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  • 1 producers commonly use additives such as mercury to prevent corrosion and to increase the mechanical resistance of the zinc anode

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > producers commonly use additives such as mercury to prevent corrosion and to increase the mechanical resistance of the zinc anode

  • 2 keep down

    1. intransitive verb 2. transitive verb
    1) (oppress, suppress) unterdrücken [Volk, Person]

    you can't keep a good man down(prov.) er/sie usw. lässt/lassen sich nicht unterkriegen (ugs.)

    2) (prevent increase of) niedrig halten [Steuern, Preise, Zinssatz, Ausgaben, usw.]; eindämmen [Epidemie]

    keep the weeds down — dafür sorgen, dass das Unkraut nicht überhand nimmt

    3) (not raise) unten lassen [Kopf]

    keep your voice downrede nicht so laut

    4) (not vomit) bei sich behalten [Essen]
    * * *
    1) (not to (allow to) rise up: Keep down - they're shooting at us!) sich geduckt halten
    2) (to control or put a limit on: They are taking steps to keep down the rabbit population.) einschränken
    3) (to digest without vomiting: He has eaten some food but he won't be able to keep it down.) unterdrücken
    * * *
    I. vi unten bleiben, sich akk ducken
    II. vt
    to \keep down down ⇆ sb/sth jdn/etw unterdrücken [o fam klein halten
    to \keep down down ⇆ sth food etw akk bei sich dat behalten
    3.
    you can't \keep down a good man down der Tüchtige lässt sich nicht unterkriegen
    * * *
    A v/t
    1. den Kopf etc unten behalten
    2. Kosten etc niedrig halten
    3. nicht hoch- oder aufkommen lassen, unter Kontrolle halten, ein Volk, Gefühle etc auch unterdrücken
    4. Nahrung etc bei sich behalten
    5. keep your voices ( oder it) down seid oder redet nicht so laut!
    B v/i
    a) unten bleiben
    b) sich geduckt halten
    * * *
    1. intransitive verb 2. transitive verb
    1) (oppress, suppress) unterdrücken [Volk, Person]

    you can't keep a good man down(prov.) er/sie usw. lässt/lassen sich nicht unterkriegen (ugs.)

    2) (prevent increase of) niedrig halten [Steuern, Preise, Zinssatz, Ausgaben, usw.]; eindämmen [Epidemie]

    keep the weeds down — dafür sorgen, dass das Unkraut nicht überhand nimmt

    3) (not raise) unten lassen [Kopf]
    4) (not vomit) bei sich behalten [Essen]

    English-german dictionary > keep down

  • 3 hold

    A n
    1 (grasp, grip) prise f ; to get hold of attraper [rope, handle] ; to keep (a) hold of ou on tenir [ball, rail, hand] ; ⇒ catch, grab, grasp, seize, take ;
    2 ( possession) to get hold of se procurer [book, ticket, document] ; [press] avoir vent de [story] ; découvrir [details, information] ;
    3 ( contact) to get hold of ( by phone) joindre [person] ; ( by other means) trouver [person] ;
    4 ( control) emprise f (on, over sur) ; to have a hold on ou over sb avoir de l'emprise sur qn ; to get a hold of oneself se reprendre ;
    5 (storage, area) Aviat soute f ; Naut cale f ;
    6 Sport ( in wrestling) prise f ; to have sb in a hold faire une prise à qn ;
    7 (of hairspray, gel) fixation f ; normal/extra hold fixation normale/extra-forte.
    B vtr ( prét, pp held)
    1 ( clasp) tenir [object, hand, person] (above, over au-dessus de ; against contre) ; to hold sth in one's hand tenir qch à la main [brush, pencil, stick] ; ( enclosed) tenir qch dans la main [button, coin, sweet] ; to hold sth/sb by tenir qch/qn par [handle, stem, sleeve, leg] ; to hold one's stomach/head (in pain) se tenir l'estomac/la tête (à cause de la douleur) ; to hold sb (in one's arms) serrer qn dans ses bras ; to hold each other se serrer l'un contre l'autre ; can you hold my bag for me? tu peux me tenir mon sac? ;
    2 ( maintain) to hold one's head upright/still tenir sa tête droite/immobile ; to hold one's hands apart/still tenir ses mains écartées/immobiles ; to hold a pose/smile garder une pose/un sourire ; to hold sth in place ou position maintenir qch en place ; to hold one's speed maintenir sa vitesse ;
    3 ( arrange) organiser, tenir [meeting, talks] ; organiser [competition, ballot, demonstration, course, election] ; organiser, donner [party, reception] ; organiser, monter [exhibition, show] ; avoir [conversation] ; célébrer [church service] ; mener [enquiry] ; faire passer [interview] ; to be held avoir lieu ;
    4 ( have capacity for) [box, case, tank] (pouvoir) contenir [objects, amount] ; [theatre, room] avoir une capacité de [350 people] ; the bus holds ten (people) le bus a dix places ; to (be able to) hold one's drink ou liquor tenir l'alcool ;
    5 ( contain) [drawer, cupboard, box, case] contenir [objects, possessions] ;
    6 ( support) [shelf, fridge, branch, roof] supporter [weight, load, crate] ; the branch won't hold you la branche ne supportera pas ton poids ;
    7 ( restrain) [dam, wall] retenir, contenir [water, flood waters] ; [person] tenir [dog] ; maîtriser [thief] ; there is/there'll be no holding him fig on ne peut/pourra plus l'arrêter ;
    8 ( keep against will) [police, kidnappers] détenir [person] ; to hold sb prisoner/hostage garder qn prisonnier/en otage ;
    9 ( possess) détenir, avoir [shares, power, record, playing card] ; être titulaire de [degree, sporting title, cup] ; occuper [job, position] ; avoir, être en possession de [ticket, passport, licence] ; porter [title] ; Jur, gen [bank, computer, police, solicitor] conserver [document, information, money] ; avoir [mortgage] ;
    10 ( keep back) garder [place, seat, ticket] ; faire attendre [train, flight] ; mettre [qch] en attente [letter, order] ; hold it ! minute ! ; hold everything! arrête tout! ; two burgers, but hold the mustard! deux hamburgers, sans moutarde ;
    11 ( believe) avoir [opinion, belief] ; to hold sb/sth to be tenir qn/qch pour, considérer qn/qch comme ; to hold that [person] soutenir que ; [law, theory] dire que ; to hold sb liable ou responsible tenir qn pour responsable ;
    12 ( defend successfully) Mil tenir [territory, city, bridge] ; Pol, Sport conserver [title, seat, lead, position] ; ( in tennis) to hold one's serve ou service gagner or remporter son service ; to hold one's own [person] se défendre tout seul (against contre) ; [army] tenir bon (against devant) ;
    13 ( captivate) captiver [person, audience, class] ; capter, retenir [attention, interest] ;
    14 Telecom to hold the line patienter, rester en ligne ; can you hold the line please ne quittez pas s'il vous plaît ;
    15 Mus tenir [note] (for pendant) ;
    16 Aut to hold the road tenir la route.
    C vi ( prét, pp held)
    1 ( remain intact) [rope, shelf, bridge, dam, glue] tenir ; fig ( also hold good) [theory, offer, objection, law] tenir ;
    2 ( continue) [weather] rester beau/belle, se maintenir ; [luck] continuer, durer ;
    3 Telecom patienter ;
    4 ( remain steady) hold still! tiens-toi tranquille!
    D v refl ( prét, pp held) to hold oneself upright/well se tenir droit/bien.
    1 Telecom en attente ; to put sb on hold Telecom faire patienter qn ; to put a call on hold Telecom mettre un appel en attente ;
    2 to put one's plan/a project on hold gen laisser ses projets/un projet en suspens.
    hold against: to hold sth against sb reprocher qch à qn ; to hold it against sb that en vouloir à qn parce que ; I don't hold it against him/them je ne lui/leur en veux pas ; your age could be held against you ton âge pourrait jouer en ta défaveur.
    hold back:
    hold back se retenir ; to hold back from doing se retenir de faire, préférer ne pas faire ;
    hold [sb/sth] back, hold back [sb/sth]
    1 ( restrain) contenir [water, tide, crowd, animals] ; retenir [hair, tears] ; retenir [person] ; refouler [feelings] ; contenir [anger] ; to hold back one's laughter se retenir or s'empêcher de rire ;
    2 ( prevent progress of) ( involuntarily) [person] retarder [person, group] ; ( deliberately) [person] retenir [person] ; [background, poor education] gêner [person] ; entraver [production, progress, development] ;
    3 ( withhold) [person, government, organization] cacher [information, result] ; ( to protect privacy) tenir [qch] secret, ne pas divulguer [name, information, identity] ; [person, company] différer [payment].
    hold down:
    hold [sb/sth] down, hold down [sb/sth]
    1 ( prevent from moving) maintenir [qch] en place [tent, carpet, piece of paper] ; tenir, maîtriser [person] ;
    2 ( press down) appuyer sur [pedal, key] ;
    3 ( keep at certain level) limiter [number, rate, expenditure, costs, inflation] ; limiter l'augmentation de [wages, taxes, prices] ;
    4 ( keep) ( not lose) garder [job] ; ( have) avoir [job].
    hold forth péj disserter, pérorer pej (about, on sur).
    hold in:
    hold [sth] in, hold in [sth]
    1 ( restrain) réprimer, contenir [feeling, anger, disappointment] ;
    2 ( pull in) rentrer [stomach, buttocks].
    hold off:
    hold off [enemy] accorder un répit ; [creditors] accorder un délai ; I hope the rain holds off j'espère qu'il ne pleuvra pas ; the rain held off until after the match il s'est mis à pleuvoir après le match ; to hold off buying/making a decision reporter l'achat/la décision à plus tard ; he held off leaving until the weekend il a reporté son départ au week-end ;
    hold [sb] off, hold off [sb] tenir [qn] à distance [enemy, creditor, journalists] ; faire patienter [client] ;
    hold [sth] off repousser [attack].
    hold on:
    hold on
    1 ( wait) gen attendre ; Telecom patienter ; ‘hold on, I'll just get him’ ( on telephone) ‘ne quittez pas, je vais le chercher’ ;
    2 ( grip) tenir (with de, avec) ; ‘hold on (tight)!’ ‘tiens-toi (bien)!’ ;
    3 ( endure) [person, company] tenir ;
    hold [sth] on [screw, glue] maintenir [qch] en place ; to be held on with sth [door, handle, wheel] être maintenu par qch.
    hold on to [sb/sth]
    1 ( grip) s'agripper à [branch, railing, rope] ; s'agripper à, se tenir à [person] ; ( to prevent from falling) agripper, retenir [person] ; serrer [object, purse] ; (bien) tenir [dog] ;
    2 ( retain) conserver [power, title, lead] ; garder [shares, car] ; to hold on to one's dreams fig s'accrocher à ses rêves ; to hold on to one's ou the belief that persister à croire que ;
    3 ( look after) garder [object] (for pour).
    hold out:
    1 ( endure) tenir le coup, tenir bon ; to hold out against tenir bon devant [enemy, changes, threat] ;
    2 ( remain available) [supplies, food, stocks] durer ;
    hold [sth] out, holdout [sth] tendre [glass, money, ticket] (to à) ; to hold out one's hand/leg tendre la main/la jambe ;
    hold out [sth] garder, conserver [hope] ; I don't hold out much hope je ne me fais guère d'illusions, je n'ai plus beaucoup d'espoir ; they don't hold out much hope of finding him ils ont perdu presque tout espoir de le retrouver ; to hold out for insister pour obtenir [pay rise, increase] ; to hold out on sb cacher des choses à qn ; they know something, but they're holding out on us ils sont au courant mais ils nous cachent quelque chose.
    hold over:
    hold [sth] over, hold over [sth]
    1 ( postpone) ajourner [question, programme] ;
    2 ( continue to show) maintenir [qch] à l'affiche [film] ; prolonger [show, exhibition].
    hold to:
    hold to [sth] s'en tenir à [belief, opinion, decision] ;
    hold sb to [sth] faire tenir [qch] à qn [promise] ; faire honorer [qch] à qn [contract, offer] ; I'll hold you to that! je note!, je m'en souviendrai!
    1 ( not break) [car, shoes, chair] tenir ;
    2 ( remain united) [family, party] rester uni ; [alliance] rester intact ;
    hold [sth] together
    1 ( keep intact) faire tenir [car, machine, chair] ; maintenir ensemble [papers, pieces] ; to be held together with sth tenir avec qch ;
    2 ( unite) assurer la cohésion de [company, party, government] ; my mother held the family together la famille est restée unie grâce à ma mère.
    hold up:
    hold up
    1 ( remain intact) tenir, résister ; to hold up well [currency] résister ;
    2 ( remain valid) [theory, argument] tenir ;
    hold [sb/sth] up, hold up [sb/sth]
    1 ( support) soutenir [shelf, picture] ; tenir [trousers, stockings] ; to be held up by ou with sth tenir avec qch ;
    2 ( raise) lever [object] ; to hold one's hand up lever la main ;
    3 ( display) to hold sb/sth up as an example ou model of présenter qn/ qch comme un exemple de ; to hold sb up to ridicule tourner qn en ridicule, ridiculiser qn ;
    4 ( delay) retarder [person, flight] ; ralentir [production, traffic] ; arrêter, interrompre [procession] ;
    5 ( rob) attaquer [train, bank, person].
    hold with: not to hold with ne pas être d'accord avec [idea, system] ; être contre [television, imitations etc] ; he doesn't hold with teaching children French il est contre le fait qu'on enseigne le français aux enfants.

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  • 4 help

    A n
    1 ( assistance) aide f ; ( in an emergency) secours m ; to need some help with the cooking/gardening avoir besoin d'aide pour faire la cuisine/le jardin ; with the help of à l'aide de [stick, knife] ; avec l'aide de [person] ; can I be of help (to you)? puis-je faire quelque chose pour vous? ; to be of help to sb [person] rendre service à qn ; [information, map] être utile à qn ; the information was of little help to us l'information ne nous a pas été d'un grand secours or ne nous a pas été très utile ; she was a great help to us elle nous a beaucoup aidés, elle nous a été d'un grand secours ; you're a great help! iron tu es vraiment d'un grand secours! ; to come to sb's help venir au secours de qn, venir en aide à qn ; to go to sb's help aller au secours de qn, prêter secours or assistance à qn ; to cry ou shout for help appeler à l'aide or au secours ; he is beyond help, he is past (all) help on ne peut plus rien pour lui ; it's a help if you can speak the language ça aide de parler la langue ; a degree would be a help un diplôme aiderait bien ; the tablets were no help les comprimés n'ont pas servi à grand-chose ; there's no help for it il n'y a rien à faire ; she needs (professional) help gen elle devrait consulter un professionnel ; ( from psychiatrist) elle devrait voir un psychiatre ;
    2 ( also daily help) ( cleaning woman) femme f de ménage ;
    3 ¢ ( staff) domestiques mpl ; ( on farm) ouvriers mpl agricoles ; they need extra help in the bar ils ont besoin d'aide supplémentaire au bar.
    B excl au secours! ; help! I've got nothing to wear for tonight! hum mince alors ! je n'ai rien à mettre pour ce soir!
    C vtr
    1 ( assist) aider (to do à faire) ; ( more urgently) secourir ; we got the children to help us nous nous sommes fait aider par les enfants ; we must all help each other nous devons tous nous entraider or nous aider les uns les autres ; she helped them with the decorations elle les a aidés pour les décorations ; can you help me with this sack please? est-ce que tu peux m'aider à porter ce sac s'il te plaît? ; can I help you? ( in shop) vous désirez? ; ( on phone) j'écoute ; ( at reception desk) je peux vous aider? ; to help sb across/down/out aider qn à traverser/ descendre/sortir ; I helped him to his feet je l'ai aidé à se lever ; to help sb on/off with aider qn à mettre/enlever [garment, boot] ; she helped him through some difficult times elle l'a aidé à traverser des moments difficiles ;
    2 ( improve) améliorer [situation, problem] ; he didn't help matters by writing that letter il n'a rien arrangé en écrivant cette lettre ; getting drenched didn't help my cold le fait de me faire tremper jusqu'aux os n'a pas arrangé mon rhume ;
    3 ( contribute) to help to do contribuer à faire ; her article helped (to) increase public awareness of the problem son article a contribué à sensibiliser le public à ce problème ; the injection should help (to) ease the pain la piqûre devrait soulager la douleur ; these flowers will help (to) brighten the room ces fleurs devraient égayer la pièce ; this policy helps (to) keep prices down cette politique favorise la baisse des prix ;
    4 ( serve) to help sb to offrir [qch] à qn [food, wine] ;
    5 ( prevent) it can't be helped! on n'y peut rien!, tant pis! ; she can't help the way she was brought up elle ne peut rien changer à la façon dont elle a été élevée ; I can't help the way I feel je n'y peux rien ; he can't help being awkward/stupid! ce n'est pas de sa faute s'il est maladroit/stupide! ; I can't help it if the car breaks down! je n'y peux rien or ce n'est pas de ma faute si la voiture tombe en panne! ; I'm sorry I slammed the door-I couldn't help it excusez-moi d'avoir claqué la porte-je ne l'ai pas fait exprès ; not if I can help it! sûrement pas! ; he won't win if I can help it je vais faire tout mon possible pour l'empêcher de gagner ; don't tell her any more than you can help ne lui dis pas plus qu'il n'en faut ; try not to change gear more often than you can help essayez de changer de vitesse le moins (souvent) possible ; she never works harder than she can help elle travaille toujours le strict minimum ; I can't help that je n'y peux rien ; you can't help but pity him on ne peut pas s'empêcher d'avoir pitié de lui.
    D vi
    1 ( assist) aider ; I was only trying to help! je voulais seulement aider! ; he never helps with the cooking/housework il n'aide jamais à faire la cuisine/le ménage ; they offered to help with the expenses ils ont offert d'aider à payer les frais or de participer aux frais ; this map doesn't help much cette carte n'est pas d'un grand secours or ne sert pas à grand-chose ; will it help if I give you a clue? est-ce que ça t'aiderait si je te donnais un indice? ; every little helps ( when donating money) tous les dons sont les bienvenus ; ( when saving) les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières ;
    2 ( be an improvement) would it help if I turned the light off? est-ce que ce serait mieux si j'éteignais? ; it might help if we knew where they lived ça nous arrangerait de savoir où ils habitent, ça serait déjà quelque chose si on savait où ils habitent ; she tried going to bed earlier, but it didn't help much elle a commencé à se coucher plus tôt, mais ça n'a pas servi à grand-chose.
    1 ( serve) to help oneself se servir ; I helped myself from the fruit bowl je me suis servi dans la coupe de fruits ; help yourselves! servez-vous! ; help yourselves to coffee/cigarettes prenez du café/des cigarettes ; help yourselves to some more cake reprenez un peu de gâteau ;
    2 to help oneself to ( pinch) piquer ; he has been helping himself to the till il a piqué (de l'argent) dans la caisse ;
    3 ( prevent) to help oneself s'en empêcher ; I tried not to laugh, but I couldn't help myself j'ai essayé de ne pas rire, mais je n'ai pas pu m'en empêcher or c'était plus fort que moi.
    help [sb] along aider [qn] à marcher [infirm person] ;
    help [sth] along faire avancer [process, negotiations, project].
    help out:
    help out aider, donner un coup de main ;
    help [sb] out gen aider, donner un coup de main à ; ( financially) dépanner ; ( in crisis) tirer [qn] d'embarras [person] ; his parents help him out with the rent ses parents l'aident à payer le loyer.

    Big English-French dictionary > help

  • 5 remote maintenance

    1. дистанционное техническое обслуживание

     

    дистанционное техническое обслуживание
    Техническое обслуживание объекта, проводимое под управлением персонала без его непосредственного присутствия.
    [ОСТ 45.152-99 ]

    Параллельные тексты EN-RU из ABB Review. Перевод компании Интент

    Service from afar

    Дистанционный сервис

    ABB’s Remote Service concept is revolutionizing the robotics industry

    Разработанная АББ концепция дистанционного обслуживания Remote Service революционизирует робототехнику

    ABB robots are found in industrial applications everywhere – lifting, packing, grinding and welding, to name a few. Robust and tireless, they work around the clock and are critical to a company’s productivity. Thus, keeping these robots in top shape is essential – any failure can lead to serious output consequences. But what happens when a robot malfunctions?

    Роботы АББ используются во всех отраслях промышленности для перемещения грузов, упаковки, шлифовки, сварки – всего и не перечислить. Надежные и неутомимые работники, способные трудиться день и ночь, они представляют большую ценность для владельца. Поэтому очень важно поддерживать их в надлежащей состоянии, ведь любой отказ может иметь серьезные последствия. Но что делать, если робот все-таки сломался?

    ABB’s new Remote Service concept holds the answer: This approach enables a malfunctioning robot to alarm for help itself. An ABB service engineer then receives whole diagnostic information via wireless technology, analyzes the data on a Web site and responds with support in just minutes. This unique service is paying off for customers and ABB alike, and in the process is revolutionizing service thinking.

    Ответом на этот вопрос стала новая концепция Remote Service от АББ, согласно которой неисправный робот сам просит о помощи. C помощью беспроводной технологии специалист сервисной службы АББ получает всю необходимую диагностическую информацию, анализирует данные на web-сайте и через считанные минуты выдает рекомендации по устранению отказа. Эта уникальная возможность одинаково ценна как для заказчиков, так и для самой компании АББ. В перспективе она способна в корне изменить весь подход к организации технического обслуживания.

    Every minute of production downtime can have financially disastrous consequences for a company. Traditional reactive service is no longer sufficient since on-site service engineer visits also demand great amounts of time and money. Thus, companies not only require faster help from the service organization when needed but they also want to avoid disturbances in production.

    Каждая минута простоя производства может привести к губительным финансовым последствиям. Традиционная организация сервиса, предусматривающая ликвидацию возникающих неисправностей, становится все менее эффективной, поскольку вызов сервисного инженера на место эксплуатации робота сопряжен с большими затратами времени и денег. Предприятия требуют от сервисной организации не только более быстрого оказания помощи, но и предотвращения возможных сбоев производства.

    In 2006, ABB developed a new approach to better meet customer’s expectations: Using the latest technologies to reach the robots at customer sites around the world, ABB could support them remotely in just minutes, thereby reducing the need for site visits. Thus the new Remote Service concept was quickly brought to fruition and was launched in mid-2007. Statistics show that by using the system the majority of production stoppages can be avoided.

    В 2006 г. компания АББ разработала новый подход к удовлетворению ожиданий своих заказчиков. Использование современных технологий позволяет специалистам АББ получать информацию от роботов из любой точки мира и в считанные минуты оказывать помощь дистанционно, в результате чего сокращается количество выездов на место установки. Запущенная в середине 2007 г. концепция Remote Service быстро себя оправдала. Статистика показывает, что её применение позволило предотвратить большое число остановок производства.

    Reactive maintenance The hardware that makes ABB Remote Service possible consists of a communication unit, which has a function similar to that of an airplane’s so-called black box 1. This “service box” is connected to the robot’s control system and can read and transmit diagnostic information. The unit not only reads critical diagnostic information that enables immediate support in the event of a failure, but also makes it possible to monitor and analyze the robot’s condition, thereby proactively detecting the need for maintenance.

    Устранение возникающих неисправностей Аппаратное устройство, с помощью которого реализуется концепция Remote Service, представляет собой коммуникационный блок, работающий аналогично черному ящику самолета (рис. 1). Этот блок считывает диагностические данные из контроллера робота и передает их по каналу GSM. Считывается не только информация, необходимая для оказания немедленной помощи в случае отказа, но и сведения, позволяющие контролировать и анализировать состояние робота для прогнозирования неисправностей и планирования технического обслуживания.

    If the robot breaks down, the service box immediately stores the status of the robot, its historical data (as log files), and diagnostic parameters such as temperature and power supply. Equipped with a built-in modem and using the GSM network, the box transmits the data to a central server for analysis and presentation on a dedicated Web site. Alerts are automatically sent to the nearest of ABB’s 1,200 robot service engineers who then accesses the detailed data and error log to analyze the problem.

    При поломке робота сервисный блок немедленно сохраняет данные о его состоянии, сведения из рабочего журнала, а также значения диагностических параметров (температура и характеристики питания). Эти данные передаются встроенным GSM-модемом на центральный сервер для анализа и представления на соответствующем web-сайте. Аварийные сообщения автоматически пересылаются ближайшему к месту аварии одному из 1200 сервисных инженеров-робототехников АББ, который получает доступ к детальной информации и журналу аварий для анализа возникшей проблемы.

    A remotely based ABB engineer can then quickly identify the exact fault, offering rapid customer support. For problems that cannot be solved remotely, the service engineer can arrange for quick delivery of spare parts and visit the site to repair the robot. Even if the engineer must make a site visit, service is faster, more efficient and performed to a higher standard than otherwise possible.

    Специалист АББ может дистанционно идентифицировать отказ и оказать быструю помощь заказчику. Если неисправность не может быть устранена дистанционно, сервисный инженер организовывает доставку запасных частей и выезд ремонтной бригады. Даже если необходимо разрешение проблемы на месте, предшествующая дистанционная диагностика позволяет минимизировать объем работ и сократить время простоя.

    Remote Service enables engineers to “talk” to robots remotely and to utilize tools that enable smart, fast and automatic analysis. The system is based on a machine-to-machine (M2M) concept, which works automatically, requiring human input only for analysis and personalized customer recommendations. ABB was recognized for this innovative solution at the M2M United Conference in Chicago in 2008 Factbox.

    Remote Service позволяет инженерам «разговаривать» с роботами на расстоянии и предоставляет в их распоряжение интеллектуальные средства быстрого автоматизированного анализа. Система основана на основе технологии автоматической связи машины с машиной (M2M), где участие человека сводится к анализу данных и выдаче рекомендаций клиенту. В 2008 г. это инновационное решение от АББ получило приз на конференции M2M United Conference в Чикаго (см. вставку).

    Proactive maintenance 
    Remote Service also allows ABB engineers to monitor and detect potential problems in the robot system and opens up new possibilities for proactive maintenance.

    Прогнозирование неисправностей
    Remote Service позволяет инженерам АББ дистанционно контролировать состояние роботов и прогнозировать возможные неисправности, что открывает новые возможности по организации профилактического обслуживания.

    The service box regularly takes condition measurements. By monitoring key parameters over time, Remote Service can identify potential failures and when necessary notify both the end customer and the appropriate ABB engineer. The management and storage of full system backups is a very powerful service to help recover from critical situations caused, for example, by operator errors.

    Сервисный блок регулярно выполняет диагностические измерения. Непрерывно контролируя ключевые параметры, Remote Service может распознать потенциальные опасности и, при необходимости, оповещать владельца оборудования и соответствующего специалиста АББ. Резервирование данных для возможного отката является мощным средством, обеспечивающим восстановление системы в критических ситуациях, например, после ошибки оператора.

    The first Remote Service installation took place in the automotive industry in the United States and quickly proved its value. The motherboard in a robot cabinet overheated and the rise in temperature triggered an alarm via Remote Service. Because of the alarm, engineers were able to replace a faulty fan, preventing a costly production shutdown.

    Первая система Remote Service была установлена на автозаводе в США и очень скоро была оценена по достоинству. Она обнаружила перегрев материнской платы в шкафу управления роботом и передала сигнал о превышении допустимой температуры, благодаря чему инженеры смогли заменить неисправный вентилятор и предотвратить дорогостоящую остановку производства.

    MyRobot: 24-hour remote access

    Having regular access to a robot’s condition data is also essential to achieving lean production. At any time, from any location, customers can verify their robots’ status and access maintenance information and performance reports simply by logging in to ABB’s MyRobot Web site. The service enables customers to easily compare performances, identify bottlenecks or developing issues, and initiate the most

    Сайт MyRobot: круглосуточный дистанционный доступ
    Для того чтобы обеспечить бесперебойное производство, необходимо иметь регулярный доступ к информации о состоянии робота. Зайдя на соответствующую страницу сайта MyRobot компании АББ, заказчики получат все необходимые данные, включая сведения о техническом обслуживании и отчеты о производительности своего робота. Эта услуга позволяет легко сравнивать данные о производительности, обнаруживать возможные проблемы, а также оптимизировать планирование технического обслуживания и модернизации. С помощью MyRobot можно значительно увеличить выпуск продукции и уменьшить количество выбросов.

    Award-winning solution
    In June 2008, the innovative Remote Service solution won the Gold Value Chain award at the M2M United Conference in Chicago. The value chain award honors successful corporate adopters of M2M (machine–to-machine) technology and highlights the process of combining multiple technologies to deliver high-quality services to customers. ABB won in the categoryof Smart Services.

    Приз за удачное решение
    В июне 2008 г. инновационное решение Remote Service получило награду Gold Value Chain (Золотая цепь) на конференции M2M United Conference в Чикаго. «Золотая цепь» присуждается за успешное масштабное внедрение технологии M2M (машина – машина), а также за достижения в объединении различных технологий для предоставления высококачественных услуг заказчикам. АББ одержала победу в номинации «Интеллектуальный сервис».

    Case study: Tetley Tetley GB Ltd is the world’s second-largest manufacturer and distributor of tea. The company’s manufacturing and distribution business is spread across 40 countries and sells over 60 branded tea bags. Tetley’s UK tea production facility in Eaglescliffe, County Durham is the sole producer of Tetley tea bags 2.

    Пример применения: Tetley Компания TetleyGB Ltd является вторым по величине мировым производителем и поставщиком чая. Производственные и торговые филиалы компании имеются в 40 странах, а продукция распространяется под 60 торговыми марками. Чаеразвесочная фабрика в Иглсклифф, графство Дарем, Великобритания – единственный производитель чая Tetley в пакетиках (рис. 2).

    ABB offers a flexible choice of service agreements for both new and existing robot installations, which can help extend the mean time between failures, shorten the time to repair and lower the cost of automated production.

    Предлагаемые АББ контракты на выполнение технического обслуживания как уже имеющихся, так и вновь устанавливаемых роботов, позволяют значительно увеличить среднюю наработку на отказ, сократить время ремонта и общую стоимость автоматизированного производства.

    Robots in the plant’s production line were tripping alarms and delaying the whole production cycle. The spurious alarms resulted in much unnecessary downtime that was spent resetting the robots in the hope that another breakdown could be avoided. Each time an alarm was tripped, several hours of production time was lost. “It was for this reason that we were keen to try out ABB’s Remote Service agreement,” said Colin Trevor, plant maintenance manager.

    Установленные в технологической линии роботы выдавали аварийные сигналы, задерживающие выполнение производственного цикла. Ложные срабатывания вынуждали перезапускать роботов в надежде предотвратить возможные отказы, в результате чего после каждого аварийного сигнала производство останавливалось на несколько часов. «Именно поэтому мы решили попробовать заключить с АББ контракт на дистанционное техническое обслуживание», – сказал Колин Тревор, начальник технической службы фабрики.

    To prevent future disruptions caused by unplanned downtime, Tetley signed an ABB Response Package service agreement, which included installing a service box and system infrastructure into the robot control systems. Using the Remote Service solution, ABB remotely monitors and collects data on the “wear and tear” and productivity of the robotic cells; this data is then shared with the customer and contributes to smooth-running production cycles.

    Для предотвращения ущерба в результате незапланированных простоев Tetley заключила с АББ контракт на комплексное обслуживание Response Package, согласно которому системы управления роботами были дооборудованы сервисными блоками с необходимой инфраструктурой. С помощью Remote Service компания АББ дистанционно собирает данные о наработке, износе и производительности роботизированных модулей. Эти данные предоставляются заказчику для оптимизации загрузки производственного оборудования.

    Higher production uptime
    Since the implementation of Remote Service, Tetley has enjoyed greatly reduced robot downtime, with no further disruptions caused by unforeseen problems. “The Remote Service package has dramatically changed the plant,” said Trevor. “We no longer have breakdown issues throughout the shift, helping us to achieve much longer periods of robot uptime. As we have learned, world-class manufacturing facilities need world-class support packages. Remote monitoring of our robots helps us to maintain machine uptime, prevent costly downtime and ensures my employees can be put to more valuable use.”

    Увеличение полезного времени
    С момента внедрения Remote Service компания Tetley была приятно удивлена резким сокращением простоя роботов и отсутствием незапланированных остановок производства. «Пакет Remote Service резко изменил ситуацию на предприятии», – сказал Тревор. «Мы избавились от простоев роботов и смогли резко увеличить их эксплуатационную готовность. Мы поняли, что для производственного оборудования мирового класса необходим сервисный пакет мирового класса. Дистанционный контроль роботов помогает нам поддерживать их в рабочем состоянии, предотвращать дорогостоящие простои и задействовать наш персонал для выполнения более важных задач».

    Service access
    Remote Service is available worldwide, connecting more than 500 robots. Companies that have up to 30 robots are often good candidates for the Remote Service offering, as they usually have neither the engineers nor the requisite skills to deal with robotics faults themselves. Larger companies are also enthusiastic about Remote Service, as the proactive services will improve the lifetime of their equipment and increase overall production uptime.

    Доступность сервиса
    Сеть Remote Service охватывает более 700 роботов по всему миру. Потенциальными заказчиками Remote Service являются компании, имеющие до 30 роботов, но не имеющие инженеров и техников, способных самостоятельно устранять их неисправности. Интерес к Remote Service проявляют и более крупные компании, поскольку они заинтересованы в увеличении срока службы и эксплуатационной готовности производственного оборудования.

    In today’s competitive environment, business profitability often relies on demanding production schedules that do not always leave time for exhaustive or repeated equipment health checks. ABB’s Remote Service agreements are designed to monitor its customers’ robots to identify when problems are likely to occur and ensure that help is dispatched before the problem can escalate. In over 60 percent of ABB’s service calls, its robots can be brought back online remotely, without further intervention.

    В условиях современной конкуренции окупаемость бизнеса часто зависит от соблюдения жестких графиков производства, не оставляющих времени для полномасштабных или периодических проверок исправности оборудования. Контракт Remote Service предусматривает мониторинг состояния роботов заказчика для прогнозирования возможных неисправностей и принятие мер по их предотвращению. В более чем 60 % случаев для устранения неисправности достаточно дистанционной консультации в сервисной службе АББ, дальнейшего вмешательства не требуется.

    ABB offers a flexible choice of service agreements for both new and existing robot installations, which helps extend the mean time between failures, shorten the time to repair and lower the total cost of ownership. With four new packages available – Support, Response, Maintenance and Warranty, each backed up by ABB’s Remote Service technology – businesses can minimize the impact of unplanned downtime and achieve improved production-line efficiency.

    Компания АББ предлагает гибкий выбор контрактов на выполнение технического обслуживания как уже имеющихся, так и вновь устанавливаемых роботов, которые позволяют значительно увеличить среднюю наработку на отказ, сократить время ремонта и эксплуатационные расходы. Четыре новых пакета на основе технологии Remote Service Support, Response, Maintenance и Warranty – позволяют минимизировать внеплановые простои и значительно повысить эффективность производства.

    The benefits of Remote Sevice are clear: improved availability, fewer service visits, lower maintenance costs and maximized total cost of ownership. This unique service sets ABB apart from its competitors and is the beginning of a revolution in service thinking. It provides ABB with a great opportunity to improve customer access to its expertise and develop more advanced services worldwide.

    Преимущества дистанционного технического обслуживания очевидны: повышенная надежность, уменьшение выездов ремонтных бригад, уменьшение затрат на обслуживание и общих эксплуатационных расходов. Эта уникальная услуга дает компании АББ преимущества над конкурентами и демонстрирует революционный подход к организации сервиса. Благодаря ей компания АББ расширяет доступ заказчиков к опыту своих специалистов и получает возможность более эффективного оказания технической помощи по всему миру.

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    1. дистанционное техническое обслуживание

     

    дистанционное техническое обслуживание
    Техническое обслуживание объекта, проводимое под управлением персонала без его непосредственного присутствия.
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    Service from afar

    Дистанционный сервис

    ABB’s Remote Service concept is revolutionizing the robotics industry

    Разработанная АББ концепция дистанционного обслуживания Remote Service революционизирует робототехнику

    ABB robots are found in industrial applications everywhere – lifting, packing, grinding and welding, to name a few. Robust and tireless, they work around the clock and are critical to a company’s productivity. Thus, keeping these robots in top shape is essential – any failure can lead to serious output consequences. But what happens when a robot malfunctions?

    Роботы АББ используются во всех отраслях промышленности для перемещения грузов, упаковки, шлифовки, сварки – всего и не перечислить. Надежные и неутомимые работники, способные трудиться день и ночь, они представляют большую ценность для владельца. Поэтому очень важно поддерживать их в надлежащей состоянии, ведь любой отказ может иметь серьезные последствия. Но что делать, если робот все-таки сломался?

    ABB’s new Remote Service concept holds the answer: This approach enables a malfunctioning robot to alarm for help itself. An ABB service engineer then receives whole diagnostic information via wireless technology, analyzes the data on a Web site and responds with support in just minutes. This unique service is paying off for customers and ABB alike, and in the process is revolutionizing service thinking.

    Ответом на этот вопрос стала новая концепция Remote Service от АББ, согласно которой неисправный робот сам просит о помощи. C помощью беспроводной технологии специалист сервисной службы АББ получает всю необходимую диагностическую информацию, анализирует данные на web-сайте и через считанные минуты выдает рекомендации по устранению отказа. Эта уникальная возможность одинаково ценна как для заказчиков, так и для самой компании АББ. В перспективе она способна в корне изменить весь подход к организации технического обслуживания.

    Every minute of production downtime can have financially disastrous consequences for a company. Traditional reactive service is no longer sufficient since on-site service engineer visits also demand great amounts of time and money. Thus, companies not only require faster help from the service organization when needed but they also want to avoid disturbances in production.

    Каждая минута простоя производства может привести к губительным финансовым последствиям. Традиционная организация сервиса, предусматривающая ликвидацию возникающих неисправностей, становится все менее эффективной, поскольку вызов сервисного инженера на место эксплуатации робота сопряжен с большими затратами времени и денег. Предприятия требуют от сервисной организации не только более быстрого оказания помощи, но и предотвращения возможных сбоев производства.

    In 2006, ABB developed a new approach to better meet customer’s expectations: Using the latest technologies to reach the robots at customer sites around the world, ABB could support them remotely in just minutes, thereby reducing the need for site visits. Thus the new Remote Service concept was quickly brought to fruition and was launched in mid-2007. Statistics show that by using the system the majority of production stoppages can be avoided.

    В 2006 г. компания АББ разработала новый подход к удовлетворению ожиданий своих заказчиков. Использование современных технологий позволяет специалистам АББ получать информацию от роботов из любой точки мира и в считанные минуты оказывать помощь дистанционно, в результате чего сокращается количество выездов на место установки. Запущенная в середине 2007 г. концепция Remote Service быстро себя оправдала. Статистика показывает, что её применение позволило предотвратить большое число остановок производства.

    Reactive maintenance The hardware that makes ABB Remote Service possible consists of a communication unit, which has a function similar to that of an airplane’s so-called black box 1. This “service box” is connected to the robot’s control system and can read and transmit diagnostic information. The unit not only reads critical diagnostic information that enables immediate support in the event of a failure, but also makes it possible to monitor and analyze the robot’s condition, thereby proactively detecting the need for maintenance.

    Устранение возникающих неисправностей Аппаратное устройство, с помощью которого реализуется концепция Remote Service, представляет собой коммуникационный блок, работающий аналогично черному ящику самолета (рис. 1). Этот блок считывает диагностические данные из контроллера робота и передает их по каналу GSM. Считывается не только информация, необходимая для оказания немедленной помощи в случае отказа, но и сведения, позволяющие контролировать и анализировать состояние робота для прогнозирования неисправностей и планирования технического обслуживания.

    If the robot breaks down, the service box immediately stores the status of the robot, its historical data (as log files), and diagnostic parameters such as temperature and power supply. Equipped with a built-in modem and using the GSM network, the box transmits the data to a central server for analysis and presentation on a dedicated Web site. Alerts are automatically sent to the nearest of ABB’s 1,200 robot service engineers who then accesses the detailed data and error log to analyze the problem.

    При поломке робота сервисный блок немедленно сохраняет данные о его состоянии, сведения из рабочего журнала, а также значения диагностических параметров (температура и характеристики питания). Эти данные передаются встроенным GSM-модемом на центральный сервер для анализа и представления на соответствующем web-сайте. Аварийные сообщения автоматически пересылаются ближайшему к месту аварии одному из 1200 сервисных инженеров-робототехников АББ, который получает доступ к детальной информации и журналу аварий для анализа возникшей проблемы.

    A remotely based ABB engineer can then quickly identify the exact fault, offering rapid customer support. For problems that cannot be solved remotely, the service engineer can arrange for quick delivery of spare parts and visit the site to repair the robot. Even if the engineer must make a site visit, service is faster, more efficient and performed to a higher standard than otherwise possible.

    Специалист АББ может дистанционно идентифицировать отказ и оказать быструю помощь заказчику. Если неисправность не может быть устранена дистанционно, сервисный инженер организовывает доставку запасных частей и выезд ремонтной бригады. Даже если необходимо разрешение проблемы на месте, предшествующая дистанционная диагностика позволяет минимизировать объем работ и сократить время простоя.

    Remote Service enables engineers to “talk” to robots remotely and to utilize tools that enable smart, fast and automatic analysis. The system is based on a machine-to-machine (M2M) concept, which works automatically, requiring human input only for analysis and personalized customer recommendations. ABB was recognized for this innovative solution at the M2M United Conference in Chicago in 2008 Factbox.

    Remote Service позволяет инженерам «разговаривать» с роботами на расстоянии и предоставляет в их распоряжение интеллектуальные средства быстрого автоматизированного анализа. Система основана на основе технологии автоматической связи машины с машиной (M2M), где участие человека сводится к анализу данных и выдаче рекомендаций клиенту. В 2008 г. это инновационное решение от АББ получило приз на конференции M2M United Conference в Чикаго (см. вставку).

    Proactive maintenance 
    Remote Service also allows ABB engineers to monitor and detect potential problems in the robot system and opens up new possibilities for proactive maintenance.

    Прогнозирование неисправностей
    Remote Service позволяет инженерам АББ дистанционно контролировать состояние роботов и прогнозировать возможные неисправности, что открывает новые возможности по организации профилактического обслуживания.

    The service box regularly takes condition measurements. By monitoring key parameters over time, Remote Service can identify potential failures and when necessary notify both the end customer and the appropriate ABB engineer. The management and storage of full system backups is a very powerful service to help recover from critical situations caused, for example, by operator errors.

    Сервисный блок регулярно выполняет диагностические измерения. Непрерывно контролируя ключевые параметры, Remote Service может распознать потенциальные опасности и, при необходимости, оповещать владельца оборудования и соответствующего специалиста АББ. Резервирование данных для возможного отката является мощным средством, обеспечивающим восстановление системы в критических ситуациях, например, после ошибки оператора.

    The first Remote Service installation took place in the automotive industry in the United States and quickly proved its value. The motherboard in a robot cabinet overheated and the rise in temperature triggered an alarm via Remote Service. Because of the alarm, engineers were able to replace a faulty fan, preventing a costly production shutdown.

    Первая система Remote Service была установлена на автозаводе в США и очень скоро была оценена по достоинству. Она обнаружила перегрев материнской платы в шкафу управления роботом и передала сигнал о превышении допустимой температуры, благодаря чему инженеры смогли заменить неисправный вентилятор и предотвратить дорогостоящую остановку производства.

    MyRobot: 24-hour remote access

    Having regular access to a robot’s condition data is also essential to achieving lean production. At any time, from any location, customers can verify their robots’ status and access maintenance information and performance reports simply by logging in to ABB’s MyRobot Web site. The service enables customers to easily compare performances, identify bottlenecks or developing issues, and initiate the most

    Сайт MyRobot: круглосуточный дистанционный доступ
    Для того чтобы обеспечить бесперебойное производство, необходимо иметь регулярный доступ к информации о состоянии робота. Зайдя на соответствующую страницу сайта MyRobot компании АББ, заказчики получат все необходимые данные, включая сведения о техническом обслуживании и отчеты о производительности своего робота. Эта услуга позволяет легко сравнивать данные о производительности, обнаруживать возможные проблемы, а также оптимизировать планирование технического обслуживания и модернизации. С помощью MyRobot можно значительно увеличить выпуск продукции и уменьшить количество выбросов.

    Award-winning solution
    In June 2008, the innovative Remote Service solution won the Gold Value Chain award at the M2M United Conference in Chicago. The value chain award honors successful corporate adopters of M2M (machine–to-machine) technology and highlights the process of combining multiple technologies to deliver high-quality services to customers. ABB won in the categoryof Smart Services.

    Приз за удачное решение
    В июне 2008 г. инновационное решение Remote Service получило награду Gold Value Chain (Золотая цепь) на конференции M2M United Conference в Чикаго. «Золотая цепь» присуждается за успешное масштабное внедрение технологии M2M (машина – машина), а также за достижения в объединении различных технологий для предоставления высококачественных услуг заказчикам. АББ одержала победу в номинации «Интеллектуальный сервис».

    Case study: Tetley Tetley GB Ltd is the world’s second-largest manufacturer and distributor of tea. The company’s manufacturing and distribution business is spread across 40 countries and sells over 60 branded tea bags. Tetley’s UK tea production facility in Eaglescliffe, County Durham is the sole producer of Tetley tea bags 2.

    Пример применения: Tetley Компания TetleyGB Ltd является вторым по величине мировым производителем и поставщиком чая. Производственные и торговые филиалы компании имеются в 40 странах, а продукция распространяется под 60 торговыми марками. Чаеразвесочная фабрика в Иглсклифф, графство Дарем, Великобритания – единственный производитель чая Tetley в пакетиках (рис. 2).

    ABB offers a flexible choice of service agreements for both new and existing robot installations, which can help extend the mean time between failures, shorten the time to repair and lower the cost of automated production.

    Предлагаемые АББ контракты на выполнение технического обслуживания как уже имеющихся, так и вновь устанавливаемых роботов, позволяют значительно увеличить среднюю наработку на отказ, сократить время ремонта и общую стоимость автоматизированного производства.

    Robots in the plant’s production line were tripping alarms and delaying the whole production cycle. The spurious alarms resulted in much unnecessary downtime that was spent resetting the robots in the hope that another breakdown could be avoided. Each time an alarm was tripped, several hours of production time was lost. “It was for this reason that we were keen to try out ABB’s Remote Service agreement,” said Colin Trevor, plant maintenance manager.

    Установленные в технологической линии роботы выдавали аварийные сигналы, задерживающие выполнение производственного цикла. Ложные срабатывания вынуждали перезапускать роботов в надежде предотвратить возможные отказы, в результате чего после каждого аварийного сигнала производство останавливалось на несколько часов. «Именно поэтому мы решили попробовать заключить с АББ контракт на дистанционное техническое обслуживание», – сказал Колин Тревор, начальник технической службы фабрики.

    To prevent future disruptions caused by unplanned downtime, Tetley signed an ABB Response Package service agreement, which included installing a service box and system infrastructure into the robot control systems. Using the Remote Service solution, ABB remotely monitors and collects data on the “wear and tear” and productivity of the robotic cells; this data is then shared with the customer and contributes to smooth-running production cycles.

    Для предотвращения ущерба в результате незапланированных простоев Tetley заключила с АББ контракт на комплексное обслуживание Response Package, согласно которому системы управления роботами были дооборудованы сервисными блоками с необходимой инфраструктурой. С помощью Remote Service компания АББ дистанционно собирает данные о наработке, износе и производительности роботизированных модулей. Эти данные предоставляются заказчику для оптимизации загрузки производственного оборудования.

    Higher production uptime
    Since the implementation of Remote Service, Tetley has enjoyed greatly reduced robot downtime, with no further disruptions caused by unforeseen problems. “The Remote Service package has dramatically changed the plant,” said Trevor. “We no longer have breakdown issues throughout the shift, helping us to achieve much longer periods of robot uptime. As we have learned, world-class manufacturing facilities need world-class support packages. Remote monitoring of our robots helps us to maintain machine uptime, prevent costly downtime and ensures my employees can be put to more valuable use.”

    Увеличение полезного времени
    С момента внедрения Remote Service компания Tetley была приятно удивлена резким сокращением простоя роботов и отсутствием незапланированных остановок производства. «Пакет Remote Service резко изменил ситуацию на предприятии», – сказал Тревор. «Мы избавились от простоев роботов и смогли резко увеличить их эксплуатационную готовность. Мы поняли, что для производственного оборудования мирового класса необходим сервисный пакет мирового класса. Дистанционный контроль роботов помогает нам поддерживать их в рабочем состоянии, предотвращать дорогостоящие простои и задействовать наш персонал для выполнения более важных задач».

    Service access
    Remote Service is available worldwide, connecting more than 500 robots. Companies that have up to 30 robots are often good candidates for the Remote Service offering, as they usually have neither the engineers nor the requisite skills to deal with robotics faults themselves. Larger companies are also enthusiastic about Remote Service, as the proactive services will improve the lifetime of their equipment and increase overall production uptime.

    Доступность сервиса
    Сеть Remote Service охватывает более 700 роботов по всему миру. Потенциальными заказчиками Remote Service являются компании, имеющие до 30 роботов, но не имеющие инженеров и техников, способных самостоятельно устранять их неисправности. Интерес к Remote Service проявляют и более крупные компании, поскольку они заинтересованы в увеличении срока службы и эксплуатационной готовности производственного оборудования.

    In today’s competitive environment, business profitability often relies on demanding production schedules that do not always leave time for exhaustive or repeated equipment health checks. ABB’s Remote Service agreements are designed to monitor its customers’ robots to identify when problems are likely to occur and ensure that help is dispatched before the problem can escalate. In over 60 percent of ABB’s service calls, its robots can be brought back online remotely, without further intervention.

    В условиях современной конкуренции окупаемость бизнеса часто зависит от соблюдения жестких графиков производства, не оставляющих времени для полномасштабных или периодических проверок исправности оборудования. Контракт Remote Service предусматривает мониторинг состояния роботов заказчика для прогнозирования возможных неисправностей и принятие мер по их предотвращению. В более чем 60 % случаев для устранения неисправности достаточно дистанционной консультации в сервисной службе АББ, дальнейшего вмешательства не требуется.

    ABB offers a flexible choice of service agreements for both new and existing robot installations, which helps extend the mean time between failures, shorten the time to repair and lower the total cost of ownership. With four new packages available – Support, Response, Maintenance and Warranty, each backed up by ABB’s Remote Service technology – businesses can minimize the impact of unplanned downtime and achieve improved production-line efficiency.

    Компания АББ предлагает гибкий выбор контрактов на выполнение технического обслуживания как уже имеющихся, так и вновь устанавливаемых роботов, которые позволяют значительно увеличить среднюю наработку на отказ, сократить время ремонта и эксплуатационные расходы. Четыре новых пакета на основе технологии Remote Service Support, Response, Maintenance и Warranty – позволяют минимизировать внеплановые простои и значительно повысить эффективность производства.

    The benefits of Remote Sevice are clear: improved availability, fewer service visits, lower maintenance costs and maximized total cost of ownership. This unique service sets ABB apart from its competitors and is the beginning of a revolution in service thinking. It provides ABB with a great opportunity to improve customer access to its expertise and develop more advanced services worldwide.

    Преимущества дистанционного технического обслуживания очевидны: повышенная надежность, уменьшение выездов ремонтных бригад, уменьшение затрат на обслуживание и общих эксплуатационных расходов. Эта уникальная услуга дает компании АББ преимущества над конкурентами и демонстрирует революционный подход к организации сервиса. Благодаря ей компания АББ расширяет доступ заказчиков к опыту своих специалистов и получает возможность более эффективного оказания технической помощи по всему миру.

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  • 7 crime

    1. noun
    1) (act(s) punishable by law: Murder is a crime; Crime is on the increase.) crimen, delito
    2) (something wrong though not illegal: What a crime to cut down those trees!) delito, crimen

    2. noun
    (a person who has been found guilty of a crime.) criminal, delincuente
    1. delito
    2. delincuencia
    tr[kraɪm]
    1 (act, offence) delito, crimen nombre masculino; (law-breaking, criminal activity) delincuencia
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    crime doesn't pay no hay crimen sin castigo
    to commit a crime cometer un delito
    to prevent crime prevenir la criminalidad
    crime rate índice nombre masculino de criminalidad
    crime wave ola delictiva
    crime ['kraɪm] n
    1) : crimen m, delito m
    to commit a crime: cometer un delito
    2) : crimen m, delincuencia f
    organized crime: crimen organizado
    n.
    crimen s.m.
    delito s.m.
    kraɪm
    a) c ( wrongful act) delito m; ( murder) crimen m

    it's a crime to waste such talent — (colloq) es un crimen or un pecado desperdiciar un talento así

    b) u ( criminal activity) delincuencia f

    crime doesn't pay — (set phrase) no hay crimen sin castigo (fr hecha); (before n) <rate, figures> de criminalidad

    crime waveola f delictiva

    [kraɪm]
    1. N
    1) (=offence) delito m ; (very serious) crimen m

    it's not a crime! — (fig) ¡no es para tanto!

    2) (=activity) delincuencia f
    2.
    CPD

    crime of passion Ncrimen m pasional

    crime prevention Nprevención f del crimen

    crime rate Níndice m de criminalidad

    crime scene Nlugar m del delito, escena f del crimen

    Crime Squad N Brigada f de Investigación Criminal (Sp)

    crime statistics NPLestadísticas fpl del crimen

    crime wave Nola f de crímenes or delitos

    crime writer Nautor(a) m / f de novelas policíacas

    * * *
    [kraɪm]
    a) c ( wrongful act) delito m; ( murder) crimen m

    it's a crime to waste such talent — (colloq) es un crimen or un pecado desperdiciar un talento así

    b) u ( criminal activity) delincuencia f

    crime doesn't pay — (set phrase) no hay crimen sin castigo (fr hecha); (before n) <rate, figures> de criminalidad

    crime waveola f delictiva

    English-spanish dictionary > crime

  • 8 from

    preposition
    1) (expr. starting point) von; (from within) aus

    [come] from Paris/Munich — aus Paris/München [kommen]

    2) (expr. beginning) von

    from the year 1972 we never saw him again — seit 1972 haben wir ihn nie mehr [wieder]gesehen

    from tomorrow [until...] — von morgen an [bis...]

    start work from 2 Augustam 2. August anfangen zu arbeiten

    3) (expr. lower limit) von

    blouses [ranging] from £2 to £5 — Blusen [im Preis] zwischen 2 und 5 Pfund

    dresses from £20 [upwards] — Kleider von 20 Pfund aufwärts od. ab 20 Pfund

    from 4 to 6 eggs — 4 bis 6 Eier

    from the age of 18 [upwards] — ab 18 Jahre od. Jahren

    from a child(since childhood) schon als Kind

    4) (expr. distance) von
    5) (expr. removal, avoidance) von; (expr. escape) vor (+ Dat.)
    6) (expr. change) von

    from... to... — von... zu...; (relating to price) von... auf...

    from crisis to crisis, from one crisis to another — von einer Krise zur anderen

    7) (expr. source, origin) aus

    buy everything from the same shopalles im selben Laden kaufen

    where do you come from?, where are you from? — woher kommen Sie?

    8) (expr. viewpoint) von [... aus]
    9) (expr. giver, sender) von

    take it from me that... — lass dir gesagt sein, dass...

    10) (after the model of)

    painted from life/nature — nach dem Leben/nach der Natur gemalt

    11) (expr. reason, cause)

    she was weak from hunger/tired from so much work — sie war schwach vor Hunger/müde von der vielen Arbeit

    from what I can see/have heard... — wie ich das sehe/wie ich gehört habe,...

    12) with adv. von [unten, oben, innen, außen]
    13) with prep.

    from behind/under[neath] something — hinter/unter etwas (Dat.) hervor

    * * *
    [from]
    1) (used before the place, thing, person, time etc that is the point at which an action, journey, period of time etc begins: from Europe to Asia; from Monday to Friday; a letter from her father.) von
    2) (used to indicate that from which something or someone comes: a quotation from Shakespeare.) von
    3) (used to indicate separation: Take it from him.) von
    4) (used to indicate a cause or reason: He is suffering from a cold.) an,von
    * * *
    [frɒm, frəm, AM frɑ:m, frəm]
    1. (off) von + dat
    please get me that letter \from the table gib mir bitte den Brief von dem Tisch; (out of) aus + dat
    he took a handkerchief \from his pocket er nahm ein Taschentuch aus seiner Hosentasche
    I'm so happy that the baby eats \from the table already ich bin so froh, dass das Baby jetzt schon am Tisch isst
    2. (as seen from) von dat... [aus]
    you can see the island \from here von hier aus kann man die Insel sehen; ( fig)
    she was talking \from her own experience of the problem sie sprach aus eigener Erfahrung mit dem Problem
    \from sb's point of view aus jds Sicht
    3. after vb (as starting location) von + dat
    the wind comes \from the north der Wind kommt von Norden
    a flight leaving \from the nearest airport ein Flug vom nächstgelegenen Flughafen
    the flight \from Amsterdam der Flug von Amsterdam
    the water bubbled out \from the spring das Wasser sprudelte aus der Quelle
    \from sth to sth (between places) von etw dat nach etw dat
    my dad goes often \from Washington to Florida mein Vater reist oft von Washington nach Florida; (indicating desultoriness) von etw dat in etw dat
    the woman walked \from room to room die Frau lief vom einen Raum in den anderen
    4. (as starting time) von + dat
    , ab + dat
    the price will rise by 3p a litre \from tomorrow der Preis steigt ab morgen um 3 Pence pro Liter
    \from the thirteenth century aus dem dreizehnten Jahrhundert
    \from sth to sth von etw dat bis etw dat
    the show will run \from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. die Show dauert von 10.00 Uhr bis 14.00 Uhr
    \from start to finish vom Anfang bis zum Ende
    \from day to day von Tag zu Tag, täglich
    her strength improved steadily \from day to day sie wurden jeden Tag ein bisschen stärker
    \from hour to hour von Stunde zu Stunde, stündlich
    \from time to time von Zeit zu Zeit, ab und zu
    \from that day [or time] on[wards] von diesem Tag [an], seitdem
    they were friends \from that day on seit diesem Tag sind sie Freunde
    \from now/then on von da an, seither
    as \from... esp BRIT ab... + dat
    as \from 1 January, a free market will be created ab dem 1. Januar haben wir einen freien Markt
    5. (as starting condition) bei + dat
    prices start \from £2.99 die Preise beginnen bei 2,99 Pfund
    \from sth to sth von etw dat auf etw dat
    the number has risen \from 25 to 200 in three years die Anzahl ist in drei Jahren von 25 auf 200 gestiegen
    she translated into German \from the Latin text sie übersetzte aus dem Lateinischen ins Deutsche
    things went \from bad to worse die Situation wurde noch schlimmer
    \from strength to strength immer besser
    she has gone \from strength to strength sie eilte von Erfolg zu Erfolg
    tickets will cost \from $10 to $45 die Karten kosten zwischen 10 und 45 Dollar
    \from soup to nuts alles zusammen
    the whole dinner, \from soup to nuts, costs $55 das ganze Essen mit allem drum und dran kostet 55 Dollar
    anything \from geography to history alles von A bis Z
    6. after n (at distance to) von + dat
    we're about a mile \from home wir sind ca. eine Meile von zu Hause entfernt
    a day's walk \from her camping spot eine Tageswanderung von ihrem Zeltplatz
    \from sth to sth von etw dat zu etw dat
    it's about two kilometres \from the airport to your hotel der Flughafen ist rund zwei Kilometer vom Hotel entfernt
    \from sth aus + dat
    though \from working-class parents, he made it to the Fortune 500 list obwohl er als Arbeiterkind aufwuchs, ist er heute unter den 500 Reichsten der Welt
    my mother is \from France meine Mutter stammt aus Frankreich
    I'm \from New York ich komme aus New York
    daylight comes \from the sun das Tageslicht kommt von der Sonne
    8. after vb (in temporary location) von + dat
    , aus + dat
    he hasn't returned \from work yet er ist noch nicht von der Arbeit zurück
    she called him \from the hotel sie rief mich aus dem Hotel an
    they're here fresh \from the States sie sind gerade aus den USA angekommen
    his return \from the army was celebrated seine Rückkehr aus der Armee wurde gefeiert
    sb \from sth von + dat
    they sent someone \from the local newspaper sie schickten jemanden von der örtlichen Zeitung
    9. after vb (as source) von + dat
    can I borrow $10 \from you? kann ich mir 10 Dollar von dir leihen?
    the vegetables come \from an organic farm das Gemüse kommt von einem Biobauernhof
    sth \from sb [to sb/sth] etw von jdm (für jdn/etw)
    I wonder who this card is \from ich frage mich, von wem wohl diese Karte ist
    this is a present \from me to you das ist ein Geschenk von mir für dich
    \from sth aus etw dat
    the seats are made \from leather die Sitze sind aus Leder
    in America, most people buy toys \from plastic in Amerika kaufen die meisten Leute Spielzeug aus Plastik
    11. after vb (removed from) aus + dat
    to extract usable fuel \from crude oil verwertbaren Brennstoff aus Rohöl gewinnen
    they took the child \from its parents sie nahmen das Kind von seinen Eltern weg
    he knows right \from wrong er kann gut und böse unterscheiden
    sth [subtracted] \from sth MATH etw minus etw dat
    three \from sixteen is thirteen sechzehn minus drei ist dreizehn
    12. (considering) aufgrund + gen
    , wegen + gen
    to conclude \from the evidence that aufgrund des Beweismaterials zu dem Schluss kommen, dass
    to make a conclusion from sth wegen einer S. gen zu einem Schluss kommen
    information obtained \from papers and books Informationen aus Zeitungen und Büchern
    \from looking at the clouds, I would say it's going to rain wenn ich mir die Wolken so ansehe, würde ich sagen, es wird Regen geben
    13. after vb (caused by) an + dat
    he died \from his injuries er starb an seinen Verletzungen
    she suffers \from arthritis sie leidet unter Arthritis
    to do sth \from sth etw aus etw dat tun
    he did it \from jealousy er hat es aus Eifersucht getan
    to do sth \from doing sth etw durch etw akk tun
    she made her fortune \from investing in property sie hat ihr Vermögen durch Investitionen in Grundstücke gemacht
    to get sick \from salmonella sich akk mit Salmonellen infizieren
    to reduce the risk \from radiation das Risiko einer Verstrahlung reduzieren
    they got a lot of happiness \from hearing the news sie haben sich über die Neuigkeiten unheimlich gefreut
    14. after vb (indicating protection) vor + dat
    to guard sb \from sth jdn vor etw dat schützen
    they insulated their house \from the cold sie dämmten ihr Haus gegen die Kälte
    they found shelter \from the storm sie fanden Schutz vor dem Sturm
    15. after vb (indicating prevention) vor + dat
    the truth was kept \from the public die Wahrheit wurde vor der Öffentlichkeit geheim gehalten
    the bank loan saved her company \from bankruptcy das Bankdarlehen rettete die Firma vor der Pleite
    he saved him \from death er rettete ihm das Leben
    he has been banned \from driving for six months er darf sechs Monate lang nicht Auto fahren
    \from doing sth von etw dat
    he boss tried to discourage her \from looking for a new job ihr Chef versuchte, sie davon abzubringen, nach einem neuen Job zu suchen
    16. after vb (indicating distinction) von + dat
    conditions vary \from one employer to another die Bedingungen sind von Arbeitgeber zu Arbeitgeber unterschiedlich
    he knows his friends \from his enemies er kann seine Freunde von seinen Feinden unterscheiden
    his opinion could hardly be more different \from mine unsere Meinungen könnten kaum noch unterschiedlicher sein
    17.
    \from the bottom of one's heart aus tiefstem Herzen
    * * *
    [frɒm]
    prep

    he/the train has come from London — er/der Zug ist von London gekommen

    he/it comes or is from Germany — er/es kommt or ist aus Deutschland

    where have you come from today?von wo sind Sie heute gekommen?

    where does he come from?, where is he from? — woher kommt or stammt er?

    a representative from the company — ein Vertreter/eine Vertreterin der Firma

    2) (indicating time, in past) seit (+dat); (in future) ab (+dat), von (+dat)... an

    from... on — ab...

    from now on — von jetzt an, ab jetzt

    from then onvon da an; (in past also) seither

    from his childhood — von Kindheit an, von klein auf

    as from the 6th May — vom 6. Mai an, ab (dem) 6. Mai

    3) (indicating distance) von (+dat) (... weg); (from town etc) von (+dat)... (entfernt)
    4) (indicating sender, giver) von (+dat)

    tell him from me —

    "from..." (on envelope, parcel) — "Absender...", "Abs...."

    5) (indicating removal) von (+dat); (= out of from pocket, cupboard etc) aus (+dat)

    to take/grab etc sth from sb — jdm etw wegnehmen/wegreißen etc

    he took it from the top/middle/bottom of the pile — er nahm es oben vom Stapel/aus der Mitte des Stapels/unten vom Stapel weg

    6) (indicating source) von (+dat); (= out of) aus (+dat)

    where did you get that from?wo hast du das her?, woher hast du das?

    I got it from the supermarket/the library/Kathy — ich habe es aus dem Supermarkt/aus der Bücherei/von Kathy

    to drink from a stream/glass — aus einem Bach/Glas trinken

    quotation from "Hamlet"/the Bible/Shakespeare — Zitat nt aus "Hamlet"/aus der Bibel/nach Shakespeare

    made from... — aus... hergestellt

    7) (= modelled on) nach (+dat)
    8) (indicating lowest amount) ab (+dat)

    from £2/the age of 16 (upwards) — ab £ 2/16 Jahren (aufwärts)

    dresses (ranging) from £60 to £80 — Kleider pl zwischen £ 60 und £ 80

    9)

    (indicating escape) he fled from the enemy — er floh vor dem Feind

    10)

    (indicating change) things went from bad to worse — es wurde immer schlimmer

    11)

    (indicating difference) he is quite different from the others — er ist ganz anders als die andern

    I like all sports, from swimming to wrestling — ich mag alle Sportarten, von Schwimmen bis Ringen

    12)

    (= because of, due to) to act from compassion — aus Mitleid handeln

    13)

    (= on the basis of) from experience — aus Erfahrung

    to judge from recent reports... — nach neueren Berichten zu urteilen...

    to conclude from the information — aus den Informationen einen Schluss ziehen, von den Informationen schließen

    from what I heard —

    from what I can see... — nach dem, was ich sehen kann...

    from the look of things... — (so) wie die Sache aussieht...

    14) (MATH)

    £10 will be deducted from your account — £ 10 werden von Ihrem Konto abgebucht

    15)

    (in set phrases, see also other element) to prevent/stop sb from doing sth — jdn daran hindern/davon zurückhalten, etw zu tun

    he prevented me from coming — er hielt mich davon ab, zu kommen

    16) +adv von

    from inside/underneath — von innen/unten

    17) +prep

    from above or over/across sth — über etw (acc) hinweg

    from out of sth —

    from inside/outside the house — von drinnen/draußen

    * * *
    from [frɒm; unbetont frəm; US frɑm; frəm] präp
    1. von, aus, von … aus oder her, aus … heraus, von oder aus … herab:
    from the well aus dem Brunnen;
    from the sky vom Himmel;
    he is ( oder comes) from London er ist oder kommt aus London;
    from crisis to crisis von einer Krise in die andere
    2. von, von … an, seit:
    from 2 to 4 o’clock von 2 bis 4 Uhr;
    from day to day von Tag zu Tag;
    a month from today heute in einem Monat;
    from Monday (onward[s]) Br, from Monday on US ab Montag
    3. von … an:
    I saw from 10 to 20 boats ich sah 10 bis 20 Boote;
    good wines from £5 gute Weine von 5 Pfund an (aufwärts)
    4. (weg oder entfernt) von:
    ten miles from Rome 10 Meilen von Rom (weg oder entfernt)
    5. von, aus, aus … heraus:
    he took it from me er nahm es mir weg;
    stolen from the shop (the table) aus dem Laden (vom Tisch) gestohlen;
    they released him from prison sie entließen ihn aus dem Gefängnis
    6. von, aus (Wandlung):
    change from red to green von Rot zu Grün übergehen;
    from dishwasher to millionaire vom Tellerwäscher zum Millionär;
    an increase from 5 to 8 per cent eine Steigerung von 5 auf 8 Prozent
    he does not know black from white er kann Schwarz und Weiß nicht auseinanderhalten, er kann Schwarz und oder von Weiß nicht unterscheiden; academic.ru/637/Adam">Adam, different 2, tell A 8
    8. von, aus, aus … heraus (Quelle):
    draw a conclusion from the evidence einen Schluss aus dem Beweismaterial ziehen;
    from what he said nach dem, was er sagte;
    a quotation from Shakespeare ein Zitat aus Shakespeare;
    four points from four games SPORT vier Punkte aus vier Spielen
    9. von, von … aus (Stellung):
    from his point of view von seinem Standpunkt (aus)
    10. von (Geben etc):
    a gift from his son ein Geschenk seines Sohnes oder von seinem Sohn
    11. nach:
    painted from nature nach der Natur gemalt;
    from a novel by … ( FILM, TV) nach einem Roman von …
    12. aus, vor (dat), wegen (gen), infolge von, an (dat) (Grund):
    he died from fatigue er starb vor Erschöpfung
    13. siehe die Verbindungen mit den einzelnen Verben etc
    f. abk
    1. SCHIFF fathom
    2. feet pl
    3. LING female
    6. foot
    7. PHYS frequency
    8. from
    fm abk
    2. from
    fr. abk
    3. from
    * * *
    preposition
    1) (expr. starting point) von; (from within) aus

    [come] from Paris/Munich — aus Paris/München [kommen]

    2) (expr. beginning) von

    from the year 1972 we never saw him again — seit 1972 haben wir ihn nie mehr [wieder]gesehen

    from tomorrow [until...] — von morgen an [bis...]

    start work from 2 August — am 2. August anfangen zu arbeiten

    3) (expr. lower limit) von

    blouses [ranging] from £2 to £5 — Blusen [im Preis] zwischen 2 und 5 Pfund

    dresses from £20 [upwards] — Kleider von 20 Pfund aufwärts od. ab 20 Pfund

    from the age of 18 [upwards] — ab 18 Jahre od. Jahren

    from a child (since childhood) schon als Kind

    4) (expr. distance) von
    5) (expr. removal, avoidance) von; (expr. escape) vor (+ Dat.)
    6) (expr. change) von

    from... to... — von... zu...; (relating to price) von... auf...

    from crisis to crisis, from one crisis to another — von einer Krise zur anderen

    7) (expr. source, origin) aus

    where do you come from?, where are you from? — woher kommen Sie?

    8) (expr. viewpoint) von [... aus]
    9) (expr. giver, sender) von

    take it from me that... — lass dir gesagt sein, dass...

    painted from life/nature — nach dem Leben/nach der Natur gemalt

    11) (expr. reason, cause)

    she was weak from hunger/tired from so much work — sie war schwach vor Hunger/müde von der vielen Arbeit

    from what I can see/have heard... — wie ich das sehe/wie ich gehört habe,...

    12) with adv. von [unten, oben, innen, außen]
    13) with prep.

    from behind/under[neath] something — hinter/unter etwas (Dat.) hervor

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

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  • 9 export

    1. n
    1) вывоз, экспорт, экспортирование
    2) pl предметы вывоза, статьи экспорта

    to close one's border to export — закрывать границу для экспорта

    to cut down exports — сокращать / снижать экспорт

    to diversify the exports — диверсифицировать экспорт товаров, производить многономенклатурную продукцию на экспорт

    to eliminate export(s) — изымать / исключать экспорт

    to improve exports — улучшать экспорт, способствовать развитию экспорта

    - agricultural export
    - articles of export
    - capital export
    - chief exports
    - concessional exports
    - decline in the volume of exports
    - direct export
    - drop in export
    - export by countries of destination
    - export by countries of origin
    - export of goods and services
    - export of illegal arms
    - export of private capital
    - export of technology
    - export of vast sums of private capital
    - exports are surging
    - exports exceed imports
    - exports run down
    - huge illegal exports
    - invisible exports
    - lost exports
    - military export
    - national export
    - net export
    - net exports
    - nonagricultural export
    - projected export
    - slackening in exports
    - slow growth of exports
    - staple exports
    - state regulation of export
    - subsidized export
    - surge of exports
    - underdevelopment of exports
    - world export 2. v
    вывозить; экспортировать

    Politics english-russian dictionary > export

  • 10 trade

    1. n
    1) торговля; сделка; обмен
    2) профессия, ремесло
    3) отрасль, индустрия
    4) развед. жарг. британская разведка

    to carry on / to conduct / to do trade in smthвести торговлю чем-л.

    to expand the flow of trade between / among... — расширять торговые отношения между...

    to hinder / to impede trade — препятствовать торговле

    to improve world trade — улучшать / оздоровлять мировую торговлю

    to liberalize world trade — обеспечивать бо́льшую свободу международной торговли

    to prevent healthy trade between... — препятствовать нормальной / здоровой торговле между...

    to prosecute trade — вести торговлю; заниматься торговлей

    to revive trade — оживлять / возобновлять торговлю

    - arms trade
    - balanced trade
    - bilateral trade
    - brisk trade
    - by trade
    - cash trade
    - classical trade
    - compensation trade
    - compensatory trade
    - contraband trade
    - cooperative trade
    - counter trade
    - cross-border trade
    - depressed trade
    - discrimination in international trade
    - disruption of world trade
    - diversified trade
    - domestic trade
    - drug trade
    - duty-free trade
    - East-West trade
    - expansion of trade
    - extension of trade
    - external trade
    - fair and equitable trade
    - fair trade
    - fairer system of world trade
    - foreign trade
    - free international trade
    - free trade
    - frontier trade
    - general trade
    - healthy state of a nation's trade
    - home trade
    - illegal / illicit trade
    - imbalanced trade
    - improved trade
    - increase in the volume of trade
    - inequality in trade
    - inequitable terms of trade
    - inland trade
    - installment trade
    - interior trade
    - intermediate trade
    - internal trade
    - international trade
    - inter-regional trade
    - invisible trade
    - key trades
    - large-scale trade
    - liberalization of foreign trade
    - long-run trade
    - long-term trade
    - low level of trade
    - market trade
    - merchandise trade
    - Minister for Foreign Trade
    - Ministry for Foreign Trade
    - multilateral trade
    - mutual trade
    - mutually advantageous trade
    - mutually beneficial trade
    - nonequivalent trade
    - overseas trade
    - peaceful trade
    - private trade
    - profitable trade
    - quantum of trade
    - rapacious trade
    - reexport trade
    - restriction of trade
    - retail trade
    - right to choose one's trade
    - roaring trade
    - service trade
    - severe curb on trade
    - share of world trade
    - skilled trade
    - small-scale trade
    - state trade
    - structure of trade
    - surge in world trade
    - total trade
    - tourist trade
    - trade between smb is booming
    - trade by countries
    - trade by regions
    - trade has been building up
    - trade in commodities
    - trade in patents and licenses
    - trade may go into a steep / prolonged decline
    - transit trade
    - value of external trade
    - value of foreign trade
    - value of international trade
    - value of overseas trade
    - vigor in the export trade
    - visible trade
    - wholesale trade
    - wide field for trade
    - world trade
    2. v
    1) торговать, обменивать
    2) извлекать выгоду, использовать в своих интересах; злоупотреблять чем-л., спекулировать на чем-л.

    to trade on smthперен. сыграть на чем-л.

    to trade smb for smbобменивать кого-л. на кого-л. (напр. заложника)

    to trade smb off against smb else — обменивать кого-л. на кого-л. (напр. заложника)

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  • 11 spike

    1. noun
    1) Stachel, der; (of running shoe) Spike, der
    2) in pl. (shoes) Spikes Pl.
    2. transitive verb
    1)

    spike somebody's guns(fig.) jemandem einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen (ugs.)

    2) (coll.): (add spirits or drugs to)

    somebody spiked his drinkjemand hat ihm etwas in seinen Drink getan

    * * *
    1) (a hard, thin, pointed object (of wood, metal etc): The fence had long spikes on top.) die Spitze
    2) (a pointed piece of metal attached to the sole of a shoe etc to prevent slipping.) der Laufdorn
    - academic.ru/69511/spiked">spiked
    - spiky
    - spikiness
    * * *
    [spaɪk]
    I. n
    1. (nail) Nagel m; of a rail Spitze f; of a plant, animal Stachel m; MED ( fam: needle) Nadel f
    2. (on shoes) Spike m
    3. (running shoes)
    \spikes pl Spikes pl
    4. AM (stiletto heels)
    \spikes pl Pfennigabsätze pl, Bleistiftabsätze pl ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ
    5. (increase) Steigerung f
    \spike in productivity Produktivitätssteigerung f
    6. ELEC Spannungsspitze f, Überschwingspitze f
    7. (in volleyball) Schmetterball m
    II. vt
    1. (with pointy object)
    to \spike sth etw aufspießen
    to \spike sb SPORT jdn mit Spikes verletzen
    to \spike sth etw durchkreuzen fam
    to \spike an article/a story einen Artikel/eine Geschichte ablehnen; (stop)
    to \spike a plan/a project einen Plan/ein Projekt einstellen
    to \spike sb's drink/the punch einen Schuss Alkohol in jds Getränk/die Bowle geben
    to \spike sth with sth etw mit etw dat würzen fig
    to \spike a ball einen Ball schmettern
    to \spike sth etw hochjagen
    7.
    to \spike sb's guns ( fam) jdm einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen fam
    * * *
    [spaɪk]
    1. n
    1) (on wall, railing, helmet etc) Spitze f; (= nail) Nagel m; (on plant) Stachel m; (on shoe, tyre etc) Spike m; (for receipts, wastepaper etc) Dorn m
    See:
    also spikes
    2) (BOT) Ähre f
    3) (ELEC) Spannungsspitze f
    4) (= hair) (Igel)schnitt m
    2. vt
    1) (lit: pierce) aufspießen; (with weapon) durchbohren
    2) (fig: frustrate) rumours den Boden entziehen (+dat); plans ruinieren

    to spike sb's guns ( Brit inf )jdm den Wind aus den Segeln nehmen

    3) (= lace) drink einen Schuss zusetzen (+dat)
    * * *
    spike1 [spaık] s BOT
    1. (Gras-, Korn) Ähre f
    2. (Blüten) Ähre f
    spike2 [spaık]
    A s
    1. Stift m, Spitze f, Stachel m, Dorn m
    2. TECH (Haken-, Schienen) Nagel m, Bolzen m
    3. Eisenspitze f (am Zaun)
    4. SPORT
    a) Spike m
    b) pl Spikes pl (Rennschuhe etc)
    5. pl AUTO Spikes pl (am Reifen)
    6. JAGD Spieß m (eines Junghirsches)
    7. MED Zacke f (in der Fieberkurve etc)
    8. ELEK
    a) nadelförmiger Impuls
    b) auch RADIO, TV Überschwingspitze f
    9. FISCH junge Makrele
    10. spike heel
    11. Volleyball: Schmetterschlag m
    B v/t
    1. festnageln
    2. mit (Eisen)Spitzen etc versehen
    3. aufspießen
    4. SPORT mit den Spikes verletzen
    5. MIL, HIST ein Geschütz vernageln:
    spike sb’s guns fig jemandem einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen
    6. fig US erledigen
    7. a) einen Schuss Alkohol in ein Getränk geben
    b) fig würzen, pfeffern
    8. Volleyball: den Ball schmettern
    9. Journalismus: eine Story ablehnen
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) Stachel, der; (of running shoe) Spike, der
    2) in pl. (shoes) Spikes Pl.
    2. transitive verb
    1)

    spike somebody's guns(fig.) jemandem einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen (ugs.)

    2) (coll.): (add spirits or drugs to)
    * * *
    n.
    Nadel -n f.
    Spitze -n f.
    Stift -e m. v.
    festnageln v.

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  • 12 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.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 13 Spread

    subs.
    Increase: P. ἐπίδοσις, ἡ.
    ——————
    v. trans.
    Stretch out: P. and V. τείνειν, ἐκτείνειν.
    Strew: P. and V. στορεννύναι, Ar. and V. στορνύναι.
    Circulate (rumours, etc.): P. and V. διαγγέλλειν, διασπείρειν, Ar. and V. σπείρειν, P. κατασκεδαννύναι.
    Spread reports (absol.): P. διαθροεῖν, λογοποιεῖν.
    Diffuse: P. and V. διασπείρειν, διαδιδόναι, V. ἐνδατεῖσθαι, Ar. and V. σπείρειν.
    Spread (a table, etc.): use Ar. and P. παρατιθέναι.
    Let a rich table be spread for you: V. σοὶ πλουσία τράπεζα κείσθω (Soph., El. 361).
    Spread out: Ar. διαπεταννύναι.
    Stretch out: P. and V. τείνειν, ἐκτείνειν.
    Spread out the hands: V. ναπτύσσειν χέρας.
    Lengthen: P. and V. τείνειν, ἐκτείνειν, μηκνειν; see Prolong.
    Spread over: Ar. and P. καταπεταννναι (τινά τινι), V. περτείνειν (τί τινος).
    Spread under: P. and V. ποστορεννύναι (Xen., also Ar.).
    V. intrans.
    Extend: P. and V. τείνειν.
    To prevent the earth from spreading far: P. ὅπως μὴ διαχέοιτο ἐπὶ πολύ τὸ χῶμα (Thuc. 2, 75).
    to the upper city: P. ὕστερον δὲ καὶ εἰς τὴν ἄνω πόλιν ἀφίκετο (Thuc. 2, 48).
    Spread (of rumours, etc.): P. and V. διέρχεσθαι. V. ἐπέρχεσθαι.
    Increase: Ar. and P. ἐπιδιδόναι.
    Spread among (of rumours, etc.): P. and V. διέρχεσθαι (acc.), V. διήκειν (acc.).
    Spread over ( of disease): P. ἐπινέμεσθαι (acc.) (Thuc. 2, 54).
    Spread round: P. περιτείνεσθαι.
    ——————
    adj.
    Of a bed: V. στρωτός.
    Ill-spread: V. κακόστρωτος.

    Woodhouse English-Greek dictionary. A vocabulary of the Attic language > Spread

  • 14 effective

    ɪˈfektɪv
    1. прил.
    1) действенный, результативный, эффективный (against, in) the first effective shot ≈ первый результативный выстрел Fewer men, better trained and disciplined, could be made more effective. ≈ Меньшее количество людей, но лучше обученных и более дисциплинированных, могли бы достичь гораздо лучшего результата. Syn: efficient, effectual
    2) действующий, имеющий силу( о законе и т. п.) The tax becomes effective next year. ≈ Налог вступит в силу в следующем году. Syn: effectual
    3) эффектный, броский, поражающий a gold lame fabric studded with effective precious stones ≈ золотая пластинка с впечатляющими драгоценными камнями Syn: impressive, striking
    4) годный, готовый к действию (преим. о солдатах или моряках) effective manpower ≈ готовая к работе людская сила
    5) фактический the need to increase effective demand for goods ≈ необходимость повышения платежеспособного спроса на товары Syn: actual, de facto Ant: potential
    2., nominal
    6) имеющий хождение( о денежных знаках) effective moneyналичные деньги
    7) линг. эффективный (о глаголе - представляющий действие в его пределе или результате)
    8) рабочий, полезныймощности, объеме, площади и т. п.)
    2. гл.
    1) осуществлять, совершать, выполнять (обычно подразумевается преодоление каких-л. препятствий) The most skilful chemists have hitherto failed to effect such decomposition. ≈ Даже наиболее одаренным химикам не удавалось до сих пор произвести такое разложение. I'll cross the Sea to effect this marriage. ≈ Чтобы заключить этот брак, я переплыву море( Шекспир, "Генрих VI", часть 3, акт 2, сцена
    4) The earliest purchases are effected in immediate proximity to the mines. ≈ Наиболее ранние закупки производятся в непосредственной близости от шахт. effective an insurance policy effective payment Syn: bring about, accomplish
    2) а) делать, изготовлять, производить б) редк. архаич. строить The Lighthouse happily effected by Mr. Rudyerd. ≈ Маяк, успешно возведенный мистером Редьярдом. ∙ Syn: cause, produce, realize, fulfil, carry out Ant: destroy, deter, hinder, prevent, stop ( военное) боец( военное) pl численный состав( армии), эффективы (военное) pl боевой состав действительнный;
    действенный;
    эффективный;
    успешный;
    полезный - * co-operation плодотворное сотрудничество - * measures действенные меры - * control эффективный контроль - * steps towards peace эффективные шаги, направленные на укрепление мира - to be * against smth помогать против чего-л - * beaten zone (военное) полоса действительного поражения - * range( военное) эффективная дальность;
    дальность действительного огня - * bursting radius( военное) радиус поражения осколками;
    убойный радиус - * fire (военное) действительный огонь - * dust (специальное) сильнодействующий инсектицид;
    дуст действующий, имеющий силу (о законе и т. п.) - * data дата вступления в силу - to be /to become/ * вступать в силу эффектный, впечатляющий - * speaker оратор, владеющий аудиторией - * picture эффектная /впечатляющая/ картина фактический - * revenue реальный доход - * rate (финансовое) фактическая ставка( налогового обложения) - * demand (экономика) фактический /платежеспособный/ спрос - * forces( военное) наличный боевой состав;
    кадровые войска имеющий хождениеденьгах) - * coin звонкая монета - * money наличные деньги завершительный, результативный, эффективный (техническое) полезный, рабочий (об объеме и т. п.) - * area рабочая поверхность;
    полезная площадь сечения - * power эффективная мощность( двигателя) - * head (гидрология) полезный напор - * resistance (электротехника) эффективное сопротивление > * cough кашель с мокротой be ~ иметь силу ~ действующий, имеющий силу (о законе и т. п.) ;
    to become effective входить в силу;
    effective from 22 hours, December 31 вступающий в силу с десяти часов вечера 31 декабря become ~ вступать в силу effective pl боевой состав ~ полезный;
    effective area рабочая поверхность( площади) ;
    effective head гидр. полезный напор ~ действительный, эффективный, результативный;
    effective demand эк. платежеспособный спрос ~ воен. годный;
    (полностью) готовый к действию;
    действующий;
    эффективный;
    effective range дальность действительного огня;
    effective fire действительный огонь ~ действующий, имеющий силу (о законе и т. п.) ;
    to become effective входить в силу;
    effective from 22 hours, December 31 вступающий в силу с десяти часов вечера 31 декабря ~ полезный;
    effective area рабочая поверхность (площади) ;
    effective head гидр. полезный напор ~ воен. боец ~ вступивший в силу ~ воен. годный;
    (полностью) готовый к действию;
    действующий;
    эффективный;
    effective range дальность действительного огня;
    effective fire действительный огонь ~ действенный, эффективный ~ действенный ~ действительный, эффективный, результативный;
    effective demand эк. платежеспособный спрос ~ действующий, имеющий силу (о законе и т. п.) ;
    to become effective входить в силу;
    effective from 22 hours, December 31 вступающий в силу с десяти часов вечера 31 декабря ~ действующий, имеющий силу ~ действующий ~ законный ~ имеющий силу ~ имеющий хождение (о денежных знаках) ~ имеющий хождение (о деньгах) ~ имеющий хождение ~ полезный;
    effective area рабочая поверхность (площади) ;
    effective head гидр. полезный напор ~ полезный ~ фактический ~ эффективный ~ эффектный, впечатляющий ~ эффектный;
    производящий впечатление, впечатляющий ~ date of payment фактическая дата платежа ~ exchange rate вал.-фин. действующий валютный курс ~ intervention rate бирж. частота вмешательства для поддержания курса ~ introductory yield реальный начальный доход по ценным бумагам ~ maturity match бирж. эффективное совпадение по срокам ~ rate of interest реальная процентная ставка ~ tax rate фактическая налоговая ставка ~ until the end of the month действителен только до конца текущего месяца ~ yield on issue фактический доход от выпуска ценных бумаг ~ воен. годный;
    (полностью) готовый к действию;
    действующий;
    эффективный;
    effective range дальность действительного огня;
    effective fire действительный огонь legally ~ законно действующий legally ~ имеющий силу закона

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > effective

  • 15 risk

    1. сущ.
    1) общ. риск, опасность (как ситуация, которая может привести к материальным убыткам или другим нежелательным последствиям)

    fire risk — риск пожара [возгорания\]; пожароопасность

    risk to smb./smth. — риск для кого-л./чего-л.

    at risk to smb./smth. — с риском для кого-л./для чего-л.

    minimization of risk, risk minimization — минимизация риска

    to mitigate risks — смягчать [ослаблять\] риски

    avoidance of risk, risk avoidance — избежание риска

    to limit the risk of (smth.) — ограничивать риск (чего-л.)

    limited risk — ограниченный (какой-л. риск)

    to increase the risk of (smth.) — увеличивать риск (чего-л.)

    to run a [the\] risk, to run risks — рисковать

    to put smb./smth. at risk — подвергать риску кого-л./что-л.

    to incur a risk — подвергаться риску, рисковать

    to face a risk — сталкиваться с риском, подвергаться риску

    to take [to undertake\] a risk, to take [undertake\] risks — рисковать, идти на риск; брать [принимать\] на себя риск

    to assume a risk — брать [принимать\] на себя риск

    assumption of risk, risk assumption — принятие риска

    to reject [to decline\] a risk — отказаться от риска, отказаться принять риск

    to carry [to bear\] a risk — а) нести риск; подвергаться риску; б) нести риск, быть источником риска

    Floodwaters can carry the risk of typhoid or other dangerous diseases. — Наводнение может нести риск распространения тифа или других опасных заболеваний.

    All funds carry the risk of losing money — some more than others. — Все фонды рискуют потерять деньги — некоторые в большей степени, чем другие.

    to underwrite risks — страховать риски, принимать риски на страхование

    underwriting of risks, risk underwriting — андеррайтинг рисков

    calculation of risk, risk calculation — расчет риска

    to evaluate [to estimate\] risk — оценивать риск

    risk evaluation [valuation\], evaluation [valuation\] of risk — оценка риска

    to identify risk — идентифицировать [распознавать\] риск

    to prioritize risks — приоритезировать риски, ранжировать риски по приоритету

    to measure risk — измерять [оценивать\] риск

    risk model, model of risk — модель риска

    risk modelling, modelling of risk — моделирование риска

    risk coverage, coverage of risk — покрытие риска

    distribution of risk, risk distribution — распределение риска

    to entail risk — быть связанным с риском, влечь за собой риск

    Bonds also entail the risk of default, or the risk that an issuer will be unable to make income or principal payments. — Облигации также связаны с риском неплатежа, или риском, что эмитент будет неспособен выплачивать доходы по облигациям или погашать основную сумму облигаций.

    risk disclosure, disclosure of risk — раскрытие информации о риске

    to transfer risks — перекладывать [передавать\] риски

    risk retention, retention of risk — удержание риска

    risk sharing, sharing of risk — разделение риска

    diversification of risk, risk diversification — диверсификация риска

    admissible [allowed\] risk — допустимый риск

    maximum [maximal\] risk — максимальный риск

    minimal [minimum\] risk — минимальный риск

    negligible risk — пренебрежимо малый риск, незначительный риск

    degree of risk, risk degree — степень риска

    level of risk, risk level — уровень риска

    element of risk, risk element — элемент риска

    source of risk, risk source — источник риска

    It's not worth the risk. — Это не стоит риска.

    See:
    accounting risk, amount at risk, at risk, at risk rules, basis risk, bond-yield-plus-risk-premium approach, Business Environment Risk Information Index, business risk, buyer's risk, call risk, capital risk, cash flow risk, collection risk, commercial credit risk, concentration risk, country risk, credit risk, currency risk, default risk, delivery risk, earnings-at-risk, event risk, exchange risk, exchange rate risk, export risk, financial credit risk, financial risk, high-risk automobile insurer, high-risk product, inflation risk, interest rate risk, investment risk, legal risk, liability risk, liquidity risk, margin risk, market risk, maturity risk, prepayment risk, price of risk, price risk, producer's risk, property risk, pure risk, regulatory risk, reinvestment rate risk, reinvestment risk, return on risk-adjusted capital, seasonal risk, settlement risk, speculative risk, stand-alone risk, systematic risk, transaction risk, underwriting risk, unlimited risk, unsystematic risk, value-at-risk, vega risk, yield curve risk, risk analysis, risk analyst, risk arbitrage, risk-averse, risk aversion, risk capital, risk investment, risk lover, risk management, risk manager, risk measure, risk-neutral, risk premium, price of risk, risk response planning, risk transfer, risk/return indifference curve, risk/return trade-off, risk-adjusted discount rate, risk-adjusted rate of return, risk-adjusted return, risk-adjusted return on capital, risk-adjusted return on risk-adjusted capital, risk-averse investor, risk-free, risk-free rate, risk-free return, riskless arbitrage, riskless transaction, risk-neutral investor, risk-seeking investor, risk-weighted assets
    2) общ. риск (как количественная мера вероятности наступления какого-л. неблагоприятного события)
    See:
    3) общ. объект риска ( о человеке или предмете)

    security risk — риск для безопасности, угроза безопасности (о человеке, объекте, действии или состоянии); неблагонадежный человек

    See:
    4)
    а) страх. риск (событие, в отношении которого заключается договор страхования)
    Syn:
    See:
    б) страх. застрахованное лицо; застрахованная вещь; риск (лицо или вещь, которые могут пострадать в результате какого-л. события и в отношении которых заключается договор страхования)
    See:
    5) мет. риск (ситуация, когда результат какого-л. экономического выбора имеет случайный характер, но при этом известно вероятностное распределение значений этого результата)
    See:
    2. гл.
    общ. рисковать (чем-л.)

    to risk one's life [one's health\] — рисковать жизнью [здоровьем\]


    * * *
    риск: вероятность понести убытки или упустить выгоду (вероятность наступления неблагоприятного события); количественно измеряемая неуверенность в получении соответствующего дохода или убытка; существует множество классификаций рисков: 1) капитальный риск - риск того, что невозврат кредитов ухудшит состояние капитала банка и ему придется выпускать новые акции; 2) кредитный риск, или риск погашения, - риск невозврата кредита, непогашения обязательства; 3) риск поставки - риск непоставки финансового инструмента (иностранной валюты); 4) валютный риск - риск потерь из-за изменения валютного курса; 5) процентный риск - риск уменьшения дохода по активу и роста расходов по обязательству из-за изменения процентных ставок; также риск уменьшения цены облигации с фиксированной ставкой в результате роста рыночных ставок; 6) риск ликвидности - риск нехватки наличности и краткосрочных активов для выполнения обязательств, невозможности быстро купить или продать товар или финансовый инструмент; 7) операционный риск - риск того, что будет нарушена работа операционных систем банка и он не сможет вовремя выполнять обязательства; 8) политический риск - риск того, что политическая нестабильность в стране приведет к невыполнению обязательств по кредитам (если государственных крдитов - "суверенный" риск); также риск национализации и др. неблаго-приятных действий властей; 9) риск платежной системы (системный риск) - риск того, что банкротство или неспособность крупного банка функционировать вызовет цепную реакцию в банковской системе; 10) актуарный риск - риск (вероятность) наступления неблагоприятного события, которое страховая компания покрывает в обмен на стразовую премию; 11) инфляционный риск - риск снижения стоимости активов или доходов в результате общего роста цен в стране; 12) инвентарный риск - риск обесценения запасов компании в результате снижения цен, морального старения товара; 13) риск основной суммы - риск обесценения основной суммы инвестиций; 14) риск андеррайтинга - риск - принимаемый на себя андеррайтером в случае неразмещения новых бумаг среди инвесторов; также риск падения рыночной цены в момент размещения; см. absorbable/ actuarial /basis /capital /commercial /concentration /contagion /country /credit /del credere /delivery /exchange /financial /inflation /insurable /interest rate /inventory /investment risk /limited /liquidity /manufacturing /market /market liquidity /operational /payments system /political /price /pure /refinance /reinvestment /repayment /settlement /sovereign /standard /systematic /systemic /transaction /translation /transfer /underwriting /uninsurable /unlimited /unsystematic /warehouse risk and risk of principal.
    * * *
    риск; клиент (страх.)
    . измеримая вероятность потери; . exposure to uncertainty Глоссарий финансовых и биржевых терминов .
    * * *
    Финансы/Кредит/Валюта

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > risk

  • 16 disproportion

    Politics english-russian dictionary > disproportion

  • 17 weapon

    n
    1) оружие; вооружение

    to accept nuclear weapons on one's territory — допускать размещение ядерного оружия на своей территории

    to battle-test one's weapons — проводить боевые испытания своего оружия

    to block the supply of weapons from... — препятствовать поставкам оружия откуда-л.

    to deliver nuclear weapons — доставлять / нести ядерное оружие

    to destroy weapons — ликвидировать / уничтожать оружие

    to freeze the modernization of one's weapons — замораживать модернизацию оружия

    to give smb access to nuclear weapons — предоставлять кому-л. доступ к ядерному оружию

    to guard against accidental or unauthorized use of nuclear weapons — предупреждать / исключать случайное или несанкционированное применение ядерного оружия

    to halt development, production and deployment of nuclear weapons — прекращать разработку, производство и развертывание ядерного оружия

    to halve the number of one's strategic nuclear weapons — сокращать наполовину объем своих стратегических ядерных вооружений

    to hand in / over one's weapons — сдавать оружие

    to keep weapons — хранить / не сдавать оружие

    to lay down one's weapons — складывать оружие

    to make atomic weapons — производить / создавать атомное оружие

    to monitor chemical weapons — устанавливать контроль / следить за наличием химического оружия

    to negotiate weapons away / down — договариваться о ликвидации оружия

    to resort to weapons — прибегать к оружию; пускать в ход оружие

    to search smb for weapons — обыскивать кого-л. в поисках оружия

    to supply smb with weapons — снабжать кого-л. оружием, поставлять оружие кому-л.

    to surrender one's weapons — сдавать / складывать оружие

    to take one's strategic weapons off alert status — выводить свое стратегическое оружие из состояния повышенной боевой готовности

    to turn in one's weapons — сдавать оружие

    to use weapons against smb — использовать / применять ядерное оружие против кого-л.

    - absolute weapon
    - accumulated weapons
    - advanced weapon
    - air-launched nuclear weapons
    - alleged use of chemical weapons
    - American-made weapons
    - American-supplied weapons
    - anti-missile weapon
    - anti-satellite weapon
    - arsenals of weapons
    - ASAT weapon
    - atomic weapon
    - authorized to carry weapons
    - bacteriological weapons
    - ban on production of chemical weapons
    - banning nuclear weapons from the sea bed
    - barbaric weapon
    - beam weapon
    - beam-directed energy weapon
    - binary weapon
    - biological weapons
    - captured weapon
    - complete weapon
    - completed weapon
    - consignment of weapons
    - conventional weapons
    - cosmic weapon
    - counter-strike weapon
    - covert stores of nuclear weapons
    - cruel weapons
    - cut in weapons
    - cut-back in weapons
    - dangerous weapon
    - deadly weapon
    - decommissioning of weapons
    - defense weapon
    - defensive weapon
    - destruction of stockpiles of nuclear weapons
    - deterrent weapons
    - devastating weapons
    - development of weapons
    - directed-energy beam weapon
    - elimination of weapons of mass destruction
    - emplacement of nuclear weapons
    - first generation weapon
    - first-strike weapons
    - first-use nuclear weapons
    - first-use weapons
    - fusion nuclear weapon
    - fusion-type nuclear weapon
    - genetic weapon
    - genocidal weapons
    - germ weapons
    - guided weapon
    - handover of weapons
    - high tech weapons
    - high technology weapons
    - home-made weapons
    - horror weapons
    - hydrogen weapon
    - ideological weapon
    - illegal possession of weapons
    - incoming weapons
    - increase in weapons
    - infrasonic weapon
    - infrasound weapon
    - inhumane weapons
    - intercontinental weapons
    - intermediate range weapon
    - intermediate weapon
    - knockoffs of American weapons
    - land-launched nuclear weapons
    - laser weapons
    - lethal weapon
    - limitation of nuclear weapons
    - long-range weapons
    - major weapons
    - makeshift weapons
    - mass destruction weapon
    - means of nuclear weapon delivery
    - medium-range weapon
    - minor weapons
    - mix of conventional and nuclear weapons
    - modern weapons
    - monstrous weapon
    - multipurpose weapon
    - nerve weapon
    - neutron weapon
    - new generation of chemical weapons
    - new-model weapons
    - new-type weapons
    - non-atomic weapons
    - nondissemination of nuclear weapons and knowledge
    - non-nuclear weapons
    - nuclear-missile weapons
    - offensive weapons
    - output of weapons
    - particle-beam weapons
    - perfidious weapon
    - poisonous weapons
    - political weapon
    - potent weapon
    - powerful weapon
    - precision weapon
    - price weapon
    - production of weapons
    - prohibition of chemical weapons
    - prohibition of development of new types and systems of weapons of mass destruction
    - proliferation of nuclear weapons
    - ray weapon
    - reduction in weapons
    - reduction of weapons
    - region bristling with weapons
    - renunciation of atomic, chemical and bacteriological weapons
    - restrains on nuclear weapons
    - retaliation weapon
    - retaliatory weapon
    - riot control weapons
    - satellite laser weapon
    - sea-launched nuclear weapons
    - second generation weapon
    - secret weapon
    - short-range weapon
    - smart weapons
    - sophisticated weapons
    - space weapons
    - space-based weapons
    - space-launched nuclear weapons
    - specific weapons
    - spiritual weapon
    - stock of weapons
    - stockpile of weapons
    - stockpiling of weapons
    - strategic weapons
    - strike weapons
    - superhigh-frequency weapons
    - superiority in conventional weapons
    - supersophisticated weapon
    - surprise weapon
    - surrender of weapons
    - survivable weapons
    - tactical weapon
    - testing of nuclear weapons
    - theatre nuclear weapons
    - thermonuclear weapon
    - third generation weapon
    - toxic weapon
    - toxin weapon
    - treacherous weapon
    - type of weapon
    - ultimate weapon
    - unconventional weapons
    - unmanned weapon
    - untried weapon
    - use of weapons
    - vengeful weapon
    - weapon of blackmail
    - weapon of mass annihilation
    - weapon of mass extermination
    - weapon of mass total destruction
    - weapon of offence
    - weapons at the ready
    - weapons of war
    - weapons of warfare
    - withdrawal of nuclear weapons from Europe
    - world without weapons
    - X-ray laser weapon

    Politics english-russian dictionary > weapon

  • 18 crime

    1. noun
    1) (act(s) punishable by law: Murder is a crime; Crime is on the increase.) forbrytelse; kriminalitet
    2) (something wrong though not illegal: What a crime to cut down those trees!) skjendig handling
    2. noun
    (a person who has been found guilty of a crime.) forbryter
    subst. \/kraɪm\/
    1) forbrytelse, lovbrudd, (u)gjerning, kriminalitet
    2) ( overført) forbrytelse, skjendig handling
    crime of forethought overlagt forbrytelse, forsettlig lovbrudd
    crime of gain ( jus) vinningsforbrytelse
    crime of omission ( jus) unnlatelsesforbrytelse
    crime of violence ( jus) voldsforbrytelse
    it's a crime det er ulovlig, det er uforsvarlig, det er synd og skam

    English-Norwegian dictionary > crime

  • 19 ♦ crime

    ♦ crime /kraɪm/
    n.
    1 (leg.) reato; crimine; delitto: lesser crime, reato minore; serious crime, reato grave; crimine; capital crime, delitto capitale; a ghastly crime, un crimine orribile; a heinous crime, un crimine efferato; a monstrous crime, un delitto mostruoso; crime of passion, delitto passionale; a crime against humanity, un crimine contro l'umanità; motiveless crime, delitto senza movente; war crimes, crimini di guerra; the scene of the crime, la scena del delitto; to commit a crime, commettere un delitto; to perpetrate a crime, perpetrare un delitto
    2 (fig.) delitto; peccato: an unforgivable crime, un delitto imperdonabile; a foul crime, un infame delitto; It would be a crime to throw it away, sarebbe un delitto buttarlo via
    3 [u] crimine, crimini (pl.); criminalità: to prevent crime, prevenire il crimine; to combat (o to fight) crime, combattere il crimine (o la criminalità); Crime is on the increase, la criminalità è in aumento; organized crime, crimine organizzato; criminalità organizzata; juvenile crime, criminalità minorile; violent crime, crimini violenti; crime rate, tasso di criminalità; crime figures, statistiche relative alla criminalità; partner in crime, complice
    crime and punishment, delitto e castigo □ crime fiction, narrativa gialla; giallistica □ crime-fighting, lotta contro il crimine □ crime-fighter, agente della polizia criminale □ ( USA) crime lab, (polizia) scientifica □ crime lord, signore del crimine; pezzo grosso della malavita □ (in GB) crime management unit, sezione investigativa ( della polizia) □ crime novel, giallo □ crime prevention, prevenzione del crimine □ (in GB) crime report number, numero della denuncia del reato □ (giorn.) crime reporter, cronista di cronaca nera □ (mil.) crime sheet, foglio delle punizioni □ crime squad, squadra anticrimine □ crime wave, ondata di delitti □ crime writer, scrittore di gialli; giallista □ a life in crime, una vita da criminale □ (prov.) Crime doesn't pay, il delitto non paga.

    English-Italian dictionary > ♦ crime

  • 20 measure

    1. noun
    1) Maß, das

    weights and measures — Maße und Gewichte

    for good measure — sicherheitshalber; (as an extra) zusätzlich

    give short/full measure — (in public house) zu wenig/vorschriftsmäßig ausschenken

    made to measurepred. (Brit., lit. or fig.) maßgeschneidert

    2) (degree) Menge, die

    in some measurein gewisser Hinsicht

    a measure of freedom/responsibility — ein gewisses Maß an Freiheit/Verantwortung (Dat.)

    3) (instrument or utensil for measuring) Maß, das; (for quantity also) Messglas, das; Messbecher, der; (for size also) Messstab, der; (fig.) Maßstab, der

    it gave us some measure of the problemsdas gab uns eine Vorstellung von den Problemen

    beyond [all] measure — grenzenlos; über die od. alle Maßen adverb

    4) (Mus.): (time) Takt, der
    5) (step, law) Maßnahme, die; (Law): (bill) Gesetzesvorlage, die

    take measures to stop/ensure something — Maßnahmen ergreifen od. treffen, um etwas zu unterbinden/sicherzustellen

    2. transitive verb
    1) messen [Größe, Menge usw.]; ausmessen [Raum]

    measure somebody for a suit — [bei] jemandem Maß od. die Maße für einen Anzug nehmen

    2) (fig.): (estimate) abschätzen

    measure something [off] — etwas abmessen

    3. intransitive verb
    1) (have a given size) messen
    2) (take measurement[s]) Maß nehmen
    Phrasal Verbs:
    - academic.ru/89057/measure_out">measure out
    * * *
    ['meʒə] 1. noun
    1) (an instrument for finding the size, amount etc of something: a glass measure for liquids; a tape-measure.) das Meßgerät
    2) (a unit: The metre is a measure of length.) das Maß
    3) (a system of measuring: dry/liquid/square measure.) die Maßeinheit
    4) (a plan of action or something done: We must take (= use, or put into action) certain measures to stop the increase in crime.) die Maßnahme
    5) (a certain amount: a measure of sympathy.) ein gewisses Maß
    6) ((in music) the musical notes contained between two bar lines.)
    2. verb
    1) (to find the size, amount etc of (something): He measured the table.) messen
    2) (to show the size, amount etc of: A thermometer measures temperature.) messen
    3) ((with against, besides etc) to judge in comparison with: She measured her skill in cooking against her friend's.) messen
    4) (to be a certain size: This table measures two metres by one metre.) messen
    - measurement
    - beyond measure
    - for good measure
    - full measure
    - made to measure
    - measure out
    - measure up
    * * *
    meas·ure
    [ˈmeʒəʳ, AM -ɚ]
    I. n
    1. (unit) Maß nt, Maßeinheit f
    a \measure of capacity ein Hohlmaß nt
    a \measure of length ein Längenmaß nt
    he poured himself a generous \measure of whiskey er schenkte sich einen großen Whisky ein
    2. ( fig: degree) Maß nt, Grad m
    there was a large \measure of agreement between us zwischen uns gab es ein hohes Maß an Übereinstimmung
    there was some \measure of truth in what he said an dem, was er sagte, war etwas Wahres dran
    in large \measure in hohem Maß, zum großen Teil
    in some \measure gewissermaßen, in gewisser Beziehung
    3. (measuring instrument) Messgerät nt; (ruler, yardstick) Messstab m; (container) Messbecher m, Messglas nt
    4. (indicator) Maßstab m
    examinations are not always the best \measure of students' progress Prüfungen sind nicht immer ein zuverlässiger Indikator für die Fortschritte der Schüler
    to be a \measure of sb's popularity ein Maßstab für jds Popularität sein
    5. usu pl (action) also LAW Maßnahme f
    the \measures we have taken are designed to prevent such accidents occurring in future die Maßnahmen, die wir ergriffen haben, sollen solche Unfälle in Zukunft verhindern
    \measures pl required Handlungsbedarf m
    6. POL (bill) gesetzliche Maßnahme, Bestimmung f, Verfügung f
    7. LIT (metre) Versmaß nt, Metrum nt
    8. AM MUS (bar) Takt m
    9. TYPO Satzbreite f
    10.
    beyond \measure über die [o alle] Maßen
    there are no half \measures with me ich mache keine halben Sachen
    to get [or take] the \measure of sb/sth (assess) jdn/etw einschätzen [o kennenlernen]; (understand) jdn/etw verstehen
    for good \measure (in addition) zusätzlich, noch dazu; (to ensure success) sicherheitshalber
    II. vt
    1. (find out size)
    to \measure sth etw [ab]messen
    to \measure sb for a dress/suit jds Maße für ein Kleid/einen Anzug nehmen
    to \measure sth in centimetres/pounds etw in Zentimetern/Pfund messen
    delays \measured by weeks are frustrating wochenlange Verspätungen sind frustrierend
    to \measure sb's heart rate jds Puls messen
    to \measure sb performance jds Leistung beurteilen
    to \measure a room ein Zimmer ausmessen
    2. (be certain size/quantity)
    to \measure sth etw betragen
    3.
    to \measure one's length [on the ground] auf die Schnauze [o ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ a. aufs Maul] fallen sl
    III. vi messen
    the box \measures 10cm by 10cm by 12cm der Karton misst 10 mal 10 mal 12 cm
    * * *
    ['meZə(r)]
    1. n
    1) (= unit of measurement) Maß(einheit f) nt

    beyond measure —

    See:
    weight
    2) (= object for measuring) Maß nt; (graduated for length) Maßstab m; (graduated for volume) Messbecher m
    3) (= amount measured) Menge f

    to give sb full/short measure (barman) — richtig/zu wenig ausschenken; (grocer) richtig/zu wenig abwiegen

    for good measure — zur Sicherheit, sicherheitshalber

    ... and another one for good measure —... und noch eines obendrein

    4) (fig: yardstick) Maßstab m (of für)

    MacLeod's approval is the measure of a good whisky —

    please consider this as a measure of my esteem for... — bitte betrachten Sie dies als Ausdruck meiner Anerkennung für...

    it's a measure of his skill as a writer that... — seine schriftstellerischen Fähigkeiten lassen sich daran beurteilen, dass...

    5)

    (= extent) in some measure — in gewisser Hinsicht or Beziehung

    to a large measure, in large measure — in hohem Maße

    to get the measure of sb/sth — jdn/etw (richtig) einschätzen

    6) (= step) Maßnahme f

    to take measures to do sth — Maßnahmen ergreifen, um etw zu tun

    7) (POET) Versmaß nt
    8) (US MUS) Takt m
    9) (old: dance) Tanz m

    to tread a measure with sbmit jdm ein Tänzchen wagen

    2. vt
    messen; length also abmessen; room also ausmessen; (= take sb's measurements) Maß nehmen bei; (fig) beurteilen, abschätzen; words abwägen
    3. vi
    messen

    what does it measure? — wie viel misst es?, wie groß ist es?

    * * *
    measure [ˈmeʒə(r); US auch ˈmeı-]
    A s
    1. Maß(einheit) n(f):
    cubic measure, solid measure Raum-, Kubikmaß;
    lineal measure, linear measure, long measure, measure of length Längenmaß;
    square measure, superficial measure Flächenmaß;
    2. fig (richtiges oder vernünftiges) Maß, Ausmaß n:
    beyond (all) measure über alle Maßen, grenzenlos;
    her joy was beyond measure ihre Freude kannte keine Grenzen;
    for good measure noch dazu, obendrein;
    a) in großem Maße, überaus,
    b) großenteils;
    in some measure, in a (certain) measure gewissermaßen, bis zu einem gewissen Grade;
    without measure ohne Maßen;
    set measures to Grenzen setzen (dat);
    know no measure kein Maß kennen
    3. Messen n, Maß n:
    (made) to measure nach Maß (gearbeitet);
    take the measure of sth etwas abmessen;
    take sb’s measure
    a) jemandem Maß nehmen ( for a suit für einen Anzug),
    b) auch get sb’s measure fig jemanden taxieren oder ab-, einschätzen;
    I have his measure ich habe ihn durchschaut; made-to-measure
    4. Maß n, Messgerät n:
    weigh with two measures fig mit zweierlei Maß messen; tape measure
    5. fig Maßstab m (of für):
    be a measure of sth einer Sache als Maßstab dienen;
    Man is the measure of all things der Mensch ist das Maß aller Dinge
    6. Anteil m, Portion f, gewisse Menge
    7. a) MATH Maß(einheit) n(f), Teiler m, Faktor m
    b) PHYS Maßeinheit f:
    2 is a measure of 4 2 ist Teiler von 4;
    measure of dispersion Streuungs-, Verteilungsmaß
    8. (abgemessener) Teil, Grenze f:
    set a measure to sth etwas begrenzen;
    the measure of my days BIBEL die Dauer meines Lebens
    9. LIT
    a) Silbenmaß n
    b) Versglied n
    c) Versmaß n, Metrum n
    10. MUS
    a) Takt(art) m(f)
    b) Takt m (als Quantität):
    c) Zeitmaß n, Tempo n
    d) Takt m, Rhythmus m
    e) Mensur f (bei Orgelpfeifen):
    tread ( oder trip) a measure obs tanzen ( with mit)
    11. poet Weise f, Melodie f
    12. pl GEOL Lager n, Flöz n
    13. CHEM Mensur f, Grad m (eines graduierten Gefäßes)
    14. TYPO Zeilen-, Satz-, Kolumnenbreite f
    15. Fechten: Mensur f, Abstand m
    16. Maßnahme f, -regel f, Schritt m:
    take measures Maßnahmen treffen oder ergreifen; legal A 4
    17. JUR gesetzliche Maßnahme, Verfügung f
    B v/t
    1. (ver)messen, ab-, aus-, zumessen:
    measure one’s length fig der Länge nach oder längelang hinfallen;
    measure sb (be [ oder get] measured) for a suit jemandem Maß nehmen (sich Maß nehmen lassen) für einen Anzug
    a) ausmessen, die Ausmaße oder Grenzen bestimmen, ein Bergwerk markscheiden,
    b) harte Strafen etc verhängen
    3. fig ermessen
    4. (ab)messen, abschätzen ( beide:
    by an dat):
    measured by ( oder against) gemessen an
    5. beurteilen (by nach)
    6. vergleichen, messen ( beide:
    against, with mit):
    measure o.s. against sb;
    measure one’s strength with sb seine Kräfte mit jemandem messen;
    measure swords bes fig die Klingen kreuzen ( with mit)
    7. eine Strecke durchmessen, zurücklegen
    C v/i
    1. Messungen vornehmen
    2. messen, groß sein:
    it measures 7 inches es misst 7 Zoll, ist ist 7 Zoll lang
    a) die Ansprüche (gen) erfüllen, gut abschneiden im Vergleich zu,
    b) den Ansprüchen etc gewachsen sein,
    c) heranreichen an (akk)
    meas. abk
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) Maß, das

    for good measure — sicherheitshalber; (as an extra) zusätzlich

    give short/full measure — (in public house) zu wenig/vorschriftsmäßig ausschenken

    made to measurepred. (Brit., lit. or fig.) maßgeschneidert

    2) (degree) Menge, die

    a measure of freedom/responsibility — ein gewisses Maß an Freiheit/Verantwortung (Dat.)

    3) (instrument or utensil for measuring) Maß, das; (for quantity also) Messglas, das; Messbecher, der; (for size also) Messstab, der; (fig.) Maßstab, der

    beyond [all] measure — grenzenlos; über die od. alle Maßen adverb

    4) (Mus.): (time) Takt, der
    5) (step, law) Maßnahme, die; (Law): (bill) Gesetzesvorlage, die

    take measures to stop/ensure something — Maßnahmen ergreifen od. treffen, um etwas zu unterbinden/sicherzustellen

    2. transitive verb
    1) messen [Größe, Menge usw.]; ausmessen [Raum]

    measure somebody for a suit — [bei] jemandem Maß od. die Maße für einen Anzug nehmen

    2) (fig.): (estimate) abschätzen

    measure something [off] — etwas abmessen

    3. intransitive verb
    2) (take measurement[s]) Maß nehmen
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    (music) n.
    Takt -e (Musik) m. n.
    Maß -e (Mathematik) n.
    Maß -e n.
    Maßeinheit f.
    Maßnahme -n f.
    Metrum n.
    Takt -e m. v.
    messen v.
    (§ p.,pp.: maß, gemessen)
    vermessen v.

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