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  • 1 wealthy

    adjective (having much money and/or many possessions; rich: She is a wealthy young widow.) rico
    wealthy adj adinerado / rico
    tr['welɵɪ]
    1 rico,-a, adinerado,-a, acaudalado,-a
    wealthy ['wɛlɵi] adj, wealthier ; - est : rico, acaudalado, adinerado
    adj.
    adinerado, -a adj.
    caudaloso, -a adj.
    rico, -a adj.
    sobrado, -a adj.
    sobrante adj.
    valioso, -a adj.

    I 'welθi
    adjective -thier, -thiest <person/family> adinerado, acaudalado, rico; <nation/area> rico

    II

    the wealthy — los ricos, la gente adinerada

    ['welθɪ]
    1.
    ADJ
    (compar wealthier) (superl wealthiest) rico, acaudalado
    2.
    NPL
    * * *

    I ['welθi]
    adjective -thier, -thiest <person/family> adinerado, acaudalado, rico; <nation/area> rico

    II

    the wealthy — los ricos, la gente adinerada

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  • 2 uptown

    up·town
    [AM ʌpˈtaʊn]
    AM
    I. adj inv (in north of city) im Norden nach n; (in residential area) in den [nördlichen] Wohngebieten nach n; (with affluent connotations) im Villenviertel nach n, im Nobelviertel nach n
    \uptown boy/girl Junge m/Mädchen nt aus den besseren Kreisen
    in \uptown Manhattan im nördlichen, vornehmen Teil Manhattans
    II. adv inv (in residential area) in den [nördlichen] Wohngebieten; (with affluent connotations) im Villenviertel [o Nobelviertel]; (to residential area) in die [nördlichen] Wohngebiete; (to wealthy area) ins Villenviertel
    we could walk \uptown or we could take the train wir können in die Nordstadt laufen oder mit dem Zug fahren
    I can get lunch in Chinatown for half of what it costs \uptown in Chinatown kostet ein Mittagessen nur halb so viel wie in den teuren Vierteln
    III. n (residential area) Wohngebiet nt, Wohnviertel nt; (wealthy area) Villenviertel nt
    * * *
    ['ʌptaʊn] (US)
    1. adj
    (= in Northern part of town) im Norden (der Stadt); (= in residential area) im Villenviertel; person anspruchsvoll; bar, club, theatre, store vornehm
    2. adv
    im Norden der Stadt; im Villenviertel; (with movement) in den Norden der Stadt; ins Villenviertel
    3. n
    Villenviertel nt
    * * *
    uptown US
    A adv in den Wohnvierteln, in die Wohnviertel
    B adj
    1. in den Wohnvierteln (gelegen oder lebend):
    in uptown Los Angeles in den Außenbezirken von Los Angeles
    2. in oder durch die Wohnviertel (fahrend etc)
    C s Wohnviertel pl, Außenbezirke pl

    English-german dictionary > uptown

  • 3 uptown

    up·town [ʌpʼtaʊn]
    (Am) adj
    inv ( in north of city) im Norden nach n, ( in residential area) in den [nördlichen] Wohngebieten nach n, ( with affluent connotations) im Villenviertel nach n, im Nobelviertel nach n;
    \uptown boy/ girl Junge m /Mädchen nt aus den besseren Kreisen;
    in \uptown Manhattan im nördlichen, vornehmen Teil Manhattans adv
    inv ( in residential area) in den [nördlichen] Wohngebieten;
    ( with affluent connotations) im Villenviertel [o Nobelviertel]; ( to residential area) in die [nördlichen] Wohngebiete;
    ( to wealthy area) ins Villenviertel;
    we could walk \uptown or we could take the train wir können in die Nordstadt laufen oder mit dem Zug fahren;
    I can get lunch in Chinatown for half of what it costs \uptown in Chinatown kostet ein Mittagessen nur halb so viel wie in den teuren Vierteln n
    ( residential area) Wohngebiet nt, Wohnviertel nt; ( wealthy area) Villenviertel nt

    English-German students dictionary > uptown

  • 4 society

    plural - societies; noun
    1) (mankind considered as a whole: He was a danger to society.) samfund
    2) (a particular group or part of mankind considered as a whole: middle-class society; modern western societies.) samfund; -samfund
    3) (an association or club: a model railway society.) forening; klub
    4) (the class of people who are wealthy, fashionable or of high rank in any area: high society.) de fine kredse; high society
    5) (company or companionship: I enjoy the society of young people.) selskab
    * * *
    plural - societies; noun
    1) (mankind considered as a whole: He was a danger to society.) samfund
    2) (a particular group or part of mankind considered as a whole: middle-class society; modern western societies.) samfund; -samfund
    3) (an association or club: a model railway society.) forening; klub
    4) (the class of people who are wealthy, fashionable or of high rank in any area: high society.) de fine kredse; high society
    5) (company or companionship: I enjoy the society of young people.) selskab

    English-Danish dictionary > society

  • 5 underprivileged

    1. прил.
    1) эк. пользующийся меньшими правами
    Ant:
    2) гос. упр., соц. непривилегированный*, малоимущий (не имеющий достаточных средств к существованию, живущий за чертой бедности; выражение соответствует требованию политической корректности)
    Ant:
    2. сущ.
    гос. упр. непривилегированные*, малоимущие, беднейшая часть населения ( с определенным артиклем)
    See:

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > underprivileged

  • 6 poor

    puə
    1. adjective
    1) (having little money or property: She is too poor to buy clothes for the children; the poor nations of the world.) pobre
    2) (not good; of bad quality: His work is very poor; a poor effort.) malo; escaso
    3) (deserving pity: Poor fellow!) pobre
    - poorly
    2. adjective
    (ill: He is very poorly.) pachucho, malo, indispuesto
    poor adj pobre
    tr[pʊəSMALLr/SMALL]
    1 (person, family, country) pobre
    2 (inadequate) pobre, escaso,-a; (bad quality) malo,-a; (inferior) inferior
    you poor thing! ¡pobrecito!
    poor ['pʊr, 'por] adj
    1) : pobre
    poor people: los pobres
    2) scanty: pobre, escaso
    poor attendance: baja asistencia
    3) unfortunate: pobre
    poor thing!: ¡pobrecito!
    4) bad: malo
    to be in poor health: estar mal de salud
    adj.
    aporreado, -a adj.
    arrancado, -a adj.
    arrastrado, -a adj.
    descamisado, -a adj.
    malo, -a adj.
    mezquino, -a adj.
    necesitado, -a adj.
    pobre adj.
    pobrete adj.

    I pɔːr, pɔːr, pʊə(r)
    adjective -er, -est
    1) ( not wealthy) pobre
    2) (unsatisfactory, bad) < harvest> pobre, escaso; <diet/quality> malo; < imitation> burdo

    to be in very poor health — estar* muy delicado or muy mal de salud

    3) ( unfortunate) (before n) pobre

    II
    [pʊǝ(r)]
    1. ADJ
    (compar poorer) (superl poorest)
    1) (=not rich) [person, family, country] pobre

    poor peoplegente f pobre, personas fpl pobres

    pewter was the poor man's silver — el peltre era la plata de los pobres

    they thought that cinema was a or the poor relation of theatre — pensaban que el cine era el pariente pobre del teatro

    to be the poorer (for sth), the nation is the poorer for her death — la nación ha sufrido una gran pérdida con su muerte

    it left me £5 the poorer — me dejó con 5 libras de menos

    - be as poor as a church mouse
    2) (=inferior, bad) [goods, service] malo, de mala calidad

    the wine was poorel vino era malo or de mala calidad

    to be a poor imitation of sth — ser una burda or pobre imitación de algo

    his decision shows poor judgmentsu decisión denota poco juicio

    to have a poor opinion of sb — tener un concepto poco favorable de algn

    to come a poor second (to sth/sb), he came a poor second in the final race — quedó el segundo en la carrera final, a bastante distancia del primero

    3) (=deficient) [memory] malo; [soil] pobre, estéril; [harvest] pobre, escaso

    poor — (Scol) (as mark) deficiente

    soils that are poor in zinc — suelos que son pobres en zinc or que tienen bajo contenido en zinc

    4) (=untalented)

    to be poor at maths — no ser muy bueno en matemáticas

    5) (=unfortunate) pobre

    poor little thing! — ¡pobrecito!, ¡pobre criaturita!

    poor (old) you!, you poor (old) thing! — ¡pobrecito!

    he's very ill, poor chap — está grave el pobre

    devil 1., 2)
    2.
    NPL

    the poor — los pobres

    the rural/urban poor — los pobres de las zonas rurales/urbanas

    3.
    CPD

    poor box Ncepillo m de las limosnas

    poor law N — (Hist) ley f de asistencia pública

    poor white N(US) persona pobre de raza blanca

    relief 1., 4) POOR
    Position of "pobre"
    You should generally put p obre {after} the noun when you mean poor in the sense of "not rich" and {before} the noun in the sense of "unfortunate":
    It's a poor area Es una región pobre
    The poor boy was trembling El pobre chico estaba temblando For further uses and examples, see main entry
    * * *

    I [pɔːr, pɔːr, pʊə(r)]
    adjective -er, -est
    1) ( not wealthy) pobre
    2) (unsatisfactory, bad) < harvest> pobre, escaso; <diet/quality> malo; < imitation> burdo

    to be in very poor health — estar* muy delicado or muy mal de salud

    3) ( unfortunate) (before n) pobre

    II

    English-spanish dictionary > poor

  • 7 rich

    1. n собир. богатые
    2. a богатый
    3. a ценный, дорогой, роскошный; драгоценный
    4. a изобилующий, богатый
    5. a щедро одарённый
    6. a широкий
    7. a тучный, плодородный, жирный; богатый
    8. a обильный
    9. a питательный; жирный; сдобный; сочный
    10. a очень хороший, красивый, великолепный
    11. a разг. ценный, стоящий
    12. a неисчерпаемый, глубокий
    13. a пряный, сильный
    14. a густой, интенсивный, яркий
    15. a низкий, глубокий, мощный; мягкий
    16. a полный, точный
    17. a разг. увлекательный; забавный; смешной
    18. a разг. абсурдный
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. deep (adj.) bright; deep; gay; strong; vivid
    2. expensive (adj.) costly; elegant; estimable; expensive; high-priced; valuable; valued
    3. expressive (adj.) eloquent; expressive; facund; meaningful; pregnant; sententious; significant
    4. fertile (adj.) abounding; abundant; ample; bounteous; bountiful; childing; fecund; fertile; fruitful; plenteous; plentiful; productive; proliferant; prolific; spawning
    5. heavy (adj.) heavy
    6. laughable (adj.) absurd; farcical; laughable; ludicrous; preposterous; ridiculous
    7. lush (adj.) lavish; lush; luxuriant; luxurious; palatial; plush; splendid; sumptuous
    8. ornate (adj.) baroque; flamboyant; florid; luscious; ornate; rococo
    9. sonorous (adj.) full; harmonious; mellow; pear-shaped; resonant; sonorous; sweet
    10. wealthy (adj.) affluent; flush; moneyed; opulent; prosperous; wealthy; well-to-do
    Антонимический ряд:
    barren; cheap; depleted; destitute; drab; dull; flat; impoverished; indigent; mendicant; noisome; penniless; plain; poor

    English-Russian base dictionary > rich

  • 8 Blanchard, Helen Augusta

    [br]
    b. 25 October 1840 Portland, Maine, USA
    d. 1922 USA
    [br]
    American inventor who made improvements in the sewing machine.
    [br]
    Blanchard was the daughter of a wealthy ship owner. She was said to have had inventive talents but seems to have had no technical training. She patented nothing until she was over 30, although that may have been due to shortage of funds. Inheriting the family wealth after the death of her father brought her talents out into the open. She moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and made and patented a number of mechanical devices to improve the sewing machine: these included the "over seaming" machine, a crochet attachment and methods of making knitwear. In 1881, with an unmarried sister, she founded the Blanchard Overseam Machine Company to exploit her sewing machine inventions. Her company seems to have prospered, for in 1891 she was said to own "great estates", a factory and many patent rights, the returns from which made her a wealthy woman. Patents for sewing machine improvements and attachments continued to flow until 1915. She suffered a stroke in 1916, and died six years later; no will was ever probated, so the fate of her wealth can only be surmised.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    A.Stanley, 1993, Mothers and Daughters of Invention, Meruchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, pp. 518–21.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Blanchard, Helen Augusta

  • 9 Stephenson, George

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

    Biographical history of technology > Stephenson, George

  • 10 rest

    I
    1. rest noun
    1) (a (usually short) period of not working etc after, or between periods of, effort; (a period of) freedom from worries etc: Digging the garden is hard work - let's stop for a rest; Let's have/take a rest; I need a rest from all these problems - I'm going to take a week's holiday.) descanso, reposo
    2) (sleep: He needs a good night's rest.) descanso, sueño
    3) (something which holds or supports: a book-rest; a headrest on a car seat.) apoyo, soporte
    4) (a state of not moving: The machine is at rest.) en reposo

    2. verb
    1) (to (allow to) stop working etc in order to get new strength or energy: We've been walking for four hours - let's stop and rest; Stop reading for a minute and rest your eyes; Let's rest our legs.) descansar, reposar
    2) (to sleep; to lie or sit quietly in order to get new strength or energy, or because one is tired: Mother is resting at the moment.) descansar, reposar(se)
    3) (to (make or allow to) lean, lie, sit, remain etc on or against something: Her head rested on his shoulder; He rested his hand on her arm; Her gaze rested on the jewels.) descansar sobre, apoyar(se)
    4) (to relax, be calm etc: I will never rest until I know the murderer has been caught.) relajarse, estar tranquilo
    5) (to (allow to) depend on: Our hopes now rest on him, since all else has failed.) depender de
    6) ((with with) (of a duty etc) to belong to: The choice rests with you.) corresponder
    - restfully
    - restfulness
    - restless
    - restlessly
    - restlessness
    - rest-room
    - at rest
    - come to rest
    - lay to rest
    - let the matter rest
    - rest assured
    - set someone's mind at rest

    II rest
    rest1 n
    1. descanso / reposo
    I'm tired, I need a rest estoy cansado, necesito un descanso
    2. los demás
    where are the rest of the players? ¿dónde están los demás jugadores?
    3. el resto
    rest2 vb
    1. descansar
    2. apoyar
    tr[rest]
    1 quedar
    you may rest assured that... puede tener la seguridad de que...
    1 el resto
    Tom came, but the rest stayed at home vino Tom, pero los demás se quedaron en casa
    ————————
    tr[rest]
    1 (repose) descanso, reposo
    1 (relax) descansar
    2 (lean) apoyar
    1 (relax) descansar
    2 (be calm) quedarse tranquilo,-a
    3 (depend) depender (on, de)
    1 (lean) apoyar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    at rest en reposo
    give it a rest! ¡déjalo ya!, ¡basta ya!
    Rest in peace Descanse en paz
    to lay to rest enterrar
    to set somebody's mind at rest tranquilizar a alguien
    rest cure cura de reposo
    rest room SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL servicios nombre masculino plural
    rest home (for the ill) casa de reposo 2 (for the elderly) asilo
    rest ['rɛst] vi
    1) repose: reposar, descansar
    2) relax: quedarse tranquilo
    3) stop: pararse, detenerse
    4) depend: basarse (en), descansar (sobre), depender (de)
    the decision rests with her: la decisión pesa sobre ella
    5)
    to rest on : apoyarse en, descansar sobre
    to rest on one's arm: apoyarse en el brazo
    rest vt
    1) relax: descansar
    2) support: apoyar
    3)
    to rest one's eyes on : fijar la mirada en
    rest n
    1) relaxation, repose: reposo m, descanso m
    2) support: soporte m, apoyo m
    3) : silencio m (en música)
    4) remainder: resto m
    5)
    to come to rest : pararse
    n.
    descanso s.m.
    espera s.f.
    feria s.f.
    huelga s.f.
    parada s.f.
    pausa s.f.
    paz s.f.
    poso s.m.
    reposo s.m.
    restante s.m.
    resto s.m.
    silencio s.m.
    v.
    apoyarse v.
    descansar v.
    quedar v.
    reposar v.
    sestear v.
    sosegar v.
    rest
    I
    1) noun
    2)
    a) c ( break) descanso m

    rest FROM something: I need a rest from cooking/work necesito descansar de la cocina/de mi trabajo; to give something a rest (colloq) dejar de hacer algo; give it a rest! — basta ya!, cambia de disco! (fam)

    b) u ( relaxation) descanso m, reposo m

    try to get some/a good night's rest — trata de descansar un poco/de dormir bien esta noche

    to lay somebody to rest — (euph) enterrar* or (frml) dar* sepultura a alguien

    to lay something to rest — enterrar* algo; (before n) <day, period> de descanso

    3) u ( motionlessness) reposo m

    to come to rest — detenerse*

    4) c ( support) apoyo m
    5) c ( Mus) silencio m
    6) ( remainder)

    the rest: the rest of the money el resto del dinero, el dinero restante; the rest of them have finished los demás han terminado; the rest of the children los demás niños, los otros niños; and all the rest of it — y todo eso, etcétera, etcétera


    II
    1.
    1)
    a) ( relax) descansar

    to rest easy — estar* tranquilo

    b) ( lie buried) (liter) descansar (liter)
    2)

    to rest ON something: his head rested on my shoulder tenía la cabeza recostada en or apoyada sobre mi hombro; the structure rests on eight massive pillars — la estructura descansa sobre ocho columnas gigantescas

    b) (be based, depend)

    to rest ON something\<\<argument/theory\>\> estar* basado or basarse en algo, descansar sobre algo

    c) ( stop)

    to rest ON something/somebody — \<\<eyes/gaze\>\> detenerse* or (liter) posarse sobre algo/alguien

    3)
    a) ( remain)

    let the matter restmejor no decir (or hacer etc) nada más

    to rest WITH somebody\<\<responsibility\>\> recaer* sobre alguien

    c) ( Law)

    the prosecution/defense rests — ha terminado el alegato del fiscal/de la defensa


    2.
    vt
    1) ( relax) descansar

    I stopped for a while to rest my feet/eyes — paré un rato para descansar los pies/ojos; case I 5)

    2) ( place for support) apoyar

    she rested her elbows on the tableapoyó or puso los codos sobre la mesa

    Phrasal Verbs:

    I [rest]
    1. N
    1) (=repose) descanso m

    I need a rest — necesito descansar, me hace falta un descanso

    to be at rest — (=not moving) estar en reposo; euph (=dead) descansar

    to come to rest — [ball, vehicle, person] pararse, detenerse; [bird, insect, eyes, gaze] posarse

    day of rest — día m de descanso

    I need a rest from gardening — me hace falta descansar de la jardinería

    try to get some rest — intenta descansar

    to give sth a rest — dejar algo (por un tiempo)

    give it a rest! * — ¡déjalo ya!, ¡vale ya! *

    to have or take a rest — tomarse un descanso

    why don't you have or take a rest? — (=take a break) ¿por qué no te tomas un descanso?; (=lie down) ¿por qué no descansas un rato?

    to lay sb to rest — enterrar a algn

    to lay or put sth to rest — [+ theory] enterrar algo

    bed 3., change 1., 1), mind 1., 1), wicked
    2) (Mus) silencio m
    3) (=support) apoyo m, soporte m ; (Billiards) soporte m ; (Telec) horquilla f
    2. VT
    1) (=give rest to) descansar

    to rest o.s.descansar

    God rest his soul! — ¡Dios le acoja en su seno!

    2) (=support) apoyar (on en, sobre) ( against contra)
    3) (=settle)

    to rest one's eyes/ gaze on sth — posar la mirada en algo

    4) (Jur)

    to rest one's caseconcluir su alegato

    I rest my case — concluyo mi alegato; (fig) hum he dicho

    3. VI
    1) (=repose) descansar

    may he rest in peaceeuph que en paz descanse

    laurel
    2) (=lean, be supported) [person] apoyarse (on en); [roof, structure] estar sostenido (on por); (fig) [responsibility] pesar (on sobre)
    3) (=alight) [eyes, gaze] posarse
    4) (=depend, be based) [argument, case] basarse (on en); [sb's future] depender (on de)
    5) (=be, remain) quedar

    the decision rests with her, it rests with her to decide — la decisión la tiene que tomar ella, ella es la que tiene que decidir, la decisión es suya

    assure, easy 1., 2)
    6) (Theat)
    euph
    7) (Jur)

    the defence/prosecution rests — la defensa/el fiscal concluye su alegato

    4.
    CPD

    rest area N — (Aut) área f de descanso

    rest cure Ncura f de reposo

    rest day Ndía m de descanso

    rest home Nresidencia f de ancianos, asilo m (de ancianos)

    rest period Nperíodo m de descanso

    rest room N(US) servicios mpl, baño(s) m(pl) (LAm)

    rest stop N(=pause) parada f para descansar, parada f de descanso

    (Aut) = rest area
    II
    [rest]
    N

    the rest(=remainder) [of money, food, month] el resto; [of people, things] el resto, los/las demás

    I'm taking the rest of the week offme tomaré el resto or lo que queda de la semana libre

    you go home - I'll do the rest — tú vete a casa, yo hago lo demás or lo que queda

    I'll take half of the money - you keep the rest — yo me llevo la mitad del dinero, tú te quedas con el resto

    the rest of the boys — los otros chicos, los demás chicos

    the rest of them couldn't care lessa los demás or a los otros les trae sin cuidado

    what shall we give the rest of them? — ¿qué les daremos a los otros?

    the rest of the soldiers — los otros soldados, los demás soldados

    all the rest of the books — todos los demás libros, todos los otros libros

    it was just another grave like all the rest — no era más que otra tumba, como todas las demás or todas las otras

    and all the rest (of it) * — etcétera, etcétera *

    he was from a wealthy family, went to Eton, Oxford and all the rest of it — era de familia rica, estudió en Eton, Oxford etcétera, etcétera *

    only there did his age show, for the rest, he might have been under seventy — solo en eso se le notaba la edad, por lo demás, podía haber tenido menos de setenta años

    history
    * * *
    [rest]
    I
    1) noun
    2)
    a) c ( break) descanso m

    rest FROM something: I need a rest from cooking/work necesito descansar de la cocina/de mi trabajo; to give something a rest (colloq) dejar de hacer algo; give it a rest! — basta ya!, cambia de disco! (fam)

    b) u ( relaxation) descanso m, reposo m

    try to get some/a good night's rest — trata de descansar un poco/de dormir bien esta noche

    to lay somebody to rest — (euph) enterrar* or (frml) dar* sepultura a alguien

    to lay something to rest — enterrar* algo; (before n) <day, period> de descanso

    3) u ( motionlessness) reposo m

    to come to rest — detenerse*

    4) c ( support) apoyo m
    5) c ( Mus) silencio m
    6) ( remainder)

    the rest: the rest of the money el resto del dinero, el dinero restante; the rest of them have finished los demás han terminado; the rest of the children los demás niños, los otros niños; and all the rest of it — y todo eso, etcétera, etcétera


    II
    1.
    1)
    a) ( relax) descansar

    to rest easy — estar* tranquilo

    b) ( lie buried) (liter) descansar (liter)
    2)

    to rest ON something: his head rested on my shoulder tenía la cabeza recostada en or apoyada sobre mi hombro; the structure rests on eight massive pillars — la estructura descansa sobre ocho columnas gigantescas

    b) (be based, depend)

    to rest ON something\<\<argument/theory\>\> estar* basado or basarse en algo, descansar sobre algo

    c) ( stop)

    to rest ON something/somebody — \<\<eyes/gaze\>\> detenerse* or (liter) posarse sobre algo/alguien

    3)
    a) ( remain)

    let the matter restmejor no decir (or hacer etc) nada más

    to rest WITH somebody\<\<responsibility\>\> recaer* sobre alguien

    c) ( Law)

    the prosecution/defense rests — ha terminado el alegato del fiscal/de la defensa


    2.
    vt
    1) ( relax) descansar

    I stopped for a while to rest my feet/eyes — paré un rato para descansar los pies/ojos; case I 5)

    2) ( place for support) apoyar

    she rested her elbows on the tableapoyó or puso los codos sobre la mesa

    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > rest

  • 11 Historical Portugal

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

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  • 12 Estoril

       Composed of the towns of São Pedro, São João, Monte Estoril, and Estoril, and located about 32 kilometers (15 miles) west of Lisbon along the coast, Estoril forms the heart of a tourist region. Once described in tourist literature as the Sun Coast ( Costa do Sol), this coast—in order not to be confused with a region with a similar name in neighboring Spain (Costa del Sol)—has been renamed the "Lisbon Coast." Its origins go back to several developments in the late 19th century that encouraged the building of a resort area that would take advantage of the coast's fine climate and beaches from Carcav-elos to Cascais. Sporty King Carlos I (r. 1889-1908) and his court liked summering in Cascais (apparently the first tennis in Portugal was played here), then only a simple fishing village. There are medicinal spring waters in Estoril, and the inauguration (1889) of a new train line from Lisbon to Cascais provided a convenient way of bringing in visitors before the age of automobiles and superhighways.
       As a high-class resort town, Estoril was developed beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, due in part to the efforts of the entrepreneur Fausto de Figueiredo, whose memorial statue graces the now famous Casino Gardens. Soon Estoril possessed a gambling casino, restaurants, and several fine hotels.
       Estoril's beginnings as a small but popular international resort and watering spot were slow and difficult, however, and what Estoril became was determined in part by international economy and politics. The resort's backers and builders modeled Estoril to a degree on Nice, a much larger, older, and better-known resort in the French Riviera. The name "Estoril," in fact, which was not found on Portuguese maps before the 20th century, was a Portuguese corruption of the French word for a mountain range near Nice. Estoril hotel designs, such as that of reputedly the most luxurious hotel outside Lisbon, the Hotel Palácio-Estoril, looked to earlier hotel designs on the French Riviera.
       It was remarkable, too, that Estoril's debut as a resort area with full services (hotels, casino, beach, spa) and sports (golf, tennis, swimming) happened to coincide with the depth of the world Depression (1929-34) that seemed to threaten its future. Less expensive, with a more reliably mild year-round climate and closer to Great Britain and North America than the older French Riviera, the "Sun Coast" that featured Estoril had many attractions. The resort's initial prosperity was guaranteed when large numbers of middle-class and wealthy Spaniards migrated to the area after 1931, during the turbulent Spanish Republic and subsequent bloody Civil War (1936-39). World War II (when Portugal was neutral) and the early stages of the Cold War only enhanced the Sun Coast's resort reputation. After 1939, numbers of displaced and dethroned royalty from Europe came to Portugal to live in a sunny, largely tax-free climate. In the early 1950s, Estoril's casino became known to millions of readers and armchair travelers when it was featured in one of the early James Bond books by Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (1953). In the 1980s and 1990s, the Casino was expanded and rehabilitated, while the Hotel Palacio Estoril was given a face-lift along with a new railroad station and the addition of more elegant restaurants and shops. In 2003, in the Estoril Post Office building, a Museum of Exiles and Refugees of World War II was opened.

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  • 13 affluent

    ['æflʊənt]
    aggettivo [person, area] ricco; [ society] affluente, opulento
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    ['æfluənt]
    (wealthy: He is becoming more and more affluent.) benestante, ricco
    * * *
    affluent /ˈæflʊənt/
    A a.
    1 benestante; ricco; opulento: the affluent society, la società del benessere; la società opulenta
    B n.
    1 affluente; tributario
    2 (al pl.) the affluent, i benestanti; i ricchi
    affluence
    n. [u]
    1 abbondanza di mezzi; ricchezza; opulenza: He was used to living in affluence, era abituato a vivere nell'abbondanza
    2 abbondanza; ricchezza
    3 (arc.) afflusso; affluenza ( di un liquido)
    FALSI AMICI: nell'inglese attuale affluence non significa affluenza.
    * * *
    ['æflʊənt]
    aggettivo [person, area] ricco; [ society] affluente, opulento

    English-Italian dictionary > affluent

  • 14 Brindley, James

    SUBJECT AREA: Canals
    [br]
    b. 1716 Tunstead, Derbyshire, England
    d. 27 September 1772 Turnhurst, Staffordshire, England
    [br]
    English canal engineer.
    [br]
    Born in a remote area and with no material advantages, Brindley followed casual rural labouring occupations until 1733, when he became apprenticed to Abraham Bennett of Macclesfield, a wheelwright and millwright. Though lacking basic education in reading and writing, he demonstrated his ability, partly through his photographic memory, to solve practical problems. This established his reputation, and after Bennett's death in 1742 he set up his own business at Leek as a millwright. His skill led to an invitation to solve the problem of mine drainage at Wet Earth Colliery, Clifton, near Manchester. He tunnelled 600 ft (183 m) through rock to provide a leat for driving a water-powered pump.
    Following work done on a pump on Earl Gower's estate at Trentham, Brindley's name was suggested as the engineer for the proposed canal for which the Duke of Bridge water (Francis Egerton) had obtained an Act in 1759. The Earl and the Duke were brothers-in-law, and the agents for the two estates were, in turn, the Gilbert brothers. The canal, later known as the Bridgewater Canal, was to be constructed to carry coal from the Duke's mines at Worsley into Manchester. Brindley advised on the details of its construction and recommended that it be carried across the river Irwell at Barton by means of an aqueduct. His proposals were accepted, and under his supervision the canal was constructed on a single level and opened in 1761. Brindley had also surveyed for Earl Gower a canal from the Potteries to Liverpool to carry pottery for export, and the signal success of the Bridgewater Canal ensured that the Trent and Mersey Canal would also be built. These undertakings were the start of Brindley's career as a canal engineer, and it was largely from his concepts that the canal system of the Midlands developed, following the natural contours rather than making cuttings and constructing large embankments. His canals are thus winding navigations unlike the later straight waterways, which were much easier to traverse. He also adopted the 7 ft (2.13 m) wide lock as a ruling dimension for all engineering features. For cheapness, he formed his canal tunnels without a towpath, which led to the notorious practice of legging the boats through the tunnels.
    Brindley surveyed a large number of projects and such was his reputation that virtually every proposal was submitted to him for his opinion. Included among these projects were the Staffordshire and Worcestershire, the Rochdale, the Birmingham network, the Droitwich, the Coventry and the Oxford canals. Although he was nominally in charge of each contract, much of the work was carried out by his assistants while he rushed from one undertaking to another to ensure that his orders were being carried out. He was nearly 50 when he married Anne Henshall, whose brother was also a canal engineer. His fees and salaries had made him very wealthy. He died in 1772 from a chill sustained when carrying out a survey of the Caldon Canal.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    A.G.Banks and R.B.Schofield, 1968, Brindley at Wet Earth Colliery: An Engineering Study, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.
    S.E.Buckley, 1948, James Brindley, London: Harrap.
    JHB

    Biographical history of technology > Brindley, James

  • 15 Praed, William

    SUBJECT AREA: Canals
    [br]
    b. 24 June 1747 Trevethoe, Leland, St Ives, Cornwall, England
    d. 9 October 1833 Trevethoe, Leland, St Ives, Cornwall, England
    [br]
    English banker and Member of Parliament.
    [br]
    Born into a wealthy Cornish family, he was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was elected Member of Parliament for St Ives in 1774, but it was alleged that his father, who was a banker, had acted as agent for both his son and Drummond, the other candidate for the same party, in the course of which he advanced money to voters "on their notes payable with interest to the bank of Truro (Praed's bank)" but with the understanding that repayment would not be demanded from those who had voted for Praed and Drummond. Praed's election was therefore declared void on 8 May 1775. He was re-elected in 1780, by which time St Ives was virtually a Praed family monopoly. He served in successive Parliaments until 1806 and then represented Banbury until 1808. Meanwhile, in 1779 he had become a partner in his father's Truro bank, c. 1801 founded the London bank of Praed \& Co. at 189 Fleet Street.
    While in Parliament, he was instrumental in obtaining and carrying into effect the Bill for the Grand Junction Canal from Braunston to London. He was elected Chairman of the company formed for constructing the canal and proved an excellent choice, serving the company faithfully for nearly thirty years until his resignation in 1821. Upon his marriage to Elizabeth Tyringham in 1778 he made his home at Tyringham Hall in Buckinghamshire and so was very much in the Grand Junction Canal Company's area. London's Praed Street, in which Paddington Station stands, is named in his honour and the canal basin is at the rear of this street. His monument in Tyringham Church bears a relief illustrating a pair of lock gates and a canal boat.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Alan H.Faulkner, 1972, The Grand Junction Canal, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles. L.S.Presnell, 1956, Country Banking in the Industrial Revolution, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 295–6.
    G.C.Boase and W.P.Courtney, 1874, Biblio-theca Cornubiensis, Vol. II, London: Longmans, p. 524.
    JHB

    Biographical history of technology > Praed, William

  • 16 Vermuyden, Sir Cornelius

    SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering
    [br]
    b. c. 1590 St Maartensdijk, Zeeland, the Netherlands
    d. 4 February 1656 probably London, England
    [br]
    Dutch/British civil engineer responsible for many of the drainage and flood-protection schemes in low-lying areas of England in the seventeenth century.
    [br]
    At the beginning of the seventeenth century, several wealthy men in England joined forces as "adventurers" to put their money into land ventures. One such group was responsible for the draining of the Fens. The first need was to find engineers who were versed in the processes of land drainage, particularly when that land was at, or below, sea level. It was natural, therefore, to turn to the Netherlands to find these skilled men. Joachim Liens was one of the first of the Dutch engineers to go to England, and he started work on the Great Level; however, no real progress was made until 1621, when Cornelius Vermuyden was brought to England to assist in the work.
    Vermuyden had grown up in a district where he could see for himself the techniques of embanking and reclaiming land from the sea. He acquired a reputation of expertise in this field, and by 1621 his fame had spread to England. In that year the Thames had flooded and breached its banks near Havering and Dagenham in Essex. Vermuyden was commissioned to repair the breach and drain neighbouring marshland, with what he claimed as complete success. The Commissioners of Sewers for Essex disputed this claim and whthheld his fee, but King Charles I granted him a portion of the reclaimed land as compensation.
    In 1626 Vermuyden carried out his first scheme for drainage works as a consultant. This was the drainage of Hatfield Chase in South Yorkshire. Charles I was, in fact, Vermuyden's employer in the drainage of the Chase, and the work was undertaken as a means of raising additional rents for the Royal Exchequer. Vermuyden was himself an "adventurer" in the undertaking, putting capital into the venture and receiving the title to a considerable proportion of the drained lands. One of the important elements of his drainage designs was the principal of "washes", which were flat areas between the protective dykes and the rivers to carry flood waters, to prevent them spreading on to nearby land. Vermuyden faced bitter opposition from those whose livelihoods depended on the marshlands and who resorted to sabotage of the embankments and violence against his imported Dutch workmen to defend their rights. The work could not be completed until arbiters had ruled out on the respective rights of the parties involved. Disagreements and criticism of his engineering practices continued and he gave up his interest in Hatfield Chase. The Hatfield Chase undertaking was not a great success, although the land is now rich farmland around the river Don in Doncaster. However, the involved financial and land-ownership arrangements were the key to the granting of a knighthood to Cornelius Vermuyden in January 1628, and in 1630 he purchased 4,000 acres of low-lying land on Sedgemoor in Somerset.
    In 1629 Vermuyden embarked on his most important work, that of draining the Great Level in the fenlands of East Anglia. Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, was given charge of the work, with Vermuyden as Engineer; in this venture they were speculators and partners and were recompensed by a grant of land. The area which contains the Cambridgeshire tributaries of the Great Ouse were subject to severe and usually annual flooding. The works to contain the rivers in their flood period were important. Whilst the rivers were contained with the enclosed flood plain, the land beyond became highly sought-after because of the quality of the soil. The fourteen "adventurers" who eventually came into partnership with the Earl of Bedford and Vermuyden were the financiers of the scheme and also received land in accordance with their input into the scheme. In 1637 the work was claimed to be complete, but this was disputed, with Vermuyden defending himself against criticism in a pamphlet entitled Discourse Touching the Great Fennes (1638; 1642, London). In fact, much remained to be done, and after an interruption due to the Civil War the scheme was finished in 1652. Whilst the process of the Great Level works had closely involved the King, Oliver Cromwell was equally concerned over the success of the scheme. By 1655 Cornelius Vermuyden had ceased to have anything to do with the Great Level. At that stage he was asked to account for large sums granted to him to expedite the work but was unable to do so; most of his assets were seized to cover the deficiency, and from then on he subsided into obscurity and poverty.
    While Cornelius Vermuyden, as a Dutchman, was well versed in the drainage needs of his own country, he developed his skills as a hydraulic engineer in England and drained acres of derelict flooded land.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1628.
    Further Reading
    L.E.Harris, 1953, Vermuyden and the Fens, London: Cleaver Hume Press. J.Korthals-Altes, 1977, Sir Cornelius Vermuyden: The Lifework of a Great Anglo-
    Dutchman in Land-Reclamation and Drainage, New York: Alto Press.
    KM / LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Vermuyden, Sir Cornelius

  • 17 rich

    rɪtʃ
    1. прил.
    1) уст. могущественный, обладающий силой, властью;
    знатный Syn: powerful, mighty, exalted, noble, great
    2) а) богатый, состоятельный;
    богатый, роскошный Syn: wealthy, opulent;
    splendid, costly б) ценный, стоящий a rich suggestionценное предложение
    3) а) обильный, изобилующий;
    плодородный rich soil rich harvest Syn: abounding б) жирный;
    сдобный rich milk rich dish rich cream в) пряный г) сочный( о фруктах) д) тех. богатый, сверхбогатый( о топливно-воздушной смеси в двигателе внутреннего сгорания) ∙ Syn: plentiful, abundant, ample
    4) мягкий, низкий, глубокий( о тоне) ;
    густой, интенсивный, яркий( о цвете) ;
    сильный( о запахе) Syn: mellow;
    strong, deep, warm;
    fragrant
    5) разг. забавный( о событии, идее и т.д.) Now that's rich! ≈ Вот это забавно! Syn: entertaining, amusing;
    preposterous, outrageous
    2. сущ.
    1) мн. или коллект. богачи, богатые, имущие( с определенным артиклем)
    2) богатый человек, денежный мешок He is a new rich. ≈ Он нувориш. (the *) (собирательнле) богатые - the * and the poor богатые и бедные - new * нувориши - idle * богатые бездельники богатый - * person богатый человек - to grow * разбогатеть ценный, дорогой, роскошный;
    драгоценный - * gifts богатые дары - * dresses дорогие платья - * stones драгоценные камни - * reward ценная награда (in, with) изобилующий (чем-л.), богатый (чем-л.) - * in minerals богатый ископаемыми - an art gallery * in the paintings by the Dutch masters картинная галерея, в которой широко представлены полотна голландских мастеров - words * in a variety of senses слова с массой значений (in) щедро одаренный - * in the affection of his children горячо любимый своими детьми - a country * in traditions страна, богатая традициями широкий - * area of study широкая область исследования тучный, плодородный, жирный;
    богатый - * fields тучные поля - * gold-fields богатые золотые прииски обильный - * repast обильная трапеза - * harvest /crop/ богатый урожай - * foliage густая листва питательный;
    жирный;
    сдобный;
    сочный - * food жирная пища - * milk жирное молоко - * cake кекс с фруктами - * dough сдобное тесто - * fruit сочные фрукты очень хороший, красивый, великолепный - * landscape красивый /великолепный/ пейзаж( разговорное) ценный, стоящий - * suggestion ценное предложение неисчерпаемый, глубокий - * theme неисчерпаемая тема - * words полные глубокого смысла слова - * langauge богатый /сочный/ язык - * allusions многозначительные намеки изысканный - * wine вино с тонким букетом пряный, сильный (о запахе) - * perfume духи с крепким /стойким/ запахом густой, интенсивный, яркий (о цвете) - * red ярко-красный цвет - of * colouring яркой окраски (о звуке) низкий, глубокий, мощный;
    мягкий - * tones низкие тоны - * voice глубокий грудной голос полный, точный( о рифме) (разговорное) увлекательный;
    забавный;
    смешной - * incident забавное приключение - * scene смешная сцена - * joke остроумная шутка абсурдный - that's *! что за чушь! - that's a * idea это же курам на смех богато, роскошно вполне, полностью;
    с избытком rich богатый (in - чем-л.) ~ богатый ~ (the ~) pl собир. богачи, богатые ~ жирный;
    сдобный;
    rich milk жирное молоко;
    rich dish питательное блюдо;
    rich cream густые сливки ~ разг. забавный (о происшествии, мысли, предложении и т. п.) ;
    that's rich! вот это забавно! ~ мягкий, низкий, глубокий (о тоне) ;
    густой, интенсивный, яркий (о цвете) ~ обильный, изобилующий;
    плодородный;
    rich soil тучная почва;
    rich harvest богатый урожай ~ пряный;
    сильный (о запахе) ~ роскошный ~ сочный (о фруктах) ~ ценный;
    стоящий;
    a rich suggestion ценное предложение ~ ценный ~ жирный;
    сдобный;
    rich milk жирное молоко;
    rich dish питательное блюдо;
    rich cream густые сливки ~ жирный;
    сдобный;
    rich milk жирное молоко;
    rich dish питательное блюдо;
    rich cream густые сливки ~ обильный, изобилующий;
    плодородный;
    rich soil тучная почва;
    rich harvest богатый урожай ~ жирный;
    сдобный;
    rich milk жирное молоко;
    rich dish питательное блюдо;
    rich cream густые сливки ~ обильный, изобилующий;
    плодородный;
    rich soil тучная почва;
    rich harvest богатый урожай ~ ценный;
    стоящий;
    a rich suggestion ценное предложение ~ разг. забавный (о происшествии, мысли, предложении и т. п.) ;
    that's rich! вот это забавно!

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > rich

  • 18 interest

    сущ.
    сокр. Int
    1)
    а) общ. интерес, заинтересованность

    to be of interest to smb. — представлять интерес для кого-л.

    to hold interest — поддерживать [удерживать\] интерес

    Syn:
    concern, curiosity
    See:
    б) общ. увлечение, интересы

    community of interest — сообщество [группа\] по интересам, сообщество интересов

    2) общ. выгода, польза, преимущество, интерес

    to protect [defend, safeguard, guard\] smb.'s interests — защищать [отстаивать\] чьи-л. интересы

    in smb's interests — в чьих-л. интересах

    in (the) interest(s) of smb./smth. — в интересах кого-л./чего-л.

    We are acting in the best interest of our customers. — Мы действуем в наилучших интересах наших клиентов.

    Syn:
    advantage, benefit, good, profit
    See:
    3) общ., мн. круги (лица, объединенные общими деловыми или профессиональными интересами)

    moneyed interests — денежные [богатые, финансовые\] круги

    wealthy interests — состоятельные [богатые\] круги

    See:
    4)
    а) эк. доля, участие в собственности [прибыли\] (об участии во владении каким-л. имуществом или каким-л. предприятием; права собственности на какое-л. имущество или на часть в чем-л.)

    to buy [purchase, acquire\] a controlling interest — покупать [приобретать\] контрольный пакет акций [контрольную долю\]

    to sell a controlling interest — продавать контрольный пакет акций [контрольную долю\]

    to own an interest — иметь долю, владеть долей (напр. в бизнесе)

    half interest — половинная доля, половина

    She owned a half interest in the home. — Ей принадлежало право собственности на половину дома.

    30% interest — 30-процентная доля

    He holds a 30% interest in the gold mine. — Он владеет 30-процентной долей в золотой шахте.

    Syn:
    See:
    б) эк., юр. имущественное право (право лица владеть, пользоваться и распоряжаться каким-л. имуществом в пределах, установленных законом)

    to disclaim [renounce\] interest — отказаться от права (собственности)

    Interest may be a property right to land, but it's not a right to absolute ownership of land. — Имущественное право может быть правом собственности на землю, но оно не является абсолютным правом собственности на землю.

    See:
    5)
    а) фин., банк. процент, процентный доход (доход, получаемый с вложенного капитала и измеряемый как доля от его величины)

    interest on deposits — процент по депозитам [вкладам\]

    to bear [to yield, to carry, to produce\] interest — приносить процент [процентный доход\] ( о финансовом активе)

    The loan will carry interest of LIBOR plus 3.8 percent. — Заем принесет процент по ставке ЛИБОР плюс 3,8%.

    to invest at interest — вкладывать деньги [инвестировать\] под проценты

    The interest accrued to our account. — На нашем счету накопились проценты.

    This is a flexible account that allows you to accrue interest on your balance with limited check writing. — Это гибкий счет, который позволяет вам получать проценты на остаток средств при ограниченной выписке чеков.

    See:
    after-tax interest, daily interest, and interest, interest coupon, interest in possession trust, interest income, interest period, interest return, interest yield, interest spread, interest warrant, interest-bearing, interest-free, interest-only strip, interest-paying, accreted interest, accrued interest, accumulated interest, added interest, annual interest, any-interest-date call, area of interest fund, bearing interest, bearing no interest, bond interest, broken period interest, carried interest, cash flow interest coverage ratio, cash interest coverage ratio, deferred interest bond, draw interest, earn interest, field of interest fund, foreign interest payment security, income from interest, liquidity preference theory of interest, separate trading of registered interest and principal of securities
    б) фин., банк. (ссудный) процент (стоимость использования заемных денег; выражается в виде процентной доли от величины займа за определенный период)

    Banks create money and lend it at interest. — Банки создают деньги и ссужают их под процент.

    to pay [to pay out\] interests — платить [выплачивать\] проценты

    to calculate [to compute\] interest — вычислять [рассчитывать, подсчитывать\] проценты

    computation of interest, calculation of interest, interest calculation, interest computation — расчет процентов

    date from which interest is computed — дата, с которой начисляются [рассчитываются\] проценты

    interest payment, payment of interest — процентный платеж, процентная выплата, выплата процентов

    And, until you attain age 59½, sever employment, die or become disabled, the loans will continue to accrue interest. — И, до тех пор, пока вы не достигнете возраста 59,5 лет, прекратите работать, умрете или станете нетрудоспособным, по кредитам будут продолжать начисляться проценты.

    Under Late Payment Legislation, for business-to-business debts, you can recover interest at 4% above the base rate. — В соответствии с законодательством о просроченных платежах, для долговых операций между предприятиями вы можете взыскивать процент в размере базовой процентной ставки плюс 4%.

    See:
    в) фин., банк. = interest rate
    See:
    г) общ. избыток, излишек; навар ( о щедрой благодарности)

    to repay smb. with interest — отплатить кому-л. с лихвой

    She returned our favour with interest. — Она щедро отблагодарила нас за оказанную ей любезность.


    * * *
    interest; Int 1) процент: сумма, уплачиваемая должником кредитору за пользование деньгами последнего; стоимость использования денег; выражается в виде процентной ставки за определенный период, обычно год; 2) участие в капитале; капиталовложение; акция; титул собственности.
    * * *
    Проценты/участие (в капитале)
    . Цена, выплачиваемая за получение денежного кредита. Выражается в виде процентной ставки на определенный период времени и отражает курс обмена текущего потребления на будущее потребление. Также: доля в собственности/право собственности . интерес; вещные права; имущественные права; пай Инвестиционная деятельность .
    * * *
    выражение главного содержания отношения данного лица к имуществу, которое является объектом страхования, права на него или обязательству к нему
    -----
    Банки/Банковские операции
    процент, процентный доход
    см. - per cent

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > interest

  • 19 society

    plural - societies; noun
    1) (mankind considered as a whole: He was a danger to society.) sociedad
    2) (a particular group or part of mankind considered as a whole: middle-class society; modern western societies.) sociedad
    3) (an association or club: a model railway society.) asociación, sociedad
    4) (the class of people who are wealthy, fashionable or of high rank in any area: high society.) alta sociedad
    5) (company or companionship: I enjoy the society of young people.) compañía
    1. sociedad
    2. asociación / sociedad
    tr[sə'saɪətɪ]
    1 (community, people) sociedad nombre femenino
    2 (fashionable group, upper class) (alta) sociedad nombre femenino
    3 (organization, club) sociedad nombre femenino, asociación nombre femenino, club nombre masculino, círculo
    4 formal use (company) compañía
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to be a danger to society ser un peligro para la sociedad
    to be introduced into society ser presentado,-a en sociedad
    society wedding boda de sociedad
    society [sə'saɪət̬i] n, pl - eties
    1) companionship: compañía f
    2) : sociedad f
    a democratic society: una sociedad democrática
    high society: alta sociedad
    3) association: sociedad f, asociación f
    n.
    alta sociedad s.f.
    asociación s.f.
    ateneo s.m.
    entidad s.f.
    gremio s.m.
    sociedad s.f.
    sə'saɪəti
    noun (pl - ties)
    1)
    a) u c ( community) sociedad f
    b) u ( fashionable elite) (alta) sociedad f

    to enter societyentrar or ser* presentado en sociedad

    2) c (association, club) sociedad f

    a literary society — una sociedad literaria, un círculo literario

    [sǝ'saɪǝtɪ]
    1. N
    1) (=social community) sociedad f
    2) (=company) compañía f

    in the society of — en compañía de, acompañado por

    3) (=high society) alta sociedad f

    to go into society[girl] ponerse de largo

    4) (=club, organization) asociación f, sociedad f

    a drama societyuna asociación or sociedad de amigos del teatro

    learned societysociedad f científica, academia f

    2.
    CPD

    society column Necos mpl de sociedad, notas fpl sociales (LAm)

    society news NSINGnotas fpl de sociedad

    society party Nfiesta f de sociedad

    society wedding Nboda f de sociedad

    society woman Nmujer f conocida en la alta sociedad

    * * *
    [sə'saɪəti]
    noun (pl - ties)
    1)
    a) u c ( community) sociedad f
    b) u ( fashionable elite) (alta) sociedad f

    to enter societyentrar or ser* presentado en sociedad

    2) c (association, club) sociedad f

    a literary society — una sociedad literaria, un círculo literario

    English-spanish dictionary > society

  • 20 society

    plural - societies; noun
    1) (mankind considered as a whole: He was a danger to society.) samfunnet
    2) (a particular group or part of mankind considered as a whole: middle-class society; modern western societies.) samfunn
    3) (an association or club: a model railway society.) samfunn, forening
    4) (the class of people who are wealthy, fashionable or of high rank in any area: high society.) sosieteten, det gode selskap
    5) (company or companionship: I enjoy the society of young people.) selskap
    klubb
    --------
    laug
    --------
    samfunn
    --------
    samfunnsliv
    --------
    selskap
    subst. \/səˈsaɪətɪ\/
    1) samfunn(et)
    2) samfunn, selskap, sosietet, forening
    3) selskap, vennekrets, omgangskrets, krets, samvær
    4) ( botanikk) vekstsamfunn
    5) ( gammeldags) gruppe, selskap, skare, hop
    6) ( også high society) sosieteten
    admit someone to a society oppta noen som medlem i en forening
    avoid someone's society unngå noens selskap
    enter society ( gammeldags) debutere i selskapslivet
    fashionable society de høyere kretser, overklassen
    feminine society kvinnelig selskap
    fraternal society brorskap brodersamfunn
    go into society eller mix in society delta i selskapslivet
    high society sosieteten
    in polite society i dannet selskap, i dannede kretser
    law-abiding society ( jus) rettssamfunn
    literary society leseforening, litterære kretser
    move in polite society vanke i dannede kretser
    musical society musikkforening
    society gossip sosietetssladder

    English-Norwegian dictionary > society

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