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I was born in the north

  • 1 north

    north [nɔ:θ]
    1 noun
    (a) Geography nord m;
    in the north au nord, dans le nord;
    the region to the north of Sydney la région au nord de Sydney;
    two miles to the north trois kilomètres au nord;
    look towards the north regardez vers le nord;
    I was born in the north je suis né dans le Nord;
    in the north of India dans le nord de l'Inde;
    the wind is in the north le vent est au nord;
    the wind is coming from the north le vent vient ou souffle du nord;
    History the North (in American Civil War) = les États antiesclavagistes du nord des États-Unis; (affluent countries) le Nord;
    the North-South divide (in Britain) = ligne fictive de démarcation, en termes de richesse, entre le nord de l'Angleterre (plus pauvre) et le sud (plus riche); (in global economy) fossé m Nord-Sud;
    South of England familiar north and south (rhyming slang mouth) bouche f, clapet m
    (b) Cards nord m
    (a) Geography nord (inv), du nord; (country, state) du Nord; (wall) exposé au nord;
    the north coast la côte nord;
    in north London dans le nord de Londres;
    in North India en Inde du Nord;
    the North Atlantic/Pacific l'Atlantique m/le Pacifique Nord;
    the North Atlantic Drift le Gulf Stream
    (b) (wind) de nord, du nord
    au nord; (travel) vers le nord, en direction du nord;
    the ranch lies north of the town le ranch est situé au nord de la ville;
    this room faces north cette pièce est exposée au nord;
    the trail heads (due) north le chemin va ou mène (droit) vers le nord;
    go north until you come to a village allez vers le nord jusqu'à ce que vous arriviez à un village;
    I drove north for two hours j'ai roulé pendant deux heures en direction du nord;
    we're going north for our holidays nous allons passer nos vacances dans le Nord;
    I travelled north je suis allé vers le nord;
    to sail north naviguer cap sur le nord;
    it's 20 miles north of Manchester c'est à 32 kilomètres au nord de Manchester;
    they live up north ils habitent dans le Nord;
    north by east/by west nord-quart-nord-est/nord-quart-nord-ouest;
    further north plus au nord;
    north of Watford = façon humoristique de désigner la partie nord de l'Angleterre
    ►► North Africa Afrique f du Nord;
    in North Africa en Afrique du Nord;
    1 noun
    Nord-Africain(e) m,f
    nord-africain, d'Afrique du Nord;
    North America Amérique f du Nord; North American
    1 noun
    Nord-Américain(e) m,f
    nord-américain, d'Amérique du Nord;
    the North American Indians les Indiens mpl d'Amérique du Nord;
    Economics North American Free Trade Agreement Accord m de libre-échange nord-américain;
    the North Cape le cap Nord;
    North Carolina la Caroline du Nord;
    in North Carolina en Caroline du Nord;
    the North Circular = voie périphérique rapide au nord de Londres;
    the North Country (in England) l'Angleterre f du Nord; (in America) = l'Alaska, le Yukon et les Territoires du Nord-Ouest;
    he's got a North Country accent il a un accent du Nord;
    North Dakota le Dakota du Nord;
    in North Dakota dans le Dakota du Nord;
    the North Downs = région de collines calcaires au sud de Londres;
    North Island l'île f du Nord;
    in (the) North Island à l'île du Nord;
    North Korea Corée f du Nord; North Korean
    1 noun
    Nord-Coréen(enne) m,f
    nord-coréen;
    the North Pole le pôle Nord;
    North Rhine-Westphalia Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie f;
    in North Rhine-Westphalia en Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie;
    North Sea, the North Sea la mer du Nord;
    the North Star l'étoile f Polaire;
    the North Star State = surnom donné au Minnesota;
    North Vietnam le Viêt-Nam du Nord;
    in North Vietnam au Viêt-Nam du Nord; North Vietnamese
    1 noun
    Nord-Vietnamien(enne) m,f
    nord-vietnamien;
    North Wales nord m du pays de Galles; North Walian
    1 noun
    habitant(e) m,f du nord du pays de Galles
    du nord du pays de Galles;
    North Yemen Yémen m du Nord;
    in North Yemen au Yémen du Nord;
    North Yorkshire le North Yorkshire, = comté dans le nord-est de l'Angleterre;
    in North Yorkshire dans le North Yorkshire
    ✾ Film 'North by Northwest' Hitchcock 'La Mort aux trousses'

    Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > north

  • 2 born

    1.

    I was born in England — ich bin od. wurde in England geboren

    I wasn't born yesterday(fig.) ich bin nicht von gestern (ugs.)

    be born blind/lucky — blind von Geburt sein/ein Glückskind sein

    2. adjective

    born again(fig.) wieder geboren

    in all my born days(fig. coll.) in meinem ganzen Leben; see also academic.ru/8897/breed">breed 1. 3)

    2) (destined to be)
    * * *
    III see bear I
    * * *
    [bɔ:n, AM bɔ:rn]
    adj inv
    1. (brought into life) geboren; ( form)
    she's a Dubliner \born and bred sie ist eine waschechte Dublinerin; ( fig) concept, idea entstanden, hervorgegangen
    English-\born in England geboren
    to be \born into a poor/wealthy family in eine arme/reiche Familie geboren werden
    still-\born tot geboren
    2. (with natural ability) geboren
    a \born leader eine geborene Führerpersönlichkeit
    to be \born to do sth dazu bestimmt sein, etw zu tun
    3.
    to be \born with a silver spoon in one's mouth mit einem silbernen Löffel im Mund geboren werden
    I wasn't \born yesterday ich bin schließlich nicht von gestern
    * * *
    [bɔːn] ptp of bear I

    to be born ( person, fig : idea ) — geboren werden; ( fig : organization ) entstehen (person fig idea) geboren werden (fig organization) entstehen

    I was born in 1948ich bin or wurde 1948 geboren

    when were you born?wann sind Sie geboren?

    he was born Harry Webber wurde als Harry Webb geboren

    to be born againwiedergeboren werden

    every baby born into the world — jedes Kind, das auf die Welt kommt

    he was born to a life of hardship/into a rich family — er wurde in ein schweres Leben/eine reiche Familie hineingeboren

    to be born deafvon Geburt an taub sein

    the baby was born dead —

    he was just born to be Prime Ministerer war zum Premierminister geboren

    I wasn't born yesterday (inf)ich bin nicht von gestern (inf)

    there's one born every minute! (fig inf)die Dummen werden nicht alle!

    the characteristics which are born in us he was born of poor parentsdie uns angeborenen Eigenschaften er war das Kind armer Eltern

    with that confidence born of experiencemit dem aus Erfahrung hervorgegangenen Selbstvertrauen

    1. adj suf
    (= native of)

    his foreign-/French-born wife — seine Frau, die Ausländerin/gebürtige Französin ist

    2. adj
    geboren

    he is a born poet/teacher — er ist der geborene Dichter/Lehrer

    in all my born days (inf)mein Lebtag (dated), in meinem ganzen Leben

    * * *
    born [bɔː(r)n]
    A pperf von bear1 A 4
    B adj
    1. geboren:
    born of geboren von, Kind des oder der;
    an Englishman born and bread ein (wasch)echter Engländer;
    never in all my born days umg noch nie in meinem Leben
    2. geboren:
    be born (to be) a poet zum Dichter geboren oder bestimmt sein
    b. abk
    2. bill
    3. book
    4. born
    n. abk
    1. natus, born geb.
    3. LING nominative Nom.
    4. noon
    5. north N
    6. northern nördl.
    7. note
    8. noun Subst.
    9. number Nr.
    * * *
    1.

    I was born in Englandich bin od. wurde in England geboren

    I wasn't born yesterday(fig.) ich bin nicht von gestern (ugs.)

    be born blind/lucky — blind von Geburt sein/ein Glückskind sein

    2. adjective

    born again(fig.) wieder geboren

    in all my born days(fig. coll.) in meinem ganzen Leben; see also breed 1. 3)

    * * *
    adj.
    ertragen adj.
    geboren adj.

    English-german dictionary > born

  • 3 bear

    1. I
    1) the ice bears лед держит, по льду можно ходить, лед крепкий
    2) usually with can; it was more than she could bear Этого она [уже] вынести /выдержать/ не могла. Это было выше ее сил
    3) she is unable to bear она не может иметь детей; these peach-trees are not going to bear Эти персиковые деревья не будут плодоносить
    2. II
    1) bear at some time the tree bears every year (every other year, once in seven years, etc.) Это дерево плодоносит каждый год и т. д.
    2) bear in some direction naut. bear north (south, east, etc.) лежать /быть расположенным/ к северу и т. д.; the land bore due north земля лежала прямо /точно/ к северу
    3) bear in some manner bear hard нажимать, надавливать
    3. III
    1) bear smth., smb. bear a heavy load (a suitcase, the baggage, a large parcel, a banner, a sleeping child, etc.) нести тяжелый груз и т. д.
    2) bear smth., smb. bear the weight of a large trunk (an elephant, a heavy man, etc.) выдерживать вес большого сундука и т. д.; this plank /board/ will not bear your weight эта доска не выдержит вашей тяжести; the ice is too thin to bear the weight of the horse лед слишком тонок, чтобы выдержать лошадь; this bridge does not bear more than 10 tons Этот мост рассчитан не больше, чем /только/ на десять тонн
    3) bear smb., smth. usually with can, especially in the negative or interrogative I can't bear this man (the sight of him, this noise, such scenes, the odour, that perfume, etc.) [я] не выношу /терпеть не могу/ Этого человека и т. д; she couldn't bear his condescending manner она не выносила его манеру говорить или обращаться с ней свысока; how could he bear the idea /the thought/ of it? как он мог даже подумать об этом?;
    4) bear smth. bear responsibility нести ответственность; bear the cost (the expense) оплачивать стоимость (расходы); I am willing to bear all the expenses я согласен (поднести любые расходы; bear losses нести потери, терпеть ущерб; bear the burden взвалить на себя [всю] тяжесть; bear the brunt принять на себя /выдержать/ главный удар (неприятеля)
    5) bear smth. usually with can, especially in the negative or interrogative will he bear the strain (the test)? выдержит ли он это напряжение (испытание)?; he couldn't bear the humiliation он не мог вынести /пережить/ Этого унижения
    6) bear smth. bear the marks /the signs, the traces/ of blows (of wounds, of punishment, of ill-treatment, of tears, etc.) носить следы побоев и т. д.; this document bears your signature на этом документе стоит ваша подпись; this note bears your name Эта записка адресована вам; this letter bears no date на этом письме нет даты; the envelope bears traces of having been tampered with на конверте имеются /видны/ следы того, что его вскрывали; а monument bearing an inscription памятник с надписью
    7) bear smth. bear a sword (a revolver, etc.) носить шпагу и т. д.; bear the sceptre (the marshal's staff) носить скипетр (маршальский жезл); all men who can bear arms все мужчины, способные носить оружие; а ship bearing the American colours корабль под американским флагом
    8) bear smth. often offic. bear the name of John (a noble name, the title of earl, etc.) иметь /носить/ имя Джон и т. д; remember that you bear my name (за)помни, ты носишь мое имя
    9) bear smth. bear interpretation (explanation, etc.) допускать толкование и т.д.; his words bear only one interpretation его слова можно интерпретировать только в одном смысле; this statement doesn't bear close examination это заявление /утверждение/ не выдерживает пристального анализа; bear comparison выдерживать сравнение
    10) || bear tales Ябедничать; bear the news передавать новости
    11) bear smth., smb. bear fruit (good peaches, fine apples, sweet grapes, etc.) давать плоды и т. д.; this tree bears no fruit Это дерево не плодоносит; bear children рожать детей; cats usually bear more than two young ones кошка обычно приносит более двух котят; bear interest (profit) приносить /давать/ проценты (прибыль); at last his efforts bore fruit наконец его усилия принесли плоды /увенчались успехом/
    12) bear smth. bear the upper storey (the' whole building, the bridge etc.) поддерживать /нести/ верхний этаж и т.д. the four pillars bear the arch Эти четыре колонны несут арку /служат опорой для арки/; Atlas had to bear the weight of the heavens on his shoulders Атлант должен был держать на своих плечах небесный свод
    4. IV
    1) bear smb., smth. somewhere bear the wounded home относить или отвозить раненых домой; bear the girl across перенести девушку на другую сторону (улицы, реки и т. п.); bear the cases downstairs снести чемоданы [вниз]
    2) bear smth. in same manner bear one's head high (proudly etc.) высоко и т. д. держать голову
    3) bear smth. in some manner bear pain (one's loss, hardships, etc.) patiently (well, manfully, stoically, heroically, philosophically, etc.) переносить боль и т. д. терпеливо и т. д.; bear an operation satisfactorily удовлетворительно перенести операцию; bear one's sorrow in silence молча переносить [свое] горе
    5. V
    1) bear smb. smth. bear smb. love (affection, malice, ill-will, etc.) питать /испытывать/ любовь и т.д. к кому-л.; she bore him no love whatever никакой любви к нему она не испытывала; the hatred he bore me ненависть, которую он ко мне питал; I bear you no grudge и не таю обиды против вас, я зла на вас не держу
    2) bear smb. smb. bear smb. a child (a son, a daughter) родить кому-л. ребенка; she has borne him three sons она родила ему трех сыновей
    6. VII
    bear smb. to do smth. usually with can, especially in the negative or interrogative I can't bear him to be away (them to listen, her to laugh at me, etc.) я не выношу /терпеть не могу/, когда он уезжает и т. д.; I couldn't bear him to think that about me я очень не хотел, чтобы он так подумал обо мне; how could he bear her to know the truth? как мог он допустить мысль о том, что она узнает всю правду?
    7. XI
    1) be born a man is born человек родился; be born at some time be born in 1920 (in January, on the first of May. etc.) родиться в тысяча девятьсот двадцатом году и т. д; born in 1945 тысяча девятьсот сорок пятого года рождения; be born in some place he was born in England он родился в Англии: the idea was born in the minds of the people Эта мысль зародилась в умах людей; be born of smb. he was born of fairly well-to-do parents он родился в довольно зажиточной семье; be born smb. be born a poet родиться поэтом; be born to do smth. he was not born to become a poet fly не суждено было стать поэтом; he was born to be hanged ему на роду написано окончить жизнь на виселице; be born to smb. offic. a son and a daughter were born to them у них родились сын и дочь; be born with smth. be born with a good memory (with a talent for smth., etc.) быть наделенным хорошей памятью и т. д. от рождения; be born of smth. his confidence is born of knowledge его уверенность порождена знаниями / результат знаний/ || be born out of wedlock быть незаконнорожденным /внебрачным ребенком/
    2) book, be borne to some place he was borne to prison его отвела в тюрьму; be borne somewhere by smb. the crowd was borne back by the police полиция оттеснила толпу; the boat was borne backward by the wind ветер отнес лодку назад; be bone upon smth. her voice (the music, the song, the fragrance, etc.) was borne upon the wind ветер доносил или уносил звук ее голоса и т. д.
    3) be borne upon smb. book. it was gradually borne upon me that... до меня постепенно начало доходить, что... || it has to be borne in mind that... следует помнить /не следует забывать/, что...
    8. XIII
    bear to do (to be) smth. usually with can, especially in the negative or interrogative I can't bear to be laughed at (to be disturbed, to be asked so many questions, to see animals treated cruelly, etc.) я не выношу /терпеть не могу/, когда надо мной смеются и т. д.; I can't bear to hear him moan [я] не могу слышать, как он стонет
    9. XIV
    bear doing smth.
    1) this cloth will bear washing Этот материал стирается; some passages in this book will bear skipping некоторые места /абзацы/ в этой книге вполне можно пропустить; your joke (his language, the story, etc.) does not bear repeating я не рискну повторить вашу шутку и т. д.
    2) usually with can, especially in the negative or interrogative I can't bear living alone [я] терпеть не могу жить одна; how can you bear to travel by sea? как это ты выносишь морские путешествия?
    10. XVI
    1) bear with smb., smth. bear with her (with her whims, with his uneven temper, etc.) относиться к ней и т. д. терпеливо; bear with his bad memory мириться с тем, что у него плохая память; you will have to bear with her inexperience вам придется примириться с ее неопытностью; bear with me a little longer Be сердитесь на меня, потерпите еще немного (я сейчас уйду или доскажу и т. п.)
    2) bear (up)on smth. bear on the subject (on the question, upon tile situation, etc.) иметь отношение к [данному] предмету и т. д.; your arguments do not bear on the problem ваши доводы не имеют отношения и этой проблеме; it bears directly on our topic Это непосредственно связано с нашей темой
    3) bear (up)on smth. bear hard on a surface (on a stick, etc.) нажимать /надавливать/ на поверхность и т. д.; if you bear too hard (up)on the point of your pencil it may break если ты будешь слишком сильно нажимать на карандаш, грифель сломается
    4) bear (up)on smb. bear hard (up)on the people (on the natives, on the settlers, etc.) a) угнетать народ и т. д.; б) ложиться тяжелым бременем на народ и т. д.
    5) bear in some direction naut. bear to the north (to the east, to the right, etc.) двигаться, идти или поворачивать на север а т. д.; when you reach the top of the hill bear to the left когда дойдете до вершины холма, сверните налево
    6) bear on smth. bear on the columns (on the pillars. on.the walls, etc.) опираться на колонны и т.д.; the whole building bears on the columns колонны держат все здание; bear heavily on a stick тяжело опираться на палку
    7) bear in smth. bear in spring (in this climate, in the north, in this soil, etc.) плодоносить весной и т. д.
    11. XVIII
    bear oneself in some manner book. bear oneself well (nobly, gracefully, etc.) держаться хорошо и т. д.; bear oneself like smb. bear oneself like a man (like a soldier, like a queen, etc.) держаться или вести себя как мужчина и т. д.
    12. XXI1
    1) bear smb., smth. to some place bear the wounded man to the hospital (the thief to prison, the letter to the president, etc.) отвезти, отнести или доставить раненого в больницу и т. д.; the ship bore him to a distant country корабль увез его в дальние края; bear smb., smth. across smth. the bridge bore us across the river по мосту мы попали на другой берег [реки]; bear smth., smb. on (in, over, etc.) smith. bear smth., smb. on (over) one's shoulders (in one's arms, in one's hands, etc.) нести что-л., кого-л. на плечах и т. д.
    2) bear smth. on /by/ smth. bear a badge on the lapel of one's coat (a sword by one's side, etc.) носить значок /эмблему/ на отвороте пиджака и т. д.
    3) bear smth. for smth., smb. I don't want to bear the blame for your mistakes я не хочу принимать на себя /нести/ вину да ваши ошибки; you will have to bear the penalty for your misdeeds вам придется понести наказание за свой проступки; who will bear the responsibility for the children? кто будет отвечать /нести ответственность/ за датой?; bear smth. against smb. bear a grudge (malice, ill-will, etc.) against slab. испытывать к кому-л. чувство злобы и т.д., испытывать злобу и т. д. против кого-л. =bear иметь зуб против кого-л.
    4) bear smth. to smb., smth. bear no relation to smb., smth. не иметь никакого отношения к кому-л., чему-л., bear (no) resemblance to smb., smth. (не) быть похожим да кого-л., что-л. || bear smth. in mind помнить о чем-л.; you must bear his warning in mind вы не должны забывать о его предупреждении
    5) bear smth. in smth. bear fruit in autumn (in the spring, in this climate, etc.) плодоносить осенью и т.д.;
    13. XXV
    bear that... usually with can, especially in the negative or interrogative she couldn't bear that he should forget her она не могла вынести мысля, что он забудет ее

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > bear

  • 4 track

    1. noun
    1) Spur, die; (of wild animal) Fährte, die

    tracks (footprints) [Fuß]spuren; (of animal also) Fährte, die

    cover one's tracks(fig.) seine Spur verwischen

    be on somebody's track — jemandem auf der Spur sein; (fig.): (in possession of clue to somebody's plans) jemandem auf die Schliche gekommen sein

    be on the right/wrong track — (fig.) auf der richtigen/falschen Spur sein

    keep track of somebody/something — jemanden/etwas im Auge behalten

    lose track of somebody/something — jemanden/etwas aus den Augen verlieren

    make tracks(coll.) (depart) sich auf die Socken machen (ugs.)

    stop [dead] in one's tracks — (coll.) auf der Stelle stehen bleiben

    2) (path) [unbefestigter] Weg; (footpath) Pfad, der; (fig.) Weg, der
    3) (Sport) Bahn, die

    cycling/ greyhound track — Radrennbahn, die/Windhundrennbahn, die

    circuit of the track — Bahnrunde, die

    4) (Railw.) Gleis, das

    single/double track — eingleisige/zweigleisige Strecke

    5) (course taken) Route, die; (of rocket, satellite, comet, missile, hurricane, etc.) Bahn, die
    6) (of tank, tractor, etc.) Kette, die
    7) (section of record) Stück, das
    8) see academic.ru/111441/soundtrack">soundtrack
    2. transitive verb

    track an animal — die Spur/Fährte eines Tieres verfolgen

    the police tracked him [to Paris] — die Polizei folgte seiner Spur [bis nach Paris]

    track a rocket/satellite — die Bahn einer Rakete/eines Satelliten verfolgen

    Phrasal Verbs:
    - track down
    * * *
    [træk] 1. noun
    1) (a mark left, especially a footprint etc: They followed the lion's tracks.) die Fährte
    2) (a path or rough road: a mountain track.) der Weg
    3) ((also racetrack) a course on which runners, cyclists etc race: a running track; ( also adjective) the 100 metres sprint and other track events.) die Bahn; Leichtathletik-...
    4) (a railway line.) die Schiene
    2. verb
    (to follow (eg an animal) by the marks, footprints etc that it has left: They tracked the wolf to its lair.) nachspüren
    - track-suit
    - in one's tracks
    - keep/lose track of
    - make tracks for
    - make tracks
    - track down
    - tracker dog
    * * *
    [træk]
    I. n
    1. (path) Weg m, Pfad m
    forest \track Waldweg m
    muddy \track Matschweg m
    \tracks pl Schienen pl
    “keep off the \tracks” „Betreten der Gleise verboten“
    to leave the \tracks entgleisen
    3. (for curtains) Schiene f
    4. AM RAIL (platform) Bahnsteig m, Perron m SCHWEIZ
    5. usu pl ( also fig: mark) Spur f a. fig; of a deer Fährte f
    tyre \tracks Reifenspuren pl, Pneuspuren pl SCHWEIZ
    to be on the \track of sb [or on sb's \track] jdm auf der Spur [o auf den Fersen] sein
    to cover up one's \tracks seine Spuren verwischen
    to leave \tracks Spuren hinterlassen
    6. (path) of a hurricane Bahn f; of a comet [Lauf]bahn f; of an airplane Route f
    7. no pl ( fig: course) Weg m
    I tried to follow the \track of his argument ich versuchte, seinem Gedankengang zu folgen
    the company is on \track to make record profits die Firma ist auf dem besten Weg, Rekordgewinne zu erzielen
    we were rather behind our schedule, but we've managed to get back on \track now wir waren ziemlich in Verzug geraten, aber inzwischen läuft wieder alles nach Zeitplan
    to keep the economy on/to get [or put] the economy back on \track die Wirtschaft in Schwung halten/wieder in Schwung bringen
    to get one's life back on \track sein Leben wieder ins Lot bringen
    to be on the right/wrong \track auf dem richtigen/falschen Weg sein
    8. no pl (educational path) Laufbahn f; (career path) Berufsweg m
    to change \track [completely] eine [völlig] neue Richtung einschlagen
    9. SPORT for running Laufbahn f; for race cars Piste f; for bikes Radrennbahn f, Velorennbahn f SCHWEIZ
    10. no pl (athletics) Leichtathletik f
    11. (piece of music) Nummer f, Stück nt, Track m sl; (in a film) Soundtrack m
    backing \track Backgroundmusik f kein pl
    12. (on a tape) Tonspur f; (on a record) Rille f; COMPUT [Magnet]spur f
    four-\track tape recorder Vierspur[tonband]gerät nt
    13. (between wheels) Spurweite f
    14. NAUT Hohlkehle f fachspr, Nut f fachspr
    15. (on a bulldozer, tank) Kette f
    16. LAW Rechtsweg m
    fast \track beschleunigtes Verfahren
    multi-\track reguläres Verfahren, ≈ Untersuchungsverfahren nt
    small claims \track Verfahren nt für Bagatellsachen
    17. ELEC Leiter m
    18.
    to be off the beaten \track abgelegen sein
    to get off [the] \track vom Thema abweichen
    to keep \track of sb/sth (follow) jdn/etw im Auge behalten; (count) jdn/etw zählen
    to live [or be] on the wrong side of the \tracks ( fam) aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen stammen
    to lose \track of sb/sth (lose contact) jdn/etw aus den Augen verlieren
    to lose \track [of sth] (be confused about) [über etw akk] den Überblick verlieren; (not keep up to date) [über etw akk] nicht mehr auf dem Laufenden sein
    I use to know everything about him, but I've lost \track recently ich wusste früher alles über ihn, aber neuerdings bin ich nicht mehr auf dem Laufenden
    he had lost all \track of time er hatte jegliches Zeitgefühl verloren
    to make \tracks ( fam) sich akk aufmachen
    I'd better make \tracks now ich mach mich jetzt besser auf die Socken fam
    to make \tracks for London/the pub sich akk auf den Weg nach London/zur Kneipe machen
    to stop [or halt] sb [dead] in their \tracks jdn vor Schreck [vollkommen] erstarren lassen
    to stop [or halt] [or freeze] in one's \tracks vor Schreck erstarren
    to throw sb off the \track jdn auf die falsche Fährte führen fig
    in one's \tracks an Ort und Stelle
    \track medal (in racing) Rennsportmedaille f
    III. vt
    1. (pursue)
    to \track sth etw verfolgen
    to \track an animal die Fährte eines Tieres verfolgen
    to \track sb jds Spur verfolgen
    the terrorists were \tracked to Amsterdam die Spur der Terroristen konnte bis nach Amsterdam verfolgt werden
    2. (follow the trail of)
    to \track sb's career/record jds Karriere/Vorgeschichte verfolgen
    to \track a storm/hurricane einen Sturm/Orkan verfolgen
    3. (find)
    to \track sth/sb/an animal etw/jdn/ein Tier aufspüren
    the kidnapper was \tracked to the airport der Entführer wurde am Flughafen aufgespürt
    to \track a criminal/target einen Kriminellen/ein Ziel aufspüren
    to \track sand/dirt in the house Sand-/Schmutzspuren im Haus hinterlassen
    5. AM SCH (divide into groups)
    to \track students Schüler in Gruppen einteilen
    IV. vi
    1. camera heranfahren
    2. storm, hurricane ziehen; stylus sich akk bewegen
    3. (wheels) spurgenau laufen
    * * *
    [trk]
    1. n
    1) (= trail) Fährte f, Spur f; (of tyres) (Fahr)spur f

    you can't expect to keep track of your friends if you never write to themdu kannst nicht erwarten, Kontakt zu deinen Freunden zu behalten, wenn du nie schreibst

    I can't keep track of his movements or of him — ich weiß nie, wo er sich gerade aufhält

    how do you keep track of the time without a watch? — wie können Sie wissen, wie spät es ist, wenn Sie keine Uhr haben?

    I can't keep track of your girlfriendsdu hast so viele Freundinnen, da komme ich nicht mit (inf)

    no-one can keep track of the situationniemand hat mehr einen Überblick über die Lage

    we lost track of time — wir haben die Zeit ganz vergessen, wir haben einfach nicht auf die Uhr or Zeit geachtet

    I lost track of what he was saying — ich habe nicht (mehr) mitbekommen, was er gesagt hat

    2) (fig)

    he made tracks for London — er ging/fuhr nach London

    to stop sb (dead) in his/her tracks — jdn abrupt zum Stillstand bringen

    to cover ( up) one's tracks — seine Spuren verwischen

    3) (= path) Weg m, Pfad m

    to be on the wrong track (fig) — auf dem falschen Weg sein, auf dem Holzweg sein (inf)

    4) (= course of hurricane) Weg m; (of comet) (Lauf)bahn f; (of rocket) Bahn f, Kurs m
    5) (RAIL) Gleise pl; (US = platform) Bahnsteig m

    "keep off the track" —

    double/single track line — zwei-/eingleisige Strecke

    6) (SPORT) Rennbahn f; (ATHLETICS) Bahn f; (MOTORSPORT) Piste f, Bahn f; (= circuit) Rennstrecke f; (CYCLING) Radrennbahn f
    7) (on tape, diskette, CD) Spur f; (= song etc) Stück nt
    9) (AUT between wheels) Spur(weite) f
    2. vt
    1) (= follow) person, animal verfolgen; movements folgen (+dat); (COMPUT) nachverfolgen; (SPACE) rocket die Flugbahn (+gen) verfolgen
    2) (US)
    3. vi
    1) (= follow trail) Fährten lesen
    3) (FILM, TV) fahren
    4) (= move) (hurricane etc) ziehen; (stylus) sich bewegen
    * * *
    track [træk]
    A s
    1. (Fuß-, Ski-, Wagen-, Wild- etc) Spur f, Fährte f (beide auch fig):
    the track of my thoughts mein Gedankengang;
    be on sb’s track jemandem auf der Spur sein;
    be hot on sb’s tracks jemandem dicht auf den Fersen sein;
    be on the right track fig auf der richtigen Spur oder auf dem richtigen Weg sein;
    be on the wrong track, be off the track fig auf der falschen Spur oder auf dem falschen Weg oder auf dem Holzweg sein;
    cover up one’s tracks seine Spur(en) verwischen;
    a) sich auf die Socken machen,
    b) abhauen, verschwinden;
    make tracks for home umg sich auf den Heimweg machen;
    keep track of fig etwas verfolgen, sich auf dem Laufenden halten über (akk);
    lose track of aus den Augen verlieren;
    lose all track of time jegliches Zeitgefühl verlieren;
    put ( oder throw) sb off the track jemanden von der (richtigen) Spur ablenken;
    shoot sb in their tracks jemanden auf der Stelle niederschießen;
    stop in one’s tracks US abrupt stehen bleiben; beaten B 4 b
    2. BAHN Gleis n, Geleise n und pl, Schienenstrang m:
    off the track entgleist, aus den Schienen;
    on track WIRTSCH auf der Achse, rollend;
    jump the tracks aus den Schienen springen, entgleisen;
    he was born on the wrong side of the tracks US er stammt aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen
    3. a) SCHIFF Fahrwasser n, Seegatt n
    b) FLUG Kurs m über Grund
    4. SCHIFF Track m, (übliche) Route:
    5. Pfad m, Weg m (beide auch fig)
    6. Bahn f (eines Geschosses, Kometen etc):
    (clear the) track! Bahn frei!
    7. SPORT
    a) (Renn-, Lauf) Bahn f
    b) meist track events Laufdisziplinen pl
    c) US Leichtathletik f
    8. a) Spur f (eines Tonbands etc)
    b) COMPUT Track m (abgegrenzter Bereich eines Magnetspeichers, in dem eine Bitfolge gespeichert werden kann)
    9. Track m, Stück n, Nummer f (besonders einer CD)
    10. PHYS Bahnspur f
    11. AUTO
    a) Spurweite f
    b) Reifenprofil n
    12. (Gleis-, Raupen) Kette f (eines Traktors etc)
    13. SCHULE US Leistungsgruppe f (innerhalb einer Klasse)
    B v/t
    1. nachgehen, -spüren (dat), verfolgen (to bis):
    track changes COMPUT (Menübefehl) Änderungen nachverfolgen
    2. track down Wild, einen Verbrecher etc aufspüren, zur Strecke bringen
    3. auch track out aufspüren, ausfindig machen
    4. einen Weg kennzeichnen
    5. eine Wüste etc durchqueren
    6. auch track up US Schmutzspuren hinterlassen auf (dat)
    7. BAHN US Gleise verlegen in (dat)
    8. AUTO, TECH mit Raupenketten versehen:
    tracked vehicle Ketten-, Raupenfahrzeug n
    9. SCHULE US eine Klasse in Leistungsgruppen einteilen
    C v/i
    1. TECH in der Spur bleiben (Räder, Saphirnadel etc), Spur halten
    2. FILM (mit der Kamera) fahren:
    track in on heranfahren an (akk)
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) Spur, die; (of wild animal) Fährte, die

    tracks (footprints) [Fuß]spuren; (of animal also) Fährte, die

    cover one's tracks(fig.) seine Spur verwischen

    be on somebody's track — jemandem auf der Spur sein; (fig.): (in possession of clue to somebody's plans) jemandem auf die Schliche gekommen sein

    be on the right/wrong track — (fig.) auf der richtigen/falschen Spur sein

    keep track of somebody/something — jemanden/etwas im Auge behalten

    lose track of somebody/something — jemanden/etwas aus den Augen verlieren

    make tracks(coll.) (depart) sich auf die Socken machen (ugs.)

    stop [dead] in one's tracks — (coll.) auf der Stelle stehen bleiben

    2) (path) [unbefestigter] Weg; (footpath) Pfad, der; (fig.) Weg, der
    3) (Sport) Bahn, die

    cycling/ greyhound track — Radrennbahn, die/Windhundrennbahn, die

    circuit of the track — Bahnrunde, die

    4) (Railw.) Gleis, das

    single/double track — eingleisige/zweigleisige Strecke

    5) (course taken) Route, die; (of rocket, satellite, comet, missile, hurricane, etc.) Bahn, die
    6) (of tank, tractor, etc.) Kette, die
    7) (section of record) Stück, das
    2. transitive verb

    track an animal — die Spur/Fährte eines Tieres verfolgen

    the police tracked him [to Paris] — die Polizei folgte seiner Spur [bis nach Paris]

    track a rocket/satellite — die Bahn einer Rakete/eines Satelliten verfolgen

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    v.
    verfolgen v. (railway) n.
    Gleis -e n. (trace) n.
    Fährte -n f. n.
    Fußspur -en f.
    Spur -en f.

    English-german dictionary > track

  • 5 of

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

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  • 6 east

    east [i:st]
    1 noun
    (a) Geography est m;
    in the east à l'est, dans l'est;
    to the east of the mainland à l'est ou au large de la côte est du continent;
    two miles to the east trois kilomètres à l'est;
    look towards the east regardez vers l'est;
    I was born in the east je suis né dans l'Est;
    in the east of Austria dans l'est de l'Autriche;
    on the east of the island à l'est de l'île;
    the wind is in the east le vent est à l'est;
    the wind is coming from the east le vent vient ou souffle de l'est;
    the east of England l'est de l'Angleterre;
    the East (the Orient) l'Orient m; (in US) l'Est m (États situés à l'est du Mississippi);
    Istanbul, where East meets West Istanbul, où l'Orient et l'Occident se rejoignent ou à la confluence de l'Orient et de l'Occident;
    East-West relations relations fpl Est-Ouest
    (b) Cards est m
    (a) Geography est (inv), de l'est; (country) de l'Est; (wall) exposé à l'est;
    the east coast la côte est;
    in east London dans l'est de Londres;
    on the east side du côté est
    (b) (wind) d'est
    à l'est; (travel) vers l'est, en direction de l'est;
    the village lies east of Swansea le village est situé à l'est de Swansea;
    the living room faces east la salle de séjour est exposée à l'est;
    the path heads (due) east le chemin va ou mène (droit) vers l'est;
    drive east until you come to a main road roulez vers l'est jusqu'à ce que vous arriviez à une route principale;
    I drove east for three hours j'ai roulé pendant trois heures en direction de l'est;
    I travelled east je suis allé vers l'est;
    to sail east naviguer cap sur l'est;
    it's 20 miles east of Manchester c'est à 32 kilomètres à l'est de Manchester;
    east by north est quart-nord-est;
    east by south est-quart-sud-est;
    further east plus à l'est;
    American familiar back east dans l'est (des États-Unis)
    ►► East Africa Afrique f orientale;
    1 noun
    Africain(e) m,f de l'est
    d'Afrique orientale;
    East End (of city) quartiers mpl est;
    to live in the East End of Glasgow habiter dans l'est de Glasgow;
    the East End = quartier industriel de Londres, connu pour ses docks et, autrefois, pour sa pauvreté; esp American East Europe Europe f de l'Est; East European
    1 noun
    Européen(enne) m,f de l'Est
    d'Europe de l'Est; East German
    1 noun
    Allemand(e) m,f de l'Est
    est-allemand, d'Allemagne de l'Est;
    (the former) East Germany (l'ex-)Allemagne f de l'Est;
    in East Germany en Allemagne de l'Est;
    History East India Company compagnie f des Indes Orientales; History East Indian
    1 noun
    natif(ive) m,f des Indes orientales
    des Indes orientales;
    History the East Indies les Indes fpl orientales;
    the East Side l'East Side m (quartier situé à l'est de Manhattan);
    East Sussex le Sussex oriental, = comté dans le sud de l'Angleterre;
    in East Sussex dans le Sussex oriental
    ✾ Book ✾ Film 'East of Eden' Steinbeck, Kazan 'À l'Est d'Éden'

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  • 7 west

    west [west]
    1 noun
    (a) Geography ouest m;
    in the west à l'ouest, dans l'ouest;
    the house lies to the west (of the town) la maison se trouve à l'ouest (de la ville);
    two miles to the west trois kilomètres à l'ouest;
    look towards the west regardez vers l'ouest;
    I was born in the west je suis né dans l'Ouest;
    in the west of Austria dans l'ouest de l'Autriche;
    on the west of the island à l'ouest de l'île;
    the wind is in the west le vent est à l'ouest;
    the wind is coming from the west le vent vient ou souffle de l'ouest;
    the West (the Occident) l'Occident m, les pays mpl occidentaux; (in US) l'Ouest m (États situés à l'ouest du Mississippi)
    (b) Cards ouest m
    (a) Geography ouest (inv), de l'ouest; (country) de l'Ouest; (wall) exposé à l'ouest;
    the west coast la côte ouest;
    in west London dans l'ouest de Londres;
    on the west side du côté ouest
    (b) (wind) d'ouest
    à l'ouest; (travel) vers l'ouest, en direction de l'ouest;
    the village lies west of Manchester le village est situé à l'ouest de Manchester;
    the living room faces west la salle de séjour est exposée à l'ouest;
    the path heads (due) west le chemin va ou mène (droit) vers l'ouest;
    drive west until you come to a main road roulez vers l'ouest jusqu'à ce que vous arriviez à une route principale;
    I travelled west je suis allé vers l'ouest;
    he travelled west for three days pendant trois jours, il a voyagé en direction de l'ouest;
    to sail west naviguer cap sur l'ouest;
    it's 20 miles west of Edinburgh c'est à 32 kilomètres à l'ouest d'Édimbourg;
    west by north/by south ouest-quart-nord-ouest/ouest-quart-sud-ouest;
    the school lies further west of the town hall l'école se trouve plus à l'ouest de la mairie;
    to go west aller à ou vers l'ouest; familiar humorous (person) passer l'arme à gauche; (thing) tomber à l'eau;
    familiar there's another job gone west! encore un emploi de perdu!
    ►► West Africa Afrique f occidentale;
    1 noun
    habitant(e) m,f de l'Afrique occidentale
    (languages, states) de l'Afrique occidentale, ouest-africain;
    the West Bank la Cisjordanie;
    on the West Bank en Cisjordanie;
    formerly West Berlin Berlin m Ouest;
    formerly West Berliner habitant(e) m,f de Berlin Ouest;
    Irish familiar pejorative West Brit = terme péjoratif désignant les Irlandais qui cherchent à s'angliciser par l'accent, le mode de vie etc;
    the West Coast la côte ouest (des États-Unis);
    the West Country = le sud-ouest de l'Angleterre (Cornouailles, Devon et Somerset);
    in the West Country dans le sud-ouest de l'Angleterre; the West End
    (in general) les quartiers mpl ouest; (of London) le West End (centre touristique et commercial de la ville de Londres connu pour ses théâtres);
    in the West End dans le West End; formerly West German
    1 noun
    Allemand(e) m,f de l'Ouest
    ouest-allemand;
    formerly West Germany Allemagne f de l'Ouest;
    in West Germany en Allemagne de l'Ouest;
    Geography West Glamorgan le West Glamorgan, = comté du sud-ouest du pays de Galles;
    in West Glamorgan dans le West Glamorgan;
    West Highland terrier terrier m écossais, West Highland terrier m; West Indian
    1 noun
    Antillais(e) m,f
    antillais;
    the West Indies les Antilles fpl;
    in the West Indies aux Antilles;
    the French West Indies les Antilles françaises;
    the Dutch West Indies les Antilles néerlandaises;
    the West Midlands les West Midlands mpl, = comté du centre de l'Angleterre;
    in the West Midlands dans les West Midlands;
    West Point = importante école militaire américaine;
    American the West Side les quartiers mpl ouest de New York;
    West Sussex le Sussex occidental, = comté du sud de l'Angleterre;
    in West Sussex dans le Sussex occidental;
    West Virginia la Virginie-Occidentale;
    in West Virginia en Virginie-Occidentale;
    West Yorkshire le West Yorkshire, = comté du nord de l'Angleterre;
    in West Yorkshire dans le West Yorkshire
    ✾ Film 'Once Upon a Time in the West' Leone 'Il était une fois dans l'ouest'
    Go West young man On attribue cette phrase ("va vers l'Ouest, jeune homme") à John Soule, journaliste américain de l'Indiana qui l'aurait employée pour la première fois en 1851. Il s'agit d'une allusion à la colonisation de l'ouest américain mais on emploie cette formule dans d'autres contextes, lorsque quelqu'un part en voyage vers l'Ouest, quel que soit le pays où il se trouve, ou bien en l'adaptant en remplaçant "ouest" par un autre terme. On utilise aussi cette expression pour encourager quelqu'un à faire preuve d'ambition et à se déplacer de façon à trouver du travail.

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  • 8 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

  • 9 bear

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    I. 1. v (bore borne, born) born се ynomребява само в passive voice на значение, когато не следва предлогът by
    she was born in 1967
    a son was born to him роди му се син, но
    a son borne by his first wife син, роден от първата му жена
    she has borne him two sons тя му роди двама сина, нося. понасям. разнасям, пренасям
    to BEAR responsibility отговарям, нося отговорност
    to BEAR the costs поемам разноските
    2. раждам, нося. давам
    to BEAR fruit раждам/давам плод, прен. давам резулта, успявам
    3. нося, показвам, соча, имам, давам, предлагам
    to BEAR the traces/signs of нося следите/белезите на
    to BEAR resemblance to имам прилика с, наподобявам, приличам на
    to BEAR false witness давам лъжливи показания
    to BEAR someone company правя компания на някого
    4. поддържам, подпирам, нося (тежест и пр.)
    5. издържам, нося, понасям, търпя
    I can't BEAR his complacency не мога да понасям самодоволството му
    there is no BEARing with him той e нетърпим
    the ice won't BEAR such weight ледът няма да издържи такава тежест
    6. питая, храня, тая, запазвам
    to BEAR in mind помня, имам предвид, не забравям
    to BEAR someone a grudge държа карез/имам зъб на някого
    7. refl държа се, нося се
    she bore herself with dignity тя се държа достойно
    he BEARs himself like a soldier той се държи като войник
    8. допускам, търпя
    the accident BEARs no explanation злополуката не може да се обясни
    9. оказвам влияние/натиск
    10. движа се, насочвам се, държа курс, завивам, свивам, отклонявам се, отбивам се
    the ship bore due west корабът държеше курс право на запад
    the road BEARs to the right пътят се отклонява надясно
    11. намирам се, разположен съм, лежа, простирам се
    the land bore north of the sea сушата се простираше на север от морето
    12. подхождам, подобавам
    his words don't BEAR repeating не бих могъл да повторя думите му (не са за пред хора), to BEAR one's age не ми личат годините, младея
    bear away спечелвам, получавам (награда и пр.), bear down упражнявам натиск, събарям, преодолявам
    to BEAR down upon спущам се/връхлетявам върху
    bear off спечелвам (награди), мор. отклонявам се, оттеглям се
    bear on имам връзка с/отношение към/влияние върху, тежа на, потискам, гнетя
    grief bore heavily on her скръбта я гнетеше
    bear out потвърждавам, подкрепям
    bear up държа се, не падам духом, не се отчайвам
    bear upon bear on
    bear with търпелив съм към, изтърпявам
    II. 1. мечка (Ursus)
    2. Great/Little BEAR астр. Голямата/Малката мечка
    3. недодялан/навъсен/груб човек
    4. борсов спекулант
    like a BEAR with a sore head рaзг. сърдит, ядосан, раздразнителен
    to play the BEAR обръщам всичко наопаки, рискувам безсмислено, разрушавам, съсипвам
    III. 1. спекулирам в очакване да спаднат цените
    2. предизвиквам понижение на цената (нa акции и пр.)
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    {bЁъ} v (bore {bъ:}; borne, born {bъ:n}); (born се ynomребя(2) n 1. мечка (Ursus); 2. Great/Little B. астр. Голямата/Мал{3} v борс. 1. спекулирам в очакване да спаднат цените; 2. пр
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    понасям; раждам; допускам; издържам; нося;
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    1. 1 намирам се, разположен съм, лежа, простирам се 2. 1 подхождам, подобавам 3. a son borne by his first wife син, роден от първата му жена 4. a son was born to him роди му се син, но 5. bear away спечелвам, получавам (награда и пр.), bear down упражнявам натиск, събарям, преодолявам 6. bear off спечелвам (награди), мор. отклонявам се, оттеглям се 7. bear on имам връзка с/отношение към/влияние върху, тежа на, потискам, гнетя 8. bear out потвърждавам, подкрепям 9. bear up държа се, не падам духом, не се отчайвам 10. bear upon bear on 11. bear with търпелив съм към, изтърпявам 12. great/little bear астр. Голямата/Малката мечка 13. grief bore heavily on her скръбта я гнетеше 14. he bears himself like a soldier той се държи като войник 15. his words don't bear repeating не бих могъл да повторя думите му (не са за пред хора), to bear one's age не ми личат годините, младея 16. i can't bear his complacency не мога да понасям самодоволството му 17. i. v (bore borne, born) born се ynomребява само в passive voice на значение, когато не следва предлогът by 18. ii. мечка (ursus) 19. iii. спекулирам в очакване да спаднат цените 20. like a bear with a sore head рaзг. сърдит, ядосан, раздразнителен 21. refl държа се, нося се 22. she bore herself with dignity тя се държа достойно 23. she has borne him two sons тя му роди двама сина, нося. понасям. разнасям, пренасям 24. she was born in 1967 25. the accident bears no explanation злополуката не може да се обясни 26. the ice won't bear such weight ледът няма да издържи такава тежест 27. the land bore north of the sea сушата се простираше на север от морето 28. the road bears to the right пътят се отклонява надясно 29. the ship bore due west корабът държеше курс право на запад 30. there is no bearing with him той e нетърпим 31. to bear down upon спущам се/връхлетявам върху 32. to bear false witness давам лъжливи показания 33. to bear fruit раждам/давам плод, прен. давам резулта, успявам 34. to bear in mind помня, имам предвид, не забравям 35. to bear resemblance to имам прилика с, наподобявам, приличам на 36. to bear responsibility отговарям, нося отговорност 37. to bear someone a grudge държа карез/имам зъб на някого 38. to bear someone company правя компания на някого 39. to bear the costs поемам разноските 40. to bear the traces/signs of нося следите/белезите на 41. to play the bear обръщам всичко наопаки, рискувам безсмислено, разрушавам, съсипвам 42. борсов спекулант 43. движа се, насочвам се, държа курс, завивам, свивам, отклонявам се, отбивам се 44. допускам, търпя 45. издържам, нося, понасям, търпя 46. недодялан/навъсен/груб човек 47. нося, показвам, соча, имам, давам, предлагам 48. оказвам влияние/натиск 49. питая, храня, тая, запазвам 50. поддържам, подпирам, нося (тежест и пр.) 51. предизвиквам понижение на цената (на акции и пр.) 52. раждам, нося. давам
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    bear[bɛə] v ( bore[bɔ:]; borne, born[bɔ:n]) 1. нося (обикн. прен.); rifle-\bearing soldiers войници, въоръжени с пушки; to \bear the cost поемам разноските; to \bear no resemblance to нямам нищо общо с, не може да се сравнява с; 2. раждам, добивам ( дете) ( нар.), давам живот (pp born); 3. поддържам, подпирам; нося; the ice \bears ледът е достатъчно здрав (за ходене по него); 4. издържам на, понасям, изтърпявам, изтрайвам; (и с with) търпя; to \bear the misery понасям несгодите; there is no \bearing ( with) him той е непоносим; 5. питая, храня, чувствам, изпитвам, усещам; to \bear in mind имам предвид; to \bear ill will злонамерен съм; to \bear s.o. malice храня лоши чувства към някого; 6. държа се, отнасям се, постъпвам; нося се; she \bears herself well тя се държи добре; 7. допускам, предполагам, смятам, подозирам; the accident \bears two explanations произшествието може да се обясни по два начина; 8. движа се, насочвам се, държа курс; the ship \bears due west корабът държи курс точно на запад; to bring influence ( pressure) to \bear упражнявам влияние, използвам натиск; to bring computer science to \bear on a problem използвам компютърната наука за разрешаване на проблем; to \bear the brunt of s.th. понасям най-лошите последствия от нещо; to \bear a hand помагам; to \bear comparison издържам сравнение, мога да се сравня (с); to \bear witness ( testimony) свидетелствам, удостоверявам, потвърждавам, давам показания; to \bear o.'s age well изглеждам по-млад от годините си, не ми личат годините, младея; this story doesn't \bear repeating този разказ не е за повтаряне (не е за пред хора); the relation which price \bears to profit отношението на цената към печалбата; II. n 1. мечка, мечок; grizzly \bear гризли, американска сива мечка Ursus horribilis; polar \bear бяла мечка, полярна мечка Ursus maritimus; to take a \bear by the tooth прен. излагам се безцелно (неразумно) на опасност; like a \bear with a sore head сърдит, кисел, раздразнителен; 2. спекулант, който се ръководи в сделките си от очакване за спадане на цените; 3. астр. Great B. Голямата мечка; Little B. Малката мечка; 4. некултурен (груб) човек, невежа, нецивилизован, неук; III. v 1. спекулирам в очакване на спадане на цените; 2. опитвам се да понижа цената на.

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  • 10 bear

    I noun
    1) Bär, der
    2) (Astron.)

    Great/Little Bear — Großer/Kleiner Bär

    II 1. transitive verb,
    1) (show) tragen [Wappen, Inschrift, Unterschrift]; aufweisen, zeigen [Merkmal, Spuren, Ähnlichkeit, Verwandtschaft]

    bear a resemblance or likeness to somebody — Ähnlichkeit mit jemandem haben

    2) (be known by) tragen, führen [Namen, Titel]
    3)

    bear some/little relation to something — einen gewissen/wenig Bezug zu etwas haben

    4) (poet./formal): (carry) tragen [Waffe, Last]; mit sich führen [Geschenk, Botschaft]

    I was borne along by the fierce currentdie starke Strömung trug mich mit [sich]

    5) (endure, tolerate) ertragen [Schmerz, Kummer]; with neg. aushalten [Schmerz]; ausstehen [Geruch, Lärm, Speise]
    6) (sustain) tragen, übernehmen [Verantwortlichkeit, Kosten]; auf sich (Akk.) nehmen [Schuld]; tragen, aushalten [Gewicht]
    7) (be fit for) vertragen

    it does not bear repeating or repetition — das lässt sich unmöglich wiederholen

    bear comparison with somethingden od. einen Vergleich mit etwas aushalten

    8) (give birth to) gebären [Kind, Junges]; see also academic.ru/8296/born">born
    9) (yield) tragen [Blumen, Früchte usw.]

    bear fruit(fig.) Früchte tragen (geh.)

    2. intransitive verb,
    bore, borne
    1)

    bear left[Person:] sich links halten

    2)

    bring to bearaufbieten [Kraft, Energie]; ausüben [Druck]

    Phrasal Verbs:
    - bear away
    - bear down
    - bear off
    - bear on
    - bear out
    - bear up
    - bear upon
    - bear with
    * * *
    I [beə] past tense - bore; verb
    1) ((usually with cannot, could not etc) to put up with or endure: I couldn't bear it if he left.) ertragen
    2) (to be able to support: Will the table bear my weight?)
    3) ((past participle in passive born [bo:n]) to produce (children): She has borne (him) several children; She was born on July 7.) gebären,geboren
    4) (to carry: He was borne shoulder-high after his victory.) tragen
    5) (to have: The cheque bore his signature.) tragen
    6) (to turn or fork: The road bears left here.) führen
    - bearable
    - bearer
    - bearing
    - bearings
    - bear down on
    - bear fruit
    - bear out
    - bear up
    - bear with
    - find/get one's bearings
    - lose one's bearings
    II [beə] noun
    (a large heavy animal with thick fur and hooked claws.) der Bär
    * * *
    bear1
    [beəʳ, AM ber]
    I. n
    1. (animal) Bär m
    black/brown \bear Schwarz-/Braunbär m
    she-\bear Bärin f
    to be like a \bear with a sore head [or AM like a real \bear] ( fig fam) ein richtiger Brummbär sein fam
    2. STOCKEX (sb calculatedly selling stocks) Baissier m, Baissespekulant(in) m(f), Bär(in) m(f), Bear m
    covered \bear gedeckter Baissier
    uncovered \bear Baissier m, der seine Position noch nicht glattstellen konnte
    3.
    it's a \bear to do sth es ist kompliziert, etw zu tun
    II. vi STOCKEX auf Baisse [o à la Baisse] spekulieren
    bear2
    <bore, borne or AM also born>
    [beəʳ, AM ber]
    I. vt
    to \bear sth etw tragen; ( liter):
    he was borne backwards by a large wave er wurde von einer großen Welle zurückgerissen
    to \bear arms ( form) Waffen tragen
    to \bear gifts ( form) Geschenke mitbringen
    to \bear tidings ( old liter) Neuigkeiten überbringen
    2. (display)
    to \bear a date/an imprint/an inscription ein Datum/einen Aufdruck/eine Aufschrift tragen
    to \bear sb's name jds Namen tragen [o geh führen
    4. (behave)
    to \bear oneself:
    5. (support)
    to \bear the load/the weight die Last/das Gewicht tragen; ( fig)
    to \bear the cost die Kosten tragen
    6. (endure, shoulder)
    to \bear sth etw ertragen [o erdulden]
    what might have happened doesn't \bear thinking about man darf gar nicht daran denken, was hätte passieren können
    he said something so awful that it doesn't \bear repeating er sagte so etwas Schreckliches, dass ich es gar nicht wiederholen möchte
    to \bear the blame die Schuld auf sich akk nehmen
    to \bear the [burden of] responsibility die [Last der] Verantwortung tragen
    to \bear one's cross sein Kreuz tragen fig
    to \bear the discomfort/hardship die Unbequemlichkeit/Mühe auf sich akk nehmen
    to \bear the pain/tribulation den Schmerz/Kummer ertragen
    to not be able to \bear sb/sth jdn/etw nicht ertragen [o ausstehen] können
    to not be able to \bear the boredom/suspense Langeweile/Spannung nicht aushalten
    to not be able to \bear jokes/criticism Spaß/Kritik nicht vertragen
    to not \bear to do sth es nicht ertragen können, etw zu tun
    8. (harbour resentments)
    to \bear sb a grudge einen Groll gegen jdn hegen geh
    to \bear sb ill-feeling auf jdn nicht gut zu sprechen sein
    to not \bear any ill-feeling against sb nichts gegen jdn haben
    to \bear sb ill-will jdm gegenüber nachtragend sein
    to \bear no ill-will keine Feindschaft empfinden
    9. (possess)
    to \bear an [uncanny] likeness [or similarity] to sb [unheimliche] Ähnlichkeit mit jdm haben
    to \bear a [strong] resemblance to sb [große] Ähnlichkeit mit jdm haben, jdm sehr ähnlich sehen
    to \bear the [or a] scar eine Narbe davontragen fig, gezeichnet sein geh
    10. (keep)
    I'll \bear that in mind ich werde das mit berücksichtigen
    to \bear a baby ein Kind gebären [o zur Welt bringen]
    to \bear sb a child jdm ein Kind gebären
    his wife bore him a son seine Frau schenkte ihm einen Sohn
    I was born in April ich bin im April geboren
    to \bear cubs/foals/young ZOOL Welpen/Fohlen/Junge bekommen
    12. AGR, BOT
    to \bear fruit ( also fig) Früchte tragen a. fig; FIN, ECON
    to \bear interest at 8% 8 % Zinsen bringen, mit 8 % verzinst sein
    13.
    to \bear testimony [or witness] Zeugnis ablegen
    to \bear witness to sth von etw dat Zeugnis ablegen, etw bezeugen
    to \bear false witness ( old) falsches Zeugnis ablegen veraltend
    II. vi
    1. (tend)
    to \bear left/right sich akk links/rechts halten
    2. (be patient)
    to \bear with sb mit jdm Geduld [o Nachsicht] haben
    3. (press) drücken
    to \bear on a lever einen Hebel betätigen
    to \bear down on [or upon] sb/sth auf jdn/etw zusteuern
    5. (be relevant)
    to \bear on sth etw betreffen; (have affect on) etw beeinflussen
    6. (put pressure on)
    to bring pressure to \bear on sb/sth Druck m auf jdn/etw ausüben
    * * *
    I [bɛə(r)] pret bore, ptp borne
    1. vt
    1) (= carry) burden, arms tragen; gift, message bei sich tragen, mit sich führen

    to bear away/back — mitnehmen/mit (sich) zurücknehmen; (through the air)

    the music was borne/borne away on the wind (liter) — die Musik wurde vom Wind weiter-/weggetragen

    2) (= show) inscription, signature tragen; mark, traces also, likeness, relation aufweisen, zeigen → witness
    See:
    3) (= be known by) name, title tragen, führen
    4) (= have in heart or mind) love empfinden, in sich (dat) tragen; hatred, grudge also hegen (geh)

    the love/hatred he bore her — die Liebe, die er für sie empfand/der Hass, den er gegen sie hegte (geh) or empfand

    See:
    mind
    5) (lit, fig: support, sustain) weight, expense, responsibility tragen

    to bear examination/comparison — einer Prüfung/einem Vergleich standhalten

    it doesn't bear thinking aboutman darf gar nicht daran denken

    6) (= endure, tolerate) ertragen; (with neg also) ausstehen, leiden; pain aushalten; criticism, joking vertragen; smell, noise etc aushalten, vertragen

    she can't bear being laughed at —

    7) (= produce, yield fruit etc) tragen → interest
    See:
    8) (= give birth to) gebären → born
    See:
    born
    2. vi
    1)

    (= move) to bear right/left/north — sich rechts/links/nach Norden halten

    2) (fruit tree etc) tragen
    3)

    to bring one's energies/powers of persuasion to bear — seine Energie/Überzeugungskraft aufwenden (on für)

    to bring pressure to bear on sb/sth — Druck auf jdn/etw ausüben

    3. vr
    sich halten

    he bore himself with dignityer hat Würde gezeigt

    II
    1. n
    1) Bär m; (fig = person) Brummbär m (inf)
    2) (ASTRON)

    the Great/Little Bear — der Große/Kleine Bär or Wagen

    3) (ST EX) Baissespekulant m, Baissier m
    2. vi (ST EX)
    auf Baisse spekulieren
    * * *
    bear1 [beə(r)] prät bore [bɔː(r); US auch ˈbəʊər], obs bare [beə(r)], pperf borne [bɔː(r)n; US auch ˈbəʊərn], bei 4born [bɔː(r)n; US auch ˈbəʊərn]
    A v/t
    1. Lasten etc tragen
    2. fig Kosten, einen Verlust, die Verantwortung, die Folgen etc tragen
    3. Blumen, Früchte, auch Zinsen etc tragen: fruit A 2, interest A 11 (und andere Verbindungen mit Substantiven)
    4. (pperf borne oder born;
    Letzteres nur in der passiven Bedeutung: geboren [werden], sofern nicht by … von … folgt) zur Welt bringen, gebären:
    a) ein Kind gebären,
    b) ein Kind (unter dem Herzen) tragen;
    the children borne to him by this woman die ihm von dieser Frau geborenen Kinder;
    be born geboren werden;
    he was born in 1941 auch er ist Jahrgang 1941;
    he was born into a rich family er kam als Kind reicher Eltern zur Welt oder auf die Welt;
    I wasn’t born yesterday ich bin doch nicht von gestern;
    there’s one born every minute umg die Dummen werden nicht alle oder weniger; park A 1, silver spoon
    5. einen Namen, einen Titel, auch Waffen etc tragen, führen:
    bear arms against Krieg führen gegen; arm2 Bes Redew
    6. ein Amt etc innehaben, ausüben
    7. ein Datum, einen Stempel, ein Zeichen etc tragen, aufweisen:
    bear a proportion to in einem Verhältnis stehen zu; resemblance
    8. eine Bedeutung etc haben, in sich schließen
    9. ein Gefühl hegen:
    bear sb love jemandem Liebe entgegenbringen; grudge C, malice 2, will2 A 6
    10. eine Rolle spielen (in bei)
    11. Schmerzen etc ertragen, (er)dulden, (er)leiden
    12. aushalten, einer Prüfung etc standhalten:
    that doesn’t bear thinking about man darf gar nicht daran denken; comparison 1, repeat A 1, repetition 1
    13. (meist neg) ausstehen, leiden, einen Gedanken ertragen
    14. eine Nachricht etc überbringen
    15. Gehorsam etc leisten, Lob zollen (to dat):
    bear sb a hand jemandem helfen oder zur Hand gehen; company A 1
    16. Zeugnis ablegen:
    bear witness ( oder evidence) zeugen (to für)
    17. bear o.s. sich betragen, sich benehmen
    B v/i
    1. tragen, (sicher) halten (Balken, Eis etc)
    2. (on, upon) schwer lasten oder liegen (auf dat), drücken, einen Druck ausüben (auf akk)
    3. (against) drücken, sich lehnen (gegen), anliegen (an dat)
    4. (on, upon)
    a) einwirken, Einfluss haben (auf akk)
    b) sich beziehen, Bezug haben (auf akk), im Zusammenhang stehen (mit), betreffen (akk):
    how does this bear on …? in welchem Zusammenhang steht das mit …?;
    bring to bear (up)on
    a) einwirken lassen auf (akk),
    b) richten oder anwenden auf (akk);
    bear hard on sehr zusetzen (dat), hart treffen, arg mitnehmen (akk); pressure A 5
    5. eine Richtung einschlagen, sich halten:
    bear (to the) left sich links halten;
    bear to a star FLUG, SCHIFF ein Gestirn anpeilen;
    the beacon bears 240 degrees die Bake liegt bei oder auf 240°
    6. SCHIFF
    a) abfahren, absegeln ( beide:
    to nach)
    b) abfallen
    7. sich erstrecken
    8. bear with Nachsicht haben oder üben mit, (geduldig) ertragen (akk):
    would ( oder could) you bear with me for a second? einen kleinen Augenblick, bitte, TEL auch bleiben Sie bitte einen kleinen Moment am Apparat
    9. BOT (Früchte) tragen
    10. ZOOL tragen, trächtig sein (Tier)
    11. MIL tragen (Geschütz):
    bear on beschießen (akk)
    bear2 [beə(r)]
    A s
    1. ZOOL Bär m:
    he’s like (od umg [as] cross as) a bear with a sore head today er ist heute unausstehlich oder in einer Stinklaune; hungry A 1
    2. fig
    a) Bär m, Tollpatsch m
    b) Brummbär m, Ekel n pej
    c) US umg Kanone f (at, for in dat)
    3. WIRTSCH Bear m, Baissier m, Baissespekulant(in):
    4. ASTRON
    a) the Greater ( oder Great) Bear der Große Bär
    b) the Lesser ( oder Little) Bear der Kleine Bär
    5. METALL Eisenklumpen m, Bodensau f
    B v/i WIRTSCH auf Baisse spekulieren, fixen
    C v/t bear the market WIRTSCH die Kurse drücken oder zu drücken versuchen
    D adj WIRTSCH
    a) flau (Markt), fallend (Preise)
    b) Baisse…:
    bear campaign Angriff m der Baissepartei;
    bear market Baisse f;
    bear operation Baissespekulation f;
    bear sale Leerverkauf m
    * * *
    I noun
    1) Bär, der
    2) (Astron.)

    Great/Little Bear — Großer/Kleiner Bär

    II 1. transitive verb,
    1) (show) tragen [Wappen, Inschrift, Unterschrift]; aufweisen, zeigen [Merkmal, Spuren, Ähnlichkeit, Verwandtschaft]

    bear a resemblance or likeness to somebody — Ähnlichkeit mit jemandem haben

    2) (be known by) tragen, führen [Namen, Titel]
    3)

    bear some/little relation to something — einen gewissen/wenig Bezug zu etwas haben

    4) (poet./formal): (carry) tragen [Waffe, Last]; mit sich führen [Geschenk, Botschaft]

    I was borne along by the fierce current — die starke Strömung trug mich mit [sich]

    5) (endure, tolerate) ertragen [Schmerz, Kummer]; with neg. aushalten [Schmerz]; ausstehen [Geruch, Lärm, Speise]
    6) (sustain) tragen, übernehmen [Verantwortlichkeit, Kosten]; auf sich (Akk.) nehmen [Schuld]; tragen, aushalten [Gewicht]
    7) (be fit for) vertragen

    it does not bear repeating or repetition — das lässt sich unmöglich wiederholen

    bear comparison with somethingden od. einen Vergleich mit etwas aushalten

    8) (give birth to) gebären [Kind, Junges]; see also born
    9) (yield) tragen [Blumen, Früchte usw.]

    bear fruit(fig.) Früchte tragen (geh.)

    2. intransitive verb,
    bore, borne
    1)

    bear left[Person:] sich links halten

    2)

    bring to bearaufbieten [Kraft, Energie]; ausüben [Druck]

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    (stock exchange) n.
    Börsenspekulant -en m. n.
    Baissier -s m.
    Bär -en m. (on) v.
    betreffen v.
    sich beziehen (auf) v. (to give birth to) v.
    zur Welt bringen ausdr. v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: bore, borne)
    = aushalten v.
    ausstehen v.
    ausüben v.
    ertragen v.
    gebären v.
    (§ p.,pp.: gebar, geboren)
    halten v.
    (§ p.,pp.: hielt, gehalten)
    lasten v.
    tragen v.
    (§ p.,pp.: trug, getragen)

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  • 11 Introduction

       Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy. One of the continent's oldest nation-states, Portugal has frontiers that are essentially unchanged since the late 14th century. The country's unique character and 850-year history as an independent state present several curious paradoxes. As of 1974, when much of the remainder of the Portuguese overseas empire was decolonized, Portuguese society appeared to be the most ethnically homogeneous of the two Iberian states and of much of Europe. Yet, Portuguese society had received, over the course of 2,000 years, infusions of other ethnic groups in invasions and immigration: Phoenicians, Greeks, Celts, Romans, Suevi, Visigoths, Muslims (Arab and Berber), Jews, Italians, Flemings, Burgundian French, black Africans, and Asians. Indeed, Portugal has been a crossroads, despite its relative isolation in the western corner of the Iberian Peninsula, between the West and North Africa, Tropical Africa, and Asia and America. Since 1974, Portugal's society has become less homogeneous, as there has been significant immigration of former subjects from its erstwhile overseas empire.
       Other paradoxes should be noted as well. Although Portugal is sometimes confused with Spain or things Spanish, its very national independence and national culture depend on being different from Spain and Spaniards. Today, Portugal's independence may be taken for granted. Since 1140, except for 1580-1640 when it was ruled by Philippine Spain, Portugal has been a sovereign state. Nevertheless, a recurring theme of the nation's history is cycles of anxiety and despair that its freedom as a nation is at risk. There is a paradox, too, about Portugal's overseas empire(s), which lasted half a millennium (1415-1975): after 1822, when Brazil achieved independence from Portugal, most of the Portuguese who emigrated overseas never set foot in their overseas empire, but preferred to immigrate to Brazil or to other countries in North or South America or Europe, where established Portuguese overseas communities existed.
       Portugal was a world power during the period 1415-1550, the era of the Discoveries, expansion, and early empire, and since then the Portuguese have experienced periods of decline, decadence, and rejuvenation. Despite the fact that Portugal slipped to the rank of a third- or fourth-rate power after 1580, it and its people can claim rightfully an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions that assure their place both in world and Western history. These distinctions should be kept in mind while acknowledging that, for more than 400 years, Portugal has generally lagged behind the rest of Western Europe, although not Southern Europe, in social and economic developments and has remained behind even its only neighbor and sometime nemesis, Spain.
       Portugal's pioneering role in the Discoveries and exploration era of the 15th and 16th centuries is well known. Often noted, too, is the Portuguese role in the art and science of maritime navigation through the efforts of early navigators, mapmakers, seamen, and fishermen. What are often forgotten are the country's slender base of resources, its small population largely of rural peasants, and, until recently, its occupation of only 16 percent of the Iberian Peninsula. As of 1139—10, when Portugal emerged first as an independent monarchy, and eventually a sovereign nation-state, England and France had not achieved this status. The Portuguese were the first in the Iberian Peninsula to expel the Muslim invaders from their portion of the peninsula, achieving this by 1250, more than 200 years before Castile managed to do the same (1492).
       Other distinctions may be noted. Portugal conquered the first overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean in the early modern era and established the first plantation system based on slave labor. Portugal's empire was the first to be colonized and the last to be decolonized in the 20th century. With so much of its scattered, seaborne empire dependent upon the safety and seaworthiness of shipping, Portugal was a pioneer in initiating marine insurance, a practice that is taken for granted today. During the time of Pombaline Portugal (1750-77), Portugal was the first state to organize and hold an industrial trade fair. In distinctive political and governmental developments, Portugal's record is more mixed, and this fact suggests that maintaining a government with a functioning rule of law and a pluralist, representative democracy has not been an easy matter in a country that for so long has been one of the poorest and least educated in the West. Portugal's First Republic (1910-26), only the third republic in a largely monarchist Europe (after France and Switzerland), was Western Europe's most unstable parliamentary system in the 20th century. Finally, the authoritarian Estado Novo or "New State" (1926-74) was the longest surviving authoritarian system in modern Western Europe. When Portugal departed from its overseas empire in 1974-75, the descendants, in effect, of Prince Henry the Navigator were leaving the West's oldest empire.
       Portugal's individuality is based mainly on its long history of distinc-tiveness, its intense determination to use any means — alliance, diplomacy, defense, trade, or empire—to be a sovereign state, independent of Spain, and on its national pride in the Portuguese language. Another master factor in Portuguese affairs deserves mention. The country's politics and government have been influenced not only by intellectual currents from the Atlantic but also through Spain from Europe, which brought new political ideas and institutions and novel technologies. Given the weight of empire in Portugal's past, it is not surprising that public affairs have been hostage to a degree to what happened in her overseas empire. Most important have been domestic responses to imperial affairs during both imperial and internal crises since 1415, which have continued to the mid-1970s and beyond. One of the most important themes of Portuguese history, and one oddly neglected by not a few histories, is that every major political crisis and fundamental change in the system—in other words, revolution—since 1415 has been intimately connected with a related imperial crisis. The respective dates of these historical crises are: 1437, 1495, 1578-80, 1640, 1820-22, 1890, 1910, 1926-30, 1961, and 1974. The reader will find greater detail on each crisis in historical context in the history section of this introduction and in relevant entries.
       LAND AND PEOPLE
       The Republic of Portugal is located on the western edge of the Iberian Peninsula. A major geographical dividing line is the Tagus River: Portugal north of it has an Atlantic orientation; the country to the south of it has a Mediterranean orientation. There is little physical evidence that Portugal is clearly geographically distinct from Spain, and there is no major natural barrier between the two countries along more than 1,214 kilometers (755 miles) of the Luso-Spanish frontier. In climate, Portugal has a number of microclimates similar to the microclimates of Galicia, Estremadura, and Andalusia in neighboring Spain. North of the Tagus, in general, there is an Atlantic-type climate with higher rainfall, cold winters, and some snow in the mountainous areas. South of the Tagus is a more Mediterranean climate, with hot, dry, often rainless summers and cool, wet winters. Lisbon, the capital, which has a fifth of the country's population living in its region, has an average annual mean temperature about 16° C (60° F).
       For a small country with an area of 92,345 square kilometers (35,580 square miles, including the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and the Madeiras), which is about the size of the state of Indiana in the United States, Portugal has a remarkable diversity of regional topography and scenery. In some respects, Portugal resembles an island within the peninsula, embodying a unique fusion of European and non-European cultures, akin to Spain yet apart. Its geography is a study in contrasts, from the flat, sandy coastal plain, in some places unusually wide for Europe, to the mountainous Beira districts or provinces north of the Tagus, to the snow-capped mountain range of the Estrela, with its unique ski area, to the rocky, barren, remote Trás-os-Montes district bordering Spain. There are extensive forests in central and northern Portugal that contrast with the flat, almost Kansas-like plains of the wheat belt in the Alentejo district. There is also the unique Algarve district, isolated somewhat from the Alentejo district by a mountain range, with a microclimate, topography, and vegetation that resemble closely those of North Africa.
       Although Portugal is small, just 563 kilometers (337 miles) long and from 129 to 209 kilometers (80 to 125 miles) wide, it is strategically located on transportation and communication routes between Europe and North Africa, and the Americas and Europe. Geographical location is one key to the long history of Portugal's three overseas empires, which stretched once from Morocco to the Moluccas and from lonely Sagres at Cape St. Vincent to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is essential to emphasize the identity of its neighbors: on the north and east Portugal is bounded by Spain, its only neighbor, and by the Atlantic Ocean on the south and west. Portugal is the westernmost country of Western Europe, and its shape resembles a face, with Lisbon below the nose, staring into the
       Atlantic. No part of Portugal touches the Mediterranean, and its Atlantic orientation has been a response in part to turning its back on Castile and Léon (later Spain) and exploring, traveling, and trading or working in lands beyond the peninsula. Portugal was the pioneering nation in the Atlantic-born European discoveries during the Renaissance, and its diplomatic and trade relations have been dominated by countries that have been Atlantic powers as well: Spain; England (Britain since 1707); France; Brazil, once its greatest colony; and the United States.
       Today Portugal and its Atlantic islands have a population of roughly 10 million people. While ethnic homogeneity has been characteristic of it in recent history, Portugal's population over the centuries has seen an infusion of non-Portuguese ethnic groups from various parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Between 1500 and 1800, a significant population of black Africans, brought in as slaves, was absorbed in the population. And since 1950, a population of Cape Verdeans, who worked in menial labor, has resided in Portugal. With the influx of African, Goan, and Timorese refugees and exiles from the empire—as many as three quarters of a million retornados ("returned ones" or immigrants from the former empire) entered Portugal in 1974 and 1975—there has been greater ethnic diversity in the Portuguese population. In 2002, there were 239,113 immigrants legally residing in Portugal: 108,132 from Africa; 24,806 from Brazil; 15,906 from Britain; 14,617 from Spain; and 11,877 from Germany. In addition, about 200,000 immigrants are living in Portugal from eastern Europe, mainly from Ukraine. The growth of Portugal's population is reflected in the following statistics:
       1527 1,200,000 (estimate only)
       1768 2,400,000 (estimate only)
       1864 4,287,000 first census
       1890 5,049,700
       1900 5,423,000
       1911 5,960,000
       1930 6,826,000
       1940 7,185,143
       1950 8,510,000
       1960 8,889,000
       1970 8,668,000* note decrease
       1980 9,833,000
       1991 9,862,540
       1996 9,934,100
       2006 10,642,836
       2010 10,710,000 (estimated)

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  • 12 bear

    ̈ɪbɛə I
    1. сущ.
    1) а) медведь brown bearбурый медведь grizzly bear ≈ медведь гризли polar bearбелый медведь б) мишка (детская игрушка) teddy bearигрушечный мишка или просто любая мягкая игрушка в) перен. Россия When he allowed himself to be flown back to Moscow he was consciously putting his head in the Bear's mouth. ≈ Когда он решил вернуться в Москву, он сознательно сунул свою голову в пасть медведя. г) амер.;
    сл. полицейский Bear's Den ≈ полицейский участок
    2) неуклюжий, грубый человек to play the bearвести себя невежливо, грубо
    3) рогожа, циновка;
    швабра
    4) дыропробивной пресс, медведка
    5) бирж. спекулянт, играющий на понижение, медведь
    6) метал. козел ∙ are you there with your bears? ≈ опять вы здесь?;
    опять вы делаете то же самое? to take a bear by the toothбез нужды подвергать себя опасности, лезть на рожон to sell the bear's skin before one has caught the bear ≈ делить шкуру неубитого медведя had it been a bear it would have bitten you ≈ вы ошиблись, обознались;
    (оказалось) не так страшно, как вы думали Great BearБольшая Медведица Little Bear, Lesser BearМалая Медведица
    2. гл.;
    бирж. играть на понижение II гл.;
    прош. вр. - bore;
    прич. прош. вр. - borne
    1) носить, нести;
    перевозить, переносить to bear a heavy load ≈ нести тяжелый груз to bear the cases downstairsснести чемоданы вниз The servants were bearing food to the guests. ≈ Слуги разносили еду гостям. Syn: carry
    1.
    2) возвр. вести себя, держаться bearing himself well ≈ (он) хорошо себя ведет Syn: behave, conduct
    2.
    3) а) нести на себе, иметь (в качестве опознавательного знака) to bear the marks of blows ≈ носить следы побоев This letter bears no date. ≈ На этом письме нет даты. to bore the name of John ≈ носить имя Джона б) иметь, обладать( свойством, характером, внешностью и т. п.) Old Cavaliers who bore the marks of honourable wounds. ≈ Старые кавалеристы со славными шрамами на лице. в) иметь, обладать (влиянием, властью) ;
    занимать (должность, пост) г) питать, иметь (чувство и т. п.) He bore her no malice. ≈ Он не питал к ней никакой злобы. Syn: entertain, harbour
    2., cherish д) иметь отношение, быть связанным( с чем-л.) the relation the nobles bore to the throneотношения, которые связывают дворян с королевской властью
    4) выдерживать нагрузку;
    нести груз, тяжесть;
    поддерживать, подпирать This plank will not bear your weight. ≈ Эта доска не выдержит вашей тяжести. Will the ice bear today? ≈ Достаточно ли крепкий сегодня лед? The four pillars bear the arch. ≈ Четыре колонны несут арку.
    5) нести (расходы, ответственность и т. п.) to bear responsibilityнести ответственность to bear the expense (losses, etc.) ≈ нести расходы (потери и т. п.)
    6) выносить, выдерживать (испытания, боль и т. п.) to bear an operation satisfactorilyудовлетворительно перенести операцию He couldn't bear the pain. ≈ Он не мог выдержать боли. He couldn't bear the humiliation. ≈ Он не мог пережить этого унижения. Syn: sustain, support
    2.
    7) (обыкн. в отрицательных или вопросительных предложениях) выносить, терпеть, мириться I can't bear him. ≈ Я его не выношу. Syn: tolerate
    8) опираться( на что-л.) ;
    нажимать, давить Syn: press I
    2.
    9) сказываться;
    касаться, затрагивать (on, upon) to bring to bearвлиять, воздействовать
    10) а) простираться to bear north (south, east, etc.) ≈ лежать или быть расположенным к северу( югу, востоку и т. п.) б) о пушках: быть расположенными так, чтобы наиболее эффективно поражать цель
    11) прич. прош. вр. ≈ born рождать, производить на свет born in 1914 ≈ рождения 1914 года She is unable to bear. ≈ Она не может иметь детей. to bear childrenрожать детей
    12) приносить плоды to bear fruitприносить плоды These apple-trees are not going to bear. ≈ Эти яблони не будут плодоносить. Syn: yield
    2. ∙ be borne in on be borne in upon bear away bear down bear down upon bear off bear on bring to bear on bear out bear to bear a resemblance to bear up bear upon bear with to be borne in on smb. ≈ становиться ясным, понятным кому-л. bear arms bear company bear comparison bear a hand bear hard on bear in mind bear the news bear a part bear a resemblance bear to the right bear the signature bear tales bear testimony bear witness III сущ. ячмень
    медведь;
    медведица - *s cub медвежонок - * driver вожак медведя медведь, неуклюжий человек - * sport шумная, грубая игра /забава/ - to play the * вести себя как медведь, быть грубым /неуклюжим, бестактным/ - what a *! что за медведь!, ну и грубиян! медвежий мех десятилетний бойскаут( биржевое) (профессионализм) спекулянт, играющий на понижение, "медведь" - * market рынок с тенденцией на понижение - * operation /speculation/ спекуляция на понижение - * to sell a * играть на понижение;
    продать то, чего не имеешь, надуть - go to a * играть на понижение ручной дыропробивной пресс, медведка "козел" > Great B. Большая Медведица (созвездие) > as cross as a * with a sore head зол как черт;
    смотрит зверем > you must not sell the skin till you have shot the * нельзя делить шкуру неубитого медведя > to take a * by the tooth лезть в медвежье логово /в пекло/ > had it been a* it would have bitten you (устаревшее) ты не видишь того, что лежит у тебя под носом > to be a* for punishment не бояться лишений, дурного обращения и т. п.;
    быть закаленным;
    идти напролом к цели, добиваться своего, несмотря ни на какие трудности - to have a* by the tail (американизм) дразнить медведя, бесцельно рисковать, неразумно подвергать себя опасности - loaded for * (американизм) (сленг) готов к драке, на взводе (биржевое) (профессионализм) играть на понижение переносить, перевозить - the ship bore him to a distant country корабль унес его далеко от родины - the mules *ing the baggage remained behind мулы с кладью остались позади( книжное) носить, нести (обыкн. что-л. тяжелое) - to * a banner нести знамя - to come *ing rich gifts прийти с богатыми дарами гнать, нести (тж. * along) - the crowd bore us along толпа увлекла нас за собой - the boat was borne backward by the wind ветер отнес лодку назад напрвляться, поворачиваться;
    держаться - to * east двигаться на восток - to * before the wind (морское) спускаться под ветер - to * a course( морское) прокладывать курс( по карте) - when you come to the bridge * to the right когда подойдете к мосту, поверните направо - the road *s to the right дорога отклоняется вправо( книжное) находиться, простираться (о местности и т. п.) - the land *s south of us земля к югу от нас наводить (орудие и т. п.) - to bring /to put/ a telescope to * on smth навести телескоп на что-л. - to bring one's mind to * on smth сосредоточить все свое внимание на чем-л. иметь, нести на себе - to * the marks of smth. иметь признаки чего-л. - to * an evil look выглядеть зловеще - the monument bore an inscription на памятнике была надпись - the letter *s his signature на письме стоит его подпись - what date does that letter *? каким числом помечено это письмо? иметь, обладать - to * a name носить имя - to * an office занимать пост - to * rule /sway/ держать в своих руках власть, властвовать - to * a good character иметь хорошую репутацию, пользоваться доброй славой выдерживать, нести тяжесть, нагрузку (тж. * up) - his shoulders can * a heavy load он может нести на плечах тяжелый груз - will the ice * today? достаточно ли крепкий лед сегодня? - * steady! (морское) так держать! (on, upon) опираться (на что-л.) ;
    стоять( на чем-л.) ;
    нажимать, давить - a beam *ing on /upon/ two uprights брус, опирающийся на два столба - the whole building *s on these columns эти колонны поддерживают все здание - to * hard /heavily/ on наваливаться, давить на - the old man was *ing heavily on his stick старик тяжело опирался на трость - don't * hard on the pencil - it will break не нажимай сильно на карандаш - он сломается - to bring all one's strength to * on a lever изо всех сил навалиться /надавить/ на рычаг - to bring pressure to * on smb. оказывать давление на кого-л. иметь отношение к( чему-л.), быть связанным с (чем-л.) - the fact does not * on the subject этот факт не имеет отношения к делу - a resolution bearing on the matter резолюция по этому вопросу допускать, разрешать - he spends more than his salary can * он тратит больше, чем позволяет его жалованье - your words * only one interpretation ваши слова можно истолковать только так - there are passages in the book that will * skipping в книге есть места, которые вполне можно пропустить - his langauge does not * repeating его язык не для приличного общества (p.p. тж. born) рождать, производить на свет - borne by Eve, born of Eve рожденный Евой - she has borne him five children она родила ему пятерых детей - I was born in 1922 я родился в 1922 году приносить плоды - the trees * fruit деревья приносят плоды - his efforts bore fruit его усилия увенчались успехом - these shares * 5 per cent interest эти акции приносят 5% прибыли держаться, вести себя - to * oneself with dignity вести себя с достоинством > to * one's head high высоко нести голову, держаться независимо /смело/ терпеть, выносить, выдерживать (боль, пытки и т. п.) - to * pain терпеть боль - to * torture вынести /выдержать/ пытку - to * strain переносить напряжение переносить (операцию и т. п.) - he bore the operation satiafactorily он удовлетворительно перенес операцию - how do you * air travel? как вы переносите самолет? обыкн. в отрицательных или вопросительных предложениях: терпеть, выносить;
    мириться (с чем-л.) - I cannot * him я его терпеть не могу /не выношу/ - I cannot * the sight of him видеть его не могу - I cannot * to see it мне тяжело на это смотреть - the charge will not * examination обвинение несостоятельно /совершенно необоснованно/ - this *s no comparison with... это не выдерживает сравнения с... нести (расходы, убытки - to * losses нести убытки /ущерб/ - let him * the expenses пусть он возьмет расходы на себя /расплачивается/ давать (показания) - to * evidence /testimony, witness/ давать свидетельские показания, свидетельствовать - he will * witness that... он может засвидетельствовать, что... - to * false witness (against) лжесвидетельствовать - thou shalt not * false witness against the neighbour( библеизм) не послушествуй на друга свидетельства ложна питать, таить( чувства и т. п.) - to * malice таить злобу - to * goodwill относиться доброжелательно - the love she bore him любовь, которую она к нему питала распространять( слухи и т. п.) ;
    разносить слухи, распространять сплетни - to * good news принести добрые вести иметь - to * resemblance иметь сходство - to * relation иметь отношение - it *s no relation to the matter это не имеет отношения к делу > to bear against smth. упираться во что-л.;
    плотно прилегать к чему-л. > to be borne in on /upon/ smb. стать ясным, понятным кому-л. > it was gradually borne in upon him that... до него постепенно дошло, что..., мало-помалу он понял /осознал/, что... > to bear with smb., smth. терпеливо относиться к кому-л., чему-л., мириться с кем-л., чем-л. > * with me будьте ко мне снисходительны > to * arms носить оружие;
    служить в армии;
    иметь или носить герб > to * arms against smb. поднять оружие на кого-л., восстать с оружием в руках против кого-л. > to * a part in smth. принимать участие в чем-л. > to * in mind иметь в виду, помнить, учитывать, принимать во внимание > to * company составлять компанию > to * a hand помогать, содействовать > * a hand! помогите!;
    (морское) навались!, взяли! (команда) > * for action! к бою!( команда) > to * smb. in hand держать кого-л. в руках;
    (устаревшее) обманывать, водить кого-л. за нос > to * one's age well выглядеть моложаво;
    не чувствовать бремени лет > to * the brunt см. brunt > to * smb. a grudge иметь зуб против кого-л., затаить злобу против кого-л. > to * and forbear проявлять терпение и выдержку, обладать ангельским терпением > born yesterday наивный, доверчивый;
    как будто только вчера на свет родился > in all one's born days за всю свою жизнь (диалектизм) ячмень (диалектизм) наволочка
    ~ away выиграть (приз, кубок и т. п.) ;
    выйти победителем;
    to be borne away быть захваченным, увлеченным
    bear выдерживать;
    нести груз, тяжесть;
    поддерживать, подпирать;
    will the ice bear today? достаточно ли крепок лед сегодня? ~ грубый, невоспитанный человек;
    to play the bear вести себя грубо ~ рефл. держаться;
    вести себя ~ дыропробивной пресс, медведка ~ бирж. играть на понижение ~ играть на понижение ~ метал. козел ~ медведь ~ нести ~ (bore;
    borne) носить;
    нести;
    переносить, перевозить ~ опираться (on) ~ перевозить ~ переносить ~ питать, иметь (чувство и т. п.) ~ приносить ~ простираться ~ (р. p. born) рождать, производить;
    to bear children рожать детей;
    to bear fruit приносить плоды;
    born in 1919 рождения 1919 года ~ спекулянт, играющий на понижение ~ бирж. спекулянт, играющий на понижение ~ терпеть, выносить;
    I can't bear him я его не выношу ~ мор. разг. швабра (для мытья палубы) ~ астр.: Great (Little, Lesser) Bear Большая (Малая) Медведица
    to ~ company ухаживать;
    to bear comparison выдерживать сравнение;
    to bear a hand участвовать;
    помогать;
    to bear hard (on smb.) подавлять( кого-л.)
    to ~ in mind помнить;
    иметь в виду;
    to bear a part принимать участие
    to ~ a resemblance быть похожим, иметь сходство;
    to bear to the right etc. принять вправо
    to ~ arms иметь или носить герб to ~ arms носить оружие;
    служить в армии;
    to bear arms (against smb.) поднять оружие (на кого-л.), восстать (против кого-л.) to ~ arms носить оружие;
    служить в армии;
    to bear arms (against smb.) поднять оружие (на кого-л.), восстать (против кого-л.)
    ~ away выиграть (приз, кубок и т. п.) ;
    выйти победителем;
    to be borne away быть захваченным, увлеченным
    ~ (р. p. born) рождать, производить;
    to bear children рожать детей;
    to bear fruit приносить плоды;
    born in 1919 рождения 1919 года
    to ~ company составлять компанию, сопровождать to ~ company ухаживать;
    to bear comparison выдерживать сравнение;
    to bear a hand участвовать;
    помогать;
    to bear hard (on smb.) подавлять (кого-л.) company: ~ общество;
    компания;
    to bear (или to keep) (smb.) company составлять (кому-л.) компанию, сопровождать (кого-л.)
    to ~ company ухаживать;
    to bear comparison выдерживать сравнение;
    to bear a hand участвовать;
    помогать;
    to bear hard (on smb.) подавлять (кого-л.)
    ~ down влиять;
    bear in: to be borne in (on smb.) становиться ясным, понятным (кому-л.) ~ down мор. подходить по ветру ~ down преодолевать ~ down устремляться( upon - к) ;
    набрасываться, нападать( upon - на кого-л.)
    ~ (р. p. born) рождать, производить;
    to bear children рожать детей;
    to bear fruit приносить плоды;
    born in 1919 рождения 1919 года fruit: fruit плод;
    to bear fruit плодоносить
    to ~ company ухаживать;
    to bear comparison выдерживать сравнение;
    to bear a hand участвовать;
    помогать;
    to bear hard (on smb.) подавлять (кого-л.)
    ~ down влиять;
    bear in: to be borne in (on smb.) становиться ясным, понятным (кому-л.)
    to ~ in mind помнить;
    иметь в виду;
    to bear a part принимать участие
    ~ market бирж. рынок с понижательной тенденцией market: bear ~ рынок, на котором наблюдается тенденция к снижению курсов bear ~ рынок с понижением фондовой конъюнктуры
    ~ off отклоняться;
    bear on касаться, иметь отношение (к чему-л.) ;
    bear out подтверждать;
    подкреплять;
    поддерживать
    ~ off отклоняться;
    bear on касаться, иметь отношение (к чему-л.) ;
    bear out подтверждать;
    подкреплять;
    поддерживать to ~ up for взять направление на;
    bear upon = bear on;
    bear with относиться терпеливо (к чему-л.) ;
    мириться (с чем-л.)
    ~ off отклоняться;
    bear on касаться, иметь отношение (к чему-л.) ;
    bear out подтверждать;
    подкреплять;
    поддерживать
    ~ attr.: ~ pool бирж. объединение спекулянтов, играющих на понижение
    to ~ the signature иметь подпись, быть подписанным;
    to bear testimony, to bear witness свидетельствовать, показывать, давать показания testimony: bear ~ давать показания под присягой
    to ~ the signature иметь подпись, быть подписанным;
    to bear testimony, to bear witness свидетельствовать, показывать, давать показания signature: ~ подпись;
    to bear the signature (of) быть подписанным (кем-л.) ;
    over the signature за подписью
    to ~ a resemblance быть похожим, иметь сходство;
    to bear to the right etc. принять вправо
    ~ up держаться стойко ~ up поддерживать;
    подбадривать ~ up мор. спускаться (по ветру)
    to ~ up for взять направление на;
    bear upon = bear on;
    bear with относиться терпеливо (к чему-л.) ;
    мириться (с чем-л.)
    to ~ up for взять направление на;
    bear upon = bear on;
    bear with относиться терпеливо (к чему-л.) ;
    мириться (с чем-л.)
    to ~ up for взять направление на;
    bear upon = bear on;
    bear with относиться терпеливо (к чему-л.) ;
    мириться (с чем-л.)
    to ~ the signature иметь подпись, быть подписанным;
    to bear testimony, to bear witness свидетельствовать, показывать, давать показания
    ~ (р. p. born) рождать, производить;
    to bear children рожать детей;
    to bear fruit приносить плоды;
    born in 1919 рождения 1919 года
    bridled ~ юнец, путешествующий с гувернером
    cross( или sulky, surly) as a ~ = зол как черт
    enter into ~ transactions бирж. играть на понижение
    ~ астр.: Great (Little, Lesser) Bear Большая (Малая) Медведица
    had it been a ~ it would have bitten you = вы ошиблись, обознались;
    (оказалось) не так страшно, как вы думали
    ~ терпеть, выносить;
    I can't bear him я его не выношу
    ~ грубый, невоспитанный человек;
    to play the bear вести себя грубо
    polar ~ белый медведь
    sea ~ зоол. белый медведь sea ~ зоол. морской котик
    to sell the ~'s skin before one has caught the ~ делить шкуру неубитого медведя
    to take a ~ by the tooth без нужды подвергать себя опасности, лезть на рожон
    Teddy ~ медвежонок (детская игрушка)
    ~ down влиять;
    bear in: to be borne in (on smb.) становиться ясным, понятным (кому-л.)
    bear выдерживать;
    нести груз, тяжесть;
    поддерживать, подпирать;
    will the ice bear today? достаточно ли крепок лед сегодня?

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > bear

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    tu: (полная форма) ;
    (редуцированная форма, употр. перед гласными) ;
    (редуцированная форма, употр. перед согласными)
    1. предл.
    1) местные и пространственные значения а) выражает движение к какой-л. точке и достижение ее, управляет словом, обозначающим эту точку;
    также с наречиями к, в, тж. перен. Forester was sent to Edinburgh. ≈ Форестера послали в Эдинбург. The first train to London. ≈ Первый поезд в Лондон, на Лондон. He has removed to near Rugby. ≈ Он переехал поблизости от Регби. Come here to me. ≈ Подойди сюда ко мне. When he came to the crown. ≈ Когда он взошел на престол. To trace how the stories came to Spain. ≈ Отследить, как вести об этом попали в Испанию. б) значение направления в какую-л. сторону к, на Standing with his back to me. ≈ Он стоял спиной ко мне. He pointed to a clump of trees. ≈ Он указал на рощицу. The bedrooms to the back are much larger. ≈ Спальни на задней стороне дома гораздо больше. в) выражает предел движения, протяжения в пространстве до Protestant to the backbone. ≈ Протестант до мозга костей. The thermometer has risen to above
    32. ≈ Температура перевалила за
    32. It is eleven miles from Oxford to Witney. ≈ От Оксфорда до Уитни одиннадцать миль. г) выражает нахождение где-л. в, на Stayed to Canfields all night. ≈ Оставался в Кенфилдс всю ночью Were you ever to the Botanic Gardens? ≈ Ты когда-нибудь бывал в Ботаническом Саду? to work д) выражает соположение, соприкосновение к, у He stood up to the wall. ≈ Он стоял, прислонившись к стене. His mouth to my mouth. ≈ Его рот касался моего. They will find everything ready to their hands. ≈ У них все будет под рукой.
    2) временные отношения;
    временной предел, окончание срока к, до The parliament was prorogued to the tenth of February. ≈ Перерыв в работе парламента должен был продлиться до десятого февраля. The business hours were from ten to six. ≈ Рабочий день был с десяти до шести. How long is it to dinner, sir? ≈ Сколько осталось до ужина, сэр? It was exactly a quarter to four o'clock. ≈ Было без четверти четыре. Ainsworth came to this time. ≈ К этому времени подошел Эйнсворт.
    3) отношения достижения цели, результата, эффекта а) выражает цель деятельности для, под The captain came to our rescue. ≈ Капитан пришел к нам на помощь. The indispensable means to our end. ≈ Необходимые средства для достижения нашей цели. You sit down to Scripture at your bureau. ≈ Засядь-ка за Писание у себя в кабинете. Having laid down a few acres to oats. ≈ Отведя несколько акров под овес. The land sown to barley increases. ≈ Площади, засеваемые хмелем, расширяются. б) конечный пункт движения, ожидаемый исход, результат He had made up his mind to the event. ≈ Он настроился на это дело. To his astonishment. ≈ К его удивлению. To light those buildings by electricity, to the total exclusion of gas. ≈ Освещать эти здания электричеством, что приведет к полному отказу от газа. But now, to his despair, he felt that his patient herself was fighting against his skill. ≈ Теперь, к своему отчаянию, он понял, что теперь против него борется и сам пациент. The glasses are all to bits. ≈ Стекла все вдребезги разбиты. в) по отношению к, в отношении к Instead of marrying Torfrida, I have more mind to her niece. ≈ Я не хочу жениться на Торфриде, у меня больше склонности к ее племяннице. This lease is a document of title to land. ≈ Этот документ об аредне есть документ о праве собственности на эту землю. The high-born poem which had Sackville to father. ≈ Поэт благородного происхождения, чей отец был Сэквилл.
    4) со словами, выражающими объем, степень, размер Sir Tomkyn swore he was hers to the last drop of his blood. ≈ Сэр Томкин поклялся, что принадлежит ей полностью, до самой последней капли крови. He was generally punctual to a minute. ≈ Он был обычно пунктуален до минут. The bishops were hostile to a man. ≈ Все священнки до единого были враждебны. Gallant, courteous, and brave, even to chivalry. ≈ Галантный, вежливый и бесстрашный, почти до рыцарства. She was in love with him to distraction. ≈ Она была влюблена в него до самозабвения. The schoolroom was hot to suffocation. ≈ В классе было жарко так, что можно было задохнуться.
    5) в значении добавки, добавления, приложения а) под, к, вместе с;
    у It is impossible any longer to find a pound of butter or cream to our tea in all the country. ≈ Теперь нигде невозможно найти ни масла, ни сливок к чаю. I am growing old, and want more mustard to my meat. ≈ Я старею, мне требуется больше горчицы к мясу. One little boy complained that there was no rim to his plate. ≈ Один мальчик пожаловался, что у его тарелки не было края. Without clothing to his back, or shoes to his feet. ≈ Спина была голая, на ногах не было обуви. ride to hounds б) о музыке There is an old song, to the tune of La Belle Catharine. ≈ Есть старая песенка, на мелодию "La Belle Catharine". в) к My lips might freeze to my teeth. ≈ У меня губы сейчас к зубам примерзнут. To that opinion I shall always adhere. ≈ Я всегда буду выражать эти взгляды. г) для Courage is the body to will. ≈ Смелость - плоть для воли. The Hall now forms the vestibule to the Houses of Parliament. ≈ Этот зал теперь служит вестибюлем перед залами заседаний парламента. д) у, в (как свойство, характеристика) Tell me what there is to this shindy. ≈ Ну-ка расскажи, о чем здесь веселье There's a lot to him that doesn't show up on the surface. ≈ В нем есть многое, что не видно на поверхности.
    6) отношение к стандарту, точке отсчета а) для, при, по сравнению с, на фоне It was so thick to its length. ≈ При ее длинне эта штука была очень толстая. Now, pretty well to what they had been. ≈ Теперь они чувствуют себя гораздо лучше, по сравнению с тем, что с ними было. Strangely contrasted to the chill aspect of the lake. ≈ Странно контрастирующий с леденящим видом озера. б) к (о соотношении сил) Their enemies were four to one. ≈ Враг превосходил их по численности в четыре раза. Mr. Gladstone's motion was carried by 337 to
    38. ≈ Предложение г-на Гладстона прошло, за 337 человек, против
    38. Odds are ten to three. ≈ Ставки десять к трем. в) по, для, в соответствии с He dresses to the fashion. ≈ Он одевается по моде. Temple is not a man to our taste. ≈ Для нас Темпл не человек. Men were noodles to her. ≈ Для нее все мужчины были слабаки. To all appearance. ≈ Судя по всему. He has not been here to-day to my knowledge. ≈ Насколько я знаю, сегодня его не было. г) к, в отношении, по поводу What will Doris say to it? ≈ Что на это говорит Дорис? д) с, к, по отношению к Inclined to the horizon. ≈ Наклоненный к горизонту. He was unable to see how they lie to each other. ≈ Он не мог осознать, насколько они лгут друг другу.
    7) скорее аффективные значения а) переход к какой-л. деятельности Let's to it presently. ≈ Давайте теперь обратимся к этому. Come, lads, all hands to work! ≈ Так, ребята, за работу! б) причинение кому-л. или чему-л. чего-л. I presented the gun to him without any other idea but that of intimidation. ≈ Я наставил на него пистолет, имея в виду только испугать его. His father's unmerciful use of the whip to him. ≈ Отец нещадно охаживал его кнутом. Clodius had an old grudge to the King, for refusing to ransom him. ≈ У Клодия давно были к королю счеты зуб за то, что тот не выкупил его. в) обращение к кому-л. Did you not mark a woman, my son rose to? ≈ Разве ты не отметил ту женщину, которой поклонился мой сын? A hymn in hexameters to the Virgin Mary. ≈ Гекзаметрический гимн в честь Девы Марии. Come, speak to him! ≈ Ну же, заговори с ним! With continual toasting healths to the Royal Family. ≈ С бесконечными тостами за здравие королевской фамилии. г) реакция на что-л. The dead leaf trembles to the bells. ≈ Колокольный звон колышет мертвые листья. All the throng who have danced to a merry tune. ≈ Все те, что танцевали под развеселые мелодии (Питер Хэммилл, "Детская вера во взросление")
    8) синтаксические функции утраченного дательного падежа а) обозначает реципиента Great dishonour would redound to us. ≈ Великое бесчестие обратится на нас. Having a Son born to him. ≈ У него родился сын. We had the railway-carriage all to ourselves. ≈ Нам был целиком предоставлен вагон. They acted under no authority known to the law. ≈ Они действовали по праву, которого не знает закон. б) обозначает носителя эмоции To these men Luther is a papist, and Caluin is the right prophet. ≈ Для этих людей Лютер папист, а Кальвин - истинный пророк. To me it is simply absurd. ≈ По мне, это просто абсурд. It means a great deal to him. ≈ Для него это много значит. в) указывает объект чувства That natural horror we have to evil. ≈ Наше естественное отвращение ко злу. Bacchus is a friend to Love. ≈ Вакх друг любви. That homage to which they had aspired. ≈ Уважение к себе, к которому они стремились. г) указывает на ссылку или источник I have already alluded to the fact. ≈ Я уже ссылался на это. Menander attests to it. ≈ Об этом свидетельствует Менандр. д) в управлении ряда глаголов, вводит непрямой объект We fought them and put them to the run. ≈ Мы сразились с ними и обратили их в бегство. This day's paper I devote to women. ≈ Сегодняшний доклад я посвящаяю женщинам. To admit Roman Catholics to municipal advantages. ≈ Предоставить католикам городские привилегии. е) фин. вводит статью расхода To Balance from 1899 195 pounds 11s. ≈ На покрытие баланса за 1899 год 195 фунтов 11 шиллингов 3 To J. Bevan and Co., for Bales, 2349 pounds. ≈ Дж.Бевиану и Ко, за Бейлс, 2349 фунтов. ж) вводит лиц, использующих какое-л. стандартное именование или выражение Terence James MacSwiney on the baptismal register, but Terry always to his friends. ≈ Теренс Джеймс Максвини значится в церковной книге, но для друзей он всегда был Терри. Lindy( Miss Hoffmann to the kids) had to give it back down to them. ≈ Линди (для детей мисс Хоффманн) пришлось отдать эту вещь им обратно.
    2. нареч.
    1) направление, прямо может не переводиться Three young owls with their feathers turned wrong end to. ≈ Три совенка с перьями, развернутыми не туда.
    2) а) контакт, сопркосновение I can't get the lid of the trunk quite to. ≈ Я не могу закрыть крышку сундука. б) готовность Th horses are to. ≈ Лошади готовы.
    3. частица
    1) приинфинитивная частица You have to help him. ≈ Тебе нужно помочь ему.
    2) своего рода местоглаголие, заменяет опущенный инфинитив I kept on, I had to. ≈ Но я прошел дальше, я был должен. I wanted to turn round and look. It was an effort not to. ≈ Я хотел оглянуться. Стоило громадных усилий не сделать этого. указывает на приведение в нужное состояние или положение, передается глагольными приставками при-, за- - to pull the shutters to закрыть ставни - push the door to захлопни дверь - the door blew to дверь захлопнулась - put the horses to запряги(те) лошадей указывает на начало действия: за - we turned to gladly /with a will/ мы с воодушевлением взялись за работу - they were hungry and fell to они были голодны и набросились на еду указывает на приведение в сознание или возвращение сознания - he came to он пришел в себя - to bring smb. to with smelling salts привести кого-л. в сознание нюхательной солью указывает на определенное направление - his hat is on the wrong side to у него неправильно надета шляпа - a ship moored head to корабль, пришвартованный против ветра - to and again( устаревшее) с одного места на другое;
    туда и сюда;
    взад и вперед;
    из стороны в сторону;
    в разные стороны;
    вверх и вниз - to and back с одного места на другое;
    туда и сюда;
    взад и вперед;
    из стороны в сторону;
    в разные стороны;
    вверх и вниз - close to рядом - we were close to when it happened мы были рядом, когда это случилось - keep her to! (морское) держи к ветру (команда) в пространственном значении указывает на направление: к, в, на - the road to London дорога в Лондон - the way to glory путь к славе - a flight to the Moon полет на Луну /в сторону Луны/ - head to the sea (морское) против волны - on one's way to the station по дороге к станции /на станцию/ - to go to town ехать /отправляться/ в город - to go to the sea ехать к морю, поехать на море - to go to Smith пойти к Смиту - where will she go to? куда она пойдет? - to turn to the left повернуть налево - to point to smth. указывать на что-л. - to see smb. to the station проводить кого-л. на вокзал - to hold up one's hands to heaven воздевать руки к небу - to put a pistol to his head приставить пистолет к его голове - I'm off to London я отправляюсь в Лондон - he wears his best clothes to church он ходит в церковь в парадном костюме в пространственном значении указывает на движение до соприкосновения с чем-л.: на, за, к - to fall to the ground упасть на землю - he swung his kit-bag to his back он закинул вещевой мешок за спину в пространственном значении указывает на расстояние: до - is it far to Moscow? далеко ли до Москвы? - it is five miles to the station до станции пять миль в пространственном значении указывает на положение по отношению к чему-л.: к, на;
    вместе с сущ. тж. передается наречиями - rooms to the back задние комнаты - with one's feet to the fire протянув ноги к огню - with one's back to the wall спиной к стене - to lie to the south of лежать /быть расположенным/ к югу от - the window looks to the north окно выходит на север - placed at the right angle to the wall поставленный под прямым углом к стене - perpendicular to the floor перпендикулярно к полу - a line tangent to a circle (математика) касательная к окружности в пространственном значении указывает на временное местопребывание( после глагола be в префекте): в - he has been to Volgograd twice this year в этом году он дважды был в Волгограде - have you been to bed? вы спали? в пространственном значении указывает на (американизм) (разговорное) (диалектизм) пребывание в каком-л. месте: в - he is to home он дома в пространственном значении указывает на посещение какого-л. учреждения: в - to go to school ходить в школу - to go to the theatre ходить /идти/ в театр указывает на лицо, реже предмет, к которому направлено действие: к, перед;
    часто передается тж. дат. падежом - greetings to smb. приветствие кому-л. - to listen to smb., smth. слушать кого-л., что-л. - to speak to smb. разговаривать с кем-л. - to send smth. to smb. послать что-л. кому-л. - to explain smth. to smb. объяснить что-л. кому-л. - to submit the material to the committee представить материалы в комитет - to reveal a secret to smb. открыть кому-л. секрет - to apologize to smb. извиниться перед кем-л. - to play to packed houses играть перед полным залом - he showed the picture to all his friends он показал картину всем своим друзьям - he spoke to the demonstration он обратился с речью к участникам демонстрации - whom did you give the letter to? кому вы отдали письмо? указывает на лицо или предмет, воспринимающие какое-л. воздействие или впечатление или являющиеся объектом какого-л. отношения: к, для;
    по отношению к;
    передается тж. дат. падежом - attitude to smb., smth. отношение к кому-л., чему-л. - his duty to his country его долг по отношению к родине, его патриотический долг - known to smb. известный кому-л. - clear to smb. ясный кому-л. /для кого-л./ - favourable to smb. благоприятный для кого-л. - unjust to smb. несправедливый к кому-л. - a symptom alarming to the doctor тревожный симптом для доктора - pleasing to smb. приятный кому-л. - to be cruel to smb. быть жестоким к кому-л. - it was a mystery to them для них это было загадкой - injurious to smb., smth. вредный для кого-л., чего-л. - it seems to me that мне кажется, что - smth. has happened to him с ним что-то случилось указывает на лицо, эмоционально или интеллектуально заинтересованное в чем-л.;
    обычно передается дат. падежом - what is that to you? тебе-то какое до этого дело?;
    ты-то тут причем?;
    почему это тебя интересует? - life is nothing to him он не дорожит жизнью указывает на лицо, в честь которого что-л. совершается или провозглашается: в честь, за;
    передается тж. дат. падежом - a toast to your success тост за ваш успех - here is to your health за ваше здоровье - a hymn to the sun гимн солнцу - to build a monument to smb. воздвигнуть памятник кому-л. /в честь кого-л./ указывает на объект высказывания и т. п.: в, о, на или придаточное предложение - to bear witness to smth. давать показания о чем-л. - to testify to smth. показывать, что;
    представлять доказательства о том, что - to swear to smth. поклясться в чем-л. - to speak to smth. высказываться в поддержку чего-л. - to confess to smth. признаваться в чем-л. - to allude to smth. сослаться или намекнуть на что-л. указывает на объект права, претензии и т. п. - to have a right to smth. иметь право на что-л. - to lay a claim to smth. заявить претензию на что-л. - the pretender to the throne претендент на трон - a document of title to land документ, дающий право на владение землей указывает на (сознательную) реакцию на что-л.: на;
    передается тж. дат. падежом - (dis) obediance to smb.'s orders (не) подчинение чьему-л. приказу - in answer /in reply/ to smth. в ответ на что-л. - to reply to smb. отвечать кому-л. - to come to smb.'s call явиться по чьему-л. зову /на чей-л. зов/ - what do you say to that? что вы скажете по этому поводу? - what did he say to my suggestion? как он отнесся к моему предложению? - what do you say to a short walk? как насчет того, чтобы прогуляться? указывает на эмоциональную реакцию на что-л. или оценку чего-л.: к - to his surprise к его удивлению - to his credit к его чести - to her horror, the beast approached к ее ужасу, зверь приближался указывает на реакцию неодушевленных предметов на что-л. - waves sparkling to the moonbeams волны, сверкающие в лунном свете - flimsy houses that shake to the wind легкие домики, которые дрожат от ветра указывает на предел или степень: до - to the end, to the last до конца - to a man до последнего человека - to a certain extent до некоторой степени - to a high degree в высокой /в большой/ степени - to the exclusion of all others и никто больше, и никто другой - tired to death смертельно усталый - wet to the skin промокший до костей - stripped to the waist раздетый до пояса - shaken to the foundations поколебленный до основания - rotten to the core насквозь гнилой, прогнивший до сердцевины - to fight to the last drop of one's blood биться до последней капли крови - to defend one's country to the death стоять насмерть, защищая родину - to count up to ten считать до десяти - to cut smth. down to a minimum довести что-л. до минимума - the hall was filled to capacity зал был заполнен до отказа - the membership of the club increased to 350 количество челнов клуба достигло 350 - the room was hot to suffocation от жары в комнате нечем было дышать указывает на временной предел: до - to the end of June до конца июня - to the end of one's life до конца своей жизни - the custom survives to this day этот обычай сохранился до наших дней /существует и поныне/ - I shall remember it to my dying day я буду помнить это до (своего) смертного часа указывает на степень точности: до - to an inch с точностью до дюйма - a year to the day ровно год (день в день) - to guess the weight of smth. to within a kilo угадать вес чего-л. почти до килограмма - the train arrived to a minute поезд прибыл минута в минуту указывает на пределы колебаний: до - the weather over the period was moderate to cool погода в этот период колебалась от умеренной до прохладной указывает на изменение положения или достижение нового состояния и т. п.: в, до, на;
    передается тж. глаголом - to go to sleep заснуть - to go to ruin разрушиться - to run to seed прорасти - to put smb. to flight обратить кого-л. в бегство - to tear smth. to pieces /to bits/ разорвать что-л. на куски - to burn to ashes сгореть дотла - to beat smb. to death избить кого-л. до смерти - to convert a warehouse to a dance-hall превратить склад в зал для танцев - it moved him to tears это растрогало его до слез - he grew to manhood он стал взрослым человеком указывает на меру наказания: к - to sentence smb. to prison приговорить кого-л. к тюремному заключению - to sentence smb. to death приговорить кого-л. к смерти /к смертной казни/ указывает на переход к другой теме разговора, к другому занятию и т. п.: к - now to the matter at hand теперь займемся нашим вопросом - he turned to the page he had marked он вернулся к странице, которую отметил - the conversation turned to painting разговор перешел на живопись указывает на начало действия: за - to fall /to set, to turn/ to smth. приниматься за что-л. - he turned to eating он принялся за еду указывает на цель: на, к, для, с целью - to this end с этой целью - to the end that с (той) целью чтобы;
    для того чтобы - to no purpose напрасно, безрезультатно - a means to an end средство, ведущее к цели - with a view to your wellbeing заботясь о вашем благополучии - they came to our aid они пришли к нам на помощь - to come to dinner прийти к обеду /пообедать/ указывает на результат: к - to come to a conclusion прийти к выводу указывает на тенденцию, склонность, намерение: к - a tendency to smth. тенденция к чему-л. - to be given to smth. быть склонным к чему-л. указывает на предназначение: для, под - to be born to a bitter fate быть рожденным для горькой доли - to be born to a fortune родиться наследником несметных богатств - a horse bred to the plow лошадь, приученная к плугу /приученная пахать/ - a field planted to rice поле, отведенное /пущенное/ под рис;
    поле, засеянное рисом указывает на возможность воздействия, незащищенность против воздействия чего-л.;
    передается дат. падежом - open to criticism дающий пищу для критики - open to persuasion поддающийся убеждению - exposed to the sunlight подвергающийся действию солнца, незащищенный от солнца употребляется при выражении сравнения или сопоставления: в сравнении с, по сравнению с;
    передается тж. дат. падежом - compared to... по сравнению с... - equal to smth. равный чему-л. - superior to smth. лучше, чем что-л.;
    превосходящий что-л. - inferior to smth. хуже, чем что-л. - similar to smth. подобный чему-л.;
    похожий на что-л. - to prefer coffee to tea предпочитать кофе чаю - he prefers listening to talking он больше любит слушать, чем говорить - this is nothing to what it might be это пустяки по сравнению с тем, что могло (бы) быть употребляется при выражении соотношения или пропорции: к, на - one to four один к четырем - ten votes to twenty десять голосов против двадцати - three goals to nil три - ноль( в футболе и т. п.) - the score was 7 to 9 счет был семь на девять - three parts flour to one part butter три части муки на одну часть масла (кулинарный рецепт) - three houses to the square mile три дома на квадратную милю - four apples to a pound четыре яблока на фунт, по фунту за четыре яблока - the chances are ten to one один шанс против десяти - 2 is to 4 as 4 is to 8 2 относится к 4 как 4 к 8 - it's hundred to one (that) it won't happen вероятность того, что это не случится /не произойдет/, не больше одной сотой употребляется при выражении соответствия чему-л.: по, на;
    передается тж. дат. падежом - to my knowledge насколько я знаю;
    насколько мне известно - to the best of me remembrance насколько я помню - to my mind /thinking/ по-моему - (not) to one's liking /taste/ (не) по вкусу кому-л. - made to order сделанный на заказ - words set to music слова, положенные на музыку - an opera to his own libretto опера по его собственному либретто - the novel is true to life роман правильно отражает жизнь - what tune is it sung to? на какой мотив это поется? - keep to the rules придерживайтесь правил употребляется при выражении (музыкального) сопровождения: под - to dance to the piano танцевать под рояль - to write to smb.'s dictation писать под чью-л. диктовку указывает на составную часть чего-л. или принадлежность к чему-л.: к, от, для;
    передается тж. род. падежом - foreword to the book предисловие к книге - a key to a desk ключ от письменного стола - a frame to a picture рама для картины указывает на фазу процесса, аспект явления - there is no end to it этому нет конца - there is no exception to this rule из этого правила нет исключений указывает на контакт, близость( в адвербиальных оборотах с повторением существительного): к - face to face лицом к лицу - hand to hand бок о бок, рядом - shoulder to shoulder плечо к плечу - they stood man to man они стояли тесно /один к одному/ указывает на близость, тесное соприкосновение, а также прикрепление: к - with her hands to her eyes закрыв глаза руками - to be close to smb., smth. быть близко к кому-л., чему-л. - to tie smth. to smth. привязать что-л. к чему-л. - to fix smth. to smth. прикрепить что-л. к чему-л. - to clasp smb. to one's heart прижать кого-л. к сердцу - to fasten smth. to the wall прикрепить что-л. к стене - he held on to the rail with one hand одной рукой он держался за перила - the houses all had numbers to them на всех домах были написаны номера - he walked without shoes to his feet он шел босиком указывает на добавление, прибавление или сложение: к, с - put it to what you already have прибавьте /добавьте/ это к тому, что у вас уже есть - add five to the sum прибавьте к этой сумме пять - will you have sugar to your tea? вы будете пить чай с сахаром? указывает на родственные, служебные и др. отношения;
    передается род. падежом - heir to an estate наследник имущества - ambassador to the King of Sweden посол при дворе шведского короля - interpreter to UNO переводчик ООН - secretary to the manager секретарь управляющего - apprentice to a tailor ученик портного - to be engaged to smb. быть помолвленным с кем-л. - she is mother to the child она мать этого ребенка - he has been a good father to them он был им хорошим отцом - Charles is brother to John Чарльз - брат Джона указывает на содержание или степень содержательности чего-л.: в - a book without much to it не слишком интересная книга;
    книга так себе - there isn't much to it в этом нет ничего особенного /мудреного/;
    это немногого стоит - there's nothing to it это проще простого, это проще пареной репы;
    в этом нет никакой премудрости;
    это яйца выеденного не стоит - that's all there is to it вот и все;
    вот и вся недолга;
    это очень просто - is there nothing more to civilization than a moral code? неужто( вся) цивилизация сводится к морали? указывает на время по часам: без - ten (minutes) to (two) без десяти (два) - (a) quarter to five без четверти пять указывает на отнесение к какому-л. времени в прошлом: к - a ceremony dating to the first century обряд, относящийся к первому веку указывает на (диалектизм) точное время: в - they were ready to three o'clock они были готовы к трем часам (бухгалтерское) указывает на отнесение суммы в дебет счета - to goods $100 100 долларов на товары /отнесение стоимости товаров в 100 долларов/ в дебет счета (устаревшее) указывает на использование в каком-л. качестве: как, в - he took her to wife он взял ее в жены - to call smb. to witness ссылаться на кого-л., призывать кого-л. в свидетели > from beginning to end от начала до конца > from east to west с востока на запад > from nine o'clock to twelve с девяти до двенадцати часов > from day to day изо дня в день > from dawn to dusk с восхода до заката, от зари до зари > count from one to ten считай(те) от одного до десяти > to go from bad to worse все (время) ухудшаться, становиться все хуже и хуже > to all appearances по всей видимости > to the contrary наоборот > to a T полностью, совершенно > that suits me to a T это меня полностью устраивает > to oneself в свое распоряжение, в своем распоряжении > I had a room to myself у меня была отдельная комната > he kept it to himself он ни с кем этим не делился (тж. перен.) > to tell smth. to smb.'s face сказать что-л. кому-л. (прямо) в лицо > to jump to one's feet вскочить на ноги > to be used to smth. привыкнуть к чему-л. > he was used to good food он привык хорошо питаться > he was used to getting up early он привык рано вставать > to horse! по коням! (команда) > to arms! к оружию! (команда) > would to God /to Heaven/! о господи! употребляется при инфинитиве - to go away would be to admit defeat уйти означало бы признать себя побежденным - he refused to come он отказался прийти - I asked him to come я просил его прийти - he was seen to enter the house видели, что он вошел в дом - she would like it to be true она бы хотела, чтобы это оказалось правдой - I'm ready to do it я готов сделать это - you're foolish to believe it глупо, что ты веришь этому - he was the first to come он пришел первым - they had no time to lose им нельзя было терять времени - I have a letter to write мне надо написать письмо - there's a lot to do дел (еще) очень много - there was not a sound to be heard не было слышно ни звука - he is not to be trusted ему нельзя доверять - that's good to eat вкусная штука /вещь/ - the room is pleasant to look at на комнату приятно посмотреть - write down the address not to forget it запишите адрес, чтобы не забыть его - we parted never to meet again мы расстались, чтобы никогда больше не встречаться - to hear him talk you would imagine that he's somebody послушать его - так можно подумать, что он важная персона - to tell the truth по правде говоря - this house is to let этот дом сдается (внаем) употребляется после ряда глаголов, чтобы избежать повторения инфинитива - tell him if you want to скажите ему, если хотите - take the money, it would be absurd not to возьмите деньги;
    было бы нелепо отказываться от них assistant ~ the professor ассистент профессора become a party ~ принимать участие to begin( on ( или upon) smth.) брать начало( от чего-л.) ;
    to begin over начинать сызнова;
    well begun is half done посл. = хорошее начало полдела откачало to ~ at the beginning начинать с самого начала;
    to begin at the wrong end начинать не с того конца end: to begin at the wrong ~ начать не с того конца to begin (on (или upon) smth.) брать начало (от чего-л.) ;
    to begin over начинать сызнова;
    well begun is half done посл. = хорошее начало полдела откачало belong absolutely ~ принадлежать полностью ~ bring ~ poverty довести до бедности;
    to fall to decay( или ruin) разрушиться, прийти в упадок to cheat( on smb.) вести себя нечестно( по отношению к кому-л.: другу, партнеру, мужу и т. п.) ~ избежать( чего-л.) ;
    to cheat the gallows избежать виселицы ~ занимать( чем-л.) ;
    to cheat time коротать время;
    to cheat the journey коротать время в пути ~ занимать (чем-л.) ;
    to cheat time коротать время;
    to cheat the journey коротать время в пути ~ prep указывает на предел движения, расстояния, времени, количества на, до: to climb to the top взобраться на вершину counter ~ противоречащий, противоположный( чему-л.) ~ prep под (аккомпанемент) ;
    в (сопровождении) ;
    to dance to music танцевать под музыку;
    he sang to his guitar он пел под гитару ~ prep указывает на: связь между действием и ответным действием к, на;
    to this he answered на это он ответил;
    deaf to all entreaties глух ко всем просьбам ~ bring ~ poverty довести до бедности;
    to fall to decay (или ruin) разрушиться, прийти в упадок ~ prep указывает на принадлежность (к чему-л.) или на прикрепление (к чему-л.) к;
    to fasten to the wall прикрепить к стене;
    key to the door ключ от двери give consideration ~ обсуждать give consideration ~ рассматривать ~ мошенничать;
    обманывать;
    he cheated me (out) of five dollars он надул меня на пять долларов he could be anywhere from 40 ~ 60 ему можно дать и 40 и 60 лет ~ prep передается род. падежом и указывает на отношения: родственные: he has been a good father to them он был им хорошим отцом ~ prep под (аккомпанемент) ;
    в (сопровождении) ;
    to dance to music танцевать под музыку;
    he sang to his guitar он пел под гитару I am going ~ the University я иду в университет;
    the windows look to the south окна выходят на юг I can't get the lid of the trunk quite ~ я не могу закрыть крышку сундука ~ prep указывает на сравнение, числовое соотношение или пропорцию перед, к;
    3 is to 4 as 6 is to 8 три относится к четырем, как шесть к восьми it was nothing ~ what I had expected это пустяки в сравнении с тем, что я ожидал ~ prep указывает на принадлежность (к чему-л.) или на прикрепление (к чему-л.) к;
    to fasten to the wall прикрепить к стене;
    key to the door ключ от двери ~ prep указывает на лицо, по отношению к которому или в интересах которого совершается действие;
    передается дат. падежом: a letter to a friend письмо другу ~ prep указывает на эмоциональное восприятие к;
    to my disappointment к моему разочарованию;
    to my surprise к моему удивлению ~ prep указывает на эмоциональное восприятие к;
    to my disappointment к моему разочарованию;
    to my surprise к моему удивлению object ~ возражать, протестовать( против чего-л.) ~ prep указывает на соответствие по, в;
    to one's liking по вкусу a party was thrown ~ the children детям устроили праздник ten ~ one he will find it out девять из десяти за то, что он это узнает;
    the score was 1 to 3 спорт. счет был 1: 3 ~ prep передается род. падежом и указывает на отношения: подчинения по службе: secretary to the director секретарь директора ~ (began;
    begun) начинать(ся) ;
    she began weeping( или to weep) она заплакала ten ~ one he will find it out девять из десяти за то, что он это узнает;
    the score was 1 to 3 спорт. счет был 1: 3 ~ the minute минута в минуту;
    с точностью до минуты there is an outpatient department attached ~ our hospital при нашей больнице есть поликлинника ~ prep указывает на: связь между действием и ответным действием к, на;
    to this he answered на это он ответил;
    deaf to all entreaties глух ко всем просьбам to ~ (on (или upon) smth.) браться( за что-л.) ~ (began;
    begun) начинать(ся) ;
    she began weeping (или to weep) она заплакала ~ начинать ~ начинаться ~ основывать ~ приступать ~ создавать to ~ at the beginning начинать с самого начала;
    to begin at the wrong end начинать не с того конца to ~ with прежде всего, во-первых ~ жулик ~ жульничество ~ занимать (чем-л.) ;
    to cheat time коротать время;
    to cheat the journey коротать время в пути ~ избежать (чего-л.) ;
    to cheat the gallows избежать виселицы ~ мошенник ~ мошенничать;
    обманывать;
    he cheated me (out) of five dollars он надул меня на пять долларов ~ мошенничать ~ мошенничество;
    обман ~ мошенничество ~ обман ~ обманщик, плут;
    topping cheat виселица ~ обманщик ~ обманывать ~ плут ~ самозванец ~ шулер to: (from Saturday) to Monday( с субботы) до понедельника ~ prep указывает на высшую степень (точности, аккуратности, качества и т. п.) до, в;
    to the best advantage наилучшим образом;
    в самом выгодном свете ~ prep указывает на цель действия на, для;
    to the rescue на помощь;
    to that end с этой целью ~ обманщик, плут;
    topping cheat виселица ~ prep указывает на направление к, в, на;
    the way to Moscow дорога в Москву;
    turn to the right поверните направо turn: ~ поворачивать(ся) ;
    обращаться;
    повертывать(ся) ;
    to turn to the right повернуть направо;
    to turn on one's heel(s) круто повернуться( и уйти) ~ prep указывает на направление к, в, на;
    the way to Moscow дорога в Москву;
    turn to the right поверните направо ~ prep указывает на лицо, в честь которого совершается действие: we drink to his health мы пьем за его здоровье to begin (on (или upon) smth.) брать начало (от чего-л.) ;
    to begin over начинать сызнова;
    well begun is half done посл. = хорошее начало полдела откачало I am going ~ the University я иду в университет;
    the windows look to the south окна выходят на юг

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    1. [tu:] adv
    1. приведение в нужное состояние или положение, передаётся глагольными приставками при-, за-

    we turned to gladly /with a will/ - мы с воодушевлением взялись за работу

    to bring smb. to with smelling salts - привести кого-л. в сознание нюхательной солью

    a ship moored head to - корабль, пришвартованный против ветра

    to and fro см. to and fro

    to and again уст. = to and fro

    to and back = to and fro

    we were close to when it happened - мы были рядом, когда это случилось

    keep her to! - мор. держи к ветру ( команда)

    2. [tu:,tʋ,tə] prep
    1) направление к, в, на

    a flight to the Moon - полёт на Луну /в сторону Луны/

    head to the sea [to the wind] - мор. против волны [ветра]

    on one's way to the station - по дороге к станции /на станцию/

    to go to town - ехать /отправляться/ в город

    to go to the sea - ехать к морю, поехать на море

    where will she go to? - куда она пойдёт?

    to turn to the left [to the right] - повернуть налево [направо]

    to point to smth. - указывать на что-л.

    to see smb. to the station [to the corner] - проводить кого-л. на вокзал [до угла]

    he wears his best clothes to church - он ходит в церковь в парадном костюме

    2) движение до соприкосновения с чем-л. на, за, к

    is it far to Moscow? - далеко ли до Москвы?

    4) положение по отношению к чему-л. к, на; вместе с сущ. тж. передаётся наречиями

    to lie to the south [to the north] of - лежать /быть расположенным/ к югу [к северу] от

    the window looks to the north [to the south] - окно выходит на север [на юг]

    placed at the right angle to the wall - поставленный под прямым углом к стене

    a line tangent to a circle - мат. касательная к окружности

    he has been to Volgograd twice this year - в этом году он дважды был в Волгограде

    have you been to bed? - вы спали?

    6) амер. разг., диал. пребывание в каком-л. месте в
    7) посещение какого-л. учреждения в

    to go to the theatre - ходить /идти/ в театр

    1) лицо, реже предмет, к которому направлено действие к, перед; часто передаётся тж. дат. падежом

    greetings to smb. - приветствие кому-л.

    to listen to smb., smth. - слушать кого-л., что-л.

    to speak to smb. - разговаривать с кем-л.

    to send smth. to smb. - послать что-л. кому-л.

    to explain smth. to smb. - объяснить что-л. кому-л.

    to reveal a secret to smb. - открыть кому-л. секрет

    to apologize to smb. - извиниться перед кем-л.

    he showed the picture to all his friends - он показал картину всем своим друзьям

    he spoke to the demonstration - он обратился с речью к участникам демонстрации

    who(m) did you give the letter to? - кому вы отдали письмо?

    2) лицо или предмет, воспринимающие какое-л. воздействие или впечатление или являющиеся объектом какого-л. отношения к, для; по отношению к; передаётся тж. дат. падежом

    attitude to smb., smth. - отношение к кому-л., чему-л.

    his duty to his country - его долг по отношению к родине, его патриотический долг

    known [unknown] to smb. - известный [неизвестный] кому-л.

    clear to smb. - ясный кому-л. /для кого-л./

    favourable [unfavourable] to smb. - благоприятный [неблагоприятный] для кого-л.

    unjust to smb. - несправедливый к кому-л.

    pleasing to smb. - приятный кому-л.

    to be cruel to smb. - быть жестоким к кому-л.

    injurious to smb., smth. - вредный для кого-л., чего-л.

    it seems to me that - мне кажется, что

    smth. has happened to him - с ним что-то случилось

    3) лицо, эмоционально или интеллектуально заинтересованное в чём-л.; обычно передаётся дат. падежом

    what is that to you? - тебе-то какое до этого дело?; ты-то тут при чём?; почему это тебя интересует?

    4) лицо, в честь которого что-л. совершается или провозглашается в честь, за; передаётся тж. дат. падежом

    to build a monument to smb. - воздвигнуть памятник кому-л. /в честь кого-л./

    1) объект высказывания и т. п. в, о, на или придаточное предложение

    to bear witness to smth. - давать показания о чём-л.

    to testify to smth. - показывать, что; представлять доказательства о том, что

    to swear to smth. - поклясться в чём-л.

    to speak to smth. - высказываться в поддержку чего-л.

    to confess to smth. - признаваться в чём-л.

    to allude to smth. - сослаться или намекнуть на что-л.

    2) объект права, претензии и т. п. на

    to have a right to smth. - иметь право на что-л.

    to lay a claim to smth. - заявить претензию на что-л.

    a document of title to land - документ, дающий право на владение землёй

    3) ( сознательную) реакцию на что-л. на; передаётся тж. дат. падежом

    (dis)obedience to smb.'s orders - (не)подчинение чьему-л. приказу

    in answer /in reply/ to smth. - в ответ на что-л.

    to reply to smb. - отвечать кому-л.

    to come to smb.'s call - явиться по чьему-л. зову /на чей-л. зов/

    what do you say to that? - что вы скажете по этому поводу?

    what did he say to my suggestion? - как он отнёсся к моему предложению?

    what do you say to a short walk? - как насчёт того, чтобы прогуляться?

    4) эмоциональную реакцию на что-л. или оценку чего-л. к

    to his surprise [sorrow] - к его удивлению [огорчению]

    to her horror, the beast approached - к её ужасу, зверь приближался

    5) поэт. реакцию неодушевлённых предметов на что-л.:

    waves sparkling to the moonbeams - волны, сверкающие в лунном свете

    flimsy houses that shake to the wind - лёгкие домики, которые дрожат от ветра

    to the end, to the last - до конца

    to a high degree - в высокой /в большой/ степени

    to the exclusion of all others - и никто больше, и никто другой

    stripped [naked] to the waist - раздетый [обнажённый] до пояса

    rotten to the core - насквозь гнилой, прогнивший до сердцевины

    to fight to the last drop of one's blood - биться до последней капли крови

    to defend one's country to the death - стоять насмерть, защищая родину

    to count up to ten [to a hundred] - считать до десяти [до ста]

    to cut smth. down to a minimum - довести что-л. до минимума

    the membership of the club increased to 350 - количество членов клуба достигло 350

    the custom survives to this day - этот обычай сохранился до наших дней /существует и поныне/

    I shall remember it to my dying day - я буду помнить это до (своего) смертного часа

    to guess the weight of smth. to within a kilo - угадать вес чего-л. почти до килограмма

    the weather over the period was moderate to cool - погода в этот период колебалась от умеренной до прохладной

    5) изменение положения или достижение нового состояния и т. п. в, до, на; передаётся тж. глаголом

    to put smb. to flight - обратить кого-л. в бегство

    to tear smth. to pieces /to bits/ - разорвать что-л. на куски

    to beat smb. to death - избить кого-л. до смерти

    to convert a warehouse to a dance-hall - превратить склад в зал для танцев

    to sentence smb. to prison [to deportation] - приговорить кого-л. к тюремному заключению [к высылке]

    to sentence smb. to death - приговорить кого-л. к смерти /к смертной казни/

    1) переход к другой теме разговора, к другому занятию и т. п. к

    he turned to the page he had marked - он вернулся к странице, которую отметил

    to fall /to set, to turn/ to smth. - приниматься за что-л.

    he turned to eating [to reading] - он принялся за еду [за чтение]

    1) цель на, к, для, с целью

    to the end that - с (той) целью чтобы; для того чтобы

    to no purpose - напрасно, безрезультатно

    a means to an end - средство, ведущее к цели

    to come to dinner [to tea] - прийти к обеду [к чаю] /пообедать [попить чаю]/

    to come to a conclusion [to a decision] - прийти к выводу [к решению]

    3) тенденцию, склонность, намерение к

    a tendency to smth. - тенденция к чему-л.

    to be given to smth. - быть склонным к чему-л.

    a horse bred to the plow - лошадь, приученная к плугу /приученная пахать/

    a field planted to rice - поле, отведённое /пущенное/ под рис; поле, засеянное рисом

    5) возможность воздействия, незащищённость против воздействия чего-л.; передаётся дат. падежом:

    exposed to the sunlight - подвергающийся действию солнца, незащищённый от солнца

    1) сравнения или сопоставления в сравнении с, по сравнению с; передаётся тж. дат. падежом

    compared to... - по сравнению с...

    equal to smth. - равный чему-л.

    superior to smth. - лучше, чем что-л.; превосходящий что-л.

    inferior to smth. - хуже, чем что-л.

    similar to smth. - подобный чему-л.; похожий на что-л.

    he prefers listening to talking - он больше любит слушать, чем говорить

    this is nothing to what it might be - это пустяки по сравнению с тем, что могло (бы) быть

    three goals to nil - три - ноль (в футболе и т. п.)

    three parts flour to one part butter - три части муки на одну часть масла ( кулинарный рецепт)

    four apples to a pound - четыре яблока на фунт, по фунту за четыре яблока

    it's a hundred to one (that) it won't happen - вероятность того, что это не случится /не произойдёт/, не больше одной сотой

    3) соответствия чему-л. по, на; передаётся тж. дат. падежом

    to my knowledge - насколько я знаю; насколько мне известно

    to my mind /thinking/ - по-моему

    (not) to one's liking /taste/ - (не) по вкусу кому-л.

    made to order [to measure] - сделанный на заказ [по мерке]

    words set to music - слова, положенные на музыку

    what tune is it sung to? - на какой мотив это поётся?

    to write to smb.'s dictation - писать под чью-л. диктовку

    1) составную часть чего-л. или принадлежность к чему-л. к, от, для; передаётся тж. род падежом
    2) фазу процесса, аспект явления:

    hand to hand - бок о бок, рядом

    they stood man to man - они стояли тесно /один к одному/

    2) близость, тесное соприкосновение, а также прикрепление к

    to be close to smb., smth. - быть близко к кому-л., чему-л.

    to tie smth. to smth. - привязать что-л. к чему-л.

    to fix smth. to smth. - прикрепить что-л. к чему-л.

    to clasp smb. to one's heart - прижать кого-л. к сердцу

    to fasten smth. to the wall - прикрепить что-л. к стене

    3) добавление, прибавление или сложение к, с

    put it to what you already have - прибавьте /добавьте/ это к тому, что у вас уже есть

    will you have sugar to your tea? - вы будете пить чай с сахаром?

    10. указывает на родственные, служебные и др. отношения; передается род. падежом

    to be engaged to smb. - быть помолвленным с кем-л.

    11. указывает на содержание или степень содержательности чего-л. в

    a book without much to it - не слишком интересная книга; книга так себе

    there isn't much to it - а) в этом нет ничего особенного /мудрёного/; б) это немногого стоит

    there's nothing to it - а) это проще простого, это проще пареной репы; в этом нет никакой премудрости; б) это яйца выеденного не стоит

    that's all there is to it - вот и всё; вот и вся недолга; это очень просто

    is there nothing more to civilization than a moral code? - неужто (вся) цивилизация сводится к морали?

    2) отнесение к какому-л. времени в прошлом к

    a ceremony dating to the first century - обряд, относящийся к первому веку

    3) диал. точное время в

    to goods £100 - 100 фунтов на товары /отнесение стоимости товаров в 100 фунтов/ в дебет счёта

    14. уст. указывает на использование в каком-л. качестве как, в

    to call smb. to witness - ссылаться на кого-л., призывать кого-л. в свидетели

    from... to см. from 9

    from dawn to dusk - с восхода до заката, от зари до зари

    to go from bad to worse - всё (время) ухудшаться, становиться всё хуже и хуже

    to a T - полностью, совершенно

    to oneself - в своё распоряжение, в своём распоряжении

    to tell smth. to smb.'s face - сказать что-л. кому-л. (прямо) в лицо

    to be used to smth. [to doing smth.] - привыкнуть к чему-л. [делать что-л.]

    would to God /to Heaven/! - о господи!

    3. [tu:,tʋ,tə] part

    to go away would be to admit defeat - уйти означало бы признать себя побеждённым

    he refused [agreed] to come - он отказался [согласился] прийти

    he was seen to enter the house - видели, что он вошёл в дом

    she would like it to be true - она бы хотела, чтобы это оказалось правдой

    I'm ready [happy] to do it - я готов [счастлив] сделать это

    you're foolish to believe it - глупо, что ты веришь этому

    he was the first [the last] to come - он пришёл первым [последним]

    that's good to eat - вкусная штука /вещь/

    write down the address not to forget it - запишите адрес, чтобы не забыть его

    we parted never to meet again - мы расстались, чтобы никогда больше не встречаться

    to hear him talk you would imagine that he's somebody - послушать его - так можно подумать, что он важная персона

    2. употребляется после ряда глаголов, чтобы избежать повторения инфинитива:

    tell him if you want to - скажите ему, если хотите

    take the money, it would be absurd not to - возьмите деньги; было бы нелепо отказываться от них

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  • 15 bear

    I
    1. [beə] n
    1. 1) медведь; медведица
    2) медведь, неуклюжий человек

    bear sport - шумная, грубая игра /забава/

    to play the bear - вести себя как медведь, быть грубым /неуклюжим, бестактным/

    what a bear! - что за медведь!, ну и грубиян!

    3) медвежий мех
    2. десятилетний бойскаут
    3. бирж. проф. спекулянт, играющий на понижение, «медведь»

    bear operation /speculation/ - спекуляция на понижение

    to sell a bear - а) играть на понижение; б) продать то, чего не имеешь, надуть

    4. ручной дыропробивной пресс, медведка
    5. метал. «козёл»

    Great [Little /Lesser/] Bear - Большая [Малая] Медведица ( созвездие)

    as cross as a bear with a sore head - ≅ зол как чёрт; смотрит зверем

    you must not sell the skin till you have shot the bear - ≅ нельзя делить шкуру неубитого медведя

    to take a bear by the tooth - ≅ лезть в медвежье логово /в пекло/

    had it been a bear it would have bitten you - уст. ≅ ты не видишь того, что лежит у тебя под носом

    to be a bear for punishment - а) не бояться лишений, дурного обращения и т. п.; быть закалённым; б) идти напролом к цели, добиваться своего, несмотря ни на какие трудности

    to have a bear by the tail - амер. ≅ дразнить медведя, бесцельно рисковать, неразумно подвергать себя опасности

    loaded for bear - амер. сл. готов к драке, на взводе

    2. [beə] v бирж. проф.
    II [beə] v (bore; borne, born)
    I
    1. 1) переносить, перевозить

    the ship bore him to a distant country - корабль унёс его далеко от родины

    the mules bearing the baggage remained behind - мулы с кладью остались позади

    2) книжн. носить, нести (обыкн. что-л. тяжёлое)
    2. 1) гнать, нести (тж. bear along)
    2) направляться, поворачиваться; держаться

    to bear east [north, south, west] - двигаться на восток [на север, на юг, на запад]

    to bear before the wind - мор. спускаться под ветер

    to bear a course - мор. прокладывать курс ( по карте)

    when you come to the bridge bear to the right - когда подойдёте к мосту, поверните направо

    3) книжн. находиться, простираться (о местности и т. п.)
    4) наводить (орудие и т. п.)

    to bring /to put/ a telescope [a gun] to bear on smth. - навести телескоп [орудие] на что-л.

    to bring one's mind to bear on smth. - сосредоточить всё своё внимание на чём-л.

    3. 1) иметь, нести на себе

    to bear the marks [signs, traces] of smth. - иметь признаки [знаки, следы] чего-л.

    what date does that letter bear? - каким числом помечено это письмо?

    2) иметь, обладать

    to bear a name [a title] - носить имя [титул]

    to bear rule /sway/ - держать в своих руках власть, властвовать

    to bear a good character - иметь хорошую репутацию, пользоваться доброй славой

    4. выдерживать, нести тяжесть, нагрузку (тж. bear up)

    his shoulders can bear a heavy load - он может нести на плечах тяжёлый груз

    will the ice bear today? - достаточно ли крепкий лёд сегодня?

    bear steady! - мор. так держать!

    5. (on, upon)
    1) опираться (на что-л.); стоять (на чём-л.); нажимать, давить

    a beam bearing on /upon/ two uprights - брус, опирающийся на два столба

    the whole building bears on these columns - эти колонны поддерживают всё здание

    to bear hard /heavily/ on - наваливаться, давить на

    the old man was bearing heavily on his stick - старик тяжело опирался на трость

    don't bear hard on the pencil - it will break - не нажимай сильно на карандаш - он сломается

    to bring all one's strength to bear on a lever - изо всех сил навалиться /надавить/ на рычаг

    to bring pressure to bear on smb. - оказывать давление на кого-л.

    2) иметь отношение к (чему-л.), быть связанным с (чем-л.)

    the fact does not bear on the subject - этот факт не имеет отношения к делу

    6. допускать, разрешать

    he spends more than his salary can bear - он тратит больше, чем позволяет ему жалованье

    your words bear only one interpretation - ваши слова можно истолковать только так

    there are passages in the book that will bear skipping - в книге есть места, которые вполне можно пропустить

    his language does not bear repeating - его язык не для приличного общества

    7. (p. p. тж. born)
    1) рождать; производить на свет

    borne by Eve, born of Eve - рождённый Евой

    2) приносить плоды

    these shares bear 5 per cent interest - эти акции приносят 5% прибыли

    8. refl держаться, вести себя

    to bear one's head high - высоко нести голову, держаться независимо /смело/

    II А
    1. 1) терпеть, выносить, выдерживать (боль, пытки и т. п.)

    to bear pain [wrong] - терпеть боль [обиду]

    to bear torture [a test] - вынести /выдержать/ пытку [испытание]

    to bear strain [affliction] - переносить напряжение [несчастье]

    2) переносить (операцию и т. п.)

    he bore the operation satisfactorily - он удовлетворительно перенёс операцию

    how do you bear air travel? - как вы переносите самолёт?

    2. обыкн. в отрицательных или вопросительных предложениях терпеть, выносить; мириться (с чем-л.)

    I cannot bear him - я его терпеть не могу /не выношу/

    the charge will not bear examination - обвинение несостоятельно /совершенно не обоснованно/

    this bears no comparison with... - это не выдерживает сравнения с...

    3. нести (расходы, убытки)

    to bear losses - нести убытки /ущерб/

    let him bear the expenses - пусть он возьмёт расходы на себя /расплачивается/

    4. давать ( показания)

    to bear evidence /testimony, witness/ - давать свидетельские показания, свидетельствовать

    he will bear witness that... - он может засвидетельствовать, что...

    thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour - библ. не послушествуй на друга свидетельства ложна

    5. питать, таить (чувства и т. п.)

    to bear malice [spite, ill-feeling] - таить злобу [обиду, недоброжелательство]

    the love she bore him - любовь, которую она к нему питала

    6. распространять (слухи и т. п.); разносить (сплетни и т. п.)

    to bear tales - разносить слухи, распространять сплетни

    7. иметь
    II Б
    1. to bear against smth. упираться во что-л.; плотно прилегать к чему-л.
    2. to be borne in on /upon/ smb. стать ясным, понятным кому-л.

    it was gradually borne in upon him that... - до него постепенно дошло, что..., мало-помалу он понял /осознал/, что...

    3. to bear with smb., smth. терпеливо относиться к кому-л., чему-л., мириться с кем-л., чем-л.

    to bear arms - а) носить оружие; служить в армии; б) иметь или носить герб

    to bear arms against smb. - поднять оружие на кого-л., восстать с оружием в руках против кого-л.

    to bear a part in smth. - принимать участие в чём-л.

    to bear in mind - иметь в виду, помнить, учитывать, принимать во внимание

    to bear a hand - помогать, содействовать

    bear a hand! - а) помогите!; б) мор. навались!, взяли! ( команда)

    to bear smb. in hand - а) держать кого-л. в руках; б) уст. обманывать, водить кого-л. за нос

    to bear one's age well - выглядеть моложаво; не чувствовать бремени лет

    to bear the brunt см. brunt

    to bear smb. a grudge - иметь зуб против кого-л., затаить злобу против кого-л.

    to bear and forbear - проявлять терпение и выдержку, обладать ангельским терпением

    born yesterday - наивный, доверчивый; ≅ как будто только вчера на свет родился

    II [beə] n диал. IV [beə] n диал.

    НБАРС > bear

  • 16 Stephenson, George

    [br]
    b. 9 June 1781 Wylam, Northumberland, England
    d. 12 August 1848 Tapton House, Chesterfield, England
    [br]
    English engineer, "the father of railways".
    [br]
    George Stephenson was the son of the fireman of the pumping engine at Wylam colliery, and horses drew wagons of coal along the wooden rails of the Wylam wagonway past the house in which he was born and spent his earliest childhood. While still a child he worked as a cowherd, but soon moved to working at coal pits. At 17 years of age he showed sufficient mechanical talent to be placed in charge of a new pumping engine, and had already achieved a job more responsible than that of his father. Despite his position he was still illiterate, although he subsequently learned to read and write. He was largely self-educated.
    In 1801 he was appointed Brakesman of the winding engine at Black Callerton pit, with responsibility for lowering the miners safely to their work. Then, about two years later, he became Brakesman of a new winding engine erected by Robert Hawthorn at Willington Quay on the Tyne. Returning collier brigs discharged ballast into wagons and the engine drew the wagons up an inclined plane to the top of "Ballast Hill" for their contents to be tipped; this was one of the earliest applications of steam power to transport, other than experimentally.
    In 1804 Stephenson moved to West Moor pit, Killingworth, again as Brakesman. In 1811 he demonstrated his mechanical skill by successfully modifying a new and unsatisfactory atmospheric engine, a task that had defeated the efforts of others, to enable it to pump a drowned pit clear of water. The following year he was appointed Enginewright at Killingworth, in charge of the machinery in all the collieries of the "Grand Allies", the prominent coal-owning families of Wortley, Liddell and Bowes, with authorization also to work for others. He built many stationary engines and he closely examined locomotives of John Blenkinsop's type on the Kenton \& Coxlodge wagonway, as well as those of William Hedley at Wylam.
    It was in 1813 that Sir Thomas Liddell requested George Stephenson to build a steam locomotive for the Killingworth wagonway: Blucher made its first trial run on 25 July 1814 and was based on Blenkinsop's locomotives, although it lacked their rack-and-pinion drive. George Stephenson is credited with building the first locomotive both to run on edge rails and be driven by adhesion, an arrangement that has been the conventional one ever since. Yet Blucher was far from perfect and over the next few years, while other engineers ignored the steam locomotive, Stephenson built a succession of them, each an improvement on the last.
    During this period many lives were lost in coalmines from explosions of gas ignited by miners' lamps. By observation and experiment (sometimes at great personal risk) Stephenson invented a satisfactory safety lamp, working independently of the noted scientist Sir Humphry Davy who also invented such a lamp around the same time.
    In 1817 George Stephenson designed his first locomotive for an outside customer, the Kilmarnock \& Troon Railway, and in 1819 he laid out the Hetton Colliery Railway in County Durham, for which his brother Robert was Resident Engineer. This was the first railway to be worked entirely without animal traction: it used inclined planes with stationary engines, self-acting inclined planes powered by gravity, and locomotives.
    On 19 April 1821 Stephenson was introduced to Edward Pease, one of the main promoters of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway (S \& DR), which by coincidence received its Act of Parliament the same day. George Stephenson carried out a further survey, to improve the proposed line, and in this he was assisted by his 18-year-old son, Robert Stephenson, whom he had ensured received the theoretical education which he himself lacked. It is doubtful whether either could have succeeded without the other; together they were to make the steam railway practicable.
    At George Stephenson's instance, much of the S \& DR was laid with wrought-iron rails recently developed by John Birkinshaw at Bedlington Ironworks, Morpeth. These were longer than cast-iron rails and were not brittle: they made a track well suited for locomotives. In June 1823 George and Robert Stephenson, with other partners, founded a firm in Newcastle upon Tyne to build locomotives and rolling stock and to do general engineering work: after its Managing Partner, the firm was called Robert Stephenson \& Co.
    In 1824 the promoters of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) invited George Stephenson to resurvey their proposed line in order to reduce opposition to it. William James, a wealthy land agent who had become a visionary protagonist of a national railway network and had seen Stephenson's locomotives at Killingworth, had promoted the L \& MR with some merchants of Liverpool and had carried out the first survey; however, he overreached himself in business and, shortly after the invitation to Stephenson, became bankrupt. In his own survey, however, George Stephenson lacked the assistance of his son Robert, who had left for South America, and he delegated much of the detailed work to incompetent assistants. During a devastating Parliamentary examination in the spring of 1825, much of his survey was shown to be seriously inaccurate and the L \& MR's application for an Act of Parliament was refused. The railway's promoters discharged Stephenson and had their line surveyed yet again, by C.B. Vignoles.
    The Stockton \& Darlington Railway was, however, triumphantly opened in the presence of vast crowds in September 1825, with Stephenson himself driving the locomotive Locomotion, which had been built at Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s Newcastle works. Once the railway was at work, horse-drawn and gravity-powered traffic shared the line with locomotives: in 1828 Stephenson invented the horse dandy, a wagon at the back of a train in which a horse could travel over the gravity-operated stretches, instead of trotting behind.
    Meanwhile, in May 1826, the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway had successfully obtained its Act of Parliament. Stephenson was appointed Engineer in June, and since he and Vignoles proved incompatible the latter left early in 1827. The railway was built by Stephenson and his staff, using direct labour. A considerable controversy arose c. 1828 over the motive power to be used: the traffic anticipated was too great for horses, but the performance of the reciprocal system of cable haulage developed by Benjamin Thompson appeared in many respects superior to that of contemporary locomotives. The company instituted a prize competition for a better locomotive and the Rainhill Trials were held in October 1829.
    Robert Stephenson had been working on improved locomotive designs since his return from America in 1827, but it was the L \& MR's Treasurer, Henry Booth, who suggested the multi-tubular boiler to George Stephenson. This was incorporated into a locomotive built by Robert Stephenson for the trials: Rocket was entered by the three men in partnership. The other principal entrants were Novelty, entered by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson, and Sans Pareil, entered by Timothy Hackworth, but only Rocket, driven by George Stephenson, met all the organizers' demands; indeed, it far surpassed them and demonstrated the practicability of the long-distance steam railway. With the opening of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in 1830, the age of railways began.
    Stephenson was active in many aspects. He advised on the construction of the Belgian State Railway, of which the Brussels-Malines section, opened in 1835, was the first all-steam railway on the European continent. In England, proposals to link the L \& MR with the Midlands had culminated in an Act of Parliament for the Grand Junction Railway in 1833: this was to run from Warrington, which was already linked to the L \& MR, to Birmingham. George Stephenson had been in charge of the surveys, and for the railway's construction he and J.U. Rastrick were initially Principal Engineers, with Stephenson's former pupil Joseph Locke under them; by 1835 both Stephenson and Rastrick had withdrawn and Locke was Engineer-in-Chief. Stephenson remained much in demand elsewhere: he was particularly associated with the construction of the North Midland Railway (Derby to Leeds) and related lines. He was active in many other places and carried out, for instance, preliminary surveys for the Chester \& Holyhead and Newcastle \& Berwick Railways, which were important links in the lines of communication between London and, respectively, Dublin and Edinburgh.
    He eventually retired to Tapton House, Chesterfield, overlooking the North Midland. A man who was self-made (with great success) against colossal odds, he was ever reluctant, regrettably, to give others their due credit, although in retirement, immensely wealthy and full of honour, he was still able to mingle with people of all ranks.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, on its formation in 1847. Order of Leopold (Belgium) 1835. Stephenson refused both a knighthood and Fellowship of the Royal Society.
    Bibliography
    1815, jointly with Ralph Dodd, British patent no. 3,887 (locomotive drive by connecting rods directly to the wheels).
    1817, jointly with William Losh, British patent no. 4,067 (steam springs for locomotives, and improvements to track).
    Further Reading
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, Longman (the best modern biography; includes a bibliography).
    S.Smiles, 1874, The Lives of George and Robert Stephenson, rev. edn, London (although sycophantic, this is probably the best nineteenthcentury biography).
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  • 17 star

    stɑ:
    1. сущ.
    1) звезда;
    светило bright star ≈ яркая звезда distant star ≈ далекая звезда evening starвечерняя звезда morning starутренняя звезда stars shine, twinkle ≈ звезды светят, сияют, горят falling star, shooting starметеор, падающая звезда fixed stars ≈ неподвижные звезды north star ≈ Полярная звезда Syn: luminary
    2) а) звезда (фигура) б) что-л. напоминающее звезду по форме в) полигр. звездочка
    3) звездочка (знак отличия, знак качества) a star on a shoulder-strap ≈ звездочка на погоне three-star hotel ≈ трехзвездочный отель
    4) перен. звезда;
    выдающаяся личность;
    кинозвезда basketball star ≈ знаменитый баскетболист film, movie амер. star ≈ кинозвезда guest star ≈ заезжая знаменитость track star ≈ известный бегун, знаменитый лыжник
    5) судьба, рок, учать to thank/bless one's stars ≈ благодарить судьбу star rises ≈ звезда восходит star sets, wanes ≈ звезда закатывается Her star was rising. ≈ Ее звезда восходила. She was born under a lucky star. ≈ Она родилась под счастливой звездой. Syn: fate, fortunestars and stripesгосударственный флаг США
    2. прил.
    1) звездный;
    звездообразный star systemгалактика, звездная система Syn: stellar, sidereal
    2) а) главный;
    ведущий, б) выдающийся;
    замечательный, известный Syn: prominent
    3) проходящий с участием звезд star performanceпредставление с участием знаменитостей
    3. гл.
    1) а) украшать звездами б) отмечать, помечать( что-л. в тексте) звездочкой
    2) награждать звездой, орденом
    3) а) играть главные роли, выступать в главных ролях б) предоставлять главную роль to star an actressдать актрисе главную роль
    4) блистать( в обществе и т.п.) звезда - shooting * метеор, падающая звезда - the North /the Polar/ * Полярная звезда - diurnal *, * of day /of noon/ дневное светило, солнце Полярная звезда звезда (фигура) - a five-point * пятиконечная звезда (полиграфия) звездочка звездочка, звезда (знак различия) - a general's * генеральская звезда - a * on a shoulder-strap звездочка на погоне звезда (знак отличия) - Silver S. Серебряная Звезда (орден) (специальное) звезда - * of planes (математика) связка плоскостей пятно, отметина, звездочка ( на лбу животного) звезда, ведущий актер или актриса;
    премьер;
    премьерша;
    кинозвезда - Hollywood *s голливудские звезды - opera * дива выдающаяся личность, светило - literary * знаменитый писатель (американизм) (спортивное) чемпион - tennis * звезда тенниса судьба, рок, звезда - to be born under a lucky * родиться под счастливой звездой - to bless one's *s благодарить судьбу - to foretell future events by the *s предсказывать судьбу по звездам - to read *s заниматься астрологией - the *s were against it сама судьба была против этого - his * is evidently setting его звезда явно заходит - he is through with his * удача ему изменила, фортуна повернулась к нему спиной (юридическое) заключенный, совершивший преступление впервые (тж. * prisoner) прикуп (бильярд) пиротехническая ракета( военное) осветительный снаряд > (bless) my *s (and garters) ! Бог ты мой!, вот те на!, да ну! > to see *s света невзвидеть;
    искры из глаз посыпались > to sleep in the * hotel (новозеландское) (сленг) спать под открытым небом относящийся к звезде или звездам;
    звездный - * cloud (астрономия) звездное облако - * catalogue звездный каталог, каталог звезд - * place /position/ положение звезды на небе звездообразный - * connection соединение звездой главный - * witness главный свидетель отличный, знаменитый;
    свойственный звезде (экрана, спорта и т. п.) - * tennis-player звезда тенниса - she received * billing ее фамилия стояла в афише на первом месте и была напечатана крупно с участием звезд - * performance представление с участием знаменитостей - an all(-) * cast блестящий состав исполнителей - * turn гвоздь программы осветительный - * composition( военное) осветительный состав звездчатый - * quartz звездчатый кварц как компонент сложных слов( американизм) (военное) имеющий на погонах столько-то звезд (о генералах) - one-star general бригадный генерал - two-star general генерал-майор - five-star general генерал армии как компонент сложных слов показывающий качество( гостиницы, вина и т. п.) - five-star наивысшего качества - five-star hotel пятизвездочный отель усеивать или украшать звездами награждать орденом играть главные роли;
    быть звездой - Laurence Olivier *ring в главной роли - Лоренс Оливье давать главную роль - to * an actress дать актрисе главную роль - the movie *s a famous stage actress в фильме главную роль играет знаменитая театральная актриса блистать (в роли, на каком-л. поприще и т. п.) помечать (слова в тексте) звездочкой покупать, брать прикуп (бильярд) > to * the glaze (сленг) ограбить витрину ювелирного магазина active ~ активная звезда film ~ кинозвезда ~ звезда;
    светило;
    fixed stars неподвижные звезды ~ судьба, рок;
    to have one's star in the ascendant преуспевать;
    to thank (или to bless) one's stars благодарить судьбу stars and stripes государственный флаг США;
    I saw stars = у меня искры посыпались из глаз ~ звезда, ведущий актер или актриса;
    выдающаяся личность;
    literary star известный писатель;
    soccer star знаменитый футболист morning ~ утренняя звезда, Венера passive ~ пассивная звезда shooting ~ метеор, падающая звезда ~ звезда, ведущий актер или актриса;
    выдающаяся личность;
    literary star известный писатель;
    soccer star знаменитый футболист star выдающийся;
    великолепный;
    ведущий;
    star witness главный свидетель ~ звезда, ведущий актер или актриса;
    выдающаяся личность;
    literary star известный писатель;
    soccer star знаменитый футболист ~ звезда;
    светило;
    fixed stars неподвижные звезды ~ звездный ~ полигр. звездочка ~ играть главные роли, быть звездой;
    to star in the provinces гастролировать в провинции в главных ролях ~ (что-л.), напоминающее звезду;
    звездочка (белая отметина на лбу животного) ~ отмечать звездочкой ~ предоставлять главную роль ~ судьба, рок;
    to have one's star in the ascendant преуспевать;
    to thank (или to bless) one's stars благодарить судьбу ~ украшать звездами ~ играть главные роли, быть звездой;
    to star in the provinces гастролировать в провинции в главных ролях ~ system театр. труппа с одним, двумя первоклассными актерами и слабым ансамблем star выдающийся;
    великолепный;
    ведущий;
    star witness главный свидетель stars and stripes государственный флаг США;
    I saw stars = у меня искры посыпались из глаз ~ судьба, рок;
    to have one's star in the ascendant преуспевать;
    to thank (или to bless) one's stars благодарить судьбу

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > star

  • 18 Edison, Thomas Alva

    [br]
    b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA
    d. 18 October 1931 Glenmont
    [br]
    American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.
    [br]
    He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.
    At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.
    Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.
    He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.
    Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.
    Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.
    Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.
    In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.
    On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.
    Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.
    In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.
    In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.
    In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.
    In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.
    In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.
    Further Reading
    M.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.
    R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Edison, Thomas Alva

  • 19 Caetano, Marcello José das Neves Alves

    (19061980)
       Marcello Caetano, as the last prime minister of the Estado Novo, was both the heir and successor of Antônio de Oliveira Salazar. In a sense, Caetano was one of the founders and sustainers of this unusual regime and, at various crucial stages of its long life, Caetano's contribution was as important as Salazar's.
       Born in Lisbon in 1906 to a middle-class family, Caetano was a member of the student generation that rebelled against the unstable parliamentary First Republic and sought answers to Portugal's legion of troubles in conservative ideologies such as integralism, Catholic reformism, and the Italian Fascist model. One of the most brilliant students at the University of Lisbon's Law School, Caetano soon became directly involved in government service in various ministries, including Salazar's Ministry of Finance. When Caetano was not teaching full-time at the law school in Lisbon and influencing new generations of students who became critical of the regime he helped construct, Caetano was in important government posts and working on challenging assignments. In the 1930s, he participated in reforms in the Ministry of Finance, in the writing of the 1933 Constitution, in the formation of the new civil code, of which he was in part the author, and in the construction of corporativism, which sought to control labor-management relations and other aspects of social engineering. In a regime largely directed by academics from the law faculties of Coimbra University and the University of Lisbon, Caetano was the leading expert on constitutional law, administrative law, political science, and colonial law. A prolific writer as both a political scientist and historian, Caetano was the author of the standard political science, administrative law, and history of law textbooks, works that remained in print and in use among students long after his exile and death.
       After his apprenticeship service in a number of ministries, Caetano rose steadily in the system. At age 38, he was named minister for the colonies (1944 47), and unlike many predecessors, he "went to see for himself" and made important research visits to Portugal's African territories. In 1955-58, Caetano served in the number-three position in the regime in the Ministry of the Presidency of the Council (premier's office); he left office for full-time academic work in part because of his disagreements with Salazar and others on regime policy and failures to reform at the desired pace. In 1956 and 1957, Caetano briefly served as interim minister of communications and of foreign affairs.
       Caetano's opportunity to take Salazar's place and to challenge even more conservative forces in the system came in the 1960s. Portugal's most prominent law professor had a public falling out with the regime in March 1962, when he resigned as rector of Lisbon University following a clash between rebellious students and the PIDE, the political police. When students opposing the regime organized strikes on the University of Lisbon campus, Caetano resigned his rectorship after the police invaded the campus and beat and arrested some students, without asking permission to enter university premises from university authorities.
       When Salazar became incapacitated in September 1968, President Américo Tomás named Caetano prime minister. His tasks were formidable: in the midst of remarkable economic growth in Portugal, continued heavy immigration of Portuguese to France and other countries, and the costly colonial wars in three African colonies, namely Angola, Guinea- Bissau, and Mozambique, the regime struggled to engineer essential social and political reforms, win the wars in Africa, and move toward meaningful political reforms. Caetano supported moderately important reforms in his first two years in office (1968-70), as well as the drafting of constitutional revisions in 1971 that allowed a slight liberalization of the Dictatorship, gave the opposition more room for activity, and decentrali zed authority in the overseas provinces (colonies). Always aware of the complexity of Portugal's colonial problems and of the ongoing wars, Caetano made several visits to Africa as premier, and he sought to implement reforms in social and economic affairs while maintaining the expensive, divisive military effort, Portugal's largest armed forces mobilization in her history.
       Opposed by intransigent right-wing forces in various sectors in both Portugal and Africa, Caetano's modest "opening" of 1968-70 soon narrowed. Conservative forces in the military, police, civil service, and private sectors opposed key political reforms, including greater democratization, while pursuing the military solution to the African crisis and personal wealth. A significant perspective on Caetano's failed program of reforms, which could not prevent the advent of a creeping revolution in society, is a key development in the 1961-74 era of colonial wars: despite Lisbon's efforts, the greater part of Portuguese emigration and capital investment during this period were directed not to the African colonies but to Europe, North America, and Brazil.
       Prime Minister Caetano, discouraged by events and by opposition to his reforms from the so-called "Rheumatic Brigade" of superannuated regime loyalists, attempted to resign his office, but President Américo Tomás convinced him to remain. The publication and public reception of African hero General Antônio Spinola's best-selling book Portugal e Futuro (Portugal and the Future) in February 1974 convinced the surprised Caetano that a coup and revolution were imminent. When the virtually bloodless, smoothly operating military coup was successful in what became known as the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Caetano surrendered to the Armed Forces Movement in Lisbon and was flown to Madeira Island and later to exile in Brazil, where he remained for the rest of his life. In his Brazilian exile, Caetano was active writing important memoirs and histories of the Estado Novo from his vantage point, teaching law at a private university in Rio de Janeiro, and carrying on a lively correspondence with persons in Portugal. He died at age 74, in 1980, in Brazil.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Caetano, Marcello José das Neves Alves

  • 20 Muybridge, Eadweard

    [br]
    b. 9 April 1830 Kingston upon Thames, England
    d. 8 May 1904 Kingston upon Thames, England
    [br]
    English photographer and pioneer of sequence photography of movement.
    [br]
    He was born Edward Muggeridge, but later changed his name, taking the Saxon spelling of his first name and altering his surname, first to Muygridge and then to Muybridge. He emigrated to America in 1851, working in New York in bookbinding and selling as a commission agent for the London Printing and Publishing Company. Through contact with a New York daguerreotypist, Silas T.Selleck, he acquired an interest in photography that developed after his move to California in 1855. On a visit to England in 1860 he learned the wet-collodion process from a friend, Arthur Brown, and acquired the best photographic equipment available in London before returning to America. In 1867, under his trade pseudonym "Helios", he set out to record the scenery of the Far West with his mobile dark-room, christened "The Flying Studio".
    His reputation as a photographer of the first rank spread, and he was commissioned to record the survey visit of Major-General Henry W.Halleck to Alaska and also to record the territory through which the Central Pacific Railroad was being constructed. Perhaps because of this latter project, he was approached by the President of the Central Pacific, Leland Stanford, to attempt to photograph a horse trotting at speed. There was a long-standing controversy among racing men as to whether a trotting horse had all four hooves off the ground at any point; Stanford felt that it did, and hoped than an "instantaneous" photograph would settle the matter once and for all. In May 1872 Muybridge photographed the horse "Occident", but without any great success because the current wet-collodion process normally required many seconds, even in a good light, for a good result. In April 1873 he managed to produce some better negatives, in which a recognizable silhouette of the horse showed all four feet above the ground at the same time.
    Soon after, Muybridge left his young wife, Flora, in San Francisco to go with the army sent to put down the revolt of the Modoc Indians. While he was busy photographing the scenery and the combatants, his wife had an affair with a Major Harry Larkyns. On his return, finding his wife pregnant, he had several confrontations with Larkyns, which culminated in his shooting him dead. At his trial for murder, in February 1875, Muybridge was acquitted by the jury on the grounds of justifiable homicide; he left soon after on a long trip to South America.
    He again took up his photographic work when he returned to North America and Stanford asked him to take up the action-photography project once more. Using a new shutter design he had developed while on his trip south, and which would operate in as little as 1/1,000 of a second, he obtained more detailed pictures of "Occident" in July 1877. He then devised a new scheme, which Stanford sponsored at his farm at Palo Alto. A 50 ft (15 m) long shed was constructed, containing twelve cameras side by side, and a white background marked off with vertical, numbered lines was set up. Each camera was fitted with Muybridge's highspeed shutter, which was released by an electromagnetic catch. Thin threads stretched across the track were broken by the horse as it moved along, closing spring electrical contacts which released each shutter in turn. Thus, in about half a second, twelve photographs were obtained that showed all the phases of the movement.
    Although the pictures were still little more than silhouettes, they were very sharp, and sequences published in scientific and photographic journals throughout the world excited considerable attention. By replacing the threads with an electrical commutator device, which allowed the release of the shutters at precise intervals, Muybridge was able to take series of actions by other animals and humans. From 1880 he lectured in America and Europe, projecting his results in motion on the screen with his Zoopraxiscope projector. In August 1883 he received a grant of $40,000 from the University of Pennsylvania to carry on his work there. Using the vastly improved gelatine dry-plate process and new, improved multiple-camera apparatus, during 1884 and 1885 he produced over 100,000 photographs, of which 20,000 were reproduced in Animal Locomotion in 1887. The subjects were animals of all kinds, and human figures, mostly nude, in a wide range of activities. The quality of the photographs was extremely good, and the publication attracted considerable attention and praise.
    Muybridge returned to England in 1894; his last publications were Animals in Motion (1899) and The Human Figure in Motion (1901). His influence on the world of art was enormous, over-turning the conventional representations of action hitherto used by artists. His work in pioneering the use of sequence photography led to the science of chronophotography developed by Marey and others, and stimulated many inventors, notably Thomas Edison to work which led to the introduction of cinematography in the 1890s.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1887, Animal Locomotion, Philadelphia.
    1893, Descriptive Zoopraxography, Pennsylvania. 1899, Animals in Motion, London.
    Further Reading
    1973, Eadweard Muybridge: The Stanford Years, Stanford.
    G.Hendricks, 1975, Muybridge: The Father of the Motion Picture, New York. R.Haas, 1976, Muybridge: Man in Motion, California.
    BC

    Biographical history of technology > Muybridge, Eadweard

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