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to make one's presence known

  • 1 known

    see know
    known vb
    tr[nəʊn]
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    1 conocido,-a
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    the known facts los hechos establecidos
    known ['no:n] adj
    : conocido, familiar
    adj.
    conocido, -a adj.
    p.p.
    (Participio pasivo de "to know")

    I nəʊn
    II
    adjective < fact> conocido, sabido

    to be known AS something — ( have reputation) tener* fama de algo; ( be called)

    better known as... — más conocido como...

    to be known TO somebody: she is known to the police la policía la tiene fichada; for reasons best known to herself por motivos que ella conocerá; to be known FOR something: he's better known for his work in films — se le conoce mejor por su trabajo cinematográfico

    [nǝʊn]
    1.
    PP of know
    2. ADJ
    1) [+ person, fact] conocido

    he is known as Hercules — es conocido por el nombre de Hércules

    it soon became known that... — tardó poco en saberse que...

    to be known for sth — ser conocido por algo

    he let it be known that... — dio a entender que...

    to make o.s. known to sb — presentarse a algn

    he is known to be unreliable — tiene fama de no ser una persona en la que se pueda confiar

    it's well known that... — es bien sabido que..., es de todos conocido que...

    know 1., 3)
    2) (=acknowledged) reconocido
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    I [nəʊn]
    II
    adjective < fact> conocido, sabido

    to be known AS something — ( have reputation) tener* fama de algo; ( be called)

    better known as... — más conocido como...

    to be known TO somebody: she is known to the police la policía la tiene fichada; for reasons best known to herself por motivos que ella conocerá; to be known FOR something: he's better known for his work in films — se le conoce mejor por su trabajo cinematográfico

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  • 2 know

    1. transitive verb,
    1) (recognize) erkennen (by an + Dat., for als + Akk.)
    2) (be able to distinguish)

    know the difference between right and wrongden Unterschied zwischen Gut und Böse kennen

    he wouldn't know the differenceer wüsste den Unterschied nicht

    3) (be aware of) wissen; kennen [Person]

    I know who she is — ich weiß, wer sie ist

    I know for a fact that... — ich weiß ganz bestimmt, dass...

    it is known that... — man weiß, dass...; es ist bekannt, dass...

    know somebody/something to be... — wissen, dass jemand/etwas... ist

    that's/that might be worth knowing — das ist gut/wäre wichtig zu wissen

    he doesn't want to knower will nichts davon wissen od. hören

    you know(coll.): (as reminder) weißt du [noch]

    you know something or what? — weißt du was?

    you never knowman kann nie wissen (ugs.)

    somebody has [never] been known to do something — jemand hat bekanntlich [noch nie] etwas getan

    don't I know it!(coll.) das weiß ich nur zu gut

    what do you know [about that]? — (coll.): (that is surprising) was sagst du dazu?

    somebody is not to know(is not to be told) jemand soll nichts wissen (about, of von); (has no way of learning) jemand kann nicht wissen

    not know what hit one(fig.) gar nicht begreifen, was geschehen ist

    that's all you know [about it] — das glaubst du vielleicht

    know different or otherwise — es besser wissen

    know what's what — wissen, wie es in der Welt zugeht

    do you know,... — stell dir [mal] vor,...

    4) (have understanding of) können [ABC, Einmaleins, Deutsch usw.]; beherrschen [Grundlagen, Regeln]; sich auskennen mit [Gerät, Verfahren, Gesetz]

    know how to mend fuses — wissen, wie man Sicherungen repariert

    5) (be acquainted with) kennen

    we have known each other for years — wir kennen uns [schon] seit Jahren

    you know what he/it is — (is like) du kennst ihn ja/du weißt ja, wie es ist

    6) (have experience of) erleben; erfahren

    know what it is to be hungry — wissen, was es heißt, Hunger zu haben

    2. noun
    (coll.)
    Phrasal Verbs:
    - academic.ru/88563/know_about">know about
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    [nəu]
    past tense - knew; verb
    1) (to be aware of or to have been informed about: He knows everything; I know he is at home because his car is in the drive; He knows all about it; I know of no reason why you cannot go.) wissen
    2) (to have learned and to remember: He knows a lot of poetry.) kennen
    3) (to be aware of the identity of; to be friendly with: I know Mrs Smith - she lives near me.) kennen
    4) (to (be able to) recognize or identify: You would hardly know her now - she has become very thin; He knows a good car when he sees one.) erkennen
    - knowing
    - knowingly
    - know-all
    - know-how
    - in the know
    - know backwards
    - know better
    - know how to
    - know the ropes
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    [nəʊ, AM noʊ]
    <knew, known>
    1. (have information/knowledge)
    to \know sth etw wissen; facts, results etw kennen
    she \knows all the names of them sie kennt all ihre Namen
    does anyone \know the answer? weiß jemand die Antwort?
    do you \know...? weißt du/wissen Sie...?
    do you \know the time/where the post office is? können Sie mir bitte sagen, wie spät es ist/wo die Post ist?
    do you \know the words to this song? kennst du den Text von diesem Lied?
    he really \knows particle physics in Teilchenphysik kennt er sich wirklich gut aus
    I \know no fear ich habe vor nichts Angst
    I \know what I am talking about ich weiß, wovon ich rede
    how was I to \know it'd be snowing in June! wer ahnt denn schon, dass es im Juni schneien würde!
    that's worth \knowing das ist gut zu wissen
    that might be worth \knowing das wäre gut zu wissen
    that's what I like to \know too das würde ich auch gerne wissen!
    — don't I \know it!wem sagst du das!
    before you \know where you are ehe man sich versieht
    for all I \know soweit ich weiß
    they might have even cancelled the project for all I \know vielleicht haben sie das Projekt ja sogar ganz eingestellt — weiß man's! fam
    I knew it! wusste ich's doch! fam
    ... and you \know it... und das weißt du auch; ( fam)
    you \know something [or what]? weißt du was? fam
    ... I \know what... ich weiß was
    but she's not to \know aber sie soll nichts davon erfahren
    God \knows I've done my best ich habe weiß Gott mein Bestes gegeben; ( fam)
    God only \knows what'll happen next! weiß der Himmel, was als Nächstes passiert! sl
    to \know [that]/if/how/what/when/why... wissen, dass/ob/wie/was/wann/warum...
    to \know sb/sth to be/do sth wissen, dass jd/etw etw ist/tut
    the police \know him to be a cocaine dealer die Polizei weiß, dass er mit Kokain handelt
    to \know how to do sth wissen, wie man etw macht
    to \know how to drive a car Auto fahren können
    to \know sth about sth/sb etw über etw/jdn wissen
    to \know the alphabet/English das Alphabet/Englisch können
    do you \know any Norwegian? können Sie ein bisschen Norwegisch?
    to \know sth by heart etw auswendig können
    to \know what one is doing wissen, was man tut
    to let sb \know sth jdn etw wissen lassen
    2. (be certain)
    to not \know whether... sich dat nicht sicher sein, ob...
    to not \know which way to turn nicht wissen, was man machen soll
    to not \know whether to laugh or cry nicht wissen, ob man lachen oder weinen soll
    to \know for a fact that... ganz sicher wissen, dass...
    3. (be acquainted with)
    to \know sb jdn kennen
    \knowing Sarah [or if I \know Sarah], she'll have done a good job so wie ich Sarah kenne, hat sie ihre Sache bestimmt gut gemacht
    we've \known each other for years now wir kennen uns schon seit Jahren
    she \knows Paris well sie kennt sich in Paris gut aus
    surely you \know me better than that! du solltest mich eigentlich besser kennen!
    you \know what it's like du weißt ja, wie das [so] ist
    we all knew her as a kind and understanding colleague uns allen war sie als liebenswerte und einfühlsame Kollegin bekannt
    I'm sure you all \know the new officer by reputation sicherlich haben Sie alle schon mal von dem neuen Offizier gehört
    to \know sth like the back of one's hand etw wie seine eigene Westentasche kennen fam
    to \know sb by name/by sight/personally jdn dem Namen nach/vom Sehen/persönlich kennen
    to get to \know sb jdn kennenlernen
    to get to \know sth methods etw lernen; faults etw herausfinden
    to get to \know each other sich akk kennenlernen
    to [not] \know sb to speak to jdn [nicht] näher kennen
    to \know sth etw verstehen
    do you \know what I mean? verstehst du, was ich meine?
    if you \know what I mean wenn du verstehst, was ich meine
    I've never \known anything like this so etwas akk habe ich noch nicht erlebt
    I've never \known her [to] cry ich habe sie noch nie weinen sehen
    to \know sb/sth jdn/etw erkennen
    I \know a goodbye when I hear one ich hab' schon verstanden, dass du dich von mir trennen willst! fam
    I \know a good thing when I see it ich merke gleich, wenn was gut ist
    we all \know him as ‘Curly’ wir alle kennen ihn als ‚Curly‘
    this is the end of world as we \know it das ist das Ende der Welt, so wie wir sie kennen
    these chocolate bars are \known as something else in the US diese Schokoladenriegel laufen in den USA unter einem anderen Namen
    I knew her for a liar the minute I saw her ich habe vom ersten Augenblick an gewusst, dass sie eine Lügnerin ist
    to \know sb/sth by sth jdn/etw an etw dat erkennen
    to \know sb by his/her voice/walk jdn an seiner Stimme/seinem Gang erkennen
    sb wouldn't \know sth if he/she bumped into it [or if he/she fell over it] [or if it hit him/her in the face] jd würde etw akk nicht mal erkennen, wenn es vor ihm/ihr stehen würde
    7. (be able to differentiate)
    to \know sth/sb from sth/sb etw/jdn von etw/jdm unterscheiden können
    Ana wouldn't \know a greyhound from a collie Ana kann einen Windhund nicht von einem Collie unterscheiden
    you wouldn't \know him from his brother man kann ihn und seinen Bruder nicht unterscheiden!
    don't worry, she wouldn't \know the difference keine Angst, sie wird den Unterschied [gar] nicht merken
    to \know right from wrong Gut und Böse unterscheiden können
    8. passive (well-known)
    to be \known for sth für etw akk bekannt sein
    it is \known that... es ist bekannt, dass...
    to make sth \known etw bekanntmachen
    she's never been \known to laugh at his jokes sie hat bekanntlich noch nie über seine Witze gelacht
    this substance is \known to cause skin problems es ist bekannt, dass diese Substanz Hautirritationen hervorruft
    this substance has been \known to cause skin problems diese Substanz hat in einzelnen Fällen zu Hautirritationen geführt
    Terry is also \known as ‘The Muscleman’ Terry kennt man auch unter dem Namen ‚der Muskelmann‘
    9.
    to not \know sb from Adam keinen blassen Schimmer haben, wer jd ist fam
    to \know all the answers immer alles besser wissen pej; (have real knowledge) sich akk auskennen
    to \know no bounds keine Grenzen kennen
    to not \know one end of sth from the other keine Ahnung von etw dat haben fam
    to not \know what hit one nicht wissen, wie einem geschieht
    not if I \know it nicht mit mir!
    to \know one's own mind wissen, was man will
    to \know one's place wissen, wo man steht
    to not \know where to put oneself BRIT am liebsten in den Boden versinken fam
    to \know the ropes sich akk auskennen
    to \know sb [in the biblical sense] ( hum) mit jdm eine Nummer geschoben haben sl
    to \know the score wissen, was gespielt wird
    to \know which side one's bread is buttered on wissen, wo was zu holen ist fam
    to \know one's stuff [or BRIT also onions] sein Geschäft [o Handwerk] verstehen
    to \know a thing or two ( pej fam: be sexually experienced) sich akk [mit Männern/Frauen] auskennen
    to \know a thing or two about sth (know from experience) sich akk mit etw dat auskennen
    to \know what's what wissen, wo's langgeht fam
    what do you \know! was weißt du denn schon?; esp AM ( fam: surprise) wer hätte das gedacht!
    <knew, known>
    1. (have knowledge) [Bescheid] wissen
    ask Kate, she's sure to \know frag Kate, sie weiß es bestimmt
    I think she \knows ich glaube, sie weiß Bescheid
    where did he go?I wouldn't [or don't] \know, I was not to \know until years later das sollte ich erst Jahre später erfahren, wo ist er hingegangen? — keine Ahnung
    are you going to university? — I don't \know yet willst du studieren? — ich weiß [es] noch nicht
    you never \know man kann nie wissen
    as [or so] far as I \know so viel [o weit] ich weiß
    how am I to \know? woher soll ich das wissen?
    who \knows? wer weiß?
    how should I \know? wie soll ich das wissen?
    I \know! jetzt weiß ich!
    Mummy \knows best what to do Mutti weiß am besten, was zu tun ist
    she didn't want to \know sie wollte nichts davon wissen
    just let me \know ok? sag' mir einfach Bescheid, ok?
    2. ( fam: understand) begreifen
    “I don't \know,” he said, “why can't you ever be on time?” „ich begreife das einfach nicht“, sagte er, „warum kannst du nie pünktlich sein?“
    3. (said to agree with sb)
    I \know ich weiß
    the weather's been so good lately — I \know, isn't it wonderful! das Wetter war in letzter Zeit wirklich schön — ja, herrlich, nicht wahr?
    she's such a fool, don't you \know! sie ist so unglaublich dumm!
    5. (conversation filler)
    give him the red box, you \know, the one with the.... gib ihm die rote Kiste, du weißt schon, die mit den...
    he's so boring and, you \know, sort of spooky er ist so langweilig und, na ja, irgendwie unheimlich
    he asked me, you \know weißt du, er hat mich halt gefragt
    6.
    to \know better:
    you ought to \know better du solltest es eigentlich besser wissen
    he said he loved me but I \know better er sagte, dass er mich liebt, aber ich weiß, dass es nicht stimmt
    to \know better than:
    I \know better than to go out in this weather ich werde mich hüten, bei dem Wetter rauszugehen fam
    she's old enough to \know better than to run out into the traffic sie ist alt genug, um zu wissen, dass man nicht einfach auf die Straße läuft
    to not \know any better es nicht anders kennen
    III. NOUN
    to be in the \know [about sth] [über etw akk] im Bilde sein [o Bescheid wissen]
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    [nəʊ] vb: pret knew, ptp known
    1. TRANSITIVE VERB
    1) = have knowledge about wissen; answer, facts, dates, details, results etc kennen, wissen; French, English etc können

    he knew her to be guilty — er wusste, dass sie schuldig war

    to know what one is talking about — wissen, wovon man redet

    to know one's own mind — wissen, was man will

    she knows all the answers — sie weiß Bescheid, sie kennt sich aus; (pej) sie weiß immer alles besser

    he thinks he knows all the answers or everything —

    that's what I'd like to know ( too) — das möchte ich auch wissen

    that might be worth knowing — es könnte interessant sein, das zu wissen

    I've been a fool and don't I know it! (inf) — ich sehs ja ein, ich war doof (inf), ich war vielleicht doof (inf)

    she's angry! – don't I know it! (inf) — sie ist wütend! – wem sagst du das! (inf)

    2) = be acquainted with people, places, book, author kennen

    I know Bavaria well — ich kenne Bayern gut, ich kenne mich gut in Bayern aus

    do you know him to speak to? —

    we all know her as the headmistress/a generous person — wir kennen Sie alle als die Schulleiterin/einen großzügigen Menschen

    if I know John, he'll already be there — wie ich John kenne, ist er schon da

    3) = recognize erkennen

    to know sb by his voice/walk etc — jdn an der Stimme/am Gang etc erkennen

    he knows a good thing when he sees it — er weiß, was gut ist

    he knows a bargain/good manuscript when he sees one — er weiß, was ein guter Kauf/ein gutes Manuskript ist

    4) = be able to distinguish unterscheiden können

    do you know the difference between...? —

    to know the difference between right and wrong, to know right from wrong — den Unterschied zwischen Gut und Böse kennen, Gut und Böse unterscheiden können

    he doesn't know one end of a horse/hammer from the other — er hat keine Ahnung von Pferden/keine Ahnung, was ein Hammer ist (inf)

    5) = experience erleben

    I've never known him (to) smile — ich habe ihn noch nie lächeln sehen, ich habe es noch nie erlebt, dass er lächelt

    have you ever known me (to) tell a lie? — haben Sie mich jemals lügen hören?

    have you ever known such a thing to happen before? — haben Sie je schon so etwas erlebt?, ist Ihnen so etwas schon einmal vorgekommen?

    6) BIBL (obs sexually) erkennen
    2. INTRANSITIVE VERB
    wissen

    who knows? — wer weiß?, weiß ichs?

    I know! — ich weiß!, weiß ich (doch)!; (having a good idea) ich weiß was!, ich habe eine Idee!

    as far as I know — soviel ich weiß, meines Wissens

    the channel was rough, as I well know or as well I know! — die Überfahrt war stürmisch, das kann ich dir sagen

    3. SET STRUCTURES
    __diams; to know that... wissen, dass...Note that while in English that can be omitted, in German dass must be used to introduce the next sentence.

    when I saw the ambulance, I knew (that) something was wrong — als ich den Krankenwagen sah, wusste ich, dass etwas nicht stimmte __diams; to know why... wissen, warum...

    he didn't know why — er wusste nicht, warum

    I don't know why you think it's so funny — ich weiß nicht, was du daran so komisch findest

    to know how to do sth (in theory) — wissen, wie man etw macht; (in practice) etw tun können

    I know how you feel — ich weiß, wie Sie sich fühlen

    you don't know how good it is to see you again — Sie wissen gar nicht, wie sehr ich mich freue, Sie wiederzusehen

    I know better than thatich bin ja nicht ganz dumm

    I know better than to say something like that —

    he knows better than to eat into the profits — er ist nicht so dumm, den Gewinn anzugreifen

    he/you ought to have known better — das war dumm (von ihm/dir)

    he says he didn't do it, but I know better — er sagt, er war es nicht, aber ich weiß, dass das nicht stimmt

    OK, you know best — o.k., Sie müssens wissen

    to get to know sth (methods, techniques, style, pronunciation etc) — etw lernen; habits, faults, shortcuts etc etw herausfinden

    he soon let me know what he thought of it —

    when can you let me know? — wann können Sie es mich wissen lassen?, wann können Sie mir Bescheid sagen?

    you know, we could/there is... — weißt du, wir könnten/da ist...

    he gave it away, you know — er hat es nämlich weggegeben

    it's raining, you know —

    then there was this man, you know, and... — und da war dieser Mann, nicht (wahr), und...

    wear the black dress, you know, the one with the red belt —

    it's long and purple and, you know, sort of crinkly — es ist lang und lila und, na ja, so kraus

    (if you) know what I meandu weißt schon __diams; you never know man kann nie wissen

    it was nothing to do with me, I'll have you know! — es hatte nichts mit mir zu tun, damit du es weißt! __diams; there's no knowing (inf) das kann keiner sagen, das weiß niemand

    there's no knowing what he'll do — man weiß nie, was er noch tut __diams; what do you know! (inf) sieh mal einer an!

    what do you know! I've just seen her! (inf) — stellen Sie sich vor, ich habe sie eben gesehen __diams; to be known → also known

    it is (well) known that... —

    is he/it known here? — ist er/das hier bekannt?, kennt man ihn/das hier?

    he is known to have been here — man weiß, dass er hier war

    she wishes to be known as Mrs Whitesie möchte Frau White genannt werden → also known __diams; to make sb/sth known jdn/etw bekannt machen

    to make it known that... — bekannt geben, dass...

    to make one's presence knownsich melden (to bei) __diams; to become known bekannt werden

    4. NOUN
    __diams; to be in the know inf eingeweiht sein, im Bild sein (inf), Bescheid wissen (inf)

    the people in the know say... — Leute, die darüber Bescheid wissen, sagen..., die Fachleute sagen...

    5. PHRASAL VERBS
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    know [nəʊ]
    A v/t prät knew [njuː; US besonders nuː], pperf known [nəʊn]
    1. allg wissen:
    he knows what to do er weiß, was zu tun ist;
    I don’t know how to thank you ich weiß nicht, wie ich Ihnen danken soll;
    know all about it genau Bescheid wissen;
    don’t I know it!
    a) und ob ich das weiß!,
    b) als ob ich das nicht wüsste!;
    I would have you know that … ich möchte Ihnen klarmachen, dass …;
    I have never known him to lie meines Wissens hat er noch nie gelogen;
    he knows a thing or two umg er ist nicht von gestern, er weiß ganz gut Bescheid ( about über akk);
    I don’t know much about football ich versteh nicht viel von Fußball;
    what do you know! umg na so was!;
    and he knows it umg das weiß er ganz genau; answer A 1, good B 10, what Bes Redew
    2. a) können:
    he knows (some) German er kann (etwas) Deutsch; business A 1, onion, rope A 1, etc
    b) know how to do sth etwas tun können:
    do you know how to do it? weißt du, wie man das macht?, kannst du das?;
    he knows how to treat children er versteht mit Kindern umzugehen;
    do you know how to drive a car? können Sie Auto fahren?;
    he doesn’t know how to lose er kann nicht verlieren
    3. kennen:
    a) auch know one’s way around sich auskennen in (dat):
    do you know this place? kennen Sie sich hier aus?
    b) mit einem Roman etc vertraut sein:
    know sth backwards (US backward[s] and forward[s]) umg etwas in- und auswendig kennen
    c) bekannt sein mit:
    I have known him (for) five years ich kenne ihn (schon) seit fünf Jahren;
    after I first knew him nachdem ich seine Bekanntschaft gemacht hatte; Adam, get C 2
    4. erfahren, erleben:
    he has known better days er hat schon bessere Tage gesehen;
    I have known it to happen ich habe das schon erlebt
    5. a) (wieder)erkennen (by an dat):
    I would know him anywhere ich würde ihn überall erkennen;
    I don’t know whether I will know him again ich weiß nicht, ob ich ihn wiedererkennen werde
    b) unterscheiden (können):
    know apart auseinanderhalten;
    know one from the other einen vom anderen unterscheiden können, die beiden auseinanderhalten können
    6. BIBEL (geschlechtlich) erkennen
    B v/i wissen (of von, um), im Bilde sein oder Bescheid wissen ( about über akk), Kenntnis haben ( about von):
    I know of sb who … ich weiß oder kenne jemanden, der …;
    I know better! so dumm bin ich nicht!;
    you ought to know better (than that) das sollten Sie besser wissen, so dumm werden Sie doch nicht sein;
    know better than to do sth sich davor hüten, etwas zu tun;
    he ought to know better than to go swimming after a big meal er sollte so viel Verstand haben zu wissen, dass man nach einer ausgiebigen Mahlzeit nicht baden geht;
    not that I know of nicht dass ich wüsste;
    do ( oder don’t) you know? umg nicht wahr?;
    you know wissen Sie;
    this isn’t the Ritz, you know wir sind hier nicht im Ritz!;
    he is an alcoholic as you know ( oder as everybody knows) er ist bekanntlich Alkoholiker;
    you never know man kann nie wissen;
    I’ll let you know ich geb dir Bescheid
    C s be in the know Bescheid wissen, im Bilde oder eingeweiht sein
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    1. transitive verb,
    1) (recognize) erkennen (by an + Dat., for als + Akk.)
    3) (be aware of) wissen; kennen [Person]

    I know who she is — ich weiß, wer sie ist

    I know for a fact that... — ich weiß ganz bestimmt, dass...

    it is known that... — man weiß, dass...; es ist bekannt, dass...

    know somebody/something to be... — wissen, dass jemand/etwas... ist

    that's/that might be worth knowing — das ist gut/wäre wichtig zu wissen

    you know(coll.): (as reminder) weißt du [noch]

    you know something or what? — weißt du was?

    somebody has [never] been known to do something — jemand hat bekanntlich [noch nie] etwas getan

    don't I know it!(coll.) das weiß ich nur zu gut

    what do you know [about that]? — (coll.): (that is surprising) was sagst du dazu?

    somebody is not to know (is not to be told) jemand soll nichts wissen (about, of von); (has no way of learning) jemand kann nicht wissen

    not know what hit one(fig.) gar nicht begreifen, was geschehen ist

    that's all you know [about it] — das glaubst du vielleicht

    know different or otherwise — es besser wissen

    know what's what — wissen, wie es in der Welt zugeht

    do you know,... — stell dir [mal] vor,...

    4) (have understanding of) können [ABC, Einmaleins, Deutsch usw.]; beherrschen [Grundlagen, Regeln]; sich auskennen mit [Gerät, Verfahren, Gesetz]

    know how to mend fuses — wissen, wie man Sicherungen repariert

    we have known each other for years — wir kennen uns [schon] seit Jahren

    you know what he/it is — (is like) du kennst ihn ja/du weißt ja, wie es ist

    6) (have experience of) erleben; erfahren

    know what it is to be hungry — wissen, was es heißt, Hunger zu haben

    2. noun
    (coll.)
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: knew, known)
    = kennen v.
    (§ p.,pp.: kannte, gekannt)
    wissen v.
    (§ p.,pp.: wußte, gewußt)

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  • 3 подавать

    несовер. - подавать;
    совер. - подать( кого-л./что-л.)
    1) (кому-л./чему-л.) give (to) ;
    proffer (to) подавать знак подавать пример подавать руку подавать сигнал подавать надежду подавать повод
    2) (еду) serve подавать на стол
    3) (поезд или другое транспортное средство) drive/bring up, get ready
    4) спорт serve неправильно подавать мячfault спорт
    5) serve, present, forward, hand in подавать просьбу об отставке ≈ to send in one's resignation подавать апелляцию ≈ to appeal подавать жалобу ≈ to lodge a complaint подавать заявлениеto hand in an application подавать телеграмму ≈ to send a telegram подавать в отставку ≈ to send in one's resignation подавать в суд ≈ to bring an action (against) подавать протест ≈ to register/enter a protest подавать прошение ≈ to submit an application, to forward a petition
    6) лит.;
    театр. present, display
    7) тех. feed ∙ подавать голос
    , подать
    1. (вн. дт.) give* (smb., smth.) ;
    подать кому-л. портфель hand smb. his briefcase;
    подать кому-л. стул give*/bring* smb. a chair;
    ~ кому-л. пальто help smb. on with his, her coat;

    2. (вн.;
    ставить на стол) serve (smth.) ;
    ~ обед serve dinner;
    кофе был подан в кабинет coffee was served in the study;

    3. (давать милостыню) give* alms;
    подать нищему give* alms to a beggar;

    4. (вн.;
    подводить для посадки, погрузки) drive* (smth.) up;
    машину подали к подъезду the car was sent up to the door;
    поезд подан на третью платформу the train comes in at platform three;

    5. (вн.;
    в письменном виде) make* (smth.), file (smth.) ;
    ~ заявление file an application;
    ~ жалобу на кого-л. make*/lodge а complaint against smb. ;
    ~ в суд на кого-л. bring* an action against smb. ;

    6. (в печатающем устройстве) feed*;
    ~ бумагу feed* paper;

    7. (вн.) спорт. serve (smth.) ;
    ~ мяч serve (the ball) ;
    подать совет give* advice;
    подать помощь render assistance;
    подать голос
    1) make* one`s presence known;

    2) (за вн. ;
    проголосовать) vote (for) ;
    ~ знак make* а sign, give* a signal;
    подать мысль suggest an idea;
    подать пример give*/set* an example;
    ~ руку кому-л.
    1) (протягивать) hold* out one`s hand to smb. ;

    2) (чтобы вести под руку) offer one`s arm to smb. ;
    подать друг другу руки shake* hands;
    подать руку помощи кому-л. give* smb. а helping hand;
    ~ признаки жизни show* signs of life;
    ~ся, податься yield (тж. перен.) ;
    (изменять положение) move, shift;
    lean*;
    дверь подалась под напором the door yielded to а push;
    толпа подалась назад the crowd fell back;
    ~ся туловищем назад lean* back;
    податься некуда there is no way out.

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > подавать

  • 4 давать о себе знать

    to let smb. hear from oneself, to send news (сообщать о себе) ;
    to make one's presence known (обнаруживать свое присутствие) ;
    to make itself felt, to have its effect on smb. (проявляться)

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > давать о себе знать

  • 5 advertise

    A vtr
    1 ( for publicity) faire de la publicité pour [product, party, group, event, service] ; annoncer [price, rate, speaker] ;
    2 ( for sale) mettre or passer une annonce pour [car, furniture, house etc] ; I'm ringing about the car advertised in Monday's paper j'appelle à propos de l'annonce du journal de lundi pour une voiture ;
    3 ( for applications) mettre or passer une annonce pour [job, vacancy] ; the post has been advertised in the local paper/several times le poste a fait l'objet d'une annonce dans la presse locale/à plusieurs reprises ;
    4 ( make known) signaler [presence] ; afficher [contacts, losses, ignorance, weakness] ; to advertise (the fact) that faire savoir que ; to advertise one's presence signaler sa présence ; we would like to advertise our willingness to… nous aimerions faire connaître que nous sommes prêts à…
    B vi
    1 (for sales, publicity) faire de la publicité ;
    2 ( for staff) passer une annonce ; to advertise in the newspaper/for an accountant passer une annonce dans le journal/pour recruter un comptable.

    Big English-French dictionary > advertise

  • 6 advertise

    1. transitive verb
    werben für; (by small ad) inserieren; ausschreiben [Stelle]
    2. intransitive verb
    werben; (in newspaper) inserieren; annoncieren

    advertise for somebody/something — jemanden/etwas [per Inserat] suchen

    * * *
    (to make (something) known to the public by any of various methods: I've advertised (my house) in the newspaper; They advertised on TV for volunteers.) inserieren, werben
    - academic.ru/878/advertisement">advertisement
    - advertiser
    * * *
    ad·ver·tise
    [ˈædvətaɪz, AM -vɚ-]
    I. vt
    to \advertise sth
    1. (publicize) für etw akk Werbung machen
    to \advertise sth as energy-saving etw als Energie sparend anpreisen
    2. (in a newspaper) etw [in einer Zeitung] inserieren; (on a noticeboard) etw in einem Aushang anbieten
    3. (announce) etw ankündigen [o bekanntgeben] [o bekanntmachen]
    if you're applying for other jobs, I wouldn't \advertise the fact at work dass du dich für andere Stellen bewirbst, würde ich auf der Arbeit nicht herumposaunen
    to \advertise one's presence sich akk auffällig verhalten
    to \advertise one's willingness seine Bereitschaft bekunden
    II. vi
    1. (publicize) werben, Werbung [o Reklame] machen
    2. (in a newspaper) inserieren, SCHWEIZ a. annoncieren, eine Anzeige [o Annonce] [o ein Inserat] in die Zeitung setzen; (on a noticeboard) einen Aushang machen
    to \advertise for sb/sth jdn/etw per Inserat suchen
    * * *
    ['dvətaɪz]
    1. vt
    1) (= publicize) Werbung or Reklame machen für, werben für

    I've seen that soap advertised on televisionich habe die Werbung or Reklame für diese Seife im Fernsehen gesehen

    2) (in paper etc) flat, table etc inserieren, annoncieren; job, post ausschreiben, inserieren

    to advertise sth in a shop window/on local radio — etw durch eine Schaufensteranzeige/im Regionalsender anbieten

    3) (= make conspicuous) fact publik machen; ignorance offen zeigen
    2. vi
    1) (COMM) Werbung or Reklame machen, werben
    2) (in paper) inserieren, annoncieren (for für)

    to advertise for sb/sth — jdn/etw (per Anzeige) suchen

    to advertise for sth on local radio/in a shop window — etw per Regionalsender/durch Anzeige im Schaufenster suchen

    * * *
    advertise [ˈædvə(r)taız]
    A v/t
    1. ankündigen, anzeigen, (durch die Zeitung etc) bekannt machen, eine Anzeige aufgeben für (in in dat), eine Stelle ausschreiben
    2. WIRTSCH Reklame machen für, werben für, anpreisen
    3. obs (of) in Kenntnis setzen, unterrichten (von), wissen lassen (akk)
    4. pej etwas ausposaunen, an die große Glocke hängen
    5. obs warnen
    B v/i
    1. inserieren, annoncieren:
    advertise for durch Inserat suchen
    2. werben, Reklame machen, Werbung treiben
    * * *
    1. transitive verb
    werben für; (by small ad) inserieren; ausschreiben [Stelle]
    2. intransitive verb
    werben; (in newspaper) inserieren; annoncieren

    advertise for somebody/something — jemanden/etwas [per Inserat] suchen

    * * *
    (UK) v.
    werben v.
    (§ p.,pp.: warb, geworben) v.
    ankündigen v.
    annoncieren v.
    anzeigen v.
    inserieren v.

    English-german dictionary > advertise

  • 7 know

    1. I
    I am not guessing, I know это не догадки, я это точно знаю; as far as I know насколько мне известно /я знаю/; he may be a robber for all I know почем я знаю /откуда мне знать/, он может быть и грабитель; as everyone knows как [всем] известно; how do /should/ I know? откуда мне знать?; let me know дайте мне знать
    2. II
    know in some manner you know best тебе лучше знать || she knows better than to spend all her money at once она не настолько глупа, чтобы сразу истратить все свой деньги; god [only] knows why одному богу известно почему
    3. III
    1) know smth. know a foreign language (a lot of English, the facts of the case, one's business, one's profession, etc.) знать иностранный язык и т. д., he knows only English and French он знает только английский и французский, он владеет только английским языком и французским; know literature (poetry, the law, banking, etc.) разбираться в литературе и т. д., know a poem (one's lesson, one's part, smb.'s name, the way, the number, etc.) знать /помнить/ стихотворение и т. д.; know the area (the country, the place, etc.) знать данный район и т. д., ориентироваться в данной местности и т. д., know smb.'s faults (smb.'s habits, smb.'s character, smb.'s peculiarities, one's duties, etc.) знать чьи-л. недостатки и т. д., иметь представление о чьих-л. недостатках и т. д.; he knows more than he says он знает больше, чем говорит; certain things which you cannot but know некоторые обстоятельства, которых вы не можете не знать; he doesn't seem to know the value of time он, по-видимому, не умеет ценить время; he doesn't know his own mind он сам не знает, чего он хочет; don't I know it! мне ли этого не знать!
    2) know smth. know fear (misery, poverty and sorrow, life, etc.) испытать /познать/ страх и т. д., he knows no defeat он не знает поражений; he has never known trouble у него никогда не было неприятностей, ему неведомы неприятности; he has known better days он знавал /видел/ лучшие времена; his zeal knows no bounds его усердие не имеет границ
    3) know smb. know this man (this actress, the mayor, a very good lawyer, etc.) знать этого человека и т. д., быть знакомым с этим человеком и т. д.; I should like to know Mr. Hill я бы хотел познакомиться с мистером Хиллом; when I first knew him когда я впервые узнал его /познакомился с ним/; you two ought to know one another вы должны подружиться друг с другом
    4) know smb., smth. I didn't know you when you came forward я не узнал тебя, когда ты вышел вперед; he knows a good horse (a good drama, a good actor, etc.) он большей знаток лошадей и т. д.; he knows a good thing when he sees it он понимает толк в вещах
    4. IV
    1) know smth. in some manner know smth. positively (perfectly well, thoroughly, through and through, a little, insufficiently, superficially, officially, personally, intuitively, etc.) знать что-л. определенно и т. д., hardly /scarcely/ know smth. почти не иметь представления о чем-л.; when you get to know it better когда вы с этим получше познакомитесь
    2) know smb. in some manner know smb. intimately (personally, slightly, only casually, etc.) близко и т. д. знать кого-л., быть близко и т. д. знакомым с кем-л.; get /come/ to know smb. better узнать кого-л. лучше; it happened that they knew each other well оказалось, что они хорошо знали друг друга; know smb. for (at) some time have you known him long? вы его давно знаете?; вы давно с ним знакомы?
    3) know smb., smth. in some manner know smb., smth. easily (with difficulty, etc.) узнавать кого-л., что-л. сразу и т. д.; know smb., smth. at some time know smb., smth. at once (immediately, instantly, again, etc.) узнать кого-л., что-л. тотчас же и т. д.; know smb., smth. at some place you are just like your father, I'd know you anywhere ты очень похож на отца, я узнал бы тебя при встрече
    5. VII
    know smb. to be smth. know him to be a gentleman (her to be a liar, him to be a poet, this man to be one of their accomplices, etc.) знать его как порядочного человека и т. д., know him to be honest (the judge to be just, herself to be pretty, etc.) знать, что он честен / что он честный человек/ и т. д., know smb. do smth. know educated people make this mistake (a man die of love, etc.) знать случаи, когда и образованные люди делают такую ошибку и т. д.; I have never known him tell a lie я не припомню такого случая, чтобы он соврал; I have never known that man smile я никогда не видел, чтобы этот человек улыбался
    6. XI
    be known wait until all the facts in the case are known подождите, пока [не] станут известны /[не] выяснятся/ все обстоятельства дела; everything gets known все выходит наружу, утаить ничего нельзя; I don't want it known я не хочу, чтобы это получило огласку; be known in some manner this is well (widely, generally, etc.) known это хорошо и т. д. известно; the name is little known here это имя здесь мало кто знает; be known to smb. he is known to the police он у полиции на заметке; be known as smb. he is known as a successful architect его считают преуспевающим архитектором; be known to be smb. he is known to be a good fellow говорят, что он хороший малый; be known to have some quality he is known to be generous (to be obstinate, etc.) он прославился своей щедростью и т. д.; be known to do smth. he had never been known to laugh никто никогда не видел, чтобы он смеялся, его смеха никто никогда не слышал
    7. XIII
    know how to do smth. know how to make cakes (how to play chess, how to manage a horse, how to drive a car, how to read, how to write, how to speak, etc.) уметь печь пироги и т. д., do you know how to go there alone? ты один найдешь туда дорогу?; know what (whether) to do I don't know what to say я не знаю, что сказать; I don't know whether to go or not я не знаю know идти или нет
    8. XVI
    know about /of/ smb., smth. know about the man (of his presence, about the trouble, about the matter, of the engagement, etc.) знать об этом человеке и т. д.; I know about it я в курсе дела; I'll let you know about it later on я тебе сообщу /дам знать/ об этом позже; how did they come to know of it? каким образом это стало им известно?; this is the best method I know of это лучший из известных мне методов; has Smith been ill? - Not that I know of Смит болел? - Насколько я знаю /мне известно/ - нет; know of a good watchmaker ( of any good doctor near here, of any teacher who would suit me, etc.) знать хорошего часовщика и т. д.
    9. XVIII
    || make oneself known представиться кому-л.; why don't you make yourself known to him? a) почему бы тебе не познакомиться с ним?; б) почему бы тебе не открыться ему?
    10. XXI1
    1) know smth. about /of/ smth., smb. know everything ( all, most, a little, etc.) about /of/ smth., smb. знать все и т. д. о чем-л., о ком-л.; I know nothing about him у меня нет никаких сведений о нем; do you know anything about astronomy? вы что-нибудь понимаете в астрономии?; know smth. from /by/ smth. know smth. from history знать что-л. из истории; know smth. by /from/ experience знать что-л. по опыту; know smb. by smth. know smb. by name (by reputation, by his articles, etc.) знать кого-л. по имени и т. д.; do you know him by sight? вы его знаете в лицо?; know smth. against smb. know some facts against him иметь кое-какие факты, говорящие против него || know smth. by heart знать что-л. наизусть; know smth. for a fact знать точно что-л.
    2) know smb. by (from, at, etc.) smth. know one's brother by his voice (the man by the scar, him by his walk, a policeman by the clothes he wears, etc.) узнать своего брата по голосу и т. д.; I knew him from the photograph я его узнал по фотографии; she knew him at a distance она узнала /признала/ его издалека; know smb., smth. from smb., smth. know a friend from a foe (a fool from a wise man, the one from the other, the swallow from a house martin, right from wrong, good from evil, one tune from another, etc.) отличать друга от врага и т. д., you wouldn't know him from an Englishman его не отличишь от настоящего англичанина; know smb. for smb. know him for an American (for a German, for a sportsman, etc.) узнавать в нем американца и т. д.; I wonder how you were able to know him for a doctor удивляюсь, как вам удалось определить, что он врач
    11. XXIV1
    know smb. as smb. know smb. as a great lawyer (as a man of ability, as a poor man, etc.) знать кого-л. как крупного юриста и т. д.
    12. XXV
    know that... (where..., who..., etc.) know that you were coming today (that you are busy, (that) you would help me if you could, (that) it is going to rain, (that) he was here, where he was, who did it, who Napoleon was, who's who on the screen, what he is talking about, etc.) знать, что вы сегодня приезжаете и т. д.; know what's what знать, что к чему; you know how it is знаешь, как это бывает; I don't know that he understands much about it не думаю /сомневаюсь/, чтобы он в этом что-л. понимал; heaven knows when I shall be back кто его знает, когда я вернусь; let me know if you change your mind если передумаете, дайте мне знать /сообщите мне/; there is no knowing what it may lead to (how she will act, when we shall meet again, etc.) нельзя сказать, к чему это может привести и т. д.
    13. XXVI
    know smb. since I've known her since I was a child я знаю ее с детства

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > know

  • 8 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 9 Language

       Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which is always open, right before our eyes. But one cannot understand this book without first learning to understand the language and to know the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other figures. Without these, one cannot understand a single word of it, and just wanders in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo, 1990, p. 232)
       It never happens that it [a nonhuman animal] arranges its speech in various ways in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 116)
       It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same. (Descartes, 1967, p. 116)
       Human beings do not live in the object world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group.... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1921, p. 75)
       It powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.... No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached. (Sapir, 1985, p. 162)
       [A list of language games, not meant to be exhaustive:]
       Giving orders, and obeying them- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements- Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)Reporting an eventSpeculating about an eventForming and testing a hypothesisPresenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagramsMaking up a story; and reading itPlay actingSinging catchesGuessing riddlesMaking a joke; and telling it
       Solving a problem in practical arithmeticTranslating from one language into another
       LANGUAGE Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, and praying-. (Wittgenstein, 1953, Pt. I, No. 23, pp. 11 e-12 e)
       We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.... The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... No individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 153, 213-214)
       We dissect nature along the lines laid down by our native languages.
       The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 213-214)
       9) The Forms of a Person's Thoughts Are Controlled by Unperceived Patterns of His Own Language
       The forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language-shown readily enough by a candid comparison and contrast with other languages, especially those of a different linguistic family. (Whorf, 1956, p. 252)
       It has come to be commonly held that many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all, or only intended in part, to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.... Many traditional philosophical perplexities have arisen through a mistake-the mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. (Austin, 1962, pp. 2-3)
       In general, one might define a complex of semantic components connected by logical constants as a concept. The dictionary of a language is then a system of concepts in which a phonological form and certain syntactic and morphological characteristics are assigned to each concept. This system of concepts is structured by several types of relations. It is supplemented, furthermore, by redundancy or implicational rules..., representing general properties of the whole system of concepts.... At least a relevant part of these general rules is not bound to particular languages, but represents presumably universal structures of natural languages. They are not learned, but are rather a part of the human ability to acquire an arbitrary natural language. (Bierwisch, 1970, pp. 171-172)
       In studying the evolution of mind, we cannot guess to what extent there are physically possible alternatives to, say, transformational generative grammar, for an organism meeting certain other physical conditions characteristic of humans. Conceivably, there are none-or very few-in which case talk about evolution of the language capacity is beside the point. (Chomsky, 1972, p. 98)
       [It is] truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents-which renders mildly paradoxical the fact that the usual product of such a training schedule is an adult whose speech is highly grammatical but not notably truthful. (R. O. Brown, 1973, p. 330)
       he conceptual base is responsible for formally representing the concepts underlying an utterance.... A given word in a language may or may not have one or more concepts underlying it.... On the sentential level, the utterances of a given language are encoded within a syntactic structure of that language. The basic construction of the sentential level is the sentence.
       The next highest level... is the conceptual level. We call the basic construction of this level the conceptualization. A conceptualization consists of concepts and certain relations among those concepts. We can consider that both levels exist at the same point in time and that for any unit on one level, some corresponding realizate exists on the other level. This realizate may be null or extremely complex.... Conceptualizations may relate to other conceptualizations by nesting or other specified relationships. (Schank, 1973, pp. 191-192)
       The mathematics of multi-dimensional interactive spaces and lattices, the projection of "computer behavior" on to possible models of cerebral functions, the theoretical and mechanical investigation of artificial intelligence, are producing a stream of sophisticated, often suggestive ideas.
       But it is, I believe, fair to say that nothing put forward until now in either theoretic design or mechanical mimicry comes even remotely in reach of the most rudimentary linguistic realities. (Steiner, 1975, p. 284)
       The step from the simple tool to the master tool, a tool to make tools (what we would now call a machine tool), seems to me indeed to parallel the final step to human language, which I call reconstitution. It expresses in a practical and social context the same understanding of hierarchy, and shows the same analysis by function as a basis for synthesis. (Bronowski, 1977, pp. 127-128)
        t is the language donn eґ in which we conduct our lives.... We have no other. And the danger is that formal linguistic models, in their loosely argued analogy with the axiomatic structure of the mathematical sciences, may block perception.... It is quite conceivable that, in language, continuous induction from simple, elemental units to more complex, realistic forms is not justified. The extent and formal "undecidability" of context-and every linguistic particle above the level of the phoneme is context-bound-may make it impossible, except in the most abstract, meta-linguistic sense, to pass from "pro-verbs," "kernals," or "deep deep structures" to actual speech. (Steiner, 1975, pp. 111-113)
       A higher-level formal language is an abstract machine. (Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 113)
       Jakobson sees metaphor and metonymy as the characteristic modes of binarily opposed polarities which between them underpin the two-fold process of selection and combination by which linguistic signs are formed.... Thus messages are constructed, as Saussure said, by a combination of a "horizontal" movement, which combines words together, and a "vertical" movement, which selects the particular words from the available inventory or "inner storehouse" of the language. The combinative (or syntagmatic) process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to another) and its mode is metonymic. The selective (or associative) process manifests itself in similarity (one word or concept being "like" another) and its mode is metaphoric. The "opposition" of metaphor and metonymy therefore may be said to represent in effect the essence of the total opposition between the synchronic mode of language (its immediate, coexistent, "vertical" relationships) and its diachronic mode (its sequential, successive, lineal progressive relationships). (Hawkes, 1977, pp. 77-78)
       It is striking that the layered structure that man has given to language constantly reappears in his analyses of nature. (Bronowski, 1977, p. 121)
       First, [an ideal intertheoretic reduction] provides us with a set of rules"correspondence rules" or "bridge laws," as the standard vernacular has it-which effect a mapping of the terms of the old theory (T o) onto a subset of the expressions of the new or reducing theory (T n). These rules guide the application of those selected expressions of T n in the following way: we are free to make singular applications of their correspondencerule doppelgangers in T o....
       Second, and equally important, a successful reduction ideally has the outcome that, under the term mapping effected by the correspondence rules, the central principles of T o (those of semantic and systematic importance) are mapped onto general sentences of T n that are theorems of Tn. (P. Churchland, 1979, p. 81)
       If non-linguistic factors must be included in grammar: beliefs, attitudes, etc. [this would] amount to a rejection of the initial idealization of language as an object of study. A priori such a move cannot be ruled out, but it must be empirically motivated. If it proves to be correct, I would conclude that language is a chaos that is not worth studying.... Note that the question is not whether beliefs or attitudes, and so on, play a role in linguistic behavior and linguistic judgments... [but rather] whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. (Chomsky, 1979, pp. 140, 152-153)
        23) Language Is Inevitably Influenced by Specific Contexts of Human Interaction
       Language cannot be studied in isolation from the investigation of "rationality." It cannot afford to neglect our everyday assumptions concerning the total behavior of a reasonable person.... An integrational linguistics must recognize that human beings inhabit a communicational space which is not neatly compartmentalized into language and nonlanguage.... It renounces in advance the possibility of setting up systems of forms and meanings which will "account for" a central core of linguistic behavior irrespective of the situation and communicational purposes involved. (Harris, 1981, p. 165)
       By innate [linguistic knowledge], Chomsky simply means "genetically programmed." He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a "blueprint is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyzes the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths. (Aitchison, 1987, p. 31)
       Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language.... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. (Leiber, 1991, p. 8)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Language

  • 10 reason

    1. razón / motivo
    the reason why I'm late is that... la razón por la que llego tarde es que...
    2. razón
    tr['riːzən]
    1 (cause) razón nombre femenino, motivo
    the reason why I'm late is that... la razón por la que llego tarde es que...
    what is the reason for this? ¿a qué se debe esto?
    1 deducir, llegar a la conclusión de que
    1 razonar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    by reason of en virtud de
    it stands to reason es lógico, es de lógica
    to have reason to believe that... tener razones para creer que...
    to listen to reason atender a razones
    to see reason entrar en razón
    within reason dentro de lo razonable
    reason ['ri:zən] vt
    think: pensar
    reason vi
    : razonar
    I can't reason with her: no puedo razonar con ella
    1) cause, ground: razón f, motivo m
    the reason for his trip: el motivo de su viaje
    for this reason: por esta razón, por lo cual
    the reason why: la razón por la cual, el porqué
    2) sense: razón f
    to lose one's reason: perder los sesos
    to listen to reason: avenirse a razones
    n.
    causa s.f.
    entendimiento s.m.
    fundamento s.m.
    lugar s.m.
    motivo s.m.
    porqué s.m.
    raciocinio s.m.
    razón s.f.
    sensatez s.f.
    sentido s.m.
    v.
    discurrir v.
    raciocinar v.
    razonar v.
    'riːzṇ
    I
    1) c u ( cause) razón f, motivo m

    for health reasonspor razones or motivos de salud

    for reasons best known to herselfpor razones or motivos que sólo ella conoce, vete a saber por qué (fam)

    she has good reason to be upsettiene razones or motivos para estar disgustada

    reason FOR somethingrazón or motivo de algo

    I have reason to believe that... — tengo razones or motivos para pensar que...

    2) u ( faculty) razón f
    3) u ( good sense)

    to listen to reason — atender* a razones

    to make somebody see reason — hacer* entrar en razón a alguien

    anything, within reason — cualquier cosa, dentro de lo razonable


    II
    1.

    2.
    vi razonar, discurrir
    Phrasal Verbs:
    ['riːzn]
    1. N
    1) (=motive) razón f, motivo m

    the only reason (that) I went was because I was told tola única razón por la que or el único motivo por el que fui fue porque me dijeron que lo hiciera

    who would have a reason to want to kill her? — ¿quién podría tener motivos para matarla?

    we have reason to believe that... — frm tenemos motivos para creer que...

    by reason of — en virtud de

    the reason for (doing) sth, the reason for my going or my reason for going — la razón por la que or el motivo por el que me marcho

    for no reason — sin motivo, sin razón

    for personal/health reasons — por motivos personales/de salud

    for some reasonpor la razón or el motivo que sea

    for this reason — por esta razón, por eso

    all the more reason why you should not sell it — razón de más para que no lo vendas

    if he doesn't come I shall want to know the reason whysi no viene tendrá que explicarme por qué

    I see no reason why we shouldn't winno veo razón por la que or motivo por el que no debiéramos ganar

    with good reason — con razón

    without reason — sin razón, sin motivo

    rhyme
    2) (=faculty) razón f

    to lose one's reason — perder la razón

    3) (=good sense) sentido m común, sensatez f

    the Age of Reason — la Edad de la Razón

    beyond (all) reason, I resented his presence beyond all reason — su presencia me molestaba de una forma inexplicable or fuera de toda lógica

    to listen to reason — atender a razones

    to see reason — entrar en razón

    the voice of reason — la voz de la razón

    within reason — dentro de lo razonable

    appeal, stand 3., 12)
    2.

    I called him, reasoning that I had nothing to lose — me dije que no tenía nada que perder así que lo llamé

    3.
    VI razonar, discurrir
    * * *
    ['riːzṇ]
    I
    1) c u ( cause) razón f, motivo m

    for health reasonspor razones or motivos de salud

    for reasons best known to herselfpor razones or motivos que sólo ella conoce, vete a saber por qué (fam)

    she has good reason to be upsettiene razones or motivos para estar disgustada

    reason FOR somethingrazón or motivo de algo

    I have reason to believe that... — tengo razones or motivos para pensar que...

    2) u ( faculty) razón f
    3) u ( good sense)

    to listen to reason — atender* a razones

    to make somebody see reason — hacer* entrar en razón a alguien

    anything, within reason — cualquier cosa, dentro de lo razonable


    II
    1.

    2.
    vi razonar, discurrir
    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > reason

  • 11 speak

    [spi:k]
    past tense - spoke; verb
    1) (to say (words) or talk: He can't speak; He spoke a few words to us.) govoriti
    2) ((often with to or (American) with) to talk or converse: Can I speak to/with you for a moment?; We spoke for hours about it.) govoriti z
    3) (to (be able to) talk in (a language): She speaks Russian.) govoriti
    4) (to tell or make known (one's thoughts, the truth etc): I always speak my mind.) povedati
    5) (to make a speech, address an audience: The Prime Minister spoke on unemployment.) govoriti
    - speaking
    - spoken
    - - spoken
    - generally speaking
    - speak for itself/themselves
    - speak out
    - speak up
    - to speak of
    * * *
    [spi:k]
    1.
    intransitive verb
    govoriti, besediti; imeti govor; pogovarjati se (with, to z; about, of o); izraziti se; music (o glasbilih) dati glas od sebe, slišati se, zadoneti; dati se čutiti; (o portretu) biti kot živ; nautical signalizirati, dati znak; British English dati glas, oglasiti se (o psu);
    2.
    transitive verb
    (iz)reči, izgovoriti, povedati, govoriti (kaj); izražati, izjaviti, najaviti; dokazovati, pričati, potrditi, pokazati; nautical poklicati (ladjo)
    generally (strictly) speaking — splošno (točno, strogo) povedano (vzeto)
    roughly speaking — v grobem (približno, grosso modo) povedano
    not to speak of... — da (niti) ne govorimo o...
    nothing to speak of — nič važnega, ni vredno niti omembe
    to speak back — (nazaj) odgovarjati (na očitke ipd.)
    to speak by the book — govoriti z rokopisa, čitati (govor), govoriti s točnim poznavanjem
    to speak bluntly — naravnost, brez ovinkov govoriti
    to speak by the card — z veliko natančnostjo govoriti, biti precizen
    to speak in s.o.'s castprekiniti koga
    to speak comfort to... — imeti tolažilne besede za...
    my dog speaks only when I order him — moj pes zalaja le, če mu ukažem
    to speak in s.o.'s ear — komu (kaj) prišepniti na uho, skrivaj govoriti s kom
    to speak for s.o. — govoriti komu v korist, reči dobro besedo za koga
    that speaks for itself — to govori samo za sebe, tega ni treba (še) pojasnjevati (priporočati)
    I found nobody to speak to — nikogar nisem našel, da bi z njim govoril
    to speak by hearsay — govoriti, kar smo od drugih slišali
    this speaks a man of honour — to kaže (izdaja) človeka, ki ni brez časti
    to your praise be it spoken... — v vašo pohvalo bodi povedano...
    you might as well speak to a stone figuratively prav tako bi lahko govoril steni
    to speak to — govoriti komu, potrditi kaj
    I cannot speak to the truth of that — ne morem z gotovostjo reči (jamčiti), da je to res
    to speak volumes for — jasno (prepričljivo) govoriti za, pričati o, dokazovati (kaj)
    who is speaking? — (pri telefonu) kdo je pri aparatu?, kdo govori (tam)?

    English-Slovenian dictionary > speak

  • 12 speak

    spi:k
    past tense - spoke; verb
    1) (to say (words) or talk: He can't speak; He spoke a few words to us.) snakke, si, tale
    2) ((often with to or (American) with) to talk or converse: Can I speak to/with you for a moment?; We spoke for hours about it.) snakke, konversere, skravle
    3) (to (be able to) talk in (a language): She speaks Russian.) snakke
    4) (to tell or make known (one's thoughts, the truth etc): I always speak my mind.) si
    5) (to make a speech, address an audience: The Prime Minister spoke on unemployment.) tale, holde tale
    - speaking
    - spoken
    - - spoken
    - generally speaking
    - speak for itself/themselves
    - speak out
    - speak up
    - to speak of
    snakke
    --------
    tale
    verb ( spoke - spoken, gammeldags: spake) \/spiːk\/
    1) snakke
    how many languages do you speak?
    do you speak English?
    speaking for myself, I don't think so
    han snakket om\/nevnte en restaurant han hadde vært på en gang
    2) si, ytre, uttale
    3) uttrykke, røpe
    4) tale, holde tale
    5) ( sjøfart) anrope, praie, utveksle meldinger med, stå i forbindelse med
    6) ( om hund) gjø, halse
    7) ( poetisk) forkynne, melde
    8) ( gammeldags) vitne om
    be spoken for (amer.) være reservert, være opptatt
    it speaks for itself saken taler for seg selv
    nothing to speak of ikke noe å snakke om, ikke noe nevneverdig
    not to speak of for ikke å snakke om, for ikke å nevne
    relatively speaking relativt sett
    seriously speaking alvorlig talt
    so to speak så å si, for å si det sånn
    speak aside komme med en lavmælt bemerkning, tale dempet
    speak for snakke for, være talsmann for, snakke på vegne av
    speak for yourself! snakk for deg selv!
    speak ill of seill, 3
    speaking! ( i telefon) (ja) det er jeg (som snakker!)
    speaking of apropos, forresten
    speak of snakke om, vitne om
    speak out snakke ut, synge ut, si sin mening rett ut snakke høyere
    speak out against ta til motmæle mot
    speak somebody fair ( gammeldags) snakke pent til noen, snakke pent om noen
    speak to tiltale, snakke til, snakke med snakke alvor med, snakke til rette
    vitne om, bevitne
    snakke om, behandle
    speak up snakke høyere snakke ut
    speak up! ut med det!
    speak up for heve stemmen sin til forsvar for, ta i forsvar
    speak well for være et godt tegn på, love godt for
    strictly speaking strengt tatt, egentlig

    English-Norwegian dictionary > speak

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