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(done readily)

  • 1 this can readily be done

    to var viegli izdarīt

    English-Latvian dictionary > this can readily be done

  • 2 prompt

    1. adjective
    1) (ready to act) bereitwillig

    be prompt in doing something or to do something — etwas unverzüglich tun

    2) (done readily) sofortig

    her prompt answer/reaction — ihre prompte Antwort/Reaktion

    3) (punctual) pünktlich
    2. adverb 3. transitive verb
    1) (incite) veranlassen

    prompt somebody to something/to do something — jemanden zu etwas veranlassen/dazu veranlassen, etwas zu tun

    2) (supply with words; also Theatre) soufflieren (+ Dat.); (supply with answers) vorsagen (+ Dat.); (give suggestion to) weiterhelfen (+ Dat.)
    3) (inspire) hervorrufen [Kritik, Eifersucht usw.]; provozieren [Antwort]
    4. noun
    (Computing) Bereitschaftsmeldung, die; Prompt, der (fachspr.)
    * * *
    I [prompt] adjective
    (acting, or happening, without delay or punctually: a prompt reply; I'm surprised that she's late. She's usually so prompt.) She's usually so prompt.prompt
    - academic.ru/90510/promptly">promptly
    - promptness
    - at one/two o'clock prompt     II [prompt] verb
    1) (to persuade to do something: What prompted you to say that?) antreiben
    2) (to remind (especially an actor) of the words that he is to say: Several actors forgot their words and had to be prompted.) soufflieren
    •
    * * *
    [prɒm(p)t, AM prɑ:m(p)t]
    I. vt
    1. (spur)
    ▪ to \prompt sth etw veranlassen
    her speech has \prompted an angry response from both parties ihre Rede hat auf beiden Seiten verärgerte Reaktionen hervorgerufen
    ▪ to \prompt sb [to do sth] jdn [dazu] veranlassen, etw zu tun
    what \prompted you to say that? was hat dich dazu veranlasst, das zu sagen?
    2. THEAT (remind of lines)
    ▪ to \prompt sb jdm soufflieren
    ▪ to \prompt sb [to do sth] jdn auffordern[, etw zu tun]
    II. adj
    1. (swift) prompt
    ▪ to be \prompt in [or about] doing sth etw schnell [o zügig] tun
    \prompt action sofortiges Handeln
    \prompt delivery unverzügliche Lieferung
    \prompt reply prompte Antwort
    2. (punctual) pünktlich
    III. adv inv pünktlich
    classes start at ten o'clock \prompt der Unterricht beginnt Punkt zehn Uhr
    IV. n
    1. COMPUT Befehlsaufforderung f, Eingabeaufforderung f, Prompt m fachspr
    2. THEAT (reminder) Stichwort nt
    3. THEAT ( fam: prompter) Souffleur, Souffleuse m, f
    * * *
    [prɒmpt]
    1. adj (+er)
    prompt; action unverzüglich, sofortig

    the company was prompt in its response to these accusations — die Firma hat prompt auf diese Vorwürfe reagiert

    2. adv

    at 6 o'clock prompt — pünktlich um 6 Uhr, Punkt 6 Uhr

    3. vt
    1) (= motivate) veranlassen (to zu)

    to prompt sb to do sth — jdn (dazu) veranlassen, etw zu tun

    he was prompted purely by a desire to help — sein Beweggrund war einzig und allein der Wunsch zu helfen

    in the hope that this might prompt a discussion — in der Hoffnung, dass das eine Diskussion in Gang setzen wird

    he didn't need any prompting to ask her — man brauchte ihn nicht darum zu bitten, sie zu fragen

    he's a bit lazy, he needs a little prompting —

    I'll do it myself, I don't need you to prompt me he doesn't need any prompting, he's cheeky enough as it is — ich mache das schon selbst, du brauchst mich nicht erst zu ermahnen er braucht keine Ermunterung, er ist auch so schon frech genug

    2) (= evoke) memories, feelings wecken; conclusion nahelegen

    it prompts the thought that... — es drängt einem den Gedanken auf, dass...

    3) (= help with speech) vorsagen (sb jdm); (THEAT) soufflieren (sb jdm)

    he recited the whole poem without any prompting — er sagte das ganze Gedicht auf, ohne dass ihm jemand (etwas) vorsagen musste

    he forgot his speech and had to be prompted — er hatte seine Rede vergessen, so dass or sodass man ihm mit Stichworten auf die Sprünge helfen musste

    4. vi (THEAT)
    soufflieren
    5. n
    1) (THEAT)

    to give sb a prompt — jdm weiterhelfen; (Theat) jdm soufflieren

    2)

    (= reminder, encouragement) to give sb a prompt — jdm einen Schubs geben (inf), jdn anstoßen

    we have to give our debtors the occasional prompt — wir müssen uns bei unseren Schuldnern hin und wieder in Erinnerung bringen

    3) (COMPUT) Prompt m, Eingabeaufforderung f
    * * *
    prompt [prɒmpt; prɒmt; US prɑ-]
    A adj (adv promptly)
    1. unverzüglich, prompt, sofortig, umgehend:
    a prompt reply eine prompte oder umgehende Antwort;
    assistance was prompt (die) Hilfe ließ nicht (lange) auf sich warten;
    to be prompt in doing ( oder to do) sth etwas unverzüglich tun;
    he’s always prompt to criticize er ist mit Kritik schnell bei der Hand
    2. WIRTSCH
    a) pünktlich (auch allg):
    promptly at 8 o’clock Punkt 8 Uhr
    b) sofort liefer- und zahlbar:
    for prompt cash gegen sofortige Kasse
    B adv pünktlich:
    at 8 o’clock prompt Punkt 8 Uhr
    C v/t
    1. jemanden bewegen, veranlassen ( beide:
    to sth zu etwas;
    to do sth [dazu,] etwas zu tun)
    2. etwas veranlassen, Kritik etc hervorrufen, Gedanken etc wecken
    3. a) THEAT jemandem soufflieren
    b) besonders SCHULE jemandem ein-, vorsagen
    c) jemandem weiterhelfen
    D v/i
    a) THEAT soufflieren
    b) besonders SCHULE ein-, vorsagen
    E s
    1. WIRTSCH
    a) Ziel n, Zahlungsfrist f:
    at a prompt of 2 months gegen Zweimonatsziel
    b) Kaufvertrag m mit Zahlungsziel
    2. (erinnernde) Mahnung
    3. IT Prompt m, Eingabeaufforderung f
    4. a) THEAT Soufflieren n
    b) besonders SCHULE Ein-, Vorsagen n
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    1. adjective
    1) (ready to act) bereitwillig

    be prompt in doing something or to do something — etwas unverzüglich tun

    2) (done readily) sofortig

    her prompt answer/reaction — ihre prompte Antwort/Reaktion

    3) (punctual) pünktlich
    2. adverb 3. transitive verb
    1) (incite) veranlassen

    prompt somebody to something/to do something — jemanden zu etwas veranlassen/dazu veranlassen, etwas zu tun

    2) (supply with words; also Theatre) soufflieren (+ Dat.); (supply with answers) vorsagen (+ Dat.); (give suggestion to) weiterhelfen (+ Dat.)
    3) (inspire) hervorrufen [Kritik, Eifersucht usw.]; provozieren [Antwort]
    4. noun
    (Computing) Bereitschaftsmeldung, die; Prompt, der (fachspr.)
    * * *
    n.
    Anzeige -n f.

    English-german dictionary > prompt

  • 3 do

    1. I
    1) I have something (some work, some business, etc.) to do мне надо сделать кое-что и т. д.; it gives me something to do благодаря этому у меня есть [какое-то] занятие; I have nothing to do мне нечего делать; what are you doing? что вы делаете?; what do you do? чем вы занимаетесь?, кем вы работаете?; try what kindness will do попробуй, чего можно добиться добром; look at what a little hard work can do смотри, что может дать небольшое усилие; they are up and doing coll. они уже заняты делами, они уже работают id nothing doing! coll. этот номер не пройдёт!, ни черта!
    2) I don't know what to do я не знаю, что делать /как мне поступить/; what is there to do? что тут поделаешь /можно сделать/?; there is nothing to do ничего не поделаешь
    3) half of that (half a dozen eggs, etc, will do хватит /довольно/ и половины этого и т.д., that hat (this coat, this colour, these boots, etc.) will do эта шляпа и т. д. подойдет; can you make L 5 do? вы обойдетесь пятью фунтами?; will I do? я вам подхожу?, я гожусь? || that will do а) это годится /сойдет/; б) довольно!, хватит!
    4) only in the Continuous he came to see what was doing он пришел посмотреть, что происходит; there is nothing doing дела стоят, ничего не происходит
    5) 0 only in the Perfect I've done я кончил; one more question and I have done еще один вопрос и все
    2. II
    1) do somewhere often in the Continuous there was not much doing there там особенно нечего было делать; there is nothing to do here a) здесь нечего делать; б) здесь скучно
    2) do in some manner you have done wisely (unwisely) вы (не)умно поступили; you could do better ты бы мог сделать получше; I should have done so мне так и следовало поступить; you've helped me by so doing поступив так /сделав это/, вы мне помогли; what is worth doing is worth doing promptly стоящее дело надо делать сразу; you should not do so much не нужно так утруждать себя; he lives longest who does most кто больше работает, тот дольше живет
    3) do in some manner that (it, this piece of string, etc.) will do excellently ( just as well, perfectly well, etc.) a) это и т. д. прекрасно и т. д. подойдет; б) этого и т. д. вполне и т. д. хватит /достаточно/; this will hardly do а) вряд ли этого хватит; б) вряд ли это уместно; do somewhere that won't do here здесь это не пройдет; do for some time she made her old dress do another season она проносила свое старое платье еще сезон || that'll do now а теперь довольно / хватит/; this will never do так совсем нельзя; так просто невозможно, так дело не пойдет
    4) do in some manner do well преуспевать, процветать; all the boys except one have done well все мальчики, кроме одного, добились хороших результатов; he will do better next time в следующий раз у него получится лучше; I hope you will do better in future надеюсь, вам в дальнейшем больше повезет /у вас в дальнейшем дела пойдут лучше/; the firm is doing none too well дела фирмы идут далеко не блестяще; the garden is doing well все в саду цветет; the wheat is doing well пшеница хорошо уродилась; the patients ( the wounded soldiers, mother and child, etc.) are doing well (quite well, fine, admirably, nicely, etc.) больные и т. д. чувствуют себя хорошо и т. д.; is the baby doing well? хорошо ли развивается /растет/ малыш?; they asked how he was doing они справились о его состоянии, они спрашивали, как его здоровье или как у него дела; we are doing pretty well дела у нас идут совсем неплохо; she is doing poorly дела у нее идут неважно
    5) 0 to have done at wine time will he (n)ever have done! неужели он никогда не кончит /не перестанет/]; move quicker or we shall never have done шевелись /пошевеливайся/, а то мы никогда не кончим
    3. III
    1) do smth. are you doing anything? вы заняты?; I'll do nothing of the sort ничего подобного я делать не стану; she did nothing but cry она только плакала; he makes her do anything he wants он заставляет ее делать все, что [он] захочет
    2) do smb. (usually with will) that (this car, this coat, etc.) will do him это и т. д. ему подойдет; it is a small house but it will do us дом маленький, но нас он устроит; will these shoes do you? вам подойдут такие туфли?
    3) do smth. do one's work (a job, one's task, one's duty, etc.) выполнять [свою] работу и т. д.; he has done a good day's work он изрядно поработал сегодня; do repairs производить ремонт; she did six copies of the letter она сняла с письма шесть копий; do one's military service проходить срочную службу в армии
    4) do smth. do the house (one's things, one's books, etc.) приводить в порядок дом и т. д.; do the room убирать в комнате; do the housework делать домашнюю работу, выполнять работу по дому; do the dishes (the windows, the floors, etc.) мыть посуду и т. д., do the beds застилать кровати; do the bookshelves (the mantlepiece, the chairs, the knick-knacks, etc.) смахивать /стирать/ пыль с книжных полок и т. д.; do the flowers расставлять цветы (в вазах), do one's teeth чистить зубы; do one's hair причесываться, делать прическу
    5) do smth. do the dinner (the supper, etc.) сварить /сделать/ обед и т. д.; do the salad (the dessert, the fish, etc.) приготавливать /делать/ салат и т. д.; do one's lessons (one's homework, one's exercises, etc.) готовить /делать/ уроки и т. д.; do sums (problems in algebra, a puzzle, etc.) решать арифметические задачи и т. д.
    6) do smth. do [much] good приносить [большую] пользу; do a good deed сделать доброе дело; do harm /wrong/ причинять вред, делать зло; that won't do any good от этого толку не будет. это ничего не даст; do a good (bad) turn оказать хорошую (плохую) услугу; do a favour сделать одолжение; do one's best /one's utmost, one's damnedest, all one can/ сделать все возможное; do wonders /miracles/ творить чудеса; do mischief натворить дел, набедокурить; do smb.'s will исполнять чью-л. волю
    7) do some distance the car was doing sixty машина делала шестьдесят километров или миль /ехала со скоростью шестьдесят километров или миль/
    8) do smth., smb. do a book (magazine articles, her, an oil portrait, etc.) писать книгу и т. д.; do one's correspondence писать письма; Disney did a movie about the seven dwarfs Дисней сделал фильм о семи гномах
    9) do smth., smb. do Hamlet (Lear, etc.) ставить или играть Гамлета и т. д., do a concerto (Bach, Brahms, etc.) исполнять концерт и т. д., do the host (the interpreter, etc.) выступать в качестве /исполнять обязанности, быть за/ хозяина и т. д.
    10) do smth. do medicine (engineering, history, etc.) изучать медицину и т. д.; do science изучать точные науки
    11) do some places do London (Switzerland, a museum, a picture-gallery, a town, the sights, etc.) осмотреть Лондон и т.д., ознакомиться с достопримечательностями Лондона и т. д.; we did a show мы сходили в театр
    12) 0 have done smth. have you done supper (your lessons, the letter, etc.)? ты кончил ужинать и т. д.?
    13) 0 do smth. do time отбывать тюремное заключение; do ten years (a five-year term, etc.) отсидеть десять лет и т. д.; if they get caught they would have to do five years если они попадутся, их засадят /посадят/ на /им придется отсидеть/ пять лет
    4. IV
    1) do smth. in some manner do smth. well (readily /willingly/, carefully, resolutely, on purpose, etc.) (с)делать что-л. хорошо и т. д.; do one's work thoroughly тщательно выполнить свою работу; do smth. differently делать что-л. не так [, как другие] /иначе/; do smth. at some time what are you doing now? что вы сейчас делаете?, чем вы сейчас заняты?; what shall I do next? a) что мне делать дальше?; б) как мне быть /поступить/ дальше?; I must do some work now теперь мне надо поработать; he does all his work at night он работает по ночам /ночью/; are you doing anything tomorrow? вы завтра [чем-л.] заняты?; do smth. somewhere these are things they do better at home [than abroad] подобные вещи делают лучше у нас [, чем за границей]
    2) do smb. in some manner this room (a flat, in town, that, etc.) will do me quite well эта комната и т. д. меня вполне устроит
    3) do some distance at some time do 30 miles today (this distance in time, etc.) проехать /проделать, покрыть, пройти/ 30 миль и т. д. за сегодняшний день; он such a bad road I could not do more than 30 kilometres an hour no такой плохой дороге я не мог делать больше тридцати километров в час
    4) do smth. in some manner do the beef (the meat, etc.) well (thoroughly, etc.) хорошо прожарить говядину и т. д., do the vegetables a little longer потушите овощи еще немного
    5) do smth. at some time he is doing history now он сейчас изучает историю; I have to do my math tonight мне сегодня надо подготовиться по математике
    6) do smb., smth. in some manner tie does the host admirably он замечательно выполняет роль хозяина; do Hamlet (the part of Othello, etc.) well хорошо играть Гамлета и т. д.: do this concerto brilliantly блестяще исполнить / сыграть/ этот концерт
    7) do some places in some manner do a picture-gallery (a museum, a town, etc.) well (properly, thoroughly, etc.) внимательно и т. д. осмотреть картинную галерею и т. д. ; do some places at some time you can't do Oxford in a day за один день нельзя как следует ознакомиться с Оксфордом /осмотреть Оксфорд/; have you done Moscow yet? вы уже осмотрели достопримечательности Москвы?
    8) do smb. in some manner coll. do smb. well (handsomely, etc.) хорошо принимать / угощать или обслуживать / кого-л.; they do you, well here at this hotel в этом отеле хорошее обслуживание; do smb. at some time I will do you next я обслужу вас следующим, следующая очередь ваша || do smb. (oneself) well / proud / не отказывать кому-л. (себе) ни в чем
    5. V
    do smb., smth. smth. do smb., smth. an injury причинять кому-л., чему-л. вред; it won't do us any harm if we talk the matter over если мы обсудим этот вопрос, хуже [нам] не будет, нам не мешает обсудить этот вопрос; do smb., smth. good приносить кому-л., чему-л. пользу, быть кому-л., чему-л. полезным; drink this, it will do you good выпейте это, вам станет лучше; washing it won't do your blouse any good от стирки ваша блузка лучше не станет; do smb. credit делать кому-л. честь; he is doing you credit вы можете им гордиться; do smb. justice отдать кому л. должное, воздать кому-л. по заслугам; no one ever did him justice никто его не ценил по заслугам; to do him justice we must say... справедливости ради мы должны сказать, что он...; that picture doesn't do her justice в жизни она гораздо лучше [.чем на фото]; do smth. justice по-настоящему оценить что-л.; do smb. an injustice несправедливо относиться к кому-л., обижать кого-л.; do smb. the honour... оказывать кому-л. честь; I hope you will do me the honour of dining with me (of paying me a visit, etc.) надеюсь, вы окажете [мне] честь отобедать со мной и т. д., do smb. a favour / a kindness, a good turn / оказать кому-л. услугу, сделать кому-л. одолжение; do smb. a bad turn оказать кому-л. плохую услугу, сослужить кому-л. дурную службу
    6. VII
    do smth. to do smth. do one's best / one's utmost, one's damnedest / to do smth. сделать все возможное, чтобы добиться чего-л.; do one's best / all one can / to help us (to win the rare, to have it ready in time, etc.) сделать все возможное, чтобы помочь нам и т. д.; it won't do any good to complain жалобы не помогут, от жалоб толку не будет
    7. XI
    1) be done that sort of thing is not done так не поступают / не делают / ; what is to be done? что делать?, как быть?; there is nothing to be dam ничего не поделаешь / не сдёлаешь / ; be done in some manner it is easily (simply, etc.) dent это делается легко и т.д., the work is done well (perfectly, etc.) работа выполнена хорошо и т. д., it is badly done это плохо сделано; it was done deliberately это было сделано намеренно / умышленно; how is this work to be done? как выполняется эта работа?; can such a thing be possibly done? разве можно / возможно ли / это сделать?; it's easier said than done легче сказать, чем сделать; be done at some time everything cannot be done at once все сразу не делается; that must be done again это надо переделать; be done with / about / smb., smth. what is to be done with him (with all this stuff in the attic, about her, etc.)? что с ним и т. д. делать?; nothing can be done with the matter yet с этим вопросом пока ничего нельзя сделать; has anything been done about a speaker for the next meeting? позаботились ли о том, чтобы обеспечить / пригласить / докладчика на следующее заседание?
    2) be done in some manner the landscape (the picture, this still life, etc.) is beautifully done пейзаж и т. д. прекрасно выполнен; be done into some language the book is done into English книга переведена на английский язык
    3) be done in some manner the fish is done brown (to a turn) рыба поджарена до румяной корочки (как раз в меру); be done in some time the roast (the potatoes, the meat, etc.) will be done in an hour (in ten minutes, etc.) мясо и т. д. будет готово / сварится / через час и т. д.
    4) be done all is done все кончено, все сделано; it is done готово, сделано; the day is done день кончился / прошел / ; be done at some time a woman's work is never done женская работа / работа по хозяйству / никогда не кончается; I can't leave before the job is done я не могу уйти, пока работа не будет закончена; be done with smth. are you done with these scissors (with this book, with the dictionary, etc.)? вам больше не нужны ножницы и т. д.?; that's all over and done with с этим все кончено || done! по рук

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > do

  • 4 easily

    1) (without difficulty: She won the race easily.) fácilmente
    2) (by far: This is easily the best book I've read this year.) con diferencia
    3) (very probably: It may easily rain tomorrow.) probablemente
    easily adv fácilmente / sin problemas
    tr['iːzɪlɪ]
    1 (without difficulty) fácilmente, con facilidad
    2 (by far) con mucho; (without doubt) sin duda
    3 (possibly) fácilmente, perfectamente
    easily ['i:zəli] adv
    1) : fácilmente, con facilidad
    2) unquestionably: con mucho, de lejos
    adv.
    • buenamente adv.
    • fácilmente adv.
    • ligeramente adv.
    'iːzəli, 'iːzɪli
    1)
    a) ( without difficulty) fácilmente, con facilidad
    b) ( readily) <break/stain/cry> con facilidad
    2)
    a) ( by far) con mucho, fácil (fam), (de) lejos (AmL fam)
    b) ( at least) por lo menos, fácil (fam)

    it must have cost easily $100 — debe de haber costado por lo menos $100

    3) ( very conceivably) perfectamente, fácilmente
    ['iːzɪlɪ]
    ADV
    1) (=without difficulty) [win, climb, break, tire, cry] fácilmente, con facilidad

    she's easily pleased/upset — es fácil complacerla/disgustarla, se contenta/disgusta fácilmente

    don't worry, it's easily done — (replying to apology) no te preocupes, le puede pasar a cualquiera

    it holds four litres easily — caben cuatro litros largos, caben cuatro litros fácilmente

    that will cost you £50 easily — eso te costará fácilmente or por lo menos 50 libras

    2) (=very possibly) perfectamente, fácilmente

    he may easily change his mind — puede perfectamente or fácilmente cambiar de opinión, fácilmente cambia de opinión (LAm)

    it could very easily happen again — podría perfectamente or fácilmente ocurrir de nuevo

    3) (=by far) con mucho
    * * *
    ['iːzəli, 'iːzɪli]
    1)
    a) ( without difficulty) fácilmente, con facilidad
    b) ( readily) <break/stain/cry> con facilidad
    2)
    a) ( by far) con mucho, fácil (fam), (de) lejos (AmL fam)
    b) ( at least) por lo menos, fácil (fam)

    it must have cost easily $100 — debe de haber costado por lo menos $100

    3) ( very conceivably) perfectamente, fácilmente

    English-spanish dictionary > easily

  • 5 well

    ̈ɪwel I
    1. сущ.
    1) а) родник б) перен. источник, кладезь( чего-л.) She was a well of quotations. ≈ Она была ходячей энциклопедией знаменитых выражений. Syn: source, origin
    2) водоем, колодец to bore, dig, drill, sink a well ≈ выкапывать колодец abandoned well ≈ заброшенный колодец artesian well ≈ артезианский колодец deep well ≈ глубокий колодец oil well ≈ нефтяная скважина a well dries up ≈ колодец высыхает
    3) а) лестничная клетка б) шахта лифта в) отсек на корабле, в котором перевозится живая рыба
    4) места адвокатов (в английском суде)
    5) горн. скважина;
    зумпф, отстойник
    2. гл. хлынуть, бить ключом (часто well up, well out, well forth) II
    1. нареч.;
    сравн. - better;
    превосх. - best
    1) хорошо!
    2) а) справедливо, верно, правильно Syn: justly, rightly б) как следует;
    хорошенько;
    основательно to talk well ≈ наговориться вдоволь
    3) хорошо, со знанием дела He paints well. ≈ Он хорошо рисует.
    4) внимательно Syn: attentively
    5) сильно, очень, в высокой степени He well deserved the honor. ≈ Он действительно заслуживает награды. Syn: fully, quite
    6) ясно, четко, понятно He well knew the law. ≈ Он четко представлял себе законодательные нормы. Syn: clearly
    7) а) действительно, в самом деле It may well be true. ≈ Это действительно может оказаться правдой. Syn: indeed б) охотно, действительно, без труда, с готовностью Syn: easily, readily ∙ as well as it's just as well well enough
    2. прил.;
    сравн. - better;
    превосх. - best
    1) а) процветающий, обеспеченный, состоятельный Syn: prosperous, well-off б) предик. хороший, в хорошем состоянии
    2) а) занимающий удачную позицию, имеющий хорошее положение( о человеке) He was well spoken of. ≈ Он нем были хорошие отзывы. б) удачный, удовлетворительный, приятный It is well that he came. ≈ Хорошо, что он пришел. Syn: satisfactory, pleasing
    3) желательный, целесообразный It might be well for him to leave. ≈ Было бы лучше, если бы он ушел. Syn: advisable, desirable
    1.
    4) а) предик. здоровый( о человеке) Syn: healthy б) вылеченный, заживший (о болезни, ране и т.д.) The wound is nearly well. ≈ Рана почти зажила.
    5) приятный, симпатичный( о внешности)
    6) счастливый, удачливый Syn: fortunate ∙ well up
    3. сущ. добро, благо let well alone, амер. let well enough alone ≈ от добра добра не ищут
    4. межд. ну! (выражает удивление, уступку, согласие, ожидание и т. п.) колодец родник, ключ;
    источник (особ. минеральный) водоем pl минеральный воды (курорт) источник, кладезь - a * of life источник жизни - he is a * of information он кладезь знаний лестничная клетка;
    пролет лестницы шахта лифта места адвокатов (в английском суде) (горное) скважина (морское) кокпит (техническое) отстойник, зумпф (книжное) подниматься( о воде;
    часто * up) - tears *ed up in her eyes ее глаза наполнились слезами вскипать (тж. * up) бить ключом;
    хлынуть, брызнуть (тж. * out, * forth) - the blood was *ing out from the wound из раны хлестала кровь( over) переполняться;
    литься через край - his heart *ed over with joy его сердце преисполнилось радостью добро;
    благо - I wish him * я желаю ему добра (the *) (собирательнле) здоровые - the sick are often impatient with the * больных часто раздражают здоровые здоровый;
    выздоровевший - is she * or ill? она здорова или больна? - I am not very * today мне сегодня нездоровится - to feel * чувствовать себя хорошо /здоровым/ - to look * хорошо выглядеть;
    иметь цветущий вид - I hope you'll soon get * again надеюсь, вы скоро поправитесь - I am practically a * man я практически здоров - * baby ward палата здоровых новорожденных (в родильном доме) - the wound is nearly * рана почти зажила хороший, в удовлетворительном состоянии - all is * все в порядке, все хорошо - all is not * with him у него не все благополучно - things are * with us у нас все в порядке - we are very * where we are нам здесь очень хорошо /очень удобно/ зажиточный, состоятельный;
    процветающий удачный - it was * for you that nobody saw you тебе повезло, что тебя никто не видел желательный, целесообразный - it might be * for you to leave возможно, вам следовало бы уехать - it would be * to inquire хорошо бы навести справки > it's all very * (ироничное) легко сказать > it's all very * (for you) to suggest doing that but where's the money coming from? (вам) легко советовать, но где взять деньги? хорошо, отлично;
    удачно;
    благополучно - the work is * done работа сделана отлично - I did not sleep * last night сегодня я плохо спал положительно, благоприятно;
    одобрительно - to think * of smb. быть о ком-л. хорошего мнения - to speak * of smb. хорошо отзываться о ком-л. зажиточно - to live * жить в достатке значительно - he must be * over fifty ему, вероятно, далеко за пятьдесят - * on in life немолодой, пожилой - I am * forward with my work моя работа значительно продвинулась, я уже много сделал - it is * up in the list это где-то в начале списка - * into the night далеко за полночь - * to the east гораздо /значительно/ восточнее совершенно, полностью - he was * out of sight он совсем исчез из виду разумно, с полным основанием;
    справедливо - I could not * refuse я никак не мог отказать(ся) тщательно - shake the bottle * перед употреблением взбалтывать( о лекарстве) - examine the account * внимательно проверьте счет очень, весьма - I like him * он мне очень нравится - to be * pleased быть весьма довольным вполне - it may * be true это вполне возможно - you may * be surprised вы имеете все основания удивляться - he could * afford a new car он вполне мог бы купить новую машину в сочетаниях - as * также, тоже;
    с таким же успехом - there were other books as * были и другие книги - we may as * begin at once мы вполне можем начать сразу - you might as * throw your money away вы могли бы с таким же успехом выкинуть свои деньги - that is just as * ну что ж, жалеть не стоит - as * as также;
    так же как;
    в дополнение;
    кроме того;
    не только... но и > * and truly основательно;
    полностью > * and good ну и прекрасно;
    ну и ладно;
    тем лучше;
    все прекрасно, но... > let /leave/ * alone и так сойдет;
    от добра добра не ищут > he can never let * alone он всегда недоволен, он никогда не удовлетворен (сделанным) > * away на ходу, идущий полным ходом;
    (сленг) начинающий пьянеть > to turn out * окончиться благополучно;
    оказаться к лучшему > to come off * добиться успеха;
    закончиться благополучно > to go * together подходить друг к другу;
    гармонировать > to be doing * поправляться( о больном) > mother and child are doing * мать и ребенок чувствуют себя хорошо > to be * out of smth. счастливо отделаться от чего-л.;
    вовремя избавиться от чего-л. или убраться откуда-л. > to be * up in smth. быть хорошо осведомленным о чем-л. > * done /run/! здорово!, хорошо! (одобрение) > * said! хорошо сказано! > * met! какая приятная встреча > to do oneself * ни в чем себе не отказывать > all is * that ends * (пословица) все хорошо, что хорошо кончается, конец венчает дело ну! (выражает удивление, сомнение, уступку, согласие, чувство облегчения, удовлетворения и т. п.) - *, you of all people! ну, уж от вас никак не ожидал! - *, I declare! ну, скажу я вам!;
    ну и ну!, нечего сказать! - *, to be sure вот те раз!, вот те на!, нечего сказать! - *, I never! вот те на!, не может быть! - *, it can't be helped! ну что же, ничего не поделаешь! итак( используется при возобновлении прерванного разговора или как вступительное слово при каком-л. замечании) - *, then she said итак, после этого она заявила ~ a (better;
    best) хороший;
    all is well все в порядке, все прекрасно;
    all turned out well все прекрасно ~ a (better;
    best) хороший;
    all is well все в порядке, все прекрасно;
    all turned out well все прекрасно all turned out ~ out (of smth.) счастливо отделаться( от чего-л.) this may ~ be so это весьма вероятно;
    as well as так же как, а также;
    заодно и ~ хорошо, разумно, правильно;
    to behave well хорошо вести себя;
    you can't well refuse to help him у вас нет достаточных оснований отказать ему в помощи the girl speaks French ~ enough to act as our interpreter девушка достаточно хорошо владеет французским языком, чтобы быть нашим переводчиком ~ очень, значительно, далеко, вполне;
    the work is well on работа значительно продвинулась;
    he is well past forty ему далеко за сорок ~ up знающий, толковый;
    he isn't well up in psychology он не силен в психологии ~ совершенно, полностью;
    he was well out of sight он совсем исчез из виду hot ~ горячий источник hot ~ тех. резервуар горячей воды ~ a predic. здоровый;
    I am quite well я совершенно здоров well добро;
    I wish him well я желаю ему добра;
    let well alone, амер. let well enough alone = от добра добра не ищут if you promise that, ~ and good если вы обещаете это, тогда хорошо;
    well, to be sure вот тебе раз! it may ~ be true весьма возможно, что так оно и есть на самом деле it's just as ~ ну что же, пусть будет так, = жалеть не стоит;
    well enough довольно хорошо well добро;
    I wish him well я желаю ему добра;
    let well alone, амер. let well enough alone = от добра добра не ищут well добро;
    I wish him well я желаю ему добра;
    let well alone, амер. let well enough alone = от добра добра не ищут ~, what next? ну, а что дальше?;
    well, now tell me all about it ну, теперь расскажите мне все об этом ~ adv (better;
    best) хорошо! well done! отлично;
    здорово!;
    she is well spoken of у нее отличная репутация ~ как следует;
    хорошенько;
    основательно;
    we ought to examine the results well следует тщательно изучить результаты;
    to talk well наговориться вдоволь this may ~ be so это весьма вероятно;
    as well as так же как, а также;
    заодно и ~ как следует;
    хорошенько;
    основательно;
    we ought to examine the results well следует тщательно изучить результаты;
    to talk well наговориться вдоволь ~ int ну! (выражает удивление, уступку, согласие, ожидание и т. п.) ;
    well and good! хорошо!, ладно! if you promise that, ~ and good если вы обещаете это, тогда хорошо;
    well, to be sure вот тебе раз! it's just as ~ ну что же, пусть будет так, = жалеть не стоит;
    well enough довольно хорошо ~ over далеко за ~ over значительно больше ~ up знающий, толковый;
    he isn't well up in psychology он не силен в психологии ~ очень, значительно, далеко, вполне;
    the work is well on работа значительно продвинулась;
    he is well past forty ему далеко за сорок ~ хорошо, разумно, правильно;
    to behave well хорошо вести себя;
    you can't well refuse to help him у вас нет достаточных оснований отказать ему в помощи

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > well

  • 6 easy

    1) (not difficult: This is an easy job (to do).) fácil
    2) (free from pain, trouble, anxiety etc: He had an easy day at the office.) tranquilo
    3) (friendly: an easy manner/smile.) natural
    4) (relaxed; leisurely: The farmer walked with an easy stride.) tranquilo
    easy adj fácil
    it looks difficult, but actually it's easy parece difícil, pero en realidad es fácil
    El comparativo de easy es easier; el superlativo es easiest
    tr['iːzɪ]
    adjective (comp easier, superl easiest)
    1 (not difficult) fácil, sencillo
    ■ is it easy to get a bank loan? ¿es fácil conseguir un crédito del banco?
    2 (comfortable) cómodo,-a, holgado,-a
    3 (unworried, relaxed) tranquilo,-a
    4 (readily exploited, cheated) fácil
    1 con cuidado, con calma
    ■ go easy with that vase, it's valuable ten cuidado con aquel jarrón - es valioso
    ■ easy on the whisky! ¡no te pases con el whisky!
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    easy on the ear agradable al oído
    easy on the eye agradable a la vista
    easy to please poco exigente
    easy come, easy go así como viene se va
    easy does it poco a poco, con cuidado
    I'm easy familiar me da igual
    it's easier said than done del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho
    stand easy SMALLMILITARY/SMALL descansen
    take it easy! ¡tranquilo,-a!
    to be easy as pie familiar estar chupado,-a
    to go easy on somebody no reñir tanto a alguien
    to go easy on something no pasarse con algo
    to take it easy / take things easy tomar(se) las cosas con calma
    easy chair sillón nombre masculino, butaca
    easy game / easy prey presa fácil
    easy listening música ligera
    easy money dinero fácil
    easy terms facilidades nombre femenino plural de pago
    easy ['i:zi] adj, easier ; - est
    1) : fácil
    2) lenient: indulgente
    adj.
    • descansado, -a adj.
    • desembarazado, -a adj.
    • fácil adj.
    • holgado, -a adj.
    • lento, -a adj.

    I 'iːzi
    1) ( not difficult) fácil

    it's easy to see that... — es fácil ver que...

    easy money — dinero m fácil, plata f (AmS fam) fácil or dulce (AmL fam)

    that's easy for you to say — se dice muy fácil, es fácil hablar

    2) ( undemanding) < life> fácil, desahogado

    easy terms — ( Busn) facilidades de pago

    to be easy on the eye/ear — ser* agradable a la vista/al oído

    3)
    a) ( lenient)

    to be easy on somebody — ser* poco exigente or severo con algn

    b) ( without strong opinion) (esp BrE colloq) (pred)

    I'm easy — me da igual or lo mismo


    II

    love/money doesn't come easy — el amor/dinero no es fácil de conseguir

    easy come, easy go — así como viene se va

    2)
    a) (slowly, calmly) despacio, con calma

    to take it/things easy — tomárselo/tomarse las cosas con calma

    b) ( sparingly)

    go easy on o with the sugar — no te pases or (Méx) llévatela suave con el azúcar (fam)

    c) ( leniently)
    ['iːzɪ]
    1. ADJ
    (compar easier) (superl easiest)
    1) (=not difficult) [task, job, decision, victory] fácil

    it is easy to see that... — es fácil ver que...

    • there are no easy answers — no hay respuestas fáciles

    • to be far from easy — no ser nada fácil

    • he came in an easy first — llegó el primero sin problemas

    • that's easy for you to say — para ti es fácil decirlo

    • to have it easy — tenerlo fácil

    • the easy life — la vida fácil

    • easy listening — (=music) música f fácil de escuchar

    • they made it very easy for us — nos lo pusieron muy fácil

    "Russian made easy" — "ruso sin esfuerzo"

    • to be no easy matter — no ser cosa fácil

    • it's an easy mistake to make — es un error que se comete fácilmente

    • easy money — dinero m fácil

    • to be none too easy — no ser nada fácil

    • to be easy on the eye/ear — ser or resultar agradable a la vista/al oído

    • to go for or take the easy option — optar por lo más fácil

    • that's the easy part — eso es lo fácil

    • easy pickings — botín m fácil

    • easy prey — presa f fácil

    • to be within easy reach of sth — estar muy cerca de algo

    • to make easy reading — ser fácil de leer

    • to have an easy ride — (fig) tener las cosas fáciles

    • that's easier said than done! — ¡eso se dice pronto!, es fácil decirlo, pero hacerlo...

    • to be no easy task — no ser cosa fácil

    • to buy sth on easy terms — (Comm) comprar algo con facilidades de pago

    • to have an easy time — no tener problemas

    • to take the easy way out — (fig) optar por el camino más fácil

    - be on easy street
    2) (=relaxed) [life] cómodo, relajado; [manners] relajado, natural; [disposition, conversation, conscience] tranquilo; [smile] fácil; [voice, tone, style] natural; [pace] lento, pausado; [movement] suelto, relajado

    I'm easy * — (=not particular) me es igual or me da igual

    • to feel easy (in one's mind) — sentirse tranquilo

    • he has or enjoys an easy relationship with his stepchildren — tiene una relación muy buena or se lleva muy bien con los hijos de su mujer

    • you can rest easy — puedes estar tranquilo

    • to be on easy terms with sb — estar en confianza con algn

    3) (=promiscuous) [woman] fácil

    • a woman of easy virtue — † euph una mujer ligera de cascos

    2.
    ADV

    • we can all breathe easy now — ahora todos podemos respirar tranquilos

    • taking orders doesn't come easy to him — no le resulta fácil obedecer órdenes

    easy come, easy go — tal y como viene se va

    • easy does it! — ¡despacio!, ¡cuidado!, ¡con calma!

    • go easy with the sugar — no te pases con el azúcar

    • to take things easy, take it easy — (=rest) descansar; (=go slowly) tomárselo con calma

    take it easy! * — (=don't worry) ¡cálmete!, ¡no te pongas nervioso!; (=don't rush) ¡despacio!, ¡no corras!

    stand 3., 1)
    3.
    CPD

    easy chair N — butaca f, sillón m (Sp)

    easy touch * N (=person) —

    EASY, DIFFICULT, IMPOSSIBLE ► Fácil, difícil and imposible are followed directly by the infinitive when they qualify the action itself:
    Solving the problem is easy
    It's easy to solve the problem Es fácil resolver el problema
    It is sometimes difficult/impossible to control oneself En ocasiones es difícil/imposible controlarse ► When the adjective qualifies a noun or pronoun rather than the verb, de is inserted before the infinitive:
    The problem is easy to solve El problema es fácil de resolver
    That's difficult or hard to believe Eso es difícil de creer
    Semtex is impossible to detect El Semtex es imposible de detectar NOTE: Remember in this case to make the adjective agree with the noun or pronoun it describes:
    Some of his works are difficult to classify Algunas de sus obras son difíciles de encasillar For further uses and examples, see main entry
    * * *

    I ['iːzi]
    1) ( not difficult) fácil

    it's easy to see that... — es fácil ver que...

    easy money — dinero m fácil, plata f (AmS fam) fácil or dulce (AmL fam)

    that's easy for you to say — se dice muy fácil, es fácil hablar

    2) ( undemanding) < life> fácil, desahogado

    easy terms — ( Busn) facilidades de pago

    to be easy on the eye/ear — ser* agradable a la vista/al oído

    3)
    a) ( lenient)

    to be easy on somebody — ser* poco exigente or severo con algn

    b) ( without strong opinion) (esp BrE colloq) (pred)

    I'm easy — me da igual or lo mismo


    II

    love/money doesn't come easy — el amor/dinero no es fácil de conseguir

    easy come, easy go — así como viene se va

    2)
    a) (slowly, calmly) despacio, con calma

    to take it/things easy — tomárselo/tomarse las cosas con calma

    b) ( sparingly)

    go easy on o with the sugar — no te pases or (Méx) llévatela suave con el azúcar (fam)

    c) ( leniently)

    English-spanish dictionary > easy

  • 7 well

    1. n колодец
    2. n родник, ключ; источник

    wishing well — колодец или источник, где загадывают желания

    3. n водоём
    4. n минеральные воды
    5. n источник, кладезь
    6. n лестничная клетка; пролёт лестницы
    7. n шахта лифта
    8. n места адвокатов

    placed well — занял хорошее место; занятый хорошее место

    9. n горн. скважина
    10. n мор. кокпит
    11. n тех. отстойник, зумпф
    12. v книжн. подниматься
    13. v книжн. вскипать
    14. v книжн. бить ключом; хлынуть, брызнуть
    15. v книжн. переполняться; литься через край
    16. n добро; благо
    17. n собир. здоровые
    18. a обыкн. здоровый; выздоровевший

    to look well — хорошо выглядеть; иметь цветущий вид

    19. a хороший, в удовлетворительном состоянии

    all is well — всё в порядке, всё хорошо

    20. a зажиточный, состоятельный; процветающий

    be well off — быть зажиточным; быть в хорошем положении

    21. a удачный

    it was well for you that nobody saw you — тебе повезло, что тебя никто не видел

    22. a желательный, целесообразный

    it might be well for you to leave — возможно, вам следовало бы уехать

    23. adv хорошо, отлично; удачно; благополучно

    land that pays well — земля, которая приносит хороший доход

    24. adv положительно, благоприятно; одобрительно
    25. adv зажиточно
    26. adv значительно

    he must be well over fifty — ему, вероятно, далеко за пятьдесят

    well on in life — немолодой, пожилой

    I am well forward with my work — моя работа значительно продвинулась, я уже много сделал

    27. adv совершенно, полностью
    28. adv разумно, с полным основанием; справедливо
    29. adv тщательно
    30. adv очень, весьма
    31. adv вполне

    that is just as well — ну что ж, жалеть не стоит

    as well as — также; так же как; в дополнение; кроме того; не только … но и

    he can never let well alone — он всегда недоволен, он никогда не удовлетворён

    to turn out well — окончиться благополучно; оказаться к лучшему

    to go well together — подходить друг к другу; гармонировать

    well done ! — здорово!, хорошо!

    32. int ну!

    well, you of all people! — ну, уж от вас никак не ожидал!

    well, I declare! — ну, скажу я вам!; ну и ну!, нечего сказать!

    acreage per well — нефтеносная площадь, приходящаяся на одну скважину

    33. int итак

    well, then she said — итак, после этого она заявила

    Синонимический ряд:
    1. abundantly (adj.) abundantly; considerably; quite
    2. adeptly (adj.) adeptly; efficiently; skillfully
    3. adequately (adj.) adequately; favorably; properly
    4. fine (adj.) favorable; fine; good; satisfactory
    5. fitting (adj.) appropriate; befitting; fitting; proper; suitable
    6. healthy (adj.) fit; hale; hardy; healthy; hearty; right; robust; sane; sound; strong; trim; well-conditioned; well-liking; whole; wholesome
    7. prosperous (adj.) comfortable; easy; prosperous; substantial; well-fixed; well-heeled; well-to-do
    8. successful (adj.) fortunate; happy; lucky; providential; successful; well-off
    9. source (noun) derivation; fount; fountain; fountainhead; inception; mother; origin; provenance; provenience; root; rootage; rootstock; source; spring; wellhead; wellspring; whence
    10. course (verb) course; flow; gush; pour; rush; stream; surge
    11. issue (verb) issue; ooze; spurt; swell
    12. afond (other) abundantly; adequately; afond; altogether; amply; clear; completely; entirely; fully; perfectly; roundly; sufficiently; thoroughly; utterly; wholly
    13. appropriately (other) acceptably; appropriately; becomingly; fittingly; judiciously; politely; properly; reasonably; right; satisfactorily; suitably
    14. aright (other) accurately; aright; befittingly; correctly; decently; decorously; efficiently; fitly; justly; nicely; rightly; skillfully
    15. considerately (other) considerately; generously; heedfully; kindly; thoughtfully
    16. doubtlessly (other) doubtlessly; indeed; really; truly; undoubtedly
    17. easily (other) easily; effortlessly; facilely; freely; lightly; readily; smoothly
    18. excellently (other) commendably; excellently; meritoriously
    19. favorably (other) comfortably; favorably; fortunately; happily; prosperously; satisfyingly; successfully; swimmingly
    20. intimately (other) intimately; personally
    21. probably (other) as likely as not (colloquial); in all likelihood; like as not (colloquial); likely; probably
    22. proficiently (other) ably; adeptly; capably; deftly; dextrously; handily; proficiently; skilfully
    23. quite (other) by a long chalk (British, colloquial); by a long shot; by a long way; by far; considerably; fairly; far; far and away; quite; rather; significantly; somewhat
    Антонимический ряд:
    absorb; bad; ineptly; poorly; scarcely; sick; sickly

    English-Russian base dictionary > well

  • 8 well

    Ⅰ.
    well1 [wel]
    1 noun
    (a) (for water, oil) puits m
    (b) (for lift, staircase) cage f; (between buildings) puits m, cheminée f
    (c) British Law barreau m (au tribunal)
    (d) literary source f, fontaine f
    (water) jaillir
    (blood, spring, tears) monter, jaillir;
    ∎ tears welled up in her eyes les larmes lui montèrent aux yeux;
    ∎ joy welled up within her la joie monta en elle
    Ⅱ.
    well2 (compar better ['betə(r)], superl best [best])
    (a) (satisfactorily, successfully) bien;
    ∎ she speaks French very well elle parle très bien (le) français;
    ∎ he plays the piano well il joue bien du piano;
    ∎ she came out of it rather well elle s'en est plutôt bien sortie;
    ∎ it's extremely well done c'est vraiment très bien fait;
    ∎ everything is going well tout se passe bien;
    ∎ the meeting went well la réunion s'est bien passée;
    ∎ those colours go really well together ces couleurs vont vraiment bien ensemble;
    ∎ the machine/system works well la machine/le système marche bien;
    ∎ things have worked out well les choses se sont bien passées;
    ∎ does she work as well as I do? fait-elle son travail aussi bien que moi?;
    ∎ to do well s'en sortir;
    ∎ she's doing very well elle s'en sort très bien;
    ∎ he did very well for a beginner il s'est très bien débrouillé pour un débutant;
    ∎ you did quite well in the exam vous vous en êtes assez bien sorti à l'examen;
    ∎ to do well for oneself bien se débrouiller;
    ∎ to do well out of sb/sth bien s'en sortir avec qn/qch;
    ∎ that boy will do well! ce garçon ira loin!;
    ∎ the patient is doing well le malade se rétablit bien ou est en bonne voie de guérison;
    ∎ we would do well to keep quiet nous ferions bien de nous taire;
    ∎ well done! bravo!;
    ∎ well said! bien dit!;
    ∎ it was money well spent ce n'était pas de l'argent gaspillé;
    ∎ archaic well met! heureuse rencontre!, vous arrivez bien à propos!
    (b) (favourably, kindly) bien;
    ∎ she treats her staff very well elle traite très bien son personnel;
    ∎ everyone speaks well of you tout le monde dit du bien de vous;
    ∎ his action speaks well of his courage son geste montre bien son courage;
    ∎ she won't take it well elle ne va pas apprécier;
    ∎ she thinks well of you elle a de l'estime pour vous;
    ∎ he wished her well il lui souhaita bonne chance;
    ∎ it's a card from someone wishing you well c'est une carte de quelqu'un qui vous veut du bien;
    ∎ to do well by sb traiter qn comme il se doit
    (c) (easily, readily) bien;
    ∎ he could well decide to leave il se pourrait tout à fait qu'il décide de partir;
    ∎ I couldn't very well accept je ne pouvais guère accepter;
    ∎ you may well be right il se peut bien que tu aies raison;
    ∎ I can well believe it je le crois facilement ou sans peine;
    ∎ she was angry, and well she might be elle était furieuse, et à juste titre
    ∎ she's well over or past forty elle a bien plus de quarante ans;
    ∎ he's well into his seventies il a largement dépassé les soixante-dix ans;
    ∎ there were well over 5,000 demonstrators il y avait bien plus de 5000 manifestants;
    ∎ he's well on in years il n'est plus tout jeune;
    ∎ well on into the morning jusque tard dans la matinée;
    ∎ the fashion lasted well into the 1960s cette mode a duré une bonne partie des années 60;
    ∎ it's well above/within the limit c'est bien au-dessus de/inférieur à la limite;
    ∎ it's well after midday il est bien plus de midi;
    ∎ the play went on until well after midnight la partie s'est prolongée bien au-delà de minuit;
    ∎ I woke well before dawn je me suis réveillé bien avant l'aube;
    ∎ let me know well in advance prévenez-moi longtemps à l'avance;
    ∎ the team finished well up the league l'équipe a fini parmi les premières de sa division
    ∎ shake/stir well bien secouer/remuer;
    ∎ be sure to cook it well veillez à ce que ce soit bien cuit;
    ∎ well cooked or done bien cuit;
    ∎ let it dry well first attendez d'abord que ce soit bien sec;
    ∎ I know her well je la connais bien;
    ∎ you know your subject well vous connaissez bien votre sujet;
    ∎ I know only too well how hard it is je ne sais que trop bien à quel point c'est difficile;
    ∎ how well I understand her feelings! comme je comprends ce qu'elle ressent!;
    ∎ I'm well aware of the problem je suis bien conscient ou j'ai bien conscience du problème;
    ∎ he was well annoyed il était vraiment contrarié;
    ∎ ironic I bet he was well pleased! il devait être content!;
    ∎ I like him well enough il ne me déplaît pas;
    ∎ we got well and truly soaked nous nous sommes fait tremper jusqu'aux os;
    ∎ it's well and truly over c'est bel et bien fini;
    ∎ it's well worth the money ça vaut largement la dépense;
    ∎ it's well worth trying ça vaut vraiment la peine d'essayer;
    ∎ familiar he was well annoyed il était super-énervé
    ∎ to be well away (making good progress) être sur la bonne voie; (drunk) être complètement parti;
    ∎ to be well in with sb être bien avec qn;
    ∎ she's well in with all the right people elle est très bien avec tous les gens qui peuvent servir;
    ∎ to be well out of it s'en sortir à bon compte;
    ∎ you're well out of it tu as bien fait de partir;
    ∎ she's well rid of him/it! quel bon débarras pour elle!;
    ∎ to be well up on sth s'y connaître en qch;
    ∎ she's well up on European law elle s'y connait en droit européen;
    ∎ to leave or let well alone (equipment) ne pas toucher; (situation) ne pas s'occuper de; (person) laisser tranquille
    (a) (good) bien, bon;
    ∎ all is not well with them il y a quelque chose qui ne va pas chez eux;
    ∎ owning a home is all very well but… c'est bien beau d'être propriétaire mais…;
    ∎ it's all very well pretending you don't care but… c'est bien beau de dire que ça t'est égal mais…;
    ∎ it is all very well for you to say that tu peux bien dire ça, toi;
    ∎ Military all's well! rien à signaler!
    ∎ it would be well to start soon nous ferions bien de commencer bientôt;
    ∎ British you'd be just as well to tell him tu ferais mieux de (le) lui dire
    ∎ to be well aller ou se porter bien;
    ∎ how are you? - well, thank you comment allez-vous? - bien, merci;
    ∎ he's been ill but he's better now il a été malade mais il va mieux (maintenant);
    ∎ I don't feel well je ne me sens pas bien;
    ∎ she's not very well elle ne va pas très bien;
    ∎ to get well se remettre, aller mieux;
    ∎ get well soon (on card) bon rétablissement;
    ∎ I hope you're well j'espère que vous allez bien;
    ∎ you're looking or you look well vous avez l'air en forme;
    ∎ are you okay?, you don't sound very well ça va?, tu n'as pas l'air bien;
    ∎ he's not a well man il ne se porte pas bien
    ∎ well, I would just say one thing bon, je voudrais simplement dire une chose;
    ∎ well, let me just add that… alors, laissez-moi simplement ajouter que…;
    ∎ well, here we are again! et nous y revoilà!
    ∎ well, as I was saying… donc, je disais que…, je disais donc que…;
    ∎ right, well, let's move on to the next subject bon, alors passons à la question suivante;
    ∎ well thank you Mr Alderson, I'll be in touch eh bien merci M. Alderson, je vous contacterai
    ∎ well, obviously I'd like to come but… disons que, bien sûr, j'aimerais venir mais…;
    ∎ he was, well, rather unpleasant really il a été, disons, assez désagréable, c'est le mot
    ∎ he was rather fat, well stout might be a better word il était plutôt gros, enfin disons corpulent;
    ∎ I've known her for ages, well at least three years ça fait des années que je la connais, enfin au moins trois ans;
    ∎ you know John? well I saw him yesterday tu connais John? eh bien je l'ai vu hier
    ∎ did you ask? - well… I didn't dare actually as-tu demandé? - eh bien ou ben, je n'ai pas osé;
    ∎ are you ready? - well, I should really stay in and work tu viens? - eh bien, il vaudrait mieux que je reste à la maison pour travailler
    (f) (asking a question) eh bien, alors;
    ∎ well, who was it? alors ou eh bien, qui était-ce?;
    ∎ well, what of it? et alors?;
    ∎ well then, why worry about it? eh bien ou alors, pourquoi se faire du mauvais sang?
    ∎ well, look who's here! ça alors, regardez qui est là!;
    ∎ well, well, well tiens, tiens;
    ∎ well, really! ça alors!;
    ∎ familiar well I never! ça par exemple!;
    ∎ (well,) well, what do you know! eh bien ou ça alors, qui l'aurait cru!
    (h) (in relief) eh bien;
    ∎ well, at least that's over! eh bien, en tout cas, c'est terminé!
    ∎ (oh) well, it can't be helped bon tant pis, on n'y peut rien;
    ∎ (oh) well, that's life bon enfin, c'est la vie;
    ∎ (oh) well, all right bon allez, d'accord;
    ∎ can I come too? - oh, very well, if you must je peux venir aussi? - bon allez, si tu y tiens
    ∎ the well ceux mpl qui sont en bonne santé
    tout ça, c'est très bien;
    ∎ so you want to go to drama school, all well and good, but… alors comme ça, tu veux faire une école de théâtre? tout ça, c'est très bien mais…
    ✾ Music 'The Well-Tempered Clavier' Bach 'Le Clavier bien tempéré'
    ⓘ Didn't he/she do well? Le jeu télévisé britannique The Generation Game fut présenté pendant de nombreuses années par un nommé Bruce Forsyth. Cette expression ("il/elle s'est bien débrouillé(e), vous ne trouvez pas?") était l'une des petites phrases qu'il employait immanquablement au cours de l'émission. Il utilisait cette formule en s'adressant au public lorsqu'un concurrent venait de terminer une épreuve. Aujourd'hui, on emploie cette expression pour féliciter quelqu'un sur un ton légèrement condescendant.

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  • 9 Artificial Intelligence

       In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)
       Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)
       Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....
       When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)
       4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually
       Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)
       What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)
       The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)
       9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form
       The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)
       There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:
        Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."
        Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)
       Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)
       Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)
       The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)
        14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation
       It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)
       We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.
       Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.
       Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.
    ... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)
       Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)
        16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts
       Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)
       Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System
       Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence
       The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.
       The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)
       The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....
       AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)
        21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions
       In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)
       Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)
       Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)
       The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

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  • 10 hand

    1. noun
    1) (Anat., Zool.) Hand, die

    eat from or out of somebody's hand — (lit. or fig.) jemandem aus der Hand fressen

    get one's hands dirty — (lit. or fig.) sich (Dat.) die Hände schmutzig machen

    give somebody one's hand — (reach, shake) jemandem die Hand geben od. reichen

    give or lend [somebody] a hand [with or in something] — [jemandem] [bei etwas] helfen

    pass or go through somebody's hands — (fig.) durch jemandes Hand od. Hände gehen

    hand in hand — Hand in Hand

    go hand in hand [with something] — (fig.) [mit etwas] Hand in Hand gehen

    the problem/matter in hand — das vorliegende Problem/die vorliegende Angelegenheit

    hold hands — Händchen halten (ugs. scherzh.); sich bei den Händen halten

    hold somebody's hand — jemandes Hand halten; jemandem die Hand halten; (fig.): (give somebody close guidance) jemanden bei der Hand nehmen; (fig.): (give somebody moral support or backing) jemandem das Händchen halten (iron.)

    hands off! — Hände od. Finger weg!

    take/keep one's hands off somebody/something — jemanden/etwas loslassen/nicht anfassen

    keep one's hands off something — (fig.) die Finger von etwas lassen (ugs.)

    hands up [all those in favour] — wer dafür ist, hebt die Hand!

    hands up! — (as sign of surrender) Hände hoch!

    hands down — (fig.) (easily) mit links (ugs.); (without a doubt, by a large margin) ganz klar (ugs.)

    be at hand — (be nearby) in der Nähe sein; (be about to happen) unmittelbar bevorstehen

    out of hand — (summarily) kurzerhand

    be to hand — (be readily available, within reach) zur Hand sein; (be received) [Brief, Notiz, Anweisung:] vorliegen

    go/pass from hand to hand — von Hand zu Hand gehen

    be hand in glove [with] — unter einer Decke stecken [mit]

    wait on somebody hand and foot — (fig.) jemanden vorn und hinten bedienen (ugs.)

    have one's hands full — die Hände voll haben; (fig.): (be fully occupied) alle Hände voll zu tun haben (ugs.)

    hand on heart — (fig.) Hand aufs Herz

    get one's hands on somebody/something — jemanden erwischen od. (ugs.) in die Finger kriegen/etwas auftreiben

    lay or put one's hand on something — etwas finden

    by hand — (manually) mit der od. von Hand; (in handwriting) handschriftlich; (by messenger) durch Boten

    2) (fig.): (authority)

    with a firm/iron hand — mit starker Hand/eiserner Faust [regieren]

    he needs a father's hand — er braucht die väterliche Hand

    get out of hand — außer Kontrolle geraten; see also academic.ru/73191/take">take 1. 6); upper 1. 1)

    have a free hand to do something — freie Hand haben, etwas zu tun

    3) in pl. (custody)

    in somebody's hands, in the hands of somebody — (in somebody's possession) in jemandes Besitz; (in somebody's care) in jemandes Obhut

    fall into somebody's hands — [Person, Geld:] jemandem in die Hände fallen

    have [got] something/somebody on one's hands — sich um etwas/jemanden kümmern müssen

    he's got such a lot/enough on his hands at the moment — er hat augenblicklich so viel/genug um die Ohren (ugs.)

    have time on one's hands — [viel] Zeit haben; (too much) mit seiner Zeit nichts anzufangen wissen

    take somebody/something off somebody's hands — jemandem jemanden/etwas abnehmen

    have something in hand — etwas zur Verfügung haben; (not used up) etwas [übrig] haben

    be on hand — da sein

    5) (share)

    have a hand in something — bei etwas seine Hände im Spiel haben

    take a hand [in something] — sich [an etwas (Dat.)] beteiligen

    6) (agency) Wirken, das (geh.)

    suffer/suffer injustice at the hands of somebody — unter jemandem/jemandes Ungerechtigkeit zu leiden haben

    7) (pledge of marriage)

    ask for or seek somebody's hand [in marriage] — um jemandes Hand bitten od. (geh.) anhalten

    8) (worker) Arbeitskraft, die; Arbeiter, der; (Naut.): (seaman) Hand, die (fachspr.); Matrose, der
    9) (person having ability)

    be a good/poor hand at tennis — ein guter/schwacher Tennisspieler sein

    10) (source) Quelle, die

    at first/second/third hand — aus erster/zweiter/dritter Hand; see also firsthand; second-hand

    11) (skill) Geschick, das

    get one's hand in — wieder in Übung kommen od. (ugs.) reinkommen

    12) (style of handwriting) Handschrift, die; (signature) Unterschrift, die
    13) (of clock or watch) Zeiger, der
    14) (side) Seite, die

    on the right/left hand — rechts/links; rechter/linker Hand

    on somebody's right/left hand — rechts/links von jemandem; zu jemandes Rechten/Linken

    on every hand — von allen Seiten [umringt sein]; ringsum [etwas sehen]

    on the one hand..., [but] on the other [hand]... — einerseits..., andererseits...; auf der einen Seite..., auf der anderen Seite...

    15) (measurement) Handbreit, die
    16) (coll.): (applause) Beifall, der; Applaus, der

    give him a big hand, let's have a big hand for him — viel Applaus od. Beifall für ihn!

    17) (cards) Karte, die; (period of play) Runde, die; see also throw in 4)
    2. transitive verb
    geben; [Überbringer:] übergeben [Sendung, Lieferung]

    hand something [a]round — (pass round, circulate) etwas herumgeben; (among group) etwas herumgehen lassen

    you've got to hand it to them/her — etc. (fig. coll.) das muss man ihnen/ihr usw. lassen

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    [hænd] 1. noun
    1) (the part of the body at the end of the arm.) die Hand
    2) (a pointer on a clock, watch etc: Clocks usually have an hour hand and a minute hand.) der Zeiger
    3) (a person employed as a helper, crew member etc: a farm hand; All hands on deck!) der Arbeiter,der Mann
    4) (help; assistance: Can I lend a hand?; Give me a hand with this box, please.) die Hilfe
    5) (a set of playing-cards dealt to a person: I had a very good hand so I thought I had a chance of winning.) das Blatt
    6) (a measure (approximately centimetres) used for measuring the height of horses: a horse of 14 hands.) die Handbreit
    7) (handwriting: written in a neat hand.) die Handschrift
    2. verb
    (often with back, down, up etc)
    1) (to give (something) to someone by hand: I handed him the book; He handed it back to me; I'll go up the ladder, and you can hand the tools up to me.) geben
    2) (to pass, transfer etc into another's care etc: That is the end of my report from Paris. I'll now hand you back to Fred Smith in the television studio in London.) zurückgeben
    •
    - handful
    - handbag
    - handbill
    - handbook
    - handbrake
    - handcuff
    - handcuffs
    - hand-lens
    - handmade
    - hand-operated
    - hand-out
    - hand-picked
    - handshake
    - handstand
    - handwriting
    - handwritten
    - at hand
    - at the hands of
    - be hand in glove with someone
    - be hand in glove
    - by hand
    - fall into the hands of someone
    - fall into the hands
    - force someone's hand
    - get one's hands on
    - give/lend a helping hand
    - hand down
    - hand in
    - hand in hand
    - hand on
    - hand out
    - hand-out
    - handout
    - hand over
    - hand over fist
    - hands down
    - hands off! - hands-on
    - hands up! - hand to hand
    - have a hand in something
    - have a hand in
    - have/get/gain the upper hand
    - hold hands with someone
    - hold hands
    - in good hands
    - in hand
    - in the hands of
    - keep one's hand in
    - off one's hands
    - on hand
    - on the one hand... on the other hand
    -... on the other hand
    - out of hand
    - shake hands with someone / shake someone's hand
    - shake hands with / shake someone's hand
    - a show of hands
    - take in hand
    - to hand
    * * *
    [hænd]
    I. NOUN
    1. ANAT Hand f
    all these toys are made by \hand das ganze Spielzeug hier ist handgemacht
    get [or keep] your \hands off! Hände [o fam Pfoten] weg!
    \hands up! Hände hoch!
    \hands up who wants to come! Hand hoch, wer kommen will
    he had his \hands in his pockets er hatte die Hände in den Hosentaschen
    they were just holding \hands sie hielten doch nur Händchen
    the letter was delivered by \hand der Brief wurde durch einen Boten überbracht
    the student put up her \hand die Schülerin meldete sich
    to crawl on \hands and knees auf allen vieren kriechen
    to get down on one's \hands and knees auf die Knie gehen
    pen in \hand mit gezücktem Stift
    to have one's \hands full die Hände voll haben
    to be good with one's \hands geschickte Hände haben, manuell geschickt sein
    in one's [left/right] \hand in der [linken/rechten] Hand
    to get one's \hands dirty ( also fig) sich dat die Hände schmutzig machen
    to change \hands ( fig) in andere Hände übergehen
    to do sth by \hand (not by machine) work etw von Hand machen; product etw von Hand fertigen
    to hold sb's \hand jdm die Hand halten
    to keep one's \hands off sth die Finger von etw dat lassen
    ▪ to keep one's \hands off sb die Hände von jdm lassen
    to put sth into sb's \hands jdm etw in die Hand geben
    to shake \hands with sb, to shake sb's \hand jdm die Hand schütteln; (done when introducing) sich dat die Hand geben
    to take sth out of sb's \hands jdm etw aus der Hand nehmen
    to take sb by the \hand jdn an die [o bei der] Hand nehmen
    to lead sb by the \hand jdn an der Hand führen
    \hand in \hand Hand in Hand; (give assistance) jdn bei der Hand nehmen
    2. (needing attention)
    ▪ at \hand vorliegend
    the job at \hand die Arbeit, die zu tun ist
    the problem in \hand das anstehende Problem
    the matter in \hand die vorliegende Angelegenheit
    ▪ in \hand bei der Hand, verfügbar
    he had a lot of money in \hand er hatte viel Geld zur Verfügung
    4. (close, within reach)
    at [or to] \hand nah, in Reichweite
    to \hand COMM zur Hand
    to keep sth close at \hand etw in Reichweite haben
    to keep sth ready at \hand etw bereithalten
    to be at \hand zur Verfügung stehen, verfügbar sein
    we want to ensure that help is at \hand for all wir wollen sicherstellen, dass allen geholfen werden kann
    to have sth to \hand etw zur Verfügung haben
    he uses whatever materials come to \hand er verwendet einfach alle Materialien, die ihm in die Hände kommen
    to have sth on one's \hands etw an der Hand haben, über etw akk verfügen
    she's got a lot of work on her \hands sie hat wahnsinnig viel zu tun
    he's got a lot of time on his \hands er hat viel Zeit zur Verfügung
    we've got a problem on our \hands wir haben ein Problem am Hals
    5. (at one's service)
    ▪ on \hand (available) bereit, zur Verfügung
    my bank always has an advisor on \hand in meiner Bank steht den Kunden immer ein Berater zur Verfügung
    it's the \hand of fate das ist die Hand des Schicksals
    ▪ at [or by] the \hands of sb/sth durch jdn/etw
    my life is in your \hands mein Leben liegt in Ihren Händen
    your life is in your own \hands Sie haben Ihr Leben selbst in der Hand
    to be in good [or excellent] \hands in guten Händen sein
    to be in safe \hands in sicheren Händen sein
    to get sb/sth off one's \hands jdn/etw los sein
    we can relax now that we've got the kids off our \hands jetzt wo man uns die Kinder abgenommen hat, können wir etwas ausspannen
    to have a \hand in sth bei etw dat seine Hand [o die Finger] [mit] im Spiel haben, bei etw dat mitmischen
    it is thought that terrorists had a \hand in this explosion man geht davon aus, dass der Bombenanschlag auf das Konto von Terroristen geht
    to leave sth/sb in sb's \hands jdm etw überlassen/jdn in jds Obhut lassen
    to put sth into the \hands of sb/sth jdm/etw etw übergeben [o überlassen]
    there's no more we can do except leave it in the solicitor's \hands jetzt können wir nichts weiter tun als alles dem Anwalt zu überlassen
    my \hands are tied mir sind die Hände gebunden
    ▪ sth is in \hand (receiving attention, being arranged) für etw akk ist gesorgt
    to be well in \hand gut laufen fam
    to have sth well in \hand etw gut im Griff haben
    a firm \hand eine [ge]strenge Hand
    to fall into the wrong \hands in die falschen Hände geraten [o gelangen]
    to be in/out of sb's \hands unter/außerhalb jds Kontrolle sein
    it's in your \hands now, you deal with it das liegt jetzt in deiner Hand, du bearbeitest das
    to have everything in \hand alles unter Kontrolle haben
    to get out of \hand situation, matter außer Kontrolle geraten; children nicht mehr zu bändigen sein
    the horse got out of \hand ich/er, usw. verlor die Kontrolle über das Pferd
    the party got out of hand die Party ist ausgeartet
    to have sth in \hand etw unter Kontrolle haben
    to take sb/sth in \hand sich dat jdn/etw vornehmen
    8. (assistance) Hilfe f
    would you like a \hand with that bag? soll ich Ihnen helfen, die Tasche zu tragen?
    would you like a \hand carrying those bags? soll ich Ihnen beim Tragen der Taschen helfen?
    to give [or lend] sb a \hand [with sth] jdm [bei etw dat] helfen [o behilflich sein]
    to [be able to] use a \hand with sth esp AM bei etw dat Hilfe gebrauchen [können]
    9. (manual worker) Arbeiter(in) m(f), Kraft f, Mann m
    how many extra \hands will we need? wie viele Leute brauchen wir extra?; (sailor) Matrose m
    factory \hand ungelernter Fabrikarbeiter/ungelernte Fabrikarbeiterin
    10. (skilful person) Könner(in) m(f)
    [to be] a dab \hand at sth ein Könner/eine Könnerin auf seinem/ihrem Gebiet [sein], ein Geschick nt für etw akk haben
    he's quite a \hand at wallpapering er ist ziemlich gut beim Tapezieren
    he's a real Russia \hand er ist ein echter Russlandkenner
    I'm an old \hand at... ich bin ein alter Hase im/in der...
    to be good with one's \hands handfertig sein
    to keep one's \hand in (stay in practice) in Übung bleiben
    to turn one's \hand to sth sich akk an etw akk machen
    Jane can turn her \hand to just about anything Jane gelingt einfach alles, was sie anpackt
    11. (on clock, watch) Zeiger m
    minute \hand Minutenzeiger m
    the big/little \hand der große/kleine Zeiger
    12. CARDS Blatt nt
    to deal a \hand ein Blatt nt austeilen
    to show one's \hand seine Karten [o sein Blatt] zeigen
    a \hand of poker eine Runde Poker
    13. (horse measurement) Handbreit f
    14. (handwriting) Handschrift f
    in sb's \hand in jds Handschrift
    the note was written in someone else's \hand jemand anders hatte die Nachricht geschrieben
    to give sb a big \hand jdm einen großen Applaus spenden, jdn mit großem Beifall begrüßen
    16. (without consideration)
    ▪ out of \hand kurzerhand, mir nichts dir nichts fam
    they rejected any negotiations out of \hand sie schlugen jedwelche Verhandlungen kurzerhand aus
    17. COMM (in stock)
    goods on \hand Vorräte pl
    inventory on \hand FIN Vorratsbestand m
    stock on \hand verfügbarer Bestand m
    18. FIN
    note of \hand Schuldschein m
    19. COMPUT
    \hands off automatisches System
    \hands on operatorbedientes System
    20.
    ▶ to ask for sb's \hand in marriage ( form) jdn um ihre/seine Hand bitten, jdm einen Heiratsantrag machen
    ▶ a bird in the \hand [is worth two in the bush] ( prov) ein Spatz in der Hand ist besser als die Taube auf dem Dach prov
    ▶ to eat out of sb's \hands jdm aus der Hand fressen
    ▶ at first/second \hand aus erster/zweiter Hand
    ▶ to get one's \hands on sb jdn zu fassen kriegen fam, jdn schnappen fam
    ▶ to be \hand in glove [with sb] [or AM\hand and \hand] [mit jdm] unter einer Decke stecken pej
    ▶ to go \hand in \hand [with sth] Hand in Hand gehen [mit etw dat]
    ▶ to have got [sb] on one's \hands [mit jdm] zu tun haben
    ▶ to have one's \hands full jede Menge zu tun haben
    ▶ to only have one pair of \hands auch nur zwei Hände haben
    ▶ to keep a firm \hand on sth etw fest im Griff behalten
    ▶ to lay [or get] [or put] one's \hands on sth etw erwerben [o erstehen] [o fam kriegen]
    ▶ to live from \hand to mouth von der Hand in den Mund leben, sich akk gerade so durchschlagen fam, gerade so über die Runden kommen fam
    ▶ to lose/make money \hand over fist Geld schnell verlieren/scheffeln
    ▶ many \hands make light work ( prov) viele Hände machen der Arbeit bald ein Ende prov
    ▶ on the one \hand... on the other [\hand]... einerseits... andererseits
    ▶ to put in \hand esp BRIT ausführen
    all hospitals now have disaster plans to put in \hand allen Krankenhäusern stehen jetzt Katastrophenvorkehrungen zur Verfügung
    ▶ to put [or dip] one's \hand in the till in die Kasse greifen, einen Griff in die Kasse tun
    ▶ with one \hand tied:
    I could beat you with one \hand tied ich könnte dich mit links schlagen
    ▶ to have one's \hands tied nichts tun können
    my \hands have been tied mir sind die Hände gebunden
    ▶ to wait on sb \hand and foot jdn von vorne bis hinten bedienen
    ▶ to win \hands down spielend [o mit links] gewinnen
    ▪ to \hand sb sth [or to \hand sth to sb] jdm etw [über]geben [o [über]reichen]
    ▶ you've got to \hand it to sb man muss es jdm lassen
    ▶ to \hand sb a line [or a line to sb] ( fam) jdn anlügen; (less seriously) jdn anschwindeln
    * * *
    hand [hænd]
    A s
    1. Hand f:
    hands off! Hände weg!;
    hands up! Hände hoch!;
    with one’s hands up mit erhobenen Händen;
    a helping hand fig eine hilfreiche Hand;
    give ( oder lend) a (helping) hand mit zugreifen, jemandem helfen ( with bei);
    give sth a helping hand pej bei etwas mithelfen;
    do you need a hand? soll ich dir helfen?;
    give sb a hand up jemandem auf die Beine helfen oder hochhelfen;
    he asked for her hand er hielt um ihre Hand an;
    be good with one’s hands handwerkliches Geschick haben; → stand B 1
    2. a) Hand f (eines Affen)
    b) Vorderfuß m (eines Pferdes etc)
    c) Fuß m (eines Falken)
    d) Schere f (eines Krebses)
    3. Urheber(in), Verfasser(in)
    4. meist pl Hand f, Macht f, Gewalt f:
    I am entirely in your hands ich bin ganz in Ihrer Hand;
    fall into sb’s hands jemandem in die Hände fallen
    5. pl Hände pl, Obhut f:
    6. pl Hände pl, Besitz m:
    in private hands in Privathand, in Privatbesitz;
    change hands → Bes Redew
    7. Hand f (Handlungs-, besonders Regierungsweise):
    with a high hand selbstherrlich, anmaßend, willkürlich, eigenmächtig;
    with (a) heavy hand hart, streng, mit harter Hand; → iron B 3
    8. Hand f, Quelle f:
    at first hand aus erster Hand
    9. Hand f, Fügung f, Einfluss m, Wirken n:
    the hand of God die Hand Gottes;
    hidden hand (geheime) Machenschaften pl
    10. Seite f (auch fig), Richtung f:
    on every hand überall, ringsum;
    a) überall,
    b) von allen Seiten;
    on the right hand rechter Hand, rechts;
    on the one hand …, on the other hand fig einerseits …, andererseits
    11. meist in Zusammensetzungen Arbeiter(in), Mann m (auch pl), pl Leute pl, SCHIFF Matrose m: → deck A 1
    12. Fachmann m, -frau f, Routinier m:
    an old hand ein alter Fachmann oder Praktikus oder Hase umg;
    a good hand at sehr geschickt oder geübt in (dat);
    I am a poor hand at golf ich bin ein schlechter Golfspieler
    13. (gute) Hand, Geschick n:
    he has a hand for horses er versteht es, mit Pferden umzugehen;
    my hand is out ich bin außer oder aus der Übung
    14. Handschrift f:
    15. Unterschrift f:
    set one’s hand to seine Unterschrift setzen unter (akk), unterschreiben;
    under the hand of unterzeichnet von
    16. Hand f, Fertigkeit f:
    it shows a master’s hand es verrät die Hand eines Meisters
    17. Applaus m, Beifall m:
    get a big hand stürmischen Beifall hervorrufen, starken Applaus bekommen;
    give sb a hand jemandem applaudieren oder Beifall klatschen
    18. Zeiger m (der Uhr etc)
    19. Büschel n, Bündel n (Früchte), Hand f (Bananen)
    20. Handbreit f (= 4 Zoll = 10,16 cm) (besonders um die Höhe von Pferden zu messen)
    a) Spieler(in)
    b) Blatt n, Karten pl:
    c) Spiel n: → lone 1
    22. pl Fußball: Handspiel n:
    he was cautioned for hands er wurde wegen eines Handspiels verwarnt;
    hands! Hand!
    B v/t
    1. ein-, aushändigen, (über)geben, (-)reichen ( alle:
    sb sth, sth to sb jemandem etwas):
    you must hand it to him fig das muss man oder der Neid ihm lassen (anerkennend)
    2. jemandem helfen, jemanden geleiten:
    hand sb into (out of) the car jemandem ins (aus dem) Auto helfen
    3. SCHIFF die Segel festmachenBesondere Redewendungen: hand and foot
    a) an Händen und Füßen (fesseln),
    b) fig eifrig, ergeben (dienen), vorn und hinten (bedienen);
    a) auf vertrautem Fuße stehen (mit), ein Herz und eine Seele sein (mit),
    b) unter einer Decke stecken (mit) umg;
    hands down spielend, mühelos (gewinnen etc);
    hand in hand Hand in Hand (a. fig);
    hand on heart Hand aufs Herz;
    a) Hand über Hand (klettern etc),
    b) fig Zug um Zug, schnell, spielend;
    hand to hand Mann gegen Mann (kämpfen);
    a) nahe, in Reichweite,
    b) nahe (bevorstehend),
    c) bei der oder zur Hand, bereit;
    at the hands of vonseiten, seitens (gen), durch, von;
    a) mit der Hand, manuell,
    b) durch Boten,
    c) mit der Flasche (großziehen);
    carved by hand handgeschnitzt;
    a) jemanden bei der Hand nehmen,
    b) fig jemanden unter seine Fittiche nehmen;
    from hand to hand von Hand zu Hand;
    from hand to mouth von der Hand in den Mund (leben);
    a) in der Hand,
    b) zur (freien) Verfügung,
    c) vorrätig, vorhanden,
    d) fig in der Hand oder Gewalt,
    e) in Bearbeitung,
    f) im Gange;
    the letter (matter) in hand der vorliegende Brief (die vorliegende Sache);
    a) in die Hand oder in Angriff nehmen,
    b) umg jemanden unter seine Fittiche nehmen;
    a) verfügbar, vorrätig,
    b) bevorstehend,
    c) zur Stelle;
    on one’s hands
    a) auf dem Hals,
    b) zur Verfügung;
    be on sb’s hands jemandem zur Last fallen;
    a) kurzerhand, sofort,
    b) vorbei, erledigt,
    c) fig aus der Hand, außer Kontrolle, nicht mehr zu bändigen;
    let one’s temper get out of hand die Selbstbeherrschung verlieren;
    to hand zur Hand;
    come to hand eingehen, -laufen, -treffen (Brief etc);
    your letter to hand WIRTSCH obs im Besitz Ihres werten Schreibens;
    a) unter Kontrolle,
    b) unter der Hand, heimlich;
    under the hand and seal of Mr X von Mr. X eigenhändig unterschrieben oder geschrieben und gesiegelt;
    with one’s own hand eigenhändig;
    change hands in andere Hände übergehen, den Besitzer wechseln;
    the lead changed hands several times SPORT die Führung wechselte mehrmals;
    get one’s hand in Übung bekommen, sich einarbeiten;
    get sth off one’s hands etwas loswerden;
    grease ( oder oil) sb’s hand umg jemanden schmieren umg, jemanden bestechen;
    have one’s hand in in Übung sein, Übung haben;
    have a hand in seine Hand im Spiel haben bei, beteiligt sein an (dat);
    have clean hands eine weiße oder reine oder saubere Weste haben;
    have one’s hands full alle Hände voll zu tun haben;
    hold hands Händchen halten (Verliebte);
    holding hands Händchen haltend;
    hold one’s hand sich zurückhalten;
    join hands sich die Hände reichen, fig a. sich verbünden oder zusammentun;
    keep one’s hand in in Übung bleiben;
    keep a firm hand on unter strenger Zucht halten;
    lay (one’s) hands on
    a) anfassen,
    b) ergreifen, packen, habhaft werden (gen),
    c) (gewaltsam) Hand an jemanden legen,
    d) REL ordinieren;
    I can’t lay my hands on it ich kann es nicht finden;
    lay hands on o.s. Hand an sich legen;
    not lift ( oder raise) a hand keinen Finger rühren;
    live by one’s hands von seiner Hände Arbeit leben;
    play into sb’s hands jemandem in die Hände arbeiten;
    put one’s hand on
    a) finden,
    b) fig sich erinnern an (akk);
    a) ergreifen,
    b) fig in Angriff nehmen, anpacken;
    shake hands sich die Hände schütteln, Shakehands machen;
    shake hands with sb, shake sb by the hand jemandem die Hand schütteln (auch zur Gratulation etc) oder geben;
    shake hands on etwas mit Handschlag besiegeln;
    show one’s hand fig seine Karten aufdecken;
    take a hand at a game bei einem Spiel mitmachen;
    throw one’s hand in (Kartenspiel) aussteigen (a. fig);
    try one’s hand at sth etwas versuchen, es mit etwas probieren;
    wash one’s hands
    a) sich die Hände waschen,
    b) euph mal kurz verschwinden;
    wash one’s hands of it
    a) (in dieser Sache) seine Hände in Unschuld waschen,
    b) nichts mit der Sache zu tun haben wollen;
    I wash my hands of him mit ihm will ich nichts mehr zu tun haben; → cross B 1, overplay A 3, sit A 1, soil1 A a
    hd abk
    1. hand
    2. head
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) (Anat., Zool.) Hand, die

    eat from or out of somebody's hand — (lit. or fig.) jemandem aus der Hand fressen

    get one's hands dirty — (lit. or fig.) sich (Dat.) die Hände schmutzig machen

    give somebody one's hand — (reach, shake) jemandem die Hand geben od. reichen

    give or lend [somebody] a hand [with or in something] — [jemandem] [bei etwas] helfen

    pass or go through somebody's hands — (fig.) durch jemandes Hand od. Hände gehen

    go hand in hand [with something] — (fig.) [mit etwas] Hand in Hand gehen

    the problem/matter in hand — das vorliegende Problem/die vorliegende Angelegenheit

    hold hands — Händchen halten (ugs. scherzh.); sich bei den Händen halten

    hold somebody's hand — jemandes Hand halten; jemandem die Hand halten; (fig.): (give somebody close guidance) jemanden bei der Hand nehmen; (fig.): (give somebody moral support or backing) jemandem das Händchen halten (iron.)

    hands off! — Hände od. Finger weg!

    take/keep one's hands off somebody/something — jemanden/etwas loslassen/nicht anfassen

    keep one's hands off something — (fig.) die Finger von etwas lassen (ugs.)

    hands up [all those in favour] — wer dafür ist, hebt die Hand!

    hands down — (fig.) (easily) mit links (ugs.); (without a doubt, by a large margin) ganz klar (ugs.)

    be at hand — (be nearby) in der Nähe sein; (be about to happen) unmittelbar bevorstehen

    out of hand — (summarily) kurzerhand

    be to hand — (be readily available, within reach) zur Hand sein; (be received) [Brief, Notiz, Anweisung:] vorliegen

    go/pass from hand to hand — von Hand zu Hand gehen

    be hand in glove [with] — unter einer Decke stecken [mit]

    wait on somebody hand and foot — (fig.) jemanden vorn und hinten bedienen (ugs.)

    have one's hands full — die Hände voll haben; (fig.): (be fully occupied) alle Hände voll zu tun haben (ugs.)

    hand on heart — (fig.) Hand aufs Herz

    get one's hands on somebody/something — jemanden erwischen od. (ugs.) in die Finger kriegen/etwas auftreiben

    lay or put one's hand on something — etwas finden

    by hand — (manually) mit der od. von Hand; (in handwriting) handschriftlich; (by messenger) durch Boten

    2) (fig.): (authority)

    with a firm/iron hand — mit starker Hand/eiserner Faust [regieren]

    get out of hand — außer Kontrolle geraten; see also take 1. 6); upper 1. 1)

    have a free hand to do something — freie Hand haben, etwas zu tun

    3) in pl. (custody)

    in somebody's hands, in the hands of somebody — (in somebody's possession) in jemandes Besitz; (in somebody's care) in jemandes Obhut

    fall into somebody's hands — [Person, Geld:] jemandem in die Hände fallen

    have [got] something/somebody on one's hands — sich um etwas/jemanden kümmern müssen

    he's got such a lot/enough on his hands at the moment — er hat augenblicklich so viel/genug um die Ohren (ugs.)

    have time on one's hands — [viel] Zeit haben; (too much) mit seiner Zeit nichts anzufangen wissen

    take somebody/something off somebody's hands — jemandem jemanden/etwas abnehmen

    have something in hand — etwas zur Verfügung haben; (not used up) etwas [übrig] haben

    take a hand [in something] — sich [an etwas (Dat.)] beteiligen

    6) (agency) Wirken, das (geh.)

    suffer/suffer injustice at the hands of somebody — unter jemandem/jemandes Ungerechtigkeit zu leiden haben

    ask for or seek somebody's hand [in marriage] — um jemandes Hand bitten od. (geh.) anhalten

    8) (worker) Arbeitskraft, die; Arbeiter, der; (Naut.): (seaman) Hand, die (fachspr.); Matrose, der
    9) (person having ability)

    be a good/poor hand at tennis — ein guter/schwacher Tennisspieler sein

    10) (source) Quelle, die

    at first/second/third hand — aus erster/zweiter/dritter Hand; see also firsthand; second-hand

    11) (skill) Geschick, das

    get one's hand in — wieder in Übung kommen od. (ugs.) reinkommen

    12) (style of handwriting) Handschrift, die; (signature) Unterschrift, die
    13) (of clock or watch) Zeiger, der
    14) (side) Seite, die

    on the right/left hand — rechts/links; rechter/linker Hand

    on somebody's right/left hand — rechts/links von jemandem; zu jemandes Rechten/Linken

    on every hand — von allen Seiten [umringt sein]; ringsum [etwas sehen]

    on the one hand..., [but] on the other [hand]... — einerseits..., andererseits...; auf der einen Seite..., auf der anderen Seite...

    15) (measurement) Handbreit, die
    16) (coll.): (applause) Beifall, der; Applaus, der

    give him a big hand, let's have a big hand for him — viel Applaus od. Beifall für ihn!

    17) (cards) Karte, die; (period of play) Runde, die; see also throw in 4)
    2. transitive verb
    geben; [Überbringer:] übergeben [Sendung, Lieferung]

    hand something [a]round — (pass round, circulate) etwas herumgeben; (among group) etwas herumgehen lassen

    you've got to hand it to them/her — etc. (fig. coll.) das muss man ihnen/ihr usw. lassen

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    (handwriting) n.
    Handschrift f. (clock) n.
    Zeiger - m. n.
    Hand ¨-e f. v.
    einhändigen v.
    herüberreichen v.
    reichen v.

    English-german dictionary > hand

  • 11 willing

    1. adjective

    ready and willing — bereit

    be willing to do something — bereit sein, etwas zu tun

    I'm willing to believe you're right — ich will gerne glauben, dass du recht hast

    2) attrib. (readily offered) willig

    she gave willing assistance/help — sie half bereitwillig

    2. noun
    * * *
    will·ing
    [ˈwɪlɪŋ]
    I. adj
    1. pred (not opposed) bereit, gewillt geh
    God \willing so Gott will
    to be ready and \willing [or ready, \willing and able] bereit sein
    ▪ to be \willing to do sth bereit [o geh gewillt] sein, etw zu tun
    to be more than \willing to do sth nur zu gerne etw tun wollen
    ▪ to [not] be \willing for sb to do sth [nicht] gewillt sein, jdn etw tun zu lassen
    John and Gabriel are \willing for us to use their garden John und Gabriel haben nichts dagegen, wenn wir ihren Garten benutzen
    they're not \willing for us to bring our own wine sie wollen nicht, dass wir [uns] unseren eigenen Wein mitbringen
    2. (enthusiastic) willig
    the staff are \willing enough die Mitarbeiter sind allemal [dazu] bereit
    \willing hands bereitwillige Hilfe
    3.
    ▶ the spirit is \willing but the flesh is weak ( saying) der Geist ist willig, doch das Fleisch ist schwach prov
    II. n no pl BRIT
    to show \willing [seinen] guten Willen zeigen
    * * *
    ['wIlɪŋ]
    adj
    1)

    (= prepared) to be willing to do sth — bereit or gewillt (geh) or willens (liter, old) sein, etw zu tun

    God willing — so Gott will

    he was willing for me to take it — es war ihm recht, dass ich es nahm

    he was not willing for us to go/for this to be done — er war nicht gewillt, uns gehen zu lassen/das geschehen zu lassen

    2) (= ready to help, cheerfully ready) workers, helpers bereitwillig
    3) (= voluntary) sacrifice willentlich
    * * *
    willing adj
    1. gewillt, willens, bereit:
    I am willing to believe that … ich glaube gern, dass …;
    I am not willing to believe this ich bin nicht gewillt, das zu glauben;
    willing to compromise kompromissbereit;
    willing to help hilfsbereit;
    willing to make concessions konzessionsbereit;
    willing to negotiate verhandlungsbereit;
    willing to pay WIRTSCH zahlungsbereit;
    willing to work arbeitswillig;
    God willing so Gott will;
    willing purchaser WIRTSCH (ernsthafte[r]) Interessent(in)
    2. (bereit)willig
    3. gern geschehen oder getan:
    a willing gift ein gern gegebenes Geschenk;
    a willing help eine gern geleistete Hilfe
    * * *
    1. adjective

    be willing to do something — bereit sein, etwas zu tun

    I'm willing to believe you're right — ich will gerne glauben, dass du recht hast

    2) attrib. (readily offered) willig

    she gave willing assistance/help — sie half bereitwillig

    2. noun
    * * *
    adj.
    bereitwillig adj.
    wollend adj.

    English-german dictionary > willing

  • 12 answer

    1. I
    1) why don't you answer? почему вы не отвечаете?; the question is not easy to answer на этот вопрос не так легко найти ответ
    2) usually in the negative that won't answer это не годится /не пойдет, не подойдет/; it doesn't answer а) это того не стоит; б) это не имеет смысла; the plan (the experiment) hasn't answered план (опыт) ничего не подтвердил
    2. II
    answer in some manner answer politely (sharply, rudely, etc.) отвечать вежливо и т. д.; he never answered он так и не ответил
    3. III
    1) answer smb. answer the teacher (the manager, the passer by, the neighbour, etc.) отвечать учителю и т. д.; answer smth. answer a question (smb.'s inquiries, smb.'s remark, etc.) отвечать на вопрос и т. д.; I have answered six letters я ответил на шесть писем; he couldn't answer a word он и слова не мог сказать /вымолвить/ в ответ; don't answer anything не отвечай ничего; не отвечай ни на какие вопросы; answer the roll откликаться на перекличке; answer a charge ответить на обвинение; answer a riddle отгадать загадку; answer a problem решить задачу /проблему/
    2) answer smth. answer the bell (the door) открыть дверь (ка звонок, на стук), answer the phone подойти к телефону; answer an appeal (a declaration, a call, etc.) откликаться /отвечать, реагировать/ на призыв и т. д.
    3) answer smth. answer a demand (an order, smb.'s wishes, etc.) отвечать /соответствовать/ потребности /спросу/ и т. д.; his going away answers my plans его отъезд мне на руку; it answers our requirements это отвечает нашим требованиям /удовлетворяет наши требования/; answer the purpose соответствовать своему назначению; will this answer your purpose? это вам годится /подойдет/?; answer smb.'s expectations не обмануть чьих-л. надежд /ожиданий/
    4. IV
    answer smb. in some manner answer smb. sharply (bitterly, briefly, readily, frankly, ironically, proudly, haughtily, in the negative, etc.) резко и т. д. отвечать кому-л.; answer smth. in some manner answer smb.'s question (smb.'s remark, smb.'s criticism, etc.) sharply (briefly, readily, etc.) резко и т. д. отвечать на чей-л. вопрос и т. д.
    5. V
    answer smb. smth. he answered me nothing он мне ничего не ответил; he answered me something but I didn't hear /didn't catch what it was/ он что-то ответил мне, но я не расслышал
    6. XVI
    1) answer in some form answer in the affirmative (in the negative) дать положительный (отрицательный) ответ, ответить положительно (отрицательно) id answer in kind =answer отплатить той же монетой
    2) answer for smb., smth. answer for the child (for one's pupils, for his younger sister, for one's own actions, for smb.'s safety, for the arrangements, etc.) отвечать /нести ответственность, брать на ceбя ответственность/ за ребенка и т. д., who answers for the music? кто ответственный за музыку /за музыкальное оформление/?; answer for a crime (for one's wrongdoings, for all the wrongs which he has done, for one's carelessness, etc.) отвечать /нести ответственность, расплачиваться/ за преступление и т. д., he has a lot to answer for ему за многое придется ответить; answer to smb., smth. for smth., smb. answer to me for his safety (to the mother for her child's well-being, to the committee for the arrangements, to the board for the expenses incurred, etc.) отвечать передо мной за его безопасность и т, д.; who will answer to me for this? кто мне за это ответит?; who will answer to me for my child? кто будет нести ответственность за моего ребенка?
    3) answer for smb., smth. answer for one's friend (for smb. answer loyalty, for smb.'s character, for smb.'s skill, for the truth of the statement, etc.) ручаться /отвечать/ за своего друга и т. д.; I can't answer for his honesty я не могу поручиться за его честность; I will answer for it я ручаюсь за это
    4) answer to smth. answer to the description (to his idea of womanhood, to her first statement, etc.) отвечать /соответствовать/ описанию и т. д.; his conduct doesn't answer to my idea of honesty его поведение идет вразрез с моим пониманием честности
    5) answer to smth. answer to the name of... откликаться /отзываться/ на имя...; the dog answers to the name of Rex собака отзывается на кличку Рекс
    6) answer to smth. answer to the medical treatment поддаваться лечению, реагировать на лечение
    7. XXI1
    answer smb., smth. with smth. answer him with kindness (with ingratitude, etc.) отвечать /платить/ ему добром и т. д.; answer smb.'s kindness with ingratitude (smb.'s arrogance with contempt, etc.) отплачивать неблагодарностью за добро и т. д.; answer blows with blows отвечать ударом на удар
    8. XXV
    answer that... he answered that he was busy он ответил, что он занят abs "Yes", he answered "Да",- ответил /откликнулся/ он; " I can't", he answered sharply (timidly, etc.) "Я не могу",- резко и т. д. ответил он, сказал он в ответ

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > answer

  • 13 admit

    1. III
    1) admit smth. admit one's mistake (one's guilt, etc.) признавать свою ошибку и т. д., признаваться в своей ошибке и т. д.
    2) admit smth. admit an argument (a fact, etc.) соглашаться с доводом и т. д., признавать довод и т. д. убедительным; admit a hypothesis принять гипотезу; we said that he was wrong and he admitted it /as much/ мы сказали, что он неправ, и он с этим согласился; admit a claim law признавать претензию
    3) admit smb. admit employees (children, men, dogs, etc.) впускать служащих и т. д., разрешать вход служащим и т. д.; the old man opened the door and admitted me старик открыл дверь и впустил меня; this ticket admits one person по этому билету может пройти один человек; admit smth. admit light (air, water, etc.) пропускать свет и т. д.
    4) admit smb. admit girls (men, students, members, etc.) принимать девочек и т. д.; we shall admit only one hundred boys мы зачислим только сто мальчиков; the college does not admit women в этот колледж женщин не допускают /не принимают/
    5) admit smb., smth. admit many people (a very small audience, a great number of ships, ten cars, etc.) вменить много людей и т. д.; the theatre admits only 200 persons этот театр рассчитан только на двести человек; the stable admits only four horses в конюшне можно разместить только четырех лошадей; the harbour admits large liners (cargo boats, ships, etc.) в порт могут заходить большие лайнеры и т. д.; the passage admits two abreast по коридору рядом могут пройти только двое
    2. IV
    admit smth. in some manner
    1) admit smth. reluctantly (willingly, humbly, arrogantly, tacitly, laughingly, naively, etc.) неохотно /нехотя/ и т. д. признавать что-л. /признаваться в чем-л./
    2) admit smth. readily (formally, officially, lavishly, generously, etc.) охотно /с готовностью/ и т. д. соглашаться с чем-л.
    3) scarcely (hardly, freely, etc.) admit smth. скупо /едва/ и т. д. пропускать что-л.
    3. VII
    admit smth. to be smth. admit the task to be difficult (the statement to be true, the assertion to be groundless, the charge to be well founded, etc.) признавать задание сложным и т. д.; you must admit her statement to be doubtful вы должны согласиться с тем, что ее заявление сомнительно /не вызывает доверия/
    4. XI
    1) be admitted this much may be admitted это уж можно признать, с этим-то можно согласиться, это-то не вызывает сомнений
    2) be admitted ask for me and you will be admitted скажите, что вы ко мне, и вас пропустят /впустят/; I ordered that he was not to be admitted я распорядился, чтобы его не пропускали; children [are] not admitted дети не допускаются; dogs [are] not admitted с собаками вход воспрещен; be admitted to some place be admitted to the ball, (to the theatre, to the garden, etc.) иметь право пройти /право входа/ на бал и т. д.; we were admitted to the third performance нас (про-) пустили на третье представление
    3) be admitted to smth. only 100 boys are admitted to this school every year в эту школу ежегодно принимают только сто мальчиков; he was admitted to the university его приняли /он поступил/ в университет; the study was admitted into the university curriculum эту дисциплину включили в учебный план университета
    5. XIV
    admit doing smth. admit receiving your letter (having done wrong, etc.) признаваться, что получил ваше письмо и т.д.; I shall never admit knowing it я никогда не сознаюсь, что знал /знаю/ об этом; no one would admit having done it никто не признается, что он это сделал
    6. XVI
    1) admit to some place admit to the house (to the cellar, to the garden, etc.) вести /открывать путь/ в дом и т. д.; the key admits to the house при помощи ключа можно проникнуть в дом
    2) admit of smth. often in the negative book, not to admit of dispute (of explanation, of hesitation, etc.) не допускать спирав и т. д.; this word admits of по other meaning это слово не может иметь другого значения; the passage (the sentence) admits of several interpretations этот отрывок (это предложение) допускает несколько интерпретаций /можно толковать по-разному/; English adjectives do not admit of this change английские прилагательные так не изменяются; his evidence admits of no doubt его свидетельские показания не оставляют места для сомнений; this matter admits of no delay [это] дело не терпит отлагательства; his guilt is too apparent to admit of discussion его вина абсолютно очевидна
    7. XVII
    admit to doing smth., admit to having taken the money (to having misled the police, to wronging her, etc.) признаваться в том, что взял деньги и т. д.
    8. XVIII
    admit oneself as possessing some quality admit oneself beaten признавать себя побежденным; I admit myself confused признаюсь, я в растерянности; he admitted himself satisfied (pleased) он признался /сказал/, что удовлетворен (доволен)
    9. XXI1
    1) admit smth. to smb., admit the mistake to the teacher (one's guilt to the police, the loss of money to one's parents, etc,) признаваться учителю в своей ошибке и т. д.; I admitted to myself the truth of her criticism себе я признавался в том, что ее критика справедлива
    2) admit smb. (in)to (within) smth. admit a stranger into the house (the whole party into the place, the police into one's residence, the representatives of the press to, the gallery, the visitors within the fortification, etc.) впустить /пропустить/ незнакомца в дом и т. д.; admit smb. to a show (to a film, etc.) пропустить кого-л. на спектакль и т. д., the ticket admits you to one lecture билет дает вам право на посещение одной лекции; admit smb. to an examination допускать кого-л. к экзамену; admit smb. to one's friendship (into one's intimacy, etc.) book, делать кого-л. другом и т. д.; I don't think you should admit him to your confidence мне кажется, что с ним не следовало бы быть откровенным
    3) admit smb. (in)to smth. admit boys into school (talented man to the Royal Academy, women into college, new members to a club, children into the company of grown-ups, this country into the fellowship of European nations, etc.) принимать мальчиков в школу и т. д.
    10. XXIV2
    I admit the signature as my own я признаю эту подпись/, что это моя подпись/
    11. XXV
    admit that... admit that I was wrong (that he did it, that you used this expression, that I've been unfair to you, etc.) допускать /соглашаться с тем, признаваться в том/, что я был неправ и т. д.; I admit that you are right признаюсь), [что] вы правы; let's admit that you are right допустим, что вы правы; everybody admits that there is some measure of truth in it все признают, что в этом есть доля правды; it must be admitted-that..., следует признать, что...; it is generally (universally) admitted that... всеми признано (общепризнано), что... abs "I am wrong", he admitted "Я неправ",- признался он
    12. XXVII2
    admit to smb. that... I admitted to them that I knew nothing я признался им, что ничего не знаю

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > admit

  • 14 agree

    1. I
    1) I asked him to help me and he agreed я попросил его помочь мне, и он согласился
    2) her children do not agree ее дети не ладят /живут недружно/
    3) the two statements don't agree эти два утверждения не согласуются
    2. II
    1) agree in some manner agree readily /willingly/ (reluctantly, provisionally, etc.) охотно и т. д. соглашаться; agree at some time agree at once (beforehand, at last, etc.) немедленно и т. д. соглашаться
    2) agree in some manner often in the negative the boys can't agree at all, they are always quarrelling мальчишки никак не могут ужиться /поладить/ - все время ссорятся; birds agree very well птицы прекрасно уживаются [друг с другом]; agree at some time we shall never agree мы никогда не поладим
    3) agree in some manner all the accounts (figures) sufficiently agree все расчеты (цифры) в основном сходятся
    3. XI
    be agreed in smth. we are agreed in this у нас по этому поводу существует общее /одно, единое/ мнение, наши мнения в этом вопросе совпадают; be agreed in doing smth. we are all agreed in finding the accused man guilty мы все /единодушно, единогласно/ считаем /пришли к тому мнению/, что подсудимый виновен; be agreed that... we are all agreed that the proposal is a good one мы все придерживаемся того мнения /считаем/, что это хорошее предложение; it is generally /universally/ agreed that... всеми признано /общепризнано/, что...
    4. XIII
    agree to do smth.
    1) agree to go there (to come with us, to meet me, to stay a little longer, etc.) соглашаться /давать согласие/ пойти туда и т. д.; he agreed to do it [in order] to please me он согласился сделать это, чтобы доставить мне удовольствие
    2) we (they, etc.) agreed to go together (to meet, to leave the subject, etc.) мы и т. д. договорились /условились/ пойти вместе и т. д. agree how (where, etc.) to do smth. we agreed where (how, when) to meet мы договорились /условились/, где (как, когда) встретиться
    5. XVI
    1) agree to smth. agree to that (to your proposal, to the conditions, etc.) соглашаться на это и т. д.; he agreed to my terms (to my plan) он принял мои условия (мой план)
    2) agree in smth. agree in views (in everything, in tastes, etc.) сходиться во взглядах и т. д.; I am glad that we agree in our opinion of this man я рад, что наши мнения относительно этого человека совпадают; agree with smb. agree with him (with the experts on the date, etc.) придерживаться одного мнения с ним и т. д., разделить его и г. д. мнение; I agree with him on that point по этому вопросу наши с ним взгляды совпадают; he agreed with neither side его не устраивало мнение ни одной из сторон; fully (entirely, quite, reluctantly, etc.) agree with smb. полностью и т. д. соглашаться с кем-л.; agree with smb. in principle быть согласным в принципе /в основном/ с кем-л.
    3) agree about / (up)on/ smth. agree about the time (about the place, about the price, on the terms, on the agenda, etc.) договариваться /уславливаться/ о времени и т. д.; agree on all points договориться по всем пунктам; agree upon the plan согласовать план; we agreed on an early start мы договорились /условились/ выехать пораньше
    4) agree with smb., smth. ту opinion agrees with yours мое мнение совпадает /не расходится/ с вашим; his statement agrees with facts его заявление соответствует фактам; the picture agrees with the original картина похожа на оригинал; this bill does not agree with your original estimate этот счет расходится с вашей первоначальной сметой; the verb must agree with the subject глагол согласуется с подлежащим || not to agree with smb., smth. coll. быть вредным кому-л., чему-л.; this food (fish, etc.) does not agree with me мне нельзя /вредно/ [есть] эту пищу и т. д.; this climate doesn't agree with her этот климат ей не подходит, этот климат плохо действует на нее; this price does not agree with my pocket такая цена мне не подходит; agree with smb., smth. быть полезным кому-л., чему-л.; you look marvelous, the sun agrees with you вы чудесно выглядите, солнце [идет] вам на пользу
    6. XVII
    1) agree to doing smth. agree to his marrying the girl (to starting early, to helping him this time, etc.) соглашаться /давать свое согласие/ на его брак с этой девушкой и т. д.; I couldn't agree to his taking it all upon himself я не мог согласиться на то, чтобы он все взял на себя
    2) agree in doing smth. we agree in believing that... (in thinking that..., etc.) мы [оба, все] считаем, что... и т. д.; we agree in refusing to believe him guilty мы [Оба, все] отказываемся считать его виновным; we agreed in deciding to go there at once мы [оба, все] решили /пришли к решению/ немедленно отправиться туда
    3) agree on doing smth. agree on making an early start (on having him stay for a month, on looking it over, etc.) договариваться о том или соглашаться на то, чтобы выехать пораньше и т. д.; they agreed on giving the boy another chance на этот раз они согласились простить мальчика /дать мальчику еще один шанс исправиться/
    7. XVIII
    || agree among one selves договориться между собой, прийти к единому мнению
    8. XXV
    agree that... agree that it is the best way (that we should start early, that something must be done about it, etc.) считать /придерживаться того мнения/, что это самый лучший способ и т. д.; agree how (where, etc.) smth. should be done agree how the letter should be delivered (where the car should be stopped, etc.) договориться /условиться/ о том, как доставить письмо и т. д.
    9. XXVII1
    agree with what... your story agrees with what I had already heard ваш рассказ совпадает с тем, что я уже слышал

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > agree

  • 15 take

    [teɪk] 1. гл.; прош. вр. took, прич. прош. вр. taken
    1) брать; хватать

    to take smb. by the shoulders — схватить кого-л. за плечи

    to take smth. (up) with a pair of tongs — взять что-л. щипцами

    I took her hand and kissed her. — Я взял её за руку и поцеловал.

    Here, let me take your coat. — Позвольте взять ваше пальто.

    He took the book from the table. — Он взял книгу со стола.

    2)
    а) захватывать, овладевать (с применением силы, с помощью какой-л. уловки)

    I was taken into custody. — Меня взяли под стражу.

    Someone took a jewellery store in the town. — Кто-то захватил ювелирный магазин в городе.

    б) разг. овладевать женщиной

    He wanted to throw her on a bed and take her against her will, violently. — Ему хотелось бросить её на кровать и против её воли, силой овладеть ею.

    в) крим. арестовать, "взять"
    3)
    а) ловить (диких животных, птиц, рыбу)

    They are readily taken by nets. — Их легко поймать сетями.

    б) хватать (добычу; о животных)
    Syn:
    4)
    а) завоёвывать, очаровывать, покорять

    You took the whole audience. — Вы полностью покорили зрителей.

    He was taken with her at their first meeting. — Он увлёкся ею с первой же их встречи.

    The play didn't take. — Пьеса не имела успеха.

    Syn:
    б) получать признание, становиться популярным
    в) привлекать (взгляд, внимание)

    My eye was taken by something bright. — Мой взгляд привлекло что-то блестящее.

    5) достигать цели, оказывать воздействие

    The vaccine from Europe, - unfortunately none of it took. — Вакцина из Европы - к сожалению она оказалась неэффективной.

    Syn:
    succeed, be effective, take effect
    6) нанимать, брать (постояльцев, работников, компаньонов); брать (под покровительство, в обучение)

    None were allowed to let their rooms or take lodgers. — Было запрещено сдавать комнаты или брать постояльцев.

    He took pupils to increase his income. — Он брал учеников, чтобы увеличить свой доход.

    7)
    а) брать в собственность; присваивать
    б) юр. наследовать, вступать во владение
    в) получать, наследовать (происхождение, имя, характер, качества)
    г) снимать (квартиру, дачу)
    д) регулярно покупать (продукты, товары), выписывать или регулярно покупать ( периодические издания)

    I take two magazines. — Я выписываю два журнала.

    8) потреблять, принимать внутрь; глотать; есть, пить; вдыхать

    to take the air — прогуливаться, дышать свежим воздухом

    Take this medicine after meals. — Принимай это лекарство после еды.

    He usually takes breakfast at about eight o'clock. — Он обычно завтракает где-то в восемь часов.

    9)
    а) принимать (форму, характер, имя и другие атрибуты)

    The house took its present form. — Дом принял свой нынешний облик.

    Syn:
    б) (принимать символ, знак, указывающий на выполняемую функцию)
    - take the crown
    - take the throne
    - take the habit
    - take the gown
    - take the ball
    - take an oar
    10)
    а) принимать (должность, пост)

    Captain Mayer was compelled by circumstances to take the responsibility. — Обстоятельства вынудили капитана Майера взять ответственность на себя.

    б) давать (клятву, обещание, обет)
    11) выполнять, осуществлять (функции, долг, службу)

    the female parts in plays being taken by boys and men — женские роли в пьесах, которые играют мальчики и мужчины

    12) занимать (место, позицию)
    13)
    а) впитывать, насыщаться ( влагой)

    a man who takes all the epidemics — человек, который подхватывает все заразные болезни

    в) легко поддаваться (окраске, обработке)

    the granite, capable of taking a high polish — гранит, который прекрасно шлифуется

    It takes dyes admirably - much better than cotton. — Эта ткань прекрасно окрашивается - гораздо лучше, чем хлопок.

    14) понимать, воспринимать, схватывать ( о значении слов)

    I take your point. — Я понимаю тебя.; Я понимаю, что ты хочешь сказать.

    Do you take me? — разг. Вы меня понимаете?

    Syn:
    15) думать, полагать, считать; заключать

    You might take it that this court overruled the objection. — Можно заключить, что суд отклонил возражение.

    I take it that we are to go London. — Я так полагаю, что мы должны ехать в Лондон.

    You haven't congratulated me. Never mind, we'll take that as done. — Ты не поздравил меня. Ладно, неважно, будем считать, что это сделано.

    Syn:
    16) испытывать, чувствовать

    persons to whom I had taken so much dislike — лица, к которым я испытывал такую неприязнь

    Syn:
    17)
    а) воспринимать, учитывать, действовать в соответствии с (советом, предупреждением, намёком)

    He begged others to take warning by his fate. — Он умолял других сделать выводы из его несчастья.

    б) ( take as) воспринимать, считать

    to take things as they are — принимать вещи такими, какие они есть

    в) верить, считать правильным, истинным

    I think you must take it from me, Mr. Pennington, that we have examined all the possibilities very carefully. (A. Christie) — Полагаю, вы должны поверить мне, мистер Пеннингтон, что мы очень тщательно проанализировали все возможности.

    18)
    а) охватывать, поражать, обрушиваться

    Fire took the temple. — Огонь охватил храм.

    The kick of a horse took me across the ribs. — Удар лошади пришелся мне в ребра.

    The ball took him squarely between the eyes. — Мяч попал ему прямо между глаз.

    The ball took me an awful whack on the chest. — Мяч сильно ударил меня в грудь.

    Syn:
    б) быть поражённым, охваченным (болезнью, приступом, чувством)

    They were taken with a fit of laughing. — У них случился приступ хохота.

    He was taken with the idea. — Он увлёкся этой мыслью.

    I was not taken with him. — Он мне не понравился.

    19)
    а) получать, извлекать (из какого-л. источника, материального или нематериального); перенимать, усваивать, копировать; брать в качестве примера

    The proportions of the three Grecian orders were taken from the human body. — Пропорции тела человека были взяты в качестве основы во всех трёх греческих ордерах.

    б) добывать; собирать ( урожай)
    20)
    б) мед. приживаться ( о трансплантатах)

    Odds that a transplanted cadaveric kidney will "take" are usually no better than 50%. — Шансов, что пересаженная от умершего почка приживётся, обычно не больше 50%.

    в) держаться, приставать (о чернилах и т. п.)
    г) образовываться, создаваться (о льде; особенно на реках, озёрах)

    Seines were set in the water just before the ice "took" on the lake or river. — Сети ставились в воде непосредственно перед замерзанием озера или реки.

    д) тех. твердеть, схватываться ( о цементе)
    21) раздобывать, выяснять (информацию, факты); проводить (исследования, измерения)

    Tests are taken to see if the cable has sustained any damage. — Проводятся испытания, чтобы определить, повреждён ли кабель.

    The temperature has to be taken every hour. — Температуру приходится проверять каждый час.

    The weather was too cloudy to take any observations. — Погода была слишком облачной, чтобы проводить какие бы то ни было наблюдения.

    22)
    а) записывать, протоколировать

    He had no clinical clerks, and his cases were not taken. — У него не было в клинике регистраторов, поэтому на больных не заводились истории болезни.

    б) изображать; рисовать; фотографировать
    в) разг. выходить на фотографии (хорошо, плохо)

    He does not take well. — Он плохо выходит на фотографии.

    23)
    а) применять, использовать (средства, методы, возможности)

    Every possible means is now taken to conceal the truth. — В настоящее время используются все возможные средства, чтобы скрыть правду.

    б) использовать (какие-л.) средства передвижения

    They took train to London. — Они сели на поезд, идущий до Лондона.

    I took the packet-boat, and came over to England. — Я сел на пакетбот и добрался до Англии.

    24)
    а) получать; выигрывать
    Syn:
    б) подвергаться ( наказанию), переносить
    25)
    а) принимать, соглашаться (на что-л.); принимать ( ставку)

    They will not take such treatment. — Они не потерпят такого обращения.

    Syn:
    б) принимать (самцов; о самках)
    в) клевать, захватывать (наживку; о рыбах)
    26) принимать (с каким-л. чувством, настроем)

    to take it lying down — безропотно сносить что-л.

    to take things as one finds them — принимать вещи такими, какие они есть

    She takes the rough with the smooth. — Она стойко переносит превратности судьбы.

    27) пытаться преодолеть (что-л., мешающее продвижению); преодолевать, брать препятствие

    The horse took the hedge easily. — Лошадь легко взяла препятствие.

    He took the corner like a rally driver. — Он завернул за угол, как настоящий гонщик.

    28)
    а) разг. противостоять; нападать; наносить поражение; убить

    The man who tried to take me was Martinez. — Человек, пытавшийся меня убить, был Мартинес.

    Syn:
    б) ( take against) выступать против; испытывать неприязнь, не любить

    I've never done anything to offend her, but she just took against me from the start. — Я никогда не делал ничего, что могло бы оскорбить её, но она невзлюбила меня с самого начала.

    29) брать, бить (в картах, шахматах и др. играх)

    A pawn takes the enemy angularly. — Пешка бьёт фигуру противника по диагонали.

    The king takes the queen. — Король берёт ферзя.

    30)
    а) = take short / by surprise / at unawares заставать врасплох

    The doctor was not easily taken off his guard. — Доктора трудно было поймать врасплох.

    б) разг. обмануть, наколоть; вымогать ( деньги)

    It wasn't enough for Julie just to admit she'd been taken. — Для Джулии было недостаточно просто признать, что её облапошили.

    Syn:
    31)
    а) выбирать, избирать

    Take me a man, at a venture, from the crowd. — Выбери мне наугад какого-нибудь человека из толпы.

    Syn:
    б) выбрать (дорогу, путь), отправиться (по какой-л. дороге)

    to take (a place or person) in (on) one's way — заходить, заезжать (в какое-л. место или к кому-л.) по пути

    He did not take Rome in his way. — Он не включил Рим в свой маршрут.

    32)
    а) = take up занимать, отнимать, требовать (времени, активности, энергии)

    It will take two hours to translate this article. — Перевод этой статьи займёт два часа.

    Any ignoramus can construct a straight line, but it takes an engineer to make a curve. — Любой профан может построить прямую линию, но чтобы построить кривую, требуется инженер.

    б) носить, иметь размер (перчаток, обуви)
    33) начинать, начинать снова; возобновлять

    Eveline remained silent. The abbess took the word. — Эвелин продолжала молчать. Аббатиса снова заговорила.

    All Declensions take the Ending m for Masc. and Fem. Nouns. — Все склонения требуют окончания m у существительных мужского и женского рода.

    35) с последующим существительным выражает общее значение: делать, осуществлять; сочетание часто является перифразой соответствующего существительному глагола и выражает единичный акт или кратковременное действие

    to take a leap — сделать прыжок, прыгнуть

    to take one's departure — уйти, уехать

    to take adieu, farewell — прощаться

    My wife and my daughter were taking a walk together. — Мои жена и дочь предприняли совместную прогулку.

    - take five
    - take ten
    - take a fall
    36) доставлять; сопровождать; провожать; вести; брать с собой

    to take smb. home — провожать кого-л. домой

    to take smb. out for a walk — повести кого-л. погулять

    to take along a picnic basket / a laptop / a copy of the contract / a few books / one's financial statement — брать с собой корзину для пикника / ноутбук / копию контракта / несколько книг / свой финансовый отчёт

    to buy wine to take along — покупать вино, чтобы взять его с собой

    The second stage of the journey takes the traveller through Egypt. — На втором этапе путешествия путников провезут через Египет.

    I want to take her all over the house. — Я хочу показать ей дом.

    I'll take him around. — Я ему тут всё покажу.

    the business that took me to London — дело, которое привело меня в Лондон

    37)
    а) забирать, уносить; извлекать, удалять; избавлять (от чего-л.)

    The flood took many lives. — Наводнение унесло жизни многих людей.

    to take the life of (smb.) — лишить (кого-л.) жизни, убить

    to take one's (own) life — лишить себя жизни, совершить самоубийство

    Syn:

    It was God's will that he should be taken. (E. O'Neill) — Господу было угодно, чтобы он умер.

    в) = take off отнимать, вычитать
    Syn:
    г) ( take from) уменьшать, сокращать

    It takes greatly from the pleasure. — Это сильно уменьшает удовольствие.

    Syn:
    38) привыкать (к чему-л.)
    39)
    а) идти, двигаться (куда-л., в каком-л. направлении)

    I took across some fields for the nearest way. — Я двинулся по полям, чтобы добраться до ближайшей дороги.

    A gang of wolves took after her. — За ней бежала стая волков.

    He will take himself to bed. — Он направился в постель.

    б) уст. идти, бежать (о дороге, реке)

    The river takes straight to northward again. — Река снова течёт прямо на север.

    40) ( take after)
    а) походить на (кого-л.)

    The boy takes after his father. — Мальчик похож на своего отца.

    в) погнаться за (кем-л.), преследовать (кого-л.)

    The policeman dropped his load and took after the criminal, but failed to catch him. — Полицейский бросил свою ношу и побежал за преступником, но не сумел поймать его.

    41) ( take before) отправить (предложение, вопрос) на (рассмотрение кого-л.)

    The director intends to take your suggestion before the rest of the Board at their next meeting. — Директор собирается представить ваше предложение на следующем собрании правления.

    42) ( take for)
    а) принимать за (кого-л.)

    I took him for an Englishman. — Я принял его за англичанина.

    I am not the person you take me for. — Я не тот, за кого вы меня принимаете.

    I shall take it for $5. — Я куплю это за 5$.

    в) разг. грабить (кого-л.), обманывать (на какую-л. сумму)
    43) ( take from)
    а) верить; считать истинным
    б) принимать (вид, форму)
    в) наследовать (имя, название)

    The city of Washington takes its name from George Washington. — Город Вашингтон назван в честь Джорджа Вашингтона.

    г) отбирать, забирать

    I'll take it from him. — Я отберу это у него.

    44) ( take into)
    а) принять; взять на работу

    to take smth. into account — принять что-л. во внимание

    45) ( take to)
    а) пристраститься, увлечься (чем-л.); почувствовать симпатию к (кому-л.), полюбить (кого-л.)

    I took to him at once. — Он мне сразу понравился.

    б) привыкать, приспосабливаться к (чему-л.)
    в) обращаться, прибегать к (чему-л.)

    They had to take to the boats. — Им пришлось воспользоваться лодками.

    •
    - take aback
    - take aboard
    - take abroad
    - take action about
    - take aim
    - take alarm
    - take amiss
    - take apart
    - take as read
    - take ashore
    - take at word
    - take away
    - take back
    - take the bearing of
    - take the bearing
    - take a breath
    - take charge of
    - take down
    - take down shorthand
    - take the edge
    - take hard
    - take hold
    - take a holiday
    - take home
    - take in
    - take it easy
    - take kindly
    - take leave of smb.
    - take liberties with
    - take notice
    - take off
    - take off a bandage
    - take offence
    - take on
    - take out
    - take over
    - take a picture
    - take a photograph
    - take pity on smb.
    - take place
    - take possession
    - take revenge
    - take root
    - take the sea
    - take shelter
    - take a shot at
    - take sick
    - take sides with
    - take steps
    - take through
    - take to a place
    - take to one's heels
    - take to earth
    - take umbrage about
    - take unawares
    - take up
    - take up quarters
    - take upon oneself
    - take vote
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    to have (got) what it takes — обладать всем необходимым, иметь всё, что нужно

    take it or leave it — как хотите, на ваше усмотрение

    to take a joke — понимать шутку, принимать шутку

    to (be able to) take it — выносить, терпеть

    to take it (or life) on the chin — мужественно встречать неудачи, несчастья, не падать духом; выдержать жестокий удар

    to take on board — выпить; проглатывать; схватывать ( идею)

    to take it into one's head — вбить, забрать себе в голову

    to take to the woods — амер. уклоняться от своих обязанностей ( особенно от голосования)

    to take too much — подвыпить, хлебнуть лишнего

    to take the biscuit — разг. взять первый приз

    2. сущ.
    1)
    а) взятие, захват
    б) улов ( рыбы); добыча ( на охоте)
    Syn:
    haul, catch 2.
    2)
    а) мнение, точка зрения (по какому-л. вопросу)

    She was asked for her take on recent scientific results. — Её спросили о том, что она думает о последних научных достижениях.

    б) трактовка, интерпретация (чего-л.)
    3)
    а) разг. барыши, выручка

    They will seek to increase their take by selling vegetables from their own garden. — Они попытаются увеличить выручку, продавая овощи из своего сада.

    б) кассовый сбор (фильма, спектакля)
    •
    Syn:
    4)
    а) кино кинокадр; дубль
    б) фонограмма, звукозапись
    Syn:
    5) обаяние, очарование

    Her face had some kind of harmony and take in it. — В её лице были гармония и обаяние.

    Syn:
    charm 1.
    6) видимая, физическая реакция (кого-л. на какое-л. действие)
    7) мед. реакция (на прививку, укол и т. п.)
    8) бот. приживание ( привоя на растении)
    9) полигр. урок наборщика
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    Англо-русский современный словарь > take

  • 16 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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    əˈɡri: гл.
    1) соглашаться( with - с кем-л.;
    to - с чем-л.;
    on - на что-л.) John agreed to do it in order to please his mother. ≈ Джон согласился сделать это, чтобы доставить удовольствие своей матери. He agreed to my plan. ≈ Он принял мой план. He agreed with neither side. ≈ Он не соглашался ни с одной из сторон. agree fully agree completely agree entirely agree readily agree wholeheartedly agree reluctantly agree on all points Syn: accede
    1), acquiesce, assent
    2., consent
    2., concur
    2)
    2) сходиться во взглядах We are agreed on this. ≈ У нас по этому поводу существует общее мнение. be generally agreed be universally agreed agree in views agree in tastes agree in opinion Syn: coincide
    3) уславливаться, договариваться (on, upon) We've agreed on Spain for our holiday next year. ≈ Мы договорились провести отпуск в следующем году в Испании. Agreed! ≈ Решено!
    4) соответствовать, гармонировать, быть сходным The two statements don't agree. ≈ Эти два утверждения не согласуются. All the figures sufficiently agree. ≈ Все цифры в основном сходятся. His statement agrees with facts. ≈ Его заявление соответствует фактам. Syn: correspond
    1)
    5) уживаться (тж. agree together, agree with) We shall never agree. ≈ Мы никогда не поладим.
    6) разг. быть полезным/приятным;
    быть подходящим This climate doesn't agree with her. ≈ Этот климат ей не подходит. Wine doesn't agree with me. ≈ Пить мне нельзя.
    7) согласовывать, приводить в порядок (счета и т. п.)
    8) грам. согласоваться( with - с чем-л.;
    in - в чем-л.) Latin adjectives agree with nouns in gender, case and number. ≈ Латинские прилагательные согласуются с существительными по роду, падежу и числу. ∙ to agree to differ ≈ отказаться от попыток убедить друг друга( о сторонах в споре или переговорах)
    соглашаться, договариваться;
    сходиться во мнениях;
    - to * with smb. соглашаться с кем-л, быть одного мнения с кем-л;
    - to * in smth. иметь на что-л одинаковые взгляды, иметь одинаковые мнения о чем-л;
    - we did not * у нас были разные точки зрения;
    мы не договорились;
    - the principles *d upon принципы, по которым достигнуто соглашение;
    - we are all *d on finding him innocent мы все пришли к единому мнению, что он невиновен уславливаться, сговариваться, договариваться;
    - to * on smth. договориться, достигнуть соглашения по какому-л вопросу;
    - we *d to go there together мы условились пойти туда вместе;
    - to be *d on договориться, согласиться;
    - *d! (разговорное) решено!, по рукам!;
    - to * that smth. should be done договориться о необходимости сделать что-л соглашаться, давать согласие;
    - he invited us and we *d он пригласил нас, и мы приняли приглашение;
    - to * to do smth. согласиться что-л сделать;
    - father has *d to her marrying John отец дал согласие на ее брак с Джоном согласовывать;
    одобрять;
    - they have *d the terms of surrender они согласовали условия капитуляции;
    - we * the stipulations мы одобряем эти условия утверждать, одобрять;
    - the inspector has *d your return of income инстпектор утвердил вашу. налоговую декларацию ладить, уживаться, жить в согласии;
    - the children can never * дети постоянно ссорятся;
    - they * well они хорошо живут, они живут в согласии соответствовать, гармонировать;
    - to * with facts соответствовать фактам;
    - the figures do not * цифры не сходятся;
    - this story *s with hers этот рассказ совпадает с ее версией;
    - the two copies * оба экземпляра идентичны;
    - this play does not * with the book пьеса очень отличается от книги, по которой она написана;
    - * within... совпадать с точностью до...;
    - theoretical predictions * within 1 per cent теоретический расчет совпадает с точностью до 1 процента обыкн с отриц (разговорное) быть полезным, подходящим;
    - she wondered whether the climate would * with her она не знала, окажется ли подходящим для нее этот климат;
    - smoking does not * with me курить мне нельзя;
    - pepper does not * with me от перца мне делается плохо (грамматика) согласоваться;
    - the predicate *s with its subject in number and person сказуемое согласуется в лице и числе с подлежащим > to * like dog(s) and cat(s) (пословица) жить как кошка с собакой;
    > to * to differ каждый остается при своем мнении
    agree быть полезным или приятным;
    быть подходящим;
    wine doesn't agree with me вино мне вредно ~ гармонировать ~ давать согласие ~ договариваться ~ одобрять ~ грам. согласоваться;
    we agree to differ мы отказались от попыток убедить друг друга ~ согласовывать, приводить в порядок (счета и т. п.) ~ согласовывать ~ соглашаться, договариваться ~ соглашаться (with - с кем-л.;
    to - с чем-л., on - на что-л.) ~ соглашаться ~ соответствовать, гармонировать, быть сходным;
    быть по душе ~ соответствовать ~ сходиться во взглядах;
    уживаться (тж. agree together, agree with) ;
    they agree well они хорошо ладят ~ сходиться во мнениях ~ уславливаться (on, upon - о чем-л.) ;
    договариваться (about) ;
    agree d! решено!, по рукам! ~ условливаться ~ утверждать
    ~ уславливаться (on, upon - о чем-л.) ;
    договариваться (about) ;
    agree d! решено!, по рукам!
    ~ on договариваться ~ on достигать соглашения
    ~ to соглашаться
    ~ to a specific venue соглашаться на конкретное место рассмотрения дела
    ~ to be fined summarily соглашаться на наложение штрафа в упрощенном порядке
    ~ сходиться во взглядах;
    уживаться (тж. agree together, agree with) ;
    they agree well они хорошо ладят
    ~ грам. согласоваться;
    we agree to differ мы отказались от попыток убедить друг друга
    agree быть полезным или приятным;
    быть подходящим;
    wine doesn't agree with me вино мне вредно

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > agree

  • 18 buena


    bueno,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 good
    un café muy bueno, a very good coffee
    2 (bondadoso, bonachón) good, kind: es muy buena persona, she's a very kind soul
    3 (saludable) well, in good health: el niño se pondrá bueno en unos días, the child will be well again in a few days
    4 Meteor (apacible) good
    hoy hace muy buena noche, it's a lovely night tonight
    5 (rico, sabroso) good, nice: la cena estaba muy buena, the dinner was delicious
    6 (conveniente, provechoso) good: no es bueno que leas con esa luz, it's not good for you to read in this light
    sería bueno que nos reuniéramos los lunes, it would be a good idea if we met on Mondays
    7 (grande) considerable: un buen montón de dinero, a considerable amount of money
    8 fam (macizo) gorgeous, sexy: Javier está muy bueno, Javier's gorgeous
    9 irón fine, real: armó un buen jaleo, he kicked up quite a fuss
    ¡en buen lío nos hemos metido!, that's a fine mess we've got ourselves into!
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino (cándido, buenazo) el bueno de Pedro, good old Pedro
    III exclamación ¡bueno!, (vale) all right, OK (sorpresa) ¡bueno!, no me digas que te vas a casar, well!, don't tell me you're getting married! Locuciones: ¡buena la hemos hecho!, that's done it!
    ¡buenas!, hello!
    dar algo por bueno, to approve sthg
    estar de buenas, to be in a good mood
    ¡estaría bueno!, I should jolly well hope not!
    librarse de una buena, to get off scot free
    de buenas a primeras, suddenly, all at once
    por las buenas, willingly ' buena' also found in these entries: Spanish: amén - armar - bastante - bien - borrachera - bueno - caer - cantera - cara - causar - definición - desdecir - disfrutar - escáner - escaparse - estado - exclusión - fe - fortuna - fritura - gana - gustar - impresión - inicialmente - interacción - lozana - lozano - lubricación - lubrificación - maña - marca - noticia - nueva - parecer - pareja - parejo - parrafada - pata - percha - planta - prensa - puntería - ración - redacción - salud - sana - sano - santa - santo - sí English: approve of - best - black - bless - bona fide - buy - Cape of Good Hope - cause - comeback - cop - decency - do - dream - dynamics - face - fair - faith - fine - fit - fitness - flying - form - good - goodwill - grin - high - high life - horseshoe - housekeeper - hygiene - idea - impression - infrastructure - intensify - job - lock up - luck - money - name - news - omen - organizer - polish off - press - principle - quality - rapport - readily - readiness - regard

    English-spanish dictionary > buena

  • 19 permit

    1. I
    when /as/ work (health, etc.) permits когда позволит работа и т.д.; write when time permits напишите, когда будет время; I shall come to see you weather permitting /if the weather permits/ я приду повидаться с вами, permitесли позволит погода
    2. III
    permit smth.
    1) permit noise (sale of drugs, etc.) допускать /разрешать/ шум и т.д.; I wouldn't permit such familiarity я бы не допустил такой фамильярности
    2) permit doubt (the escape of gases, etc.) допускать сомнения и т.д.
    3. IV
    permit smth. in some manner permit smth. readily (gladly, reluctantly, graciously, magnanimously, etc.) охотно /с готовностью/ и т.д. разрешать /допускать/ что-л.; the words hardly permit any doubt эти слова не оставляют никаких сомнений
    4. VII
    permit smb. to do smth. permit smb. to smoke (to tell you the truth, to play with her, to remark, to explain, to ask you a, question, etc.) разрешать /позволять/ кому-л. курить и т.д.; permit me to remind you разрешите напомнить вам; permit me to introduce my brother to you позвольте представить вам моего брата; the doctor won't permit him to go out yet доктор еще не разрешает ему выходить; circumstances do not permit me to help you в силу обстоятельств я не могу помочь вам, обстоятельства таковы, что я не могу помочь вам; permit smth. to be done permit smth. to be read (to be explained, etc.) позволять /разрешать/ прочесть что-л. и т.д.; he permitted the plan to be altered он согласился на изменение плана; he permitted his car to be used он разрешил воспользоваться его автомобилем /взять его машину/
    5. XI
    be permitted appeals are permitted жалобы принимаются; such behaviour should not be permitted такое поведение недопустимо; be permitted somewhere smoking (shooting, singing, etc.) is (not) permitted here (everywhere, in this theatre, etc.) здесь и т.д. курить /курение/ и т.д. (не) разрешается; the public is 'not permitted beyond this point дальше посторонним вход запрещен, дальше публика не допускается; be permitted to do smth. be permitted to sit for an examination (to visit the school, to see the works, etc.) получить разрешение на сдачу экзамена и т.д.; по one is permitted to enter the building входить в это здание никому не разрешается; if I might be permitted to say so если я могу так выразиться, если мне позволено так сказать
    6. XIV
    permit doing smth. permit smoking (talking, hunting, etc.) разрешать /позволять/ курить и т.д.; circumstances do not permit my helping you обстоятельства не позволяют мне помочь вам
    7. XVI
    permit of smth. permit of (no) denial (of (no) excuse, of (no) alteration, etc.) (не) допускать отказ (а) и т.д.; the situation does not permit of any delay положение /обстановка, ситуация/ не допускает никакой задержки /никакого промедления/; tone which permitted of no reply тон, не допускающий возражений
    8. XVII
    permit of doing smth. his health would not permit of his staying there здоровье не позволяет ему там оставаться
    9. XXI1
    permit smth. in some place permit noise in my house (the sale of such drugs in this country, etc.) разрешать шуметь /допускать шум/ в моем доме и т.д.

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > permit

  • 20 take

    1. I
    1) how much will you take? a) сколько вы возьмете?; б) сколько это будет стоить?
    2) this new opera (his last novel, this play, etc.) doesn't take эта новая опера и т.д. не имеет успеха /не пользуется успехом/
    3) how long will the trip (the job, the experiment, etc.) take? сколько времени займет /потребует/ поездка и т.д.?; how long will the letter take? сколько нужно времени, чтобы написать письме?
    4) shake well before taking перед употреблением взбалтывать (надпись)
    5) the vaccine took вакцина подействовала; the smallpox injection did not take оспа не привилась; the flower did not take цветок не принялся
    6) this match (this tinder, the fire, etc.) does not take эта спичка и т.д. не загорается /не зажигается/
    2. II
    1) || take long отнимать много времени; it takes [too] long на это надо [слишком] много времени; it does not take long to say it чтобы сказать это, много времени не потребуется; he didn't take long to realize that... он скоро понял, что...; it takes long to wear this cloth out этому материалу сносу нет; take as long as you like [не торопитесь] занимайтесь этим столько [времени], сколько потребуется
    3) take in some manner my sister does not take well моя сестра плохо выходит на фотографии /не фотогенична/; this model takes exceptionally well эта манекенщица прекрасно получается /выходит/ на фотографии
    4) take in some manner this colour (pink, this dye, etc.) takes well эта краски и т.д. хорошо красит /прокрашивает/; dye that takes well on cloth краска, которая хорошо впитывается в ткань
    5) take in some manner wood (dry fuel, fire, etc.) takes quickly (readily, etc.) дерево и т.д. быстро загорается /воспламеняется/
    3. III
    см. take3
    4. IV
    см. take4
    5. V
    1) take smb., smth. take her some flowers (the boy a box of chocolates, etc.) отнести ей цветы и т.д.; take smb. smth. to eat отнести кому-л. что-л. поесть
    2) || take smb. prisoner взять кого-л. в плен
    3) take smb. smth. take smb. some time занять у кого-л. определенное время; it took him a lot of time (two hours, a long while, etc.) у него это отняло много времени и т.д.
    6. VII
    см. take6
    7. VIII
    1) || take time doing smth. делать что-л. не торопясь; take [one's] time coming to my house (answering my questions, returning her book, etc.) не торопиться прийти ко мне и т.д.
    2) take smb. doing smth. the photographer took us sitting down (smiling, dancing, etc.) фотограф снял нас сидящими и т.д. /когда мы сидели и т.д.
    8. XI
    см. take8
    9. XIV
    take doing smth. the job takes some /a lot of/ doing эту работу не так просто сделать; the rule takes some explaining это правило нужно обязательно объяснить; he takes a lot of coaxing его приходится долго уговаривать
    10. XV
    || take sick /ill/ заболеть; when did he " sick? когда ему стало плохо?; he took ill and had to go home он заболел. и ему пришлось уйти домой
    11. XVI
    см. take11
    12. XVII
    take to doing smth.
    1) take to stamp-collecting (to practising the piano, to writing, to trading, etc.) заняться собиранием марок и т.д.
    2) take to gambling (to stealing, to drinking, to smoking, etc.) пристраститься к азартным играм и т.д.; she took to nagging him to get her own way она взяла себе моду надоедать ему /пилить его/, чтобы добиться своего; he took to humming a tune у него появилась привычка мурлыкать себе под нос какой-нибудь мотив
    13. XXI1
    см. take13
    14. XXII
    1) take smth. of (in) doing smth. take an opportunity of doing smth. воспользоваться случаем сделать что-л.; take an opportunity of thanking you (of hearing good music, of meeting interesting people, etc.) воспользоваться возможностью /случаем/ поблагодарить вас и т.д.; he took the task of completing the job он взялся за окончание работы, он взялся довести работу до конца; take pleasure in doing smth. получать удовольствие от чего-л.; take pleasure in teasing one's comrades (in contradicting me, etc.) любить подразнить своих друзей и т.д.; take the liberty of doing smth. позволить себе сделать что-л.; I take the liberty of differing from you позволю себе с вами не согласиться
    2) || take time about doing smth. делать что-л. не спеша; take time about going there ехать туда без спешки /не торопясь/
    15. XXIII1
    take smth. like smb. take one's punishment (the verdict, her refusal, etc.) like a man принять /перенести/ наказание и т.д., как подобает мужчине; he took my anger like a lamb он спокойно воспринял мой гнев
    16. XXIV1
    1) take smb. as smb. take him (her) as a husband (as a wife) брать его (ее) в мужья (в жены)
    2) take smth. as smth. take the flowers (a box of chocolates, a doll, etc.) as a gift /as a present/ принимать в подарок /в качестве подарка/ цветы и т.д.
    3) take smth., smb. as smth. take it as a proof (as security, as an authoritative standard, etc.) принимать это за доказательство и т.д.; take his remark as an insult принять его замечание как оскорбление; take it as the basis брать это за основу; take it as a whole брать это в целом; take him as a model for imitation брать с него пример [для подражания]
    17. XXIV2
    take smth. as being of some quality take smth. as true (as false, as possible, etc.) считать что-л. истинным и т.д.
    18. XXIV4
    take smth. as done take smth. as settled (as lost, as proven, etc.) считать что-л. решенным и т.д.
    19. XXIV5
    take smth., smb. as... take things as we find them (things as they come, people as they are, me as I am, us as you find us, etc.) принимать вещи [такими], как они есть и т.д.
    20. XXVI
    ||
    1) take it [that]... предположим, что...; let us take it that it is so предположим, что это так; [as] I take it считаю, полагаю; I take it you're in trouble (we are to come early, we are to wait here, that you are interested, that you are fully acquainted with the facts of the case, that you meant me to come today, etc.) я так понимаю /как я понимаю/, у вас неприятности и т.д.; I take it you won't go to school надо полагать, вы не пойдете в школу; I take it you do not want to go я полагаю, вам не хочется идти;
    2) take care what (how, when, etc.) you do следить за тем, что делаешь и т.д.; take care what you say (how you behave, etc.) смотри /следи за тем/, что ты говоришь и т.д.

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > take

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