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wide turn

  • 1 wide turn

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > wide turn

  • 2 wide turn

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  • 3 wide turn

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  • 4 wide turn

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  • 5 wide turn

    разворот с большим радиусом, пологий разворот

    Englsh-Russian aviation and space dictionary > wide turn

  • 6 turn

    turn n
    вираж
    angle of turn
    угол разворота
    banked turn
    разворот с креном
    base turn
    разворот на посадочную площадку
    base turn procedure
    схема разворота на посадочный круг
    base turn template
    шаблон схемы разворота на посадочный курс
    clear for the left-hand turn
    давать разрешение на левый разворот
    climbing turn
    разворот с набором высоты
    complete the turn
    завершать разворот
    delay the turn
    затягивать разворот
    descending turn
    разворот со снижением
    direction of turn
    направление разворота
    enter the turn
    входить в разворот
    execute the turn
    выполнять разворот
    final turn
    разворот на посадочную прямую
    flat turn
    плоский разворот
    flight corrective turn
    доворот для коррекции направления полета
    gentle turn
    пологий разворот
    gliding turn
    разворот в процессе планирования
    hovering turn
    разворот в режиме висения
    identifying turn
    разворот с целью опознавания
    inbound turn
    разворот в сторону приближения
    initiate the turn
    входить в разворот
    inside turn
    разворот с креном к центру разворота
    instrument turn
    разворот по приборам
    joining turn
    разворот на курс полета
    landing turn
    разворот на посадку
    lead-type turn
    разворот с упреждением
    left-hand turn
    левый разворот
    level turn
    горизонтальный разворот
    make a turn
    выполнять разворот
    outbound turn
    разворот в сторону удаления
    outside turn
    разворот с креном от центра разворота
    overshoot turn
    пологий разворот
    procedure turn
    разворот по установленной схеме
    procedure turn template
    шаблон схемы стандартного разворота
    rate of turn
    скорость разворота
    recover from the turn
    выходить из разворота
    recovery from the turn
    выход из разворота
    reverse turn
    разворот на обратный курс
    roll into the turn
    входить в разворот
    roll out of the turn
    выходить из разворота
    sharp turn
    вираж
    skidding turn
    разворот с наружным скольжением
    slipping turn
    разворот с внутренним скольжением
    standard rate turn
    разворот по стандартной схеме
    steady turn
    установившийся разворот
    steep turn
    вираж
    sustained turn
    установившийся разворот
    sustained turn rate
    скорость установившегося разворота
    teardrop procedure turn
    выход на посадочный курс отворотом на расчетный угол
    teardrop turn
    разворот на посадочный курс
    tighten the turn
    уменьшать радиус разворота
    true-banked turn
    разворот без скольжения
    turn back
    разворачиваться
    turn bar
    указатель
    turn characteristics
    характеристики на разворотах
    turn control knob
    ручка управления разворотом
    turn downwind
    разворачивать по ветру
    turn in
    доворачивать
    turn inbound
    разворачивать
    turn indicator
    гирополукомпас
    turn into the wind
    разворачивать против ветра
    turn lead
    упреждение разворота
    turn lead angle
    угол упреждения при развороте
    turn lead distance
    дистанция линейного упреждения разворота
    turn off
    сходить с ВПП
    turn off the system
    выключать систему
    turn on base leg
    1. выполнять третий разворот
    2. третий разворот turn on crosswind leg
    1. выполнять первый разворот
    2. первый разворот turn on downwind leg
    1. выполнять второй разворот
    2. второй разворот turn on final
    1. выполнять четвертый разворот
    2. четвертый разворот turn on the system
    включать систему
    turn outbound
    отворачивать
    turn over
    перекрывать
    turn table
    поворотный стенд
    turn the proper tank on
    включать подачу топлива из бока с помощью механического крана
    turn to final
    разворот на посадочную прямую
    turn to port
    выполнять левый разворот
    turn to starboard
    выполнять правый разворот
    undershoot turn
    преждевременный разворот
    upwind turn
    разворот против ветра
    wide turn
    пологий разворот
    wings-level turn
    разворот без крена

    English-Russian aviation dictionary > turn

  • 7 wide

    wide aperture antenna
    антенна с широким раскрывом
    wide turn
    пологий разворот

    English-Russian aviation dictionary > wide

  • 8 turn

    вираж; разворот || делать разворот, разворачивать(ся)

    360-degree turn — разворот на 360°, полный разворот

    to initiate the turn — входить в разворот; начинать разворот

    to turn on final — вы поднять четвёртый разворот;

    to turn to port — выполнять левый разворот;

    — to turn back
    — to turn downwind
    — to turn in
    — to turn inbound
    — to turn off
    — to turn out
    — to turn over

    Англо-русский словарь по гражданской авиации > turn

  • 9 turn

    поворот, разворот; вираж; оборот; виток ( штопора) ; изменение направления движения; pl. разг. обороты, число оборотов; выполнять разворот; изменять курс

    1/2 standard turn — разворот с угловой скоростью, составляющей половину от стандартной

    180° climbing vertical turn — разворот на 180° в вертикальной плоскости с набором высоты, половина восходящей петли

    180° vertical turn turning only to one side — разворот на 180° на вертикали [вертикальный маневр с изменением направления полёта на 180°], выполняемый в одну сторону

    180° vertical turn turning to both sides — разворот на 180° на вертикали [вертикальный маневр с изменением направления полёта на 180°], выполняемый в обе стороны

    180-degree turn — разворот на 180°; разг. возвращение домой [обратно, на базу]

    360° horizontal turn — замкнутый вираж в горизонтальной плоскости

    360-degree turn — разворот на 360°, полный [замкнутый] вираж

    4 minute turn — разворот на 360° за 4 минуты, четырёхминутный разворот

    90° climbing vertical turn — «свеча», переход в вертикальный набор высоты

    90° vertical turn — разворот на 90° на вертикали, вертикальный маневр с изменением направления полёта на 90°

    90-degree turn — разворот на 90°

    climbing-diving 180° vertical turn — разворот на 180" с набором высоты и последующим пикированием

    diving-climbing 180° vertical turn — разворот на 180° с пикированием и последующим набором высоты

    full needle width turn — разворот на полную ширину стрелки (указателя поворота и скольжения), двух- или четырёхминутный разворот (на 360°)

    get into a turn — вводить [входить] в разворот

    go into a turn — вводить [входить] в разворот

    in the opposite direction to the turn — в направлении, противоположном направлению разворота

    jet penetration type turn — разворот, характерный для реактивных самолётов, снижающихся с пробиванием облачности

    keep the turns upразг. сохранять нарастание числа оборотов

    Mach 0.6 turn — разворот на скорости, соответствующей числу М=0,6

    make a sharp turn out (of...) — резко отворачивать в сторону (от...)

    one and one-half degree per second turn — разворот с угловой скоростью 1,5 град/с

    rate 1/2 turn — разворот на 180° за две минуты

    rate 1 turn — разворот на 180° за одну минуту

    rate 3 turn — разворот на 180° за 1/4 минуты (с угловой скоростью 12 град/с)

    rate 2 turn — разворот на 180° за полминуты (с угловой скоростью 6 град/с)

    rate 4 turn — разворот на 180° за 7,5 секунды (с угловой скоростью 24 град/с)

    roll out of turn — убирать крен при выходе из разворота; выходить из разворота с убиранием крена

    turn with vertical bank — вираж с креном 90°, отвесный вираж, вираж «на лезвии»

    turn with vertical inclination — вираж с креном 90°, отвесный вираж, вираж «на лезвии»

    turns of the pattern — развороты при полете по кругу [по «коробочке»] над аэродромом

    U turn

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  • 10 turn

    1. I
    1) we all turned мы все повернулись [кругом]; he turned and went away in a rage он повернулся и в гневе пошел прочь; it is time for us to turn нам пора повернуть назад /пойти обратно/; he did not know which way /where/ то turn a) он не знал, куда повернуться; б) он не знал, к кому обратиться; the river turns and twists речка извивается /петляет/; the tide has turned начинается отлив или прилив; the wind is turning ветер меняется /меняет направление/; the weather has turned погода изменилась; I fear my luck will turn боюсь, мне изменит счастье /мне перестанет везти/
    2) the wheels turned колеса вертелись; the ball turns крутится шар; the merry-go-round turned карусель вертелась /вращалась/; this key is hard to turn этот ключ трудно повернуть; the tap won't turn кран не поворачивается
    3) my head is turning у меня кружится голова; heights always make his head turn высота всегда вызывает у него головокружение
    4) the leaves are beginning to turn листья начинают желтеть; her hair has begun to turn она начала седеть
    5) the milk has turned молоко прокисло
    6) the edge of the knife had turned лезвие ножа затупилось
    2. II
    1) turn in some manner turn abruptly (reluctantly, instinctively, wearily, insolently, etc.) резко и т.д. повернуть (ся) или свернуть; somewhere turn this way (that way, left, around, etc.) повернуть(ся) в эту сторону и т.д.; the main road turns sharp right шоссе круто уходит направо; turn homewards (west, etc.) направляться домой и т.д.; let's turn back давайте вернемся [назад]; she turned aside and began to sob она отвернулась и начала всхлипывать; turn round and let me see your face повернись и дай мне посмотреть тебе в лице; he turned round and round он все время поворачивался /крутился/; turn at tome time it is time to turn now теперь нам пора возвращаться /поворачивать назад/
    2) turn in some manner the boat (the car, the cart, etc.) turned over лодка и т.д. перевернулась; the aircraft struck the ground and turned over and over самолет врезался в землю и несколько раз перевернулся; turn head over heels перекувырнуться; the boat turned upside down лодка перевернулась /опрокинулась вверх дном/; my umbrella (my pocket, etc.) turned inside out у меня вывернулся зонтик и т.д.; the whole world turned topsy-turvy весь мир перевернулся, все в мире перевернулось
    3) turn in some manner the key (the handle, the tap, etc.) turns easily ключ и т.д. легко поворачивается
    4) turn in some manner the dancer turned quickly (awkwardly, gracefully. etc.) танцовщица быстро и т.д. кружилась
    5) turn in some manner the metal (the wood, this material, etc.) turns well (easily, quickly, etc.) этот металл и т.д. хорошо и т.д. поддается обточке
    3. III
    1) turn smb., smth. turn one's horse (one's car, the carriage, etc.) повернуть лошадь и т.д. обратно /назад/; she turned her steps она повернула назад; turn one's head обернуться, повернуть голову; turn the course of a river (the tide of events, etc.) изменить течение реки и т.д.; turn the conversation изменить тему разговора, повернуть беседу в другое русло; turn the corner а) поворачивать за угол; the саг turned the corner машина завернула за угол; б) выходить из затруднительного положения; once he has made up his mind, nothing will turn him если он что-нибудь решил, ничто не заставит его изменить своего решения
    2) turn smth. turn a page of a book (pancakes, an omelette, etc.) переворачивать страницу книги и т.д.; turn hay ворошить сено; turn soil пахать; turn a bed перетряхивать постель; turn a sheet отогнуть простыню; turn a garment (a dress, a suit, a coat, a cape, a collar, etc.) перелицовывать одежду и т.д.; turn a complete circle (a half-circle, 16 points, etc.) делать полный оборот и т.д.; turn a somersault делать сальто, кувыркаться || turn one's ankle вывихнуть /подвернуть/ ногу; turn smb.'s brain сводить кого-л. с ума; grief (overwork, etc.) has turned his brain от горя и т.д. он сошел с ума
    3) turn smth. turn a wheel вращать колесо; turn a handle крутить ручку; turn a key (the cap of a jar, the tap, the doorknob, etc.) поворачивать ключ и т.д.
    4) || turn smb.'s head вскружить кому-л. голову; success had not turned his head от успеха голова у него не закружилась; turn smb.'s stomach вызывать у кого-л. тошноту; the mere sight of food turns his stomach его воротит /мутит, тошнит/ от одного вида пищи; I'm afraid the rolling of the ship will turn my stomach боюсь, что качка на корабле вызовет у меня тошноту
    5) turn smb. turn an excellent husband (a soldier, a schoolmaster, a reporter, a poet, a Christian, etc.) стать [со временем] прекрасным мужем и т.д.; turn traitor (informer, etc.) стать предателем и т.д.
    6) || turn some colour стать какого-л. цвета, принять какую-л. окраску; turn all the colours of the rainbow окраситься во все цвета радуги; he turned colour он покраснел или побледнел
    7) turn smth. turn milk (cream) сквашивать молоко (сливки); heat has turned the milk от жары молоко скисло
    9) turn smth. turn a blow отводить удар; the metal is thick enough to turn a bullet металл достаточно прочен, чтобы пуля от него отскочила /его не пробила/
    10) turn smth. turn candlesticks (wooden vessels, brass, lead pipes, columns, etc.) вытачивать /обтачивать/ подсвечники и т.д.
    11) turn smth. turn an epigram (a couplet, a witty reply, etc.) сочинить эпиграмму и т.д.; turn a pretty compliment сделать тонкий комплимент; he has a knack for turning a phrase он очень ловко жонглирует словами; I don't know how he managed to turn the trick я не знаю, как ему удалось провернуть это дельце
    12) turn smth. turn the edge of a knife (the edge of an axe, etc.) затупить лезвие ножа и т.д.
    4. IV
    1) turn smth., smb. somewhere turn one's саг (the horse, the carriage, one's steps, etc.) back (homewards, northwards, etc.) повернуть машину и т.д. назад и т.д.; turn your eyes /your look/ this way посмотри сюда; turn smth. in some manner turn your chair so that the light is on your left поверните стул так, чтобы свет падал слева; turn the corner at full speed поворачивать за угол на полном ходу
    2) turn smth., smb. in some manner turn the pages of a book (of a magazine, etc.) thoughtlessly (absent-mindedly, idly, quickly, etc.) бездумно и т.д. переворачивать страницы книги /перелистывать книгу/ и т.Л; turn some old letters nostalgically с грустью перебирать старью письма; turn a patient (a body, etc,) easily легко перевернуть больного и т.д.; the doctor turned him over and looked at his back врач перевернул его и осмотрел его спину; turn the boy around, I want to sound him поверий мальчика, я его выслушаю; turn the handle three times (the tap one notch, etc.) повернуть ручку три раза и т.д.; turn one's pockets (a coat, one's glove, etc.) inside out выворачивать карманы и т.д. [наизнанку]; turn the boat (the pail, etc.) upside down опрокидывать лодку и т.д. вверх дном; don't turn this box upside down этот ящик нельзя кантовать; turn a room upside down перевернуть все в комнате вверх дном || turn one's ankle unexpectedly (suddenly, etc.) неожиданно и т.д. подвернуть ногу; I turned my ankle painfully я подвернул ногу и мне очень больно
    3) turn smth. in some manner you are turning my words around ты передергиваешь мои слова
    4) turn some age at some time she has not yet turned 40 ей еще нет сорока; his son just turned 4 его сыну как раз исполнилось четыре года; it has just turned two сейчас ровно два часа
    5) turn smth. somewhere turn aside a blow отвести удар
    6) turn smth. at some time I could turn a Latin verse in my day в свое время я писал стихи на латыни
    5. VI
    turn smth., smb. into some [other] state
    1) turn the light low уменьшить свет; the lamp low подвернуть лампу; fear turned him cowardly страх сделал его трусом; what turned the milk bad /sour/? от чего скисло молоко; his behaviour turns me sick от его поведения меня всего переворачивает
    2) turn a bird (prisoners, the animals, an arrow, etc.) loose выпустить птичку и т.д. на свободу; why don't you turn them free? почему ты не отпустишь их?
    3) turn the leaves red (yellow, etc.) окрашивать листья багрянцем и т.д.; the very thought turned me pale одна мысль об этом заставила меня побледнеть, я побледнел при одной мысли об этом; illness (worry, etc.) turned his hair white /grey/ он поседел от болезни и т.д.; the success of others turns him green with envy он зеленеет от зависти, когда слышит об успехах других
    6. XI
    1) be turned out of some place be turned out of the country (out of the house, etc.) быть высланным /водворенным/ из страны и т.д.; he was turned out of the hall for making too much noise его вывели /выгнали/ из зала за то, что он очень шумел; be turned from smth. he was turned from the door его прогнали от дверей
    2) be turned to for smth. this book may be turned to for accurate information (for answers, for clues, etc,) в этой книге можно найти точные сведения и т.д.
    3) be turned the dress (the suit, etc.) must be turned платье и т.д. надо перелицевать
    4) be turned by smth. be turned by steam приводиться в движение паром; be turned by gas вращаться при помощи газа; the mill wheel is being turned by water-power (by electricity, etc.) мельничное колесо приводится в движение /вращается/ силой воды и т.д.
    5) be turned (in)to smth. the drawing-room (the nursery, etc.) was turned into a study гостиная и т.д. была превращена в кабинет, из гостиной и т.д. сделали кабинет; his love was turned to hatred его любовь перешла в ненависть; it was formerly thought that common metals could be turned into gold раньше думали, что обычные металлы можно превратить в золото
    7. XII
    have smth. turned have one's coat (one's dress, etc.) turned отдать пальто и т.д. в перелицовку
    8. XIII
    turn to do smth. turn to look behind (to say smth., to pass the book to me, etc.) повернуться, чтобы посмотреть назад и т.д.
    9. XV
    turn into some state turn pale побледнеть: the leaves are beginning to turn yellow листья начинают желтеть; turn blue with cold посинеть от холода; turn green with envy позеленеть от зависти; her hair was said to have turned grey in one night говорили, что она поседела за одну ночь; this ink turns black on drying эти чернила становятся черными, когда высыхают; turn cold /colder/ холодать; the weather turned rainy (bad, stormy, etc.) погода стала дождливой и т.д.; whenever I come he turns sulky всегда, когда я прихожу, он начинает дуться; don't leave the milk on the table, it'll turn sour не оставляй молоко на столе, оно скиснет
    10. XVI
    1) turn to (off, towards, into, etc.) smth., smb. turn to the window (to the left, to the right, towards me, towards the sea, for home, etc.) повернуться к окну и т.Л; turn off the highway сворачивать с шоссе; the road turns to the north here здесь дорога уходит на север; the boat turned to windward лодка развернулась по ветру; he turned towards home он направился домой; turn into a wide road (into an alley, into the next street, etc.) свернуть на широкое шоссе и т.д.; they turned from the road into the woods они повернули с дороги в лес; turn at (in, on, etc.) smth. turn at the corner завернуть за угол, поворачивать на углу; turn in bed (in one's sleep, etc.) вертеться в постели и т.д.; the wheels won't turn in this mud в такой грязи колеса будут буксовать и не будут вращаться/; it's enough to make him turn in his grave он от этого в гробу перевернется; turn on one side while sleeping повернуться на бок во сне
    2) turn into smth. turn into a house (into the saloon at the corner, etc.) завернуть /заглянуть/ в дом и т.д.; turn into a town заехать в город
    3) turn to smth., smb. turn to the last page заглянуть на последнюю страницу; you'll find those figures if you turn to page 50 вы найдете эти цифры на странице/, если откроете страницу/ пятьдесят; my thoughts often turn to this subject мои мысли часто возвращаются к этой теме /к этому вопросу/; I shall now turn to another matter теперь я перейду к другому вопросу; I have no one to turn to мне не к кому обратиться; he is not the man you could turn to in these questions он не тот человек, к которому можно было бы обратиться с просьбой по таким вопросам; turn to smth., smb. for smth. turn to the dictionary for a word (to literature for reference, to a document for guidance, to his letter for consolation, etc.) обращаться к словари в поисках слова и т.Л; turn to his friend for help (to his mother for comfort, to his teacher for advice and guidance, to the police for protection, etc.) искать помощи у друга и т.д.; turn to the secretary for information (to his colleagues for support, etc.) обратиться к секретарю за справкой и т.д.; he turned to us for a loan он попросил нас дать ему взаймы денег
    4) turn to smth. turn to music (to the study of law, to medical practice, to journalism, to painting, to book-collecting, etc.) заняться музыкой и т.д.; turn to one's work приниматься /браться/ за работу; he is giving up the stage and turning to film work он бросает сцену и переходит на работу в кино; turn to drink начать пить; turn to crime заняться преступной деятельностью; the starling only turns to worms when there are no berries скворцы питаются червями только тогда, когда нет ягод
    5) turn on (round, etc.) smth. turn on an axle (on its axis, round the sun, etc.) вращаться на оси и т.д.; the door turns on its hinges дверь поворачивается на петлях; he turned on his heel and walked out of the room он круто повернулся и вышел из комнаты
    6) turn with smth. his head turns with giddiness у него кружится голова; his head has turned with success успех вскружил ему голову; the weathercock turns with the wind флюгер крутится по ветру; turn at smth. his stomach turns at the sight of blood (at the mere sight of food, etc.) у него поднимается тошнота при виде крови и т.д.
    7) turn (in)to smb., smth. turn into a butterfly (into a very pleasant fellow, into vinegar, into ice, etc.) превратиться в бабочку /стать бабочкой/ и т.д.; fog sometimes turns to snow (to rain) туман иногда переходит в снег (в дождь); the water has turned to ice вода превратилась в лед; the snow had turned (in)to slush снег превратился в слякоть; can a wolf turn into a lamb? разве может волк обернуться /стать/ овечкой?; my admiration soon turned to scorn мое восхищение скоро сменилось презрением; turn from smth. (in)to smth. the wind turned from west into south-west Южный ветер сменился юго-западным; the sphere has turned from blue to red шар из голубого стал красным; turn for smth. turn for the better (for the worse) (из)меняться к лучшему (к худшему)
    8) turn (up)on smth. everything (the whole argument, the outcome, the decision, etc.) turns on his answer (on that fact, on this point, etc.) все и т.д. зависит от его ответа и т.д.; the success of the trip turns on the weather успех поездки будет зависеть от погоды; everything turned upon the result of the battle все определялось исходом боя; the conversation turned (up)on sport (upon dress, upon hunting, on a variety of subjects, etc.).разговор вертелся вокруг /касался/ спорта и т.д.; the debate did not turn upon any practical propositions обсуждение не касалось никаких практических вопросов
    9) turn on (against) smb. the dog (the lion, the big.cat, etc.) turned on its trainer (on its owner, on its keeper, on its pursuers, etc.) собака и т.д. набросилась на своего дрессировщика и т.Л; even the most friendly dog may turn on you if you tease or annoy it даже самая добродушная собака может наброситься на человека, если ее раздразнить; why have you turned on me? что ты на меня взъелся?; what a fine excuse for turn logon me прекрасный повод, чтобы наброситься на меня; he turned angrily against his relatives (against his former friends, against his opponents, etc.) он яростно ополчился на своих родственников и т.А; the newspapers turned against the Parliament газеты начали кампанию против парламента; his words (his own criticism, etc.) turned against him его слова и т.д. обернулись против него самого
    10) turn from smb. he turned from his friends oil порвал со своими друзьями; он отвернулся от своих друзей; he turned from the Democrats and joined the Republicans он порвал с демократической партией в примкнул к республиканцам
    11. XXI1
    1) turn smth., smb. to (towards, into, on, etc.) smth., smb. turn the саг to the bridge повернуть машину к месту, въехать на мост; turn one's car to the left (one's camera to the right, etc.) повернуть машину налево и т.д.; turn one's саг towards the centre of the town направиться [на машине] к центру города; turn one's horse to the hills погнать лошадь в горы; turn cows to pasture выгнать коров на пастбище; turn one's chair to the fire повернуть свое кресло к камину; plants turn blooms to the light растения поворачивают головки к свету; turn one's back to one's guests (to the audience, to the wall, etc.) повернуться /стать/ спиной к гостям и т.д.; turn the light into the dark room направить луч света в темную комнату; turn a telescope on a star (the searchlight on smb., etc.) направлять телескоп на звезду и т.д.; turn the talk into other channels перевести разговор на другую тему; turn one's eyes on the stage обратить или перевести взгляд на сцену; turn smth. with smth. he turned the blow with his arm он отвел удар рукой id turn a deaf ear to smb.'s request./to smb./ отказаться выслушать чью-л. просьбу, остаться глухим к чьей-л. просьбе
    2) turn smb. out of (from, etc.) smth. turn smb. out of his room (out of the house, out of a club, etc.) выгнать кого-л. из комнаты и т.д.; turn a beggar from one's door прогнать нищего от своих дверей
    3) turn smth. to smth., smb. turn one's thoughts (one's attention, one's mind) to one's work (to practical matters, to something more important, etc.) сосредоточить свои мысли и т.д. на работе и т.А; at last they turned their attention to her наконец они занялись ею; turn one's efforts to something more important направлять свои усилия на что-либо более важное
    4) turn smth. to smth. turn one's hand to useful work заняться полезным делом; he can turn his hand to almost anything он умеет делать почти все; he knows how to turn things to advantage /to account/ он знает, как из всего извлечь пользу; he turns even his errors to account даже из своих ошибок он извлекает пользу
    5) turn smth. on (in) smth. turn a wagon on its side опрокинуть телегу на бок; turn a chop in a pan перевернуть котлету на сковородке || turn one's ankle on the edge of the sidewalk вывихнуть ногу, споткнувшись о край тротуара
    6) turn smth. in smth. turn one's hat in one's hands (the toy in one's fingers, etc.) вертеть шляпу в руках и т.д.; turn the key in the lock поворачивать ключ в замке и т.д. id turn smb. round one's little finger вертеть кем-л. [как хочешь], помыкать кем-л.
    7) turn smth. (in)to smth. turn water into ice (defeat into victory, love to hatred, tears into laughter, etc.) превращать воду в лед и т.д.; turn a theatre into a cinema (a garden into a tennis-court, etc.) переделать /перестроить/ театр в кинозал и т.д.; turn one's land into money (one's bonds into cash, their stock into cash, etc.) обратить землю в деньги и т.д.; turn coins into paper money поменять звонкую монету на бумажные деньги; turn this piece of prose into verse переложить этот прозаический отрывок на стихи; turn this passage into Greek (a German letter into French, Latin into English, etc.) перевести этот отрывок на греческий язык и т.д.; turn smb. (in)to smb. turn her into a cinema star (the boy into a friend, our soldiers into a police force, etc.) сделать из нее кинозвезду и т.д.; turn a pessimist into an optimist превращать пессимиста в оптимиста; the fairy turned the prince into a frog фея превратила принца в лягушку id turn swords into ploughshares перековать мечи на орала
    8) turn smb., smth., against smb. turn the children against their father (everyone against the boy, his family against him, etc.) восстанавливать детей против отца и т.д.; turn friends against friends восстановить друзей друг против друга; it turns their argument against them это направляет их доводы против них самих
    9) turn smb., smth. from smth. turn smb. from his duty отвлекать кого-л. от исполнения своих обязанностей; nothing will ever turn him from his purpose ничто не заставит его изменять своему решению или отказаться от своей цели; turn a vessel from her course заставить судно отклониться от курса; turn the conversation from an unpleasant subject увести разговор от неприятной темы
    10) turn smth. out of /from/ smth. turn candlesticks out of /from/ brass вытачивать медные подсвечники
    12. XXII
    turn smb. by doing smth. the police turned the advancing crowd by firing over their heads полиция заставила наступающую толпу повернуть назад, начав стрельбу в воздух
    13. XXV
    turn when... (as if..., etc.) she turned when she saw us увидев нас, она отвернулась или свернула; he turned as if to go он повернулся, делая вид, что собирается уходить
    14. XXVI
    turn smth. when... she turns his shirt-collars when they get frayed она перевертывает воротнички его сорочек, когда они вытираются

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > turn

  • 11 sharp turn

    English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > sharp turn

  • 12 skidding on the turn

    English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > skidding on the turn

  • 13 reverse turn

    English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > reverse turn

  • 14 steeply banked turn

    English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > steeply banked turn

  • 15 vertical turn

    English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > vertical turn

  • 16 abierto

    Del verbo abrir: ( conjugate abrir) \ \
    abierto es: \ \
    el participio
    Multiple Entries: abierto     abrir
    abierto 1
    ◊ -ta adjetivo
    1
    a)ventana/boca open;
    con los ojos muy abiertos with eyes wide open; un sobre abierto an unsealed envelope; los espacios abiertos de la ciudad the city's open spaces
    b) [estar] ‹ válvula open;
    dejaste la llave abierto you left the faucet (AmE) o (BrE) tap running
    d) herida open;
    madera/costura split 2 [estar] ‹comercio/museo open 3 (Ling) ‹ vocal open 4
    a) [ser] ( espontáneo) open
    abierto a algo open to sth 5 (manifiesto, directo) open
    abierto 2 sustantivo masculino (Dep) open (tournament)
    abrir ( conjugate abrir) verbo transitivo 1 ( en general) to open; ‹ paraguas to open, put up; ‹ mapa to open out, unfold; ‹ cortinas to open, draw back; ‹ persianas to raise, pull up; ‹ cremallera to undo 2llave/gas to turn on; ‹ válvula to open; ‹ cerradura to unlock 3
    a)zanja/túnel to dig;
    agujero to make
    b) (fam) ‹ pacienteto open … up (colloq)
    4
    a)comercio/museo› ( para el quehacer diario) to open;
    ( inaugurar) to open (up);
    ¿a qué hora abren la taquilla? what time does the box office open?
    b)carretera/aeropuerto to open;
    frontera to open (up) 5 negocio to start, set up; ‹ suscripción to take out; ‹ investigación to begin, set up; abierto fuego to open fire
    b)acto/debate/baile to open
    c)desfile/cortejo to head, lead
    d)paréntesis/comillas to open
    6 apetito to whet abrirse verbo pronominal 1
    a) [puerta/ventana] to open;
    abiertose a algo ‹a jardín/corredor› to open onto sth
    b) [flor/almeja] to open;
    [ paracaídas] to open 2 ( refl) ‹chaqueta/cremallera to undo 3 [ perspectivas] to open up;
    b) [período/era] to begin

    abierto,-a adjetivo
    1 open (grifo) (turned) on: dejaste la ventana abierta de par en par, you left the window wide open
    2 (sin restricciones, cercas, límites) open: salimos a campo abierto, we went out to the open
    el europeo es un mercado abierto, Europe is an open market
    3 (sin tapujos) clear: es una abierta declaración de intenciones, it's an open declaration of her intentions
    carta abierta al señor ministro, an open letter to the minister
    4 (persona receptiva) open-minded (extrovertido) open
    5 Dep open
    abrir
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (separar, permitir el acceso, desplegar) to open (una cerradura) to unlock (una cremallera) to undo
    2 (una llave, un grifo) to turn on
    3 (hacer una zanja, un túnel, etc) to dig (hacer un ojal, el agujero de una ventana) to make: abriremos una ventana en esta pared, we'll make an opening for a window on this wall
    4 (iniciar un discurso, una actividad) to open, start: van a abrir una tienda en la esquina, they're going to open a shop on the corner
    tienes que abrir una cuenta en este banco, you've got to open an account at this bank
    5 (ampliar, expandir) to open: deberíamos abrir nuestro mercado, we should open up our market
    6 (rajar) to slit: cuando abrimos la sandía resultó que no estaba madura, when we cut open the watermelon we realised that it wasn't ripe
    abrieron la res en canal, they slit open the animal
    7 Jur a Álvarez le han abierto un expediente, they have started investigating Álvarez
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 to open Locuciones: en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, in the twinkling of an eye ' abierto' also found in these entries: Spanish: abierta - abrir - accesible - brecha - cerrar - cielo - expansiva - expansivo - plaza - apetito - carácter - entre - mar - mina - operación - par English: all-night - clash - door - establish - gate - half-open - lest - nowhere - open - outspoken - raw - restricted - revolving credit - run - undone - upfront - wide - wide open - all - beer - gape - gaping - on - overt - somewhere - undisguised - work

    English-spanish dictionary > abierto

  • 17 scale

    ̈ɪskeɪl I
    1. сущ.
    1) а) собир. чешуя( рыб и т. п.) б) чешуйка
    2) шелуха, тонкая пленка Syn: husk, peel
    3) а) зубной камень Syn: tartar б) осадок;
    накипь, минеральные отложения;
    тех. окалина
    4) мн. щечки, накладки (на рукоятке складного ножа) ∙
    2. гл.
    1) а) чистить( рыбу) ;
    соскабливать, снимать чешую б) лущить (горох, арахис и т. п.)
    2) соскабливать, сдирать, счищать, снимать( накипь, нарост, зубной камень и т. п.) ;
    снимать окалину
    3) шелушиться, отшелушиваться (тж. scale off)
    4) образовывать окалину, накипь или осадок;
    откладываться в виде осадка II
    1. сущ.
    1) чаша, чашка или платформа весов the fish turned the scale at 20 pounds ≈ в рыбе оказалось 20 фунтов весу
    2) мн. а) весы (прибор для взвешивания предметов, тж. a pair of scales) б) Весы (созвездие и знак зодиака) Syn: Libra
    2. гл.
    1) взвешивать Syn: weigh, consider
    2) весить Syn: weigh III
    1. сущ.
    1) а) градация, шкала;
    иерархия, лестница pay scale, salary scale, wage scale ≈ шкала заработной платы, тарифная сетка, расценки rate scale ≈ шкала расценок, шкала тарифных ставок social scale ≈ социальная иерархия, общественная лестница б) ступень( занимаемая в той или иной иерархии), уровень развития( по той или иной шкале)
    2) а) масштаб( карты и т. п.) ;
    масштабное соотношение on a large( grand) /small scale ≈ в большом/маленьком масштабе natural scaleнатуральная величина б) градуировка( измерительного прибора и т. п.)
    3) размер, протяженность;
    охват enormous scale ≈ огромный размер, большой размах moderate scale ≈ скромный размер
    4) а) муз. гамма to play, practice scalesиграть гаммы to sing a scale ≈ петь гамму achromatic scale chromatic scale diatonic scale major scale minor scale б) живоп. цветовая гамма
    5) масштабная линейка
    6) мат. система счисления (тж. scale of notation)
    2. гл.
    1) а) определять масштаб, сводить к определенному масштабу б) представлять в определенном масштабе в) регулировать, определять (затраты;
    количество, объем и т. п. чего-л.) в соответствии с какой-л. системой The nurses have offered to scale down their pay demands to a lower figure. ≈ Медсестры предложили понизить свои требования к оплате труда до меньшей суммы.
    2) градуировать, наносить деления;
    строить шкалу
    3) быть или стать соизмеримыми, сопоставимыми (о нескольких различных объектах)
    4) подниматься, взбираться( по лестнице и т. п.) Syn: climb чаш(к) а весов - to turn the * at весить (столько-то) - he tips the *s at 225 pounds он весит 225 фунтов - to turn the * (образное) склонить чашу весов, перевесить;
    решить исход дела - this argument at once turned the * этот аргумент оказался решающим - to throw smth. into the * (образное) бросить что-л. на чашу весов;
    повлиять на решение вопроса платформа весов обыкн. pl весы (тж. a pair of *s) - kitchen * кухонные весы - * car вагон-весы - * weight гиря - the *s of justice( образное) весы правосудия - to weight the *s on behalf of smb. (образное) склонять чашу весов в чью-л. пользу весы для взвешивания жокеев (на скачках) - Clerk of the Scales служащий, взвешивающий жокеев перед скачками - to go /to ride/ to * взвешиваться( до и после скачек - о жокеях) - to go to * at иметь (такой-то) вес, весить (столько-то - о жокеях) (the Scales) Весы (созвездие и знак зодиака) > equal /even/ * состояние равновесия или неопределенности > to be in the * быть нерешенным /неясным/ > his fate hangs in the * его судьба еще не решена > victory was long in the * долгое время трудно было сказать, кто победит > to hold the *s between two rivals не оказывать предпочтения ни одному из двух соперников > to hold the *s even /equally/ судить беспристрастно > to throw one's /the/ sword into the * использовать силу оружия в качестве решающего аргумента весить, иметь вес - to * six pounds весить шесть фунтов - I don't think she *s so much я не думаю, чтобы у нее был такой большой вес взвешивать взвешиваться чешуйка (собирательнле) чешуя - fish's * чешуя рыбы чешуеобразный тонкий слой, шелуха, пленка и т. п. - to scrape off * счищать шелуху - to rub off * соскребать пленку накипь;
    осадок (техническое) окалина зубной камень тонкая металлическая пластинка - the *s of armour панцирные пластинки - * armour (историческое) чешуйчатый доспех pl щечки, накладки (на рукоятке складного ножа) (редкое) погон( из металла) (химическое) неочищенный парафин (энтомология) червец, щитовка, тля( Coccidae) > (the) *s fell from his eyes пелена спала с его глаз;
    (библеизм) чешуя отпала от глаз его > to remove the *s from smb.'s eyes раскрыть кому-л. глаза (на истинное положение вещей) очищать, чистить;
    снимать (чешую) - to * fish чистить рыбу лущить (горох и т. п.) соскабливать, счищать (накипь, нарост, зубной камень и т. п.) - to * a boiler чистить котел, снимать накипь с котла - to * tartar from teeth снимать камень с зубов снимать окалину (редкое) прочищать орудие( выстрелом) лупиться, шелушиться (тж. * off) - the skin *s after scarlet fever после скарлатины кожа шелушится - some of the paint has *d off местами краска облупилась покрывать накипью;
    образовывать осадок;
    покрывать слоем (чего-л.) - London smoke has *d the stones of its buildings лондонские дома покрыты копотью от дыма - hard water *s a boiler от жесткой воды котел покрывается накипью покрываться накипью, осадком, слоем ( чего-л.) ;
    образовывать окалину - the stone which has *d with time замшелый от времени камень (диалектизм) разбрасывать, распространять масштаб (карты, чертежа) - a small * map карта мелкого масштаба - distance * линейный масштаб - the * of a drawing масштаб чертежа - what is the * of the map? каков масштаб этой карты? - (drawn) to * в масштабе соотношение, масштаб - drawing to * черчение в масштабе - a picture( of an object) reduced to a * of one twelfth of the natural size снимок( предмета), уменьшенный до 1/12 натуральной величины размер, охват;
    размах - on /upon/ a large * в большом масштабе - * of living уровень жизни - to live on a grand * жить на широкую ногу - a vast * of building широкий размах строительства - mass action on a world-wide * массовые выступления в мировом масштабе;
    массовое движение, охватившее весь мир шкала, градуировка (обыкн. измерительного инструмента) - Fahrenheit * шкала Фаренгейта - the * of a thermometer шкала термометра - a * of inches дюймовая шкала - the * on this ruler is in both centimetres and inches деления на этой линейке и в сантиметрах, и в дюймах - a measuring * for colours шкала цвета - wave-length * (радиотехника) шкала волн градация;
    шкала, такса - * of wages шкала заработной платы - * of hardness (техническое) шкала твердости - * of slopes (топография) шкала заложений - * of age возрастные группы (в демографии) - * of payments( for work) шкала ставок оплаты( за труд) ;
    шкала заработной платы - tonnage * (морское) шкала вместимости - * of taxes, taxation * шкала ставок налогового обложения - to mark examination papers on the * of one hundred per cent оценивать экзаменационные работы по стопроцентной шкале (психологическое) серия тестов (разной сложности) для проверки способностей или успехов учащихся (музыкальное) гамма - diatonic * диатоническая гамма - the * of F гамма фа мажор - to sing * петь гаммы - to practice the *s on the piano разучивать гаммы на фортепиано - to learn one's *s учить гаммы;
    начинать учиться музыке, быть начинающим в музыке гамма цветов - a * of colours цветовая гамма - a long * of tones богатая гамма оттенков уровень, ступень ( развития) ;
    положение, место - to be high in the * of civilization стоять на высокой ступени цивилизации - to be at the top of the * стоять на высшей ступени (чего-л.) - the *of animal life период /ступень/ животной жизни - ae we rise in the zoological *... по мере того, как человек поднимался по ступеням зоологической лестницы... - to be high in the social * занимать высокое положение в обществе - to sink in the social * спуститься по общественной лестнице (устаревшее) лестница;
    ступени лестницы масштабная линейка (математика) система счисления (тж. * of notation) - decimal * шкала в десятичном счислении > * points( специальное) пункты оценки, статьи экстерьера изображать в определенном масштабе - to * a building вычертить здание в масштабе вычислить или определить по масштабу - to * a map определять расстояние по карте сводить к общим масштабам, к одному масштабу быть соизмеримым, сопоставимым, иметь общий масштаб градуировать, наносить деления вычислять размах (чего-л.), охват (чем-л.) ;
    регулировать объем (чего-л.) - a production schedule *d to actual needs производственный график, составленный с учетом практических потребностей - to * smth. up постепенно повышать, увеличивать что-л. - to * up wages повышать /подтягивать/ зарплату - to * up armaments наращивать вооружения - to * up production расширять производство - to * smth& down постепенно сокращать - to * down prices снижать цены - to * down imports постепенно сокращать импорт - the effect of inflation is to * down people's spending инфляция ведет к тому, что люди начинают урезывать расходы подниматься, взбираться (особ. по приставной лестнице) - to * a castle wall взобраться по стене замка, взять замок штурмом - to * a mountain взбираться на гору - to * the heights of philosophical abstraction овладевать высотами философской абстракции перелезать (через забор, стену и т. п.) absolute ~ абсолютная шкала ascending ~ возрастающая шкала ~ ступень, уровень (развития) ;
    to be high in the social scale занимать высокое положение в обществе drawing ~ масштабная линейка enlarged ~ увеличенный масштаб fast time ~ вчт. ускоренный масштаб времени full ~ полный масштаб fuzzy ~ размытая шкала graduated ~ градуированная шкала graphic rating ~ шкала оценок gray ~ полутоновая шкала hammer ~ тех. молотобоина, окалина scale ( the Scales) = Libra;
    to hold the scales even судить беспристрастно image ~ масштаб изображения large ~ крупномасштабный( о карте) large ~ крупный масштаб;
    on a large scale в крупном масштабе large ~ широкий, массовый( о жилищном строительстве и т. п.) log ~ логарифмическая шкала metric ~ метрическая шкала ~ масштаб;
    размер;
    on a large (или grand) scale в большом масштабе;
    on a small scale в маленьком масштабе large ~ крупный масштаб;
    on a large scale в крупном масштабе ~ масштаб;
    размер;
    on a large (или grand) scale в большом масштабе;
    on a small scale в маленьком масштабе ~ муз. гамма;
    to practice scales играть гаммы preference ~ шкала предпочтений probability ~ шкала вероятностей progressive ~ прогрессивная шкала ~ градация, шкала;
    rate scale шкала расценок ratio ~ шкала оценок reduced ~ уменьшенный масштаб relative ~ относительная шкала salary ~ шкала заработной платы salary ~ шкала окладов salary ~ шкала ставок оплаты за труд scale (the Scales) = Libra;
    to hold the scales even судить беспристрастно ~ быть соизмеримыми, сопоставимыми to ~ в масштабе ~ весить ~ pl весы ~ весы ~ взвешивать ~ муз. гамма;
    to practice scales играть гаммы ~ градация, шкала;
    rate scale шкала расценок ~ градация ~ камень (на зубах) ~ лущить ~ масштаб;
    размер;
    on a large (или grand) scale в большом масштабе;
    on a small scale в маленьком масштабе ~ масштаб ~ масштабная линейка ~ образовывать окалину, накипь ~ тех. окалина, накипь;
    scales fell from his eyes пелена спала с его глаз ~ охват ~ подниматься, взбираться (по лестнице и т. п.) ~ подробные данные о выпуске серийных облигаций ~ размах ~ размер ~ сводить к определенному масштабу;
    определять масштаб;
    to scale down prices понижать цены;
    to scale up wages повышать заработную плату ~ мат. система счисления (тж. scale of notation) ~ система счисления ~ ставка заработной платы ~ ступень, уровень (развития) ;
    to be high in the social scale занимать высокое положение в обществе ~ ступень развития ~ такса ~ уровень ~ чашка весов;
    to turn (или to tip) the scale at so many pounds весить столько-то фунтов ~ чешуя (у рыб и т. п.) ~ чистить, соскабливать чешую ~ шелуха ~ шелушиться ~ шкала ~ шкала ставок по различным операциям ~ pl щечки, накладки (на рукоятке складного ножа) the ~ to be 1:50 000 в масштабе 1:50 000;
    to scale по масштабу ~ down постепенно понижать ~ down снижать цены ~ down сокращать налоги ~ down уменьшать масштаб ~ сводить к определенному масштабу;
    определять масштаб;
    to scale down prices понижать цены;
    to scale up wages повышать заработную плату ~ of basic rates шкала базисных ставок ~ of basic rates шкала основных ставок заработной платы ~ of pay шкала ставок оплаты за труд ~ of pensions шкала пенсий ~ of premium rates шкала страховых взносов ~ of prices масштаб цен ~ of prices шкала цен ~ of rates applied per wagon-load шкала тарифов для вагона как весовой единицы ~ of wages шкала ставок заработной платы the ~ to be 1:50 000 в масштабе 1:50 000;
    to scale по масштабу ~ сводить к определенному масштабу;
    определять масштаб;
    to scale down prices понижать цены;
    to scale up wages повышать заработную плату ~ тех. окалина, накипь;
    scales fell from his eyes пелена спала с его глаз to sink in the ~ опуститься на более низкую ступень;
    утратить( прежнее) значение, опуститься sliding ~ движок логарифмической или счетной линейки sliding ~ скользящая шкала slow time ~ замедленный масштаб времени small ~ мелкая структура social ~ социальная шкала tax ~ шкала ставок налогового обложения time ~ масштаб времени tip the ~ перевесить чашу весов tip the ~ склонять чашу весов tip: ~ перевешивать;
    to tip the scale(s) = склонить чашу весов;
    решить исход дела turn the ~ решать исход дела turn the ~ склонять чашу весов turn: to ~ loose освобождать;
    to turn yellow струсить;
    to turn the scale( или the balance) решить исход дела ~ чашка весов;
    to turn (или to tip) the scale at so many pounds весить столько-то фунтов universal ~ универсальная шкала wage ~ шкала заработной платы wage: ~ attr. связанный с заработной платой, относящийся к заработной плате;
    wage scale шкала заработной платы;
    wage labour наемный труд

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > scale

  • 18 socket

    1. место посадки башмака обсадной колонны в скважине || обсадить ( скважину)
    2. овершот; ропсокет; канатный замок; канатный замок с серьгой
    4. раструб; уширенный конец трубы; ловильный колокол
    5. стакан ( невыпаленная часть шпура), невзорванное дно шпура
    6. муфта, гильза, втулка; серьга; зажим
    7. впадина; гнездо; углубление

    combination bit and mud socket — американский песочный насос с долотообразным выступом под клапаном (служит для очистки пробки в скважине)


    * * *
    1. место посадки башмака обсадной колонны в скважине || обсадить ( скважину)
    2. довольный колокол; овершот, ловильный шлипс
    4. канатный замок; канатный замок с серьгой

    * * *
    муфта, гильза, втулка; раструб, расширенный конец ( трубы); серьга, замок, зажим; ловильный колокол

    * * *
    1) муфта; гильза; втулка
    3) канатный замок; канатный замок с серьгой; серьга; зажим
    4) раструб; уширенный конец трубы
    7) стакан ( невыпаленная часть шпура); невзорванное дно шпура
    - babcock manila-rope socket
    - ball socket
    - bell socket
    - bell mouth socket
    - bit-and-mud socket
    - bit-cone fishing socket
    - boot socket
    - bowl slip socket
    - brace socket
    - bulldog pin socket
    - bulldog slip socket
    - center jar socket
    - circulating slip socket
    - collar socket
    - combination socket
    - combination bit-and-mud socket
    - combination tubing and sucker rod socket
    - corrugated friction socket
    - drill pipe bell socket
    - drilling-unit brace socket
    - drive-down socket
    - fishing socket
    - friction socket
    - half-turn socket
    - horn socket
    - horn socket with bowl
    - jar socket
    - jar crotch socket
    - jar rein socket
    - mandrel socket
    - mud socket
    - new era socket
    - oval socket
    - pipe socket
    - Prosser socket
    - pump-rod fishing socket
    - reducing socket
    - releasing socket
    - rock-bit cone fishing socket
    - roller-ratchet socket
    - rope socket
    - self-releasing socket
    - side-jar socket
    - slip socket
    - square socket
    - sucker-rod socket
    - swivel socket
    - swivel rope socket
    - T-socket
    - tongue socket
    - tube socket
    - tubing socket
    - tubing-and-sucker rod socket
    - wedge socket
    - widemouth socket
    - wing socket
    - wireline socket
    - wirerope socket
    * * *
    1) ловильный колокол; 2) муфта

    Англо-русский словарь нефтегазовой промышленности > socket

  • 19 eye

    1. noun
    1) (the part of the body with which one sees: Open your eyes; She has blue eyes.) ojo
    2) (anything like or suggesting an eye, eg the hole in a needle, the loop or ring into which a hook connects etc.) ojo; agujero
    3) (a talent for noticing and judging a particular type of thing: She has an eye for detail/colour/beauty.) buen ojo

    2. verb
    (to look at, observe: The boys were eyeing the girls at the dance; The thief eyed the policeman warily.) mirar, observar
    - eyebrow
    - eye-catching
    - eyelash
    - eyelet
    - eyelid
    - eye-opener
    - eye-piece
    - eyeshadow
    - eyesight
    - eyesore
    - eye-witness
    - before/under one's very eyes
    - be up to the eyes in
    - close one's eyes to
    - in the eyes of
    - keep an eye on
    - lay/set eyes on
    - raise one's eyebrows
    - see eye to eye
    - with an eye to something
    - with one's eyes open

    eye n ojo
    to keep an eye on vigilar / echar un ojo
    can you keep an eye on my suitcase? ¿me puedes vigilar la maleta?
    to see eye to eye opinar igual / estar de acuerdo
    tr[aɪ]
    1 SMALLANATOMY/SMALL ojo
    2 (sense) vista
    3 (of needle, potato, storm) ojo
    1 (observe) mirar, observar; (look at longingly) echar el ojo a
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    all eyes were on... todas las miradas estaban puestas en...
    an eye for an eye ojo por ojo
    as far as the eye can see hasta donde alcanza la vista
    before somebody's very eyes delante de los propios ojos de alguien
    eyes right/left/front vista a la derecha/izquierda/al frente
    for somebody's eyes only sólo para los ojos de alguien
    if you had half an eye si tuvieras dos dedos de frente
    in the eyes of the law según la Ley
    in the eyes of somebody / in somebody's eyes a ojos de alguien, para alguien
    my eye! ¡y un pepino!
    not to be able to believe one's eyes no poder dar crédito a sus ojos, no poder creer lo que uno está viendo
    not to take one's eyes off something/somebody no quitar la vista de encima de algo/a alguien, no perder de vista algo/a alguien
    to be all eyes ser todo,-a ojos
    to be one in the eye for somebody suponer un chasco para alguien
    to be unable to look somebody in the eye no poder mirar a alguien a la cara
    to be unable to take one's eyes off somebody/something no poder quitar la vista de encima de alguien/algo
    to be up to one's eyes in something estar hasta el cuello de algo
    to cast one's eyes over something / run one's eyes over something ojear algo, echar una ojeada a algo
    to catch somebody's eye llamar la atención de alguien
    to clap/lay/set eyes on somebody/something ver a alguien/algo, poner los ojos en alguien/algo
    to close one's eyes to something hacer la vista gorda a algo
    to eye somebody up and down comerse a alguien con los ojos
    to give somebody the eye lanzar miraditas a alguien
    to have an eye for something tener buen ojo para algo
    to have eyes in the back of one's head darse cuenta de todo, tener cien ojos
    to have one's eye on (watch) observar, vigilar
    to keep an eye on (watch) vigilar 2 (not let out of sight) no perder de vista
    to keep an eye open/out for somebody/something mantener los ojos bien abiertos por si se ve a alguien/algo
    to keep one's eyes peeled estar ojo avizor
    to look somebody in the eye mirar a alguien a los ojos
    to make eyes at somebody / make sheep's eyes at somebody dirigir miraditas a alguien
    to only have eyes for somebody / have eyes only for somebody sólo tener ojos para alguien
    to open somebody's eyes abrirle los ojos a alguien
    to see eye to eye with somebody estar de acuerdo con alguien
    to turn a blind eye to something hacer la vista gorda a algo
    with an eye to doing something con la intención de hacer algo, con miras a hacer algo
    with one's eyes open con los ojos abiertos
    with one's eyes shut con los ojos cerrados
    with the naked eye a simple vista
    eye contact contacto ocular
    eye shadow sombra de ojos
    eye socket cuenca del ojo, órbita
    eye ['aɪ] vt, eyed ; eyeing or eying : mirar, observar
    eye n
    1) : ojo m
    2) vision: visión f, vista f, ojo m
    a good eye for bargains: un buen ojo para las gangas
    3) glance: mirada f, ojeada f
    4) attention: atención f
    to catch one's eye: llamar la atención
    5) point of view: punto m de vista
    in the eyes of the law: según la ley
    6) : ojo m (de una aguja, una papa, una tormenta)
    n.
    hondón s.m.
    ojo s.m.
    yema s.f.
    v.
    mirar detenidamente v.
    ojear v.

    I
    1)
    a) ( Anat) ojo m

    to have sharp eyestener* (una) vista de lince, tener* ojo de águila

    as far as the eye can/could see — hasta donde alcanza/alcanzaba la vista

    I can't believe my eyes — si no lo veo, no lo creo, no doy crédito a mis ojos

    to close o shut one's eyes to something — cerrar* los ojos a algo

    to cry one's eyes outllorar a lágrima viva or a mares

    to have eyes in the back of one's headtener* ojos en la nuca

    to keep one's eyes open — (to avoid danger, problems) andarse* or ir* con cuidado; ( looking for something)

    keep your eyes open for a restaurantvete mirando or fíjate bien a ver si ves un restaurante

    to keep one's eyes peeled o skinned — (colloq) (to avoid danger, problems) andarse* or ir* con mucho ojo (fam); ( looking for something) estar(se)* ojo avizor (fam)

    to make eyes at somebodyhacerle* ojitos a alguien

    to open somebody's eyesabrirle* los ojos a alguien

    to open somebody's eyes to something — hacerle* ver algo a alguien

    to see eye to eye with somebody(usu with neg) estar* de acuerdo con alguien, coincidir con alguien

    with one's eyes shut o closed — con los ojos cerrados

    to be up to one's eyes in somethingestar* hasta aquí de algo (fam)

    I'm up to my eyes in workestoy agobiada or (fam) hasta aquí de trabajo

    we're up to our eyes in debt — estamos cargados de deudas, debemos hasta la camisa (fam); (before n)

    eye contact: to make/avoid eye contact with somebody mirar/evitar mirar a alguien a los ojos; at eye level — a la altura de la vista

    b) (look, gaze) mirada f

    to cast o run one's eye over something — recorrer algo con la vista

    to have one's eyes on somebody/something — no quitarle los ojos de encima a alguien/algo

    in Mary's eyes he's perfectpara Mary or a ojos de Mary es perfecto

    to keep one's eye(s) on something/somebody: keep your eyes on the road! no apartes la vista de la carretera!; keep your eyes on him no lo pierdas de vista; to look somebody straight in the eye mirar a alguien directamente a los ojos; she won't look me in the eye no se atreve a mirarme a la cara; he couldn't take his eyes off her no podía quitarle los ojos de encima; easy on the eye (colloq) agradable a la vista; to keep an eye on something/somebody vigilar or cuidar algo/a alguien; keep an eye on those two no pierdas de vista a esos dos, vigila a esos dos; to lay o set o (colloq) clap eyes on somebody/something: from the moment I laid o set o (colloq) clapped eyes on him/it desde el primer momento que lo vi; to turn a blind eye (to something) — hacer* la vista gorda (frente a or ante algo)

    c) ( attention)
    d) ( ability to judge) ojo m

    to have an eye for design — tener* ojo or idea para el diseño

    to have an eye for detail — ser* detallista

    2)
    a) ( of needle) ojo m
    b) (of hurricane, storm) ojo m
    c) ( in potato) ojo m

    II
    transitive verb (pres p eying or BrE eyeing)
    a) ( observe) mirar, observar
    b) ( ogle) mirar, pasarle revista a (fam)
    [aɪ]
    1. N
    1) (gen) ojo m

    I couldn't believe my (own) eyes — no daba crédito a lo que veían mis ojos

    black eye — ojo m morado or amoratado

    she had a black eyetenía or llevaba un ojo morado

    to catch sb's eye — llamar la atención de algn

    it was the biggest one I'd ever clapped eyes on — era el más grande que jamás me había echado a la cara

    to cry one's eyes out — llorar a moco tendido or a lágrima viva

    there wasn't a dry eye in the house — no había ojos sin lágrimas en todo el teatro

    to have an eye or a keen eye for a bargain — tener mucha vista or buen ojo para las gangas

    he's got his eye on you — (=monitoring) no te quita ojo, no te pierde de vista; (=attracted to) te tiene echado el ojo

    she had eyes only for me — solo tenía ojos para mí, no tenía ojos más que para mí

    it hits you in the eye — salta a la vista

    in the eyes of — a los ojos de

    to keep an eye on sth/sb — (=watch) vigilar algo/a algn, echar una mirada a algo/algn; (=look after) cuidar algo/a algn

    keep your eyes on the road! — ¡no quites los ojos de la carretera!

    to look sb (straight) in the eye — mirar a algn (directamente) a los ojos

    with the naked eye — a simple vista

    he couldn't keep his eyes off the girl — se le fueron los ojos tras la chica

    to keep an eye out or one's eyes open for sth/sb — estar pendiente de algo/algn

    keep an eye out for the postmanestáte atento or pendiente a ver si ves al cartero

    keep your eyes open for bag-snatchers! — ¡mucho ojo, no te vayan a dar el tirón!

    I could hardly keep my eyes opense me cerraban los ojos

    I saw it with my own eyes — lo vi con mis propios ojos

    to be in the public eye — estar a la luz pública

    eyes right/left/front! — ¡vista a la derecha/izquierda/al frente!

    to run one's eye over sth — (from curiosity) recorrer algo con la vista; (checking) echar un vistazo a algo

    as far as the eye can seehasta donde alcanza la vista

    it's five years since I last set or laid eyes on him — hace cinco años que no lo veo

    the sun is in my eyes — me da el sol en los ojos

    he didn't take his eyes off her for one second — no le quitó los ojos de encima ni por un segundo

    with an eye to sth/to doing sth — con vistas or miras a algo/a hacer algo

    use your eyes! * — ¡abre los ojos!

    it happened before my very eyes — ocurrió delante de mis propios ojos

    under the watchful eye of — bajo la atenta mirada de

    to look at sth with or through the eyes of an expert — ver algo con ojos de experto

    - have eyes in the back of one's head

    he must have eyes in the back of his head! — ¡no se le escapa una!

    I haven't got eyes in the back of my headiro ¿te crees que tengo ojos en la nuca o qué?

    - give sb the glad eye
    - open sb's eyes to sth
    - keep one's eyes peeled
    - do sth with one's eyes
    - make sheep's eyes at sb
    - shut one's eyes to
    - be up to one's eyes
    - an eye for an eye
    blind 1., feast 2., mind 1., 1), sight
    2) [of potato] yema f
    3) [of storm] ojo m
    4) (Sew) [of needle] ojo m; [of hook and eye] hembra f de corchete
    2.
    VT mirar detenidamente, observar

    she eyed him sullenly/with suspicion — lo miró detenidamente con gesto hosco/con recelo

    an expensive leather jacket I had been eyeing for some time — una cazadora de cuero muy cara a la que hacía tiempo (que) le había echado el ojo

    3.
    CPD

    eye candy * Nregalo m para la vista

    eye clinic Nclínica f oftalmológica

    eye colour Ncolor m de los ojos

    eye contact Ncontacto m ocular

    eye cream Ncrema f para los ojos

    eye doctor N(US) oculista mf

    eye drops NPLgotas fpl para los ojos

    eye examination Nexamen m de la vista

    eye patch Nparche m

    eye pencil Nlápiz m de ojos

    eye shadow Nsombra f de ojos

    eye socket Ncuenca f del ojo

    eye test Ntest m visual or de visión

    * * *

    I [aɪ]
    1)
    a) ( Anat) ojo m

    to have sharp eyestener* (una) vista de lince, tener* ojo de águila

    as far as the eye can/could see — hasta donde alcanza/alcanzaba la vista

    I can't believe my eyes — si no lo veo, no lo creo, no doy crédito a mis ojos

    to close o shut one's eyes to something — cerrar* los ojos a algo

    to cry one's eyes outllorar a lágrima viva or a mares

    to have eyes in the back of one's headtener* ojos en la nuca

    to keep one's eyes open — (to avoid danger, problems) andarse* or ir* con cuidado; ( looking for something)

    keep your eyes open for a restaurantvete mirando or fíjate bien a ver si ves un restaurante

    to keep one's eyes peeled o skinned — (colloq) (to avoid danger, problems) andarse* or ir* con mucho ojo (fam); ( looking for something) estar(se)* ojo avizor (fam)

    to make eyes at somebodyhacerle* ojitos a alguien

    to open somebody's eyesabrirle* los ojos a alguien

    to open somebody's eyes to something — hacerle* ver algo a alguien

    to see eye to eye with somebody(usu with neg) estar* de acuerdo con alguien, coincidir con alguien

    with one's eyes shut o closed — con los ojos cerrados

    to be up to one's eyes in somethingestar* hasta aquí de algo (fam)

    I'm up to my eyes in workestoy agobiada or (fam) hasta aquí de trabajo

    we're up to our eyes in debt — estamos cargados de deudas, debemos hasta la camisa (fam); (before n)

    eye contact: to make/avoid eye contact with somebody mirar/evitar mirar a alguien a los ojos; at eye level — a la altura de la vista

    b) (look, gaze) mirada f

    to cast o run one's eye over something — recorrer algo con la vista

    to have one's eyes on somebody/something — no quitarle los ojos de encima a alguien/algo

    in Mary's eyes he's perfectpara Mary or a ojos de Mary es perfecto

    to keep one's eye(s) on something/somebody: keep your eyes on the road! no apartes la vista de la carretera!; keep your eyes on him no lo pierdas de vista; to look somebody straight in the eye mirar a alguien directamente a los ojos; she won't look me in the eye no se atreve a mirarme a la cara; he couldn't take his eyes off her no podía quitarle los ojos de encima; easy on the eye (colloq) agradable a la vista; to keep an eye on something/somebody vigilar or cuidar algo/a alguien; keep an eye on those two no pierdas de vista a esos dos, vigila a esos dos; to lay o set o (colloq) clap eyes on somebody/something: from the moment I laid o set o (colloq) clapped eyes on him/it desde el primer momento que lo vi; to turn a blind eye (to something) — hacer* la vista gorda (frente a or ante algo)

    c) ( attention)
    d) ( ability to judge) ojo m

    to have an eye for design — tener* ojo or idea para el diseño

    to have an eye for detail — ser* detallista

    2)
    a) ( of needle) ojo m
    b) (of hurricane, storm) ojo m
    c) ( in potato) ojo m

    II
    transitive verb (pres p eying or BrE eyeing)
    a) ( observe) mirar, observar
    b) ( ogle) mirar, pasarle revista a (fam)

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  • 20 Historical Portugal

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

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