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  • 1 sling

    sling [slɪŋ] (pt & pp slung [slʌŋ])
    (a) (fling) jeter, lancer;
    ∎ the children were slinging stones at the statue les enfants lançaient des pierres sur la statue;
    ∎ sling the ball back to me! relance-moi le ballon!;
    ∎ she slung the case into the back of the car elle a jeté la valise à l'arrière de la voiture;
    ∎ British familiar can you sling me (over) the salt? tu peux me balancer le sel?;
    ∎ British familiar if he's not careful, he'll get slung off the course s'il ne fait pas attention, il se fera virer du cours;
    ∎ figurative to sling mud at sb couvrir qn de boue;
    ∎ they were slinging insults at each other ils se lançaient des insultes;
    ∎ familiar to sling one's hook mettre les bouts, ficher le camp
    (b) (lift, hang → load) hisser; Nautical élinguer;
    ∎ the hammock was slung between two trees le hamac était suspendu ou accroché entre deux arbres;
    ∎ the soldiers wore rifles slung across or over their shoulders les soldats portaient des fusils en bandoulière;
    ∎ the jacket was slung over the back of the chair la veste était négligemment jetée sur le dossier de la chaise;
    ∎ he slung his jacket over his shoulder il a jeté sa veste par-dessus son épaule;
    ∎ I slung the towel over the washing line j'ai jeté la serviette par-dessus la corde à linge
    2 noun
    ∎ she had her arm in a sling elle avait le bras en écharpe
    (b) (for baby) porte-bébé m
    (c) (for loads) & Nautical élingue f; (belt) courroie f; (rope) corde f, cordage m; (for removal men) corde f, courroie f; (for rifle) bretelle f; (for mast) cravate f
    (d) (weapon) fronde f; (toy) lance-pierres m inv
    (e) (for climber) baudrier m
    (f) (cocktail) sling m (cocktail à base de spiritueux et de jus de citron, allongé d'eau plate ou gazeuse)
    British familiar bazarder, balancer, ficher en l'air
    British familiar (person) flanquer ou ficher à la porte; (rubbish, magazines etc) bazarder, balancer;
    ∎ he was slung out on his ear il a été fichu à la porte, on l'a fichu dehors
    British familiar lancer□, envoyer□ ;
    ∎ can you sling the paper over? tu peux me lancer le journal?
    familiar suspendre□, accrocher□

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  • 2 of

    preposition

    a friend of mine/the vicar's — ein Freund von mir/des Pfarrers

    it's no business of theirs — es geht sie nichts an

    where's that pencil of mine? — wo ist mein Bleistift?

    within a mile of the centre — nicht weiter als eine Meile vom Zentrum entfernt

    it was clever of you to do that — es war klug von dir, das zu tun

    be made of... — aus... [hergestellt] sein

    5) (indicating closer definition, identity, or contents)

    the city of Chicago — die Stadt Chicago

    increase of 10 % — Zuwachs/Erhöhung von zehn Prozent

    battle of Hastings — Schlacht von od. bei Hastings

    your letter of 2 January — Ihr Brief vom 2. Januar

    be of value/interest to — von Nutzen/von Interesse od. interessant sein für

    the whole of... — der/die/das ganze...

    well, what of it? — (asked as reply) na und?

    7) (indicating objective relation)

    his love of his father — seine Liebe zu seinem Vater

    he of all men — (most unsuitably) ausgerechnet er; (especially) gerade er

    of an evening — (coll.) abends

    * * *
    [əv]
    1) (belonging to: a friend of mine.) von
    2) (away from (a place etc); after (a given time): within five miles of London; within a year of his death.) von
    3) (written etc by: the plays of Shakespeare.) von
    4) (belonging to or forming a group: He is one of my friends.) von
    5) (showing: a picture of my father.) von
    6) (made from; consisting of: a dress of silk; a collection of pictures.) aus
    7) (used to show an amount, measurement of something: a gallon of petrol; five bags of coal.) mit
    8) (about: an account of his work.) von
    9) (containing: a box of chocolates.) mit
    10) (used to show a cause: She died of hunger.) an
    11) (used to show a loss or removal: She was robbed of her jewels.) Genitiv
    12) (used to show the connection between an action and its object: the smoking of a cigarette.) Genitiv
    13) (used to show character, qualities etc: a man of courage.) mit
    14) ((American) (of time) a certain number of minutes before (the hour): It's ten minutes of three.) vor
    * * *
    of
    [ɒv, əv, AM ɑ:v, əv]
    1. after n (belonging to) von + dat
    people \of this island Menschen von dieser Insel
    the language \of this country die Sprache dieses Landes
    the cause \of the disease die Krankheitsursache
    the colour \of her hair ihre Haarfarbe
    the government \of India die indische Regierung
    a friend \of mine ein Freund von mir
    smoking is the worst habit \of mine Rauchen ist meine schlimmste Angewohnheit
    this revolting dog \of hers ihr widerlicher Hund
    the smell \of roses Rosenduft m
    2. after n (expressing relationship) von + dat
    an admirer \of Picasso ein Bewunderer Picassos
    3. after n (expressing a whole's part) von + dat
    five \of her seven kids are boys fünf ihrer sieben Kinder sind Jungen
    there were ten \of us on the trip wir waren auf der Reise zu zehnt
    nine \of the children came to the show neun Kinder kamen zur Vorstellung
    can you please give me more \of the beans? könntest du mir noch etwas von den Bohnen geben?
    I don't want to hear any more \of that! ich will nichts mehr davon hören!
    he's the best-looking \of the three brothers er sieht von den drei Brüdern am besten aus
    a third \of the people ein Drittel der Leute
    the whole \of the garden der ganze Garten
    the best \of friends die besten Freunde
    the days \of the week die Wochentage
    all \of us wir alle
    all \of us were tired wir waren alle müde
    \of all von allen
    best \of all, I liked the green one am besten gefiel mir der grüne
    that \of all his films is my favourite er gefällt mir von allen seinen Filmen am besten
    both \of us wir beide
    most \of them die meisten von ihnen
    one \of the cleverest eine(r) der Schlauesten
    he's one \of the smartest \of the smart er ist einer der Klügsten unter den Klugen
    a bunch \of parsley ein Bund Petersilie nt
    a clove \of garlic eine Knoblauchzehe
    a cup \of tea eine Tasse Tee
    a drop \of rain ein Regentropfen
    hundreds \of people Hunderte von Menschen
    a kilo \of apples ein Kilo Äpfel nt
    a litre \of water ein Liter Wasser m
    a lot \of money eine Menge Geld
    a piece \of cake ein Stück Kuchen
    a pride \of lions ein Rudel Löwen [o Löwenrudel] nt
    5. after vb (consisting of) aus + dat
    the sweater is made \of the finest lambswool der Pullover ist aus feinster Schafwolle
    a land \of ice and snow ein Land aus Eis und Schnee
    dresses \of lace and silk Kleider aus Spitze und Seide
    a house \of stone ein Steinhaus, ein Haus aus Stein
    6. after n (containing) mit + dat
    a book \of short stories ein Buch mit Kurzgeschichten
    7. after adj (done by) von + dat
    that was stupid \of me das war dumm von mir
    8. after n (done to)
    the massacre \of hundreds \of innocent people das Massaker an Hunderten von Menschen
    the destruction \of the rain forest die Zerstörung des Regenwalds
    9. after n (suffered by) von + dat
    the anguish \of the murdered child's parents die Qualen der Eltern des ermordeten Kindes
    the suffering \of millions das Leiden von Millionen
    to die \of sth an etw dat sterben
    he died \of cancer er starb an Krebs
    \of one's own free will aus freien Stücken, freiwillig
    \of oneself von selbst
    she would never do such a thing \of herself so etwas würde sie nie von alleine tun
    the works \of Shakespeare die Werke Shakespeares
    she is \of noble birth sie ist adliger Abstammung
    12. after vb (concerning)
    we will notify you \of any further changes wir werden Sie über alle Änderungen informieren
    he was accused \of fraud er wurde wegen Betrugs angeklagt
    I know \of a guy who could fix that for you ich kenne jemanden, der das für dich reparieren kann
    \of her childhood, we know very little wir wissen nur sehr wenig über ihre Kindheit
    let's not speak \of this matter lass uns nicht über die Sache reden
    speaking \of sb/sth,... wo [o da] wir gerade von jdm/etw sprechen,...
    speaking \of time, do you have a watch on? da wir gerade von der Zeit reden, hast du eine Uhr?
    she's often unsure \of herself sie ist sich ihrer selbst oft nicht sicher
    I'm really appreciative \of all your help ich bin dir für all deine Hilfe wirklich dankbar
    he was worthy \of the medal er hatte die Medaille verdient
    I am certain \of that ich bin mir dessen sicher
    this is not uncharacteristic \of them das ist für sie nichts Ungewöhnliches
    to be afraid \of sb/sth vor jdm/etw Angst haben
    to be fond \of swimming gerne schwimmen
    to be jealous \of sb auf jdn eifersüchtig sein
    to be sick \of sth etw satthaben, von etw dat genug haben
    there was no warning \of the danger es gab keine Warnung vor der Gefahr
    he has a love \of music er liebt die Musik
    he's a doctor \of medicine er ist Doktor der Medizin
    the idea \of a just society die Idee einer gerechten Gesellschaft
    the memories \of her school years die Erinnerungen an ihre Schuljahre
    the pain \of separation der Trennungsschmerz
    it's a problem \of space das ist ein Raumproblem
    his promises \of loyalty seine Treueversprechen
    to be in search \of sb/sth auf der Suche nach jdm/etw sein
    she's in search \of a man sie sucht einen Mann
    thoughts \of revenge Rachegedanken pl
    ▪ what \of sb? was ist mit jdm?
    and what \of Adrian? was macht eigentlich Adrian?
    what \of it? was ist schon dabei?, na und?
    on the point [or verge] \of doing sth kurz davor [o im Begriff] sein, etw zu tun
    I'm on the point \of telling him off ich werde ihn jetzt gleich rausschmeißen
    14. after n (expressing position) von + dat
    in the back \of the car hinten im Auto
    the zipper was on the back \of the dress der Reißverschluss war hinten am Kleid
    on the corner \of the street an der Straßenecke
    on the left \of the picture links auf dem Bild
    a lake north/south \of the city ein See im Norden/Süden der Stadt
    I've never been north \of Edinburgh ich war noch nie nördlich von Edinburgh
    on the top \of his head [oben] auf seinem Kopf
    15. after n (with respect to scale) von + dat
    a rise \of 2% in inflation ein Inflationsanstieg von 2 Prozent
    the stocks experienced an average rise \of 5% die Aktien sind im Durchschnitt um 5 % gestiegen
    16. (expressing age) von + dat
    at the age \of six im Alter von sechs Jahren
    he's a man \of about 50 er ist um die 50 Jahre alt
    17. after n (denoting example of category)
    I hate this kind \of party ich hasse diese Art von Party
    the city \of Prague die Stadt Prag
    18. after n (typical of)
    she has the face \of an angel sie hat ein Gesicht wie ein Engel
    the grace \of a dancer die Anmut einer Tänzerin
    the love \of a good woman die Liebe einer guten Frau
    she gave a scream \of terror sie stieß einen Schrei des Entsetzens aus
    a man \of honour ein Mann von Ehre
    a moment \of silence ein Moment m der Stille
    I want a few minutes \of quiet! ich will ein paar Minuten Ruhe!
    a subject \of very little interest ein sehr wenig beachtetes Thema
    a woman \of great charm and beauty eine Frau von großer Wärme und Schönheit
    20. after n (away from) von + dat
    we live within a mile \of the city centre wir wohnen eine Meile vom Stadtzentrum entfernt
    she came within two seconds \of beating the world record sie hat den Weltrekord nur um zwei Sekunden verfehlt
    21. after n (in time phrases)
    I got married back in June \of 1957 ich habe im Juni 1957 geheiratet
    the eleventh \of March der elfte März
    the first \of the month der erste [Tag] des Monats
    the most memorable events \of the past decade die wichtigsten Ereignisse des letzten Jahrzehnts
    22. after vb (expressing removal)
    they were robbed \of all their savings ihnen wurden alle Ersparnisse geraubt
    I've him \of that nasty little habit ich habe ihm diese dumme Angewohnheit abgewöhnt
    his mother had deprived him \of love seine Mutter hat ihm ihre Liebe vorenthalten
    to get rid \of sb jdn loswerden
    the room was devoid \of all furnishings der Raum war ganz ohne Möbel
    free \of charge kostenlos, SCHWEIZ, ÖSTERR meist gratis
    23. after n (apposition) von + dat
    this complete idiot \of a man dieser Vollidiot
    the month \of June der Monat Juni
    the name \of Brown der Name Brown
    24. ( dated: during) an + dat
    she died \of a Sunday morning sie starb an einem Sonntagmorgen
    I like to relax with my favourite book \of an evening ich entspanne mich abends gerne mit meinem Lieblingsbuch
    \of late in letzter Zeit
    25. AM (to) vor
    it's quarter \of five es ist viertel vor fünf [o BRD drei viertel fünf
    26.
    ▶ \of all gerade
    Jane, \of all people, is the last one I'd expect to see at the club gerade Jane ist die letzte, die ich in dem Klub erwartet hätte
    I can't understand why you live in Ireland, \of all places ich kann nicht verstehen, warum du ausgerechnet in Irland lebst
    today \of all days ausgerechnet heute
    ▶ \of all the cheek [or nerve] das ist doch die Höhe!
    ▶ to be \of sth:
    she is \of the opinion that doctors are only out to experiment sie glaubt, Ärzte möchten nur herumexperimentieren
    this work is \of great interest and value diese Arbeit ist sehr wichtig und wertvoll
    * * *
    [ɒv, əv]
    prep
    1) (indicating possession or relation) von (+dat), use of gen

    the wife of the doctor — die Frau des Arztes, die Frau vom Arzt

    a friend of ours — ein Freund/eine Freundin von uns

    a painting of the Queen — ein Gemälde nt der or von der Königin

    the first of the month — der Erste (des Monats), der Monatserste

    it is very kind of you —

    it was nasty of him to say that — es war gemein von ihm, das zu sagen

    2)

    (indicating separation in space or time) south of Paris — südlich von Paris

    3)

    (indicating cause) he died of poison/cancer — er starb an Gift/Krebs

    he died of hunger — er verhungerte, er starb hungers

    4)

    (indicating deprivation, riddance) he was cured of the illness — er wurde von der Krankheit geheilt

    dress made of wool — Wollkleid nt, Kleid nt aus Wolle

    6)

    (indicating quality, identity etc) house of ten rooms — Haus nt mit zehn Zimmern

    man of courage — mutiger Mensch, Mensch m mit Mut

    girl of ten — zehnjähriges Mädchen, Mädchen nt von zehn Jahren

    7)

    (objective genitive) fear of God — Gottesfurcht f

    he is a leader of men —

    8)

    (subjective genitive) love of God for man — Liebe Gottes zu den Menschen

    9)

    (partitive genitive) the whole of the house — das ganze Haus

    there were six of us — wir waren zu sechst, wir waren sechs

    he asked the six of us to lunch — er lud uns sechs zum Mittagessen ein

    the bravest of the brave —

    he drank of the wine (liter) — er trank von dem Weine (liter)

    10)

    (= concerning) what do you think of him? — was halten Sie von ihm?

    11) (obs, liter

    = by) forsaken of men — von allen verlassen

    12)

    (in temporal phrases) he's become very quiet of late — er ist letztlich or seit Neuestem so ruhig geworden

    * * *
    of [ɒv; əv; US əv; ɑv] präp
    1. allg von
    the tail of the dog der Schwanz des Hundes;
    the tail of a dog der oder ein Hundeschwanz;
    the folly of his action die Dummheit seiner Handlung
    3. Ort: bei:
    4. Entfernung, Trennung, Befreiung:
    a) von:
    south of London südlich von London;
    within ten miles of London im Umkreis von 10 Meilen um London;
    cure (rid) of sth von etwas heilen (befreien)
    b) (gen) he was robbed of his wallet er wurde seiner Brieftasche beraubt, ihm wurde die Brieftasche geraubt
    c) um:
    5. Herkunft: von, aus:
    of good family aus einer guten Familie;
    Mr X of London Mr. X aus London
    6. Teil: von oder gen:
    a friend of mine ein Freund von mir, einer meiner Freunde;
    that red nose of his seine rote Nase
    7. Eigenschaft: von, mit:
    a man of courage ein mutiger Mann, ein Mann mit Mut;
    a man of no importance ein unbedeutender Mensch;
    a fool of a man ein (ausgemachter) Narr
    8. Stoff: aus, von:
    a dress of silk ein Kleid aus oder von Seide, ein Seidenkleid;
    (made) of steel aus Stahl (hergestellt), stählern, Stahl…
    9. Urheberschaft, Art und Weise: von:
    of o.s. von selbst, von sich aus;
    he has a son of his first marriage er hat einen Sohn aus erster Ehe
    10. Ursache, Grund:
    a) von, an (dat):
    die of cancer an Krebs sterben
    b) aus:
    c) vor (dat): → academic.ru/1052/afraid">afraid
    d) auf (akk):
    e) über (akk):
    f) nach:
    11. Beziehung: hinsichtlich (gen):
    it is true of every case das trifft in jedem Fall zu
    12. Thema:
    a) von, über (akk):
    b) an (akk):
    13. Apposition, im Deutschen nicht ausgedrückt:
    a) the city of London die Stadt London;
    the month of April der Monat April
    b) Maß:
    a piece of meat ein Stück Fleisch
    a) zu:
    b) vor (dat): → fear A 3
    c) bei:
    an audience of the king eine Audienz beim König
    15. Zeit:
    a) umg an (dat), in (dat):
    of an evening eines Abends;
    of late years in den letzten Jahren
    b) von:
    your letter of March 3rd Ihr Schreiben vom 3. März
    * * *
    preposition
    1) (indicating belonging, connection, possession)

    a friend of mine/the vicar's — ein Freund von mir/des Pfarrers

    3) (indicating origin, cause)

    it was clever of you to do that — es war klug von dir, das zu tun

    be made of... — aus... [hergestellt] sein

    5) (indicating closer definition, identity, or contents)

    increase of 10 % — Zuwachs/Erhöhung von zehn Prozent

    battle of Hastings — Schlacht von od. bei Hastings

    your letter of 2 January — Ihr Brief vom 2. Januar

    be of value/interest to — von Nutzen/von Interesse od. interessant sein für

    the whole of... — der/die/das ganze...

    6) (indicating concern, reference)

    well, what of it? — (asked as reply) na und?

    8) (indicating description, quality, condition)
    9) (indicating classification, selection) von

    he of all men — (most unsuitably) ausgerechnet er; (especially) gerade er

    of an evening — (coll.) abends

    * * *
    prep.
    aus präp.
    von präp.
    vor präp.
    über präp.

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  • 3 Philosophy

       And what I believe to be more important here is that I find in myself an infinity of ideas of certain things which cannot be assumed to be pure nothingness, even though they may have perhaps no existence outside of my thought. These things are not figments of my imagination, even though it is within my power to think of them or not to think of them; on the contrary, they have their own true and immutable natures. Thus, for example, when I imagine a triangle, even though there may perhaps be no such figure anywhere in the world outside of my thought, nor ever have been, nevertheless the figure cannot help having a certain determinate nature... or essence, which is immutable and eternal, which I have not invented and which does not in any way depend upon my mind. (Descartes, 1951, p. 61)
       Let us console ourselves for not knowing the possible connections between a spider and the rings of Saturn, and continue to examine what is within our reach. (Voltaire, 1961, p. 144)
       As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of "mind" with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l'esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part. (Koestler, 1964, p. 148)
       It has been made of late a reproach against natural philosophy that it has struck out on a path of its own, and has separated itself more and more widely from the other sciences which are united by common philological and historical studies. The opposition has, in fact, been long apparent, and seems to me to have grown up mainly under the influence of the Hegelian philosophy, or, at any rate, to have been brought out into more distinct relief by that philosophy.... The sole object of Kant's "Critical Philosophy" was to test the sources and the authority of our knowledge, and to fix a definite scope and standard for the researches of philosophy, as compared with other sciences.... [But Hegel's] "Philosophy of Identity" was bolder. It started with the hypothesis that not only spiritual phenomena, but even the actual world-nature, that is, and man-were the result of an act of thought on the part of a creative mind, similar, it was supposed, in kind to the human mind.... The philosophers accused the scientific men of narrowness; the scientific men retorted that the philosophers were crazy. And so it came about that men of science began to lay some stress on the banishment of all philosophic influences from their work; while some of them, including men of the greatest acuteness, went so far as to condemn philosophy altogether, not merely as useless, but as mischievous dreaming. Thus, it must be confessed, not only were the illegitimate pretensions of the Hegelian system to subordinate to itself all other studies rejected, but no regard was paid to the rightful claims of philosophy, that is, the criticism of the sources of cognition, and the definition of the functions of the intellect. (Helmholz, quoted in Dampier, 1966, pp. 291-292)
       Philosophy remains true to its classical tradition by renouncing it. (Habermas, 1972, p. 317)
       I have not attempted... to put forward any grand view of the nature of philosophy; nor do I have any such grand view to put forth if I would. It will be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the history of "howlers" and progress in philosophy as the debunking of howlers. It will also be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the enterprise of putting forward a priori truths about the world.... I see philosophy as a field which has certain central questions, for example, the relation between thought and reality.... It seems obvious that in dealing with these questions philosophers have formulated rival research programs, that they have put forward general hypotheses, and that philosophers within each major research program have modified their hypotheses by trial and error, even if they sometimes refuse to admit that that is what they are doing. To that extent philosophy is a "science." To argue about whether philosophy is a science in any more serious sense seems to me to be hardly a useful occupation.... It does not seem to me important to decide whether science is philosophy or philosophy is science as long as one has a conception of both that makes both essential to a responsible view of the world and of man's place in it. (Putnam, 1975, p. xvii)
       What can philosophy contribute to solving the problem of the relation [of] mind to body? Twenty years ago, many English-speaking philosophers would have answered: "Nothing beyond an analysis of the various mental concepts." If we seek knowledge of things, they thought, it is to science that we must turn. Philosophy can only cast light upon our concepts of those things.
       This retreat from things to concepts was not undertaken lightly. Ever since the seventeenth century, the great intellectual fact of our culture has been the incredible expansion of knowledge both in the natural and in the rational sciences (mathematics, logic).
       The success of science created a crisis in philosophy. What was there for philosophy to do? Hume had already perceived the problem in some degree, and so surely did Kant, but it was not until the twentieth century, with the Vienna Circle and with Wittgenstein, that the difficulty began to weigh heavily. Wittgenstein took the view that philosophy could do no more than strive to undo the intellectual knots it itself had tied, so achieving intellectual release, and even a certain illumination, but no knowledge. A little later, and more optimistically, Ryle saw a positive, if reduced role, for philosophy in mapping the "logical geography" of our concepts: how they stood to each other and how they were to be analyzed....
       Since that time, however, philosophers in the "analytic" tradition have swung back from Wittgensteinian and even Rylean pessimism to a more traditional conception of the proper role and tasks of philosophy. Many analytic philosophers now would accept the view that the central task of philosophy is to give an account, or at least play a part in giving an account, of the most general nature of things and of man. (Armstrong, 1990, pp. 37-38)
       8) Philosophy's Evolving Engagement with Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
       In the beginning, the nature of philosophy's engagement with artificial intelligence and cognitive science was clear enough. The new sciences of the mind were to provide the long-awaited vindication of the most potent dreams of naturalism and materialism. Mind would at last be located firmly within the natural order. We would see in detail how the most perplexing features of the mental realm could be supported by the operations of solely physical laws upon solely physical stuff. Mental causation (the power of, e.g., a belief to cause an action) would emerge as just another species of physical causation. Reasoning would be understood as a kind of automated theorem proving. And the key to both was to be the depiction of the brain as the implementation of multiple higher level programs whose task was to manipulate and transform symbols or representations: inner items with one foot in the physical (they were realized as brain states) and one in the mental (they were bearers of contents, and their physical gymnastics were cleverly designed to respect semantic relationships such as truth preservation). (A. Clark, 1996, p. 1)
       Socrates of Athens famously declared that "the unexamined life is not worth living," and his motto aptly explains the impulse to philosophize. Taking nothing for granted, philosophy probes and questions the fundamental presuppositions of every area of human inquiry.... [P]art of the job of the philosopher is to keep at a certain critical distance from current doctrines, whether in the sciences or the arts, and to examine instead how the various elements in our world-view clash, or fit together. Some philosophers have tried to incorporate the results of these inquiries into a grand synoptic view of the nature of reality and our human relationship to it. Others have mistrusted system-building, and seen their primary role as one of clarifications, or the removal of obstacles along the road to truth. But all have shared the Socratic vision of using the human intellect to challenge comfortable preconceptions, insisting that every aspect of human theory and practice be subjected to continuing critical scrutiny....
       Philosophy is, of course, part of a continuing tradition, and there is much to be gained from seeing how that tradition originated and developed. But the principal object of studying the materials in this book is not to pay homage to past genius, but to enrich one's understanding of central problems that are as pressing today as they have always been-problems about knowledge, truth and reality, the nature of the mind, the basis of right action, and the best way to live. These questions help to mark out the territory of philosophy as an academic discipline, but in a wider sense they define the human predicament itself; they will surely continue to be with us for as long as humanity endures. (Cottingham, 1996, pp. xxi-xxii)
       In his study of ancient Greek culture, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche drew what would become a famous distinction, between the Dionysian spirit, the untamed spirit of art and creativity, and the Apollonian, that of reason and self-control. The story of Greek civilization, and all civilizations, Nietzsche implied, was the gradual victory of Apollonian man, with his desire for control over nature and himself, over Dionysian man, who survives only in myth, poetry, music, and drama. Socrates and Plato had attacked the illusions of art as unreal, and had overturned the delicate cultural balance by valuing only man's critical, rational, and controlling consciousness while denigrating his vital life instincts as irrational and base. The result of this division is "Alexandrian man," the civilized and accomplished Greek citizen of the later ancient world, who is "equipped with the greatest forces of knowledge" but in whom the wellsprings of creativity have dried up. (Herman, 1997, pp. 95-96)

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  • 4 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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    [set] 1. гл.; прош. вр., прич. прош. вр. set
    1)
    а) ставить, класть

    She set a tray down on the table. — Она поставила поднос на стол.

    I set the basket against the door. — Я поставил корзину рядом с дверью.

    He set down his knife and fork. — Он отложил нож и вилку.

    Why don't you set your chair forward to get a better view? — Почему бы тебе не придвинуть стул немного вперёд, чтобы лучше видеть?

    The chair was set apart from the others for the special guest. — Один стул поставили отдельно, для особого гостя.

    She was reading a book, but set it by when the telephone rang. — Она читала книгу, но отложила её, когда зазвонил телефон.

    Syn:
    put 1., place 2.
    б) обычно страд. размещать, располагать

    a medieval village set high on a hill — средневековая деревушка, расположенная на высоком холме

    The house is set in fifty acres of parkland. — Дом располагается на территории в пятьдесят акров, посреди парка.

    в) разворачиваться, происходить (о действии книги, фильма или спектакля)

    The novel is set in London in the 1960s. — Действие романа разворачивается в Лондоне 1960-х годов.

    2) сажать, усаживать
    Syn:
    seat 2.

    to set smth. on end — поставить что-л. вверх ногами, поставить на попа

    to set smth. upright — поднять что-л. вертикально, поставить стоймя

    а) настраивать против (кого-л. / чего-л.)

    What have I ever done to set her against me? — Что же я такого сделал, что она так настроена против меня?

    б) быть категорически против (чего-л.), противиться (чему-л.)

    Mary's father was set against the marriage from the beginning. — Отец Мэри с самого начала был против этой свадьбы.

    to set smb. free — освобождать кого-л.

    to set a match to smth. — поджечь что-л. (спичкой)

    to set smb. laughing — рассмешить кого-л.

    to set smb. loose — отпустить кого-л.

    to set smth. on fire — поджечь что-л.; предать что-л. огню

    My age sets me beyond your cruelty. (W. Scott, The Castle Dangerous, 1831) — Мой возраст позволяет мне не бояться вашей жестокости.

    The leg should be set under anesthesia. — Ногу нужно обезболить.

    The news set her heart beating. — При этом известии у неё забилось сердце.

    The answer set the audience in a roar. — Услышав ответ, все присутствующие разразились хохотом.

    I must set the living room straight before the visitors arrive. — Я должен сделать уборку в комнате до приезда гостей.

    - set at bay
    - set at odds
    - set at ease
    - set at large
    - set in motion
    - set in operation
    - set in order
    - set smth. to rights
    - set smth. afoot
    - set aflame
    6) устанавливать, приводить в нужное положение, состояние (механизм, устройство); регулировать

    In spring we usually set the clocks ahead one hour. — Весной мы обычно переводим стрелки на час вперёд.

    My watch was fast so I set it back three minutes. — Мои часы спешили, поэтому я перевёл их на три минуты назад.

    She set the camera on automatic. — Она установила камеру на автоматический режим.

    Set the alarm for 7 o'clock. — Поставь будильник на 7 часов.

    Syn:
    7) укладывать ( волосы), делать укладку
    8)
    б) класть, помещать, ставить (еду, напитки)

    The table was set with refreshments. — Стол был уставлен закусками и напитками.

    9)
    а) оправлять, вставлять в оправу ( драгоценные камни)

    She had the sapphire set in a gold ring. — Она вставила свой сапфир в золотое кольцо.

    б) украшать, обрамлять ( драгоценными камнями)

    Her crown is set with precious jewels. — Её корона украшена драгоценными камнями.

    10) положить ( текст) на музыку, сочинить ( музыку) к тексту

    Schubert set many poems to music. — Шуберт положил на музыку множество стихотворений.

    11) ставить ( печать), скреплять ( печатью)
    12)
    а) = set down назначать, устанавливать, определять

    A price was set upon the head of the Prince. — За голову принца была назначена цена.

    The rate of interest is set at 111/2%. — Процентная ставка установлена в размере 111/2%.

    These price limits are set down by the government. — Ценовые ограничения установлены правительством.

    The limits of our nature are set, and we can never cross them. — Человеческая природа имеет свои пределы, и мы никогда не сможем преодолеть их.

    We have to set measures to our spending if we are to save for our old age. — Коль скоро нужно откладывать на старость, мы должны ограничить себя в тратах.

    б) = set down предписывать, устанавливать (правила, регламент и т. п.); формулировать ( закон)

    When our rules are once set, no Governor should offer to alter them. — Когда законы установлены, ни один правитель не должен пытаться их изменить.

    We had to set down rules for the behaviour of the members. — Мы должны были выработать правила поведения для членов организации.

    The law sets down that speed limits must be obeyed. — Закон гласит, что необходимо соблюдать ограничения скорости.

    в) страд. быть решённым, определённым, установленным
    13) ( set over) назначать (кого-л.) начальником, ставить (кого-л.) над (кем-л. / чем-л.)

    I've not been happy in the company since a new director was set over me. — Мне стало неуютно работать в этой компании с тех пор, как надо мной поставили нового начальника.

    14)
    а) оценивать, давать оценку

    After setting a just value upon others, I must next set it on myself. — После того, как я даю справедливую оценку другим, я должен затем оценить самого себя.

    I set her age at 33. — Я думал, что ей года тридцать три.

    His income can probably be set at $80,000 a year. — Его доход составляет приблизительно восемьдесят тысяч долларов в год.

    б) (set against / beside) сравнивать с (кем-л. / чем-л.)

    Setting the results against those of the last election, we can see a clear improvement. — Если сравнить нынешние результаты с результатами предыдущих выборов, можно увидеть значительное улучшение.

    We must set the cost against the advantages of the new invention. — Мы должны установить цену в соответствии с преимуществами нового изобретения.

    Money seems unimportant when set beside the joys of family life. — Деньги кажутся ничего не значащими по сравнению с радостями семейной жизни.

    15) расценивать (каким-л. образом), считать

    to set at defiance / naught / nought — ни во что не ставить, презирать

    to set smb. / smth. above smb. / smth. — считать (кого-л. / что-л.) важнее (кого-л. /чего-л.), ставить выше

    Tradition sets Wycliffe's birth in the year 1324. — Традиционно годом рождения Уиклифа считается 1324-й.

    Mother sets the needs of the family above her own interests. — Мама ставит интересы семьи выше своих собственных.

    16) ( set before) представлять, предлагать (кому-л.) на рассмотрение (факты, идею, предложение)

    Your suggestion will be set before the board of directors at their next meeting. — Ваше предложение будет обсуждаться на следующем заседании совета директоров.

    Syn:
    17) = set down назначать ( время)

    Two o'clock had been the hour set for the wedding. — Венчание было назначено на два часа.

    The club's opening day is set for April 22. — День открытия клуба назначен на 22 апреля.

    The trial has been set down for 13 April. — Слушания были назначены на 13 апреля.

    18) подавать ( пример); вводить (моду, стиль); создавать ( прецедент)

    to set a good / bad example to smb. — показывать хороший / дурной пример кому-л.

    His photographs set the standard for landscapes. — Его снимки стали эталоном пейзажной фотографии.

    The Genoese and Venetians set the models of these vessels. — Эти модели судов были впервые введены генуэзцами и венецианцами.

    19)
    а) ставить (задачу, цель и т. п.)

    I shall not set him anything to do. — Я не буду ставить перед ним никаких задач.

    б) брит. задавать (работу, задание и т. п.)

    to set smb. a (very) difficult / easy paper — предложить (очень) трудную / лёгкую контрольную (работу)

    The master was in the habit of setting lessons for the children to work upon at home after school hours. — Учитель обычно задавал детям уроки, которые они должны были делать дома после занятий.

    в) предлагать, предписывать (книгу, учебник и т. п.) для экзамена, курса обучения
    г) брит. готовить, составлять вопросы к экзамену

    The head teacher sets the questions for the English exam. — Директор школы готовит вопросы к экзамену по английскому языку.

    д) ( set before) предлагать (что-л. на выбор)

    The government has set two choices before the voter: to control wages and prices, or to suffer further increases in the cost of living. — Правительство поставило избирателей перед дилеммой: или регулирование зарплат и цен, или дальнейшее повышение прожиточного минимума.

    20) подносить, приближать
    21)
    а) направлять, сосредоточивать (мысль, волю, желание и т. п.)

    to set one's brain on / to smth. — сосредоточить мысль на чём-л.

    Tony tried to set his brain to listening. — Тони изо всех сил старался слушать.

    б) ( set to) = set oneself to засесть за ( работу), взяться, приняться за (что-л.)

    Find a spade and set to, there's a lot of work to do in the garden. — Возьми-ка лопату и принимайся за дело, в саду надо много сделать.

    22)
    а) дать затвердеть, схватиться (цементу, бетону, гипсу и т. п.)
    б) затвердевать, застывать; делаться густым, прочным; схватываться

    Leave the concrete to set for a few hours. — Оставьте бетон застывать на несколько часов.

    Let the pudding set. — Пусть пудинг затвердеет.

    Syn:
    23) становиться неподвижным (о лице, взгляде и т. п.)

    Her features had set themselves in sorrow. — Лицо её застыло в глубокой печали.

    24)
    а) стискивать, сжимать (зубы, губы)
    Syn:
    б) сжиматься, стискиваться (о зубах, губах)

    Helen's mouth set itself firmly as she thought of it. — Губы Элен плотно сжались, когда она вспомнила об этом.

    25) напрягаться, твердеть ( о мускулах)
    26)

    Dogs' bones soon set. — Кости у собак быстро срастаются.

    27) полигр.; = set up набирать

    We can't change any wording once the article is set up. — После того, как статья набрана, мы не можем изменить в ней ни слова.

    28)
    а) = set out высаживать ( саженцы), высевать ( семена)

    The young plants should be set out three inches apart. — Молодые растения надо высаживать, оставляя между ними промежутки в три дюйма.

    б) завязываться (о цветах, плодах)
    29) сажать ( хлеб) в печь
    30) поднимать, ставить ( паруса)

    There was no more canvas on the ship to set. — На судне больше не осталось парусов, которые можно было бы поставить.

    When under full sail this vessel sets 45,000 square feet of canvas. — На полном ходу это судно использует 45000 квадратных футов парусов.

    31) садиться, заходить (о солнце, луне); приближаться к закату, к концу (о жизни, славе и т. п.)

    His star has set. — Его звезда закатилась.

    Syn:
    decline 1., wane 2.
    32) определиться с направлением (о течении, ветре)
    33) уст. устанавливаться ( о погоде)

    The nights set very cold. — Ночи стали очень холодными.

    34)
    а) нести, увлекать в определённом направлении

    A breeze sprung up from the south-east, and set the ice so rapidly upon us. — С юго-востока налетел ветер и быстро погнал на нас льдины.

    б) иметь (определённую) тенденцию, направленность

    Her ambition did not set in the direction indicated. — Её стремления простирались в совсем другом направлении, нежели то, что было для неё намечено.

    в) направлять, поворачивать; вести

    He knew the path and could set us on it. — Он знал тропу и мог вести нас по ней.

    35)
    а) ( set on) натравливать, науськивать

    I'll set my dog on you if you don't leave at once! — Я на тебя своего пса спущу, если ты немедленно не уберёшься!

    They set dogs on us as though we were rats. — Они натравливали на нас собак, как будто мы были крысами.

    б) (set about / on) разг. напасть на (кого-л.); завязать драку с (кем-л.)

    The girl was set on by a thief in the park. — На девушку в парке напал грабитель.

    The three men set about him with their hands and boots. — На него напали три человека и начали бить руками и ногами.

    36) танцевать, повернувшись лицом к партнёру

    Set to your partner. — Повернитесь лицом к партнёру.

    37)
    б) сажать ( курицу) на яйца
    39) мор. пеленговать
    40) стр. производить кладку
    41) уст. размещать, расставлять (часовых, охрану и т. п.)

    How came he to leave the Castle after the watch was set? — Как ему удалось выбраться из замка, после того как была выставлена охрана?

    42) уст. вонзать (оружие, шпоры и т. п.)
    43) уст. точить (острые инструменты, особенно бритву); разводить ( пилу)
    44) диал.; ирон. подходить, соответствовать, быть к лицу
    Syn:
    •
    - set ahead
    - set apart
    - set aside
    - set back
    - set by
    - set down
    - set forth
    - set forward
    - set in
    - set off
    - set on
    - set out
    - set to
    - set up
    ••

    to set up home / house — зажить отдельно, своим домом

    to set one's face / countenance — придать лицу какое-л. выражение

    to set people by the ears / at variance / at loggerheads — ссорить, натравливать людей друг на друга

    to set a beggar on horseback — давать недостойному лицу преимущества, которыми он злоупотребит

    to set a finger / hand on smb. — тронуть кого-л. (пальцем); поднять на кого-л. руку; причинить кому-л. вред

    to set on foot — пустить в ход, организовать (что-л.)

    to set smb. on his / her feet — поставить кого-л. на ноги; помочь кому-л. в делах

    to set one's hopes on smb. / smth. — возлагать надежды на кого-л. / что-л.

    to set great / much store on smth. — высоко ставить что-л., глубоко ценить что-л.

    to set little store on smth. — низко ставить что-л., ни во что не ставить, не ценить что-л.

    to set smb. in mind of smb. / smth. — напомнить кому-л. о ком-л. / чём-л.

    This man will never set the Thames on fire. — Этот человек пороха не выдумает.

    - set one's mind on smth.
    - set smb.'s back up
    - set right
    - set straight
    - set the seal on smth.     2. сущ.
    1)
    а) комплект, набор; коллекция

    chemistry set — набор для детей "Юный химик"

    a set of false teeth — вставная челюсть, вставные зубы

    to break (up) a set — разрознить, нарушить комплект

    A complete set of Balzac's works, twenty-seven volumes. — Полное собрание сочинений Бальзака в двадцати семи томах.

    He perused the antiquated sets of newspapers. — Он внимательно читал подшивки старых газет.

    2)
    а) ряд, серия

    a set of notions — совокупность понятий, свод понятий

    б) мат.; лог. множество
    3)
    а) компания, круг, общество; неодобр. клика

    He got in with a wild set at college. — В колледже он попал в дурную компанию

    б) банда, шайка

    She's in the top set for French. — Она попала в группу самых успевающих по французскому языку.

    4)
    а) иск.; = setting декорации
    Syn:
    б) кино съёмочная площадка

    The cast must all be on (the) set by 7 in the morning. — Актёры должны быть на съёмочной площадке не позднее семи часов утра.

    5) сет (в теннисе, волейболе)
    6)
    б) серия песен или композиций, исполняемых музыкантом или группой во время концерта ( в джазе и поп-музыке)

    television / TV set — телевизор

    A shampoo and set costs £15. — Шампунь и укладка стоят 15 фунтов.

    9)
    а) очертания, линии ( тела); черты ( лица)

    He admired the set of her shoulders. — Он любовался изгибом её плеч.

    Her eyes still seemed to be closed, but there were subtle differences in the set of her face. — Её глаза были по-прежнему закрыты, но в чертах лица можно было заметить небольшую перемену.

    б) посадка; расположение

    I don't like the set of his coat. — Мне не нравится, как на нём сидит пальто.

    10)
    а) направление (течения, ветра)

    A feather will show you the direction of the wind; a straw will prove the set of a current. — Перо укажет вам направление ветра, а соломинка – направление течения.

    б) склонность, тенденция
    Syn:
    в) психол. настрой, направленность, установка

    Danger arouses a set of the nervous system towards escape. — Опасность вызывает установку нервной системы на избежание угрозы.

    11) поэт. заход, закат (о небесных светилах; употребляется только в ед. ч.)

    the set of day — конец дня, время захода солнца

    12)
    а) саженец; черенок
    б) клубни, посадочный материал
    13) = sett II
    14) = sett I
    15) стр. схватывание, затвердевание ( цемента)

    to take a set — затвердеть, схватиться

    Removal of water results in the time of set being reduced. — Удаление воды приводит к тому, что время затвердевания сокращается.

    16)
    а) тех. развод зубьев пилы; ширина развода
    б) полигр. ширина знака
    ••
    3. прил.
    1)
    а) (заранее) установленный, определённый; назначенный, намеченный

    There's no set time limit on this. — Время исполнения этой работы жёстко не ограничено.

    Each person was given set jobs to do. — Каждому человеку были поручены (чётко) определённые задачи.

    Syn:
    б) фиксированный, установленный (о доходах, ценах)
    Syn:
    в) твёрдый, устойчивый, неизменный (о мнениях, суждениях и т. п.)

    set ideas / opinions / views — неизменные, косные представления, мнения, взгляды

    set expressions — устойчивые выражения, речевые клише

    to be set in one's ways — быть твёрдым в своих убеждениях, взглядах

    As people get older, they get set in their ways. — С годами люди приобретают твёрдые взгляды и неизменные привычки, становятся менее гибкими.

    Our religious system has no set form of liturgy. — Наша религиозная система не имеет установленной формы церковной службы.

    Syn:
    г) брит. предлагаемый по фиксированной цене и имеющий ограниченный ассортимент ( о еде в отелях и ресторанах)

    set lunch / dinner — обед по фиксированной цене ( с ограниченным выбором блюд)

    set menu — меню блюд, предлагаемых по фиксированной цене

    2) брит. обязательный ( об учебном материале)

    set book / text — обязательная книга / обязательный текст ( для прочтения к экзамену)

    3)
    а) разг. ((up)on / for) готовый, полный решимости, горящий желанием (сделать что-л.)

    Nina's set on going to the party. — Нина твёрдо решила пойти на вечеринку.

    Be set to leave by 10 o'clock. — Приготовьтесь отправляться в десять часов.

    All set, boys? Let's go. — Всё готово, ребята? Пошли.

    John is set on playing football for England. — Джон твёрдо решил, что будет выступать в английской национальной сборной по футболу.

    Syn:
    б) ( against) = dead set решительно настроенный против (чего-л.)

    Why are you so dead set against the idea? — Почему ты принимаешь эту идею в штыки? / Почему ты так сопротивляешься этой идее?

    в) уст. твёрдый, упорный; упрямый

    "You are a terribly set person," she said, after she had consented to let him have his own way. — "Ты ужасно упрямый человек", - сказала она, согласившись с его условиями.

    Syn:
    4)
    а) неподвижный, застывший (о лице, улыбке)

    His face took on a set expression. — Его лицо приняло застывшее выражение.

    Syn:

    "Damn you," he said through set teeth. — "Чтоб тебя!" - процедил он сквозь зубы.

    5) встроенный, вделанный, укреплённый
    Syn:
    6) уст. тщательно обдуманный, намеренный, умышленный

    He did it of set purpose. — Он сделал это умышленно.

    Syn:
    7) уст. формальный, официальный

    It is not a set party, but one without full dress or ceremony. — Это будет неофициальный приём без парадной одежды и церемоний.

    Syn:

    Англо-русский современный словарь > set

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    əv
    1) (belonging to: a friend of mine.) av
    2) (away from (a place etc); after (a given time): within five miles of London; within a year of his death.) fra, etter
    3) (written etc by: the plays of Shakespeare.) av
    4) (belonging to or forming a group: He is one of my friends.) av
    5) (showing: a picture of my father.) av
    6) (made from; consisting of: a dress of silk; a collection of pictures.) av
    7) (used to show an amount, measurement of something: a gallon of petrol; five bags of coal.) med, à
    8) (about: an account of his work.) om
    9) (containing: a box of chocolates.) med, av
    10) (used to show a cause: She died of hunger.) av, fra
    11) (used to show a loss or removal: She was robbed of her jewels.) fra-, av
    12) (used to show the connection between an action and its object: the smoking of a cigarette.) av
    13) (used to show character, qualities etc: a man of courage.) med, av
    14) ((American) (of time) a certain number of minutes before (the hour): It's ten minutes of three.) på, før
    om
    prep. \/ɒv\/, trykksvakəv\/ eller \/v\/, foran ubetont konsonant: \/f\/
    2) (etter et tall eller bestemmelsesfaktor, av og til uten oversettelse til norsk) med, om, av, blant
    • would you like a cup of tea?
    3) ( om retning eller sted) fra, for
    • have you met Professor Smith of Cambridge?
    han er en romanforfatter fra det 18. århundre
    • in the opinion of the teachers, this is wrong
    6) (om forholdet mellom et verb og et etterfølgende objekt der verbet uttrykker en mental eller abstrakt tilstand) fra, etter, om, på
    • just think of the consequences!
    • the sales will decrease of 5%
    salget vil gå ned med 5%
    9) (om alder, av og til uten oversettelse på norsk) på
    11) (om dato, årstid, navn eller tittel, av og til uten oversettelse på norsk) på
    • he's the governor of St. Helena
    han er guvernøren på St. Helena
    12) (om personlig egenskap, av og til uten oversettelse på norsk) på
    13) ( om sammenligning) til, av
    • he has one merit, that of being honest
    han har ett fortrinn, nemlig det å være ærlig
    15) (i visse tidsuttrykk, litterært) på, om
    • what do you do of Sundays?
    16) (amer., om klokkeslett) på
    be of delta i, være med i, tilhøre
    of late i det siste
    i de siste årene\/i de senere år
    of oneself av seg selv, frivillig

    English-Norwegian dictionary > of

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    əv
    1) (belonging to: a friend of mine.) de
    2) (away from (a place etc); after (a given time): within five miles of London; within a year of his death.) de
    3) (written etc by: the plays of Shakespeare.) de
    4) (belonging to or forming a group: He is one of my friends.) de
    5) (showing: a picture of my father.) de
    6) (made from; consisting of: a dress of silk; a collection of pictures.) de
    7) (used to show an amount, measurement of something: a gallon of petrol; five bags of coal.) de
    8) (about: an account of his work.) de
    9) (containing: a box of chocolates.) de
    10) (used to show a cause: She died of hunger.) de
    11) (used to show a loss or removal: She was robbed of her jewels.) de
    12) (used to show the connection between an action and its object: the smoking of a cigarette.) de
    13) (used to show character, qualities etc: a man of courage.) de
    14) ((American) (of time) a certain number of minutes before (the hour): It's ten minutes of three.) menos
    of prep
    1. de
    2.
    of
    tr[ɒv, ʊnstressed əv]
    4 (showing a part, a quantity) de
    6 (dates, distance) de
    8 (by) de
    9 (originating from, living in) de
    11 (cause) de
    13 (with, having) de
    of ['ʌv, 'ɑv] prep
    1) from: de
    a man of the city: un hombre de la ciudad
    a woman of great ability: una mujer de gran capacidad
    he died of the flu: murió de la gripe
    4) by: de
    the works of Shakespeare: las obras de Shakespeare
    5) (indicating contents, material, or quantity) : de
    a house of wood: una casa de madera
    a glass of water: un vaso de agua
    the front of the house: el frente de la casa
    7) about: sobre, de
    tales of the West: los cuentos del Oeste
    the city of Caracas: la ciudad de Caracas
    9) for: por, a
    love of country: amor por la patria
    five minutes of ten: las diez menos cinco
    the eighth of April: el ocho de abril
    of
    prep.
    • de prep.
    • menos prep.
    ɑːv, ɒv, weak form əv
    1) (indicating relationship, material, content) de

    it's made of wood — es de madera, está hecho de madera

    a colleague of mine/his — un colega mío/suyo

    3)
    b) ( with superl) de
    4)

    it's ten (minutes) of five — (AmE) son las cinco menos diez, son diez para las cinco (AmL exc RPl)

    it's a quarter of five — (AmE) son las cinco menos cuarto, son un cuarto para las cinco (AmL exc RPl)

    Jane, his wife of six months... — Jane, con la que lleva/llevaba casado seis meses...

    the senselessness of it all, that's what depresses me — es lo absurdo de todo el asunto lo que me deprime

    what did he die of? — ¿de qué murió?

    [ɒv, ǝv]
    PREP

    it's no business of yours — aquí no te metas, no tienes que ver con esto

    how much of this do you need? — ¿cuánto necesitas de eso?

    of the 12, two were bad — de los 12, dos estaban pasados

    most of all — sobre todo, más que nada

    made of steel/paper — hecho de acero/papel

    a tragedy of her own making — una tragedia que ella misma había labrado, una tragedia de su propia cosecha

    8) (=concerning) de

    what do you think of him? — ¿qué piensas de él?

    what of it? — ¿y a ti qué (te) importa?, ¿y qué?

    9) (indicating deprivation, riddance)

    it's a quarter of six — (US) son las seis menos cuarto, falta un cuarto para las seis (LAm)

    he died of a Friday — frm murió un viernes

    to judge of sth — juzgar algo, opinar sobre algo

    he was robbed of his watch — le robaron el reloj, se le robó el reloj

    * * *
    [ɑːv, ɒv], weak form [əv]
    1) (indicating relationship, material, content) de

    it's made of wood — es de madera, está hecho de madera

    a colleague of mine/his — un colega mío/suyo

    3)
    b) ( with superl) de
    4)

    it's ten (minutes) of five — (AmE) son las cinco menos diez, son diez para las cinco (AmL exc RPl)

    it's a quarter of five — (AmE) son las cinco menos cuarto, son un cuarto para las cinco (AmL exc RPl)

    Jane, his wife of six months... — Jane, con la que lleva/llevaba casado seis meses...

    the senselessness of it all, that's what depresses me — es lo absurdo de todo el asunto lo que me deprime

    what did he die of? — ¿de qué murió?

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