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  • 41 П-259

    ПОДУМАТЬ ТОЛЬКО! (НЕТ,) ТЫ (вы) ТОЛЬКО ПОДУМАЙ (-те)! all coll (sent these forms only used as Interj or indep. clause fixed WO
    this is absolutely amazing, totally unexpected, hard to believe (sometimes said ironically, often accompanied by naming the cause of one's surprise)
    just think (imagine)!
    imagine (that (it))! (just) think of it! would (can) you believe it! fancy (look at) that! the very idea (of it)!
    Иван только горько усмехался про себя и размышлял о том, как все это глупо и странно получилось. Подумать только! Хотел предупредить всех об опасности, грозящей от неизвестного консультанта, собирался его изловить, а добился только того, что попал в какой-то таинственный кабинет... (Булгаков 9). Ivan merely grinned bitterly to himself, reflecting on how stupidly and strangely things had turned out Just think! He wanted to warn everyone of the danger from the unknown consultant and to catch him, but all he achieved was to be brought to this mysterious room. (9a).
    Кто вступал через эту арку? Войска Елизаветы Петровны? Этого я не видел, хотя эти сроки очень сжаты. Подумать только, я родился через семьдесят девять лет после смерти Наполеона! (Олеша 3). Who marched under that arch? The troops of Elizaveta Petrovna? That I didn't see, although these periods are very close together. Just imagine, I was born a mere seventy-nine years after the death of Napoleon! (3a).
    У Севки трое детей. Подумать только (Войнович 5). Sevka has three children. Imagine that (5a).
    У него и дом-то нашего сарая плоше, а он еще и флюгер на крышу поставил, подумать только - флюгер! (Соколов 1). His house is worse than our shed, but to top things off he put a windvane on his roof, just think of it-a windvane! (1a).
    Подумать только! Симонов, автор длинных, скучных, неряшливо написанных романов, не признавал в Зощенко прозаика (Войнович 1). Think of it' Si-monov, the author of long, boring, sloppily written novels, not recognizing Zoshchenko as a prose writer (1a)

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  • 42 С-532

    ПО СРАВНЕНИЮ с кем-чем В СРАВНЕНИИ PrepP these forms only Prep the resulting PrepP is adv
    when (a person, thing etc is) compared with (another person, thing etc): (as) compared with (to)
    in comparison with (to) (in limited contexts) by comparison
    (when comparing s.o. or sth. to someone or something else previously encountered) after... Должно быть, слова в старину читались медленнее и произносились значительнее. По сравнению с позднейшей убористой печатью, на странице помещалось мало знаков (Терц 3). In the old days people probably read much more slowly and put much greater meaning into words. Compared to the very close print of a later age, there were fewer letters to a page (3a).
    ...В эту минуту Наполеон казался ему столь маленьким, ничтожным человеком в сравнении с тем, что происходило теперь между его душой и этим высоким, бесконечным небом с бегущими по нбм облаками (Толстой 4)....At that moment Napoleon seemed to him such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was taking place between his soul and that lofty, infinite sky with the clouds sailing over it (4a).
    Нужно сказать, что все события, сопровождавшие выход предыдущих пьес Мольера, решительно померкли по сравнению с тем, что произошло немедленно после премьеры «Школы жен» (Булгаков 5). It must be said that, whatever incidents attended the presentation of Moliere's previous plays, they dimmed to insignificance in comparison with the things that transpired after the premiere of The School for Wives (5a).
    Тесть играл (в бильярд) лучше. Сказывалась многолетняя практика, а Игорь, по сравнению с Александром Ивановичем, был почти совсем новичок, хотя и подающий надежды (Ерофеев 3). His father-in-law was a better (billiard) player. He had many years of practice under his belt, and Igor, by comparison, was a novice, albeit a novice who showed promise (3a).
    (В общежитии) горячей воды... ванной или душа не было. Но всё-таки условия по сравнению с теми, которые мне пришлось испытать до тех пор, были вполне приличными (Войнович 1)....(In the hostel) there was...no hot water, no bath or shower. But after the conditions in which I had been living, these were entirely decent (1a).

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  • 43 вы только подумайте!

    • ПОДУМАТЬ ТОЛЬКО!; (НЕТ,) ТЫ <вы> ТОЛЬКО ПОДУМАЙ <- те>! all coll
    [sent; these forms only; used as Interj or indep. clause; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ this is absolutely amazing, totally unexpected, hard to believe (sometimes said ironically, often accompanied by naming the cause of one's surprise):
    - just think (imagine)!;
    - imagine (that <it>)!;
    - (just) think of it!;
    - would (can) you believe it!;
    - fancy (look at) that!;
    - the very idea (of it)!
         ♦ Иван только горько усмехался про себя и размышлял о том, как все это глупо и странно получилось. Подумать только! Хотел предупредить всех об опасности, грозящей от неизвестного консультанта, собирался его изловить, а добился только того, что попал в какой-то таинственный кабинет... (Булгаков 9). Ivan merely grinned bitterly to himself, reflecting on how stupidly and strangely things had turned out Just think! He wanted to warn everyone of the danger from the unknown consultant and to catch him, but all he achieved was to be brought to this mysterious room. (9a).
         ♦ Кто вступал через эту арку? Войска Елизаветы Петровны? Этого я не видел, хотя эти сроки очень сжаты. Подумать только, я родился через семьдесят девять лет после смерти Наполеона! (Олеша 3). Who marched under that arch? The troops of Elizaveta Petrovna? That I didn't see, although these periods are very close together. Just imagine, I was born a mere seventy-nine years after the death of Napoleon! (3a).
         ♦ У Севки трое детей. Подумать только (Войнович 5). Sevka has three children. Imagine that (5a).
         ♦ У него и дом-то нашего сарая плоше, а он еще и флюгер на крышу поставил, подумать только - флюгер! (Соколов 1). His house is worse than our shed, but to top things off he put a windvane on his roof, just think of it-а windvane! (1a).
         ♦ Подумать только! Симонов, автор длинных, скучных, неряшливо написанных романов, не признавал в Зощенко прозаика (Войнович 1). Think of it' Simonov, the author of long, boring, sloppily written novels, not recognizing Zoshchenko as a prose writer (1a)

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  • 44 нет, вы только подумайте!

    • ПОДУМАТЬ ТОЛЬКО!; (НЕТ,) ТЫ <вы> ТОЛЬКО ПОДУМАЙ <- те>! all coll
    [sent; these forms only; used as Interj or indep. clause; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ this is absolutely amazing, totally unexpected, hard to believe (sometimes said ironically, often accompanied by naming the cause of one's surprise):
    - just think (imagine)!;
    - imagine (that <it>)!;
    - (just) think of it!;
    - would (can) you believe it!;
    - fancy (look at) that!;
    - the very idea (of it)!
         ♦ Иван только горько усмехался про себя и размышлял о том, как все это глупо и странно получилось. Подумать только! Хотел предупредить всех об опасности, грозящей от неизвестного консультанта, собирался его изловить, а добился только того, что попал в какой-то таинственный кабинет... (Булгаков 9). Ivan merely grinned bitterly to himself, reflecting on how stupidly and strangely things had turned out Just think! He wanted to warn everyone of the danger from the unknown consultant and to catch him, but all he achieved was to be brought to this mysterious room. (9a).
         ♦ Кто вступал через эту арку? Войска Елизаветы Петровны? Этого я не видел, хотя эти сроки очень сжаты. Подумать только, я родился через семьдесят девять лет после смерти Наполеона! (Олеша 3). Who marched under that arch? The troops of Elizaveta Petrovna? That I didn't see, although these periods are very close together. Just imagine, I was born a mere seventy-nine years after the death of Napoleon! (3a).
         ♦ У Севки трое детей. Подумать только (Войнович 5). Sevka has three children. Imagine that (5a).
         ♦ У него и дом-то нашего сарая плоше, а он еще и флюгер на крышу поставил, подумать только - флюгер! (Соколов 1). His house is worse than our shed, but to top things off he put a windvane on his roof, just think of it-а windvane! (1a).
         ♦ Подумать только! Симонов, автор длинных, скучных, неряшливо написанных романов, не признавал в Зощенко прозаика (Войнович 1). Think of it' Simonov, the author of long, boring, sloppily written novels, not recognizing Zoshchenko as a prose writer (1a)

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  • 45 нет, ты только подумай!

    • ПОДУМАТЬ ТОЛЬКО!; (НЕТ,) ТЫ <вы> ТОЛЬКО ПОДУМАЙ <- те>! all coll
    [sent; these forms only; used as Interj or indep. clause; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ this is absolutely amazing, totally unexpected, hard to believe (sometimes said ironically, often accompanied by naming the cause of one's surprise):
    - just think (imagine)!;
    - imagine (that <it>)!;
    - (just) think of it!;
    - would (can) you believe it!;
    - fancy (look at) that!;
    - the very idea (of it)!
         ♦ Иван только горько усмехался про себя и размышлял о том, как все это глупо и странно получилось. Подумать только! Хотел предупредить всех об опасности, грозящей от неизвестного консультанта, собирался его изловить, а добился только того, что попал в какой-то таинственный кабинет... (Булгаков 9). Ivan merely grinned bitterly to himself, reflecting on how stupidly and strangely things had turned out Just think! He wanted to warn everyone of the danger from the unknown consultant and to catch him, but all he achieved was to be brought to this mysterious room. (9a).
         ♦ Кто вступал через эту арку? Войска Елизаветы Петровны? Этого я не видел, хотя эти сроки очень сжаты. Подумать только, я родился через семьдесят девять лет после смерти Наполеона! (Олеша 3). Who marched under that arch? The troops of Elizaveta Petrovna? That I didn't see, although these periods are very close together. Just imagine, I was born a mere seventy-nine years after the death of Napoleon! (3a).
         ♦ У Севки трое детей. Подумать только (Войнович 5). Sevka has three children. Imagine that (5a).
         ♦ У него и дом-то нашего сарая плоше, а он еще и флюгер на крышу поставил, подумать только - флюгер! (Соколов 1). His house is worse than our shed, but to top things off he put a windvane on his roof, just think of it-а windvane! (1a).
         ♦ Подумать только! Симонов, автор длинных, скучных, неряшливо написанных романов, не признавал в Зощенко прозаика (Войнович 1). Think of it' Simonov, the author of long, boring, sloppily written novels, not recognizing Zoshchenko as a prose writer (1a)

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  • 46 подумать только!

    • ПОДУМАТЬ ТОЛЬКО!; (НЕТ,) ТЫ <вы> ТОЛЬКО ПОДУМАЙ <- те>! all coll
    [sent; these forms only; used as Interj or indep. clause; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ this is absolutely amazing, totally unexpected, hard to believe (sometimes said ironically, often accompanied by naming the cause of one's surprise):
    - just think (imagine)!;
    - imagine (that <it>)!;
    - (just) think of it!;
    - would (can) you believe it!;
    - fancy (look at) that!;
    - the very idea (of it)!
         ♦ Иван только горько усмехался про себя и размышлял о том, как все это глупо и странно получилось. Подумать только! Хотел предупредить всех об опасности, грозящей от неизвестного консультанта, собирался его изловить, а добился только того, что попал в какой-то таинственный кабинет... (Булгаков 9). Ivan merely grinned bitterly to himself, reflecting on how stupidly and strangely things had turned out Just think! He wanted to warn everyone of the danger from the unknown consultant and to catch him, but all he achieved was to be brought to this mysterious room. (9a).
         ♦ Кто вступал через эту арку? Войска Елизаветы Петровны? Этого я не видел, хотя эти сроки очень сжаты. Подумать только, я родился через семьдесят девять лет после смерти Наполеона! (Олеша 3). Who marched under that arch? The troops of Elizaveta Petrovna? That I didn't see, although these periods are very close together. Just imagine, I was born a mere seventy-nine years after the death of Napoleon! (3a).
         ♦ У Севки трое детей. Подумать только (Войнович 5). Sevka has three children. Imagine that (5a).
         ♦ У него и дом-то нашего сарая плоше, а он еще и флюгер на крышу поставил, подумать только - флюгер! (Соколов 1). His house is worse than our shed, but to top things off he put a windvane on his roof, just think of it-а windvane! (1a).
         ♦ Подумать только! Симонов, автор длинных, скучных, неряшливо написанных романов, не признавал в Зощенко прозаика (Войнович 1). Think of it' Simonov, the author of long, boring, sloppily written novels, not recognizing Zoshchenko as a prose writer (1a)

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  • 47 ты только подумай!

    • ПОДУМАТЬ ТОЛЬКО!; (НЕТ,) ТЫ <вы> ТОЛЬКО ПОДУМАЙ <- те>! all coll
    [sent; these forms only; used as Interj or indep. clause; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ this is absolutely amazing, totally unexpected, hard to believe (sometimes said ironically, often accompanied by naming the cause of one's surprise):
    - just think (imagine)!;
    - imagine (that <it>)!;
    - (just) think of it!;
    - would (can) you believe it!;
    - fancy (look at) that!;
    - the very idea (of it)!
         ♦ Иван только горько усмехался про себя и размышлял о том, как все это глупо и странно получилось. Подумать только! Хотел предупредить всех об опасности, грозящей от неизвестного консультанта, собирался его изловить, а добился только того, что попал в какой-то таинственный кабинет... (Булгаков 9). Ivan merely grinned bitterly to himself, reflecting on how stupidly and strangely things had turned out Just think! He wanted to warn everyone of the danger from the unknown consultant and to catch him, but all he achieved was to be brought to this mysterious room. (9a).
         ♦ Кто вступал через эту арку? Войска Елизаветы Петровны? Этого я не видел, хотя эти сроки очень сжаты. Подумать только, я родился через семьдесят девять лет после смерти Наполеона! (Олеша 3). Who marched under that arch? The troops of Elizaveta Petrovna? That I didn't see, although these periods are very close together. Just imagine, I was born a mere seventy-nine years after the death of Napoleon! (3a).
         ♦ У Севки трое детей. Подумать только (Войнович 5). Sevka has three children. Imagine that (5a).
         ♦ У него и дом-то нашего сарая плоше, а он еще и флюгер на крышу поставил, подумать только - флюгер! (Соколов 1). His house is worse than our shed, but to top things off he put a windvane on his roof, just think of it-а windvane! (1a).
         ♦ Подумать только! Симонов, автор длинных, скучных, неряшливо написанных романов, не признавал в Зощенко прозаика (Войнович 1). Think of it' Simonov, the author of long, boring, sloppily written novels, not recognizing Zoshchenko as a prose writer (1a)

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  • 48 в сравнении

    • ПО СРАВНЕНИЮ с кем-чем; В СРАВНЕНИИ
    [PrepP; these forms only; Prep; the resulting PrepP is adv]
    =====
    ⇒ when (a person, thing etc is) compared with (another person, thing etc):
    - [in limited contexts] by comparison;
    - [when comparing s.o. or sth. to someone or something else previously encountered] after...
         ♦ Должно быть, слова в старину читались медленнее и произносились значительнее. По сравнению с позднейшей убористой печатью, на странице помещалось мало знаков (Терц 3). In the old days people probably read much more slowly and put much greater meaning into words. Compared to the very close print of a later age, there were fewer letters to a page (3a).
         ♦...В эту минуту Наполеон казался ему столь маленьким, ничтожным человеком в сравнении с тем, что происходило теперь между его душой и этим высоким, бесконечным небом с бегущими по нём облаками (Толстой 4)....At that moment Napoleon seemed to him such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was taking place between his soul and that lofty, infinite sky with the clouds sailing over it (4a).
         ♦ Нужно сказать, что все события, сопровождавшие выход предыдущих пьес Мольера, решительно померкли по сравнению с тем, что произошло немедленно после премьеры "Школы жён" (Булгаков 5). It must be said that, whatever incidents attended the presentation of Moliere's previous plays, they dimmed to insignificance in comparison with the things that transpired after the premiere of The School for Wives (5a).
         ♦ Тесть играл [в бильярд] лучше. Сказывалась многолетняя практика, а Игорь, по сравнению с Александром Ивановичем, был почти совсем новичок, хотя и подающий надежды (Ерофеев 3). His father-in-law was a better [billiard] player. He had many years of practice under his belt, and Igor, by comparison, was a novice, albeit a novice who showed promise (3a).
         ♦...[В общежитии] горячей воды... ванной или душа не было. Но всё-таки условия по сравнению с теми, которые мне пришлось испытать до тех пор, были вполне приличными (Войнович 1)....[In the hostel] there was...no hot water, no bath or shower. But after the conditions in which I had been living, these were entirely decent (1a).

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  • 49 по сравнению

    • ПО СРАВНЕНИЮ с кем-чем; В СРАВНЕНИИ
    [PrepP; these forms only; Prep; the resulting PrepP is adv]
    =====
    ⇒ when (a person, thing etc is) compared with (another person, thing etc):
    - [in limited contexts] by comparison;
    - [when comparing s.o. or sth. to someone or something else previously encountered] after...
         ♦ Должно быть, слова в старину читались медленнее и произносились значительнее. По сравнению с позднейшей убористой печатью, на странице помещалось мало знаков (Терц 3). In the old days people probably read much more slowly and put much greater meaning into words. Compared to the very close print of a later age, there were fewer letters to a page (3a).
         ♦...В эту минуту Наполеон казался ему столь маленьким, ничтожным человеком в сравнении с тем, что происходило теперь между его душой и этим высоким, бесконечным небом с бегущими по нём облаками (Толстой 4)....At that moment Napoleon seemed to him such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was taking place between his soul and that lofty, infinite sky with the clouds sailing over it (4a).
         ♦ Нужно сказать, что все события, сопровождавшие выход предыдущих пьес Мольера, решительно померкли по сравнению с тем, что произошло немедленно после премьеры "Школы жён" (Булгаков 5). It must be said that, whatever incidents attended the presentation of Moliere's previous plays, they dimmed to insignificance in comparison with the things that transpired after the premiere of The School for Wives (5a).
         ♦ Тесть играл [в бильярд] лучше. Сказывалась многолетняя практика, а Игорь, по сравнению с Александром Ивановичем, был почти совсем новичок, хотя и подающий надежды (Ерофеев 3). His father-in-law was a better [billiard] player. He had many years of practice under his belt, and Igor, by comparison, was a novice, albeit a novice who showed promise (3a).
         ♦...[В общежитии] горячей воды... ванной или душа не было. Но всё-таки условия по сравнению с теми, которые мне пришлось испытать до тех пор, были вполне приличными (Войнович 1)....[In the hostel] there was...no hot water, no bath or shower. But after the conditions in which I had been living, these were entirely decent (1a).

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  • 50 lille

    concertina, little, puny, remote, short, slight, small, young
    * * *
    adj
    (pl små) small;
    ( mere følelsesbetonet) little ( fx little children; a nice little house);
    ( af vækst, varighed) short;
    ( knap) rather less than, just under ( fx a week); not quite ( fx a million);
    ( i lille format) miniature ( fx a miniature Napoleon);
    ( om bogstav) small, lower-case,
    (se også bogstav);
    [ en lille] a baby ( fx she is going to have a baby);
    (dvs drink) a quick one;
    (dvs barnet) baby ( fx baby is crying);
    [ da jeg var lille] when I was a little boy (, girl); when I was quite young (el. small).

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  • 51 hôtel

    hôtel [ɔtεl]
    masculine noun
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    There are six categories of hotel in France, from zero (« non classé ») to five stars. In some towns, guests pay a small additional tourist tax, the « taxe de séjour ».
    * * *
    otɛl
    nom masculin hotel
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    ɔtɛl nm
    * * *
    hôtel nm hotel; hôtel de luxe/4 étoiles luxury/4 star hotel; hôtel borgne seedy hotel; descendre à l'hôtel to stay at a hotel; vivre à l'hôtel to live in a hotel; passer une nuit à l'hôtel to spend a night in a hotel.
    hôtel des impôts tax office; hôtel de la Monnaie Admin (French) Mint; hôtel particulier Archit townhouse; hôtel de passe hotel used by prostitutes; hôtel de tourisme Tourisme tourist hotel; hôtel des ventes Comm saleroom; hôtel de ville Admin ≈ town hall.
    [otɛl] nom masculin
    1. COMMERCE & LOISIRS hotel
    hôtel de tourisme basic ou tourist hotel
    2. [bâtiments administratifs]
    l'hôtel des Invalidesbuilding constructed by Louis XIV for wounded soldiers, now housing a military museum; the tomb of Napoleon I lies under the dome
    l'hôtel de la Monnaiethe former French Mint, ≃ the Mint (UK), ≃ the (Federal) Mint (US)
    l'hôtel de Senshistoric building, now a museum, in the Marais district of Paris, a fine example of late medieval architecture famous for its associations with Marguerite de Valois
    l'hôtel de Soubiseeighteenth-century house in the Marais district of Paris, home of the national archives since 1808
    hôtel des ventes sale room ou rooms, auction room ou rooms
    hôtel de ville town ou city hall
    hôtel particulier nom masculin
    (private) mansion, town house
    Legal tender is no longer minted at the hôtel de la Monnaie in Paris, although medals are still made there. Money is now minted at Pessac near Bordeaux.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > hôtel

  • 52 Bomtempo, João Domingos

    (1775-1842)
       Portuguese composer who began his musical studies under his father, Francisco Saveiro Bomtempo, the oboist in the royal court of King José I (1750-77). At the age of 14, he became a singer in the Royal Chapel of Bemposta and, after his father's death, took his place as court oboist at age 20. In 1801, he decided to go to France to continue his musical studies instead of Italy, which was the custom in his day. In Paris, he associated with a group of exiled Portuguese liberals from whom he absorbed liberal ideas and became a committed constitutional monarchist. During his time in Paris, he began his career as a virtuoso pianist and, inspired by Clementi, Cramer, and Dussek, wrote his first compositions: the Grande Sonata para Piano, Primeiro Concerto em Mi bemol para Piano e Orquestra, and the Secundo Concerto para Piano.
       After Napoleon's armies were defeated by a combined Portuguese-British army commanded by General Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington), Bomtempo's prospects in France deteriorated and he left for London in 1810, where he was well received and became a well-regarded professor of piano. During this period, he published many compositions, such as the Terceiro Concerto para Piano, and Capricho e Variações Sobre " GodSave the King." Bom-tempo became active in the Masons at this time. In 1813, to celebrate the final defeat of the French, Bomtempo composed a cantata titled Hino Lusitano, with verses by the liberal poet Vicente Pedro Nolasco da Cunha. He also composed the Primeira Grande Sinfonia and the Quarto Concerto para Piano during this period.
       In 1815, Bomtempo returned to Portugal, where he founded a philharmonic society in order to fill a serious lacuna in the musical culture of Portugal. With the return of the royal court from Brazil and the increasing repression of Portuguese Masons, the situation in Lisbon became untenable for liberals. Bomtempo, who favored a constitutional monarch, returned to London, where he dedicated his work to the "Portuguese nation." He returned to Portugal in 1818, where he composed his best-known work: O Requiem: A Memória de Camões. In 1820, he composed a second requiem in memory of General Gomes Freire, the grand master of Portuguese masonry, who was hanged in 1817. In 1822, his philharmonic society began periodic concerts, but these were forbidden by the absolutist King Miguel I (1802-66) in 1828, and Bomtempo took refuge in the Russian consulate in Lisbon, where he lived for five years until a constitutional monarchy was established by King Pedro IV (1798-1834) in 1834.
       With the establishment of constitutionalism, Bomtempo returned to his artistic activities. In 1835, he composed the Segunda Sinfonia e um Libera Me, dedicated to the memory of King Pedro IV who, exhausted from his struggle against his brother during the " War of the Brothers," died soon after returning to the throne. In 1836, Bon-tempo was made music director of the Court Orchestra and professor of piano in the royal music school, where he introduced the musical pedagogy of Clementi. He continued to compose and direct until his death on 18 August 1842.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Bomtempo, João Domingos

  • 53 Buçaco, Forest and Mountain of

       On the boundary between Coimbra and Viseu districts, the Buçaco (former spelling: Bussaco or Busaco) forest and mountain (ca. 547 meters or 1,795 feet high), were the site of a famous Peninsular War victory of the Duke of Wellington over the French forces under Masséna on 27 September 1810. A monument remains to attest to this defeat of Napoleon. Not far from this spot is the Hotel-Palace of Buçaco, completed just before the monarchy was overthrown in the revolution of 5 October 1910. In Portuguese tradition, it is said that the royal family wished to build, in effect, the last royal palace of the dynasty, but could not afford the cost of such a construction and eventually converted the palace into a hotel open to the public. This magnificent palatial structure is now run as a hotel and combines various architectural styles, from Edwardian dining rooms and a billiards room to neo-Gothic, Arabic, and neo-Manueline rococo. Off the beaten track in the lovely Buçaco forest area, the Hotel-Palace remains a recent historic monument, and it is said that before it was completed, the last reigning Braganza, King Manuel II (1908-10), on more than one occasion met his French paramour there.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Buçaco, Forest and Mountain of

  • 54 Girard, Philippe de

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 1775 France
    d. 1845
    [br]
    French developer of a successful flax-heckling machine for the preparation of fibres for power-spinning.
    [br]
    Early drawing and spinning processes failed to give linen yarn the requisite fineness and homogeneity. In 1810 Napoleon offered a prize of a million francs for a successful flax-spinning machine as part of his policy of stimulating the French textile industries. Spurred on by this offer, Girard suggested three improvements. He was too late to win the prize, but his ideas were patented in England in 1814, although not under his own name. He proposed that the fibres should be soaked in a very hot alkaline solution both before drawing and immediately before they went to the spindles. The actual drawing was to be done by passing the dried material through combs or gills that moved alternately; gill drawing was taken up in England in 1816. His method of wet spinning was never a commercial success, but his processes were adopted in part and developed in Britain and spread to Austria, Poland and France, for his ideas were essentially good and produced a superior product. The successful power-spinning of linen thread from flax depended primarily upon the initial processes of heckling and drawing. The heckling of the bundles or stricks of flax, so as to separate the long fibres of "line" from the shorter ones of "tow", was extremely difficult to mechanize, for each strick had to be combed on both sides in turn and then in the reverse direction. It was to this problem that Girard next turned his attention, inventing a successful machine in 1832 that subsequently was improved in England. The strick was placed between two vertical sheets of combs that moved opposite to each other, depositing the tow upon a revolving cylinder covered with a brush at the bottom of the machine, while the holder from which the strick was suspended moved up and down so as to help the teeth to penetrate deeper into the flax. The tow was removed from the cylinder at the bottom of the machine and taken away to be spun like cotton. The long line fibres were removed from the top of the machine and required further processing if the yarn was to be uniform.
    When N.L.Sadi Carnot's book Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu, was published in 1824, Girard made a favourable report on it.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    M.Daumas (ed.), 1968, Histoire générale des techniques, Vol. III: L'Expansion du
    Machinisme, Paris.
    C.Singer (ed.), 1958, A History of'Technology, Vol. IV, Oxford: Clarendon Press. T.K.Derry and T.I.Williams, 1960, A Short History of Technology from the Earliest
    Times to AD 1900, Oxford.
    W.A.McCutcheon, 1966–7, "Water power in the North of Ireland", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 39 (discusses the spinning of flax and mentions Girard).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Girard, Philippe de

  • 55 Laënnec, René Théophile Hyacinthe

    SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology
    [br]
    b. 16 February 1781 Quimper, France
    d. 13 August 1826 Paris, France
    [br]
    French physician, inventor of the stethoscope.
    [br]
    Laënnec commenced his medical career assisting his uncle, a physician of Nantes, Brittany. On moving to Paris he studied under Corvisart, Napoleon's friend and personal physician, and Dupuytren. Appointed Physician to the Necker Hospital in 1816, his difficulties in examining an obese patient led him to make a roll of paper and, placing one end on the patient's chest and his ear to the other, he found that he could hear the heart sounds much more clearly; although auscultation had been practised in medicine since the time of Hippocrates (fl. 400 BC), its inconvenience and distastefulness made the stethoscope an instrument which soon gained wide acceptance. As a consequence, a large number of new auditory phenomena were reported in the immediately ensuing years. In his book, published in 1819, he described the instrument as "a cylinder of wood an inch and a half in diameter and a foot long, perforated by a bore three lines wide and hollowed out into a funnel shape at one of its extremities".
    By now he had contracted tuberculosis and retired to Brittany to recover. In 1822 he accepted the Chair of Medicine in the College of France, but he suffered a relapse and died four years later, ironically of the same disease that his invention had done so much to facilitate the diagnosis of.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    Further Reading
    W.Hale-White, 1923, Laënnec: Translation of Selected Papers from "de l"Auscultation médiate', with a Biography, London.
    H.Saintignon, 1904, Laënnec, sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris. Z.Cope, 1957, Sidelights from the History of Medicine.
    MG

    Biographical history of technology > Laënnec, René Théophile Hyacinthe

  • 56 Rennie, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Canals, Civil engineering
    [br]
    b. 7 June 1761 Phantassie, East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland
    d. 4 October 1821 Stamford Street, London, England
    [br]
    Scottish civil engineer.
    [br]
    Born into a prosperous farming family, he early demonstrated his natural mechanical and structural aptitude. As a boy he spent a great deal of time, often as a truant, near his home in the workshop of Andrew Meikle. Meikle was a millwright and the inventor of a threshing machine. After local education and an apprenticeship with Meikle, Rennie went to Edinburgh University until he was 22. He then travelled south and met James Watt, who in 1784 offered him the post of Engineer at the Albion Flour Mills, London, which was then under construction. Rennie designed all the mill machinery, and it was while there that he began to develop an interest in canals, opening his own business in 1791 in Blackfriars. He carried out work on the Kennet and Avon Canal and in 1794 became Engineer for the company. He meanwhile carried out other surveys, including a proposed extension of the River Stort Navigation to the Little Ouse and a Basingstoke-to-Salisbury canal, neither of which were built. From 1791 he was also engaged on the Rochdale Canal and the Lancaster Canal, as well as the great masonry aqueduct carrying the latter canal across the river Lune at Lancaster. He also surveyed the Ipswich and Stowmarket and the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigations. He advised on the Horncastle Canal in 1799 and on the River Ancholme in 1799, both of which are in Lincolnshire. In 1802 he was engaged on the Royal Canal in Ireland, and in the same year he was commissioned by the Government to prepare a plan for flooding the Lea Valley as a defence on the eastern approach to London in case Napoleon invaded England across the Essex marshes. In 1809 he surveyed improvements on the Thames, and in the following year he was involved in a proposed canal from Taunton to Bristol. Some of his schemes, particularly in the Fens and Lincolnshire, were a combination of improvements for both drainage and navigation. Apart from his canal work he engaged extensively in the construction and development of docks and harbours including the East and West India Docks in London, Holyhead, Hull, Ramsgate and the dockyards at Chatham and Sheerness. In 1806 he proposed the great breakwater at Plymouth, where work commenced on 22 June 1811.
    He was also highly regarded for his bridge construction. These included Kelso and Musselburgh, as well as his famous Thames bridges: London Bridge (uncompleted at the time of his death), Waterloo Bridge (1810–17) and Southwark Bridge (1815–19). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1798.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1798.
    Further Reading
    C.T.G.Boucher, 1963, John Rennie 1761–1821, Manchester University Press. W.Reyburn, 1972, Bridge Across the Atlantic, London: Harrap.
    JHB

    Biographical history of technology > Rennie, John

  • 57 أخضع لـ (عصيانا، إلخ)

    أَخْضَعَ لِـ (عِصْيَانًا، إلخ)‏ \ quell: to stop; put down: Soldiers were called to quell the uprising against the government. subdue: to conquer; bring under control; make quieter or gentler: Napoleon subdued several European states. subject: to cause to suffer: The prisoner was subjected to cruel treatment. \ See Also قهر (قَهَر)، غلب (غَلَبَ)‏

    Arabic-English dictionary > أخضع لـ (عصيانا، إلخ)

  • 58 اعتقاد

    اِعْتِقَاد \ belief, conviction. \ اِعْتِقَاد باطِل \ delusion: an untrue belief, esp. one that is strongly held: That sick man is under the delusion that he is Napoleon. \ See Also وهم (وَهْم)‏

    Arabic-English dictionary > اعتقاد

  • 59 خداع

    خِدَاع \ craft: skill in deceiving. deceit: deceiving. delusion: an untrue belief, esp. one that is strongly held: That sick man is under the delusion that he is Napoleon. fraud: deceit; dishonesty; a deceitful trick: Her illness was a fraud, to avoid the work. swindle: a swindling trick.

    Arabic-English dictionary > خداع

  • 60 غلب

    غَلَبَ \ beat (beat, beaten): to do better than; conquer (in a game or fight): they beat us at football. conquer: to beat (an enemy) or seize (a country) by force of arms; win a victory over (an opponent at sport, some fault or weakness, etc.): He conquered his fear of water and learnt to swim. defeat: to beat in a game or battle. get (or have) the best of sth: to be most successful in (a struggle, etc.): When we quarrel, she always gets the best of it.. overcome: to deal successfully with (a fault or difficulty); to conquer. subdue: conquer; bring under control; make quieter or gentler: Napoleon subdued several European states. \ See Also اسْتَوْلَى على، تَغَلَّبَ على، أَخْضَع \ غَلَبَ بالفطنة والذكاء \ outwit: to beat (an enemy, etc.) by being cleverer: A fox often outwits the huntsmen.

    Arabic-English dictionary > غلب

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