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  • 1 after

    after, US [transcription]["_ft\@r"]
    ❢ As both adverb and preposition, after is translated in most contexts by après: after the meal = après le repas ; H comes after G = H vient après G ; day after day = jour après jour ; just after 3 pm = juste après 15 heures ; three weeks after = trois semaines après. When after is used as a conjunction it is translated by après avoir (or être) + past participle where the two verbs have the same subject: after I've finished my book, I'll cook dinner = après avoir fini mon livre je vais préparer le dîner ; after he had consulted Bill ou after consulting Bill, he decided to accept the offer = après avoir consulté Bill, il a décidé d'accepter l'offre. When the two verbs have different subjects the translation is après que + indicative: I'll lend you the book after Fred has read it = je te prêterai le livre après que Fred l'aura lu. For more examples and particular usages see the entry below. See also the usage note on time units ⇒ Time units.
    A adv
    1 ( following time or event) après ; before and after avant et après ; soon ou shortly ou not long after peu après ; for weeks after pendant des semaines après ; straight after GB, right after US tout de suite après ;
    2 ( following specific time) the week/year after la semaine/l'année suivante or d'après ; the day after le lendemain.
    B prep
    1 ( later in time than) après ; after the film après le film ; immediately after the strike aussitôt après la grève ; after that date ( in future) au-delà de cette date ; ( in past) après cette date ; shortly after 10 pm peu après 22 h ; it was after six o'clock il était six heures passées, il était plus de six heures ; after that après (cela) ; the day after tomorrow après-demain ; a ceremony after which there was a banquet une cérémonie après laquelle il y a eu un banquet ; he had breakfast as usual, after which he left il a pris son petit déjeuner comme d'habitude, après quoi il est parti ;
    2 ( given) après ; after my attempt at milking, I was nervous après ma tentative de traire les vaches je n'étais pas très sûr de moi ; after the way he behaved après la façon dont il s'est conduit ; after all we did for you! après tout ce que nous avons fait pour toi! ;
    3 ( in spite of) malgré, après ; after all the trouble I took labelling the package, it got lost malgré tout le mal que je me suis donné à étiqueter le paquet, il s'est perdu ; after what she's been through, she's still interested? malgré or après ce qu'elle a subi, ça l'intéresse toujours? ;
    4 ( expressing contrast) après ; the film was disappointing after all the hype ○ après tout le battage ○ le film était décevant ; it's boring here after Paris après Paris, on s'ennuie ici ;
    5 ( behind) to run ou chase after sb/sth courir après qn/qch ; please shut the gate after you refermez la grille derrière vous s'il vous plaît ;
    6 ( following in sequence) après ; your name comes after mine on the list ton nom vient après le mien sur la liste ; the adjective comes after the noun l'adjectif vient après le nom ;
    7 (following in rank, precedence) après ; she's next in line after Bob for promotion elle sera la prochaine après Bob à avoir une promotion ; he was placed third after Smith and Jones il est arrivé troisième après Smith et Jones ; after you! ( letting someone pass ahead) après vous! ;
    8 ( in the direction of) to stare after sb regarder qn s'éloigner ; ‘don't forget!’ Mimi called after her ‘n'oublie pas!’ lui a crié Mimi ;
    9 ( in the wake of) derrière ; I'm not tidying up after you! je n'ai pas l'intention de ranger derrière toi! ;
    10 ( in pursuit of) to be after sth chercher qch ; that's the house they're after c'est la maison qu'ils veulent acheter ; the police are after him il est recherché par la police ; to come ou go after sb poursuivre qn ; he'll come after me il va essayer de me retrouver ; it's me he's after ( to settle score) c'est à moi qu'il en veut ; I wonder what she's after? je me demande ce qu'elle veut? ; I think he's after my job je pense qu'il veut (me) prendre ma place ; to be after sb ○ ( sexually) s'intéresser à qn ;
    11 ( beyond) après ; about 400 metres after the crossroads environ 400 mètres après le carrefour ;
    12 (stressing continuity, repetitiveness) day after day jour après jour ; generation after generation génération après génération ; time after time maintes et maintes fois ; mile after mile of bush des kilomètres et des kilomètres de brousse ; it was one disaster after another on a eu catastrophe sur catastrophe ;
    13 ( about) to ask after sb demander des nouvelles de qn ;
    14 ( in honour or memory of) to name a child after sb donner à un enfant le nom de qn ; named after James Joyce [monument, street, institution, pub] portant le nom de James Joyce ; we called her Kate after my mother nous l'avons appelée Kate comme ma mère ;
    15 ( in the manner of) ‘after Millet’ ‘d'après Millet’ ; it's a painting after Klee c'est un tableau fait à la manière de Klee ; ⇒ fashion A 1 ;
    16 US ( past) it's twenty after eleven il est onze heures vingt.
    C conj
    1 ( in sequence of events) après avoir or être (+ pp), après que (+ indic) ; don't go for a swim too soon after eating ne va pas nager trop tôt après avoir mangé ; after we had left we realized that après être partis nous nous sommes rendu compte que ; after she had confessed to the murder, he was released après qu'elle a avoué le meurtre, il a été relâché ; we return the bottles after they have been washed nous retournons les bouteilles après qu'elles ont été lavées ;
    2 ( given that) after hearing all about him we want to meet him après tout ce que nous avons entendu sur lui nous voulons le rencontrer ; after you explained the situation they didn't call the police une fois que tu leur as expliqué la situation ils n'ont pas appelé la police ;
    3 ( in spite of the fact that) why did he do that after we'd warned him of the consequences? pourquoi a-t-il fait ça alors que nous l'avions prévenu des conséquences?
    D afters ○ npl GB dessert m ; what's for afters? qu'est-ce qu'il y a comme dessert?
    1 ( when reinforcing point) après tout ; after all, nobody forced you to leave après tout personne ne t'a obligé à partir ;
    2 (when reassessing stance, opinion) après tout, finalement ; it wasn't such a bad idea after all après tout or finalement ce n'était pas une si mauvaise idée ; he decided not to stay after all finalement il a décidé de ne pas rester.

    Big English-French dictionary > after

  • 2 after

    1. adverb
    1) (later) danach
    2) (behind) hinterher
    2. preposition
    1) (following in time, as result of) nach
    2) (behind) hinter (+ Dat.)

    what are you after? — was suchst du denn?; (to questioner) was willst du wirklich wissen?

    she's only after his money — sie ist nur hinter seinem Geld her

    3) (about)

    ask after somebody/something — nach jemandem/etwas fragen

    4) (next in importance to) nach
    5) (in spite of) nach
    * * *
    1. preposition
    1) (later in time or place than: After the car came a bus.) nach
    2) (following (often indicating repetition): one thing after another; night after night.) nach
    3) (behind: Shut the door after you!) hinter
    4) (in search or pursuit of: He ran after the bus.) hinter...her
    5) (considering: After all I've done you'd think he'd thank me; It's sad to fail after all that work.) nach
    6) ((American: in telling the time) past: It's a quarter after ten.) nach
    2. adverb
    (later in time or place: They arrived soon after.) danach
    3. conjunction
    (later than the time when: After she died we moved house twice.) nachdem
    - academic.ru/1091/aftermath">aftermath
    - afterthought
    - afterwards
    - after all
    - be after
    * * *
    af·ter
    [ˈɑ:ftəʳ, AM ˈæftɚ]
    I. prep
    1. (later time) nach + dat
    \after two weeks of vacationing nach zwei Wochen Ferien
    he always takes a nap \after lunch er macht nach dem Mittagessen immer einen kurzen Mittagsschlaf
    the day \after tomorrow übermorgen
    \after hours (in pubs) außerhalb der gesetzlich erlaubten Zeit, nach der Polizeistunde; (in shops) nach Ladenschluss; (working hours) nach Feierabend
    [a] quarter \after six AM [um] Viertel nach Sechs
    the week \after next übernächste Woche
    ▪ to be \after sb/sth hinter jdm/etw her sein
    you're chasing \after sth you can't have du jagst etwas hinterher, was du nicht haben kannst
    most of them are \after money die meisten von ihnen sind nur hinter dem Geld her [o auf das Geld aus
    3. (following) nach + dat
    the letter C comes \after B der Buchstabe C kommt nach B
    \after you! nach Ihnen!
    \after you with the butter! reichst du mir dann bitte auch die Butter?
    4. (many in succession) nach + dat
    day \after day Tag für Tag
    hour \after hour Stunde um Stunde
    time \after time immer wieder
    she ate one piece of cake \after another sie aß ein Stück Kuchen nach dem anderen
    5. (behind) nach + dat
    can you lock up \after you? können Sie zuschließen, wenn Sie gehen?
    he shut the door \after them er machte die Tür hinter ihnen zu
    she stared \after him in disbelief sie starrte ihm ungläubig nach
    6. (result of) nach + dat
    \after what he did to me, I'll never talk to him again nach dem, was er mir angetan hat, werde ich nie wieder ein Wort mit ihm wechseln
    7. (in honour of) nach + dat
    to name sb/sth \after sb/sth jdn/etw nach jdm/etw [be]nennen
    they named her Anne, \after her father's sister sie haben sie Anne genannt, nach der Schwester ihres Vaters
    8. (similar to) nach + dat
    a painting \after Picasso ein Gemälde im Stil von Picasso
    to take \after sb jdm nachschlagen
    she takes \after her mother sie kommt nach ihrer Mutter
    9. (about) nach + dat
    he inquired \after his uncle's health er erkundigte sich nach dem Befinden seines Onkels
    10. (in comparison to) verglichen mit + dat
    my children seem small \after his meine Kinder wirken klein verglichen mit seinen
    11.
    ▶ \after all (in spite of) trotz + dat
    \after all his efforts, he still failed the driving test trotz all seiner Bemühungen fiel er durch die Führerscheinprüfung
    he rang and told me that he couldn't come \after all er hat angerufen und mir gesagt, dass er doch nicht kommen könne; (giving reason) schließlich
    you are my husband, \after all du bist schließlich mein Mann
    she promised it, \after all sie hat es immerhin versprochen
    ▶ to be \after doing sth IRISH (going to do) dabei sein, etw zu tun; (just done) gerade etw getan haben
    II. conj nachdem
    I'll call you \after I take a shower ich rufe dich an, wenn ich geduscht habe
    right [or straight] [or immediately] \after sth unmittelbar nachdem...
    I went to the post office straight \after I left you ich bin direkt von dir zur Post gelaufen
    soon [or shortly] [or not long] \after sth kurz nachdem...
    soon \after we joined the motorway, the car started to make a strange noise wir waren noch nicht lange auf der Autobahn, da gab der Motor ein seltsames Geräusch von sich
    III. adv inv
    1. (at a later time) danach
    the day/week \after einen Tag/eine Woche danach [o darauf]
    shortly [or soon] \after kurz [o bald] darauf
    marriage, house, baby — and what comes \after? Hochzeit, Haus, Kinder — und was kommt dann?
    a mouse ran into the bushes and the cat ran \after eine Maus rannte in die Büsche und die Katze hinterher
    3. ( fam: afterwards) danach, nachher
    what are you going to do \after? was hast du danach noch vor?
    IV. adj inv, attr ( liter) später
    in \after years in späteren Jahren
    * * *
    I ['Aːftə(r)]
    adj attr (NAUT)
    Achter- II
    1. prep
    1) (time) nach (+dat)
    2) (order) nach (+dat), hinter (+dat); (in priorities etc) nach (+dat)

    I would put Keats after Shelley —

    after Germany, Japan is our biggest market — nach Deutschland ist Japan unser größter Markt

    3) (place) hinter (+dat)
    4) (= as a result of) nach (+dat)

    after what has happened — nach allem, was geschehen ist

    5)

    (= in spite of) to do sth after all — etw schließlich doch tun

    after all our efforts! — und das, nachdem or wo (inf) wir uns so viel Mühe gegeben haben!

    after all I've done for you! — und das nach allem, was ich für dich getan habe!

    after all, he is your brother —

    and to do this after I had warned him — und das, nachdem ich ihn gewarnt hatte

    6) (succession) nach (+dat)

    you tell me lie after lie — du erzählst mir eine Lüge nach der anderen, du belügst mich am laufenden Band

    one after the other — eine(r, s) nach der/dem anderen

    day after day —

    7) (manner = according to) nach (+dat)

    after El Greco — in der Art von El Greco, nach El Greco

    8)

    (pursuit, inquiry) to be after sb/sth — hinter jdm/etw her sein

    he's just after a free meal/a bit of excitement — er ist nur auf ein kostenloses Essen/ein bisschen Abwechslung aus

    2. adv
    (time, order) danach; (place, pursuit) hinterher

    for years/weeks after — noch Jahre/Wochen or jahrelang/wochenlang danach

    the year/week after — das Jahr/die Woche danach or darauf

    I'll be back some time the year after — ich komme irgendwann im Jahr danach or im darauffolgenden Jahr wieder

    soon after —

    what comes after? the car drove off with the dog running after — was kommt danach or nachher? das Auto fuhr los und der Hund rannte hinterher

    3. conj
    nachdem

    after he had closed the door he began to speak — nachdem er die Tür geschlossen hatte, begann er zu sprechen

    what will you do after he's gone? — was machst du, wenn er weg ist?

    after finishing it I will... — wenn ich das fertig habe, werde ich...

    after arriving they went... — nachdem sie angekommen waren, gingen sie...

    4. adj
    5. n afters
    6. pl (Brit inf)
    Nachtisch m
    * * *
    after [ˈɑːftə; US ˈæftər]
    A adv nachher, hinterher, danach, darauf, später:
    for months after noch monatelang;
    during the weeks after in den (nach)folgenden Wochen;
    that comes after das kommt nachher;
    shortly after kurz danach; → day Bes Redew
    B präp
    1. hinter (dat) … her, nach, hinter (dat):
    close the door after sb die Tür hinter jemandem zumachen;
    a) er kam hinter mir her,
    b) er kam nach mir;
    be after sb (sth) fig hinter jemandem (einer Sache) her sein;
    be after sth auch auf etwas aus sein, es auf etwas abgesehen haben;
    after you bitte nach Ihnen!; → go after, look after
    2. (zeitlich) nach:
    after a week auch nach Ablauf einer Woche;
    ten after five US 10 nach 5;
    day after day Tag für Tag;
    blow after blow Schlag auf Schlag;
    wave after wave Welle um Welle;
    the month after next der übernächste Monat;
    one after the other einer (eine, eines) nach dem (der, dem) andern, nacheinander, hintereinander;
    a) schließlich, im Grunde, eigentlich, alles in allem,
    b) immerhin, dennoch,
    c) (also) doch,
    d) doch (noch);
    I think I’ll stay at home after all ich bleibe doch lieber zu Haus;
    after all my trouble trotz aller meiner Mühe;
    after what has happened nach dem, was geschehen ist; → hour 5
    3. (im Range) nach:
    4. nach, gemäß:
    after his nature seinem Wesen gemäß;
    a picture after Rubens ein Gemälde nach oder im Stil von Rubens;
    after what you have told me nach dem, was Sie mir erzählt haben; → heart Bes Redew
    C adj
    1. später:
    2. hinter(er, e, es), SCHIFF Achter…:
    D konj nachdem:
    E s afters pl (auch als sg konstruiert) Br umg Nachtisch m:
    for afters als oder zum Nachtisch
    p. abk
    1. page S.
    2. part T.
    3. LING participle Part.
    4. past
    5. Br penny, pence
    6. per
    7. post, after
    * * *
    1. adverb
    1) (later) danach
    2) (behind) hinterher
    2. preposition
    1) (following in time, as result of) nach
    2) (behind) hinter (+ Dat.)

    what are you after? — was suchst du denn?; (to questioner) was willst du wirklich wissen?

    ask after somebody/something — nach jemandem/etwas fragen

    * * *
    adj.
    Hinter- Präfix adv.
    gemäß adv.
    hinterher (örtlich) adv.
    nachher adv. prep.
    nach präp.

    English-german dictionary > after

  • 3 after

    af·ter [ʼɑ:ftəʳ, Am ʼæftɚ] prep
    1) ( later time) nach +dat;
    \after two weeks of vacationing nach zwei Wochen Ferien;
    he usually takes a nap \after lunch er macht nach dem Mittagessen normalerweise einen kurzen Mittagsschlaf;
    the day \after tomorrow übermorgen;
    the week \after next übernächste Woche;
    [a] quarter \after six (Am) [um] Viertel nach Sechs;
    \after hours nach Feierabend;
    \after the fact danach, hinterher
    to be \after sb/ sth hinter jdm/etw her sein
    3) ( following) nach +dat;
    the letter C comes \after B der Buchstabe C kommt nach B;
    \after you nach Ihnen
    4) ( because of) nach +dat;
    \after saying what he did, I'll never talk to him again nachdem was er gesagt hat, werde ich nie wieder ein Wort mit ihm wechseln;
    \after all schließlich
    5) ( behind) nach +dat;
    can you lock up \after you? können Sie zuschließen, wenn Sie gehen?;
    he shut the door \after them er schloss die Tür hinter ihnen;
    she stared \after him in disbelief sie sah ihm ungläubig nach
    6) ( in honour of) nach +dat;
    to name sb/sth \after sb/ sth jdn/etw nach jdm/etw [be]nennen;
    to be named \after sb nach jdm benannt sein
    7) ( similar to) nach +dat;
    to take \after sb nach jdm kommen;
    she takes \after her mother sie kommt nach ihrer Mutter
    8) ( about) nach +dat;
    he politely inquired \after his uncle's health er erkundigte sich höflich nach dem Befinden seines Onkels
    9) ( despite) trotz +dat;
    \after all his efforts, he still failed the driving test trotz all seiner Bemühungen fiel er durch die Führerscheinprüfung;
    \after all trotzdem
    10) ( in comparison to) verglichen mit +dat;
    their children seem small \after his ihre Kinder wirken klein verglichen mit seinen
    11) ( many in succession) nach +dat;
    hour \after hour Stunde um Stunde;
    she ate one piece of cake \after another sie aß ein Stück Kuchen nach dem anderen conj nachdem;
    I'll call you \after I take a shower ich rufe dich an, wenn [o sobald] ich geduscht habe;
    soon [or shortly] [or not long] \after sth kurz nachdem...;
    soon \after we joined the motorway, the car started to make a strange noise wir waren noch nicht lange auf der Autobahn, als der Motor seltsame Geräusche von sich gab;
    right [or straight] [or immediately] \after sth unmittelbar nachdem...;
    I went to the post office straight \after I left you ich bin direkt von dir zur Post gelaufen adv
    1) ( at a later time) danach;
    the day/week \after einen Tag/eine Woche danach [o darauf];
    shortly [or soon] \after kurz [o bald] danach [o darauf];
    he passed away and she died shortly \after zuerst starb er und kurze Zeit später folgte sie ihm in den Tod
    2) ( behind)
    marriage, house, baby - and what comes \after? Hochzeit, Haus, Kinder - und was kommt dann?;
    a mouse ran into the bushes and the cat ran \after eine Maus rannte in die Büsche und die Katze hinterher
    3) (fam: afterwards) danach, nachher;
    what are you going to do \after? was hast du nachher vor? adj
    inv ( liter) später;
    in \after years in späteren Jahren

    English-German students dictionary > after

  • 4 after

    after [ˈα:ftər]
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    ► When after is an element in a phrasal verb, eg look after, take after, look up the verb.
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
       a. après
    • after which he... après quoi il...
    • after you, sir après vous, Monsieur
    • after all I've done for you! après tout ce que j'ai fait pour toi !
    • he ate 3 biscuits, one after the other il a mangé 3 biscuits l'un après l'autre
       d. (pursuit) to be after sb/sth chercher qn/qch ; (after loss, disappearance) rechercher qn/qch
    • what are you after? (inf) ( = want) qu'est-ce que vous voulez ? ; ( = have in mind) qu'avez-vous en tête ?
    • what comes after? qu'est-ce qui vient ensuite ?
    • after he had closed the door, she spoke après qu'il eut fermé la porte, elle a parlé
    • after he had closed the door, he spoke après avoir fermé la porte, il a parlé
    afters (inf) ( = dessert) dessert m
    • after-school club or center (British, US) garderie f ► after-sun adjective [lotion, cream] après-soleil noun ( = lotion) lotion f après-soleil ; ( = cream) crème f après-soleil
    * * *
    Note: As both adverb and preposition, after is translated in most contexts by après: after the meal = après le repas; H comes after G = H vient après G; day after day = jour après jour; just after 3 pm = juste après 15 heures; three weeks after = trois semaines après
    When after is used as a conjunction it is translated by après avoir (or être) + past participle where the two verbs have the same subject: after I finished my book, I cooked dinner = après avoir fini mon livre j'ai préparé le dîner; after he had consulted Bill or after consulting Bill, he decided to accept the offer = après avoir consulté Bill, il a décidé d'accepter l'offre
    When the two verbs have different subjects the translation is après que + indicative: I'll lend you the book after Fred has read it = je te prêterai le livre après que Fred l'aura lu
     ['ɑːftə(r)], US ['æftər] 1.

    soon ou not long after — peu après

    right after — US tout de suite après

    2.
    1) ( later in time than) après

    immediately/shortly after the strike — aussitôt/peu après la grève

    after that date — ( in future) au-delà de cette date; ( in past) après cette date

    2) ( given) après

    after what she's been through? — malgré or après ce qu'elle a subi?

    3) ( expressing contrast) après

    it's boring here after Paris — après Paris, on s'ennuie ici

    4) ( behind)

    to chase after somebody/something — courir après quelqu'un/quelque chose

    5) (following in sequence, rank) après

    ‘don't forget!’ Mimi called after her — ‘n'oublie pas!’ lui a crié Mimi

    it's me he's after — ( to settle score) c'est à moi qu'il en veut

    to be after somebody — (colloq) ( sexually) s'intéresser à quelqu'un

    8) ( beyond) après
    10) ( about)

    named after — [street, institution] portant le nom de

    ‘after Millet’ — ‘d'après Millet’

    13) US ( past)
    3.
    1) ( in sequence of events) après avoir or être (+ pp), après que (+ indic)
    2) ( once)
    4.
    afters (colloq) plural noun GB dessert m
    5.
    after all adverb, preposition après tout

    English-French dictionary > after

  • 5 soon

    su:n
    1) (in a short time from now or from the time mentioned: They'll be here sooner than you think; I hope he arrives soon.) pronto, en breve, dentro de poco
    2) (early: It's too soon to tell.) pronto, temprano
    3) (willingly: I would sooner stand than sit.) antes, (prefiero estar de pie antes de estar sentado)
    •
    - no sooner... than
    - sooner or later
    - the sooner the better
    soon adv pronto / dentro de poco
    please write back soon escríbeme pronto, por favor
    as soon as en cuanto / tan pronto como
    as soon as I know anything, I'll ring you en cuanto sepa algo, te llamaré
    tr[sʊːn]
    1 (within a short time) pronto, dentro de poco
    2 (early) pronto, temprano
    ■ must you leave so soon? ¿ya te marchas?
    ■ how soon can you get here? ¿cuándo puedes estar aquí?
    3 (expressing preference, readiness, willingness)
    ■ I'd (just) as soon eat in as... preferiría comer en casa que...
    ■ I'd just as soon not, if you don't mind preferiría que no, si no te importa
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    as soon as en cuanto, tan pronto como
    ■ as soon as we hear anything, we'll let you know en cuanto sepamos algo, te lo haremos saber
    as soon as possible cuanto antes, lo más pronto posible
    not a moment too soon no antes de tiempo
    soon afterwards poco después
    soon ['su:n] adv
    1) : pronto, dentro de poco
    he'll arrive soon: llegará pronto
    2) quickly: pronto
    as soon as possible: lo más pronto posible
    the sooner the better: cuanto antes mejor
    adv.
    • en breve adv.
    • luego adv.
    • pronto adv.
    • próximamente adv.
    • temprano adv.
    suːn
    adverb -er, -est
    1) (shortly, after a while) pronto, dentro de poco
    2)
    a) (early, quickly) pronto

    how soon can you be here? — ¿cuándo puedes llegar?, ¿qué tan pronto puedes llegar? (AmL)

    none too soon, not a minute o moment too soon — no antes de tiempo

    it'll be here tonight - as soon as that? — estará aquí esta noche - ¿tan pronto?

    as soon as possible — lo antes posible, cuanto antes

    b) (as conj)

    as soon as — en cuanto, tan pronto como

    as soon as you've finished, you can go — en cuanto hayas terminado or tan pronto como hayas terminado, te puedes ir

    as soon... (as): I'd just as soon stay at home (as go out) no me importaría quedarme en casa, tanto me da quedarme en casa (como salir); sooner... (than): I'd sooner not go, to be honest a decir verdad, preferiría no ir; sooner you than me! — mejor tú que yo, me alegro de no ser yo el que tiene que hacerlo

    [suːn]
    ADV
    1) (=before long) pronto, dentro de poco

    they'll be here soon — pronto llegarán, llegarán dentro de poco

    it will soon be summer — pronto llegará el verano, falta poco para que llegue el verano

    • come back soon — vuelve pronto

    2) (=early, quickly) pronto, temprano

    • how soon can you be ready? — ¿cuánto tardas en prepararte?

    how soon can you come? — ¿cuándo puedes venir?

    • Friday is too soon — el viernes es muy pronto

    we were none too soon — no llegamos antes de tiempo, llegamos justo

    not a minute or moment too soon — ya era hora

    3)

    • as soon as — en cuanto, tan pronto como

    I'll do it as soon as I can — lo haré en cuanto pueda, lo haré tan pronto como pueda

    as soon as you see her — en cuanto la veas, tan pronto como la veas

    as soon as possible — cuanto antes, lo antes posible, lo más pronto posible

    sooner AS SOON AS ► As with other time conjunctions, en cuanto and tan pronto como are used with the {subjunctive} if the action which follows hasn't happened yet or hadn't happened at the time of speaking:
    As soon as or The moment we finish, I've got to write an editorial En cuanto terminemos or Tan pronto como terminemos, tengo que escribir un editorial
    As soon as I know the dates, I'll let you know En cuanto sepa or Tan pronto como sepa las fechas, te lo diré ► En cuanto and tan pronto como are used with the {indicative} when the action in the time clause has already taken place:
    He left the podium as soon as or the moment he received his prize Se bajó del podio en cuanto recibió or tan pronto como recibió el premio ► En cuanto and tan pronto como are also used with the {indicative} when describing habitual actions:
    As soon as any faxes arrive, they're put in a special box En cuanto llegan or Tan pronto como llegan los faxes, se guardan en una caja especial For further uses and examples, see main entry
    * * *
    [suːn]
    adverb -er, -est
    1) (shortly, after a while) pronto, dentro de poco
    2)
    a) (early, quickly) pronto

    how soon can you be here? — ¿cuándo puedes llegar?, ¿qué tan pronto puedes llegar? (AmL)

    none too soon, not a minute o moment too soon — no antes de tiempo

    it'll be here tonight - as soon as that? — estará aquí esta noche - ¿tan pronto?

    as soon as possible — lo antes posible, cuanto antes

    b) (as conj)

    as soon as — en cuanto, tan pronto como

    as soon as you've finished, you can go — en cuanto hayas terminado or tan pronto como hayas terminado, te puedes ir

    as soon... (as): I'd just as soon stay at home (as go out) no me importaría quedarme en casa, tanto me da quedarme en casa (como salir); sooner... (than): I'd sooner not go, to be honest a decir verdad, preferiría no ir; sooner you than me! — mejor tú que yo, me alegro de no ser yo el que tiene que hacerlo

    English-spanish dictionary > soon

  • 6 shortly

    1. adv скоро, вскоре
    2. adv кратко, сжато, в нескольких словах
    3. adv резко, отрывисто; грубо
    4. adv редк. недолго
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. presently (adj.) anon; before long; forthwith; immediately; in a minute; not at the moment; presently; pronto
    2. briefly (other) briefly; concisely; in brief; in short; laconically; succinctly; tersely
    3. curtly (other) abruptly; bluntly; brusquely; curtly; gruffly; peremptorily; sharply
    4. soon (other) after a short time; after a time; after a while; anon; any minute; before long; by and by; directly; in a minute; in a moment; in a second; in a while; momentarily; presently; soon

    English-Russian base dictionary > shortly

  • 7 before long

    1. скоро; вскоре
    2. вскоре
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. presently (adj.) anon; forthwith; immediately; in a minute; not at the moment; presently; pronto; shortly
    2. soon (other) after a short time; after a time; after a while; any minute; directly; in a minute; in a moment; in a second; in a while; momentarily; presently; shortly; soon

    English-Russian base dictionary > before long

  • 8 afterwards

    afterwards, US [transcription]["_f-"] GB, afterward, US [transcription]["_f-"] US adv
    1 ( after) gen après ; ( in a sequence of events) ensuite ; soon ou shortly ou not long afterwards peu après ; immediately ou directly afterwards aussitôt après ; straight afterwards GB tout de suite après ; we saw a film, went to the restaurant then went home afterwards on est allé au cinéma, puis au restaurant et ensuite on est rentré ; salmon, green salad and afterwards an apple tart du saumon et une salade verte suivis d'une tarte aux pommes ;
    2 ( later) plus tard ; I'll tell you afterwards je te le dirai plus tard ; it was only afterwards that I noticed ce n'est que plus tard que je m'en suis aperçu ;
    3 ( subsequently) par la suite ; I regretted it afterwards je l'ai regretté par la suite.

    Big English-French dictionary > afterwards

  • 9 poco


    poco 1 adverbio:
    ◊ habla poco he doesn't say much o a lot;
    es muy poco agradecido he is very ungrateful; un autor muy poco conocido a very little-known author; viene muy poco por aquí he hardly ever comes around; para locs ver poco 2 4
    poco 2 -ca adjetivo ( con sustantivos no numerables) little; ( en plural) few; muy pocos niños very few children; había poquísimos coches there were hardly any cars ■ pronombre 1 (poca cantidad, poca cosa): por poco que gane … no matter how little o however little she earns …; se conforma con poco he's easily satisfied; todo le parece poco she is never satisfied; pocos quisieron ayudar few were willing to help; pocos pueden permitirse ese lujo not many people can afford to do that 2
    ◊ poco ( refiriéndose a tiempo): lo vi hace poco I saw him recently o not long ago;
    hace muy poco que lo conoce she hasn't known him for very long; tardó poco en hacerlo it didn't take him long to do it; falta poco para las navidades it's not long till Christmas; a poco de venir él soon o shortly after he came; dentro de poco soon; poco antes de que … a short while o shortly before … 3
    ◊ un poco
    ( refiriéndose a tiempo) a while;
    ◊ dame un poco I'll have some o a little;
    espera un poco wait a while
    b)
    c) un poco + adj/adv:
    ◊ un poco caro/tarde a bit o a little expensive/late
    4 ( en locs)
    ◊ a poco (Méx): ¡a poco no está fabuloso Acapulco! isn't Acapulco just fantastic!;
    ¡a poco ganaron! don't tell me they won!; de a poco (AmL) gradually, little by little; poco a poco gradually; poco más o menos approximately, roughly; por poco nearly
    poco,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 (con el sustantivo en singular) not much, little: tengo poco apetito, I haven't got much appetite
    2 (con el sustantivo en plural) not many, few: conozco pocos lugares de Italia, I don't know many places in Italy
    II pron (singular) little, not much (plural) (objetos) few, not many (personas) few people, not many people ➣ Ver nota en few
    III adverbio
    1 (con verbo) not (very) much, little: entiendo poco del tema, I don't understand much about the issue
    2 (con adjetivo) not very: está poco claro, it's not very clear
    3 (de tiempo) hace poco que nos conocemos, we met a short time ago
    IV sustantivo masculino
    1 (acompañado de adjetivo o adverbio) lo noté un poco molesto, I thought he was a bit annoyed
    tendré que hacerlo un poco después, I'll have to do it a little later
    2 (acompañando a un sustantivo) dame un poco de agua, give me a little water ➣ Ver nota en little
    Locuciones: a poco de, shortly after
    dentro de poco, soon
    poco a poco, little by little, gradually
    poco antes/después, shortly before/afterwards
    por poco, almost ' poco' also found in these entries: Spanish: abreviar - aclimatarse - adelgazar - aguantar - ahora - alcornoque - alentador - alentadora - algo - antes - apercibirse - bagatela - baja - bajo - brusca - brusco - bruta - bruto - buscar - calentar - cargada - cargado - cascada - cascado - cerebral - chapucera - chapucero - chispa - clara - claro - común - cruda - crudo - cualquiera - de - dentro - descuidada - descuidado - descuidarse - desigual - desmoronada - desmoronado - despatarrarse - despistada - despistado - despreciable - después - desvaído - disipar - dudosa English: accomplice - add to - adjust - aerial - after - afterwards - along - aloof - amateurish - balding - bark - belly - bit - black - blind - blow up - boot - by - can - careless - chat - comedown - confusing - cowboy - degree - derivative - desultory - disagreement - disingenuous - diving - do - dodgy - doubtful - dowdy - earthy - easy-going - edge - effect - element - evasion - exist - expect - fall apart - far-fetched - fine - flippant - forge - furnish - fuzzy - gradually

    English-spanish dictionary > poco

  • 10 short

    1. adjective
    1) kurz

    a short time or while ago/later — vor kurzem/kurze Zeit später

    for a short time or while — eine kleine Weile; ein [kleines] Weilchen

    a short time or while before/after something — kurz vor/nach etwas (Dat.)

    in a short time or while — (soon) bald; in Kürze

    within a short [space of] time — innerhalb kurzer Zeit

    in the short run or term — kurzfristig; kurzzeitig

    wear one's hair/skirts short — seine Haare kurz tragen/kurze Röcke tragen

    2) (not tall) klein [Person, Wuchs]; niedrig [Gebäude, Baum, Schornstein]
    3) (not far-reaching) kurz [Wurf, Schuss, Gedächtnis]
    4) (deficient, scanty) knapp

    be [far/not far] short of a record — einen Rekord [bei weitem] nicht erreichen/[knapp] verfehlen

    somebody/something is so much/so many short — jemandem/einer Sache fehlt soundsoviel/fehlen soundsoviele

    time is getting/is short — die Zeit wird/ist knapp

    keep somebody short [of something] — jemanden [mit etwas] kurz halten

    [have to] go short [of something] — [an etwas (Dat.)] Mangel leiden [müssen]

    she is short of milk today — sie hat heute nicht genug Milch

    be short [of cash] — knapp [bei Kasse] sein (ugs.)

    he is just short of six feet/not far short of 60 — er ist knapp sechs Fuß [groß]/sechzig [Jahre alt]

    5) (brief, concise) kurz

    the short answer is... — um es kurz zu machen: die Antwort ist...

    short and sweet — (iron.) kurz und schmerzlos (ugs.)

    in short,... — kurz,...

    6) (curt, uncivil) kurz angebunden; barsch
    7) (Cookery) mürbe [Teig]
    8)

    sell oneself short — (fig.) sein Licht unter den Scheffel stellen

    sell somebody/something short — (fig.) jemanden/etwas unterschätzen

    2. adverb
    1) (abruptly) plötzlich

    stop short — plötzlich abbrechen; [Musik, Gespräch:] jäh (geh.) abbrechen

    stop short at something — über etwas (Akk.) nicht hinausgehen

    bring or pull somebody up short — jemanden stutzen lassen

    2) (curtly) kurz angebunden; barsch
    3) (before the expected place or time)

    jump/land short — zu kurz springen/zu früh landen (ugs.)

    stop short of the line — vor der Linie stehen-/liegenbleiben

    the bomb dropped short [of its target] — die Bombe fiel vor das Ziel

    fall or come [far/considerably] short of something — etwas [bei weitem] nicht erreichen

    stop short of something — (fig.) vor etwas zurückschrecken

    stop short of doing something — davor zurückschrecken, etwas zu tun

    4)

    nothing short of a catastrophe/miracle can... — nur eine Katastrophe/ein Wunder kann...

    short of locking him in, how can I keep him from going out? — wie kann ich ihn daran hindern auszugehen - es sei denn ich schlösse ihn ein?

    3. noun
    1) (Electr. coll.) Kurze, der (ugs.)
    2) (coll.): (drink) Schnaps, der (ugs.)
    4. transitive verb
    (Electr. coll.) kurzschließen
    5. intransitive verb
    (Electr. coll.) einen Kurzschluss kriegen (ugs.)
    * * *
    [ʃo:t] 1. adjective
    1) (not long: You look nice with your hair short; Do you think my dress is too short?) kurz
    2) (not tall; smaller than usual: a short man.) klein
    3) (not lasting long; brief: a short film; in a very short time; I've a very short memory for details.) kurz
    4) (not as much as it should be: When I checked my change, I found it was 20 cents short.) zu wenig
    5) ((with of) not having enough (money etc): Most of us are short of money these days.) knapp
    6) ((of pastry) made so that it is crisp and crumbles easily.) mürbe
    2. adverb
    1) (suddenly; abruptly: He stopped short when he saw me.) kurzerhand
    2) (not as far as intended: The shot fell short.) zu kurz
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    - academic.ru/66859/shortness">shortness
    - shortage
    - shorten
    - shortening
    - shortly
    - shorts
    - shortbread
    - short-change
    - short circuit
    - shortcoming
    - shortcut
    - shorthand
    - short-handed
    - short-list     3. verb
    (to put on a short-list: We've short-listed three of the twenty applicants.) in die engere Wahl ziehen
    - short-lived
    - short-range
    - short-sighted
    - short-sightedly
    - short-sightedness
    - short-tempered
    - short-term
    - by a short head
    - for short
    - go short
    - in short
    - in short supply
    - make short work of
    - run short
    - short and sweet
    - short for
    - short of
    * * *
    [ʃɔ:t, AM ʃɔ:rt]
    I. adj
    1. (not long) kurz
    Jo's \short for Josephine Jo ist die Kurzform von Josephine
    2. (not tall) klein
    3. (not far) kurz
    \short distance kurze Strecke
    a \short haul eine kurze Strecke [o Fahrt]
    a \short hop ein Katzensprung m
    at \short range aus kurzer Entfernung
    4. (brief) kurz
    to have a \short memory ein kurzes Gedächtnis haben
    at \short notice kurzfristig
    in the \short term kurzfristig, in nächster Zeit
    \short trip Kurztrip m
    \short and sweet kurz und schmerzlos
    we're £15 \short to pay the bill uns fehlen 15 Pfund, um die Rechnung bezahlen zu können
    we're still one person \short to make up a quiz team uns fehlt noch eine Person für ein Quizteam
    to be \short [of cash] ( fam) knapp bei Kasse sein
    we're a bit \short of coffee wir haben nur noch wenig Kaffee
    to be \short of breath außer Atem sein
    to be \short of space wenig Platz haben, räumlich beengt sein
    to be in \short supply schwer zu beschaffen sein, knapp sein
    to be \short of time wenig Zeit haben
    ▪ to be \short on sth von etw dat wenig haben
    to be \short on brains nur wenig im Kopf haben
    6. LING
    \short vowel kurzer Vokal, Kurzvokal m
    7. pred (not friendly)
    ▪ to be \short [with sb] [jdm gegenüber] kurz angebunden sein
    \short position Baisseposition f
    9.
    ▶ the \short answer is ‘no’ die Antwort ist kurz und bündig ‚nein‘
    ▶ to not be \short of a bob or two BRIT, AUS ( fam) reich sein
    ▶ to draw [or get] the \short straw den Kürzeren ziehen
    ▶ to get [or be given] \short shrift kurz abgefertigt werden
    ▶ to have a \short fuse sich akk schnell aufregen
    he has a \short fuse bei ihm brennt leicht die Sicherung durch fam
    ▶ to have sb by the \short hairs [or by the \short and curlies] esp BRIT (sl) jdn in der Hand haben
    ▶ to make \short shrift of sth mit etw dat kurzen Prozess machen, etw schnell erledigen
    ▶ to make \short work of sb mit jdm kurzen Prozess machen
    ▶ to make \short work of sth etw schnell erledigen
    II. n
    1. FILM Kurzfilm m
    2. ELEC ( fam) Kurzer m
    3. BRIT ( fam: alcoholic drink) Kurzer m, Stamperl nt ÖSTERR
    III. adv
    to cut sth \short etw abkürzen
    I had to cut our holiday \short ich musste unseren Urlaub unterbrechen
    they never let the children go \short sie ließen es den Kindern an nichts fehlen
    to fall \short of sth etw nicht erreichen, hinter etw dat zurückbleiben; of expectations etw dat nicht entsprechen
    to go [or AM usu be] \short [of sth] etw zu wenig haben
    to stop sb \short jdn unterbrechen
    to stop sth \short etw abbrechen
    she stopped \short of accusing him of lying beinahe hätte sie ihm vorgeworfen, dass er log
    ▶ to be caught [or taken] \short BRIT ( hum fam) dringend [aufs Klo] müssen fam
    ▶ in \short kurz gesagt
    * * *
    [ʃɔːt]
    1. adj (+er)
    1) kurz; steps, person klein; waist (of dress) hoch

    to be short in the leg (person) — kurze Beine haben; (trousers) zu kurz sein

    to be in short trousers — in kurzen Hosen herumlaufen; (fig) ein kleiner Junge sein

    a short time ago — vor kurzer Zeit, vor Kurzem

    in a short time or while — in Kürze, in kurzer Zeit

    time is getting/is short —

    short drink — Kurze(r) m (inf), Schnaps m

    2) (LING) vowel, syllable kurz; (= unstressed) unbetont
    3) (= brief) kurz

    short and sweet — schön kurz, kurz und ergreifend (iro)

    the short answer is that he refused — kurz gesagt, er lehnte ab

    4) (= curt) reply knapp; (= rude) barsch, schroff; manner, person schroff, kurz angebunden (inf)

    to be short with sb — jdn schroff behandeln, jdm gegenüber kurz angebunden sein (inf)

    5) (= insufficient) zu wenig inv; rations knapp

    to be in short supply — knapp sein; (Comm) beschränkt lieferbar sein

    we are (five/£3) short, we are short (of five/£3) — wir haben (fünf/£ 3) zu wenig

    it's five/£3 short — es fehlen fünf/£ 3

    we are short of books/staff — wir haben zu wenig Bücher/Personal

    we are not short of volunteers — wir haben genug Freiwillige, uns fehlt es nicht an Freiwilligen

    I'm a bit short (of cash) (inf) — ich bin etwas knapp bei Kasse

    he's one sandwich short of a picnic (hum inf) he's one or several cards short of a full deck ( US hum inf ) — er hat sie nicht alle beisammen (inf)

    we are £2,000 short/not far short of our target — wir liegen £ 2.000/(nur) knapp unter unserem Ziel

    not far or much short of £100 — nicht viel weniger als £ 100, beinahe £ 100, knapp unter £ 100

    he is not far short of his fiftieth birthday now — er ist jetzt knapp unter fünfzig, ihm fehlt nicht mehr viel bis zu seinem fünfzigsten Geburtstag

    to be short on experience/examples — wenig Erfahrung/Beispiele haben

    See:
    6) (FIN) sale ohne Deckung, ungedeckt; loan, bill kurzfristig
    7) pastry mürbe
    2. adv
    1)

    (= below the expected amount) to fall short (arrow etc) — zu kurz landen; (shot) zu kurz sein; (supplies etc) nicht ausreichen

    to fall short of sth — etw nicht erreichen; of expectations etw nicht erfüllen

    it fell 10 feet short of the target — es fehlten 10 Fuß zum Ziel, es war 10 Fuß zu kurz

    it falls far short of what we require — das bleibt weit hinter unseren Bedürfnissen zurück; (in quantity) das bleibt weit unter unseren Bedürfnissen

    to go short (of money/food etc) — zu wenig (Geld/zu essen etc) haben

    we are running short (of water/time) — wir haben nicht mehr viel (Wasser/Zeit)

    sugar/water is running short — Zucker/Wasser ist knapp

    to sell oneself short (inf) — sein Licht unter den Scheffel stellen, sich unter Wert verkaufen

    2) (= abruptly, suddenly) plötzlich, abrupt

    to pull up or stop short (while driving) — plötzlich or abrupt anhalten; (while walking also) plötzlich or abrupt stehen bleiben

    I'd stop short of murder —

    he stopped short of actually calling me a liar — er ging nicht so weit, mich tatsächlich einen Lügner zu nennen

    to be caught short by sth — auf etw (acc) nicht vorbereitet sein

    3)

    nothing short of a revolution can... — nur eine Revolution kann...

    I don't see what you can do short of asking him yourself — ich sehe keine andere Möglichkeit, außer dass Sie ihn selbst fragen

    short of telling him a lie... — außer ihn zu belügen...

    3. n
    (= short circuit) Kurzschluss, Kurze(r) (inf) m; (inf = short drink) Kurze(r) m (inf); (= short film) Kurzfilm m

    to have/get sb by the short and curlies ( Brit inf ) — jdn am Wickel haben/kriegen (inf)

    See:
    → long
    4. vt (ELEC)
    kurzschließen
    5. vi (ELEC)
    einen Kurzschluss haben
    * * *
    short [ʃɔː(r)t]
    A adj (adv → shortly)
    a short life (memory, street, etc);
    a short time ago vor kurzer Zeit, vor Kurzem;
    short holiday (bes US vacation) Kurzurlaub m; → hair Bes Redew, run A 1 a, shrift 2, ton1 1 b, work A 1
    2. klein (von Gestalt)
    3. kurz, knapp (Rede etc). “phone” is short for “telephone” „phone“ ist die Kurzform von „telephone“
    4. kurz angebunden, barsch
    5. knapp (Rationen, Stunde etc):
    run short knapp werden, zur Neige gehen ( → A 8)
    6. fall ( oder come) short of fig etwas nicht erreichen, den Erwartungen etc nicht entsprechen, hinter einer Sache zurückbleiben
    7. geringer, weniger ( beide:
    of als):
    little short of 10 dollars nicht ganz 10 Dollar;
    nothing short of nichts weniger als, geradezu;
    I need £100 but I’m still £10 short aber mir fehlen noch 10 Pfund;
    they are one player short SPORT sie haben einen Mann weniger auf dem Platz oder Eis
    8. knapp (of an dat):
    short of breath kurzatmig;
    short of cash ( oder money) knapp bei Kasse umg;
    they ran short of bread das Brot ging ihnen aus ( → A 5)
    9. mürbe (Gebäck etc)
    10. brüchig (Metall etc)
    11. besonders WIRTSCH kurzfristig, auf kurze Sicht (Wechsel etc):
    at short date kurzfristig; → notice A 4
    12. WIRTSCH Baisse…
    13. a) klein, in einem kleinen Glas serviert:
    short drink Schnaps m, Kurze(r) m
    b) stark, unverdünnt
    B adv
    1. kurz(erhand), plötzlich, jäh, abrupt:
    cut sb short jemandem über den Mund fahren, jemandem das Wort abschneiden fig,;
    be taken ( oder caught) short umg dringend (verschwinden oder austreten) müssen;
    stop short jäh innehalten, stutzen ( → B 3)
    2. zu kurz:
    a) (kurz oder knapp) vor (dat),
    b) abgesehen von, außer,
    c) beinahe, fast:
    it was little short of a miracle es grenzte an ein Wunder;
    stop short of zurückschrecken vor (dat)( → B 1)
    4. WIRTSCH ungedeckt:
    a) ohne Deckung verkaufen, fixen,
    b) fig umg bagatellisieren
    C s
    1. (etwas) Kurzes, z. B.
    a) Kurzfilm m
    b) MUS kurzer Ton
    c) LIT kurze Silbe
    d) LING Kürze f, kurzer Laut
    e) (Morse) Punkt m, kurzes Zeichen; → long1 C 1
    2. Kurzform f:
    he is called Bill for short er wird kurz oder der Kürze halber Bill genannt;
    in short kurz(um)
    3. Fehlbetrag m, Manko n
    4. pl, auch pair of shorts
    a) Shorts pl,
    b) bes US (Herren)Unterhose f
    5. ELEK Kurze(r) m umg (Kurzschluss)
    6. WIRTSCH Baissespekulant(in)
    7. pl WIRTSCH
    a) ohne Deckung verkaufte Waren pl oder Wertpapiere pl
    b) zur Deckung benötigte Wertpapiere pl (beim Blankoverkauf)
    8. pl TECH Abfall- oder Nebenprodukte pl
    9. pl feine (Weizen)Kleie
    D v/t umg für short-circuit 1
    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) kurz

    a short time or while ago/later — vor kurzem/kurze Zeit später

    for a short time or while — eine kleine Weile; ein [kleines] Weilchen

    a short time or while before/after something — kurz vor/nach etwas (Dat.)

    in a short time or while — (soon) bald; in Kürze

    within a short [space of] time — innerhalb kurzer Zeit

    in the short run or term — kurzfristig; kurzzeitig

    wear one's hair/skirts short — seine Haare kurz tragen/kurze Röcke tragen

    2) (not tall) klein [Person, Wuchs]; niedrig [Gebäude, Baum, Schornstein]
    3) (not far-reaching) kurz [Wurf, Schuss, Gedächtnis]
    4) (deficient, scanty) knapp

    be [far/not far] short of a record — einen Rekord [bei weitem] nicht erreichen/[knapp] verfehlen

    somebody/something is so much/so many short — jemandem/einer Sache fehlt soundsoviel/fehlen soundsoviele

    time is getting/is short — die Zeit wird/ist knapp

    keep somebody short [of something] — jemanden [mit etwas] kurz halten

    [have to] go short [of something] — [an etwas (Dat.)] Mangel leiden [müssen]

    be short [of cash] — knapp [bei Kasse] sein (ugs.)

    he is just short of six feet/not far short of 60 — er ist knapp sechs Fuß [groß]/sechzig [Jahre alt]

    5) (brief, concise) kurz

    the short answer is... — um es kurz zu machen: die Antwort ist...

    short and sweet — (iron.) kurz und schmerzlos (ugs.)

    in short,... — kurz,...

    6) (curt, uncivil) kurz angebunden; barsch
    7) (Cookery) mürbe [Teig]
    8)

    sell oneself short — (fig.) sein Licht unter den Scheffel stellen

    sell somebody/something short — (fig.) jemanden/etwas unterschätzen

    2. adverb
    1) (abruptly) plötzlich

    stop short — plötzlich abbrechen; [Musik, Gespräch:] jäh (geh.) abbrechen

    stop short at something — über etwas (Akk.) nicht hinausgehen

    bring or pull somebody up short — jemanden stutzen lassen

    2) (curtly) kurz angebunden; barsch

    jump/land short — zu kurz springen/zu früh landen (ugs.)

    stop short of the line — vor der Linie stehen-/liegenbleiben

    the bomb dropped short [of its target] — die Bombe fiel vor das Ziel

    fall or come [far/considerably] short of something — etwas [bei weitem] nicht erreichen

    stop short of something — (fig.) vor etwas zurückschrecken

    stop short of doing something — davor zurückschrecken, etwas zu tun

    4)

    nothing short of a catastrophe/miracle can... — nur eine Katastrophe/ein Wunder kann...

    short of locking him in, how can I keep him from going out? — wie kann ich ihn daran hindern auszugehen - es sei denn ich schlösse ihn ein?

    3. noun
    1) (Electr. coll.) Kurze, der (ugs.)
    2) (coll.): (drink) Schnaps, der (ugs.)
    4. transitive verb
    (Electr. coll.) kurzschließen
    5. intransitive verb
    (Electr. coll.) einen Kurzschluss kriegen (ugs.)
    * * *
    adj.
    klein adj.
    kurz adj.

    English-german dictionary > short

  • 11 Crompton, Samuel

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
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    b. 3 December 1753 Firwood, near Bolton, Lancashire, England
    d. 26 June 1827 Bolton, Lancashire, England
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    English inventor of the spinning mule.
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    Samuel Crompton was the son of a tenant farmer, George, who became the caretaker of the old house Hall-i-th-Wood, near Bolton, where he died in 1759. As a boy, Samuel helped his widowed mother in various tasks at home, including weaving. He liked music and made his own violin, with which he later was to earn some money to pay for tools for building his spinning mule. He was set to work at spinning and so in 1769 became familiar with the spinning jenny designed by James Hargreaves; he soon noticed the poor quality of the yarn produced and its tendency to break. Crompton became so exasperated with the jenny that in 1772 he decided to improve it. After seven years' work, in 1779 he produced his famous spinning "mule". He built the first one entirely by himself, principally from wood. He adapted rollers similar to those already patented by Arkwright for drawing out the cotton rovings, but it seems that he did not know of Arkwright's invention. The rollers were placed at the back of the mule and paid out the fibres to the spindles, which were mounted on a moving carriage that was drawn away from the rollers as the yarn was paid out. The spindles were rotated to put in twist. At the end of the draw, or shortly before, the rollers were stopped but the spindles continued to rotate. This not only twisted the yarn further, but slightly stretched it and so helped to even out any irregularities; it was this feature that gave the mule yarn extra quality. Then, after the spindles had been turned backwards to unwind the yarn from their tips, they were rotated in the spinning direction again and the yarn was wound on as the carriage was pushed up to the rollers.
    The mule was a very versatile machine, making it possible to spin almost every type of yarn. In fact, Samuel Crompton was soon producing yarn of a much finer quality than had ever been spun in Bolton, and people attempted to break into Hall-i-th-Wood to see how he produced it. Crompton did not patent his invention, perhaps because it consisted basically of the essential features of the earlier machines of Hargreaves and Arkwright, or perhaps through lack of funds. Under promise of a generous subscription, he disclosed his invention to the spinning industry, but was shabbily treated because most of the promised money was never paid. Crompton's first mule had forty-eight spindles, but it did not long remain in its original form for many people started to make improvements to it. The mule soon became more popular than Arkwright's waterframe because it could spin such fine yarn, which enabled weavers to produce the best muslin cloth, rivalling that woven in India and leading to an enormous expansion in the British cotton-textile industry. Crompton eventually saved enough capital to set up as a manufacturer himself and around 1784 he experimented with an improved carding engine, although he was not successful. In 1800, local manufacturers raised a sum of £500 for him, and eventually in 1812 he received a government grant of £5,000, but this was trifling in relation to the immense financial benefits his invention had conferred on the industry, to say nothing of his expenses. When Crompton was seeking evidence in 1811 to support his claim for financial assistance, he found that there were 4,209,570 mule spindles compared with 155,880 jenny and 310,516 waterframe spindles. He later set up as a bleacher and again as a cotton manufacturer, but only the gift of a small annuity by his friends saved him from dying in total poverty.
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    Further Reading
    H.C.Cameron, 1951, Samuel Crompton, Inventor of the Spinning Mule, London (a rather discursive biography).
    Dobson \& Barlow Ltd, 1927, Samuel Crompton, the Inventor of the Spinning Mule, Bolton.
    G.J.French, 1859, The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, Inventor of the Spinning Machine Called the Mule, London.
    The invention of the mule is fully described in H. Gatling, 1970, The Spinning Mule, Newton Abbot; W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London; R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester.
    C.Singer (ed.), 1958, A History of Technology, Vol. IV, Oxford: Clarendon Press (provides a brief account).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Crompton, Samuel

  • 12 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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  • 13 Salazar, Antônio de Oliveira

    (1889-1970)
       The Coimbra University professor of finance and economics and one of the founders of the Estado Novo, who came to dominate Western Europe's longest surviving authoritarian system. Salazar was born on 28 April 1889, in Vimieiro, Beira Alta province, the son of a peasant estate manager and a shopkeeper. Most of his first 39 years were spent as a student, and later as a teacher in a secondary school and a professor at Coimbra University's law school. Nine formative years were spent at Viseu's Catholic Seminary (1900-09), preparing for the Catholic priesthood, but the serious, studious Salazar decided to enter Coimbra University instead in 1910, the year the Braganza monarchy was overthrown and replaced by the First Republic. Salazar received some of the highest marks of his generation of students and, in 1918, was awarded a doctoral degree in finance and economics. Pleading inexperience, Salazar rejected an invitation in August 1918 to become finance minister in the "New Republic" government of President Sidónio Pais.
       As a celebrated academic who was deeply involved in Coimbra University politics, publishing works on the troubled finances of the besieged First Republic, and a leader of Catholic organizations, Sala-zar was not as modest, reclusive, or unknown as later official propaganda led the public to believe. In 1921, as a Catholic deputy, he briefly served in the First Republic's turbulent congress (parliament) but resigned shortly after witnessing but one stormy session. Salazar taught at Coimbra University as of 1916, and continued teaching until April 1928. When the military overthrew the First Republic in May 1926, Salazar was offered the Ministry of Finance and held office for several days. The ascetic academic, however, resigned his post when he discovered the degree of disorder in Lisbon's government and when his demands for budget authority were rejected.
       As the military dictatorship failed to reform finances in the following years, Salazar was reinvited to become minister of finances in April 1928. Since his conditions for acceptance—authority over all budget expenditures, among other powers—were accepted, Salazar entered the government. Using the Ministry of Finance as a power base, following several years of successful financial reforms, Salazar was named interim minister of colonies (1930) and soon garnered sufficient prestige and authority to become head of the entire government. In July 1932, Salazar was named prime minister, the first civilian to hold that post since the 1926 military coup.
       Salazar gathered around him a team of largely academic experts in the cabinet during the period 1930-33. His government featured several key policies: Portuguese nationalism, colonialism (rebuilding an empire in shambles), Catholicism, and conservative fiscal management. Salazar's government came to be called the Estado Novo. It went through three basic phases during Salazar's long tenure in office, and Salazar's role underwent changes as well. In the early years (1928-44), Salazar and the Estado Novo enjoyed greater vigor and popularity than later. During the middle years (1944—58), the regime's popularity waned, methods of repression increased and hardened, and Salazar grew more dogmatic in his policies and ways. During the late years (1958-68), the regime experienced its most serious colonial problems, ruling circles—including Salazar—aged and increasingly failed, and opposition burgeoned and grew bolder.
       Salazar's plans for stabilizing the economy and strengthening social and financial programs were shaken with the impact of the civil war (1936-39) in neighboring Spain. Salazar strongly supported General Francisco Franco's Nationalist rebels, the eventual victors in the war. But, as the civil war ended and World War II began in September 1939, Salazar's domestic plans had to be adjusted. As Salazar came to monopolize Lisbon's power and authority—indeed to embody the Estado Novo itself—during crises that threatened the future of the regime, he assumed ever more key cabinet posts. At various times between 1936 and 1944, he took over the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of War (Defense), until the crises passed. At the end of the exhausting period of World War II, there were rumors that the former professor would resign from government and return to Coimbra University, but Salazar continued as the increasingly isolated, dominating "recluse of São Bento," that part of the parliament's buildings housing the prime minister's offices and residence.
       Salazar dominated the Estado Novo's government in several ways: in day-to-day governance, although this diminished as he delegated wider powers to others after 1944, and in long-range policy decisions, as well as in the spirit and image of the system. He also launched and dominated the single party, the União Nacional. A lifelong bachelor who had once stated that he could not leave for Lisbon because he had to care for his aged mother, Salazar never married, but lived with a beloved housekeeper from his Coimbra years and two adopted daughters. During his 36-year tenure as prime minister, Salazar engineered the important cabinet reshuffles that reflect the history of the Estado Novo and of Portugal.
       A number of times, in connection with significant events, Salazar decided on important cabinet officer changes: 11 April 1933 (the adoption of the Estado Novo's new 1933 Constitution); 18 January 1936 (the approach of civil war in Spain and the growing threat of international intervention in Iberian affairs during the unstable Second Spanish Republic of 1931-36); 4 September 1944 (the Allied invasion of Europe at Normandy and the increasing likelihood of a defeat of the Fascists by the Allies, which included the Soviet Union); 14 August 1958 (increased domestic dissent and opposition following the May-June 1958 presidential elections in which oppositionist and former regime stalwart-loyalist General Humberto Delgado garnered at least 25 percent of the national vote, but lost to regime candidate, Admiral Américo Tomás); 13 April 1961 (following the shock of anticolonial African insurgency in Portugal's colony of Angola in January-February 1961, the oppositionist hijacking of a Portuguese ocean liner off South America by Henrique Galvão, and an abortive military coup that failed to oust Salazar from office); and 19 August 1968 (the aging of key leaders in the government, including the now gravely ill Salazar, and the defection of key younger followers).
       In response to the 1961 crisis in Africa and to threats to Portuguese India from the Indian government, Salazar assumed the post of minister of defense (April 1961-December 1962). The failing leader, whose true state of health was kept from the public for as long as possible, appointed a group of younger cabinet officers in the 1960s, but no likely successors were groomed to take his place. Two of the older generation, Teotónio Pereira, who was in bad health, and Marcello Caetano, who preferred to remain at the University of Lisbon or in private law practice, remained in the political wilderness.
       As the colonial wars in three African territories grew more costly, Salazar became more isolated from reality. On 3 August 1968, while resting at his summer residence, the Fortress of São João do Estoril outside Lisbon, a deck chair collapsed beneath Salazar and his head struck the hard floor. Some weeks later, as a result, Salazar was incapacitated by a stroke and cerebral hemorrhage, was hospitalized, and became an invalid. While hesitating to fill the power vacuum that had unexpectedly appeared, President Tomás finally replaced Salazar as prime minister on 27 September 1968, with his former protégé and colleague, Marcello Caetano. Salazar was not informed that he no longer headed the government, but he never recovered his health. On 27 July 1970, Salazar died in Lisbon and was buried at Santa Comba Dão, Vimieiro, his village and place of birth.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Salazar, Antônio de Oliveira

  • 14 Claudet, Antoine François Jean

    [br]
    b. 12 August 1797 France
    d. 27 December 1867 London, England
    [br]
    French pioneer photographer and photographic inventor in England.
    [br]
    He began his working life in banking but soon went into glassmaking and in 1829 he moved to London to open a glass warehouse. On hearing of the first practicable photographic processes in 1834, Claudet visited Paris, where he received instruction in the daguerreotype process from the inventor Daguerre, and purchased a licence to operate in England. On returning to London he began to sell daguerreotype views of Paris and Rome, but was soon taking and selling his own views of London. At this time exposures could take as long as thirty minutes and portraiture from life was impracticable. Claudet was fascinated by the possibilities of the daguerreotype and embarked on experiments to improve the process. In 1841 he published details of an accelerated process and took out a patent proposing the use of flat painted backgrounds and a red light in dark-rooms. In June of that year Claudet opened the second daguerreotype portrait studio in London, just three months after his rival, Richard Beard. He took stereoscopic photographs for Wheatstone as early as 1842, although it was not until the 1850s that stereoscopy became a major interest. He suggested and patented several improvements to viewers derived from Brewster's pattern.
    Claudet was also one of the first photographers to practise professionally Talbot's calotype process. He became a personal friend of Talbot, one of the few from whom the inventor was prepared to accept advice. Claudet died suddenly in London following an accident that occurred when he was alighting from an omnibus. A memoir produced shortly after his death lists over forty scientific papers relating to his researches into photography.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1853.
    Further Reading
    "The late M.Claudet", 1868, Photographic News 12:3 (obituary).
    "A.Claudet, FRS, a memoir", 1968, (reprinted from The Scientific Review), London: British Association (a fulsome but valuable Victorian view of Claudet).
    H.Gernsheim and A.Gernsheim, 1969, The History of Photography, rev. edn, London (a comprehensive account of Claudet's daguerreotype work).
    H.J.P.Arnold, 1977, William Henry Fox Talbot, London (provides details of Claudet's relationship with Talbot).
    JW

    Biographical history of technology > Claudet, Antoine François Jean

  • 15 Elder, John

    [br]
    b. 9 March 1824 Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 17 September 1869 London, England
    [br]
    Scottish engineer who introduced the compound steam engine to ships and established an important shipbuilding company in Glasgow.
    [br]
    John was the third son of David Elder. The father came from a family of millwrights and moved to Glasgow where he worked for the well-known shipbuilding firm of Napier's and was involved with improving marine engines. John was educated at Glasgow High School and then for a while at the Department of Civil Engineering at Glasgow University, where he showed great aptitude for mathematics and drawing. He spent five years as an apprentice under Robert Napier followed by two short periods of activity as a pattern-maker first and then a draughtsman in England. He returned to Scotland in 1849 to become Chief Draughtsman to Napier, but in 1852 he left to become a partner with the Glasgow general engineering company of Randolph Elliott \& Co. Shortly after his induction (at the age of 28), the engineering firm was renamed Randolph Elder \& Co.; in 1868, when the partnership expired, it became known as John Elder \& Co. From the outset Elder, with his partner, Charles Randolph, approached mechanical (especially heat) engineering in a rigorous manner. Their knowledge and understanding of entropy ensured that engine design was not a hit-and-miss affair, but one governed by recognition of the importance of the new kinetic theory of heat and with it a proper understanding of thermodynamic principles, and by systematic development. In this Elder was joined by W.J.M. Rankine, Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at Glasgow University, who helped him develop the compound marine engine. Elder and Randolph built up a series of patents, which guaranteed their company's commercial success and enabled them for a while to be the sole suppliers of compound steam reciprocating machinery. Their first such engine at sea was fitted in 1854 on the SS Brandon for the Limerick Steamship Company; the ship showed an improved performance by using a third less coal, which he was able to reduce still further on later designs.
    Elder developed steam jacketing and recognized that, with higher pressures, triple-expansion types would be even more economical. In 1862 he patented a design of quadruple-expansion engine with reheat between cylinders and advocated the importance of balancing reciprocating parts. The effect of his improvements was to greatly reduce fuel consumption so that long sea voyages became an economic reality.
    His yard soon reached dimensions then unequalled on the Clyde where he employed over 4,000 workers; Elder also was always interested in the social welfare of his labour force. In 1860 the engine shops were moved to the Govan Old Shipyard, and again in 1864 to the Fairfield Shipyard, about 1 mile (1.6 km) west on the south bank of the Clyde. At Fairfield, shipbuilding was commenced, and with the patents for compounding secure, much business was placed for many years by shipowners serving long-distance trades such as South America; the Pacific Steam Navigation Company took up his ideas for their ships. In later years the yard became known as the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd, but it remains today as one of Britain's most efficient shipyards and is known now as Kvaerner Govan Ltd.
    In 1869, at the age of only 45, John Elder was unanimously elected President of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland; however, before taking office and giving his eagerly awaited presidential address, he died in London from liver disease. A large multitude attended his funeral and all the engineering shops were silent as his body, which had been brought back from London to Glasgow, was carried to its resting place. In 1857 Elder had married Isabella Ure, and on his death he left her a considerable fortune, which she used generously for Govan, for Glasgow and especially the University. In 1883 she endowed the world's first Chair of Naval Architecture at the University of Glasgow, an act which was reciprocated in 1901 when the University awarded her an LLD on the occasion of its 450th anniversary.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 1869.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1869, Engineer 28.
    1889, The Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith Elder \& Co. W.J.Macquorn Rankine, 1871, "Sketch of the life of John Elder" Transactions of the
    Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.
    Maclehose, 1886, Memoirs and Portraits of a Hundred Glasgow Men.
    The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, 1909, London: Offices of Engineering.
    P.M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde, A History of Clyde Shipbuilding, Cambridge: PSL.
    R.L.Hills, 1989, Power from Steam. A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (covers Elder's contribution to the development of steam engines).
    RLH / FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Elder, John

  • 16 Stephenson, George

    [br]
    b. 9 June 1781 Wylam, Northumberland, England
    d. 12 August 1848 Tapton House, Chesterfield, England
    [br]
    English engineer, "the father of railways".
    [br]
    George Stephenson was the son of the fireman of the pumping engine at Wylam colliery, and horses drew wagons of coal along the wooden rails of the Wylam wagonway past the house in which he was born and spent his earliest childhood. While still a child he worked as a cowherd, but soon moved to working at coal pits. At 17 years of age he showed sufficient mechanical talent to be placed in charge of a new pumping engine, and had already achieved a job more responsible than that of his father. Despite his position he was still illiterate, although he subsequently learned to read and write. He was largely self-educated.
    In 1801 he was appointed Brakesman of the winding engine at Black Callerton pit, with responsibility for lowering the miners safely to their work. Then, about two years later, he became Brakesman of a new winding engine erected by Robert Hawthorn at Willington Quay on the Tyne. Returning collier brigs discharged ballast into wagons and the engine drew the wagons up an inclined plane to the top of "Ballast Hill" for their contents to be tipped; this was one of the earliest applications of steam power to transport, other than experimentally.
    In 1804 Stephenson moved to West Moor pit, Killingworth, again as Brakesman. In 1811 he demonstrated his mechanical skill by successfully modifying a new and unsatisfactory atmospheric engine, a task that had defeated the efforts of others, to enable it to pump a drowned pit clear of water. The following year he was appointed Enginewright at Killingworth, in charge of the machinery in all the collieries of the "Grand Allies", the prominent coal-owning families of Wortley, Liddell and Bowes, with authorization also to work for others. He built many stationary engines and he closely examined locomotives of John Blenkinsop's type on the Kenton \& Coxlodge wagonway, as well as those of William Hedley at Wylam.
    It was in 1813 that Sir Thomas Liddell requested George Stephenson to build a steam locomotive for the Killingworth wagonway: Blucher made its first trial run on 25 July 1814 and was based on Blenkinsop's locomotives, although it lacked their rack-and-pinion drive. George Stephenson is credited with building the first locomotive both to run on edge rails and be driven by adhesion, an arrangement that has been the conventional one ever since. Yet Blucher was far from perfect and over the next few years, while other engineers ignored the steam locomotive, Stephenson built a succession of them, each an improvement on the last.
    During this period many lives were lost in coalmines from explosions of gas ignited by miners' lamps. By observation and experiment (sometimes at great personal risk) Stephenson invented a satisfactory safety lamp, working independently of the noted scientist Sir Humphry Davy who also invented such a lamp around the same time.
    In 1817 George Stephenson designed his first locomotive for an outside customer, the Kilmarnock \& Troon Railway, and in 1819 he laid out the Hetton Colliery Railway in County Durham, for which his brother Robert was Resident Engineer. This was the first railway to be worked entirely without animal traction: it used inclined planes with stationary engines, self-acting inclined planes powered by gravity, and locomotives.
    On 19 April 1821 Stephenson was introduced to Edward Pease, one of the main promoters of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway (S \& DR), which by coincidence received its Act of Parliament the same day. George Stephenson carried out a further survey, to improve the proposed line, and in this he was assisted by his 18-year-old son, Robert Stephenson, whom he had ensured received the theoretical education which he himself lacked. It is doubtful whether either could have succeeded without the other; together they were to make the steam railway practicable.
    At George Stephenson's instance, much of the S \& DR was laid with wrought-iron rails recently developed by John Birkinshaw at Bedlington Ironworks, Morpeth. These were longer than cast-iron rails and were not brittle: they made a track well suited for locomotives. In June 1823 George and Robert Stephenson, with other partners, founded a firm in Newcastle upon Tyne to build locomotives and rolling stock and to do general engineering work: after its Managing Partner, the firm was called Robert Stephenson \& Co.
    In 1824 the promoters of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) invited George Stephenson to resurvey their proposed line in order to reduce opposition to it. William James, a wealthy land agent who had become a visionary protagonist of a national railway network and had seen Stephenson's locomotives at Killingworth, had promoted the L \& MR with some merchants of Liverpool and had carried out the first survey; however, he overreached himself in business and, shortly after the invitation to Stephenson, became bankrupt. In his own survey, however, George Stephenson lacked the assistance of his son Robert, who had left for South America, and he delegated much of the detailed work to incompetent assistants. During a devastating Parliamentary examination in the spring of 1825, much of his survey was shown to be seriously inaccurate and the L \& MR's application for an Act of Parliament was refused. The railway's promoters discharged Stephenson and had their line surveyed yet again, by C.B. Vignoles.
    The Stockton \& Darlington Railway was, however, triumphantly opened in the presence of vast crowds in September 1825, with Stephenson himself driving the locomotive Locomotion, which had been built at Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s Newcastle works. Once the railway was at work, horse-drawn and gravity-powered traffic shared the line with locomotives: in 1828 Stephenson invented the horse dandy, a wagon at the back of a train in which a horse could travel over the gravity-operated stretches, instead of trotting behind.
    Meanwhile, in May 1826, the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway had successfully obtained its Act of Parliament. Stephenson was appointed Engineer in June, and since he and Vignoles proved incompatible the latter left early in 1827. The railway was built by Stephenson and his staff, using direct labour. A considerable controversy arose c. 1828 over the motive power to be used: the traffic anticipated was too great for horses, but the performance of the reciprocal system of cable haulage developed by Benjamin Thompson appeared in many respects superior to that of contemporary locomotives. The company instituted a prize competition for a better locomotive and the Rainhill Trials were held in October 1829.
    Robert Stephenson had been working on improved locomotive designs since his return from America in 1827, but it was the L \& MR's Treasurer, Henry Booth, who suggested the multi-tubular boiler to George Stephenson. This was incorporated into a locomotive built by Robert Stephenson for the trials: Rocket was entered by the three men in partnership. The other principal entrants were Novelty, entered by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson, and Sans Pareil, entered by Timothy Hackworth, but only Rocket, driven by George Stephenson, met all the organizers' demands; indeed, it far surpassed them and demonstrated the practicability of the long-distance steam railway. With the opening of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in 1830, the age of railways began.
    Stephenson was active in many aspects. He advised on the construction of the Belgian State Railway, of which the Brussels-Malines section, opened in 1835, was the first all-steam railway on the European continent. In England, proposals to link the L \& MR with the Midlands had culminated in an Act of Parliament for the Grand Junction Railway in 1833: this was to run from Warrington, which was already linked to the L \& MR, to Birmingham. George Stephenson had been in charge of the surveys, and for the railway's construction he and J.U. Rastrick were initially Principal Engineers, with Stephenson's former pupil Joseph Locke under them; by 1835 both Stephenson and Rastrick had withdrawn and Locke was Engineer-in-Chief. Stephenson remained much in demand elsewhere: he was particularly associated with the construction of the North Midland Railway (Derby to Leeds) and related lines. He was active in many other places and carried out, for instance, preliminary surveys for the Chester \& Holyhead and Newcastle \& Berwick Railways, which were important links in the lines of communication between London and, respectively, Dublin and Edinburgh.
    He eventually retired to Tapton House, Chesterfield, overlooking the North Midland. A man who was self-made (with great success) against colossal odds, he was ever reluctant, regrettably, to give others their due credit, although in retirement, immensely wealthy and full of honour, he was still able to mingle with people of all ranks.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, on its formation in 1847. Order of Leopold (Belgium) 1835. Stephenson refused both a knighthood and Fellowship of the Royal Society.
    Bibliography
    1815, jointly with Ralph Dodd, British patent no. 3,887 (locomotive drive by connecting rods directly to the wheels).
    1817, jointly with William Losh, British patent no. 4,067 (steam springs for locomotives, and improvements to track).
    Further Reading
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, Longman (the best modern biography; includes a bibliography).
    S.Smiles, 1874, The Lives of George and Robert Stephenson, rev. edn, London (although sycophantic, this is probably the best nineteenthcentury biography).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Stephenson, George

  • 17 afterwards

    adverb (later or after something else has happened or happens: He told me afterwards that he had not enjoyed the film.) después, posteriormente, a continuación
    afterwards adv después / luego
    tr['ɑːftəwədz]
    1 después, luego
    adv.
    • después adv.
    • luego adv.
    prep.
    • después prep.
    (esp Brit)
    ADV después, más tarde

    afterward we all helped with the washing up — después or luego or más tarde todos ayudamos a fregar los platos

    I realized afterward that he was right — después or luego me di cuenta de que él tenía razón

    • immediately afterward — inmediatamente después, acto seguido

    • long afterward — mucho tiempo después

    • shortly or soon afterward — poco después, al poco rato

    • I didn't remember until afterward — no lo recordé hasta después or hasta más tarde

    English-spanish dictionary > afterwards

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