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1 consequence

['konsikwəns, ]( American[) -kwens]
noun

1) (a result: This decision will have important consequences.) consequência

2) (importance: A small error is of no consequence.) importância

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- consequently

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con.se.quence

[k'ɔnsikwəns] n 1 conseqüência, resultado, efeito. I take the consequences / arco com as conseqüências. 2 dedução, conclusão, inferência. 3 importância, relevo. a question of consequence / uma questão de importância. 4 influência, importância social. a man of consequence / um homem notável. in consequence conseqüentemente, portanto. in consequence of por isso, por. in consequence of which motivo pelo qual. of no consequence sem importância. that’s of no consequence / isso não faz mal, não tem importância. people of consequence gente influente, pessoas importantes.

English-Portuguese dictionary > consequence
2 direct

di'rekt
1. adjective
1) (straight; following the quickest and shortest way: Is this the most direct route?) directo

2) ((of manner etc) straightforward and honest: a direct answer.) franco, sincero, directo

3) (occurring as an immediate result: His dismissal was a direct result of his rudeness to the manager.) directo

4) (exact; complete: Her opinions are the direct opposite of his.) exacto

5) (in an unbroken line of descent from father to son etc: He is a direct descendant of Napoleon.) directo

2. verb
1) (to point, aim or turn in a particular direction: He directed my attention towards the notice.) dirigir

2) (to show the way to: She directed him to the station.) indicar el camino

3) (to order or instruct: We will do as you direct.) ordenar

4) (to control or organize: A policeman was directing the traffic; to direct a film.) dirigir

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- direction
- directional
- directive
- directly
- directness
- director
- directory

direct¹ adj directo

a direct flight from Málaga to New York un vuelo directo de Málaga a Nueva York

direct² adv directo

the flight goes direct to New York el vuelo va directo a Nueva York

direct³ vb dirigir / indicar

the policeman directed me to the station el policía me indicó el camino a la estación

direct

tr[dɪ'rekt, daɪ'rekt]

adjective

1 (gen) directo,-a

■ a direct flight un vuelo directo

■ this is a direct result of your carelessness esto es consecuencia directa de tu falta de atención

■ there is a direct link between smoking and cancer hay una relación directa entre el tabaco y el cáncer

■ keep the plant out of direct sunlight no expongas la planta directamente al sol

2 (exact, complete) exacto,-a

■ he's very sweet - the direct opposite of his wife es encantador - la antítesis de su mujer

3 (straightforward - person, manner) franco,-a, sincero,-a; (- question) directo,-a; (- answer) claro,-a

adverb

1 (go, write, phone) directamente; (broadcast) en directo

■ does this train go direct to Bristol? ¿este tren va directo a Bristol?

transitive verb

1 (show the way) indicar el camino a

2 (letter, parcel) mandar, dirigir

3 (attention, remark) dirigir

4 (traffic, organization, inquiry) dirigir

5 (play, actors) dirigir

6 formal use (order, command) ordenar

intransitive verb

1 (play, actors) dirigir

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

to be a direct descendent of somebody ser descendiente directo,-a de alguien, descender de alguien por línea directa

to make/score a direct hit dar en el blanco

direct current corriente nombre femenino continua

direct debit domiciliación nombre femenino de pagos

direct object complemento directo

direct speech estilo directo

direct [də'rɛkt, daɪ-] vt

1) address: dirigir, mandar

2) aim, point: dirigir

3) guide: indicarle el camino (a alguien), orientar

4) manage: dirigir

to direct a film: dirigir una película

5) command: ordenar, mandar

direct adv

: directamente

direct adj

1) straight: directo

2) frank: franco

direct

adj.

• directo, -a adj.

• exacto, -a adj.

• seguido, -a adj.

• sincero, -a adj.

adv.

• derecho adv.

v.

• conducir v.

• dirigir v.

• encaminar v.

• encauzar v.

• enderezar v.

• enjergar v.

• gobernar v.

• guiar v.

• mandar v.

• menear v.

• regentar v.

də'rekt, daɪ-, daɪ'rekt, dɪ-
I

adjective

1)

a) <route/flight> directo; < contact> directo; <cause/consequence> directo

direct dialing o (BrE) dialling — ( Telec) servicio m automático, discado m directo or automático (AmL)

direct taxation — tributación f directa

b) ( in genealogy)

he's a direct descendant of the duke — desciende del duque por línea directa

c) ( exact) <equivalent/quotation> exacto

to score a direct hit — dar* en el blanco

d) ( Ling) (before n) <question/command> en estilo directo

direct discourse o (BrE) speech — estilo m directo

2) (frank, straightforward) <person/manner> franco, directo; < question> directo

II

adverb

1) <write/phone> directamente; < goavel> (BrE) directo, directamente

to dial direct — ( Telec) marcar* or (AmL tb) discar* directamente el número

2) ( straight) directamente

direct from Paris — (Rad, TV) en directo desde París

3) ( straightforwardly) (esp AmE colloq) directamente, sin rodeos

III
1.

transitive verb

1)

a) ( give directions to) indicarle* el camino a

b) ( address) \<\<letter/parcel\>\> mandar, dirigir*

2) ( aim) dirigir*

it was directed at us — iba dirigido a nosotros

3) \<\<play/orchestraaffic\>\> dirigir*

4) ( order) (frml) ordenar

to direct somebody to + INF — ordenarle a alguien que (+ subj)

2.

vi (Cin, Theat) dirigir*

[daɪ'rekt]
1. ADJ

1) (=without detour) [route, train, flight] directo

2) (=immediate) [cause, result] directo; [contact, control, responsibility, descendant] directo

"keep away from direct heat" — "no exponer directamente al calor"

to make a direct hit — dar en el blanco

he's the direct opposite — es exactamente el contrario

3) (=straightforward, not evasive) [answer, refusal] claro, inequívoco; [manner, character] abierto, franco

2. ADV

1) (=straight) [go, fly, pay] directamente

we fly direct to Santiago — volamos directo or directamente a Santiago

2) (=frankly) con franqueza, sin rodeos

3. VT

1) (=aim) [+ remark, gaze, attention] dirigir (at, to a)

2) (=give directions to)

can you direct me to the station? — ¿me puede indicar cómo llegar a la estación?

3) (=control) [+ traffic, play, film] dirigir

4) (=instruct)

to direct sb to do sth — mandar a algn hacer algo

to direct that... — mandar que...

4.

CPD

direct access N — (Comput) acceso m directo

direct action N — acción f directa

direct advertising N — publicidad f directa

direct cost N — costo m directo

direct current N — (Elec) corriente f continua

direct debit N — pago m a la orden

direct debiting N — domiciliación f (de pagos)

direct dialling N — servicio m (telefónico) automático, discado m directo (LAm)

direct discourse N — (esp US) (Gram) estilo m directo

direct free kick N — golpe m libre directo

direct grant school N — (Brit) † escuela f subvencionada

direct hit N — (Mil) impacto m directo

direct mail N — publicidad f por correo, correspondencia f directa

direct mail shot N — (Brit) campaña f publicitaria por correo, mailing m

direct marketing N — márketing m directo

direct object N — (Gram) complemento m directo

direct rule N — gobierno m directo

direct selling N — ventas fpl directas

direct speech N — (Ling) estilo m directo

direct tax N — impuesto m directo

direct taxation N — tributación f directa

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[də'rekt, daɪ-, daɪ'rekt, dɪ-]
I

adjective

1)

a) <route/flight> directo; < contact> directo; <cause/consequence> directo

direct dialing o (BrE) dialling — ( Telec) servicio m automático, discado m directo or automático (AmL)

direct taxation — tributación f directa

b) ( in genealogy)

he's a direct descendant of the duke — desciende del duque por línea directa

c) ( exact) <equivalent/quotation> exacto

to score a direct hit — dar* en el blanco

d) ( Ling) (before n) <question/command> en estilo directo

direct discourse o (BrE) speech — estilo m directo

2) (frank, straightforward) <person/manner> franco, directo; < question> directo

II

adverb

1) <write/phone> directamente; <go/travel> (BrE) directo, directamente

to dial direct — ( Telec) marcar* or (AmL tb) discar* directamente el número

2) ( straight) directamente

direct from Paris — (Rad, TV) en directo desde París

3) ( straightforwardly) (esp AmE colloq) directamente, sin rodeos

III
1.

transitive verb

1)

a) ( give directions to) indicarle* el camino a

b) ( address) \<\<letter/parcel\>\> mandar, dirigir*

2) ( aim) dirigir*

it was directed at us — iba dirigido a nosotros

3) \<\<play/orchestra/traffic\>\> dirigir*

4) ( order) (frml) ordenar

to direct somebody to + INF — ordenarle a alguien que (+ subj)

2.

vi (Cin, Theat) dirigir*

English-spanish dictionary > direct
3 one

[wʌn] 1.
determinante

1) (single) un, uno

one book, dog — un libro, un cane

no one person can do it — nessuno può farlo

2) (unique, sole) solo, unico

he's the one person who... — è l'unica persona che...

the one and only Edith Piaf — la sola e unica Edith Piaf

3) (same) stesso

at one and the same time — allo stesso tempo

it's one and the same thing — è esattamente la stessa cosa

to be of one mind — essere unanimi

it's all one to me — per me è lo stesso o la stessa cosa

4) (for emphasis)

one Mark Carter — un certo Mark Carter
2.
pronome

1) (indefinite) uno m., una f.

can you lend me one? — puoi prestarmene uno?

one of them — (person) uno di loro; (thing) uno di essi

every one of them was broken — erano tutti rotti

he's one of us — è uno di noi, è dei nostri

2) (impersonal) (as subject) uno; (as object) te, ti

one might think that — si o uno potrebbe credere che

it can make one ill — può fare ammalare

3) (referring to a specific person)

one who knows — uno che sa

I'm not one for doing — non sono uno o il tipo che fa

he's a clever one — è uno intelligente o un tipo intelligente

you're a one! — colloq. sei un bel tipo!

"who disagrees?" - "I for one!" — "chi non è d'accordo?" - "io, per esempio"

4) (demonstrative)

the blue one, ones quello blu, quelli blu; this one, that one questo qui, quello là; which one? quale? that's the one è quello (là); he's the one who — è (lui) quello che

5) (in currency)

one-fifty — uno e cinquanta

6) colloq. (drink)

he's had one too many — ne ha bevuto uno di troppo

7) colloq. (joke)

that's a good one! — questa è buona!

have you heard the one about...? — hai sentito quella di...?

8) colloq. (blow)

to land sb. one — mollarne uno a qcn

9) colloq. (question, problem)

that's a tricky one — questa è (una domanda) difficile

10) (person one is fond of)

her loved o dear ones — i suoi cari

11) (in knitting)

knit one, purl one — un diritto, un rovescio

12)

as one — [ rise] come un sol uomo; [ reply] all'unisono

13)

in one to down a drink in one buttare giù una bevanda in un sorso solo; you've got it in one — l'hai trovato subito

14)

one by one — [pick up, wash] uno per uno, uno a uno
3.
nome (number) uno m.

to throw a one — (on dice) fare uno

one o'clock — l'una (in punto)

to arrive in ones and twos — arrivare alla spicciolata

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to be one up on sb. — colloq. essere in vantaggio rispetto a qcn.

to go one better than sb. — fare meglio di qcn.

to have a thousand and one things to do — avere mille cose da fare
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Note:

When one is used impersonally as an indefinite pronoun, it is translated by si or uno when it is the subject of the verb: one never knows = non si sa mai; one would like to think that... = uno vorrebbe credere che... When one is the object of the verb or comes after a preposition, it is usually translated by te o ti: it can make one ill = ti può far ammalare. - When used as an indefinite pronoun, one is very formal; it is only used when you do not mean any one person in particular, in very general statements, stock phrases and proverbs: one must eat to live, not live to eat = si deve mangiare per vivere, non vivere per mangiare; one has to look after one's health = ci si deve preoccupare della propria salute. - As a consequence, one is very often substituted with you: you can do as you like here = qui si può fare quello che si vuole. - One and its plural form ones are used instead of a noun that has already been mentioned, and after this and that: "which of these books do you want?" "the big one, please" = "quale di questi libri vuoi?" "quello grosso, per favore"; I need some new ones = ne ho bisogno di nuovi; give me that one, not this one = dammi quello, non questo. - One and ones, however, are not used after these and those, the genitive case, and cardinal numbers: I want these = voglio questi; I won't drive my car, I'll get there in John's = non userò la mia macchina, ci andrò con quella di John; I'll take four = ne prendo quattro. - For more examples and all other uses, see the entry below., 1, 4

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1. noun
1) (the number or figure 1: One and one is two (1 + 1 = 2).) uno

2) (the age of 1: Babies start to talk at one.) un anno
2. pronoun
1) (a single person or thing: She's the one I like the best; I'll buy the red one.)

2) (anyone; any person: One can see the city from here.)
3. adjective
1) (1 in number: one person; He took one book.) un, una

2) (aged 1: The baby will be one tomorrow.) un anno

3) (of the same opinion etc: We are one in our love of freedom.) concorde

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- one-
- oneself
- one-night stand
- one-off
- one-parent family
- one-sided
- one-way
- one-year-old 4. adjective
((of a person, animal or thing) that is one year old.) di un anno

- all one
- be one up on a person
- be one up on
- not be oneself
- one and all
- one another
- one by one
- one or two
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[wʌn] 1.
determinante

1) (single) un, uno

one book, dog — un libro, un cane

no one person can do it — nessuno può farlo

2) (unique, sole) solo, unico

he's the one person who... — è l'unica persona che...

the one and only Edith Piaf — la sola e unica Edith Piaf

3) (same) stesso

at one and the same time — allo stesso tempo

it's one and the same thing — è esattamente la stessa cosa

to be of one mind — essere unanimi

it's all one to me — per me è lo stesso o la stessa cosa

4) (for emphasis)

one Mark Carter — un certo Mark Carter
2.
pronome

1) (indefinite) uno m., una f.

can you lend me one? — puoi prestarmene uno?

one of them — (person) uno di loro; (thing) uno di essi

every one of them was broken — erano tutti rotti

he's one of us — è uno di noi, è dei nostri

2) (impersonal) (as subject) uno; (as object) te, ti

one might think that — si o uno potrebbe credere che

it can make one ill — può fare ammalare

3) (referring to a specific person)

one who knows — uno che sa

I'm not one for doing — non sono uno o il tipo che fa

he's a clever one — è uno intelligente o un tipo intelligente

you're a one! — colloq. sei un bel tipo!

"who disagrees?" - "I for one!" — "chi non è d'accordo?" - "io, per esempio"

4) (demonstrative)

the blue one, ones quello blu, quelli blu; this one, that one questo qui, quello là; which one? quale? that's the one è quello (là); he's the one who — è (lui) quello che

5) (in currency)

one-fifty — uno e cinquanta

6) colloq. (drink)

he's had one too many — ne ha bevuto uno di troppo

7) colloq. (joke)

that's a good one! — questa è buona!

have you heard the one about...? — hai sentito quella di...?

8) colloq. (blow)

to land sb. one — mollarne uno a qcn

9) colloq. (question, problem)

that's a tricky one — questa è (una domanda) difficile

10) (person one is fond of)

her loved o dear ones — i suoi cari

11) (in knitting)

knit one, purl one — un diritto, un rovescio

12)

as one — [ rise] come un sol uomo; [ reply] all'unisono

13)

in one to down a drink in one buttare giù una bevanda in un sorso solo; you've got it in one — l'hai trovato subito

14)

one by one — [pick up, wash] uno per uno, uno a uno
3.
nome (number) uno m.

to throw a one — (on dice) fare uno

one o'clock — l'una (in punto)

to arrive in ones and twos — arrivare alla spicciolata

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to be one up on sb. — colloq. essere in vantaggio rispetto a qcn.

to go one better than sb. — fare meglio di qcn.

to have a thousand and one things to do — avere mille cose da fare
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Note:

When one is used impersonally as an indefinite pronoun, it is translated by si or uno when it is the subject of the verb: one never knows = non si sa mai; one would like to think that... = uno vorrebbe credere che... When one is the object of the verb or comes after a preposition, it is usually translated by te o ti: it can make one ill = ti può far ammalare. - When used as an indefinite pronoun, one is very formal; it is only used when you do not mean any one person in particular, in very general statements, stock phrases and proverbs: one must eat to live, not live to eat = si deve mangiare per vivere, non vivere per mangiare; one has to look after one's health = ci si deve preoccupare della propria salute. - As a consequence, one is very often substituted with you: you can do as you like here = qui si può fare quello che si vuole. - One and its plural form ones are used instead of a noun that has already been mentioned, and after this and that: "which of these books do you want?" "the big one, please" = "quale di questi libri vuoi?" "quello grosso, per favore"; I need some new ones = ne ho bisogno di nuovi; give me that one, not this one = dammi quello, non questo. - One and ones, however, are not used after these and those, the genitive case, and cardinal numbers: I want these = voglio questi; I won't drive my car, I'll get there in John's = non userò la mia macchina, ci andrò con quella di John; I'll take four = ne prendo quattro. - For more examples and all other uses, see the entry below., 1, 4

English-Italian dictionary > one
4 lead

Ⅰ.

lead¹ [led]

1 noun

(a) (metal) plomb m;

∎ it's made of lead c'est en plomb

(b) familiar (bullets) plomb m;

∎ they pumped him full of lead ils l'ont plombé

(c) (in pencil) mine f

(d) (piece of lead → for sounding) plomb m (de sonde); (→ on car wheel, fishing line) plomb m; Typography interligne m

(e) (idioms) American familiar

∎ to get the lead out (of one's pants) se magner (le train);

∎ very familiar that'll put some lead in your pencil! (invigorate) ça te requinquera!;

∎ very familiar to have lead in one's pencil (be sexually potent) ne pas avoir de problèmes pour bander

2 transitive verb

(a) (seal) plomber

(b) Typography interligner

3 adjective

(made of lead) de ou en plomb; (containing lead) plombifère;

∎ familiar to go down like a lead balloon tomber à plat^□

4 leads plural noun

British Building industry (on roof) plombs mpl (de couverture); (on window) plombures fpl, plombs mpl

►► lead crystal verre m de ou au plomb;

lead glass verre m de ou au plomb;

lead ore minerai m de plomb;

lead oxide oxyde m de plomb;

lead paint peinture f à base de plomb;

lead pencil crayon m noir ou à papier ou à mine de plomb;

lead poisoning Medicine intoxication f par le plomb, saturnisme m; American familiar (death) mort f par balle(s); (injury) blessure f par balle(s);

∎ American familiar to get lead poisoning être tué/blessé par balle(s);

lead pipe tuyau m de plomb;

lead shot grenaille f de plomb

➲ lead out separable transitive verb

Typography (lines of text) augmenter l'interlignage de

Ⅱ.

lead² [li:d]

tête ⇒ 1 (a) initiative ⇒ 1 (b) indice ⇒ 1 (c) gros titre ⇒ 1 (d) rôle principal ⇒ 1 (e) laisse ⇒ 1 (g) fil ⇒ 1 (h) mener ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (c), 2 (e) être à la tête de ⇒ 2 (b) diriger ⇒ 2 (b) amener ⇒ 2 (d) aller devant ⇒ 3 (d) principal ⇒ 4

(pt & pp led [led])

1 noun

(a) Sport tête f;

∎ to be in the lead être en tête, mener;

∎ to go into or to take the lead (in race) prendre la tête; (in match) mener;

∎ to have a 10-point/10-length lead avoir 10 points/10 longueurs d'avance;

∎ to have a good lead over the rest of the field avoir une bonne avance sur les autres concurrents;

∎ he's opened up a tremendous lead il a pris une avance considérable;

∎ France are hanging on to the lead (in race) la France reste en tête de la course; (in points table) la France reste en tête du classement

(b) (initiative) initiative f;

∎ he took the lead in asking questions il fut le premier à poser des questions;

∎ take your lead from me prenez exemple sur moi;

∎ to follow sb's lead suivre l'exemple de qn;

∎ it's up to the government to give a lead on housing policy c'est au gouvernement (qu'il revient) de donner l'exemple en matière de politique du logement

(c) (indication, clue) indice m, piste f;

∎ to give sb a lead mettre qn sur la voie;

∎ the police have several leads la police tient plusieurs pistes;

∎ we're currently following up an important lead nous sommes actuellement sur une piste prometteuse

(d) British Press gros titre m;

∎ the news made the lead in all the papers la nouvelle était à la une de tous les journaux;

∎ the 'Telegraph' opens with a lead on the Middle East crisis le 'Telegraph' consacre sa une à la crise au Proche-Orient

(e) Cinema & Theatre (role) rôle m principal; (actor) premier rôle m masculin; (actress) premier rôle m féminin;

∎ Jude Law plays the male lead Jude Law tient le premier rôle masculin

(f) Cards

∎ to have the lead jouer le premier;

∎ your lead! à vous de jouer!;

∎ whose lead is it? c'est à qui de jouer?;

∎ you must follow the lead il faut fournir à la couleur demandée;

∎ a heart lead une ouverture à cœur

(g) (for dog) laisse f;

∎ dogs must be kept on a lead (sign) les chiens doivent être tenus en laisse

(h) Electricity fil m

(i) (in ice) chenal m

2 transitive verb

(a) (take, guide) mener, emmener, conduire;

∎ to lead sb somewhere mener ou conduire qn quelque part;

∎ I was led into the garden on m'a emmené ou conduit dans le jardin;

∎ he led them across the lawn il leur fit traverser la pelouse;

∎ she led him down the stairs elle lui fit descendre l'escalier;

∎ she led them to safety elle les a conduits en lieu sûr;

∎ to lead an army into battle mener une armée au combat;

∎ to lead a team to victory mener une équipe à la victoire;

∎ the captain led the team onto the field le capitaine a conduit son équipe sur le terrain;

∎ she led them through the garden (to get out) elle les fit passer par le jardin; (to visit) elle leur fit visiter le jardin;

∎ literary he led her to the altar il la prit pour épouse;

∎ to lead the way montrer le chemin;

∎ police motorcyclists led the way des motards de la police ouvraient la route;

∎ they led the cable along the edge of the floor ils ont fait passé le câble par terre, le long du mur;

∎ Bible lead us not into temptation ne nous soumets pas à la tentation;

∎ proverb you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink on ne saurait faire boire un âne qui n'a pas soif;

∎ figurative to lead sb up the garden path mener qn en bateau

(b) (be leader of) être à la tête de, diriger; (orchestra) diriger;

∎ to lead the prayers/singing diriger la prière/les chants

(c) Sport (be in front of) mener;

∎ Stardust is leading Black Beauty by 10 lengths Stardust a pris 10 longueurs d'avance sur Black Beauty;

∎ to lead the field mener;

∎ to lead sb by 8 points avoir une avance sur qn de 8 points;

∎ figurative Great Britain leads the field in heart transplant technology la Grande-Bretagne est le pays le plus avancé dans le domaine des greffes cardiaques

(d) (induce) amener;

∎ to lead sb to do sth amener qn à faire qch;

∎ despair led him to commit suicide le désespoir l'a poussé au suicide;

∎ he led me to believe (that) he was innocent il m'a amené à croire qu'il était innocent;

∎ everything leads us to believe (that) she is still alive tout porte à croire ou nous avons toutes les raisons de croire qu'elle est encore en vie;

∎ I was led to the conclusion that he had been lying all along je suis arrivé à la conclusion qu'il mentait depuis le début;

∎ what led you to apply for this job? qu'est-ce qui vous a conduit ou amené à postuler?;

∎ he is easily led il se laisse facilement influencer;

∎ figurative subsequent events led the country into war des événements ultérieurs ont entraîné le pays dans la guerre;

∎ this leads me to my second point ceci m'amène à ma seconde remarque;

∎ he led the conversation round to money again il a ramené la conversation sur la question de l'argent

(e) (life) mener;

∎ he has lead a life of debauchery il a mené une vie de débauche;

∎ she has led a full and happy life elle a eu une vie heureuse et bien remplie

(f) Cards demander, jouer;

∎ to lead trumps demander ou jouer atout;

∎ what was led? qu'est-ce qui a été demandé?

(g) Law

∎ to lead a witness poser des questions tendancieuses à un témoin

3 intransitive verb

(a) (go) mener;

∎ this path leads to the village ce chemin mène au village;

∎ where does this door lead to? sur quoi ouvre cette porte?;

∎ the stairs lead to the cellar l'escalier mène ou conduit à la cave;

∎ take the street that leads away from the station prenez la rue qui part de la gare;

∎ that road leads nowhere cette route ne mène nulle part;

∎ figurative this is leading nowhere! cela ne rime à rien!

(b) Sport mener, être en tête;

∎ to lead by 2 metres avoir 2 mètres d'avance;

∎ to lead by 3 points to 1 mener par 3 points à 1;

∎ Black Beauty is leading Black Beauty est en tête

(c) Cards

∎ hearts led cœur (a été) demandé;

∎ Joanne to lead c'est à Joanne de jouer

(d) (go in front) aller devant; (in mountaineering) grimper en tête;

∎ if you lead, I'll follow allez-y, je vous suis

(e) British Press

∎ to lead with sth mettre qch à la une;

∎ the 'Times' led with news of the plane hijack le détournement d'avion faisait la une ou était en première page du 'Times'

(f) Boxing

∎ he leads with his right il attaque toujours du droit ou de la droite

(g) (in dancing) conduire

(h) Law être l'avocat principal;

∎ he led for the prosecution il dirigea l'accusation en tant qu'avocat principal

4 adjective

(actor, singer) principal, premier; Press (article) de tête

►► Commerce leads and lags termaillage m;

Banking & Stock Exchange lead manager (banque f) chef m de file;

lead time Industry délai m de préparation; Commerce délai m de livraison;

Marketing lead user utilisateur(trice) m,f pilote

➲ lead away separable transitive verb

emmener;

∎ the guards led him away les gardes l'ont emmené;

∎ he led her away from the scene of the accident il l'éloigna du lieu de l'accident

➲ lead back

1 separable transitive verb

ramener, reconduire;

∎ they led him back to his room ils l'ont ramené ou reconduit à sa chambre;

∎ she led the conversation back to the question of money elle a ramené la conversation sur la question de l'argent

2 intransitive verb

∎ this path leads back to the beach ce chemin ramène à la plage

➲ lead off

1 intransitive verb

(in conversation) commencer, débuter; (in debate) entamer les débats; (in game) jouer le(la) premier(ère); (at dance) ouvrir le bal; (in relay race) être le premier relayeur

2 inseparable transitive verb

(a) (begin) commencer, entamer

(b) (go from) partir de;

∎ several avenues lead off the square plusieurs avenues partent de la place

3 separable transitive verb

(person) conduire;

∎ they were led off to jail ils ont été conduits ou emmenés en prison

➲ lead on

1 intransitive verb

aller ou marcher devant;

∎ lead on! allez-y!

2 separable transitive verb

(a) (trick)

∎ to lead sb on faire marcher qn;

∎ you shouldn't lead him on like that vous ne devriez pas le faire marcher comme ça

(b) (bring on) faire entrer;

∎ lead on the horses! faites entrer les chevaux!

(c) (in progression) amener;

∎ this leads me on to my second point ceci m'amène à mon deuxième point

➲ lead to inseparable transitive verb

(result in, have as consequence) mener ou aboutir à;

∎ what's all this leading to? sur quoi tout ceci va-t-il déboucher?;

∎ the decision led to panic on Wall Street la décision a semé la panique à Wall Street;

∎ one thing led to another une chose en amenait une autre;

∎ a course leading to a degree un cursus qui débouche sur un diplôme;

∎ several factors led to his decision to leave plusieurs facteurs le poussèrent ou l'amenèrent à décider de partir;

∎ this led to several of them losing their jobs à cause de cela, plusieurs d'entre eux ont perdu leur emploi;

∎ drinking too much can lead to violence l'excès d'alcool peut conduire à la violence;

∎ his statement led to a misunderstanding sa déclaration est à l'origine d'un malentendu;

∎ this could lead to some confusion ça pourrait provoquer une certaine confusion;

∎ her research led to nothing ses recherches n'ont abouti à rien ou n'ont rien donné

➲ lead up to inseparable transitive verb

(a) (path, road) conduire à, mener à;

∎ a narrow path led up to the house un étroit sentier menait jusqu'à la maison;

∎ those stairs lead up to the attic cet escalier mène au grenier

(b) (in reasoning)

∎ she's leading up to something je me demande où elle veut en venir;

∎ what are you leading up to? où voulez-vous en venir?;

∎ I was just leading up to that j'allais justement y venir

(c) (precede, cause)

∎ the events leading up to the war les événements qui devaient déclencher la guerre;

∎ in the months leading up to her death pendant les mois qui précédèrent sa mort;

∎ Music the chords that lead up to the final movement les accords qui introduisent le dernier mouvement

ⓘ Lead on, MacDuff Cette phrase ("après toi, MacDuff") est une déformation d'un vers de Macbeth de Shakespeare, dans un passage où Macbeth défie à l'épée son ennemi MacDuff en prononçant les mots lay on, MacDuff ("frappe, MacDuff"). On utilise la version modifiée de cette phrase de façon humoristique lorsque l'on demande à quelqu'un d'ouvrir la marche.

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5 Historical Portugal

   Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.

   A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.

   Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140

   The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."

   In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.

   The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.

   Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385

   Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in

   Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.

   The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.

   Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580

   The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.

   The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.

   What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.

   By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.

   Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.

   The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.

   By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.

   In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.

   Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640

   Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.

   Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.

   On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.

   Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822

   Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.

   Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.

   In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the

   Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.

   Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.

   Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.

   Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910

   During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.

   Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.

   Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.

   Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.

   Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.

   As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.

   First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26

   Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.

   The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.

   Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.

   The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74

   During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."

   Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.

   For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),

   and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.

   The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.

   With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.

   During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.

   The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.

   At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.

   The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.

   Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76

   Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.

   Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.

   In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.

   In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.

   In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.

   The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until

   UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

   After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.

   From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.

   Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.

   Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.

   In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.

   In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.

   Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.

    Contemporary Portugal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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6 direct

1. прил.
1) общ. прямой

direct road — прямая дорога

in the direct line — по прямой (линии)

Syn:

straight

2) общ. прямой, открытый, откровенный, правдивый; ясный, недвусмысленный, очевидный, явный

direct person [question, reply\] — прямой человек [вопрос, ответ\]

direct statement — ясное (недвусмысленное) заявление

direct lie — явная ложь

direct contradiction — очевидное противоречие

Syn:

natural, straightforward, honest

See:

direct appeal, direct contempt, direct democracy, direct discrimination б), direct estoppel, direct liability 1) б)

3) общ. прямой, непосредственный

direct knowledge — сведения из первоисточника

direct communication — непосредственная связь

direct ancestor [heir\] — прямой предок [наследник\]

direct tax — прямой налог

to have a direct interest in smth. — быть непосредственно заинтересованным в чем-л.

He had direct charge of the laboratory. — Лаборатория находилась в его непосредственном подчинении.

Syn:

lineal

See:

direct access, direct action, direct advertiser, direct advertising, direct approach, direct barter, direct bill, direct business, direct buying, direct cause, direct charging, direct communication, direct competitor, direct consequence, direct constraint, direct consumer sales, direct consumption, direct contact, direct control, direct conversion, direct cost, direct costing, direct customer, direct damage, direct damages, direct data entry, direct debit, direct delivery, direct demand, direct deposit, direct descendant, direct discrimination а), direct effect, direct election, direct environment, direct equity investment, direct execution, direct expense, direct export, direct exporting, direct exposure, direct feedback, direct finance, direct financing, direct foreign investment, direct government payments, direct grant, direct heir, direct hour, direct house, direct impact, direct implementation, direct import, direct importing, direct inference, direct influence, direct infringement, direct injury, direct insurance, direct insurer, direct interference, direct investment, direct knowledge, direct labour, direct lease, direct leasing, direct lending, direct letter of credit, direct liability 2) а), direct light, direct loan, direct loss, direct mail, direct mailer, direct mailing, direct maintenance cost, direct man-hours, direct manufacturing expenses, direct marketer, direct marketing, direct material cost, direct materials, direct measure, direct measurement, direct media, direct method, direct motive, direct observation, direct outlays, direct overhead, direct paper, direct participant, direct payment, direct payout, direct payroll costs, direct placement, direct placing, direct plagiarism, direct posting, direct premium earned, direct premium written, direct premiums, direct premiums earned, direct premiums written, direct producer, direct production, direct profitability, direct project cost, direct promotion, direct purchase, direct purchasing, direct questioning, direct quotation, direct reinsurer, direct response, direct restrictions, direct result, direct revelation mechanism, direct rule, direct sale, direct sales, direct sales force, direct selling, direct settlement, direct store delivery, direct suit, direct supervision, direct supervisor, direct tax, direct taxation, direct test of financial balance, direct testing, direct tracing, direct transfer, direct transformation, direct transition, direct utility function, direct vendor delivery, direct viewing, direct violation, direct vote, direct wages, direct worker, direct write-off, direct writer, Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers, Direct Life Insurance Carriers, Direct Selling Establishments

4) общ. полный, абсолютный

direct opposite — полная противоположность

Is not this the direct contrary of what was admitted before? — Не является ли это заявление прямо противоположным сказанному ранее?

Syn:

complete

5) лингв. прямой

direct speech — прямая речь

direct question — прямой вопрос

direct object — прямое дополнение

See:

, direct questionnaire

6) мат. прямой

а) (отвесный, горизонтальный, перпендикулярный данной плоскости)

direct sun — прямые солнечные лучи

б) ( противоположный обратному)

direct ratio — прямая пропорциональность

in direct ratio to distance — прямо пропорциональный расстоянию

direct dependence — прямая зависимость

See:

7) астрон. движущийся с запада на восток ( о небесных телах)

8) тех. последовательный, постоянный ( главным образом в словосочетаниях)

direct current — постоянный ток

direct voltage — постоянное напряжение

direct coupling — последовательное соединение
2. нареч.
общ. прямо, сразу, непосредственно

to come direct to London — прибыть прямо в Лондон

I shall communicate with you direct. — Я сразу же свяжусь с вами.

His orders have come down to him direct from on high. — Он получил приказ непосредственно сверху.

Syn:

straight, immediately, exactly
3. гл.
1) общ. обращаться, адресовать, писать (куда-л.)

to direct words [remarks\] to smb. — обратиться к кому-л. со словами [замечаниями\]

Direct to me at Mr. Hipkis's. — Пишите мне на адрес мистера Хипкиса.

Syn:

address

2) упр. руководить, управлять, контролировать

to direct a business [a campaign\] — руководить предприятием [компанией\]

Wisdom is profitable to direct. — Мудрость помогает управлять.

Syn:

control, guide, head, regulate, govern, lead, manage, handle

3) упр. приказывать, указывать; предписывать, давать указания [распоряжения\]

as directed — в соответствии с указаниями [с предписанием\]

to direct John to drive to New York — распорядиться, чтобы Джон ехал в Нью-Йорк

The council directed the Chief Fire Officer to prepare a survey of fire precautions in schools. — Совет поручил начальнику пожарной охраны подготовить доклад об уровне пожарной безопасности в школах.

He is directed by his conscience. — Он следует велениям своей совести.

Syn:

order, ordain, prescribe

4) юр. решать

The judge directed the verdict for the defendant. — Судья решил дело в пользу ответчика.

5) общ. наставлять; давать советы, учить; инструктировать

to direct the jury — проводить инструктаж присяжных

to direct smb. in matters of diplomacy — быть чьим-л. наставником в вопросах дипломатии

6) иск. дирижировать

Syn:

conduct

7) иск. ставить (пьесу, спектакль, сцену, мизансцену, фильм)

8) общ. направлять (людей, усилия, действия, внимание); побуждать, подсказывать

to direct attention to — обратить внимание на

to direct one's eyes — обратить свой взор (куда-л.)

to direct one's steps — направляться (куда-л.)

to direct one's efforts [energies\] to smth. — отдавать силы [энергию\] чему-л.

They were directed to work at the archives. — Они были направлены на работу в архив.

In love it is heart that directs you. — В любви тебе все подсказывает сердце.

They directed the attacks against the enemy's seaports. — Они направили свои удары на вражеские порты.

Syn:

guide, conduct, lead

9) общ. указывать дорогу

Can you direct me to the nearest railway station? — Не подскажете дорогу к ближайшей железнодорожной станции?

Syn:

inform, instruct, guide

10) общ., воен. целить(ся), нацеливать(ся), направлять

to direct a telescope towards the Moon — направить телескоп на Луну

Syn:

point, address, aim, turn

Англо-русский экономический словарь > direct
7 issue

1. n выпуск, издание, опубликование

an over issue — чрезмерный выпуск

tap issue — выпуск ценных бумаг с целью мобилизации средств

above par issue — выпуск ценных бумаг по цене выше номинала

issue to shareholders — выпуск акций только для акционеров

guaranteed the issue of stock — гарантировать выпуск акций

guaranteed an issue of stock — гарантировать выпуск акций

2. n выпуск, издание; номер, экземпляр

back issue — старый номер

share issue — выпуск акций

equity issue — выпуск акций

issue of loan — выпуск займа

bond issue — выпуск облигаций

3. n выдача

the issue of passports — выдача паспортов

issue crib — склад выдачи

issue transaction — выдача

met issue — обеспечил выдачу

cash issue — выдача наличными

issue of a visa — выдача визы

4. n эк. эмиссия, выпуск

capital issue — эмиссия ценных бумаг

guarantee the issue of stock — гарантировать выпуск акций

issue costs — расходы, связанные с эмиссией ценных бумаг

guaranteeing the issue of stock — гарантия выпуска акций

guarantee an issue of stock — гарантировать выпуск акций

senior issue — выпуск облигаций с первоочередным правом

5. n вытекание, истечение

the issue of water from a pipe — вытекание воды из трубы

nondeferrable issue demand — заявка, требующая удовлетворения только в течение определенного времени

6. n выход, выходное отверстие

an issue for water — выход для воды

7. n вопрос, проблема

major international issues — важнейшие международные проблемы

side issue — побочный, второстепенный, несущественный вопрос

issue on the record — спорный вопрос, занесённый в протокол

to differ about the issue — расходиться по этому вопросу

stop confusing the issue — перестаньте запутывать вопрос

sovereign immunity issue — вопрос об иммунитете суверена

8. n юр. вопрос, составляющий предмет спора

issue of fact — спорный вопрос факта, спор о факте

general issue at trial — основной предмет судебного спора

split issue — одновременная выдача двух видов предметов

to find an issue — вынести решение по судебному спору

ready for issue supplies — предметы, готовые к выдаче

to straddle an issue — уклоняться от решения вопроса

9. n исход; результат, итог

the issue of a combat — исход боя

in the issue — в результате

10. n обыкн. эк. ценные бумаги; доходы, прибыли

the issues of an estate — доходы от поместья

security issue at par — выпуск ценных бумаг по номиналу

high-risk issue — выпуск спекулятивных бумаг

issue of securities — эмиссия ценных бумаг

corporate issue — ценная бумага корпорации

securities issue — выпуск ценных бумаг

11. n мед. выделение

12. n юр. потомок; потомство, дети

to die without issue — умереть бездетным

without male issue — не имеющий сыновей

no issue from the marriage survived — ни один ребёнок от этого брака не выжил

a point at issue — спорный вопрос

in issue — быть предметом обсуждения или спора

the question at issue is — вопрос состоит в том, что

issue extinct — бездетное потомство

male issue — потомство мужского пола

default of issue — отсутствие детей или наследников

13. v выпускать, издавать; пускать в обращение

to issue money — выпускать деньги

issue law — издавать закон

issue loan — выпускать заем

issue a law — издавать закон

issue shares — выпускать акции

to issue a law — издавать закон

14. v выходить; издаваться

to issue an ordinance — издавать закон

issue the prospectus — издавать проспект

15. v воен. отдавать приказы

issue a bank guarantee — давать банковскую гарантию

to issue a warrant — издать приказ; выдать ордер

to issue summons — издать приказ о явке в суд

to issue a writ — издать судебный приказ

to issue a commission — давать поручение

16. v выдавать

to issue a licence — выдать лицензию

issue a visa — выдавать визу

issue footwear — выдавать обувь

issue the loan — выдавать ссуду

issue passport — выдавать паспорт

issue receipt — выдавать расписку

17. v выходить, вытекать, исходить

smoke issued from the chimney — дым валил из трубы

18. v кончаться, завершаться

I hope our work will issue well — я надеюсь, что наша работа завершится успешно

19. v обеспечивать, снабжать

to issue food and clothing to soldiers — выдавать солдатам паёк и обмундирование

meet issue — обеспечивать выдачу

20. v юр. родиться, происходить

Синонимический ряд:

1. edition (noun) copy; edition; number; printing; publication; publishing

2. effect (noun) aftereffect; aftermath; causatum; conclusion; consummation; corollary; effect; end; end product; event; eventuality; harvest; outcome; precipitate; result; sequel; sequence; upshot

3. emission (noun) delivery; emission; promulgation; sending

4. outlet (noun) egress; exit; outlet; vent

5. product (noun) brood; children; consequence; descendants; fruit; get; offspring; posterity; product; progeniture; progeny; scions; seed

6. topic (noun) concern; crux; matter; nut; point; problem; question; topic

7. emerge (verb) come forth; emerge; flow out

8. emit (verb) discharge; emanate; emit; empty; flow; give off; give out; release; throw off; vent; void

9. publish (verb) bring out; circulate; deliver; dispatch; dispense; distribute; get out; publish; put out; transcribe

10. show (verb) appear; loom; materialise; show

11. spring (verb) arise; birth; come; come from; derive; derive from; descend; head; originate; proceed; rise; spring; spurt; stem; upspring

Антонимический ряд:

retain; suppress

English-Russian base dictionary > issue
8 follow

follow

A vtr

1 ( move after) suivre [person, car] (into dans) ; follow that cab! suivez ce taxi! ; to have sb followed faire suivre qn ; I think I'm being followed je crois qu'on me suit ; followed by suivi par ; to follow sb in/out entrer/sortir derrière qn ; she followed her father into politics elle est entrée dans la politique comme son père ; they'll follow us on a later flight ils nous rejoindront par un autre vol ;

2 ( come after in time) suivre [event, period, incident, item on list] ; succéder à [leader, monarch] ; I chose the salad and followed it with fish j'ai choisi la salade, et ensuite j'ai commandé du poisson ; I followed up my swim with a sauna après la piscine j'ai fait un sauna ; followed by suivi de ;

3 (go along, be guided by) suivre [clue, path, river, arrow, map, line of inquiry, tradition, fashion, instinct, instructions] ; if you follow this argument to its logical conclusion… si vous poursuivez le raisonnement jusqu'au bout… ;

4 (support, be led by) suivre [teachings, example] ; pratiquer [religion] ; adhérer à [faith, ideas] ; être le disciple de [person, leader] ; on this question I follow Freud sur cette question j'adhère à la théorie de Freud ; he follows his sister in everything il imite sa sœur en tout ;

5 ( watch or read closely) suivre [sport, stock market, serial, trial, lecture, film] ; to follow sth with one's eyes suivre qch des yeux ; to follow the play in one's book suivre la pièce dans le texte ; to follow the fortunes of suivre la carrière de [person] ; suivre [team] ;

6 ( understand) suivre [explanation, reasoning, plot] ; do you follow me? tu me suis? ; if you follow my meaning, if you follow me si tu vois ce que je veux dire ;

7 ( practise) exercer [trade, profession] ; poursuivre [career] ; avoir [way of life].

B vi

1 ( move after) suivre ; she followed on her bike elle a suivi en vélo ; to follow in sb's footsteps suivre les traces de qn ;

2 ( come after in time) suivre ; in the days that followed dans les jours qui ont suivi ; there followed a lengthy debate il s'ensuivit un débat interminable ; what follows is just a summary ce qui suit n'est qu'un résumé ; there's ice cream to follow ensuite il y a de la glace ; the results were as follows les résultats ont été les suivants ; the sum is calculated as follows la somme est calculée comme suit or de la façon suivante ;

3 ( be logical consequence) s'ensuivre ; it follows that il s'ensuit que ; it doesn't necessarily follow that ça ne veut pas forcément dire que ; problems are sure to follow il en résultera forcément des problèmes ; that doesn't follow ce n'est pas évident ; that follows ça me paraît logique ; to follow from sth that… découler de qch que… ;

4 ( understand) suivre ; I don't follow je ne suis pas.

Idiom

follow that ○ ! faut le faire ○ !

Phrasal verbs

■ follow about, follow around:

▶ follow [sb] around suivre [qn] partout.

■ follow on [person] suivre ; to follow on from faire suite à ; following on from yesterday's lecture… à la suite du cours d'hier…

■ follow out US:

▶ follow out [sth] suivre [orders, instructions, advice].

■ follow through:

▶ follow through Sport faire un swing complet ;

▶ follow through [sth], follow [sth] through mener [qch] à terme [project, scheme, experiment] ; tenir [promise] ; mettre [qch] à exécution [threat] ; aller jusqu'au bout de [idea, theory, argument].

■ follow up:

▶ follow up [sth], follow [sth] up

1 (reinforce, confirm) confirmer [victory, success] (with par) ; consolider [good start, debut] (with par) ; donner suite à [letter, visit, threat] (with par) ; to follow up a letter with sth faire suivre une lettre de qch ; he followed up with a left hook [boxer] il a enchaîné avec un crochet de la gauche ;

2 (act upon, pursue) suivre [story, lead] ; donner suite à [complaint, offer, call, article] ; examiner [suggestion] ; utiliser [tip, hint] ;

▶ follow up [sb], follow [sb] up ( maintain contact with) suivre [patient, person].

Big English-French dictionary > follow
9 legal

1) законна дія

2) законний, легальний; заснований на законі; заснований на загальному праві, який регулюється загальним правом; легітимний; правовий; правознавчий; правомірний; правосудний; судовий; узаконений; юридичний

•

legal and administrative machinery for family support — правові і адміністративні заходи підтримки сім'ї

legal capacity to conclude a contract — правоздатність укладати (комерційну) угоду

Legal Committee of the UN General Assembly — Юридичний комітет Генеральної Асамблеї ООН

legal documentation of a marriage — правове документальне оформлення шлюбу

legal gap in protection afforded — прогалина у правовому захисті, що надається

legal means of resolving a dispute — правові засоби вирішення спору

legal obligations under international law — юридичні зобов'язання за міжнародним правом

legal power to correct legal errors — надане законом право виправляти юридичні ( або судові) помилки

legal regulation of familial relationships — правове регулювання сімейних відносин

legal representative of the state — законний представник держави

legal test of criminal responsibility — правова перевірка кримінальної відповідальності

- legal ability
- legal abortion
- legal abuse
- legal access
- legal accountability
- legal acquisition
- legal act
- legal action
- legal activities
- legal activities activity
- legal acts
- legal address
- legal administration
- legal advertisement
- legal advice
- legal advice bureau
- legal advice center
- legal advice centre
- legal advice office
- legal adviser
- legal advisor
- legal age
- legal agency
- legal agent
- legal aid
- legal aid agency
- legal aid bureau
- legal aid office
- legal aid order
- legal alien
- legal analogy
- legal analysis
- legal approach
- legal area
- legal argument
- legal arrest
- legal aspect
- legal assets
- legal assignment
- legal assistance
- legal assistant
- legal assumption
- legal author
- legal autonomy
- legal awareness
- legal bar
- legal barrier
- legal basis
- legal bill
- legal body
- legal bond
- legal boundary
- legal burden
- legal business
- legal cadres
- legal calendar
- legal capacity
- legal capital
- legal career
- legal case
- legal category
- legal cause
- legal certainty
- legal challenge
- legal changes
- legal charge
- legal check
- legal cheque
- legal circumstance
- legal citation
- legal claim
- legal closing time
- legal code
- legal coercion
- legal committee
- legal competence
- legal complexity
- legal concept
- legal condition
- legal confinement
- legal conflict
- legal conscience
- legal consequence
- legal consequences
- legal consideration
- legal construction
- legal consultation
- legal context
- legal continuity
- legal control
- legal controversy
- legal conviction
- legal-correctional process
- legal costs
- legal councilor
- legal councillor
- legal counsel
- legal counseling
- legal counselor
- legal counsellor
- legal crackdown
- legal crime
- legal culture
- legal currency
- legal custody
- legal custom
- legal decision
- legal deduction
- legal defect
- legal defence
- legal defense
- legal deficiency
- legal definition
- legal delinquency
- legal delivery
- legal demand
- legal deontology
- legal department
- legal dependence
- legal deposit copy
- legal deposit library
- legal descent
- legal details
- legal detention
- legal device
- legal difference
- legal disability
- legal disadvantage
- legal discretion
- legal discrimination
- legal dispute
- legal doctrine
- legal document
- legal documentation
- legal drinking
- legal drinking age
- legal drinking limit
- legal drug
- legal duty
- legal duty
- legal eagle
- legal eavesdropping
- legal education
- legal effect
- legal effectiveness
- legal efficacy
- legal enforcement
- legal enforcement of law
- legal enforcement procedure
- legal entity under public law
- legal entity
- legal environment
- legal equality
- legal equality of the sexes
- legal error
- legal essence
- legal estate
- legal ethics
- legal evaluation
- legal evidence
- legal excuse
- legal execution
- legal executive
- legal exemption
- legal expenses
- legal expenses insurance
- legal experience
- legal expert
- legal expertise
- legal explanation
- legal exposition
- legal fact
- legal father
- legal fees
- legal fetishism
- legal fiction
- legal field
- legal fight
- legal force
- legal form
- legal formality
- legal formula
- legal formulation
- legal foundation
- legal foundations
- legal frame
- legal framework
- legal framing
- legal fraud
- legal function
- legal gambler
- legal gambling
- legal gap
- legal glossator
- legal government
- legal ground
- legal groundwork
- legal guarantee
- legal guarantees
- legal guardian
- legal guilt
- legal hearing
- legal historian
- legal history
- legal holder
- legal holiday
- legal home
- legal humanism
- legal hypothesis
- legal identity
- legal immigration
- legal immunity
- legal implementation
- legal implication
- legal implications
- legal impossibility
- legal incapacity
- legal incident
- legal income
- legal incompetence
- legal information
- legal injury
- legal innovation
- legal innovation
- legal innovations
- legal insanity
- legal institution
- legal instruction
- legal instrument
- legal intent
- legal interest
- legal interest rate
- legal interpretation
- legal investigation
- legal investigator
- legal irregularity
- legal issue
- legal journal
- legal judge
- legal judgement
- legal judgment
- legal jurisdiction
- legal justice
- legal justification
- legal killer
- legal killing
- legal knowledge
- legal language
- legal liability
- legal lien
- legal limit
- legal limitation
- legal literature
- legal loophole
- legal lynching
- legal malice
- legal malpractice
- legal manufacture
- legal marriage
- legal matter
- legal maxim
- legal means
- legal means of social control
- legal measure
- legal mechanism
- legal medicine
- legal methodology
- legal minimum age of marriage
- legal minimum wage rate
- legal minimum wage rates
- legal minor
- legal monopoly
- legal monument
- legal mortgage
- legal mother
- legal name
- legal nationality
- legal negligence
- legal nihilism
- legal nomenclature
- legal norm
- legal notice
- legal notification
- legal notion
- legal object
- legal objection
- legal objective
- legal obligation
- legal observation method
- legal observer
- legal obstruction
- legal office
- legal office
- legal officer
- legal official
- legal operation
- legal opinion
- legal order
- legal organization
- legal owner
- legal parlance
- legal papers
- legal participation
- legal perjury
- legal permissibility
- legal permission
- legal person
- legal personality
- legal phenomenon
- legal philosopher
- legal philosophy
- legal picketing
- legal platform
- legal play
- legal point
- legal point of view
- legal policy
- legal portion
- legal position
- legal positivism
- legal positivist
- legal possession
- legal power
- legal practice
- legal practitician
- legal practitioner
- legal precept
- legal predecessor
- legal prerequisite
- legal presumption
- legal presumption of death
- legal principle
- legal privilege
- legal problem
- legal procedure
- legal procedure publicity
- legal procedures
- legal proceeding
- legal proceedings
- legal process
- legal profession
- legal profession member
- legal professional
- legal professional privilege
- legal prohibition
- legal proposition
- legal propriety
- legal prosecution
- legal protectee
- legal protection
- legal protection of software
- legal provision
- legal psychiatry
- legal purism
- legal purist
- legal qualification
- legal question
- legal rationale
- legal realism
- legal reality
- legal reasoning
- legal recognition
- legal recourse
- legal redress
- legal reference
- legal reform
- legal reformer
- legal regime
- legal regulation
- legal rehabilitation
- legal rehabilitation
- legal relations
- legal relationship
- legal relationships
- legal relative
- legal relativism
- legal relevance
- legal relief
- legal remedy
- legal representation
- legal representative
- legal reputation
- legal requirement
- legal reservation
- legal reserve
- legal residence
- legal resolution
- legal restraint
- legal restriction
- legal right-enforcing
- legal right
- legal rights
- legal risk
- legal rule
- legal safeguard
- legal safety
- legal sanction
- legal scholar
- legal science
- legal scientist
- legal search
- legal secretary
- legal security
- legal self-help
- legal sense
- legal sentence
- legal sentencing
- legal separation
- legal service
- legal services
- legal significance
- legal source
- legal specialist
- legal speech
- legal sphere
- legal spokesman
- legal spouse
- legal staff
- legal standard
- legal state
- legal statement
- legal statistics
- legal status
- legal status of a person
- legal step
- legal storage period
- legal strike
- legal structure
- legal studies
- legal subbranch
- legal sub-branch
- legal subject
- legal subjectivity
- legal submission
- legal subrogation
- legal succession
- legal successor
- legal suit
- legal system
- legal tapping
- legal technicality
- legal technician
- legal technique
- legal techniques
- legal tender
- legal tender note
- legal term
- legal termination
- legal termination of marriage
- legal territory
- legal test
- legal text
- legal theorist
- legal theory
- legal thinker
- legal thinking
- legal thought
- legal title
- legal tool
- legal topic
- legal tradition
- legal training
- legal transaction
- legal treasury note
- legal treatise
- legal treatment
- legal trial
- legal ubiquity
- legal uncertainty
- legal unit
- legal usage
- legal vacuum
- legal validity
- legal venue
- legal view
- legal viewpoint
- legal violence
- legal volition
- legal voter
- legal waiver
- legal wife
- legal wiretap
- legal wiretapping
- legal wording
- legal work
- legal writer
- legal writing
- legal wrong
- legal year

English-Ukrainian law dictionary > legal
10 import

I 1. ['ɪmpɔːt] сущ.
1) импорт; импортирование ( ввоз в страну товаров из-за границы)

- import-export

Syn:

importation

Ant:

export 1.

2) ( imports)

импортируемые, ввозимые товары
2. [ɪm'pɔːt] гл.
1) импортировать ( ввозить в страну товары из-за границы)

Britain must try to import fewer goods from overseas, so as to help her own industries. — Британии надо уменьшить импорт, чтобы поддержать отечественное производство.

Ant:

export 2.

2) вносить, вводить; привносить

to import oxygen into the blood — насыщать кровь кислородом

Syn:

introduce, bring in
II 1. ['ɪmpɔːt] сущ.
1) значение, смысл, суть, сущность

Such a construction follows the natural import of the words. — Такая конструкция соответствует естественному значению слов.

Syn:

sense, meaning, significance, purport 1., content I

2) важность, значимость, значительность

to be of little import — не иметь особой значимости

Syn:

importance, significance, consequence
2. [ɪm'pɔːt] гл.
1)

а) значить, означать, подразумевать

Syn:

signify, imply, denote, mean 2., involve

б) уст. выражать, излагать

Syn:

express, state I 3.

2)

а) иметь отношение, касаться, затрагивать

It is a question that imports us nearly. — Этот вопрос напрямую нас касается.

Syn:

concern 2.

б) уст. иметь значение, быть важным

For them it greatly imports. — Для них это имеет большое значение.

Syn:

matter 2.

Англо-русский современный словарь > import
11 importance

[ɪm'pɔːt(ə)n(t)s]
сущ.

1) важность, значимость, значительность; значение

great / paramount / utmost / vital importance — жизненная важность

to acquire / assume importance — приобретать важность, значимость

to attach / attribute importance to — придавать значение (чему-л.)

It was a question of great importance to us. — Для нас это было делом большой важности.

- position of importance
- of no importance
Syn:

moment, significance, gravity, weight 1., consequence

2) влиятельность

His family, though not noble, seems to have been of some importance. — Хотя его семья и не знатного происхождения, но, кажется, обладает некоторым влиянием.

Англо-русский современный словарь > importance
12 indirect

[ˌɪndɪ'rekt], [-daɪ-]
прил.

1) непрямой

indirect government representation — многоступенчатое представительство в правительстве

The indirect way's the nearest. — Окольный путь - самый короткий.

indirect fire — воен. огонь с закрытых позиций

Syn:

roundabout 1., circuitous

2) уклончивый; вводящий в заблуждение

indirect methods — нечестные методы

Syn:

evasive, deceitful

3) косвенный

indirect accusation — косвенное обвинение

indirect reference — непрямая, косвенная ссылка

indirect taxation — косвенное налогообложение

Syn:

oblique 1.

4) лингв. косвенный

indirect object — косвенное дополнение

indirect speech — косвенная речь

Gram:

[ref dict="LingvoGrammar (En-Ru)"]Indirect object[/ref]

[ref dict="LingvoGrammar (En-Ru)"]Indirect question[/ref]

[ref dict="LingvoGrammar (En-Ru)"]Indirect speech[/ref]

5) побочный

indirect result — побочный, дополнительный результат

Happiness of the nation is not the direct aim, but the indirect consequence of the good government. — Счастье народа не непосредственная цель, а побочный результат деятельности хорошего правительства.

Англо-русский современный словарь > indirect
13 inquiry

запрос имя существительное:
запрос (request, query, inquiry, demand, message, interpellation)

расследование (investigation, inquiry, probe, inquisition, detection, probing)

дознание (inquiry, inquest, quest, disquisition, interrogative)

спрос (demand, inquiry, request, market, run, CALL)

вопрос (question, matter, problem, point, item, inquiry)

исследование (study, research, investigation, survey, examination, inquiry)

справка (reference, inquiry, enquiry)

следствие (investigation, consequence, result, effect, consequent, inquiry)

наведение справок (inquiry, enquiry)

расспрашивание (inquiry, enquiry)

Англо-русский синонимический словарь > inquiry
14 inquisition

инквизиция имя существительное:
инквизиция (inquisition)

расследование (investigation, inquiry, probe, inquisition, detection, probing)

следствие (investigation, consequence, result, effect, consequent, inquisition)

пытка (torture, excruciation, rack, inquisition, question)

мучение (torment, anguish, misery, worry, fret, inquisition)

Англо-русский синонимический словарь > inquisition
15 enquiry

запрос имя существительное:
запрос (request, query, inquiry, demand, message, interpellation)

расследование (investigation, inquiry, probe, inquisition, detection, probing)

дознание (inquiry, inquest, quest, disquisition, interrogative)

спрос (demand, inquiry, request, market, run, CALL)

вопрос (question, matter, problem, point, item, query)

исследование (study, research, investigation, survey, examination, exploration)

справка (reference, inquiry, enquiry)

следствие (investigation, consequence, result, effect, consequent, inquiry)

наведение справок (inquiry, enquiry)

расспрашивание (inquiry, enquiry)

Англо-русский синонимический словарь > enquiry
16 Mark

1. n Марк

vote mark — марка воа

Mark Twain — Марк Твен

mark number — номер марки

Mark Messier — Марк Мессье

base mark — базисная марка

2. n знак

punctuation marks — знаки препинания

interrogation mark, mark of interrogation — вопросительный знак

mark of accent — ударение, знак ударения

mark of cadency — знак принадлежности к младшей линии

trade mark — фабричная марка; фабричный знак; товарный знак

table of proof-reader's mark — таблица корректурных знаков

to alter a trade mark — внести изменение в товарный знак

question mark option — опция в виде вопросительного знака

textual mark — корректурный знак, проставляемый в тексте

3. n метка, пометка

there were no marks on his linen — на его белье не было меток

demerit mark — плохая отметка за успеваемость или поведение

containing mark — метка сосуда, калиброванного на наливание

tank "full" mark — отметка верхнего уровня топливного бака

optical mark recognition — оптическое считывание меток

destination warning mark — предупреждающая метка конца

4. n штамп, штемпель

die mark — маркировка на штампе

postage mark — почтовый штемпель

postage mark impression — почтовый штемпель

5. n клеймо, тавро; фабричная марка, фабричное клеймо; торговый знак

foot mark — знак фута

cent mark — знак цента

inch mark — знак дюйма

plus mark — знак плюса

cent mark — знак цента

6. n штемпель

7. n ярлык; ценник

8. n ориентир; метка; зарубка; веха

the tower was a mark for fliers — башня служила ориентиром для лётчиков

gauge mark — метка

scribe mark — метка

sea mark — ориентир

guide mark — отметка

place mark — ориентир

9. n отметка, черта

check mark — контрольная метка

penalty face-off mark — отметка места штрафных ударов

centre focusing mark — центральная фокусирующая метка

bolt hardness mark — метка твердости на головке болта

side face-off mark — отметка места вбрасывания шайбы

cylinder guide mark — приводочная метка на цилиндре

10. n спорт. линия старта, старт

to get off the mark — стартовать, взять старт

weld mark — линия стыка

score mark — линия сгиба

wire mark — водяная линия

11. n спорт. линия финиша

12. n шрам, рубец; порез; царапина

there were marks of smallpox on his face — его лицо было изрыто оспой

arrow mark — веерообразная царапина; «комета»

scratch mark — царапина; риска

13. n след, отпечаток

marks of illness — следы болезни

your association with him has left its mark on you — твоё общение с ним наложило на тебя отпечаток

wear mark — след износа

collar mark — след бурта

impact mark — след удара

heat mark — след пережога

brush mark — след от кисти

14. n пятно, родинка

they identified her by the mark on her arm — они опознали её по родимому пятну на руке

beauty mark — родинка

finger mark — пятно от пальца

corrosion mark — пятно ржавчины

strawberry mark — красноватое родимое пятно

15. n норма; стандарт; уровень

above the mark — выше принятой нормы

to be near the mark — приближаться к принятой норме, приближаться к принятому стандарту

datum mark — базис, репер, отметка уровня

flood mark — отметка уровня полной воды

high-water mark — уровень полной воды

16. n отметка, балл, оценка

this is a black mark against him — это ему припомнят

good mark in English — хорошая отметка по английскому языку

the highest mark — высший балл, высшая оценка

to get a good mark at an examination — получить хорошую отметку на экзамене

she got top marks in the exam — она сдала экзамен на «отлично»

top mark — высший балл

block mark — метка блока

load mark — метка начала

group mark — метка группы

color mark — цветная метка

17. n цель; мишень

to overshoot the mark — стрелять с перелётом, давать перелёт

you have overshot the mark — ты зашёл слишком далеко, это ты хватил

an answer off the mark — ответ невпопад

your guess is beside the mark — вы не угадали

your calculation is beside the mark — вы неправильно рассчитали

off the mark — неточно; ошибочно, неправильно, неверно

you are right off the mark — ты ошибаешься; ты попал пальцем в небо

he was afraid to become a mark for talkers — он опасался стать мишенью для признак, показатель

a mark of intelligence — признак ума

to wing an arrow at the mark — пустить стрелу в цель

his blow missed the mark — его удар не попал в цель

the bullet found its mark — пуля попала в цель

to pop at a mark — палить в мишень

hitting the mark — поражение цели

18. n известность; значительность

a man of mark — известный человек; значительный человек; человек, достойный внимания

of great mark — очень известный, заслуживающий внимания

a man of great mark — выдающийся человек

of little mark — малоизвестный, не стоящий внимания

19. n ист. рубеж, граница; марка

Finnish mark — финская марка

german mark — немецкая марка

west german mark — марка ФРГ

draft mark — марка углубления

wander mark — подвижная марка

20. n ист. марка, крестьянская община в средневековой Германии

focussing mark — установочная марка

displacement mark — марка углубления

illuminating mark — светящаяся марка

manufacturers mark — фабричная марка

stray mark — нулевая марка на лаглине

21. n ист. спорт. жарг. подложечная ямка

22. n ист. груб. то, что по вкусу

side mark — боковой упор

field mark — метка поля; маркер поля

who will mark up the score? — кто будет записывать счёт?

23. n ист. лингв. помета, знак; признак

minus mark — знак минуса

minute mark — знак минуты

space mark — знак пробела

accent mark — знак акцента

degree mark — знак градуса

24. n ист. стирание зубов у лошади, по которому можно определить её возраст

to toe the mark — подчиняться требованиям, строго придерживаться правил; выполнять свой долг;

fang mark — след ядовитых зубов змеи

to mark an epoch — открыть новую эру

25. v ставить знак, метку

to mark the accent — ставить ударение

to mark books — шифровать книги

to mark the linen — метить бельё

adjustment mark — установочная метка

collimating mark — кооринатная метка

diacritic mark — диакритический знак

dot mark — точка; метка в виде точки

end mark — метка конца; маркер конца

26. v штамповать, штемпелевать

27. v клеймить, таврить

28. v маркировать; ставить фабричную марку, фабричное клеймо или торговый знак

all furs are plainly marked as to the country of origin — на всех шкурках стоит клеймо страны-экспортёра

grade mark — знак качества

long mark — знак долготы,

night mark — светящий знак

second mark — знак секунды

thread mark — водяной знак

29. v ставить расценку

the prices of these goods are all clearly marked on them — цены этих товаров чётко указаны на них

30. v отмечать, обозначать; размечать; расставлять указательные знаки

he marked the passage I was to read — он отметил отрывок, который мне следовало прочесть

mark in — размечать

mark file — размечать файл

weight mark — весовой знак

core mark — стержневой знак

equal mark — знак равенства

31. v наносить

to mark a place on the map — отметить место на карте

32. v отмечать; указывать

the thermometer marked 40° in the shade — термометр показывал 40 градусов в тени

33. v оставлять след, пятно

the wet cups have marked the table badly — стол испортили, потому что ставили на него мокрые чашки

chatter mark — след вибраций

rolling mark — след прокатки

mark of erasure — след подтирки

ragging mark — след насечки валка

dog mark — след клещей стрипперного крана

34. v оставаться

35. v оставлять шрам, рубец

his face was marked with smallpox — его лицо было обезображено оспой

36. v оставлять след, отпечаток

her face was marked with suffering — по её лицу было видно, что она много страдала в жизни

the mark of a foot was printed on the sand — на песке остался след ноги

37. v иметь родимые пятна или естественные метины

wings marked with white lines — крылья с белыми полосами

hole registration mark — световое пятно, используемое для приводки

38. v выставлять отметку, балл

to mark an exercise — проверять письменные упражнения

movable-range mark — подвижная отметка дальности

teatester's mark — титестерский оценочный балл

to get the top mark — получить высший балл

penalty mark — отметка для штрафных ударов

calibration mark — калибровочная отметка

39. v выставлять балл

the judges marked his performance very high — судьи высоко оценили его выступление

40. v вести счёт, записывать очки

41. v отмечать, характеризовать; отличать, выделять

such qualities usually mark a great scientist — подобные качества обычно свойственны большим учёным

this novel marks him as a great author — этот роман ставит его в ряд великих писателей

great scientific discoveries marked the 19th century — девятнадцатый век был отмечен великими научными открытиями

qualities which mark him off from his colleagues — качества, которые отличают его от его коллег

42. v отмечать, ознаменовывать

to mark the occasion — отметить событие

he called for champaign to mark the event — он велел подать шампанского, чтобы отпраздновать это событие

43. v выражать, проявлять

they marked their approval by clapping — они выразили своё одобрение аплодисментами

44. v замечать, запоминать

mark him well — запомни его хорошенько

45. v поэт. замечать, наблюдать

he was marked by everyone — его все заметили

46. v книжн. назначать, предназначать; предопределять

his abilities marked him for success — его способности сулили ему успех

he was marked for greatness by his extraordinary talents — при таких необыкновенных способностях его, несомненно, ждало большое будущее

47. v опекать, прикрывать

Синонимический ряд:

1. blemish (noun) blemish; dent; scar; scratch; stain

2. effect (noun) consequence; effect; impact; influence; manifestation; repercussion; result

3. fool (noun) butt; chump; dupe; easy mark; fall guy; fish; fool; gudgeon; gull; monkey; patsy; pigeon; sap; saphead; simple; sitting duck; sucker; target; tool; victim

4. imprint (noun) blaze; impression; imprint; underlining

5. indication (noun) evidence; index; indication; indicator; indicia; sign; significant; signification; stamp; symbol; symptom; token; witness

6. logo (noun) badge; brand; emblem; label; logo; logotype; representation; trade mark; trademark

7. note (noun) distinction; eminence; glory; illustriousness; lustre; notability; note; pre-eminence; prestige; prominence; renown

8. notice (noun) attention; cognisance; cognizance; ear; heed; notice; observance; observation; regard; remark

9. quality (noun) affection; attribute; character; characteristic; difference; feature; idiosyncrasy; peculiarity; property; quality; savor; savour; trait; virtue

10. test (noun) benchmark; criterion; gauge; measure; standard; test; touchstone; yardstick

11. use (noun) aim; ambition; bull's-eye; duty; function; goal; object; objective; purpose; quaesitum; use

12. aim for (verb) aim for; target

13. argue (verb) argue; attest; bespeak; betoken; point to; testify; witness

14. beat (verb) beat; count

15. brand (verb) brand; earmark; impress

16. characterize (verb) characterise; characterize; individualize; individuate; qualify; signalize; singularize

17. choose (verb) choose; cull; elect; opt for; optate; pick; pick out; prefer; select; single out; take

18. deface (verb) deface; disfigure; grade; score

19. denote (verb) denote; designate; indicate

20. dirty (verb) dirty; soil; stain

21. distinguish (verb) differentiate; discriminate; distinguish; individualise; set apart; signalise

22. imprint (verb) blaze; identify; imprint; inscribe; label; print; sign; tag

23. see (verb) behold; descry; discern; espy; mind; note; notice; observe; perceive; remark; see; twig; view

24. show (verb) chronicle; demonstrate; evidence; evince; exhibit; illustrate; list; manifest; ostend; proclaim; read; record; register; say; show

Антонимический ряд:

clean; conceal; ignore; obliteration; omit; overlook; plainness

English-Russian base dictionary > Mark
17 state

1. n тк. состояние, положение

normal state — нормальное состояние

state of decay — состояние упадка

state of siege — осадное положение

state of war — состояние войны

state of affairs — положение дел

state of the case — обстоятельства дела

state of the facts — фактическое положение дел

state of health — состояние здоровья

bus state — состояние шины

gel state — состояние геля

state code — код состояния

input state — состояние ввода

show state — состояние показа

2. n строение, структура

gaseous state of water — газообразное состояние воды

3. n общественное положение,

persons in every state of life — люди разного звания

piteous state — жалкое положение

state of affairs — положение дел

state of siege — осадное положение

state indicator — указатель положения

the state of things — положение вещей

4. n великолепие, пышность; помпа, парадность

state apartments — парадные покои

state call — официальный визит

the state coach — королевская парадная карета

state entry — торжественное появление

state occasion — торжественный случай

to arrive in great state — прибыть с большой помпой

to lie in state — быть выставленным для торжественного прощания

5. n напряжённое или возбуждённое состояние

to be in a state — быть в затруднении или в волнении

to work oneself into a state — взвинтить себя

he was in quite a state about it — он был очень взволнован этим

forced state transition — принудительное изменение состояния

central excitatory state — центральное состояние возбуждения

Clapeyron equation of state — уравнение состояния Клайперона

stationary quantum state — стационарное квантовое состояние

high-voltage state — состояние с высоким уровнем напряжения

6. n полигр. корректурный оттиск гравюры

7. v излагать; заявлять; формулировать

to state the question — излагать вопрос

to state a case — формулировать спорные вопросы по делу

to state an account — дать отчёт

8. v констатировать, утверждать

he positively stated that he had never seen the accused man — он решительно утверждал, что никогда не видел обвиняемого

9. v устанавливать; точно определять

to state the time for a meeting — назначить время собрания

10. v редк. помещать, располагать, размещать

11. n государство

federal state — федеративное государство

aggressor state — государство-агрессор

delinquent state — государство-правонарушитель

states parties — государства — участники

a state within a state — государство в государстве

reasons of state — государственные соображения

leader of State — руководитель государства

to establish a state — создать государство

a waterlocked state — островное государство

corporate state — корпоративное государство

dissolution of a state — распад государства

12. n государственный аппарат

state owned — государственный

state bank — государственный банк

state loan — государственный заем

state park — государственный парк

state order — государственный заказ

13. n государственная власть; светская власть

Church and State — церковь и государство

state visit — государственный визит

State power — государственная власть

State system — государственный строй

state budget — государственный бюджет

state council — государственный совет

14. n разг. госдепартамент

to clear the project with State — согласовать программу с госдепартаментом

department of state — госдепартамент

state department official — представитель госдепартамента

state departament official — представитель госдепартамента

15. n штат

the State of Texas — штат Техас

state decision — решение суда штата

state provision — норма права штата

Cornhusker State — «Кукурузный штат»

Peninsula State — Полуостровной штат

governor of state — губернатор штата

16. n разг. Соединённые Штаты Америки

of the state — штата

black state — черный штат

state agency — орган штата

Prairie State — штат Прерий

state force — полиция штата

17. a государственный

state service — государственная служба

state boundary — государственная граница

state law — государственное право

state treaty — государственный договор

state capitalism — государственный капитализм

state secret — государственная тайна

state business — дело государственной важности

state prisoner — лицо, осуждённое за политическое преступление, политический заключённый

state credit — государственный кредит

state sector — государственный сектор

State figure — государственный деятель

state border — государственная граница

state church — государственная церковь

18. a амер. относящийся к штату

State law — право штата, закон штата

attorney for the state — атторней штата

state claim — иск на основе права штата

Lone-Star State — штат «Одинокой звезды»

state conviction — осуждение судом штата

act of state — акт государственной власти

Синонимический ряд:

1. federal (adj.) federal; governmental; national; official

2. government (adj.) government; public

3. attitude (noun) attitude; mood; morale; spirits

4. form (noun) constitution; form; phase; structure

5. glory (noun) glory; grandeur; pomp; splendor

6. nation (noun) commonwealth; community; country; federation; government; kingdom; land; nation; polity; republic

7. principality (noun) principality; province; territory

8. status (noun) cachet; capacity; case; character; circumstance; circumstances; condition; consequence; dignity; estate; footing; mode; place; plight; position; posture; predicament; prestige; quality; rank; situation; standing; station; stature; status

9. allege (verb) allege; claim; profess

10. certify (verb) certify; confirm; validate

11. describe (verb) describe; elucidate; explain; expound; present

12. disclose (verb) disclose; divulge; manifest; reveal

13. hold (verb) affirm; assert; asseverate; aver; avouch; avow; contend; declare; hold; insist; maintain

14. relate (verb) narrate; recite; recount; rehearse; relate; report

15. say (verb) affirm; air; articulate; assert; authorise; authorize; bring out; chime in; come out with; communicate; convey; declare; deliver; determine; enounce; enunciate; express; fix; give; pronounce; put; say; speak; tell; throw out; utter; vent; ventilate; vocalise; voice

Антонимический ряд:

deny; hide; simplicity; suppress; unofficial; withhold

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18 Logic

   1) The Science of Logic Finds Ordinary Language to Be an Obstacle

   My initial step... was to attempt to reduce the concept of ordering in a sequence to that of logical consequence, so as to proceed from there to the concept of number. To prevent anything intuitive from penetrating here unnoticed, I had to bend every effort to keep the chain of inference free of gaps. In attempting to comply with this requirement in the strictest possible way, I found the inadequacy of language to be an obstacle. (Frege, 1972, p. 104)

   2) Logic Is a Microscope

   I believe I can make the relation of my 'conceptual notation' to ordinary language clearest if I compare it to the relation of the microscope to the eye. The latter, because of the range of its applicability and because of the ease with which it can adapt itself to the most varied circumstances, has a great superiority over the microscope. Of course, viewed as an optical instrument it reveals many imperfections, which usually remain unnoticed only because of its intimate connection with mental life. But as soon as scientific purposes place strong requirements upon sharpness of resolution, the eye proves to be inadequate.... Similarly, this 'conceptual notation' is devised for particular scientific purposes; and therefore one may not condemn it because it is useless for other purposes. (Frege, 1972, pp. 104-105)

   3) Logic Carries on an Unceasing Struggle with Psychology

   To sum up brieﬂy, it is the business of the logician to conduct an unceasing struggle against psychology and those parts of language and grammar which fail to give untrammeled expression to what is logical. He does not have to answer the question: How does thinking normally take place in human beings? What course does it naturally follow in the human mind? What is natural to one person may well be unnatural to another. (Frege, 1979, pp. 6-7)

   4) Logic Should Replace the Ordinary Language of Everyday Discourse

   We are very dependent on external aids in our thinking, and there is no doubt that the language of everyday life-so far, at least, as a certain area of discourse is concerned-had first to be replaced by a more sophisticated instrument, before certain distinctions could be noticed. But so far the academic world has, for the most part, disdained to master this instrument. (Frege, 1979, pp. 6-7)

   5) Logic Is Unnatural

   There is no reproach the logician need fear less than the reproach that his way of formulating things is unnatural.... If we were to heed those who object that logic is unnatural, we would run the risk of becoming embroiled in interminable disputes about what is natural, disputes which are quite incapable of being resolved within the province of logic. (Frege, 1979, p. 128)

   6) The Significance of " Baby Logic" for Linguistics

   [L]inguists will be forced, internally as it were, to come to grips with the results of modern logic. Indeed, this is apparently already happening to some extent. By "logic" is not meant here recursive function-theory, California model-theory, constructive proof-theory, or even axiomatic settheory. Such areas may or may not be useful for linguistics. Rather under "logic" are included our good old friends, the homely locutions "and," "or," "if-then," "if and only if," "not," "for all x," "for some x," and "is identical with," plus the calculus of individuals, event-logic, syntax, denotational semantics, and... various parts of pragmatics.... It is to these that the linguist can most profitably turn for help. These are his tools. And they are "clean tools," to borrow a phrase of the late J. L. Austin in another context, in fact, the only really clean ones we have, so that we might as well use them as much as we can. But they constitute only what may be called "baby logic." Baby logic is to the linguist what "baby mathematics" (in the phrase of Murray Gell-Mann) is to the theoretical physicist-very elementary but indispensable domains of theory in both cases. (Martin, 1969, pp. 261-262)

   7) The Existence of a Mental Logic Denied

   There appears to be no branch of deductive inference that requires us to assume the existence of a mental logic in order to do justice to the psychological phenomena. To be logical, an individual requires, not formal rules of inference, but a tacit knowledge of the fundamental semantic principle governing any inference; a deduction is valid provided that there is no way of interpreting the premises correctly that is inconsistent with the conclusion. Logic provides a systematic method for searching for such counter-examples. The empirical evidence suggests that ordinary individuals possess no such methods. (Johnson-Laird, quoted in Mehler, Walker & Garrett, 1982, p. 130)

   8) The Fundamental Paradox of Logic

   The fundamental paradox of logic [that "there is no class (as a totality) of those classes which, each taken as a totality, do not belong to themselves" (Russell to Frege, 16 June 1902, in van Heijenoort, 1967, p. 125)] is with us still, bequeathed by Russell-by way of philosophy, mathematics, and even computer science-to the whole of twentieth-century thought. Twentieth-century philosophy would begin not with a foundation for logic, as Russell had hoped in 1900, but with the discovery in 1901 that no such foundation can be laid. (Everdell, 1997, p. 184)

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