die; (quantity of stamps) Auflage, die
    6) (result, outcome) Ergebnis, das; Ausgang, der
    2. transitive verb
    1) (give out) ausgeben; ausstellen [Pass, Visum, Zeugnis, Haft-, Durchsuchungsbefehl]; erteilen [Lizenz, Befehl]
    2) (publish) herausgeben [Publikation]; herausbringen [Publikation, Münze, Briefmarke]; emittieren [Wertpapiere]; geben [Warnung]
    3) (supply) ausgeben (to an + Akk.)
    3. intransitive verb
    [Personen:] herausströmen ( from aus); [Gas, Flüssigkeit:] austreten ( from aus); [Rauch:] heraus-, hervorquellen ( from aus); [Ton, Geräusch:] hervor-, herausdringen ( from aus)
    * * *
    n.
    Auflegen -ungen (einer Anleihe) n.
    Ausfertigung f.
    Ausgabe -n f.
    Ausgang -ë m.
    Ausleihe -ungen f.
    Ausstellen n.
    Effektenemission f.
    Emission -en f.
    Ergebnis -se n.
    Fall ¨-e m.
    Kernpunkt m.
    Nummer -n f.
    Problem -e n.
    Sachverhalt m.
    Schluss ¨-e m.
    Streitfall m.
    Streitfrage f.
    leibliche Nachkommenschaft f. v.
    auflegen v.
    ausgeben (Banknoten) v.
    ausgeben v.
    ausrüsten v.
    ausstellen v.
    emittieren (Wirtschaft) v.
    erteilen (Befehle) v.
    herausgeben v.
    herauskommen v.
    hervorbrechen v.
    in Umlauf setzen ausdr.
    liefern v.
    publizieren (Bücher) v.
    verteilen v.
    zuteilen v.

    English-german dictionary > issue

  • 3 Artificial Intelligence

       In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)
       Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)
       Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....
       When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)
       4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually
       Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)
       What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)
       The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)
       9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form
       The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)
       There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:
        Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."
        Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)
       Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)
       Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)
       The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)
        14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation
       It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)
       We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.
       Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.
       Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.
    ... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)
       Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)
        16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts
       Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)
       Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System
       Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence
       The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.
       The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)
       The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....
       AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)
        21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions
       In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)
       Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)
       Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)
       The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

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  • 4 issue

    'iʃu:
    1. verb
    1) (to give or send out, or to distribute, especially officially: The police issued a description of the criminal; Rifles were issued to the troops.) distribuir
    2) (to flow or come out (from something): A strange noise issued from the room.) salir

    2. noun
    1) (the act of issuing or process of being issued: Stamp collectors like to buy new stamps on the day of issue.) emisión
    2) (one number in the series of a newspaper, magazine etc: Have you seen the latest issue of that magazine?) número
    3) (a subject for discussion and argument: The question of pay is not an important issue at the moment.) tema, asunto
    issue1 n
    1. asunto / cuestión / tema
    2. número
    3. emisión
    issue2 vb distribuir / proveer
    tr['ɪʃʊː]
    1 (subject, topic) tema nombre masculino, cuestión nombre femenino, asunto
    ■ where do you stand on this issue? ¿cuál es tu postura respecto a esta cuestión?
    2 (of newspaper, magazine, etc) número
    ■ have you got this month's issue of Vax? ¿tienes el Vax de este mes?
    ■ do you sell back issues? ¿vendéis números atrasados?
    3 (of stamps, shares, back notes, etc) emisión nombre femenino; (of book) publicación nombre femenino
    4 (of passport, licence) expedición nombre femenino
    5 (of equipment, supplies, etc) distribución nombre femenino, reparto, suministro
    ■ where's the point of issue? ¿dónde está el punto de reparto?
    6 formal use (emergence - of water, blood) flujo
    7 formal use (children) descendencia
    8 formal use (result, outcome) resultado, consecuencia, desenlace nombre masculino
    1 (book, article) publicar
    2 (stamps, shares, banknotes, etc) emitir
    3 (passport, visa) expedir
    4 (equipment, supplies, etc) distribuir, repartir, suministrar, proporcionar
    5 (order, instruction) dar; (statement, warning) dar, hacer público; (writ, summons) dictar, expedir; (decree) promulgar; (warrant) expedir
    1 formal use (liquid, blood) fluir, manar; (smell etc) salir
    2 formal use (result) resultar ( from, de), provenir ( from, de), derivar(se) ( from, de)
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    at issue en cuestión, en discusión
    to address an issue tratar una cuestión
    to cloud/confuse the issue complicar el asunto
    to die without issue morir sin dejar descendencia
    to evade/duck the issue eludir el problema, evitar el tema
    to force the issue forzar una decisión
    to make an issue (out) of something dar demasiada importancia a algo, insistir demasiado sobre algo
    to take issue with somebody manifestar su desacuerdo con alguien, discrepar con alguien
    issue ['ɪ.ʃu:] v, - sued ; - suing vi
    1) emerge: emerger, salir, fluir
    2) descend: descender (dícese de los padres o antepasados específicos)
    3) emanate, result: emanar, surgir, resultar
    issue vt
    1) emit: emitir
    2) distribute: emitir, distribuir
    to issue a new stamp: emitir un sello nuevo
    3) publish: publicar
    1) emergence, flow: emergencia f, flujo m
    2) progeny: descendencia f, progenie f
    3) outcome, result: desenlace m, resultado m, consecuencia f
    4) matter, question: asunto m, cuestión f
    5) publication: publicación f, distribución f, emisión f
    6) : número m (de un periódico o una revista)
    n.
    • número (Revista) s.m.
    n.
    • cuestión s.f.
    • distribución s.f.
    • edición s.f.
    • emisión s.f.
    • entrega s.f.
    • impresión s.f.
    • nacimiento s.m.
    • problema s.m.
    • suceso s.m.
    • tema de discusión s.m.,f.
    • tirada s.f.
    v.
    • distribuir v.
    • emitir (Banca) v.
    • exhalar v.
    • expedir v.
    • nacer v.
    • surgir v.
    'ɪʃuː, 'ɪʃjuː, ɪsjuː
    I
    1) c ( subject discussed) tema m, cuestión f, asunto m

    to face the issue — enfrentarse al or afrontar el problema

    let's not cloud o confuse o fog the issue — no nos vayamos por la tangente, no desviemos la atención del verdadero problema

    at issue: the matter at issue is... de lo que se trata es de...; to make an issue of something: I don't want to make an issue of it but... no quiero insistir demasiado sobre el tema pero..., no quiero exagerar la importancia del asunto pero...; to take issue with somebody/something — discrepar or disentir* de or con alguien/en or de algo

    2)
    a) u ( of documents) expedición f; ( of library books) préstamo m; ( of tickets) venta f, expedición f; ( of supplies) reparto m
    b) u c (of stamps, shares, bank notes) emisión f
    c) c (of newspaper, magazine) número m
    3)
    a) u c ( emergence) (frml) flujo m
    b) (outcome, result) (no pl) desenlace m
    4) ( progeny) (frml) (+ sing or pl vb) descendencia f

    II
    1.
    a) ( give out) \<\<statement/report\>\> hacer* público; \<\<instructions\>\> dar*; \<\<tickets/visas\>\> expedir*; \<\<library books\>\> prestar; \<\<bank notes/stamps/shares\>\> emitir; \<\<writ/summons\>\> dictar, expedir*

    to issue something TO somebody, to issue somebody WITH something: the teacher issued library cards to the pupils el profesor distribuyó tarjetas de lector entre los alumnos; we can issue you with the necessary documents — le podemos proporcionar or suministrar los documentos necesarios

    b) issuing pres p <house/bank> emisor

    2.
    vi (frml)
    1) ( result)

    to issue FROM something — derivar(se) or surgir* de algo (frml)

    2) ( emerge) salir*; \<\<liquid\>\> fluir*, manar
    ['ɪʃuː]
    1. N
    1) (=matter, question) asunto m, cuestión f

    I was earning a lot of money but that was not the issue — ganaba mucho dinero, pero esa no era la cuestión

    • we need to address this issue — tenemos que tratar este asunto or esta cuestión or este tema

    • the point at issue — el punto en cuestión

    they were at issue over... — estuvieron discutiendo (sobre)...

    • to avoid the issue — eludir or frm soslayar el problema

    • to cloud or confuse the issue — crear confusión

    • to face the issue — hacer frente a la cuestión or al problema, afrontar la situación

    • to force the issue — forzar una decisión

    • to join issue with sb — enfrentarse a or con algn

    • to make an issue of sth, I think we should make an issue of this — creo que deberíamos insistir en este punto

    do you want to make an issue of it? — ¿quieres hacer un problema de esto?

    • the main or real issue is... — lo fundamental es...

    • it's not a political issue — no es una cuestión política

    • to take issue with sth/sb — discrepar de algo/de or con algn

    I feel I must take issue with you on or over that — permítame que discrepe de usted en or sobre eso

    side 3.
    2) [of shares, stamps, banknotes] emisión f ; [of library book] préstamo m ; [of document] expedición f ; [of rations] distribución f, reparto m

    • an army issue blanket — una manta del ejército

    • a standard issue army rifle — un rifle del ejército de fabricación estándar

    3) (=copy) [of magazine] ejemplar m, número m

    the March issue — el ejemplar or número de marzo

    • back issue — ejemplar m or número m atrasado

    4) frm (=outcome) resultado m, consecuencia f
    5) (Jur) (=offspring) descendencia f
    6) (Med) flujo m
    2.
    VT [+ library book] prestar; [+ tickets] emitir; [+ shares, stamps] poner en circulación, emitir; [+ rations] distribuir, repartir; [+ order] dar; [+ statement, proclamation] hacer público; [+ decree] promulgar; [+ passport, certificate] expedir; [+ licence] facilitar; [+ writ, summons] extender

    • to issue sth to sb, issue sb with sth — dar algo a algn

    3. VI
    1) (=come forth)

    • to issue from sth — [blood, water] brotar or salir de algo; [sound] salir de algo; [report, account] provenir de algo

    reports issuing from opposition sources say that... — informes provenientes de fuentes de la oposición afirman que...

    2) (=derive) derivar ( from de)
    3) frm (=have as result)

    • to issue in sth — resultar en algo, dar algo como resultado

    4.
    CPD

    issue price N — precio m de emisión

    * * *
    ['ɪʃuː, 'ɪʃjuː, ɪsjuː]
    I
    1) c ( subject discussed) tema m, cuestión f, asunto m

    to face the issue — enfrentarse al or afrontar el problema

    let's not cloud o confuse o fog the issue — no nos vayamos por la tangente, no desviemos la atención del verdadero problema

    at issue: the matter at issue is... de lo que se trata es de...; to make an issue of something: I don't want to make an issue of it but... no quiero insistir demasiado sobre el tema pero..., no quiero exagerar la importancia del asunto pero...; to take issue with somebody/something — discrepar or disentir* de or con alguien/en or de algo

    2)
    a) u ( of documents) expedición f; ( of library books) préstamo m; ( of tickets) venta f, expedición f; ( of supplies) reparto m
    b) u c (of stamps, shares, bank notes) emisión f
    c) c (of newspaper, magazine) número m
    3)
    a) u c ( emergence) (frml) flujo m
    b) (outcome, result) (no pl) desenlace m
    4) ( progeny) (frml) (+ sing or pl vb) descendencia f

    II
    1.
    a) ( give out) \<\<statement/report\>\> hacer* público; \<\<instructions\>\> dar*; \<\<tickets/visas\>\> expedir*; \<\<library books\>\> prestar; \<\<bank notes/stamps/shares\>\> emitir; \<\<writ/summons\>\> dictar, expedir*

    to issue something TO somebody, to issue somebody WITH something: the teacher issued library cards to the pupils el profesor distribuyó tarjetas de lector entre los alumnos; we can issue you with the necessary documents — le podemos proporcionar or suministrar los documentos necesarios

    b) issuing pres p <house/bank> emisor

    2.
    vi (frml)
    1) ( result)

    to issue FROM something — derivar(se) or surgir* de algo (frml)

    2) ( emerge) salir*; \<\<liquid\>\> fluir*, manar

    English-spanish dictionary > issue

  • 5 Empire, Portuguese overseas

    (1415-1975)
       Portugal was the first Western European state to establish an early modern overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean and perhaps the last colonial power to decolonize. A vast subject of complexity that is full of myth as well as debatable theories, the history of the Portuguese overseas empire involves the story of more than one empire, the question of imperial motives, the nature of Portuguese rule, and the results and consequences of empire, including the impact on subject peoples as well as on the mother country and its society, Here, only the briefest account of a few such issues can be attempted.
       There were various empires or phases of empire after the capture of the Moroccan city of Ceuta in 1415. There were at least three Portuguese empires in history: the First empire (1415-1580), the Second empire (1580-1640 and 1640-1822), and the Third empire (1822-1975).
       With regard to the second empire, the so-called Phillipine period (1580-1640), when Portugal's empire was under Spanish domination, could almost be counted as a separate era. During that period, Portugal lost important parts of its Asian holdings to England and also sections of its colonies of Brazil, Angola, and West Africa to Holland's conquests. These various empires could be characterized by the geography of where Lisbon invested its greatest efforts and resources to develop territories and ward off enemies.
       The first empire (1415-1580) had two phases. First came the African coastal phase (1415-97), when the Portuguese sought a foothold in various Moroccan cities but then explored the African coast from Morocco to past the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. While colonization and sugar farming were pursued in the Atlantic islands, as well as in the islands in the Gulf of Guinea like São Tomé and Príncipe, for the most part the Portuguese strategy was to avoid commitments to defending or peopling lands on the African continent. Rather, Lisbon sought a seaborne trade empire, in which the Portuguese could profit from exploiting trade and resources (such as gold) along the coasts and continue exploring southward to seek a sea route to Portuguese India. The second phase of the first empire (1498-1580) began with the discovery of the sea route to Asia, thanks to Vasco da Gama's first voyage in 1497-99, and the capture of strong points, ports, and trading posts in order to enforce a trade monopoly between Asia and Europe. This Asian phase produced the greatest revenues of empire Portugal had garnered, yet ended when Spain conquered Portugal and commanded her empire as of 1580.
       Portugal's second overseas empire began with Spanish domination and ran to 1822, when Brazil won her independence from Portugal. This phase was characterized largely by Brazilian dominance of imperial commitment, wealth in minerals and other raw materials from Brazil, and the loss of a significant portion of her African and Asian coastal empire to Holland and Great Britain. A sketch of Portugal's imperial losses either to native rebellions or to imperial rivals like Britain and Holland follows:
       • Morocco (North Africa) (sample only)
       Arzila—Taken in 1471; evacuated in 1550s; lost to Spain in 1580, which returned city to a sultan.
       Ceuta—Taken in 1415; lost to Spain in 1640 (loss confirmed in 1668 treaty with Spain).
       • Tangiers—Taken in 15th century; handed over to England in 1661 as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry to King Charles II.
       • West Africa
       • Fort/Castle of São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (in what is now Ghana)—Taken in 1480s; lost to Holland in 1630s.
       • Middle East
       Socotra-isle—Conquered in 1507; fort abandoned in 1511; used as water resupply stop for India fleet.
       Muscat—Conquered in 1501; lost to Persians in 1650.
       Ormuz—Taken, 1505-15 under Albuquerque; lost to England, which gave it to Persia in the 17th century.
       Aden (entry to Red Sea) — Unsuccessfully attacked by Portugal (1513-30); taken by Turks in 1538.
       • India
       • Ceylon (Sri Lanka)—Taken by 1516; lost to Dutch after 1600.
       • Bombay—Taken in 16th century; given to England in 1661 treaty as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry for Charles II.
       • East Indies
       • Moluccas—Taken by 1520; possession confirmed in 1529 Saragossa treaty with Spain; lost to Dutch after 1600; only East Timor remaining.
       After the restoration of Portuguese independence from Spain in 1640, Portugal proceeded to revive and strengthen the Anglo- Portuguese Alliance, with international aid to fight off further Spanish threats to Portugal and drive the Dutch invaders out of Brazil and Angola. While Portugal lost its foothold in West Africa at Mina to the Dutch, dominion in Angola was consolidated. The most vital part of the imperial economy was a triangular trade: slaves from West Africa and from the coasts of Congo and Angola were shipped to plantations in Brazil; raw materials (sugar, tobacco, gold, diamonds, dyes) were sent to Lisbon; Lisbon shipped Brazil colonists and hardware. Part of Portugal's War of Restoration against Spain (1640-68) and its reclaiming of Brazil and Angola from Dutch intrusions was financed by the New Christians (Jews converted to Christianity after the 1496 Manueline order of expulsion of Jews) who lived in Portugal, Holland and other low countries, France, and Brazil. If the first empire was mainly an African coastal and Asian empire, the second empire was primarily a Brazilian empire.
       Portugal's third overseas empire began upon the traumatic independence of Brazil, the keystone of the Lusitanian enterprise, in 1822. The loss of Brazil greatly weakened Portugal both as a European power and as an imperial state, for the scattered remainder of largely coastal, poor, and uncolonized territories that stretched from the bulge of West Africa to East Timor in the East Indies and Macau in south China were more of a financial liability than an asset. Only two small territories balanced their budgets occasionally or made profits: the cocoa islands of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea and tiny Macau, which lost much of its advantage as an entrepot between the West and the East when the British annexed neighboring Hong Kong in 1842. The others were largely burdens on the treasury. The African colonies were strapped by a chronic economic problem: at a time when the slave trade and then slavery were being abolished under pressures from Britain and other Western powers, the economies of Guinea- Bissau, São Tomé/Príncipe, Angola, and Mozambique were totally dependent on revenues from the slave trade and slavery. During the course of the 19th century, Lisbon began a program to reform colonial administration in a newly rejuvenated African empire, where most of the imperial efforts were expended, by means of replacing the slave trade and slavery, with legitimate economic activities.
       Portugal participated in its own early version of the "Scramble" for Africa's interior during 1850-69, but discovered that the costs of imperial expansion were too high to allow effective occupation of the hinterlands. After 1875, Portugal participated in the international "Scramble for Africa" and consolidated its holdings in west and southern Africa, despite the failure of the contra-costa (to the opposite coast) plan, which sought to link up the interiors of Angola and Mozambique with a corridor in central Africa. Portugal's expansion into what is now Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (eastern section) in 1885-90 was thwarted by its oldest ally, Britain, under pressure from interest groups in South Africa, Scotland, and England. All things considered, Portugal's colonizing resources and energies were overwhelmed by the African empire it possessed after the frontier-marking treaties of 1891-1906. Lisbon could barely administer the massive area of five African colonies, whose total area comprised about 8 percent of the area of the colossal continent. The African territories alone were many times the size of tiny Portugal and, as of 1914, Portugal was the third colonial power in terms of size of area possessed in the world.
       The politics of Portugal's empire were deceptive. Lisbon remained obsessed with the fear that rival colonial powers, especially Germany and Britain, would undermine and then dismantle her African empire. This fear endured well into World War II. In developing and keeping her potentially rich African territories (especially mineral-rich Angola and strategically located Mozambique), however, the race against time was with herself and her subject peoples. Two major problems, both chronic, prevented Portugal from effective colonization (i.e., settling) and development of her African empire: the economic weakness and underdevelopment of the mother country and the fact that the bulk of Portuguese emigration after 1822 went to Brazil, Venezuela, the United States, and France, not to the colonies. These factors made it difficult to consolidate imperial control until it was too late; that is, until local African nationalist movements had organized and taken the field in insurgency wars that began in three of the colonies during the years 1961-64.
       Portugal's belated effort to revitalize control and to develop, in the truest sense of the word, Angola and Mozambique after 1961 had to be set against contemporary events in Europe, Africa, and Asia. While Portugal held on to a backward empire, other European countries like Britain, France, and Belgium were rapidly decolonizing their empires. Portugal's failure or unwillingness to divert the large streams of emigrants to her empire after 1850 remained a constant factor in this question. Prophetic were the words of the 19th-century economist Joaquim Oliveira Martins, who wrote in 1880 that Brazil was a better colony for Portugal than Africa and that the best colony of all would have been Portugal itself. As of the day of the Revolution of 25 April 1974, which sparked the final process of decolonization of the remainder of Portugal's third overseas empire, the results of the colonization program could be seen to be modest compared to the numbers of Portuguese emigrants outside the empire. Moreover, within a year, of some 600,000 Portuguese residing permanently in Angola and Mozambique, all but a few thousand had fled to South Africa or returned to Portugal.
       In 1974 and 1975, most of the Portuguese empire was decolonized or, in the case of East Timor, invaded and annexed by a foreign power before it could consolidate its independence. Only historic Macau, scheduled for transfer to the People's Republic of China in 1999, remained nominally under Portuguese control as a kind of footnote to imperial history. If Portugal now lacked a conventional overseas empire and was occupied with the challenges of integration in the European Union (EU), Lisbon retained another sort of informal dependency that was a new kind of empire: the empire of her scattered overseas Portuguese communities from North America to South America. Their numbers were at least six times greater than that of the last settlers of the third empire.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Empire, Portuguese overseas

  • 6 Usage note : be

    The direct French equivalent of the verb to be in subject + to be + predicate sentences is être:
    I am tired
    = je suis fatigué
    Caroline is French
    = Caroline est française
    the children are in the garden
    = les enfants sont dans le jardin
    It functions in very much the same way as to be does in English and it is safe to assume it will work as a translation in the great majority of cases.
    Note, however, that when you are specifying a person’s profession or trade, a/an is not translated:
    she’s a doctor
    = elle est médecin
    Claudie is still a student
    = Claudie est toujours étudiante
    This is true of any noun used in apposition when the subject is a person:
    he’s a widower
    = il est veuf
    But
    Lyons is a beautiful city
    = Lyon est une belle ville
    For more information or expressions involving professions and trades consult the usage note Shops, Trades and Professions.
    For the conjugation of the verb être see the French verb tables.
    Grammatical functions
    The passive
    être is used to form the passive in French just as to be is used in English. Note, however, that the past participle agrees in gender and number with the subject:
    the rabbit was killed by a fox
    = le lapin a été tué par un renard
    the window had been broken
    = la fenêtre avait été cassée
    their books will be sold
    = leurs livres seront vendus
    our doors have been repainted red
    = nos portes ont été repeintes en rouge
    In spoken language, French native speakers find the passive cumbersome and will avoid it where possible by using the impersonal on where a person or people are clearly involved : on a repeint nos portes en rouge.
    Progressive tenses
    In French the idea of something happening over a period of time cannot be expressed using the verb être in the way that to be is used as an auxiliary verb in English.
    The present
    French uses simply the present tense where English uses the progressive form with to be:
    I am working
    = je travaille
    Ben is reading a book
    = Ben lit un livre
    The future
    French also uses the present tense where English uses the progressive form with to be:
    we are going to London tomorrow
    = nous allons à Londres demain
    I’m (just) coming!
    = j’arrive!
    I’m (just) going!
    = j’y vais!
    The past
    To express the distinction between she read a newspaper and she was reading a newspaper French uses the perfect and the imperfect tenses: elle a lu un journal/elle lisait un journal:
    he wrote to his mother
    = il a écrit à sa mère
    he was writing to his mother
    = il écrivait à sa mère
    However, in order to accentuate the notion of describing an activity which went on over a period of time, the phrase être en train de (= to be in the process of) is often used:
    ‘what was he doing when you arrived?’
    ‘he was cooking the dinner’
    = ‘qu’est-ce qu’il faisait quand tu es arrivé?’ ‘il était en train de préparer le dîner’
    she was just finishing her essay when …
    = elle était juste en train de finir sa dissertation quand …
    The compound past
    Compound past tenses in the progressive form in English are generally translated by the imperfect in French:
    I’ve been looking for you
    = je te cherchais
    For progressive forms + for and since (I’ve been waiting for an hour, I had been waiting for an hour, I’ve been waiting since Monday etc.) see the entries for and since.
    Obligation
    When to be is used as an auxiliary verb with another verb in the infinitive ( to be to do) expressing obligation, a fixed arrangement or destiny, devoir is used:
    she’s to do it at once
    = elle doit le faire tout de suite
    what am I to do?
    = qu’est-ce que je dois faire?
    he was to arrive last Monday
    = il devait arriver lundi dernier
    she was never to see him again
    = elle ne devait plus le revoir.
    In tag questions
    French has no direct equivalent of tag questions like isn’t he? or wasn’t it? There is a general tag question n’est-ce pas? (literally isn’t it so?) which will work in many cases:
    their house is lovely, isn’t it?
    = leur maison est très belle, n’est-ce pas?
    he’s a doctor, isn’t he?
    = il est médecin, n’est-ce pas?
    it was a very good meal, wasn’t it?
    = c’était un très bon repas, n’est-ce pas?
    However, n’est-ce pas can very rarely be used for positive tag questions and some other way will be found to express the extra meaning contained in the tag: par hasard ( by any chance) can be very useful as a translation:
    ‘I can’t find my glasses’ ‘they’re not in the kitchen, are they?’
    = ‘je ne trouve pas mes lunettes’ ‘elles ne sont pas dans la cuisine, par hasard?’
    you haven’t seen Gaby, have you?
    = tu n’as pas vu Gaby, par hasard?
    In cases where an opinion is being sought, si? meaning more or less or is it? or was it? etc. can be useful:
    it’s not broken, is it?
    = ce n’est pas cassé, si?
    he wasn’t serious, was he?
    = il n’était pas sérieux, si?
    In many other cases the tag question is simply not translated at all and the speaker’s intonation will convey the implied question.
    In short answers
    Again, there is no direct equivalent for short answers like yes I am, no he’s not etc. Where the answer yes is given to contradict a negative question or statement, the most useful translation is si:
    ‘you’re not going out tonight’ ‘yes I am’
    = ‘tu ne sors pas ce soir’ ‘si’
    In reply to a standard enquiry the tag will not be translated:
    ‘are you a doctor?’ ‘yes I am’
    = ‘êtes-vous médecin?’ ‘oui’
    ‘was it raining?’ ‘yes it was’
    = ‘est-ce qu’il pleuvait?’ ‘oui’
    Probability
    For expressions of probability and supposition ( if I were you etc.) see the entry be.
    Other functions
    Expressing sensations and feelings
    In expressing physical and mental sensations, the verb used in French is avoir:
    to be cold
    = avoir froid
    to be hot
    = avoir chaud
    I’m cold
    = j’ai froid
    to be thirsty
    = avoir soif
    to be hungry
    = avoir faim
    to be ashamed
    = avoir honte
    my hands are cold
    = j’ai froid aux mains
    If, however, you are in doubt as to which verb to use in such expressions, you should consult the entry for the appropriate adjective.
    Discussing health and how people are
    In expressions of health and polite enquiries about how people are, aller is used:
    how are you?
    = comment allez-vous?
    ( more informally) comment vas-tu?
    are you well?
    = vous allez bien?
    how is your daughter?
    = comment va votre fille?
    my father is better today
    = mon père va mieux aujourd’hui
    Discussing weather and temperature
    In expressions of weather and temperature faire is generally used:
    it’s cold
    = il fait froid
    it’s windy
    = il fait du vent
    If in doubt, consult the appropriate adjective entry.
    Visiting somewhere
    When to be is used in the present perfect tense to mean go, visit etc., French will generally use the verbs venir, aller etc. rather than être:
    I’ve never been to Sweden
    = je ne suis jamais allé en Suède
    have you been to the Louvre?
    = est-ce que tu es déjà allé au Louvre?
    or est-ce que tu as déjà visité le Louvre?
    Paul has been to see us three times
    = Paul est venu nous voir trois fois
    Note too:
    has the postman been?
    = est-ce que le facteur est passé?
    For here is, here are, there is, there are see the entries here and there.
    The translation for an expression or idiom containing the verb to be will be found in the dictionary at the entry for another word in the expression: for to be in danger see danger, for it would be best to … see best etc.
    This dictionary contains usage notes on topics such as the clock, time units, age, weight measurement, days of the week, and shops, trades and professions, many of which include translations of particular uses of to be.

    Big English-French dictionary > Usage note : be

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