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1 sway back and forth
Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > sway back and forth
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2 sway back and forth
качаться из стороны в сторонувестись с переменным успехомАнгло-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь > sway back and forth
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3 to sway back and forth
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4 back
A n1 Anat, Zool dos m ; to be (flat) on one's back lit être (à plat) sur le dos ; fig être au lit ; to sleep on one's back dormir sur le dos ; he was lying on his back il était allongé sur le dos ; to travel on the back of a donkey voyager à dos d'âne ; to have one's back to sb/sth tourner le dos à qn/qch ; with her back to the door le dos tourné vers la porte ; to turn one's back on sb/sth lit, fig tourner le dos à qn/qch ; as soon as my back is turned dès que j'ai le dos tourné ; to do sth behind sb's back lit, fig faire qch dans le dos de qn ; with one's back to the engine dans le sens contraire à la marche ; to put one's back into it ○ travailler dur ; put your back into it ○ ! allons, un peu de nerf ○ ! ; he's always on my back ○ il est toujours sur mon dos ; get off my back ○ ! fiche-moi la paix ○ ! ; I was glad to see the back of him j'étais content de le voir partir ; to be at the back of être à l'origine de [conspiracy, proposal] ; to put sb's back up offenser qn ; to live off sb's back vivre aux crochets de qn ;2 ( reverse side) (of page, cheque, card, envelope) dos m, verso m ; ( of fabric) envers m ; (of medal, coin) revers m ; on the back of an envelope au dos d'une enveloppe ; to sign the back of a cheque endosser un chèque ; the back of the hand le dos de la main ;4 ( rear-facing part) ( of vehicle) arrière m ; ( of electrical appliance) face f arrière ; (of shirt, coat) dos m ; to hang one's coat on the back of the door pendre son manteau derrière la porte ; the shelves are oak but the back is plywood les étagères sont en chêne mais le fond est en contreplaqué ; a blow to the back of the head un coup sur l'arrière de la tête ; a lump on the back of the head une bosse derrière la tête ; the knife fell down the back of the fridge le couteau est tombé derrière le réfrigérateur ; the keys were down the back of the sofa les clés avaient glissé derrière les coussins du canapé ;5 ( area behind building) to be out back, to be in the back US ( in the garden) être dans le jardin ; ( in the yard) être dans la cour ; he's round ou in the back il est dans le jardin ; the view out back is lovely la vue que l'on a à l'arrière est très jolie ; there's a small garden out back ou round the back il y a un petit jardin derrière ; the bins are out back ou round the back les poubelles sont derrière la maison ; the steps at the back of the building l'escalier à l'arrière de l'immeuble ;6 Aut arrière m ; to sit in the back s'asseoir à l'arrière ; there are three children in the back il y a trois enfants à l'arrière ; to sit at the back of the plane/at the back of the bus s'asseoir à l'arrière de l'avion/au fond du bus ;7 ( furthest away area) (of cupboard, drawer, fridge) fond m ; ( of stage) fond m ; at ou in the back of the drawer au fond du tiroir ; right at the back of the cupboard tout au fond du placard ; at the back of the audience au fond de la salle ; those at the back couldn't see ceux qui étaient derrière ne pouvaient pas voir ; the back of the throat l'arrière-gorge f ; the back of the mouth la gorge f ;8 (of chair, sofa) dossier m ;11 ( book spine) dos m.B adj1 ( at the rear) [axle, wheel, bumper] arrière ; [paw, leg] arrière ; [bedroom] du fond ; [edge] arrière ; [page] dernier/-ière (before n) ; [garden, gate] de derrière ; back tooth molaire f ;C adv1 ( indicating return after absence) to be back être de retour ; I'll be back in five minutes/six weeks je reviens dans cinq minutes/six semaines ; to arrive ou come back rentrer (from de) ; he's back at work il a repris le travail ; she's back in (the) hospital elle est retournée à l'hôpital ; it's good to be back home c'est agréable de rentrer chez soi or de se retrouver à la maison ; when is he due back? quand doit-il rentrer? ; to go back to reprendre [work] ; retourner en [France, China] ; retourner au [Canada, Japan] ; retourner à [Paris, museum, shop] ; the mini-skirt is back ( in fashion) les mini-jupes sont de nouveau à la mode ;2 ( in return) to call ou phone back rappeler ; I'll write back (to him) je lui répondrai ; he hasn't written back yet il n'a pas encore répondu ; ‘OK,’ he shouted back ‘OK,’ a-t-il répondu en criant ; to punch sb back rendre son coup à qn ; to smile back at sb rendre son sourire à qn ; he was rude back il a été aussi impoli avec moi que je l'avais été avec lui ; ⇒ answer ;3 (backwards, in a reverse direction) [glance, jump, step, lean] en arrière ;4 ( away) we overtook him 20 km back nous l'avons doublé il y a 20 km ; there's a garage 10 km back nous avons passé un garage à 10 km en arrière ;6 ( a long time ago) back in 1964/April en 1964/avril ; back before Easter/the revolution avant Pâques/la révolution ; back in the days when du temps où ; it was obvious as far back as last year/1985 that déjà l'année dernière/en 1985 il était évident que ; to go ou date back to remonter à [Roman times, 1700] ;7 ( once again) she's back in power/control elle a repris le pouvoir/les commandes ; Paul is back at the wheel Paul a repris le volant ; to get back to sleep se rendormir ; to go back home rentrer chez soi ; to go back to bed se recoucher ;8 ( nearer the beginning) ten lines back dix lignes plus haut ; ten pages back dix pages plus tôt or avant ;9 ( indicating return to sb's possession) to give/send sth back rendre/renvoyer qch (to à) ; to put sth back remettre qch ; I've got my books back on m'a rendu mes livres ; to get one's money back être remboursé ; he wants his dictionary back now il veut que tu lui rendes son dictionnaire tout de suite ;10 ( expressing a return to a former location) to travel to London and back faire l'aller-retour à Londres ; the journey to Madrid and back l'aller-retour à Madrid ; we walked there and took the train back nous y sommes allés à pied et nous avons pris le train pour rentrer ; how long will it take to drive back? combien de temps est-ce que ça prendra pour rentrer en voiture? ;11 ( in a different location) meanwhile, back in France, he… pendant ce temps, en France, il… ; back in the studio, recording had begun au studio, l'enregistrement avait commencé ; I'll see you back at the house/in the office je te verrai à la maison/au bureau.D back and forth adv phr to go ou travel back and forth ( commute) [person, bus] faire la navette (between entre) ; to walk ou go back and forth faire des allées et venues (between entre) ; to swing back and forth [pendulum] osciller ; to sway back and forth se balancer ; the film cuts ou moves back and forth between New York and Paris le film se passe entre New York et Paris.E vtr1 ( support) soutenir [candidate, party, person, bid, bill, action] ; appuyer [application] ; apporter son soutien à [enterprise, project] ; the strike is backed by the union le syndicat soutient la grève ; the junta is backed by the militia la junte est soutenue par la milice ;2 ( finance) financer [project, undertaking] ;4 ( substantiate) justifier [argument, claim] (with à l'aide de) ;5 ( reverse) faire reculer [horse] ; to back the car into the garage rentrer la voiture au garage en marche arrière ; to back sb into/against sth faire reculer qn dans/contre qch ; to back oars ou water déramer ;6 ( bet on) parier sur [horse, favourite, winner] ; to back a loser [race goer] miser sur un cheval perdant ; fig ( invest ill-advisedly) mal placer son argent ; ( support a lost cause) soutenir une cause perdue d'avance ; to back the wrong horse lit, fig miser sur le mauvais cheval ;7 (stiffen, line) consolider, renforcer [structure] ; endosser [book] ; renforcer, entoiler [map] ; maroufler [painting] ; doubler [fabric] ;8 Mus accompagner [singer, performer] ;9 Naut masquer, coiffer [sail].F vi1 ( reverse) faire marche arrière ;2 Naut [wind] changer de direction.G - backed (dans composés)1 ( of furniture) a high-/low-backed chair une chaise avec un dossier haut/bas ;2 (lined, stiffened) canvas-/foam-backed doublé de toile/de mousse ;4 ( financed) government-backed financé par l'État.to break the back of a journey/task faire le plus gros du voyage/travail. ⇒ beyond, duck, hand, own, scratch, wall.■ back away reculer ; to back away from lit s'éloigner de [person, precipice] ; fig prendre ses distances par rapport à [issue, problem] ; chercher à éviter [confrontation].■ back down:▶ back down ( give way) céder ; you can't back down now tu ne peux pas céder maintenant ; to back down from chercher à éviter [confrontation] ; to back down on ou over reconsidérer [sanctions, proposal, allegations] ;▶ back down [sth] [person] descendre [qch] à reculons [slope] ; [car] descendre [qch] en marche arrière [drive, hill].■ back off1 ( move away) reculer ;■ back onto:▶ back onto [sth] [house] donner sur [qch] à l'arrière [fields, railway].■ back out:▶ back out1 ( come out backwards) [person] sortir à reculons ; [car, driver] sortir en marche arrière ; to back out of [person] sortir de [qch] en reculant [room] ; [car, driver] sortir de [qch] en marche arrière [garage, parking space] ;2 ( renege on) se désister, reculer ; to back out of annuler [deal, contract] ; [competitor, team] se retirer de [event] ;▶ back [sth] out faire sortir [qch] en marche arrière [vehicle] ; to back the car out of the garage faire sortir la voiture du garage en marche arrière.■ back up:▶ back up1 ( reverse) [driver, vehicle] reculer, faire marche arrière ; back up a few metres recule de quelques mètres ;▶ back [sth] up, back up [sth]2 Comput sauvegarder [data, file] ;▶ back [sb] up soutenir [person]. -
5 sway
sweɪ
1. сущ.
1) взмах, качание, колебание, покачивание, раскачивание Syn: stroke, sweep, wave, movement, flap, flapping
2) власть, влияние;
правление to hold sway over ≈ иметь власть над кем-л. under smb.'s sway ≈ под началом у кого-л. Syn: jurisdiction
2. гл.
1) качать(ся), колебать(ся) to sway in the breeze ≈ качаться на ветру sway to and fro sway from side to side sway back and forth
2) иметь влияние (на кого-л., что-л.) ;
склонять( кого-л. к чему-л.) Syn: influence
3) поэт. управлять;
править
4) тех. направлять, перетягивать;
поворачивать в горизонтальном направлении качание, колебание;
раскачивание власть, господство;
влияние - to hold /to bear/ * over smb. властвовать /господствовать/ над кем-л.;
оказывать влияние на кого-л. - to have great * иметь большое влияние /-ую власть/ - to be under the * of passion быть во власти страсти - the * of fashion власть моды - under the * of Rome под владычеством Рима - the belief held * for centuries это убеждение веками царило в умах - he held * over the British stage он был признанным королем английской сцены качаться, колебаться - to * to and fro качаться из стороны в сторону;
(военное) вестись с переменным успехом (о бое) - the branches *ed in the wind ветви раскачивались на ветру качать, раскачивать - wind *s the trees ветер качает деревья иметь влияние (на кого-л., что-л.) ;
склонять (кого-л. к чему-л.) - his speech *ed thousands of votes его речь оказала влияние /повлияла/ на настроение тысяч избирателей - he is not to be *ed by argument or entreaty его нельзя поколебать ни доводами, ни мольбой - he is too much *ed by the needs of the moment он слишком поддается влиянию обстоятельств обыкн. управлять, править - to * the sceptre царствовать( техническое) поворачивать в горизонтальном направлении ~ иметь влияние (на кого-л., что-л.) ;
склонять (кого-л. к чему-л.) ;
he is not to be swayed by argument or entreaty его нельзя поколебать ни доводами, ни мольбой sway власть, влияние;
правление ~ иметь влияние (на кого-л., что-л.) ;
склонять (кого-л. к чему-л.) ;
he is not to be swayed by argument or entreaty его нельзя поколебать ни доводами, ни мольбой ~ качание, колебание, взмах ~ качать(ся), колебать(ся) ~ тех. направлять, перетягивать;
поворачивать в горизонтальном направлении ~ поэт. управлять;
править;
to sway the sceptre царствовать ~ поэт. управлять;
править;
to sway the sceptre царствовать to ~ to and fro вестись с переменным успехом (о бое) to ~ to and fro качаться из стороны в сторону -
6 sway
[sweɪ] 1. сущ.1) взмах, качание, колебание, покачивание, раскачиваниеSyn:2) власть, влияние; контрольunder smb.'s sway — под властью, контролем кого-л.
to hold sway over smb. — иметь власть над кем-л.
She is now under his sway. — Теперь она в его власти.
Syn:2. гл.1)а) качать, колебатьto sway the balance in smb.'s favour — склонить чашу весов в чью-л. пользу
б) качаться, колебатьсяThe lamp swayed with the blast. — Лампа качнулась от сильного порыва ветра.
- sway to and fro- sway from side to side
- sway back and forth2) иметь влияние (на кого-л. / что-л.); склонять (кого-л. к чему-л.)His speech swayed the voters. — Его речь оказала влияние на избирателей.
I allowed myself to be swayed by his promises. — Я поверил его обещаниям.
Syn:3) поэт. управлять; править4) тех. направлять, перетягивать; поворачивать в горизонтальном направлении -
7 swing
swiŋ
1. past tense, past participle - swung; verb1) (to (cause to) move or sway in a curve (from side to side or forwards and backwards) from a fixed point: You swing your arms when you walk; The children were swinging on a rope hanging from a tree; The door swung open; He swung the load on to his shoulder.) balancearse; girar, doblar2) (to walk with a stride: He swung along the road.) caminar a zancadas, caminar a paso ligero3) (to turn suddenly: He swung round and stared at them; He is hoping to swing the voters in his favour.) girar(se); cambiar
2. noun1) (an act, period, or manner, of swinging: He was having a swing on the rope; Most golfers would like to improve their swing.) balanceo, vaivén, oscilación; (golf) swing2) (a swinging movement: the swing of the dancers' skirts.) vaivén, balanceo, oscilación3) (a strong dancing rhythm: The music should be played with a swing.) ritmo; (jazz) swing4) (a change in public opinion etc: a swing away from the government.) giro, viraje, cambio5) (a seat for swinging, hung on ropes or chains from a supporting frame etc.) columpio•- swinging- swing bridge
- swing door
- be in full swing
- get into the swing of things
- get into the swing
- go with a swing
swing1 n columpiobe careful on the swing, you might fall off cuidado en el columpio, puedes caerteswing2 vb1. columpiarse2. mecerse / oscilar / balancearse
swing m inv
1 Mús (estilo de jazz) swing
2 fig (tensión interpretativa) ese cantante tiene mucho swing, this singer has got rhythm
3 Dep (efecto de golpear la pelota de golf) ese jugador tiene muy buen swing, this player has a good swing ' swing' also found in these entries: Spanish: balancear - balancearse - bambolearse - columpiar - columpiarse - columpio - desplazarse - mecerse - oscilar - vaivén - contonearse - hamaca - hamacar - mecer - puente English: cat - follow through - forehand - swing - swing door - swung - swinging - wavetr[swɪŋ]1 (movement) balanceo, vaivén nombre masculino; (of pendulum) oscilación nombre femenino, vaivén nombre masculino; (of hips) contoneo2 (plaything) columpio3 (change, shift) giro, viraje nombre masculino, cambio1 (hanging object) balancearse, bambolearse; (pendulum) oscilar; (arms, legs) menearse; (child on swing) columpiarse; (on a pivot) mecerse3 (shift) cambiar, oscilar, virar4 (music, band) tener ritmo; (party) estar muy animado,-a1 (gen) balancear, bambolear; (arms, legs) balancear; (child on swing) columpiar, balancear; (object on rope) hacer oscilar2 (cause to move) hacer girar3 (change) cambiar4 familiar (arrange, achieve) arreglar\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLin full swing en plena marcha, en pleno apogeoit's swings and roundabouts lo que se pierde acá se gana alláto get into the swing of something coger el ritmo de algo, cogerle el tranquillo a algoto go with a swing ir sobre ruedasto swing for something colgarle algo a alguiento swing into action ponerse en marchato swing open/shut (door) abrirse/cerrarse (de golpe)to swing the lead (intentar) escaquearse, poner excusas para no trabajarto take a swing at somebody/something asestar un golpe a alguien/algo, intentar darle a alguien/algoswing bridge puente nombre masculino giratorioswing door puerta giratoria1) : describir una curva conhe swung the ax at the tree: le dio al arbol con el hacha2) : balancear (los brazos, etc.), hacer oscilar3) suspend: colgarswing vi1) sway: balancearse (dícese de los brazos, etc.), oscilar (dícese de un objeto), columpiarse, mecerse (en un columpio)2) swivel: girar (en un pivote)the door swung shut: la puerta se cerró3) change: virar, cambiar (dícese de las opiniones, etc.)swing n1) swinging: vaivén m, balanceo m2) change, shift: viraje m, movimiento m3) : columpio m (para niños)4)to take a swing at someone : intentar pegarle a alguienn.• balanceo s.m.• columpio s.m.• oscilación s.f.• vaivén s.m.v.(§ p.,p.p.: swung) = balancear v.• balancearse v.• bambalear v.• cimbrar v.• columpiar v.• girar v.• hacer oscilar v.• hamaquear v.• mecer v.• menear v.• ondear v.• remecer v.
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1. swɪŋ(past & past p swung) intransitive verb1)a) (hang, dangle) balancearse; ( on a swing) columpiarse or (RPl) hamacarse*; \<\<pendulum\>\> oscilarb) ( convey oneself)the monkeys swung from tree to tree — los monos saltaban de árbol en árbol colgados or (Col, Méx, Ven) guindados de las ramas (or de las lianas etc)
2)a) ( move on pivot)the door swung open/shut o to — la puerta se abrió/se cerró
b) ( turn) girar or doblar ( describiendo una curva)3) (shift, change) \<\<opinion/mood\>\> cambiar, oscilarthe country is swinging to the left — el país está virando or dando un viraje hacia la izquierda
4)a)to swing into something — \<\<into action/operation\>\>
the emergency plans swung into operation/action — se pusieron en marcha los planes de emergencia
b) ( attempt to hit)to swing AT somebody/something — intentar pegarle or darle a alguien/algo
5) (be lively, up to date) (colloq) \<\<party\>\> estar* muy animado
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vt1) ( move to and fro) \<\<arms/legs\>\> balancear; \<\<object on rope\>\> hacer* oscilarto swing one's hips — contonearse, contonear or menear las caderas
2)a) ( convey)b) (wave, brandish) \<\<club/hammer\>\> blandir3)a) (colloq) ( manage) arreglarif you want that job, I think I can swing it — si quieres ese puesto, creo que puedo arreglarlo
b) ( shift)•Phrasal Verbs:
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1)a) c u ( movement) oscilación f, vaivén mc) c (blow, stroke) golpe m; (in golf, boxing) swing mto take a swing at somebody/something — intentar darle a alguien/algo (con un palo, una raqueta etc)
2) ca) ( shift) cambio ma swing in public opinion — un cambio or un viraje en la opinión pública
the swings of the market — ( Fin) las fluctuaciones del mercado
b) ( Pol) viraje ma swing to the Democrats of 4% — un viraje del 4% en favor de los demócratas
3)a) u c (rhythm, vitality)to be in full swing — estar* en pleno desarrollo
exams are in full swing — estamos (or están etc) en plena época de exámenes
to get into the swing of something — agarrarle el ritmo or (Esp) cogerle* el tranquillo a algo
to go with a swing — \<\<business/conference\>\> marchar sobre ruedas; \<\<party\>\> estar* muy animado
b) u ( Mus) swing m4) c ( Leisure) columpio m or (RPl) hamaca fto have a swing — columpiarse or (RPl) hamacarse*
[swɪŋ] (vb: pt, pp swung)it's a question of swings and roundabouts — (BrE) lo que se pierde en una cosa se gana en la otra
1. N1) (=movement) [of needle, pointer, boom] movimiento m ; [of pick, axe] movimiento m (amplio); [of pendulum] oscilación f, movimiento m ; (Boxing, Cricket, Golf) (=technique) swing mwith a quick swing of his axe he felled the young tree — con un amplio y rápido movimiento del hacha taló el arbolito
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to take a swing at sb * — (with fist) intentar darle un puñetazo a algn; (with weapon) intentar darle un golpe a algn•
a sudden swing in opinion — un cambio repentino de opinión•
they need a swing of 5% to win — necesitan un desplazamiento de los votos de un 5% para ganar•
a swing to the left — un viraje or desplazamiento hacia la izquierdamusic/poetry with a swing to it or that goes with a swing — música/poesía con ritmo or que tiene ritmo
- go with a swing- be in full swing- get into the swing of things5) (=scope, freedom)•
he was given full swing to make decisions — le dieron carta blanca para que tomara decisiones6) (=garden swing) columpio m•
to have a swing — columpiarse2. VI1) (=move to and fro) [hanging object, hammock] balancearse; [pendulum, pointer] oscilar; [person] (on swing, hammock) columpiarsehe was sitting on the end of the table, his legs swinging — estaba sentado en el borde de la mesa, columpiando las piernas
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her handbag swung back and forth or to and fro as she walked — su bolso se balanceaba (de un lado al otro) al andarthe pendulum swung back and forth or to and fro — el péndulo oscilaba or se movía de un lado para otro
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a revolver swung from his belt — un revólver colgaba de su cinturón2) (=pivot) girar•
to swing open/ shut — abrirse/cerrarse•
the bar swung round and hit him in the jaw — la barra giró y le dio en la mandíbula3)• to swing at sb (with one's fist) — intentar dar un puñetazo a algn
4) (=turn)•
the car swung into the square — el coche viró or dio un viraje y entró en la plazaswing roundhe swung out to overtake — viró or dio un viraje para adelantar
5) (=jump)•
he swung across the river on a rope — cruzó el río colgado de una cuerda•
I swung down from my bunk — salté de mi litera•
the orang-utang swung from tree to tree — el orangután se columpiaba de árbol en árbol- swing into action6) (=move rhythmically)a group of schoolchildren were swinging along up the road — un grupo de colegiales subían por la calle, andando al compás
as the military band went swinging along up the road... — a medida que la banda militar marchaba siguiendo el compás calle arriba...
7) * (=be hanged)8) (=change)•
local opinion could swing against the company — la opinión local podría cambiar y ponerse en contra de la empresa•
the balance of power is swinging away from him — la balanza del poder se está inclinando hacia el lado contrario al suyo•
the currency should swing back to its previous level — es de esperar que las divisas vuelvan a su nivel anterior•
to swing to the left/right — dar un viraje hacia la izquierda or derecha9) (Psych) [mood] cambiar10) * (=be lively) [entertainment, party] ambientarse; [place] tener ambiente11) ** (sexually)everyone seemed to be swinging in those days — en aquellos tiempos parecía que a todo el mundo le iba la marcha **
- swing both ways3. VT1) (=move to and fro) [+ bag, arms, legs] columpiar, balancear•
he was swinging his bag back and forth or to and fro — columpiaba or balanceaba la bolsa de un lado al otro- swing the lead2) (=pivot) [+ door]he swung the door open/closed — abrió/cerró la puerta de un golpe
3) (=move)a) [+ weapon] blandir•
he swung his sword above his head — blandió la espada por encima de la cabeza•
he swung his axe at the tree — blandió el hacha con intención de darle al árbol•
he swung his case down from the rack — bajó su maleta de la rejilla portaequipajes con un rápido movimiento del brazo•
Roy swung his legs off the couch — Roy quitó rápidamente las piernas del sofá•
he swung the box up onto the roof of the car — con un amplio movimiento de brazos, puso la caja en el techo del cocheb) (reflexive)•
he swung himself across the stream — cruzó el arroyo de un salto•
to swing o.s. (up) into the saddle — subirse a la silla de montar de un salto•
he swung himself over the wall — saltó la tapia apoyándose en un brazo4) (=turn)•
he swung the car off the road — viró con el coche y se salió de la carretera5) (=influence) [+ opinion, decision, vote, voters] decidir; [+ outcome] determinar, decidir•
his speech swung the decision against us — su discurso dio un giro a la decisión desfavorable para nosotros•
the promised tax cuts could swing the vote in our favour — los recortes prometidos en los impuestos podrían hacer cambiar el voto a nuestro favor•
she managed to swing it so that we could all go — consiguió arreglarlo para que todos pudiéramos irwhat swung it for me was... — lo que me decidió fue...
6) (Mus) [+ tune] tocar con swing4.CPDswing band N — (Mus) banda f de música swing
swing bridge N — puente m giratorio
swing door N — puerta f de batiente, puerta f de vaivén
swing music N — música f swing
swing vote N — (esp US) voto m de los indecisos
swing voter N — (esp US) indeciso(-a) m / f
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1. [swɪŋ](past & past p swung) intransitive verb1)a) (hang, dangle) balancearse; ( on a swing) columpiarse or (RPl) hamacarse*; \<\<pendulum\>\> oscilarb) ( convey oneself)the monkeys swung from tree to tree — los monos saltaban de árbol en árbol colgados or (Col, Méx, Ven) guindados de las ramas (or de las lianas etc)
2)a) ( move on pivot)the door swung open/shut o to — la puerta se abrió/se cerró
b) ( turn) girar or doblar ( describiendo una curva)3) (shift, change) \<\<opinion/mood\>\> cambiar, oscilarthe country is swinging to the left — el país está virando or dando un viraje hacia la izquierda
4)a)to swing into something — \<\<into action/operation\>\>
the emergency plans swung into operation/action — se pusieron en marcha los planes de emergencia
b) ( attempt to hit)to swing AT somebody/something — intentar pegarle or darle a alguien/algo
5) (be lively, up to date) (colloq) \<\<party\>\> estar* muy animado
2.
vt1) ( move to and fro) \<\<arms/legs\>\> balancear; \<\<object on rope\>\> hacer* oscilarto swing one's hips — contonearse, contonear or menear las caderas
2)a) ( convey)b) (wave, brandish) \<\<club/hammer\>\> blandir3)a) (colloq) ( manage) arreglarif you want that job, I think I can swing it — si quieres ese puesto, creo que puedo arreglarlo
b) ( shift)•Phrasal Verbs:
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1)a) c u ( movement) oscilación f, vaivén mc) c (blow, stroke) golpe m; (in golf, boxing) swing mto take a swing at somebody/something — intentar darle a alguien/algo (con un palo, una raqueta etc)
2) ca) ( shift) cambio ma swing in public opinion — un cambio or un viraje en la opinión pública
the swings of the market — ( Fin) las fluctuaciones del mercado
b) ( Pol) viraje ma swing to the Democrats of 4% — un viraje del 4% en favor de los demócratas
3)a) u c (rhythm, vitality)to be in full swing — estar* en pleno desarrollo
exams are in full swing — estamos (or están etc) en plena época de exámenes
to get into the swing of something — agarrarle el ritmo or (Esp) cogerle* el tranquillo a algo
to go with a swing — \<\<business/conference\>\> marchar sobre ruedas; \<\<party\>\> estar* muy animado
b) u ( Mus) swing m4) c ( Leisure) columpio m or (RPl) hamaca fto have a swing — columpiarse or (RPl) hamacarse*
it's a question of swings and roundabouts — (BrE) lo que se pierde en una cosa se gana en la otra
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I noun1) (piece of rock) Fels, derbe as solid as a rock — (fig.) absolut zuverlässig sein
‘danger, falling rocks’ — "Achtung od. Vorsicht, Steinschlag!"; "Steinschlaggefahr!"
be caught between a rock and a hard place — in einer Zwickmühle stizen (ugs.)
stick of rock — Zuckerstange, die
7)be on the rocks — (fig. coll.): (have failed) [Ehe, Firma:] kaputt sein (ugs.)
8)II 1. transitive verbon the rocks — (with ice cubes) mit Eis od. on the rocks
2) (shake) erschüttern; (fig.) erschüttern [Person]2. intransitive verbrock the boat — (fig. coll.) Trouble machen (ugs.)
2) (sway) schwanken; wanken3) (dance)3. noun(music) Rock, der; attrib. Rock-rock and or 'n' roll [music] — Rock and Roll, der; Rock 'n' Roll, der
* * *I [rok] noun1) ((a large lump or mass of) the solid parts of the surface of the Earth: The ship struck a rock and sank; the rocks on the seashore; He built his house on solid rock.) der Felsen2) (a large stone: The climber was killed by a falling rock.) der Felsen•- academic.ru/62695/rockery">rockery- rocky
- rockiness
- rock-bottom
- rock-garden
- rock-plant
- on the rocks II [rok] verb1) (to (cause to) swing gently backwards and forwards or from side to side: The mother rocked the cradle; This cradle rocks.) schaukeln3) (to shake or move violently: The earthquake rocked the building.) ins Wanken bringen•- rocker- rocky
- rockiness
- rocking-chair
- rocking-horse
- off one's rocker III [rok]((also rock music) music or songs with a strong, heavy beat and usually a simple melody: She likes rock; ( also adjective) a rock band.) die Rockmusik; Rock-...* * *rock1[rɒk, AM rɑ:k]nto be [as] solid as a \rock (hard) hart wie Stein [o steinhart] sein; ( approv fig: reliable) wie ein Fels in der Brandung sein figour team's defense has been as solid as a \rock all year auf unsere Verteidigung war das ganze Jahr über absolut Verlasstheir marriage is solid as a \rock ihre Ehe ist durch nichts zu erschüttern4. (Gibraltar)▪ the R\rock der Felsen von Gibraltar▪ on the \rocks mit Eis, on the rocksstick of \rock Zuckerstange fto head for the \rocks in sein Verderben rennen13.▶ on the \rocks ( fam: in disastrous state) am Ende fam; relationship, marriage in die Brüche gegangen, kaputt famthe company is on the \rocks das Unternehmen ist vom Pleitegeier bedrohtrock2[rɒk, AM rɑ:k]I. nII. vtto \rock sb to sleep jdn in den Schlaf wiegen2. (sway)▪ to \rock sth etw erschüttern3. (shock)4.III. vi1. (move) schaukelnto \rock back and forth hin und her schaukeln3. (be excellent)he really \rocks! er ist ein Supertyp! famthat's his third goal of the game — he \rocks! das ist sein drittes Tor bei diesem Spiel — er ist einfach ein Ass! famthis party really \rocks! diese Party bringt's! fam* * *I [rɒk]1. vtto rock a baby to sleep —
rocked by the waves — von den Wellen hin und her geschaukelt
2) (= shake) town erschüttern, zum Beben bringen; building ins Wanken bringen, erschüttern; ship hin und her werfen; (fig inf) person erschüttern2. vi1) (gently) schaukelnhe was rocking back and forth (in his chair) — er schaukelte (auf seinem Stuhl) vor und zurück
3) (= rock and roll) rocken4) (inf: be exciting, lively) (place) eine aufregende Atmosphäre haben; (music, show) supergut (inf) or echt geil (sl) sein3. n(= pop music) Rock m; (= dance) Rock n' Roll mrock-and-roll — Rock and Roll m, Rock n' Roll m
IIto do the rock-and-roll — Rock n' Roll tanzen, rocken
ncaves hewn out of the rock — aus dem Fels(en) gehauene Höhlen
hewn out of solid rock — aus massivem Stein/Fels gehauen
porous/volcanic rock — poröses/vulkanisches Gestein
as solid as a rock (structure) — massiv wie ein Fels; firm, marriage unerschütterlich wie ein Fels
"danger, falling rocks" — "Steinschlaggefahr"
3) (inf: diamond) Diamant m;4) no pl (Brit: sweet) Zuckerstange f5)* * *rock1 [rɒk; US rɑk] s1. Fels(en) m:a) massiv,b) fig verlässlich, zuverlässig;be between a rock and a hard place umg zwischen Baum und Borke sitzen oder stecken, in einer Zwickmühle sein oder sitzen; → offence 52. koll Felsen pl, Felsgestein n:(as) hard as rock steinhart3. GEOL Gestein n, Felsart f4. Klippe f (auch fig):rock a head! SCHIFF Klippe voraus!;on the rocks fig umga) pleite, bankrott,b) kaputt, in die Brüche gegangen (Ehe etc),c) on the rocks, mit Eiswürfeln (Whisky etc)Rock English Gibraltar-Englisch n;Rock Scorpion (Spitzname für) Bewohner(in) von Gibraltar6. US Stein m7. fig Fels m, Zuflucht f, Schutz m:the rock of ages figa) Christus,b) der christliche Glaube8. Br in Seebädern verkaufte harte, bunte Zuckerstange mit dem Namen des Ortes darauf:9. sl Stein m, besonders Diamant m, pl auch Klunkern pl sl10. US sla) Geldstück n, besonders Dollar mb) pl Knete f sl12. pl vulg Eier pl (Hoden)rock2 [rɒk; US rɑk]A v/t1. wiegen, schaukeln:rock its wings FLUG (mit den Tragflächen) wackeln2. erschüttern, ins Wanken bringen (beide auch fig), schütteln, rütteln:rock in security fig in Sicherheit wiegen4. Sand, ein Sieb etc rüttelnB v/i1. (sich) schaukeln, sich wiegen2. (sch)wanken, wackeln, taumelnrock with laughter sich vor Lachen biegen4. MUS Rock ’n’ Roll tanzen5. MUS rockenC s1. → rock ’n’ rollrock band Rockband f;rock concert Rockkonzert n;rock group Rockgruppe f;rock opera Rockoper f;rock singer Rocksänger(in)* * *I noun1) (piece of rock) Fels, derbe as solid as a rock — (fig.) absolut zuverlässig sein
‘danger, falling rocks’ — "Achtung od. Vorsicht, Steinschlag!"; "Steinschlaggefahr!"
5) no pl., no indef. art. (hard sweet)stick of rock — Zuckerstange, die
7)be on the rocks — (fig. coll.): (have failed) [Ehe, Firma:] kaputt sein (ugs.)
8)II 1. transitive verbon the rocks — (with ice cubes) mit Eis od. on the rocks
1) (move to and fro) wiegen; (in cradle) schaukeln; wiegen2) (shake) erschüttern; (fig.) erschüttern [Person]2. intransitive verbrock the boat — (fig. coll.) Trouble machen (ugs.)
1) (move to and fro) sich wiegen; schaukeln2) (sway) schwanken; wanken3) (dance)3. noun(music) Rock, der; attrib. Rock-rock and or 'n' roll [music] — Rock and Roll, der; Rock 'n' Roll, der
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I [rɒk]1) U (substance) roccia f.hewn out of solid rock — scavato o tagliato nella roccia
2) С (boulder) masso m., macigno m.on the rocks — mar. contro gli scogli, sulle rocce; [ drink] on the rocks
to be on the rocks — fig. [ marriage] essere in crisi, naufragare
3) (stone) pietra f."falling rocks" — "caduta massi"
4) BE (sweet) = grossa caramella dura di forma cilindrica5) gener. pl. colloq. (diamond) diamante m.••II 1. [rɒk]nome (anche rock music) rock m.2.modificatore [band, concert] rock; [ industry] del rockIII 1. [rɒk]1) (move gently) dondolare [ cradle]; cullare [baby, boat]2) (shake) [ tremor] scuotere, sconquassare [ town]; [ scandal] fare tremare, turbare, scombussolare [party, government]2.1) (sway) [person, cradle] dondolareto rock with laughter — torcersi o sbellicarsi dalle risate
2) (shake) [earth, building] tremare3) (dance)* * *I [rok] noun1) ((a large lump or mass of) the solid parts of the surface of the Earth: The ship struck a rock and sank; the rocks on the seashore; He built his house on solid rock.)2) (a large stone: The climber was killed by a falling rock.)3) (a type of hard sweet made in sticks: a stick of Edinburgh rock.)•- rockery- rocky
- rockiness
- rock-bottom
- rock-garden
- rock-plant
- on the rocks II [rok] verb1) (to (cause to) swing gently backwards and forwards or from side to side: The mother rocked the cradle; This cradle rocks.)2) (to swing (a baby) gently in one's arms to comfort it or make it sleep.)3) (to shake or move violently: The earthquake rocked the building.)•- rocker- rocky
- rockiness
- rocking-chair
- rocking-horse
- off one's rocker III [rok]((also rock music) music or songs with a strong, heavy beat and usually a simple melody: She likes rock; ( also adjective) a rock band.)* * *I [rɒk]1) U (substance) roccia f.hewn out of solid rock — scavato o tagliato nella roccia
2) С (boulder) masso m., macigno m.on the rocks — mar. contro gli scogli, sulle rocce; [ drink] on the rocks
to be on the rocks — fig. [ marriage] essere in crisi, naufragare
3) (stone) pietra f."falling rocks" — "caduta massi"
4) BE (sweet) = grossa caramella dura di forma cilindrica5) gener. pl. colloq. (diamond) diamante m.••II 1. [rɒk]nome (anche rock music) rock m.2.modificatore [band, concert] rock; [ industry] del rockIII 1. [rɒk]1) (move gently) dondolare [ cradle]; cullare [baby, boat]2) (shake) [ tremor] scuotere, sconquassare [ town]; [ scandal] fare tremare, turbare, scombussolare [party, government]2.1) (sway) [person, cradle] dondolareto rock with laughter — torcersi o sbellicarsi dalle risate
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rock [rɒk]a. ( = swing to and fro) [+ child] bercera. ( = sway gently) [cradle, person, ship] se balancerb. ( = sway violently) [person] chanceler ; [building] être ébranlé3. nounc. (British = sweet) ≈ sucre m d'orged. ( = music) rock m4. compounds► rock-and-roll, rock 'n' roll noun ( = music) rock (and roll) m adjective [singer] de rock ; [music] rock inv► rock-steady adjective [hand, voice] parfaitement assuré ; [camera, gun, moving car] parfaitement stable* * *[rɒk] 1.1) [U] ( substance) roche f2) [C] ( boulder) rocher mon the rocks — [ship] sur les récifs; [drink] avec des glaçons
to be on the rocks — [marriage] aller à vau-l'eau
3) ( stone) pierre f‘falling rocks’ — ‘chute de pierres’
4) (also rock music) rock m5) GB ( sweet) sucre m d'orge2. 3.transitive verb1) ( move gently) balancer [cradle]; bercer [baby, boat]2) ( shake) [tremor] secouer; [scandal] ébranler4.1) ( sway) se balancer2) ( shake) trembler3) ( dance) danser le rock••solid/hard as a rock — solide/dur comme le roc
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11 раскачиваться
несовер. - раскачиваться;
совер. - раскачаться возвр.
1) swing (back and forth) (на качелях) ;
rock oneself to and fro, sway
2) shake loose
3) перен.;
разг. (приниматься за что-л.) bestir/move oneself, get into the swing (of), get (oneself) moving
4) только несовер.;
разг. sway (при ходьбе)Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > раскачиваться
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1) движение; перемещение (см. тж movement)2) устройство; механизм•- absolute motion of bodymotion per command — длина перемещения по команде, длина перемещения по одной команде (УП)
- absolute motion of particle
- accelerated motion
- angular motion
- approaching motion
- ascensional motion
- axis motion
- B axis motion
- back motion
- back-and-forth motion
- backward motion
- bar-link motion
- bending motion
- bipedal motion
- box link motion
- bulk motion
- Cartesian motion
- closed link motion
- compliant motion
- compound motion of particle
- conflicting motions
- constrained motion
- continuous motion
- controlled motion
- controlling motion
- coordinated axis motion
- coordinated motion
- copying motion
- counter motion
- crank motion
- creep motion
- creeping motion
- cross motion
- curvilinear motion
- cushioned motion
- cutting motion
- damped harmonic motion
- decelerated motion
- differential motion
- discontinuous motion
- disturbed motion
- down-up motion
- driving motion
- drop motion
- eccentric feed motion
- eccentric motion
- eddy motion
- eddying motion
- end-to-end motion
- error motion
- fast motion
- feed motion
- fine motion
- four-bar motion
- free motion
- friction feed motion
- galloping motion
- generating motion
- generation motion
- Geneva motion
- harmonic motion
- helical motion
- hobbling motion
- impulse motion
- in motion
- in-and-out motion
- increasing motion
- independent axis motion
- in-line motion
- in-out motion
- intended motion
- interlocked motion with the rotation of the main spindle
- interlocked motion
- intermittent motion
- interrelated motions
- interrupted rectilinear motion
- irregular motion
- jerking motion
- jigging motion
- joint motion
- lever motion
- lift motion
- lift-and-carry motions
- lifting motion
- limited motion
- limited reciprocating rectilinear motion
- limited rectilinear motion and return
- limited rectilinear motion with delay
- link motion
- lost motion
- machine axis motion
- main motion
- micrometer motion
- motion of rigid body about fixed axis
- motion of rigid body about fixed point
- negative motion
- nonprobing axis motion
- nonsteady motion
- nonuniform motion
- nosing motion
- orbital motion
- oscillating motion
- oscillatory motion
- out-and-in motion
- out-in motion
- out-of-straightness motion
- parallel motion
- pendulum motion
- perturbed motion
- pitch motion
- pivoting motion
- planet motion
- planetary motion
- plunge motion
- plural axis motion
- positive motion
- power traverse motion
- powered motion
- primary motion
- programmed cutting motion
- progressive motion
- proper motion
- quick motion
- rack motion
- radial error motion
- rapid motion
- rapid traverse motion
- rapid-tool motion
- reciprocating motion
- rectilinear motion
- reducing motion
- relative motion of axes
- relative motion
- relieving motion
- restricted motion
- resultant cutting motion
- retarded motion
- reverse motion
- rocking motion
- rolling motion
- rotary motion
- rotational motion
- rotatory motion
- screw motion
- screw-cutting motion
- see-saw motion
- separating motion
- setting motion
- sideward motion
- single motion
- sliding motion
- slipping motion
- smooth motion
- spin motion
- spindle radial error motion
- spiral motion
- stable motion
- steady motion
- stick-slip motion
- stop and go motion
- stop motion
- straight line motion
- stroke motion
- surfacing motion
- sway motion
- sweeping motion
- switching motion
- switching-in motion
- tilting motion
- to-and-fro motion
- tracer motion
- translational motion
- translatory motion
- transverse motion
- two-dimensional motion
- uncovenanted motion
- uncushioned motion
- undulatory motion
- unequal motion
- uniform linear motion
- uniform motion
- uniformly accelerated motion
- uniformly retarded motion
- unperturbed motion
- unsteady motion
- unwanted motion
- up motion
- up-down motion
- upslide motion
- upward motion
- valve motion
- variable motion
- vortex motion
- W axis motion
- wasted motion
- wave motion
- wheel infeed motion
- whirling motion
- withdrawal motion
- wobbling motion
- wristbend motion
- X axis motion
- Y axis motion
- yaw motion
- Z axis motionEnglish-Russian dictionary of mechanical engineering and automation > motion
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1) движение; перемещение2) механизм3) подача ( рабочего органа)•- 3-position head motion -
absolute motion
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accelerated motion
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air motion
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alternate motion
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angular motion
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apparent motion
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approach motion
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ascending motion
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atmospheric motion
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autonomous spatial motion
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axis motion
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back-and-forth motion
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backward motion
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Brownian motion
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cam motion
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centrifugal motion
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centripetal motion
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centroidal motion
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circular motion
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collision-free motion
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compliant motion
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compound motion
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conflicting motions
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conservative motion
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constrained motion
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continuous motion
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continuous path motion
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controlled yawing motion
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coordinated motion
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coplanar motion
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cross motion
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cross-feed motion
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cross-isobar motion
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crowding motion
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curvilinear motion
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cutting motion
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cyclonic motion
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damped harmonic motion
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decelerated motion
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deproach motion
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descending motion
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differential motion
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discontinuous motion
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downslide motion
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down-up motion
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downward motion
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driving motion
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eccentric motion
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eddying motion
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eddy motion
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end-to-end motion
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engagement motion
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exponential motion
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fault motion
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feed motion
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flapping motion
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flexural motion
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force-controlled motion
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forced motion
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free motion
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fretting motion
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functional motion
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functionally defined motion
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galloping motion
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Geneva motion
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groundwater motion
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gyroscopic motion
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harmonic motion
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heat motion
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helical motion
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hobbing motion
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holding motion
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image motion
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impulsive motion
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increasing motion
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incremental motion
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inertial motion
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in-line motion
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in-plane motion
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interconnected motion
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intermittent film motion
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interrupted motion
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irregular motion
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irrotational motion
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isobaric motion
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jerking motion
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jigging motion
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jog motion
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joint-interpolated motion
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laminar motion
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lateral motion
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lever motion
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lift motion
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linear motion
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longitudinal motion
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lost motion
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micro motion
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nonautonomous spatial motion
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nonstationary motion
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nonsteady motion
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nonuniform motion
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offshore motion of sediments
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omnidirectional motion
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onshore motion of sediments
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orbital motion
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oscillatory motion
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out-of-plane motion
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pan motion
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parallel motion
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pendulum motion
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perceptually controlled motion
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periodic motion
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perpetual motion
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pivoting motion
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plane motion
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planetary motion
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plunge motion
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point-to-point motion
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positive motion
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prescribed motion
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progressive motion
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proper motion
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quasi-geostrophic motion
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quasi-periodic motion
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rack motion
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radial motion
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random motion
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rapid motion
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rapid return motion
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reciprocal motion
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reciprocating motion
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rectilinear motion
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relative motion
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restricted motion
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resulting motion
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retarded motion
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return motion
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reverse motion
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rocking motion
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rolling motion
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rotary motion
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rotational fluid motion
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rotational motion
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screw motion
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selvage motion
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sensor-based motion
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shearing motion
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shedding motion
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shifting motion
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shock motion
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shogging motion
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shuttle gate intermittent motion
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sideward motion
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sideways sliding motion
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simple harmonic motion
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sinusoidal motion
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slide-roll motion
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sliding motion
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slipping motion
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smooth motion
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snake motion
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spatial motion
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spiral motion
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spool modulating motion
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stable motion
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steady motion
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step-by-step film motion
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stick-slip motion
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stop motion
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stop on force motion
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straight line motion
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streamline motion
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successive tool motion
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sway motion
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swinging motion
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swirling motion
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tapped motion
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temperature motion
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thermal motion
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tilting motion
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to-and-fro motion
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tool motion
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transient motion
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translational motion
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transverse motion
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traverse motion
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tropical cyclone turning motion
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turbulent motion
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undulatory motion
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unequal motion
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uniform motion
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uniformly accelerated motion
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uniformly retarded motion
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unit-directional motion
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unstable motion
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unsteady motion
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up-and-down motion
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upslide motion
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upward motion
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variable motion
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vibratory motion
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vibroimpulsive motion
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vortex motion
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vortex-free motion
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warp let-off motion
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wasted motion
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wave motion
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A n1 ¢ ( substance) roche f ; solid/molten rock roche dure/en fusion ; hewn out of solid rock taillé dans le roc ;2 ∁ ( boulder) rocher m ; the ship hit the rocks le bateau a heurté les rochers or les récifs ; on the rocks lit, Naut sur les récifs ; [drink] avec des glaçons ; to be on the rocks fig [marriage] aller à vau-l'eau ;D vtr1 ( move gently) balancer [cradle] ; bercer [baby, boat] ; she sat rocking herself in her chair elle se balançait sur sa chaise ; I rocked the baby to sleep j'ai endormi le bébé en le berçant ;2 ( shake) [tremor, bomb] secouer [town] ; [scandal, revelation] ébranler [party, government] ; [waves] secouer [vessel].E vi1 ( sway) [person, cradle] se balancer ; to rock to and fro/back and forth se balancer de droite à gauche/d'avant en arrière ; to rock with laughter être secoué de rire ;2 ( shake) [earth, ground, building] trembler ;3 ( dance) to rock (away) danser le rock ; by midnight, the place is rocking ○ vers minuit, la fête bat son plein.caught between a rock and a hard place pris entre le marteau et l'enclume ; as firm ou solid as a rock solide comme le roc ; as hard as a rock dur comme du fer or le roc. -
16 раскачаться
несовер. - раскачиваться;
совер. - раскачаться возвр.
1) swing (back and forth) (на качелях) ;
rock oneself to and fro, sway
2) shake loose
3) перен.;
разг. (приниматься за что-л.) bestir/move oneself, get into the swing (of), get (oneself) movingБольшой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > раскачаться
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17 rock
our team's defence has been as solid as a \rock all year auf unsere Verteidigung war das ganze Jahr über absolut Verlass;their marriage is solid as a \rock ihre Ehe ist durch nichts zu erschüttern4) ( Gibraltar)the R\rock der Felsen von Gibraltarstick of \rock Zuckerstange fto head for the \rocks in sein Verderben rennenPHRASES:to be between a \rock and a hard place zwischen den Stühlen sitzen ( fig)on the \rocks (fam: in disastrous state) am Ende ( fam) relationship, marriage in die Brüche gegangen, kaputt ( fam) ( served with ice) on the rocks, mit Eis1) ( cause to move)to \rock sb/ sth jdn/etw schaukeln;( gently) jdn/etw wiegen;to \rock sb to sleep jdn in den Schlaf wiegen2) ( sway)to \rock sth etw erschüttern3) ( shock)PHRASES:1) ( move) schaukeln;to \rock back and forth hin und her schaukeln3) ( be excellent)he really \rocks! er ist ein Supertyp! ( fam)that's his third goal of the game - he \rocks! das ist sein drittes Tor bei diesem Spiel - er ist einfach ein Ass! ( fam)this party really \rocks! diese Party bringt's! ( fam) -
18 hold
I [həuld] 1. гл.; прош. вр., прич. прош. вр. held1)а) держать; обниматьto hold a spoon / knife — держать ложку, нож
to hold smth. in one's hand — держать что-л. в руке
to hold smth. tight(ly) — крепко держать что-л.
to hold smb. in one's arms — держать кого-л. на руках; держать в объятиях, обнимать кого-л.
to hold smb. tight / close — (крепко) обнимать кого-л., прижимать кого-л. к себе
The mother was holding the baby in her arms. — Мать держала ребёнка на руках.
He will hold her in his arms and tell her she is finally safe. — Он обнимет её и скажет ей, что теперь она в безопасности.
Syn:б) удерживать, задерживатьHe jumped back to try and hold the lift for me. — Он отпрыгнул назад, стараясь задержать для меня лифт.
Syn:2)а) удерживать, поддерживатьA pile of sandbags held the bridge. — Груда мешков с песком поддерживала мост.
б) держать, выдерживатьThe glue didn't hold. — Клей не держал.
This rope won't hold in a strong wind. — При сильном ветре эта верёвка не выдержит.
The nail still holds. — Гвоздь ещё держится.
•Syn:carry, bear, take, support, uphold, brace, prop, shore, stick, cling, adhere, remain tied, remain bound, stay fixed, lock, unite, stay, resist breaking3)а) содержать в себе, вмещатьThis box holds a pound of candy. — В этой коробке находится один фунт конфет.
This jug holds two pints. — Этот кувшин вмещает две пинты.
This room holds a hundred people. — Эта комната вмещает сто человек.
Syn:б) держать, хранить4) владеть, иметь; быть (официальным) владельцем, обладателем, держателем ( акций)to hold shares / stock — быть держателем акций, акционерного капитала
5) занимать (пост, должность); иметь (звание, ранг)The Social Democrats held office then. — В правительстве в то время были социал-демократы.
to hold a rank — иметь звание, чин
6) воен. удерживать, защищатьThe bridge was held for some time. — Некоторое время они удерживали мост.
Syn:7) удерживать ( рекорд)He holds the record for the 100-metre dash. — Он является рекордсменом на 100-метровой дистанции.
8)а) сохранять, удерживать (в каком-л. состоянии)She found herself held by his eyes. — Она обнаружила, что его глаза прикованы к ней.
- hold it!- hold the stageI was only too glad, however, to see that their appetites held. — Однако я был только рад, что у них по-прежнему хороший аппетит.
The frost still held. — По-прежнему стояли морозы.
Our bet holds true. — Наше соглашение остаётся в силе.
If the weather holds, we'll both take a trip. — Если погода продержится, мы вдвоём совершим поездку.
Syn:9) собирать, созывать, проводить (собрание, совещание, ассамблею)10) отмечать, праздновать (что-л.)11) поддерживать (связь, контакты), поддерживать (компанию, беседу)12)а) сдерживать, удерживать; прекращать, останавливатьHold everything! — Подожди!, Ничего не предпринимай!
б) сдерживаться, удерживаться; воздерживатьсяShe could not hold from saying this. — Она не могла удержаться, чтобы не сказать это.
Syn:13) хранить, удерживать ( в памяти)Syn:14) полагать, считать; рассматривать; придерживаться (доктрины, мнения, взгляда)to hold smb. responsible — считать кого-л. ответственным
I hold that the details are altogether unhistorical. — Я считаю, что эти детали абсолютно неисторичны.
He held the lives of other men as cheap as his own. — Он оценивал жизнь других так же низко, как и свою.
Syn:15) питать (какие-л.) чувства (к кому-л.)to hold smb. in esteem — уважать кого-л.
to hold smb. in contempt — презирать кого-л.
16) (официально) утверждать, устанавливать, решать ( о суде)17)а) держать (в каком-л. положении)She held her head as proudly as ever. — Она, как и прежде, ходила с гордо поднятой головой.
She held her face averted. — Она так и не повернула головы.
Hold yourself still for a moment while I take your photograph. — Не двигайся минутку, пока я тебя сфотографирую.
б) ( hold oneself) держаться, вести себяShe held herself like a queen. — Она держалась, как королева.
Syn:18) эк. придерживать, не продавать ( товар)19) амер.; нарк. иметь наркотики на продажуHe was holding, just as Red had said. — Как и говорил Ред, у него хранились наркотики.
20) зачать ( о самке животного)21) держать в тюрьме, держать под стражей22) спорт. быть, находиться в клинче ( в боксе)23) ( hold to)а) держаться, придерживаться ( мнения)Whatever your argument, I shall hold to my decision. — Что бы ты там не говорил, я не изменю своего решения.
б) настаиватьto hold smb. to his promise — настаивать на выполнении кем-л. своего обещания
24) ( hold against) обвинятьI don't hold it against Jim that he has won every year, but some of the other competitors might. — Я-то не злюсь, что Джим каждый год выигрывает, но других участников соревнований это может раздражать.
We will not hold your past blunders against you. — Мы не будем принимать во внимание твои предыдущие ошибки.
25)There was no anchor, none, to hold by. (Tennyson) — Не было никакой надежды, за которую можно было бы ухватиться.
б) ( hold with) соглашаться; держаться одинаковых взглядов; одобрятьI don't hold with some of the strange ideas that you believe in. — Я не согласен со странными представлениями, в которые ты веришь.
26) (hold smth. over smb.) шантажировать кого-л., манипулировать кем-л. при помощи чего-л.He held the Will over her like a threat. — Своим завещанием он держал её на коротком поводке.
•- hold aside- hold back
- hold down
- hold forth
- hold in
- hold off
- hold on
- hold out
- hold over
- hold together
- hold up
- hold sway••hold hard! — стой!; подожди!
to hold it against smb. — иметь претензии к кому-л., иметь что-л. против кого-л.
to hold cheap — не дорожить, ни в грош не ставить
to hold one's tongue — молчать, держать язык за зубами, прикусить язык
- hold water- hold one's sides with laughter 2. сущ.1) схватывание, захват; сжатие; удержаниеto keep hold of smth. — держать
to take / get / grab / catch / seize / lay hold of smth. — схватить что-л., ухватиться за что-л.
to let go / lose one's hold of smth. — выпустить что-л. из рук
Take a firm hold of this line. — Твёрдо придерживайся этой линии.
Syn:2) рукоятка, ручка; захват, ушко; опораThe mountain climber couldn't find a hold to climb any higher. — Альпинист не мог найти опору, чтобы подниматься дальше.
Syn:handle, knob, strap, grasp, hilt, shaft, foothold, toehold, handhold, stand, anchorage, advantage, leverage, purchase3)а) гнездо, паз; крепёжная детальб) вместилище, хранилище4)а) власть; влияние (на кого-л. / на что-л.)They refused to relinquish their hold over this area. — Они отказались уступить свою власть в этом регионе.
firm / strong hold (up)on / over smb. — большое влияние на кого-л.
Her brother has always had a strong hold over her. — Её брат всегда имел на неё большое влияние.
Syn:б) владение, обладаниеto get hold of oneself — владеть собой, держать себя в руках
Legal documents give the present owner a legitimate hold on the property. — Юридические документы дают нынешнему владельцу законное право владения имуществом.
•Syn:influence, controlling force, control, authority, sway, domination, dominance, mastery, rule, command, power, ascendancy, bond, attachment, possession, ownership5) схватывание, пониманиеto get hold of exactly what is happening — точно понять, что происходит
6) спорт. клинч, захват (в борьбе, боксе, дзю-до)No holds (are) barred. — Все захваты разрешены.
7)а) тюремная камера, тюрьмаб) уст. заключение в тюрьму, лишение свободыSyn:8)а) убежище, укрытие; берлога, нораб) уст. крепостьSyn:9)а) отсрочка, задержкаto put smb. on hold — заставить кого-л. ждать ( особенно на телефоне)
Syn:б) задержка ( запуска ракеты) в последний момент перед стартомв) муз. фермата••II [həuld] сущ.; мор. -
19 roll
1. n рулонswiveling roll — рулон, установленный на поворотной стойке
expiring roll — подлежащий замене рулон; сработанный рулон
2. n клубок3. n свиток4. n воен. скатка5. n катышек, катыш6. n валик7. n валик пишущей машинкиtape-feed roll — лентопротяжный ролик; лентопротяжный валик
overhang roll — выносной вал каландра; консольный валок
dancer roll loop — петля, образуемая плавающим валиком
8. n булочка9. n разг. булочник, пекарь10. n рулет11. n список; реестр; ведомость12. n воен. именной список личного составаassessment roll — список лиц и имуществ, облагаемых налогом
13. n юр. официальный список адвокатовto strike from the roll — вычеркнуть из списка; лишить адвокатских прав
14. n шотл. юр. список дел, назначенных к слушанию15. n протокол16. n ист. судебный архив на Парк-Лейн17. n вращение, катание18. n крен19. n качание, колыхание20. n походка вразвалку21. n раскатthe distant roll of thunder — отдалённый раскат бой барабана; барабанная дробь
22. n волнистая поверхность23. n рукописная книга24. n пачка денег25. n амер. жарг. деньгиbig roll — большой куш; куча денег
26. n спорт. кувырок27. n спорт. бросок, переворотback flip, stomach roll — переворот назад, с перекатом на грудь
28. n спорт. тех. валок; вал, барабан, цилиндр, ролик, каток29. n спорт. архит. завиток ионической капители30. n спорт. горн. неровности в кровле угольного пластаprofiling roll — профильный валок; профильный вал
31. n спорт. геол. антиклиналь32. n спорт. ав. бочка, двойной переворот через крыло33. n спорт. мягкая папка34. v катить35. v катиться36. v вертеть, вращать37. v вертеться, вращаться38. v катать39. v кататься40. v свёртывать, сворачивать, скатыватьto roll up — закатывать ; скатывать, свёртывать
roll up — скатывать, свёртывать
41. v завёртывать, заворачивать42. v качать, колыхать43. v качаться, колыхаться; волноваться44. v крениться45. v мор. испытывать бортовую качку46. v ходить покачиваясь или вразвалку47. v плавно течь, катить свои волны; струиться48. v клубитьсябыть холмистым, неровным
49. v греметь, грохотать50. v произносить раскатисто, громко51. v звучать52. v выбивать дробь53. v раскатывать54. v полигр. накатывать55. v амер. продвигаться, двигаться вперёд56. v амер. сл. грабить57. v амер. сл. совершать уличное ограбление58. v амер. сл. прикатывать, укатывать59. v амер. сл. трамбовать катком60. v амер. сл. прокатывать; вальцевать, плющить61. v амер. сл. преим. тлв. кино, запускать; готовить к действиюСинонимический ряд:1. crash (noun) crash; peal; roar; rumble; thunderclap2. cylinder (noun) barrel; cylinder; drum; reel; roller; spindle; spool; trundle; tube3. document (noun) catalog; catalogue; document; inventory; list; register; roll call; schedule; scroll4. roster (noun) muster; muster roll; roster5. throw (noun) throw; toss6. boom (verb) boom; growl; grumble; rumble7. coil (verb) coil; curl; twirl; wind8. flow (verb) flow; glide; sail9. furl (verb) furl10. invest (verb) cover; drape; enfold; enswathe; envelop; enwrap; invest; swaddle; swathe; wrap; wrap up11. pitch (verb) cant; lurch; pitch; seesaw; tilt; yaw12. ponder (verb) deliberate; meditate; mull over; muse; ponder; ruminate; turn over13. pour (verb) gush; pour; sluice; stream; surge14. turn (verb) bowl; circle; circumduct; gyrate; gyre; revolve; rotate; spin; turn; wheel; whirl15. wallow (verb) bask; indulge; luxuriate; revel; rollick; wallow; welter16. wander (verb) bat; circumambulate; drift; gad; gallivant; maunder; meander; mooch; ramble; range; roam; rove; straggle; stray; traipse; vagabond; vagabondize; wander17. wave (verb) billow; heave; rock; sway; swing; toss; undulate; wave -
20 Historical Portugal
Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims inPortugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and theChurch (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.
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