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1 abecedarian
ˌeɪbi:si:ˈdɛərɪən
1. прил.
1) расположенный в алфавитном порядке
2) относящийся к алфавиту
3) азбучный, примитивный, простой, элементарный There is an abecedarian ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it. ≈ Существует обыкновенное невежество, которое предшествует знанию, и невежество высокого порядка, которое приходит после него. Syn: alphabetic, elementary
2. сущ.
1) обучающий грамоте He had a wife and six children, whom he made a shift to maintain, by submitting to be an ABC-darian at Williton in this county. ≈ У него была жена и шестеро детей, которых он старался обеспечить, предлагая свои услуги преподавателя грамоты в Виллитоне, в этом же графстве.
2) обучающийся грамоте
3) начинающий, новичокобучающий или обучающийся грамоте новичок, начинающий относящийся к алфавиту расположенный в алфавитном порядке азбучный, элементарныйabecedarian a азбучный, элементарный ~ обучающийся грамоте ~ a расположенный в алфавитном порядкеБольшой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > abecedarian
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2 abecedarian
[ˌeɪbiːsiː'dɛərɪən] 1. прил.3) азбучный, примитивный, простой, элементарныйThere is an abecedarian ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it. — Существует обыкновенное невежество, которое предшествует знанию, и невежество высокого порядка, которое приходит после него.
Syn:alphabetic, elementary2. сущ.1) обучающий грамоте;He had a wife and six children, whom he made a shift to maintain, by submitting to be an abecedarian at Williton in this county. — У него была жена и шестеро детей, которых он старался обеспечить, предлагая свои услуги преподавателя грамоты в Виллитоне, в этом же графстве.
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3 Historical Portugal
Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims inPortugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and theChurch (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU. -
4 Edison, Thomas Alva
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications[br]b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USAd. 18 October 1931 Glenmont[br]American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.[br]He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMember of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.Further ReadingM.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.IMcN -
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1. сущ.
1) а) вращение, вращательное движение, круговое движение Syn: revolution II, rotation б) кувыркание (в гимнастике) в) оборот( колеса), сальто, фляк, кульбит
2) поворачивание, изменение направления;
отколонение (от предыдущего курса) Syn: deflection, deviation
3) а) поворот, вираж right( left, about) turn! воен. ≈ направо!( налево!, кругом!) б) авиац. разворот в) изгиб( дороги) ;
излучина( реки)
4) перен. поворотный пункт
5) а) (рабочая) смена Syn: shift
1. б) короткий период деятельности в) короткая прогулка, поездка to take (или to go for) a turn ≈ прогуляться
6) а) перемена;
изменение (состояния) We all suffered of that nasty turn in the weather. ≈ Нам было очень тяжело, когда погода испортилась. Syn: alteration, modification б) начало нового этапа (чего-л.) a turn of the century ≈ начало века
7) очередь, хвост by turn by turns in turn out of turn Syn: file
8) очередной номер программы, выход;
интермедия, сценка
9) а) склад( характера) ;
склонность( к чему-л.) б) стиль, манера, отличительная черта
10) разг. нервное потрясение, шок, приступ, припадок a turn of anger ≈ припадок гнева
11) структура чего-л. а) строение, форма б) оборот, построение( фразы) a turn of speech ≈ оборот речи
12) мн. менструации
13) полигр. марашка ∙ one good turn deserves another посл. ≈ услуга за услугу do a good turn do an ill turn
2. гл.
1) а) вертеть(ся), вращать(ся), совершать вращательные движения He turned the key till the door opened. ≈ Он вертел ключом, пока дверь не открылась. б) поворачивать(ся) ;
обращаться;
повертывать(ся)
2) включить, переключить( поворотом какого-л. устройства) to turn the channel ≈ переключить канал
3) обходить, огибать turn an enemy's flank
4) направлять, сосредоточивать (тж. внимание, усилия)
5) а) переворачивать (напр., страницу книги) to turn pancakes ≈ переворачивать блины He turned the page and went on reading. ≈ Он перевернул страницу и стал читать дальше. Syn: invert
2. б) выворачивать наизнанку( об одежде) в) вспахивать, пахать( переворачивать землю плугом)
6) а) расстраивать (пищеварение, психику, здоровье и т. п.) б) вызывать отвращение
7) а) изменять(ся) б) превращать(ся) (into)
8) портить(ся) the milk has turned ≈ молоко прокисло
9) переводить( на другой язык) (into)
10) достигнуть, доходить до( известного предела, значения) he is turned seventy ≈ ему за семьдесят
11) а) точить( на токарном станке) ;
обтачивать б) перен. оттачивать, доводить до совершенства, придавать изящную форму
12) обдумывать, взвешивать (вопрос, проблему) Syn: ponder
13) подвернуть, вывихнуть( ногу) ;
получить вывих Syn: wrench
2.
14) как глагол-связка делаться, становиться the leaves turned yellow ≈ листья пожелтели ∙ turn about turn adrift turn against turn around turn aside turn away turn back turn down turn in turn in upon oneself turn off turn on turn out turn over turn round turn to turn up turn upon Syn: bend to turn the scale/balance ≈ решить исход дела to turn up one's heels сл. ≈ протянуть ноги, скончаться turn upside down turn loose оборот - the * of a wheel оборот колеса - the * of a dial оборот наборного диска - three *s of the moon три оборота Луны - at each * при каждом обороте (колеса и т. п.) (сельскохозяйственное) оборот пласта вращение;
вращательное движение - to give smth. a turn повернуть что-л. - to give smb. a * покружить кого-л. поворот (движение) - sharp * крутой поворот - no left * запрещен левый поворот - a * to the right поворот направо - with a single * of the key одним поворотом ключа - to make /to take/ a * повернуть - backhand * поворот на задних ногах (конный спорт) - downhill * поворот на спуске с горы (лыжный спорт) - jump * поворот прыжком без опоры на палки (лыжный спорт) - steered * поворот рулением (лыжный спорт) - * of curve прохождение виража (велоспорт) - right *! направо! - left *! налево! - about *! кругом! (автомобильное) разворот - boot-leg * разворот с остановками - loop * разворот с ходу поворот, место поворота - a * at the corner поворот на углу - to stop at a * in the road остановиться на повороте (дороги) изгиб - a * in a river излучина реки - a path full of *s and twists извилистая тропа поворот (в течении времени) ;
поворотный пункт;
порог, конец - at the * of the century на пороге нового столетия - at the * of the year в конце года поворот;
отклонение, отступление( в сюжете рассказа и т. п.) - the story has so many twists and *s that the reader becomes lost в рассказе столько поворотов и отступлений (от основной сюжетной линии), что читатель совершенно теряется изменение направления - * of the tide (морское) смена приливно-отливного течения - what * did the discussion take? в каком направлении развивалась дискуссия? смена, перемена курса (судна) перемена, изменение (состояния) - the * of the seasons смена времен года - the * of affairs оборот дел - the *s of fortune превратности судьбы - a * for the better изменение к лучшему - the patient has taken a * for the better больному стало лучше - to take a bad * принять дурной оборот - things have taken a dangerous * дело приняло опасный оборот - to give a new * to smth. придать новый оборот /-ую окраску/ чему-л. - to hope for a * in one's luck надеяться на перемену судьбы - there was a nasty * in the weather погода изменилась к худшему, погода испортилась виток - * of a bandage оборот /ход/ бинта - dead *s (электротехника) мертвые /холостые/ витки - give the rope a few more *s around the tree оберни веревку вокруг дерева еще несколько раз очередь - in its * в свою очередь - in *(s), by *s, * and * about по очереди - laughing and crying in * то смеясь, то плача - he went hot and cold by *s его бросало то в жар, то в холод - out of * вне очереди - to wait one's * in a doctor's office дожидаться своей очереди на прием к врачу - to take *s делать( что-л.) по очереди;
чередоваться, сменяться - now it's your * to speak теперь ваша очередь выступать - my * will come! придет и мой черед!;
я еще свое возьму!;
я еще своего добьюсь! попытка заняться чем-л.;
временное занятие - to take a * at creative writing заняться писательством - take a *! а ну попробуй! очередной номер программы, выход;
сценка, интермедия - short *s короткие номера /сценки/ - a song-and-dance * песенно-танцевальный номер - to do one's * исполнять номер (программы) исполнитель номера короткая прогулка, поездка - to take /to have/ a *, to go for a * (in the garden) пройтись /прогуляться/ (по саду) - to take a * on a bicycle покататься /проехаться/ на велосипеде короткий период деятельности - a * of work небольшая работа, немного работы - to take a * at the oars немного погрести /поработать/ веслами - to take a * at gardening немного поработать в саду (рабочая) смена - afternoon * дневная смена - to add a second * добавить вторую смену, организовать двухсменную работу особенность, характерная черта;
склад (ума, характера) - a serious * of mind серьезный ум - an optimistic * of mind оптимистический склад ума - peculiar * of the Greek character особенность греческого (национального) характера стиль, манера;
интерпретация - she gave the sonata a new * она сыграла сонату по-новому способность;
дар;
жилка - a * for affairs деловая жилка /складка/ - a * for mathematics математический дар - he is of a musical *, he has a * for music у него хорошие способности к музыке строение, форма - the * of an ankle форма лодыжки - the * of her arms линии ее рук построение (фразы) - I don't like the * of the sentence мне не нравится, как построено это предложение оборот - a * of speech оборот речи - to miss idiomatic *s не понимать идиоматических выражений (разговорное) приступ, припадок, вспышка - a * of anger припадок /вспышка/ гнева потрясение, шок - to give smb. quite a * сильно испугать /взволновать/ кого-л. - to have (quite) a * испытать шок - I had quite a * when I heard the news я был в шоке, когда услышал эту новость pl менструации (биржевое) акт купли-продажи (ценных бумаг и т. п.) ;
прибыль от купли или продажи ценных бумаг (биржевое) оборот капитала( биржевое) разница между курсом покупателей и курсом продавцов (тж. * of the market, jobber's *) (полиграфия) марашка (железнодорожное) обходной путь;
виток (музыкальное) группетто (авиация) разворот > * of the century начало ХХ века > * of the tide заметное изменение к лучшему, перемена судьбы > * of life (медицина) переходный период, климактерий > to a * точно;
как нужно > done /roasted/ to a * зажарено как раз в меру( о мясе) > at every * на каждом шагу;
повсюду;
постоянно;
каждый раз > travelling through Europe we kept meeting Americans at every * путешествуя по Европе, мы на каждом шагу встречали американцев > out of * неуместно, не к месту, некстати > to talk /to speak/ out of * сказать не к месту;
говорить необдуманно > to be on the * меняться, претерпевать изменения;
скисать, свертываться( особ. о молоке) > to do smb. a good * оказать кому-л. добрую услугу > to do smb. a bad /an ill/ * повредить кому-л., оказать кому-л. плохую услугу > to serve smb. the good * (of) сослужить кому-л. добрую службу > to serve one's (own) * отвечать требованиям;
соответствовать цели;
вполне подходить > to serve smb.'s * годиться;
устраивать кого-л., подходить, отвечать какой-л. цели > not to do a hand's * и пальцем не пошевелить > one good * asks /deserves/ another (пословица) услуга за услугу поворачивать - to * a key повернуть ключ - he *ed the knob and the door opened он повернул ручку, и дверь открылась - he *ed his chair to the fire он повернул стул к огню - * your eyes this way посмотрите в эту сторону - to * one's head обернуться, повернуть голову - he *ed his face toward the speaker он повернулся лицом к говорящему поворачиваться - he heard his name called but did not * он услышал свое имя, но не обернулся - the tap won't * кран не открывается (и не закрывается) - the door *s upon its hinges дверь поворачивается на петлях - everybody's eyes *ed to him все посмотрели на него - my heart *s to you мое сердце обращено к вам отворачивать, отводить - to * one's eyes отвести глаза - she *ed her face and wept она отвернулась и зарыдала вращать - to * a wheel вращать колесо - to * a handle крутить ручку - to * a screw tight плотно привинтить шуруп - he kept *ing his hat in his hands он все время вертел в руках шляпу обертывать, наматывать - he had a snake *ed round his arm вокруг его руки обвилась змея вращаться - the Earth *s round the Sun Земля вращается вокруг Солнца - the wheels were *ing slowly колеса вращались медленно - the wheel *s a complete circle in a second колесо делает полный оборот за секунду кружиться - heights make my head * высота вызывает у меня головокружение - my head is *ing у меня кружится голова переворачивать - to * the leaves of a book переворачивать страницы книги, листать книгу - to * pancakes переворачивать оладьи - to * a record перевернуть пластинку - the nurse could easily * the patient сестра могла легко перевернуть больного переворачиваться - to * in bed вертеться в постели - it's enough to make him * in his grave он от этого в гробу перевернется опрокидывать;
переворачивать вверх дном - to * a decanter опрокинуть графин - to * an hour-glass переворачивать песочные часы выкладывать, выпускать - to * the dough onto a board выложить тесто на доску - to * meat into the pot положить мясо в котелок - to * the contents of one's bag (out) onto the table выложить содержимое своей сумки на стол загибать;
закручивать;
отгибать - his moustaches were *ed and curled его усы были подкручены и завиты - * the sheet( back) отогните простыню - to * a bar of steel согнуть стальной брусок загибаться;
закручиваться;
отгибаться направлять - to * one's (foot) steps направляться, направлять свои стопы - to * one's horse to the hills направить коня в горы - to * the car left повернуть машину налево - to * a car to avoid collision повернуть машину, чтобы избежать столкновения направляться - to * to the right пойти направо - to * west направиться на запад - not to know which way to * не знать, куда идти - he *ed towards home он повернул к дому - I *ed down the avenue я повернул /свернул/ на аллею поворачиваться (в обратную сторону) - it is time to * now if we wish to get home in time for dinner пора поворачивать назад, если мы хотим поспеть к обеду - shall we *? пойдем обратно?, повернем? - he *ed on his heel(s) and went away in a rage он повернулся на каблуках и ушел разгневанный отклонять, менять направление - to * the course of a river изменить течение реки - to * the course of history изменить ход истории - to * a blow отвести удар - to * an attack отбить атаку - to * the tide (of events) изменить ход событий - to * the enemy обратить неприятеля в бегство - to * the mob заставить толпу отступить - to * a vessel from her course изменить курс судна - this metal is thick enough to * a bullet этот металл достаточно прочен, чтобы пуля не пробила его /отскочила от него/ отклоняться, менять направление - the river *s here здесь река поворачивает - the road *s slightly to the north дорога слегка отклоняется на север - the tide is *ing приливная волна меняет направление (on, upon) нацеливать, направлять - to * one's gun on smb. направить оружие на кого-л. - to * one's weapon upon oneself обратить собственное оружие против самого себя - to * the telescope on a star навести телескоп на звезду - cannon were *ed on the city пушки были нацелены на город огибать, обходить - to * a corner поворачивать за угол - to * a cape обогнуть мыс( о судне) - to * smb.'s flank( военное) охватывать чей-л. фланг, охватывать /обходить/ кого-л7 с фланга точить, обтачивать на токарном станке - to * a candlestick out of brass вытачивать медный подсвечник поддаваться обработке на токарном станке, поддаваться токарной обработке - to * well хорошо точиться оттачивать, придавать завершенную форму (фразе и т. п.) - to * a compliment сделать тонкий комплимент - to * an epigram сочинить эпиграмму (редкое) (из) менять (что-л.) ;
действовать( на что-л.) - his speech *ed my thinking то, что он сказал, заставило меня изменить свою точку зрения изменяться, подвергаться изменению - manners * with time с временами меняются и нравы( редкое) обращать( кого-л.) в другую веру (редкое) обращаться в другую веру, менять религию (редкое) изменять, предавать( редкое) вызывать тошноту - onions * me от лука меня начинает тошнить( устаревшее) иметь противоположный результат лицевать( одежду) - I must have my suit *ed мне нужно перелицевать костюм делать, выполнять (прыжок, упражнение) - to * a somersault делать /крутить/ сальто - to * handsprings выполнять повороты рывком;
делать "колесо" - to * a clumsy pirouette сделать неуклюжий пируэт обдумывать (вопросы, проблемы и т. п.) - to * smth. in one's head обдумывать что-л. - he *ed the question every way but could find no answer( разговорное) как он ни бился над этим вопросом, решить его он не мог - he was still *ing the idea about when he fell asleep засыпая, он все еще продолжал об этом думать менять (тему) ;
переводить (разговор) - to * the conversation( to livelier topics) перевести разговор (на более интересные темы) переходить( о разговоре) - the talk *ed to more general topics разговор перешел на более общие темы убавлять или прибавлять (газ, воду и т. п.) - to * the gas low убавить газ достигнуть (определенного момента, возраста и т. п.) - he has not yet *ed forty ему еще нет сорока - it has just *ed a quarter past one сейчас как раз четверть второго - the price has *ed ten dollars by the next bid в следующий момент цена достигла десяти долларов;
следующий покупатель предложил (за вещь) десять долларов менять (цвет, окраску и т. п.) - autumn *s the foliage, autumn *s the leaves yellow осенью листва желтеет меняться (о цвете, окраске) ;
увядать - her hair has begun to * ее волосы начали седеть - the leaves are *ing листья желтеют меняться;
перемениться( о ветре) - the wind is *ing ветер меняет направление, ветер меняется пускать в обращение (деньги, товары) находиться в обращении (о деньгах, товарах) получать( прибыль) - to * a fair profit получить немалую прибыль зарабатывать( деньги) - to * an honest dollar честно заработать доллар продаваться, идти ( о товаре) - this merchandise will * easily этот товар будет хорошо раскупаться портить, вызывать прокисание;
сквашивать( молоко и т. п.) портиться, прокисать, скисать ( о молоке и т. п.) - the milk has *ed молоко прокисло согнуть, затупить (лезвие острого инструмента) - to * the edge (of a knife) затупить (нож) загнуться, согнуться, затупиться( о лезвии) - the edge of the knife *ed лезвие ножа затупилось выгонять (скот на пастбище;
тж. * out) срезать кожуру ленточкой (с лимона, апельсина и т. п.) вырезать( косточку из какого-л. плода) пахать, оборачивать( пласт) (строительство) выводить (свод, арку) навязывать( пятку чулка и т. п.) - to turn smth. to smth., to smb. обращать, направлять (мысли, внимание) на что-л. или к кому-л.;
сосредоточивать (мысли, внимание) на чем-л. или на ком-л. - to * one's thoughts to God обратиться мыслями к богу - to * one's thoughts to one's work сосредоточивать мысли на (своей) работе - to * one's efforts to smth. more important направлять свои усилия на что-л. более важное - at last we *ed our attention to him наконец мы занялись им - to turn to smth., to smb. обращаться, направляться на что-л. или к кому-л.;
сосредоточиваться на чем-л. или на ком-л. (о мыслях и т. п.) ;
обращаться, переходить к чему-л. или кому-л.;
начинать рассматривать что-л. или кого-л.;
переводить разговор - his thoughts have often *ed to the subject его мысли часто возвращались к этому предмету - his thoughts *ed to the sea мысли его обратились к морю, он обратился мыслями к морю - let us now * from mechanics to medicine перейдем теперь от механики к медицине - when she entered the room he *ed to another subject когда она вошла в комнату, он перевел разговор на другую тему - to turn to smb. обращаться к кому-л.;
тянуться к кому-л. - I don't know to whom to * я не знаю, к кому (следует) обратиться - all children *ed to him все дети тянулись к нему - to turn to smth. обращаться к чему-л.;
приниматься, браться за что-л. (тж. to * oneself to smth.) - to * to the dictionary обратиться к словарю - to * to painting заняться живописью - he *ed again to his work он снова принялся за свою работу - to turn smth. to smth. использовать, применять что-л. для чего-л. - to * smth. to advantage обратить что-л. на пользу, использовать что-л. с выгодой - to * anthropological knowledge to practical uses использовать антропологические знания в практических целях - to * misfortune to (good) account извлечь пользу из несчастья - to turn smb. (on) to smth. использовать, занимать кого-л. для чего-л.;
приобщить кого-л. к чему-л., убедить кого-л. в чем-л. - to * all available hands (on) to the job of cleaning up использовать все свободные руки на уборке (помещения и т. п.) ;
бросить всех свободных работников на уборку (помещения и т. п.) - to * smb. to one's own views убедить кого-л. в правильности своих взглядов;
внушить кому-л. свои взгляды - to turn to smb. (for smth.) обращаться к кому-л. (за чем-л.) - to * to the experts обращаться к специалистам - to * to the secretary for information обратиться за справкой к секретарю - to * to smb. for help обращаться к кому-л. за помощью;
искать у кого-л. помощи - the child *ed to its mother for comfort ребенок искал утешения у матери - to turn smb., smth. (in) to smb., smth. превращать кого-л., что-л. в кого-л., что-л.;
делать кого-л., что-л. кем-л., чем-л. - to * smb. into a coward делать из кого-л. труса, превращать кого-л. в труса - to * cream into butter делать масло из сливок - to * sunlight directly into electricity непосредственно преобразовывать солнечный свет в электричество - the drawing room was turned into a study гостиная была превращена /переделана/ в кабинет, гостиная стала служить кабинетом - they *ed her into a film star они сделали ее кинозвездой - to turn (in) to smb., smth. превращаться в кого-л., что-л.;
становиться кем-л., чем-л. - to * into a criminal стать преступником - water *s to ice вода превращается в лед - the rain *ed (in) to sleet дождь превратился /перешел/ в мокрый снег - joy has *ed into bitterness радость обернулась горечью - his love *ed to hate его любовь превратилась в ненависть - the puzzled look *ed quickly to one of understanding озадаченный взгляд быстро сменился понимающим - to turn smth. into smth. обменивать что-л. на что-л., обращать что-л. во что-л.;
переводить на другой язык;
перевфразировать, сформулировать иначе - they *ed their stock into cash они обратили свои акции в деньги - she *ed her eggs into cash она продала яйца и выручила (хорошие) деньги - to * Greek books into Latin переводить греческие книги на латынь - how would you * this passage? как вы переведете этот отрывок? - * it into French переведите это на французский язык - to turn smth. against smb., smth. обращать что-л. против кого-л., чего-л. - they *ed his argument against him они обратили его аргументы против него самого - his own criticism was *ed against him его собственная критика обернулась против него самого - to turn smb. against smb., smth. восстанавливать кого-л. против кого-л., чего-л. - they *ed his family against him они восстановили против него его семью - he *s everyone against himself он восстанавливает всех против себя - to turn against smb., smth. восставать против кого-л., чего-л.;
обращаться против кого-л., чего-л. - the poor *ed against the rich бедняки восстали против богачей - he *ed against his former friends он ополчился на /пошел против/ своих прежних друзей - his words *ed against himself его слова обернулись против него самого - to turn smb. from /out of, off/ smth., to turn smb. to /into/ smth. прогонять, выгонять, выпускать кого-л. откуда-л., куда-л. - to * one's son from /out of/ the house выгнать сына из дома - to * the cat into the cellar for the night выгонять или выпускать кота на ночь в погреб - to turn smb. from smth. /from doing smth./ отвратить кого-л. от чего-л.;
помешать кому-л. делать что-л. - to * smb. from his duty отвлекать кого-л. от исполнения своего долга - I *ed him from his purpose я заставил его изменить свое намерение - when once he has made up his mind, nothing will * him from it если уж он что задумал, ничто не заставит его изменить своего решения - to turn on /upon/ smth. зависеть от чего-л., держаться на чем-л.;
вращаться около чего-л.;
сосредоточиться на чем-л. - great events often * upon very small circumstances большие события часто зависят от очень мелких обстоятельств - everything *s on his answer все зависит от его ответа - the success of the picnic *s on the weather успех пикника будет зависеть от погоды - the debate did not * upon any practical proposition обсуждение не касалось какого-л. практического предложения - the conversation *ed on literature разговор коснулся литературы - to turn on /upon/ smb. набрасываться на кого-л. - in his anger he *ed on me в гневе он набросился на меня - the dog *ed on me and bit me собака набросилась и укусила меня как глагол-связка в составном именном сказуемом в сочетании с существительным: превращаться, становиться - to * soldier стать солдатом - he *ed Tory он стал членом консервативной партии - to * traitor стать предателем - to * Christian обратиться в христианство - he has *ed full-time author он стал профессиональным писателем - both poets *ed in the end men of action оба поэта стали в конце концов людьми действия в сочетании с прилагательными: становиться, делаться - to * pale побледнеть - to * sick почувствовать тошноту - to * green with envy позеленеть от зависти - to * blue with cold посинеть от холода - to * red with anger покраснеть от гнева - to * sour прокисать (о молоке) - to * grey поседеть - to * sulky помрачнеть;
надуться - the weather is *ing colder становится холоднее в сочетании с существительным и прилагательным: превращать, делать;
приводить в( какое-л.) состояние - it *s the tongue black от этого язык чернеет - he *ed the dog loose он спустил собаку (с цепи и т. п.) - last year's drought *ed things worse прошлогодняя засуха усугубила положение - it *s her nauseous ее от этого тошнит - the sight *ed him green with envy это зрелище заставило его позеленеть от зависти > to * short внезапно остановиться, замереть > to * to bay отбиваться, отчаянно защищаться( как загнанный зверь) > to * tail действовать кому-то на нервы > to * tail on /upon/ smth. отказаться от чего-л.;
пренебречь чем-л.;
предать что-л. > to * colour менять цвет;
краснеть;
смущаться;
бледнеть > to * turtle опрокинуться вверх дном > to * bridle повернуть лошадь назад;
отступать (верхом) > to * flukes взмахнуть хвостом и уйти под воду (о ките) > to * the trick добиться желаемого эффекта, получить желаемый результат > to * the corner выйти из затруднительного или опасного положения > to * the scale /the balance/ показывать( какой-л.) вес;
весить (столько-то) ;
решить вопрос, разрешить сомнения > hand baggage *ed the scale at 60 pounds ручная кладь потянула 60 фунтов > to * the other cheek( библеизм) подставить другую ланиту /щеку/;
не противиться злу;
не отвечать обидчику > to * smb.'s brain /mind/ расстраивать, огорчать;
сводить с ума > to * smb.'s head вскружить кому-л. голову > to * head (устаревшее) мужественно сопротивляться > to * smb.'s heart тронуть, растрогать кого-л. > to * smb.'s flank обойти /перехитрить/ кого-л. > to * one's ankle вывихнуть /подвернуть/ лодыжку /ногу/ > to * one's coat изменить своим принципам;
перейти в другую партию;
"сменить шкуру" > not to * one's finger и пальцем не шевельнуть > not to * a hair не выказывать нервозности /тревоги/;
и глазом не моргнуть > to * the edge /the point/ of smth. притуплять, смягчать что-л. (критическое замечание и т. п.) > to * smb.,smth. loose давать волю кому-л., чему-л.;
предоставлять кого-л. самому себе;
разряжать (орудие, пистолет) ;
открывать огонь;
(on) натравливать кого-л. на кого-л. > to * loose on smb. набрасываться на кого-л. > to * a mountain into a molehill делать из мухи слона > to * a deaf ear to smb. не слушать, отказаться выслушать кого-л. > to the /a/ blind eye to smth. закрывать глаза на что-л. > to * a blind eye to smb.'s philanderings закрывать глаза на чьи-л. похождения > to * the cold shoulder to /on/ smb. оказывать кому-л. холодный прием > to * one's /a/ hand to smth. заняться каким-л. делом, приступить к работе > to * one's hand to useful work заняться полезным делом > he can * his hand to almost anything он умеет делать почти все;
у него золотые руки > to * one's hand upon smb. (устаревшее) убить кого-л. > to * smb., smth. to ridicule подвергать кого-л., что-л. насмешкам, осмеивать кого-л., что-л. > to turn one's back on /upon/ smth. отвернуться, уйти от чего-л.;
пренебрегать кем-л. или чем-л.;
предавать кого-л. или что-л. > we * our backs on winter мы прощаемся с зимой > to * one's back on history забыть уроки истории > to * one's back on one's own people предать свой народ > to * smth. on its head перевернуть что-л. вверх дном, поставить что-л. (с ног) на голову > to * smb. from the door не пустить кого-л. на порог, отказать кому-л. в гостеприимстве > to * smb. round one's little finger помыкать кем-л.;
вить веревки из кого-л. > to * smb. adrift in the world бросить кого-л. на произвол судьбы > not to know where /which way/ to * не знать, как поступить;
не знать, где преклонить голову > his luck has *ed удача ему изменила > it *s my stomach меня от этого тошнит /воротит/ > my stomach *s at the sight от этого зрелища меня тошнит > to * smth. inside out выворачивать наизнанку > the wind *ed my umbrella inside out ветер вывернул мой зонт наизнанку > to * inside out выворачиваться наизнанку > my umbrella *ed inside out мой зонт вывернулся наизнанку > to * smth. upside down /topsy-turvy/ переворачивать что-л. вверх дном > robbers had *ed the room в комнате все вверх дном > to * upside down /topsy-turvy/ опрокидываться, переворачиваться вверх дном > the world has *ed topsy-turvy мир перевернулся (вверх дном) ampere ~ ампер-виток ~ out оказываться;
he turned out an excellent actor он оказался прекрасным актером;
as it turned out как оказалось ~ оборот (колеса) ;
at each turn при каждом обороте ~ ав. разворот;
at every turn на каждом шагу, постоянно;
to serve one's turn годиться( для определенной цели) at the ~ of the month в конце месяца at the ~ of the year в конце года ~ очередь;
turn and turn about, in turn, by turns по очереди ~ услуга;
to do (smb.) a good (an ill) turn оказать (кому-л.) хорошую (плохую) услугу ~ out прибыть;
the firebrigade turned out as soon as the fire broke out пожарная команда прибыла, как только начался пожар ~ разг. нервное потрясение, шок, приступ, припадок;
a turn of anger припадок гнева;
to give (smb.) a turn взволновать (кого-л.) she has a ~ for music у нее есть музыкальные способности;
he has an optimistic turn of mind он оптимист he hopes for a ~ in his luck он надеется, что ему повезет;
my affairs have taken a bad turn мои дела приняли дурной оборот ~ достигнуть (известного момента, возраста, количества) ;
he is turned fifty ему за пятьдесят ~ out оказываться;
he turned out an excellent actor он оказался прекрасным актером;
as it turned out как оказалось ~ up поднимать(ся) вверх;
загибать(ся) ;
her nose turns up у нее вздернутый нос ~ очередь;
turn and turn about, in turn, by turns по очереди in ~ по очереди jobber's ~ курсовая прибыль ~ портить(ся) ;
the leaves turned early листья рано пожелтели;
the milk has turned молоко прокисло ~ изменять(ся) ;
luck has turned фортуна изменила ~ портить(ся) ;
the leaves turned early листья рано пожелтели;
the milk has turned молоко прокисло ~ перемена;
изменение (состояния) ;
a turn for the better изменение к лучшему;
the milk is on the turn молоко скисает ~ on зависеть (от) ;
much turns on his answer многое зависит от его ответа he hopes for a ~ in his luck он надеется, что ему повезет;
my affairs have taken a bad turn мои дела приняли дурной оборот one good ~ deserves another посл. услуга за услугу;
not to do a hand's turn сидеть сложа руки not to know which way to ~ не знать, что предпринять one good ~ deserves another посл. услуга за услугу;
not to do a hand's turn сидеть сложа руки to take ~s делать поочередно, сменяться;
to wait one's turn ждать своей очереди;
out of turn вне очереди ~ ав. разворот;
at every turn на каждом шагу, постоянно;
to serve one's turn годиться (для определенной цели) she has a ~ for music у нее есть музыкальные способности;
he has an optimistic turn of mind он оптимист ~ up случаться;
подвернуться, оказаться;
something will turn up что-нибудь да подвернется star ~ главный номер программы sudden ~ неожиданный поворот ~ короткая прогулка, поездка;
to take (или to go for) a turn прогуляться to take ~s делать поочередно, сменяться;
to wait one's turn ждать своей очереди;
out of turn вне очереди to a ~ точно;
(meat is) done to a turn (мясо) зажарено как раз в меру turn виток (проволоки, резьбы) ~ вращать(ся), вертеть(ся) ~ вращать(ся) ~ вспахивать, пахать ~ выворачивать наизнанку;
перелицовывать (платье) ;
to turn inside out выворачивать наизнанку ~ делать(ся) ~ достигнуть (известного момента, возраста, количества) ;
he is turned fifty ему за пятьдесят ~ законченная спекулятивная сделка ~ изгиб (дороги) ;
излучина (реки) ~ изменение ~ изменение направления;
перен. поворотный пункт ~ изменять(ся) ;
luck has turned фортуна изменила ~ как глагол-связка делаться, становиться;
to turn red покраснеть;
to turn sick почувствовать тошноту ~ конец ~ короткая прогулка, поездка;
to take (или to go for) a turn прогуляться ~ короткий период деятельности ~ курсовая прибыль ~ полигр. марашка ~ pl менструации ~ менять направление ~ направлять, сосредоточивать (тж. внимание, усилия) ;
to turn the hose on the fire направить струю на огонь ~ направлять ~ поворот;
right (left, about) turn! воен. направо! (налево!, кругом!) ~ разг. нервное потрясение, шок, приступ, припадок;
a turn of anger припадок гнева;
to give (smb.) a turn взволновать (кого-л.) ~ обдумывать (вопрос, проблему) ~ оборот, построение (фразы) ;
a turn of speech оборот речи ~ оборот (колеса) ;
at each turn при каждом обороте ~ оборот ~ огибать, обходить ~ оказывать(ся) ~ оттачивать, придавать изящную форму ~ очередной номер программы, выход;
сценка, интермедия ~ очередь;
turn and turn about, in turn, by turns по очереди ~ очередь ~ переводить (на другой язык;
into) ~ перевертывать(ся) ;
переворачиваться, кувыркаться;
to turn upside down переворачивать вверх дном ~ перемена;
изменение (состояния) ;
a turn for the better изменение к лучшему;
the milk is on the turn молоко скисает ~ перемена ~ поворачивать(ся) ;
обращаться;
повертывать(ся) ;
to turn to the right повернуть направо;
to turn on one's heel(s) круто повернуться( и уйти) ~ поворачивать ~ поворот ~ подвернуть, вывихнуть (ногу) ~ получать в обращение( товары, деньги) ~ портить(ся) ;
the leaves turned early листья рано пожелтели;
the milk has turned молоко прокисло ~ превращать(ся) (into) ;
to turn milk into butter сбивать масло ~ пускать в обращение ~ рабочая смена ~ ав. разворот;
at every turn на каждом шагу, постоянно;
to serve one's turn годиться (для определенной цели) ~ разница между курсом покупателей и курсом продавцов ~ расстраивать (пищеварение, психику, здоровье и т. п.) ;
вызывать отвращение ~ (рабочая) смена ~ смена (рабочая) ~ способность;
склад (характера) ;
стиль, манера, отличительная черта ~ становить(ся) ~ строение, форма;
the turn of the ankle форма лодыжки ~ точить (на токарном станке) ;
обтачивать ~ услуга;
to do (smb.) a good (an ill) turn оказать (кому-л.) хорошую (плохую) услугу ~ форма turning: ~ pres. p. от turn to ~ teacher стать учителем;
turn about оборачиваться;
повернуть кругом (на 180 град.) ~ against восстановить против ~ against восстать против to ~ an enemy's flank воен. обойти противника с фланга to ~ an enemy's flank перехитрить (кого-л.) ~ очередь;
turn and turn about, in turn, by turns по очереди ~ aside отворачиваться ~ aside отклонять(ся) ~ away отворачивать(ся) ;
отвращать ~ away прогонять, увольнять ~ back обернуться ~ back повернуть назад ~ back прогнать ~ down загнуть;
отогнуть;
to turn down a collar отогнуть воротник ~ перемена;
изменение (состояния) ;
a turn for the better изменение к лучшему;
the milk is on the turn молоко скисает to ~ up the radio сделать радио громче;
turn upon внезапно изменить отношение( к кому-л.) ;
to turn (smb.'s) head вскружить (кому-л.) голову ~ in разг. возвращать, отдавать;
сдавать;
you must turn in your uniform when you leave the army вам нужно будет вернуть обмундирование, когда вылизуетесь ~ in зайти мимоходом ~ in лечь спать ~ in поворачивать вовнутрь;
to turn in one's toes поставить ноги носками внутрь ~ in поворачивать вовнутрь;
to turn in one's toes поставить ноги носками внутрь ~ выворачивать наизнанку;
перелицовывать (платье) ;
to turn inside out выворачивать наизнанку to ~ loose освобождать;
to turn yellow струсить;
to turn the scale (или the balance) решить исход дела to ~ loose спускать (животное) с цепи ~ превращать(ся) (into) ;
to turn milk into butter сбивать масло ~ разг. нервное потрясение, шок, приступ, припадок;
a turn of anger припадок гнева;
to give (smb.) a turn взволновать (кого-л.) ~ of century начало века ~ оборот, построение (фразы) ;
a turn of speech оборот речи ~ строение, форма;
the turn of the ankle форма лодыжки ~ of year начало года ~ off быстро сделать (что-л.) ~ off вчт. выключить ~ off закрывать( кран) ;
выключать (свет) ~ off отвлекать внимание ~ off sl. повесить ~ off сворачивать( о дороге) ~ off увольнять ~ on = turn upon ~ on вчт. включить ~ on зависеть (от) ;
much turns on his answer многое зависит от его ответа ~ on открывать( кран, шлюз) ;
включать( свет) ~ поворачивать(ся) ;
обращаться;
повертывать(ся) ;
to turn to the right повернуть направо;
to turn on one's heel(s) круто повернуться (и уйти) to ~ one's hand (to smth.) приниматься (за что-л.) to ~ one's mind (to smth.) думать (о чем-л.), обратить внимание( на что-л.), сосредоточиться (на чем-л.) ~ out бастовать ~ out вставать( с постели) ~ out вывертывать (карман, перчатку) ~ out выгонять, увольнять;
исключать ~ out выгонять в поле (скотину) ~ out выгружать ~ out вызывать;
turn out the guard вызовите караул ~ out выпускать (изделия) ~ out выпускать ~ out оказываться;
he turned out an excellent actor он оказался прекрасным актером;
as it turned out как оказалось ~ out прекращать работу ~ out прибыть;
the firebrigade turned out as soon as the fire broke out пожарная команда прибыла, как только начался пожар ~ out производить ~ out тушить( свет) ~ out увольнять ~ out украшать, наряжать;
снаряжать to ~ out in the cold = окатить холодной водой;
to turn up one's heels sl. протянуть ноги, скончаться ~ out вызывать;
turn out the guard вызовите караул ~ over возобновлять ~ over восполнять (запасы товаров) ~ over ком. иметь оборот ~ over иметь оборот ~ over обдумывать ~ over обновлять полностью ~ over опрокидывать(ся) ~ over переворачивать ~ over перевертывать(ся) ~ over передавать( дело, доверенность и т. п.) другому ~ over передавать другому лицу ~ over переделывать ~ over тех. перекрывать кран ~ over превращать ~ как глагол-связка делаться, становиться;
to turn red покраснеть;
to turn sick почувствовать тошноту ~ round изменять (свои взгляды, политику и т. п.) ~ round оборачиваться;
поворачиваться ~ как глагол-связка делаться, становиться;
to turn red покраснеть;
to turn sick почувствовать тошноту to ~ teacher стать учителем;
turn about оборачиваться;
повернуть кругом (на 180 град.) ~ направлять, сосредоточивать (тж. внимание, усилия) ;
to turn the hose on the fire направить струю на огонь ~ to обратиться (к кому-л.) ~ to окончиться( чем-л.), быть результатом( чего-л.) ~ to превратиться ~ to приняться за работу ~ up внезапно появляться;
приходить, приезжать ~ up вскапывать, выкапывать ~ up разг. вызывать тошноту ~ up открыть( карту) ~ up поднимать(ся) вверх;
загибать(ся) ;
her nose turns up у нее вздернутый нос ~ up случаться;
подвернуться, оказаться;
something will turn up что-нибудь да подвернется to ~ out in the cold = окатить холодной водой;
to turn up one's heels sl. протянуть ноги, скончаться to ~ up the radio сделать радио громче;
turn upon внезапно изменить отношение (к кому-л.) ;
to turn (smb.'s) head вскружить (кому-л.) голову ~ on = turn upon to ~ up the radio сделать радио громче;
turn upon внезапно изменить отношение (к кому-л.) ;
to turn (smb.'s) head вскружить (кому-л.) голову ~ перевертывать(ся) ;
переворачиваться, кувыркаться;
to turn upside down переворачивать вверх дном to ~ loose освобождать;
to turn yellow струсить;
to turn the scale (или the balance) решить исход дела to take ~s делать поочередно, сменяться;
to wait one's turn ждать своей очереди;
out of turn вне очереди ~ in разг. возвращать, отдавать;
сдавать;
you must turn in your uniform when you leave the army вам нужно будет вернуть обмундирование, когда вылизуетесь
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