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1. adjective1) (not many) wenigefew people — [nur] wenige [Leute]
very few housewives know that — das wissen die wenigsten Hausfrauen
his few belongings — seine paar Habseligkeiten
[all] too few people — [viel] zu wenig Leute
they were few in number — sie waren nur sehr wenige
a few... — wenige...
not a few... — eine ganze Reihe...
[just or only] a few troublemakers — einige [wenige] Störenfriede
2) (some) wenigea few... — einige od. ein paar...
2. nouna good few [...]/quite a few [...] — (coll.) eine ganze Menge [...]/ziemlich viele [...]
few of us/them — nur wenige von uns/nur wenige [von ihnen]
few of the people — nur wenige [Leute]
just a few of you/her friends — nur ein paar von euch/ihrer Freunde
2) (some)the/these/those few who — diejenigen, die
there were a few of us who... — es gab einige unter uns, die...
with a few of our friends — mit einigen od. ein paar unserer Freunde
a few [more] of these biscuits — [noch] ein paar von diesen Keksen
a good few/quite a few — (coll.) eine ganze Menge/ziemlich viele [Leute]
* * *[fju:]adjective, pronoun(not many; a very small number of: Few people visit me nowadays; every few minutes (= very frequently); Such opportunities are few.) wenige- academic.ru/114943/a_few">a few- few and far between* * *[fju:]I. adjthere are a \few sandwiches left over from the party es sind noch ein paar Sandwiches von der Feier übrigI've got to get a \few things ich muss ein paar Dinge kaufenmay I ask a \few questions? darf ich ein paar Fragen stellen?I'll be ready in just a \few minutes ich bin gleich fertigcan I have a \few words with you? kann ich mal kurz mit dir sprechen?every \few days/minutes/weeks alle paar Tage/Minuten/Wochenhe is among the very \few people I can trust er gehört zu den ganz wenigen Leuten, denen ich vertrauen kannso \few people attended the party that it was embarrassing auf der Party waren so wenige Leute, dass es peinlich warthere are only a \few days left before we leave for France in ein paar Tagen fahren wir nach Frankreichthere are \few things in this world that give me more pleasure than a long bath nur weniges auf der Welt bereitet mir mehr Vergnügen als ein langes Bad\fewer people smoke these days than used to heute rauchen weniger Menschen als früherthe benefits of this scheme are \few dieser Plan hat nur wenige Vorteilehe's a man of \few words er sagt nie viel; ( form)I've warned him on no \fewer than five occasions ich habe ihn schon mindestens fünf Mal gewarnthis fiction has caused not a \few readers to see red bei seinen Romanen sehen nicht wenige Leser rotas \few as... nur...I know a \few people who... ich kenne einige Leute, die...; BRITshe put on a good \few pounds over Christmas sie hat über Weihnachten einige Pfunde zugelegtquite a \few [people] ziemlich viele4.▶ to be \few and far between dünn gesät seinsuch opportunities are \few and far between solche Gelegenheiten gibt es nicht oftII. prona \few of these apples ein paar von diesen Äpfelnmany believe it but only a \few are prepared to say viele glauben es, aber nur wenige sagen esa \few of us/you/them einige von uns/euch/ihnenprecious \few will finish the course nur wenige werden den Kurs zu Ende bringen\few can remember back that far nur wenige können sich so weit zurückerinnernnot many showed up and the \few who did left early es kamen nicht viele, und die paar, die kamen, gingen bald\few if any still believe that... kaum einer glaubt heute noch, dass...only some \few master more than ten languages nur ein paar wenige sprechen mehr als zehn Sprachen\few of the houses in the village made it through the hurricane nur wenige Häuser in dem Ort überstanden den Hurrikan\few of them actually got an interview nur wenige wurden zu einem Gespräch eingeladenthere were too \few of us to charter the plane wir waren nicht genug, um das Flugzeug chartern zu könnennot a \few nicht wenigethough she's young, her talents are not a \few obwohl sie jung ist, hat sie viele Talente3. (many)a good \few BRIT ziemlich vielequite a \few eine ganze Menge4.▶ to have had a \few too many etwas zu viel getrunken habenIII. n1. (elite)▪ the \few pl die Auserwähltenonly the \few can say they've dined with the Queen nur wenige Auserwählte können von sich sagen, dass sie mit der Queen gespeist haben2. (minority)▪ the \few pl die MinderheitI was one of the lucky \few who... ich gehörte zu den wenigen Glücklichen, die...one of the fortunate [or happy] \few eine(r) der wenigen Glücklichen3. BRIT HIST* * *[fjuː]1. adj (+er)1) (= not many) wenigewe are very few — wir sind nur sehr wenige or nur ein kleines Häufchen
as few as ten cigarettes a day can be harmful — schon or bereits zehn Zigaretten am Tag können schädlich sein
as few as six objections — bloß sechs Einwände, nicht mehr als sechs Einwände
so few books —
there were 3 too few —
he is one of the few people who... — er ist einer der wenigen, die...
2)there were quite a few waiting —
quite a few books — ziemlich viele Bücher, eine ganze Menge Bücher
I saw a good few or quite a few people — ich habe ziemlich viele Leute or eine ganze Menge Leute gesehen
not a few people —
in the next/past few days — in den nächsten/letzten paar Tagen
2. pron1) (= not many) wenigesome few —
opera used to be an experience for the few — Opern waren früher einer privilegierten Minderheit vorbehalten
I've got so/too few as it is —
so few have been sold — so wenige sind bis jetzt verkauft worden
2)a few —
there are always the few who... — es gibt immer einige wenige Leute or ein paar Leute, die...
the few who knew him — die wenigen, die ihn kannten
* * *few [fjuː]A adj & pron1. wenige:he is a man of few words er macht nicht viele Worte, er ist ein schweigsamer Mensch;some few einige wenige;his friends are few er hat (nur) wenige Freunde;few and far between sehr vereinzelt, dünn gesät;no fewer than nicht weniger als2. a few einige, ein paar:he told me a few things er hat mir einiges erzählt;a good few, quite a few ziemlich viele, eine ganze Menge;a faithful few ein paar Getreue;every few days alle paar Tage;not a few nicht wenige, viele;only a few nur wenige;a very few sehr wenige;he’s had a few umg er hat schon einiges intusthe happy few die wenigen Glücklichen;the chosen few die Auserwählten;appeal to the few nur einen kleinen Kreis ansprechen* * *1. adjective1) (not many) wenigefew people — [nur] wenige [Leute]
[all] too few people — [viel] zu wenig Leute
a few... — wenige...
not a few... — eine ganze Reihe...
[just or only] a few troublemakers — einige [wenige] Störenfriede
2) (some) wenigea few... — einige od. ein paar...
2. nouna good few [...]/quite a few [...] — (coll.) eine ganze Menge [...]/ziemlich viele [...]
1) (not many) wenigefew of us/them — nur wenige von uns/nur wenige [von ihnen]
few of the people — nur wenige [Leute]
just a few of you/her friends — nur ein paar von euch/ihrer Freunde
2) (some)the/these/those few who — diejenigen, die
there were a few of us who... — es gab einige unter uns, die...
with a few of our friends — mit einigen od. ein paar unserer Freunde
a few [more] of these biscuits — [noch] ein paar von diesen Keksen
a good few/quite a few — (coll.) eine ganze Menge/ziemlich viele [Leute]
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1. noun1) (in series) Nummer, dienumber 3 West Street — West Street [Nr.] 3
you've got the wrong number — (Teleph.) Sie sind falsch verbunden
dial a wrong number — sich verwählen (ugs.)
number one — (oneself) man selbst; attrib. Nummer eins nachgestellt; Spitzen[position, -platz]
take care of or look after number one — an sich (Akk.) selbst denken
Number Ten [Downing Street] — (Brit.) Amtssitz des britischen Premierministers/der britischen Premierministerin
somebody's number is up — (coll.) jemandes Stunde hat geschlagen
a number of people/things — einige Leute/Dinge
a number of times/on a number of occasions — mehrfach od. -mals
a small number — eine geringe [An]zahl
large numbers — eine große [An]zahl
in [large or great] numbers — in großer Zahl
in a small number of cases — in einigen wenigen Fällen
on any number of occasions — oft[mals]
in number[s] — zahlenmäßig [überlegen sein, überwiegen]
4) (person, song, turn, edition) Nummer, die6) (company)2. transitive verbhe was [one] of our number — er war einer von uns
1) (assign number to) beziffern; nummerieren2) (amount to, comprise) zählenthe nominations numbered ten in all — es wurden insgesamt zehn Kandidaten nominiert
4)be numbered — (be limited) begrenzt sein
somebody's days or years are numbered — jemandes Tage sind gezählt
* * *1. noun1) ((sometimes abbreviated to no - plural nos - when written in front of a figure) a word or figure showing eg how many of something there are, or the position of something in a series etc: Seven was often considered a magic number; Answer nos 1-10 of exercise 2.) die Nummer2) (a (large) quantity or group (of people or things): He has a number of records; There were a large number of people in the room.) die (An)Zahl3) (one issue of a magazine: the autumn number.) die Ausgabe4) (a popular song or piece of music: He sang his most popular number.) der Schlager2. verb1) (to put a number on: He numbered the pages in the top corner.) numerieren2) (to include: He numbered her among his closest friends.) zählen3) (to come to in total: The group numbered ten.) zählen•- academic.ru/50759/numberless">numberless- number-plate
- his days are numbered
- without number* * *num·ber1[ˈnʌmbəʳ, AM -bɚ]I. nto crunch \numbers über Zahlen sitzen3. (sums)I never was much good at \numbers Zahlen waren noch nie meine Stärkethere were only a small \number left es waren nur noch wenige daa large \number of invitations have [or ( form) has] been sent ein großer Teil der Einladungen ist bereits verschickt wordena small \number of children are [or ( form) is] educated at home eine kleine Anzahl von Kindern wird zu Hause unterrichtetletters of complaint were surprisingly few in \number es gab erstaunlich wenig Beschwerdebriefeany \number of things could go wrong alles Mögliche könnte schiefgehenin enormous/huge/large \numbers in enormen/riesigen/großen Stückzahlenthese magazines are produced in vast \numbers diese Zeitschriften werden in riesigen Auflagen produziertI decided not to go for a \number of reasons ich entschied mich aus vielerlei Gründen dagegen, dort hinzugehenone of our \number eine(r) f(m) aus unserer Gruppeback \number frühere Ausgabehe played an old jazz \number on the piano er spielte ein altes Jazzstück auf dem Pianohe's quite a \number, don't you think? er ist schon 'ne Nummer, findest du nicht?he tried his usual \number but she didn't fall for it er versuchte es auf die übliche Tour, aber sie fiel nicht darauf herein fam▪ the \numbers pl Zahlenlotto nt (bestimmte Art)15.▶ by [the] \numbers nach Schema F▶ by [sheer] force [or weight] of \numbers [allein] aufgrund zahlenmäßiger Überlegenheit▶ to have sb's \number (sl) jdn durchschauenhe only cares about \number one er denkt nur an sich selbst; (bestseller) book Bestseller m; album Kassenschlager m▶ to be [the] \number one die Nummer eins sein▶ N\number Ten (residence of Prime Minister) Downing Street Nummer 10; (Prime Minister) der britische Premierminister/die britische Premierministerin; (staff) der Stab des britischen Premierministers/der britischen PremierministerinII. vt1. (mark in series)▪ to \number sth etw nummerierento \number sth from... to... etw von... bis... durchnummerieren2. (count)▪ to \number sth etw abzählen3. (comprise)▪ to \number sth etw zähleneach team \numbers 11 players jede Mannschaft zählt [o hat] elf Spielerat one time the club \numbered an archbishop among its members der Klub zählte sogar einmal einen Erzbischof zu seinen Mitgliedernnum·ber2[ˈnʌməʳ, AM ˈnʌmɚ]* * *['nʌmbə(r)]1. n2) (= quantity, amount) Anzahl fa number of problems/applicants — eine (ganze) Anzahl von Problemen/Bewerbern
large numbers of people/books — (sehr) viele Leute/Bücher
boys and girls in equal numbers — ebenso viele Jungen wie Mädchen, Jungen und Mädchen zu gleicher Zahl (geh)
to be found in large numbers — zahlreich vorhanden sein, häufig zu finden sein
in small/large numbers — in kleinen/großen Mengen
a fair number of times —
I've told you any number of times — ich habe es dir zigmal or x-mal gesagt (inf)
they have the advantage of numbers —
3) (of house, room, phone) Nummer f; (of page) Seitenzahl f; (of car) (Auto)nummer f; (MIL, of soldier etc) Kennnummer fthe number 47 bus — die Buslinie 47, der 47er (inf)
it was a wrong number — ich/er etc war falsch verbunden
the number one pop star/tennis player (inf) — der Popstar/Tennisspieler Nummer eins (inf)
the single went straight to or straight in at number one — die Single stieg gleich auf Nummer eins ein
to take care of or look after number one (inf) — (vor allem) an sich (acc) selbst denken
he's my number two (inf) — er ist mein Vize (inf) or Stellvertreter
I'm (the) number two in the department — ich bin die Nummer zwei in der Abteilung
his number's up (inf) — er ist dran (inf)
to do a number one/two (baby-talk) — klein/groß machen (baby-talk)
I have to go number two (baby-talk) — ich muss mal groß (baby-talk)
to do sth by (the US) numbers — etw nach Schema F (esp pej) or rein mechanisch erledigen
4) (= song, act etc) Nummer f; (= issue of magazine etc) Ausgabe f, Nummer f, Heft nt; (= dress) Kreation fthe June number — das Juniheft, die Juniausgabe or -nummer
6) (ECCL)The Book of Numbers — das Vierte Buch Mose, Numeri pl
7)(= company)
one of their/our number — eine(r) aus ihren/unseren Reihen8) pl (= arithmetic) Rechnen nt2. vt1) (= give a number to) nummerieren2) (= include) zählen (among zu)3) (= amount to) zählenthe library numbers 30,000 volumes — die Bibliothek hat 30.000 Bände
4) (= count) zählenhis days are numbered — seine Tage sind gezählt
3. vi (Brit MIL ETC)abzählen* * *number [ˈnʌmbə(r)]A s1. MATH Zahl f, Ziffer f:be good at numbers gut im Rechnen sein2. (Auto-, Haus-, Telefon-, Zimmer- etc) Nummer f:by numbers nummernweise;sorry, wrong number falsch verbunden!;have (got) sb’s number umg jemanden durchschaut haben;his number is ( oder has come) up umg seine Stunde hat geschlagen, jetzt ist er dran; → dial B 1, number one3. (An)Zahl f:beyond number zahllos;a number of people mehrere Leute;a great number of people sehr viele Leute;five in number fünf an der Zahl;numbers of times zu wiederholten Malen;times without number unzählige Male;five times the number of people fünfmal so viele Leute;in large numbers in großen Mengen, in großer Zahl;in round numbers rund;one of their number einer aus ihrer Mitte;win by (force of) numbers aufgrund zahlenmäßiger Überlegenheit gewinnen4. WIRTSCHa) (An)Zahl f, Nummer f:raise to the full number komplettierenb) Artikel m, Ware f5. Heft n, Nummer f, Ausgabe f (einer Zeitschrift etc), Lieferung f (eines Werks):6. LING Numerus m, Zahl f:in the singular number im Singular, in der Einzahl7. poeta) Silben-, Versmaß nb) pl Verse pl, Poesie f8. THEAT etc (Programm-)Nummer f:do a number on bes US sla) einen Film etc verreißen, einen Schauspieler etc auch in der Luft zerreißen,b) einen Antrag etc abschmettern,c) sich über ein Thema etc (unterhaltsam) auslassen,d) jemanden bescheißen9. MUS Nummer f, Stück n11. sl ‚Käfer m, Mieze f (Mädchen)14. umg schickes KleidungsstückB v/t1. (zusammen)zählen, aufrechnen:number off abzählen;his days are numbered seine Tage sind gezähltamong, with zu)3. nummerieren:number consecutively durchnummerieren;numbered account Nummernkonto n4. sich belaufen auf (akk)C v/i2. fig zählen (among, with zu)n. abk1. natus, born geb.2. neuter4. noon5. north N6. northern nördl.7. note8. noun Subst.9. number Nr.No. abk1. north N2. northern nördl.3. number Nr.* * *1. noun1) (in series) Nummer, dienumber 3 West Street — West Street [Nr.] 3
you've got the wrong number — (Teleph.) Sie sind falsch verbunden
dial a wrong number — sich verwählen (ugs.)
number one — (oneself) man selbst; attrib. Nummer eins nachgestellt; Spitzen[position, -platz]
take care of or look after number one — an sich (Akk.) selbst denken
Number Ten [Downing Street] — (Brit.) Amtssitz des britischen Premierministers/der britischen Premierministerin
somebody's number is up — (coll.) jemandes Stunde hat geschlagen
3) (sum, total, quantity) [An]zahl, diea number of people/things — einige Leute/Dinge
a number of times/on a number of occasions — mehrfach od. -mals
a small number — eine geringe [An]zahl
large numbers — eine große [An]zahl
in [large or great] numbers — in großer Zahl
on any number of occasions — oft[mals]
in number[s] — zahlenmäßig [überlegen sein, überwiegen]
4) (person, song, turn, edition) Nummer, die6) (company)2. transitive verbhe was [one] of our number — er war einer von uns
1) (assign number to) beziffern; nummerieren2) (amount to, comprise) zählen3) (include, regard as) zählen, rechnen (among, with zu)4)be numbered — (be limited) begrenzt sein
somebody's days or years are numbered — jemandes Tage sind gezählt
* * *(of) n.Anzahl - f. (music) n.Stück -e n. (publication) n.Nummer -n (Ausgabe) f. n.Nummer -n f.Zahl -en f. v.beziffern v.numerieren (alt.Rechtschreibung) v.nummerieren v. -
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['nʌmbə]n1) номерWrong number! — (ответ по телефону) Вы ошиблись номером. /Вы не туда попали.
- one's telephone numberThey are at number — 20. Они живут в доме номер 20.
- number of the house
- draw a lucky number
- get on bus number 50
- dial smb's a number2) число, количествоPeople above seventy are not included in this number. — Люди старше семидесяти не входят в это число.
They were few in number. — Их число было невелико. /Их было мало.
He is not good at numbers. — Он не силен в арифметике.
- great number- number of children
- number of smb, smth
- number of students
- large number of people
- small number of visitors
- in round numbers
- think of a number
- mark each name with a number3) выпуск, номер- latest number of this magazine- today's number of the newspaper•USAGE:(1.) Выражение the number of smb, smth указывает на точное число, употребляется с исчисляемыми существительными во множественном числе и согласуется с глаголами в единственном числе: The number of students going abroad this year is remarkable. Число/количество студентов, отъезжающих за границу в этом году впечатляет. Выражение a number of обозначает неопределенное количество, много, ряд, употребляется с исчисляемыми существительными и согласуется с глаголами во множественном числе: A number of students go abroad this year. Некоторые студенты едут в этом году за границу. Оборот большое/огромное количество по отношению к неисчисляемым существительным соответствует в английском языке the (a) great amount of, an amount of: the amount of work he had to do took all his spare time та огромная работа, которую ему пришлось делать, заняла все его свободное время. (2.) See amount, n; USAGE (1.). -
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number ['nʌmbə(r)]nombre ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (c) chiffre ⇒ 1 (a) numéro ⇒ 1 (b), 1 (e), 1 (g) numéroter ⇒ 2 (a) compter ⇒ 2 (b)-(d)1 noun∎ a six-figure number un nombre de six chiffres;∎ the numbers on the keyboard les chiffres sur le clavier;∎ in round numbers en chiffres ronds;∎ to do sth by numbers faire qch en suivant des instructions précises;∎ she taught him his numbers elle lui a appris à compter;∎ even/odd/rational/whole number nombre m pair/impair/rationnel/entier(b) (as identifier) numéro m;∎ have you got my work number? avez-vous mon numéro (de téléphone) au travail?;∎ you're number six vous êtes (le) numéro six;∎ the winning number le numéro gagnant;∎ we live at number 80 nous habitons au (numéro) 80;∎ he's the President's number two il est le bras droit du président;∎ Military name, rank and number! nom, grade et matricule!;∎ did you get the car's (registration) number? tu as relevé le numéro d'immatriculation de la voiture?;∎ familiar I've got your number! toi, je te vois venir!, j'ai repéré ton manège!;∎ familiar his number's up son compte est bon(c) (quantity) nombre m;∎ the number of tourists is growing le nombre de touristes va en augmentant;∎ any number can participate le nombre de participants est illimité;∎ they were eight in number ils étaient (au nombre de) huit;∎ in equal numbers en nombre égal;∎ to be equal in number être à nombre égal;∎ we were many/few in number nous étions nombreux/en petit nombre;∎ a number of people un certain nombre de gens;∎ a (certain) number of you un certain nombre d'entre vous;∎ a large number of people un grand nombre de gens, de nombreuses personnes;∎ a small number of people un petit nombre de gens, peu de gens;∎ any number of… un grand nombre de…, bon nombre de…;∎ she is one of a number of people who… elle figure parmi les personnes qui…;∎ to be present in small numbers/in (great) numbers être présents en petit nombre/en grand nombre;∎ in a good or fair number of cases dans bon nombre de cas;∎ times without number à maintes (et maintes) reprises;∎ they defeated us by force of or by sheer weight of numbers ils l'ont emporté sur nous parce qu'ils étaient plus nombreux∎ one of their/our number un des leurs/des nôtres;∎ she was not of our number elle n'était pas des nôtres ou avec nous(e) (issue → of magazine, paper) numéro m;∎ did you read last week's number? avez-vous lu le numéro de la semaine dernière?∎ a cushy number une planque(g) (song, dance, act) numéro m;∎ a dance number un numéro de danse;∎ for my next number I'd like to sing… j'aimerais vous chanter maintenant…;∎ they played some new numbers ils ont joué de nouveaux morceaux;∎ they sang some new numbers ils ont chanté de nouvelles chansons;∎ they only danced to the slow numbers ils n'ont dansé que les slows∎ this number is a hot seller ce modèle se vend comme des petits pains;∎ she was wearing a little black number elle portait une petite robe noire□ ;∎ he was driving a little Italian number il était au volant d'un de ces petits bolides italiens;∎ who's that blonde number? qui est cette belle blonde?;□∎ to do or to pull a number on sb rouler qn;(a) (assign number to) numéroter;∎ don't forget to number the pages n'oubliez pas de numéroter les pages∎ I number him among the best jazz musicians je le compte parmi les meilleurs musiciens de jazz;∎ I'm glad to number her among my closest friends je suis heureux de la compter parmi mes meilleurs amis∎ each team numbers six players chaque équipe est composée de ou compte six joueurs;∎ the crowd numbered 5,000 il y avait une foule de 5000 personnes∎ literary who can number the stars? qui peut dire combien il y a d'étoiles?;∎ now their options are numbered désormais, leur choix est assez restreint;∎ his days are numbered ses jours sont comptés∎ she numbers among the great writers of the century elle compte parmi les grands écrivains de ce siècle;∎ did he number among the ringleaders? faisait-il partie des meneurs?;∎ the crowd numbered in thousands il y avait des milliers de gens∎ there were any number of different dishes to choose from un très grand nombre de plats différents furent présentés►► Banking numbered account compte m numéroté;American numbers game loterie f clandestine;Computing number key touche f numérique;Computing number lock verrouillage m du pavé numérique;Computing number lock key touche f de verrouillage du clavier numérique;1 noun∎ familiar to look out for or to take care of number one penser d'abord à soi□ ;∎ her record got to number one son disque a été classé numéro un au hit-parade;∎ Sport the world number one le numéro un mondial;premier;∎ it's our number one priority c'est la première de nos priorités;∎ the number one oil exporter le premier exportateur de pétrole;∎ my number one choice mon tout premier choix;∎ the number one hit in the charts le numéro un au hit-parade;∎ the world's number one golfer le numéro un mondial du golf;∎ the lorry had a foreign number plate le camion était immatriculé à l'étranger;American number shop ≃ kiosque m de loterie;Number Ten (Downing Street) = résidence officielle du Premier ministre britannique;Mathematics number theory théorie f des nombres;number two (assistant) numéro m deux;se numéroter;∎ number off from the left numérotez-vous en partant de la gauche -
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A n1 ( figure) nombre m ; ( written) chiffre m ; the number twelve le nombre douze ; think of a number pensez à un nombre ; a three-figure number un nombre à trois chiffres ; odd/even number nombre impair/pair ; a list of numbers une liste de chiffres ;2 gen, Telecom ( in series) (of bus, house, account, page, passport, telephone) numéro m ; to live at number 18 habiter au (numéro) 18 ; the number 7 bus le bus numéro 7 ; to take a car's number relever le numéro d'une voiture ; a wrong number un faux numéro ; is that a London number? est-ce un numéro à Londres? ; there's no reply at that number ce numéro ne répond pas ; to be number three on the list être troisième sur la liste ; to be number 2 in the charts être numéro 2 au hit-parade ;3 (amount, quantity) nombre m, quantité f ; a number of people/times un certain nombre de personnes/fois, plusieurs personnes/fois ; for a number of reasons pour plusieurs raisons ; a large number of un grand nombre de ; to come in large numbers venir nombreux or en grand nombre ; to come in such numbers that venir en si grand nombre que ; large numbers of people beaucoup de gens ; a small number of houses quelques maisons ; in a small number of cases dans un nombre réduit de cas, dans quelques cas ; on a number of occasions plusieurs fois, un certain nombre de fois ; on a large number of occasions maintes fois, souvent ; a fair number un assez grand nombre ; to be due to a number of factors être dû à un ensemble de facteurs ; five people were killed, and a number of others were wounded cinq personnes ont été tuées, et d'autres ont été blessées ; many/few in number en grand/petit nombre ; they were sixteen in number ils étaient (au nombre de) seize ; in equal numbers en nombre égal ; any number of books d'innombrables livres ; any number of times maintes fois, très souvent ; any number of things could happen tout peut arriver, il peut se passer beaucoup de choses ; this may be understood in any number of ways cela peut être entendu de plusieurs façons or de diverses façons ; beyond ou without number littér innombrables, sans nombre ; times without number d'innombrables fois, à maintes reprises ;4 ( group) one of our number un des nôtres ; three of their number were killed trois d'entre eux or trois des leurs ont été tués ; among their number, two spoke English parmi eux, deux parlaient anglais ;6 Mus, Theat ( act) numéro m ; ( song) chanson f ; for my next number I would like to sing… maintenant j'aimerais vous chanter… ;7 ○ ( object of admiration) a little black number ( dress) une petite robe noire ; that car is a neat little number elle est épatante ○ or chouette ○, cette voiture ; a nice little number in Rome ( job) un boulot sympa ○ à Rome ; she's a cute little number elle est mignonne comme tout ;B numbers npl (in company, school) effectifs mpl ; (of crowd, army) nombre m ; a fall in numbers une diminution des effectifs ; to estimate their numbers estimer leur nombre ; to win by force or weight of numbers gagner parce que l'on est plus nombreux ; to make up the numbers faire le compte.D vtr1 ( allocate number to) numéroter ; to be numbered [page, house] être numéroté ; they are numbered from 1 to 100 ils sont numérotés de 1 à 100 ;2 ( amount to) compter ; the regiment numbered 1,000 men le régiment comptait 1 000 hommes ;3 ( include) compter ; to number sb among one's closest friends compter qn parmi ses amis les plus intimes ; to be numbered among the great novelists compter parmi les plus grands romanciers ;4 ( be limited) to be numbered [opportunities, options] être compté ; his days are numbered ses jours sont comptés.E vi1 ( comprise in number) a crowd numbering in the thousands une foule de plusieurs milliers de personnes ; to number among the great musicians compter parmi les plus grands musiciens ;2 = number off.I've got your number ○ ! je te connais! ; your number's up ○ ! ton compte est bon!, tu es fichu ○ ! ; to do sth by the numbers US ou by numbers faire qch mécaniquement ; to colour ou paint by numbers colorier selon les indications chiffrées (dans un album de coloriage) ; to play the numbers ou the numbers game ( lottery) jouer au loto ; to play a numbers game ou racket US péj ( falsify figures) truquer les chiffres ; ( embezzle money) détourner des fonds.■ number off gen, Mil se numéroter ; they numbered off from the right ils se sont numérotés en commençant par la droite. -
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♦ number /ˈnʌmbə(r)/n.1 ( anche mat.) numero; cifra: cardinal [ordinal] numbers, numeri cardinali [ordinali]; even [odd] numbers, numeri pari [dispari]; in round numbers, in cifra tonda; total number, numero complessivo; We live at No. 42 Oxford Street, abitiamo al numero 42 di Oxford Street; DIALOGO → - On the bus- Take a number 22 to Putney Bridge, then get a 295, prendi il numero 22 fino a Putney Bridge e poi prendi il 295; I was number 5 in the race, nella corsa avevo il numero 5; I wear number 8 shoes, porto scarpe numero 8 (in Italia, 37/38); in number, di numero; They were ten in number, erano dieci di numero; erano in dieci; reference number, numero di riferimento2 numero; quantità indeterminata: a number of, parecchi, diversi: A number of employees have been sacked lately, di recente sono stati licenziati parecchi dipendenti; to increase the number of members, aumentare il numero dei soci; any number of times, cento (o mille) volte: I've told you any number of times not to do it, te l'ho detto mille volte di non farlo; a large (o a great) number of, un buon numero di, un gran numero di; numerosi, molti; a small number (o small numbers) of, uno scarso numero di; pochi3 (telef.) numero (telefonico): What's your phone number?, qual è il tuo numero di telefono?; Wrong number!, (Lei) ha sbagliato numero!; It was just a wrong number, era qualcuno che ha sbagliato numero5 numero ( di giornale o rivista); dispensa; puntata: a back number, un numero arretrato; Novels used to be issued in numbers, una volta i romanzi uscivano a dispense (o a puntate)7 (mus.) brano; pezzo; canzone ( di una raccolta): He sang a few numbers from his latest album, ha cantato alcuni brani del suo ultimo album9 (lett.) ritmo; numero (lett.)10 (lett.) (pl.) versi; piedi; metri, metrica11 (pl.) numerose persone; molti: Numbers died in the retreat, molti perirono nella ritirata; There are numbers who live by begging, c'è una quantità di gente che vive di accattonnaggio12 ( sport) pettorale ( di cavallo da corsa, di sciatore, ecc.): He was number five in the ski race, aveva il cinque come pettorale nella gara di sci13 (fam.) oggetto, cosa, lavoro, vestito da donna, ecc., piacevole o pregevole ( a seconda dell'antecedente o di quel che segue): This restaurant is really a classy number, questo è proprio un ristorante di classe; Your sister's little number is by Armani, il bel vestitino di tua sorella è di Armani14 ( slang) tipo; tizio; individuo: Any number in the information office can tell you, qualsiasi impiegato dell'ufficio informazioni te lo sa dire; Who's that cute little number in a red dress?, chi è quel bel tipino vestito di rosso?; a hot number, un uomo (o una donna) sexy; un tipo arrapante (fam.)16 ( slang USA) – the numbers, (il racket delle) lotterie clandestine: a numbers banker, il gestore di una lotteria clandestina● (comput.) number code, codice numerico □ (fam.) number-cruncher, grosso computer, grande calcolatore; ( anche) attuario, ragioniere □ (fam.) number-crunching, (agg.) che fa calcoli complessi; (sost.) il fare calcoli complessi; ( anche) materie scientifiche ( a scuola) □ ( rugby) number eight, il numero otto ( il giocatore) □ number on roll, numero delle persone iscritte □ (fam.) number one, (sost.) il numero uno, il capo, il boss; stretto collaboratore, direttore; io stesso, me stesso; ( sport) protagonista assoluto; ( slang USA) omicidio di primo grado; ( slang eufem. USA) la pipì; (volg. USA) «lui», il pene; (agg.) numero uno; principale, preminente; assoluto: After all, you are number one!, dopotutto, sei tu il capo!; I leave these matters to my number one, queste faccende le delego al mio direttore; I'm thinking of number one!, sto pensando a me stesso!; to look after (o to take care of) number one, pensare solo a (o prendersi cura solo di) sé stesso; public enemy number one, il nemico pubblico numero uno; my number one problem, il mio problema principale; number one priority, priorità assoluta □ (autom.) number plate, targa □ (mat., stat.) number series, serie numerica □ ( USA) number sign, simbolo \#; cancelletto □ (mat.) number system, sistema numerico □ (in GB) No. 10 ( Downing Street), il numero 10 di Downing Street; la residenza ufficiale del Primo Ministro, a Londra □ (fig.) Number Ten, il premier (o il governo) britannico □ (fam.) number two, il numero due; il secondo per importanza; il luogotenente; ( slang eufem. USA) la popò: I'm only number two in the firm, non sono che il numero due dell'azienda □ beyond number, innumerevoli □ cushy number, (posto di) lavoro di tutto riposo; grande pacchia (fam.) □ to do a number, fare un numero ( in uno spettacolo, ecc.) □ (fam.) to do one's number, fare il solito numero, la solita tirata (fig.): Keep off the subject of marriage, or he'll start doing his number about the death of love, non toccare l'argomento del matrimonio, se non vuoi che lui faccia la solita menata sulla fine dell'amore! □ ( slang USA) to do a number on sb., fare un brutto tiro a q.; fregare q. (pop.) □ (fam.) to have sb. 's number, prendere (bene) le misure a q.; conoscere il punto debole di q. □ any number of, moltissimi, numerosissimi □ (aeron.) flight number, numero del volo □ in the number, nel novero (lett.); nel gruppo: He isn't in our number, non fa parte del nostro gruppo; non è dei nostri □ times without number, innumerevoli volte □ (fam.) His number is up (o has come up), per lui è finita; è suonata la sua ora ( sarà punito, ecc.); è (già) morto.NOTA D'USO: - a number of- (to) number /ˈnʌmbə(r)/v. t.1 numerare; dare un numero a: Let's number the pages of our manuscript, numeriamo le pagine del nostro manoscritto!2 annoverare; contare; includere: to number sb. among one's friends, annoverare q. fra i propri amici; The town numbers 40,000 inhabitants, la città conta 40 000 abitanti3 ammontare a; essere ( di numero); arrivare a ( un numero): Check-ups number in the hundreds, vi sono centinaia di controlli medici4 (ind. tess.) titolare● (mil.) to number off, dire a voce alta il proprio numero di matricola ( in una formazione) □ ( slang eufem. USA) to number one, fare la pipì □ ( slang eufem. USA) to number two, fare la popò; fare la grossa (pop.). -
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I 1. ['nʌmbə(r)]1) numero m.odd, even number — numero dispari, pari
2) (in series) (of bus, house, page, telephone) numero m.3) (amount, quantity) numero m., quantità f.a number of people, times — un certo numero di persone, di volte
to come in large numbers — accorrere numerosi o in gran numero
many, few in number — molti, pochi
they were ten in number — erano dieci (di numero) o in dieci
any number of times — mille volte, molto sovente
4) (group)5) (issue) (of magazine, periodical) numero m.6) mus. (song) pezzo m., brano m.; teatr. numero m.7) colloq. (object of admiration)a little black number — (dress) un bel vestitino nero
8) ling. numero m.2.nome plurale numbers (in company, of army) effettivi m.; (in school) studenti m.; (of crowd) numero m.sing.to win by force o weight of numbers vincere per superiorità numerica; to make up the numbers — fare il conto
••your number's up! — colloq. è giunta la tua ora!
to do sth. by the numbers — AE o
II 1. ['nʌmbə(r)]by numbers — fare qcs. pedissequamente
1) (allocate number to) numerare2) (amount to) contarethe regiment numbered 1,000 men — il reggimento contava 1.000 uomini
3) (include) includere, annoverare4) (be limited)2.* * *1. noun1) ((sometimes abbreviated to no - plural nos - when written in front of a figure) a word or figure showing eg how many of something there are, or the position of something in a series etc: Seven was often considered a magic number; Answer nos 1-10 of exercise 2.) numero2) (a (large) quantity or group (of people or things): He has a number of records; There were a large number of people in the room.) grande numero3) (one issue of a magazine: the autumn number.) numero4) (a popular song or piece of music: He sang his most popular number.) brano, pezzo2. verb1) (to put a number on: He numbered the pages in the top corner.) numerare2) (to include: He numbered her among his closest friends.) includere, annoverare3) (to come to in total: The group numbered ten.) ammontare a•- number-plate
- his days are numbered
- without number* * *I 1. ['nʌmbə(r)]1) numero m.odd, even number — numero dispari, pari
2) (in series) (of bus, house, page, telephone) numero m.3) (amount, quantity) numero m., quantità f.a number of people, times — un certo numero di persone, di volte
to come in large numbers — accorrere numerosi o in gran numero
many, few in number — molti, pochi
they were ten in number — erano dieci (di numero) o in dieci
any number of times — mille volte, molto sovente
4) (group)5) (issue) (of magazine, periodical) numero m.6) mus. (song) pezzo m., brano m.; teatr. numero m.7) colloq. (object of admiration)a little black number — (dress) un bel vestitino nero
8) ling. numero m.2.nome plurale numbers (in company, of army) effettivi m.; (in school) studenti m.; (of crowd) numero m.sing.to win by force o weight of numbers vincere per superiorità numerica; to make up the numbers — fare il conto
••your number's up! — colloq. è giunta la tua ora!
to do sth. by the numbers — AE o
II 1. ['nʌmbə(r)]by numbers — fare qcs. pedissequamente
1) (allocate number to) numerare2) (amount to) contarethe regiment numbered 1,000 men — il reggimento contava 1.000 uomini
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1. [ʹnʌmbə] n1. 1) число, количествоnumber of copies - полигр. тираж
in number - численно, числом
to the number of - преим. офиц. количеством, в количестве
they volunteered to the number of 10,000 - в добровольцы записалось до 10 000 человек
a large /a great/ number - много
a limited number of cars is available - поступило в продажу некоторое /ограниченное/ количество автомашин
out of /without, beyond/ number - бесчисленное множество; ≅ несть числа
any number - а) любое количество; б) много
I have shown him any number of kindnesses - я оказывал ему множество любезностей
many people, myself among the number, think that... - многие люди, и я в том числе, думают, что...
given equal numbers we should be stronger - при одинаковой численности мы должны быть сильнее
2) некоторое количество, рядa number of people - некоторые (люди); кое-кто
a number of accidents always occur on slippery roadways - на скользкой мостовой всегда происходят несчастные случаи
a number of books is missing from the library - из библиотеки пропал ряд книг
3) pl большое число, массаin numbers - а) в большом количестве; б) значительными силами
in superior numbers - воен. превосходящей численностью
numbers of people came to see the exhibition - посмотреть выставку пришла масса народу
to win by (force of) numbers - победить благодаря численному превосходству
to be overpowered by numbers, to yield to numbers - отступить перед превосходящими силами
4) воен. количество вооружений2. 1) (порядковый) номерreference number - офиц. номер для ссылок; номер заказа
code /key/ number - тел. номер по телеграфному коду
atomic number - атомный /порядковый/ номер ( в таблице Менделеева)
call number - шифр (карты, книги)
the number of a house [a page, a taxi, a room] - номер дома [страницы, такси, комнаты]
number of the piece crew - воен. номер орудийного расчёта
2) номер (дома) (употр. в сокр. форме No)he lives at No. 18 - он живёт в доме №18
he lives in No. 4 - он живёт в четвёртом номере ( гостиницы)
3. номер, выпуск ( издания)back number - а) старый номер (газеты и т. п.); б) нечто устаревшее; в) отсталый человек
to feel oneself a back number - чувствовать, что отстал от жизни
a story issued in numbers - роман, выходящий отдельными выпусками
4. номер программы, выступлениеshe sang several numbers from the opera - она спела несколько арий из этой оперы
5. 1) разг. что-л. выделяющееся, бросающееся в глаза2) разг. девушка, девчонка6. pl = numbers game7. сл. наркотик8. pl позывные9. 1) сумма, цифра; числоintact /whole/ number - целое /недробное/ число
in round numbers - а) в круглых цифрах; б) примерно; короче говоря
2) pl арифметика (тж. science of numbers)10. грам. число11. спец. показатель, числоgloss number - текст. показатель блеска
acid number - кислотное число, коэффициент кислотности
base number - информ. основной индекс ( классификации)
number in a scale - метеор. балл ( силы ветра)
12. 1) стих., муз. метр, размер; ритм2) pl поэт. стихи♢
No. 10 (Downing Street) - резиденция премьер-министра ВеликобританииNumber of the Beast - библ. звериное число, число зверя (666)
smb.'s number goes /is/ up - чьё-л. дело плохо, кому-л. крышка, чья-л. песенка спета
to lose the number of one's mess - воен. жарг. «сняться с довольствия» (т. е. умереть)
to get /to take, to have/ smb.'s number - амер. сл. раскусить кого-л.
to do a number on smb. - амер. сл. а) морочить, ловко обработать кого-л.; б) высмеивать кого-л.; издеваться над кем-л.; в) заигрывать с кем-л.
to do a number on smb.'s head - заморочить кому-л. голову
to have smb.'s number on it - амер. сл. быть специально предназначенным для кого-л. (о пуле и т. п.)
2. [ʹnʌmbə] vopposite number см. opposite II 4
1. нумероватьnumbered copy - нумерованный /номерной/ экземпляр ( книги)
to number houses [pages, rows] - нумеровать дома [страницы, ряды]
number the questions from 1 to 10 - перенумеруйте вопросы от первого до десятого
2. насчитыватьthose present numbered fifty - присутствующих насчитывалось пятьдесят человек
they number in /into/ hundreds [thousands] - их число доходит до нескольких сотен [тысяч]
3. (among, in, with) причислять, зачислять; числить (кем-л., чем-л.)Julius Caesar is numbered among the greatest captains of all ages - Юлия Цезаря считают одним из величайших полководцев всех времён
this painting is numbered among the treasures of the gallery - это полотно относится к числу сокровищ галереи
4. книжн. считать, пересчитыватьwho can number the stars? - поэт. кто сочтёт звёзды?; кто знает, сколько на небе звёзд?
5. воен. производить расчётby twos, number! - на первый-второй - рассчитайсь! ( команда)
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1. n число, количествоin number — численно, числом
to the number of — количеством, в количестве
they volunteered to the number of 10,000 — в добровольцы записалось до 10 000 человек
out of number — бесчисленное множество;
many people, myself among the number, think that … — многие люди, и я в том числе, думают, что …
2. n некоторое количество, рядa number of people — некоторые ; кое-кто
3. n большое число, масса4. n воен. количество вооружений5. n номер, выпускto feel oneself a back number — чувствовать, что отстал от жизни
6. n номер программы, выступление7. n разг. девушка, девчонка8. n сл. наркотик9. n позывные10. n сумма, цифра; число11. n арифметика12. n спец. показатель, числоacid number — кислотное число, коэффициент кислотности
Mach number — мах, число Маха, число M
13. n стих. муз. метр, размер; ритм14. n поэт. стихи15. v нумероватьmarked the number — нумеровал; пронумерованный
16. v насчитывать17. v причислять, зачислять; числить18. v книжн. считать, пересчитывать19. v воен. производить расчётby twos, number! — на первый-второй — рассчитайсь!
Синонимический ряд:1. deader (adj.) deader; duller; more anesthetized; more asleep; more benumbed; more deadened; more insensible; more insensitive; more numbed; more senseless; more unfeeling; more unresponsive; more wooden; number2. more indifferent (adj.) more aloof; more by-the-way; more casual; more detached; more disinterested; more incurious; more indifferent; more pococurante; more unconcerned; more uncurious; more uninterested; more withdrawn; remoter3. abundance (noun) abundance; collection; company; folio; horde; infinity; manifoldness; plenitude; plentitude; plenty4. beat (noun) beat; rhythm5. edition (noun) copy; edition; issue6. symbol (noun) Arabic number; character; chiffer; cipher; digit; figure; integer; numeral; sign; statistic; symbol; whole number7. total (noun) aggregate; amount; count; quantity; sum; sum total; total; totality; whole8. amount (verb) add up; aggregate; amount; come; reach; run; run into; run to; sum into; sum to; total9. count (verb) account; add; calculate; compute; consist of; count; enumerate; estimate; numerate; reckon; tale; tally; tell; tell offАнтонимический ряд:estimate; guess -
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§ ნომერი; რიცხვი, რაოდენობა; ნომრის დასმა, დანომრვა§1 რიცხვიsingular / plural number მხოლობითი / მრავლობითი რიცხვი●●one of their number ერთ-ერთი მათგანიI've told you that time without number უთვალავჯერ / ათასჯერ გითხარი ეს2 რაოდენობა, ოდენობაgreat / considerable number დიდი / მნიშვნელოვანი რაოდენობაin great numbers დიდი რაოდენობით // მრავლად3 ნომერიthe number of bus / house ავტობუსის / სახლის ნომერიthe current / back number of the magazine ჟურნალის მიმდინარე / წინა ნომერი●●a number of რიგი, რამდენიმე, ზოგიერთიin a number of cases ზოგიერთ / რიგ შემთხვევაში4 დანომვრა (დანომრავს)5 ითვლის, თვლისthe city numbers about two million people ამ ქალაქში ორ მილიონამდე მცხოვრებიაat the meeting he made a number of proposals კრებაზე რამდენიმე წინადადება შემოიტანაquite a number // quite a few საკმაოდ ბევრიhe exemplified this law by a number of cases მან ეს კანონი მთელი რიგი მაგალითებით განმარტაthe report encompasses a number of problems მოხსენება რამდენიმე პრობლემას მოიცავსlarge numbers of people concentrated in cities ქალაქებში მოსახლეობის დიდმა რაოდენობამ მოიყარა თავი -
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few [fju:]a. ( = not many) peu (de)• there are always the few who think that... il y a toujours la minorité qui croit que...• how many? -- quite a few combien ? -- pas mal (inf)• too few of them realize that... trop peu d'entre eux sont conscients que...* * *Note: When few is used as a quantifier to indicate the smallness or insufficiency of a given number or quantity ( few houses, few people, few shops) it is translated by peu de: peu de maisons, peu de gens, peu de magasins. Equally the few is translated by le peu de: the few people who knew her le peu de gens qui la connaissaient. For examples and particular usages see I 1 in the entryWhen few is used as a quantifier in certain expressions to mean several, translations vary according to the expression: see I 2 in the entryWhen a few is used as a quantifier ( a few books), it can often be translated by quelques: quelques livres; however, for expressions such as quite a few books, a good few books, see II in the entryFor translations of few used as a pronoun ( few of us succeeded, I only need a few) see II, III in the entryFor translations of the few used as a noun ( the few who voted for him) see III in the entry[fjuː] 1.(comparative fewer; superlative fewest) quantifier1) ( not many) peu defew visitors/letters — peu de visiteurs/lettres
2) (some, several)2.over the next few days/weeks — ( in past) dans les jours/semaines qui ont suivi; ( in future) dans les jours/semaines à venir
a few quantifier, pronoun quelquesa few people/houses — quelques personnes/maisons
I would like a few more — j'en voudrais quelques-uns/quelques-unes de plus
quite a few people/houses — pas mal (colloq) de gens/maisons, un bon nombre de personnes/maisons
a few of the soldiers/countries — quelques-uns or certains des soldats/pays
there were only a few of them — il n'y en avait que quelques-uns/quelques-unes
3.quite a few ou a good few of the tourists come from Germany — un bon nombre des touristes viennent d'Allemagne
••to have had a few (too many) — (colloq) avoir bu quelques verres (de trop)
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1. noun1) ((sometimes abbreviated to no - plural nos - when written in front of a figure) a word or figure showing eg how many of something there are, or the position of something in a series etc: Seven was often considered a magic number; Answer nos 1-10 of exercise 2.) número2) (a (large) quantity or group (of people or things): He has a number of records; There were a large number of people in the room.) gran número de, grupo3) (one issue of a magazine: the autumn number.) número4) (a popular song or piece of music: He sang his most popular number.) tema
2. verb1) (to put a number on: He numbered the pages in the top corner.) numerar2) (to include: He numbered her among his closest friends.) contar3) (to come to in total: The group numbered ten.) contar•- number-plate
- his days are numbered
- without number
number1 n1. número2. número de teléfonoa number of people asked me where I had bought my hat varias personas me preguntaron dónde había comprado mi sombreronumber2 vb numerartr['nʌmbəSMALLr/SMALL]1 número■ if I give you my number, you can call me si te doy mi número, me puedes llamar■ I thought my number was on that one! ¡pensé que esa bala era para mí!■ I thought my number was up! ¡creí que me había llegado la hora!2 (on car) número de matrícula, matrícula■ did you get his number? ¿le cogiste la matrícula?3 (of magazine etc) número4 (song) tema nombre masculino5 (group) grupo6 SMALLLINGUISTICS/SMALL número■ adjectives agree with the noun in number and gender los adjetivos concuerdan con el substantivo en número y en género■ Vicky turned up in a nice little red leather number Vicky se presentó con un modelito de cuero rojo1 numerar2 (count) contar\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLa number of... varios,-as...any number of... muchísimos,-as...number one principal, más importanteto be number one ser el número uno, ser el mejorto look after number one mirar por lo suyoto have somebody's number tener calado,-a a alguien... without number un sinfín de...Number Ten el nº 10 de Downing Street: la residencia oficial del primer ministro britániconumber ['nʌmbər] vt1) count, include: contar, incluir2) : numerarnumber the pages: numera las páginas3) total: ascender a, sumarnumber n1) : número min round numbers: en números redondostelephone number: número de teléfono2)a number of : varios, unos pocos, unos cuantosn.• cantidad s.f.• cifra s.f.• entrega s.f.• guarismo s.m.• número (Matemática) s.m.v.• ascender a v.• contar v.• numerar v.• poner número a v.'nʌmbər, 'nʌmbə(r)
I
1) ( digit) número m2) ( for identification) número m; ( telephone number) número de teléfonopage/room number — número de página/de habitación
her/my number is up — le/me ha llegado la hora
to do a number on somebody — (AmE sl) hacérsela* buena a alguien (fam)
to do something by the numbers — (AmE) hacer* algo como Dios manda
to have somebody's number — (esp AmE colloq) tener* calado a alguien (fam)
to look out for o after number one — pensar* ante todo en el propio interés; (before n)
3)a) (amount, quantity) número min a small number of cases — en unos pocos casos, en contados casos
on a number of occasions — en varias ocasiones, varias veces
b) ( group)among o in their number — entre ellos, en su grupo
4)a) (song, tune) número mb) (issue of magazine, journal) número mc) ( garment) (colloq) modelo m5) numbers pl (AmE colloq)b) ( results)
II
1.
a) ( assign number to) \<\<houses/pages/items\>\> numerarb) ( amount to)the spectators numbered 50,000 — había (un total de) 50.000 espectadores, el número de espectadores ascendía a 50.000
they number thousands — son miles, hay miles de ellos
c) ( count) contar*
2.
vi ( figure) figurar['nʌmbǝ(r)]1. N1) (Math) número mthink of a number, any number — piensa un número, uno cualquiera
an even/odd number — un número par/impar
to do sth by numbers or (US) by the numbers — (fig) hacer algo como es debido
lucky 1., 2), prime 4., round 1.•
painting by numbers — pintar siguiendo los números2) (=identification number) [of house, room, page] (also Telec) número m; [of car] (also: registration number) matrícula fdid you get his number? — ¿has apuntado la matrícula?
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reference number — número de referencia•
you've got the wrong number — (Telec) se ha equivocado de númeroregistration 2., serial, telephoneto have sb's number —
it's (at) number three in the charts — está tercero or es el número tres en la lista de éxitos
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number one, she's the world number one — es la campeona mundialthe number one Spanish player — el mejor jugador español, el número uno de los jugadores españoles
- look after or look out for number oneopposite 3., 3), public 1., 2)4) (=quantity, amount) número m•
a number of — (=several) variosin a large number of cases — en muchos casos, en un gran número de casos
in a small number of cases — en contados or unos pocos casos
I've had a fair/an enormous number of letters — he recibido bastantes/muchísimas cartas
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there must be any number of people in my position — debe haber gran cantidad de personas en mi situación•
they were eight/few in number — eran ocho/pocos•
to make up the numbers — hacer bultoforce 1., 1), safety 1.•
times without number — liter un sinfín de veces5) (=group)6) (=edition) número mback 6.7) (=song, act) número mand for my next number I shall sing... — ahora voy a cantar...
- do a number on sb8) * (=item of clothing) modelo m9) * (=person)she's a nice little number — está como un tren *, está más buena que el pan *
10) * (=product)11) * (=job, situation)a cushy number — un buen chollo (Sp) *
12) (Gram) número m13) Numbers (in Bible)2. VT1) (=assign number to) numerarnumbered (bank) account — cuenta f (bancaria) numerada
2) (=amount to)they number 700 — son 700, hay 700
the library numbers 30,000 books — la biblioteca cuenta con 30.000 libros
3) (=include) contar4) (=count in numbers) contar3.VI4.CPDnumber cruncher * N — (=machine) procesador m de números; (=person) encargado(-a) m / f de hacer los números *
number crunching N — cálculo m numérico
number plate N — (Brit) (Aut) matrícula f, placa f (esp LAm), chapa f (de matrícula) (S. Cone)
numbers game, numbers racket (US) N — (=lottery) lotería f; (illegal) lotería clandestina
to play the numbers game — jugar a la lotería; (fig) pej dar cifras
number theory N — teoría f numérica
* * *['nʌmbər, 'nʌmbə(r)]
I
1) ( digit) número m2) ( for identification) número m; ( telephone number) número de teléfonopage/room number — número de página/de habitación
her/my number is up — le/me ha llegado la hora
to do a number on somebody — (AmE sl) hacérsela* buena a alguien (fam)
to do something by the numbers — (AmE) hacer* algo como Dios manda
to have somebody's number — (esp AmE colloq) tener* calado a alguien (fam)
to look out for o after number one — pensar* ante todo en el propio interés; (before n)
3)a) (amount, quantity) número min a small number of cases — en unos pocos casos, en contados casos
on a number of occasions — en varias ocasiones, varias veces
b) ( group)among o in their number — entre ellos, en su grupo
4)a) (song, tune) número mb) (issue of magazine, journal) número mc) ( garment) (colloq) modelo m5) numbers pl (AmE colloq)b) ( results)
II
1.
a) ( assign number to) \<\<houses/pages/items\>\> numerarb) ( amount to)the spectators numbered 50,000 — había (un total de) 50.000 espectadores, el número de espectadores ascendía a 50.000
they number thousands — son miles, hay miles de ellos
c) ( count) contar*
2.
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fju:adjective, pronoun(not many; a very small number of: Few people visit me nowadays; every few minutes (= very frequently); Such opportunities are few.) pocos- a few- few and far between
few adj pron pocoa few unos cuantos / algunoscan I ask you a few questions? ¿puedo hacerte algunas preguntas?tr[fjʊː]1 (not many) poco,-a, pocos,-as2 (some) uno,-as cuantos,-as, algunos,-as1 (not many) pocos,-as2 (some) unos,-as cuantos,-as, algunos,-as\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLa good few un buen númeroas few as solamentefew and far between poquísimos,-as, contadísimos,-as, muy escasos,-asno fewer than no menos dequite a few un buen número, bastantesto have had a few too many haber tomado una copa de másthe chosen few los elegidos nombre masculino pluralfew ['fju:] adj: pocoswith few exceptions: con pocas excepcionesa few times: varias vecesfew pron1) : pocosfew (of them) were ready: pocos estaban listos2)a few : algunos, unos cuantos3)few and far between : contadosadj.• algunos adj.• poco, -a adj.• pocos adj.• unos adj.adv.• pocos adv.pron.• algunos pron.• pocos pron.• unos pron.
I fjuːadjective -er, -esta) ( not many) pocos, -casfew people know about this — lo sabe poca gente, lo saben pocos
the o what few chances I had — las pocas posibilidades que tenía
b)a few people complained — algunos se quejaron/bastante gente se quejó
II
pronoun -er, -esta) ( not many) pocos, -casas few as 30% pass first time — tan sólo un 30% aprueba a la primera
to be few and far between: good beaches are few and far between — las playas buenas son contadísimas
b)a good few o quite a few already know — ya lo saben bastantes
he's had a few (too many) — (colloq) se ha tomado unas cuantas
[fjuː]ADJ PRON (compar fewer) (superl fewest)1) (=not many) pocos(-as)there are very few of us, we are very few — somos muy pocos
the few who... — los pocos que...
she is one of the few (people) who... — ella es una de los pocos que...
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as few as three of them — nada más que tres•
every few weeks — cada dos o tres semanas•
they are few and far between — son contados•
the lucky few — unos pocos or unos cuantos afortunados•
in or over the next few days — en or durante los próximos días, en estos días (LAm)•
in or over the past few days — en or durante los últimos días•
the last or remaining few minutes — el poco tiempo que queda/quedaba•
too few — demasiado pocos2) (=some, several)a good few, quite a few — bastantes
a good few or quite a few (people) came — vinieron bastantes, vino bastante gente
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a few of them — algunos de ellos* * *
I [fjuː]adjective -er, -esta) ( not many) pocos, -casfew people know about this — lo sabe poca gente, lo saben pocos
the o what few chances I had — las pocas posibilidades que tenía
b)a few people complained — algunos se quejaron/bastante gente se quejó
II
pronoun -er, -esta) ( not many) pocos, -casas few as 30% pass first time — tan sólo un 30% aprueba a la primera
to be few and far between: good beaches are few and far between — las playas buenas son contadísimas
b)a good few o quite a few already know — ya lo saben bastantes
he's had a few (too many) — (colloq) se ha tomado unas cuantas
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ˈnʌmbə
1. сущ.
1) а) мат. число;
сумма, цифра;
австрал. арифметика high number ≈ большое число low number ≈ небольшое число algebraic number complex number compound number decimal number even number imaginary number infinite number irrational number mass number mixed number natural number negative number odd number positive number prime number quantum number whole number science of numbers б) количество, число to decrease, reduce a number ≈ сокращать число, уменьшать количество to increase a number ≈ увеличивать число, увеличивать количество to reduce the number of traffic accidents ≈ сокращать число дорожно-транспортных происшествий large number ≈ большое число small number ≈ небольшое число in great numbers approximate number round number certain number enormous number untold number growing number a number of in numbers out of number without number Numbers Syn: quantity в) номер( какого-л. объекта;
также предмет, на котором написан, вырезан и т.д. номер) to call, dial a number ≈ набирать номер, звонить lucky number ≈ счастливый номер, счастливое число serial number( of a product) ≈ серийный номер (продукта) serial number (of a soldier) ≈ личный номер (солдата) telephone number ≈ телефонный номер unlisted number ≈ номер телефона, не внесенный в телефонную книгу winning number (of a lottery) ≈ выигрышный номер (в лотерее) get the wrong number call number motorcar's number Number 10
2) а) номер, пункт( в программе какого-л. действа) б) номер, выпуск, экземпляр( чего-л. периодического и т. п.) the daily number ≈ выпуск газеты, выходящий ежедневно back number в) разг. что-л. выделяющееся, могущее служить образцом г) элемент оглавления, списка;
часть музыкального произведения
3) а) грам. число б) грам. числительное cardinal number ordinal number Syn: numeral
4) редк. ритм, размер (стихотворный) ;
перен. мн. стихи ∙ his number goes up ≈ он умирает, его песенка спета, ему крышка number one number two get one's number take one's number have one's number
2. гл.
1) а) нумеровать;
считать, пересчитывать( о людях, реже о предметах) His days are numbered. ≈ Его дни сочтены. Mussulmans consider every attempt to number the people as a mark of great impiety. ≈ Мусульмане считают любую попытку пересчитать людей как признак нечестивости. Syn: enumerate;
count б) воен. рассчитываться to number off ≈ делать перекличку по номерам
2) а) числиться, быть в числе (among, in) I am proud to number her among my friends. ≈ Я горд, что я ее друг. Syn: count>, reckon, class б) зачислять, причислять be numbered with Syn: rank
3) насчитывать The crew and passengers numbered
33.. ≈ Команда плюс пассажиры, тридцать три человека. Syn: equal, amount
4) прожить столько-то лет число, количество - livestock *s поголовье скота - * of copies (полиграфия) тираж - in * численно, числом - they are twenty in * их двадцать - we were few in * нас было мало - to the * of 10,000 в добровольцы записалось до 10 000 человек - a large * много - a large * of people масса народу - a limited * of cars is available поступило в продажу некоторое количество автомашин - quite a * of people довольно многие (люди) - out of * бесчисленное множество;
несть числа - times without * бесчисленное множество раз - any * любое количество;
много - I have shown him any * of kindnesses я оказывал ему множество любезностей - many people, myself among the *, think that... многие люди, и я в том числе, думают, что... - he is not of our * он не принадлежит к нашему кругу - given equal *s we should be stronger при одинаковой численности мы должны быть сильнее некоторое количество, ряд - a * of people некоторые( люди) ;
кое-кто - a * of accidents always occur on slippery roadways на скользкой мостовой всегда происходят несчастные случаи - a * of books is missing from the library из библиотеки пропал ряд книг большое число, масса - in *s в большом количестве;
значительными силами - in superior *s (военное) превосходящей численностью - *s of people came to see the exhibition посмотреть выставку пришла масса народу - to win by *s победить благодаря численному превосходству - to be overpowered by *s, to yield to *s отступить перед превосходящими силами (военное) количество вооружений - actual * фактическое количество - aggregate * суммарное количетсво - agreed * согласованное количество (порядковый) номер - index * порядковый номер - registration * инвентарный номер - reference * (официальное) номер для ссылок;
номер заказа - code * (телефония) номер по телеграфному коду - wrond *! вы не туда попали! (ответ по телефону) - atomic * атомный номер( в таблице Менделеева) - call * шифр( карты, книги) - the * of a house номер дома - * of the piece crew (военное) номер орудийного расчета - to take the driver's * записать номер такси номер (дома) (употр. в сокр. форме No) - he lives at No. 18 он живет в доме N 18 - he lives in No. 4 он живет в четвертом номере (гостиницы) номер, выпуск (издания) - back * старый номер (газеты) ;
нечто устаревшее;
отсталый человек - to feel oneself a back * чувствовать, что отстал от жизни - the current * of a magazine последний номер журнала - a story issued in *s роман, выходящий отдельными выпусками номер программы, выступление - the first * on the program первый номер программы - she sang several *s from the opera она спела несколько арий из этой оперы (разговорное) что-л. выделяющееся, бросающееся в глаза - this hat is a smart * эта шляпка - верх изящества - he is a sly * он большой хитрец( разговорное) девушка, девчонка - blonde * блондиночка (американизм) ежедневная нелегальная лотерея (ставки делаются на цифры в статистических таблицах и т. п., помещаемых в газетах) (американизм) мошенничество, жульничество (сленг) наркотик - * 3 кокаин - * 8 героин - * 13 морфин позывные сумма, цифра;
число - binary * двоичное число - broken * дробь - intact * целое число - Roman *s римские цифры - artificial *s логарифмы - in round *s в круглых цифрах;
примерно;
короче говоря арифметика - he has skill in *s он силен в арифметике (грамматика) число - plural * множественное число( специальное) показатель, число - gloss * (текстильное) показатель блеска - acid * кислотное число, коэффициент кислотности - solubility * показатель растворимости - elevation * высотная отметка - scale * знаменатель масштаба - weight * весовой коэффициент (в статистике) - base * (информатика) основной индекс( классификации) - * of dimension размерность - * in a scale (метеорология) балл( силы ветра) (стихосложение) (музыкальное) метр, размер;
ритм стихи - mournful *s унылые строфы > No. 10 (Downing Street) резиденция премьер-министра Великобритании > smb.'s * goes up чье-л. дело плохо, кому-л. крышка, чья-л. песенка спета > to lose the * of one's mess (военное) (жаргон) "сняться с довольствия" (т. е. умереть) > to get smb.'s * (американизм) (сленг) раскусить кого-л > to do a * on smb. (американизм) (сленг) морочить, ловко обработать кого-л;
высмеивать кого-л.;
издеваться над кем-л;
заигрывать с кем-л > to do a * on smb.'s head заморочить кому-л. голову > to have smb.'s * on it (американизм) (сленг) быть специально предназначенным для кого-л. (о пуле) > opposite * (математика) противолежащий нумеровать - *ed copy нумерованный экземпляр (книги) - to * houses нумеровать дома - * the questins from 1 to 10 перенумеруйте вопросы от первого до десятого насчитывать - we *ed twenty in all всего нас было двадцать человек - the population *s 1000 население составляет 1000 человек - he *s fourscore years ему перевалило за восемьдесят - those present *ed fifty присутствующих насчитывалось пятьдесят человек - they * in hundreds их число доходит до нескольких сотен причислять, зачислять;
числить (кем-л, чем-л.) - to be *ed with the saints быть причисленным к лику святых - I * Thomas among my friends я причисляю Томаса к своим друзьям - Julius Caesar is *ed among the greatest captains of all ages Юлия Цезаря считают одним из величайших полководцев всех времен - this painting is *ed among the treasures of the gallery это полотно относится к числу сокровиц галереи (книжное) считать, пересчитывать - his days are *ed дни его сочтены - who can * the stars? кто сочтет звезды?;
кто знает, сколько на небе звезд? (военное) производить расчет - by twos, *! на первый-второй - рассчитайсь! (команда) - * (off) ! по порядку номеров - рассчитайсь! (команда) absolute ~ вчт. неименованное число abstract ~ вчт. неименованное число account ~ номер счета account ~ вчт. учетный номер actual ~ вчт. фактическое число application ~ пат. номер заявки arithmetic ~ вчт. арифметическое число assembly ~ вчт. шифр комплекта average sample ~ средний объем выборки base ~ вчт. основание системы счисления basic ~ базисная величина ~ причислять, зачислять;
to be numbered with быть причисленным к binary decimal ~ вчт. двоично-десятичное число binary ~ вчт. двоичное число binary-coded decimal ~ вчт. двоично-кодированное десятичное число binary-coded ~ вчт. двоично-кодированное число block ~ вчт. номер блока book ~ учетный номер книги ~ номер;
motorcar's number номер автомашины;
call number шифр (книги, пленки и т. п.) call ~ вызываемый номер call ~ вчт. вызывающий параметр cardinal ~ мат. кардинальное число cardinal ~ количественное числительное catalogue ~ каталожный номер check ~ вчт. контрольное число column ~ вчт. номер столбца commercial register ~ номер коммерческой фирмы в регистре register: commercial ~ number (for tax and VAT collection purposes) номер коммерческой фирмы в регистре (для налогообложения и сбора налога на добавленную стоимость) customer account ~ номер счета клиента cylinder ~ вчт. номер цилиндра danger ~ категория риска decimal ~ десятичное число device ~ вчт. номер устройства double-precision ~ вчт. число с двойной точностью error ~ вчт. номер ошибки extension ~ добавочный номер file ~ номер дела file ~ номер документа file ~ номер единицы хранения floating-point ~ вчт. число с плавающей запятой fractional ~ дробное число generation ~ вчт. номер версии giro account ~ номер жиросчета ~ первоклассный, самый главный;
problem No. 1 самая важная проблема;
his number goes up он умирает, его песенка спета, ему крышка identity ~ идентификационный номер identity ~ личный номер ~ число, количество;
a number of некоторое количество;
in number численно, количеством in (great) ~s в большом количестве in (great) ~s значительными силами;
out of (или without) number множество, без числа;
a number (или numbers) of people много народу index ~ вчт. индекс index ~ коэффициент index ~ числовой показатель insurance ~ номер страхового договора integer ~ вчт. целое число inverse ~ вчт. обратное число invoice ~ номер счета-фактуры item ~ номер изделия item ~ вчт. номер позиции item ~ вчт. номер элемента journal ~ номер журнала land register ~ номер кадастра licence ~ номерной знак автомобиля line ~ вчт. номер строки lot ~ номер лота lot ~ число изделий в партии magic ~ вчт. системный код mixed ~ вчт. смешанное число ~ номер;
motorcar's number номер автомашины;
call number шифр (книги, пленки и т. п.) natural ~ вчт. натуральное число natural ~ мат. натуральное число negative ~ вчт. отрицательное число number разг. (что-л.) выделяющееся, могущее служить образцом;
number one (или No. ~ выпуск, номер, экземпляр (журнала и т. п.) ~ выпуск ~ зачислять ~ количество ~ насчитывать;
the population numbers 5000 население составляет 5000 человек ~ насчитывать ~ номер (программы) ~ номер;
motorcar's number номер автомашины;
call number шифр (книги, пленки и т. п.) ~ номер ~ нумеровать ~ нумеровать ~ первоклассный, самый главный;
problem No. 1 самая важная проблема;
his number goes up он умирает, его песенка спета, ему крышка ~ пересчитывать ~ показатель ~ (No.) порядковый номер ~ предназначать ~ причислять, зачислять;
to be numbered with быть причисленным к ~ воен. рассчитываться;
to number off делать перекличку по номерам ~ прос. ритм, размер ~ свое "я";
собственная персона ~ pl прос. стихи ~ мат. сумма, число, цифра;
science of numbers арифметика ~ сумма ~ уст. считать, пересчитывать;
his days are numbered его дни сочтены ~ цифра ~ числиться, быть в числе (among, in) ~ грам. число ~ число, количество;
a number of некоторое количество;
in number численно, количеством ~ число ~ in succession нумеровать по порядку ~ in system вчт. число в системе ~ in the queue вчт. длина очереди ~ число, количество;
a number of некоторое количество;
in number численно, количеством ~ of allocation units количество голосов, на основании которых распределяются мандаты в парламенте ~ of claims число исков ~ of members число членов ~ of packages число мест груза in (great) ~s значительными силами;
out of (или without) number множество, без числа;
a number (или numbers) of people много народу ~ of persons employed число сотрудников ~ of respondents число опрошенных ~ of risks число рисков ~ of units waiting вчт. длина очереди ~ of votes число голосов ~ of years возраст ~ воен. рассчитываться;
to number off делать перекличку по номерам number разг. (что-л.) выделяющееся, могущее служить образцом;
number one (или No. odd ~ нечетное число opposite ~ лицо, занимающее такую же должность в другом учреждении opposite ~ партнер по переговорам opposite: ~ number лицо, занимающее такую же должность в другом учреждении, государстве и т. п.;
партнер, коллега order ~ номер заказа order ~ порядковый номер ordinal ~ вчт. порядковый номер ordinal ~ порядковый номер in (great) ~s значительными силами;
out of (или without) number множество, без числа;
a number (или numbers) of people много народу packed decimal ~ вчт. упакованное десятичное число page ~ вчт. номер страницы page ~ полигр. номер страницы parcel ~ номер земельного участка patent ~ номер патента personal identification ~ вчт. личный идентификационный номер personal ~ личный идентификационный номер phone ~ номер телефона physical block ~ вчт. физический номер блока policy ~ номер страхового полиса ~ насчитывать;
the population numbers 5000 население составляет 5000 человек positive ~ вчт. положительное число precedence ~ вчт. приоритетный номер prime ~ простое число prime: ~ mover тех. первичный двигатель;
перен. душа( какого-л.) дела;
prime number мат. простое число priority ~ вчт. показатель приоритета ~ первоклассный, самый главный;
problem No. 1 самая важная проблема;
his number goes up он умирает, его песенка спета, ему крышка pseudorandom ~ псевдослучайное число random ~ случайное число rational ~ рациональное число real ~ вещественное число real ~ действительное число reciprocal ~ обратное число reference ~ номер для ссылок reference ~ номер документа reference ~ шифр документа registration ~ номерной знак registration ~ регистрационный номер round ~ округленное число ~ мат. сумма, число, цифра;
science of numbers арифметика securities ~ номер ценной бумаги sequence ~ порядковый номер serial ~ номер в серии serial ~ порядковый номер serial ~ регистрационный номер serial ~ серийный номер serial: ~ последовательный;
serial number порядковый номер share serial ~ серийный номер акции shelf ~ doc. регистрационный номер shelf ~ doc. учетный номер signed ~ вчт. число со знаком simple ~ однозначное число special service ~ специальный служебный номер statement ~ вчт. номер оператора statistical code ~ статистический кодовый номер suffix ~ нижний индекс tag ~ вчт. кодовая метка tariff ~ позиция в таможенном тарифе tax identification ~ регистрационный номер фирмы в налоговом управлении (США) telephone ~ номер телефона three-figure ~ трехзначное число three-figure ~ трехзначный номер title ~ титульный номер track ~ вчт. номер дорожки two-digit ~ двузначное число unit ~ вчт. номер устройства unlisted ~ номер телефона, не внесенный в телефонный справочник unobtainable ~ номер телефона, не помещенный в телефонный справочник и не сообщаемый справочной службой unsigned ~ вчт. число без знака user identification ~ вчт. шифр пользователя user ~ вчт. код пользователя vacant ~ незанятый абонентский номер vacant ~ свободный абонентский номер version ~ вчт. номер версии virtual block ~ вчт. виртуальный номер блока wave ~ волновое число -
15 few
fju:
1. прил.
1) мало, немногие, немного His ideas are very difficult, and few people understand them. ≈ Его идеи очень сложны, и мало людей понимает их. one of our few pleasures ≈ одно из немногих наших удовольствий They may be fewer in number than was supposed. ≈ Их может оказаться меньше, чем предполагалось. Syn: not many
2) (а few) несколько His ideas are very difficult, but a few people understand them. ≈ Его идеи очень сложны, но некоторые люди понимают их. every few miles ≈ каждые несколько миль for the past few years ≈ за последние несколько лет quite a few not a few a good few few and far between as few as some few in few in a few words Syn: several, some
2. сущ.
1) незначительное число, немногие, мало precious, very few ≈ очень немногие, очень мало there are precious few of them left ≈ их осталось очень мало Many are invited but few are chosen. ≈ Многие приглашены, но немногие выбраны. few if any ≈ почти никто;
почти ничего
2) несколько, некоторые Each volunteer spent one night a week in the cathedral. A few spent two. ≈ Каждый из добровольцев один раз в неделю ночевал в соборе. Некоторые ночевали два раза в неделю. I have only a few left. ≈ У меня осталось всего лишь несколько. the few ≈ меньшинство ∙ to have a few too many ≈ разг. выпить слишком много the fewer the better ≈ чем меньше, тем лучше немногие;
незначительное количество - * of the inhabitants were to be seen только немногих жителей можно было увидеть мало кто;
почти никто - * of them had travelled мало кто из них путешествовал - there are very * of us нас очень мало - there are very * of us who can remember почти никто из нас не помнит - a * (of) немного;
незначительное количество - a * thought otherwise немногие думали иначе - a good *, quite a * большое /порядочное/ количество - there were a good * of them их было немало - a good * of the inhabitants добрая половина населения /жителей/ - not a * много, большое количество;
некоторые, некоторое количество - we shall only be a * нас будет немного - I know a * of them я знаю кое-кого из них - the * меньшинство;
избранные - the thinking * думающее меньшинство - the fortunate * немногие счастливцы - some * незначительное число, несколько, немного > * know and *er care немногие знают, а таких, кто хочет знать, еще меньше > in * в нескольких словах, кратко немногие, немного, мало - he has but * chances of success у него мало шансов на успех - with * exceptions за редким исключением - one of his * pleasures одно из его немногих удовольствий - during the last * days за последние несколько дней - * people are able to undestand him мало кто способен понять его - every * hours через каждые несколько часов - a * несколько - a * hours несколько часов - a * people were present присутствовало всего несколько человек - I know a * people who... я знаю людей, которые - I have only a * pounds у меня всего только несколько фунтов - the chairman said a * words председатель сказал несколько слов - in a * minutes через несколько минут, скоро, вскоре - he went away for a * days он уехал на несколько дней - I'd like a * more of these (berries) положите /дайте/ мне, пожалуйста, еще ( ягод) преим. predic немногочисленный - such occasions are * такие случаи очень редки - his friends are * у него мало друзей > * and far between немногочисленные и отдаленные большим промежутком времени и расстоянием > our meetings are * and far between мы редко встречаемся > the trees were * and far between деревья росли редко ~ немногие, немного, мало;
few possessions скудные пожитки;
he is a man of few words он немногословен;
every few hours каждые несколько часов few незначительное число;
few could tell мало кто мог сказать;
few if any почти никто;
почти ничего;
the few меньшинство few незначительное число;
few could tell мало кто мог сказать;
few if any почти никто;
почти ничего;
the few меньшинство ~ немногие, немного, мало;
few possessions скудные пожитки;
he is a man of few words он немногословен;
every few hours каждые несколько часов ~ a (а ~) несколько;
quite a few порядочное число, довольно много in ~ уст., in a ~ words кратко;
в нескольких словах;
few and far between отделенные большим промежутком времени;
редкие few незначительное число;
few could tell мало кто мог сказать;
few if any почти никто;
почти ничего;
the few меньшинство few незначительное число;
few could tell мало кто мог сказать;
few if any почти никто;
почти ничего;
the few меньшинство ~ немногие, немного, мало;
few possessions скудные пожитки;
he is a man of few words он немногословен;
every few hours каждые несколько часов not a ~, a good ~ разг. порядочное число;
добрая половина;
some few незначительное число, несколько, немного ~ немногие, немного, мало;
few possessions скудные пожитки;
he is a man of few words он немногословен;
every few hours каждые несколько часов his friends are ~ у него мало друзей;
his visitors are few у него гости редки his friends are ~ у него мало друзей;
his visitors are few у него гости редки in ~ уст., in a ~ words кратко;
в нескольких словах;
few and far between отделенные большим промежутком времени;
редкие not a ~, a good ~ разг. порядочное число;
добрая половина;
some few незначительное число, несколько, немного not: ~ a few многие;
немало;
not too well довольно скверно ~ a (а ~) несколько;
quite a few порядочное число, довольно много quite: ~ довольно;
до некоторой степени;
более или менее;
quite a few довольно много, порядочно;
quite a long time довольно долго select ~ немногие избранные not a ~, a good ~ разг. порядочное число;
добрая половина;
some few незначительное число, несколько, немного some: ~ несколько, немного;
some few несколько;
some miles more to go осталось пройти еще несколько миль;
some years ago несколько лет тому назад -
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[fju:] adjthere are a \few sandwiches left over from the party es sind noch ein paar Sandwiches von der Feier übrig;I've got to get a \few things ich muss ein paar Dinge kaufen;may I ask a \few questions? darf ich ein paar Fragen stellen?;I'll be ready in just a \few minutes ich bin gleich fertig;can I have a \few words with you? kann ich mal kurz mit dir sprechen?;he is among the very \few people I can trust er gehört zu den ganz wenigen Leuten, denen ich vertrauen kann;so \few people attended the party that it was embarrassing auf der Party waren so wenige Leute, dass es peinlich war;there are only a \few days left before we leave for France in ein paar Tagen fahren wir nach Frankreich;there are \few things in this world that give me more pleasure than a long bath nur weniges auf der Welt bereitet mir mehr Vergnügen als ein langes Bad;\fewer people smoke these days than used to heute rauchen weniger Menschen als früher;the benefits of this scheme are \few dieser Plan hat nur wenige Vorteile;he's a man of \few words er sagt nie viel ( form);I've warned him on no \fewer than five occasions ich habe ihn schon mindestens fünf Mal gewarnt;his fiction has caused not a \few readers to see red bei seinen Romanen sehen nicht wenige Leser rot;as \few as... nur...I know a \few people who... ich kenne einige Leute, die...;( Brit)she put on a good \few pounds over Christmas sie hat über Weihnachten einige Pfunde zugelegt;quite a \few [people] ziemlich vielePHRASES:to be \few and far between dünn gesät sein;such opportunities are \few and far between solche Gelegenheiten gibt es nicht oft;1) ( small number)a \few of these apples ein paar von diesen Äpfeln;many believe it but only a \few are prepared to say viele glauben es, aber nur wenige sagen es;\few can remember back that far nur wenige können sich so weit zurückerinnern;not many showed up and the \few who did left early es kamen nicht viele, und die paar, die kamen, gingen bald;\few if any still believe that... kaum einer glaubt heute noch, dass...;only some \few master more than ten languages nur ein paar wenige sprechen mehr als zehn Sprachen;\few of the houses in the village made it through the hurricane nur wenige Häuser in dem Ort überstanden den Hurrikan;\few of them actually got an interview nur wenige wurden zu einem Gespräch eingeladen;there were too \few of us to charter the plane wir waren nicht genug, um das Flugzeug chartern zu können;not a \few nicht wenige;though she's young, her talents are not a \few obwohl sie jung ist, hat sie viele Talente3) ( many)a good \few ( Brit) ziemlich viele;quite a \few eine ganze MengePHRASES:precious \few herzlich wenig +akk;to have had a \few einen sitzen haben ( fam)to have had a \few too many etwas zu viel getrunken haben n1) ( elite)the \few pl die Auserwählten;only the \few can say they've dined with the Queen nur wenige Auserwählte können von sich sagen, dass sie mit der Queen gespeist haben2) ( minority)the \few pl die Minderheit;I was one of the lucky \few who... ich gehörte zu den wenigen Glücklichen, die...;the F\few pl RAF-Piloten (Zitat aus einer Rede von Winston Churchill) -
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1. adjective1) attrib. einone or two — (fig.): (a few) ein paar
one more... — noch ein...
it's one [o'clock] — es ist eins od. ein Uhr; see also academic.ru/23561/eight">eight 1.; half 1. 1), 3. 2); quarter 1. 1)
in any one day/year — an einem Tag/in einem Jahr
at any one time — zur gleichen Zeit; (always) zu jeder Zeit
not one [little] bit — überhaupt nicht
one and the same person/thing — ein und dieselbe Person/Sache
at one and the same time — gleichzeitig; see also all 2. 1)
be one as a family/nation — eine einige Familie/Nation sein; see also with 1)
5) attrib. (a particular but undefined)at one time — einmal; einst (geh.)
one morning/night — eines Morgens/Nachts
one day soon — bald einmal
one Sunday — an einem Sonntag
6) attrib. contrasted with ‘other’/‘another’ einneither one thing nor the other — weder das eine noch das andere; see also hand 1. 24)
7)2. noungot it in one! — (coll.) [du hast es] erraten!
1) eins2) (number, symbol) Eins, die; see also eight 2. 1)3) (unit)3. pronoun1)one of... — ein... (+ Gen.)
one of them/us — etc. einer von ihnen/uns usw.
any one of them — jeder/jede/jedes von ihnen
every one of them — jeder/jede/jedes [einzelne] von ihnen
not one of them — keiner/keine/keines von ihnen
2) replacing n. implied or mentioned ein...the jacket is an old one — die Jacke ist [schon] alt
the older/younger one — der/die/das ältere/jüngere
this is the one I like — den/die/das mag ich
you are or were the one who insisted on going to Scotland — du warst der-/diejenige, der/die unbedingt nach Schottland wollte
this one — dieser/diese/dieses [da]
that one — der/die/das [da]
these ones or those ones? — (coll.) die [da] oder die [da]?
these/those blue etc. ones — diese/die blauen usw.
which one? — welcher/welche/welches?
not one — keiner/keine/keines; (emphatic) nicht einer/eine/eines
all but one — alle außer einem/einer/einem
I for one — ich für mein[en] Teil
one by one, one after another or the other — einzeln
love one another — sich od. (geh.) einander lieben
be kind to one another — nett zueinander sein
3) (contrasted with ‘other’/‘another’)[the] one... the other — der/die/das eine... der/die/das andere
4) (person or creature of specified kind)the little one — der/die/das Kleine
our dear or loved ones — unsere Lieben
5)[not] one who does or to do or for doing something — [nicht] der Typ, der etwas tut
6) (representing people in general; also coll.): (I, we) man; as indirect object einem; as direct object einenwash one's hands — sich (Dat.) die Hände waschen
7) (coll.): (drink)I'll have just a little one — ich trinke nur einen Kleinen (ugs.)
have one on me — ich geb dir einen aus
8) (coll.): (blow)give somebody one on the head/nose — jemandem eins über den Kopf/auf die Nase geben (ugs.)
* * *1. noun1) (the number or figure 1: One and one is two (1 + 1 = 2).) die Eins2) (the age of 1: Babies start to talk at one.) die Eins2. pronoun1) (a single person or thing: She's the one I like the best; I'll buy the red one.) der/die/das(jenige)2) (anyone; any person: One can see the city from here.) man3. adjective2) (aged 1: The baby will be one tomorrow.) eins3) (of the same opinion etc: We are one in our love of freedom.) einer Meinung•- one-- oneself
- one-night stand
- one-off
- one-parent family
- one-sided
- one-way
- one-year-old 4. adjective((of a person, animal or thing) that is one year old.) einjährige- all one- be one up on a person
- be one up on
- not be oneself
- one and all
- one another
- one by one
- one or two* * *[wʌn]we have two daughters and \one son wir haben zwei Töchter und einen Sohn\one hundred/thousand einhundert/-tausend\one million eine Million\one third/fifth ein Drittel/Fünftel ntthe glass tube is closed at \one end das Glasröhrchen ist an einem Ende verschlossenhe can't tell \one wine from another er schmeckt bei Weinen keinen Unterschied3. attr (single, only) einzige(r, s)her \one concern is to save her daughter ihre einzige Sorge ist, wie sie ihre Tochter retten kanndo you think the five of us will manage to squeeze into the \one car? glaubst du, wir fünf können uns in dieses eine Auto quetschen?we should paint the bedroom all \one colour wir sollten das Schlafzimmer nur in einer Farbe streichenhe's the \one person you can rely on in an emergency er ist die einzige Person, auf die man sich im Notfall verlassen kannnot \one man kein Menschto have just \one thought nur einen [einzigen] Gedanken habenthe \one and only... der/die/das einzige...ladies and gentlemen, the \one and only Muhammad Ali! meine Damen und Herren, der einzigartige Muhammad Ali!I'd like to go skiing \one Christmas ich würde gern irgendwann an Weihnachten Skifahren gehen\one afternoon next week an irgendeinem Nachmittag nächste Woche, irgendwann nächste Woche nachmittags\one day irgendwann\one evening/night irgendwann abends/nachts\one moment he says he loves me, the next moment he's asking for a divorce einmal sagt er, er liebt mich, und im nächsten Moment will er die Scheidung\one afternoon in late October an einem Nachmittag Ende Oktober\one day/evening/night eines Tages/Abends/Nachts\one night we stayed up talking till dawn an einem Abend plauderten wir einmal bis zum Morgengrauenher solicitor is \one John Wintersgill ihr Anwalt ist ein gewisser John Wintersgillhis mother is \one generous woman seine Mutter ist eine wirklich großzügige Frauthat's \one big ice cream you've got there du hast aber ein großes Eis!it was \one hell of a shock to find out I'd lost my job ( fam) es war ein Riesenschock für mich, als ich erfuhr, dass ich meinen Job verloren hatte fam8. (identical) ein(e)all types of training meet \one common standard alle Trainingsarten unterliegen den gleichen Maßstäbento be of \one mind einer Meinung sein\one and the same ein und der-/die-/dasselbethat's \one and the same thing! das ist doch ein und dasselbe!9. (age) ein Jahr\one is a difficult age mit einem Jahr sind Kinder in einem schwierigen Alterto be \one [year old] ein Jahr alt seinlittle Jimmy's \one today der kleine Jimmy wird heute ein Jahr altshe'll be \one [year old] tomorrow sie wird morgen ein Jahr alt10. (time)\one [o'clock] eins, ein Uhrit's half past \one es ist halb zweiat \one um eins11.I've got a hundred and \one things to do this morning ich muss heute Vormittag hunderttausend Dinge erledigenwhat with \one thing and another she hadn't had much sleep recently da alles [o viel] zusammenkam, hat sie in letzter Zeit nicht viel Schlaf bekommenthere is no evidence \one way or the other about the effectiveness of the drug es gibt keinerlei Beweise für die Wirksamkeit oder Unwirksamkeit des Medikamentsthe bills have to be paid \one way or another die Rechnungen müssen irgendwie bezahlt werdenII. n\one hundred and \one einhundert[und]einsthree \ones are three drei mal eins gibt [o ist] [o macht] dreithe front door bore a big brass \one auf der Eingangstür prangte eine große kupferne Eins3. (size of garment, merchandise) Größe einslittle Jackie's wearing \ones now die kleine Jackie trägt jetzt Größe eins▪ to be \one eins seinto be made \one getraut werdenIII. pron1. (single item) eine(r, s)four parcels came this morning, but only \one was for Mark heute Morgen kamen vier Pakete, aber nur eines war für Markwhich cake would you like? — the \one at the front welchen Kuchen möchten Sie? — den vorderenI'd rather eat French croissants than English \ones ich esse lieber französische Croissants als englischeI have two apples, do you want \one? ich habe zwei Äpfel, möchtest du einen?not a single \one kein Einziger/keine Einzige/kein Einziges\one at a time immer nur eine(r, s)don't gobble them up all at once — eat them \one at a time schling nicht alle auf einmal hinunter — iss sie langsam[all] in \one [alles] in einemwith this model you get a radio, CD player and cassette deck [all] in \one dieses Modell enthält Radio, CD-Player und Kassettendeck in einem\one after another [or the other] eine(r, s) nach dem/der anderen\one after another the buses drew up die Busse kamen einer nach dem anderen\one [thing] after another [or the other] eines nach dem anderen\one or another [or the other] irgendeine(r, s)not all instances fall neatly into \one or another of these categories nicht alle Vorkommnisse fallen genau unter eine dieser Kategorienthis/that \one diese(r, s)/jene(r, s)these/those \ones diese/jenewhich \one do you want? — that \one, please! welchen möchten Sie? — den dort, bitte!▪ \one of sth:Luxembourg is \one of the world's smallest countries Luxemburg ist eines der kleinsten Länder der Weltelectronics is \one of his [many] hobbies die Elektronik ist eines seiner [vielen] Hobbysour organization is just \one of many charities unsere Organisation ist nur eine von vielen wohltätigen Vereinigungen2. (single person) eine(r)two could live as cheaply as \one zwei könnten so günstig wie einer wohnenshe thought of her loved \ones sie dachte an ihre Liebento [not] be \one to do [or who does] sth (nature) [nicht] der Typ sein, der etw tut, [nicht] zu denen gehören, die etw tun; (liking) etw [nicht] gerne tunshe's always been \one to take [or who takes] initiative es war schon immer ihre Art, die Initiative zu ergreifenI've never really been \one to sit around doing nothing untätig herumzusitzen war noch nie meine Arthe's always been \one that enjoys good food ihm hat gutes Essen schon immer geschmeckthe's not \one to eat exotic food er isst nicht gerne exotische Speisenshe's [not] \one to go [or who goes] to parties sie geht [nicht] gerne auf PartysJack's always been \one for the ladies Jack hatte schon immer viel für Frauen übrigto not be [a] \one ( fam) for sth [or to not be much of a \one] ( fam) etw nicht besonders mögen, sich dat nicht viel aus etw dat machenI've never really been [much of a] \one for football ich habe mir eigentlich nie viel aus Fußball gemachtto [not] be [a] \one for doing sth ( fam) etw [nicht] gerne machenhe's a great \one for telling other people what to do er sagt anderen gerne, was sie zu tun haben\one and all ( liter) allethe news of his resignation came as a surprise to \one and all die Nachricht von seinem Rücktritt kam für alle überraschendwell done \one and all! gut gemacht, ihr alle!like \one + pp wie ein(e)...Viv was running around like \one possessed before the presentation Viv lief vor der Präsentation wie eine Besessene herum\one after another eine/einer nach der/dem anderen\one by \one nacheinander▪ \one of:she's \one of my favourite writers sie ist eine meiner Lieblingsautorento be \one of many/a few eine(r) von vielen/wenigen sein▪ the \one der-/die[jenige]Chris is the \one with curly brown hair Chris ist der mit den lockigen braunen Haaren3. (expressing alternatives, comparisons)they look very similar and it's difficult to distinguish \one from the other sie sehen sich sehr ähnlich, und es ist oft schwer sie auseinanderzuhalten\one or the other der/die/das eine oder der/die/das anderechoose \one of the pictures. you may have \one or the other, but not both such dir eins der Bilder aus. du kannst nur eines davon haben, nicht beide\one without the other der/die/das eine ohne der/die/das andere\one has an obligation to \one's friends man hat Verpflichtungen seinen Freunden gegenüber\one must admire him er ist zu bewundern\one gets the impression that... ich habe den Eindruck, dass...\one has to do \one's best wir müssen unser Bestes gebenI for \one ich für meinen TeilI for \one think we should proceed was mich betrifft, so denke ich, dass wir weitermachen solltenwhat's the capital of Zaire? — oh, that's a difficult \one wie heißt die Hauptstadt von Zaire? — das ist eine schwierige Fragethis \one's on me! diese Runde geht auf mich!she likes a cool \one after a hard day nach einem harten Tag braucht sie einen kühlen Drinkthat was a good \one! der war gut!did I tell you the \one about the blind beggar? habe ich dir den [Witz] von dem blinden Bettler schon erzählt?you are a \one! du bist mir vielleicht einer! famshe's a \one! das ist mir vielleicht eine! fam10.Greek and Hebrew are all \one to me Griechisch und Hebräisch sind Chinesisch für mich famwe have discussed the matter fully and are as \one on our decision wir haben die Angelegenheit gründlich erörtert, und unsere Entscheidung ist einstimmigthey were completely at \one with their environment sie lebten in völliger Harmonie mit ihrer Umweltso are you saying she's leaving him? — yep, got it in \one du sagst also, dass sie ihn verlässt? — ja, du hast es erfasst▶ to get [or be] \one up on sb jdn übertrumpfen▶ to be \one of a kind zur Spitze gehörenin the world of ballet she was certainly \one of a kind as a dancer in der Welt des Ballet zählte sie zweifellos zu den besten TänzerinnenI hear you've collected over 1,000 autographs! — well, I do have \one or two ich habe gehört, du hast über 1.000 Autogramme gesammelt! — na ja, ich habe schon ein paar▶ in \ones and twos (in small numbers) immer nur ein paar; (alone or in a pair) allein oder paarweise [o zu zweit]we expected a flood of applications for the job, but we're only receiving them in \ones and twos wir haben eine Flut von Bewerbungen für die Stelle erwartet, aber es gehen [täglich] nur wenige einto arrive/stand around in \ones and [or or] twos einzeln oder paarweise [o zu zweit] eintreffen/herumstehen* * *[wʌn]1. adj1) (= number) ein/eine/ein; (counting) einsthere was one person too many — da war einer zu viel
one girl was pretty, the other was ugly —
she was in one room, he was in the other — sie war im einen Zimmer, er im anderen
the baby is one ( year old) — das Kind ist ein Jahr (alt)
it is one ( o'clock) — es ist eins, es ist ein Uhr
one hundred pounds — hundert Pfund; (on cheque etc) einhundert Pfund
that's one way of doing it — so kann mans (natürlich) auch machen
2)one morning/day etc he realized... — eines Morgens/Tages etc bemerkte er...3)(= a certain)
one Mr Smith — ein gewisser Herr Smith4)5)(= same)
they all came in the one car — sie kamen alle in dem einen Auto6)(= united)
God is one — Gott ist unteilbarthey were one in wanting that — sie waren sich darin einig, dass sie das wollten
2. pron1) eine(r, s)the one who... — der(jenige), der.../die(jenige), die.../das(jenige), das...
he/that was the one — er/das wars
do you have one? — haben Sie einen/eine/ein(e)s?
the red/big etc one — der/die/das Rote/Große etc
not (a single) one of them, never one of them — nicht eine(r, s) von ihnen, kein Einziger/keine Einzige/kein Einziges
any one — irgendeine(r, s)
every one — jede(r, s)
this one — diese(r, s)
that one — der/die/das, jene(r, s) (geh)
which one? — welche(r, s)?
that's a good one (inf) — der (Witz) ist gut; ( iro, excuse etc ) (das ist ein) guter Witz
I'm not one to go out often — ich bin nicht der Typ, der oft ausgeht
I'm not usually one to go out on a week night, but today... — ich gehe sonst eigentlich nicht an Wochentagen aus, aber heute...
I am not much of a one for cakes (inf) — ich bin kein großer Freund von Kuchen (inf), Kuchen ist eigentlich nicht mein Fall (inf)
she was never one to cry — Weinen war noch nie ihre Art; (but she did) sonst weinte sie nie
he's a great one for discipline/turning up late — der ist ganz groß, wenns um Disziplin/ums Zuspätkommen geht
ooh, you are a one! (inf) — oh, Sie sind mir vielleicht eine(r)! (inf)
she is a teacher, and he/her sister wants to be one too — sie ist Lehrerin, und er möchte auch gern Lehrer werden/ihre Schwester möchte auch gern eine werden
I, for one, think otherwise — ich, zum Beispiel, denke anders
one after the other — eine(r, s) nach dem/der/dem anderen
take one or the other —
one or other of them will do it — der/die eine oder andere wird es tun
one who knows the country —
in the manner of one who... — in der Art von jemandem, der...
like one demented/possessed — wie verrückt/besessen
one must learn to keep quiet — man muss lernen, still zu sein
to hurt one's foot — sich (dat) den Fuß verletzen
to wash one's face/hair — sich (dat) das Gesicht/die Haare waschen
3. n(= written figure) Eins fto be at one (with sb) — sich (dat) (mit jdm) einig sein
Rangers were one up after the first half — Rangers hatten nach der ersten Halbzeit ein Tor Vorsprung
* * *one [wʌn]A adj1. ein, eine, ein:one apple ein Apfel;one man in ten einer von zehn;one or two ein oder zwei, ein paar;he spoke to him as one man to another er redete mit ihm von Mann zu Mann; → hundred A 1, thousand A 12. (emphatisch) ein, eine, ein, ein einziger, eine einzige, ein einziges:all were of one mind sie waren alle einer Meinung;he is one with me on this er ist mit mir darüber einer Meinung;be made one ehelich verbunden werden;for one thing zunächst einmal;no one man could do it allein könnte das niemand schaffen;his one thought sein einziger Gedanke;the one way to do it die einzige Möglichkeit(, es zu tun);my one and only hope meine einzige Hoffnung;it is all one to me es ist mir (ganz) egal;it’s one fine job es ist eine einmalig schöne Arbeit4. ein gewisser, eine gewisse, ein gewisses, ein, eine, ein:one day eines Tages (in Zukunft od Vergangenheit);one of these days irgendwann (ein)mal;one John Smith ein gewisser John SmithB s1. Eins f, eins:one is half of two eins ist die Hälfte von zwei;a Roman one eine römische Eins;one and a half ein(und)einhalb, anderthalb;I bet ten to one (that …) ich wette zehn zu eins(, dass …);at one o’clock um ein Uhr;one-ten ein Uhr zehn, zehn nach eins;in the year one anno dazumal;the all and the one die Gesamtheit und der Einzelne;one by one, one after another, one after the other einer nach dem andern;one with another eins zum anderen gerechnet;by ones and twos einzeln und zu zweien oder zweit;I for one ich zum Beispiel3. Einheit f:be at one with sb mit jemandem einer Meinung oder einig sein;be at one with nature eins mit der Natur sein;be at one with life rundherum zufrieden sein;a) alle gemeinsam,b) alles in einem4. Ein(s)er m, besonders Eindollarnote fC pron1. ein(er), eine, ein(es), jemand:as one wie ein Mann, geschlossen;on this question they were as one in dieser Frage waren sich alle einig;as one enchanted wie verzaubert;as one deprived of their senses wie von Sinnen;one of the poets einer der Dichter;one who einer, der;the one who der(jenige), der oder welcher;one so cautious jemand, der so vorsichtig ist; ein so vorsichtiger Mann;help one another einander oder sich gegenseitig helfen;have you heard the one about …? kennen Sie den (Witz) schon von …?;one for all and all for one einer für alle und alle für einen2. (Stützwort, meist unübersetzt):a sly one ein ganz Schlauer;the little ones die Kleinen (Kinder);a red pencil and a blue one ein roter Bleistift und ein blauer;the portraits are fine ones die Porträts sind gut;3. man:4. one’s sein, seine, sein:break one’s leg sich das Bein brechen;lose one’s way sich verirren5. umga) ein anständiges Ding (hervorragende Sache, besonders tüchtiger Schlag)b) Kanone f fig, Könner(in):one in the eye fig ein Denkzettel;that’s a good one! nicht schlecht!;* * *1. adjective1) attrib. einone thing I must say — ein[e]s muss ich sagen
one or two — (fig.): (a few) ein paar
one more... — noch ein...
2) attrib. (single, only) einzigin any one day/year — an einem Tag/in einem Jahr
at any one time — zur gleichen Zeit; (always) zu jeder Zeit
not one [little] bit — überhaupt nicht
3) (identical, same) einone and the same person/thing — ein und dieselbe Person/Sache
at one and the same time — gleichzeitig; see also all 2. 1)
4) pred. (united, unified)be one as a family/nation — eine einige Familie/Nation sein; see also with 1)
5) attrib. (a particular but undefined)at one time — einmal; einst (geh.)
one morning/night — eines Morgens/Nachts
one day — (on day specified) einmal; (at unspecified future date) eines Tages
6) attrib. contrasted with ‘other’/‘another’ einneither one thing nor the other — weder das eine noch das andere; see also hand 1. 24)
7)in one — (coll.): (at first attempt) auf Anhieb
2. noungot it in one! — (coll.) [du hast es] erraten!
1) eins3) (unit)3. pronoun1)one of... — ein... (+ Gen.)
one of them/us — etc. einer von ihnen/uns usw.
any one of them — jeder/jede/jedes von ihnen
every one of them — jeder/jede/jedes [einzelne] von ihnen
not one of them — keiner/keine/keines von ihnen
2) replacing n. implied or mentioned ein...the jacket is an old one — die Jacke ist [schon] alt
the older/younger one — der/die/das ältere/jüngere
this is the one I like — den/die/das mag ich
you are or were the one who insisted on going to Scotland — du warst der-/diejenige, der/die unbedingt nach Schottland wollte
this one — dieser/diese/dieses [da]
that one — der/die/das [da]
these ones or those ones? — (coll.) die [da] oder die [da]?
these/those blue etc. ones — diese/die blauen usw.
which one? — welcher/welche/welches?
not one — keiner/keine/keines; (emphatic) nicht einer/eine/eines
all but one — alle außer einem/einer/einem
I for one — ich für mein[en] Teil
one by one, one after another or the other — einzeln
love one another — sich od. (geh.) einander lieben
3) (contrasted with ‘other’/‘another’)[the] one... the other — der/die/das eine... der/die/das andere
4) (person or creature of specified kind)the little one — der/die/das Kleine
our dear or loved ones — unsere Lieben
young one — (youngster) Kind, das; (young animal) Junge, das
5)[not] one who does or to do or for doing something — [nicht] der Typ, der etwas tut
6) (representing people in general; also coll.): (I, we) man; as indirect object einem; as direct object einenwash one's hands — sich (Dat.) die Hände waschen
7) (coll.): (drink)8) (coll.): (blow)give somebody one on the head/nose — jemandem eins über den Kopf/auf die Nase geben (ugs.)
* * *(number) n.eins Zahlwortn. adj.ein adj.eins adj. pron.man pron. -
18 Historical Portugal
Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140The 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, 1140-1385Two 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 inPortugal (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, 1385-1580The 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, 1580-1640Despite 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, 1640-1822Foreign 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 theChurch (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, 1822-1910During 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, 1910-26Portugal'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), 1926-74During 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, 1974-76Following 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 untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU. -
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1. preposition1) (higher than; above in position, number, authority etc: Hang that picture over the fireplace; He's over 90 years old.) sobre, encima de; más de2) (from one side to another, on or above the top of; on the other side of: He jumped over the gate; She fell over the cat; My friend lives over the street.) sobre, encima; al otro lado de3) (covering: He put his handkerchief over his face.) sobre4) (across: You find people like him all over the world.) por(todo)5) (about: a quarrel over money.) por, por motivos de, sobre6) (by means of: He spoke to her over the telephone.) por7) (during: Over the years, she grew to hate her husband.) durante, a través de, a lo largo de8) (while having etc: He fell asleep over his dinner.) durante
2. adverb1) (higher, moving etc above: The plane flew over about an hour ago.)2) (used to show movement, change of position: He rolled over on his back; He turned over the page.)3) (across: He went over and spoke to them.)4) (downwards: He fell over.)5) (higher in number etc: for people aged twenty and over.)6) (remaining: There are two cakes for each of us, and two over.)7) (through from beginning to end, carefully: Read it over; Talk it over between you.)
3. adjective(finished: The affair is over now.) por encima
4. noun((in cricket) a certain number of balls bowled from one end of the wicket: He bowled thirty overs in the match.) serie de seis lanzamientos
5. as part of a word1) (too (much), as in overdo.) demasiado, extra, exceso de2) (in a higher position, as in overhead.) por encima (de)3) (covering, as in overcoat.) sobre4) (down from an upright position, as in overturn.) hacia abajo5) (completely, as in overcome.) completamente•- over all
- over and done with
over1 adv1. a casawhy don't you come over to see us? ¿por qué no vienes a casa a vernos?2. acabado3. de sobraare there any strawberries over? ¿sobran fresas?over2 prep1. encima de / sobre2. más depeople over 65 las personas de más de 65 años / los mayores de 65 añostr['əʊvəSMALLr/SMALL]■ over here/there aquí/allí■ why don't you come over to dinner? ¿por qué no vienes a cenar a casa?5 (everywhere, throughout) en todas partes6 (again) otra vez■ over and over (again) repetidas veces, una y otra vez7 (remaining) sobrante■ are there any strawberries (left) over? ¿sobran fresas?, ¿quedan fresas?■ did you have any money over? ¿te sobró algún dinero?8 (too much) de más10 SMALLRADIO/SMALL (finished) corto■ over and out! ¡corto y fuera!1 (above, higher than) encima de2 (covering, on top of) sobre, encima de3 (across) sobre; (on the other side of) al otro lado de4 (during) durante5 (throughout) por6 (by the agency of) por7 (more than) más de8 (about) por9 (recovered from) recuperado,-a de10 (indicating control) sobre; (superior) por encima de1 (ended) acabado,-a, terminado,-a\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLover and above además deto be over and done with haber acabadoover ['o:vər] advhe flew over to London: voló a Londrescome on over!: ¡ven acá!the show ran 10 minutes over: el espectáculo terminó 10 minutos de tarde3) above, overhead: por encima4) again: otra vez, de nuevoover and over: una y otra vezto start over: volver a empezar5)all over everywhere: por todas partes6)to fall over : caerse7)to turn over : poner boca abajo, voltearover adj1) higher, upper: superior2) remaining: sobrante, que sobra3) ended: terminado, acabadothe work is over: el trabajo está terminadoover prep1) above: encima de, arriba de, sobreover the fireplace: encima de la chimeneathe hawk flew over the hills: el halcón voló sobre los cerros2) : más deover $50: más de $503) along: por, sobreto glide over the ice: deslizarse sobre el hielothey showed me over the house: me mostraron la casa5) across: por encima de, sobrehe jumped over the ditch: saltó por encima de la zanja6) upon: sobrea cape over my shoulders: una capa sobre los hombros7) on: porto speak over the telephone: hablar por teléfono8) during: en, duranteover the past 25 years: durante los últimos 25 años9) because of: porthey fought over the money: se pelearon por el dineroexpr.• cambio expr.adj.• concluido, -a adj.adv.• al otro lado adv.• encima adv.• encima de adv.• por encima adv.prep.• durante prep.• encima de prep.• más de prep.• por prep.• sobre prep.
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1) preposition2) ( across)to sling something over one's shoulder — colgarse* algo del hombro
they live over the road — (BrE) viven en frente
3)a) ( above) encima dethe portrait hangs over the fireplace — el retrato está colgado encima de or (AmL tb) arriba de la chimenea
b) ( Math) sobre4) (covering, on)5)a) (through, all around)to show somebody over a building/an estate — mostrarle* or (esp Esp) enseñarle un edificio/una finca a alguien
b) (referring to experiences, illnesses)is she over her measles yet? — ¿ya se ha repuesto del sarampión?
6) (during, in the course of)over the past/next few years — en or durante los últimos/próximos años
spread (out) over a six-week period — a lo largo de seis semanas, en un plazo de seis semanas
7) ( by the medium of) por8) (about, on account of)9) all overa) ( over entire surface of)to be all over somebody — (colloq) ( defeat heavily) darle* una paliza a alguien (fam); ( be demonstrative toward)
b) ( throughout)10)a) ( more than) más deb)over and above — ( in addition to) además de
11)a) ( senior to) por encima deb) ( indicating superiority) sobreto have control over somebody/something — tener* control sobre alguien/algo
12) ( in comparison to)sales are up 20% over last year — las ventas han aumentado un 20% con respecto al año pasado
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['ǝʊvǝ(r)] When over is the second element in a phrasal verb, eg come over, go over, start over, turn over, look up the verb.1. ADVERB1) (=across) por encima, por arriba (LAm)2) (=here, there)With prepositions and adverbs [over] is usually not translated•
they're over from Canada for the summer — han venido desde Canadá a pasar el veranohow long have you lived over here? — ¿cuánto tiempo llevas viviendo aquí?
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he's over in the States at the moment — en este momento está en Estados Unidosover in the States, people reacted differently — (allí) en Estados Unidos la gente reaccionó de otra manera
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it's over on the other side of town — está al otro lado de la ciudadhow long were you over there? — ¿cuánto tiempo estuviste allí?
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the baby crawled over to its mother — el bebé gateó hacia su madreover to you! — (to speak) ¡te paso la palabra!
so now it's over to you — (to decide) así que ahora te toca a ti decidir
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it happened all over again — volvió a ocurrir, ocurrió otra vez•
over and over (again) — repetidas veces, una y otra vez•
several times over — varias veces seguidas4) (US) (=again) otra vezto do sth over — volver a hacer algo, hacer algo otra vez
5) (=remaining)there are three (left) over — sobran or quedan tres
is there any cake left over? — ¿queda or sobra (algo de) pastel?
when they've paid the bills there's nothing (left) over for luxuries — después de pagar las facturas no les sobra or queda nada para caprichos
6) (=more)•
sums of £50,000 and over — cantidades iguales or superiores a 50.000 libras7) (Telec)over! — ¡cambio!
over and out! — ¡cambio y corto!
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over against — (lit) contra; (fig) frente a•
the (whole) world over — en or por todo el mundo, en el mundo entero2. PREPOSITION1) (indicating position) (=situated above) encima de, arriba de (LAm); (=across) por encima de, por arriba de (LAm)•
pour some sauce over it — échale un poco de salsa por encima•
I put a blanket over her — le eché una manta por encimaall 3., 2), head 1., 1), hill 1.•
to spread a sheet over sth — extender una sábana sobre or por encima de algo2) (=superior to)3) (=on the other side of)4) (=more than) más dean increase of 5% over last year — un aumento del 5 por ciento respecto al año pasado
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spending has gone up by 7% over and above inflation — el gasto ha aumentado un 7% por encima de la inflaciónyes, but over and above that, we must... — sí, pero además de eso, debemos...
well II, 1., 2), a)over and above the fact that... — además de que...
5) (=during) duranteover the winter — durante or en el invierno
why don't we discuss it over dinner? — ¿por qué no vamos a cenar y lo hablamos?
how long will you be over it? — ¿cuánto tiempo te va a llevar?
lingerhe took or spent hours over the preparations — dedicó muchas horas a los preparativos
6) (=because of) por7) (=about) sobrethe two sides disagreed over how much should be spent — ambas partes discrepaban sobre cuánto debería gastarse
8) (=recovered from)he's not over that yet — (illness) todavía no se ha repuesto de aquello; (shock) todavía no se ha repuesto de or sobrepuesto a aquello
she's over it now — (illness) se ha repuesto de eso ya
it'll take her years to get over it — (shock) tardará años en sobreponerse
I hope you'll soon be over your cold — espero que se te pase pronto el resfriado, espero que te repongas pronto del resfriado
I heard it over the radio — lo escuché or oí por la radio
10) (=contrasted with)3.ADJECTIVE (=finished)when or after the war is over, we'll go... — cuando (se) acabe la guerra, nos iremos...
I'll be happy when the exams are over — seré feliz cuando (se) hayan acabado or terminado los exámenes
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it's all over — se acabó•
I'll be glad when it's all over and done with — estaré contento cuando todo (se) haya acabado or terminadoto get sth over and done with: if we've got to tell her, best get it over and done with — si tenemos que decírselo, cuanto antes (lo hagamos) mejor
4.NOUN (Cricket) serie f de seis lanzamientos* * *
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1) preposition2) ( across)to sling something over one's shoulder — colgarse* algo del hombro
they live over the road — (BrE) viven en frente
3)a) ( above) encima dethe portrait hangs over the fireplace — el retrato está colgado encima de or (AmL tb) arriba de la chimenea
b) ( Math) sobre4) (covering, on)5)a) (through, all around)to show somebody over a building/an estate — mostrarle* or (esp Esp) enseñarle un edificio/una finca a alguien
b) (referring to experiences, illnesses)is she over her measles yet? — ¿ya se ha repuesto del sarampión?
6) (during, in the course of)over the past/next few years — en or durante los últimos/próximos años
spread (out) over a six-week period — a lo largo de seis semanas, en un plazo de seis semanas
7) ( by the medium of) por8) (about, on account of)9) all overa) ( over entire surface of)to be all over somebody — (colloq) ( defeat heavily) darle* una paliza a alguien (fam); ( be demonstrative toward)
b) ( throughout)10)a) ( more than) más deb)over and above — ( in addition to) además de
11)a) ( senior to) por encima deb) ( indicating superiority) sobreto have control over somebody/something — tener* control sobre alguien/algo
12) ( in comparison to)sales are up 20% over last year — las ventas han aumentado un 20% con respecto al año pasado
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1.['əʊvə(r)]adverb1) (outward and downward) hinüber2) (so as to cover surface)draw/board/cover over — zuziehen/-nageln/-decken
3) (with motion above something)climb/look/jump over — hinüber- od. (ugs.) rüberklettern/-sehen/-springen
4) (so as to reverse position etc.) herumswitch over — umschalten [Programm, Sender]
it rolled over and over — es rollte und rollte
he swam over to us/the other side — er schwamm zu uns herüber/hinüber zur anderen Seite
they are over [here] for the day — sie sind einen Tag hier
ask somebody over [for dinner] — jemanden [zum Essen] einladen
6) (Radio)[come in, please,] over — übernehmen Sie bitte
7) (in excess etc.)children of 12 and over — Kinder im Alter von zwölf Jahren und darüber
be [left] over — übrig [geblieben] sein
have over — übrig haben [Geld]
9 into 28 goes 3 and 1 over — 28 geteilt durch neun ist gleich 3, Rest 1
it's a bit over — (in weight) es ist ein bisschen mehr
8) (from beginning to end) von Anfang bis Endesay something twice over — etwas wiederholen od. zweimal sagen
over and over [again] — immer wieder
9) (at an end) vorbei; vorüberbe over — vorbei sein; [Aufführung:] zu Ende sein
get something over with — etwas hinter sich (Akk.) bringen
10)all over — (completely finished) aus [und vorbei]; (in or on one's whole body etc.) überall; (in characteristic attitude) typisch
I ache all over — mir tut alles weh
be shaking all over — am ganzen Körper zittern
embroidered all over with flowers — ganz mit Blumen bestickt
that is him/something all over — das ist typisch für ihn/etwas
11) (overleaf) umseitig2. prepositionhit somebody over the head — jemandem auf den Kopf schlagen
carry a coat over one's arm — einen Mantel über dem Arm tragen
3) (in or across every part of) [überall] in (+ Dat.); (to and fro upon) über (+ Akk.); (all through) durchshe spilt wine all over her skirt — sie hat sich (Dat.) Wein über den ganzen Rock geschüttet
5) (on account of) wegenlaugh over something — über etwas (Akk.) lachen
6) (engaged with) beitake trouble over something — sich (Dat.) mit etwas Mühe geben
over work/dinner/a cup of tea — bei der Arbeit/beim Essen/bei einer Tasse Tee
7) (superior to, in charge of) über (+ Akk.)have command/authority over somebody — Befehlsgewalt über jemanden/Weisungsbefugnis gegenüber jemandem haben
be over somebody — (in rank) über jemandem stehen
9) (in comparison with)a decrease over last year — eine Abnahme gegenüber dem letzten Jahr
10) (out and down from etc.) über (+ Akk.)11) (across) über (+ Akk.)the pub over the road — die Wirtschaft auf der anderen Straßenseite od. gegenüber
climb over the wall — über die Mauer steigen od. klettern
be over the worst — das Schlimmste hinter sich (Dat.) od. überstanden haben
12) (throughout, during) über (+ Akk.)stay over Christmas/the weekend/Wednesday — über Weihnachten/das Wochenende/bis Donnerstag bleiben
* * *['əuvə] 1. preposition1) (higher than; above in position, number, authority etc: Hang that picture over the fireplace; He's over 90 years old.) über2) (from one side to another, on or above the top of; on the other side of: He jumped over the gate; She fell over the cat; My friend lives over the street.) über3) (covering: He put his handkerchief over his face.) über4) (across: You find people like him all over the world.) über5) (about: a quarrel over money.) wegen6) (by means of: He spoke to her over the telephone.) durch7) (during: Over the years, she grew to hate her husband.) während8) (while having etc: He fell asleep over his dinner.) über2. adverb1) (higher, moving etc above: The plane flew over about an hour ago.)2) (used to show movement, change of position: He rolled over on his back; He turned over the page.)3) (across: He went over and spoke to them.)4) (downwards: He fell over.)5) (higher in number etc: for people aged twenty and over.)6) (remaining: There are two cakes for each of us, and two over.)3. adjective(finished: The affair is over now.) über4. noun((in cricket) a certain number of balls bowled from one end of the wicket: He bowled thirty overs in the match.) das Over5. as part of a word2) (in a higher position, as in overhead.) ober...3) (covering, as in overcoat.) über...4) (down from an upright position, as in overturn.) um...5) (completely, as in overcome.) über...•- academic.ru/117784/over_again">over again- over all
- over and done with* * *[ˈəʊvəʳ, AM ˈoʊvɚ]I. adv inv, predcome \over here komm hierherwhy don't you come \over for dinner on Thursday? kommt doch am Donnerstag zum Abendessen zu unshe is flying \over from the States tomorrow er kommt morgen aus den Staaten 'rüber famI've got a friend \over from Canada this week ich habe diese Woche einen Freund aus Kanada zu Besuchto move [sth] \over [etw] [beiseite] rückenI've got a friend \over in Munich ein Freund von mir lebt in München\over the sea in Übersee\over there dort [drüben]3. (another way up) auf die andere Seitethe dog rolled \over onto its back der Hund rollte sich auf den Rückento turn sth \over etw umdrehento turn a page \over [eine Seite] umblättern\over and \over [immer wieder] um sich akk selbstthe children rolled \over and \over down the gentle slope die Kinder kugelten den leichten Abhang hinunter4. (downwards)to fall \over hinfallento knock sth \over etw umstoßen5. (finished)▪ to be \over vorbei [o aus] seinthe game was \over by 5 o'clock das Spiel war um 5 Uhr zu Endeit's all \over between us zwischen uns ist es austhat's all \over now damit ist es jetzt vorbeito get sth \over with etw abschließento get sth \over and done with etw hinter sich akk bringen6. AVIAT, TELEC over, Ende\over and out Ende [der Durchsage] fam7. (remaining)[left] \over übrigthere were a few sandwiches left \over ein paar Sandwiches waren noch übrig8. (thoroughly, in detail)to read sth \over etw durchlesento talk sth \over etw durchsprechento think sth \over etw überdenken9. (throughout)the world \over überall auf der Weltall \over ganz und garthat's him all \over typisch erI was wet all \over ich war völlig durchnässtall \over alles noch einmalI'll make you write it all \over ich lasse dich alles noch einmal schreibento say everything twice \over alles zweimal sagen; five times \over fünfmal hintereinander\over and \over immer [o wieder und] wieder11. (sb's turn)I've done all I can. it's now over to you ich habe alles getan, was ich konnte. jetzt bist du dran12. RADIO, TVand now it's \over to John Regis for his report wir geben jetzt weiter an John Regis und seinen Berichtnow we're going \over to Wembley for commentary zum Kommentar schalten wir jetzt hinüber nach Wembley13. (more) mehrpeople who are 65 and \over Menschen, die 65 Jahre oder älter sind14.▶ to give \over die Klappe halten sl▶ to hold sth \over etw verschiebenII. prephe spilled wine \over his shirt er goss sich Wein über sein Hemdhe looked \over his newspaper er schaute über seine Zeitung hinwegthe village is just \over the next hill das Dorf liegt hinter dem nächsten Hügelthe diagram is \over the page das Diagramm ist auf der nächsten Seitethey live just \over the road from us sie wohnen uns gegenüber auf der anderen Straßenseiteto have a roof \over one's head ein Dach über dem Kopf habenall \over überall in + datshe had blood all \over her hands sie hatte die Hände voll Blutyou've got mustard all \over your face du hast Senf überall im Gesichtall \over the country im ganzen Landwe travelled all \over the country wir haben das ganze Land bereistall \over the world auf der ganzen Weltto be all \over sb (sl) von jdm hingerissen seinto show sb \over the house jdm das Haus zeigen, während + genshall we talk about it \over a cup of coffee? sollen wir das bei einer Tasse Kaffee besprechen?gentlemen are asked not to smoke \over dinner die Herren werden gebeten, während des Essens nicht zu rauchenshe fell asleep \over her homework sie nickte über ihren Hausaufgaben ein\over the last few months in den letzten Monaten\over the summer den Sommer über\over the years mit den Jahrenthis shirt cost me \over £50! dieses Hemd hat mich über 50 Pfund gekostet!they are already 25 million dollars \over budget sie haben das Budget bereits um 25 Millionen Dollar überzogenhe will not survive \over the winter er wird den Winter nicht überstehen\over and above über + akk... hinausshe receives an extra allowance \over and above the usual welfare payments sie bekommt über die üblichen Sozialhilfeleistungen hinaus eine zusätzliche Beihilfe\over and above that darüber hinaus7. (through)he told me \over the phone er sagte es mir am Telefonwe heard the news \over the radio wir hörten die Nachricht im Radiohe has authority \over thirty employees er hat dreißig Mitarbeiter unter sichshe has a regional sales director \over her sie untersteht einem Gebietsvertriebsleitera colonel is \over a sergeant in the army ein Colonel steht über einem Sergeant in der Armeeher husband always did have a lot of influence \over her ihr Mann hat schon immer einen großen Einfluss auf sie gehabtthere's no point in arguing \over it es hat keinen Sinn, darüber zu streitendon't fret \over him — he'll be alright mach dir keine Sorgen um ihn — es wird ihm schon gutgehenwe've been \over this before — no TV until you've done your homework das hatten wir doch alles schon — kein Fernsehen bis du deine Hausaufgaben gemacht hasthe's not fully recovered but he's certainly \over the worst er ist zwar noch nicht wieder ganz gesund, aber er hat das Schlimmste überstandento be/get \over sb über die Trennung von jdm hinweg sein/kommento be \over an obstacle ein Hindernis überwunden haben48 \over 7 is roughly 7 48 durch 7 ist ungefähr 72 \over 5 zwei Fünftel* * *['əʊvə(r)]1. prep1) (indicating motion) über (+acc)he spilled coffee over it — er goss Kaffee darüber, er vergoss Kaffee darauf
2) (indicating position = above, on top of) über (+dat)if you hang the picture over the desk — wenn du das Bild über dem Schreibtisch aufhängst or über den Schreibtisch hängst
3) (= on the other side of) über (+dat); (= to the other side of) über (+acc)the house over the road —
it's just over the road from us — das ist von uns (aus) nur über die Straße
when they were over the river — als sie über den Fluss hinüber waren
4) (= in or across every part of) in (+dat)they came from all over England —
you've got ink all over you/your hands — Sie/Ihre Hände sind ganz voller Tinte
5) (= superior to) über (+dat)he has no control over his urges/his staff — er hat seine Triebe/seine Angestellten nicht unter Kontrolle
6) (= more than, longer than) über (+acc)that was well over a year ago — das ist gut ein Jahr her, das war vor gut einem Jahr
over the summer we have been trying... — während des Sommers haben wir versucht...
over the (past) years I've come to realize... — im Laufe der (letzten) Jahre ist mir klar geworden...
8)they talked over a cup of coffee —
let's discuss that over dinner/a beer — besprechen wir das beim Essen/bei einem Bier
9)10) (= about) über (+acc)it's not worth arguing over —
11)blood pressure of 150 over 120 — Blutdruck m von 150 zu 120
2. advthey swam over to us —
he took the fruit over to his mother when the first man is over the second starts to climb/swim — er brachte das Obst zu seiner Mutter hinüber wenn der Erste drüben angekommen ist, klettert/schwimmt der Zweite los
I just thought I'd come over — ich dachte, ich komme mal rüber (inf)
he is over here/there — er ist hier/dort drüben
and now over to our reporter in Belfast — und nun schalten wir zu unserem Reporter in Belfast um
and now over to Paris where... — und nun (schalten wir um) nach Paris, wo...
he drove us over to the other side of town — er fuhr uns ans andere Ende der Stadt
he went over to the enemy — er lief zum Feind über
2)you've got dirt all over — Sie sind voller Schmutz, Sie sind ganz schmutzig
I'm wet all over — ich bin völlig nass
3)(indicating movement from one side to another, from upright position)
to turn an object over (and over) — einen Gegenstand (immer wieder) herumdrehenhe hit her and over she went — er schlug sie, und sie fiel um
4) (= ended) film, first act, operation, fight etc zu Ende; romance, summer vorbei, zu Endethe pain will soon be over — der Schmerz wird bald vorbei sein
the danger was over — die Gefahr war vorüber, es bestand keine Gefahr mehr
5)over and over (again) — immer (und immer) wieder, wieder und wieder
must I say everything twice over! — muss ich denn immer alles zweimal sagen!
6) (= excessively) übermäßig, allzu7) (= remaining) übrigthere was no/a lot of meat (left) over — es war kein Fleisch mehr übrig/viel Fleisch übrig
7 into 22 goes 3 and 1 over — 22 durch 7 ist 3, Rest 1
8)(= more)
children of 8 and over —all results of 5.3 and over — alle Ergebnisse ab 5,3 or von 5,3 und darüber
9) (TELEC)come in, please, over — bitte kommen, over
over and out — Ende der Durchsage; (Aviat) over and out
3. n (CRICKET)6 aufeinanderfolgende Würfe* * *over [ˈəʊvə(r)]A präp3. (Richtung, Bewegung) über (akk), über (akk) … hin, über (akk) … (hin)weg:the bridge over the Danube die Brücke über die Donau;he escaped over the border er entkam über die Grenze;he will get over it fig er wird darüber hinwegkommen4. durch:5. Br über (dat), jenseits (gen), auf der anderen Seite von (oder gen):over the sea in Übersee, jenseits des Meeres;over the way gegenüber6. über (dat), bei:he fell asleep over his work er schlief über seiner Arbeit ein;over a cup of tea bei einer Tasse Tee7. über (akk), wegen:8. (Herrschaft, Autorität, Rang) über (dat oder akk):be over sb über jemandem stehen;reign over a kingdom über ein Königreich herrschen;he set him over the others er setzte ihn über die anderen9. vor (dat):preference over the others Vorzug vor den andern10. über (akk), mehr als:over a week über eine Woche, länger als eine Woche;over and above zusätzlich zu, außer ( → B 13)11. über (akk), während:over the years im Laufe der Jahre;over many years viele Jahre hindurch12. durch:he went over his notes er ging seine Notizen durchB adv1. hinüber…, darüber…:2. hinüber… (to zu):they went over to the enemy sie liefen zum Feind über4. herüber…:come over!5. drüben:over by the tree drüben beim Baum;over in Canada (drüben) in Kanada;a) da drüben,b) US umg (drüben) in Europa;6. (genau) darüber:7. darüber(…), über…(-decken etc):paint sth over etwas übermalena) über…(-geben etc)b) über…(-kochen etc)9. (oft in Verbindung mit Verben)a) um…(-fallen, -werfen etc)b) herum…(-drehen etc)10. durch(weg), von Anfang bis (zum) Ende:one foot over ein Fuß im Durchmesser;a) in der ganzen Welt,b) durch die ganze Welt11. (gründlich) über…(-legen, -denken etc)12. nochmals, wieder:(all) over again nochmal, (ganz) von vorn;over and over again immer (u. immer) wieder;do sth over etwas nochmals tun;ten times over zehnmal hintereinander13. darüber, mehr:children of ten years and over Kinder ab 10 Jahren;10 ounces and over 10 Unzen und mehr;over and above außerdem, obendrein, überdies ( → A 10)14. übrig:15. (zeitlich, im Deutschen oft unübersetzt)a) ständigb) länger:we stayed over till Monday wir blieben bis Montag16. zu Ende, vorüber, vorbei:over! (Funksprechverkehr) over!, kommen!;all over ganz vorbei;all over with erledigt, vorüber;it’s all over with him es ist aus und vorbei mit ihm, er ist endgültig erledigt umg;all over and done with total erledigtC adj1. ober(er, e, es), Ober…2. äußer(er, e, es), Außen…3. überzählig, überschüssig, übrigD s Überschuss m:over of exports Exportüberschuss* * *1.['əʊvə(r)]adverb1) (outward and downward) hinüberdraw/board/cover over — zuziehen/-nageln/-decken
3) (with motion above something)climb/look/jump over — hinüber- od. (ugs.) rüberklettern/-sehen/-springen
4) (so as to reverse position etc.) herumswitch over — umschalten [Programm, Sender]
5) (across a space) hinüber; (towards speaker) herüberhe swam over to us/the other side — er schwamm zu uns herüber/hinüber zur anderen Seite
over here/there — (direction) hier herüber/dort hinüber; (location) hier/dort
they are over [here] for the day — sie sind einen Tag hier
ask somebody over [for dinner] — jemanden [zum Essen] einladen
6) (Radio)[come in, please,] over — übernehmen Sie bitte
7) (in excess etc.)be [left] over — übrig [geblieben] sein
have over — übrig haben [Geld]
9 into 28 goes 3 and 1 over — 28 geteilt durch neun ist gleich 3, Rest 1
it's a bit over — (in weight) es ist ein bisschen mehr
8) (from beginning to end) von Anfang bis Endesay something twice over — etwas wiederholen od. zweimal sagen
over and over [again] — immer wieder
9) (at an end) vorbei; vorüberbe over — vorbei sein; [Aufführung:] zu Ende sein
get something over with — etwas hinter sich (Akk.) bringen
10)all over — (completely finished) aus [und vorbei]; (in or on one's whole body etc.) überall; (in characteristic attitude) typisch
that is him/something all over — das ist typisch für ihn/etwas
11) (overleaf) umseitig2. preposition3) (in or across every part of) [überall] in (+ Dat.); (to and fro upon) über (+ Akk.); (all through) durchall over — (in or on all parts of) überall in (+ Dat.)
she spilt wine all over her skirt — sie hat sich (Dat.) Wein über den ganzen Rock geschüttet
5) (on account of) wegenlaugh over something — über etwas (Akk.) lachen
6) (engaged with) beitake trouble over something — sich (Dat.) mit etwas Mühe geben
over work/dinner/a cup of tea — bei der Arbeit/beim Essen/bei einer Tasse Tee
7) (superior to, in charge of) über (+ Akk.)have command/authority over somebody — Befehlsgewalt über jemanden/Weisungsbefugnis gegenüber jemandem haben
be over somebody — (in rank) über jemandem stehen
8) (beyond, more than) über (+ Akk.)it's been over a month since... — es ist über einen Monat her, dass...
10) (out and down from etc.) über (+ Akk.)11) (across) über (+ Akk.)the pub over the road — die Wirtschaft auf der anderen Straßenseite od. gegenüber
climb over the wall — über die Mauer steigen od. klettern
be over the worst — das Schlimmste hinter sich (Dat.) od. überstanden haben
12) (throughout, during) über (+ Akk.)stay over Christmas/the weekend/Wednesday — über Weihnachten/das Wochenende/bis Donnerstag bleiben
* * *adj.aus adj.vorbei adj.übermäßig adj. prep.hinüber präp.über präp.
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