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  • 1 intense fighting

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  • 2 fighting

    A n
    1 Mil combat m (between entre) ; heavy fighting combat intense ; fighting has broken out la bataille a éclaté ;
    2 gen bagarre f ; no fighting in the playground il est interdit de se battre dans la cour.
    1 Mil [unit, force] de combat ; fighting man soldat m ; fighting strength effectifs mpl (militaires) ;
    2 ( aggressive) [talk, words] agressif/-ive ; to have a fighting spirit être combatif.

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  • 3 fighting

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  • 4 intense

    in'tens
    (very great: intense heat; intense hatred.) intenso
    - intenseness
    - intensity
    - intensive
    - intensively
    - intensiveness

    intense adj intenso
    tr[ɪn'tens]
    1 (gen) intenso,-a, fuerte; (stare) penetrante
    2 (emotions) profundo,-a, grande, vivo,-a
    3 (person) muy serio,-a
    intense [ɪn'tɛnts] adj
    1) extreme: intenso, extremo
    intense pain: dolor intenso
    2) : profundo, intenso
    to my intense relief: para mi alivio profundo
    intense enthusiasm: entusiasmo ardiente
    adj.
    apasionado, -a adj.
    extremado, -a adj.
    fuerte adj.
    intenso, -a adj.
    nutrido, -a adj.
    subido, -a adj.
    vivo, -a adj.
    ɪn'tens
    1) ( great) <pain/activity> intenso

    an intense blue/green — un azul/verde intenso or vivo

    2)
    a) ( earnest) vehemente, apasionado
    [ɪn'tens]
    ADJ
    1) (=extreme) [heat, cold, pain] intenso; [interest, enthusiasm, happiness] enorme; [emotion, fear, anger, hatred] intenso, profundo; [gratitude] profundo; [colour] intenso, vivo; [light] intenso, fuerte
    2) (=concentrated) [activity, fighting, negotiations] intenso
    3) (=impassioned) [person, face, expression] apasionado, vehemente; [relationship] intenso; [eyes] penetrante; [gaze] intenso, penetrante
    * * *
    [ɪn'tens]
    1) ( great) <pain/activity> intenso

    an intense blue/green — un azul/verde intenso or vivo

    2)
    a) ( earnest) vehemente, apasionado

    English-spanish dictionary > intense

  • 5 intense

    1) intensiv; stark [Hitze, Belastung]; stark, heftig [Schmerzen]; kräftig, intensiv [Farbe]; äußerst groß [Aufregung]; ungeheuer [Kälte, Helligkeit]
    2) (eager, ardent) eifrig, lebhaft [Diskussion]; stark, ausgeprägt [Interesse]; brennend, glühend [Verlangen]; äußerst groß [Empörung, Aufregung, Betrübnis]; tief [Gefühl]; rasend [Hass, Eifersucht]
    3) (with strong emotion) stark gefühlsbetont [Person, Brief]; (earnest) ernst
    * * *
    [in'tens]
    (very great: intense heat; intense hatred.) heftig
    - academic.ru/38647/intensely">intensely
    - intenseness
    - intensity
    - intensive
    - intensively
    - intensiveness
    * * *
    in·tense
    [ɪnˈten(t)s]
    1. (concentrated, forceful) intensiv, stark
    \intense ardour heftige Leidenschaft
    \intense cold bittere Kälte
    \intense desire glühendes [o brennendes] Verlangen
    \intense disappointment herbe Enttäuschung
    \intense excitement große Aufregung
    \intense feeling tiefes [o starkes] Gefühl
    \intense friendship tiefe Freundschaft
    \intense hatred rasender Hass
    \intense heat glühende Hitze
    \intense love leidenschaftliche [o glühende] Liebe
    \intense pain heftiger Schmerz
    to be under \intense pressure unter immensem Druck stehen
    to come under \intense pressure unter immensen Druck geraten
    \intense wind starker Wind
    2. (demanding, serious) ernst
    he can get very \intense about the question of Northern Ireland wenn es um die Nordirland-Frage geht, kann er ganz schön anstrengend werden
    * * *
    [ɪn'tens]
    adj
    1) pain, colour, activity intensiv; disappointment bitter, schmerzlich; pressure, interest, enthusiasm enorm; joy, effort riesig; heat, cold ungeheuer; desire brennend; competition, fighting, debate, speculation heftig; hatred, jealousy, anger rasend
    2) person ernsthaft; conversation, relationship, feeling, study, life intensiv
    * * *
    intense [ınˈtens] adj
    1. intensiv:
    a) stark, heftig:
    intense heat starke Hitze;
    intense longing heftige Sehnsucht, intensives Verlangen
    b) hell, grell (Licht)
    c) tief, satt (Farben)
    d) durchdringend (Geräusch, Geruch)
    e) angespannt, angestrengt (Studium etc)
    f) (an)gespannt, konzentriert (Blick)
    g) eifrig
    h) sehnlich, dringend
    i) eindringlich (Stil etc)
    2. leidenschaftlich, stark gefühlsbetont
    3. beträchtlich (Menge etc)
    4. FOTO dicht (Negativ)
    * * *
    1) intensiv; stark [Hitze, Belastung]; stark, heftig [Schmerzen]; kräftig, intensiv [Farbe]; äußerst groß [Aufregung]; ungeheuer [Kälte, Helligkeit]
    2) (eager, ardent) eifrig, lebhaft [Diskussion]; stark, ausgeprägt [Interesse]; brennend, glühend [Verlangen]; äußerst groß [Empörung, Aufregung, Betrübnis]; tief [Gefühl]; rasend [Hass, Eifersucht]
    3) (with strong emotion) stark gefühlsbetont [Person, Brief]; (earnest) ernst
    * * *
    adj.
    intensiv adj.
    stark adj.

    English-german dictionary > intense

  • 6 fighting gets more intense

    Politics english-russian dictionary > fighting gets more intense

  • 7 heavy

    adj.
    1 pesado(a) (in weight); pesado(a) (comida)
    2 grueso(a) (large, thick) (coat, shoes)
    3 enconado(a) (intense) (fighting); fuerte (rain, showers); empedernido(a) (drinker, smoker)
    4 fuerte (oppressive) (smell); cargado(a), plomizo(a) (sky); duro(a) (fine, sentence)
    5 duro(a) (hard) (work, day); pesado(a) (breathing)
    6 complicado(a) (familiar) (threatening) (situation), chungo(a) (España), gocho(a) (México), fulero(a) (R.Plata)
    7 espeso.
    8 opresivo, oneroso, empachoso.
    9 serio, grave, de peso.
    10 torpe, pesado.
    11 robusto, grueso.
    adv.
    1 muy, mucho.
    2 pesadamente.
    3 con exceso. -> heavily
    s.
    1 persona de mucha importancia.
    2 gorila, matón. (familiar) (thug)

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  • 8 fierce

    fiəs
    1) (very angry and likely to attack: a fierce dog; a fierce expression.) feroz
    2) (intense or strong: fierce rivals.) intenso, fuerte
    fierce adj
    1. feroz
    2. fuerte
    tr[fɪəs]
    1 (gen) feroz
    2 figurative use (heat, competition, etc) fuerte, intenso,-a; (argument) acalorado,-a
    fierce ['fɪrs] adj, fiercer ; - est
    1) ferocious: fiero, feroz
    2) heated: acalorado
    3) intense: intenso, violento, fuerte
    fiercely adv
    adj.
    acérrimo, -a adj.
    bravo, -a adj.
    feroz adj.
    fiero, -a adj.
    furioso, -a adj.
    intenso, -a adj.
    torvo, -a adj.
    fɪrs, 'fɪəs
    adjective fiercer, fiercest
    a) <dog/lion> fiero, feroz; < glance> feroz, furibundo; < temper> feroz, temible
    b) <hatred/love> intenso, violento; < fighting> encarnizado; <criticism/opposition> violento, virulento; <defender/opponent> acérrimo
    c) < storm> violento; < wind> fortísimo
    [fɪǝs]
    ADJ (compar fiercer) (superl fiercest)
    1) (=ferocious) [animal] feroz, fiero; [gesture, expression] feroz; [temper] temible
    2) (=intense) [competition, argument] encarnizado; [storm, wind, opposition, resistance] violento; [opponent] empedernido, acérrimo; [pride, loyalty] impasionado; [heat] intenso
    * * *
    [fɪrs, 'fɪəs]
    adjective fiercer, fiercest
    a) <dog/lion> fiero, feroz; < glance> feroz, furibundo; < temper> feroz, temible
    b) <hatred/love> intenso, violento; < fighting> encarnizado; <criticism/opposition> violento, virulento; <defender/opponent> acérrimo
    c) < storm> violento; < wind> fortísimo

    English-spanish dictionary > fierce

  • 9 fierce

    adjective
    1) (violently hostile) wild; erbittert [Widerstand, Kampf]; wuchtig [Schlag]; heftig [Angriff]
    2) (raging) wütend; grimmig [Hass, Wut]; scharf [Kritik]; wild [Tier]
    3) heftig [Andrang, Streit]; heiß [Wettbewerb]; leidenschaftlich [Stolz, Wille]
    4) (unpleasantly strong or intense) unerträglich
    5) (violent in action) hart [Bremsen, Ruck]
    * * *
    [fiəs]
    1) (very angry and likely to attack: a fierce dog; a fierce expression.) wild
    2) (intense or strong: fierce rivals.) heftig
    - academic.ru/87008/fiercely">fiercely
    * * *
    [fɪəs, AM fɪrs]
    1. (hostile) heftig, ungestüm geh
    \fierce attack scharfer Angriff
    \fierce combat [or fighting] erbitterter Kampf
    \fierce competition erbarmungslose [o scharfe] Konkurrenz
    \fierce opposition entschlossener Widerstand
    \fierce struggle heftiger Streit
    2. (untamed) animal wild
    3. (intense) stark, intensiv
    \fierce debate/discussion hitzige Debatte/Diskussion
    \fierce hate wilder [o blinder] Hass
    \fierce jealousy heftige [o blinde] Eifersucht
    \fierce love leidenschaftliche Liebe
    4. (destructive) heftig, stürmisch
    \fierce weather stürmisches Wetter
    \fierce winds tobende [o kräftige] Winde
    5. AM ( fam: difficult) schwer, schwierig
    6.
    something \fierce AM ( fam) unbedingt
    I need a cold drink something \fierce ich muss unbedingt etwas Kaltes trinken
    * * *
    [fɪəs]
    adj (+er)
    animal wild, aggressiv; dog böse; person, look, appearance grimmig; fighting, battle, opposition, resistance, opponent, critic, rivals erbittert, heftig; debate, argument, storm heftig; attack, competition, criticism scharf; determination wild; loyalty unerschütterlich; pride, ambition, independence leidenschaftlich; heat, sun glühend

    the troops came under fierce attackdie Truppen wurden scharf angegriffen

    he has a fierce temperer braust schnell or leicht auf

    * * *
    fierce [fıə(r)s] adj (adv fiercely)
    1. wild (Tier etc)
    2. böse, grimmig (Gesicht etc), wild (Blick, Hass etc)
    3. glühend (Hitze)
    4. a) scharf (Rede, Wettbewerb etc)
    b) heftig (Angriff, Schmerz etc)
    c) grell (Licht etc)
    5. umg fies, widerlich
    * * *
    adjective
    1) (violently hostile) wild; erbittert [Widerstand, Kampf]; wuchtig [Schlag]; heftig [Angriff]
    2) (raging) wütend; grimmig [Hass, Wut]; scharf [Kritik]; wild [Tier]
    3) heftig [Andrang, Streit]; heiß [Wettbewerb]; leidenschaftlich [Stolz, Wille]
    5) (violent in action) hart [Bremsen, Ruck]
    * * *
    adj.
    grimmig adj.
    heftig adj.
    wild adj.

    English-german dictionary > fierce

  • 10 hot

    hot [hɒt]
    chaud1 (a), 1 (b), 1 (d), 1 (k), 1 (l), 1 (t) qui tient chaud1 (c) épicé1 (e) tout frais1 (f) violent1 (h) intense1 (i) enthousiaste1 (j) sévère1 (m) recherché1 (o), 1 (r)
    (compar hotter, superl hottest, pt & pp hotted, cont hotting)
    to be hot (person) avoir (très ou trop) chaud; (object) être chaud;
    a hot, stuffy room une pièce où il fait une chaleur étouffante ou où l'on étouffe;
    the engine/glass/oven is hot le moteur/verre/four est chaud;
    I'm getting hot je commence à avoir chaud;
    the water is getting hot l'eau devient chaude;
    how hot should the oven be? le four doit être à quelle température?;
    it was hot work le travail donnait chaud;
    there's hot and cold running water il y a l'eau courante chaude et froide;
    we sat in the hot sun nous étions assis sous un soleil brûlant;
    I'd like a hot bath j'aimerais prendre un bain bien chaud;
    the doctor said not to have any hot drinks le médecin m'a conseillé de ne pas boire chaud ou m'a déconseillé les boissons chaudes;
    a hot meal un repas chaud;
    keep the meat hot tenez la viande au chaud;
    serve the soup while it's hot servez la soupe bien chaude;
    the bread was hot from the oven le pain sortait tout chaud du four;
    hot food always available (sign) plats chauds à toute heure;
    figurative you're getting hot! (in guessing game) tu brûles!;
    familiar to be or to get (all) hot and bothered (about sth) être dans tous ses états ou se faire du mauvais sang (au sujet de qch);
    familiar to be or to get hot under the collar (about sth) être en colère ou en rogne (au sujet de qch);
    the books were selling like hot cakes les livres se vendaient comme des petits pains;
    familiar he's full of hot air c'est une grande gueule;
    all her promises are just a lot of hot air toutes ses promesses ne sont que des paroles en l'air;
    that's nothing but hot air! tout ça n'est que du vent!
    it's hot il fait très chaud;
    it's really hot! il fait vraiment très chaud!;
    it's getting hotter il commence à faire très chaud;
    I can't sleep when it's so hot je ne peux pas dormir par cette chaleur;
    it was very hot that day il faisait très chaud ce jour-là, c'était un jour de grande ou forte chaleur;
    one hot afternoon in August (par) une chaude après-midi d'août;
    in (the) hot weather pendant les chaleurs;
    we had a hot spell last week c'était la canicule la semaine dernière;
    the hottest day of the year la journée la plus chaude de l'année
    (c) (clothing) qui tient chaud;
    this jacket's too hot cette veste tient trop chaud
    (d) (colour) chaud, vif
    (e) (pungent, spicy → food) épicé, piquant, relevé; (→ spice) fort;
    a hot curry un curry relevé ou épicé
    (f) (fresh, recent) tout(e) frais (fraîche);
    the news is hot off the presses ce sont des informations de toute dernière minute;
    this book is hot off the press ce livre vient juste de paraître
    (g) (close, following closely)
    to be hot on the trail être sur la bonne piste;
    the police were hot on their heels or on their trail la police les talonnait ou était à leurs trousses;
    he fled with the police in hot pursuit il s'est enfui avec la police à ses trousses
    (h) (fiery, vehement) violent;
    she has a hot temper elle s'emporte facilement, elle est très soupe au lait
    (i) (intense → anger, shame) intense, profond
    (j) (keen) enthousiaste, passionné;
    American familiar he's hot on my sister il en pince pour ma sœur;
    they're very hot on formal qualifications (attach importance to) ils insistent beaucoup sur les diplômes;
    they're not very hot on hygiene (fussy about) ils ne sont pas très portés sur l'hygiène
    the reporter was onto a hot story le journaliste était sur un coup (fumant);
    to have a hot date avoir un rendez-vous galant ;
    this book is hot stuff c'est un livre très audacieux ;
    this issue is hot stuff, I wouldn't touch it c'est un sujet brûlant, je n'y toucherais pas
    (l) familiar (difficult, unpleasant) chaud, difficile ;
    we could make it or things very hot for you if you don't cooperate nous pourrions vous mener la vie dure ou vous en faire voir de toutes les couleurs si vous ne vous montrez pas coopératif;
    the presence of the army made things hot for the smugglers la présence de l'armée a rendu les choses très difficiles pour les contrebandiers ;
    the town had got too hot for the drug dealers l'atmosphère de la ville était devenue irrespirable pour les trafiquants de drogue;
    the situation was too hot to handle la situation était trop délicate pour qu'on s'en mêle
    (m) British familiar (severe, stringent) sévère, dur ;
    the police are really hot on drunk driving la police ne badine vraiment pas avec la conduite en état d'ivresse
    (n) familiar (very good) génial, terrible; (skilful) fort, calé;
    how is he? - not so hot (unwell) comment va-t-il? - pas trop bien ;
    I don't feel so hot je ne suis pas dans mon assiette;
    I'm not so hot at maths je ne suis pas très calé en maths;
    she's hot stuff at golf c'est un as ou un crack au golf;
    his latest book isn't so hot son dernier livre n'est pas terrible ou fameux;
    that isn't such a hot idea ce n'est pas terrible ou fameux comme idée;
    that's hot! c'est super!;
    a hot tip un tuyau sûr ou increvable
    (o) familiar (in demand, popular) très recherché ;
    she's really hot just now elle a vraiment beaucoup de succès en ce moment ;
    to be hot property être très demandé ;
    windsurfing is hot stuff in this area la planche à voile est très en vogue dans cette région
    to be hot (stuff) être sexy (inv);
    he's hot (sexually aroused) il a le feu au derrière;
    to be hot to trot avoir le feu aux fesses
    (q) familiar (stolen) volé
    (r) British familiar (sought by police) recherché par la police
    (s) Electricity (wire) sous tension
    (t) Nuclear (atom) chaud; familiar (radioactive) chaud, radioactif
    hot damn! (in excitement) bon sang!, nom d'un chien!; (in anger) merde!
    to go hot and cold at the thought of sth avoir des sueurs froides à l'idée de qch
    familiar to have the hots for sb craquer pour qn
    ►► hot chocolate Cookery (drink) chocolat m chaud;
    hot desking = pratique qui consiste à ne pas assigner de bureaux individuels aux employés, ces derniers étant libres de s'installer à n'importe quel poste de travail inoccupé;
    1 noun
    (sausage) hot-dog m, frankfurter m; Skiing ski m acrobatique; (in surfing) surf m acrobatique; American familiar (show-off) m'as-tu-vu mf inv
    American familiar génial!, super!;
    hot dog stand stand m de hot-dogs;
    we met in front of the hot dog stand nous nous sommes retrouvés devant le vendeur de hot-dogs;
    Metallurgy hot drawing tirage m à chaud;
    British Sport hot favourite grand(e) favori(te) m,f;
    Medicine American hot flash, British hot flush bouffée f de chaleur;
    hot gospeller = prêcheur évangéliste qui harangue les foules;
    British hot gossip les tous derniers cancans mpl;
    familiar Cars hot hatch cinq-portes f inv qui pète le feu;
    familiar hot jazz (jazz m) hot m inv;
    Computing hot key touche f personnalisée;
    Telecommunications hot line numéro m d'urgence; Politics (between US and Kremlin) téléphone m rouge;
    hot line support assistance f technique téléphonique, hot line f;
    he has a hot line to the president il a une ligne directe avec le président;
    she's on the hot line to the director elle téléphone au directeur;
    the hot line to the Kremlin la téléphone rouge avec le Kremlin;
    Computing hot link lien m hypertexte;
    familiar hot money (UNCOUNT) (stolen) argent m volé ; Finance capitaux mpl flottants ou fébriles ;
    British hot news les toutes dernières nouvelles fpl;
    American hot pad dessous-de-plat m inv;
    hot pants mini-short m (très court et moulant);
    Botany & Cookery hot pepper piment m;
    familiar figurative hot potato sujet m brûlant et délicat;
    a political hot potato un sujet brûlant ou une question brûlante de politique;
    to drop sb like a hot potato laisser tomber qn comme une vieille chaussette ou savate;
    Irish hot press (airing cupboard) = placard chauffé où l'on fait sécher le linge;
    familiar Cars hot rod bagnole f trafiquée;
    Metallurgy hot rolling laminage m à chaud;
    American familiar hot seat (electric chair) chaise f électrique ;
    figurative to be in the hot seat (difficult situation) être sur la sellette;
    Photography hot shoe griffe f du flash, pied-sabot m;
    hot spot (dangerous area) point m chaud ou névralgique; familiar (night club) boîte f de nuit ; Technology point m chaud;
    let's hit the town's hot spots si on faisait la tournée des boîtes?;
    hot spring source f chaude;
    British Computing hot swap (of devices) remplacement m à chaud;
    American familiar hot ticket: to be a hot ticket faire fureur;
    the play is the hottest ticket in town c'est la pièce qui a le plus de succès actuellement ;
    hot tub = sorte de Jacuzzi ® qu'on installe dehors;
    hot war guerre f chaude ou ouverte;
    hot water eau f chaude;
    figurative their latest prank got them into or landed them in hot water leur dernière farce leur a attiré des ennuis;
    you'll be in hot water when she finds out tu passeras un mauvais quart d'heure quand elle s'en apercevra;
    hot wire fil m sous tension
    (a) (intensify → argument, contest) échauffer ; (→ bombing, fighting) intensifier ; (→ party) mettre de l'animation dans ; (→ music) faire balancer, faire chauffer;
    they hotted up the pace ils ont forcé l'allure
    to hot up a car gonfler le moteur d'une voiture
    (intensify → discussion, campaign) s'échauffer ; (→ fighting, situation) chauffer, s'intensifier ;
    the price war has hotted up la guerre des prix s'intensifie;
    ✾ Film 'Some like it hot' Wilder 'Certains l'aiment chaud'

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

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  • 12 heavy

    'hevi
    1) (having great weight; difficult to lift or carry: a heavy parcel.) pesado
    2) (having a particular weight: I wonder how heavy our little baby is.) pesado
    3) (of very great amount, force etc: heavy rain; a heavy blow; The ship capsized in the heavy seas; heavy taxes.) fuerte, abundante
    4) (doing something to a great extent: He's a heavy smoker/drinker.) empedernido
    5) (dark and dull; looking or feeling stormy: a heavy sky/atmosphere.) cargado
    6) (difficult to read, do, understand etc: Books on philosophy are too heavy for me.) pesado, denso; difícil
    7) ((of food) hard to digest: rather heavy pastry.) pesado
    8) (noisy and clumsy: heavy footsteps.) pesado
    - heaviness
    - heavy-duty
    - heavy industry
    - heavyweight
    - heavy going
    - a heavy heart
    - make heavy weather of

    heavy adj
    1. pesado
    2. fuerte / denso
    El comparativo de heavy se escribe heavier; el superlativo se escribe heaviest
    tr['hevɪ]
    adjective (comp heavier, superl heaviest)
    1 (gen) pesado,-a
    2 (rain, blow) fuerte, pesado,-a
    3 (traffic) denso,-a
    4 (sleep) profundo,-a
    5 (crop) abundante
    6 (atmosphere) cargado,-a
    7 (loss, expenditure) grande, considerable, cuantioso,-a
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to be a heavy drinker/smoker beber/fumar mucho
    heavy industry industria pesada
    heavy water agua pesada
    heavy ['hɛvi] adj, heavier ; - est
    1) weighty: pesado
    2) dense, thick: denso, espeso, grueso
    3) burdensome: oneroso, gravoso
    4) profound: profundo
    5) sluggish: lento, tardo
    6) stout: corpulento
    7) severe: severo, duro, fuerte
    adj.
    amazacotado, -a adj.
    aplomado, -a adj.
    difícil adj.
    doble adj.
    espeso, -a adj.
    grave adj.
    gravoso, -a adj.
    lento, -a adj.
    modorra adj.
    morrocotudo, -a adj.
    pesado, -a adj.
    torpe adj.

    I 'hevi
    adjective -vier, -viest
    1)
    a) ( weighty) <load/suitcase/weight> pesado; <fabric/garment> grueso, pesado; < saucepan> de fondo grueso; < boots> fuerte

    it's very heavy — es muy pesado, pesa mucho

    heavy goods vehiclevehículo m (de carga) de gran tonelaje

    heavy worktrabajo m pesado

    b) ( large-scale) (before n) <artillery/machinery> pesado
    2)
    a) ( ponderous) <tread/footstep/fall> pesado; < thud> sordo
    b) < features> tosco, poco delicado; < eyelids> caído; <sarcasm/irony> poco sutil
    3)
    a) ( oppressive) <clouds/sky> pesado

    with a heavy heart — apesadumbrado, acongojado

    b) ( loud) < sigh> profundo

    heavy breathing — ( with exertion) resoplidos mpl; ( with passion) jadeos mpl

    4)
    a) ( bigger than usual) < expenditure> cuantioso; < crop> abundante
    b) ( intense) < bookeatment> pesado, denso; < rain> fuerte; < traffic> denso; < schedule> apretado

    to be a heavy drinker/smoker — beber/fumar mucho

    he's a heavy sleeper — tiene el sueño pesado, duerme muy profundamente

    I've got a heavy cold — tengo un resfriado muy fuerte, estoy muy resfriado

    c) ( severe) <sentence/penalty> severo; < casualties> numeroso; < blow> duro, fuerte

    heavy lossesgrandes or cuantiosas pérdidas fpl

    d) ( violent) (sl) bruto

    II

    to lie/hang/weigh heavy on somebody/something — (liter) pesar sobre alguien/algo (liter)


    III
    count noun (pl - vies) (colloq) matón m (fam), gorila m (fam)
    ['hevɪ]
    1. ADJ
    (compar heavier) (superl heaviest)
    1) (=weighty) pesado

    is it heavy? — ¿pesa mucho?

    how heavy are you? — ¿cuánto pesas?

    he has his father's heavy buildtiene la misma corpulencia de su padre

    his eyes were heavy (with sleep) — los párpados le pesaban de sueño

    my arms felt so heavy — me pesaban tanto los brazos

    the mayor's heavy mob *los gorilas del alcalde

    the trees were heavy with fruit — los árboles estaban cargados de fruta

    2) (=considerable) [traffic] denso; [rain, shower] fuerte; [crop] abundante; [loss] considerable, cuantioso; [fine] fuerte; [defeat] aplastante; [irony, symbolism] enorme; [fighting, fire] intenso

    the news came as a heavy blowla noticia fue un duro golpe

    a heavy concentration of troops — una gran concentración de tropas

    heavy demand has depleted supplies — una intensa or enorme demanda ha reducido las existencias

    to be a heavy drinkerbeber mucho

    the school places heavy emphasis on languages — la escuela da mucha importancia a los idiomas

    to be heavy on sth: the car is heavy on petrol — el coche consume mucha gasolina

    he is under heavy pressure to resign — le están presionando enormemente para que dimita

    the heavy scent of honeysuckle — el intenso or fuerte olor a madreselva

    to be a heavy smokerfumar mucho

    casualty, price
    3) (=thick, solid) [cloth, coat, line] grueso; [features] tosco; [meal, food] fuerte, pesado; [soil] arcilloso; [fog, mist] espeso, denso

    heavy crude (oil)crudo m denso or pesado

    4) (=oppressive, gloomy) [atmosphere] cargado; [sky] encapotado; [burden, responsibility] pesado

    with a heavy heart — apesadumbrado, acongojado

    the air was heavy with scent — el aire estaba cargado de perfume

    5) (=deep) [sigh, sleep, silence] profundo

    heavy breather (on telephone) maníaco m telefónico

    heavy breathing (from exertion) jadeos mpl, resoplidos mpl

    his heavy breathing kept me awake — respiraba tan fuerte que no me dejaba dormir, sus jadeos no me dejaban dormir

    to be a heavy sleepertener el sueño profundo

    6) (=arduous) [task, work] pesado; [schedule] apretado
    weather
    7) (=boring, laboured) [book, film, humour] denso, pesado

    to be heavy going[book, film] ser muy denso

    his new album/book is pretty heavy stuffsu nuevo álbum es bastante fuerte

    8) (=bad)

    to have a heavy coldestar muy resfriado or acatarrado

    he had had a heavy fallhabía tenido una mala caída

    to get heavy, things got a bit heavy — (=nasty) la cosa se puso fea

    9) (=rough) [sea] grueso
    2. N
    1) * (=thug) matón * m, gorila * m
    2) * (=eminent person) peso m pesado
    3) * (=newspaper) periódico m serio
    4) (Scot) (beer) cerveza f tostada
    3.
    ADV

    time hung heavy (on our hands) — las horas/los días etc se nos hacían interminables

    his son's troubles weighed heavy on his mind — los problemas de su hijo le preocupaban mucho

    4.
    CPD

    heavy cream N(US) nata f para montar (Sp), nata f enriquecida

    heavy goods NPLartículos mpl pesados

    heavy guns NPL= heavy artillery

    heavy industry Nindustria f pesada

    heavy metal N — (Chem, Ind) metal m pesado; (Mus) heavy m (metal)

    heavy water N — (Phys) agua f pesada

    * * *

    I ['hevi]
    adjective -vier, -viest
    1)
    a) ( weighty) <load/suitcase/weight> pesado; <fabric/garment> grueso, pesado; < saucepan> de fondo grueso; < boots> fuerte

    it's very heavy — es muy pesado, pesa mucho

    heavy goods vehiclevehículo m (de carga) de gran tonelaje

    heavy worktrabajo m pesado

    b) ( large-scale) (before n) <artillery/machinery> pesado
    2)
    a) ( ponderous) <tread/footstep/fall> pesado; < thud> sordo
    b) < features> tosco, poco delicado; < eyelids> caído; <sarcasm/irony> poco sutil
    3)
    a) ( oppressive) <clouds/sky> pesado

    with a heavy heart — apesadumbrado, acongojado

    b) ( loud) < sigh> profundo

    heavy breathing — ( with exertion) resoplidos mpl; ( with passion) jadeos mpl

    4)
    a) ( bigger than usual) < expenditure> cuantioso; < crop> abundante
    b) ( intense) <book/treatment> pesado, denso; < rain> fuerte; < traffic> denso; < schedule> apretado

    to be a heavy drinker/smoker — beber/fumar mucho

    he's a heavy sleeper — tiene el sueño pesado, duerme muy profundamente

    I've got a heavy cold — tengo un resfriado muy fuerte, estoy muy resfriado

    c) ( severe) <sentence/penalty> severo; < casualties> numeroso; < blow> duro, fuerte

    heavy lossesgrandes or cuantiosas pérdidas fpl

    d) ( violent) (sl) bruto

    II

    to lie/hang/weigh heavy on somebody/something — (liter) pesar sobre alguien/algo (liter)


    III
    count noun (pl - vies) (colloq) matón m (fam), gorila m (fam)

    English-spanish dictionary > heavy

  • 13 heavy

    heavy [ˈhevɪ]
    lourd ; [payments, charges] important ; [crop] abondant ; [rain, shower] fort before n ; ( = tedious) indigeste ; [fighting, shelling] intensif ; [traffic] dense ; [sigh, work] gros ( grosse f) before n
    how heavy is it? combien ça pèse ?
    a heavy concentration of... une forte concentration de...
    it's heavy stuff (inf) ( = not superficial) ça a de la substance ; ( = difficult, tedious) c'est indigeste
    heavy-duty adjective [carpet, equipment] à usage intensif
    heavy metal noun ( = music) heavy metal m
    * * *
    ['hevɪ] 1.
    (colloq) noun ( person) grosse brute f
    2.
    1) [person, load, bag] lourd; Military, Industry [machinery] gros/grosse (before n), lourd; [artillery] lourd
    2) [fabric, coat] lourd; [shoes, frame] gros/grosse (before n); [line, features] épais/épaisse; [movement, step] pesant, lourd; [blow] violent; [perfume, accent] fort; [irony, responsibility, sigh] lourd
    3) ( abundant) [traffic] dense; [gunfire] nourri; [bleeding] abondant

    to be a heavy drinker/smoker — boire/fumer beaucoup

    4) ( severe) [loss, debt] lourd; [attack] intense; [sentence, fine] sévère; [criticism] fort (before n); [cold] gros/grosse (before n)
    5) Meteorology [rain, frost] fort; [fog] épais/épaisse; [snow] abondant; [sky] chargé
    6) Culinary [meal, food] lourd
    7) ( busy) [timetable] chargé
    8) [book, film, lecture] ardu
    3.

    English-French dictionary > heavy

  • 14 close

    ̈ɪkləus I
    1. сущ.
    1) а) огороженное место б) брит. огороженное поле( в центральных районах Англии) в) (Close) название школьной площадки (в некоторых школах)
    2) а) территория вокруг или около здания( обыкн. закрытая, огороженная другими постройками) ;
    двор б) преим. брит. территория, прилегающая к собору;
    иногда соборное духовенство
    3) а) преим. брит. проход, ведущий с улицы во двор к лестнице многоквартирного дома б) тупик (часто в названиях улиц-тупиков) Longwood Close ≈ тупик Лонгвуд Syn: cul-de-sac
    2. прил.
    1) а) закрытый I've brought a close carriage for him. ≈ Я достал ему закрытую коляску. Syn: closed, shut
    2. б) фон. закрытый (гласный) в) закрытый (для доступа широкой публики, для охоты)
    2) замкнутый;
    ограниченный, узкий The space contained close alleys and open walks. ≈ Пространство включало узкие аллеи и открытые места для прогулок. Syn: confined, narrow
    1.
    3) заключенный( в тюрьму и т. п.), строго охраняемый;
    строгий( о тюремном или подобном заключении) Captain is in close arrest. ≈ Капитан находится под строгим арестом.
    4) скрытый, секретный, тайный;
    уединенный, скрытый от глаз to keep a thing close ≈ держать что-л. в секрете to keep close, lie close ≈ прятаться Syn: concealed, occult
    1., secret
    2., hidden;
    secluded
    5) душный, удушливый, спертый The air in this room is very close. ≈ В этой комнате очень спертый воздух. Syn: stuffy, suffocating, stagnant, unventilated;
    muggy, humid, stifling
    6) скрытный, замкнутый, сдержанный, молчаливый He was too close to name his circumstances to me. ≈ Он был слишком замкнутым человеком, чтобы рассказать мне о своих обстоятельствах. to keep oneself close ≈ держаться замкнуто Syn: reserved, reticent, uncommunicative
    7) скупой, скаредный He's as close with his money as Scrooge. ≈ Он такой же скупой, как Скрудж. Syn: stingy, miserly, tight
    1., tight-fisted, close-fisted, penurious, parsimonious, niggardly
    1., penny-pinching, ungenerous, grudging
    8) плотный;
    компактный;
    густой;
    сжатый, убористый( о почерке, стиле) Living in such close quarters makes privacy difficult. ≈ Проживание в такой густонаселенной квартире мешает личной жизни. The fabric was of a close weave. ≈ Это была плотная ткань. close print ≈ убористая печать Syn: congested, crowded, teeming, populous;
    tight
    1., cramped, confined, narrow
    1., compressed;
    dense, compact II
    1., solid
    1., impenetrable, impermeable
    9) а) близкийвремени и месте) ;
    близко расположенный The house is close to the park. ≈ Дом расположен рядом с парком. The migration of the ducks southward showed that winter was close. ≈ Перелет уток на юг показывает, что зима на носу. close columnсомкнутая колонна to get to close quartersсблизиться, подойти на близкую дистанцию close attackнаступление с ближней дистанции close defence ≈ непосредственное охранение Syn: near
    1., neighbouring, approximate
    1., imminent, impending>, forthcoming
    2., nigh
    1. б) кино крупный (план)
    10) плотно облегающий;
    хорошо пригнанный( об одежде) Syn: close-fitting
    11) близкий, интимный;
    неразлучный close friendблизкий друг The two brothers are very close. ≈ Два брата очень близки. Syn: attached, friendly
    1.,intimate I
    2., familiar
    1., loving, devoted;
    inseparable
    12) близкий, схожий;
    почти равный( о соревновании, шансах на победу) The color is close to what I want, but the style is wrong. ≈ Цвет очень близок к тому, что я хочу, но фасон мне не нравится. The resemblance is very close and very strange. ≈ Сходство очень сильное и очень странное. close translation ≈ очень близкий перевод It was a close race. ≈ Это были почти равные скачки. Syn: near
    1., similar, akin, almost like, almost alike, much the same as, resembling;
    well-matched, nearly even, nearly equal
    13) внимательный;
    тщательный;
    подробный Keep a close watch on the children. ≈ Внимательно следите за детьми. close reading ≈ внимательное, медленное чтение close investigation ≈ подробное обследование Syn: intense, intent
    2., watchful, careful, attentive, vigilant, keen I, thorough
    1., strict, minute III, searching
    14) короткий;
    коротко постриженный A straight razor gives a close shave. ≈ Прямая бритва бреет очень гладко. a close haircut ≈ короткая стрижка Syn: near to the skin, smooth
    1., trim
    2., neat I, short
    1. ∙ by a close shave
    3. нареч.
    1) близко, рядом, около;
    рядом с (чем-л./кем-л. - to, on, upon, about, beside, behind, below, in и т. д.) to follow close behind the man ≈ следовать непосредственно за этим человеком to stand close against the wallстоять около стены to come closer together ≈ подойти ближе друг к другу Come close so I can see you. ≈ Подойди и стань рядом, чтобы я мог тебя увидеть. We were close to when it happened. ≈ Мы были рядом, когда это случилось. close at hand Syn: near
    2., nearby
    2., near at hand, thereabout, in proximity
    2) почти He ran me very close. ≈ Он почти догнал меня. close on Syn: almost, nearly
    3) коротко (о стрижке волос, о подстриженной траве) to cut one's hair close ≈ коротко постричься close cropped ≈ коротко остриженный II
    1. сущ.
    1) завершение, заключение, конец, окончание at the close of the dayв конце дня towards the close of the 19th centuryк концу 19 века The day had reached its close. ≈ День подошел к концу. The crowd began to leave before the close of the game. ≈ Народ начал уходить перед окончанием игры. bring to a closeдовести до конца, завершить, закончить Syn: end 1, finish
    1., conclusion, termination, wind-up I, completion;
    closing
    1., ending
    1., finale
    2) муз. каденция;
    каданс
    3) объединение, соединение the close of earth and sky ≈ объединение земли и неба Syn: union, junction
    4) архаич. столкновение;
    борьба Syn: grapple
    1., struggle
    1., encounter
    1.
    2. гл.
    1) а) закрывать Close the door tightly. ≈ Закрой плотно дверь. to close the eyes ≈ закрыть глаза б) закрываться Many flowers open in the morning and close at night. ≈ Многие цветы утром распускаются, а вечером закрываются. ∙ Syn: shut
    1., secure
    2.
    2) затыкать, заделывать;
    забивать, заполнять The handyman closed the hole in the wall with plaster. ≈ Рабочий заделал дыру в стене штукатуркой. Syn: close up, stop up, stop
    2., fill
    1., stuff, clog, plug
    3) ограничивать;
    препятствовать, блокировать;
    запирать;
    заключать( куда-л., во что-л.) The stableboy closed the horse in the stall. ≈ Помощник конюха закрыл лошадь в стойле. Syn: shut in, shut up, confine
    2., pen in, enclose, pen II
    2., coop up, blockade
    2., block
    2., obstruct, seal off
    4) а) кончать, заканчивать to close a discussionпрекратить обсуждение The pianist closed the concert with a Gershwin medley. ≈ Пианист завершил концерт исполнением попурри из Гершвина. б) прекращаться, заканчиваться Schools closed for the Christmas holiday. ≈ Школы закрылись на Рождественские каникулы. ∙ Syn: end
    2., finish
    2., conclude, terminate, stop
    2., halt I
    2., cease
    1., wind up;
    adjourn, recess
    2., suspend, discontinue, leave off, break off, shut down в) бирж. завершиться каким-л. курсом (о торгах на бирже)
    5) а) соединять, объединять The surgeon closed the two edges of the incision with surgical thread. ≈ Хирург соединил края разреза хирургической ниткой. Syn: join
    1., link
    2., connect, couple
    2., unite б) электр. замыкать (цепь) Syn: fuse I
    2.
    6) а) подходить близко;
    сближаться вплотную The soldiers closed ranks. ≈ Солдаты сдвинули ряды. The men closed round him. ≈ Люди столпились вокруг него. б) войти в ближний бой, схватиться в рукопашной;
    войти в соприкосновение( с противником) ∙ close about close down close in close in on close off close out close round close up close upon close with be closed with огороженное стеной место (около дома или деревни) - breaking smb.'s * нарушение границы чужого земельного участка соборная площадь, площадь вокруг собора;
    территория, обыкн. огороженная (включает постройки, сад) площадка для игр( при школе) (шотландское) ход со двора, проход к лестнице многоквартирного дома тупик (улица) закрытый - * carriage закрытый экипаж - * vowel (фонетика) закрытый гласный закрытый;
    ограниченный;
    замкнутый - * season время, когда охота запрещена;
    охотничий сезон закрыт - * terrain (топография) закрытая местность - * competition закрытый конкурс замкнутый, уединенный - to keep oneself * держаться замкнуто;
    жить уединенно тайный, скрытый - * intent тайное намерение - to lie * прятаться - to keep smth. * держать в секрете, скрывать - to say smth. in *st confidence сказать строго конфиденциально скрытный, сдержанный( о человеке) - he was too * about his past life он скрывал свое прошлое строго охраняемый - * arrest строгий арест - * cell особо охраняемая тюремная камера - to keep in * confinement содержать в строгом заключении - as * as an oyster умеет держать язык за зубами закрывать - to * a door закрыть дверь - this road is *d to heavy motor traffic для грузового транспорта эта дорога закрыта - to * a hole заткнуть отверстие - to * a gap заполнить пробел;
    (спортивное) сократить разрыв;
    (военное) ликвидировать прорыв - to * a drawer задвинуть ящик (стола) закрываться - the window won't * окно не закрывается - the shops * at six магазины закрываются в шесть часов - the wound *d рана закрылась - the play *d after ten performances после десяти представлений пьеса сошла со сцены (электротехника) замыкать (цепь) (морское) задраивать - to * one's doors не допускать, не впускать;
    закрыть предприятие - to * the country's doors to immigrants не допускать иммиграции в страну - he had to * his doors for lack of trade он закрыл свое дело из-за отсутствия заказов - to * the door отрезать путь - his attitude *d the door to further negotiations его позиция отрезала путь к дальнейшим переговорам - to * one's parent's eyes закрыть глаза родителю, присутствовать при смерти родителя - to * smb.'s eye подбить глаз - to * one's ear пропускать мимо ушей;
    быть глухим - to * one's mouth держать язык за зубами, помалкивать - to * one's purse отказать в деньгах конец;
    заключение, завершение - at the * of one's days в конце жизни - day has reached its * день кончился - to bring to a * закончить, завершить;
    довести до конца - to draw to a * приближаться к концу закрытие, окончание работы - at the * of the exchange при закрытии биржи - * price( коммерческое) окончательная цена( музыкальное) каданс заканчивать, завершать;
    заключать - to * a speech заключить речь - to * a meeting закрыть собрание - to * a subscription list прекратить подписку - to * an account( финансовое) закрыть счет заканчиваться;
    завершаться - the meeting *d with a speech by the president собрание завершилось выступлением президента - his short life *d его короткая жизнь оборвалась договариваться - to * a bargain договориться, заключить сделку принять (предложение, условие) - I offered him six pounds and he *d with it я предложил ему шесть фунтов, и он согласился - the two ministers did not * with each other два министра не смогли договориться между собой( биржевое) иметь цену или курс на момент закрытия биржи - that stock *d last night at ten dollars на момент закрытия биржи вчера вечером эти акции стоили десять долларов( военное) войти в соприкосновение - the order was given to * with the enemy дан приказ войти в соприкосновение с противником - to * one's days окончить дни свои, умереть близкий;
    находящийся или расположенный недалеко - * proximity непосредственная близость - * combat( военное) ближний бой - * reconnaissance( военное) ближняя разведка - * support( военное) непосредственная поддержка - * fighting бой с ближней дистанции (бокс) - the house is * to the station дом находится близко от вокзала близкий, интимный - he is a * friend of mine он мой большой друг тесный, близкий - * contact тесный контакт - * co-operation тесное сотрудничество;
    (военное) непосредственное взаимодействие - there's a * resemblance between them между ними большое сходство плотный, компактный;
    тесный - * texture плотная ткань - * thicket густая чаща - to sew with * stitches шить мелкими стежками - * timber( горное) сплошная крепь - * formation( военное) сомкнутый строй - * march( военное) движение в сомкнутом строю - * finish финиширование в тесной группе участников (велоспорт) - * planting загущенный посев, загущенная посадка( растений) - * stand густое стояние;
    сомкнутость полога (леса) хорошо пригнанный;
    плотный - * lid плотно закрывающаяся крышка - * bonnet плотно сидящая на голове шапочка - * fit (техническое) плотная пригонка облегающий (об одежде) сжатый (о стиле) краткий и содержательный - * statement лаконичное заявление убористый (о почерке) - * print убористая печать, плотный набор душный, спертый - * air спертый воздух - * day душный день - a spell of * weather период летний духоты тщательный;
    подробный - * investigation тщательное расследование - * analysis подробный анализ - * attention пристальное внимание - * check( техническое) строгий контроль точный - * translation точный перевод срезанный низко, коротко, до корня - * haircut короткая стрижка - * mowing низкий срез( травы, хлебов) скупой, скаредный - he is * with his money он скуповат почти равный( о шансах) - * combat состязание, в котором силы участвующих почти равны;
    состязание достойных соперников;
    упорная борьба на выборах - * vote почти равное количество голосов "за" и "против" - * district (американизм) избирательный округ, в котором победа одержана незначительным большинством( разговорное) трудно достающийся, ограниченный (о средствах) - money is * деньги достаются нелегко( разговорное) скуповатый строго логичный - * reasoning логичное рассуждение( устаревшее) строгий, суровый - * mourning глубокий траур( редкое) вязкий;
    нелетучий( спортивное) осторожный( о футболе и т. п.) (кинематографический) крупный - * shot крупный план близко - * at hand близко, рядом, под рукой;
    рукой подать - to follow smb. * следовать за кем-л. по пятам - the end of the year is drawing * приближается конец года - * to the wind (морское) в крутой бейдевинд коротко - to cut one's hair * коротко подстричься в сочетаниях: - * by рядом - * on приблизительно, около, почти - * to около - to sit * to the fire сидеть около камина - to stick * to the text строго придерживаться текста - * upon приблизительно, около, почти - * upon two hundred people около двухсот человек - to press smb. * обращаться сурово - * to home не в бровь, а в глаз - the speaker's remarks hit * to home замечания оратора попали в самую точку подходить близко, сближаться, смыкаться - the ship sank and the water *d over it корабль затонул, и воды сомкнулись над ним (спортивное) (военное) сомкнуть( ряды) - to * the ranks сомкнуть ряды;
    сплотиться, объединиться - we must * the ranks to secure peace мы должны сплотиться, чтобы обеспечить мир (by) a ~ shave на волосок от (by) a ~ shave с минимальным преимуществом ~ конец, завершение, окончание;
    to bring to a close довести до конца, завершить, закончить bring to a ~ вчт. завершать close без пропусков, пробелов;
    связный ~ близкий, интимный;
    close friend близкий друг ~ близкий (о времени и месте) ;
    тесный;
    close contact тесный контакт ~ близкий ~ близко;
    close up поблизости;
    close on почти, приблизительно;
    there were close on a hundred people present присутствовало почти сто человек ~ внимательный;
    тщательный;
    подробный;
    close investigation подробное обследование;
    close reading внимательное, медленное чтение ~ договариваться ~ завершать ~ завершение ~ завершение кредитного соглашения ~ завершение сделки ~ заканчивать(ся) ;
    заключать (речь и т. п.) ;
    to close a discussion прекратить обсуждение ~ заканчивать ~ заключать ~ заключение ~ закрывать(ся) ;
    кончать (торговлю, занятия) ~ вчт. закрывать ~ закрывать ~ закрываться ~ закрытие ~ закрытие биржи ~ закрытие бухгалтерских книг в конце учетного периода ~ закрытый ~ вчт. закрыть ~ замкнутый, молчаливый, скрытный;
    to keep oneself close держаться замкнуто ~ замкнутый ~ эл. замыкать (цепь) ;
    close about окутывать;
    окружать ~ иметь определенный курс на момент закрытия биржи ~ муз. каденция;
    каданс ~ компактный ~ конец, завершение, окончание;
    to bring to a close довести до конца, завершить, закончить ~ конец ~ кончать ~ коротко;
    close cropped коротко остриженный;
    to cut one's hair close коротко постричься ~ облегающий (об одежде) ;
    хорошо пригнанный;
    точно соответствующий ~ огороженное место (часто вокруг собора) ~ ограниченный ~ окончание работы ~ плотный;
    густой (о лесе) ;
    close texture плотная ткань ~ плотный ~ подробный ~ подходить близко;
    сближаться вплотную ~ почти;
    he ran me very close он почти догнал меня ~ почти равный (о шансах) ~ почти равный ~ прекращение ~ сжатый (о почерке, стиле) ;
    close print убористая печать ~ скупой;
    he is close with his money он скуповат ~ спертый, душный ~ строгий (об аресте, изоляции) ~ строго охраняемый ~ тайный ~ точный;
    close translation точный перевод ~ точный ~ тщательный ~ уединенный;
    скрытый;
    to keep a thing close держать (что-л.) в секрете;
    to keep (или to lie) close прятаться ~ хорошо пригнанный ~ школьная площадка ~ заканчивать(ся) ;
    заключать (речь и т. п.) ;
    to close a discussion прекратить обсуждение ~ эл. замыкать (цепь) ;
    close about окутывать;
    окружать to get to ~ quarters сблизиться, подойти на близкую дистанцию;
    close attack воен. наступление с ближней дистанции ~ call амер. на волосок от;
    close contest упорная борьба на выборах;
    close vote почти равное деление голосов ~ column сомкнутая колонна;
    close order сомкнутый строй column: ~ воен. колонна;
    амер. мор. строй кильватера;
    close column сомкнутая колонна;
    in column в колонне, в затылок;
    амер. мор. в строю кильватера ~ близкий (о времени и месте) ;
    тесный;
    close contact тесный контакт ~ call амер. на волосок от;
    close contest упорная борьба на выборах;
    close vote почти равное деление голосов ~ коротко;
    close cropped коротко остриженный;
    to cut one's hair close коротко постричься ~ defence непосредственное охранение ~ district амер. избирательный округ, где победа на выборах одержана незначительным большинством ~ down мор. задраивать ~ down закрывать (предприятие) ;
    прекращать работу ~ down закрывать ~ down ликвидировать предприятие ~ down подавлять ~ down прекращать работу ~ down применять репрессии;
    подавлять ~ близкий, интимный;
    close friend близкий друг ~ in окружать, огораживать ~ in приближаться;
    наступать ~ in сокращатьсяднях) ;
    close on приходить к соглашению;
    close round окружать ~ внимательный;
    тщательный;
    подробный;
    close investigation подробное обследование;
    close reading внимательное, медленное чтение ~ of financial year конец финансового года ~ of pleadings прекращение обмена состязательными бумагами ~ of polling прекращение процедуры голосования ~ of year конец года ~ близко;
    close up поблизости;
    close on почти, приблизительно;
    there were close on a hundred people present присутствовало почти сто человек ~ in сокращаться (о днях) ;
    close on приходить к соглашению;
    close round окружать ~ upon = ~ on;
    ~ with вступать в борьбу ~ upon = ~ on;
    ~ with принимать предложение, заключать сделку to ~ one's days умереть;
    to close the door (on smth.) положить конец обсуждению (чего-л.) ;
    сделать( что-л.) невозможным day: his ~ is gone его время прошло, окончилась его счастливая пора;
    his days are numbered дни его сочтены;
    to close (или to end) one's days окончить дни свои;
    скончаться;
    покончить счеты с жизнью ~ column сомкнутая колонна;
    close order сомкнутый строй order: ~ воен. строй, боевой порядок;
    close (extended) order сомкнутый (расчлененный) строй ~ out закрывать свое предприятие ~ out исключать ~ out исключать возможность ~ out ликвидировать ценные бумаги ~ out продавать ~ сжатый (о почерке, стиле) ;
    close print убористая печать ~ внимательный;
    тщательный;
    подробный;
    close investigation подробное обследование;
    close reading внимательное, медленное чтение reading: ~ чтение;
    close reading внимательное чтение ~ in сокращаться (о днях) ;
    close on приходить к соглашению;
    close round окружать ~ season время, когда запрещена охота или рыбная ловля season: close ~ закрытый сезон ~ плотный;
    густой (о лесе) ;
    close texture плотная ткань to ~ one's days умереть;
    to close the door (on smth.) положить конец обсуждению (чего-л.) ;
    сделать (что-л.) невозможным door: door дверь;
    дверца;
    дверной проем;
    front door парадный вход;
    to close the door ((up) on smb.) закрыть (за кем-л.) дверь ~ перен. путь, дорога;
    a door to success путь к успеху;
    to close the door (to (или upon) smth.) отрезать путь (к чему-л.) ;
    сделать (что-л.) невозможным;
    to open a door (to (или for) smth.) открыть путь (к чему-л.) ;
    ~ точный;
    close translation точный перевод ~ близко;
    close up поблизости;
    close on почти, приблизительно;
    there were close on a hundred people present присутствовало почти сто человек ~ up заканчивать ~ up закрывать ~ up закрываться (о ране) ~ up ликвидировать ~ up сомкнуть ряды ~ upon = ~ on;
    ~ with вступать в борьбу ~ upon = ~ on;
    ~ with принимать предложение, заключать сделку ~ call амер. на волосок от;
    close contest упорная борьба на выборах;
    close vote почти равное деление голосов ~ upon = ~ on;
    ~ with вступать в борьбу ~ upon = ~ on;
    ~ with принимать предложение, заключать сделку ~ коротко;
    close cropped коротко остриженный;
    to cut one's hair close коротко постричься to get to ~ quarters сблизиться, подойти на близкую дистанцию;
    close attack воен. наступление с ближней дистанции ~ скупой;
    he is close with his money он скуповат ~ почти;
    he ran me very close он почти догнал меня ~ уединенный;
    скрытый;
    to keep a thing close держать (что-л.) в секрете;
    to keep (или to lie) close прятаться ~ уединенный;
    скрытый;
    to keep a thing close держать (что-л.) в секрете;
    to keep (или to lie) close прятаться ~ замкнутый, молчаливый, скрытный;
    to keep oneself close держаться замкнуто ~ близко;
    close up поблизости;
    close on почти, приблизительно;
    there were close on a hundred people present присутствовало почти сто человек

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > close

  • 15 intensity

    noun (the quality of being intense: the intensity of the heat.) intensidad
    intensity n intensidad
    tr[ɪn'tensɪtɪ]
    1 intensidad nombre femenino
    intensity [ɪn'tɛntsət̬i] n, pl - ties : intensidad f
    n.
    encendimiento s.m.
    intensidad s.f.
    ɪn'tensəti
    noun intensidad f
    [ɪn'tensɪtɪ]
    N
    1) (=strength) [of heat, cold, emotion, pain, light] intensidad f
    2) (=passion) [of expression, relationship, debate, fighting] intensidad f ; [of person] vehemencia f

    she looked at me with such intensity that... — me miró con tal intensidad que..., me miró de una forma tan intensa que...

    * * *
    [ɪn'tensəti]
    noun intensidad f

    English-spanish dictionary > intensity

  • 16 heavy

    adjective
    1) (in weight) schwer; dick [Mantel]; fest [Schuh]

    heavy traffic(dense) hohes Verkehrsaufkommen

    2) (severe) schwer [Schaden, Verlust, Strafe, Kampf]; hoch [Steuern, Schulden, Anforderungen]; massiv [Druck, Unterstützung]
    3) (excessive) unmäßig [Trinken, Essen, Rauchen]

    a heavy smoker/drinker — ein starker Raucher/Trinker

    4) (violent) schwer [Schlag, Sturm, Regen, Sturz, Seegang]

    make heavy weather of something(fig.) die Dinge unnötig komplizieren

    5) (clinging) schwer [Boden]; see also academic.ru/31621/going">going 1. 1)
    6) (tedious) schwerfällig; (serious) seriös [Zeitung]; ernst [Musik, Theaterrolle]
    * * *
    ['hevi]
    1) (having great weight; difficult to lift or carry: a heavy parcel.) schwer
    2) (having a particular weight: I wonder how heavy our little baby is.) schwer
    3) (of very great amount, force etc: heavy rain; a heavy blow; The ship capsized in the heavy seas; heavy taxes.) schwer,stark
    4) (doing something to a great extent: He's a heavy smoker/drinker.) stark
    5) (dark and dull; looking or feeling stormy: a heavy sky/atmosphere.) trübe
    6) (difficult to read, do, understand etc: Books on philosophy are too heavy for me.) schwer
    7) ((of food) hard to digest: rather heavy pastry.) schwer
    8) (noisy and clumsy: heavy footsteps.) schwer
    - heavily
    - heaviness
    - heavy-duty
    - heavy industry
    - heavyweight
    - heavy going
    - a heavy heart
    - make heavy weather of
    * * *
    [ˈhevi]
    I. adj
    1. (weighty) schwer a. fig
    her eyes were \heavy with tiredness vor Müdigkeit fielen ihr fast die Augen zu
    to be \heavy with child ( liter) schwanger sein, ein Kind unter dem Herzen tragen liter
    \heavy fall schwerer Sturz
    \heavy food schweres [o schwer verdauliches] Essen
    to do \heavy lifting/carrying schwere Sachen heben/tragen
    \heavy machinery schwere Maschinen
    \heavy step schwerer Schritt
    to lie \heavy on sb's stomach jdm schwer im Magen liegen
    \heavy work Schwerarbeit f
    2. (intense) stark
    \heavy accent starker Akzent
    \heavy bleeding starke Blutung
    to be under \heavy fire MIL unter schwerem Beschuss stehen
    \heavy frost/gale/snow starker Frost/Sturm/Schneefall
    \heavy rain heftiger [o starker] Regen
    \heavy sea hohe [o stürmische] See
    3. (excessive) stark, übermäßig
    the engine is rather \heavy on fuel der Motor verbraucht ziemlich viel Benzin
    \heavy drinker starker Trinker/starke Trinkerin
    \heavy sleep tiefer Schlaf
    \heavy smoker starker Raucher/starke Raucherin
    4. (severe) schwer[wiegend]
    the odds were \heavy but they decided to go for it anyway sie entschieden sich, trotz der vielen Widrigkeiten weiterzumachen
    a \heavy blow ein schwerer Schlag a. fig
    \heavy offence schweres Vergehen
    \heavy jail sentence hohe Gefängnisstrafe
    5. (abundant) viel, reichlich; sum hoch
    the trees were \heavy with fruit die Bäume trugen viele Früchte
    \heavy casualties unzählige Opfer; MIL schwere [o hohe] Verluste
    \heavy crop reiche Ernte
    \heavy fine hohe Geldstrafe
    \heavy investment hohe Investitionen pl
    6. ( fig: oppressive) drückend, lastend; weather schwül
    the atmosphere was \heavy with menace es lag Gefahr in der Luft
    \heavy responsibility große Verantwortung
    \heavy silence lähmende Stille
    7. (difficult) schwierig, schwer
    \heavy breathing schwerer Atem
    \heavy going Schinderei f, Plackerei f fam
    the book is rather \heavy going das Buch ist schwer zu lesen
    the going was \heavy wir kamen nur schwer voran
    8. (dense) dicht; (thick) dick
    \heavy beard dichter Bart
    \heavy coat dicker Mantel
    \heavy clouds schwere Wolken
    \heavy schedule voller [o dicht gedrängter] Terminkalender
    \heavy shoes feste Schuhe
    \heavy sky bedeckter Himmel
    \heavy traffic starker [o dichter] Verkehr
    \heavy undergrowth dichtes Unterholz
    9. (not delicate) grob
    \heavy features grobe Züge
    10. (clumsy) schwerfällig
    11. (strict) streng
    to be \heavy on sb streng mit jdm sein
    to play the \heavy mother die gestrenge Mutter spielen
    12.
    to do sth with a \heavy hand etw mit eiserner Strenge machen
    with a \heavy heart schweren Herzens
    to make \heavy weather of sth etw unnötig komplizieren
    II. n
    1. (sl: thug) Schläger[typ] m sl
    2. THEAT (character) Schurke, Schurkin m, f
    to be [or play] the \heavy in sth ( fig fam) bei etw dat die Hauptrolle spielen
    the heavies pl die seriösen Zeitungen
    4. esp SCOT (beer) Starkbier nt
    * * *
    ['hevɪ]
    1. adj (+er)
    1) (= of great weight PHYS fig) schwer; features grob

    with a heavy heart — schweren Herzens, mit schwerem Herzen

    heavy with sleep (person) — schläfrig; eyes also schwer

    the air was heavy with smoke/the smell of cooking — der Rauch/Essensgeruch hing schwer in der Luft

    his voice was heavy with sarcasmseine Stimme triefte von or vor Sarkasmus

    2) blow, gunfire, casualties, fog, book, meal, defeat, losses schwer; rain, traffic, drinker, smoker, period stark; expenses, taxes hoch; buying groß; line dick; sleep tief; landing, fall hart

    to be heavy on the stomach —

    3) (= heavy-handed) manner, style, sense of humour schwerfällig
    4) (= oppressive) silence bedrückend; weather, air drückend, schwül; sky bedeckt
    5) (= difficult) task, work, day schwer
    6) (THEAT) part schwer, ernst
    7) (inf: strict) streng (on mit)

    to play the heavy father/husband — den gestrengen Vater/Ehemann spielen

    8) (dated US sl) prima (inf), dufte (dated inf)
    2. adv
    schwer
    3. n
    1) (Brit inf = thug) Schlägertyp m
    2) (THEAT: villain) Schurke m
    3) (Scot: beer) dunkleres, obergäriges Bier
    * * *
    heavy [ˈhevı]
    A adj (adv heavily)
    1. schwer ( auch CHEM, PHYS)
    2. MIL schwer (Artillerie etc):
    heavy guns schwere Geschütze;
    bring out ( oder up) the ( oder one’s) heavy guns grobes oder schweres Geschütz auffahren umg
    3. schwer:
    a) heftig, stark:
    heavy fall schwerer Sturz;
    heavy fighting MIL schwere Kämpfe pl;
    heavy losses schwere Verluste;
    heavy rain starker Regen;
    heavy sea schwere See;
    heavy traffic starker Verkehr; cold C 3, inroad 3
    b) massig (Körper)
    c) wuchtig (Schlag): blow2 2
    d) drückend, hart:
    heavy fine hohe Geldstrafe;
    heavy taxes drückende oder hohe Steuern
    4. beträchtlich, groß:
    heavy buyer Großabnehmer(in);
    heavy consumer ( oder user) Großverbraucher(in);
    heavy cost hohe Kosten pl;
    heavy demand starke Nachfrage;
    heavy favo(u)rite SPORT etc hohe(r) Favorit(in);
    heavy orders große Aufträge;
    be heavy on gasoline (Br petrol) viel Benzin (ver)brauchen
    5. schwer, stark, übermäßig:
    a heavy drinker (eater, smoker) ein starker Trinker (Esser, Raucher);
    a heavy loser jemand, der schwere Verluste erleidet
    6. ergiebig, reich (Ernte)
    7. schwer:
    a) stark (alkoholhaltig):
    heavy beer Starkbier n
    b) stark, betäubend (Parfum etc)
    c) schwer verdaulich (Nahrung)
    8. pappig, klitschig (Brot etc)
    9. dröhnend, dumpf:
    heavy roll of thunder dumpfes Donnergrollen;
    heavy steps schwere Schritte
    10. drückend, lastend (Stille etc)
    11. a) schwer:
    heavy clouds tief hängende Wolken
    b) trüb, finster:
    heavy sky bedeckter Himmel
    c) drückend, schwül (Luft)
    12. (with)
    a) (schwer) beladen (mit)
    b) fig überladen, voll (von):
    heavy with meaning bedeutungsvoll, -schwer
    13. schwer:
    a) schwierig, mühsam, hart (Aufgabe etc):
    heavy worker Schwerarbeiter(in); going A 2
    b) schwer verständlich (Buch etc)
    14. plump, unbeholfen, schwerfällig (Stil etc)
    15. auch heavy in ( oder on) hand stumpfsinnig, langweilig (Buch etc)
    16. begriffsstutzig, dumm (Person)
    17. schläfrig, benommen ( with von):
    heavy with sleep schlaftrunken
    18. folgenschwer:
    of heavy consequence mit weitreichenden Folgen
    19. ernst, betrüblich (Neuigkeiten etc)
    20. THEAT etc
    a) ernst, düster (Szene etc)
    b) würdevoll (Ehemann etc)
    21. bedrückt, niedergeschlagen:
    with a heavy heart schweren oder blutenden Herzens
    22. WIRTSCH flau, schleppend:
    heavy market gedrückter Markt;
    heavy sale schlechter Absatz
    23. unwegsam, aufgeweicht, lehmig (Straße etc):
    24. steil, jäh:
    heavy grade starkes Gefälle
    25. breit, grob:
    heavy scar breite Narbe;
    heavy features grobe Züge
    26. a) auch heavy with child schwanger
    b) auch heavy with young ZOOL trächtig
    27. TYPO fett (gedruckt)
    B s
    1. THEAT etc
    a) Schurke m
    b) würdiger älterer Herr
    c) Schurkenrolle f
    d) Rolle f eines würdigen älteren Herrn
    2. MIL
    a) schweres Geschütz
    b) pl schwere Artillerie
    3. SPORT umg Schwergewichtler m
    4. schott Starkbier n
    5. US umg schwerer Junge (Verbrecher)
    6. pl US umg warme Unterkleidung
    C adv hang heavy langsam vergehen, dahinschleichen (Zeit);
    time was hanging heavy on my hands die Zeit wurde mir lang;
    lie heavy on sb schwer auf jemandem lasten, jemanden schwer bedrücken
    * * *
    adjective
    1) (in weight) schwer; dick [Mantel]; fest [Schuh]

    heavy traffic (dense) hohes Verkehrsaufkommen

    2) (severe) schwer [Schaden, Verlust, Strafe, Kampf]; hoch [Steuern, Schulden, Anforderungen]; massiv [Druck, Unterstützung]
    3) (excessive) unmäßig [Trinken, Essen, Rauchen]

    a heavy smoker/drinker — ein starker Raucher/Trinker

    4) (violent) schwer [Schlag, Sturm, Regen, Sturz, Seegang]

    make heavy weather of something(fig.) die Dinge unnötig komplizieren

    5) (clinging) schwer [Boden]; see also going 1. 1)
    6) (tedious) schwerfällig; (serious) seriös [Zeitung]; ernst [Musik, Theaterrolle]
    * * *
    (poor) polling n.
    Wahlbeteiligung f. (rain) adj.
    stark (Regen) adj. adj.
    heftig adj.
    schwer adj.
    stark adj.

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  • 17 fierce

    [fɪəs, Am fɪrs] adj
    1) ( hostile) heftig, ungestüm ( geh)
    \fierce attack scharfer Angriff;
    \fierce combat [or fighting] erbitterter Kampf;
    \fierce competition erbarmungslose [o scharfe] Konkurrenz;
    \fierce opposition entschlossener Widerstand;
    \fierce struggle heftiger Streit
    2) ( untamed) animal wild
    3) ( intense) stark, intensiv;
    \fierce debate/ discussion hitzige Debatte/Diskussion;
    \fierce hate wilder [o blinder] Hass;
    \fierce jealousy heftige [o blinde] Eifersucht;
    \fierce love leidenschaftliche Liebe
    4) ( destructive) heftig, stürmisch;
    \fierce weather stürmisches Wetter;
    \fierce winds tobende [o kräftige] Winde
    5) (Am) (fam: difficult) schwer, schwierig
    PHRASES:
    something \fierce (Am) ( fam) unbedingt;
    I need a cold drink something \fierce ich muss unbedingt etwas Kaltes trinken

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  • 18 zone

    1. n зона, пояс; район

    free zone — вольная гавань, порто-франко

    annual zone — годичное кольцо, годичный слой

    silent zone, zone of silence — радио, зона молчания, мёртвая зона

    2. n зона единого тарифа, тарифная зона

    landing zone — зона, район посадки

    3. n амер. район отделения связи
    4. n арх. поэт. пояс, кушак
    5. n полоса, кольцо
    6. v разделять на зоны, на пояса; районировать

    pressure zone — зона повышенного давления; зона нагнетания

    preheat zone — зона предварительного нагрева, зона подогрева

    7. v опоясывать
    8. v делать полосатым
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. area (noun) area; belt; girth; section; territory; tract
    2. climate (noun) band; climate; clime; latitude; meridian; region
    3. district (noun) district; precinct; sector; ward
    4. band (verb) band; encircle; gird; girdle
    5. designate (verb) designate; mark; section

    English-Russian base dictionary > zone

  • 19 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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  • 20 heavy

    A n
    1 ( person) gen grosse brute f ; (bodyguard, escort) gorille m ;
    2 GB ( newspaper) grand journal m, journal m sérieux.
    B adj
    1 gen, Phys ( having weight) [weight, person, load, bag, parcel] lourd ; to be too heavy to lift être trop lourd à soulever or pour qu'on puisse le soulever ; to make sth heavier alourdir qch ; he's 5 kg heavier than me il pèse 5 kilos de plus que moi ; how heavy are you? combien pèses-tu? ; to be heavy with young [animal] être pleine ;
    2 ( thick) [fabric, coat] lourd ; [shoes, frame] gros/grosse (before n) ; [line, feature, face] épais/épaisse ; in heavy type en caractères gras ; of heavy build solidement bâti, de forte carrure ; to wear heavy make-up se maquiller beaucoup, être très maquillé ;
    3 Mil, Ind [machinery] gros/grosse (before n), lourd ; [artillery] lourd ; ‘heavy plant crossing’ ‘traversée d'engins’ ;
    4 fig (weighty, ponderous) [movement, step] pesant, lourd ; [irony, humour, responsibility, sigh] lourd ; my legs feel heavy j'ai les jambes lourdes ; his eyelids began to get heavy ses paupières devenaient lourdes ; with a heavy heart le cœur gros ; to be a heavy sleeper avoir le sommeil lourd ; a heavy thud un bruit sourd ; a heavy blow un coup violent ; ‘you told me,’ he said with heavy emphasis ‘c'est toi qui me l'a dit,’ dit-il en insistant lourdement ; the going is heavy le terrain est lourd ; the interview was heavy going (slow, hard work) l'interview était laborieuse ;
    5 ( abundant) [traffic] dense ; [gunfire] nourri ; [bleeding, period] abondant ; [charge, investment] important ; to be a heavy drinker/smoker boire/fumer beaucoup ; security was heavy d'importantes mesures de sécurité avaient été prises ; heavy trading on the stock market beaucoup de transactions à la Bourse ; to have a heavy workload avoir beaucoup de travail ; to be heavy on ( use a lot of) [person] avoir la main lourde sur [ingredient, perfume] ; [machine] consommer beaucoup de [fuel] ; ( contain a lot of) comporter beaucoup de [humour, ingredient] ;
    6 ( severe) [defeat, loss, debt] lourd ; [attack, bombing] intense ; [prison sentence, penalty, fine] sévère ; [cuts, criticism] fort (before n) ; [cold] gros/grosse (before n) ; heavy casualties un nombre élevé de victimes ; heavy fighting de violents combats ;
    7 ( strong) [perfume, scent, concentration] fort ; [accent] prononcé ;
    8 Meteorol [rain, frost] fort ; [fog, mist] épais/épaisse ; [snow, dew] abondant ; [cloud] lourd ; [sky] chargé, lourd ; it's very heavy today il fait très lourd aujourd'hui ; to capsize in heavy seas chavirer par grosse mer ;
    9 Culin [meal, food, pastry] lourd ; [wine] corsé ;
    10 (busy, packed) [day, month, timetable, programme] chargé ;
    11 (difficult, serious) [book, paper, film, lecture] ardu ; this article is ou makes heavy reading cet article n'est pas d'une lecture facile ;
    12 ( loaded) to be heavy with [air, branch, atmosphere] être chargé de [perfume, flowers, resentment] ; a remark heavy with meaning une remarque lourde de sens.
    C adv [weigh] lourdement ; time hung heavy on her hands le temps lui pesait.
    things started to get heavy ( threatening) ça a commencé à mal tourner ; (serious, intellectual) ça a commencé à devenir un peu ardu ; ( sexual) ça a commencé à devenir lourd .

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