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a northern wind

  • 1 northern wind

    noordelijke wind (koude wind uit het noorden)

    English-Dutch dictionary > northern wind

  • 2 northern wind

    Рыбоводство: северный ветер

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > northern wind

  • 3 northern wind

    רוח צפונית (רוח קרה הנושבת מכיוון צפון, רוח ארקטית)
    * * *
    ◙ (תיטקרא חור,ןופצ ןוויכמ תבשונה הרק חור) תינופצ חור◄

    English-Hebrew dictionary > northern wind

  • 4 northern wind

    nordlig vind (kall vind som blåser från norr, arktisk vind)

    English-Swedish dictionary > northern wind

  • 5 (a) northern wind

    a northern wind (climate) северный ветер (климат)

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > (a) northern wind

  • 6 ♦ northern

    ♦ northern /ˈnɔ:ðən/
    A a.
    1 del nord; nordico; settentrionale; boreale: a northern wind, un vento del nord; the Northern States of the USA, gli Stati settentrionali degli USA; He speaks with a northern accent, parla con un accento del nord; the northern hemisphere, l'emisfero settentrionale (o boreale); the northern lights, l'aurora boreale
    2 (esposto, rivolto, che guarda) a nord (o a settentrione): a northern window, una finestra a settentrione
    3 ( USA) degli Stati del nord; (stor.) nordista
    B n.
    3 [u] inglese del nord dell'Inghilterra.

    English-Italian dictionary > ♦ northern

  • 7 northern

    ['nɔːðən]
    adj
    северный, относящийся к северу, обращённый на север, относящийся к северу, выходящий на север
    - northern towns
    - northern circle
    - northern lights
    - northern wind
    - northern seas
    - northern side of the building doesn't get sun
    USAGE:
    Русскому прилагательному северный соответствует английское прилагательное northern и существительное north в атрибутивном употреблении в основном как часть имен собственных - названий стран, морей, административных территорий: North America Северная Америка; North Africa Северная Африка; the North Sea Северное море; North Wales Северный Уэльс. Прилагательное northern употребляется в свободных словосочетаниях: a northern accent северный говор/северное произношение; the northern part of the country северная часть страны; to move in the northern direction двигаться в северном направлении. Такое же противопоставление характерно для названий остальных стран света - western и West, eastern и East, southern и South

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > northern

  • 8 northern

    northern ['nɔ:ðən]
    (a) Geography nord (inv), du nord;
    ∎ she has a northern accent elle a un accent du nord;
    ∎ the northern wing of the castle l'aile nord du château;
    ∎ in northern Mexico dans le nord du Mexique;
    ∎ the northern migration of swallows in spring la migration printanière des hirondelles vers le nord
    (b) (wind) de nord, du nord
    ►► northern hemisphere l'hémisphère m nord ou boréal;
    Northern Ireland Irlande f du Nord;
    ∎ in Northern Ireland en Irlande du Nord;
    Northern Ireland Assembly Assemblée f législative d'Irlande du Nord;
    northern lights aurore f boréale;
    American Ornithology northern shrike pie-grièche f grise;
    Geography Northern Territory le Territoire du Nord;
    ∎ in Northern Territory dans le Territoire du Nord;
    northern tribes tribus fpl du nord
    ⓘ NORTHERN IRELAND L'Irlande du Nord désigne la partie de l'Irlande à majorité protestante restée rattachée à la Grande-Bretagne lors de la partition du pays, en 1921. Les émeutes sanglantes qui ont éclaté à Belfast et à Londonderry en 1969 à la suite de manifestations revendiquant l'égalité des droits pour la minorité catholique ont marqué le début de trente ans de conflit entre catholiques et protestants en Irlande du Nord. Ce conflit vit s'affronter les nationalistes de l'IRA, favorables à un rattachement avec la République d'Irlande, différents groupes paramilitaires protestants anti-catholiques, et l'armée et la police, sous contrôle britannique. Le processus de paix, amorcé en 1994 et qui aboutit au Good Friday Agreement (voir encadré à l'entrée "good") de 1998, marqua une nouvelle étape plus optimiste dans l'histoire de l'Irlande du Nord.

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  • 9 (an) eastern wind

    an (a) eastern (hot, western, icy/cutting, night, polar/northern) wind восточный (горячий, западный, ледяной, ночной, северный) ветер

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > (an) eastern wind

  • 10 north

    1. noun
    1) (direction) Norden, der

    the north — Nord (Met., Seew.)

    in/to[wards]/from the north — im/nach/von Norden

    to the north of — nördlich von; nördlich (+ Gen.)

    2) usu.

    North — (part lying to the north) Norden, der

    from the North — aus dem Norden

    2. adjective
    nördlich; Nord[wind, -fenster, -küste, -grenze, -tor]
    3. adverb
    nordwärts; nach Norden

    north of — nördlich von; nördlich (+ Gen.)

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    [no:Ɵ] 1. noun
    1) (the direction to the left of a person facing the rising sun, or any part of the earth lying in that direction: He faced towards the north; The wind is blowing from the north; I used to live in the north of England.) der Norden
    2) ((also N) one of the four main points of the compass.) der Norden
    2. adjective
    1) (in the north: on the north bank of the river.) nördlich
    2) (from the direction of the north: a north wind.) Nord-...
    3. adverb
    (towards the north: The stream flows north.) nördlich
    - academic.ru/50438/northerly">northerly
    - northern
    - northerner
    - northernmost
    - northward
    - northwards
    - northward
    - northbound
    - north-east / north-west     4. adverb
    (towards the north-east or north-west: The building faces north-west.) nordöstlich, nordwestlich
    - north-easterly / north-westerly
    - north-eastern / north-western
    - the North Pole
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    [nɔ:θ, AM nɔ:rθ]
    I. n no pl
    1. (direction) Norden m
    ▪ in the \north im Norden
    ▪ to the \north nach Norden [hin]
    magnetic/true \north magnetischer Nordpol/geographische Nordrichtung
    2. (region)
    ▪ the N\north BRIT (North England) Nordengland nt; AM der Norden, die Nordstaaten pl
    II. adj inv nördlich, Nord-
    \north coast/side/wind Nordküste f/-seite f/-wind m
    \north of Manchester nördlich von Manchester
    \north part nördlicher Teil
    \north Vietnam Nordvietnam nt
    III. adv inv nordwärts; ( fig fam: upwards) nach oben
    compared to last year our sales figures have gone \north im Vergleich zum letzten Jahr sind unsere Verkaufzahlen gestiegen
    ▪ up \north ( fam) im Norden
    to drive \north in nördliche Richtung fahren
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    [nɔːɵ]
    1. n
    1) Norden m

    in/from the north — im/aus dem Norden

    to the north of — nördlich von, im Norden von

    to veer/go to the north — in nördliche Richtung or nach Norden drehen/gehen

    the wind is in the north — es ist Nordwind

    the North (of Scotland/England) — Nordschottland/-england nt

    2) (US HIST)

    the North — der Norden, die Nordstaaten pl

    2. adj attr
    Nord-
    3. adv
    (= towards North) nach Norden, gen Norden (liter), nordwärts (liter, Naut); (MET) in nördliche Richtung
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    north [nɔː(r)θ]
    A s
    1. Norden m:
    in the north of im Norden von (od gen);
    to the north of → C 3;
    from the north aus dem Norden
    2. auch North Norden m, nördlicher Landesteil:
    the North of Germany Norddeutschland n;
    a) Br Nordengland n,
    b) US der Norden, die Nordstaaten pl
    3. poet Nord(wind) m
    B adj nördlich, Nord…
    C adv
    1. nach Norden, nordwärts
    2. obs aus dem Norden (besonders Wind)
    3. north of nördlich von (od gen): → border A 4
    n. abk
    1. natus, born geb.
    3. LING nominative Nom.
    4. noon
    5. north N
    6. northern nördl.
    7. note
    8. noun Subst.
    9. number Nr.
    N abk
    2. PHYS newton N
    3. north N
    4. northern nördl.
    5. noun Subst.
    N. abk
    1. National (Nationalist)
    2. Navy
    3. north N
    4. northern nördl.
    No. abk
    1. north N
    2. northern nördl.
    3. number Nr.
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    1. noun
    1) (direction) Norden, der

    the north — Nord (Met., Seew.)

    in/to[wards]/from the north — im/nach/von Norden

    to the north of — nördlich von; nördlich (+ Gen.)

    2) usu.
    2. adjective
    nördlich; Nord[wind, -fenster, -küste, -grenze, -tor]
    3. adverb
    nordwärts; nach Norden

    north of — nördlich von; nördlich (+ Gen.)

    * * *
    adj.
    nördlich adj. n.
    Norden m.

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  • 11 Points of the compass

    north = nord N
    south = sud S
    east = est E
    west = ouest O
    nord, sud, est, ouest is the normal order in French as well as English.
    northeast = nord-est NE
    northwest = nord-ouest NO
    north-northeast = nord-nord-est NNE
    east-northeast = est-nord-est ENE
    Where?
    Compass points in French are not normally written with a capital letter. However, when they refer to a specific region in phrases such as I love the North or he lives in the North, and it is clear where this North is, without any further specification such as of France or of Europe, then they are written with a capital letter, as they often are in English, too. In the following examples, north and nord stand for any compass point word.
    I love the North
    = j’aime le Nord
    to live in the North
    = vivre dans le Nord
    Normally, however, these words do not take a capital letter:
    in the north of Scotland
    = dans le nord de l’Écosse
    Take care to distinguish this from
    to the north of Scotland (i.e. further north than Scotland)
    = au nord de l’Écosse
    in the south of Spain
    = dans le sud de l’Espagne*
    it is north of the hill
    = c’est au nord de la colline
    a few kilometres north
    = à quelques kilomètres au nord
    due north of here
    = droit au nord
    * Note that the south of France is more usually referred to as le Midi.
    There is another set of words in French for north, south etc., some of which are more
    common than others:
    (north) septentrion (rarely used) septentrional(e)
    (south) midi méridional(e)
    (east) orient oriental(e)
    (west) occident occidental(e)
    Translating northern etc.
    a northern town
    = une ville du Nord
    a northern accent
    = un accent du Nord
    the most northerly outpost
    = l’avant-poste le plus au nord
    Regions of countries and continents work like this:
    northern Europe
    = l’Europe du Nord
    the northern parts of Japan
    = le nord du Japon
    eastern France
    = l’est de la France
    For names of countries and continents which include these compass point words, such as North America or South Korea, see the dictionary entry.
    Where to?
    French has fewer ways of expressing this than English has ; vers le is usually safe:
    to go north
    = aller vers le nord
    to head towards the north
    = se diriger vers le nord
    to go northwards
    = aller vers le nord
    to go in a northerly direction
    = aller vers le nord
    a northbound ship
    = un bateau qui se dirige vers le nord
    With some verbs, such as to face, the French expression changes:
    the windows face north
    = les fenêtres donnent au nord
    a north-facing slope
    = une pente orientée au nord
    If in doubt, check in the dictionary.
    Where from?
    The usual way of expressing from the is du:
    it comes from the north
    = cela vient du nord
    from the north of Germany
    = du nord de l’Allemagne
    Note also these expressions relating to the direction of the wind:
    the north wind
    = le vent du nord
    a northerly wind
    = un vent du nord
    prevailing north winds
    = des vents dominants du nord
    the wind is in the north
    = le vent est au nord
    the wind is coming from the north
    = le vent vient du nord
    Compass point words used as adjectives
    The French words nord, sud, est and ouest are really nouns, so when they are used as adjectives they are invariable.
    the north coast
    = la côte nord
    the north door
    = la porte nord
    the north face (of a mountain)
    = la face nord
    the north side
    = le côté nord
    the north wall
    = le mur nord
    Nautical bearings
    The preposition by is translated by quart in expressions like the following:
    north by northwest
    = nord quart nord-ouest
    southeast by south
    = sud-est quart sud

    Big English-French dictionary > Points of the compass

  • 12 phraseology of meteorological breefing/consultation

    фразеология метеоконсультации

    This is the 0600 UTC surface synoptic (significant weather, high level) chart. – Это приземная синоптическая (особых явлений, высотная) карта за 0600 UTC.

    This prognostic significant weather (high level, 200, 300 hPa) chart is valid for 1800 UTC. – Эта прогностическая карта особых явлений (высотная, 200, 300 гПа) на 18 UTC.

    Wind speed and displacement of baric systems on our charts is given in kmh. – Скорость ветра и смещения барических систем на наших картах указана в км/ч.

    Altitudes on our charts are given in decametres. – Высоты на наших картах даны в декаметрах.

    This cyclone (anticyclone) according to data of barric topography is tracked up to the altitude of... km. – Этот циклон (антициклон) по данным барической топографии прослеживается до высоты... км.

    The cyclone (anticyclone) centred at (Northern, Southern...) Norway is displacing North-East (South...) with the speed of... kmh. – Циклон (антициклон), расположенный над (северной, южной...) Норвегией смещается к северо-востоку (югу...) со скоростью... км/ч.

    The low (high) centred North (South...) of the Bahames is moving North-Eastward (South-Eastward...) at about 20 kmh and is deepening. – Циклон (антициклон), расположенный севернее (южнее...) Багамских о-вов, смещается в северо-восточном (юго-восточном...) направлении со скоростью 20 км/ч углубляясь.

    The 300 hPa chart shows a trough lying North-East to South-West across the track. – На карте 300 гПа поверхности прослеживается ложбина, пересекая маршрут с северо-востока на юго-запад.

    The trough is expected to remain in the present position for the next 12 hours. – Предполагается, что положение ложбины сохранится на ближайшие 12 часов.

    The semi-permanent high (low) over the Baltic sea is bilding up. – Квазистационарный антициклон (циклон) формируется над Балтийским морем.

    Weather along the route (section of the route) will be influenced by... Northern (Southern, Eastern...) periphery of deepening, (filling) cyclone (anticyclone, trough, crest, warm sector of the cyclone). – Погода по маршруту (участку маршрута) обуславливается... северной (южной, восточной) периферией углубляющегося (заполняющегося) циклона (антициклона, ложбины, гребня, теплым сектором циклона).

    Weather conditions on the route... to... are therefore expected to be... – Поэтому по маршруту... ожидаются метеоусловия...

    Flight in cold (warm, secondary cold, occluded) front zone. – Полет в зоне холодного (теплого, вторичного холодного, окклюдированного) фронта.

    Flight along cold (warm...) front (cold front with waves). – Полет вдоль холодного (теплого) фронта (холодного фронта с волнами).

    While crossing cold (warm...) front... – При пересечении холодного (теплого...) фронта...

    Cold (warm...) front is displacing North (Northeast...) with the speed... kmh, to the East (West...). – Холодный (теплый...) фронт смещается к северу (северо-востоку...) со скоростью... км/ч, на восток (запад...).

    An active warm front lying South-East to North-West along the coast of Norway at 12 UTC is moving East at 30 kmh. It is preceded by a narrow belt of heavy snow. – Активный теплый фронт, пролегающий с юго-востока на северо-запад вдоль побережья Норвегии на 12 UTC, смещается на восток со скоростью 30 км/ч. Ему предшествует узкая зона сильного снегопада.

    Front is well expressed in temperature contrasts (wind regime, precipitation...). – Фронт хорошо выражен в температурных контрастах (в ветровом режиме, осадках...).

    A cold (warm...) front is shown on 12 UTC surface chart. – На приземной карте, за 12 UTC показан холодный (теплый...) фронт.

    It is recommended not to cross cold front zone, to go above clouds at a distance not less than 1000 m from CB. – Рекомендуется не пересекать зону холодного фронта, идти над облаками на расстоянии не менее 1000 м от куч.-дождевых облаков.

    Warm (high warm) front is placed over Norway at 18 UTC. – Теплый (высотный теплый) фронт расположен над Норвегией на 18 UTC.

    In connection with it, it is expected... – В связи с этим ожидается...

    Scattered (broken, overcast) clouds (layers), embedded CB – Рассеянная (значительная, сплошная) облачность (слой), маскированная куч.-дождевая

    Base of cloud... km. – Нижняя граница облачности... км.

    Top... km. – Верхняя граница... км.

    CB top above... km. – Верхняя границы куч.-дождевой облачности выше... км.

    Cloud base will be lowering to... m (km) (rapidly). Increasing cloud layers, (local) thunderstorm(s) (probability of thunderstorm, thunderstorm situation is shown on the charts as RISK &) – Нижняя границы облачности понизится до... м (км) (быстро). Повышающаяся облачность, (местами) гроза(ы), (вероятность грозы, т.е. грозовое положение на картах RISK |^)

    Cb clouds with tops above 10 km and associated thunderstorms are expected to effect the route – Предполагается по маршруту влияния куч.-дождевой облачности с верхней границей свыше 10 км и связанные с ней грозы.

    Light (moderate, severe) icing in cloud (precipitation). – Слабое (умеренное, сильное) обледенение в облаках (осадках).

    Moderate (severe) turbulence in cloud (surface layer). – Умеренная (сильная) турбулентность в облаках (приземном слое).

    (Orographic) Moderate (severe) clear air turbulence is expected North of... (the jet stream) at... km – (Орографическая) умеренная (сильная) турбулентность в ясном небе ожидается к северу от... (оси струйного течения) на высоте... км

    To escape icing (turbulence) we advise you to choose flight level over... km. – Чтобы избежать обледенения (турбулентности) рекомендуем выбрать высоту полета выше... км.

    Data from boards confirm presence of moderate (severe) icing (turbulence) in cloud. – Бортовые данные подтверждают наличие умеренного (сильного) обледенения (турбулентности) в облаках.

    Radar (satellite) data confirm presence of thunderstorms, CB clouds. – Радиолокационные (спутниковые) данные подтверждают наличие грозовых очагов, куч.-дождевой облачности.

    Displacing Northward (Southward...). – Смещение к северу (югу...).

    Visibility... km (m) (in rain). – Видимость... км (м) (в дожде).

    Changing for the best (worse) – Улучшение (ухудшение)

    The altitude of tropopause is... km – Высота тропопаузы... км

    Sharp slope of tropopause is observed over area of... – Резкий наклон тропопаузы наблюдается над районом...

    Upper wind and temperature, wind and temperature aloft – Ветер и температура на высоте

    The 500 hPa prognostic chart for 12 UTC indicates upper winds of 240 degrees 60 kilometres per hour with temperature minus 20 degrees Celsius – По 500 гПа прогностической карте за 12 UTC высотный ветер 240° 60 км/ч и температура – 20° С

    Wind direction... degrees (variable) – Направление ветра... град (неустойчивое)

    Wind speed... kilometres per hour (metres per second if surface) – Скорость ветра... км/ч (если приземный – м/сек)

    Wind speeds over the route Moscow – London are expected to increase (decrease) from... to... kmh – Предполагается усиление (ослабление) ветра по маршруту Москва – Лондон от... до... км/ч

    Wind shift – Изменение ветра

    It is expected to remain in the present position for the next 12 hours – Предполагается сохранение настоящего положения на последующие 12 часов

    Maximum wind – Максимальный ветер

    The jet stream with winds 240 degrees and speed 200 kmh is expected at 12 km – Струйное течение с ветром 240° 200 км/ч предполагается на высоте 12 км

    Wind shear was reported by aircrafts – Борты сообщают о сдвиге ветра

    According data from arriving (departing) aircrafts... – Согласно данным прибывающих (вылетающих) воздушных судов...

    Information about observed (expected) existence of wind shear – Информация о наблюдаемом (ожидаемом) сдвиге ветра

    (In this case) wind shear conditions are associated with thunderstorm (cold/warm front; strong surface wind; low level temperature inversion) – (В этом случае) условия сдвига ветра связаны с грозой (холод ным/теплым фронтом; сильным приземным ветром; температурной инверсией в приземном слое)

    Wind shear could adversly affect aircraft on the takeoff path (in climb out) in layer from runway level to 500 metres – Сдвиг ветра может оказать неблагоприятное воздействие на воздушное судно на взлете (при наборе высоты) в слое – уровень ВПП/500 м

    The intensity of wind shear – Интенсивность сдвига ветра

    Wind shear warning surface wind 320/10 wind at 60m 360/25 in approach – Оповещения о сдвиге ветра – в зоне захода на посадку – приземный ветер 320/10, на высоте 60 м – 360/25

    B-707 reported moderate (strong, severe) wind shear in approach (while takeoff, in climbout) runway 34 at 15.10 – Б707 сообщает об умеренном (сильном, очень сильном) сдвиге ветра при подходе (на взлете, при наборе высоты) к ВПП 34 в 15.10

    Temperature between... and (minus)... degrees Celsius – Температура... (м)... градусов Цельсия

    Zero isotherm is at the altitude of... km – Нулевая изотерма на высоте... км

    At the beginning (end, in the middle, in the first half) of the route – В начале (конце, в середине, в первой половине) маршрута

    It is displacing to the North (South...) Northward (Southward...) – Смещается к северу (югу...), на север (юг...)

    Locally from... to... – Местами от... до...

    At the altitude of... km – На высоте... км

    In the layer from (between)... to (and)... km – В слое... –... км (между)...

    While landing (takeoff) – При посадке (взлете)

    The information depicted on high level (wind, temperature) charts should be grid points data – Информация на высотных картах (ветер, температура) является данными в точках сетки

    Satellite nephanalysis for 12 UTC today shows that... – На основании данных нефанализа за 12 UTC настоящего дня видно, что...

    Actual weather in the point of departure (landing) – Фактическая погода в пункте вылета (посадки)

    Runway visual range is... m – Дальность видимости на ВПП –... м

    Your alternate is... – Ваш запасной...

    Have you any questions? – У вас есть вопросы?

    English-Russian aviation meteorology dictionary > phraseology of meteorological breefing/consultation

  • 13 north

    [no:Ɵ] 1. noun
    1) (the direction to the left of a person facing the rising sun, or any part of the earth lying in that direction: He faced towards the north; The wind is blowing from the north; I used to live in the north of England.) nord
    2) ((also N) one of the four main points of the compass.) N
    2. adjective
    1) (in the north: on the north bank of the river.) nordlig; nord-
    2) (from the direction of the north: a north wind.) nordlig; norden-
    3. adverb
    (towards the north: The stream flows north.) mod nord; nordpå
    - northern
    - northerner
    - northernmost
    - northward
    - northwards
    - northward
    - northbound
    - north-east / north-west     4. adverb
    (towards the north-east or north-west: The building faces north-west.) i nord-østlig retning; i nord-vestlig retning
    - north-eastern / north-western
    - the North Pole
    * * *
    [no:Ɵ] 1. noun
    1) (the direction to the left of a person facing the rising sun, or any part of the earth lying in that direction: He faced towards the north; The wind is blowing from the north; I used to live in the north of England.) nord
    2) ((also N) one of the four main points of the compass.) N
    2. adjective
    1) (in the north: on the north bank of the river.) nordlig; nord-
    2) (from the direction of the north: a north wind.) nordlig; norden-
    3. adverb
    (towards the north: The stream flows north.) mod nord; nordpå
    - northern
    - northerner
    - northernmost
    - northward
    - northwards
    - northward
    - northbound
    - north-east / north-west     4. adverb
    (towards the north-east or north-west: The building faces north-west.) i nord-østlig retning; i nord-vestlig retning
    - north-eastern / north-western
    - the North Pole

    English-Danish dictionary > north

  • 14 north

    no:Ɵ
    1. noun
    1) (the direction to the left of a person facing the rising sun, or any part of the earth lying in that direction: He faced towards the north; The wind is blowing from the north; I used to live in the north of England.) norte
    2) ((also N) one of the four main points of the compass.) norte

    2. adjective
    1) (in the north: on the north bank of the river.) norte
    2) (from the direction of the north: a north wind.) del norte

    3. adverb
    (towards the north: The stream flows north.) al norte, hacia el norte
    - northern
    - northerner
    - northernmost
    - northward
    - northwards
    - northward
    - northbound
    - north-east / north-west
    4. adverb
    (towards the north-east or north-west: The building faces north-west.) hacia el nordeste; hacia el noroeste
    - north-eastern / north-western
    - the North Pole
    north n adj adv norte
    we travelled north from Edinburgh to Inverness viajamos hacia el norte, de Edimburgo a Inverness
    tr[nɔːɵ]
    1 del norte
    1 al norte, hacia el norte
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    North Pole Polo Norte
    the North Country SMALLBRITISH ENGLISH/SMALL el norte nombre masculino
    north ['nɔrɵ] adv
    : al norte
    north adj
    : norte, del norte
    the north coast: la costa del norte
    1) : norte m
    2)
    the North : el Norte m
    adj.
    • del norte adj.
    • norte adj.
    • septentrional adj.
    adv.
    • al norte adv.
    • hacia el norte adv.
    n.
    • aquilón s.m.
    • norte s.m.
    • septentrión s.f.

    I nɔːrθ, nɔːθ
    mass noun
    1)
    a) (point of the compass, direction) norte m

    the wind is blowing from o is in the north — el viento sopla or viene del norte or Norte

    b) ( region)

    the north, the North — el norte

    a town in the north of Spain — una ciudad del norte or en el norte de España

    2)

    the North — ( in US history) el Norte, los estados nordistas

    3) North ( in bridge) Norte m

    II
    adjective (before n) <wall/face> norte adj inv, septentrional

    III
    adverb al norte
    [nɔːθ]
    1.
    N norte m

    in the north of the country — al norte or en el norte del país

    the wind is from the or in the north — el viento sopla or viene del norte

    North and South — (Pol) el Norte y el Sur

    2.
    ADJ del norte, norteño, septentrional
    3.
    ADV (=northward) hacia el norte; (=in the north) al norte, en el norte

    this house faces north — esta casa mira al norte or tiene vista hacia el norte

    4.
    CPD

    North Africa N — África f del Norte

    North African

    North America N — Norteamérica f, América f del Norte; North American

    North Atlantic Drift N — Corriente f del Golfo

    North Atlantic route N — ruta f del Atlántico Norte

    North Carolina N — Carolina f del Norte

    North Korea N — Corea f del Norte; North Korean

    North Sea gas N — gas m del mar del Norte

    North Sea oil N — petróleo m del mar del Norte

    north star N — estrella f polar, estrella f del norte

    North Vietnam N — Vietnam m del Norte

    North Vietnamese
    * * *

    I [nɔːrθ, nɔːθ]
    mass noun
    1)
    a) (point of the compass, direction) norte m

    the wind is blowing from o is in the north — el viento sopla or viene del norte or Norte

    b) ( region)

    the north, the North — el norte

    a town in the north of Spain — una ciudad del norte or en el norte de España

    2)

    the North — ( in US history) el Norte, los estados nordistas

    3) North ( in bridge) Norte m

    II
    adjective (before n) <wall/face> norte adj inv, septentrional

    III
    adverb al norte

    English-spanish dictionary > north

  • 15 east

    I [iːst] n

    The town lies to the east of our borders. — Город находится на востоке от наших границ.

    The windows look out on the east. — Окна выходят на восток.

    The sun rises in the east. — Солнце встает на востоке.

    East or West, home is best. B — ◊ гостях хорошо, а дома лучше.

    - east wind
    - in the east
    - east
    - from the east
    - east of smth
    - in the Middle East
    - move to the east
    - blow from the east
    - be in the east
    USAGE:
    Существительные, обозначающие названия стран света: east - восток, west - запад, north - север, south - юг, употребляются с определенным артиклем. Наиболее частые предлоги in и to. In соответствует русскому предлогу на (на востоке), a to - на, к (на восток/к востоку).
    II [iːst]
    восточный, обращённый на восток, идущий с востока
    - east window
    USAGE:
    (1.) Русским прилагательным восточный, западный, северный, южный соответствуют в английском прилагательные east и eastern, west и western, north и northern, south и southern. Прилагательные east, west, north и south употребляются, главным образомб в именах собственных - географических названиях, административных и политических делениях. В таких наименованиях артикль не употребляется, а сами наименования пишутся с заглавной буквы: North America, South America, South Africa, East Africa, North Korea, South Korea. Прилагательные eastern, western, southern, northern употребляются в свободных сочетаниях, таких, как: eastern countries (cities, languages) восточные страны (города, языки); eastern customs восточные обычаи; the western coast of the country западные берега страны; the northern part of the city северная часть города. (2.) See eastern, adj
    III [iːst] adv
    на востоке, к востоку, в восточном направлении

    The winter blows east. — Ветер дует в восточном направлении

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > east

  • 16 north

    [nɔːθ] 1.
    nome nord m., settentrione m.
    2. 3.
    aggettivo attrib. [side, face, door] nord; [ coast] settentrionale; [ wind] del nord, settentrionale
    4.
    avverbio [live, lie] a nord (of di); [ move] verso nord
    * * *
    [no:Ɵ] 1. noun
    1) (the direction to the left of a person facing the rising sun, or any part of the earth lying in that direction: He faced towards the north; The wind is blowing from the north; I used to live in the north of England.) nord
    2) ((also N) one of the four main points of the compass.) nord
    2. adjective
    1) (in the north: on the north bank of the river.) a nord, settentrionale
    2) (from the direction of the north: a north wind.) del nord
    3. adverb
    (towards the north: The stream flows north.) verso (il) nord
    - northern
    - northerner
    - northernmost
    - northward
    - northwards
    - northward
    - northbound
    - north-east / north-west     4. adverb
    (towards the north-east or north-west: The building faces north-west.) a/verso nordest/nord-est; a/verso nordovest/nord-ovest
    - north-eastern / north-western
    - the North Pole
    * * *
    [nɔːθ] 1.
    nome nord m., settentrione m.
    2. 3.
    aggettivo attrib. [side, face, door] nord; [ coast] settentrionale; [ wind] del nord, settentrionale
    4.
    avverbio [live, lie] a nord (of di); [ move] verso nord

    English-Italian dictionary > north

  • 17 north

    1. n мор. норд
    2. n север, северная часть или область; северный район; северная окраина; северная оконечность
    3. n полярные страны; Крайний Север, Арктика
    4. n северные страны
    5. n северные штаты США

    North Island — о-в Норт-Айленд, Северный остров

    north- seeking pole, red pole — северный полюс

    6. n северяне, население северных районов
    7. n полит. эк. промышленно развитые страны
    8. a северный

    north wind — северный ветер, норд

    9. a мор. нордовый
    10. a арктический, полярный

    North Star State — «Штат Полярной звезды»

    11. a обращённый к северу; выходящий на север

    north window — окно, выходящее на север

    12. adv к северу, на север, в северном направлении

    further north than … — севернее …

    30° of latitude north of the equator — 30° северной широты

    13. adv с севера
    14. v редк. двигаться, направляться, уклоняться на север или к северу; принимать северное направление

    north american — житель Северной Америки; североамериканский

    15. v редк. задувать с севера

    so you are going to the North — итак, вы отправляетесь на север

    Синонимический ряд:
    northern (adj.) arctic; boreal; cold; northerly; northern; polar; wintry

    English-Russian base dictionary > north

  • 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 north

    no:Ɵ 1. noun
    1) (the direction to the left of a person facing the rising sun, or any part of the earth lying in that direction: He faced towards the north; The wind is blowing from the north; I used to live in the north of England.) nord, nordlig del
    2) ((also N) one of the four main points of the compass.) nord
    2. adjective
    1) (in the north: on the north bank of the river.) nord-, nordlig
    2) (from the direction of the north: a north wind.) norda-, fra nord
    3. adverb
    (towards the north: The stream flows north.) mot nord
    - northern
    - northerner
    - northernmost
    - northward
    - northwards
    - northward
    - northbound
    - north-east / north-west     4. adverb
    (towards the north-east or north-west: The building faces north-west.) nordøst/nordvest
    - north-eastern / north-western
    - the North Pole
    nord
    --------
    nordlig
    I
    subst. \/nɔːθ\/
    1) nord, nordlig del, nordlig område
    2) ( poetisk) nordavind
    II
    adj. \/nɔːθ\/
    nordlig, nordre, mot nord, nord-, norda-
    the North Country Nord-England nordre Storbritannia
    a north countryman en nordengelskmann
    north side nordside
    north wind nordlig vind, nordavind
    III
    adv. \/nɔːθ\/
    mot nord, nordover, nordpå
    North by East nord til øst
    north of nord for

    English-Norwegian dictionary > north

  • 20 light

    ̈ɪlaɪt I
    1. сущ.
    1) а) свет;
    освещение by the light of ≈ при свете to read by the light of a candle ≈ читать при свете свечи to cast, shed light on smth. ≈ проливать свет на что-л. to dim the lights, turn the lights down ≈ притушить свет to extinguish, turn off, turn out a light ≈ выключить, потушить, погасить свет to put on, switch on, turn on a light ≈ зажигать свет to shine a light on smth. ≈ посветить на что-л. to turn the lights up ≈ включить свет light flickers ≈ свет мерцает light goes on ≈ свет включается, зажигается light goes out ≈ свет выключается the lights are off, out ≈ освещение выключено the lights are on ≈ освещение включено light travels( very fast) ≈ свет движется (очень быстро) The lights have fused. ≈ Свет выключили. Пробки вышибло. see the light б) дневной свет;
    естественное освещение Syn: daylight в) рассвет, утренняя заря Syn: dawn
    1.
    2) источник света а) небесное светило (луна, солнце, звезды и т.д.) б) огонь;
    зажженная свеча Syn: candle в) лампа, фонарь, прожектор
    3) перен. духовное свечение, духовный свет а) просвещенность, образованность Syn: enlightenment б) истинность( от выраж. "свет истины") Syn: truth
    4) огонь, пламя to put a light to the lamp ≈ зажечь лампу
    5) окно, просвет
    6) светило;
    знаменитость Syn: celebrity
    7) а) мн.;
    разг. глаза, гляделки б) перен. выражение глаз;
    блеск в глазах
    8) а) мн. светофор at a light ≈ на светофоре to stop at a light ≈ остановиться на светофоре to cross against the lights ≈ переходить при красном сигнале to drive against the lights ≈ проезжать на красный свет to go through a light ≈ проехать светофор traffic light ≈ светофор Syn: traffic light б) маяк, сигнальный огонь Syn: lighthouse, beacon в) фара( автомобильная)
    9) обыкн. мн. информация, сведения, данные to come to light ≈ обнаружиться to shed light upon ≈ проливать свет на (что-л.)
    10) а) огласка( фактов, сведений, данных и т.д.) ;
    гласность facts brought to light ≈ ставшие известными факты б) аспект;
    интерпретация;
    постановка вопроса;
    восприятие to put smth. in a favourable light ≈ представить что-л. в выгодном свете Let's see the matter in a different light. ≈ Давай попробуем посмотреть на эту ситуацию в другом аспекте.
    11) мн. (умственные) способности
    12) мн. система взглядов, принципов ∙ by the light of nature ≈ интуитивно
    2. прил.
    1) светлый, ясный( о помещении) a light airy room ≈ светлая просторная комната
    2) а) бледный, тусклый Syn: pale II
    1. б) светлый (об оттенке цвета) light-blue ≈ голубой light-green ≈ светло-зеленый light-yellow ≈ бледно-желтый
    3) (о кофе) поданный с очень большим количеством молока или сливок
    3. гл.;
    прош. вр. и прич. прош. вр. - lighted, lit
    1) а) прояснять;
    делать светлым, радостным His face lit up. ≈ Его лицо осветилось (радостью). Syn: brighten б) оживлять A smile lit up her face. ≈ Улыбка оживила ее лицо. Syn: animate
    2.
    2) загораться, зажигать(ся) (часто light up) Syn: kindle, take fire
    3) освещать( часто light up) ;
    светить( кому-л.) Syn: illuminate ∙ light up II
    1. прил.
    1) а) легкий;
    легковесный as light as a feather ≈ легкий как перышко б) малой грузоподъемности, рассчитанный на малый вес a light truck ≈ малотоннажный грузовой автомобиль в) легкий (по отношению к объему) light metal ≈ легкий металл
    2) обыденный, незначительный, мелкий light sleep ≈ легкий сон, дремота The loss of a job is no light matter. ≈ Потеря работы - не такое уж незначительное событие. light rain ≈ небольшой дождь, дождик light snow ≈ небольшой снег Syn: trivial
    3) легкий, необременительный, нетрудный light duties ≈ легкие поручения light punishment ≈ мягкое, нестрогое наказание Syn: easy, simple
    4) рыхлый, неплотный( о почве)
    5) пустой;
    непостоянный, легкомысленный, несерьезный;
    веселый light woman ≈ женщина легкого поведения to make light of ≈ относиться несерьезно, небрежно к (чему-л.), не придавать значения (чему-л.) Syn: light-hearted, amusing, funny I
    1., gay
    1., carefree, frivolous, sprightly
    1., blithe
    6) а) легкоусваиваемый, необильный (о пище) light breakfast ≈ легкий завтрак б) некрепкий, легкий ( об алкогольных напитках)
    7) а) быстрый, легкий ( о движениях) She is a light dancer. ≈ Она очень грациозно танцует. Syn: airy, graceful б) воен. легкий, подвижный light artillery ≈ легкая артиллерия light automatic gun ≈ ручной пулемет
    8) фон. а) неударный( о слоге, звуке) б) слабый( об ударении)
    9) кул. хорошо поднявшийся, легкий, воздушный( о тесте)
    10) неотчетливый, смутный, неясный Syn: not distinct;
    faint
    2. ∙ light in the head ≈ в полубессознательном состоянии light hand
    2. нареч.
    1) легко to get off light ≈ легко отделаться to travel light ≈ путешествовать налегке to tread light ≈ легко ступать Syn: lightly I light come light go ≈ легко нажито, легко прожито
    2) налегке (без большого количества вещей) to travel light ≈ путешествовать налегке III гл.;
    прош. вр. и прич. прош. вр. - lighted, lit
    1) неожиданно натолкнуться, случайно напасть (on, upon) His eyes lighted on a familiar face in the crowd. ≈ Неожиданно он увидел знакомое лицо в толпе. He lit upon an interesting idea. ≈ Ему в голову случайно пришла интересная мысль.
    2) а) падать (on, upon), сваливаться б) перен. неожиданно обрушиться( об ударе и т. п.)
    3) уст. сходить( обыкн. light off, light down) ;
    опускаться, садиться( на что-л.) Syn: settle II, alight I, dismount ∙ light into light out свет - the * of the sun свет солнца - northern /polars/ *s северное сияние - * bath (медицина) световая ванна - * therapy( медицина) светолечение - * gun /pen/ (компьютерное) световое перо - to stand in smb.'s * заслонять кому-л. свет освещенность, видимость - * line (военное) граница затемненного района - in a good * хорошо видный, хорошо освещенный;
    при хорошем освещении - to read in poor * читать при плохом свете /при слабом освещении/ - there is enough * for reading для чтения здесь достаточно светло - hang the picture in a good * повесьте картину так, чтобы она была хорошо освещена /видна/ (обыкн. the *) дневной свет, день, дневное время - to rise with the * вставать с рассветом - as soon as there was * как только рассвело - the * began to fail надвигались сумерки - before the * fails до того, как стемнеет, засветло pl (искусство) светлые части картины (тж. high *s) источник света;
    огонь, лампа и т. п. - to put out the * погасить свет - *s were burning in every room во всех комнатах горел огонь - *s out! отбой! (команда) (военное) прожектор pl светофор - to stop for the *s останавливаться у светофора - to cross against the *s переходить при красном сигнале маяк - floating * плавучий маяк pl (театроведение) (профессионализм) рампа, огни рампы - before the *s у рампы, на сцене огонь, пламя, искра - to strike a * зажечь спичку - can you give me a *? не дадите ли мне прикурить? - to put a * to the lamp зажечь лампу огонек, свет ( глаз) ;
    отражение душевного волнения( на лице) информация, новые сведения, данные - we need more * on the subject нам нужны дополнительные сведения /данные/ по этому вопросу - these facts throw /shed/ (a) new * on the matter эти данные проливают новый свет на дело гласность - to come to * обнаруживаться, выявляться - to bring to * обнаружить, раскрыть;
    вывести на чистую воду;
    вытащить на свет божий - new evidence has come to * обнаружились новые факты /данные/ аспект, вид;
    восприятие - in the * of past events в свете прошлых /имевших место/ событий - to view smth. in a favourable * смотреть на что-л. благосклонно, одобрять что-л. - to put things in a favourable * представлять /выставлять/ что-л. в выгодном свете - I can't see the affair in that * я не могу смотреть на это дело таким образом - in whatever * we view it с какой бы стороны ни рассматривать это знаменитость, светило;
    светоч - he was one of the shining /leading/ *s of his age он был одним из самых выдающихся людей своего времени pl убеждения, взгляды;
    уровень - to do one's best according to one's *s сделать все в меру своих способностей /возможностей/ - to worship according to one's *s молиться в соответствии со своими убеждениями /со своей верой/ - he acted according to his *s он действовал, как ему казалось правильным /в соответствии со своими убеждениями/ просвет;
    окно;
    стекло( в крыше или стене оранжереи) зрение pl (разговорное) глаза > to stand in smb.'s * мешать кому-л., стоять у кого-л. на дороге > to stand in one's own * вредить самому себе, нарушать собственные интересы;
    сам себе враг > get out of the * не мешай(те), уходи(те) с дороги, не стойте на моем пути > green * зеленая улица( чему-л.) > the * of my eyes свет очей моих > to see the * увидеть свет, родиться;
    увидеть свет, выйти из печати;
    прозреть, понять в чем дело;
    (религия) (духовно) прозреть;
    обратиться( в какую-л. веру) > to put out smb.'s * убить /ликвидировать/ кого-л. > out like a * без сознания( особ. от удара по голове) ;
    крепко спящий;
    спит без задних ног > * at the end of the tunnel просвет (в кризисном положении) ;
    надежда на близкую победу;
    намечающийся успех > by the * of nature интуитивно, инстинктивно;
    естественно( без указаний, обучения и т. п.) > the * of smb.'s countenance чья-л. благосклонность, чье-л. расположение;
    чье-л. одобрение, чья-л. поддержка > the * of thy countenance (библеизм) свет лица твоего > the greater and the lesser * (библеизм) светило большее и светило меньшее;
    солнце и луна светлый - * room светлая комната - * day светлый /не пасмурный/ день светлый, светлого цвета;
    бледный (о цвете) - * hair светлые волосы - * compexion белая кожа - * beer /ale/ светлое пиво с молоком или сливками (о кофе) (light-) как компонент сложных слов: светло- - light-blue светло-голубой, бледно-голубой - a light-skinned mulatto светлокожий мулат (тж. * up) зажигать - to * a lamp зажечь лампу - to * fire затопить печку /камин/ зажигаться, загораться освещать - our houses are *ed /lit/ (up) by electricity наши дома освещаются электричеством - all the streets were brightly lit (up) все улицы были залиты светом - * ship! (морское) включить освещение! (команда) освещаться - all the windows lit up во всех окнах вспыхнул свет прикуривать( сигарету, папиросу и т. п.) - to * (up) a cigarette закурить сигарету светить (кому-л.) - to * (up) a person on his way посветить кому-л., осветить кому-л. дорогу - she lit him up the stairs with the candle пока он поднимался по лестнице, она светила ему свечкой освещать, озарять - a smile lit up her face улыбка озарила ее лицо (with) освещаться, озаряться;
    светиться, сиять( о глазах, лице) - to * (up) with a smile озариться улыбкой - to * (up) with pleasure сиять от радости, светиться счастьем > to be lit up напиться легкий, нетяжелый - * box легкий ящик - * shoes легкие туфли - * clothing легкая /летняя/ одежда - (as) * as a feather /as air/ легкий как пух;
    невесомый - * alloy легкий сплав - * oil (специальное) маловязкое масло;
    легкий нефтепродукт - * sails верхние летучие паруса легкий на ногу;
    проворный - * walk /footsteps/ легкая походка - * of foot проворный, быстроногий - * on one's feet легкий на подъем, подвижный легкий, рассчитанный на небольшую нагрузку - * car малолитражный автомобиль - * railway узкоколейная или временная железная дорога;
    подъездной путь( военное) легкий, облегченного типа - * automatic gun ручной пулемет - * bomb авиабомба небольшого калибра - * machine-rifle автоматическая винтовка - * machine-gun ручной пулемет;
    облегченный станковый пулемет - * warning radar легкая радиолокационная станция обнаружения - * load уменьшенный заряд( военное) имеющий легкое вооружение - * (horse) brigade( историческое) кавалерийская бригада - * artillery легкая артиллерия - * bomber легкий бомбардировщик - * cruiser легкий крейсер - * tank легкий танк - in * marching order с облегченным походным снаряжением неполновесный, неправильного веса - * coin неполновесная монета - to give * weight недовешивать, обвешивать легкий, несильный, слабый - * touch легкое /мягкое/ прикосновение - a * print слабый /еле видный/ отпечаток тонкий, деликатный - * vein of humour тонкий юмор - * persiflage деликатное подшучивание легкий, некрепкий (о вине, пиве) легкий (о пище) - * supper легкий ужин неплотный;
    негустой - * soil легкая /рыхлая/ почва - * clouds легкие /перистые/ облака легкий, воздушный, хорошо поднявшийся (о тесте) несерьезный;
    незначительный;
    несущественный - * remarks несерьезные /несущественные/ замечания - to one's *est word по чьему-л. малейшему слову - to make * of smth. недооценивать что-л.;
    не воспринимать серьезно;
    принижать, преуменьшать (заслуги и т. п.) - to make * of danger недооценивать опасность - he makes * of his illness он не обращает достаточно внимания на свою болезнь - this is no * matter это дело нешуточное легкий, несложный, развлекательный - * music легкая музыка( в противоп. классической) - * reading легкое чтение, развлекательная литература - * opera комическая опера;
    оперетта - * comedy легкая комедия - * comedian актер легкого комедийного жанра легкий, небольшой, несильный - a * attack of illness легкий приступ болезни - * wind легкий ветерок - * frost небольшой /легкий/ мороз - * rain дождик, небольшой дождь - * applause непродолжительные /жидкие/ аплодисменты - * smoker незаядлый курильщик - * eater человек с плохим аппетитом, малоешка нетрудный, необременительный - * work нетрудная /легкая/ работа - * duties необременительные /несложные/ обязанности - * household tasks мелкая работа по дому - to make * work of smth. быстро управляться с чем-л. легкий, несуровый - * punishment легкое наказание - * sentence мягкий приговор легкомысленный;
    ветреный, непостоянный - * opinions неустойчивые убеждения - a person of * character весьма легкомысленный человек фривольный;
    распущенный - * woman женщина легкого поведения /нестрогих правил/ веселый, беззаботный, беспечный - * laughter веселый /беззаботный/ смех - * jest веселая шутка - * chatter беседа о том, о сем легкий, чуткий( о сне) - a * sleeper спящий чутко (фонетика) неударный (о слоге) (фонетика) слабый (об ударении) > with a * heart с легким сердцем > * hand ловкость;
    умение;
    тактичность;
    деликатность > she has a * hand for pastry она мастерица печь пирожные > * fingers ловкий;
    вороватый, нечистый на руку > * in the head чувствующий /испытывающий/ головокружение;
    глупый легко - to tread * легко ступать - to sleep * некрепко /чутко/ спать - to travel * путешествовать налегке - to get off * (разговорное) легко /дешево/ отделаться > * come, * go (пословица) легко нажито, легко прожито (on, upon) неожиданно, случайно натолкнуться (на что-л.) - to * on a rare book in a second-hand shop случайно найти /увидеть/ редкую книгу в букинистическом магазине - we lit upon a solution мы неожиданно нашли решение обрушиться (об ударе и т. п.) - misfortune *ed upon him на него свалилось горе сходить, выходить( обыкн. * down, * off, * from) - to * off a horse спешиться, сойти с лошади - to * down from the bus выйти из автобуса - to * at one's door сойти у своего дома (on, upon) опускаться, садиться;
    падать - to * on one's feet стать на ноги (после падения или прыжка) ;
    счастливо отделаться - the bird lit upon the bough птица села на сук - my eye *ed on a familiar face among the crowd мой взгляд упал на знакомое лицо в толпе (into) нападать, накидываться - we lit into the food мы набросились на еду ~ (умственные) способности;
    according to one's ~s в меру своих сил, возможностей anchor ~ якорный огонь ~ легкий;
    легковесный;
    as light as a feather (или air) легкий как перышко;
    to give light weight обвешивать high ~ основной момент, факт;
    to be in( или to hit) the high light быть в центре внимания ~ разъяснение;
    to bring to light выявлять, выяснять;
    выводить на чистую воду;
    to come to light обнаружиться ~ attr. световой;
    light therapy светолечение;
    by the light of nature интуитивно ~ разъяснение;
    to bring to light выявлять, выяснять;
    выводить на чистую воду;
    to come to light обнаружиться ~ pl светофор;
    to stop for the lights останавливаться у светофора;
    to cross (to drive) against the lights переходить (проезжать) при красном сигнале diffused ~ рассеянный свет ~ легко;
    to tread light легко ступать;
    to travel light путешествовать налегке;
    to get off light легко отделаться ~ легкий;
    легковесный;
    as light as a feather (или air) легкий как перышко;
    to give light weight обвешивать to give the green ~ амер. разг. дать "зеленую улицу", открыть путь green ~ амер. разг. "зеленая улица" green ~ зеленый свет (светофора) green ~ разг. разрешение на беспрепятственное прохождение( работы, проекта и т. п.) ;
    "зеленая улица" high ~ основной момент, факт;
    to be in (или to hit) the high light быть в центре внимания high ~ световой эффект( в живописи, фотографии) ~ (lit, lighted) неожиданно натолкнуться, случайно напасть (on, upon) ;
    his eyes lighted on a familiar face in the crowd он увидел знакомое лицо в толпе ~ аспект;
    интерпретация;
    постановка вопроса;
    in the light of these facts в свете этих данных;
    I cannot see it in that light я не могу это рассматривать таким образом ~ аспект;
    интерпретация;
    постановка вопроса;
    in the light of these facts в свете этих данных;
    I cannot see it in that light я не могу это рассматривать таким образом jack ~ амер. фонарь (для охоты или рыбной ловли ночью) leading ~ направляющий огонь light аспект ~ аспект;
    интерпретация;
    постановка вопроса;
    in the light of these facts в свете этих данных;
    I cannot see it in that light я не могу это рассматривать таким образом ~ быстрый, легкий (о движениях) ~ pl разг. глаза, гляделки ~ (lit, lighted) зажигать(-ся) (часто light up) ~ источник света ~ воен. легкий, подвижный;
    light artillery легкая артиллерия;
    light automatic gun ручной пулемет ~ легкий;
    легковесный;
    as light as a feather (или air) легкий как перышко;
    to give light weight обвешивать ~ легкий ~ легко;
    to tread light легко ступать;
    to travel light путешествовать налегке;
    to get off light легко отделаться ~ незначительный;
    light rain (snow) небольшой дождь (снег) ;
    a light attack of illness небольшое недомогание ~ незначительный ~ некрепкий (о напитке) ;
    легкий (о пище) ;
    light meal легкий завтрак, ужин, легкая закуска ~ (lit, lighted) неожиданно натолкнуться, случайно напасть (on, upon) ;
    his eyes lighted on a familiar face in the crowd он увидел знакомое лицо в толпе ~ неожиданно обрушиться (об ударе и т. п.) ~ неполновесный ~ несущественный ~ нетрудный, необременительный, легкий;
    light work легкая работа;
    light punishment мягкое наказание ~ фон. неударный (о слоге, звуке) ;
    слабый (об ударении) ~ облегченного типа ~ огонь;
    зажженная свеча, лампа, фонарь, фара, маяк;
    to strike a light зажечь спичку;
    will you give me a light? позвольте прикурить ~ освещать (часто light up) ;
    светить (кому-л.) ~ освещать ~ освещенность ~ просвет, окно ~ пустой;
    непостоянный, легкомысленный, несерьезный;
    веселый;
    light woman женщина легкого поведения;
    with a light heart весело;
    с легким сердцем ~ разъяснение;
    to bring to light выявлять, выяснять;
    выводить на чистую воду;
    to come to light обнаружиться ~ рассчитанный на небольшую нагрузку ~ рыхлый, неплотный (о почве) ~ (обыкн. pl) сведения, информация;
    we need more light on the subject нам нужны дополнительные сведения по этому вопросу ~ свет;
    освещение;
    дневной свет ~ свет ~ светило;
    знаменитость ~ светлый;
    бледный (о цвете) ;
    light brown светло-коричневый ~ pl светофор;
    to stop for the lights останавливаться у светофора;
    to cross (to drive) against the lights переходить (проезжать) при красном сигнале ~ уст. сходить (обыкн. light off, light down) ;
    опускаться, садиться (на что-л.) ;
    падать (on, upon) ~ кул. хорошо поднявшийся, легкий, воздушный (о тесте) ;
    light sleep чуткий сон;
    light in the head в полубессознательном состоянии ~ (умственные) способности;
    according to one's ~s в меру своих сил, возможностей ~ воен. легкий, подвижный;
    light artillery легкая артиллерия;
    light automatic gun ручной пулемет ~ незначительный;
    light rain (snow) небольшой дождь (снег) ;
    a light attack of illness небольшое недомогание ~ attr. световой;
    light therapy светолечение;
    by the light of nature интуитивно ~ воен. легкий, подвижный;
    light artillery легкая артиллерия;
    light automatic gun ручной пулемет ~ светлый;
    бледный (о цвете) ;
    light brown светло-коричневый ~ come ~ go = легко нажито, легко прожито ~ hand деликатность, тактичность ~ hand ловкость ~ кул. хорошо поднявшийся, легкий, воздушный (о тесте) ;
    light sleep чуткий сон;
    light in the head в полубессознательном состоянии ~ некрепкий (о напитке) ;
    легкий (о пище) ;
    light meal легкий завтрак, ужин, легкая закуска ~ нетрудный, необременительный, легкий;
    light work легкая работа;
    light punishment мягкое наказание ~ незначительный;
    light rain (snow) небольшой дождь (снег) ;
    a light attack of illness небольшое недомогание ~ reading легкое чтение ~ кул. хорошо поднявшийся, легкий, воздушный (о тесте) ;
    light sleep чуткий сон;
    light in the head в полубессознательном состоянии ~ attr. световой;
    light therapy светолечение;
    by the light of nature интуитивно ~ up зажечь свет;
    в) оживлять(ся), загораться, светиться (о лице, глазах) ~ up закурить (трубку и т. п.) ~ пустой;
    непостоянный, легкомысленный, несерьезный;
    веселый;
    light woman женщина легкого поведения;
    with a light heart весело;
    с легким сердцем ~ нетрудный, необременительный, легкий;
    light work легкая работа;
    light punishment мягкое наказание to make ~ (of smth.) относиться несерьезно, небрежно (к чему-л.), не придавать значения (чему-л.) north ~ (pl) = northern lights north ~ (pl) = northern lights to put (smth.) in a favourable ~ представить (что-л.) в выгодном свете ready ~ вчт. индикатор готовности to see the ~ выйти из печати to see the ~ обратиться (в какую-л. веру и т. п.) to see the ~ понять;
    убедиться;
    to stand in (smb.'s) light заслонять свет;
    перен. мешать, стоять на дороге;
    to stand in one's own light вредить самому себе to see the ~ увидеть свет, родиться red ~ красный свет (сигнал опасности на транспорте и т. п.) ;
    to see the red light предчувствовать приближение опасности, беды see: to ~ scarlet прийти в ярость, в бешенство;
    to see the red light предчувствовать приближение опасности, беды sense ~ вчт. световой индикатор signal ~ вчт. индикаторная лампочка signal ~ вчт. световая сигнализация signal ~ сигнальный огонь to see the ~ понять;
    убедиться;
    to stand in (smb.'s) light заслонять свет;
    перен. мешать, стоять на дороге;
    to stand in one's own light вредить самому себе to see the ~ понять;
    убедиться;
    to stand in (smb.'s) light заслонять свет;
    перен. мешать, стоять на дороге;
    to stand in one's own light вредить самому себе ~ pl светофор;
    to stop for the lights останавливаться у светофора;
    to cross (to drive) against the lights переходить (проезжать) при красном сигнале ~ огонь;
    зажженная свеча, лампа, фонарь, фара, маяк;
    to strike a light зажечь спичку;
    will you give me a light? позвольте прикурить to throw a new ~ (upon smth.) представить (что-л.) в ином свете to throw (или to shed) ~ (upon smth.) проливать свет (на что-л.) ~ легко;
    to tread light легко ступать;
    to travel light путешествовать налегке;
    to get off light легко отделаться ~ легко;
    to tread light легко ступать;
    to travel light путешествовать налегке;
    to get off light легко отделаться Verey ~ = Very light Verey ~ = Very light Very ~ воен. сигнальная ракета Вери warning ~s вчт. световая сигнализация ~ (обыкн. pl) сведения, информация;
    we need more light on the subject нам нужны дополнительные сведения по этому вопросу ~ огонь;
    зажженная свеча, лампа, фонарь, фара, маяк;
    to strike a light зажечь спичку;
    will you give me a light? позвольте прикурить ~ пустой;
    непостоянный, легкомысленный, несерьезный;
    веселый;
    light woman женщина легкого поведения;
    with a light heart весело;
    с легким сердцем

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