the British disease

British adj británico

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plural noun the British

1 los británicos nombre masculino plural

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and the best of British (luck)! familiar ¡y buen provecho te haga!

British English inglés nombre masculino británico

the British Isles las Islas nombre femenino plural Británicas

British ['brɪt̬ɪʃ] adj

: británico

British n the British npl

: los británicos

• britano, -a adj.

• británico, -a adj.

• inglés, -esa adj.

adjective británico

ADJ (gen) británico; (loosely) inglés

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adjective británico

aggettivo britannico

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A a.

britannico; inglese (fam.): the British Empire, l'Impero britannico; British-born, nato nel Regno Unito; britannico di nascita

B n. pl.

– the British, i cittadini britannici; il popolo (sing.) britannico; gli inglesi (fam.).

● the British Academy, l'Accademia britannica ( ente culturale per la promozione degli studi letterari e umanistici) □ (trasp.) British Airways, linee aeree britanniche □ (geogr.) British Columbia, la Columbia Britannica □ the British disease, l'eccessivo ricorso allo sciopero (spec. negli anni '60 e '70) □ (ling.) British English, l'inglese parlato nel Regno Unito; l'inglese britannico □ (geogr.) the British Isles, le Isole Britanniche ( Gran Bretagna, Irlanda, le Isole Scilly, l'Isola di Wight, l'Isola di Man e le altre isole minori dell'arcipelago; cfr. Great Britain) □ (in GB) British Summer Time (abbr. BST), ora legale □ (in GB) the British Tourist Authority, l'Ente britannico per il turismo □ (fam.) The best of British (luck)!, buona fortuna!

(fam. USA) cittadino britannico; inglese

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aggettivo britannico

the supposed predilection of British workers to opt for strike action. In the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s, strikes were commonly used by workers for dispute resolution. Government legislation in the 1980s, however, made striking more difficult for workers.

(1939-1945)

   In the European phase of the war, neutral Portugal contributed more to the Allied victory than historians have acknowledged. Portugal experienced severe pressures to compromise her neutrality from both the Axis and Allied powers and, on several occasions, there were efforts to force Portugal to enter the war as a belligerent. Several factors lent Portugal importance as a neutral. This was especially the case during the period from the fall of France in June 1940 to the Allied invasion and reconquest of France from June to August 1944.

   In four respects, Portugal became briefly a modest strategic asset for the Allies and a war materiel supplier for both sides: the country's location in the southwesternmost corner of the largely German-occupied European continent; being a transport and communication terminus, observation post for spies, and crossroads between Europe, the Atlantic, the Americas, and Africa; Portugal's strategically located Atlantic islands, the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde archipelagos; and having important mines of wolfram or tungsten ore, crucial for the war industry for hardening steel.

   To maintain strict neutrality, the Estado Novo regime dominated by Antônio de Oliveira Salazar performed a delicate balancing act. Lisbon attempted to please and cater to the interests of both sets of belligerents, but only to the extent that the concessions granted would not threaten Portugal's security or its status as a neutral. On at least two occasions, Portugal's neutrality status was threatened. First, Germany briefly considered invading Portugal and Spain during 1940-41. A second occasion came in 1943 and 1944 as Great Britain, backed by the United States, pressured Portugal to grant war-related concessions that threatened Portugal's status of strict neutrality and would possibly bring Portugal into the war on the Allied side. Nazi Germany's plan ("Operation Felix") to invade the Iberian Peninsula from late 1940 into 1941 was never executed, but the Allies occupied and used several air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands.

   The second major crisis for Portugal's neutrality came with increasing Allied pressures for concessions from the summer of 1943 to the summer of 1944. Led by Britain, Portugal's oldest ally, Portugal was pressured to grant access to air and naval bases in the Azores Islands. Such bases were necessary to assist the Allies in winning the Battle of the Atlantic, the naval war in which German U-boats continued to destroy Allied shipping. In October 1943, following tedious negotiations, British forces began to operate such bases and, in November 1944, American forces were allowed to enter the islands. Germany protested and made threats, but there was no German attack.

   Tensions rose again in the spring of 1944, when the Allies demanded that Lisbon cease exporting wolfram to Germany. Salazar grew agitated, considered resigning, and argued that Portugal had made a solemn promise to Germany that wolfram exports would be continued and that Portugal could not break its pledge. The Portuguese ambassador in London concluded that the shipping of wolfram to Germany was "the price of neutrality." Fearing that a still-dangerous Germany could still attack Portugal, Salazar ordered the banning of the mining, sale, and exports of wolfram not only to Germany but to the Allies as of 6 June 1944.

   Portugal did not enter the war as a belligerent, and its forces did not engage in combat, but some Portuguese experienced directly or indirectly the impact of fighting. Off Portugal or near her Atlantic islands, Portuguese naval personnel or commercial fishermen rescued at sea hundreds of victims of U-boat sinkings of Allied shipping in the Atlantic. German U-boats sank four or five Portuguese merchant vessels as well and, in 1944, a U-boat stopped, boarded, searched, and forced the evacuation of a Portuguese ocean liner, the Serpa Pinto, in mid-Atlantic. Filled with refugees, the liner was not sunk but several passengers lost their lives and the U-boat kidnapped two of the ship's passengers, Portuguese Americans of military age, and interned them in a prison camp. As for involvement in a theater of war, hundreds of inhabitants were killed and wounded in remote East Timor, a Portuguese colony near Indonesia, which was invaded, annexed, and ruled by Japanese forces between February 1942 and August 1945. In other incidents, scores of Allied military planes, out of fuel or damaged in air combat, crashed or were forced to land in neutral Portugal. Air personnel who did not survive such crashes were buried in Portuguese cemeteries or in the English Cemetery, Lisbon.

   Portugal's peripheral involvement in largely nonbelligerent aspects of the war accelerated social, economic, and political change in Portugal's urban society. It strengthened political opposition to the dictatorship among intellectual and working classes, and it obliged the regime to bolster political repression. The general economic and financial status of Portugal, too, underwent improvements since creditor Britain, in order to purchase wolfram, foods, and other materials needed during the war, became indebted to Portugal. When Britain repaid this debt after the war, Portugal was able to restore and expand its merchant fleet. Unlike most of Europe, ravaged by the worst war in human history, Portugal did not suffer heavy losses of human life, infrastructure, and property. Unlike even her neighbor Spain, badly shaken by its terrible Civil War (1936-39), Portugal's immediate postwar condition was more favorable, especially in urban areas, although deep-seated poverty remained.

   Portugal experienced other effects, especially during 1939-42, as there was an influx of about a million war refugees, an infestation of foreign spies and other secret agents from 60 secret intelligence services, and the residence of scores of international journalists who came to report the war from Lisbon. There was also the growth of war-related mining (especially wolfram and tin). Portugal's media eagerly reported the war and, by and large, despite government censorship, the Portuguese print media favored the Allied cause. Portugal's standard of living underwent some improvement, although price increases were unpopular.

   The silent invasion of several thousand foreign spies, in addition to the hiring of many Portuguese as informants and spies, had fascinating outcomes. "Spyland" Portugal, especially when Portugal was a key point for communicating with occupied Europe (1940-44), witnessed some unusual events, and spying for foreigners at least briefly became a national industry. Until mid-1944, when Allied forces invaded France, Portugal was the only secure entry point from across the Atlantic to Europe or to the British Isles, as well as the escape hatch for refugees, spies, defectors, and others fleeing occupied Europe or Vichy-controlled Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Through Portugal by car, ship, train, or scheduled civil airliner one could travel to and from Spain or to Britain, or one could leave through Portugal, the westernmost continental country of Europe, to seek refuge across the Atlantic in the Americas.

   The wartime Portuguese scene was a colorful melange of illegal activities, including espionage, the black market, war propaganda, gambling, speculation, currency counterfeiting, diamond and wolfram smuggling, prostitution, and the drug and arms trade, and they were conducted by an unusual cast of characters. These included refugees, some of whom were spies, smugglers, diplomats, and business people, many from foreign countries seeking things they could find only in Portugal: information, affordable food, shelter, and security. German agents who contacted Allied sailors in the port of Lisbon sought to corrupt and neutralize these men and, if possible, recruit them as spies, and British intelligence countered this effort. Britain's MI-6 established a new kind of "safe house" to protect such Allied crews from German espionage and venereal disease infection, an approved and controlled house of prostitution in Lisbon's bairro alto district.

   Foreign observers and writers were impressed with the exotic, spy-ridden scene in Lisbon, as well as in Estoril on the Sun Coast (Costa do Sol), west of Lisbon harbor. What they observed appeared in noted autobiographical works and novels, some written during and some after the war. Among notable writers and journalists who visited or resided in wartime Portugal were Hungarian writer and former communist Arthur Koestler, on the run from the Nazi's Gestapo; American radio broadcaster-journalist Eric Sevareid; novelist and Hollywood script-writer Frederick Prokosch; American diplomat George Kennan; Rumanian cultural attache and later scholar of mythology Mircea Eliade; and British naval intelligence officer and novelist-to-be Ian Fleming. Other notable visiting British intelligence officers included novelist Graham Greene; secret Soviet agent in MI-6 and future defector to the Soviet Union Harold "Kim" Philby; and writer Malcolm Muggeridge. French letters were represented by French writer and airman, Antoine Saint-Exupery and French playwright, Jean Giroudoux. Finally, Aquilino Ribeiro, one of Portugal's premier contemporary novelists, wrote about wartime Portugal, including one sensational novel, Volframio, which portrayed the profound impact of the exploitation of the mineral wolfram on Portugal's poor, still backward society.

   In Estoril, Portugal, the idea for the world's most celebrated fictitious spy, James Bond, was probably first conceived by Ian Fleming. Fleming visited Portugal several times after 1939 on Naval Intelligence missions, and later he dreamed up the James Bond character and stories. Background for the early novels in the James Bond series was based in part on people and places Fleming observed in Portugal. A key location in Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953) is the gambling Casino of Estoril. In addition, one aspect of the main plot, the notion that a spy could invent "secret" intelligence for personal profit, was observed as well by the British novelist and former MI-6 officer, while engaged in operations in wartime Portugal. Greene later used this information in his 1958 spy novel, Our Man in Havana, as he observed enemy agents who fabricated "secrets" for money.

   Thus, Portugal's World War II experiences introduced the country and her people to a host of new peoples, ideas, products, and influences that altered attitudes and quickened the pace of change in this quiet, largely tradition-bound, isolated country. The 1943-45 connections established during the Allied use of air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands were a prelude to Portugal's postwar membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

   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.

    Contemporary Portugal

   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.

1) (transport) tragen; (with emphasis on destination) bringen; [Strom:] spülen; [Verkehrsmittel:] befördern

2) (conduct) leiten

3) (support) tragen; (contain) fassen

4) (have with one)

5) (possess) besitzen [Autorität, Gewicht]; see also academic.ru/15886/conviction">conviction 2)

6) (hold)

7) (prolong)

8) (Math.): (transfer) im Sinn behalten

9) (win) durchbringen [Antrag, Gesetzentwurf, Vorschlag]

- carry away

- carry back

- carry forward

- carry off

- carry on

- carry out

- carry over

- carry through

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1) (to take from one place etc to another: She carried the child over the river; Flies carry disease.) tragen

2) (to go from one place to another: Sound carries better over water.) reichen; übertragen

3) (to support: These stone columns carry the weight of the whole building.) tragen

4) (to have or hold: This job carries great responsibility.) mit sich bringen

5) (to approve (a bill etc) by a majority of votes: The parliamentary bill was carried by forty-two votes.) durchsetzen

6) (to hold (oneself) in a certain way: He carries himself like a soldier.) sich haben

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I. vt

1. (bear)

▪ to \carry sb/sth jdn/etw tragen

to \carry sb piggyback jdn huckepack tragen

▪ to \carry sth around etw mit sich dat herumtragen

2. (move)

▪ to \carry sb/sth somewhere jdn/etw irgendwohin tragen

the wind carried the leaves up in the air der Wind wirbelte die Blätter hoch

to be carried downstream/down the river flussabwärts treiben

3. (transport)

▪ to \carry sb/sth jdn/etw transportieren [o befördern]

the bus was \carrying our children to school der Bus brachte unsere Kinder zur Schule

the truck was not \carrying a load der Lastwagen war nicht beladen

the stranded ship was \carrying cargo das gestrandete Schiff hatte eine Ladung an Bord

4. (sustain the weight of)

▪ to \carry sb/sth jdn/etw tragen

I'm so tired my legs won't \carry me ich bin so müde, ich kann mich kaum mehr auf den Beinen halten

5. (have with you)

▪ to \carry sth [with one] etw bei sich dat haben [o tragen]

it's risky to \carry a knife/revolver [with you] es ist riskant, ein Messer/einen Revolver bei sich zu tragen

she always carries a picture of her mother with her [in her wallet] sie hat immer ein Bild von ihrer Mutter [in ihrer Brieftasche] bei sich

6. (retain)

to \carry sth in one's head etw [im Kopf] behalten

to \carry the memory of sth [with one] etw in Erinnerung behalten

7. (have, incur)

▪ to \carry sth etw haben; (have printed on) etw tragen

murder used to \carry the death penalty auf Mord stand früher die Todesstrafe

all cigarette packets \carry a warning auf allen Zigarettenpäckchen steht eine Warnung

to \carry conviction überzeugend sein

his speech carried a lot of conviction seine Rede klang sehr überzeugt

to \carry insurance versichert sein

to \carry a penalty eine [Geld]strafe nach sich ziehen

to \carry responsibility Verantwortung tragen

her job carries a lot of responsibility ihre Stelle bringt viel Verantwortung mit sich, sie trägt in ihrem Job viel Verantwortung

to \carry sail NAUT Segel gesetzt haben

to \carry weight with sb (influence) Einfluss auf jdn haben; (impress) jdn beeindrucken

8. (contain)

▪ to \carry sth etw enthalten

9. MUS

to \carry a tune eine Melodie halten [können]

10. (transmit)

▪ to \carry sth etw übertragen

to \carry electricity/oil/water Strom/Erdöl/Wasser leiten

11. MED

▪ to \carry sth etw übertragen

malaria is carried by mosquitoes Malaria wird von Stechmücken übertragen

12. (support)

▪ to \carry sb für jdn aufkommen

▪ to \carry sth etw tragen; (sustain)

to \carry an animal through the winter ein Tier über den Winter bringen

the company is currently being carried by its export sales die Firma wird im Moment durch ihre Exporte getragen

we cannot afford to \carry people who don't work hard Leute, die nicht hart arbeiten, sind für uns nicht tragbar

many animals store food in autumn to \carry them through the winter viele Tier sammeln im Herbst Futter um damit durch den Winter zu kommen

13. (have a certain posture, conduct)

▪ to \carry oneself:

you can tell she's a dancer from the way that she carries herself an ihrer Haltung erkennt man gleich, dass sie Tänzerin ist

to \carry one's head high ( fig) den Kopf hoch tragen fig

to \carry oneself well sich akk gut halten; (posture also) eine gute Haltung haben

14. (sell) shop

▪ to \carry sth etw führen

15. (win)

▪ to \carry sb jdn auf seine Seite ziehen

▪ to \carry sth:

the president carried most of the southern states der Präsident gewann in den meisten südlichen Bundesstaaten die Wahl

to \carry the day den Sieg davontragen

the party's popular plans will surely \carry the day at the next election mit ihren populären Vorhaben wird die Partei die nächsten Wahlen bestimmt für sich entscheiden

16. usu passive (approve)

▪ to \carry sth etw dat zustimmen

his motion was carried unanimously/by 210 votes to 160 sein Antrag wurde einstimmig/mit 210 zu 160 Stimmen angenommen

17. JOURN

▪ to \carry sth über etw akk berichten, etw bringen fam

the newspapers all \carry the same story on their front page die Zeitungen warten alle mit der gleichen Titelstory auf

18. (develop)

to \carry sth too far mit etw dat zu weit gehen

to \carry sb's ideas further jds Ideen weiterentwickeln

▪ to \carry sth to sth etw zu etw dat führen

to \carry an argument to its [logical] conclusion ein Argument [bis zum Schluss] durchdenken

to \carry sth to an end etw zu Ende führen

to \carry sth to extremes [or its limits] etw bis zum Exzess treiben

to \carry the joke too far den Spaß zu weit treiben

19. MATH

to \carry a number (on paper) eine Zahl übertragen; (in one's head) eine Zahl [im Sinn] behalten

3, \carry 1 3, behalte 1 [o 1 im Sinn

20. (be pregnant)

to \carry a child ein Kind erwarten, schwanger sein

when I was \carrying Rajiv als ich mit Rajiv schwanger war

21. (submit)

to \carry one's complaints to sb jdm seine Beschwerden vortragen

22. FIN

to \carry interest Zinsen abwerfen

the bonds \carry interest at 10% die Wertpapiere werfen 10 % Zinsen ab

▶ to \carry all before one/it (be successful) vollen Erfolg haben; ( hum: have big breasts) viel Holz vor der Hütte haben hum

▶ to have to \carry the can BRIT ( fam) die Sache ausbaden müssen fam

▶ to \carry a torch for sb ( fam) jdn anhimmeln fam

II. vi

1. (be audible) zu hören sein

the actors' voices carried right to the back die Darsteller waren bis in die letzte Reihe zu hören

2. (fly) fliegen

the ball carried high into the air der Ball flog hoch in die Luft

III. n FIN Kreditkosten pl

positive/negative \carry finanzieller Gewinn/Verlust

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1. vt

1) load, person, object tragen; message (über)bringen

2) (vehicle = convey) befördern; goods also transportieren

3) (= have on person) documents, money bei sich haben or führen (form); gun, sword tragen

4) (fig)

5) (bridge etc = support) tragen, stützen

6) (COMM) goods, stock führen, (auf Lager) haben

7) (TECH pipe) water, oil, electricity führen; (wire) sound (weiter)leiten, übertragen

8) (= extend) führen, (ver)legen

9) (= win) einnehmen, erobern

10)

11) (PRESS) story, photo bringen

12) (MED)

13) (= be pregnant with) erwarten, schwanger gehen mit (geh)

14) (MATH)

2. vi

1) (voice, sound) tragen

2) (ball, arrow) fliegen

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carry [ˈkærı]

A s

1. Trag-, Schussweite f

2. Golf: Flugstrecke f (des Balls)

3. US → portage A 3

B v/t

1. tragen:

carry sth in one’s hand;

he carried his jacket er trug seine Jacke (über dem Arm);

she lost the baby she was carrying sie verlor das Kind, das sie unter dem Herzen trug;

pillars carrying an arch bogentragende Pfeiler;

carry one’s head high den Kopf hoch tragen;

a) sich gut halten,

b) sich gut benehmen;

carry a disease eine Krankheit weitertragen oder verbreiten;

carry sails SCHIFF Segel führen;

he knows how to carry his liquor er kann eine Menge (Alkohol) vertragen;

he can’t carry his liquor er verträgt nichts;

as fast as his legs could carry him so schnell ihn seine Beine trugen;

carry all ( oder everything) before one

a) auf der ganzen Linie siegen oder erfolgreich sein,

b) hum viel Holz vor der Hütte (einen großen Busen) haben;

they carry the British hopes sie tragen oder auf ihnen ruhen die britischen Hoffnungen

2. fig tragen, (unter)stützen

3. bringen, tragen, führen, schaffen, befördern:

a taxi carried me to the station ein Taxi brachte mich zum Bahnhof;

carry mail BAHN Post befördern;

the pipes carry water die Rohre führen Wasser; → coal A 4

4. eine Nachricht etc (über)bringen:

he carried his complaint to the manager er trug seine Beschwerde dem Geschäftsführer vor

5. mitführen, mit sich oder bei sich tragen:

carry a watch eine Uhr tragen oder haben;

carry sth in one’s head fig etwas im Kopf haben oder behalten;

carry sth with one fig etwas im Geiste mit sich herumtragen

6. fig (an sich oder zum Inhalt) haben:

carry conviction überzeugen(d sein oder klingen);

carry a moral eine Moral (zum Inhalt) haben;

carry no risk mit keinem Risiko verbunden sein;

carry (a lot of) weight ( oder authority) Gewicht oder Bedeutung haben, viel gelten ( with bei);

this does not carry any weight with him das beeindruckt ihn nicht im Mindesten

7. fig nach sich ziehen, zur Folge haben:

treason carries the death penalty auf Hochverrat steht die Todesstrafe;

carry consequences Folgen haben

8. weiterführen, (hindurch-, hinauf- etc)führen, eine Hecke, Mauer, etc ziehen:

carry the chimney through the roof den Schornstein durch das Dach führen

9. fig fortreißen, überwältigen:

carry the audience with one die Zuhörer mitreißen;

carry sb to victory SPORT jemanden zum Sieg treiben

10. fig treiben:

carry sth too far ( oder to excess) etwas übertreiben oder zu weit treiben;

carry it with a high hand gebieterisch auftreten

11. fig

a) erreichen, durchsetzen:

carry sth into effect etwas verwirklichen oder ausführen; → point A 22

b) PARL einen Antrag etc durchbringen:

carry a motion unanimously einen Antrag einstimmig annehmen;

the motion was carried der Antrag ging durch

12. fig

a) einen Preis etc erlangen, erringen, gewinnen

b) siegreich oder erfolgreich aus einer Wahl etc hervorgehen; → day Bes Redew

c) MIL eine Festung etc (ein)nehmen, erobern

13. Früchte etc tragen, hervorbringen

14. Mineralien etc führen, enthalten

15. tragen, unterhalten, ernähren:

16. einen Bericht etc bringen:

this newspaper carries no weather forecast;

the press carried the statement without comment die Presse brachte oder veröffentlichte die Erklärung kommentarlos

17. WIRTSCH

a) eine Ware führen

b) eine Schuld etc in den Büchern führen

c) Zinsen tragen: → interest A 11

d) eine Versicherung etc zahlen:

carry insurance versichert sein

18. JAGD die Spur festhalten (Hund)

19. MUS einen Ton, eine Melodie tragen

C v/i

1. tragen ( auch MUS Ton, Stimme)

2. den Kopf gut etc halten (Pferd):

3. tragen, reichen (Stimme, Schusswaffe etc):

his voice carries far seine Stimme trägt weit

4. sich gut etc tragen lassen

5. fliegen (Ball etc)

6. besonders US Anklang finden, einschlagen umg (Kunstwerk etc)

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1) (transport) tragen; (with emphasis on destination) bringen; [Strom:] spülen; [Verkehrsmittel:] befördern

2) (conduct) leiten

3) (support) tragen; (contain) fassen

4) (have with one)

5) (possess) besitzen [Autorität, Gewicht]; see also conviction 2)

6) (hold)

7) (prolong)

8) (Math.): (transfer) im Sinn behalten

9) (win) durchbringen [Antrag, Gesetzentwurf, Vorschlag]

- carry away

- carry back

- carry forward

- carry off

- carry on

- carry out

- carry over

- carry through

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befördern v.

tragen v.

übertragen v.

adjective (spread over a large area or among many people: widespread hunger and disease.) extendido, generalizado

widespread adj extendido / generalizado

tr['waɪdspred]

adjective

1 (concern, confusion, unrest, use, belief) generalizado,-a; (damage, disease, news) extenso,-a, extendido,-a

\

to become widespread (gen) generalizarse 2 (illness, news) extenderse, difundirse

widespread ['waɪd'sprɛd] adj

: extendido, extenso, difuso

• difuso, -a adj.

• extendido, -a adj.

• extenso, -a adj.

• muy difundido adj.

adjective <custom/belief> extendido, generalizado

['waɪdspred]

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adjective <custom/belief> extendido, generalizado

1 aumento; crescita: a rise in prices (o a price rise) un aumento dei prezzi; a rise in temperature [unemployment], un aumento della temperatura [della disoccupazione]; Prices are on the rise, i prezzi sono in aumento; pay rise, aumento salariale; big rise, forte aumento; a sharp rise, un brusco rialzo; steady rise, continuo (o costante) aumento

2 ascesa: the rise of a politician, l'ascesa di un uomo politico; rise to power [fame], ascesa al potere [al successo]; the rise and fall of the British Empire, l'ascesa e il declino dell'impero britannico

3 salita: a steep rise, una salita ripida

4 altura; rialzo: The house stands on a rise, la casa è situata su un'altura

5 (ingl.) aumento (di stipendio): I asked my employer for a rise, ho chiesto al mio principale un aumento (di stipendio)

6 ( raro) sorgente; origine

7 [u] ( di pesce) affioramento; il salire a fior d'acqua ( per cibarsi): I fished all day but didn't get a rise, ho pescato tutto il giorno ma non si è visto neanche un pesce

8 [u] altezza; livello: The tidal rise is twenty feet, l'altezza della marea è di venti piedi ( sei metri)

9 ( di gradino) alzata

10 (archit.) freccia ( di un arco, di un ponte)

11 (teatr.) alzata del sipario

● (geogr.) continental rise, rilievo continentale □ (naut.) the rise and fall of the tide, il movimento alterno della marea □ (naut.) the rise of the tide, il flusso della marea □ to give rise to, dare origine a: The proposition gave rise to an extensive debate, la proposta ha dato origine a un ampio dibattito □ (fam.) to take (o to get) a rise out of sb., far perdere la pazienza a q.; fare uscire dai gangheri q.

(pass. rose, p. p. risen)

A v. i.

1 ( spesso to rise up) salire: Thick black smoke was rising in the sky, uno spesso fumo nero si alzava nel cielo

2 ( spesso to rise up) alzarsi: He rose from the chair [from the table], si è alzato dalla sedia [da tavola]; They rise at dawn, si alzano all'alba; to rise to one's feet, alzarsi in piedi; to rise to the surface, salire in superficie

3 ( del sole, della luna, ecc.) sorgere: The sun was rising, il sole sorgeva

4 aumentare; salire; ( di fiume, ecc.) aumentare di livello: Prices are rising, i prezzi aumentano; Temperatures are rising steadily, le temperature continuano a salire; Our net income rose 10% last year, l'anno scorso il nostro utile netto è aumentato del 10%; to rise in price [value], aumentare di prezzo [di valore]; The dollar is rising against the euro, il dollaro sta salendo rispetto all'euro; In the flood the river rose three feet, con la piena il fiume è cresciuto di tre piedi; The Tiber is rising, il livello del Tevere sta salendo; The tide is rising, si sta alzando la marea; Tensions are rising in the Middle East, cresce la tensione in Medio Oriente; He felt anger rise in him, sentiva la rabbia crescere dentro di lui; Her spirits rose at the prospect of seeing him again, all'idea di rivederlo, le si è sollevato il morale

5 (fig.) elevarsi; far carriera: to rise through the ranks, venire dalla gavetta; to rise to prominence [fame], raggiungere una posizione di rilievo [la notorietà]; to rise to power, salire al potere; to rise to the top, arrivare al vertice

6 ( spesso to rise up) ( di una strada, del terreno, ecc.) essere in salita; ( di un edificio, una montagna, ecc.) ergersi; ( di capelli, peli) rizzarsi: The road rises fairly steeply past the bend, la strada diventa piuttosto ripida dopo la curva; A snow-capped mountain rose up on our left, un monte dalla cima innevata si ergeva alla nostra sinistra; a tree that rises twenty feet, un albero alto venti piedi; I felt the hairs rising on the back of my neck, mi si sono sentito rizzare i peli in testa

7 (= to rise up) insorgere; sollevarsi: The people rose against their oppressors, il popolo è insorto contro gli oppressori; to rise up in rebellion, sollevarsi in rivolta

8 ( di un fiume) nascere: The Thames rises in the Cotswold Hills, il Tamigi nasce nelle Cotswold Hills

9 ( del vento) alzarsi: A strong wind rose suddenly, improvvisamente si è alzato un forte vento

10 ( di riunione, del parlamento, ecc.) aggiornare la seduta

11 ( del pane, ecc.) crescere; lievitare; The dough has risen, la pasta è lievitata

12 ( di un gonfiore, una vescica, ecc.) formarsi; spuntare: a skin disease in which blisters rise on slight pressure, una malattia della pelle in cui delle vesciche si formano a una lieve pressione

13 ( dello stomaco) rivoltarsi: My stomach rose at the smell, mi si è rivoltato lo stomaco all'odore

14 ( del pesce) affiorare; venire a galla ( per cibarsi)

B v. t.

1 ( caccia) scovare, stanare ( selvaggina)

2 ( pesca) prendere, pescare

● to rise again, risorgere □ (fig.) to rise from the ashes, risorgere dalle ceneri □ to rise from the dead (o the grave), resuscitare □ to be rising forty, essere vicino ai quarant'anni □ Christ is risen, Cristo è risorto □ (fam.) Rise and shine!, sveglia!; in piedi!

1 ბუზი

2 (flew, flown) ფრენა (გაფრინდება)

3 (flew, flown) ფრიალი (დროშისა და სხ.)

4 (flew, flown) თვითმფრინავის მართვა

5 (flew, flown) გაქცევა

6 (flew, flown) გავარდნა, ჩაქროლვა, ჩარბენა

1) Общая лексика: transportation drawing, проектная глубина скважины (target depth), Technical Directorate (SEIC), депутат нижней палаты парламента Ирландии (Teachta Dála or TD is the equivalent of a Member of Parliament or MP of the British House of Commons)

2) Компьютерная техника: Table Down, Transient Data

3) Медицина: поздняя дискинезия (Tardive Dyskinesia), диарея путешественников (traveller's diarrhea)

4) Американизм: Temporary Disability, Total Domination, Tough Decision

5) Спорт: Touch Down

6) Военный термин: Target Defeat, Targeted Delivery, Technology Demonstration, Technology Demonstrator, Terrain Data, Territorial Decoration, Total Distribution, Totally Dangerous, Training Development, Training Device, Transfer Device, table of distribution (для выполнения особых задач), tabular data, tactical data, tactical directive, tactical division, tactics directive, tank destroyer, tank ditch, tank division, target designation, target designator, target detector, target discrimination, target drone, targeting data, task description, task directive, technical data, technical description, technical design, technical development, technical direction, technical division, technical document, telegraph depot, telemetry data, telephone depot, temporary duty, test data, test directive, test director, testing and development division, testing device, time delay, time difference, time of departure, timing device, torpedo dive bomber aircraft, total depth, total dose, track data, track display, tractor-drawn, traffic director, training depot, training detachment, training division, trajectory diagram, transport driver, transportation department, Time Dominant (imagery), Temporarily Discontinued, Tween Deck

7) Техника: telegraph department, telephone department, terminal distributor, threshold detector, tolerance detector, transmission and distribution, transmitter-distributor, true depth, поперечное направление (направление материала)

8) Сельское хозяйство: drainage tube

9) Шутливое выражение: Tiny Di

10) Химия: Temperature Displacement, Thermal Desorption, Thermal Diffusion, Thermal Duration

11) Математика: Tangent Distance, полная разность (total difference)

12) Юридический термин: Tracking Dog, Trust Deed

13) Автомобильный термин: turbo diesel

14) Ветеринария: Terrier Down

15) Грубое выражение: Tiny Dicks, Too Dumb, Totally Dumb

16) Металлургия: Top Down

17) Политика: Trinidad & Tobago

18) Телекоммуникации: Transmitted Data (EIA-232-E)

19) Сокращение: Chad, Tactical Deception, Tactical Doctrine, Tardive Dyskinesia, Target Destruct, Teacher's Diploma, Technical Demonstration, Technology Demonstration/or, Terminal Defense, Territorial Defense (Slovenia), Time Differential, Treasury Department, Triphenylarsenic dichloride (Chemical warfare agent), temperature differential, the Treasury Department, tile drain, touchdown, transmitter distributor, turbine direct, turbine driven

20) Физиология: Texture- Defined, Total disability, Transmitted Disease

21) Электроника: Thermal Donor, Time Division, Timing Diagram, transmitted data

22) Сленг: стереоскопический, гол (в футболе, регби), объёмный (о фильме)

23) Вычислительная техника: tunnel diode, Transmit Data (MODEM)

24) Нефть: target depth, tripping device, истинная глубина (скважины, true depth), конечная глубина (скважины, total depth), общая глубина (бурения), проектная глубина (скважины, total depth)

25) Биохимия: Thiamin Deficient, Tracing Dye

26) Связь: time distribution

27) Канадский термин: Toronto Dominion

28) Банковское дело: вклад на срок (time deposit), срочный депозит (time deposit)

29) Геофизика: (total depth) забой

30) Транспорт: Test Drive, Transportation Disadvantaged

31) Фирменный знак: Teledyne

32) Холодильная техника: temperature difference

33) СМИ: Tape Delay

34) Деловая лексика: Task Delegation, Top Dog

35) Бурение: проектная глубина забоя, фактический забой (рабочий вариант перевода)

36) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: top drive

37) Инвестиции: time deposit

38) Сетевые технологии: Transmitting Data

39) Полимеры: technical documentation, theoretical density, theoretically dry, tons per day, transverse direction

40) Программирование: Table Data, Table Definition, Table Detail

41) Автоматика: throat diameter

42) Контроль качества: technical directive

43) Химическое оружие: Technical Director, to deliver, toxic dose

44) Авиационная медицина: telemetered data

45) Молочное производство: Thoracic Duct

46) Расширение файла: Transmit Data, Turbo Debugger for DOS Configuration file

47) Собаководство: ( AKC) Tracking Dog

48) Электротехника: transducer

49) Должность: Tech Dude, Truss Designer

50) Чат: The Dumper, Total Disaster

51) NYSE. Toronto Dominion Bank of Ontario

52) Программное обеспечение: Trojan Downloader

1) Общая лексика: transportation drawing, проектная глубина скважины (target depth), Technical Directorate (SEIC), депутат нижней палаты парламента Ирландии (Teachta Dála or TD is the equivalent of a Member of Parliament or MP of the British House of Commons)

2) Компьютерная техника: Table Down, Transient Data

3) Медицина: поздняя дискинезия (Tardive Dyskinesia), диарея путешественников (traveller's diarrhea)

4) Американизм: Temporary Disability, Total Domination, Tough Decision

5) Спорт: Touch Down

6) Военный термин: Target Defeat, Targeted Delivery, Technology Demonstration, Technology Demonstrator, Terrain Data, Territorial Decoration, Total Distribution, Totally Dangerous, Training Development, Training Device, Transfer Device, table of distribution (для выполнения особых задач), tabular data, tactical data, tactical directive, tactical division, tactics directive, tank destroyer, tank ditch, tank division, target designation, target designator, target detector, target discrimination, target drone, targeting data, task description, task directive, technical data, technical description, technical design, technical development, technical direction, technical division, technical document, telegraph depot, telemetry data, telephone depot, temporary duty, test data, test directive, test director, testing and development division, testing device, time delay, time difference, time of departure, timing device, torpedo dive bomber aircraft, total depth, total dose, track data, track display, tractor-drawn, traffic director, training depot, training detachment, training division, trajectory diagram, transport driver, transportation department, Time Dominant (imagery), Temporarily Discontinued, Tween Deck

7) Техника: telegraph department, telephone department, terminal distributor, threshold detector, tolerance detector, transmission and distribution, transmitter-distributor, true depth, поперечное направление (направление материала)

8) Сельское хозяйство: drainage tube

9) Шутливое выражение: Tiny Di

10) Химия: Temperature Displacement, Thermal Desorption, Thermal Diffusion, Thermal Duration

11) Математика: Tangent Distance, полная разность (total difference)

12) Юридический термин: Tracking Dog, Trust Deed

13) Автомобильный термин: turbo diesel

14) Ветеринария: Terrier Down

15) Грубое выражение: Tiny Dicks, Too Dumb, Totally Dumb

16) Металлургия: Top Down

17) Политика: Trinidad & Tobago

18) Телекоммуникации: Transmitted Data (EIA-232-E)

19) Сокращение: Chad, Tactical Deception, Tactical Doctrine, Tardive Dyskinesia, Target Destruct, Teacher's Diploma, Technical Demonstration, Technology Demonstration/or, Terminal Defense, Territorial Defense (Slovenia), Time Differential, Treasury Department, Triphenylarsenic dichloride (Chemical warfare agent), temperature differential, the Treasury Department, tile drain, touchdown, transmitter distributor, turbine direct, turbine driven

20) Физиология: Texture- Defined, Total disability, Transmitted Disease

21) Электроника: Thermal Donor, Time Division, Timing Diagram, transmitted data

22) Сленг: стереоскопический, гол (в футболе, регби), объёмный (о фильме)

23) Вычислительная техника: tunnel diode, Transmit Data (MODEM)

24) Нефть: target depth, tripping device, истинная глубина (скважины, true depth), конечная глубина (скважины, total depth), общая глубина (бурения), проектная глубина (скважины, total depth)

25) Биохимия: Thiamin Deficient, Tracing Dye

26) Связь: time distribution

27) Канадский термин: Toronto Dominion

28) Банковское дело: вклад на срок (time deposit), срочный депозит (time deposit)

29) Геофизика: (total depth) забой

30) Транспорт: Test Drive, Transportation Disadvantaged

31) Фирменный знак: Teledyne

32) Холодильная техника: temperature difference

33) СМИ: Tape Delay

34) Деловая лексика: Task Delegation, Top Dog

35) Бурение: проектная глубина забоя, фактический забой (рабочий вариант перевода)

36) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: top drive

37) Инвестиции: time deposit

38) Сетевые технологии: Transmitting Data

39) Полимеры: technical documentation, theoretical density, theoretically dry, tons per day, transverse direction

40) Программирование: Table Data, Table Definition, Table Detail

41) Автоматика: throat diameter

42) Контроль качества: technical directive

43) Химическое оружие: Technical Director, to deliver, toxic dose

44) Авиационная медицина: telemetered data

45) Молочное производство: Thoracic Duct

46) Расширение файла: Transmit Data, Turbo Debugger for DOS Configuration file

47) Собаководство: ( AKC) Tracking Dog

48) Электротехника: transducer

49) Должность: Tech Dude, Truss Designer

50) Чат: The Dumper, Total Disaster

51) NYSE. Toronto Dominion Bank of Ontario

52) Программное обеспечение: Trojan Downloader

1) Общая лексика: transportation drawing, проектная глубина скважины (target depth), Technical Directorate (SEIC), депутат нижней палаты парламента Ирландии (Teachta Dála or TD is the equivalent of a Member of Parliament or MP of the British House of Commons)

2) Компьютерная техника: Table Down, Transient Data

3) Медицина: поздняя дискинезия (Tardive Dyskinesia), диарея путешественников (traveller's diarrhea)

4) Американизм: Temporary Disability, Total Domination, Tough Decision

5) Спорт: Touch Down

6) Военный термин: Target Defeat, Targeted Delivery, Technology Demonstration, Technology Demonstrator, Terrain Data, Territorial Decoration, Total Distribution, Totally Dangerous, Training Development, Training Device, Transfer Device, table of distribution (для выполнения особых задач), tabular data, tactical data, tactical directive, tactical division, tactics directive, tank destroyer, tank ditch, tank division, target designation, target designator, target detector, target discrimination, target drone, targeting data, task description, task directive, technical data, technical description, technical design, technical development, technical direction, technical division, technical document, telegraph depot, telemetry data, telephone depot, temporary duty, test data, test directive, test director, testing and development division, testing device, time delay, time difference, time of departure, timing device, torpedo dive bomber aircraft, total depth, total dose, track data, track display, tractor-drawn, traffic director, training depot, training detachment, training division, trajectory diagram, transport driver, transportation department, Time Dominant (imagery), Temporarily Discontinued, Tween Deck

7) Техника: telegraph department, telephone department, terminal distributor, threshold detector, tolerance detector, transmission and distribution, transmitter-distributor, true depth, поперечное направление (направление материала)

8) Сельское хозяйство: drainage tube

9) Шутливое выражение: Tiny Di

10) Химия: Temperature Displacement, Thermal Desorption, Thermal Diffusion, Thermal Duration

11) Математика: Tangent Distance, полная разность (total difference)

12) Юридический термин: Tracking Dog, Trust Deed

13) Автомобильный термин: turbo diesel

14) Ветеринария: Terrier Down

15) Грубое выражение: Tiny Dicks, Too Dumb, Totally Dumb

16) Металлургия: Top Down

17) Политика: Trinidad & Tobago

18) Телекоммуникации: Transmitted Data (EIA-232-E)

19) Сокращение: Chad, Tactical Deception, Tactical Doctrine, Tardive Dyskinesia, Target Destruct, Teacher's Diploma, Technical Demonstration, Technology Demonstration/or, Terminal Defense, Territorial Defense (Slovenia), Time Differential, Treasury Department, Triphenylarsenic dichloride (Chemical warfare agent), temperature differential, the Treasury Department, tile drain, touchdown, transmitter distributor, turbine direct, turbine driven

20) Физиология: Texture- Defined, Total disability, Transmitted Disease

21) Электроника: Thermal Donor, Time Division, Timing Diagram, transmitted data

22) Сленг: стереоскопический, гол (в футболе, регби), объёмный (о фильме)

23) Вычислительная техника: tunnel diode, Transmit Data (MODEM)

24) Нефть: target depth, tripping device, истинная глубина (скважины, true depth), конечная глубина (скважины, total depth), общая глубина (бурения), проектная глубина (скважины, total depth)

25) Биохимия: Thiamin Deficient, Tracing Dye

26) Связь: time distribution

27) Канадский термин: Toronto Dominion

28) Банковское дело: вклад на срок (time deposit), срочный депозит (time deposit)

29) Геофизика: (total depth) забой

30) Транспорт: Test Drive, Transportation Disadvantaged

31) Фирменный знак: Teledyne

32) Холодильная техника: temperature difference

33) СМИ: Tape Delay

34) Деловая лексика: Task Delegation, Top Dog

35) Бурение: проектная глубина забоя, фактический забой (рабочий вариант перевода)

36) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: top drive

37) Инвестиции: time deposit

38) Сетевые технологии: Transmitting Data

39) Полимеры: technical documentation, theoretical density, theoretically dry, tons per day, transverse direction

40) Программирование: Table Data, Table Definition, Table Detail

41) Автоматика: throat diameter

42) Контроль качества: technical directive

43) Химическое оружие: Technical Director, to deliver, toxic dose

44) Авиационная медицина: telemetered data

45) Молочное производство: Thoracic Duct

46) Расширение файла: Transmit Data, Turbo Debugger for DOS Configuration file

47) Собаководство: ( AKC) Tracking Dog

48) Электротехника: transducer

49) Должность: Tech Dude, Truss Designer

50) Чат: The Dumper, Total Disaster

51) NYSE. Toronto Dominion Bank of Ontario

52) Программное обеспечение: Trojan Downloader

strike [straɪk]

grève ⇒ 1 (a) raid ⇒ 1 (b) attaque ⇒ 1 (b) escadre ⇒ 1 (c) découverte ⇒ 1 (d) sonnerie ⇒ 1 (e) frapper ⇒ 3 (a), 3 (c)-(e), 3 (n), 4 (a) toucher ⇒ 3 (a) atteindre ⇒ 3 (a) heurter ⇒ 3 (b) sonner ⇒ 3 (f), 4 (d) jouer ⇒ 3 (g) conclure ⇒ 3 (h) rendre ⇒ 3 (j) découvrir ⇒ 3 (l) attaquer ⇒ 3 (q), 4 (b) faire grève ⇒ 4 (c)

(pt & pp struck [strʌk], cont striking)

1 noun

(a) Industry grève f;

∎ to go on strike se mettre en ou faire grève;

∎ to be (out) on strike être en grève;

∎ to threaten strike action menacer de faire ou de se mettre en grève;

∎ the Italian air strike la grève des transports aériens en Italie;

∎ railway strike grève f des chemins de fer;

∎ teachers' strike grève f des enseignants;

∎ coal or miners' strike grève f des mineurs;

∎ postal or post office strike grève f des postes;

∎ rent strike grève f des loyers

(b) Military raid m, attaque f; (by bird of prey, snake) attaque f;

∎ to carry out air strikes against or on enemy bases lancer des raids aériens contre des bases ennemies;

∎ retaliatory strike raid m de représailles; (nuclear) deuxième frappe f

(c) Aviation & Military (planes) escadre f (d'avions participant à un raid)

(d) Petroleum industry & Mining (discovery) découverte f;

∎ a gold strike la découverte d'un gisement d'or;

∎ the recent oil strikes in the North Sea la découverte récente de gisements de pétrole en mer du Nord;

∎ it was a lucky strike c'était un coup de chance

(e) (of clock → chime, mechanism) sonnerie f;

∎ life was regulated by the strike of the church clock la vie était rythmée par la cloche de l'église

(f) (act or instance of hitting) coup m; (sound) bruit m;

∎ the strike of iron on iron le bruit du fer qui frappe le fer;

∎ he adjusted the strike of the keys on the platen roll il a réglé la frappe des caractères contre le cylindre

(g) (in baseball) strike m; American figurative (black mark) mauvais point m;

∎ figurative he has two strikes against him il est mal parti;

∎ figurative being too young was another strike against her le fait d'être trop jeune constituait un handicap supplémentaire pour elle

(h) (in bowling) honneur m double;

∎ to get or to score a strike réussir un honneur double

(i) Fishing (by fisherman) ferrage m; (by fish) touche f

(j) archaic

∎ at the strike of day à la pointe ou au point du jour

2 compound-forming noun

(a) (committee, movement) de grève

(b) Military (mission) d'intervention, d'attaque; (aircraft) d'assaut

3 transitive verb

(a) (hit → gen) frapper; (→ of bullet, torpedo, bomb) toucher, atteindre;

∎ she raised her hand to strike him elle leva la main pour le frapper;

∎ he struck me with his fist il m'a donné un coup de poing;

∎ the chairman struck the table with his gavel le président donna un coup de marteau sur la table;

∎ she took the vase and struck him on or over the head elle saisit le vase et lui donna un coup sur la tête;

∎ she struck him across the face elle lui a donné une gifle;

∎ a light breeze struck the sails une légère brise gonfla les voiles;

∎ the phenomenon occurs when warm air strikes cold ce phénomène se produit lorsque de l'air chaud entre en contact avec de l'air froid;

∎ a wave struck the side of the boat une vague a heurté le côté du bateau;

∎ the arrow struck the target la flèche a atteint la cible;

∎ a hail of bullets struck the car la voiture a été mitraillée;

∎ he was struck by a piece of shrapnel il a été touché par ou il a reçu un éclat de grenade;

∎ to be struck by lightning être frappé par la foudre, être foudroyé;

∎ he went for them striking blows left and right il s'est jeté sur eux, distribuant les coups de tous côtés;

∎ who struck the first blow? qui a porté le premier coup?, qui a frappé le premier?;

∎ he struck the tree a mighty blow with the axe il a donné un grand coup de hache dans l'arbre;

∎ the trailer struck the post a glancing blow la remorque a percuté le poteau en passant;

∎ figurative to strike a blow for democracy/women's rights (law, event) faire progresser la démocratie/les droits de la femme; (person, group) marquer des points en faveur de la démocratie/des droits des femmes

(b) (bump into, collide with) heurter, cogner;

∎ his foot struck the bar on his first jump son pied a heurté la barre lors de son premier saut;

∎ she fell and struck her head on or against the kerb elle s'est cogné la tête contre le bord du trottoir en tombant;

∎ the Volvo struck the bus head on la Volvo a heurté le bus de plein fouet;

∎ Nautical we've struck ground! nous avons touché (le fond)!

(c) (afflict → of drought, disease, worry, regret) frapper; (→ of storm, hurricane, disaster, wave of violence) s'abattre sur, frapper;

∎ an earthquake struck the city un tremblement de terre a frappé la ville;

∎ he was struck by a heart attack il a eu une crise cardiaque;

∎ the pain struck her as she tried to get up la douleur l'a saisie au moment où elle essayait de se lever;

∎ I was struck by or with doubts j'ai été pris de doute, le doute s'est emparé de moi

(d) (occur to) frapper;

∎ only later did it strike me as unusual ce n'est que plus tard que j'ai trouvé ça ou que cela m'a paru bizarre;

∎ it suddenly struck him how little had changed il a soudain pris conscience du fait que peu de choses avaient changé;

∎ did it never strike you that you weren't wanted there? ne vous est-il jamais venu à l'esprit que vous étiez de trop?;

∎ a terrible thought struck her une idée affreuse lui vint à l'esprit;

∎ it strikes me as useless/as the perfect gift ça me semble ou paraît inutile/être le cadeau idéal;

∎ he strikes me as (being) sincere il me paraît sincère;

∎ it doesn't strike me as being the best course of action il ne me semble pas que ce soit la meilleure voie à suivre

(e) (impress) frapper, impressionner;

∎ the first thing that struck me was his pallor la première chose qui m'a frappé, c'était sa pâleur;

∎ what strikes you is the silence ce qui (vous) frappe, c'est le silence;

∎ how did she strike you? quelle impression vous a-t-elle faite?, quel effet vous a-t-elle fait?;

∎ how did Tokyo/the film strike you? comment avez-vous trouvé Tokyo/le film?;

∎ we can eat here and meet them later, how does that strike you? on peut manger ici et les retrouver plus tard, qu'en penses-tu?;

∎ I was very struck British with or American by the flat l'appartement m'a plu énormément;

∎ I wasn't very struck British with or American by his colleague son collègue ne m'a pas fait une grande impression

(f) (chime) sonner;

∎ the church clock struck five l'horloge de l'église a sonné cinq heures;

∎ it was striking midnight as we left minuit sonnait quand nous partîmes

(g) (play → note, chord) jouer;

∎ she struck a few notes on the piano elle a joué quelques notes sur le piano;

∎ when he struck the opening chords the audience applauded quand il a joué ou plaqué les premiers accords le public a applaudi;

∎ to strike a false note Music faire une fausse note; figurative (speech) sonner faux;

∎ his presence/his words struck a gloomy note sa présence a/ses paroles ont mis une note de tristesse;

∎ the report strikes an optimistic note/a note of warning for the future le rapport est très optimiste/très alarmant pour l'avenir;

∎ does it strike a chord? est-ce que cela te rappelle ou dit quelque chose?;

∎ to strike a chord with the audience faire vibrer la foule;

∎ her description of company life will strike a chord with many managers beaucoup de cadres se reconnaîtront dans sa description de la vie en entreprise

(h) (arrive at, reach → deal, treaty, agreement) conclure;

∎ to strike a bargain conclure un marché;

∎ I'll strike a bargain with you je te propose un marché;

∎ it's not easy to strike a balance between too much and too little freedom il n'est pas facile de trouver un équilibre ou de trouver le juste milieu entre trop et pas assez de liberté

(i) (cause a feeling of)

∎ to strike fear or terror into sb remplir qn d'effroi

(j) (cause to become) rendre;

∎ to strike sb blind/dumb rendre qn aveugle/muet;

∎ the news struck us speechless with horror nous sommes restés muets d'horreur en apprenant la nouvelle;

∎ I was struck dumb by the sheer cheek of the man! je suis resté muet devant le culot de cet homme!;

∎ a stray bullet struck him dead il a été tué par une balle perdue;

∎ she was struck dead by a heart attack elle a été foudroyée par une crise cardiaque;

∎ God strike me dead if I lie! je jure que c'est la vérité!

(k) (ignite → match) frotter, allumer; (→ sparks) faire jaillir;

∎ he struck a match or a light il a frotté une allumette;

∎ British familiar old-fashioned strike a light! nom de Dieu!

(l) (discover → gold) découvrir; (→ oil, water) trouver; (path) tomber sur, découvrir;

∎ familiar British to strike it lucky, American to strike it rich (make material gain) trouver le filon; (be lucky) avoir de la veine

(m) (adopt → attitude) adopter;

∎ he struck an attitude of wounded righteousness il a pris un air de dignité offensée

(n) (mint → coin, medal) frapper

(o) (take down → tent) démonter; Nautical (→ sail) amener, baisser;

∎ to strike camp lever le camp;

∎ Nautical to strike the flag or the colours amener les couleurs;

∎ Theatre to strike the set démonter le décor

(p) (delete → name, remark, person) rayer; (→ from professional register) radier;

∎ that remark must be struck or American stricken from the record cette remarque doit être retirée du procès-verbal

(q) (attack) attaquer

(r) American (go on strike at)

∎ the union is striking four of the company's plants le syndicat a déclenché des grèves dans quatre des usines de la société;

∎ students are striking their classes les étudiants font la grève des cours;

∎ the dockers are striking ships carrying industrial waste les dockers refusent de s'occuper des cargos chargés de déchets industriels

(s) Botany

∎ to strike roots prendre racine;

∎ the tree had struck deep roots into the ground l'arbre avait des racines très profondes

4 intransitive verb

(a) (hit) frapper;

∎ she struck at me with her umbrella elle essaya de me frapper avec son parapluie;

∎ to strike home (blow) porter; (missile, remark) faire mouche;

∎ familiar to strike lucky avoir de la veine;

∎ proverb strike while the iron is hot il faut battre le fer pendant qu'il est chaud

(b) (attack → gen) attaquer; (→ snake) mordre; (→ wild animal) sauter ou bondir sur sa proie; (→ bird of prey) fondre ou s'abattre sur sa proie;

∎ the bombers struck at dawn les bombardiers attaquèrent à l'aube;

∎ the murderer has struck again l'assassin a encore frappé;

∎ these are measures which strike at the root/heart of the problem voici des mesures qui attaquent le problème à la racine/qui s'attaquent au cœur du problème;

∎ this latest incident strikes right at the heart of government policy ce dernier incident remet complètement en cause la politique gouvernementale

(c) Industry faire grève;

∎ they're striking for more pay ils font grève pour obtenir une augmentation de salaire;

∎ the nurses struck over the minister's decision to freeze wages les infirmières ont fait grève suite à la décision du ministre de bloquer les salaires

(d) (chime) sonner;

∎ midnight had already struck minuit avait déjà sonné

(e) (happen suddenly → illness, disaster, earthquake) survenir, se produire, arriver;

∎ we were travelling quietly along when disaster struck nous roulions tranquillement lorsque la catastrophe s'est produite;

∎ the first tremors struck at 3 a.m. les premières secousses sont survenues à 3 heures du matin

(f) (travel, head)

∎ to strike across country prendre à travers champs;

∎ they then struck west ils sont ensuite partis vers l'ouest

(g) Sport (score) marquer

(h) Fishing (fisherman) ferrer; (fish) mordre (à l'hameçon)

(i) (of cutting) prendre (racine)

►► strike ballot = vote avant que les syndicats ne décident d'une grève;

Insurance strike clause clause f pour cas de grève;

strike force (nuclear capacity) force f de frappe; (of police, soldiers → squad) détachement m ou brigade f d'intervention; (→ larger force) force f d'intervention;

strike fund = caisse de prévoyance permettant d'aider les grévistes;

strike pay salaire m de gréviste (versé par le syndicat ou par un fonds de solidarité);

Finance strike price (for share) prix m d'exercice

➲ strike back intransitive verb

(a) (retaliate) se venger; Military contre-attaquer;

∎ the government struck back at its critics le gouvernement a répondu à ceux qui le critiquaient

(b) Sport (score in response) marquer à son tour

➲ strike down separable transitive verb

foudroyer, terrasser;

∎ figurative struck down by disease terrassé par la maladie

➲ strike off

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (delete, remove → from list) rayer, barrer; (→ from professional register) radier;

∎ to be struck off (doctor, solicitor) être radié

(b) (sever) couper

(c) Typography tirer

2 intransitive verb

∎ (go) to strike off to the left prendre à gauche;

∎ we struck off into the forest nous sommes entrés ou avons pénétré dans la forêt

➲ strike on inseparable transitive verb

British (solution, right answer) trouver (par hasard), tomber sur; (plan) trouver; (idea) avoir

➲ strike out

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (cross out) rayer, barrer

(b) (in baseball) éliminer

2 intransitive verb

(a) (set up on one's own) s'établir à son compte

(b) (go)

∎ she struck out across the fields elle prit à travers champs;

∎ figurative they decided to strike out into a new direction ils ont décidé de prendre une nouvelle direction

(c) (swim)

∎ we struck out for the shore nous avons commencé à nager en direction de la côte

(d) (aim a blow) frapper;

∎ she struck out at him elle essaya de le frapper; figurative elle s'en est prise à lui;

∎ they struck out in all directions with their truncheons ils distribuaient des coups de matraque à droite et à gauche

(e) (in baseball) être éliminé

➲ strike through separable transitive verb

British (cross out) rayer, barrer

➲ strike up

1 inseparable transitive verb

(a) (start)

∎ to strike up a conversation with sb engager la conversation avec qn;

∎ they immediately struck up a conversation ils sont immédiatement entrés en conversation;

∎ to strike up an acquaintance/a friendship with sb lier connaissance/se lier d'amitié avec qn

(b) Music (start playing) commencer à jouer;

∎ the band struck up the national anthem l'orchestre commença à jouer l'hymne national ou entonna les premières mesures de l'hymne national

2 intransitive verb

(musician, orchestra) commencer à jouer; (music) commencer

➲ strike upon British = strike on

heart [hɑ:t]

cœur ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b), 1 (g), 1 (i)-(k) fond ⇒ 1 (c), 1 (h) courage ⇒ 1 (f) au fond ⇒ 2 par cœur ⇒ 3

1 noun

(a) Anatomy (organ) cœur m;

∎ he has a weak heart il est cardiaque, il a le cœur malade;

∎ to have a heart condition souffrir du cœur, être cardiaque;

∎ figurative her heart leapt son cœur bondit;

∎ figurative her heart sank elle eut un serrement de cœur;

∎ my heart sinks every time I think about leaving j'ai un pincement au cœur ou un serrement de cœur chaque fois que je pense au départ;

∎ literary two hearts that beat as one deux cœurs qui battent à l'unisson;

∎ British he sat there, his heart in his boots il était là, la mort dans l'âme;

∎ her heart was in her mouth as she watched elle regardait en retenant son souffle

(b) (seat of feelings, love) cœur m;

∎ to have a big heart avoir très bon cœur;

∎ he has a heart of gold/of stone il a un cœur d'or/de pierre;

∎ it does my heart good to see them together cela me réchauffe le cœur de les voir ensemble;

∎ to lose one's heart to sb donner son cœur à qn, tomber amoureux de qn;

∎ to win sb's heart gagner le cœur de qn;

∎ her words went straight to his heart ses paroles lui sont allées droit au cœur;

∎ the letter was written straight from the heart la lettre était écrite du fond du cœur;

∎ to have one's heart set on sth s'être mis qch dans la tête;

∎ he has his heart set on winning il veut à tout prix gagner;

∎ they have their heart set on that house ils ont jeté leur dévolu sur cette maison;

∎ they have your welfare at heart ils ne pensent qu'à ton bien, c'est pour ton bien qu'ils font cela;

∎ they have everything their hearts could desire ils ont tout ce qu'ils peuvent désirer;

∎ literary my heart's desire is to see Rome again mon plus cher désir est ou ce que je désire le plus au monde c'est de revoir Rome;

∎ she hardened or steeled her heart against him elle s'est endurcie contre lui;

∎ affairs or matters of the heart affaires fpl de cœur;

∎ archaic or humorous dear heart mon cœur, mon (ma) chéri(e);

∎ to wear one's heart on one's sleeve montrer ou laisser paraître ses sentiments

(c) (innermost thoughts) fond m;

∎ in his heart of hearts au fond de lui-même ou de son cœur, en son for intérieur;

∎ in my heart I knew it was true au fond de moi-même je savais que c'était la vérité;

∎ there's a woman/a man after my own heart voilà une femme/un homme selon mon cœur;

∎ I thank you from the bottom of my heart or with all my heart je vous remercie du fond du cœur ou de tout mon cœur;

∎ do you love him? - with all my heart vous l'aimez? - de tout mon cœur;

∎ to take sth to heart prendre qch à cœur;

∎ she takes criticism too much to heart elle prend les critiques trop à cœur;

∎ don't take it to heart ne le prenez pas trop à cœur;

∎ she opened or poured out her heart to me elle m'a dévoilé son cœur

(d) (disposition, humour)

∎ to have a change of heart changer d'avis

(e) (interest, enthusiasm)

∎ I worked hard but my heart wasn't in it j'ai beaucoup travaillé mais je n'avais pas le cœur à l'ouvrage ou le cœur n'y était pas;

∎ I can tell that your heart isn't in it je vois bien que tu n'y tiens pas tellement;

∎ to eat/drink to one's heart's content manger/boire tout son soûl;

∎ she read to her heart's content elle a lu tout son soûl;

∎ a subject close to one's heart un sujet qui tient à cœur;

∎ she puts her heart or she throws herself heart and soul into her work elle se donne à son travail corps et âme

(f) (courage)

∎ to lose heart perdre courage, se décourager;

∎ take heart! courage!;

∎ she took heart from the fact that others shared her experience elle était encouragée par le fait que d'autres partageaient son expérience;

∎ the prospect of winning the prize put new heart into them la perspective de gagner le prix leur a redonné du courage ou du cœur (au ventre);

∎ to be in good heart (person) avoir bon moral; British (land) être fécond ou productif

(g) (compassion) cœur m;

∎ he has no heart il n'a pas de cœur, il manque de cœur;

∎ she didn't have the heart to refuse, she couldn't find it in her heart to refuse elle n'a pas eu le courage ou le cœur de refuser;

∎ can you find it in your heart to forgive me? est-ce que vous pourrez jamais me pardonner?;

∎ her heart's in the right place elle a bon cœur;

∎ have a heart! pitié!;

∎ to be all heart être plein de bonne volonté;

∎ ironic you're all heart tu es charmant!

(h) (core, vital part → of matter, topic) fond m, vif m; (→ of city, place) centre m, cœur m;

∎ the heart of the matter le fond du problème;

∎ the speaker went straight to the heart of the matter le conférencier est allé droit au cœur du sujet ou du problème;

∎ the law strikes at the heart of the democratic system la loi porte atteinte aux fondements du régime démocratique;

∎ in the heart of the financial district au centre ou au cœur du quartier financier;

∎ in the heart of winter en plein hiver, au cœur de l'hiver;

∎ in the heart of the forest au cœur ou au beau milieu ou au fin fond de la forêt, en pleine forêt;

∎ American the Heart of Dixie = surnom donné à l'Alabama

(i) (of cabbage, celery, lettuce) cœur m; (of tree) cœur m, vif m; (of artichoke) cœur m, fond m; (of cable) âme f, mèche f;

∎ British literary hearts of oak (men) hommes mpl courageux

(j) Cards cœur m;

∎ to play a heart jouer un ou du cœur;

∎ hearts are trumps atout cœur;

∎ have you got any hearts? avez-vous du cœur?

(k) (shape) cœur m;

∎ a pattern of little red hearts un motif de petits cœurs rouges;

∎ she had drawn hearts all over the letter elle avait dessiné des cœurs sur toute la lettre

(l) (bosom) poitrine f;

∎ she clutched him to her heart elle l'a serré contre sa poitrine ou sur son cœur

2 at heart adverb

au fond;

∎ at heart she was a good person elle avait un bon fond;

∎ my sister's a gypsy at heart ma sœur est une bohémienne dans l'âme;

∎ to feel sad at heart avoir le cœur triste;

∎ to be sick at heart avoir la mort dans l'âme

3 by heart adverb

par cœur;

∎ to learn/to know sth by heart apprendre/savoir qch par cœur

4 hearts plural noun

Cards = jeu de cartes dont l'objet est de faire des plis ne comprenant ni des cœurs ni la dame de pique

►► Medicine heart attack crise f cardiaque;

∎ to have a heart attack avoir une crise cardiaque, faire un infarctus;

∎ figurative she nearly had a heart attack when she heard about it en apprenant la nouvelle, elle a failli avoir une attaque;

Medicine heart disease maladie f de cœur, maladie f cardiaque;

∎ heart disease is on the increase les maladies de cœur ou cardiaques sont en augmentation;

∎ smoking increases the incidence of heart disease le tabagisme augmente le taux de maladies de cœur ou cardiaques;

Medicine heart failure (condition) défaillance f cardiaque; (cessation of heartbeat) arrêt m du cœur;

∎ figurative I nearly had heart failure when they told me I'd got the job j'ai failli me trouver mal ou avoir une syncope quand ils m'ont dit que j'avais le poste;

Medicine heart murmur souffle m au cœur;

Botany heart of palm cœur m de palmier;

heart patient cardiaque mf;

Marketing heart share préférence f;

heart surgeon chirurgien(enne) m,f cardiologue;

Medicine heart surgery chirurgie f du cœur;

Medicine heart trouble (UNCOUNT) maladie f du cœur, troubles mpl cardiaques;

∎ to have or to suffer from heart trouble souffrir du cœur, être cardiaque

✾ Book 'Heart of Darkness' Conrad 'Au cœur des ténèbres'

✾ Film 'One from the Heart' Coppola 'Coup de cœur'

✾ Book ✾ Film 'The Heart of the Matter' Greene, More O'Ferrall 'Le Fond du problème'

✾ Book 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter' McCullers 'Le Cœur est un chasseur solitaire'

1) Общая лексика: equiv. DDD in USA), hum. сокр. Skeletal Transcript Database

2) Компьютерная техника: норма, норматив

3) Авиация: стандартное время отправления, Standard Time of Departure, Scheduled Time of Departure

4) Медицина: ЗППП (заболевания, передающиеся половым путем), (sexually transmitted disease) болезнь, передающаяся половым

путём, (sexually transmitted disease) венерическая болезнь, (sexually transmitted disease) венерические болезни, ИППП, (sexually transmitted disease) болезнь, передающаяся половым путем/венерическое заболевание, БППП

5) Американизм: Short Term Disability

6) Военный термин: SIGINT Technical Data, Services Telephone Directory, Software Test Description, Synthetic Training Devices, science and technology division, sea transport division, standard test dose

7) Техника: salinity, temperature, density recorder, semiconductor on thermoplastic on dielectric bonding, space target designation, spectral theory of diffraction, standing, state-transition diagram, system test division

8) Шутливое выражение: Sam The Devil, Snails Taste Delicious

9) Религия: Scriptures Temple Dating, Someone Truly Divine

10) Юридический термин: Shoot The Dummy

11) Статистика: стандартное отклонение

12) Страхование: short-term disability insurance

13) Грубое выражение: Sexy Train Driver

14) Телекоммуникации: Secondary Telecom District, Standard Trunk Dial, Subscriber Trunk Dialling, Secondary Transmitted Data (EIA-232)

15) Сокращение: Sacrae Theologiae Doctor (doctor of sacred theology), Sao Tome Dobra, Systems Technology Demonstration, subscriber trunk dialing, Subscriber Trunk Dialing (British, and elsewhere; equiv. DDD in USA), Sexually Transmitted Disease (replaces VD), System Task Directory

16) Физиология: Sexual Tension Disorder, Skin Test Dose, Small Testicle Disorder, Standing Tremor Disorder

17) Вычислительная техника: Secondary Transmitted Data, Subscriber Trunk Dialing (British, and elsewhere, standards, state transition diagram, superconductive tunneling device, Suspend To Disk (BIOS, ACPI), Sacrae Theologiae Doctor (doctor of sacred theology), SeT Direction (flag, Assembler)

18) Нефть: WT standard weight, отдел испытаний систем (system testing department), стандарт (standard)

19) Иммунология: Sterilized Testing Developer

20) Токсикология: severely toxic dose

21) Рыбоводство: ГТЭ, глубина, температура и электропроводимость воды

22) Транспорт: Severe Tire Damage

23) Экология: salinity, temperature, depth

24) СМИ: Selling The Drama

25) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: standard strength, standard wall thickness

26) Образование: Sexually Transmitted Disease

27) Программирование: Set Direction Flag, документация по тестированию программного обеспечения (см. software test documentation)

28) Контроль качества: standart

29) Океанография: Salinity, Temperature, and Depth

30) Безопасность: Security Tools Distribution

31) Расширение файла: State Transition Diagram graphics file

32) Гостиничное дело: стандартный номер

33) Имена и фамилии: Simon Tissot Dupont

34) Должность: Sacrae Theologiae Doctor, Saves The Day

35) Чат: Some Thing Duh

36) NYSE. Banco Santander Cent Hispano

37) Аэропорты: Santo Domingo, Venezuela

38) НАСА: Standard Transmission Difficulties

39) Программное обеспечение: Simple To Design

1) Общая лексика: equiv. DDD in USA), hum. сокр. Skeletal Transcript Database

2) Компьютерная техника: норма, норматив

3) Авиация: стандартное время отправления, Standard Time of Departure, Scheduled Time of Departure

4) Медицина: ЗППП (заболевания, передающиеся половым путем), (sexually transmitted disease) болезнь, передающаяся половым

путём, (sexually transmitted disease) венерическая болезнь, (sexually transmitted disease) венерические болезни, ИППП, (sexually transmitted disease) болезнь, передающаяся половым путем/венерическое заболевание, БППП

5) Американизм: Short Term Disability

6) Военный термин: SIGINT Technical Data, Services Telephone Directory, Software Test Description, Synthetic Training Devices, science and technology division, sea transport division, standard test dose

7) Техника: salinity, temperature, density recorder, semiconductor on thermoplastic on dielectric bonding, space target designation, spectral theory of diffraction, standing, state-transition diagram, system test division

8) Шутливое выражение: Sam The Devil, Snails Taste Delicious

9) Религия: Scriptures Temple Dating, Someone Truly Divine

10) Юридический термин: Shoot The Dummy

11) Статистика: стандартное отклонение

12) Страхование: short-term disability insurance

13) Грубое выражение: Sexy Train Driver

14) Телекоммуникации: Secondary Telecom District, Standard Trunk Dial, Subscriber Trunk Dialling, Secondary Transmitted Data (EIA-232)

15) Сокращение: Sacrae Theologiae Doctor (doctor of sacred theology), Sao Tome Dobra, Systems Technology Demonstration, subscriber trunk dialing, Subscriber Trunk Dialing (British, and elsewhere; equiv. DDD in USA), Sexually Transmitted Disease (replaces VD), System Task Directory

16) Физиология: Sexual Tension Disorder, Skin Test Dose, Small Testicle Disorder, Standing Tremor Disorder

17) Вычислительная техника: Secondary Transmitted Data, Subscriber Trunk Dialing (British, and elsewhere, standards, state transition diagram, superconductive tunneling device, Suspend To Disk (BIOS, ACPI), Sacrae Theologiae Doctor (doctor of sacred theology), SeT Direction (flag, Assembler)

18) Нефть: WT standard weight, отдел испытаний систем (system testing department), стандарт (standard)

19) Иммунология: Sterilized Testing Developer

20) Токсикология: severely toxic dose

21) Рыбоводство: ГТЭ, глубина, температура и электропроводимость воды

22) Транспорт: Severe Tire Damage

23) Экология: salinity, temperature, depth

24) СМИ: Selling The Drama

25) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: standard strength, standard wall thickness

26) Образование: Sexually Transmitted Disease

27) Программирование: Set Direction Flag, документация по тестированию программного обеспечения (см. software test documentation)

28) Контроль качества: standart

29) Океанография: Salinity, Temperature, and Depth

30) Безопасность: Security Tools Distribution

31) Расширение файла: State Transition Diagram graphics file

32) Гостиничное дело: стандартный номер

33) Имена и фамилии: Simon Tissot Dupont

34) Должность: Sacrae Theologiae Doctor, Saves The Day

35) Чат: Some Thing Duh

36) NYSE. Banco Santander Cent Hispano

37) Аэропорты: Santo Domingo, Venezuela

38) НАСА: Standard Transmission Difficulties

39) Программное обеспечение: Simple To Design

1) Общая лексика: equiv. DDD in USA), hum. сокр. Skeletal Transcript Database

2) Компьютерная техника: норма, норматив

3) Авиация: стандартное время отправления, Standard Time of Departure, Scheduled Time of Departure

4) Медицина: ЗППП (заболевания, передающиеся половым путем), (sexually transmitted disease) болезнь, передающаяся половым

путём, (sexually transmitted disease) венерическая болезнь, (sexually transmitted disease) венерические болезни, ИППП, (sexually transmitted disease) болезнь, передающаяся половым путем/венерическое заболевание, БППП

5) Американизм: Short Term Disability

6) Военный термин: SIGINT Technical Data, Services Telephone Directory, Software Test Description, Synthetic Training Devices, science and technology division, sea transport division, standard test dose

7) Техника: salinity, temperature, density recorder, semiconductor on thermoplastic on dielectric bonding, space target designation, spectral theory of diffraction, standing, state-transition diagram, system test division

8) Шутливое выражение: Sam The Devil, Snails Taste Delicious

9) Религия: Scriptures Temple Dating, Someone Truly Divine

10) Юридический термин: Shoot The Dummy