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  • 81 sogar mehr

    Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch > sogar mehr

  • 82 aún más que

    • even more so
    • even more so than
    • even more than
    • more than

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > aún más que

  • 83 aún más

    • even more
    • even more so
    • ever more
    • furthermore
    • moreover

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > aún más

  • 84 пачє

    more, even more

    Древнерусско-английский словарь > пачє

  • 85 még inkább

    even more, still more

    Magyar-ingilizce szótár > még inkább

  • 86 lebih menggenaskan bahwa

    even more devastating that

    Indonesia-Inggris kamus > lebih menggenaskan bahwa

  • 87 lebih nyata lagi

    even more true

    Indonesia-Inggris kamus > lebih nyata lagi

  • 88 tot mai...

    even more...
    (comp) greater and greater.

    Română-Engleză dicționar expresii > tot mai...

  • 89 все чаще

    Новый русско-английский словарь > все чаще

  • 90 noch

    I Adv.
    1. still; immer noch oder noch immer still; noch nicht not yet; noch ist es nicht zu spät it’s not too late yet; noch nie never (before); noch lange nicht umg. not by a long chalk (Am. shot); wir sind noch lange nicht fertig etc. we’re not nearly ( oder nowhere near) ready etc.
    2. geringen zeitlichen Abstand ausdrückend: noch am selben Tag that (very) same day; noch gestern only yesterday; heute noch (bis heute) to this day; noch jetzt even now; sie war eben oder gerade noch hier she was here only a moment ago; noch im 11. Jahrhundert... as late as the 11th century...; noch im 11. Jahrhundert benutzte man sie auch they were still in use in the 11th century
    3. begrenzten zeitlichen Rahmen ausdrückend: der Brief muss heute noch oder noch heute zur Post I etc. have to get this letter to the post office by the end of today; er starb noch an der Unfallstelle he died at the scene of the accident; noch bevor er etwas sagen konnte, ging sie hinaus she left before he could say anything
    4. (nicht mehr als): er hat nur noch 10 Dollar he’s only got 10 dollars left; es sind ( nur) noch 5 Kilometer bis zur Raststätte it’s (only) 5 more kilomet|res (Am. -ers) to the service station
    5. (ein weiteres Mal, zusätzlich) more; noch ( ein) mal once more, one more time, again; umg., nach Versprecher: let’s try that (one) again; das ist noch einmal gut gegangen that was close ( oder a close thing [Am. call]), umg. talk about lucky; noch dazu on top of that; dazu kommt noch, dass er trinkt not only that - he drinks too, auch and then he drinks on top of it (all); noch einer one more, another one; noch ein Stück another ( oder one more) piece; noch ein Bier, bitte! the same again, another beer, please; noch zwei Kaffee, bitte! two more coffees, please; auch das noch! that’s all I etc. needed; er hat Geld noch und noch oder nöcher umg. he’s got piles ( oder stacks) of money; es gab zu essen noch und noch oder nöcher umg. there was loads to eat; sie redet noch und noch she never stops talking; noch einmal so viel as much again; und noch etwas and another thing; noch etwas? anything else?; was wollen Sie noch? what more do you want?; ( und) was noch? umg. (and) what else?; wer kommt noch? who else is coming?; noch fünf Minuten five minutes to go; bittend: five more minutes, another five minutes; fehlen 1, 4, gerade II 2, 3
    6. (möglicherweise): du kommst noch zu spät! you’ll be late if you’re not careful; er landet noch im Gefängnis umg. he’ll end up in prison if he’s not careful; sie wird ( schon) noch anrufen she’ll still call
    7. (zuvor, vorher): sie will erst noch duschen she just wants to have a shower first; ich mache das noch fertig I’ll just finish this
    8. (später): er wird noch kommen he will come; vielleicht kann man das noch ( ein) mal gebrauchen perhaps it can be used again sometime
    9. beim Komparativ einen höheren Grad ausdrückend: noch besser / mehr even better / more; noch schlauer als du even smarter than you; es klingt etc. nur noch verdächtiger even ( oder all the) more suspicious; schön I 6
    10. einräumend: jede noch so kleine Spende zählt every donation counts however small it is; sei es noch so klein no matter how small it is, however small it may be; mag sie auch noch so sehr schimpfen oder wenn sie auch noch so sehr schimpft however ( oder no matter how) much she grumbles
    11. verstärkend: das ist noch Qualität that’s what I call quality; da bekommt man noch etwas für sein Geld at least there you get value for money (Am. auch something for your money); da haben wir ja noch Glück gehabt we were lucky there; der wird sich noch wundern he’s in for a surprise; noch im Fallen zog er die Pistole he drew the pistol before he hit the ground; man wird ( doch) noch fragen dürfen I etc. was only asking; das wirst du noch bereuen drohend: you’re going to regret that
    12. fragend: da kannst du noch lachen? how can you find that funny?; jetzt will er noch baden? he wants to go for a swim now?; nach Vergessenem: wie heißt sie noch? what’s ( oder what was) her name again?; was hattest du noch gesagt? what was it you said (again)?; wann war die Party noch ( mal)? umg. when was the party again?
    13. (weniger als): das kostet noch keine 5 Dollar it costs less than 5 dollars; es dauert noch keine 10 Minuten it won’t even take 10 minutes; er kann noch nicht einmal kochen he can’t even cook
    II Konj.: sie hat keine Bekannten, noch Freunde in der Stadt geh. she has no acquaintances or friends in the town; weder
    * * *
    nor (Konj.); even; yet; still
    * * *
    nọch [nɔx]
    1. adv

    noch nicht — still not, not yet

    bist du fertig? – noch nicht — are you ready? – not yet

    er ist noch nicht da — he still isn't here, he isn't here yet

    immer noch, noch immer — still

    sie ist immer noch nicht fertig — she still isn't ready (yet), she isn't ready yet

    er dachte noch lange an sie — it was a long time before he stopped thinking of her

    ich möchte gern[e] noch bleiben — I'd like to stay on longer

    2) (= irgendwann) some time, one day

    er wird sich ( schon) noch daran gewöhnen — he'll get used to it (some time or one day)

    das kann noch passieren — that just might happen, that might still happen

    3)

    (= eben, nicht später als) das muss noch vor Dienstag fertig sein — it has to be ready by Tuesday

    ich tue das noch heute or heute noch — I'll do it today or this very day

    noch im 18. Jahrhundert — as late as the 18th century

    4) (einschränkend) (only) just

    (gerade) noch gut genug — (only) just good enough

    5)

    (= außerdem, zusätzlich) wer war noch da? — who else was there?

    (gibt es) noch etwas? — (is there) anything else?

    noch etwas Fleisch — some more meat, a bit more meat

    noch zwei Bier — two more beers, another two beers

    noch einmal or mal — (once) again, once more

    und es regnete auch noch or noch dazu — and on top of that it was raining

    dumm und noch dazu frech — stupid and impudent with it (inf)

    6) (bei Vergleichen) even, still, yet

    das ist noch besser — that's even better, that's better still or still better

    das ist noch viel wichtiger als... — that is far more important yet or still than...

    (und) seien sie auch noch so klein — however small they may or might be

    und wenn du auch noch so bittest... — however much you ask...

    7) (inf)

    wir fanden Fehler noch und nöcher (hum inf) — we found tons (inf) or loads (inf) of mistakes

    sie hat noch und nöcher versucht,... — she tried again and again to...

    2. conj
    (weder... noch...) nor

    nicht X, noch Y, noch Z — not X nor Y nor Z

    * * *
    1) (yet; still: My boots were dirty, but his were even dirtier.) even
    2) (even: He seemed very ill in the afternoon and in the evening looked still worse.) still
    3) (again: We'll play it once more.) more
    4) (up till now: He hasn't telephoned yet; Have you finished yet?; We're not yet ready.) yet
    5) (used for emphasis: He's made yet another mistake / yet more mistakes.) yet
    6) ((with a comparative adjective) even: a yet more terrible experience.) yet
    * * *
    [ˈnɔx]
    I. adv
    1. (außerdem, zusätzlich) in addition
    sie hat ein Auto und auch \noch ein Motorrad he has a car and a motorbike as well
    \noch ein Wort! [not] another word!
    [sonst] \noch etwas? anything else?
    bitte \noch ein/zwei Bier! another beer/two more beers, please!
    möchten Sie \noch eine Tasse Kaffee? would you like another cup of coffee?
    bist du satt oder möchtest du \noch etwas essen? are you full or would you like something more to eat?
    mein Geld ist alle, hast du \noch etwas? I don't have any money left, do you have any?
    es fehlt mir \noch ein Euro I need another euro
    es dauert \noch zehn Minuten it'll be another ten minutes
    \noch einmal so lang as long again
    wer war \noch da? who else was there?
    hat er dir \noch etwas gesagt? did he tell you anything else?
    ich will \noch etwas sagen there's another thing I want to say
    es war \noch anders it was different again
    das ist nicht alles, diese Kisten kommen \noch dazu that's not everything, there are these crates too
    ich gebe dir \noch zwei dazu I'll give you two extra
    auch \noch [o \noch dazu]:
    er ist dumm und \noch dazu frech he's thick and cheeky into the bargain
    und es regnete auch \noch and on top of that it was raining
    ▪ \noch eine(r, s) another
    haben Sie \noch einen Wunsch? [can I get you] anything else?
    lass die Tür bitte auf, da kommt \noch einer leave the door open please, there's somebody else coming
    \noch [ein]mal [once] again, once more
    sie hat das \noch einmal/noch einige Male gemacht she did it again/several times more
    nur \noch only
    ich habe nur \noch fünf Euro I've only five euros left
    2. in der Gegenwart, Vergangenheit (weiterhin) still
    er ist \noch da he's still here
    sie schläft \noch she's still asleep
    ich möchte gerne \noch bleiben I'd like to stay on longer
    bleib doch \noch ein bisschen! stay a bit longer!
    ein \noch ungelöstes Problem an as yet unsolved problem
    ich rauche kaum \noch I hardly smoke any more
    du bist \noch zu jung you're still too young
    auch wenn es nicht leichtfällt, \noch müssen wir schweigen even though it might not be easy, we have to keep quiet for now
    \noch nach Jahren... even years later...
    sie dachte \noch lange an ihn it was a long time before she stopped thinking of him
    \noch heute [o heute \noch] still today, even now [or today]
    \noch heute gibt es Leute, die alte Bräuche pflegen even today some people maintain their old customs [or traditions
    3. (bis jetzt)
    \noch immer [nicht] still [not]
    sie hat [bis jetzt] \noch immer gewonnen she's won every time up until now
    wir wissen \noch immer nicht mehr we still don't know anything else
    er ist immer \noch nicht fertig he still isn't ready, he isn't ready yet
    sie ist immer \noch nicht da she's still not here
    \noch nicht not yet, still not
    halt, warte, tu das \noch nicht! stop, wait, don't do it yet!
    bist du fertig? — \noch nicht are you ready? — not yet
    \noch regnet es nicht it hasn't started raining yet
    \noch nichts nothing yet
    zum Glück ist \noch nichts davon an die Öffentlichkeit gedrungen luckily, none of this has yet become public knowledge
    bisher habe ich \noch nichts Definitives erfahren I haven't heard anything more definite yet
    \noch nie [o niemals] never
    ich habe \noch nie Bagels gegessen I've never eaten bagels before
    das habe ich \noch nie gehört I've never known that [before]
    die Sonne schien und die Luft war klar wie \noch nie the sun was shining and the sky was clearer than ever before
    \noch niemand [o keiner] nobody yet
    bisher ist \noch niemand gekommen nobody has arrived yet; s.a. eben, erst, nur
    4. in der Zukunft (irgendwann) some time, one day
    sie wird \noch kommen she'll come [yet]
    du wirst ihn [schon] \noch kennen lernen you'll get to know him yet
    ich will \noch schnell duschen I just want to have a quick shower
    ich mache das jetzt \noch fertig I'll just get this finished
    vielleicht kann man den Karton \noch mal brauchen, ich hebe ihn jedenfalls auf I'll hang on to the box, it might come in handy some time
    sie wird sich [schon] \noch daran gewöhnen she'll get used to it [some time [or one day]]
    das kann [schon] \noch passieren that just might happen, that might still happen
    5. (bis zu einem Zeitpunkt) by the end of
    das Projekt dürfte \noch in diesem Jahr abgeschlossen sein the project should be finished by the end of the year
    das muss \noch vor Dienstag/Monatsende passieren that's got to happen by Tuesday/by the end of the month
    \noch in diesen Tagen werden wir erfahren, was beschlossen wurde we will find out what was decided in the next few days
    ich habe das \noch am selben Abend/Tag gemacht I did it the very same evening/day
    \noch bevor [o ehe] even before
    \noch ehe er antworten konnte, legte sie auf even before he could reply she hung up
    \noch heute [o heute \noch] today
    \noch heute räumst du dein Zimmer auf! you will tidy up your room today!
    ich mache das \noch heute [o heute \noch] I'll do it today [or this very day
    6. in der Vergangenheit (erst) only
    gestern habe ich sie \noch gesehen I saw her only yesterday
    \noch gestern habe ich davon nicht das Geringste gewusst even yesterday I didn't have the slightest idea of it
    \noch im 20. Jahrhundert... as late as the 20th century...
    es ist \noch keine Woche her, dass... it is less than a week ago that...
    ich habe Peter \noch vor zwei Tagen gesehen I saw Peter only two days ago
    eben [o gerade] \noch [only] just
    er war gerade \noch hier he was here only a moment ago
    7. (drückt etw aus, das jetzt nicht mehr möglich ist)
    ich habe ihn \noch gekannt I'm old enough to have known him
    \noch als Junge wollte er Fälscher werden (veraltend) even as a boy he wanted to become a forger
    8. (womöglich) if you're/he's etc. not careful
    wir kommen \noch zu spät we're going to be late [if we're not careful]
    du landest \noch im Gefängnis you'll land up in prison if you don't watch out
    9. (bei Vergleichen) even [more], still
    \noch größer/schneller even bigger/quicker, bigger/quicker still
    das ist \noch besser that's even better [or better still]
    sie will \noch mehr haben she wants even [or still] more
    \noch höhere Gebäude verträgt dieser Untergrund nicht this foundation can't support buildings that are higher
    seinen Vorschlag finde ich sogar \noch etwas besser I think his suggestion is even slightly better still
    geht bitte \noch etwas langsamer, wir kommen sonst nicht mit please walk a bit more slowly, we can't keep up otherwise
    ach, ich soll Ihnen die Leitung übergeben? das ist ja \noch schöner! (iron) oh, so you want me to hand over the management to you? that's even better!
    ▪ ... \noch so however...
    er kommt damit nicht durch, mag er auch \noch so lügen he won't get away with it, however much he lies
    der Wein mag \noch so gut schmecken, er ist einfach zu teuer however good the wine may taste, it's simply too expensive
    du kannst \noch so bitten,... you can beg as much as you like..., however much you plead...
    11. einschränkend (so eben) still, just about
    das ist im Vergleich \noch billig that's still cheap in comparison
    es ist immer \noch teuer genug it's still expensive enough
    das ist ja \noch mal gut gegangen it was just about all right
    das ist \noch zu tolerieren, aber auch nur gerade \noch that's just about tolerable but only just
    sie hat \noch Glück gehabt, es hätte viel schlimmer kommen können she was lucky, it could have been much worse
    wenn sie sich wenigstens \noch entschuldigt hätte if she had apologized at least
    12.
    ▶ \noch und \noch [o nöcher] heaps, dozens
    ich habe diese undankbare Frau \noch und \noch mit Geschenken überhäuft! I showered this ungrateful woman with heaps of gifts
    er hat Geld \noch und nöcher he has oodles [and oodles] of money
    ich kann dir Beispiele \noch und nöcher geben I can give you any number of examples
    sie hat \noch und nöcher versucht,... she tried again and again to...
    II. konj
    ▪ weder... \noch neither... nor
    er kann weder lesen \noch schreiben he can neither read nor write
    weder er \noch Peter \noch Richard neither he nor Peter nor Richard
    ▪ nicht... \noch neither... nor
    nicht er \noch seine Frau haben eine Arbeit neither he nor his wife are in work
    III. part
    siehst du — man kann sich \noch auf sie verlassen! you see — you can always rely on her!
    das ist \noch Qualität! that's what I call quality!
    das dauert \noch keine fünf Minuten it won't even take five minutes
    2. (drohend)
    die wird sich \noch wundern! she's in for a [bit of a] shock!
    das wirst du \noch bereuen! you'll regret it!
    hat der sie eigentlich \noch alle? is he round the twist or what?
    sag mal, was soll der Quatsch, bist du \noch normal? what is this nonsense, are you quite right in the head?
    4. (nach Vergessenem fragend)
    wie heißt/hieß er \noch gleich? what's/what was his name again?
    * * *
    1.
    1) ([wie] bisher, derzeit) still
    2) (als Rest einer Menge)

    ich habe [nur] noch zehn Euro — I've [only] ten euros left

    es fehlt [mir/dir usw.] noch ein Euro — I/you etc. need another euro

    3) (bevor etwas anderes geschieht) just

    ich mache das [jetzt/dann] noch fertig — I'll just get this finished

    4) (irgendwann einmal) some time; one day

    du wirst ihn [schon] noch kennen lernen — you'll get to know him yet

    5) (womöglich) if you're/he's etc. not careful

    sie war eben od. gerade noch hier — she was here only a moment ago

    es ist noch keine Woche her, dass... — it was less than a week ago that...

    noch am selben Abend — the [very] same evening

    8) (drückt aus, dass etwas unwiederholbar ist)
    9) (drückt aus, dass sich etwas im Rahmen hält)

    Er hat noch Glück gehabt. Es hätte weit schlimmer kommen können — He was lucky. It could have been much worse

    das geht noch — that's [still] all right or (coll.) OK

    das ist ja noch [ein]mal gut gegangen — (ugs.) it was just about all right

    10) (außerdem, zusätzlich)

    er hat [auch/außerdem] noch ein Fahrrad — he has a bicycle as well

    noch etwas Kaffee? — [would you like] some more coffee?

    noch ein/zwei Bier, bitte! — another beer/two more beers, please!

    ich habe das noch einmal/noch einige Male gemacht — I did it again/several times more

    er ist frech und noch dazu dumm od. dumm dazu — he's cheeky and stupid with it

    Geld/Kleider usw. noch und noch — heaps and heaps of money/clothes etc. (coll.)

    er ist noch größer [als Karl] — he is even taller [than Karl]

    12) (nach etwas Vergessenem fragend)

    wie heißt/hieß sie [doch] noch? — [now] what's/what was her name again?

    2.

    der wird sich noch wundern — (ugs.) he's in for a surprise

    3.
    Konjunktion (und auch nicht) nor

    weder... noch — neither... nor

    * * *
    A. adv
    1. still;
    noch immer still;
    noch nicht not yet;
    noch ist es nicht zu spät it’s not too late yet;
    noch nie never (before);
    noch lange nicht umg not by a long chalk (US shot);
    wir sind noch lange nicht fertig etc we’re not nearly ( oder nowhere near) ready etc
    noch am selben Tag that (very) same day;
    noch gestern only yesterday;
    heute noch (bis heute) to this day;
    noch jetzt even now;
    gerade noch hier she was here only a moment ago;
    noch im 11. Jahrhundert … as late as the 11th century …;
    noch im 11. Jahrhundert benutzte man sie auch they were still in use in the 11th century
    noch heute zur Post I etc have to get this letter to the post office by the end of today;
    er starb noch an der Unfallstelle he died at the scene of the accident;
    noch bevor er etwas sagen konnte, ging sie hinaus she left before he could say anything
    er hat nur noch 10 Dollar he’s only got 10 dollars left;
    es sind (nur) noch 5 Kilometer bis zur Raststätte it’s (only) 5 more kilometres (US -ers) to the service station
    5. (ein weiteres Mal, zusätzlich) more;
    noch (ein)mal once more, one more time, again; umg, nach Versprecher: let’s try that (one) again;
    das ist noch einmal gut gegangen that was close ( oder a close thing [US call]), umg talk about lucky;
    noch dazu on top of that;
    dazu kommt noch, dass er trinkt not only that - he drinks too, auch and then he drinks on top of it (all);
    noch einer one more, another one;
    noch ein Stück another ( oder one more) piece;
    noch ein Bier, bitte! the same again, another beer, please;
    noch zwei Kaffee, bitte! two more coffees, please;
    auch das noch! that’s all I etc needed;
    nöcher umg he’s got piles ( oder stacks) of money;
    nöcher umg there was loads to eat;
    sie redet noch und noch she never stops talking;
    noch einmal so viel as much again;
    und noch etwas and another thing;
    noch etwas? anything else?;
    was wollen Sie noch? what more do you want?;
    (und) was noch? umg (and) what else?;
    wer kommt noch? who else is coming?;
    noch fünf Minuten five minutes to go; bittend: five more minutes, another five minutes; → fehlen 1, 4, gerade B 2, 3
    du kommst noch zu spät! you’ll be late if you’re not careful;
    er landet noch im Gefängnis umg he’ll end up in prison if he’s not careful;
    sie wird (schon) noch anrufen she’ll still call
    7. (zuvor, vorher):
    sie will erst noch duschen she just wants to have a shower first;
    er wird noch kommen he will come;
    vielleicht kann man das noch (ein)mal gebrauchen perhaps it can be used again sometime
    noch besser/mehr even better/more;
    noch schlauer als du even smarter than you;
    es klingt etc
    nur noch verdächtiger even ( oder all the) more suspicious; → schön A 6
    jede noch so kleine Spende zählt every donation counts however small it is;
    sei es noch so klein no matter how small it is, however small it may be;
    wenn sie auch noch so sehr schimpft however ( oder no matter how) much she grumbles
    das ist noch Qualität that’s what I call quality;
    da bekommt man noch etwas für sein Geld at least there you get value for money (US auch something for your money);
    der wird sich noch wundern he’s in for a surprise;
    noch im Fallen zog er die Pistole he drew the pistol before he hit the ground;
    man wird (doch) noch fragen dürfen I etc was only asking;
    das wirst du noch bereuen drohend: you’re going to regret that
    12. fragend:
    da kannst du noch lachen? how can you find that funny?;
    jetzt will er noch baden? he wants to go for a swim now?; nach Vergessenem:
    wie heißt sie noch? what’s ( oder what was) her name again?;
    was hattest du noch gesagt? what was it you said (again)?;
    wann war die Party noch (mal)? umg when was the party again?
    13. (weniger als):
    das kostet noch keine 5 Dollar it costs less than 5 dollars;
    es dauert noch keine 10 Minuten it won’t even take 10 minutes;
    er kann noch nicht einmal kochen he can’t even cook
    B. konj:
    sie hat keine Bekannten, noch Freunde in der Stadt geh she has no acquaintances or friends in the town; → weder
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    1.
    1) ([wie] bisher, derzeit) still

    ich habe [nur] noch zehn Euro — I've [only] ten euros left

    es fehlt [mir/dir usw.] noch ein Euro — I/you etc. need another euro

    3) (bevor etwas anderes geschieht) just

    ich mache das [jetzt/dann] noch fertig — I'll just get this finished

    4) (irgendwann einmal) some time; one day

    du wirst ihn [schon] noch kennen lernen — you'll get to know him yet

    5) (womöglich) if you're/he's etc. not careful

    sie war eben od. gerade noch hier — she was here only a moment ago

    es ist noch keine Woche her, dass... — it was less than a week ago that...

    noch am selben Abend — the [very] same evening

    8) (drückt aus, dass etwas unwiederholbar ist)
    9) (drückt aus, dass sich etwas im Rahmen hält)

    Er hat noch Glück gehabt. Es hätte weit schlimmer kommen können — He was lucky. It could have been much worse

    das geht noch — that's [still] all right or (coll.) OK

    das ist ja noch [ein]mal gut gegangen — (ugs.) it was just about all right

    10) (außerdem, zusätzlich)

    er hat [auch/außerdem] noch ein Fahrrad — he has a bicycle as well

    noch etwas Kaffee? — [would you like] some more coffee?

    noch ein/zwei Bier, bitte! — another beer/two more beers, please!

    ich habe das noch einmal/noch einige Male gemacht — I did it again/several times more

    er ist frech und noch dazu dumm od. dumm dazu — he's cheeky and stupid with it

    Geld/Kleider usw. noch und noch — heaps and heaps of money/clothes etc. (coll.)

    er ist noch größer [als Karl] — he is even taller [than Karl]

    12) (nach etwas Vergessenem fragend)

    wie heißt/hieß sie [doch] noch? — [now] what's/what was her name again?

    2.

    der wird sich noch wundern — (ugs.) he's in for a surprise

    3.
    Konjunktion (und auch nicht) nor

    weder... noch — neither... nor

    * * *
    adj.
    another adj.
    still adj. adv.
    nor adv.

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  • 91 encore

    encore [ɑ̃kɔʀ]
    adverb
       a. ( = toujours) still
       b. ► pas encore not yet
       c. ( = pas plus tard que) only
       d. ( = de nouveau) again
    • encore une fois non ! how many times do I have to tell you: no!
    • encore vous ! you again!
    • quoi encore ? what is it this time?
       e. ( = de plus, en plus) more
    • encore un ! one more!
    • encore une tasse ? another cup?
    • encore un peu de thé ? more tea?
    • encore quelques gâteaux ? more cakes?
    • encore un mot, avant de terminer one more word before I finish
    • que te faut-il encore ? what else do you want?
    • mais encore ? could you explain further?
       g. (restrictif) il en est sûrement capable, encore faut-il qu'il le fasse he's obviously capable, but whether he does it or not is another matter
    • on t'en donnera peut-être 100 €, et encore they might give you 100 euros for it, if that
    • c'est passable, et encore ! it's passable but only just!
    ► encore que ( = quoique) even though
    * * *
    ɑ̃kɔʀ
    1.
    1) ( toujours) still

    tu en es encore là? — fig haven't you got GB ou gotten US beyond that by now?

    qu'il soit impoli passe encore, mais... — the fact that he's rude is one thing, but...

    encore heureux or une chance que je m'en sois aperçu — it's lucky that I realized

    cela ne s'est encore jamais vu/fait — it has never been seen/done before

    3) ( de nouveau) again

    encore! — ( à un spectacle) more!

    4) ( davantage) more

    c'est encore mieux/moins — it's even better/less

    5) ( en plus)

    qu'est-ce qu'il te faut encore? — fig what more do you need ou want?

    et puis quoi encore! — (colloq) what next! (colloq)

    6) ( toutefois)

    il ne suffit pas d'avoir de bonnes idées, encore faut-il savoir les exprimer — it's not enough to have good ideas, one must be able to articulate them

    7) ( seulement) only, just

    il y a encore trois mois — only ou just three months ago


    2.
    et encore locution adverbiale if that

    3.
    encore que locution conjonctive ( bien que) even though

    ••
    Lorsqu'il signifie toujours, encore se traduit généralement par still dans une phrase affirmative ou interrogative: il était encore étudiant quand il s'est marié = he was still a student when he got married; habite-t-elle encore ici? = does she still live here?; pas encore se traduit par not yet: elle n'était pas encore mariée quand elle a eu son premier bébé = she wasn't yet married when she had her first baby, she still wasn't married when she had her first baby; il n'est pas encore rentré = he hasn't come home yet, he still hasn't come home; dans ce dernier cas, still marque l'étonnement ou l'exaspération, alors que yet indique un énoncé neutre des faits
    * * *
    ɑ̃kɔʀ adv

    Il y travaille encore. — He's still working on it.

    Il est encore au travail. — He's still at work.

    Il n'est pas encore rentré. — He isn't home yet.

    2) (= de nouveau) again

    Il m'a encore demandé de l'argent. — He asked me for money again.

    J'irai encore demain. — I'll go again tomorrow.

    3) (= de plus)

    encore un...; encore une... — one more..., another...

    Il reste encore deux morceaux de gâteau. — There are two pieces of cake left.

    4) (intensif) even, still

    encore plus fort — even louder, louder still

    encore mieux — even better, better still

    non seulement..., mais encore... — not only..., but also...

    5)
    * * *
    encore ⇒ Note d'usage
    A adv
    1 ( toujours) still; je m'en souviens encore I still remember; il n'est encore que midi it's only midday; tu en es encore là? fig haven't you got GB ou gotten US beyond that by now?; il se plaignait, encore et toujours he was complaining as usual; hier soir encore elle allait bien only yesterday evening she was fine; qu'il soit impoli passe encore, mais je n'accepte pas sa méchanceté the fact that he's rude is one thing, but I won't tolerate his nastiness; encore heureux ou une chance que je m'en sois aperçu it's lucky that I realized;
    2 ( toujours pas) pas encore not yet; tu n'as encore rien vu you haven't seen anything yet; cela ne s'est encore jamais vu/fait it has never been seen/done before; je n'ai encore jamais pu être tranquille ici up to now, I've never had any peace here; les abricots ne sont pas encore mûrs the apricots aren't ripe yet; les abricots ne sont pas encore assez mûrs the apricots aren't ripe enough yet; il n'était pas encore célèbre à cette époque at that time he wasn't yet famous; le nom de son remplaçant n'est pas encore connu the name of his replacement is still not known; ce n'est pas encore de leur âge they're not old enough yet; on n'en est pas encore là we haven't got to that stage yet; ce n'est pas encore sûr it still isn't definite, it's not definite yet;
    3 ( de nouveau) again; les prix ont encore augmenté prices have gone up again; encore toi! you again!; elle a encore gagné/perdu she has won/lost again; encore de la purée! not mashed potatoes again!; encore! ( à un spectacle) encore!; encore une fois ou un coup once again, one more time; c'est encore une histoire d'amour it's another love story; qu 'est-ce que j'ai encore fait? what have I done now?; il m'en reste encore autant à faire I've still got as much to do again; j'ai encore cassé une assiette I've broken another plate; elle s'est encore acheté une nouvelle robe she has bought herself yet another new dress; son dernier livre est encore un roman policier his/her last book is also a ou is another detective novel; là encore, fais attention ( à cet endroit aussi) be careful there too ou as well; là encore, tu dois utiliser le subjonctif there again, you must use the subjunctive; ici encore on retrouve le thème de la mort here again we find the theme of death;
    4 ( davantage) more; j'en veux encore I want some more; mange encore un peu have some more to eat; mange encore un peu d'agneau have some more lamb; je vais travailler encore un peu I'm going to do a little more work; tu devrais encore raccourcir ta robe you should take your dress up a little more; cela va encore aggraver les choses it's going to make things even worse; c'est encore mieux/pire it's even better/worse; encore moins/plus even less/more; il fait encore plus froid que d'habitude it's even colder than usual; elle est encore plus grande que moi she's even taller than me;
    5 ( en plus) veux-tu encore un gâteau? would you like another cake?; pendant encore trois jours for another three days; tu as encore 10 minutes you've still got 10 minutes, you've got another 10 minutes; on a encore 100 km à faire we (still) have another 100 km to do; il me reste encore 100 euros I've still got 100 euros left; que dois-je prendre encore? what else shall I take?; qu'est-ce qu'il te faut encore? fig what more do you need ou want?; et puis quoi encore○! what next○! ; quoi encore! what now!; qui encore! who is it now!; mais encore? which is to say?; que dire encore? what else can be said?; ou encore or else; vous pouvez pratiquer la natation, la plongée sous-marine ou encore vous initier à la voile you can swim, go scuba diving, or else learn to sail;
    6 ( toutefois) il ne suffit pas d'avoir de bonnes idées, encore faut-il savoir les exprimer it's not enough to have good ideas, one must be able to articulate them; encore faut-il qu'elle accepte but she still has to accept; encore, s'il voulait travailler, ce serait déjà bien if he were at least prepared to work, it would be something; si encore il était généreux, cela compenserait if he were at least generous, that would make up for a lot;
    7 ( seulement) only, just; il était pratiquement inconnu il y a encore trois mois he was practically unknown only ou just three months ago.
    B et encore loc adv if that; c'est tout au plus mangeable, et encore! it's only just edible, if that!; en voyage, elle n'emporte que sa brosse à dents, et encore! when she travels, she only takes her toothbrush with her, if that!
    C encore que loc conj ( bien que) even though; encore qu'il soit jeune, il a déjà beaucoup de talent even though he's young, he's already very talented; ce n'est pas mal, encore que cela pourrait être mieux it's not bad, but it could still be better.
    [ɑ̃kɔr] adverbe
    1. [toujours] still
    2. [pas plus tard que] only
    ce matin encore, il était d'accord only this morning he was in agreement
    3. [dans des phrases négatives]
    encore rien still nothing, nothing yet
    4. [de nouveau]
    tu manges encore! you're not eating again, are you!
    encore une fois, c'est non! the answer's still no!
    si tu fais ça encore une fois... if you do that again ou one more time ou once more...
    encore de la glace? some more ou a little more ice-cream?
    a. [dans une énumération] what else?
    b. (familier) [ton irrité] now what?
    a. [dans une émunération] what else?
    c. [marquant l'incrédulité] whatever next?
    elle est bien élevée, charmante, mais encore? she's well brought-up and charming, and (apart from that)?
    5. [davantage]
    [devant un comparatif]
    encore pire even ou still worse
    6. [introduisant une restriction]
    c'est bien beau d'avoir des projets, encore faut-il les réaliser it's all very well having plans, but the important thing is to put them into practice
    si encore il ou encore s'il était franc, on lui pardonnerait if only ou if at least he was honest you could forgive him
    je t'en donne 100 euros, et encore! I'll give you 100 euros for it, if that!
    et encore, on ne sait pas tout! and even then we don't know the half of it!
    encore que locution conjonctive
    j'aimerais y aller, encore qu'il soit tard I'd like to go even though it's late

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  • 92 aun

    adv.
    1 even.
    aun los más fuertes lloran even the strongest people cry
    2 still, as yet, yet.
    conj.
    even.
    aun estando cansado, lo hizo even though he was tired, he did it
    ni aun puesta de puntillas logra ver she can't see, even on tiptoe
    aun así even so
    aun así, deberías decirle algo even so, you ought to say something to her
    ni aun así lograron la victoria even then they still didn't manage to win
    * * *
    1 even
    1 (+ infinitivo o participio) although, even though
    ■ aun llegando tarde, lo recibieron amablemente although he was late, he was given a warm reception
    \
    aun así even so, even then
    aun cuando although, even though
    aun más even more
    * * *
    adv.
    * * *
    ADV
    1) (=incluso) even

    yo pagaría mil y aun dos mil — I'd pay a thousand, even two thousand

    aun los ricos sufrirán la crisis — frm even the rich will suffer the effects of the crisis

    2)

    aun así: aun así, no creo que fuera — even so, I don't think I'd go

    3)

    aun cuando: aun cuando me lo rogara, no se lo daría — even if he begged me I wouldn't give it to him

    4)
    * * *
    adverbio even

    aun así, creo que... — even so, I think...

    * * *
    adverbio even

    aun así, creo que... — even so, I think...

    * * *
    aun1
    = even, yet.

    Ex: Even a dictionary catalogue uses the symbols of a classification scheme to indicate the shelf location of documents.

    Ex: This will make it yet more difficult for the information worker and the end user to keep up to date with the full range of data bases.
    * acercarse aun más = bring + closer together, come closer together, draw + closer together.
    * acercarse más aun = bring + closer together, come closer together, draw + closer together.
    * aun así = even so.
    * aun cuando = even if, even though, even when.
    * aun entonces = even then.
    * aún más = Verbo + further, even further, all the more, further, furthermore, beyond that, a fortiori.
    * aun mejor = better still.
    * aun peor = worse, even worse, worse still.
    * con más intensidad aun = with a vengeance.
    * con más razón aún = a fortiori.
    * desarrollar aun más = develop + further.
    * distanciar aun más = widen + the gap between... and.
    * ir aun más lejos = go + a/one step further.
    * lo que es aun más inquietante = more disturbingly.
    * lo que es aun más preocupante = more disturbingly.
    * lo que es aun mejor = better still.
    * lo que es aun peor = worse still.
    * lo que es mejor aun = better still.
    * lo que es peor aun = worse still.
    * más aun = beyond that, furthermore.
    * más importante aun = more significantly.
    * mejor aun = better still.
    * para complicar aun más las cosas = to add to the confusion.
    * para confundir aun más las cosas = to add to the confusion.
    * peor aun = even worse.
    * separar aun más = widen + the gap between... and.
    * ser aun más = be all the more.
    * y aun mejor = better yet.
    * y mejor aun = better yet.

    * * *
    even
    ni aun trabajando 12 horas al día podríamos hacerlo we'd never be able to do it, (not) even if we worked 12 hours a day
    aun así, creo que le debes una explicación even so, I think you owe him an explanation
    y aun así nos costó una fortuna and it still cost us a fortune, and even then it cost us a fortune
    aun cuando pudiera, no lo haría I wouldn't do it even if I could
    * * *

     

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    aun    
    aún
    aun adverbio
    even;

    aún así, creo que … even so, I think …;
    ni aún así me quedaría even then I wouldn't stay
    aún adverbio
    1 ( todavía)


    ¿aún estás aquí? are you still here?


    2 ( en comparaciones) even
    aun adverbio even
    aun así, even so, even then
    aun cuando, even though
    aún adverbio still
    (en negativas) yet
    aún estamos aquí, we're still here
    aún no, not yet ➣ Ver nota en still y yet
    ' aún' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aun
    - calentar
    - cicatrizar
    - cobrar
    - colear
    - confesar
    - convalecer
    - cuando
    - dar
    - empezar
    - entonces
    - estar
    - faltar
    - fase
    - fragmentaria
    - fragmentario
    - herida
    - herido
    - identidad
    - incluso
    - letra
    - machacar
    - maleta
    - no
    - pervivir
    - pesar
    - quién
    - resentirse
    - resquicio
    - rumiar
    - sellar
    - sobreponerse
    - suelo
    - suelta
    - suelto
    - ver
    - victoria
    - vivir
    - abrir
    - caber
    - edad
    - golpe
    - hacer
    - lejos
    - mantener
    - quedar
    - sin
    - tanto
    - tardar
    - todavía
    English:
    air
    - alive
    - as
    - blind
    - cause
    - click
    - decision
    - early
    - even
    - his
    - in
    - permanent
    - spell out
    - still
    - undecided
    - worse
    - yet
    - alone
    - further
    - late
    - owing
    - unconvinced
    - what
    * * *
    ♦ adv
    even;
    aun los más fuertes lloran even the strongest people cry
    ♦ conj
    even;
    aun estando cansado, lo hizo even though he was tired, he did it;
    aun sin dinero, logró sobrevivir she managed to survive even without any money;
    ni aun puesta de puntillas logra ver she can't see, even on tiptoe;
    aun cuando [a pesar de que] even though, although;
    [incluso si] even if;
    es muy pesimista, aun cuando todos los pronósticos le son favorables she's very pessimistic, even though all the predictions seem to favour her;
    aun cuando nos cueste, tenemos que hacerlo even if it's difficult, we have to do it;
    aun así even so;
    aun así, deberías decirle algo even so, you ought to say something to her;
    ni aun así lograron la victoria even then they still didn't manage to win
    * * *
    adv even;
    aun así even so;
    aun cuando even if, even when;
    ni aun not even
    * * *
    aun adv
    1) : even
    ni aun en coche llegaría a tiempo: I wouldn't arrive on time even if I drove
    2)
    aun así : even so
    3)
    aun más : even more
    aún adv
    1) todavía: still, yet
    ¿aún no ha llegado el correo?: the mail still hasn't come?
    2)
    más aún : furthermore
    * * *
    aun adv (incluso) even

    Spanish-English dictionary > aun

  • 93 aún

    adv.
    1 even.
    aun los más fuertes lloran even the strongest people cry
    2 still, as yet, yet.
    conj.
    even.
    aun estando cansado, lo hizo even though he was tired, he did it
    ni aun puesta de puntillas logra ver she can't see, even on tiptoe
    aun así even so
    aun así, deberías decirle algo even so, you ought to say something to her
    ni aun así lograron la victoria even then they still didn't manage to win
    * * *
    1 even
    1 (+ infinitivo o participio) although, even though
    ■ aun llegando tarde, lo recibieron amablemente although he was late, he was given a warm reception
    \
    aun así even so, even then
    aun cuando although, even though
    aun más even more
    * * *
    adv.
    * * *
    ADV
    1) (=incluso) even

    yo pagaría mil y aun dos mil — I'd pay a thousand, even two thousand

    aun los ricos sufrirán la crisis — frm even the rich will suffer the effects of the crisis

    2)

    aun así: aun así, no creo que fuera — even so, I don't think I'd go

    3)

    aun cuando: aun cuando me lo rogara, no se lo daría — even if he begged me I wouldn't give it to him

    4)
    * * *
    1) ( todavía)

    ¿aún estás aquí? — are you still here?

    2) ( en comparaciones) even
    3) (fam) ( encima) still

    ¿y aún tuvo la frescura de...? — you mean she still had the nerve to...?

    * * *
    adverbio even

    aun así, creo que... — even so, I think...

    * * *
    aun1
    = even, yet.

    Ex: Even a dictionary catalogue uses the symbols of a classification scheme to indicate the shelf location of documents.

    Ex: This will make it yet more difficult for the information worker and the end user to keep up to date with the full range of data bases.
    * acercarse aun más = bring + closer together, come closer together, draw + closer together.
    * acercarse más aun = bring + closer together, come closer together, draw + closer together.
    * aun así = even so.
    * aun cuando = even if, even though, even when.
    * aun entonces = even then.
    * aún más = Verbo + further, even further, all the more, further, furthermore, beyond that, a fortiori.
    * aun mejor = better still.
    * aun peor = worse, even worse, worse still.
    * con más intensidad aun = with a vengeance.
    * con más razón aún = a fortiori.
    * desarrollar aun más = develop + further.
    * distanciar aun más = widen + the gap between... and.
    * ir aun más lejos = go + a/one step further.
    * lo que es aun más inquietante = more disturbingly.
    * lo que es aun más preocupante = more disturbingly.
    * lo que es aun mejor = better still.
    * lo que es aun peor = worse still.
    * lo que es mejor aun = better still.
    * lo que es peor aun = worse still.
    * más aun = beyond that, furthermore.
    * más importante aun = more significantly.
    * mejor aun = better still.
    * para complicar aun más las cosas = to add to the confusion.
    * para confundir aun más las cosas = to add to the confusion.
    * peor aun = even worse.
    * separar aun más = widen + the gap between... and.
    * ser aun más = be all the more.
    * y aun mejor = better yet.
    * y mejor aun = better yet.

    * * *
    even
    ni aun trabajando 12 horas al día podríamos hacerlo we'd never be able to do it, (not) even if we worked 12 hours a day
    aun así, creo que le debes una explicación even so, I think you owe him an explanation
    y aun así nos costó una fortuna and it still cost us a fortune, and even then it cost us a fortune
    aun cuando pudiera, no lo haría I wouldn't do it even if I could
    * * *

     

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    aun    
    aún
    aun adverbio
    even;

    aún así, creo que … even so, I think …;
    ni aún así me quedaría even then I wouldn't stay
    aún adverbio
    1 ( todavía)


    ¿aún estás aquí? are you still here?


    2 ( en comparaciones) even
    aun adverbio even
    aun así, even so, even then
    aun cuando, even though
    aún adverbio still
    (en negativas) yet
    aún estamos aquí, we're still here
    aún no, not yet ➣ Ver nota en still y yet
    ' aún' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aun
    - calentar
    - cicatrizar
    - cobrar
    - colear
    - confesar
    - convalecer
    - cuando
    - dar
    - empezar
    - entonces
    - estar
    - faltar
    - fase
    - fragmentaria
    - fragmentario
    - herida
    - herido
    - identidad
    - incluso
    - letra
    - machacar
    - maleta
    - no
    - pervivir
    - pesar
    - quién
    - resentirse
    - resquicio
    - rumiar
    - sellar
    - sobreponerse
    - suelo
    - suelta
    - suelto
    - ver
    - victoria
    - vivir
    - abrir
    - caber
    - edad
    - golpe
    - hacer
    - lejos
    - mantener
    - quedar
    - sin
    - tanto
    - tardar
    - todavía
    English:
    air
    - alive
    - as
    - blind
    - cause
    - click
    - decision
    - early
    - even
    - his
    - in
    - permanent
    - spell out
    - still
    - undecided
    - worse
    - yet
    - alone
    - further
    - late
    - owing
    - unconvinced
    - what
    * * *
    ♦ adv
    even;
    aun los más fuertes lloran even the strongest people cry
    ♦ conj
    even;
    aun estando cansado, lo hizo even though he was tired, he did it;
    aun sin dinero, logró sobrevivir she managed to survive even without any money;
    ni aun puesta de puntillas logra ver she can't see, even on tiptoe;
    aun cuando [a pesar de que] even though, although;
    [incluso si] even if;
    es muy pesimista, aun cuando todos los pronósticos le son favorables she's very pessimistic, even though all the predictions seem to favour her;
    aun cuando nos cueste, tenemos que hacerlo even if it's difficult, we have to do it;
    aun así even so;
    aun así, deberías decirle algo even so, you ought to say something to her;
    ni aun así lograron la victoria even then they still didn't manage to win
    * * *
    adv even;
    aun así even so;
    aun cuando even if, even when;
    ni aun not even
    * * *
    aun adv
    1) : even
    ni aun en coche llegaría a tiempo: I wouldn't arrive on time even if I drove
    2)
    aun así : even so
    3)
    aun más : even more
    aún adv
    1) todavía: still, yet
    ¿aún no ha llegado el correo?: the mail still hasn't come?
    2)
    más aún : furthermore
    * * *
    aun adv (incluso) even

    Spanish-English dictionary > aún

  • 94 ancora

    1. f anchor
    gettare l'ancora drop anchor
    2. adv still
    di nuovo again
    di più (some) more
    non ancora not yet
    ancora una volta once more, one more time
    dammene ancora un po' give me a bit more
    * * *
    ancóra2 avv.
    1 ( tuttora) still: abitate ancóra a Venezia?, do you still live in Venice?; ero ancóra molto giovane, I was still very young; ci stai pensando ancóra?, are you still thinking about it?; stavano ancóra parlando della partita, they were still talking about the match
    2 ( in frasi negative, nel significato di finora) yet: la cena non è ancóra pronta, dinner isn't ready yet; non l'ho ancóra visto, I haven't seen him yet
    3 ( di nuovo) again: dimmelo ancóra, tell me again; verrai ancóra?, will you come again?; spero che ci vedremo ancóra, I hope we'll meet again
    4 (davanti a compar.) even, still: è ancóra più difficile da capire, it's even (o still) harder to understand
    5 (in più, in aggiunta) more: ancóra un po', a little more; c'è ancóra vino?, is there any more wine?; vorrei ancóra del pane, I'd like some more bread; avete ancóra delle domande?, have you got any more questions?
    6 ( più a lungo) longer: restate ancóra ( un po'), stay a little longer.
    * * *
    I ['ankora] sf
    Naut, fig anchor

    gettare/levare l'ancora — to cast/weigh anchor

    II ['ankora]
    1. avv
    1) (tuttora) still
    2) (di nuovo) again
    3)

    è pronto? - no, non ancora — is it ready? - no, not yet

    4) (più) (some) more

    ancora per una settimana — for another week, for one week more

    ancora una volta — once more, once again

    2. cong
    (nei comparativi) even, still

    ancora di più/meno — even more/less

    ancora meglio/peggio — even o still better/worse

    * * *
    I ['ankora]
    sostantivo femminile anchor

    gettare l'ancora — to drop o cast anchor

    levare l'ancora — to raise (the) anchor, to weigh anchor

    essere all'ancora — to be o lie at anchor

    ancora di salvezza — fig. sheet anchor

    ancora di speranza — mar. sheet anchor

    II [an'kora]
    1) (sempre, tuttora) still

    ci sei ancora? — (al telefono) are you still there?

    2) (finora, in frasi negative) yet

    non è ancora tornato — he still hasn't come back, he hasn't come back yet

    non è ancora pronto — it's not ready yet, it's not yet ready

    3) (di nuovo) again

    ancora una volta — once again o more, one more time

    4) (di più, in aggiunta) more, another

    avete ancora domande? — have you got o do you have any more questions?

    e altro ancora —...and lots more

    ancora peggio — even worse, worse still

    ancora più veloce — faster still, still faster

    ••
    Note:
    Quando significa tuttora, in frase affermativa e interrogativa ancora si traduce solitamente con still: è ancora a casa = he is still at home; abita ancora qui? = does she still live here? - In frase negativa, (non) ancora si traduce con yet, che può seguire immediatamente not oppure stare in fondo alla frase: non è ancora arrivato = he has not yet arrived / he hasn't arrived yet; l'uso di still in frase negativa dà all'espressione una sfumatura di stupore o esasperazione: non è ancora tornata a casa! = she still hasn't come home! - Quando ancora significa di nuovo, nuovamente, si traduce per lo più con again: venite ancora a trovarci! = come and see us again! - Per gli altri usi si veda la voce qui sotto
    * * *
    ancora1
    /'ankora/
    sostantivo f.
    anchor; gettare l'ancora to drop o cast anchor; levare l'ancora to raise (the) anchor, to weigh anchor; essere all'ancora to be o lie at anchor
    \
    ancora di salvezza fig. sheet anchor; ancora di speranza mar. sheet anchor; ancora di tonneggio kedge (anchor).
    ————————
    ancora2
    /an'kora/
    Quando significa tuttora, in frase affermativa e interrogativa ancora si traduce solitamente con still: è ancora a casa = he is still at home; abita ancora qui? = does she still live here? - In frase negativa, (non) ancora si traduce con yet, che può seguire immediatamente not oppure stare in fondo alla frase: non è ancora arrivato = he has not yet arrived / he hasn't arrived yet; l'uso di still in frase negativa dà all'espressione una sfumatura di stupore o esasperazione: non è ancora tornata a casa! = she still hasn't come home! - Quando ancora significa di nuovo, nuovamente, si traduce per lo più con again: venite ancora a trovarci! = come and see us again! - Per gli altri usi si veda la voce qui sotto.
     1 (sempre, tuttora) still; le interessa ancora? is she still interested? ancora oggi to this day; è ancora in città he's still in town; ci sei ancora? (al telefono) are you still there?
     2 (finora, in frasi negative) yet; non ancora not yet; non è ancora tornato he still hasn't come back, he hasn't come back yet; non è ancora pronto it's not ready yet, it's not yet ready
     3 (di nuovo) again; ancora una volta once again o more, one more time; ancora tu! you again! ha rifiutato ancora yet again he refused; provaci ancora! have another go! i prezzi sono ancora aumentati prices have gone up again
     4 (di più, in aggiunta) more, another; ancora qualche libro some more books; avete ancora domande? have you got o do you have any more questions? prendetene ancora un po'! (do) have some more! c'è altro ancora? is there anything else? ...e altro ancora...and lots more; si è fermato ancora due ore he stayed another two hours
     5 (davanti a comparativi) even, still; ancora peggio even worse, worse still; ancora più veloce faster still, still faster; ancora più automobili even more cars
     6 (in senso temporale) è ancora presto it's still early; non è ancora ora! it's not time yet! abbiamo ancora 5 minuti we have 5 minutes left; rimani ancora un po' stay a little (while) longer.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > ancora

  • 95 todavía

    adv.
    still, nevertheless, yet, as yet.
    * * *
    2 (tiempo) still, yet
    * * *
    adv.
    1) still, yet
    2) even
    * * *
    ADV
    1) [temporal] [en oraciones afirmativas] still; [en oraciones negativas] yet, still

    -¿has acabado? -todavía no — "have you finished" - "not yet"

    todavía no se ha ido — she hasn't gone yet, she still hasn't gone

    2) (=incluso, aun así) even

    es todavía más inteligente que su hermano — he's even more intelligent than his brother, he's more intelligent still than his brother

    3) * (=encima)
    TODAVÍA Todavía se traduce principalmente al inglés por still o yet. ► Se traduce por still cuando nos referimos a una situación o acción que comenzó en el pasado y que todavía continúa. Generalmente still se coloca detrás de los verbos auxiliares o modales y delante de los demás verbos: Todavía tienen hambre They are still hungry Todavía toco el piano I still play the piano ¿Puedes verlos todavía? Can you still see them? ► También se puede traducir todavía por still para expresar insatisfacción o sorpresa en oraciones negativas. En este caso, still se coloca detrás del sujeto: Todavía no sé cómo ayudarle I still don't know how to help him Después de veinte años todavía no puede olvidarlo After twenty years she still can't forget him ► Se traduce generalmente por yet en frases negativas e interrogativas cuando nos referimos a una situación o acción que no ha tenido lugar todavía y que esperamos que ocurra. Yet va al final de la frase, aunque a veces puede ponerse delante del verbo principal en frases negativas: El doctor no ha llegado todavía The doctor hasn't arrived yet o hasn't yet arrived ¿Todavía no han llamado? Haven't they phoned yet? En lenguaje formal, se puede traducir todavía por yet en frases afirmativas para expresar que algo no se ha realizado. Para ello utilizamos la estructura to have yet + ((infinitivo)) {con} to: Todavía tienen que comunicarnos los resultados They have yet to tell us the results ► En oraciones comparativas todavía se traduce por even: Su prima es todavía más alta que ella Her cousin is even taller than she is El adverbio aún sigue las mismas pautas que todavía: Aún no sé cómo decírselo I still don't know how to tell him ¿Aún no has hablado con ella? Haven't you talked to her yet? Aún está trabajando para esa compañía de seguros She's still working for that insurance company Este pastel está aún mejor que el de la semana pasada This cake is even better than last week's
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( aún) still

    ¿todavía estás aquí? — are you still here?

    ¿todavía no has terminado? — haven't you finished yet?

    2) ( en comparaciones) even, still
    3) (fam) (encima, aun así) still
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( aún) still

    ¿todavía estás aquí? — are you still here?

    ¿todavía no has terminado? — haven't you finished yet?

    2) ( en comparaciones) even, still
    3) (fam) (encima, aun así) still
    * * *
    todavía1
    = yet.

    Ex: This will make it yet more difficult for the information worker and the end user to keep up to date with the full range of data bases.

    * haber todavía más = there + be + more to it than that.
    * ir todavía más lejos = go + a/one step further.
    * más todavía = all the more so.
    * todavía más + Adjetivo = all the more + Adjetivo.

    todavía2
    = as yet, still, yet.

    Ex: A second objective of union catalogues -- to make library resources available when and where they are needed -- has not then as yet been fully achieved.

    Ex: Comment published so far is favourable, but the code still awaits widespread adoption.
    Ex: The article suggests that this technique is the most transparent and equitable system yet devised.
    * no está claro todavía = the jury is still out (on).
    * no haber llegado todavía = be yet to come.
    * no se sabe todavía = the jury is still out (on).
    * sin asignar todavía = unassigned.
    * todavía no = not yet.
    * todavía no ha pasado lo mejor = the best is yet to come.
    * todavía + poderse + escuchar los ecos de = echo + still resound from.
    * todavía por + Verbo = yet to be + Verbo.
    * tradición que (aún = lasting legacy.

    * * *
    A
    1 still
    ¿todavía estás en la cama? are you still in bed?
    todavía la quiero I still love her
    todavía nos falta mucho para terminar we still have a lot to do
    2
    (en frases negativas): ¿todavía no terminaste or no has terminado? haven't you finished yet?
    ¿ya terminó la película? — todavía no has the movie finished? — not yet
    todavía no está lista she isn't ready yet
    son las siete ya y todavía no está lista it's already seven o'clock and she still isn't ready
    B (en comparaciones) even, still
    sus primos son todavía más ricos her cousins are even richer o still richer o richer still
    quiere más todavía he wants even o still more
    C ( fam) (encima, aun así) still
    ¡le pagan hasta el alquiler y todavía se queja! they even pay his rent and he still complains!
    ¿te engañó y todavía lo defiendes? he deceived you and yet you're defending him? o and you still defend him?
    y todavía tuvo la desfachatez de echarnos la culpa and not only that, she had the nerve to blame us!, and she even had the nerve to blame us!
    ¡a ver si todavía nos rebajan el sueldo! ( RPl); if we're not careful they'll end up cutting our salaries!
    * * *

     

    todavía adverbio
    1
    a) ( aún) still;

    ◊ ¿todavía estás aquí? are you still here?



    2 ( en comparaciones) even, still;
    ◊ sus primos son todavía más ricos her cousins are even richer o richer still

    3 (fam) ( encima) still;
    ◊ ¡y todavía se queja! and he still complains!

    todavía adverbio
    1 (en afirmativas e interrogativas) still: todavía viven en Francia, they're still living in France
    todavía puedes ganar, you can still win
    ¿todavía me quieres? do you still love me?
    (en negativas) yet: todavía no he acabado, I haven't finished yet
    2 (en comparaciones) todavía más/menos, even more/less: es todavía más tonto que su novia, he's still o even sillier than his girlfriend
    3 (a pesar de eso) ... y todavía se queja,... and still he complains ➣ Ver nota en still y yet
    ' todavía' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aterrizar
    - cojera
    - contrapartida
    - curiosamente
    - deber
    - designar
    - entendimiento
    - enterrar
    - escrutinio
    - flete
    - grogui
    - guardar
    - llamear
    - sangrar
    - subsistir
    - tiniebla
    - viva
    - vivo
    - amoldar
    - aún
    - camino
    - cobrar
    - comida
    - dormir
    - estar
    - estrenar
    - fase
    - hacer
    - hora
    - jorobado
    - quedar
    - rato
    - seguro
    - siempre
    - ver
    English:
    account for
    - accustom
    - adjust
    - air
    - alive
    - all
    - as
    - crack
    - dizziness
    - even
    - finish
    - go
    - log in
    - log on
    - minor
    - nearly
    - shall
    - should
    - sink in
    - still
    - thaw
    - yet
    - anywhere
    - attraction
    - be
    - catch
    - feel
    - from
    - hang
    - in
    - on
    - plow
    - short
    - trickle
    - unborn
    - up
    - weigh
    - word
    * * *
    1. [con afirmación] still;
    [con negación] yet, still;
    están todavía aquí they are still here;
    ¿pero vive todavía? but is she still alive?;
    todavía no not yet;
    todavía no lo he recibido I still haven't got it, I haven't got it yet;
    ¿todavía no ha llegado? hasn't she arrived yet?, has she still not arrived?
    2. [con más énfasis] still;
    he hecho todo lo que me ha pedido y todavía no está contento I've done everything he asked and he still isn't happy
    3. [incluso] even;
    todavía más even more;
    ¡todavía querrá más! I hope he's not going to ask for more!
    * * *
    adv still, yet;
    todavía no ha llegado he still hasn’t come, he hasn’t come yet;
    todavía no not yet
    * * *
    1) aún: still, yet
    todavía puedes verlo: you can still see it
    2) : even
    todavía más rápido: even faster
    3)
    todavía no : not yet
    * * *

    Spanish-English dictionary > todavía

  • 96 erst

    Adv.
    1. (als erstes) first; (anfangs, dann nicht mehr) at first; erst einmal first; wir müssen erst ( einmal) aufräumen auch we’ve got to tidy (Am. clean) up before we do anything else; erst hatte sie noch Angst, aber dann... at first she was still frightened, but then...; erst mal stimmt das gar nicht, und dann... first(ly) ( oder for a start) it’s not true, and then...
    2. (nicht früher als) only, not until ( oder till); zukunftsbezogen: auch not before; erst als oder wenn only when; erst jetzt / dann only now / then, not until ( oder till) now / then; erst jetzt wissen wir... only now do we know..., not until ( oder till) now did we know...; erst in zehn Minuten not for ten minutes, in ten minutes’ time; erst als er anrief, wurde mir klar... it was only when he rang up (Am. called) that I realized...; erst nach der Vorstellung not until ( oder till) after the performance
    3. (nicht länger zurückliegend als) only, just; ( eben oder gerade) erst just; erst gestern only yesterday; erst vor kurzem only a short while ago; ich habe sie erst letzte Woche gesehen I saw her only last week, it was only last week (that) I saw her
    4. (bloß) only, just; sie ist erst zwanzig she is only twenty; es ist erst zwei Tage her it’s only two days ago; mit einer Arbeit erst am Anfang sein have (only) just begun a job, be still (only) at the beginning of a job; ich habe erst zwei Antworten bekommen I’ve only had two replies (so far)
    5. zukünftig: (noch) still, yet; das muss sich erst noch zeigen that remains to be seen; der muss erst noch geboren werden, der... no one has yet been born who..., the man has yet to be born who...; wenn du erst so alt bist wie ich when you get to my age; wenn wir erst reich sind, werden wir... when ( oder once) we’re rich ( oder wait till we’re rich), then we’ll...; wäre er erst (nur schon) hier! if only he were here
    6. hervorhebend, steigernd: ich bin so müde - und ich erst! how about me then!; was glaubst du, wie mir erst zumute ist? how do you think 'I feel? du solltest ihn erst mal sehen! (just) wait till you see him; das versuche ich erst gar nicht I shan’t (Am. won’t) even bother to try (it); was wird sie erst sagen, wenn sie das erfährt? whatever is she going to say when she hears about that then?; was wird erst Peter dazu sagen? whatever is Peter going to say about it?
    7. erst recht all the more; jetzt erst recht nicht! absolutely definitely not!; that settles it, no!, Am. no way!; dann kann er es ja erst recht tun all the more reason (for him) to do so; jetzt zeig ich’s ihr erst recht! now I’m really going to show her; das macht es erst recht schlimm that makes it even worse
    * * *
    not till (Adv.); only (Adv.); at first (Adv.); not until (Adv.)
    * * *
    [eːɐst]
    adv
    1) first; (= anfänglich) at first

    mach érst (ein)mal die Arbeit fertig — finish your work first

    érst mal ist das gar nicht wahr... — first or for one thing it's just not true...

    érst einmal musst du an deine Pflicht denken — you should consider your duty first

    wenn du das érst einmal hinter dir hast — once you've got that behind you

    érst wollte er, dann wieder nicht — first he wanted to, then he didn't

    See:
    → Arbeit
    2) (= nicht mehr als, bloß) only; (= nicht früher als auch) not until

    eben or gerade érst — just

    érst gestern — only yesterday

    érst jetzt verstehe ich... — I have only just understood...

    érst jetzt wissen wir... — it is only now that we know...

    érst morgen — not until or before tomorrow

    érst vor Kurzem — only a short time ago

    es ist érst 6 Uhr — it is only 6 o'clock

    wir fahren érst übermorgen/érst später — we're not going until the day after tomorrow/until later

    sie war érst 6 Jahre — she was only 6

    érst als — only when, not until

    érst wenn — only if or when, not until

    3) (emph = gar, nun gar)

    da gings érst richtig los — then it really got going

    was wird Mutter érst sagen! — whatever will mother say!

    was wird dann érst passieren? — whatever will happen then?

    sie ist schon ziemlich blöd, aber érst ihre Schwester! — she is fairly stupid, but you should see her sister!

    da fange ich érst gar nicht an — I simply won't (bother to) begin

    wie wird er sich érst ärgern, wenn er das noch erfährt — he really will be annoyed when he finds out about that

    jetzt érst recht/recht nicht! — that just makes me all the more determined

    da tat er es érst recht! — so he did it deliberately

    das macht es érst recht schlimm — that makes it even worse or all the worse

    da habe ich mich érst recht geärgert — then I really did get annoyed

    4)

    wäre er doch érst zurück! — if only he were back!

    diese Gerüchte darf man gar nicht érst aufkommen lassen — these rumours (Brit) or rumors (US) mustn't even be allowed to start

    * * *
    1) (before all others in place, time or rank: the first person to arrive; The boy spoke first.) first
    2) (not longer ago than: I saw him only yesterday.) only
    3) (first or leading: Italy's premier industrialist.) premier
    * * *
    [ˈe:ɐ̯st]
    I. adv
    1. (zuerst) [at] first
    \erst sagst du ja, dann wieder nein! first you say yes, then you say no again!
    \erst schien noch die Sonne, aber dann fing es bald an zu regnen at first it was sunny but it soon started to rain
    mach \erst [ein]mal die Arbeit fertig finish your work first
    wenn du das \erst einmal hinter dir hast once you've got that over with
    2. (nicht früher als) only
    wecken Sie mich bitte \erst um 8 Uhr! please don't wake me until 8 o'clock!
    er hat mich \erst darauf aufmerksam gemacht, als es schon zu spät war he didn't draw my attention to it until it was too late
    ich brauche die Rechnung \erst in 5 Wochen zu bezahlen I don't need to pay the bill for another 5 weeks
    \erst gestern/heute/morgen only yesterday/today/tomorrow
    der nächste Zug fährt \erst morgen the next train doesn't leave until tomorrow
    \erst jetzt only now
    eben/gerade \erst [only] just
    \erst vor kurzem only recently, only just
    \erst als... only when...
    \erst wenn only if
    \erst..., wenn only... if
    3. (bloß) only
    an deiner Stelle würde ich \erst gar nicht anfangen if I was in your shoes I wouldn't even start
    wenn wir zu Hause sind, dann kannst du \erst was erleben! when we get home you'll be in real trouble!
    ▶ \erst recht all the more
    ▶ jetzt \erst recht/recht nicht!
    jetzt zeigst du es ihr \erst recht! now you can really show her!
    tu, was man dir sagt! — nein, jetzt \erst recht nicht! do what you're told! no, now I definitely won't do it!
    * * *
    1.
    1) (zuerst) first

    erst einmal — first [of all]

    2) (nicht eher als)

    er will erst in drei Tagen/einer Stunde zurückkommen — he won't be back for three days/an hour

    erst nächste Woche/um 12 Uhr — not until next week/12 o'clock

    er war erst zufrieden, als... — he was not satisfied until...

    3) (noch nicht mehr als) only

    erst eine Stunde/halb soviel — only an hour/half as much

    2.

    so was lese ich gar nicht erst — I don't even start reading that sort of stuff

    * * *
    erst adv
    1. (als erstes) first; (anfangs, dann nicht mehr) at first;
    erst einmal first;
    wir müssen erst (einmal) aufräumen auch we’ve got to tidy (US clean) up before we do anything else;
    erst hatte sie noch Angst, aber dann … at first she was still frightened, but then …;
    erst mal stimmt das gar nicht, und dann … first(ly) ( oder for a start) it’s not true, and then …
    2. (nicht früher als) only, not until ( oder till); zukunftsbezogen: auch not before;
    wenn only when;
    erst jetzt/dann only now/then, not until ( oder till) now/then;
    erst jetzt wissen wir … only now do we know …, not until ( oder till) now did we know …;
    erst in zehn Minuten not for ten minutes, in ten minutes’ time;
    erst als er anrief, wurde mir klar … it was only when he rang up (US called) that I realized …;
    erst nach der Vorstellung not until ( oder till) after the performance
    3. (nicht länger zurückliegend als) only, just;
    (
    erst just;
    erst gestern only yesterday;
    erst vor Kurzem only a short while ago;
    ich habe sie erst letzte Woche gesehen I saw her only last week, it was only last week (that) I saw her
    4. (bloß) only, just;
    sie ist erst zwanzig she is only twenty;
    es ist erst zwei Tage her it’s only two days ago;
    mit einer Arbeit erst am Anfang sein have (only) just begun a job, be still ( only) at the beginning of a job;
    ich habe erst zwei Antworten bekommen I’ve only had two replies (so far)
    5. zukünftig: (noch) still, yet;
    das muss sich erst noch zeigen that remains to be seen;
    der muss erst noch geboren werden, der … no one has yet been born who …, the man has yet to be born who …;
    wenn du erst so alt bist wie ich when you get to my age;
    wenn wir erst reich sind, werden wir … when ( oder once) we’re rich ( oder wait till we’re rich), then we’ll …;
    wäre er erst (nur schon)
    hier! if only he were here
    6. hervorhebend, steigernd: ich bin so müde -
    und ich erst! how about me then!;
    was glaubst du, wie mir erst zumute ist? how do you think 'I feel?
    du solltest ihn erst mal sehen! (just) wait till you see him;
    das versuche ich erst gar nicht I shan’t (US won’t) even bother to try (it);
    was wird sie erst sagen, wenn sie das erfährt? whatever is she going to say when she hears about that then?;
    was wird erst Peter dazu sagen? whatever is Peter going to say about it?
    7.
    erst recht all the more;
    jetzt erst recht nicht! absolutely definitely not!; that settles it, no!, US no way!;
    dann kann er es ja erst recht tun all the more reason (for him) to do so;
    jetzt zeig ich’s ihr erst recht! now I’m really going to show her;
    das macht es erst recht schlimm that makes it even worse
    erst… num
    1. first;
    als Erstes first of all, to start with;
    erstes Kapitel chapter one;
    Erste Hilfe first aid;
    am ersten Mai on the first of May, on May the first;
    1. Mai 1st May, besonders US May 1(st);
    heute ist der Erste it’s the first (of the month) today;
    am Ersten (des Monats) on the first (of the month);
    (am) nächsten/letzten Ersten on the first of next/last month;
    jemandem zum nächsten Ersten kündigen give sb notice for the first of the following month;
    er war Erster he was ( oder came) first;
    er war der Erste, der … he was the first to (+inf)
    Karl I. Charles I (= Charles the First);
    zum Ersten, zum Zweiten, (und) zum Dritten! Auktion: going, going, gone!;
    100 zum Ersten, zum Zweiten, (und) zum Dritten 100 for the first time ( oder once), for the second time ( oder twice), gone!;
    zum Ersten möchte ich festhalten, dass… in the first place, first of all
    2. (best…) Klasse, Wahl: first; Qualität: prime;
    erster Rang THEAT, Kino: dress circle;
    Hotel am Platze the best hotel in town ( oder in the place);
    sie wurde Erste she finished first;
    er ist Erster (der Klasse) he’s top of the class;
    Erste(r) von hinten umg, hum last; bottom;
    die Ersten werden die Letzten sein BIBEL the first shall be last
    3. (vorläufig) first;
    das ist nur ein erster Entwurf it’s only a first draft;
    fürs Erste for the moment, for the time being
    4. SCHIFF:
    Erster Offizier First Officer ( oder Mate)
    5.
    erste Beste → erstbest…; → Ehe, Hand1 2, Linie 1, Mal1 etc
    * * *
    1.
    1) (zuerst) first

    erst einmal — first [of all]

    er will erst in drei Tagen/einer Stunde zurückkommen — he won't be back for three days/an hour

    erst nächste Woche/um 12 Uhr — not until next week/12 o'clock

    er war erst zufrieden, als... — he was not satisfied until...

    erst eine Stunde/halb soviel — only an hour/half as much

    2.
    * * *
    adj.
    first adj.
    foremost adj.
    lead-off adj.

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  • 97 aun más

    adv.
    1 furthermore, moreover.
    2 even more, even more so, all the more, more.
    pron.
    even more, more, still more.
    * * *
    even more
    * * *
    = Verbo + further, even further, all the more, further, furthermore, beyond that, a fortiori
    Ex. Main classes are divided into subclasses which are further subdivided into form, place, time and subject aspects.
    Ex. Moreover, budgets will be squeezed even further by the rapidly rising costs of materials.
    Ex. He listened with rapture, and all the more because it was a poignant moment in his life.
    Ex. Further, no guidance can be expected on alternative terms that are related to the searcher's initial search term.
    Ex. Furthermore, since each systems indexes a separate set of documents, each system will have a different natural indexing language.
    Ex. Beyond that, a library can create these commons in cyberspace as well as in public buildings = Más aún, la biblioteca puede crear estos espacios públicos comunes en el ciberespacio además de en los edificios públicos.
    Ex. The same problem is posed a fortiori when the liquid to be pasteurized contains dissolved gas under pressure (carbonated liquid) -- the case of beer for example.
    * * *
    = Verbo + further, even further, all the more, further, furthermore, beyond that, a fortiori

    Ex: Main classes are divided into subclasses which are further subdivided into form, place, time and subject aspects.

    Ex: Moreover, budgets will be squeezed even further by the rapidly rising costs of materials.
    Ex: He listened with rapture, and all the more because it was a poignant moment in his life.
    Ex: Further, no guidance can be expected on alternative terms that are related to the searcher's initial search term.
    Ex: Furthermore, since each systems indexes a separate set of documents, each system will have a different natural indexing language.
    Ex: Beyond that, a library can create these commons in cyberspace as well as in public buildings = Más aún, la biblioteca puede crear estos espacios públicos comunes en el ciberespacio además de en los edificios públicos.
    Ex: The same problem is posed a fortiori when the liquid to be pasteurized contains dissolved gas under pressure (carbonated liquid) -- the case of beer for example.

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  • 98 davantage

    davantage [davɑ̃taʒ]
    adverb
       a. ( = plus) [gagner, acheter] more
    • bien/encore/même davantage much/still/even more
       b. ( = plus longtemps) longer
       c. ( = de plus en plus) more and more
       d. (locutions)
    • veux-tu davantage de viande ? would you like some more meat?► davantage que ( = plus) more than ; ( = plus longtemps) longer than
    * * *
    davɑ̃taʒ
    1.
    1) ( plus) more

    il ne travaille pas davantage — ( en effort) he isn't working any harder; ( en quantité) he doesn't do any more work

    rien ne me plaît davantage que — controv I like nothing better than

    2) ( plus longtemps) longer

    2.
    * * *
    davɑ̃taʒ adv
    (= plus) more

    Il devrait travailler davantage. — He ought to work more., (= plus longtemps) longer

    Il faudrait davantage de stages de formation. — There should be more training courses.

    * * *
    A adv
    1 ( plus) more; il est rusé mais elle l'est davantage he's crafty but she's (even) more so; il ne travaille pas davantage ( en effort) he isn't working any harder; ( en quantité) he doesn't do any more work; je n'en sais pas davantage! I don't know any more than that!, more than that I do not know!; après trois mois de cours je n'en sais pas davantage after three months of classes I don't know any more than I did before ou I'm none the wiser; je lui ai répété deux fois la question, mais je crois qu'il n'a pas davantage compris I repeated the question twice but I don't think he understood any better; je ne peux pas la supporter et ses enfants pas davantage I can't stand her or her children either; sinon davantage if not more; davantage que more than; rien ne me plaît davantage que controv I like nothing better than; maintenant je l'apprécie bien davantage now I like him/her much more; choisissez l'ouvrage qui vous plaît davantage choose the book you like better;
    2 ( plus longtemps) longer; le projet prendra cinq ans et peut-être davantage the project will take five years and perhaps (even) more ou longer; si vous vous exposez davantage aux radiations if you are further exposed to radiation.
    B dét indéf davantage de more; en voulez-vous davantage? would you like some more?; prenez davantage de viande have some more meat; créer davantage d'emplois to create more jobs; offrir davantage de possibilités to offer more possibilities; le système a davantage de succès à la campagne the system is more successful in the country.
    [davɑ̃taʒ] adverbe
    1. [plus] more
    2. [de plus en plus]
    3. [plus longtemps]

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  • 99 πολύς

    πολύς, πολλή, πολύ, gen. πολλοῦ, ῆς, οῦ (Hom.+; ins, pap, LXX, pseudepigr., Philo, Joseph., apolog.) ‘much’.—Comparative πλείων, πλεῖον (18 times in the NT, 4 times in the Apost. Fathers [including Hv 3, 6, 4; Hs 8, 1, 16] and Ath. 12, 3) or πλέον (Lk 3:13 and Ac 15:28 μηδὲν πλέον; otherwise, πλέον in the NT only J 21:15; 14 times in the Apost. Fathers [incl. μηδὲν πλέον Hs 1, 1, 6]; Ar. twice; Just. 6 times; Tat. once; Ath. 7 times), ονος; pl. πλείονες, and acc. πλείονας contracted πλείους, neut. πλείονα and πλείω (the latter Mt 26:53 [πλεῖον, πλείου vv.ll.]; B-D-F §30, 2; Mlt-H. 82; Thackeray p. 81f; Mayser p. 68f) ‘more’ (Hom.+; ins, pap, LXX; TestAbr B 7 p. 111, 27=Stone p. 70 [πλείον]; TestJob 35:2; TestGad 7:2 [πλεῖον]; AscIs 3:8; [πλέον]; EpArist; apolog. exc. Mel.).—Superlative πλεῖστος, η, ον ‘most’ (Hom.+).
    ① pert. to being a large number, many, a great number of
    ⓐ positive πολύς, πολλή, πολύ
    α. adj., preceding or following a noun (or ptc. or adj. used as a noun) in the pl. many, numerous δυνάμεις πολλαί many mighty deeds Mt 7:22b. δαιμονιζόμενοι πολλοί 8:16. Cp. vs. 30; 9:10; 13:17; 24:11; 27:52, 55; Mk 2:15a; 6:13; 12:41; Lk 4:25, 27; 7:21b; 10:24; J 10:32; 14:2; Ac 1:3; 2:43; 8:7b; 14:22; Ro 4:17f (Gen 17:5); 8:29; 12:4; 1 Cor 8:5ab; 11:30; 12:12a, 20; 1 Ti 6:12; 2 Ti 2:2; Hb 2:10; 1J 4:1; 2J 7; Rv 5:11; 9:9; 10:11; 1 Cl 55:3ab. ἔτη πολλά many years: Lk 12:19b (εἰς ἔτη π.); Ac 24:10 (ἐκ π. ἐτῶν); Ro 15:23 (ἀπὸ π. [v.l. ἱκανῶν] ἐτῶν).—αἱ ἁμαρτίαι αἱ πολλαί Lk 7:47a. αἱ εὐεργεσίαι αἱ π. 1 Cl 21:1.—πολλὰ καὶ βαρέα αἰτιώματα many serious charges Ac 25:7 (cp. Ps.-Pla., Sisyph. 1, 387a πολλά τε καὶ καλὰ πράγματα; B-D-F §442, 11; Rob. 655). πολλὰ καὶ ἄλλα σημεῖα J 20:30 (on the form X., Hell. 5, 4, 1 πολλὰ μὲν οὖν … καὶ ἄλλα λέγειν καὶ Ἑλληνικὰ καὶ βαρβαρικά; Dionys. Hal. 2, 67, 5; Ps.-Demetr. 142 πολλὰς κ. ἄλλας χάριτας; Jos., Ant. 3, 318; Tat. 38, 1. On the subject-matter Bultmann 540, 3; also Porphyr., Vi. Pyth. 28 after a miracle-story: μυρία δʼ ἕτερα θαυμαστότερα κ. θειότερα περὶ τἀνδρὸς … εἴρηται κτλ.).—ἄλλοι πολλοί many others IRo 10:1. ἄλλαι πολλαί Mk 15:41. ἄλλα πολλά (Jos., Bell. 6, 169, Ant. 9, 242; Just., D. 8, 1) J 21:25. ἕτεροι πολλοί Ac 15:35. ἕτερα πολλά (Jos., Vi. 39) Lk 22:65.—Predicative: πολλοί εἰσιν οἱ ἐισερχόμενοι Mt 7:13.—Mk 5:9; 6:31; Gal 4:27 (Is 54:1). AcPl Ha 5, 16.—οὐ πολλοί not many=( only) a few οὐ πολλαὶ ἡμέραι (Jos., Ant. 5, 328, Vi. 309) Lk 15:13; J 2:12; Ac 1:5; AcPl Ha 11, 1. οὐ πολλοὶ σοφοί not many wise (people) 1 Cor 1:26a; cp. bc. οὐ πολλοί πατέρες not many fathers 4:15.
    β. subst.
    א. πολλοί many i.e. persons—without the art. Mt 7:22; 8:11; 12:15; 20:28; 24:5ab; 26:28; Mk 2:2; 3:10 (Mt 12:15 has ascensive πάντας; other passages to be compared in this connection are Mk 10:45=Mt 20:28 πολλῶν and 1 Ti 2:6 πάντων. Cp. the double tradition of the saying of Bias in Clem. of Alex., Strom. 1, 61, 3 πάντες ἄνθρωποι κακοὶ ἢ οἱ πλεῖστοι τ. ἀνθρώπων κακοί.—On Mk 10:45 s. OCullmann, TZ 4, ’48, 471–73); 6:2; 11:8; Lk 1:1 (cp. Herm. Wr. 11, 1, 1b and see JBauer, NovT 4, ’60, 263–66), 14; J 2:23; 8:30; Ac 9:42; Ro 16:2; 2 Cor 11:18; Gal 3:16 (πολλοί= a plurality); Tit 1:10; Hb 12:15; 2 Pt 2:2. AcPl Ha 5, 8; 7, 5; 11, 3. Opp. ὀλίγοι Mt 22:14; 20:16 v.l. (cp. Pla., Phd. 69c ναρθηκοφόροι μὲν πολλοί, βάκχοι δέ τε παῦροι=the thyrsus-bearers [officials] are many, but the truly inspired are few)—W. a partitive gen. πολλοὶ τῶν Φαρισαίων Mt 3:7. π. πῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ Lk 1:16.—J 4:39; 12:11; Ac 4:4; 8:7a; 13:43; 18:8; 19:18; 2 Cor 12:21; Rv 8:11.—W. ἐκ and gen. (AscIs 3:1; Jos., Ant. 11, 151) πολλοὶ ἐκ τῶν μαθητῶν J 6:60, 66.—10:20; 11:19, 45; 12:42; Ac 17:12. ἐκ τοῦ ὄχλου πολλοί J 7:31 (Appian, Iber. 78 §337 πολλοὶ ἐκ τοῦ πλήθους).
    ב. πολλά—many things, much without the art.: γράφειν write at length B 4:9. διδάσκειν Mk 4:2; 6:34b. λαλεῖν Mt 13:3. μηχανᾶσθαι MPol 3. πάσχειν (Pind., O. 13, 63 al.; Jos., Ant. 13, 268; 403) Mt 16:21; Mk 5:26a; 9:12; Lk 9:22; 17:25; B 7:11; AcPl Ha 8, 19. ποιεῖν Mk 6:20 v.l. United w. another neut. by καί (Lucian, Icar. 20 πολλὰ κ. δεινά; Ael. Aristid. 46 p. 345 D.: πολλὰ κ. καλά; Ps.-Demetr., El. 70 πολλὰ κ. ἄλλα; likew. Appian, Bell. Civ. 5, 13 §53; Arrian, Anab. 6, 11, 2) πολλὰ κ. ἕτερα many other things Lk 3:18. πολλὰ ἂν κ. ἄλλα εἰπεῖν ἔχοιμι Dg 2:10 (Eur., Ep. 3, 2, πολλὰ κ. ἕτερα εἰπεῖν ἔχω; Diod S 17, 38, 3 πολλὰ δὲ καὶ ἄλλα … διαλεχθείς). ἐν πολλοῖς in many ways (Diod S 26, 1, 2; OGI 737, 7 [II B.C.]; Just., D. 124, 4 [of line of proof]) 2 Cor 8:22a. ἐπὶ πολλῶν (opp. ἐπὶ ὀλίγα) over many things Mt 25:21, 23.—W. art. (Pla., Apol. 1, 17a) τὰ πολλὰ πράσσειν transact a great deal of business Hs 4:5b.
    γ. elliptical δαρήσεται πολλά (sc. πληγάς) will receive many (lashes) Lk 12:47 (B-D-F §154; 241, 6).
    ⓑ comparative πλείων, πλεῖον
    α. adj. w. a plural (Diod S 14, 6, 1 μισθοφόρους πλείους=many mercenaries) πλείονας πόνους (opp. οὐχ ἕνα οὐδὲ δύο) 1 Cl 5:4. ἐπὶ ἡμέρας πλείους for a (large) number of days, for many days (Jos., Ant. 4, 277; cp. Theophr. in Apollon. Paradox. 29 πλείονας ἡμ.) Ac 13:31.—21:10 (Jos., Ant. 16, 15); 24:17; 25:14; 27:20. οἱ μὲν πλείονές εἰσιν γεγονότες ἱερεῖς the priests of former times existed in greater numbers Hb 7:23. ἑτέροις λόγοις πλείοσιν in many more words (than have been reported) Ac 2:40. ταῦτα καὶ ἕτερα πλείονα MPol 12:1.—W. a gen. of comparison (Just., A I 53, 3; Tat. 3, 2) ἄλλους δούλους πλείονας τῶν πρώτων other slaves, more than (he had sent) at first Mt 21:36. πλείονα σημεῖα ὧν more signs than those which J 7:31. Also w. ἤ: πλείονας μαθητὰς ἤ more disciples than 4:1. After πλείονες (-α) before numerals the word for ‘than’ is omitted (B-D-F §185, 4; Kühner-G. II 311; Rob. 666; Jos., Ant. 14, 96) ἐτῶν ἦν πλειόνων τεσσεράκοντα ὁ ἄνθρωπος the man was more than 40 years old Ac 4:22. πλείους τεσσεράκοντα 23:13, 21. Cp. 24:11; 25:6 (Jos., Ant. 6, 306 δέκα οὐ πλείους ἡμέρας).—The ref. is to relative extent (cp. 2bα) in τὰ ἔργα σου τὰ ἕσχατα πλείονα τῶν πρώτων your deeds, the latter of which are greater than the former Rv 2:19.
    β. subst.
    א. (οἱ) πλείονες, (οἱ) πλείους the majority, most (Diog. L. 1, 20; 22; Jos., Ant. 10, 114) Ac 19:32; 27:12. W. ἐξ: ἐξ ὧν οἱ πλείονες most of whom 1 Cor 15:6. W. gen. and a neg. (litotes) οὐκ ἐν τ. πλείοσιν αὐτῶν ηὐδόκησεν ὁ θεός God was pleased with only a few of them 10:5. This is perh. (s. ג below) the place for 1 Cor 9:19; 2 Cor 2:6; 9:2. Phil 1:14; MPol 5:1.
    ב. (οἱ) πλείονες, (οἱ) πλείους (even) more πλείονες in even greater numbers Ac 28:23. πολλῷ πλείους ἐπίστευσαν many more came to believe J 4:41.—διὰ τῶν πλειόνων to more and more people=those who are still to be won for Christ 2 Cor 4:15.
    ג. (οἱ) πλείονες, (οἱ) πλείους. In contrast to a minority οἱ πλείονες can gain the sense the others, the rest (so τὰ πλείονα Soph., Oed. Col. 36; τὸ πλέον Thu. 4, 30, 4; Jos., Ant. 12, 240; B-D-F §244, 3). So perh. (s. א above) ἵνα τ. πλείονας κερδήσω (opp. the apostle himself) 1 Cor 9:19; 2 Cor 2:6 (opp. the one who has been punished too severely.—In this case [s. א above] his punishment would have been determined by a unanimous vote of the Christian assembly rather than by a majority). Cp. 9:2; Phil 1:14; MPol 5:1.
    ד. πλείονα (for πλεῖον) more Mt 20:10 v.l.; various things Lk 11:53. ἐκ τοῦ ἑνὸς πλείονα 1 Cl 24:5 (s. as adv. ParJer 7:26).
    ⓒ superl. adj. πλείστη w. a plural most of αἱ πλεῖσται δυνάμεις Mt 11:20 (difft. B-D-F §245, 1).
    ② pert. to being relatively large in quantity or measure, much, extensive
    ⓐ positive πολύς, πολλή, πολύ
    α. adj. preceding or following a noun (or ptc. or adj. used as a noun)
    א. in the sg. much, large, great πολὺς ἀριθμός Ac 11:21. W. words that in themselves denote a plurality (Appian, Bell. Civ. 5, 80 §338 στρατὸς πολύς) πολὺς ὄχλος (s. ὄχ. 1a) Mt 14:14; 20:29; 26:47; Mk 5:21, 24; 6:34a; 8:1; 9:14; 12:37 (ὁ π. ὄχ.); Lk 5:29; 6:17a; 8:4; J 6:2, 5 (for the expression ὁ ὄχλος πολύς, in which π. follows the noun, J 12:9, 12, cp. Arrian, Anab. 1, 9, 6 ὁ φόνος πολύς); Ac 6:7; Rv 7:9; 19:1, 6. πολὺ πλῆθος (s. pl. 2bα) Mk 3:7f; Lk 5:6; 6:17b; 23:27; Ac 14:1; 17:4; 1 Cl 6:1. λαὸς πολύς many people Ac 18:10. Of money and its value, also used in imagery μισθὸς πολύς Mt 5:12; Lk 6:23, 35 (all three predicative, as Gen 15:1). ἐργασία π. Ac 16:16. π. κεφάλαιον 22:28. χρυσοῦ πολλοῦ … τρυφῆς πολλῆς AcPl Ha 2, 19.—Of things that occur in the mass or in large quantities (Diod S 3, 50, 1 πολλὴ ἄμπελος) γῆ πολλή Mt 13:5; Mk 4:5; θερισμὸς π. Mt 9:37; Lk 10:2 (both pred.). χόρτος π. J 6:10; καρπὸς π. (Cyranides p. 121, 11) 12:24; 15:5, 8.—λόγος π. a long speech (Diod S 13, 1, 2; Just., D. 123, 7) Ac 15:32; 20:2. περὶ οὗ πολὺς ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος about this we have much to say Hb 5:11 (cp. Pla., Phd. 115d).—Of time: πολὺς χρόνος a long time (Hom. et al.; Demetr.(?): 722 Fgm. 7; Jos., Ant. 8, 342; 19, 28; Just., A II, 2, 11) J 5:6 (s. ἔχω 7b); Hs 6, 4, 4 (pred.). μετὰ πολὺν χρόνον (Jos., Ant. 12, 324) Mt 25:19. Differently Mk 6:35ab (s. 3aα).
    ב. adj. w. a noun in the pl. many, large, great, extensive, plentiful ὄχλοι πολλοί great crowds or probably better many people (as Diod S 20, 59, 2; Ps.-Clem., Hom. 10, 3. For the corresponding mng. of ὄχλοι s. ὄχλος 1a) Mt 4:25; 8:1; 13:2; 15:30a; 19:2; Lk 5:15; 14:25. κτήματα πολλά a great deal of property Mt 19:22; Mk 10:22 (cp. Da 11:28 χρήματα π.). ὕδατα πολλά much water, many waters (Maximus Tyr. 21, 3g of the Nile ὁ πολὺς ποταμός, likew. Procop. Soph., Ep. 111) J 3:23; Rv 1:15; 14:2; 17:1; 19:6b. θυμιάματα πολλά a great deal of incense 8:3. τὰ πολλὰ γράμματα Ac 26:24. πολλοὶ χρόνοι long periods of time (Plut., Thes. 6, 9). πολλοῖς χρόνοις for long periods of time (SIG 836, 6; pap) Lk 8:29; 1 Cl 44:3. χρόνοις πολλοῖς AcPlCor 2:10. ἐκ πολλῶν χρόνων (Diod S 3, 47, 8; Jos., Ant. 14, 110; 17, 204) 1 Cl 42:5.
    β. subst.
    א. πολλοί many i.e. pers.—w. the art. οἱ πολλοί the many, of whatever appears in the context Mk 6:2 v.l. (the many people who were present in the synagogue); 9:26b (the whole crowd). Opp. ὁ εἷς Ro 5:15ac, 19ab; the many who form the ἓν σῶμα the one body 12:5; 1 Cor 10:17. Paul pays attention to the interests of the many rather than to his own vs. 33 (cp. Jos., Ant. 3, 212).—The majority, most (X., An. 5, 6, 19; Appian, Maced. 7, Bell. Civ. 4, 73 §309; 2 Macc 1:36; En 104:10; AscIs 3:26; Jos., Ant. 17, 72; Just., D. 4, 3) Mt 24:12; Hb 12:15 v.l. W. a connotation of disapproval most people, the crowd (Socrat., Ep. 6, 2; Dio Chrys. 15 [32], 8; Epict. 1, 3, 4; 2, 1, 22 al.; Plut., Mor. 33a; 470b; Plotinus, Enn. 2, 9, 9; Philo, Rer. Div. Her. 42) 2 Cor 2:17; Pol 2:1; 7:2.—Jeremias, The Eucharistic Words of Jesus3, tr. NPerrin, ’66, 179–82; 226–31, and TW VI 536–45: πολλοί.
    ב. πολύ much ᾧ ἐδόθη πολύ, πολὺ ζητηθήσεται παρʼ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ᾧ παρέθεντο πολὺ κτλ. Lk 12:48 (Just., A I, 17, 4 twice πλέον). Cp. 16:10ab; 2 Cl 8:5; καρποφορεῖν π. bear much fruit Hs 2:3. πολὺ κατὰ πάντα τρόπον much in every way Ro 3:2 (Ael. Aristid. 34, 43 K.=50 p. 562 D. gives answer to a sim. quest. asked by himself: πολλὰ καὶ παντοῖα).—Js 5:16.—As gen. of price πολλοῦ for a large sum of money (Menand., Fgm. 197 Kö.; PRyl 244, 10. S. στρουθίον.) Mt 26:9.—Of time: ἐπὶ πολύ ( for) a long time (JosAs 19:3; Ar. 65, 3; s. also ἐπί 18cβ) Ac 28:6; AcPl Ha 10, 21. μετʼ οὐ πολύ soon afterward Ac 27:14 (μετά B 2c).—ἐπὶ πολύ more than once, often (Is 55:7) Hm 4, 1, 8.—Before a comp. (as Hom. et al.; B-D-F §246; Rob. 664) in the acc. πολὺ βέλτιον much better Hs 1:9. π. ἐλάττων v 3, 7, 6 (Ar. 6, 2). π. μᾶλλον much more, to a much greater degree (Dio Chrys. 2, 10; 17; 64 al.; Ael. Aristid. 34, 9 K.=50 p. 549 D.; Just., A II, 8, 3; D. 95, 1 al.) Hb 12:9, 25 (by means of a negative it acquires the mng. much less; cp. Diod S 7, 14, 6 πολὺ μᾶλλον μὴ … =even much less); Dg 2:7b. π. πλέον 2:7a (Ar. 11, 7). π. σπουδαιότερος 2 Cor 8:22b. Cp. π. τιμώτερον 1 Pt 1:7 v.l.; in the dat. of degree of difference πολλῷ μᾶλλον (Thu. 2, 51, 4; UPZ 42, 48 [162 B.C.]; EpArist 7; 24 al.; Sir prol. ln. 14; Jos., Ant. 18, 184; Just., A I, 68, 9; Tat. 17, 4) Mt 6:30; Mk 10:48b; Lk 18:39; Ro 5:9f, 15b, 17; 1 Cor 12:22; 2 Cor 3:9, 11; Phil 2:12. πολλῷ μᾶλλον κρείσσον 1:23 (v.l. without μᾶλλον). πολλῷ πλείους J 4:41. πολλῷ στρουθίων as v.l. Mt 20:31 and Lk 12:7 (both N.25 app.; on the strong ms. support for this rdg. s. RBorger, TRu 52, ’87, 21–24).—W. the art. τὸ πολύ (opp. τὸ ὀλίγον as X., An. 7, 7, 36) 2 Cor 8:15 (cp. Ex 16:18).
    ג. πολύς (Diod S 14, 107, 4 πολὺς ἦν ἐπὶ τῇ τιμωρίᾳ=he was strongly inclined toward punishing) μὴ πολὺς ἐν ῥήμασιν γίνου do not be profuse in speech, do not gossip 1 Cl 30:5 (Job 11:3).—Παπίας ὁ πολύς Papias (7), prob. to be understood as ὁ πάνυ; s. πάνυ d.
    ⓑ comp. πλείων, πλεῖον; adv. πλειόνως
    α. adj., w. a singular (TestJob 35:2 διὰ πλείονος εὐωδίας) καρπὸν πλείονα more fruit J 15:2, 8 P66; Hs 5, 2, 4. τὸ πλεῖον μέρος τοῦ ὄχλου the greater part of the throng 8, 1, 16. ἐπὶ πλείονα χρόνον for a longer time (PTebt 6:31 [II B.C.]) Ac 18:20. Foll. by gen. of comparison: πλείονα τιμήν more honor Hb 3:3b.—IPol 1:3a. Foll. by παρά τινα for comparison Hb 3:3a; 11:4; Hs 9, 18, 2. ὅσῳ πλείονος κατηξιώθημεν γνώσεως, τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον 1 Cl 41:4.—τὸ πλεῖον μέρος as adv. acc. for the greater part Hv 3, 6, 4a.
    β. as subst. πλεῖον, πλέον more τὸ πλεῖον the greater sum (cp. Diod S 1, 82, 2=the greater part; Ps 89:10) Lk 7:43. πλεῖον λαμβάνειν receive a larger sum Mt 20:10. W. partitive gen. ἐπὶ πλεῖον προκόψουσιν ἀσεβείας they will arrive at an ever greater measure of impiety=become more and more deeply involved in impiety 2 Ti 2:16. W. a gen. of comparison πλεῖον τῆς τροφῆς someth. greater (more important) than food Mt 6:25; Lk 12:23. πλεῖον Ἰωνᾶ Mt 12:41; cp. vs. 42; Lk 11:31, 32. ἡ χήρα πλεῖον πάντων ἔβαλεν the widow put in more than all the rest Mk 12:43; Lk 21:3. μηδὲν πλέον nothing more (Jos., Bell. 1, 43; cp. Just., D. 2, 3 οὐδὲν πλέον); the words than, except following are expressed by παρά and the acc. Lk 3:13 or by πλήν w. gen. Ac 15:28, w. εἰ μή Hs 1:6.—The acc. is used as an adv. more, in greater measure, to a greater degree (Herm. Wr. 13, 21 Nock after the mss.) Lk 7:42; IRo 1:1; IEph 6:2; w. a gen. of comparison Mt 5:20 (περισσεύω 1aβ); J 21:15; IPol 5:2 (s. Ad’Alès, RSR 25, ’35, 489–92). τριετίαν ἢ καὶ πλεῖον for three years or even more Ac 20:18 D (cp. TestAbr B 7 p. 111, 27 [Stone p. 70, 27]).—ἐπὶ πλεῖον any farther (of place) Ac 4:17 (TestGad 7:2; Ath. 12 [ἐπί 4bβ]); (of time) at length Ac 20:9 (ἐπί 18cβ) or any longer, too long 24:4; 1 Cl 55:1 (ἐπί 18cβ); any more, even more (ἐπί 13) 2 Ti 3:9; 1 Cl 18:3 (Ps 50:4). Strengthened πολὺ πλέον much more, much rather (4 Macc 1:8; cp. X., An. 7, 5, 15; BGU 180, 12f [172 A.D.] πολλῷ πλεῖον; Ar. 11, 7 πολλῷ πλεῖον) Dg 2:7; 4:5.—Also w. indications of number (s. 1bα) πλεῖον ἢ ἄρτοι πέντε Lk 9:13 (the words πλ. ἤ outside the constr. as X., An. 1, 2, 11). In πλείω δώδεκα λεγιῶνας ἀγγέλων more than twelve legions of angels Mt 26:53 the text is uncertain (B-D-F §185, 4; s. Rob. 666).—The adv. can also be expressed by πλειόνως (Aeneas Tact. 237; Jos., Ant. 17, 2; Leontios 24, p. 52, 10) more ὅσον … πλειόνως the more … the more IEph 6:1.
    ⓒ superl. πλεῖστος, ον
    α. adj.
    א. superlative proper τὸ πλεῖστον μέρος the greatest part w. partitive gen. Hs 8, 2, 9; 9, 7, 4. As adv. acc. for the greatest part 8, 5, 6; 8, 10, 1 (s. μέρος 1d).
    ב. elative (s. Mayser II/1, 1926, 53) very great, very large (ὁ) πλεῖστος ὄχλος Mt 21:8 (ὁ πλεῖστος ὄχλος could also be the greatest part of the crowd, as Thu. 7, 78, 2; Pla., Rep. 3, 397d); Mk 4:1.
    β. subst. οἱ πλεῖστοι the majority, most Ac 19:32 D (Just., D. 1, 4; cp. D. 48, 4 πλεῖστοι).
    ③ pert. to being high on a scale of extent
    ⓐ positive πολύς, πολλή, πολύ
    α. as simple adj., to denote degree much, great, strong, severe, hard, deep, profound (Diod S 13, 7, 4 πολὺς φόβος; schol. on Apollon. Rhod. 4, 57; 58 p. 265, 3 πολλὴ δικαιοσύνη; Eccl 5:16 θυμὸς π.; Sir 15:18 σοφία; TestAbr A 20 p. 103, 4 [Stone p. 54] ἀθυμία; Just., D. 3, 1 ἠρεμία) ἀγάπη Eph 2:4. ἀγών 1 Th 2:2. ἄθλησις Hb 10:32. ἁπλότης Hv 3, 9, 1. ἀσιτία Ac 27:21. βία 24:6 [7] v.l. γογγυσμός J 7:12. διακονία Lk 10:40. δοκιμή 2 Cor 8:2. δόξα Mt 24:30; Hv 1, 3, 4; 2, 2, 6. δύναμις Mk 13:26. ἐγκράτεια strict self-control Hv 2, 3, 2. εἰρήνη complete or undisturbed peace (Diod S 3, 64, 7; 11, 38, 1) Ac 24:2. ἔλεος 1 Pt 1:3. ἐπιθυμία 1 Th 2:17. ζημία Ac 27:10. ζήτησις 15:7. θλῖψις 2 Cor 2:4a; 1 Th 1:6. καύχησις 2 Cor 7:4b (pred.). μακροθυμία Ro 9:22. ὀδυρμός Mt 2:18. παράκλησις 2 Cor 8:4. παρρησία (Wsd 5:1) 3:12; 7:4a (pred.); 1 Ti 3:13; Phlm 8. πεποίθησις 2 Cor 8:22c. πλάνη 2 Cl 1:7. πληροφορία 1 Th 1:5. πόνος Col 4:13. σιγή a great or general hush (X., Cyr. 7, 1, 25; Arrian, Anab. 5, 28, 4) Ac 21:40. στάσις 23:10. τρόμος 1 Cor 2:3. φαντασία Ac 25:23. χαρά 8:8; Phlm 7. ὥρα πολλή late hour (Polyb. 5, 8, 3; Dionys. Hal. 2, 54; Jos., Ant. 8, 118) Mk 6:35ab.
    β. subst. πολλά in the acc. used as adv. greatly, earnestly, strictly, loudly, often etc. (X., Cyr. 1, 5, 14; Diod S 13, 41, 5; Lucian, Dial. Deor. 19, 2; Aelian, VH 1, 23; 4 Km 10:18; Is 23:16; TestSol 1:1; GrBar; ApcMos; Jos., Ant. 14, 348) ἀλαλάζειν πολλά Mk 5:38 (s. ἀλαλάζω). πολλὰ ἁμαρτάνειν Hs 4:5c (ApcMos 32). π. ἀνακρίνειν Ac 28:18 v.l. π. ἀπορεῖν Mk 6:20 (Field, Notes 29). π. ἀσπάζεσθαι 1 Cor 16:19 (s. ἀσπάζομαι 1a). δεηθῆναι π. (GrBar 4:14; Jos., Vi. 173; 343) Hs 5, 4, 1. διαστέλλεσθαι Mk 5:43 (s. διαστέλλω). π. ἐπιτιμᾶν 3:12. π. ἐρωτᾶν earnestly pray Hv 2, 2, 1. κατηγορεῖν π. Mk 15:3 (s. κατηγορέω 1a). κηρύσσειν π. talk freely 1:45. κλαίειν bitterly Ac 8:24 D (ApcMos 39). κοπιᾶν (ApcMos 24; CIG IV 9552, 5 … μοι πολλὰ ἐκοπίασεν, cp. Dssm., LO 266, 5 [LAE 317]) work hard Ro 16:6, 12; 2 Cl 7:1b. νηστεύειν π. fast often Mt 9:14a. ὀμνύναι π. Mk 6:23. παρακαλεῖν Mk 5:10, 23; Ac 20:1 D; 1 Cor 16:12. π. πταίειν make many mistakes Js 3:2. π. σπαράσσειν convulse violently Mk 9:26a.—W. the art. ἐνεκοπτόμην τὰ πολλά I have been hindered these many times (cp. Ro 1:13 πολλάκις) Ro 15:22 (v.l. πολλάκις here too).
    γ. subst. πολύ in the acc. used as adv. greatly, very much, strongly (Da 6:15, 24 Theod.) ἀγαπᾶν πολύ show much affection, love greatly Lk 7:47b. κλαίειν π. weep loudly Rv 5:4.—Mk 12:27; Ac 18:27.
    ⓑ superlative, the neut. acc. πλεῖστον, α as adv. (sing. Hom. et al.; pl. Pind. et al.)
    α. pl. πλεῖστα in the formula of greeting at the beginning of a letter πλεῖστα χαίρειν (POxy 742; 744; 1061 [all three I B.C.]; PTebt 314, 2 [II A.D.] and very oft. in pap.—Griech. pap ed. Ltzm.: Kl. Texte 142, 1910, p. 4, 5, 6, 7 al.; Preis. II s.v. πλεῖστος) heartiest greeting(s) IEph ins; IMg ins; ITr ins; IRo ins; ISm ins; IPol ins.
    β. sing. τὸ πλεῖστον at the most (Aristoph., Vesp. 260; Diod S 14, 71, 3 πεμπταῖοι ἢ τὸ πλ. ἑκταῖοι; POxy 58, 17; PGiss 65:9) κατὰ δύο ἢ τὸ πλ. τρεῖς (word for word like Περὶ ὕψους 32, 1) 1 Cor 14:27.—B. 922f. DELG. M-M. EDNT. TW.

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  • 100 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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  • even — I UK [ˈiːv(ə)n] / US [ˈɪv(ə)n] adverb *** Summary: Even is used for emphasis mainly before a word, a phrase, or a clause beginning with as , if , or though . When emphasizing verbs, even comes before an ordinary verb: They even served champagne… …   English dictionary

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