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    couper1 (a)-(f), 1 (h), 1 (j), 1 (o), 1 (q), 1 (t), 2 (a), 2 (d)-(g) découper1 (b) tondre1 (c) interrompre1 (f) arrêter1 (g) réduire1 (i), 1 (j) blesser1 (k) manquer1 (m) percer1 (n) graver1 (p) monter1 (r) se couper2 (b) faire mal2 (c) coupure3 (a), 3 (b), 3 (f) coup3 (c), 3 (g) morceau3 (d) réduction3 (e) coupe3 (h), 3 (k) part3 (i) coupé4 (a), 4 (c) réduit4 (b)
    (pt & pp cut, cont cutting)
    (a) (incise, slash, sever) couper;
    cut the box open with the knife ouvrez la boîte avec le couteau;
    he fell and cut his knee (open) il s'est ouvert le genou en tombant;
    she cut her hand elle s'est coupé la main ou à la main;
    he cut his wrists il s'est ouvert ou taillé les veines;
    to cut one's throat se trancher la gorge;
    they cut his throat ils lui ont coupé ou tranché la gorge, ils l'ont égorgé;
    they cut the prisoners free or loose ils ont détaché les prisonniers;
    figurative to cut oneself loose from sth se libérer de qch;
    they cut our supply line ils nous ont coupé notre approvisionnement;
    figurative the fog's so thick you could cut it with a knife il y a un brouillard à couper au couteau;
    the atmosphere was so tense, you could cut it with a knife l'atmosphère était extrêmement tendue;
    you're cutting your own throat c'est du suicide
    (b) (divide into parts) couper, découper; (meat) découper; (slice) découper en tranches;
    she cut articles from the paper elle découpait des articles dans le journal;
    cut the cake in half/in three pieces coupez le gâteau en deux/en trois;
    to cut sth to shreds or to ribbons mettre qch en pièces;
    figurative the enemy cut the army to pieces l'ennemi a taillé l'armée en pièces;
    figurative the critics cut the play to pieces les critiques ont esquinté la pièce
    (c) (trim → grass, lawn) tondre; (→ bush, tree) tailler; (reap → crop) couper, faucher;
    I'll have to cut the grass this weekend il faudra que je tonde la pelouse ce week-end;
    I cut my nails/my hair je me suis coupé les ongles/les cheveux;
    you've had your hair cut vous vous êtes fait couper les cheveux
    (d) (shape → dress, suit) couper; (→ diamond, glass, key) tailler; (→ screw) fileter; (dig → channel, tunnel) creuser, percer; (engrave) graver; (sculpt) sculpter;
    steps had been cut in the rock on avait taillé des marches dans le rocher;
    we cut our way through the crowd nous nous sommes frayé ou ouvert un chemin à travers la foule;
    the advance cut a swath through the enemy's defences l'avance des troupes ouvrit une brèche dans la défense ennemie;
    proverb cut your coat according to your cloth = il ne faut pas vivre au-dessus de ses moyens
    (e) (cross, traverse) couper, croiser; Mathematics couper;
    where the path cuts the road à l'endroit où le chemin coupe la route
    (f) (interrupt) interrompre, couper;
    to cut sb short couper la parole à qn;
    we had to cut our visit short nous avons dû écourter notre visite;
    his career was tragically cut short by illness sa carrière a été tragiquement interrompue par la maladie;
    to cut a long story short, I left bref ou en deux mots, je suis parti
    (g) (stop) arrêter, cesser;
    he cut working weekends il a arrêté de travailler le weekend;
    cut the very familiar crap or vulgar shit! arrête tes conneries!
    (h) (switch off) couper;
    cut the lights! coupez la lumière!, éteignez!;
    he cut the engine il a coupé ou arrêté le moteur
    (i) (reduce → numbers, spending) réduire; (→ production) diminuer; (→ speech) abréger, raccourcir;
    we cut our costs by half nous avons réduit nos frais de moitié;
    they cut taxes in the run-up to the election ils ont réduit les impôts juste avant les élections;
    to cut prices casser les prix;
    the athlete cut five seconds off the world record or cut the world record by five seconds l'athlète a amélioré le record mondial de cinq secondes
    (j) Cinema & Television (edit out) faire des coupures dans, réduire; (drop) couper;
    the censors cut all scenes of violence la censure a coupé ou supprimé toutes les scènes de violence;
    the film was cut to 100 minutes le film a été ramené à 100 minutes
    (k) (hurt feelings of) blesser profondément;
    her remark cut me deeply sa remarque m'a profondément blessé
    (l) familiar (ignore, snub)
    they cut me (dead) in the street dans la rue ils ont fait comme s'ils ne me voyaient pas ;
    he cut me dead for days after our argument il m'a battu froid pendant des jours après notre dispute
    (m) familiar (absent oneself from → meeting, appointment etc) manquer (volontairement), sauter ;
    I had to cut lunch in order to get there on time j'ai dû me passer de déjeuner pour arriver à l'heure;
    the students cut class les étudiants ont séché le cours;
    to cut school sécher les cours
    (n) (tooth) percer;
    the baby is cutting his first tooth le bébé perce sa première dent;
    familiar figurative a pianist who cut her teeth on Bach une pianiste qui s'est fait la main sur du Bach
    (o) (dilute) couper
    (p) (record, track) graver, faire
    to cut the cards couper
    (r) Cinema (edit → film) monter
    (t) Sport (ball) couper
    to cut the ground from under sb's feet couper l'herbe sous le pied de qn;
    her promotion cut the ground from under his feet sa promotion lui a coupé l'herbe sous le pied;
    familiar he couldn't cut it, he couldn't cut the mustard il n'était pas à la hauteur ;
    to cut sth fine compter un peu juste, ne pas se laisser de marge;
    you're cutting it a bit fine vous comptez un peu juste;
    an hour is cutting it too fine une heure, ce n'est pas suffisant;
    familiar that argument cuts no ice with me cet argument ne m'impressionne pas ;
    to cut a fine figure avoir fière allure;
    to cut one's losses sauver les meubles;
    we decided to cut our losses nous avons décidé de sauver les meubles;
    to cut a caper or capers (skip) faire des cabrioles, gambader; (fool around) faire l'idiot;
    Cars to cut a corner prendre un virage à la corde, couper un virage; figurative sauter des étapes;
    figurative to cut corners (economize excessively) faire des économies exagérées; (not follow rules) contourner les règlements;
    if you cut corners now you'll just have more work to do later on si tu fais les choses trop vite maintenant, tu auras plus à faire plus tard;
    figurative she doesn't believe in cutting corners elle fait toujours les choses à fond;
    figurative they cut corners to finish on time ils ont brûlé les étapes pour finir à temps;
    old-fashioned to cut a rug danser
    (a) (incise, slash) couper, trancher;
    this knife doesn't cut ce couteau ne coupe pas bien;
    cut around the edge découpez ou coupez en suivant le bord;
    she cut into the bread elle a entamé le pain;
    the rope cut into my wrists la corde m'a coupé ou cisaillé les poignets;
    the string is cutting into me le cordon me coupe la chair;
    figurative he cut through all the red tape il s'est dispensé de toutes les formalités administratives;
    figurative the whip cut through the air le fouet fendit l'air;
    figurative the yacht cut through the waves le yacht fendait les vagues;
    Nautical the boat cut loose le bateau a rompu les amarres;
    figurative to cut loose se libérer;
    to cut and run se sauver, filer;
    that argument cuts both or two ways c'est un argument à double tranchant
    (b) (cloth, paper) se couper;
    this meat cuts easily cette viande se coupe facilement;
    the cake will cut into six pieces ce gâteau peut se couper en six
    (c) (hurtfully) faire mal
    (d) (take shorter route) couper, passer;
    cut through the back way and you'll get there first coupez par derrière et vous arriverez (là-bas) les premiers;
    we cut across the fields nous avons coupé par les champs
    (e) (cross) traverser, couper; Mathematics (lines) se couper;
    this path cuts across or through the swamp ce sentier traverse ou coupe à travers le marécage
    (f) (in cards) couper;
    they cut for the deal ils ont coupé avant de donner
    the film cuts straight from the love scene to the funeral l'image passe directement de la scène d'amour à l'enterrement;
    cut! coupez!
    3 noun
    (a) (slit) coupure f; (deeper) entaille f; (wound) balafre f; Medicine incision f;
    a cut on the arm une coupure ou une entaille au bras;
    she had a nasty cut on her leg from the fall elle s'était fait une vilaine entaille à la jambe en tombant;
    to be a cut above (the rest) être nettement mieux que les autres ou le reste;
    that film is a cut above the others ce film est nettement mieux que les autres
    (b) (act of cutting) coupure f, entaille f;
    to make a cut in sth (with knife, scissors etc) faire une entaille dans qch
    (c) (blow, stroke) coup m;
    a knife/sword cut un coup de couteau/d'épée;
    a saw cut un trait de scie;
    figurative his treachery was the unkindest cut of all sa trahison était le coup le plus perfide
    (d) (meat → piece) morceau m; (→ slice) tranche f;
    a cut off the joint un morceau de rôti;
    prime cut morceau m de (premier) choix;
    cheap cuts bas morceaux mpl
    (e) (reduction → in price, taxes) réduction f, diminution f; (→ in staff) compression f;
    a cut in government spending une réduction ou diminution des dépenses publiques;
    the cuts in the Health Service la réduction ou diminution du budget de la santé;
    she took a cut in pay elle a subi une diminution ou réduction de salaire;
    Finance the cuts les compressions fpl budgétaires;
    power or electricity cut coupure f de courant
    (f) (deletion) coupure f;
    they made several cuts in the film ils ont fait plusieurs coupures dans le film
    (g) (gibe, nasty remark) trait m, coup m
    (h) (shape, style → of clothes, hair) coupe f; (→ of jewel) taille f;
    the cut of a suit la coupe d'un costume
    (i) familiar (portion, share) part f;
    what's his cut (of the profits)? à combien s'élève sa part?
    (k) Cards coupe f
    (l) familiar (on record) plage f
    (m) Cinema & Television coupe f;
    the cut from the love scene to the funeral le changement de séquence de la scène d'amour à l'enterrement
    (n) Sport (in tennis → backspin) effet m; (in cricket) coup m tranchant
    (p) British (body of water) étendue f d'eau; (canal) canal m
    I prefer a finer/coarser cut of tobacco je préfère le tabac plus fin/grossier
    the cut and thrust of parliamentary debate les joutes oratoires des débats parlementaires;
    the cut and thrust of the business world la concurrence féroce qui règne dans le monde des affaires;
    it's cut and thrust la lutte est acharnée
    (a) (hand, flowers) coupé; (tobacco) découpé
    (b) (reduced) réduit; (shortened) raccourci;
    to sell sth at cut prices vendre qch au rabais;
    the cut version of the film la version raccourcie du film
    (c) (shaped → clothing) coupé; (faceted → gem) taillé;
    a well-cut suit un costume bien coupé ou de bonne coupe
    (d) British familiar (drunk) soûl, plein
    ►► cut glass cristal m taillé;
    Computing cut sheet feed dispositif m d'alimentation feuille à feuille; (act) alimentation f feuille à feuille;
    Computing cut sheet feeder dispositif m d'alimentation feuille à feuille
    (a) (cross, traverse) traverser, couper à travers;
    it's quicker if you cut across the fields c'est plus rapide si tu coupes à travers (les) champs;
    they cut across country ils ont coupé à travers champs
    (b) (go beyond) surpasser, transcender;
    the issue cuts across party lines la question transcende le clivage des partis
    (c) (contradict) contredire, aller à l'encontre de;
    it cuts across all my principles ça va à l'encontre de tous mes principes
    (remove) enlever ou ôter (en coupant); (branch) élaguer, émonder;
    they had to cut away the wreckage to reach the victim ils ont dû découper l'épave pour atteindre la victime
    (a) (return) rebrousser chemin, revenir sur ses pas;
    we cut back to the car nous sommes revenus à la voiture
    (b) Cinema & Television revenir en arrière
    (c) (financially) économiser, réduire les dépenses
    (a) (reduce) réduire, diminuer;
    arms spending has been cut right back les dépenses d'armement ont été nettement réduites
    (b) (prune, trim) tailler; (shrub, tree) élaguer, tailler
    (financially) économiser sur; (time) réduire;
    the factory cut back on production la fabrique a réduit la production
    (a) (tree) couper, abattre; (person → in battle) abattre;
    figurative he was cut down by malaria (killed) il est mort de la malaria; (incapacitated) il était terrassé par la malaria;
    literary to be cut down in one's prime être fauché à la fleur de l'âge
    (b) (make smaller → article, speech) abréger; (→ clothing) rendre plus petit;
    to cut sth down to about 150,000 words réduire qch à environ 150 000 mots;
    she cuts down her dresses for her daughter elle ajuste ses robes pour sa fille;
    to cut sb down to size remettre qn à sa place
    (c) (curtail) réduire, diminuer; (expenses) réduire, rogner;
    we've been asked to cut down the amount of time we devote to sports on nous a demandé de consacrer moins de temps au sport;
    he cut his smoking down to ten a day il ne fume plus que dix cigarettes par jour
    (expenditure) réduire;
    I'm going to cut down on drinking/smoking je vais boire/fumer moins;
    they have cut down on eating out in restaurants ils vont moins souvent au restaurant;
    to cut down on the amount of time spent doing sth passer moins de temps à faire qch
    cut in
    (a) (interrupt) interrompre;
    she cut in on their conversation elle est intervenue dans leur conversation;
    he cut in on me to ask a question il m'a coupé la parole pour poser une question;
    figurative the new store is cutting in on our business le nouveau magasin nous fait perdre de la clientèle
    (b) Cars faire une queue de poisson;
    the taxi cut in on them le taxi leur a fait une queue de poisson
    mind if I cut in? vous permettez que je vous emprunte votre partenaire?
    (include) we should cut him in on the deal nous devrions l'intéresser à l'affaire
    to cut into a conversation intervenir dans ou interrompre brusquement la conversation
    to cut into one's savings entamer ses économies;
    this work cuts into my free time ce travail empiète sur mes heures de loisir
    (a) (hair, piece of meat, bread) couper; (arm, leg) amputer, couper;
    they cut off the king's head ils ont décapité le roi;
    he was cut off in his prime il a été emporté à la fleur de l'âge;
    she cut off her nose to spite her face elle s'est fait du tort en voulant se venger
    (b) (interrupt → speaker) interrompre, couper;
    he was cut off in mid sentence il a été interrompu au milieu de sa phrase
    (c) (disconnect, discontinue) couper;
    Telecommunications he's been cut off (during conversation) il a été coupé; (disconnected) on lui a coupé le téléphone;
    they cut off the electricity or power ils ont coupé le courant;
    they cut off his allowance ils lui ont coupé les vivres;
    her family cut her off without a penny sa famille l'a déshéritée;
    it cut off the supply of blood to the brain cela a empêché l'irrigation du cerveau
    (d) (separate, isolate) isoler;
    the house was cut off by snow drifts la maison était isolée par des congères;
    he cut himself off from his family il a rompu avec sa famille;
    housewives often feel cut off les femmes au foyer se sentent souvent isolées
    (e) (bar passage of) couper la route à;
    the police cut off the thief la police a barré le passage au voleur;
    the battalion cut off the enemy's retreat le bataillon a coupé la retraite à l'ennemi
    cut out
    (a) (make by cutting → coat, dress) couper, tailler; (→ statue) sculpter, tailler;
    a valley cut out by the river une vallée creusée par le fleuve;
    figurative to be cut out for sth être fait pour qch, avoir des dispositions pour qch;
    I'm not cut out for living abroad je ne suis pas fait pour vivre à l'étranger;
    he's not cut out to be a politician il n'a pas l'étoffe d'un homme politique;
    you have your work cut out for you vous avez du pain sur la planche ou de quoi vous occuper;
    she'll have her work cut out to finish the report on time elle va avoir du mal à finir le rapport à temps
    (b) (remove by cutting → article, picture) découper; Medicine (→ tumour etc) enlever;
    advertisements cut out from or of the paper des annonces découpées dans le journal
    (c) (eliminate) supprimer; (stop) arrêter;
    unnecessary expense must be cut out il faut éliminer ou supprimer les frais superflus;
    they cut out all references to the president ils ont supprimé toute référence au président;
    try and cut out all unnecessary details essayez de supprimer tous les détails superflus;
    he cut out smoking il a arrêté de fumer;
    cut out the screaming! arrête de crier!, assez crié!;
    familiar cut it out! ça suffit!, ça va comme ça!
    (d) familiar (rival) supplanter
    (e) (deprive) priver;
    his father cut him out of his will son père l'a rayé de son testament;
    they cut him out of his share ils lui ont escroqué sa part
    (f) Photography & Typography détourer
    (a) (machine, engine → stop operating) caler; (→ switch off) s'éteindre
    (b) American familiar (leave) mettre les bouts, calter
    cut up
    (a) (food, wood) couper; (meat → carve) découper; (→ chop up) hacher; (body) couper en morceaux
    (b) (usu passive) familiar (affect deeply) she's really cut up about her dog's death la mort de son chien a été un coup pour elle ;
    he's very cut up about it ça l'a beaucoup affecté
    that really cut me up! ça m'a fait rire!
    (d) British Cars faire une queue de poisson de
    (a) American (fool around) faire le pitre
    to cut up rough se mettre en rogne ou en boule

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    1. I
    1) I have 10 shillings more to get мне надо достать еще десять шиллингов
    2) she gave him as good as she got она дала ему сдачи
    2. II
    1) get somewhere get here (home, thus far, abroad, etc.) приезжать /добираться, попадать/ сюда и т. д.; he forgot the key and couldn't get in он забыл ключ и не мог попасть в дом; the door was locked and we could not get out дверь была заперта [на ключ], и мы не могли войти; the train is starting, you must get in поезд отправляется, вам надо войти в вагон; I have no ticket, will I be able to get in? у меня нет билета, мне можно пройти /меня пропустят/? get out! вылезай(те)!, выходи(те)!; please, let me get by пожалуйста, пропустите меня /разрешите мне пройти/; get ashore сходить /высаживаться/ на берег; get astray заблудиться; rumours (reports, etc.) get abroad ходят /распространяются/ слухи и т. д.; this piece of news has got abroad эта новость стала широко известна; such sensations get abroad такого рода сенсационные сообщения становятся достоянием широкой публики; he'll soon get there он там скоро будет, он туда скоро попадет; your letter got there yesterday ваше письмо там получили /пришло туда/ вчера; how (lid these flowers get there? как туда попали эти цветы?: he got home quickly он быстро добрался до дому: the bridge was destroyed and we couldn't get across мост был разрушен, и мы не могли попасть на ту сторону; the frontier is so well guarded that. no one can get across граница так надежно /хорошо/ охраняется, что никто не может ее перейти /что ее невозможно нарушить/; get down спуститься вниз: the cat climbed to the top of tile tree and couldn't get down кошка взобралась на вершину дерева и не могла слезть
    2) he tries hard but he never gets anywhere он много работает, но у него ничего не выходит, он прилагает много усилий, но ничего не может добиться; you'll get nowhere if you work so little если вы будете так мало работать, вы ничего не добьетесь: with courage we can get anywhere мужество поможет нам добиться всего; he is getting ahead splendidly у него дела идут прекрасно; at last we seem to be getting somewhere похоже, наконец у нас что-то получается
    3. III
    1) get smth. get an answer (a postcard, a telegram, good new?get information, a birthday present, a pension, wages, etc.) получать ответ и т.д., get confirmation получить подтверждение; he got a surprise его ждал сюрприз; where can I get permission? его можно получить разрешение?; get one's breakfast (one's dinner, etc.) позавтракать и т. д.; I could not get any supper я остался без ужина, я не смог поужинать || get a sight glimpse/ of smb., smth. увидеть кого-л., что-л.
    2) get smth., smb. where did you get the money? где вы достали /раздобыли/ деньги? get a hat (a new coat, same stamps, a new diary, etc.) приобретать /покупать/ шляпу и т. д.'; you had better get a new umbrella вам бы надо купить /вам нужен/ новый зонтик; where can I get this book? где можно достать /купить/ эту книгу? I got the book. needed я нашел /достал/ нужную мне книгу; I'll go and get some milk. get Some biscuits too a схожу за молоком. get Возьми еще и печенья. get the prize (a good crop, credit, much, little, etc.) получать приз и т. д., he has got the support of the directors он получил поддержку /добился поддержки/ директоров; get a profit получать прибыль; he got nothing ему ничего на досталось, get good results (advantage, power, fame, wealth, etc.) добиваться хороших результатов и т.д., I went and got some singing lessons я пошел и взял несколько уроков пения; get friends при обретать друзей; where do you get pupils? откуда вы берете учеников?; get a wife жениться; get knowledge of the subject овладевать каким-л. предметом || get possession of smth. завладеть /овладеть/ чем-л.; get one's own way добиться своего
    3) get smth., smb. get one's hat (one's stick, one's bag, etc.) взять [с собой] шляпу и т. д., wait till I get my coat подожди, я только возьму пальто; go and get the doctor сходи за врачом; hold the line, I'll go and get him не вешайте трубку, я сейчас ere позову /найду/
    4) get smth. the room (the house, etc.) gets no sun в комнату и т. д. совсем не попадает солнце; this room gets all the sun именно в эту комнату попадает солнце; I'll come and see you if I get the time я приеду повидать вас, если у меня будет время; she hoped to get a little sleep она надеялась, что немного поспит /что ей удастся немного поспать/; I'll go and get some sleep пойду сосну
    5) get smb.,smth. I didn't get him a) я не застал его; б) я не дозвонился ему; you got the wrong number вы ошиблись номером /вы не туда попали/
    6) get smb., smth. get the thief (the runaway, the culprit, a squirrel, etc.) поймать вора и т. д.; did he get his train он успел на поезд?; I decided to get the next train я решил сесть на следующий поезд
    7) get smth. get an illness заболеть; get a cold chill/ простудиться; get [the] measles (scarlet fever, typhus, etc.) заболеть корью, подхватить корь и т. д.; have you got a cold? у вас насморк?; get a bad fall (a slight hurt) сильно (слегка) ушибиться; get a blow (a shock, a nasty wound, etc.) получить удар и т. д.
    8) get smth. get ten years (six months, etc.) получить десять лет тюрьмы /тюремного заключения/ и т. д., быть приговоренным к десяти годам [тюремного заключения] и т. д.; you'll get a beating тебя ожидает порка, тебя высекут; you'll get a scolding тебя ожидает /ты получишь/ выговор; you'll get it! тебе влетит
    9) get smth., smb. coll. get the joke (smb.'s meaning, smb.'s idea, etc.) понимать шутку и т. д., I don't get it не понял; it is just between us, get it? это только между нами, попятно?; I didn't get your name я не разобрал /не расслышал/ вашего имени; I don't get you я вас не понимаю
    10) get smth. dividing nine by three we get three если разделить девять на три, получится три
    11) have got smth. I have got a new watch (a new suit, a new hat, a car, etc.) у меня [есть] новые часы и т. д; have you got a newspaper (the tickets, a pencil, an erasing-knife, etc)? у вас есть газета и т.д.? I've got no money у меня нет денег; she's got a lovely voice у нее красивый голос; he'll lose all he's got, if he isn't careful если он не будет более осмотрительным /осторожнее/, он потеряет все, что имеет
    4. IV
    1) get smth. at some time get the answer this morning (some money soon, etc.) получить ответ сегодня утром и т. д.; get money every month получать деньги каждый месяц; I get a letter every day каждый день мне приходит /я получаю/ письмо; in this hotel I get breakfast every morning в этой гостинице каждое утро дают /подают/ завтрак; get your dinner at once сейчас же пообедай; get smth. in some manner you got the answer right ты получил /у тебя получился/ правильный ответ
    2) get smth. in some manner get this horse (this coat, this bicycle, etc.) cheap (ly) дешево купить /приобрести/ лошадь и т. д., купить эту лошадь и т. д. по дешевке; get the book second-hand приобрести подержанную книгу, купить книгу у букиниста; get money easily легко зарабатывать /доставать, получать/ деньги; get this book easily достать эту книгу без затруднений
    3) get smb., smth. somewhere get him home (the old man upstairs, you there, the child up, etc.) отводить /доставлять, приводить/ его домой и т.д., get smb. in а) помочь кому-л. проникнуть куда-л.; б) втащить кого-л. вовнутрь; get smb. out а) помочь кому-л. выбраться откуда-л.; б) вытащить кого-л. откуда-л.; get the horses out вывести лошадей; what got you here? что вас привело сюда?; get this parcel home (the table here, etc.) доставлять посылку домой и т. д., get the chairs (the washing, some coal, etc.) in вносить стулья и т.д., I don't know how you'll ever get the box (the trunk, the piano, etc.) upstairs не знаю, как вы втащите этот ящик и т. д. наверх; get a mast up ставить мачту; get up a sunken vessel поднимать затонувшее судно; get smth. overboard выбрасывать что-л. за борт; get his letter (one's own books, my money, etc.) back получить обратно его письме и т. д., now I've got you back теперь вы вернулись ко мне
    4) get smb. at some time I'll get you yet! я еще вас поймаю!, вы еще мне попадетесь!; he got you that time! на этот раз он вас поймал!
    5) get smb. somewhere it will get him nowhere, it won't get him anywhere это ничего ему не даст, этим он ничего не добьется; all work and no play does not get you anywhere если работать и не отдыхать, толку будет мало
    6) get smb., smth. in some manner coll. I get you (your meaning, your idea, etc.) all right я хорошо понимаю вас и т. д.
    7) have got smth. somewhere what have you got there? что у вас там?
    5. V
    get smb. smth.
    1) get him a ticket (me a dictionary, them those pictures, etc.) доставать /покупать/ ему билет и т. д.; get me a good teacher (him a place. her another job, etc.) найдите мне хорошего преподавателя и т. д.
    2) get smb. a towel (me my hat, him another dictionary, her a chair, me some ink, etc.) принести кому-л. полотенце и т. д.; can you get me another pencil? вы можете принести /дать/ мне другой карандаш?
    3) get smb. smb., smth. get me the director (the hospital, the head teacher, etc.) соедините меня с директором и т. д.
    6. VI
    1) get smth., smb. in some state get dinner (breakfast, books, etc.) ready приготовить обед и т. д., she quickly got the children ready for school она быстро собрала детей в школу; get one's feet (one's clothes, etc.) wet промочить ноги и т. д.; get the windows open открыть окна; get everything right again снова навести везде порядок; get smb. free освободить кого-л., выпустить кого-л. на свободу; get the dog loose спустить собаку с цепи; it gets me down-hearted это приводит меня в уныние
    2) get smth. in some state get the sum right получить правильный ответ [в решении задачи], правильно решить задачу
    7. VII
    1) get smth., smb. to do smth. get something (nothing, etc.) to eat (to read, to play with, etc.) достать что-нибудь поесть и т. д.; get leave to go home получить отпуск для поездки домой; get smb. to clean the windows (to wash the floors, to do the room, etc.) найти кого-л. [, чтобы] вымыть окна и т. д.; I can't get anyone to do the work properly не могу найти человека, который выполнил бы эту работу как следует
    2) get smb., smth. to do smth. get your friend to help you (him to come, her to join us, your brother to introduce me to the chairman, etc.) убедить /заставить/ вашего приятеля /друга/ помочь вам и т. д.; get a fire to burn разжечь огонь или костер; get this door to shut properly починить дверь, чтобы она закрывалась как следует; I can never get him to go to bed я никогда не могу уложить его спать; get him to tell her about it уговорите его рассказать ей об этом; you will not be able to get a tree to grow in this soil вам не удастся вырастить дерево на такой почве
    3) Have got smth. to do I have got very much /lots of work/ to do у меня очень много работы /дел/, мне надо очень много сделать; what have you got to say? что вы можете сказать?
    8. VIII
    get smth., smb. doing smth.get the clock (the work, the typewriter, etc.) going наладить часы и т. д; at last he got the stone rolling наконец ему удалось сдвинуть камень, и тот покатился; she got everybody singing все подхватили ее песню; она заставила всех петь; I'll get her talking а) я заставлю ее заговорить; б) я разговорю ее; that got him guessing это заставило его теряться в догадках
    9. IX
    1) get smth., smb. done I must get the book bound (my passport endorsed, the work done, my shoes repaired, etc.) мне нужно [отдать] переплести книгу и т. д.; we are getting our apartment newly papered мы заново оклеиваем [обоями] квартиру; I shall get my hair cut я постригусь; can you get the work finished in time (by evening)? a) вы можете закончить работу вовремя (к вечеру)?; б) вы можете добиться, чтобы работа была готова вовремя (к вечеру)?; where can I this printed (my piano tuned, my shoes soled, etc.)? где мне / я могу/ это напечатать и т. д.?; I want to get my coat mended я хочу починить /отдать в починку/ пальто; get the laws obeyed (my words believed, etc.) добиться [того], чтобы законы выполнялись /соблюдались/ и т. д.; get oneself appointed (noticed, chosen, etc.) сделать так, чтобы тебя назначили и т. д., they got him elected chairman они провели его в председатели
    2) get smb. in some state get a man drunk напоить человека; get smb. dressed (washed, fed, etc.) одеть и т. д. кого-л.; it gets me discouraged я от этого прихожу в уныние; he got his face scratched (his wrist broken, etc.) он расцарапал лицо и т. д.
    10. X
    get into some state get married (dressed, shaved, brushed clean, confused, hurt, etc.) жениться и т.д., get drunk напиваться; get tired уставать; get frozen замерзать; he got drowned он утонул; you must get done /finished/ with it с этим нужно покончить /кончать/; get used /accustomed/ to the climate here (to the customs and manners over here, to sitting up late, to the rolling of a ship, etc.) привыкать к здешнему климату и т. д., he got fired /dismissed/ (severely wounded, killed, etc.) его уволили /выгнали/ и т. д.; he got paid for this ему за это заплатили; he got mixed up with dishonest men он связался с дурной компанией; they got left behind они отстали; that vase will get broken эта ваза разобьется; everything gets known все становится известным || get rid of smb., smth. отделываться /избавляться/ от кого-л., чего-л.; get rid of a troublesome visitor (of a lazy servant, of the old car, of an engagement, etc.) избавиться /отделаться/ от назойливого посетителя и т. д.
    11. XI
    1) be got the thing is not to be got fay вещь нельзя достать
    2) be got at the soul of a people can be got at fully only through, the knowledge of its language душу народа можно познать только через его язык
    3) be got at coll. the witness (the press, the voters, etc.) have been got at свидетели и т. д. были подкуплены
    12. ХIII
    1) get to do smth. soon she got to like her job скоро ей начала нравиться /понравилась/ ее работа, она вскоре полюбила свой работу;how did you get to know it? как вы об этом узнали?, как вам удалось это узнать?; they got to be friends они стали друзьями; you'll like him when /once/ you get to know him когда вы его узнаете, вы его полюбите
    2) have got to do smth. we've got to go (to write a letter, to listen to what he says, to leave early to catch my train, to pass this examination, etc.) нам необходимо /мы должны/ идти и т.д., it has got to be done это должно быть сделано /надо сделать/; she's got to work hard for her living ей приходится много работать, чтобы заработать на жизнь
    3) id have got to do with smth. what's that got to do with us? какое это имеет отношение к нам?
    13. XIV
    get doing smth.,get moving (rolling, singing, etc.) начать двигаться и т. д.; when these women get talking they go on for hours когда эти женщины начнут разговаривать /болтать/, их не остановишь; we got talking of the future мы стали говорить /заговорили/ о будущем; they wanted to get going on the construction of the house они хотели приступить к строительству дома; if we don't get doing we'll never arrive in time если мы не тронемся в путь, мы ни за что не приедем вовремя; things haven't really got going yet дела еще фактически не сдвинулись с места /с мертвой точки/; let's get going! пошли!, пойдём!, поёхали!
    13. XV
    get into some state get warmer (worse and worse, uglier every day, etc.) становиться теплее и т. д.; get grey (old, silly, poor, red in the face, etc.) поседеть и т. д.; get well поправляться, выздоравливать; he is getting better ему уже лучше; get asleep засыпать; I am getting thirsty (sleepy, hungry. etc.) мне захотелось пить и т. д., the children will get wet (hungry, etc.) дети вымокнут /промокнут/ и т. д.; he got rich он разбогател; he got mad at the message записка его разозлила; он разозлился на записку; they got closer to each other они сблизились, они стали ближе друг другу; it got rainy пошли дожди; it got foggy опустился туман; the sky got cloudy небо заволокло тучами; it is getting dark (cold, warm, etc.) темнеет и т. д. it is getting late уже поздно; the fire is getting low костер гаснет /угасает/; things are getting better дела идут все лучше
    14. XVI
    1) get into (out of, through, over, up, across, at, etc.) smth. get into the room (into town, into a bar, etc.) попадать /входить/ в комнату и т. д.; the burglar got into the kitchen through the window грабитель проник /влез/ в кухню через окно; get into a car сесть /влезть/ в автомобиль /в машину/; get into the saddle сесть /взобраться/ в седло; something has got into my eye мне что-то попало в глаз this story got into the newspapers эта история попала в газеты; where has that book got to? куда запропастилась /делась/ эта книга?; get to the station (to London, to the office, etc.) добраться до вокзала и т. д.; where did you get to yesterday? куда вы делись /где вы были/ вчера?; get out, of a train (out of a bus, out of a carriage, etc.) выходить из поезда и т. д., get out of bed! вставайте!; get out of here (out of this house)! прочь отсюда (из этого дома)!; get out of the way of a car посторониться и пропустить машину; get out of smb.'s way уйти с чьей-л. дороги; get through the hole in the wall (through the eye of a needle, through a gap, through a crack, etc.) пролезать через дыру в стене и т. д.; get over a fence (over a wall, over a stile, etc.) перелезать через забор и т. д.; get over /across/ a river переправляться через реку; get across tile street (across /over/ the bridge, across the frontier, etc.) перейти на другую сторону улицы и т. д.; he got above the clouds он поднялся над облаками; get under the hedge (under the wire netting, under the rope, etc.) пролезать под изгородью и т. д.; get under some old boxes (under some bushes, etc.) залезать /закатиться/ под старые ящики и т. д.; under the wheels (under а motor-саг, etc.) попасть под колеса и т. д.; the cat got under the bed (under the fence, etc.) кошка шмыгнула под кровать и т. д.; get at the top shelf (at the ripest fruit, at one's luggage, etc.) дотянуться /достать/ до верхней полки и т. д.; keep medicines where children can't get at them убирайте лекарства так, чтобы дети не смогли их достать; the dog could not get at me собака не могла меня достать; let me get at him coll. дайте мне только до него добраться; get down a tree (down a fence, etc.) слезать с дерева и т. д., get up a ladder (up a hill, up a tree, etc.) взбираться на лестницу и т. д.; get by the guard (by the policeman, etc.) проскользнуть мимо часового и т. д.; get before the crowd (before the procession, before the column of marchers, etc.) обогнать толпу и т. д.; get behind a tree (behind a door, behind a fence, etc.) встать /спрятаться/ за дерево и т. д.; the реп got behind the bookcase ручка закаталась /попала/ за книжный шкаф; get between the sheets залезть под одеяло; he got between the boys and prevented a fight он встал между мальчишками и не дал им сцепиться; get aboard a ship подняться на борт корабля
    2) get to (abreast of, beyond, as far аs, etc.) smth. get to the end of the chapter (to the main subject, to the theme of my story, to the heart of the matter, etc.) дойти /добраться/ до конца главы и т. д.: how far did you get to? до какого места ты дочитал?; get to the head of one's class выйти на первое место в классе; стать первым учеником в классе; get to the city police (to the authorities, etc.) связаться с городской полицией и т. д.; get to some time (to some age) достигать какого-л. времени (возраста); when it gets to 10 o'clock I begin to feel tired к десяти часам я начинаю чувствовать усталость: when you get to 70... когда вам [будет] семьдесят...; get between two fighting parties оказаться /очутиться/ между двумя враждующими /борющимися/ группами; his anger has got beyond control он вышел из себя, он уже не мог сдержать гнев; he doesn't let much get by him он почти ничего не пропускает; практически ничто мимо него не проходит; you cannot easily get at him с ним не так просто связаться /увидеться/; get abreast of modem technology достичь современного уровня техники; we got as far as the lake мы дошли или доехали до озера || get in touch with smb. связаться / установить контакт/ с кем-л.
    3) get within smth. get within smb.'s reach (within the range of their fire, etc.) оказаться в пределах чьей-л. досягаемости и т. д.; get within earshot оказаться в пределах слышимости; get within their sight оказаться в поле их зрения; get out of smth. get out of smb.'s sight скрыться с чьих-л. глаз; get out of smb.'s reach оказаться для них вне пределов досягаемости; get among smb. get among friends (among enemies, among strangers, etc.) оказаться среди друзей и т. д. || get into the hands of the police попасть в руки полиции
    4) get into smth. get into a coat (into one's clothes, into one's boots, etc.) надевать пальто и т. д., get into one's trousers натянуть брюки; I can't get into these shoes, they are three sizes too small я не могу надеть эти ботинки, мне надо на три номера больше
    5) get into smth. get into business (into trade, into the movies, into politics, etc.) заняться коммерцией и т. д.; get into fights with the neighbour's children драться /вступать в драку/ с соседскими мальчишками; get into Parliament (into a party, into a club, etc.) стать членом парламента и т. д.; get into office получить /занять/ должность; Kennedy got into office in 1961 Кеннеди стал президентом в тысяча девятьсот шестьдесят первом году; get into conversation (into a dispute with smb., into correspondence, into communication, etc.) завязать разговор и т.д.; they got into quite an argument about it между ними разгорелся довольно жаркий спор
    6) get in (to) smth. get into trouble (into a difficulty, into mischief, etc.) попасть в беду и т. д.; get into debt залезть в долги; get in a row (into a horrible scrape, etc.) оказаться замешанным /ввязаться/ в скандал и т. д.; get into a bad habit приобрести плохую /дурную/ привычку; get into the habit /into the way/ of getting up early (of doing things one's own way, of answering back, etc.) привыкнуть рано вставать и т. д., get into a rage впасть в ярость; get into a panic поддаться панике; get into general use получить широкое распространение; get out of smth. get out of practice потерять навык, [давно] не иметь практики; get out of repair требовать ремонта; get out of order выйти из строя, испортиться, сломаться; get out of shape потерять форму
    7) get over (out of, through,get etc.) smth. get over a difficulty ( over an obstacle, over an impediment, etc.) преодолеть затруднение и т. д.; she couldn't get over her shyness (over her embarrassment, over her confusion, over her dislike of him, over the disinclination to work, etc.) она не могла побороть / преодолеть/ свой застенчивость и т. д.; he couldn't get over his stutter он не мог избавиться от заикания; I can't get over his abominable manners никак не могу примириться с его ужасными манерами /привыкнуть к его ужасным манерам/; get over a disappointment (over an alarm, over a surprise, etc.) прийти в себя после разочарования и т. д.; I couldn't get over his behaviour он себя так плохо вел, что я никак не мог успокоиться; I couldn't get over the fear of him я никак не мог избавиться от чувства /преодолеть чувство/ страха перед ним; get over an illness (over an ailment, over that severe cold, over an injury, etc.) оправиться от /после/ болезна и т.д., get over /out of/ a bad habit отделаться / отучиться/ от дурной привычки; get out of a difficulty выйти из затруднительного положения; there is по getting out of it, you cannot get out of it от этого не открутишься; don't try to get out of your duties не пытайтесь уклоняться от своих обязанностей; get through another bad winter (through a dangerous illness, etc.) пережить еще одну тяжелую зиму и т. д.; I don't know how I'll get through this month я не знаю, как я дотяну до конца месяца; I don't know how I got through the day не знаю, как я прожил /выдержал/ этот день; get through an exam выдержать экзамен; get through written papers написать контрольную работу; get through a driving test сдать экзамен на водительские права; how he got through college is a mystery совершенно непонятно, как он смог окончить колледж; get (a)round smth. get around the law (around the regulations, around that clause, around a difficulty, etc.) обходить закон и т. д.; there is no getting (aground this fact a) нельзя не (посчитаться с этим фактом; б) нельзя пройти мимо этого факта; get (a)round smb. coll. she can get (aground anyone она может убедить /обвести вокруг пальца/ кого хочешь /кого угодно/; she knows how to get round him она знает, как к нему подъехать
    8) get through /over/ smth. get through a lot of reading (through a lot of work, etc.) много прочитать и т.д., get through her washing (through one's homework, through this book, etc.) закончить стирку и т. д.; how could he get through all these files? как он успел просмотреть все эти папки?; get through one's task with great speed быстро выполнить свой задачу; get through a lot of correspondence ( through these books, etc.) разделаться с большим количеством писем и т. д.; get through such a lot of food (through all this meat, through a bottle of gin a week, etc.) съесть /осилить/ много всякой всячины и т. д.; get through one's fortune (through a lot of money, through L 1000 in less than a week, etc.) растратить /растранжирить, промотать/ свое состояние и т. д.
    9) get at smth., smb. get at the truth (at the facts, at the root of the trouble, at the cause of the disturbance, at the heart of things, etc.) докапываться до правды и т. д.; get at the meaning of the sentence добраться до сути этого предложения; get at the secret of his success выяснить /понять/, в чем секрет его успеха; that's what I want to get at вот в чем мне хочется разобраться, вот что мне хочется постичь; what are you getting at? coll. a) чего вы хотите?, к чему вы клоните?; б) что вы имеете в виду?; we could not tell what the speaker was getting at мы не знали /не понимали/, что имел в виду /хотел сказать/ оратор; who are you getting at? кого вы имеете в виду?, на кого вы намекаете?; were you getting at me in that last remark you made? в своем последнем замечании вы намекали на меня? /вы имели в виду меня/?; he is always getting at me coll. он вечно ко мне цепляется /придирается/
    10) get at smb. get at a witness (at a judge, at the press, etc.) подкупать свидетеля и т. д.
    15. XVII
    1) get (in)to doing smth. coll. get into sleeping in the afternoon (to fighting, etc.) взять себе за привычку спать днем и т. д.; I got to thinking that... я стал думать, что...
    2) get out of doing smth. get out of attending smth. (out of going there, out of answering, etc.) отвертеться и не пойти на какое-л. мероприятие и т. д.; get as far as doing smth. we did not get as far as discussing finances мы не дошли до обсуждения финансовых вопросов
    16. XXI1
    1) get smth. from (at, out of, etc.) smth., smb. get machinery from Europe (many commodities from abroad, etc.) получать оборудование из Европы и т. д., закупать /покупать, приобретать/ оборудование в Европе и т.д., get our things at this shop покупать /приобретать/ вещи в этом магазине; get information from the library (money from the bank, help from him, etc.) получать, сведения из библиотеки и т. д., get dinner (lunch, etc.) at the hotel (at the restaurant, at the inn, etc.) (пообедать и т. д. в гостинице и т. д.; I got this information (the news, facts. etc.) from a friend of mine (from my secretary, etc.) мне это и т. д. сообщил один приятель и т. д., я получил эти сведения и т. д. от одного приятеля и т. д.; get butter from cream получать масло из сливок; get a confession out of the prisoner ( a secret out of the woman, the truth out of the man, etc.) вытянуть / вырвать/ у заключенного признание и т. д.; get smth. for smth. get data for analysis (information for the article, new curtains for the guest-room, etc.) доставать /добывать/ данные для анализа и т. д., get material for research собирать материал для исследования: can I still get a ticket for tonight's play? можно еще достать /купить, получить/ билет на сегодняшний спектакль?; get smth. for smb. get tickets (another dictionary, this book, etc.) for him купить или заказать ему билеты и т. д.; get smth. by smth. get good results by hard work усердием /большим трудом/ добиться хороших результатов; get very little by deceit немногого добиться обманом || get hold of the manager (of the secretary, of the owner, etc.) разыскать /найти/ администратора и т. д., where did you get hold of this curious old picture? где вы раздобыли эту любопытную старую картину?; he got the start of his rivals он получил преимущество перед своими соперниками
    2) get smth. from smb. get presents from his brother (a letter from one's parents, a message from him, etc.) получать подарки от брата и т. д.; get no help (no money, no advice, etc.) from him не получать от него помощи и т. д.; you will never get anything from him от него ничего не дождешься; get his timidity from his mother унаследовать робость от матери; get smth. for smth. get a good salary for the job (a reward for his part in the affair, a medal for bravery. etc.) получать хорошую зарплату за эту работу и т. д.; what did you get for this article? сколько вам заплатили за эту статью?; get a good price for the land получить хорошую цену за землю; I will see what I can get for it посмотри, сколько я могу за это получить /выручить, взять/; get a new watch (a ring, a new hat, etc.) for one's birthday получить новые часы и т. д. [в подарок] на день рождения; get smth. out of smth. what did you get out of his lecture? что вы вынесли из его лекции?, что вам дала его лекция?; all he got out of it was disgrace это принесло ему только позор; get smth. of smb., smth. what impression did you get of him (of this play, etc.)? .какое он и т. д. на вас произвел впечатление?
    3) get smth., smb. across (from, to, etc.) smth. get smth. across the river (across the sea, across the frontier, etc.) переправить что-л. через реку и т. д.; get smb. across the street (across the bridge, across the field, etc) перевести кого-л. через улицу и т. д.; get one's hat from the other room (the books from the study, the tea-things from the kitchen, etc.) принести шляпу из другой комнаты и т. д., get down a book from the top shelf (the boy from the fence, my hat from the book, etc.) снимать книгу с верхней полки и т. д.; get a letter to London (to Paris, etc.) доставить письмо в Лондон и т. д., get the child to bed уложить ребенка в постель; get the trunk back to the garret отнести сундук обратно на чердак; get the parcel back to London снова доставить пакет в Лондон; get your TV back for this evening (for the party, etc.) принесите снова ваш телевизор на этот вечер и т. д.; the car did not get him very far on the road home он проехал на машине лишь небольшую часть дороги домой; that did not get him very far on the road to fame это весьма незначительно способствовало его продвижению по пути славы; get smth., smb. to smb., smth. how can I get these things to you? как мне переправить вам эти вещи?; get the slaves to the north переправить рабов на север
    4) get smth., smb. into (through, from, out of, etc.) smth. I can't get the key into the lock я не могу вставить ключ в замок; help me get the pig into the cart помогите мне втащить поросенка в телегу: how can I get all these books into the bag? как мне запихнуть /засунуть, впихнуть/ все эти книги в портфель?; get the piano through the door протащить пианино в дверь; get the milk from the refrigerator for me достаньте мне молока из холодильника; get smth. out of the house выносить что-л. из дома; get a cork out of a bottle вытаскивать пробку из бутылки; get stains out of a coat выводить пятна с пиджака: get these things out of the way уберите эти вещи с дороги [, чтобы они не мешали]; get the man out of the house (the dog out of the room, etc.) выводить человека из дома и т. д.: get her out of the country помочь ей уехать или вывезти ее из страны /за границу/ || get smth. into one's head вбить себе что-л. в голову: he got it into his head that everybody was persecuting him он вбил себе в голову, что его все преследуют; get smth. out of one's head выбросить что-л. из головы; get the idea (the thing, it, the notion, etc.) out of one's head выбросить эту мысль и т. д. из головы, перестать об этом думать
    5) get smb., smth. into (through) smth. get him into Parliament (into their headquarters, etc.) провести /протащить/ его в парламент и т. д.; get smb. into the firm пристроить кого-л. в эту фирму; get a bill through Parliament (this measure through the house, etc.) провести /протащить/ законопроект в парламенте и т. д., he helped me to get my luggage through the customs он помог мне пройти таможенный досмотр; get a pupil through his examination вытащить ученика на экзамене; it was his mathematics that got him through entrance examinations он выдержал приемные экзамены благодаря тому, что хорошо знал математику; get an article into a paper поместить статьи в газете; get the report into print сдать доклад в печать
    6) get smb. by smth. get smb. by the hand (by the hair, by the throat, by the wrist. etc.) схватить кого-л. за руку и т. д.: get smth., smb. on (by) smth. I get all program (me)s on my TV-set мой телевизор принимает все программы; how many stations can you get on your radio set? сколько станций берет /принимает/ ваш приемник?; I can't get him on the phone я не могу связаться с ним по телефону; get smb. by phone (by radio, etc.) связаться с кем-л. по телефону и т. д.
    7) get smb. in (on, through, etc.) smth. the bullet got him in the leg (through the stomach, in the shoulder, etc.) пуля попала ему в ногу и т. д.; the blow got him on the head (in the mouth, on the back, etc.) удар пришелся ему по голове и т. д., get smth. in smth. get a splinter in one's finger занозить палец; get a bullet in the leg получить пулевое ранение в ногу
    8) get smb. into smth. get smb. into debt (into difficulties, into a fight, etc.) вовлекать кого-л. в долги и т. д., she got me into trouble у меня из-за нее /она втравила меня в/ неприятности; get smb. out of smth. get smb. out of a fix /out of difficulty/ вызволить кого-л. из затруднения; get the children out of this habit отучать детей от этой привычки || get smth., smb. off one's hands избавиться от чего-л., кого-л., сбыть что-л., кого-л. с рук; she wished she could get the old house (the useless books, her unmarried daughter, etc.) off her hands ей хотелись избавиться /освободиться/ от старого дома и т. д. /сбыть старый дом и т. д. с рук/
    9) get smth. of smth. get 5 years of hard labour получить пять лет каторжных работ; get smth. for smth. he got a stiff sentence for his crimes за совершенные преступления ему был вынесен суровый приговор
    10) have got smth., smb. in (at, on, etc.) smth. I have /I've/ got money in the bank (a flat in this house, a friend at the studio, etc.) у меня в банке [лежат] деньги и т. д. || he's got smth., smb. on the brain он все время о чем-л., о ком-л. думает
    17. XXII
    get smth. by doing smth. that's what you get by talking too much вот что ты получаешь /вот как ты расплачиваешься/ за болтливость; get a good price by bargaining поторговаться и получить хорошую цену; get smth. for doing smth. you'll get a beating for doing this тебе за это всыпят; you'll get it for breaking that vase! тебе крепко достанется за то, что ты разбил вазу!
    18. XXIV1
    get smth., smb. as smth. get L 10 as reward (a book as a consolation prize, the newcomer as assistant, etc.) получить десять фунтов в качестве вознаграждения и т. д.; I got this book as a present я получил эту книгу в подарок; we get L 20 as the average мы получаем в среднем двадцать фунтов
    19. XXVI
    get smb., smth. before... (when..., etc.) get him before he escapes схватить его до того, как он скроется; get the book when the price is reduced купить книгу, когда ее уценят

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > get

  • 3 get

    1. [get] n
    1. приплод, потомство ( у животных)
    2. диал.
    1) заработок, получка
    2) прибыль
    2. [get] v (got; амер., уст. p. p. тж. gotten2)
    I
    1. 1) доставать; добывать

    to get tickets [money] - достать /добыть/ билеты [деньги]

    where can I get something to eat? - а) где мне раздобыть чего-нибудь поесть?; б) где здесь можно поесть (пообедать и т. п.)?

    the thing is not to be got - это /эту вещь/ достать невозможно

    2) доставать и приносить

    can I get you a drink? - не хотите ли вы выпить? Я принесу

    don't answer the phone, I'll get it - не подходи к телефону, я возьму трубку

    3) добиваться, получать

    to get fame [credit, glory] - добиваться известности [похвалы, славы]

    to get the name (of) - завоевать /заслужить/ репутацию

    to get one's liberty - добиться свободы, завоевать свободу [см. тж. 4)]

    to get something for nothing - получить что-нибудь просто так /не дав ничего взамен/

    to get one's wish - получить то, что желаешь

    to get an /the/ advantage /the start/ of /over/ smb. - получить преимущество /добиться преимущества/ над кем-л.

    you'll get little by it - вы мало чего этим добьётесь, вы немного от этого выиграете

    you'll get nothing by it - вам это ничего не даст [см. тж. 4)]

    to get permission from smb. to do smth., to get leave of /from/ smb. to do smth. - получить разрешение /позволение/ у кого-л. сделать что-л.

    to get admission to - получать доступ /допуск/ в /к/

    to get the prize - получить приз /премию/

    to get a place - спорт. занять одно из первых мест в соревновании

    to get total points - спорт. набрать общую сумму очков

    4) зарабатывать, получать

    to get (good) wages - получать (хорошую) зарплату, (хорошо) зарабатывать

    to get a /one's/ living - зарабатывать на жизнь

    to get £6,000 a year [quite a lot] - получать /зарабатывать/ 6000 фунтов в год [довольно много]

    to get one's liberty - получить свободу, выйти на свободу [см. тж. 3)]

    if I am not working I get no pay - если я не работаю, мне не платят

    to get nothing by /out of/ it - ничего не заработать на этом [ср. тж. 3)]

    I will see what I can get for it - посмотрим, что я смогу за это получить, посмотрим, что мне за это дадут

    you won't get much for that old piano - за это старое пианино ты много не получишь /не выручишь/

    5) получать

    to get a letter [a postcard] - получить письмо [открытку]

    to get good [bad] news - получить хорошее [дурное] известие

    to get word - получить сообщение /известие/

    to get smth. from abroad - получать что-л. из-за границы [ср. тж. 6)]

    I got his answer this morning - я сегодня утром получил от него ответ [ср. тж. 3)]

    this room gets no sun - в эту комнату не попадает /не проникает/ солнце

    he gets it from his mother - это (эта черта характера и т. п.) у него от матери, это он унаследовал от матери

    6) покупать, приобретать

    to get a book - приобрести /купить/ книгу

    to get a new coat [hat, suit] (at /from/ Harrod's) - купить новое пальто [-ую шляпу, -ый костюм] (в магазине Хэррода)

    to get commodities from abroad - покупать /приобретать/ товары за границей

    to get smth. very cheap - купить что-л. очень дёшево

    get milk as well! - и молоко купи!

    I get my meat from the local butcher - я покупаю мясо в соседнем мясном магазине

    2. 1) поймать, схватить

    to get the thief - поймать /схватить/ вора

    to get smb. by the throat - а) схватить кого-л. за горло (и начать душить); б) взять кого-л. за горло

    to get the tip - спорт. перехватить начальный бросок мяча

    got you! - ага, попался!

    that's got him! - вот он и попался [см. тж. 4]

    you've just said the opposite of what you said before, I've got you there! - ты сейчас говоришь совсем не то, что говорил раньше - вот ты и попался!

    2) разг. отомстить

    I'll get you even if it takes the rest of my life - я до тебя доберусь, даже если на это придётся потратить остаток моей жизни

    3) захватывать, увлекать, волновать

    it doesn't get me - это меня не волнует /не трогает/

    4) раздражать

    his rude remarks get me - меня раздражают его грубые высказывания /грубости/

    3. 1) понимать, постигать

    to get it /smth./ right - понять /что-л./ правильно

    to get smb. wrong - не так /неправильно/ понять кого-л.

    to get the hint /the cue/ - понять намёк

    I didn't get the last sentence - я не разобрал /не расслышал/ последнее предложение

    let me get this clear: is she married or not? - объясните мне /я хочу точно знать/, она замужем или нет?

    I don't get you - я вас [этого] не понимаю

    I don't get your meaning /you/ - я не понимаю, что вы хотите сказать

    I try to make him understand, but he never gets the message - я пытаюсь заставить его понять, но до него ничего не доходит

    did you get it?, got me? - вы поняли?

    she's got it - а) она это поняла; б) у неё это получилось; [см. тж. II А 6]

    2) улавливать, замечать, наблюдать

    I didn't get your name - я не уловил /не расслышал/ вашу фамилию

    did you get the look on his face? - вы заметили выражение его лица?

    4. доводить до сознания; пронять

    that's got him! - это до него дошло!, это его задело [см. тж. 2, 1)]

    that sort of behaviour really gets me - такое поведение по-настоящему выводит меня из себя

    what's got him? - что с ним?, что его задело?, какая его муха укусила?

    5. озадачить, поставить в тупик
    6. попасть, угодить

    the blow got him in the nose [the head, the knee] - удар пришёлся ему по носу [по голове, колену]

    7. получить, «схлопотать»

    to get one in the eye - прост. получить в глаз, заработать синяк /фонарь/ под глазом

    II А
    1. заразиться; схватить (насморк, грипп и т. п.)

    to get (a) cold - простудиться, схватить насморк

    2. создаваться ( о впечатлении)

    I got the impression that he was busy - мне показалось /у меня сложилось впечатление/, что он занят

    from the style one gets the impression that the writing was dashed off hurriedly - по его манере /по тому, как он пишет/ создаётся впечатление, что всё это было написано наспех

    3. получать ( по заслугам); подвергаться ( наказанию)

    he got three years - его приговорили к трём годам, он «заработал» три года

    that's what you get by talking too much - вот что получается, когда слишком много болтают

    4. вычислять; получать ( в результате расчёта); устанавливать ( сумму); находить ( ответ)

    we get 7.5 as the average - в среднем у нас получилось 7,5

    when you add two and two you get four - если сложить два и два получится четыре, два плюс два - четыре

    dividing nine by three we get three - девять, делённое на три, - три

    5. 1) связываться, устанавливать контакт, связь (по радио, телефону; тж. get through, get to)

    did you get Paris? - ты связался с Парижем?

    the line was busy and we couldn't get him - телефон был занят, и мы не могли связаться с ним

    2) поймать (по радио)

    can you get Moscow on your radio? - ты ловишь /можешь поймать/ Москву по своему приёмнику?

    6. выучивать (роль, стихотворение и т. п.)

    to get smth. (off) by heart /by rote/ - выучить что-л. наизусть, запомнить что-л.

    she's got it - она выучила это [см. тж. I 3, 1)]

    7. готовить ( еду)
    8. съедать (завтрак, обед и т. п.)

    I'll get something to eat before I go out - я что-нибудь поем перед уходом

    9. только в наст. вр. иметься, встречаться

    you get many flowers in this region - в этом районе (имеется) много цветов

    you get different answers to such riddles - у таких загадок много разных ответов

    10. родить, производить на свет ( о животных)
    II Б
    1. to get to place попадать, прибывать куда-л.; добираться до какого-л. места; достигать какого-л. пункта

    to get home - попасть домой, добраться до дому [см. тж. ]

    to get to Moscow [to London, to Paris] - прибыть в Москву [в Лондон, в Париж]

    when do we get to New York? - когда мы будем в Нью-Йорке?

    I'll get home, then - ну, я отправляюсь /пошёл/ домой

    what time did you get here? - в какое время /когда/ вы сюда прибыли /приехали, пришли/?

    how do I get there? - как мне туда попасть?

    how did this box get here? - как сюда попала эта коробка?, каким образом эта коробка очутилась здесь?

    where's my pen got to? - куда делась моя ручка?

    where can he have got to? - куда он делся /запропастился/?

    where did you get to? - до какого места (в книге и т. п.) ты дошёл?

    2. to get smb., smth. to place провожать кого-л. куда-л.; доставлять кого-л., что-л. куда-л.; перевозить, переносить кого-л., что-л. куда-л.

    to get smb. home - проводить /доставить/ кого-л. домой

    to get smb. to Moscow [to London, to Paris] - привезти кого-л. в Москву [в Лондон, в Париж]

    to get smb., smth. upstairs - перенести /перетащить/ кого-л., что-л. наверх

    to get smb. to bed - уложить кого-л. в постель

    how will you get it here? - как вы это сюда доставите?

    3. 1) to get into place входить куда-л.; влезать куда-л.; попадать, проникать куда-л.

    to get into a room [into a building] - войти /попасть/ в комнату [здание]

    to get into a car - влезать /садиться/ в машину

    to get into society - попасть в высший свет, проникнуть в светское общество

    2) to get out of place выходить откуда-л.; вылезать, выбираться откуда-л.

    to get out of a room [a building] - выбраться из комнаты [здания]

    to get out of the train - выйти из поезда, сойти с поезда

    the train has already got out of the station - поезд уже отошёл от станции

    to get out of the wood - а) выбраться из лесу; б) выпутаться из затруднительного положения

    to get out of prison - совершить побег, бежать из тюрьмы

    3) to get out of state, condition выйти из какого-л. состояния, положения

    to get out of the rain - а) укрыться от дождя; б) избежать неприятности

    to get out of sight /hearing/ - скрываться

    get out of my sight! - убирайся!, с глаз долой!

    get out of my way! - прочь с дороги!

    4. 1) to get smb., smth. into place вводить кого-л. куда-л.; проводить кого-л. куда-л.; протаскивать что-л. куда-л.; вводить, вкладывать, всовывать, втискивать что-л. куда-л.

    to get smb. into a room - привести /провести/ кого-л. в комнату; затащить кого-л. в комнату

    to get the key into the lock - вставить /всунуть/ ключ в замок

    at last she got all her dresses into the suitcase - наконец она втиснула все свои платья в чемодан

    2) to get smb., smth. out of place выводить кого-л. откуда-л.; вынимать, доставать что-л. из чего-л.

    to get smb. out of a room [a building] - вывести кого-л. из комнаты [здания]

    to get the key out of the lock - вынуть /вытащить/ ключ из замка

    to get a book out of one's bag - вытащить /достать/ книгу из портфеля

    to get smb. out of prison - «вытащить» кого-л. из тюрьмы; помочь кому-л. бежать из тюрьмы

    to get smth., smb. out of the way - избавиться от чего-л., кого-л.; разделаться с чем-л., с кем-л.

    5. to get smth. out of /from/ smb. выведывать, выспрашивать, выуживать что-л. у кого-л.

    I could get nothing out of him - я у него ничего не смог выведать /добиться/

    to get an answer from smb. - добиться ответа от кого-л.

    we'll never get anything out of him - мы ничего от него не добьёмся /из него не вытянем/, он никогда ничего не скажет

    they could get no money out of him - они не смогли выпросить у него денег; денег он им так и не дал

    6. to get out of smth. /doing smth./ избавляться от чего-л. /от какого-л. дела/

    to get out of a job /doing a job/ - избавиться /уклониться/ от этой работы

    to get out of going somewhere - избежать необходимости идти /ехать/ куда-л.; уклониться от поездки куда-л.

    you should get out of that bad habit - ты должен избавиться от этой дурной привычки

    you'll have to talk to him, there's no getting out of it - ничего не поделаешь, придётся тебе с ним поговорить

    7. to get to do /doing/ smth. разг. начинать делать что-л.

    to get to know - узнавать; знакомиться

    how did you get to know him? - как ты с ним познакомился?

    how did you get to know that I was here? - как ты узнал, что я здесь?

    if I get to see him I'll ask him about it - если я его увижу, я спрошу (его) об этом

    you're getting to be a bad influence on my children - вы начинаете оказывать на моих детей дурное влияние

    to get to like smth., smb. - полюбить что-л., кого-л.

    it got to be quite pleasant there after a while - через некоторое время там стало довольно мило

    he got working - он взялся за работу /приступил к работе/

    things haven't really got going yet - дела ещё не развернулись по-настоящему

    now, get going /moving, cracking/! - разг. давай действуй!

    8. 1) to get smb. to do smth. заставлять, убеждать, уговаривать кого-л. делать что-л.

    to get smb. to go [to read] - заставить кого-л. идти [читать]

    to get a man to speak - а) заставить человека заговорить; б) убедить кого-л. выступить

    to get smb. (to speak) on a subject - заставить кого-л. высказаться на определённую тему

    to get them to listen to reason - заставить /убедить/ их прислушаться к голосу рассудка

    I got him fo lend me £5 - я уговорил его дать мне взаймы 5 фунтов

    I cannot get anyone to do the work properly - я не могу добиться, чтобы эту работу сделали как следует

    2) to get smth. to do /doing/ smth.:

    to get a tree to grow in a bad soil - суметь вырастить дерево на плохой почве

    can you get the door to shut? - ты можешь сделать так, чтобы дверь закрылась?

    9. to get smth. done сделать что-л. (о действии, совершаемом кем-л. по желанию или указанию говорящего)

    we are getting our apartment newly papered - нам /у нас/ заново оклеивают квартиру (обоями)

    10. to get into smth. разг.
    1) (серьёзно) изучать (что-л.); овладеть (чем-л.)

    I am trying to get into Beethoven - я пытаюсь серьёзно заняться Бетховеном

    2) привыкнуть (к чему-л.), научиться (чему-л.)

    I'll soon get into the way of things here - я скоро ко всему здесь привыкну

    11. to get into state, condition попадать в какое-л. положение, состояние

    to get into time-trouble - шахм. попасть в цейтнот

    to get into a rage /into a wax/ - взбеситься, рассвирепеть, прийти в ярость

    to get into a tantrum - устроить /закатить/ истерику

    to get into touch with smb. - устанавливать контакт /устанавливать непосредственную связь/ с кем-л.

    to get into the habit of... - приобрести /усвоить/ привычку...

    to get into shape - спорт. прийти в (хорошую) форму

    12. to get smth., smb. into state приводить что-л., кого-л. в какое-л. состояние

    to get smb. into trouble - а) подвести кого-л.; б) быть виновником чьей-л. беременности

    he got the girl into trouble - девушка забеременела /понесла/ от него

    to get smth. ready - подготовить что-л.

    try to get him into good humour - постарайтесь привести его в хорошее расположение духа

    I cannot get the work done properly - я не могу добиться, чтобы работа была сделана как надо

    can you get the work finished in time? - вы можете кончить работу вовремя?

    to get one's hands dirty - испачкать /измазать/ руки

    he got his wrist broken [dislocated] - он сломал [вывихнул] руку в кисти

    13. to get into clothes, etc надевать что-л., напяливать одежду и т. п.

    get into your coat quickly! - быстро надень пальто!

    I couldn't get into the shoes - я не мог влезть в ботинки, ботинки не влезали

    14. to get over smth.
    1) переходить, перелезать через что-л.; переправляться через что-л.
    2) преодолеть (трудность, препятствие)

    he will have to get over their objections - ему придётся поспорить с ними /настоять на своём/

    3) оправиться, выздороветь; прийти в себя
    4) переносить; свыкаться с мыслью

    I cannot get over his abominable behaviour - я не могу привыкнуть к его отвратительному поведению

    I can't get over the fact that... - никак не могу поверить в то, что...

    5) покрыть, пройти ( расстояние)

    the horse got over the distance in 10 minutes - лошадь покрыла это расстояние за 10 минут

    15. to get over smb.
    1) = to get round smb.
    2) забыть кого-л., перестать страдать по ком-л.
    16. to get ac ross smth. = to get over smth. 1)
    17. to get through smth.
    1) проходить; пробираться через, сквозь что-л.
    2) кончить

    he gets through an astounding amount of work - он успевает сделать огромное количество работы

    they get through ten bottles a week - они выпивают по десять бутылок в неделю

    3) выживать, выдерживать

    how shall I ever get through this? - как я всё это вынесу?

    how can I get through this week without you? - как я проживу /вынесу/ эту неделю без тебя?

    18. to get at smb.
    1) добираться до кого-л.

    he was difficult /not easy/ to get at - а) к нему было трудно попасть; б) к нему было трудно подступиться

    2) нападать на кого-л., добираться до кого-л.

    who are you getting at? - на кого ты нападаешь?

    3) подкупить кого-л.
    19. to get at smth.
    1) добираться до чего-л.

    the books are locked up and we can't get at them - книги заперты, и мы не можем их достать

    put the food where the cat can't get at it - спрячь продукты так, чтобы кошка до них не добралась

    the house is difficult to get at - к этому дому трудно подобраться /подступиться/

    2) постигнуть, понять что-л.; выяснить что-л.

    to get at the result - выяснить /узнать/ результат

    I found it hard to get at what drove them - я никак не мог понять, что ими движет /их мотивов/

    3) дать понять

    what are you getting at? - а) что вы хотите сказать?; б) чего вы добиваетесь?

    4) приниматься за что-л.

    I must get at this essay tonight - я должен сегодня же вечером взяться за /начать/ эту статью

    I want to get at the redecorating this weekend - я хочу начать ремонт /приступить к ремонту/ в субботу

    20. to get to smb. связаться с кем-л.

    when we got to him... - когда мы с ним связались...; когда мы ему дозвонились...

    21. to get to smth.
    1) приниматься за что-л., начинать что-л.
    2) доходить до чего-л.

    to get to grips with см. grip1 I 1, 1)

    22. to get round smb. обмануть, перехитрить, обойти кого-л.; уговорить кого-л.

    how did you get round him? - как тебе удалось перехитрить /провести/ его?

    she knows how to get round him - она знает, как обвести его (вокруг пальца)

    23. to get round smth.
    1) обходить (препятствие, закон, вопрос)
    2) преодолевать ( трудности)
    24. to get on smth.
    1) взбираться, влезать

    to get on one's feet - вставать (чтобы произнести речь, тост и т. п.)

    2) садиться в (трамвай и т. п.)

    here is your horse, get on - вот ваша лошадь, садитесь

    25. to get off smth. слезать с чего-л.

    to get off a bicycle [a horse] - слезать с велосипеда [лошади]

    get off that chair! - освободите кресло!

    get off the grass! - не ходите по траве!

    get off my back! - оставь меня в покое!, отцепись от меня!

    26. to get smb., smth. off smth. убрать кого-л., что-л. откуда-л.

    to get smb. off the train - снять кого-л. с поезда

    27. to get under smth. проходить, пролезать под чем-л.
    28. to get smth. under state, condition привести что-л. в какое-л. состояние, положение

    to get smth. under control - а) установить контроль над чем-л. б) навести порядок в чём-л.

    to get smb. under one's sway /influence/ - подчинить кого-л. своему влиянию

    29. to get onto smb.
    1) связаться с кем-л.

    I'll get onto the director and see if he can help - я свяжусь с директором, может быть, он сможет помочь

    2) разоблачать

    he tricked people for years until the police got onto him - он годами обманывал людей, пока полиция не разоблачила его

    III А
    1. разг.
    1) to have got иметь

    what have you got there? - что это у вас там?

    I haven't got a penny - у меня нет ни пенса /ни гроша/

    I've got an idea that... - я думаю, что..., мне кажется, что...

    2) to have got to do smth. быть должным что-л. сделать

    you've got to listen to what I say - ты обязан /должен/ меня выслушать

    to get cool - а) становиться прохладным; охлаждаться; б) успокаиваться

    to get free - а) освободиться, избавиться; б) спорт. освободиться ( от противника)

    to get clear (of debts) - освободиться /избавиться/ (от долгов), разделаться (с долгами)

    to get hot - а) разгорячиться; I'm getting hot - мне становится жарко; б) раздражаться

    to get better - а) поправляться (после болезни и т. п.); б) улучшаться, становиться лучше

    to get worse - а) ухудшаться ( о состоянии больного); б) ухудшаться, становиться хуже

    don't get rough! - не груби!, не хами!; не давай волю рукам

    to get done with smth., smb. - покончить с чем-л., с кем-л.

    to get married - (по)жениться; выйти замуж

    to get left - а) быть оставленным; б) остаться в дураках, быть одураченным, остаться с носом

    to get beaten - а) быть избитым; б) быть побеждённым; потерпеть поражение

    to get rubber-legged - спорт. потерять устойчивость

    get set! - спорт. приготовиться! ( команда)

    to get limbered up - спорт. размяться

    3. в сочетании с последующим существительным выражает действие, соответствующее значению существительного:

    to get a fright /a scare/ - испугаться, напугаться, перепугаться

    to get some sleep - вздремнуть, соснуть

    to get a sight of smb., smth. - увидеть /заметить/ кого-л., что-л.

    to get a glimpse [a peep] of smb., smth. - увидеть кого-л., что-л. мельком [украдкой]

    to get to bed - лечь в постель; лечь спать

    to get one's breath /wind/ - отдышаться; перевести дыхание; прийти в себя

    to get wind - редк. распространиться ( о слухе)

    to get wind of smth. - почуять что-л.; узнать /пронюхать/ что-л.; своевременно разгадать что-л.

    to get the wind up, to get cold feet - сл. сдрейфить, струсить

    to get the wind, to get to the windward - мор. выйти на ветер

    to get the wind of smb. - иметь преимущество перед кем-л., быть в более благоприятных условиях, чем кто-л.

    to get back to the bunch - спорт. «достать» головную группу

    to get to close quarters - а) сблизиться, подойти на близкую дистанцию; б) столкнуться лицом к лицу; в) сцепиться в споре

    to get the upper hand - одержать победу, взять верх, одолеть; иметь превосходство /перевес/

    to get the whip-hand of smb. - иметь кого-л. в своём полном подчинении

    to get the better (end) of smb. - получить преимущество перед кем-л., взять верх над кем-л., превзойти /перехитрить/ кого-л.; ≅ за пояс заткнуть кого-л.

    to get the worst of it - потерпеть жестокое поражение; быть в наихудшем положении; вынести всю тяжесть чего-л.

    to get into smb.'s confidence - втереться кому-л. в доверие

    to get it /smth./ into one's head - вбить себе это /что-л./ в голову

    to get smb., smth. out of one's head /one's mind/ - выбросить кого-л., что-л. из головы

    to get smth. /it/ off one's chest - а) облегчить душу, чистосердечно сознаться в чём-л.; б) разразиться речью по поводу чего-л.

    to get smth. /it/ off one's conscience - успокоить свою совесть (в отношении чего-л.)

    to get one's (own) way - делать /поступать/ по-своему; настоять, поставить на своём, добиться своего

    to get in the way /in smb.'s way, in smb.'s road/ - мешать /препятствовать/ кому-л., стоять у кого-л. на пути; стать кому-л. поперёк дороги

    to get under way - а) отплывать, отходить; б) тронуться в путь, отправиться, выехать; в) начать проводить в жизнь, осуществлять; пускать в ход

    where does that get us? - что нам это даёт?

    now we're getting somewhere! - ну, наконец-то мы сдвинулись с места!

    you won't get anywhere if you behave like that - вы ничего не добьётесь, если будете себя так вести

    how did you get that way? - амер. как это тебя угораздило?

    to get into a mess /into a muddle/ - попасть в беду /в трудное положение/, запутаться, «влипнуть»

    to get into deep waters - находиться в тяжёлом /затруднительном, опасном/ положении

    to get out of one's depth - а) зайти слишком глубоко; попасть на глубокое место; не доставать дна; б) зайти слишком далеко

    to get on smb.'s nerves, амер. to get under smb.'s skin - действовать кому-л. на нервы, раздражать кого-л.

    to get smb.'s back up, to get smb.'s goat - разозлить /рассердить/ кого-л., вывести кого-л. из себя

    to get one's blood /dander/ up - разозлиться, разгорячиться, рассердиться, вспылить, выйти из себя

    to get in wrong with smb. - попасть в немилость к кому-л., заслужить чью-л. немилость

    to get back (some of) one's own, to get (some of) one's own back - отомстить за обиду /оскорбление/, взять реванш

    to get one's own back on smb. - отомстить кому-л.

    to get even with smb. - свести счёты /расквитаться/ с кем-л.

    to get above oneself - зазнаваться, воображать

    you're getting above yourself! - не задирай нос!

    to get hell, to get it, to get hot, to get it in the neck, to get a rap on /over/ the knuckles - получить выговор /(хороший) нагоняй, (хорошую, здоровую) взбучку, нахлобучку/; получить по шее; нарваться на выговор

    to get rid of smb., smth. - избавиться /отвязаться, отделаться/ от кого-л., чего-л.

    to get the mitten /the sack, the push, the gate/ - а) быть уволенным /выгнанным с работы/, «вылететь»; б) получить отказ /отставку/, быть отвергнутым ( о женихе)

    to get the boot /the kick/ = to get the mitten а)

    to get the bird - а) = to get the mitten а); б) быть освистанным /ошиканным/ (амер. тж. to get the big bird /the raspberry/)

    to get there /ahead/ - достичь своей цели, добиться своего; преуспеть, достигнуть успеха

    to get somewhere - достигнуть чего-л.

    to get nowhere - ничего не достигнуть; не достичь своей цели; не сдвинуться с мёртвой точки

    to get home - а) достигать своей цели; преуспевать, иметь успех; б) восстановить утраченное; оправиться после денежных затруднений; занять прежнее положение; в) выиграть, одержать победу ( о спортсмене); г) нанести удар; попасть в цель; попасть в точку; д) задеть за живое, ударить по больному месту; [см. тж. II Б 1]

    to get out of hand - отбиться от рук, выйти из подчинения /повиновения/, распуститься; выйти из-под власти /влияния, контроля/

    to get one's hands on smth. - достать /раздобыть/ что-л.

    I got my hands on a pair of shoes that I really like - мне удалось достать пару туфель, которые мне по-настоящему нравятся

    to get one's hand in it, to get the hang /the feel/ of it - набить руку, приобрести навык /умение, сноровку/ в чём-л., освоиться с чем-л.

    to get it down fine - основательно изучить /узнать/ что-л.

    to get wise to smth. - узнать что-л., познакомиться с чем-л.; осознавать /понимать/ что-л.; раскрыть что-л.

    to get down to brass tacks - а) перейти к делу; б) реально смотреть на вещи

    to get to the heart of the matter, to get to the back of smth. - добраться /докопаться/ до сути чего-л.; понять сущность чего-л.

    to get it on - сл. приходить в восторг, быть охваченным энтузиазмом

    to get religion - а) стать очень набожным; б) быть обращённым, принять веру

    to get out of bed on the wrong side - ≅ встать с левой ноги

    to get out from under - сл. «смотать удочки»

    to have got it bad - «заболеть», сильно увлечься (чем-л.)

    he's got it bad for her - он здорово ею увлёкся /втюрился, втрескался в неё/

    get! - амер. убирайся!, вон!

    get off it! - хвати!, кончай!

    НБАРС > get

  • 4 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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