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  • 1 llevar consigo

    v.
    1 to carry about, to carry along, to take along, to tote.
    2 to carry about, to carry around.
    3 to entail.
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    (v.) = carry around
    Ex. When every student is carrying around a briefcase-sized microform reader, then we won't need to postulate or to argue for microform catalogs in libraries.
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    Ex: When every student is carrying around a briefcase-sized microform reader, then we won't need to postulate or to argue for microform catalogs in libraries.

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  • 2 del tamaño de un maletín

    (adj.) = briefcase-sized
    Ex. When every student is carrying around a briefcase-sized microform reader, then we won't need to postulate or to argue for microform catalogs in libraries.
    * * *

    Ex: When every student is carrying around a briefcase-sized microform reader, then we won't need to postulate or to argue for microform catalogs in libraries.

    Spanish-English dictionary > del tamaño de un maletín

  • 3 del tamaño de una cartera

    (adj.) = briefcase-sized
    Ex. When every student is carrying around a briefcase-sized microform reader, then we won't need to postulate or to argue for microform catalogs in libraries.
    * * *

    Ex: When every student is carrying around a briefcase-sized microform reader, then we won't need to postulate or to argue for microform catalogs in libraries.

    Spanish-English dictionary > del tamaño de una cartera

  • 4 circumfero

    circum-fĕro, tŭli, lātum, ferre, v. a. to bear round, or, in gen., to move or carry [p. 338] round or about (class. in prose and poetry).
    I.
    Prop.:

    age circumfer mulsum,

    pass around, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 45:

    satiatis vino ciboque poculum... circumferetur,

    Liv. 26, 13, 18:

    circumferri vinum largius jubet,

    Curt. 7, 4, 7:

    hisce (poculis) etiam nunc in publico convivio potio circumfertur,

    Varr. L. L. 5, § 122 Müll.:

    sanguinem in pateris,

    Sall. C. 22, 1; Flor. 4, 1, 4 Duker:

    circa ea omnia templa Philippum infestos circumtulisse ignes,

    Liv. 31, 30, 7:

    reliquias cenae,

    Suet. Galb. 22:

    lyram in conviviis,

    Quint. 1, 10, 19:

    codicem,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 42, § 104:

    filium suis manibus,

    Quint. 2, 15, 8:

    diuque arma circumferens alia tela clipeo excipiebat, corpore alia vitabat,

    Curt. 6, 1, 4:

    ter heros Immanem circumfert tegmine silvam,

    Verg. A. 10, 887:

    pavimenta in expeditionibus,

    Suet. Caes. 46:

    ubique pellem vituli marini,

    id. Aug. 90.—Of books carried about for sale, Quint. 2, 13, 15; 2, 15, 4 al.:

    huc atque huc acies circumtulit,

    Verg. A. 12, 558; cf.

    oculos,

    to cast around, Ov. M. 6, 169; 15, 674; Liv. 2, 10, 8; 5, 41, 4; Curt. 6, 11, 36; Val. Max. 7, 2, ext. 2:

    vultus,

    Ov. M. 3, 241; Suet. Caes. 85.—Mid.:

    sol ut circumferatur,

    revolve, Cic. de Or. 3, 45, 178; cf.: linea circumferens, the circumference, Gromat. Vet. 5, 10:

    nec mirari hominem mercede conductum... ad nutum licentium circumferri,

    Curt. 5, 12, 2.—
    II.
    Trop. (mostly in the poets and histt.), to spread around:

    bellum,

    Liv. 9, 41, 6; 9, 45, 17; 10, 17, 2; 28, 3, 1; Tac. A. 13, 37 (for which:

    spargere bellum,

    id. ib. 3, 21):

    belli umbram,

    Sil. 15, 316:

    et circumferentem arma Scipionem omnibus finitimis raptim perdomitis ipsam Carthaginem repente adgressurum credebant,

    Liv. 30, 9, 3; Flor. 1, pr. 2;

    3, 12, 1: signa,

    id. 3, 5, 29:

    incendia et caedes et terrorem,

    Tac. A. 2, 52; cf.:

    terrorem nominis sui late,

    Flor. 2, 2, 21:

    Caesar circumferens terrarum orbi praesentia pacis suae bona,

    Vell. 2, 92, 2; Plin. Pan. 7, 5.—
    B.
    Of a narrative or discourse, to publish abroad, proclaim, divulge, disseminate among the people, report (prob. nct ante-Aug.):

    ut circumferetur M. Philippi factum atque dictum,

    Col. 8, 16, 3; Plin. Ep. 3, 11, 1; 6, 8, 2:

    illud quidem ingens fama, haec nulla circumfert,

    id. ib. 3, 16, 13.—With acc. and inf.:

    novi aliquam, quae se circumferat esse Corinnam,

    Ov. Am. 2, 17, 29. —Hence, of writings:

    circumferri,

    to be widely circulated, Quint. 2, 13, 15; 2, 15, 4. —
    C.
    In the lang. of religion, to lustrate, purify any one by carrying around him consecrated objects (torches, offerings, etc.) = lustrare, purgare:

    quaeso quin tu istanc jubes Pro cerritā circumferri?

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 144: aliquem pro larvato, id. Fragm. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 229: tum ferto omnia sum circumlatus, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 261, 27: idem ter socios purā circumtulit undā, carried around pure water, i. e. for purification ( poet. constr. for undam circum socios), Verg. A. 6, 229 Serv. and Wagn.; Veg. 3, 74.—
    * D.
    In rhetoric:

    oratio deducta et circumlata,

    expanded, drawn out into periods, Quint. 4, 1, 60 Spald.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > circumfero

  • 5 circumvectiō

        circumvectiō ōnis, f    [circumveho], a carrying around—Solis, the circuit, revolution.
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    circular course, revolution; transport/carrying round (from place to place)

    Latin-English dictionary > circumvectiō

  • 6 circumlatio

    revolution, circuit; a carrying around (L+S)

    Latin-English dictionary > circumlatio

  • 7 isiriqchi

    one who makes a living by carrying around a censer of isiriq and wafting the smoke on others’ clothes, shops, etc.; seller of isiriq; poor person

    Uzbek-English dictionary > isiriqchi

  • 8 poyaki

    (Persian) one who makes a living by carrying around a waterpipe and charging others to smoke from it

    Uzbek-English dictionary > poyaki

  • 9 jump to conclusion

    (jump (leap или rush) to (the) conclusion (тж. jump или leap at conclusions))

    Why did you jump to the conclusion that we couldn't change any note that you might happen to be carrying around. On the contrary, we can. (M. Twain, ‘Complete Short Stories’, ‘The £1,000,000 Bank-Note’) — Почему вы сделали поспешный вывод, что мы не в состоянии разменять банкноту, которую вы имеете при себе? Напротив, мы можем ее разменять.

    You know how you rush at things, jump to conclusions without proper deductions. You've got to correct all that. (A. J. Cronin, ‘The Green Years’, book II, ch. 7) — Ты знаешь свою склонность к скороспелым решениям, свою способность приходить к беспочвенным выводам. Это надо искоренить.

    He must not be a plunger, wildly leaping to conclusions. He must go cautiously, slowly, be sure! (A. J. Cronin, ‘The Citadel’, book I, ch. 7) — Он решительно одернул себя. Нельзя впопыхах делать выводы. Надо все не спеша, хорошенько обдумать.

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  • 10 circumlatio

    circumlātĭo, ōnis, f [id.], a carrying around (post-class.): arcae, Tert adv Marc. 4, 12; victimae, Serv ad Verg. A. 6, 229.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > circumlatio

  • 11 circumvectio

    circumvectĭo, ōnis, f. [circumveho] (only twice in Cic.).
    I.
    A carrying around (of merchandise), Cic. Att. 2, 16, 4.—
    II.
    Solis, the circuit, revolution, Cic. Univ. 9, 26.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > circumvectio

  • 12 llevar

    v.
    1 to take.
    llevar algo/a alguien a to take something/somebody to
    me llevó en coche he drove me there
    El bus llevó a María The bus got Mary there.
    2 to carry.
    llevaban en hombros al entrenador they were carrying the coach on their shoulders
    El bus lleva mercadería para vender The bus carries goods for selling.
    Esa frase lleva mala intención That phrase carries bad intention.
    3 to wear.
    llevo gafas I wear glasses
    no llevo dinero I haven't got any money on me
    4 to have.
    llevar el pelo largo to have long hair
    llevas las manos sucias your hands are dirty
    5 to handle, to deal with.
    lleva la contabilidad she keeps the books
    6 to keep.
    llevar el paso to keep in step
    7 to deal or cope with.
    llevar algo bien/mal to deal o cope with something well/badly
    ¿cómo lo llevas? (informal) how are you getting on?
    8 to be wearing, to have, to wear.
    LLeva un buen traje He is wearing a nice suit.
    9 to lead, to live.
    Lleva un vida muy triste He leads a very sad life.
    10 to convey.
    Su gesto lleva amor His gesture conveys love.
    11 to take up.
    Ella llevó ciencias el año pasado She took up Science last year.
    12 to have been.
    Llevo viviendo mucho tiempo aquí I have been living a long time here.
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    1 (gen) to take
    ■ te llevo en coche I'll take you in the car, I'll give you a lift
    2 (tener) to have; (tener encima) to have, carry
    ■ ¿qué llevas ahí? what's that you've got there?
    ■ ¿cuánto dinero llevas? how much money have you got on you?
    3 (prenda) to wear, have on
    4 (aguantar) to cope with
    ■ ¿cómo lleva lo de quedarse sin trabajo? how's he coping with losing his job?
    5 (dirigir) to be in charge of
    ■ ¿quién lleva el tema de los pedidos? who's in charge of orders?
    6 (conducir - coche) to drive; (moto) - to ride
    8 (libros, cuentas) to keep
    9 (años) to be older
    10 (vida) to lead
    11 (tiempo, esfuerzo) to take
    12 (compás, paso, ritmo) to keep
    ■ contigo no bailo, no sabes llevar el paso I'm not dancing with you, you can't keep in step
    13 familiar (cobrar) to charge
    ■ ¿cuánto te llevaron por la reparación? how much did they charge you for the repairs?
    1 llevar a (conducir) to take, lead
    ■ y esto, ¿adónde nos lleva? and where will this lead us?
    2 llevar a + inf (inducir) to lead to, make
    ■ esto me lleva a pensar que... this leads me to think that...
    ■ ¿qué lo llevó a actuar así? what made him act like that?
    3 llevar + participio to have
    1 (obtener) to get; (ganar) to win
    2 (recibir) to get
    3 (estar de moda) to be fashionable
    4 (entenderse) to get on ( con, with), get along ( con, with)
    5 MATEMÁTICAS to carry over
    \
    dejarse llevar por... to be influenced by..., get carried away with...
    llevar a la práctica to put into practice
    llevar adelante to carry out
    llevar la cuenta de to keep track of
    llevar las de + inf to be likely to + inf
    llevarse a matar to be at daggers drawn
    llevarse por delante (gen) to carry away, sweep away 2 (viento) to blow away 3 (coche) to run over
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    verb
    2) take, take away
    3) wear
    4) endure, bear
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    - llevarse
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    Para las expresiones llevar adelante, llevar la contraria, llevar las de perder, llevar a la práctica, llevar a término, llevar ventaja, ver la otra entrada.
    1. VERBO TRANSITIVO
    1) (=transportar) [con los brazos] to carry; [indicando el punto de destino] to take; [en vehículo] to transport

    "comida para llevar" — "food to take away", "take-away food"

    ¿es para llevar? — is it to take away?

    2) (=llevar puesto) to wear

    ¿hay que llevar corbata a la reunión? — do we have to wear a tie to the meeting?

    llevaba puesto un sombrero muy raro — she had a very odd hat on, she was wearing a very odd hat

    3) (=llevar encima)

    ¡la que llevaba encima aquella noche! — * he was really smashed that night! *

    4) (=tener)
    a) [+ barba, pelo] to have
    b) [+ adorno, ingrediente] to have

    lleva un rótulo que dice... — it has a label (on it) which says...

    ¿qué lleva el pollo que está tan bueno? — what's in this chicken that makes it taste so good?

    c) [+ armas, nombre, título] to have, bear frm

    el libro lleva el título de... — the book has the title of..., the book is entitled...

    5) [+ persona]
    a) (=acompañar, conducir) to take

    ¿adónde me llevan? — where are you taking me?

    a ver ¿cuándo me llevas a cenar? — when are you going to take me out for a meal?

    b) [en coche] to drive

    Sofía nos llevó a casa — Sofía gave us a lift home, Sofía drove us home

    yo voy en esa dirección, ¿quieres que te lleve? — I'm going that way, do you want a lift?

    6) (=conducir)
    a) [+ vehículo] to drive
    b) [+ persona, entidad]

    llevó a su empresa a la bancarrota — he caused his company to go bankrupt, he bankrupted his company

    • [dejarse] llevar — to get carried away

    no te dejes llevar por las apariencias — don't be taken in {o} deceived by appearances

    si te dejas llevar por él, acabarás mal — if you fall in with him, you'll be in trouble

    7) (=dirigir) [+ negocio, tienda] to run

    • llevar la [casa] — to run the household

    • ¿quién lleva la [cuenta]? — who is keeping count?

    llevar las cuentas {o} los libros — (Com) to keep the books

    • llevar una [materia] — Méx to study a subject

    compás 1)
    8) (=aportar) to bring
    9) (=adelantar en)
    10) (=inducir)

    llevar a algn a creer que... — to lead sb to think that..., make sb think that...

    esto me lleva a pensar que... — this leads me to think that...

    11) (=tolerar)

    ¿cómo lleva lo de su hijo? — how's she coping with what happened to her son?

    12) [indicando tiempo]
    a) (=haber estado) to be

    ¿cuánto tiempo llevas aquí? — how long have you been here?

    b) (=tardar) to take
    13) (=cobrar) to charge

    no quería llevarme nada — he didn't want to charge me, he didn't want to take any money

    14) (=ir por)

    ¿qué dirección llevaba? — what direction was he going in?, which way was he going?

    • lleva [camino] de ser como su padre — it looks like he's going to turn out just like his father

    15) [+ vida] to lead

    llevar una vida tranquila — to live {o} lead a quiet life

    16) + participio
    17) (=producir) (Com, Econ) to bear; (Agr) to bear, produce

    los bonos llevan un 8% de interés — the bonds pay {o} bear interest at 8%

    no lleva fruto este año — it has no fruit this year, it hasn't produced any fruit this year

    2.
    VERBO INTRANSITIVO [carretera] to go, lead

    esta carretera lleva a La Paz — this road goes {o} leads to La Paz

    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( de un lugar a otro) to take

    ¿qué llevas en el bolso? — what have you got in your bag?

    comida para llevar — take out (AmE) o (BrE) takeaway meals

    b) ( transportar) to carry
    c) < persona> to take
    d) ( tener consigo) to have
    2)
    a) (guiar, conducir) to take

    nos llevaron por un sendero — they led o took us along a path

    la llevaba de la mano — I/he was holding her hand

    b) (impulsar, inducir) to lead

    esto me lleva a pensar que... — this leads me to believe that...

    ¿qué la llevó a hacerlo? — what made her do it?

    3) <ropa/perfume/reloj> to wear
    4) ( tener) to have

    una canción que lleva por título `Rencor' — a song entitled `Rencor'

    5) ( tener a su cargo) <negocio/tienda> to run; < caso> to handle
    6)
    a) ( conducir) < vehículo> to drive; < moto> to ride
    b) < pareja> ( al bailar)

    no sé bailar - no importa, yo te llevo — I can't dance - it doesn't matter, I'll lead

    7) < vida> to lead

    llevar una vida tranquila/muy ajetreada — to lead a quiet/very hectic life; (+ compl)

    ¿cómo lleva lo del divorcio? - lo lleva muy mal — how is she coping with the divorce? - she's taking it very badly

    8) (seguir, mantener)

    llevar el ritmo or el compás — to keep time

    ¿llevas la cuenta de lo que te debo? — are you keeping track of what I owe you?

    ¿qué dirección llevaban? — which direction were they going in?

    9)
    a) ( requerir) to take

    lleva tiempo hacerlo bien — it takes time to do it well; (+ me/te/le etc)

    b) (tener como ingrediente, componente)

    ¿qué lleva esta sopa? — what's in this soup?

    10) (aventajar, exceder en) (+ me/te/le etc)
    11) (Esp) ( cobrar) to charge
    2.
    llevar v aux

    llevar las de ganar/de perder — to be likely to win/lose

    3.
    llevar vi
    a) camino/carretera to go, lead
    b) ( al bailar) to lead
    4.
    llevarse v pron
    1)
    a) ( a otro lugar) to take

    ¿quién se llevó mi paraguas? — who took my umbrella?

    b) <premio/dinero> to win
    c) (quedarse con, comprar) to take

    ¿cuántos se quiere llevar? — how many would you like?

    d) (Mat) to carry

    9 y 9 son 18, me llevo una — 9 plus 9 is 18, carry one

    e) (Arg) < asignatura> to carry over
    2) ( dirigir)
    3) <susto/regañina> to get
    4)
    * * *
    = bear, bring, carry, lead, lug off, steer, engage, escort, lead + Pronombre + down the road to, take along, tote.
    Ex. Examples of homographs are: bear (to carry, or an animal) and score (music, football or to cut).
    Ex. Subject experts may bring a more informed and critical eye to document analysis.
    Ex. Cable TV systems have now been introduced in the United States that have the technical ability to carry two-way signals.
    Ex. A book index is an alphabetically arranged list of words or terms leading the reader to the numbers of pages on which specific topics are considered, or on which specific names appear.
    Ex. The whole affair, assembled and compressed, could be lugged off in a moving van.
    Ex. They decided that they had to set up information and referral services to steer people to the correct agency.
    Ex. And literature is part of that essential human behavior; it engages us in pre-enactments and re-enactments.
    Ex. Their work included escorting clients to other agencies.
    Ex. The catalog's deterioration is leading us down the road to lesser quality library service.
    Ex. When you're crunched for time, take along snacks that pack a wallop, nutritionally speaking.
    Ex. These bags are the best way to tote around your books, groceries, beach stuff, or even your puppy.
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    * agua + llevar = wash away.
    * Algo que lleva mucho tiempo de hacer = time-consuming [time consuming].
    * comida para llevar = takeaway meal, take-out meal, take-out.
    * correr como alma que lleva el diablo = run for + Posesivo + life.
    * cuando el río suena, agua lleva = there's no smoke without fire, where there's smoke there's fire.
    * dejarse llevar = become + carried away by, drift along, drift, coast along, go with + the flow, let + go, go along with + the flow.
    * dejarse llevar fácilmente = be easily led.
    * dejarse llevar (por) = fall + victim to, give + way (to).
    * dejarse llevar por el instinto = fly by + the seat of + Posesivo + pants.
    * dejarse llevar por el pánico = panic.
    * dejarse llevar por la corriente = go with + the flow, go along with + the flow.
    * el camino que lleva a = a/the doorway to.
    * el llevar = carrying.
    * el sendero que lleva a = a/the doorway to.
    * encargado de llevar a cabo = implementor [implementer].
    * encargado de llevar el marcador = scorer.
    * flor para llevar en el ojal = boutonniere.
    * la edad se lleva en el alma = you are as old as you feel.
    * la senda que lleva a = a/the doorway to.
    * llevando sobrepelliz = surpliced.
    * llevar a = lead on to, lead up to, result (in), take + Nombre + back to, usher into.
    * llevar a Algo a una nueva dimensión = take + Nombre + into a new dimension.
    * llevar a Alguien a juicio = bring + lawsuit against + Alguien, take + legal action, take + legal proceedings.
    * llevar a Alguien al límite = push + Alguien + over the edge, drive + Alguien + over the edge.
    * llevar a buen término = bring to + a close.
    * llevar a cabo = accomplish, carry out, conduct, execute, go about, implement, proceed, effect, realise [realize, -USA], transact, carry through, press forward (with).
    * llevar a cabo actividades = conduct + business.
    * llevar a cabo una acción = effect + execution.
    * llevar a cabo una actividad = conduct + activity.
    * llevar a cabo una actuación común = make + a concerted effort.
    * llevar a cabo una iniciativa = take + initiative.
    * llevar a cabo una misión = accomplish + mission.
    * llevar a cabo una orden = execute + command.
    * llevar a cabo una redada = swoop.
    * llevar a cabo una serie de pasos anteriormente realizados = execute + steps.
    * llevar a cabo un atraco = pull off + heist.
    * llevar a cabo un proyecto = carry out + project, undertake + project, develop + project.
    * llevar a cabo un robo = execute + theft, pull off + heist.
    * llevar a casa = bring + home.
    * llevar a conclusiones erróneas = mislead.
    * llevar a confusión = lead to + confusion.
    * llevar a cotas más altas = raise to + greater heights, take + Nombre + to greater heights.
    * llevar adelante = go ahead with, carry on, carry out.
    * llevar a engaño = be misleading, be deceiving.
    * llevar a + Estado Emocional = send into + Estado Emocional.
    * llevar a hablar de una cuestión = bring up + issue.
    * llevar a hombros = carry + Nombre + shoulder-high.
    * llevar a juicio = prosecute, sue, file + suit against, bring + a suit against, litigate, bring + criminal charges against, file + lawsuit against, take + Nombre + to court, bring + Nombre + to justice, put on + trial, try.
    * llevar a la bancarrota = bankrupt.
    * llevar a la conclusión = lead to + the conclusion.
    * llevar a la ficción = fictionalise [fictionalize, -USA].
    * llevar a la práctica = practise [practice, -USA], put into + practice, put into + practical effect, carry out, put into + effect.
    * llevar a la práctica una decisión = implement + decision.
    * llevar a la quiebra = bankrupt.
    * llevar Algo/Alguien a = usher + Nombre + into.
    * llevar Algo a sus últimas consecuencias = take + Nombre + to its ultimate conclusion.
    * llevar Algo demasiado lejos = push + Nombre + too far.
    * llevar Algo hasta el final = carry + Nombre + to the end.
    * llevar al hospital con toda urgencia = rush + Nombre + to hospital.
    * llevar al hospital de bulla y corriendo = rush + Nombre + to hospital.
    * llevar al hospital urgentemente = rush + Nombre + to hospital.
    * llevar al juzgado = take + Nombre + to court.
    * llevar al límite = stretch.
    * llevar a los tribunales = take + Nombre + to court.
    * llevar al poder = bring + Nombre + to power.
    * llevar aquí + Expresión Temporal = have been around + Expresión Temporal.
    * llevar a remolque = take in + tow.
    * llevar a tomar una decisión = lead (up) to + decision.
    * llevar aún más lejos = take + one stage further, progress + one stage further, carry + one stage further, develop + one stage further, take + a step further, extend + one step further, carry + one step further, take + one step further.
    * llevar camino de enfrentamiento con = be on a collision course with.
    * llevar consigo = carry around.
    * llevar el compás = beat + time.
    * llevar el mando = rule + the roost.
    * llevar el peso = undertake + burden.
    * llevar el sello de = bear + the imprint of, bear + the mark(s) of, bear + the stamp of, bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of.
    * llevar el sello distintivo de = bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of.
    * llevar en autobús = bus.
    * llevar en camión = truck.
    * llevar en volandas = carry + Nombre + shoulder-high.
    * llevar + Expresión Temporal = take + Expresión Temporal.
    * llevar la antorcha = carry + the torch.
    * llevar la batuta = call + the shots, be the boss, call + the tune, rule + the roost, set + the agenda.
    * llevar la contraria = antagonise [antagonize, -USA].
    * llevar la cuenta = tally.
    * llevar la cuenta de = keep + track of.
    * llevar la delantera = ahead of the game.
    * llevar la impronta de = bear + the imprint of, bear + the mark(s) of, bear + the stamp of, bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of.
    * llevar la marca de = bear + the mark(s) of, bear + the stamp of, bear + the imprint of, bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of.
    * llevar la marca distintiva de = bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of.
    * llevar la montaña a Mahoma = bring + the mountain to Mohammed.
    * llevar la responsabilidad de Algo = carry + the burden.
    * llevar la voz cantante = call + the shots, be the boss, call + the tune, rule + the roost, set + the agenda.
    * llevarle la corriente a Alguien = play along with.
    * llevarlo bien = take it in + Posesivo + stride.
    * llevar + Nombre + aún más lejos = take + Nombre + a/one step further/farther.
    * llevar por el aire = waft.
    * llevar por el camino de = lead + Pronombre + down the road to.
    * llevar por el mal camino = lead + astray.
    * llevar por mal camino = mislead.
    * llevar (puesto) = wear.
    * llevar puesto el cinturón de seguridad = wear + a seat belt.
    * llevar razón = be right, be in the right.
    * llevar ropa puesta = wear + clothing.
    * llevar rumbo de colisión con = be on a collision course with.
    * llevarse = take, take away, cream off, haul away, cart, make off with, take + Nombre + away, be in, get away with.
    * llevarse a las mil maravillas con + Nombre = get on with + Nombre + swimmingly.
    * llevarse a las mis maravillas = get along/on + like a house on fire.
    * llevarse bien = get along, on good terms, hit it off.
    * llevarse bien con Alguien = get on with + Pronombre Personal.
    * llevarse el gato al agua = steal + the show, steal + the limelight, the nod + go to.
    * llevarse el mérito = take + the credit (for).
    * llevarse la fama = take + the credit (for).
    * llevarse la palma = sweep + the board, steal + the limelight, steal + the show, take + the biscuit, take + the cake, come out on + top.
    * llevárselo el viento = blow away.
    * llevarse los problemas a casa = bring + problems home.
    * llevarse una desilusión = be gutted, feel + gutted.
    * llevarse una (gran) sorpresa = be in for a (big) surprise.
    * llevarse un chasco = be gutted, feel + gutted, be disappointed.
    * llevarse un palo = be gutted, feel + gutted.
    * llevar sobre la espalda = carry on + Posesivo + shoulders.
    * llevar sobre los hombros = carry on + Posesivo + shoulders.
    * llevar tiempo = take + time, take + a while, take + long, absorb + time.
    * llevar tiempo y esfuerzo = take + time and effort.
    * llevar todas las de perder = odds + be stacked against, not have a leg to stand on.
    * llevar una cruz = suffer from + curse.
    * llevar una eternidad = take + ages (and ages).
    * llevar una vida + Ajetivo = lead + an + Adjetivo + existence.
    * llevar una vida arriesgada = live + dangerously, live + dangerously close to the edge.
    * llevar una vida de perros = lead + a dog's life.
    * llevar una vida miserable = live + wretched existence.
    * llevar un diario de trabajo = keep + diary.
    * llevar un minuto = take + minute.
    * llevar un negocio = conduct + a business.
    * no llevar a ninguna parte = achieve + nothing.
    * no llevar a ningún fin = beat + a dead horse, fart + in the wind.
    * no llevar a ningún fin, ser un pérdida de tiempo = flog + a dead horse.
    * no llevar a ningún sitio = go + nowhere.
    * pasar llevando = take through.
    * que se lleva gestando hace tiempo = long-simmering.
    * viajar llevando un mochila = backpacking.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( de un lugar a otro) to take

    ¿qué llevas en el bolso? — what have you got in your bag?

    comida para llevar — take out (AmE) o (BrE) takeaway meals

    b) ( transportar) to carry
    c) < persona> to take
    d) ( tener consigo) to have
    2)
    a) (guiar, conducir) to take

    nos llevaron por un sendero — they led o took us along a path

    la llevaba de la mano — I/he was holding her hand

    b) (impulsar, inducir) to lead

    esto me lleva a pensar que... — this leads me to believe that...

    ¿qué la llevó a hacerlo? — what made her do it?

    3) <ropa/perfume/reloj> to wear
    4) ( tener) to have

    una canción que lleva por título `Rencor' — a song entitled `Rencor'

    5) ( tener a su cargo) <negocio/tienda> to run; < caso> to handle
    6)
    a) ( conducir) < vehículo> to drive; < moto> to ride
    b) < pareja> ( al bailar)

    no sé bailar - no importa, yo te llevo — I can't dance - it doesn't matter, I'll lead

    7) < vida> to lead

    llevar una vida tranquila/muy ajetreada — to lead a quiet/very hectic life; (+ compl)

    ¿cómo lleva lo del divorcio? - lo lleva muy mal — how is she coping with the divorce? - she's taking it very badly

    8) (seguir, mantener)

    llevar el ritmo or el compás — to keep time

    ¿llevas la cuenta de lo que te debo? — are you keeping track of what I owe you?

    ¿qué dirección llevaban? — which direction were they going in?

    9)
    a) ( requerir) to take

    lleva tiempo hacerlo bien — it takes time to do it well; (+ me/te/le etc)

    b) (tener como ingrediente, componente)

    ¿qué lleva esta sopa? — what's in this soup?

    10) (aventajar, exceder en) (+ me/te/le etc)
    11) (Esp) ( cobrar) to charge
    2.
    llevar v aux

    llevar las de ganar/de perder — to be likely to win/lose

    3.
    llevar vi
    a) camino/carretera to go, lead
    b) ( al bailar) to lead
    4.
    llevarse v pron
    1)
    a) ( a otro lugar) to take

    ¿quién se llevó mi paraguas? — who took my umbrella?

    b) <premio/dinero> to win
    c) (quedarse con, comprar) to take

    ¿cuántos se quiere llevar? — how many would you like?

    d) (Mat) to carry

    9 y 9 son 18, me llevo una — 9 plus 9 is 18, carry one

    e) (Arg) < asignatura> to carry over
    2) ( dirigir)
    3) <susto/regañina> to get
    4)
    * * *
    llevar (puesto)
    (v.) = wear

    Ex: The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.

    = bear, bring, carry, lead, lug off, steer, engage, escort, lead + Pronombre + down the road to, take along, tote.

    Ex: Examples of homographs are: bear (to carry, or an animal) and score (music, football or to cut).

    Ex: Subject experts may bring a more informed and critical eye to document analysis.
    Ex: Cable TV systems have now been introduced in the United States that have the technical ability to carry two-way signals.
    Ex: A book index is an alphabetically arranged list of words or terms leading the reader to the numbers of pages on which specific topics are considered, or on which specific names appear.
    Ex: The whole affair, assembled and compressed, could be lugged off in a moving van.
    Ex: They decided that they had to set up information and referral services to steer people to the correct agency.
    Ex: And literature is part of that essential human behavior; it engages us in pre-enactments and re-enactments.
    Ex: Their work included escorting clients to other agencies.
    Ex: The catalog's deterioration is leading us down the road to lesser quality library service.
    Ex: When you're crunched for time, take along snacks that pack a wallop, nutritionally speaking.
    Ex: These bags are the best way to tote around your books, groceries, beach stuff, or even your puppy.
    * agua + llevar = wash away.
    * Algo que lleva mucho tiempo de hacer = time-consuming [time consuming].
    * comida para llevar = takeaway meal, take-out meal, take-out.
    * correr como alma que lleva el diablo = run for + Posesivo + life.
    * cuando el río suena, agua lleva = there's no smoke without fire, where there's smoke there's fire.
    * dejarse llevar = become + carried away by, drift along, drift, coast along, go with + the flow, let + go, go along with + the flow.
    * dejarse llevar fácilmente = be easily led.
    * dejarse llevar (por) = fall + victim to, give + way (to).
    * dejarse llevar por el instinto = fly by + the seat of + Posesivo + pants.
    * dejarse llevar por el pánico = panic.
    * dejarse llevar por la corriente = go with + the flow, go along with + the flow.
    * el camino que lleva a = a/the doorway to.
    * el llevar = carrying.
    * el sendero que lleva a = a/the doorway to.
    * encargado de llevar a cabo = implementor [implementer].
    * encargado de llevar el marcador = scorer.
    * flor para llevar en el ojal = boutonniere.
    * la edad se lleva en el alma = you are as old as you feel.
    * la senda que lleva a = a/the doorway to.
    * llevando sobrepelliz = surpliced.
    * llevar a = lead on to, lead up to, result (in), take + Nombre + back to, usher into.
    * llevar a Algo a una nueva dimensión = take + Nombre + into a new dimension.
    * llevar a Alguien a juicio = bring + lawsuit against + Alguien, take + legal action, take + legal proceedings.
    * llevar a Alguien al límite = push + Alguien + over the edge, drive + Alguien + over the edge.
    * llevar a buen término = bring to + a close.
    * llevar a cabo = accomplish, carry out, conduct, execute, go about, implement, proceed, effect, realise [realize, -USA], transact, carry through, press forward (with).
    * llevar a cabo actividades = conduct + business.
    * llevar a cabo una acción = effect + execution.
    * llevar a cabo una actividad = conduct + activity.
    * llevar a cabo una actuación común = make + a concerted effort.
    * llevar a cabo una iniciativa = take + initiative.
    * llevar a cabo una misión = accomplish + mission.
    * llevar a cabo una orden = execute + command.
    * llevar a cabo una redada = swoop.
    * llevar a cabo una serie de pasos anteriormente realizados = execute + steps.
    * llevar a cabo un atraco = pull off + heist.
    * llevar a cabo un proyecto = carry out + project, undertake + project, develop + project.
    * llevar a cabo un robo = execute + theft, pull off + heist.
    * llevar a casa = bring + home.
    * llevar a conclusiones erróneas = mislead.
    * llevar a confusión = lead to + confusion.
    * llevar a cotas más altas = raise to + greater heights, take + Nombre + to greater heights.
    * llevar adelante = go ahead with, carry on, carry out.
    * llevar a engaño = be misleading, be deceiving.
    * llevar a + Estado Emocional = send into + Estado Emocional.
    * llevar a hablar de una cuestión = bring up + issue.
    * llevar a hombros = carry + Nombre + shoulder-high.
    * llevar a juicio = prosecute, sue, file + suit against, bring + a suit against, litigate, bring + criminal charges against, file + lawsuit against, take + Nombre + to court, bring + Nombre + to justice, put on + trial, try.
    * llevar a la bancarrota = bankrupt.
    * llevar a la conclusión = lead to + the conclusion.
    * llevar a la ficción = fictionalise [fictionalize, -USA].
    * llevar a la práctica = practise [practice, -USA], put into + practice, put into + practical effect, carry out, put into + effect.
    * llevar a la práctica una decisión = implement + decision.
    * llevar a la quiebra = bankrupt.
    * llevar Algo/Alguien a = usher + Nombre + into.
    * llevar Algo a sus últimas consecuencias = take + Nombre + to its ultimate conclusion.
    * llevar Algo demasiado lejos = push + Nombre + too far.
    * llevar Algo hasta el final = carry + Nombre + to the end.
    * llevar al hospital con toda urgencia = rush + Nombre + to hospital.
    * llevar al hospital de bulla y corriendo = rush + Nombre + to hospital.
    * llevar al hospital urgentemente = rush + Nombre + to hospital.
    * llevar al juzgado = take + Nombre + to court.
    * llevar al límite = stretch.
    * llevar a los tribunales = take + Nombre + to court.
    * llevar al poder = bring + Nombre + to power.
    * llevar aquí + Expresión Temporal = have been around + Expresión Temporal.
    * llevar a remolque = take in + tow.
    * llevar a tomar una decisión = lead (up) to + decision.
    * llevar aún más lejos = take + one stage further, progress + one stage further, carry + one stage further, develop + one stage further, take + a step further, extend + one step further, carry + one step further, take + one step further.
    * llevar camino de enfrentamiento con = be on a collision course with.
    * llevar consigo = carry around.
    * llevar el compás = beat + time.
    * llevar el mando = rule + the roost.
    * llevar el peso = undertake + burden.
    * llevar el sello de = bear + the imprint of, bear + the mark(s) of, bear + the stamp of, bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of.
    * llevar el sello distintivo de = bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of.
    * llevar en autobús = bus.
    * llevar en camión = truck.
    * llevar en volandas = carry + Nombre + shoulder-high.
    * llevar + Expresión Temporal = take + Expresión Temporal.
    * llevar la antorcha = carry + the torch.
    * llevar la batuta = call + the shots, be the boss, call + the tune, rule + the roost, set + the agenda.
    * llevar la contraria = antagonise [antagonize, -USA].
    * llevar la cuenta = tally.
    * llevar la cuenta de = keep + track of.
    * llevar la delantera = ahead of the game.
    * llevar la impronta de = bear + the imprint of, bear + the mark(s) of, bear + the stamp of, bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of.
    * llevar la marca de = bear + the mark(s) of, bear + the stamp of, bear + the imprint of, bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of.
    * llevar la marca distintiva de = bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of.
    * llevar la montaña a Mahoma = bring + the mountain to Mohammed.
    * llevar la responsabilidad de Algo = carry + the burden.
    * llevar la voz cantante = call + the shots, be the boss, call + the tune, rule + the roost, set + the agenda.
    * llevarle la corriente a Alguien = play along with.
    * llevarlo bien = take it in + Posesivo + stride.
    * llevar + Nombre + aún más lejos = take + Nombre + a/one step further/farther.
    * llevar por el aire = waft.
    * llevar por el camino de = lead + Pronombre + down the road to.
    * llevar por el mal camino = lead + astray.
    * llevar por mal camino = mislead.
    * llevar (puesto) = wear.
    * llevar puesto el cinturón de seguridad = wear + a seat belt.
    * llevar razón = be right, be in the right.
    * llevar ropa puesta = wear + clothing.
    * llevar rumbo de colisión con = be on a collision course with.
    * llevarse = take, take away, cream off, haul away, cart, make off with, take + Nombre + away, be in, get away with.
    * llevarse a las mil maravillas con + Nombre = get on with + Nombre + swimmingly.
    * llevarse a las mis maravillas = get along/on + like a house on fire.
    * llevarse bien = get along, on good terms, hit it off.
    * llevarse bien con Alguien = get on with + Pronombre Personal.
    * llevarse el gato al agua = steal + the show, steal + the limelight, the nod + go to.
    * llevarse el mérito = take + the credit (for).
    * llevarse la fama = take + the credit (for).
    * llevarse la palma = sweep + the board, steal + the limelight, steal + the show, take + the biscuit, take + the cake, come out on + top.
    * llevárselo el viento = blow away.
    * llevarse los problemas a casa = bring + problems home.
    * llevarse una desilusión = be gutted, feel + gutted.
    * llevarse una (gran) sorpresa = be in for a (big) surprise.
    * llevarse un chasco = be gutted, feel + gutted, be disappointed.
    * llevarse un palo = be gutted, feel + gutted.
    * llevar sobre la espalda = carry on + Posesivo + shoulders.
    * llevar sobre los hombros = carry on + Posesivo + shoulders.
    * llevar tiempo = take + time, take + a while, take + long, absorb + time.
    * llevar tiempo y esfuerzo = take + time and effort.
    * llevar todas las de perder = odds + be stacked against, not have a leg to stand on.
    * llevar una cruz = suffer from + curse.
    * llevar una eternidad = take + ages (and ages).
    * llevar una vida + Ajetivo = lead + an + Adjetivo + existence.
    * llevar una vida arriesgada = live + dangerously, live + dangerously close to the edge.
    * llevar una vida de perros = lead + a dog's life.
    * llevar una vida miserable = live + wretched existence.
    * llevar un diario de trabajo = keep + diary.
    * llevar un minuto = take + minute.
    * llevar un negocio = conduct + a business.
    * no llevar a ninguna parte = achieve + nothing.
    * no llevar a ningún fin = beat + a dead horse, fart + in the wind.
    * no llevar a ningún fin, ser un pérdida de tiempo = flog + a dead horse.
    * no llevar a ningún sitio = go + nowhere.
    * pasar llevando = take through.
    * que se lleva gestando hace tiempo = long-simmering.
    * viajar llevando un mochila = backpacking.

    * * *
    llevar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    tengo que llevar los zapatos a arreglar I must take my shoes to be mended
    le llevé unas flores I took her some flowers
    te lo llevaré cuando vaya el sábado I'll bring it when I come on Saturday
    este programa pretende llevar un mensaje de paz y amor a sus hogares this program aims to bring a message of peace and love into your homes
    el camión llevaba una carga de abono the truck was carrying a load of fertilizer
    deja que te ayude a llevar las bolsas let me help you carry your bags
    ¿qué llevas en el bolso que pesa tanto? what have you got in your bag that weighs so much?
    dos hamburguesas para llevar two hamburgers to go ( AmE), two hamburgers to take away ( BrE)
    [ S ] comida para llevar take out meals ( AmE), takeaway meals ( BrE)
    2 ‹persona› to take
    iba para ese lado y me llevó hasta la estación she was going that way so she gave me a lift to o took me to o dropped me at the station
    voy a llevar a los niños al colegio I'm going to take the children to school
    nos llevó a cenar fuera he took us out to dinner
    la llevaba de la mano I was holding her hand, I had her by the hand
    3
    (tener consigo): los atracadores llevaban metralletas the robbers carried submachine guns
    no llevo dinero encima or conmigo I don't have any money on me
    4 (CS) (comprar) to take
    ¿la señora ha decidido? — sí, llevo éste have you decided, madam? — yes, I'll take o I'll have this one
    ¿cuántos va a llevar? how many would you like?
    B
    1
    (guiar, conducir): nos llevaron por un sendero hacia la cueva they led o took us along a path toward(s) the cave
    este camino te lleva al río this path leads o takes you to the river
    esta discusión no nos llevará a ninguna parte arguing like this won't get us anywhere
    2 (impulsar, inducir) to lead
    su afición por el juego lo llevó a cometer el desfalco his passion for gambling led him to embezzle the money
    esto me lleva a pensar que miente this leads me to believe that she is lying
    ¿qué puede llevar a una madre a hacer una cosa así? what could induce a mother to do such a thing?
    C
    1 ‹vestido/sombrero› to wear
    puede llevarse suelto o con cinturón it can be worn loose or with a belt
    llevaba uniforme he was wearing his uniform, he was in uniform
    no llevo reloj I'm not wearing a watch, I haven't got a watch on
    2
    (hablando de modas): vuelven a llevarse las faldas cortas short skirts are back in fashion
    ya no se lleva eso de las fiestas de compromiso people don't have engagement parties any more
    D
    (tener): llevas la corbata torcida your tie's crooked
    hace años que lleva barba he's had a beard for years
    llevaba el pelo corto she wore o had her hair short, she had short hair
    cada entrada lleva un número each ticket bears a number o has a number on it
    el colegio lleva el nombre de su fundador the school carries o bears the name of its founder
    una canción que lleva por título `Rencor' a song entitled `Rencor'
    A
    (tener a su cargo): lleva la contabilidad de la empresa she does the company's accounts
    su padre lleva la tienda/el bar his father runs the shop/the bar
    el abogado que lleva el caso the lawyer o ( AmE) attorney who is handling the case
    mi compañero lleva lo de los créditos my colleague deals with loans
    trabaja a tiempo completo y además lleva la casa she works full time and does all the housework as well
    B
    1 (conducir) ‹vehículo› to drive; ‹moto› to ride
    ¿quién llevaba el coche? who was driving the car?
    2 ‹pareja›
    (al bailar): no sé bailar — no importa, yo te llevo I can't dance — it doesn't matter, I'll lead
    C
    1 ‹vida› to lead
    (+ compl): lleva una vida normal/muy ajetreada he leads o has a normal life/very hectic life
    llevan su relación en secreto they're keeping their relationship secret
    ¿cómo llevas lo del divorcio? how are you coping with the divorce?
    está en segundo año y lo lleva muy bien he's in the second year and he's doing very well
    ¿qué tal lo llevas? ( fam); how are things? ( colloq)
    lleva muy mal lo de que te vayas al extranjero she's taking this business of you going abroad very badly
    llevaste muy bien la entrevista you handled the interview very well
    2 ( Ven) ‹golpe/susto› to get
    llevamos un susto grande cuando … we got a terrible fright when …
    va a llevar un disgusto grande cuando se entere he's going to be very upset when he finds out
    D
    (seguir, mantener): llevar el ritmo or el compás to keep time
    baila mal, no sabe llevar el compás he's a bad dancer, he can't keep in time to the music
    ¿estás llevando la cuenta de lo que te debo? are you keeping track of what I owe you?
    ¿qué rumbo llevan? what course are they on?
    ¿qué dirección llevaban? which direction were they going in o were they headed in?
    A
    1 (requerir, insumir) to take
    lleva mucho tiempo hacerlo bien it takes a long time to do it well
    (+ me/te/le etc): le llevó horas aprendérselo de memoria it took her hours to learn it by heart
    me va a llevar horas it's going to take me hours
    2
    (tener como ingrediente, componente): ¿qué lleva esta sopa? what's in this soup?
    esta masa lleva mantequilla en lugar de aceite this pastry is made with butter instead of oil
    lleva unas gotas de jugo de limón it has a few drops of lemon juice in it
    este modelo lleva tres metros de tela you need three meters of material for this dress
    la blusa lleva un cuello de encaje the blouse has a lace collar
    el tren lleva dos vagones de primera the train has o ( frml) conveys two first-class carriages
    B (aventajar, exceder en) (+ me/te/le etc):
    me lleva dos años he's two years older than me
    mi hijo te lleva unos centímetros my son is a few centimeters taller than you, my son is taller than you by a few centimeters
    nos llevan tres días de ventaja they have a three-day lead over us
    C ( Esp) (cobrar) to charge
    no me llevó nada por arreglármelo he didn't charge me (anything) for fixing it
    ■
    lleva media hora esperando she's been waiting for half an hour
    ¿llevas mucho rato aquí? have you been here long?
    lleva tres días sin probar bocado he hasn't eaten a thing for three days
    el tren lleva una hora de retraso the train's an hour late
    ¿te desperté? — no, llevo horas levantada did I wake you? — no, I've been up for hours
    lleva cinco años en la empresa she's been with the company for five years
    hasta ahora llevan ganados todos los partidos they've won every game so far
    ya llevaba hecha la mitad de la manga I'd already done half the sleeve
    llevar las de ganar/perder to be bound to win/lose
    con el apoyo del jefe, llevas todas las de ganar if the boss is behind you, you're bound to succeed
    ■ llevar
    vi
    1 «camino/carretera» to go, lead
    lleva directamente al pueblo it goes o leads straight to the village
    ¿adónde lleva este camino? where does this road go o lead?
    2 (al bailar) to lead
    A
    1 (a otro lugar) to take
    la policía se llevó al sospechoso the police took the suspect away
    ¿quién se ha llevado mi paraguas? who's taken my umbrella?
    nos lo llevamos a la playa we took him off to the beach
    no te lleves el diccionario, lo necesito don't take the dictionary (away), I need it
    llévate a los chicos de aquí get the children out of here
    los ladrones se llevaron las joyas the thieves went off with o took the jewels
    el agua se llevó cuanto encontró a su paso the water swept away everything in its path
    2 ‹dinero/premio› to win
    la película que se llevó todos los premios the movie that carried off o won o took all the prizes
    3 (quedarse con, comprar) to take
    no sé cuál llevarme I don't know which one to have o take
    ¿cuántos se quiere llevar? how many would you like?
    4 ( Mat) to carry
    9 y 9 son 18, me llevo una 9 plus 9 is 18, carry one
    5 ( Arg) ‹asignatura› to carry over
    B
    (dirigir): no te lleves el cuchillo a la boca don't put your knife in your mouth
    se llevó la mano al bolsillo he put his hand to his pocket
    C ‹susto/regañina› to get
    ¡qué susto me llevé! what a fright I got!
    me llevé una gran decepción I was terribly disappointed, it was a terrible disappointment
    se llevó su merecido he got what he deserved
    quiero que se lleve un buen recuerdo I want him to leave here with pleasant memories
    D
    llevarse bien con algn to get along with sb, to get on (well) with sb ( BrE)
    nos llevamos mal we don't get along o on
    se llevan a matar they really hate each other
    se llevan como perro y gato they fight like cat and dog
    * * *

     

    llevar ( conjugate llevar) verbo transitivo
    1


    te lo llevaré cuando vaya I'll bring it when I come;
    ¿qué llevas en la bolsa? what have you got in your bag?;
    comida para llevar take out (AmE) o (BrE) takeaway meals
    b) ( transportar) ‹ carga› to carry;


    c) ‹ persona› to take;


    me llevó (en su coche) hasta la estación she gave me a lift to the station;
    lo llevaba en brazos/de la mano she was carrying him in her arms/holding her hand
    d) ( tener consigo) ‹llaves/dinero/documentación› to have

    2
    a) (guiar, conducir) to take;

    ◊ la llevaba de la mano I/he was holding her hand;

    esto no nos llevará a ninguna parte this won't get us anywhere
    b) (impulsar, inducir) to lead;

    ◊ esto me lleva a pensar que … this leads me to believe that …

    3
    a) ‹ropa/perfume/reloj› to wear

    b) ( tener) ‹barba/bigote› to have;


    1 ( tener a su cargo) ‹negocio/tienda› to run;
    ‹ caso› to handle;
    ‹ contabilidad› to do
    2 (esp Esp) ( conducir) ‹ vehículo› to drive;
    ‹ moto› to ride
    3 ‹ vida› to lead;

    ¿cómo llevas el informe? how are you getting on with the report?
    4 (seguir, mantener): llevar el ritmo or el compás to keep time;
    ◊ ¿llevas la cuenta de lo que te debo? are you keeping track of what I owe you?;

    ¿qué dirección llevaban? which direction were they going in?
    1
    a) ( requerir) ‹ tiempo› to take;


    b) ( aventajar) (+ me/te/le etc):


    nos llevan un día de ventaja they have a one-day lead over us
    2 (Esp) ( cobrar) to charge
    llevar v aux:

    lleva tres días sin comer he hasn't eaten for three days;
    el tren lleva una hora de retraso the train's an hour late;
    llevo revisada la mitad I've already checked half of it
    verbo intransitivo [camino/carretera] to go, lead
    llevarse verbo pronominal
    1


    ¿quién se llevó mi paraguas? who took my umbrella?;
    el agua se llevó las casas the water swept away the houses
    b) ‹premio/dinero› to win

    c) (quedarse con, comprar) to take;


    d) (Mat) to carry;

    ◊ 9 y 9 son 18, me llevo una 9 plus 9 is 18, carry one

    e) (Arg) ‹ asignatura› to carry over

    2 ‹susto/regañina› to get;

    se llevó un buen recuerdo he left here with pleasant memories
    3

    4 ( hablando de modas) to be in fashion;

    llevar verbo transitivo
    1 to take: llévame a casa, take me home
    (en dirección al oyente) te lo llevaré al trabajo, I'll bring it to your work
    2 (vestir) to wear: lleva el pelo suelto, she wears her hair down
    3 (transportar) to carry: no llevo dinero encima, I don't carry any money on me
    4 (tolerar, sufrir) lleva muy mal la separación, she is taking the separation very badly
    5 (una diferencia de edad) le lleva dos años a su hermana, he is two years older than his sister
    6 (cobrar) me llevó dos mil pesetas por el arreglo, she charged me two thousand pesetas for the repairs
    7 (necesitar) eso no lleva mucho trabajo, that doesn't need much work
    8 (tiempo) llevo dos horas esperando, I've been waiting for two hours
    esto llevará un buen rato, this will take a long time
    9 (un negocio, empresa) to be in charge of
    (a una persona) to handle: te lleva por donde quiere, she does what she likes with you
    ♦ Locuciones: llevar adelante, to carry sthg through
    llevar las de ganar/perder, to be on a winning/losing streak
    La traducción más común es to take: ¿Adónde llevas eso?, Where are you taking that? Llévalo a la cocina. Take it to the kitchen. Sin embargo, tratándose de llevar algo hacia el oyente o el hablante, debes emplear el verbo to bring: Te lo llevaré mañana. I'll bring it to you tomorrow. Te llevaré un regalo. I'll bring you a present.
    ' llevar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acercar
    - agitada
    - agitado
    - aire
    - altar
    - andar
    - aparejada
    - aparejado
    - bajar
    - batuta
    - caballo
    - cabo
    - calzar
    - calle
    - cantante
    - cargar
    - cartera
    - ciega
    - ciego
    - conducir
    - costar
    - dejarse
    - delantera
    - efectuar
    - ejecutar
    - escrita
    - escrito
    - garaje
    - inducir
    - juicio
    - magistratura
    - mal
    - maquillarse
    - operar
    - pantalla
    - pantalón
    - perder
    - preferir
    - realizar
    - sed
    - sofoco
    - subir
    - traer
    - transportar
    - usar
    - vestir
    - voz
    - anca
    - andas
    - arrastrar
    English:
    absorb
    - accomplish
    - account
    - achieve
    - ahead
    - amulet
    - astray
    - authenticity
    - band
    - bankrupt
    - bear
    - blow
    - boil
    - bring
    - carry
    - carry about
    - carry around
    - carry away
    - carry off
    - carry on
    - carry out
    - coal
    - conduct
    - drag off
    - drive
    - effect
    - fly
    - follow through
    - footpath
    - forceful
    - forever
    - go through with
    - hand-luggage
    - handle
    - haul up
    - have
    - have on
    - have up
    - hold
    - hump
    - implement
    - inclination
    - justice
    - keep
    - lead
    - lead out
    - lead to
    - lead up to
    - live
    - lug
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [de un lugar a otro] to take;
    le llevé unos bombones al hospital I took her some chocolates at the hospital, I brought some chocolates for her to the hospital with me;
    llevaré a los niños al zoo I'll take the children to the zoo;
    nosotros llevamos la mercancía del almacén a las tiendas we bring o transport the goods from the warehouse to the shops;
    me llevó en coche he drove me there;
    ¿vas al colegio? ¡sube, que te llevo! are you going to school? get in, I'll give you a Br lift o US ride;
    ¿para tomar aquí o para llevar? is it to eat in or Br to take away o US to go?;
    pizzas para llevar [en letrero] Br takeaway pizzas, US pizzas to go
    2. [acarrear] to carry;
    llevaba un saco a sus espaldas she was carrying a sack on her back;
    llevaban en hombros al entrenador they were carrying the coach on their shoulders;
    ¿llevas rueda de recambio? have you got a spare wheel?;
    llevar adelante algo [planes, proyecto] to go ahead with sth;
    llevar consigo [implicar] to lead to, to bring about;
    está prohibido llevar armas carrying arms is prohibited
    3. [encima] [ropa, objeto personal] to wear;
    llevo gafas I wear glasses;
    ¿llevas reloj? [en este momento] have you got a watch on?, are you wearing a watch?;
    [habitualmente] do you wear a watch?;
    llevaba una falda azul she was wearing a blue skirt;
    no lleva nada puesto she hasn't got anything o any clothes on;
    no llevo dinero I haven't got any money on me;
    nunca llevo mucho dinero encima I never carry a lot of money on me o around;
    todavía lleva pañales he's still in Br nappies o US diapers
    4. [tener] to have;
    llevar bigote to have a moustache;
    lleva el pelo largo he has long hair;
    me gusta llevar el pelo recogido I like to wear my hair up;
    llevas las manos sucias your hands are dirty;
    los productos ecológicos llevan una etiqueta verde environmentally friendly products carry a green label
    5. [como ingrediente]
    esta tortilla lleva cebolla this omelette has got onion in it;
    ¿qué lleva el daiquiri? what do you make a daiquiri with?
    6. [guiar, acompañar] to take;
    los llevé por otro camino I took them another way;
    lo llevaron a la comisaría he was taken to the police station;
    un guía nos llevó hasta la cima a guide led us to the top;
    Méx
    lléveme con el gerente I want to see the manager
    7. [dirigir] to be in charge of;
    [casa, negocio] to look after, to run;
    lleva la contabilidad she keeps the books
    8. [manejar, ocuparse de] [problema, persona] to handle;
    [asunto, caso, expediente] to deal with; [automóvil] to drive; [bicicleta, moto] to ride;
    este asunto lo lleva el departamento de contabilidad this matter is being handled by the accounts department;
    ella llevó las negociaciones personalmente she handled the negotiations herself;
    el inspector que lleva el caso the inspector in charge of the case;
    lleva muy bien sus estudios he's doing very well in his studies;
    sabe cómo llevar a la gente she's good with people
    9. [mantener] to keep;
    el hotel lleva un registro de todos sus clientes the hotel keeps a record of all its guests;
    llevo la cuenta de todos tus fallos I've been keeping count of all your mistakes;
    llevar el paso to keep in step;
    llevar el ritmo o [m5] compás to keep time;
    llevan una vida muy tranquila they lead a very quiet life
    10. [soportar] to deal o cope with;
    llevar algo bien/mal to deal o cope with sth well/badly;
    ¿qué tal llevas o [m5] cómo llevas el régimen? how are you getting on with the diet?;
    llevo bien lo de ir en tren todos los días, pero lo de madrugar… I can quite happily cope with catching the train every day, but as for getting up early…;
    Fam
    ¿cómo lo llevas con el nuevo jefe? how are you getting on with your new boss?
    11. [ir por]
    la dirección que lleva el vehículo the direction in which the vehicle is heading;
    lleva camino de ser famoso/rico he's on the road to fame/riches;
    llevar las de ganar/perder: el equipo local lleva las de ganar/perder the local team are favourites to win/lose;
    en un juicio, llevamos las de ganar if the matter goes to court, we can expect to win;
    no te enfrentes con él, que llevas las de perder don't mess with him, you can't hope to win
    12. [conducir]
    llevar a alguien a algo to lead sb to sth;
    aquella inversión le llevaría a la ruina that investment was to bring about his ruin;
    ¿adónde nos lleva la ingeniería genética? where is all this genetic engineering going to end?;
    llevar a alguien a hacer algo to lead o cause sb to do sth;
    esto me lleva a creer que miente this makes me think she's lying;
    ¿qué pudo llevarle a cometer semejante crimen? what could have led o caused him to commit such a crime?
    13. [sobrepasar en]
    te llevo seis puntos I'm six points ahead of you;
    me lleva dos centímetros/dos años he's two centimetres taller/two years older than me
    14. [amputar]
    la motosierra casi le lleva una pierna the power saw nearly took o cut his leg off
    15. [costar] [tiempo, esfuerzo] to take;
    aprender a conducir o Am [m5] manejar lleva tiempo it takes time to learn to drive;
    me llevó un día hacer este guiso it took me a day to make this dish
    16. [pasarse] [tiempo]
    lleva tres semanas sin venir she hasn't come for three weeks now, it's three weeks since she was last here;
    llevaba siglos sin ir al cine I hadn't been to the cinema for ages, it was ages since I'd been to the cinema;
    ¿cuánto tiempo llevas aquí? how long have you been here?;
    llevo todo el día llamándote I've been trying to get through to you on the phone all day;
    llevar mucho tiempo haciendo algo to have been doing sth for a long time
    17. Esp [cobrar] to charge;
    ¿qué te llevaron por la revisión del coche? how much o what did they charge you for servicing the car?
    18. CSur [comprar] to take;
    llevaré la roja I'll take o have the red one;
    ¿lo envuelvo o lo lleva puesto? shall I wrap it up for you or do you want to keep it on?
    ♦ vi
    [conducir]
    llevar a to lead to;
    esta carretera lleva al norte this road leads north
    ♦ v aux
    (antes de participio)
    llevo leída media novela I'm halfway through the novel;
    llevo dicho esto mismo docenas de veces I've said the same thing time and again;
    llevaba anotados todos los gastos she had noted down all the expenses
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 take;
    llevar a alguien en coche drive s.o., take s.o. in the car;
    2 ropa, gafas wear
    3 ritmo keep up
    4
    :
    llevar las de perder be likely to lose;
    me lleva dos años he’s two years older than me;
    llevo ocho días aquí I’ve been here a week;
    llevo una hora esperando I’ve been waiting for an hour;
    ¿te llevó dos horas hacer eso? it took you two hours to do that?
    II v/i lead (a to)
    * * *
    llevar vt
    1) : to take away, to carry
    me gusta, me lo llevo: I like it, I'll take it
    2) : to wear
    3) : to take, to lead
    llevamos a Pedro al cine: we took Pedro to the movies
    4)
    llevar a cabo : to carry out
    5)
    llevar adelante : to carry on, to keep going
    llevar vi
    : to lead
    un problema lleva al otro: one problem leads to another
    llevar v aux
    : to have
    llevo mucho tiempo buscándolo: I've been looking for it for a long time
    lleva leído medio libro: he's halfway through the book
    * * *
    llevar vb
    1. (en general) to take [pt. took; pp. taken]
    2. (cargar) to carry [pt. & pp. carried]
    ¿quieres que te lleve la compra? shall I carry your shopping?
    3. (vestir) to wear [pt. wore; pp. worn]
    4. (tener) to have
    ¿qué llevas en la mano? what have you got in your hand?
    5. (conducir) to drive [pt. drove; pp. driven]
    6. (tiempo) to have been
    llevarle a alguien... años to be... years older than somebody

    Spanish-English dictionary > llevar

  • 13 carry

    1. transitive verb
    1) (transport) tragen; (with emphasis on destination) bringen; [Strom:] spülen; [Verkehrsmittel:] befördern

    carry all before one — (fig.) nicht aufzuhalten sein

    2) (conduct) leiten

    carry something into effect — etwas in die Tat umsetzen

    3) (support) tragen; (contain) fassen
    4) (have with one)

    carry [with one] — bei sich haben od. tragen; tragen [Waffe, Kennzeichen]

    5) (possess) besitzen [Autorität, Gewicht]; see also academic.ru/15886/conviction">conviction 2)
    6) (hold)

    she carries herself well — sie hat eine gute Haltung

    7) (prolong)

    carry modesty/altruism etc. to excess — die Bescheidenheit/den Altruismus usw. bis zum Exzess treiben

    8) (Math.): (transfer) im Sinn behalten

    carry one — eins im Sinn

    9) (win) durchbringen [Antrag, Gesetzentwurf, Vorschlag]

    carry the day — den Sieg davontragen

    2. intransitive verb
    [Stimme, Laut:] zu hören sein
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    ['kæri]
    1) (to take from one place etc to another: She carried the child over the river; Flies carry disease.) tragen
    2) (to go from one place to another: Sound carries better over water.) reichen; übertragen
    3) (to support: These stone columns carry the weight of the whole building.) tragen
    4) (to have or hold: This job carries great responsibility.) mit sich bringen
    5) (to approve (a bill etc) by a majority of votes: The parliamentary bill was carried by forty-two votes.) durchsetzen
    6) (to hold (oneself) in a certain way: He carries himself like a soldier.) sich haben
    •

    ((slang) a fuss; excited behaviour.)

    ((of bags or cases) that passengers can carry with them on board a plane.)

    - carry-all
    - carry-cot
    - be/get carried away
    - carry forward
    - carry off
    - carry on
    - carry out
    - carry weight
    * * *
    car·ry
    <- ie->
    [ˈkæri, AM ˈkeri]
    I. vt
    1. (bear)
    ▪ to \carry sb/sth jdn/etw tragen
    to \carry sb piggyback jdn huckepack tragen
    ▪ to \carry sth around etw mit sich dat herumtragen
    2. (move)
    ▪ to \carry sb/sth somewhere jdn/etw irgendwohin tragen
    the wind carried the leaves up in the air der Wind wirbelte die Blätter hoch
    to be carried downstream/down the river flussabwärts treiben
    ▪ to \carry sb/sth jdn/etw transportieren [o befördern]
    the bus was \carrying our children to school der Bus brachte unsere Kinder zur Schule
    the truck was not \carrying a load der Lastwagen war nicht beladen
    the stranded ship was \carrying cargo das gestrandete Schiff hatte eine Ladung an Bord
    4. (sustain the weight of)
    ▪ to \carry sb/sth jdn/etw tragen
    I'm so tired my legs won't \carry me ich bin so müde, ich kann mich kaum mehr auf den Beinen halten
    5. (have with you)
    ▪ to \carry sth [with one] etw bei sich dat haben [o tragen]
    it's risky to \carry a knife/revolver [with you] es ist riskant, ein Messer/einen Revolver bei sich zu tragen
    she always carries a picture of her mother with her [in her wallet] sie hat immer ein Bild von ihrer Mutter [in ihrer Brieftasche] bei sich
    6. (retain)
    to \carry sth in one's head etw [im Kopf] behalten
    to \carry the memory of sth [with one] etw in Erinnerung behalten
    7. (have, incur)
    ▪ to \carry sth etw haben; (have printed on) etw tragen
    murder used to \carry the death penalty auf Mord stand früher die Todesstrafe
    all cigarette packets \carry a warning auf allen Zigarettenpäckchen steht eine Warnung
    to \carry conviction überzeugend sein
    his speech carried a lot of conviction seine Rede klang sehr überzeugt
    to \carry insurance versichert sein
    to \carry a penalty eine [Geld]strafe nach sich ziehen
    to \carry responsibility Verantwortung tragen
    her job carries a lot of responsibility ihre Stelle bringt viel Verantwortung mit sich, sie trägt in ihrem Job viel Verantwortung
    to \carry sail NAUT Segel gesetzt haben
    to \carry weight with sb (influence) Einfluss auf jdn haben; (impress) jdn beeindrucken
    ▪ to \carry sth etw enthalten
    9. MUS
    to \carry a tune eine Melodie halten [können]
    10. (transmit)
    ▪ to \carry sth etw übertragen
    to \carry electricity/oil/water Strom/Erdöl/Wasser leiten
    11. MED
    ▪ to \carry sth etw übertragen
    malaria is carried by mosquitoes Malaria wird von Stechmücken übertragen
    ▪ to \carry sb für jdn aufkommen
    ▪ to \carry sth etw tragen; (sustain)
    to \carry an animal through the winter ein Tier über den Winter bringen
    the company is currently being carried by its export sales die Firma wird im Moment durch ihre Exporte getragen
    we cannot afford to \carry people who don't work hard Leute, die nicht hart arbeiten, sind für uns nicht tragbar
    many animals store food in autumn to \carry them through the winter viele Tier sammeln im Herbst Futter um damit durch den Winter zu kommen
    13. (have a certain posture, conduct)
    ▪ to \carry oneself:
    you can tell she's a dancer from the way that she carries herself an ihrer Haltung erkennt man gleich, dass sie Tänzerin ist
    to \carry one's head high ( fig) den Kopf hoch tragen fig
    to \carry oneself well sich akk gut halten; (posture also) eine gute Haltung haben
    14. (sell) shop
    ▪ to \carry sth etw führen
    15. (win)
    ▪ to \carry sb jdn auf seine Seite ziehen
    ▪ to \carry sth:
    the president carried most of the southern states der Präsident gewann in den meisten südlichen Bundesstaaten die Wahl
    to \carry the day den Sieg davontragen
    the party's popular plans will surely \carry the day at the next election mit ihren populären Vorhaben wird die Partei die nächsten Wahlen bestimmt für sich entscheiden
    16. usu passive (approve)
    ▪ to \carry sth etw dat zustimmen
    his motion was carried unanimously/by 210 votes to 160 sein Antrag wurde einstimmig/mit 210 zu 160 Stimmen angenommen
    17. JOURN
    ▪ to \carry sth über etw akk berichten, etw bringen fam
    the newspapers all \carry the same story on their front page die Zeitungen warten alle mit der gleichen Titelstory auf
    18. (develop)
    to \carry sth too far mit etw dat zu weit gehen
    to \carry sb's ideas further jds Ideen weiterentwickeln
    ▪ to \carry sth to sth etw zu etw dat führen
    to \carry an argument to its [logical] conclusion ein Argument [bis zum Schluss] durchdenken
    to \carry sth to an end etw zu Ende führen
    to \carry sth to extremes [or its limits] etw bis zum Exzess treiben
    to \carry the joke too far den Spaß zu weit treiben
    19. MATH
    to \carry a number (on paper) eine Zahl übertragen; (in one's head) eine Zahl [im Sinn] behalten
    3, \carry 1 3, behalte 1 [o 1 im Sinn
    20. (be pregnant)
    to \carry a child ein Kind erwarten, schwanger sein
    when I was \carrying Rajiv als ich mit Rajiv schwanger war
    21. (submit)
    to \carry one's complaints to sb jdm seine Beschwerden vortragen
    22. FIN
    to \carry interest Zinsen abwerfen
    the bonds \carry interest at 10% die Wertpapiere werfen 10 % Zinsen ab
    23.
    ▶ to \carry all before one/it (be successful) vollen Erfolg haben; ( hum: have big breasts) viel Holz vor der Hütte haben hum
    ▶ to have to \carry the can BRIT ( fam) die Sache ausbaden müssen fam
    ▶ to \carry a torch for sb ( fam) jdn anhimmeln fam
    II. vi
    1. (be audible) zu hören sein
    the actors' voices carried right to the back die Darsteller waren bis in die letzte Reihe zu hören
    2. (fly) fliegen
    the ball carried high into the air der Ball flog hoch in die Luft
    III. n FIN Kreditkosten pl
    positive/negative \carry finanzieller Gewinn/Verlust
    * * *
    ['krɪ]
    1. vt
    1) load, person, object tragen; message (über)bringen
    2) (vehicle = convey) befördern; goods also transportieren

    a boat carrying missiles to Cuba —

    the wind carried the sound to him — der Wind trug die Laute zu ihm hin or an sein Ohr

    3) (= have on person) documents, money bei sich haben or führen (form); gun, sword tragen
    4) (fig)

    he carried his audience (along) with him — er riss das Publikum mit, er begeisterte das Publikum

    the loan carries 5% interest — das Darlehen wird mit 5% verzinst

    this job carries extra pay/a lot of responsibility — dieser Posten bringt eine höhere Bezahlung/viel Verantwortung mit sich

    the offence carries a penalty of £50 — auf dies Vergehen or darauf steht eine Geldstrafe von £ 50

    5) (bridge etc = support) tragen, stützen
    6) (COMM) goods, stock führen, (auf Lager) haben
    7) (TECH pipe) water, oil, electricity führen; (wire) sound (weiter)leiten, übertragen
    8) (= extend) führen, (ver)legen
    9) (= win) einnehmen, erobern

    to carry the day —

    to carry all before one ( hum woman ) —, woman ) viel Holz vor der Tür haben (inf)

    the motion was carried unanimously —

    10)

    he carries himself well/like a soldier — er hat eine gute/soldatische Haltung

    11) (PRESS) story, photo bringen
    12) (MED)

    people carrying the AIDS virus — Menschen, die das Aidsvirus in sich (dat) tragen

    13) (= be pregnant with) erwarten, schwanger gehen mit (geh)

    to be carrying a child — schwanger sein, ein Kind erwarten

    14) (MATH)

    ... and carry 2 —... übertrage or behalte 2,... und 2 im Sinn (inf)

    2. vi
    1) (voice, sound) tragen

    the sound of the alphorn carried for miles — der Klang des Alphorns war meilenweit zu hören

    2) (ball, arrow) fliegen
    * * *
    carry [ˈkærı]
    A s
    1. Trag-, Schussweite f
    2. Golf: Flugstrecke f (des Balls)
    3. US → portage A 3
    B v/t
    1. tragen:
    carry sth in one’s hand;
    he carried his jacket er trug seine Jacke (über dem Arm);
    she lost the baby she was carrying sie verlor das Kind, das sie unter dem Herzen trug;
    pillars carrying an arch bogentragende Pfeiler;
    carry one’s head high den Kopf hoch tragen;
    carry o.s. well
    a) sich gut halten,
    b) sich gut benehmen;
    carry a disease eine Krankheit weitertragen oder verbreiten;
    carry sails SCHIFF Segel führen;
    he knows how to carry his liquor er kann eine Menge (Alkohol) vertragen;
    he can’t carry his liquor er verträgt nichts;
    as fast as his legs could carry him so schnell ihn seine Beine trugen;
    a) auf der ganzen Linie siegen oder erfolgreich sein,
    b) hum viel Holz vor der Hütte (einen großen Busen) haben;
    they carry the British hopes sie tragen oder auf ihnen ruhen die britischen Hoffnungen
    2. fig tragen, (unter)stützen
    3. bringen, tragen, führen, schaffen, befördern:
    a taxi carried me to the station ein Taxi brachte mich zum Bahnhof;
    carry mail BAHN Post befördern;
    the pipes carry water die Rohre führen Wasser; → coal A 4
    4. eine Nachricht etc (über)bringen:
    he carried his complaint to the manager er trug seine Beschwerde dem Geschäftsführer vor
    5. mitführen, mit sich oder bei sich tragen:
    carry a watch eine Uhr tragen oder haben;
    carry sth in one’s head fig etwas im Kopf haben oder behalten;
    carry sth with one fig etwas im Geiste mit sich herumtragen
    6. fig (an sich oder zum Inhalt) haben:
    carry conviction überzeugen(d sein oder klingen);
    carry a moral eine Moral (zum Inhalt) haben;
    carry no risk mit keinem Risiko verbunden sein;
    carry (a lot of) weight ( oder authority) Gewicht oder Bedeutung haben, viel gelten ( with bei);
    this does not carry any weight with him das beeindruckt ihn nicht im Mindesten
    7. fig nach sich ziehen, zur Folge haben:
    treason carries the death penalty auf Hochverrat steht die Todesstrafe;
    carry consequences Folgen haben
    8. weiterführen, (hindurch-, hinauf- etc)führen, eine Hecke, Mauer, etc ziehen:
    carry the chimney through the roof den Schornstein durch das Dach führen
    9. fig fortreißen, überwältigen:
    carry the audience with one die Zuhörer mitreißen;
    carry sb to victory SPORT jemanden zum Sieg treiben
    10. fig treiben:
    carry sth too far ( oder to excess) etwas übertreiben oder zu weit treiben;
    carry it with a high hand gebieterisch auftreten
    11. fig
    a) erreichen, durchsetzen:
    carry sth into effect etwas verwirklichen oder ausführen; → point A 22
    b) PARL einen Antrag etc durchbringen:
    carry a motion unanimously einen Antrag einstimmig annehmen;
    the motion was carried der Antrag ging durch
    12. fig
    a) einen Preis etc erlangen, erringen, gewinnen
    b) siegreich oder erfolgreich aus einer Wahl etc hervorgehen; → day Bes Redew
    c) MIL eine Festung etc (ein)nehmen, erobern
    13. Früchte etc tragen, hervorbringen
    14. Mineralien etc führen, enthalten
    15. tragen, unterhalten, ernähren:
    16. einen Bericht etc bringen:
    the press carried the statement without comment die Presse brachte oder veröffentlichte die Erklärung kommentarlos
    17. WIRTSCH
    a) eine Ware führen
    b) eine Schuld etc in den Büchern führen
    c) Zinsen tragen: → interest A 11
    d) eine Versicherung etc zahlen:
    carry insurance versichert sein
    18. JAGD die Spur festhalten (Hund)
    19. MUS einen Ton, eine Melodie tragen
    C v/i
    1. tragen ( auch MUS Ton, Stimme)
    2. den Kopf gut etc halten (Pferd):
    3. tragen, reichen (Stimme, Schusswaffe etc):
    his voice carries far seine Stimme trägt weit
    4. sich gut etc tragen lassen
    5. fliegen (Ball etc)
    6. besonders US Anklang finden, einschlagen umg (Kunstwerk etc)
    * * *
    1. transitive verb
    1) (transport) tragen; (with emphasis on destination) bringen; [Strom:] spülen; [Verkehrsmittel:] befördern

    carry all before one — (fig.) nicht aufzuhalten sein

    2) (conduct) leiten
    3) (support) tragen; (contain) fassen

    carry [with one] — bei sich haben od. tragen; tragen [Waffe, Kennzeichen]

    5) (possess) besitzen [Autorität, Gewicht]; see also conviction 2)

    carry modesty/altruism etc. to excess — die Bescheidenheit/den Altruismus usw. bis zum Exzess treiben

    8) (Math.): (transfer) im Sinn behalten
    9) (win) durchbringen [Antrag, Gesetzentwurf, Vorschlag]
    2. intransitive verb
    [Stimme, Laut:] zu hören sein
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    v.
    befördern v.
    tragen v.
    (§ p.,pp.: trug, getragen)
    übertragen v.

    English-german dictionary > carry

  • 14 carry

    'kæri
    1) (to take from one place etc to another: She carried the child over the river; Flies carry disease.) llevar, transportar
    2) (to go from one place to another: Sound carries better over water.) transmitir
    3) (to support: These stone columns carry the weight of the whole building.) soportar
    4) (to have or hold: This job carries great responsibility.) comportar
    5) (to approve (a bill etc) by a majority of votes: The parliamentary bill was carried by forty-two votes.) aprobar
    6) (to hold (oneself) in a certain way: He carries himself like a soldier.) comportarse
    •

    ((slang) a fuss; excited behaviour.) lío, jaleo, follón

    ((of bags or cases) that passengers can carry with them on board a plane.) (bolsa) de mano

    - carry-cot
    - be/get carried away
    - carry forward
    - carry off
    - carry on
    - carry out
    - carry weight
    carry vb llevar
    shall I carry your case? ¿te llevo la maleta?
    tr['kærɪ]
    1 (take, bear - gen) llevar; (- money, passport, gun, etc) llevar (encima)
    2 (transport - goods, load, passengers) transportar, acarrear
    3 (conduct, convey - water, oil, blood) llevar; (- electricity) conducir
    4 (disease) ser portador,-ra de
    5 SMALLARCHITECTURE/SMALL (support - weight) soportar, sostener
    6 (take - blame, responsibility) cargar con
    7 (entail, involve - responsibility) conllevar; (- penalty, consequences) implicar, conllevar
    8 (vote, bill, motion, etc) aprobar
    9 SMALLCOMMERCE/SMALL (have for sale) tener, vender
    10 (news, story, report, etc) traer, publicar
    11 (be pregnant with) estar embarazada de
    12 SMALLMATHEMATICS/SMALL llevar(se)
    1 (sound, voice) oírse, tener alcance
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    carried forward suma y sigue
    to carry coals to Newcastle llevar leña al monte
    to get carried away exaltarse, desmadrarse
    carry ['kæri] v, - ried ; - rying vt
    1) transport: llevar, cargar, transportar (cargamento), conducir (electricidad), portar (un virus)
    to carry a bag: cargar una bolsa
    to carry money: llevar dinero encima, traer dinero consigo
    2) bear: soportar, aguantar, resistir (peso)
    3) stock: vender, tener en abasto
    4) entail: llevar, implicar, acarrear
    5) win: ganar (una elección o competición), aprobar (una moción)
    6)
    to carry oneself : portarse, comportarse
    he carried himself honorably: se comportó dignamente
    carry vi
    : oírse, proyectarse
    her voice carries well: su voz se puede oír desde lejos
    v.
    • acarrear v.
    • aceptar v.
    • cargar v.
    • ganar v.
    • incluir v.
    (§pres: incluyo...incluimos...)
    • llevar (Matemática) v.
    • llevar v.
    • portear v.
    • sobrellevar v.
    • sostener v.
    (§pres: -tengo, -tienes...-tenemos) pret: -tuv-
    fut/c: -tendr-•)
    • traer v.
    (§pres: traigo, traes...) pret: traj-•)
    • transportar v.
    'kæri
    1.
    -ries, -rying, -ried transitive verb
    1)
    a) (bear, take) llevar

    I can't carry this, it's too heavy — no puedo cargar con esto, pesa demasiado

    b) ( have with one) llevar encima
    c) ( be provided with) \<\<guarantee\>\> tener*
    d) ( be pregnant with) estar* embarazada or encinta de
    2)
    a) ( convey) \<\<goods/passengers\>\> llevar, transportar, acarrear

    the car can carry four people — el coche tiene cabida para cuatro personas, en el coche caben cuatro personas

    b) (channel, transmit) \<\<oil/water/sewage\>\> llevar
    c) \<\<disease\>\> ser* portador de
    3)
    a) ( support) \<\<weight\>\> soportar, resistir
    b) ( take responsibility for) \<\<cost/blame\>\> cargar* con
    c) ( sustain)
    4) (involve, entail) \<\<responsibility\>\> conllevar; \<\<consequences/penalty\>\> acarrear, traer* aparejado
    5) (extend, continue)
    6)
    a) ( gain support for) \<\<bill/motion\>\> aprobar*
    b) ( Pol) ( win) \<\<constituency/city\>\> hacerse* con

    to carry all before one — arrasar con todo

    7)
    a) ( stock) \<\<model\>\> tener*, vender
    b) ( include) ( Journ) traer*, publicar*

    2.
    v refl
    b) ( behave) comportarse, actuar*

    3.
    vi
    Phrasal Verbs:
    ['kærɪ]
    1. VT
    1) (=take) llevar

    as fast as his legs could carry him — tan rápido como le permitían sus piernas, a todo correr

    to carry one's audience with one — (fig) ganarse al público

    2) (=support) [+ burden] sostener
    3) (=have on one's person) [+ money, documents] llevar (encima)

    are you carrying any money? — ¿llevas dinero (encima)?

    4) (=transport) [+ goods] transportar; [+ passengers, message] llevar
    5) (Comm) (=stock) [+ goods] tener, tratar en
    6) (Med) [+ disease] transmitir, ser portador de
    7) (=involve) [+ consequence] acarrear; [+ responsibility] conllevar; [+ interpretation] encerrar, llevar implícito; [+ meaning] tener; [+ authority etc] revestir

    the offence carries a £50 fine — la infracción será penalizada con una multa de 50 libras

    8) (=have, be provided with) [+ guarantee] tener, llevar; [+ warning] llevar
    9) [newspaper etc] [+ story] traer, imprimir
    10) (=extend) extender, prolongar

    to carry sth too far — (fig) llevar algo demasiado lejos

    11) (Math) [+ figure] llevarse; (Econ) [+ interest] llevar
    12) (=approve) [+ motion] aprobar; [+ proposition] hacer aceptar
    13) (=win) [+ election, point] ganar; (Parl) [+ seat] ganar
    - carry the day
    - carry all or everything before one
    14)

    to carry o.s. — portarse

    15) [pregnant woman] [+ child] estar encinta de
    2. VI
    1) [sound] oírse
    2) [pregnant woman]

    she's carrying — † está embarazada

    3.
    N [of ball, shot] alcance m
    * * *
    ['kæri]
    1.
    -ries, -rying, -ried transitive verb
    1)
    a) (bear, take) llevar

    I can't carry this, it's too heavy — no puedo cargar con esto, pesa demasiado

    b) ( have with one) llevar encima
    c) ( be provided with) \<\<guarantee\>\> tener*
    d) ( be pregnant with) estar* embarazada or encinta de
    2)
    a) ( convey) \<\<goods/passengers\>\> llevar, transportar, acarrear

    the car can carry four people — el coche tiene cabida para cuatro personas, en el coche caben cuatro personas

    b) (channel, transmit) \<\<oil/water/sewage\>\> llevar
    c) \<\<disease\>\> ser* portador de
    3)
    a) ( support) \<\<weight\>\> soportar, resistir
    b) ( take responsibility for) \<\<cost/blame\>\> cargar* con
    c) ( sustain)
    4) (involve, entail) \<\<responsibility\>\> conllevar; \<\<consequences/penalty\>\> acarrear, traer* aparejado
    5) (extend, continue)
    6)
    a) ( gain support for) \<\<bill/motion\>\> aprobar*
    b) ( Pol) ( win) \<\<constituency/city\>\> hacerse* con

    to carry all before one — arrasar con todo

    7)
    a) ( stock) \<\<model\>\> tener*, vender
    b) ( include) ( Journ) traer*, publicar*

    2.
    v refl
    b) ( behave) comportarse, actuar*

    3.
    vi
    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > carry

  • 15 traficante de drogas

    drug trafficker, drug pusher
    * * *
    (n.) = drug trafficker, drug runner, drug smuggler, drug pusher, drug dealer, drug mule, drug courier
    Ex. Results indicate that juvenile drug traffickers tend not to use the drugs that they sell.
    Ex. Drug runners carrying the cocaine north apparently dump it overboard when pursued by authorities.
    Ex. While the drug smugglers are said to be stronger than the states in which they live, Marxist insurgents have been fighting with them for several years.
    Ex. The novel revolves around the world of pimps, drug pushers and soul brothers.
    Ex. The Government has ordered the police nationwide to spray-paint all private homes of alleged or suspected drug dealers in Manila.
    Ex. They were then recruited to act as drug mules -- drug couriers who would not arouse suspicion while carrying heroin - and offered lots of money to carry out this task.
    Ex. They were then recruited to act as drug mules -- drug couriers who would not arouse suspicion while carrying heroin - and offered lots of money to carry out this task.
    * * *
    (n.) = drug trafficker, drug runner, drug smuggler, drug pusher, drug dealer, drug mule, drug courier

    Ex: Results indicate that juvenile drug traffickers tend not to use the drugs that they sell.

    Ex: Drug runners carrying the cocaine north apparently dump it overboard when pursued by authorities.
    Ex: While the drug smugglers are said to be stronger than the states in which they live, Marxist insurgents have been fighting with them for several years.
    Ex: The novel revolves around the world of pimps, drug pushers and soul brothers.
    Ex: The Government has ordered the police nationwide to spray-paint all private homes of alleged or suspected drug dealers in Manila.
    Ex: They were then recruited to act as drug mules -- drug couriers who would not arouse suspicion while carrying heroin - and offered lots of money to carry out this task.
    Ex: They were then recruited to act as drug mules -- drug couriers who would not arouse suspicion while carrying heroin - and offered lots of money to carry out this task.

    * * *
    drug dealer

    Spanish-English dictionary > traficante de drogas

  • 16 revólver

    v.
    Ellos revuelven los ingredientes They stir the ingredients.
    2 to turn upside down, to mess up.
    3 to upset.
    me revuelve el estómago o las tripas it makes my stomach turn
    Ellos revolvieron el cuarto They messed up the room.
    Eso revuelve mi estómago That turns my stomach.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ MOVER], like link=mover mover (pp revuelto,-a)
    1 (agitar) to stir
    2 (mezclar) to mix
    3 (ensalada) to toss
    4 (habitación, casa, etc) to turn upside down
    5 (papeles) to rummage through; (bolso, bolsillo, etc) to rummage in
    6 (producir náuseas) to upset, turn
    1 (moverse) to fidget; (en la cama) to toss and turn
    2 (volverse con rapidez) to turn around, spin round
    3 (tiempo) to turn stormy; (mar) to become rough
    \
    revolverse contra alguien figurado to turn against somebody
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    ( pp revuelto)
    1. VT
    1) [+ líquido] to stir
    2) [+ papeles] to look through
    3) [+ tierra] to turn over, turn up, dig over
    4) (=enredar)

    ¡deja de revolver!, ¡no revuelvas! — [a niño] stop messing about with things!, stop fidgeting!

    5) (=desordenar) to mix up, mess up
    6) [+ asunto] to go into, investigate
    7) (Pol) to stir up, cause unrest among; [+ persona] to provoke, rouse to anger
    8)
    9) (=envolver) to wrap up
    2.
    VI

    revolver en — to go through, rummage in, rummage about in

    revolver en los bolsillos — to feel in one's pockets, fumble in one's pockets

    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <salsa/guiso> to stir
    b) (AmL) < dados> to shake
    2) <cajones/papeles> to rummage through, go through

    revolverla(s) — (Chi fam) to live it up (colloq)

    2. 3.
    revolverse v pron
    a) ( moverse)

    se revolvía inquieto sin poder dormir — he tossed and turned, unable to sleep

    b) ( dar la vuelta) to turn around
    * * *
    = revolver, pistol, stir, rummage (among/through), gun, rifle through.
    Ex. A heart on a pink background thus indicates 'romance' (rather than medicine) and a magnifying glass or a gun might indicate a detective story though a gun might mean a 'western' if it is a revolver and a war story if it is a field gun.
    Ex. At the time of his arrest he was beaten, kicked and clubbed in the head with the butt of a pistol, resulting in health problems which are not being properly treated in prison = En el momento de su arresto le habían golpeado, dado patadas y golpeado en la cabeza con la culata de una pistola, causándole problemas de salud que están siendo tratados adecuadadamente en la cárcel.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Take 25 branches and stir gently... a recipe for success'.
    Ex. But searching an Internet database through hot new technique such as Wide Area Information Servers is vastly different from using the BITNET protocols to rummage through files on one of its server computers.
    Ex. A situation involving the dangerous or apparently dangerous person (perhaps someone reportedly carrying a gun or knife) requires the librarian to summon expert help.
    Ex. We could rifle through history and find many a world leader who has had a misty-eyed public moment.
    ----
    * revolver el gallinero = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons.
    * revolver el palomar = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons.
    * revolverlo todo = turn + everything upside down.
    * revolver toda la casa = turn + the house upside down.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <salsa/guiso> to stir
    b) (AmL) < dados> to shake
    2) <cajones/papeles> to rummage through, go through

    revolverla(s) — (Chi fam) to live it up (colloq)

    2. 3.
    revolverse v pron
    a) ( moverse)

    se revolvía inquieto sin poder dormir — he tossed and turned, unable to sleep

    b) ( dar la vuelta) to turn around
    * * *
    = revolver, pistol, stir, rummage (among/through), gun, rifle through.

    Ex: A heart on a pink background thus indicates 'romance' (rather than medicine) and a magnifying glass or a gun might indicate a detective story though a gun might mean a 'western' if it is a revolver and a war story if it is a field gun.

    Ex: At the time of his arrest he was beaten, kicked and clubbed in the head with the butt of a pistol, resulting in health problems which are not being properly treated in prison = En el momento de su arresto le habían golpeado, dado patadas y golpeado en la cabeza con la culata de una pistola, causándole problemas de salud que están siendo tratados adecuadadamente en la cárcel.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Take 25 branches and stir gently... a recipe for success'.
    Ex: But searching an Internet database through hot new technique such as Wide Area Information Servers is vastly different from using the BITNET protocols to rummage through files on one of its server computers.
    Ex: A situation involving the dangerous or apparently dangerous person (perhaps someone reportedly carrying a gun or knife) requires the librarian to summon expert help.
    Ex: We could rifle through history and find many a world leader who has had a misty-eyed public moment.
    * revolver el gallinero = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons.
    * revolver el palomar = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons.
    * revolverlo todo = turn + everything upside down.
    * revolver toda la casa = turn + the house upside down.

    * * *
    vt
    A
    1 ‹salsa/guiso› to stir estómago
    2 ( AmL) (agitar) ‹dados› to shake
    3 ( Chi) ‹cartas/dominó› to shuffle
    B (desordenar) ‹cajones/papeles› to rummage through, go through
    además de robarme me revolvieron toda la casa they didn't just steal things, they turned the whole house upside down
    revolverla(s) ( Chi fam); to live it up ( colloq)
    ■ revolver
    vi
    había estado revolviendo en mis cosas he had been rummaging around in o rummaging through my things
    1
    (moverse): se revolvía inquieto sin poder dormir he tossed and turned, unable to sleep
    2 (dar la vuelta) to turn around
    se revolvían en sus asientos they kept turning around in their seats
    * * *

    Multiple Entries:
    revolver    
    revólver
    revolver ( conjugate revolver) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹salsa/guiso› to stir;


    b) (AmL) ‹ dados› to shake

    c) ‹cajones/papeles› to rummage through, go through;

    [ ladrones] ‹ casa› to turn … upside down
    verbo intransitivo:

    revólver sustantivo masculino
    revolver
    revolver
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (dando vueltas) to stir
    2 (disgustar, causar desagrado) to make sick, upset
    3 (un asunto) to think over: será mejor que no revuelvas el asunto de su ascenso, you're better off not mulling over his promotion
    4 (los cajones, una casa, etc) to turn upside down
    5 (los ánimos, a una multitud) to stir up: su discurso revolvió los ánimos, his speech agitated the crowd
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 (en el pasado, etc) to rummage through, dig around in
    2 (con una cuchara, etc) to stir: no dejes de revolver, o se cortará, don't stop stirring or it'll curdle
    ♦ Locuciones: revolver el estómago, to turn one's stomach: me revuelve el estómago cuando le hace la pelota, it makes me sick when she plays up to him
    revólver sustantivo masculino revolver

    ' revólver' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alborotar
    - hurgar
    - revolver
    - trastear
    - andar
    - culata
    - pega
    English:
    handgun
    - jumble
    - mix up
    - revolver
    - rifle
    - shuffle
    - six-shooter
    - stir up
    - toss
    - turn
    - air
    - churn
    - dog
    - drop
    - gun
    - holster
    - ransack
    - shake
    - stir
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [mezclar] [líquido] to stir;
    [ensalada] to toss; [objetos] to mix; Am [dados] to shake; CSur [baraja] to shuffle;
    la travesía me ha revuelto el estómago the crossing has made me sick in my stomach;
    revolver Roma con Santiago to leave no stone unturned
    2. [desorganizar] to turn upside down, to mess up;
    [cajones] to turn out;
    los niños revolvieron la casa the children left the house in a complete mess;
    lo dejaron todo revuelto they turned the place upside down
    3. [irritar] to upset;
    me revuelve el estómago o [m5] las tripas it makes my stomach turn
    4. [alterar]
    revolver los ánimos to cause feelings to run high
    ♦ vi
    revolver en [armario, pasado] to rummage around in;
    ¿quién ha estado revolviendo en mis cajones? who's been rummaging around in my drawers?
    * * *
    <part revuelto>
    I v/t
    1 GASTR stir
    2 estómago turn
    3 ( desordenar) mess up, turn upside down
    II v/i rummage (en in)
    * * *
    revolver {89} vt
    1) : to move about, to mix, to shake, to stir
    2) : to upset (one's stomach)
    3) : to mess up, to rummage through
    revolver la casa: to turn the house upside down
    * * *
    1. (agitar) to stir [pt. & pp. stirred]
    2. (desordenar) to mess up

    Spanish-English dictionary > revólver

  • 17 Techtelmechtel

    n; -s, -; umg. carrying-on, flirtation, affair; ein Techtelmechtel mit jemandem haben be carrying on ( oder doing a line, Am. fooling around) with s.o.
    * * *
    das Techtelmechtel
    hanky-panky
    * * *
    Tech|tel|mẹch|tel [tEçtl'mɛçtl]
    nt -s, - (inf)
    affair, carry-on (inf)
    * * *
    Tech·tel·mech·tel
    <-s, ->
    [tɛçtl̩ˈmɛçtl̩]
    nt (fam) affair
    ein \Techtelmechtel [mit jdm] haben to have an affair [with sb]
    * * *
    das; Techtelmechtels, Techtelmechtel: affair
    * * *
    Techtelmechtel n; -s, -; umg carrying-on, flirtation, affair;
    ein Techtelmechtel mit jemandem haben be carrying on ( oder doing a line, US fooling around) with sb
    * * *
    das; Techtelmechtels, Techtelmechtel: affair
    * * *
    n.
    love affair n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Techtelmechtel

  • 18 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 19 cart

    1. noun
    1) (a two-wheeled (usually horse-drawn) vehicle for carrying loads: a farm cart.) kærre
    2) ((American) a small wheeled vehicle pushed by hand, for carrying groceries, golf clubs etc.) indkøbsvogn; trillevogn
    2. verb
    1) (to carry (in a cart): He carted the manure into the field.) køre
    2) (to carry: I don't want to cart this luggage around all day.) slæbe
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    * * *
    1. noun
    1) (a two-wheeled (usually horse-drawn) vehicle for carrying loads: a farm cart.) kærre
    2) ((American) a small wheeled vehicle pushed by hand, for carrying groceries, golf clubs etc.) indkøbsvogn; trillevogn
    2. verb
    1) (to carry (in a cart): He carted the manure into the field.) køre
    2) (to carry: I don't want to cart this luggage around all day.) slæbe
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    English-Danish dictionary > cart

  • 20 schleppen

    I v/t
    1. (ziehen) drag (auch fig., Person); (Koffer etc.) auch lug, Am. auch schlep umg.; NAUT., FLUG., MOT. tow; ein Schiff in den Hafen schleppen tow a ship into the harbo(u)r; der Wagen musste in die Werkstatt geschleppt werden the car had to be towed to the garage; Kunden schleppen umg. tout; jemanden in ein Konzert etc. schleppen umg., fig. drag s.o. along to a concert etc.
    2. umg. (tragen) lug; Umzugskartons nach oben schleppen lug ( oder cart) removers’ (Am. packing) boxes upstairs; nun schlepp ich den Brief schon tagelang durch die Gegend fig. I’ve been carrying the letter around with me for days; wie lange willst du den alten Mantel noch schleppen? fig. how much longer do you want to go on wearing that ancient coat?
    3. fig. (illegal befördern) (Flüchtlinge etc.) smuggle
    II v/refl
    1. Person: drag o.s. (along); (mühsam gehen) auch trudge, plod (along), Am. schlep; der Dicke schleppte sich zur Tür the fat guy moved ponderously towards (Am. schlepped toward) the door; schwer verletzt konnte er sich noch ans Telefon schleppen badly wounded as he was, he still managed to drag himself to the telephone
    2. Sache: drag on; es schleppt sich seit Monaten etc. it has been dragging on for months etc.
    3. sich mit einem schweren Koffer schleppen umg. lug ( oder cart, Am. schlep) a heavy case around; sich schleppen mit fig. (Kummer etc.) be weighed down by; (einer Erkältung) be battling with
    * * *
    das Schleppen
    towage; haulage
    * * *
    schlẹp|pen ['ʃlɛpn]
    1. vt
    (= tragen) Lasten, Gepäck to lug, to schlepp (US sl); (= zerren) to drag, to haul, to schlepp (US sl); Auto, Schiff to tow; (fig) to drag; Flüchtlinge to smuggle

    etw mit sich schleppen (fig, Verantwortung etc) — to carry sth on one's shoulders, to be burdened with sth

    2. vi
    inf = nachschleifen) to drag, to trail
    3. vr
    to drag or haul oneself; (Verhandlungen etc) to drag on
    * * *
    1) (to pull, especially by force or roughly: She was dragged screaming from her car.) drag
    2) (to pull (something) slowly (usually because heavy): He dragged the heavy table across the floor.) drag
    3) ((an) act of towing or process of being towed: Give us a tow!) tow
    4) (to carry: He was toting a pile of books about with him.) tote
    * * *
    schlep·pen
    [ˈʃlɛpn̩]
    I. vt
    ▪ jdn/etw [irgendwohin] \schleppen to carry [or fam lug] sb/sth
    ▪ jdn/etw \schleppen to drag sb/sth
    ▪ etw [irgendwohin] \schleppen to tow sth [somewhere]
    das Auto in die Werkstatt \schleppen lassen to have the car towed to the garage
    4. (fam: schleifen)
    ▪ jdn [irgendwohin] \schleppen to drag sb [somewhere]
    5. (fam: tragen)
    ▪ etw [mit sich dat] [herum] \schleppen to lug sth around [with one]
    II. vr
    ▪ sich akk [irgendwohin] \schleppen to drag oneself somewhere
    ▪ sich akk \schleppen to drag on
    * * *
    1.
    1) (ziehen) tow <vehicle, ship>
    2) (tragen) carry; lug
    3) (ugs.): (mitnehmen) drag
    2.
    reflexives Verb drag or haul oneself
    * * *
    A. v/t
    1. (ziehen) drag (auch fig, Person); (Koffer etc) auch lug, US auch schlep umg; SCHIFF, FLUG, AUTO tow;
    ein Schiff in den Hafen schleppen tow a ship into the harbo(u)r;
    der Wagen musste in die Werkstatt geschleppt werden the car had to be towed to the garage;
    Kunden schleppen umg tout;
    schleppen umg, fig drag sb along to a concert etc
    2. umg (tragen) lug;
    Umzugskartons nach oben schleppen lug ( oder cart) removers’ (US packing) boxes upstairs;
    nun schlepp ich den Brief schon tagelang durch die Gegend fig I’ve been carrying the letter around with me for days;
    wie lange willst du den alten Mantel noch schleppen? fig how much longer do you want to go on wearing that ancient coat?
    3. fig (illegal befördern) (Flüchtlinge etc) smuggle
    B. v/r
    1. Person: drag o.s. (along); (mühsam gehen) auch trudge, plod (along), US schlep;
    der Dicke schleppte sich zur Tür the fat guy moved ponderously towards (US schlepped toward) the door;
    schwer verletzt konnte er sich noch ans Telefon schleppen badly wounded as he was, he still managed to drag himself to the telephone
    2. Sache: drag on;
    es schleppt sich seit Monaten etc it has been dragging on for months etc
    3.
    sich mit einem schweren Koffer schleppen umg lug ( oder cart, US schlep) a heavy case around;
    sich schleppen mit fig (Kummer etc) be weighed down by; (einer Erkältung) be battling with
    * * *
    1.
    1) (ziehen) tow <vehicle, ship>
    2) (tragen) carry; lug
    3) (ugs.): (mitnehmen) drag
    2.
    reflexives Verb drag or haul oneself
    * * *
    n.
    haulage n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > schleppen

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