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There's precious little left

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1 precious

{'preʃəs}
I. 1. скъпоценен
2. ценен, скъп, любим
3. префинен, превзет, маниерен
4. разг. ужасен, истински
you've made a PRECIOUS mess of it хубава каша си забъркал
it costs a PRECIOUS sight more than I can afford струва много повече, отколкото мога да дам
he's a PRECIOUS rascal голям/истински мошеник е
keep your PRECIOUS tickets дръж си прословутите билети
II. adv съвсем, много, ужасно
he has PRECIOUS little to say почти няма какво да каже
to take PRECIOUS good care of добре се грижа за
it's PRECIOUS cold ужасно е студено

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{'preshъs} а 1. скъпоценен; 2. ценен; скъп; любим; З. префине(2) {'preshъs} adv съвсем; много, ужасно; he has precious little to

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ценен; скъп; скъпоценен; префинен; превзет;

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1. he has precious little to say почти няма какво да каже 2. he's a precious rascal голям/истински мошеник е 3. i. скъпоценен 4. ii. adv съвсем, много, ужасно 5. it costs a precious sight more than i can afford струва много повече, отколкото мога да дам 6. it's precious cold ужасно е студено 7. keep your precious tickets дръж си прословутите билети 8. to take precious good care of добре се грижа за 9. you've made a precious mess of it хубава каша си забъркал 10. префинен, превзет, маниерен 11. разг. ужасен, истински 12. ценен, скъп, любим
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precious[´preʃəs] I. adj 1. скъпоценен, скъп, ценен; my \precious! скъпа моя! 2. префинен, превзет, маниерен, неестествен; 3. разг., ирон. хубав, "знаменит"; to make a \precious mess of s.th. хубавичко обърквам нещо; he thinks a \precious sight too much of himself твърде много си въобразява;FONT face=Times_Deutsch ◊ adv preciously; II. adv разг. много, ужасно, страшно; съвсем; it is \precious cold страшно е студено; there's \precious little left почти нищо не е останало.

English-Bulgarian dictionary > precious
2 precious

I n infml
Look here, precious, it's none of your busineses as I can see — Послушай, дорогая, по-моему, ты лезешь не в свое дело
II adj infml
"Give my ball back!" "Here, take your precious ball" — "Отдай назад мой мяч!" - "На, возьми свой долбаный мяч"

She's a precious fool — Она набитая дура

He's a precious liar — Он настоящий лгун

You've made a precious mess of it — Ну ты и наделал делов
III adv infml
I had precious little choice — Выбора у меня практически не было

She thinks precious little of him — Она его ни в грош не ставит

There's precious little left — Осталось всего с гулькин нос

You'd better take precious good care of the arrangements — Я бы посоветовал тебе обо всем хорошенько позаботиться

The new dictionary of modern spoken language > precious
3 little

1. adjective,
littler, littlest (Note: it is more common to use the compar. and superl. forms smaller, smallest)

1) (small) klein

little town/book/dog — kleine Stadt/kleines Buch/kleiner Hund; (showing affection or amusement) Städtchen, das/Büchlein, das/Hündchen, das

little toe — kleine Zehe

you poor little thing! — du armes kleines Ding!

I know your little ways — ich kenne deine Tricks

2) (young) klein

the little ones — die Kleinen

my little sister — meine kleine Schwester

3) (short) klein [Person]

a little way — ein kleines od. kurzes Stück

after a little while — nach kurzer Zeit

4) (not much) wenig

you have little time left — dir bleibt nicht mehr viel Zeit

there is very little tea left — es ist kaum noch Tee od. nur noch ganz wenig Tee da

make a nice little profit — (coll. iron.) einen hübschen Gewinn machen (ugs.)

a little... — (a small quantity of) etwas...; ein wenig od. bisschen...

no little... — nicht wenig...

5) (trivial) klein
2. noun
wenig

but little — nur wenig

little or nothing — kaum etwas; so gut wie nichts

[do] not a little — einiges [tun]

not a little angry — etc. ziemlich verärgert usw.

there was little we could do — wir konnten nur wenig tun

a little — (a small quantity) etwas; ein wenig od. bisschen; (somewhat) ein wenig

think little of somebody — gering von jemandem denken

a little after eight — kurz nach acht

we see very little of one another — wir sehen sehr wenig voneinander

little by little — nach und nach
3. adverb,
less, least

1) (not at all)

she little thought that... — sie dachte nicht im geringsten daran, dass...

he little suspected/knew what... — er hatte nicht die geringste Ahnung/wusste überhaupt nicht, was...

2) (to only a small extent)

little as he liked it — sowenig es ihm auch gefiel

he writes little now — er schreibt nur noch wenig

little more/less than... — kaum mehr/weniger als...

that is little less than... — das grenzt schon an (+ Akk.)...

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['litl] 1. adjective
1) (small in size: He is only a little boy; when she was little (= a child).) klein

2) (small in amount; not much: He has little knowledge of the difficulties involved.) wenig

3) (not important: I did not expect her to make a fuss about such a little thing.) unbedeutend
2. pronoun
((only) a small amount: He knows little of the real world.) wenig
3. adverb
1) (not much: I go out little nowadays.) wenig

2) (only to a small degree: a little-known fact.) wenig

3) (not at all: He little knows how ill he is.) überhaupt nicht

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lit·tle

[ˈlɪtl̩, AM -t̬-]

I. adj

<smaller or -r, smallest or -st>

1. (small) klein

\little feet kleine Füße; (amusingly also) Füßlein

my sister is a \little monster ( emph) meine Schwester ist ein richtiges kleines Monster

the \little ones die Kleinen pl

2. (young) klein

when I was \little als ich noch klein war

sb's \little boy/girl jds kleiner Sohn/kleine Tochter

\little brother/sister kleiner Bruder/kleine Schwester

the \little one der/die Kleine

the \littlest ones die Kleinsten

3. distance kurz

a \little way ein kurzes Stück

4.

< less, least>

time wenig, bisschen

a \little while ein bisschen, ein Weilchen nt

5. attr, inv (trivial) klein

every \little detail jede Kleinigkeit

to have a \little word with sb ( iron) ein Wörtchen mit jdm reden fam

to make \little of sth wenig Aufhebens von etw dat machen

a \little problem ( iron) ein kleines Problem

6. (not much)

I speak a \little/only a \little Basque ich spreche etwas/nur wenig Baskisch

a decision of no \little importance eine Entscheidung von nicht unerheblicher Wichtigkeit

her proposal caused not a \little anger viele ärgerten sich über ihren Vorschlag

7.

▶ a \little bird told me ( hum) das sagt mir mein kleiner Finger

II. adv

<less, least>

1. (somewhat)

▪ a \little ein wenig [o bisschen

2. (hardly) wenig

I was not a \little pleased at the prospects ich habe mich über die Aussichten ziemlich gefreut

\little did she know that... sie hatte ja keine Ahnung davon, dass...

I agreed to go, \little though I wanted to ich habe zugesagt, obwohl ich eigentlich überhaupt keine Lust darauf hatte

to \little expect sth etw nicht erwarten

to \little imagine that... sich dat nicht vorstellen, dass...

to be \little less than [or short of] sth sich akk kaum von etw dat unterscheiden

her conduct is \little short of indecent ihr Benehmen ist fast schon unanständig

it matters \little [to sb] that/what... jdm macht es wenig aus, dass/was...

\little more than sth:

\little more than an hour ago vor kaum einer Stunde

to \little suppose/think [that]... nicht annehmen/denken, [dass]...

to \little understand sth etw kaum verstehen

3.

▶ \little by \little nach und nach

III. pron

1. (small quantity)

▪ a \little ein wenig [o bisschen]

▪ a \little of sth ein wenig von etw dat

I heard a \little of what they were saying ich hörte ein wenig von dem, was sie sagten

2. (not much) wenig

as \little as possible möglichst wenig

to do \little [or nothing] wenig [bis nichts] tun

so \little so wenig

there is \little sb can do jd kann wenig machen

[very] \little of sth [sehr] wenig von etw dat

the [or what] \little... das wenige...

the \little sb does sth das bisschen, das jd macht

the \little she smoked still affected her health sie rauchte nur sehr wenig, aber auch das bisschen griff ihre Gesundheit an

3. (distance)

▪ a \little ein wenig

let's walk a \little after dinner lass uns nach dem Essen einen kurzen Spaziergang machen

4. (time)

▪ a \little ein wenig [Zeit]

I want to get away for a \little to be by myself ich brauche ein wenig Abstand und Zeit für mich

it's a \little after six es ist kurz nach sechs

5.

▶ to make [very] \little of sth (not understand) [sehr] wenig mit etw dat anfangen können; (belittle) etw herunterspielen

▶ precious \little herzlich wenig

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['lɪtl]
1. adj
klein
a little house — ein Häuschen nt,

a funny little nose — ein lustiges (kleines) Näschen

the little ones — die Kleinen pl

a nice little profit — ein hübscher Gewinn

the little people or folk — die Elfen

little green men (inf) — kleine grüne Männchen pl (inf)

he will have his little joke — er will auch einmal ein Witzchen machen

to worry about little things — sich (dat) über Kleinigkeiten Gedanken machen

he has a little mind — er ist ein Kleingeist

little things please little minds — so kann man auch mit kleinen Sachen Kindern eine Freude machen

a little while ago — vor Kurzem, vor kurzer Zeit

it's only a little while till I... — es ist nicht mehr lange, bis ich...

in a little while — bald

2. adv, n

1) wenig

of little importance/interest — von geringer Bedeutung/geringem Interesse

he knows little Latin and less Greek — er kann (nur) wenig Latein und noch weniger Griechisch

little better than — kaum besser als

little more than a month ago — vor kaum einem Monat

little short of — fast schon, beinahe

little did I think that... — ich hätte kaum gedacht, dass...

little does he know that... —

they little realize what will happen to them — sie sind sich (dat) wohl kaum darüber im Klaren, was mit ihnen geschehen wird

to think little of sb/sth — nicht viel von jdm/etw halten

I walk as little as possible — ich laufe so wenig wie möglich

to spend little or nothing — so gut wie ( gar) nichts ausgeben

every little helps — Kleinvieh macht auch Mist (Prov)

please donate, every little helps — auch die kleinste Spende hilft

he had little to say — er hatte nicht viel zu sagen

I see very little of her nowadays — ich sehe sie in letzter Zeit sehr selten

there was little we could do —

the little of his book that I have read — das wenige or bisschen, was ich von seinem Buch gelesen habe

she did what little she could — sie tat das wenige, das sie tun konnte

little by little — nach und nach

little by little, he dragged himself across the room — Stückchen für Stückchen schleppte er sich durch das Zimmer

to make little of sth — etw herunterspielen or bagatellisieren

I could make little of this book — ich konnte mit diesem Buch nicht viel anfangen

2)

a little — ein wenig, ein bisschen

a little ( bit) hot —

a little (bit) better — etwas or ein wenig besser

with a little effort — mit etwas Anstrengung

I'll give you a little advice — ich gebe dir einen kleinen Tipp

a little after five —

we were not a little worried I was not a little surprised — wir waren recht besorgt ich war einigermaßen überrascht

we walked on for a little — wir liefen noch ein bisschen or Stück or Weilchen weiter

after a little — nach einer Weile

for a little — für ein Weilchen

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little [ˈlıtl]

A adj komp less [les], (in gewissen Fällen) lesser [ˈlesə(r)], (besonders für A 1, A 2) smaller [ˈsmɔːlə(r)], sl littler, sup least [liːst], (besonders für A 1, A 2) smallest [ˈsmɔːlıst], sl littlest

1. klein (oft gefühlsbetont):

a little child;

a nice little house ein nettes kleines Haus, ein nettes Häuschen;

little one Kleiner m, Kleine f, Kleines n (Kind);

our little ones unsere Kleinen;

when I was little als ich noch klein oder als ich noch ein Kind war; → finger A 1, toe A 1

2. klein (gewachsen):

a little man ein kleiner Mann (a. fig);

the little people ( oder folk) die Elfen oder Heinzelmännchen

3. (zahlenmäßig) klein (Armee etc)

4. kurz (Weg etc): → while A

5. wenig (Hoffnung etc):

a little honey ein wenig oder ein bisschen Honig, etwas Honig

6. schwach (Stimme)

7. klein, gering(fügig), unbedeutend:

little discomforts kleine Unannehmlichkeiten

8. klein, beschränkt, engstirnig:

little minds Kleingeister

9. pej gemein, erbärmlich, armselig

10. oft iron klein:

his little intrigues;

her poor little efforts ihre rührenden kleinen Bemühungen; → game¹ A 6

B adv komp less, sup least

1. wenig, kaum, nicht sehr:

little improved kaum besser;

little-known wenig bekannt;

little better than nicht viel besser als;

little does one expect man erwartet kaum;

do little to get sth wenig dazu beitragen, etwas zu bekommen;

think little of wenig halten von;

for as little as £ 10 für nur 10 Pfund

2. überhaupt nicht:

he little knows, little does he know er hat keine Ahnung

3. wenig, selten:

I see him very little

C s

1. Kleinigkeit f, (das) Wenige, (das) bisschen:

a little ein wenig, ein bisschen, etwas;

a little is better than none ein bisschen ist besser als nichts;

not a little nicht wenig;

every little helps jede Kleinigkeit hilft;

he did what little he could er tat das wenige, das er tun konnte;

after a little nach einem Weilchen;

he went on a little er ging ein Stückchen weiter;

little by little, by little and little (ganz) allmählich, nach und nach

2. in little im Kleinen, in kleinem Maßstab

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1. adjective,
littler, littlest (Note: it is more common to use the compar. and superl. forms smaller, smallest)

1) (small) klein

little town/book/dog — kleine Stadt/kleines Buch/kleiner Hund; (showing affection or amusement) Städtchen, das/Büchlein, das/Hündchen, das

little toe — kleine Zehe

you poor little thing! — du armes kleines Ding!

I know your little ways — ich kenne deine Tricks

2) (young) klein

the little ones — die Kleinen

my little sister — meine kleine Schwester

3) (short) klein [Person]

a little way — ein kleines od. kurzes Stück

after a little while — nach kurzer Zeit

4) (not much) wenig

you have little time left — dir bleibt nicht mehr viel Zeit

there is very little tea left — es ist kaum noch Tee od. nur noch ganz wenig Tee da

make a nice little profit — (coll. iron.) einen hübschen Gewinn machen (ugs.)

a little... — (a small quantity of) etwas...; ein wenig od. bisschen...

no little... — nicht wenig...

5) (trivial) klein
2. noun
wenig

but little — nur wenig

little or nothing — kaum etwas; so gut wie nichts

[do] not a little — einiges [tun]

not a little angry — etc. ziemlich verärgert usw.

there was little we could do — wir konnten nur wenig tun

a little — (a small quantity) etwas; ein wenig od. bisschen; (somewhat) ein wenig

think little of somebody — gering von jemandem denken

a little after eight — kurz nach acht

we see very little of one another — wir sehen sehr wenig voneinander

little by little — nach und nach
3. adverb,
less, least

1) (not at all)

she little thought that... — sie dachte nicht im geringsten daran, dass...

he little suspected/knew what... — er hatte nicht die geringste Ahnung/wusste überhaupt nicht, was...

2) (to only a small extent)

little as he liked it — sowenig es ihm auch gefiel

he writes little now — er schreibt nur noch wenig

little more/less than... — kaum mehr/weniger als...

that is little less than... — das grenzt schon an (+ Akk.)...

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adj.

klein adj.

schwerlich adj.

wenig adj. adv.

kaum adv.

wenig adv.

English-german dictionary > little
4 little

1. n немногое, небольшое количество; самая малость

we must keep what little we have — мы должны беречь то немногое, что у нас есть

he did what little he could — он сделал всё, что было в его силах

the little I have is not worth giving — ту малость, которая у меня есть, просто не стоит дарить

a little — немного

little bit — немного

little later — немного позже

little wonder — немного странно

a little too small — немного мал

2. n эмоц. -усил. почти ничего; мало что

I understood little of his speech — в его речи я мало что понял

the little — «маленькие люди»

little by little, by little and little — мало-помалу, постепенно, понемногу

little or nothing — почти ничего, очень мало, ничтожное количество

have little in common — иметь мало общего

Little Bahama Bank — Малая Багамская банка

Little Englander — сторонник «Малой Англии»

with little hesitation — почти без колебаний

operate with little way on — идти малым ходом

3. a маленький, небольшой

little house — домик, небольшой дом

little business — небольшое дело

little progress — небольшой прогресс

little toe — маленький палец на ноге

little background — небольшое отступление

a little atom of a bird — маленькая пичужка

4. a небольшой; слабый; плохой

to have little hope — иметь мало надежды

he has little time — у него мало времени

he has very little knowledge of the subject — он очень плохо знает предмет

unfortunately he has little money — к сожалению, у него мало денег

he is a little deaf — он плохо слышит

poems of little worth — слабые стихи

be of little consequence — не представлять большой важности

5. a короткий, недлинный

shall I go a little way with you? — проводить вас немного?

6. a невысокий, небольшого роста

a little fat man — приземистый толстяк

be a little account — не иметь большого значения

Frost little plate method — чашечный метод Фроста

a little girl so high — девочка вот такого роста

it matters little — это не имеет большого значения

7. a незначительный, несущественный, неважный

a little difficulty — незначительное затруднение

of little moment — неважный

little reason — незначительное основание

cut a little figure — играть незначительную роль

to cut a little figure — играть незначительную роль

8. a мелкий, некрупный

little farmer — мелкий фермер

gnats and other little brutes — комары и прочие мелкие насекомые

9. a малый, неглавный

little war — малая война

Little Dog — Малый Пёс

little slam — малый шлем

Little Belt — Малый Бельт

Little Bear — Малая Медведица

be worth little — стоить мало

10. a милый, славный

you little rascal! — эй ты, пострелёнок!

nice little girl — милая девчушка

her little house is just precious! — её домик так мил!

11. a мелкий, мелочный, ничтожный; ограниченный

a little man with a little mind — ничтожный ограниченный человечишка

the little vexations of life — мелкие жизненные неприятности; раздражающие мелочи жизни

12. a предназначенный для узкого круга; не массовый

little magazine — малообъёмный журнал

little Mary — желудок

The Little Corporal — «маленький капрал», Наполеон Бонапарт

Little Rhody — штат Род-Айленд

to go but a little way to — быть недостаточным, не хватать

little stranger — новорождённый

to expect a little stranger — ждать прибавления семейства

little bird — источник информации;

a little bird tells me you are getting married — где-то я слышала, что ты выходишь замуж

use your little grey cells! — шевели мозгами!

let me consider a little — дайте мне подумать немного

I put little reliance in him — я мало на него полагаюсь

I see through your little game — мне ясна ваша хитрость

money means little to me — деньги для меня не имеют значения

13. adv мало, почти нисколько

little more — ненамного больше; немногим больше

he is little more than an amateur — он недалеко ушёл от любителя; он выступает почти на любительском уровне

he left little more than an hour ago — он ушёл час с небольшим тому назад

little less than — не намного меньше; почти столько же

he is little less talented than his father — талантом он не намного уступает отцу; он почти так же талантлив, как отец

I can say very little about this book — я могу очень немного сказать об этой книге

not a little — немало

little litany — малая литания

Little Masters — малые мастера

Little Dipper — Малая Медведица

Little Missouri — Малая Миссури

14. adv редко

I go there very little — я хожу туда очень редко

15. adv совсем не, вовсе не

when I first came to this country, I little thought that I should stay so long — когда я приехал в эту страну, я никак не думал, что проживу здесь так долго

they little expected such trouble — они никак не предполагали, что возникнет такая неприятность

little or no — почти или совсем не

he is a little wanting — у него не все дома

every little fetch of wit — все ухищрения ума

it says little to me — мне это мало что говорит

a very little more — ещё; совсем немного; чуть-чуть

Синонимический ряд:

1. brief (adj.) brief; concise; short; succinct

2. casual (adj.) casual; inconsequential; insignificant; light; minor; minute; scanty; shoestring; slight; small-beer; trivial; unimportant

3. inadequate (adj.) inadequate; inconsiderable; insufficient

4. narrow (adj.) bigoted; borne; illiberal; mean; narrow; narrow-minded; paltry; petty; prejudicial; selfish; set; shallow; small-minded; stingy

5. small (adj.) bantam; diminutive; ineffectual; infinitesimal; limited; miniature; monkey; petite; small; smallish; tiny; wee

6. bit (noun) bit; few; iota; smidgen; trifle

7. barely (other) barely; hardly; hardly ever; infrequently; just; on rare occasions; once in a blue moon (colloquial); rarely; scarcely ever; seldom; slightly; unfrequently; unoften

Антонимический ряд:

ample; big; bulky; capacious; colossal; comprehensive; developed; enormous; full; generous; gigantic; grave; great; handsome; high-minded; long; lot; magnanimous; significant

English-Russian base dictionary > little
5 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.

    Contemporary Portugal

   Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.

   The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.

   Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.

   Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).

   All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.

   The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.

   After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.

   Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.

   Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.

   From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.

   Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.

   In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.

   An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal
6 life

noun

, pl. lives

1) Leben, das

it is a matter of life and death — es geht [dabei] um Leben und Tod; (fig.): (it is of vital importance) es ist äußerst wichtig (to für)

come to life — [Bild, Statue:] lebendig werden

run etc. for one's life — um sein Leben rennen usw.

I cannot for the life of me — ich kann beim besten Willen nicht

lose one's life — sein Leben verlieren

many lives were lost — viele Menschen kamen ums Leben

without loss of life — ohne Todesopfer

life is not worth living — das Leben ist nicht lebenswert

marry early in life — früh heiraten

late in life — erst im fortgeschrittenen Alter

for life — lebenslänglich [inhaftiert]

he's doing life — (coll.) er sitzt lebenslänglich (ugs.)

get life — (coll.) lebenslänglich kriegen (ugs.)

expectation of life — Lebenserwartung, die

get the fright/shock of one's life — (coll.) zu Tode erschrecken/den Schock seines Lebens bekommen (ugs.)

have the time of one's life — sich hervorragend amüsieren

he will do anything for a quiet life — für ihn ist die Hauptsache, dass er seine Ruhe hat

make life easy for oneself/somebody — es sich (Dat.) /jemandem leicht machen

make life difficult for oneself/somebody — sich (Dat.) /jemandem das Leben schwer machen

this is the life! — (expr. content) so lässt sich's leben!

that's life, life's like that — so ist das Leben [nun mal]

not on your life — (coll.) nie im Leben! (ugs.)

save one's/somebody's life — sein Leben/jemandem das Leben retten

something is as much as somebody's life is worth — mit etwas setzt jemand sein Leben aufs Spiel

take one's [own] life — sich (Dat.) das Leben nehmen

take one's life in one's hands — sein Leben riskieren

get a life — (coll.) was aus seinem Leben machen

2) (energy, animation) Leben, das

be the life and soul of the party — der Mittelpunkt der Party sein

there is still life in something — in etwas (Dat.) steckt noch Leben

3) (living things and their activity) Leben, das

bird/insect life — die Vogelwelt/die Insekten

4) (living form or model)

draw somebody from life — jemanden nach dem Leben zeichnen

as large as life — (life-size) lebensgroß; (in person) in voller Schönheit (ugs. scherzh.)

larger than life — überzeichnet

true to life — wahrheitsgetreu

5) (specific aspect) [Privat-, Wirtschafts-, Dorf]leben, das

in this life — (on earth) in diesem Leben

the other or the future or the next life — (in heaven) das zukünftige Leben [nach dem Tode]

eternal or everlasting life — ewiges Leben

daily life — das Alltagsleben

see life — etwas von der Welt sehen

6) (of battery, lightbulb, etc.) Lebensdauer, die

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plural - lives; noun

1) (the quality belonging to plants and animals which distinguishes them from rocks, minerals etc and things which are dead: Doctors are fighting to save the child's life.) das Leben

2) (the period between birth and death: He had a long and happy life.) das Leben

3) (liveliness: She was full of life and energy.) das Leben

4) (a manner of living: She lived a life of ease and idleness.) das Leben

5) (the period during which any particular state exists: He had many different jobs during his working life.) das Leben

6) (living things: It is now believed that there may be life on Mars; animal life.) das Leben

7) (the story of a life: He has written a life of Churchill.) die Lebensbeschreibung

8) (life imprisonment: He was given life for murder.) lebenslängliche Haftstrafe, lebenslang

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- academic.ru/42849/lifeless">lifeless
- lifelike
- life-and-death
- lifebelt
- lifeboat
- lifebuoy
- life-cycle
- life expectancy
- lifeguard
- life-jacket
- lifeline
- lifelong
- life-saving
- life-sized
- life-size
- lifetime
- as large as life
- bring to life
- come to life
- for life
- the life and soul of the party
- not for the life of me
- not on your life! - take life
- take one's life
- take one's life in one's hands
- to the life
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life

<pl lives>

[laɪf, pl laɪvz]

I. n

1. (existence) Leben nt

cats are supposed to have nine lives man sagt, Katzen haben neun Leben nt

run for your \life! renn um dein Leben!

it's a matter of \life and death! es geht um Leben und Tod!

a \life and death issue eine Frage, die über Leben und Tod entscheiden kann

in a previous \life in einem früheren Leben

to believe in \life after death an ein Leben nach dem Tod[e] glauben

to depart this \life ( euph form) verscheiden euph geh

to give [or lay down] one's \life for sb/sth sein Leben für jdn/etw geben

to lose one's \life sein Leben lassen, ums Leben kommen

to save sb's \life jdm das Leben retten

to seek sb's \life jdm nach dem Leben trachten

to take sb's \life ( form) jdn töten [o umbringen]

to take one's own \life sich dat [selbst] das Leben nehmen

2. no pl (quality, force) Leben nt

\life is a precious gift das Leben ist ein wertvolles Gut

he tried to discover some sign of \life in the boy's body er versuchte irgendein Lebenszeichen im Körper des Jungen festzustellen

I love \life ich liebe das Leben

to be one/another of \life's great mysteries ( hum) eines/ein weiteres der großen Geheimnisse des Lebens sein

3. no pl (living things collectively) Leben nt

there are no signs of \life on the planet auf dem Planeten gibt es keinen Hinweis auf Leben

animal \life Tierwelt f

plant \life Pflanzenwelt f

insect \life Welt f der Insekten, Insekten pl

intelligent/sentient \life intelligentes/empfindendes Leben

4. no pl (mode or aspect of existence) Leben nt

to be deeply rooted in American \life tief im Leben der Amerikaner verwurzelt sein

family \life Familienleben nt

love \life Liebesleben nt

private \life Privatleben nt

working \life Arbeitsleben nt

5. no pl (energy) Lebendigkeit f

come on, show a little \life! los, jetzt zeig' mal ein bisschen Temperament! fam

put more \life into your voice bringen Sie etwas mehr Timbre in die Stimme

there isn't much \life here hier ist nicht viel los

to be full of \life voller Leben sein, vor Leben [nur so] sprühen

to bring sth to \life etw lebendiger machen

to come to \life lebendig werden fig

after an hour the party finally came to \life nach einer Stunde kam endlich Leben in die Party

6. (total circumstances of individual) Leben nt

teaching has been her \life der Lehrberuf war ihr Leben

she only wants two things in \life sie wünscht sich nur zwei Dinge im Leben

who's the man in your \life now? [und] wer ist der neue Mann in deinem Leben?

a dull/exciting \life ein langweiliges/aufregendes Leben

to make [or start] a new \life ein neues Leben anfangen [o beginnen]

to want sth out of [or in] \life etw vom Leben erwarten

7. (person) Menschenleben nt

how many lives were lost in the fire? wie viele Menschenleben hat der Brand gekostet?

to save a \life ein Menschenleben retten

8. (human activities) Leben nt

I left home at 16 to see \life ich ging mit 16 von zu Hause fort, um etwas vom Leben und von der Welt zu sehen

to give sb an outlook on \life jdm eine Lebenseinstellung vermitteln

9. (biography) Biografie f, Lebensbeschreibung f

10. (time until death) Leben nt

▪ for \life friendship lebenslang

I believe marriage is for \life ich finde, eine Ehe sollte für das ganze Leben geschlossen werden

he's behind bars for \life er sitzt lebenslänglich [hinter Gittern] fam

a job for \life eine Stelle auf Lebenszeit

11. (duration) of a device, battery Lebensdauer f, Nutzungsdauer f; of an institution Bestehen nt kein pl; of a contract Laufzeit f

during the \life of the present parliament während der jetzigen Legislaturperiode [des Parlaments]

12. no pl ( fam: prison sentence) lebenslänglich

to be doing/get \life lebenslänglich sitzen fam/bekommen

13. no pl ART

to draw [or sketch] sb/sth from \life jdn/etw nach einem Modell zeichnen/skizzieren

taken from the \life nach einem Modell

14. (reality)

true to \life wirklichkeitsgetreu

15.

▶ \life's a bitch (sl) das Leben kann manchmal schon verdammt hart sein! fam

▶ for dear \life verzweifelt

she hung on for dear \life sie klammerte sich fest, als hinge ihr Leben davon ab

▶ to frighten [or scare] the \life out of sb jdn furchtbar [o zu Tode] erschrecken

▶ for the \life of me ( fam) um alles in der Welt fam

▶ not for the \life of me nicht um alles in der Welt

▶ to get a \life aufwachen fig, auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurückkommen

get a \life! komm endlich auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurück!

▶ the good \life das süße Leben, das [o die] Dolce Vita

▶ it's a hard \life! ( iron fam) das Leben ist eins der härtesten fam

▶ how's \life [treating you]? ( fam) wie geht's [denn so]? fam

▶ larger than \life car, house riesig, riesengroß; person energiegeladen und charismatisch

▶ to lead [or live] the \life of Riley ( dated fam) leben wie Gott in Frankreich

▶ not on your \life! ( fam) nie im Leben! fam

▶ to be the \life [ BRIT and soul] of the/any party der [strahlende] Mittelpunkt der/jeder Party sein

▶ \life's rich tapestry die Sonnen- und Schattenseiten des Lebens

▶ to roar [or thunder] into \life mit aufheulendem Motor losfahren/starten

▶ to save one's [own] \life:

he couldn't sing to save his \life er konnte ums Verrecken nicht singen sl

▶ to be set [up] for \life für den Rest des Lebens ausgesorgt haben

▶ to take one's \life in one's hands ( fam) Kopf und Kragen riskieren fam

▶ that's \life! [das ist] Schicksal! fam, so ist das Leben [eben]!

▶ this is the \life [for me]! so lässt sich's leben! fam, Mensch, ist das ein Leben! fam

▶ to be sb to the \life ( dated) jdm wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten sein

that sketch is Joanna to the \life diese Zeichnung trifft Joanna aufs Haar

▶ one's \life [or \life's] work jds Lebenswerk

II. n modifier

\life drawing/[drawing] class Aktzeichnung f/Aktzeichnen nt (Kunststunde, in der nach Modell gemalt wird)

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[laɪf]
n pl lives

1) Leben nt

bird/plant life — die Vogel-/Pflanzenwelt

there is not much insect life here — hier gibt es nicht viele Insekten

drawn from life — lebensnah

to draw from life (Art) — nach dem Leben zeichnen

to the life — lebensecht

the battle resulted in great loss of life — bei der Schlacht kamen viele ums Leben

this is a matter of life and death — hier geht es um Leben und Tod

a life and death struggle — ein Kampf auf Leben und Tod

life after death — das Leben nach dem Tod

life begins at 40 — das Leben fängt mit 40 (erst richtig) an

to be tired of life — des Lebens überdrüssig sein

life goes on — das Leben geht weiter

to bring sb back to life — jdn wiederbeleben, jdn ins Leben zurückrufen

his book brings history to life — sein Buch lässt die Geschichte lebendig werden

to come to life (fig) — lebendig werden

I'm the sort of person who comes to life in the evenings — ich bin ein Typ, der erst abends munter wird

after half an hour the discussion came to life — nach einer halben Stunde kam Leben in die Diskussion

to put new life into sb — jdm wieder Auftrieb geben

for dear life — verzweifelt

they swam for dear life —

they looked at him in the oxygen tent fighting for dear life — sie sahen, wie er im Sauerstoffzelt um sein Leben kämpfte

at my time of life — in meinem Alter

marriage should be for life — eine Ehe sollte fürs Leben geschlossen werden

he's got a job for life — er hat eine Stelle auf Lebenszeit

the murderer was imprisoned for life — der Mörder wurde zu lebenslänglicher Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt

he's doing life (for murder) (inf) — er sitzt lebenslänglich (wegen Mord) (inf)

he got life (inf) — er hat lebenslänglich gekriegt (inf)

2)

(= individual life) how many lives were lost? — wie viele (Menschen) sind ums Leben gekommen?

the lives of the prisoners — das Leben der Gefangenen

I've got a new man in my life — in meinem Leben gibt es einen neuen Mann

to take sb's life — jdn umbringen

to take one's own life — sich (dat) das Leben nehmen

to save sb's life (lit) — jdm das Leben retten; (fig) jdn retten

I couldn't do it to save my life — ich kann es beim besten Willen nicht

the church is my life — die Kirche ist mein ganzes Leben

to rule sb's life — jds Leben bestimmen

the suspected murderer is on trial for his life —

in the next life — im nächsten Leben

early in life, in early life — in frühen Jahren

later in life, in later life — in späteren Jahren, später im Leben

she leads a busy life — bei ihr ist immer etwas los

she began ( her working) life as a teacher — sie begann ihr Berufsleben als Lehrerin

the book started life as a screenplay — das Buch war ursprünglich ein Drehbuch

all his life — sein ganzes Leben lang

I've never been to London in my life — ich war in meinem ganzen Leben noch nicht in London

to fight for one's life — um sein Leben kämpfen

run for your lives! — rennt um euer Leben!

it gave me the fright of my life — es hat mich zu Tode erschreckt

I can't for the life of me... (inf) — ich kann beim besten Willen nicht...

never in my life have I heard such nonsense — ich habe mein Lebtag noch nicht or noch nie im Leben so einen Unsinn gehört

not on your life! (inf) — ich bin doch nicht verrückt! (inf)

would you ever disobey him? – not on your life! (inf) — würdest du je seine Befehle missachten? – nie im Leben!

get a life! (inf) — sonst hast du keine Probleme? (inf)

to have a life — etwas vom Leben haben

to have a life of one's own — sein eigenes Leben führen

it seemed to have a life of its own —

he is a good/bad life (Insur) — er ist ein niedriges/hohes Risiko

3)

(= the world, social activity) to see life — die Welt sehen

there isn't much life here in the evenings — hier ist abends nicht viel Leben or nicht viel los

4) (= liveliness) Leben nt

those children are full of life! — diese Kinder stecken voller Leben or sind sehr lebhaft!

was full of life —

he's still got so much life in him — er ist noch so vital or steckt noch voller Leben

there's life in the old girl yet (inf) — sie ist noch schwer aktiv (inf); (of car) die Kiste bringts noch (sl)

of every party — er bringt Leben in jede Party

of the party — John will überall im Mittelpunkt stehen

5) (= way of life) Leben nt

village life — das Leben auf dem Dorf

this is the life! — ja, ist das ein Leben!

what a life! — was für ein Leben!

such is life, that's life — so ist das Leben

it's a good life — es ist ein schönes Leben

the good life — das süße Leben

6) (= useful or active life) Lebensdauer f

during the life of the present Parliament —

there's not much life left in the battery, the battery's nearing the end of its life — die Batterie machts nicht mehr lange (inf)

7) (= biography) Biografie f; (of saint, king etc) Lebensbeschreibung f

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life [laıf] pl lives [laıvz] s

1. (organisches) Leben:

how did life begin? wie ist das Leben entstanden?

2. Leben(skraft) n(f)

3. Leben n:

a) Lebenserscheinungen pl

b) Lebewesen pl:

there is no life on the moon auf dem Mond gibt es kein Leben;

marine life das Leben im Meer, die Lebenserscheinungen oder Lebewesen im Meer

4. (Menschen) Leben n:

they lost their lives sie verloren ihr Leben, sie kamen ums Leben;

three lives were lost drei Menschenleben sind zu beklagen;

with great sacrifice of life mit schweren Verlusten an Menschenleben;

risk life and limb Leib und Leben riskieren

5. Leben n (eines Einzelwesens):

a matter (question) of life and death eine lebenswichtige Angelegenheit (Frage);

early in life in jungen Jahren;

my early life meine Jugend;

late in life in vorgerücktem Alter;

as much as one’s life is worth lebensgefährlich, weitS. sehr gefährlich oder riskant;

as if ( oder though) his life depended on it als ob sein Leben davon abhinge, als ob es um sein Leben ginge;

he’s out of my life er existiert für mich überhaupt nicht mehr; → danger A 1, matter A 3, own Bes Redew, risk B 1

6. a) Leben n, Lebenszeit f, Lebensdauer f ( auch TECH einer Maschine etc), Dauer f, Bestehen n:

all his life sein ganzes Leben lang;

the life of a book die Erfolgszeit eines Buches;

during the life of the republic während des Bestehens der Republik; → expectation 3

b) WIRTSCH, JUR Laufzeit f (eines Wechsels, Vertrags etc), besonders WIRTSCH Haltbarkeit f, Lagerfähigkeit f:

the life of packaged fresh meat

7. Leben n, Lebensweise f, -führung f, -art f, -wandel m: → anything A 2, married A 1, saint A 1

8. Leben(sbeschreibung) n(f), Biografie f

9. Leben n, menschliches Tun und Treiben, Welt f:

life in Australia das Leben in Australien;

see life das Leben kennenlernen oder genießen

10. Leben n, Schwung m:

full of life lebendig, voller Leben;

the life of the Constitution der wesentliche Inhalt der Verfassung;

he was the life and soul of the party er brachte Schwung in die Party, er unterhielt die ganze Party

11. KUNST Leben n:

from (the) life nach dem Leben, nach der Natur; → large A 1

12. Versicherungswesen:

a) auf Lebenszeit Versicherte(r) m/f(m) (im Hinblick auf die Lebenserwartung)

b) auch life business Lebensversicherungsgeschäft n

13. JUR umg lebenslängliche Freiheitsstrafe:

he is doing life er sitzt lebenslänglich;

he got life er bekam „lebenslänglich“Besondere Redewendungen: for life

a) fürs (ganze) Leben, für den Rest seines Lebens,

b) besonders JUR, POL lebenslänglich, auf Lebenszeit appointed for life auf Lebenszeit ernannt;

imprisonment for life lebenslängliche Freiheitsstrafe;

not for the life of me umg nicht um alles in der Welt;

I couldn’t get to sleep for the life of me umg ich konnte ums Verrecken nicht einschlafen;

not on your life umg ganz bestimmt nicht, unter keinen Umständen;

to the life nach dem Leben, lebensecht, naturgetreu;

upon my life! so wahr ich lebe!;

that’s life so ist nun einmal das Leben;

music was his life die Musik war sein Leben;

where ( oder while) there’s life there’s hope (Sprichwort) MED man darf die Hoffnung nie aufgeben, weitS. a. es hofft der Mensch, solange er lebt;

bring to life

a) auch put life into beleben, Leben oder Schwung bringen in (akk), auch jemanden in Schwung bringen

b) ins Leben rufen come to life sich beleben, (auch Person) in Schwung kommen;

after some time the party came to life nach einiger Zeit kam Leben oder Schwung in die Party;

come back to life

a) wieder zu(m) Bewusstsein oder zu sich kommen,

b) wieder gesund werden lead ( oder live) the life of Riley Br umg wie Gott in Frankreich leben;

run for dear ( oder one’s) life um sein Leben laufen;

I couldn’t get it open to save my life umg ich brachte es nicht ums Verrecken auf;

sell one’s life dearly sein Leben teuer verkaufen;

show (signs of) life Lebenszeichen von sich geben;

seek sb’s life jemandem nach dem Leben trachten;

take sb’s life jemanden umbringen;

take one’s own life sich das Leben nehmen;

take one’s life in one’s (own) hands umg sein Leben riskieren oder aufs Spiel setzen; → bet B, bowl¹ 1 b, breathe B 1, bring back 4, charm B 2

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noun

, pl. lives

1) Leben, das

it is a matter of life and death — es geht [dabei] um Leben und Tod; (fig.): (it is of vital importance) es ist äußerst wichtig (to für)

come to life — [Bild, Statue:] lebendig werden

run etc. for one's life — um sein Leben rennen usw.

I cannot for the life of me — ich kann beim besten Willen nicht

lose one's life — sein Leben verlieren

many lives were lost — viele Menschen kamen ums Leben

without loss of life — ohne Todesopfer

life is not worth living — das Leben ist nicht lebenswert

marry early in life — früh heiraten

late in life — erst im fortgeschrittenen Alter

for life — lebenslänglich [inhaftiert]

he's doing life — (coll.) er sitzt lebenslänglich (ugs.)

get life — (coll.) lebenslänglich kriegen (ugs.)

expectation of life — Lebenserwartung, die

get the fright/shock of one's life — (coll.) zu Tode erschrecken/den Schock seines Lebens bekommen (ugs.)

have the time of one's life — sich hervorragend amüsieren

he will do anything for a quiet life — für ihn ist die Hauptsache, dass er seine Ruhe hat

make life easy for oneself/somebody — es sich (Dat.) /jemandem leicht machen

make life difficult for oneself/somebody — sich (Dat.) /jemandem das Leben schwer machen

this is the life! — (expr. content) so lässt sich's leben!

that's life, life's like that — so ist das Leben [nun mal]

not on your life — (coll.) nie im Leben! (ugs.)

save one's/somebody's life — sein Leben/jemandem das Leben retten

something is as much as somebody's life is worth — mit etwas setzt jemand sein Leben aufs Spiel

take one's [own] life — sich (Dat.) das Leben nehmen

take one's life in one's hands — sein Leben riskieren

get a life — (coll.) was aus seinem Leben machen

2) (energy, animation) Leben, das

be the life and soul of the party — der Mittelpunkt der Party sein

there is still life in something — in etwas (Dat.) steckt noch Leben

3) (living things and their activity) Leben, das

bird/insect life — die Vogelwelt/die Insekten

4) (living form or model)

draw somebody from life — jemanden nach dem Leben zeichnen

as large as life — (life-size) lebensgroß; (in person) in voller Schönheit (ugs. scherzh.)

larger than life — überzeichnet

true to life — wahrheitsgetreu

5) (specific aspect) [Privat-, Wirtschafts-, Dorf]leben, das

in this life — (on earth) in diesem Leben

the other or the future or the next life — (in heaven) das zukünftige Leben [nach dem Tode]

eternal or everlasting life — ewiges Leben

daily life — das Alltagsleben

see life — etwas von der Welt sehen

6) (of battery, lightbulb, etc.) Lebensdauer, die

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n.

(§ pl.: lives)

= Leben -- n.

Lebensdauer f.

English-german dictionary > life
7 _різне

aim at the stars, but keep your feet on the ground all are not thieves that dogs bark at all cats are grey in the dark all roads lead to Rome always lend a helping hand among the blind the one-eyed man is king as the days grow longer, the storms are stronger at a round table, there is no dispute of place a bad excuse is better than none a bad vessel is seldom broken be just before you're generous be just to all, but trust not all the best things come in small packages the best way to resist temptation is to give in to it better alone than in bad company better an empty house than a bad tenant better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion better ride an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me better to beg than to steal, but better to work than to beg better a tooth out than always aching between two stools one goes to the ground a bird may be known by its flight a bird never flew on one wing a bit in the morning is better than nothing all day a bleating sheep loses a bite a blind man would be glad to see a blind man needs no looking glass bread always falls buttered side down a burden which one chooses is not felt butter to butter is no relish cast no dirt in the well that gives you water the chain is no stronger than its weakest link a change is as good as a rest Christmas comes but once a year circumstances after cases cleanliness is next to godliness the cobbler's wife is the worst shod a cold hand, a warm heart comparisons are odious consistency is a jewel consideration is half of conversation a creaking door hangs long on its hinges desperate diseases must have desperate remedies the devil looks after his own diamond cut diamond dirt shows the quickest on the cleanest cotton discontent is the first step in progress do as you would be done by dog does not eat dog a dog that will fetch a bone will carry a bone a dog will not cry if you beat him with a bone do not spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar do not throw pearls before swine do your best and leave the rest with God do your duty and be afraid of none don't be a yes-man don't cut off your nose to spite your face don't drown yourself to save a drowning man don't look a gift horse in the mouth don't spur a willing horse don't strike a man when he is down don't swap the witch for the devil eagles don't catch flies eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together the English are a nation of shopkeepers even a stopped clock is right twice a day every cock sings in his own way every fish that escapes seems greater than it is every man is a pilot in a calm sea every medal has its reverse side every thing comes to a man who does not need it every tub smells of the wine it holds evil communications corrupt good manners the exception proves the rule exchange is no robbery extremes meet facts are stubborn things familiarity breeds contempt fast bind, fast find fields have eyes, and woods have ears fight fire with fire figure on the worst but hope for the best fingers were made before forks the fire which lights us at a distance will burn us when near the first shall be last and the last, first follow your own star forbearance is no acquittance the fox knows much, but more he that catches him from the day you were born till you ride in a hearse, there's nothing so bad but it might have been worse from the sweetest wine, the tartest vinegar fruit is golden in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair the game is not worth the candles a gentleman never makes any noise the gift bringer always finds an open door the giver makes the gift precious a good horse cannot be of a bad colour a good tale is none the worse for being twice told good riddance to bad rubbish the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong the half is more than the whole half a loaf is better than no bread half an orange tastes as sweet as a whole one hawk will not pick out hawk's eyes the heart has arguments with which the understanding is unacquainted he may well swim that is held up by the chin he that doesn't respect, isn't respected he that lies down with dogs must rise with fleas he that would live at peace and rest must hear and see and say the best he who is absent is always in the wrong he who follows is always behind the higher the climb, the broader the view history is a fable agreed upon hitch your wagon to a star the ideal we embrace is our better self if a bee didn't have a sting, he couldn't keep his honey if a sheep loops the dyke, all the rest will follow I fear Greeks even when bringing gifts if each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city if the cap fits, wear it if the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain if you cannot bite, never show your teeth if you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have if you cannot speak well of a person, don't speak of him at all if you leave your umbrella at home, it is sure to rain if you wish to see the best in others, show the best of yourself ill news travels fast ill weeds grow apace an inch breaks no square it always pays to be a gentleman it costs nothing to ask it is easier to descend than ascend it is easier to pull down than to build up it is good fishing in troubled waters it is idle to swallow the cow and choke on the tail it is the last straw that breaks the camel's back it is sometimes best to burn your bridges behind you it is well to leave off playing when the game is at the best it is not clever to gamble, but to stop playing it's a small world it takes all sorts to make a world it takes a thief to catch a thief jealousy is a green-eyed monster jealousy is a proof of self-love keep a dress seven years and it will come back into style keep no more cats than will catch mice kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish kissing goes by favor jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today a joy that's shared is a joy made double justice is blind lay not the load on the lame horse learn to creep before you leap let the cock crow or not, the day will come the longest road is sometimes the shortest way home lookers-on see most of the game man does not live by bread alone many are called but few are chosen many go out for wool and come home shorn many stumble at a straw and leap over a block men cease to interest us when we find their limitations a misty morn may have a fine day the mob has many heads but no brains the moon is not seen when the sun shines the more the merrier mountain has brought forth a mouse much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of name not a halter in his house that hanged himself the nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat never be the first by whom the new is tried nor yet the last to lay the old aside never do anything yourself you can get somebody else to do never is a long time never let your left hand know what your right hand is doing never make a bargain with the devil on a dark day never quarrel with your bread and butter never tell tales out of school a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse no joy without alloy no man is a hero to his valet no mud can soil us but the mud we throw no names, no pack-drill no news good news no one but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches none is so blind as they who will not see none of us is perfect nothing is certain but the unforeseen nothing is easy to the unwilling nothing is so good but it might have been better nothing is stolen without hands nothing new under the sun nothing seems quite as good as new after being broken an old poacher makes the best keeper once is no rule one dog barks at nothing, the rest bark at him one good turn deserves another one half of the world does not know how the other half lives one hand washes the other one man's meat is another man's poison one picture is worth ten thousand words one volunteer is worth two pressed men one whip is good enough for a good horse; for a bad one, not a thousand opposites attract each other the orange that is squeezed too hard yields a bitter juice other people's burdens killed the ass out of the mire into the swamp painted flowers have no scent paper is patient: you can put anything on it people condemn what they do not understand pigs might fly the pitcher goes often to the well please ever; tease never plenty is no plague the porcupine, whom one must handle gloved, may be respected but is never loved the proof of the pudding is in the eating the remedy is worse than the disease reopen not the wounds once healed a rolling stone gathers no moss the rotten apple injures its neighbors scratch my back and I shall scratch yours the sea refuses no river seize what is highest and you will possess what is in between seldom seen, soon forgotten silence scandal by scandal the sharper the storm, the sooner it's over the sheep who talks peace with a wolf will soon be mutton since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get small faults indulged in are little thieves that let in greater solitude is at times the best society some people are too mean for heaven and too good for hell the soul of a man is a garden where, as he sows, so shall he reap sour grapes can never make sweet wine sow a thought and reap an act the sow loves bran better than roses a stick is quickly found to beat a dog with still waters run deep stoop low and it will save you many a bump through life a straw shows which way the wind blows a stream cannot rise above its source the style is the man the sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle the sun shines on all the world the sun will shine down our street too sunday plans never stand suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one sweetest nuts have the hardest shells the tail cannot shake the dog take things as they are, not as you'd have them tastes differ there are more ways of killing a dog than hanging it there is always room at the top there is life in the old dog yet there is no rose without a thorn there is small choice in rotten apples there is truth in wine there's as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it they need much whom nothing will content they that dance must pay the fiddler they walk with speed who walk alone those who hide can find three removals are as bad as a fire to the pure all things are pure to work hard, live hard, die hard, and go to hell after all would be hard indeed too far east is west translation is at best an echo a tree is known by its fruit a tree often transplanted neither grows nor thrives two can play at that game two dogs over one bone seldom agree venture a small fish to catch a great one the voice with a smile always wins wear my shoes and you'll know where they pitch we weep when we are born, not when we die what can you have of a cat but her skin what can't be cured must be endured what matters to a blind man that his father could see what you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail when a dog is drowning, everyone offers him drink when in doubt, do nowt when interest is lost, memory is lost when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others will build on it when a river does not make a noise, it is either empty or very full when the devil is dead, he never lacks a chief mourner when two ride on one horse one must sit behind where bees are, there is honey where it is weakest, there the thread breaks who seeks what he should not finds what he would not why keep a dog and bark yourself? a wonder lasts but nine days the worth of a thing is best known by its want the world is a ladder for some to go up and some down would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason you buy land, you buy stones; you buy meat, you buy bones you can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink you can tell the day by the morning you cannot lose what you never had you cannot touch pitch and not be defiled you can't put new wine in old bottles you can't walk and look at the stars if you have a stone in your shoe your looking glass will tell you what none of your friends will zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

English-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > _різне
8 dog

dɔɡ
1. сущ.
1) о животных а) собака, пес His faithful dog shall bear him company. ≈ Верный пес скрасит его одиночество. Syn: pooch, hound б) кобель;
перен. самец лисы (тж. в вариантах dogfox) Four puppies, that is 3 dogs and a bitch. ≈ Четыре щенка, из них три кобеля и одна сука. Ant: bitch в) морская собака (вид акулы, сокращение от dogfish) г) гончая, борзая и другие охотничьи собаки;
д) мн.;
разг. состязание борзых, собачьи бега He failed his Bar examinations because he preferred horse-racing, the dogs and dancing. ≈ Он провалил экзамен на адвоката, потому что больше любил бывать на скачках, собачьих бегах и танцах. ∙ dogs of war burrowing-dog
2) переносно о предметах и устройствах, имеющих зуб или клык а) железная подставка для дров в камине (сокращение от fire-dog) Syn: andiron б) тех. гвоздодер в) собачка (деталь в замке) г) крючок, вешалка д) и множество других
3) о людях а) разг. своего рода местоимение, исходно пей., переводится в зависимости от контекста, часто в сочетаниях If I left them to these inquisition dogs of Spain. ≈ Если бы я оставил их в руках этих сволочей инквизиторов. gay dog jolly dog lucky dog lazy dog dirty dog б) тот, кто стоит на стреме, на шухере (школьный жаргон) The boys withdrew to read the forbidden prints, three taking their turn at a time, whilst three more played dog. ≈ Мальчики отправились читать запрещенные книжки, трое читали, а трое других стояли на стреме. Syn: watchdog в) стукач, доносчик
4) собачья вахта( с 2 до 4 часов ночи, сокращение от dog-watch)
5) сосиска
6) бог( в ругательствах, клятвах, переделанное god) By dog's precious wounds, that was some whoreson villain. ≈ Клянусь кровью Спасителя, это была какой-то гнусный подонок. ∙ spotty dog top dog under dog Greater Dog Lesser Dog Hunting Dogs hot dog - water-dog a dog's life ≈ собачья жизнь let sleeping dogs lie ≈ посл. не будите спящую собаку, не буди лихо, пока оно тихо there is life in the old dog yet ≈ есть еще порох в пороховницах a dead dog ≈ человек или вещь, ни на что не годный, -ая to go to the dogs ≈ гибнуть;
разоряться;
идти к чертям to help a lame dog over a stile ≈ помочь кому-л. в беде every dog has his day ≈ будет и на нашей улице праздник to throw to the dogs ≈ выбросить за негодностью dog on it! ≈ проклятие!;
черт побери! dog's age ≈ долгое время to put on dog ≈ важничать;
держать себя высокомерно
2. гл.
1) прям. перен. об охотничьей стороне собаки а) выслеживать, следить за кем-л. (обычно с враждебными намерениями) ;
прям. перен. преследовать Spies and informers dogged his footsteps. ≈ За каждым его шагом следили шпики и стукачи. Envy such as dogged Montague through a long career. ≈ Зависть, что преследовала Монтегю на протяжении всей его жизни. Syn: pursue, track б) травить собаками;
травить, угнетать He may dog his children possibly into some kind of conformity with his opinions. ≈ Возможно, ему удастся заставить своих детей в чем-то соглашаться с его мнением.
2) охранять, стоять на страже
3) закреплять с помощью устройства типа dog
1.
2), в частности мор. задраивать
4) в клятвах, ругательствах: о действии, призываемом на себя клянущимся Why, dog my cats! there must have been a house-full o' niggers in there every night. ≈ Да чтоб я сдох, там каждую ночь полным-полно ниггеров. собака, пес - stray * бродячая собака - sporting * охотничья собака - gun * легавая - tracker /police/ * полицейская собака - * racing состязание борзых - * diseases заболевания собак - a pack of *s свора собак - to follow smb. like a * ходить за кем-л. как собачка;
ходить за кем-л. как привязанный (зоология) собака (Canis) охотничья собака кобель;
самец (волка, лисы, шакала) (устаревшее) подлец, собака, тварь, падаль, скотина( обыкн. в сочетании с прилагательным) - dirty * грязная тварь /скотина/ (разговорное) парень, малый - cunning /sly/ * хитрая штучка, хитрец;
прохиндей, шельма, хитрая бестия, лиса - jolly * весельчак;
бонвиван;
любитель удовольствий;
кутила, гуляка;
распутник, жуир pl (американизм) (разговорное) ноги (the *s) pl (разговорное) состязание борзых - Great(er) D. (астрономия) созвездие Большого Пса - Little /Lesser/ D. созвездие Малого Пса сокр. от dog-fish( зоология) налим( Lota maculosa) pl железная подставка для дров (в камине) (морское) зажим, задрайка( техническое) хомутик, поводок;
зуб (муфты) ;
кулачок( патрона) (техническое) упор, останов;
собачка (техническое) гвоздодер (сленг) дрянь, барахло( о товаре и т. п.) ;
халтура( о произведении и т. п.) (сленг) страшилище, страхолюдина ( о женщине) - what a *! ну и образина! > dead * (сленг) ни на что не годный, никчемный > hot *! ай да он!;
вот это да!, вот это здорово! > top * хозяин положения > under * побежденный, поверженный;
неудачник > the *s of war бедствия /ужасы/ войны > to let loose the *s of war развязать войну > *'s age /years/ нескончаемо долгое время > not even a *'s chance ни малейших шансов > a *'s life жить как собака > to lead smb. a *'s life отравлять кому-л. жизнь;
не оставлять кого-л. в покое > to die a *'s death /the death of a */ издохнуть как собака > to put on * важничать;
держаться высокомерно;
задирать нос;
пыжиться, хорохориться, становиться в позу;
рисоваться > to see a man about a * выпить, поддать;
переспать с женщиной > dressed (up) like a *'s dinner( сленг) расфранченный, расфуфыренный > to go to the *s разориться;
пойти прахом > to throw /to give, to send/ smth. to the *s выбросить что-л. к чертям собачьим > to teach an old * new tricks переучивать кого-л. на старости лет > * eat * волчий закон;
человек человеку волк > * doesn't eat * свой своего не тронет /не обидит/;
ворон ворону глаз не выклюет > give a * a bad /an ill/ name and hang him дурная кличка накрепко пристает;
от худой славы вдруг не отделаешься;
кто раз оступился, тому и веры нет /или от того добра не жди/ > every * has his day (пословица) у каждого бывает светлый день;
не все коту масленица > a live * is better than a dead lion (пословица) живая собака лучше мертвого льва > love me, love my * любишь меня, люби и мою собаку;
принимай меня таким, какой я есть > to take a hair of the * that bit you чем ушибся, тем и лечись;
клин клином вышибать;
опохмеляться > whose * is dead? в чем дело?, что случилось? неотступно следовать( за кем-л.) ;
выслеживать (кого-л.), следить( за чем-л.) - to * smb. /smb.'s footsteps/ следовать по пятам за кем-л. преследовать, не давать покоя - he is *ged by misfortunes его преследуют несчастья - to * a man (спортивное) (профессионализм) "дергать" противника травить собаками, напускать собак;
затравливать( специальное) закреплять (морское) задраивать > to * it (американизм) сбежать;
дать деру;
филонить, лодырничать > to * the watches( морское) установить на ночь дежурство полувахтами > * it!^ * my cats! (американизм) проклятие!, черт возьми! > I'll be *ged if I do it (американизм) будь я проклят, если сделаю это a dead ~ человек или вещь, ни на что не годный( - ая) ~ разг. парень (переводится по контексту) ;
gay (или jolly) dog весельчак;
lucky dog счастливец;
lazy dog лентяй;
dirty dog дрянь-человек;
"свинья" dog мор.: to dog down задраивать ~ = andiron ~ = dogfish ~ мор. задрайка;
a dog's life собачья жизнь;
let sleeping dogs lie не касайтесь неприятных вопросов без необходимости;
= не тронь лихо, пока спит тихо ~ кобель;
самец волка, лисы (тж. dogwolf, dogfox) ~ разг. парень (переводится по контексту) ;
gay (или jolly) dog весельчак;
lucky dog счастливец;
lazy dog лентяй;
dirty dog дрянь-человек;
"свинья" ~ перен. преследовать;
dogged by misfortune преследуемый несчастьями ~ собака, пес;
Greater (Lesser) Dog созвездие Большого (Малого) Пса ~ тех. собачка;
гвоздодер;
останов ~ pl разг. состязание борзых ~ травить собаками ~ ходить по пятам, выслеживать (тж. dog smb.'s footsteps) dog мор.: to dog down задраивать ~ on it! проклятие!;
черт побери! a ~'s age долгое время ~ мор. задрайка;
a dog's life собачья жизнь;
let sleeping dogs lie не касайтесь неприятных вопросов без необходимости;
= не тронь лихо, пока спит тихо ~ = dogfish dogfish: dogfish морская собака (акула) ~ перен. преследовать;
dogged by misfortune преследуемый несчастьями there is life in the old ~ yet = есть еще порох в пороховницах;
dogs of war ужасы войны, спутники войны every ~ has his day = будет и на нашей улице праздник ~ разг. парень (переводится по контексту) ;
gay (или jolly) dog весельчак;
lucky dog счастливец;
lazy dog лентяй;
dirty dog дрянь-человек;
"свинья" to go to the ~s гибнуть;
разоряться;
= идти к чертям ~ собака, пес;
Greater (Lesser) Dog созвездие Большого (Малого) Пса to help a lame ~ over a stile помочь (кому-л.) в беде hot ~ разг. бутерброд с горячей сосиской hot ~! амер. восклицание одобрения hot ~ int здорово! ~ разг. парень (переводится по контексту) ;
gay (или jolly) dog весельчак;
lucky dog счастливец;
lazy dog лентяй;
dirty dog дрянь-человек;
"свинья" ~ мор. задрайка;
a dog's life собачья жизнь;
let sleeping dogs lie не касайтесь неприятных вопросов без необходимости;
= не тронь лихо, пока спит тихо listening ~ сторожевая собака ~ разг. парень (переводится по контексту) ;
gay (или jolly) dog весельчак;
lucky dog счастливец;
lazy dog лентяй;
dirty dog дрянь-человек;
"свинья" to put on ~ разг. важничать;
держать себя высокомерно;
to throw to the dogs выбросить за негодностью spotty ~ вареный пудинг с коринкой there is life in the old ~ yet = есть еще порох в пороховницах;
dogs of war ужасы войны, спутники войны to put on ~ разг. важничать;
держать себя высокомерно;
to throw to the dogs выбросить за негодностью top ~ собака, победившая в драке top ~ хозяин положения;
господствующая или победившая сторона under ~ подчиняющаяся или побежденная сторона under ~ собака, побежденная в драке under ~ человек, которому не повезло в жизни, неудачник yellow ~ амер. подлый человек, трус;
презренная личность

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > dog
9 life

<pl lives> [laɪf, pl laɪvz] n

1) no pl ( quality) Leben nt;

\life is a precious gift das Leben ist ein wertvolles Gut;

there are no signs of \life on the planet auf dem Planeten gibt es keinen Hinweis auf Leben

2) no pl ( living things collectively) Leben nt;

animal \life Tierwelt f;

plant \life Pflanzenwelt f;

insect \life Welt f der Insekten Insekten ntpl;

intelligent/sentient \life intelligentes/empfindendes Leben

3) no pl ( human/ animal existence) Leben nt;

I love \life ich liebe das Leben;

cats are supposed to have nine lives man sagt, Katzen haben neun Leben;

to give sb an outlook on \life jdm eine Lebenseinstellung vermitteln;

to be one/another of \life's great mysteries ( hum) eines/ein weiteres der großen Geheimnisse des Lebens sein

4) no pl ( circumstances) Leben nt;

family \life Familienleben nt;

love \life Liebesleben nt;

private \life Privatleben nt;

sex \life Sexualleben nt;

working \life Arbeitsleben nt

5) no pl ( energy) Lebendigkeit f;

come on, show a little \life! los, jetzt zeig' mal ein bisschen Temperament! ( fam)

put more \life into your voice bringen Sie etwas mehr Timbre in die Stimme;

to be full of \life voller Leben sein ( fig), vor Leben [nur so] sprühen ( fam)

6) ( state of existence) Leben nt; ( person) Menschenleben nt;

she hung on for dear \life sie klammerte sich fest, als hinge ihr Leben davon ab;

run for your \life! renn um dein Leben!;

it's a matter of \life and death! es geht um Leben und Tod!;

to lose one's \life ums Leben kommen;

how many lives were lost in the fire? wie viele Menschenleben hat der Brand gekostet?;

to save a \life ein Menschenleben retten;

a \life and death issue eine Frage, die über Leben und Tod entscheiden kann

7) ( manner of living) Leben nt;

I left home at 16 to see \life ich ging mit 16 von zu Hause fort, um etwas vom Leben und von der Welt zu sehen;

teaching has been her \life der Lehrberuf war ihr Leben;

a dull/exciting \life ein langweiliges/aufregendes Leben;

to make [or start] a new \life ein neues Leben anfangen [o beginnen];

8) ( biography) Biografie f, Lebensbeschreibung f

9) ( earthly existence) Leben nt;

in a previous \life in einem früheren Leben;

to believe in \life after death an ein Leben nach dem Tod[e] glauben;

to depart this \life ( euph) ( form) verscheiden ( euph) ( geh)

10) ( time from birth to death) Leben nt;

I believe marriage is for \life ich finde, eine Ehe sollte für das ganze Leben geschlossen werden;

he's behind bars for \life er sitzt lebenslänglich [hinter Gittern] ( fam)

she only wants two things in \life sie wünscht sich nur zwei Dinge im Leben;

who's the man in your \life now? [und] wer ist der neue Mann in deinem Leben?;

a job for \life eine Stelle auf Lebenszeit;

to want sth out of [or in] \life etw vom Leben erwarten

11) ( duration) of device, battery Lebensdauer f; of an institution Bestehen nt kein pl;

during the \life of the present parliament während der jetzigen Legislaturperiode [des Parlaments]

12) no pl (fam: prison sentence) lebenslänglich;

the judge jailed him for \life der Richter verurteilte ihn zu einer lebenslänglichen Haftstrafe;

to be doing/get \life lebenslänglich sitzen ( fam) /bekommen

13) no pl art

to draw [or sketch] sb/sth from \life jdn/etw nach einem Modell zeichnen/skizzieren;

taken from the \life nach einem Modell

PHRASES:

\life's a bitch (sl) das Leben kann manchmal schon verdammt hart sein! ( fam)

to take one's \life in one's hands ( fam) Kopf und Kragen riskieren ( fam)

to be the \life [ ( Brit) and soul] of the/ any party der [strahlende] Mittelpunkt der/jeder Party sein;

to lead [or live] the \life of Riley (dated) ( fam) leben wie Gott in Frankreich;

\life's rich tapestry die Sonnen- und Schattenseiten des Lebens;

one's \life [or \life's] work jds Lebenswerk nt;

the good \life das süße Leben, la dolce vita;

it's a hard \life! (\life!) ( fam) das Leben ist eins der härtesten ( fam)

larger than \life car, house riesig, riesengroß; person energiegeladen und charismatisch;

how's \life [treating you]? ( fam) wie geht's [denn so]? ( fam)

to bring sth to \life etw lebendiger machen;

to come to \life lebendig werden; ( fig) zum Leben erwachen;

to frighten [or scare] the \life out of sb jdn furchtbar/zu Tode erschrecken;

to get a \life aufwachen ( fig), auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurückkommen ( fig)

get a \life! komm endlich auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurück!;

to give [or lay down] one's \life for sb/ sth sein Leben für jdn/etw geben;

to lose one's \life sein Leben lassen [o verlieren];

to roar [or thunder] into \life mit aufheulendem Motor losfahren/starten;

to save sb's \life jdm das Leben retten;

to save one's own \life sein/das eigene Leben retten;

to be set [up] for \life für den Rest des Lebens ausgesorgt haben;

to take sb's ( form) \life jdn töten/umbringen;

to take one's own \life sich dat [selbst] das Leben nehmen;

for the \life of me ( fam) um alles in der Welt ( fam)

not for the \life of me nicht um alles in der Welt;

not on your \life! ( fam) nie im Leben! ( fam)

to be sb to the \life (dated) jdm wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten sein;

that's \life! [das ist] Schicksal! ( fam), so ist das Leben [eben]!;

this is the \life [for me]! so lässt sich's leben! ( fam), Mensch, ist das ein Leben! ( fam) n

modifier

\life drawing/[drawing] class Aktzeichnung f /Aktzeichnen nt (Kunststunde, in der nach Modell gemalt wird)

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