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  • 1 old debt

    1) Экономика: старый долг
    2) Банковское дело: давний долг

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  • 2 old debt

    חוב ישן (חוב מהעבר, משהו לא סגור שנשאר מהעבר)
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    (רבעהמ ראשנש רוגס אל והשמ,רבעהמ בוח) ןשי בוח

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  • 3 old debt

    oude schuld

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  • 4 old debt

    gammal skuld (skuld från det förflutna, något oavslutat från det förflutna)

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  • 5 old debt

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  • 6 paid an old debt

    החזיר חוב ישן (סילק את חובו, שילם את מה שהיה חייב, סגר מעגל)
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    (לגעמ רגס,בייח היהש המ תא םליש,ובוח תא קליס) ןשי בוח ריזחה

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  • 7 paid an old debt

    betaalde een oude schuld, betaalde wat hij schuldig was

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  • 8 paid an old debt

    betalade en gammal skuld (betalade allt han var skyldig)

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  • 9 old

    old [əʊld]
    vieux1 (a), 1 (b), 1 (e), 2 âgé de1 (c) ancien1 (d)
    (compar older, superl oldest)
    (a) (not new or recent) vieux (vieille);
    the old traditions of the countryside les vieilles traditions campagnardes;
    there's an old saying that… il y a un vieux dicton qui dit que…;
    it's hard to shake off old habits on ne se débarrasse pas facilement de ses vieilles habitudes;
    not that old excuse again! tu ne vas pas/il ne va pas/ etc ressortir encore une fois la même excuse!;
    they're old friends ce sont de vieux amis ou des amis de longue date;
    he's an old friend of mine c'est un de mes vieux amis;
    to go over old ground revenir sur un terrain déjà parcouru;
    an old debt une dette de longue date;
    that's an old dodge c'est un coup classique;
    the old country la mère patrie
    (b) (not young) vieux (vieille);
    an old man un vieil homme;
    an old woman une vieille femme;
    I don't like that old man/woman je n'aime pas ce vieux/cette vieille;
    old people personnes fpl âgées;
    the old people next door le couple âgé qui habite à côté, familiar les vieux qui habitent à côté;
    to get or grow old vieillir;
    who will look after me in my old age? qui s'occupera de moi quand je serai vieux?;
    I've got a little money put aside for my old age j'ai quelques économies de côté pour mes vieux jours;
    old people's home maison f de retraite
    how old is she? quel âge a-t-elle?;
    to be old enough to do sth être en âge de faire qch;
    she's old enough to know better elle ne devrait plus faire ce genre de chose à son âge;
    he's old enough to look after himself il est (bien) assez grand pour se débrouiller tout seul;
    he's old enough to be my father! il pourrait être mon père!;
    you're as old as you feel on a l'âge de ses artères;
    she is older than I am elle est plus âgée ou vieille que moi;
    she's two years older than him elle a deux ans de plus que lui;
    my boy wants to be a soldier when he's older mon fils veut être soldat quand il sera grand;
    the older generation la vieille génération;
    my older sister ma sœur aînée;
    the oldest of the tribe l'aîné(e) m,f de la tribu;
    she's six months/twenty-five years old elle a six mois/vingt-cinq ans, elle est âgée de six mois/vingt-cinq ans;
    at six years old à (l'âge de) six ans;
    they have a fourteen-year-old boy ils ont un garçon de quatorze ans;
    a three-day-old baby un bébé de trois jours
    (d) (former) ancien;
    that's my old address c'est mon ancienne adresse;
    an old admirer of hers un de ses anciens admirateurs;
    an old Etonian un ancien élève d'Eton;
    in the old days autrefois, jadis;
    the good old days le bon vieux temps;
    he went to my old school il a fréquenté mon ancienne école;
    of the old school de la vieille école;
    a writer of the old school un écrivain de la vieille école
    old Jimmy wants to speak to you le vieux Jimmy veut te parler;
    good old Frank! ce (bon) vieux Frank!;
    old-fashioned hello, old thing or chap! salut, mon vieux ou ma vieille branche!
    it's a funny old life! la vie est drôle, quand même!;
    very familiar you old bastard! espèce de salaud!;
    silly old bat espèce de vieille folle!;
    we had a fine old time nous avons passé un sacré bon moment;
    any old bit of wood will do n'importe quel vieux bout de bois fera l'affaire ;
    any old how n'importe comment ;
    I just wear any old thing to do the gardening je porte n'importe quel vieux truc pour jardiner;
    he's not just any old scientist, he's a Nobel prizewinner ce n'est pas n'importe quel scientifique, c'est un prix Nobel
    the old les vieux mpl
    in days of old autrefois, jadis;
    the knights of old les chevaliers du temps jadis ou de jadis
    I know them of old je les connais depuis longtemps
    ►► British old age pension (pension f de) retraite f;
    British old age pensioner retraité(e) m,f;
    the Old Bailey = la cour d'assises de Londres;
    British old boy (former pupil) ancien élève m; familiar (old man) vieux m; familiar old-fashioned (form of address) mon vieux;
    he's a nice old boy c'est un vieux monsieur charmant;
    British familiar old boy network = contacts privilégiés entre anciens élèves d'un même établissement privé;
    he got the job through the old boy network il a obtenu ce poste en faisant jouer ses relations ;
    British familiar old dear (elderly woman) grand-mère f; (mother) vieille f;
    the Old Dominion State = surnom donné à la Virginie;
    old gold (colour) vieil or m inv;
    Old English vieil anglais m;
    Old Faithful = geyser naturel dans le parc national de Yellowstone;
    British familiar the Old Firm = appellation collective des deux grandes équipes de football de Glasgow, Celtic et Rangers;
    old flame ancien béguin m;
    Old French ancien français m;
    British old girl (former pupil) ancienne élève f; familiar (old woman) vieille f; familiar old-fashioned (form of address) ma chère, chère amie;
    she's a nice old girl c'est une vieille dame charmante;
    American Old Glory = surnom du drapeau américain;
    old guard vieille garde f;
    old hand vieux routier m, vétéran m;
    he's an old hand at flying these planes cela fait des années qu'il pilote ces avions;
    familiar old hat dépassé, vieux (vieille) ;
    Old High German ancien haut allemand m;
    Old Labour = appellation populaire du parti travailliste avant le passage au New Labour, insistant sur le fait qu'il se situait alors plus à gauche sur l'échiquier politique;
    familiar old lady (wife) bourgeoise f; (mother) vieille f;
    British familiar old lag truand m;
    the Old Line State = surnom donné au Maryland;
    old maid vieille fille f;
    familiar old man (husband) homme m, jules m; (father) vieux m; British old-fashioned (form of address) mon cher, cher ami;
    American Old Man River = surnom donné au Mississippi;
    Botany old man's beard (Clematis vitalba) clématite f des haies, clématite f vigne blanche;
    old master (painter) grand maître m (de la peinture); (painting) tableau m de maître;
    old money (before decimalization) ancien système m monétaire;
    10 shillings in old money 10 shillings dans l'ancien système monétaire;
    he married into old money (wealth) il a épousé une riche héritière;
    old moon vieille lune f;
    familiar Old Nick Satan m, Lucifer m;
    Linguistics Old Norse vieux norrois m;
    Linguistics Old Persian vieux perse m;
    British History the Old Pretender le Prétendant (surnom de Jacques Édouard Stuart (1688-1766), fils du roi Jacques II d'Angleterre, qui lutta en vain pour devenir roi de Grande-Bretagne);
    British old school tie (garment) cravate f aux couleurs de son ancienne école; figurative pejorative = attitudes et système de valeurs typiques des anciens élèves des écoles privées britanniques;
    old stager vieux routier m, vétéran m;
    Bible Old Testament Ancien Testament m;
    Old Trafford (cricket ground) = terrain de cricket à Manchester; (football ground) = terrain de football à Manchester;
    Old Vic = surnom du Royal Victoria Theatre à Londres;
    old wives' tale conte m de bonne femme;
    familiar old woman (wife) patronne f, bourgeoise f; (mother) vieille f; figurative pejorative (timid, fussy man) chochotte f;
    he's such an old woman il est comme une petite vieille;
    the Old World l'Ancien Monde m
    ✾ Book 'The Old Curiosity Shop' Dickens 'Le Magasin d'antiquités'

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  • 10 debt

    n
    долг; задолженность; долговое обязательство

    - accruing debt
    - accumulated debt
    - active debt
    - amortized debt
    - assignable debt
    - bad debt
    - bank debt
    - bill debt
    - blocked debt
    - bond debt
    - bonded debt
    - book debt
    - bottomry debt
    - business debt
    - budget debts
    - clearing debt
    - collateral debt
    - commercial debt
    - company debts
    - consolidated debt
    - contract debt
    - corporation debts
    - crown debt
    - current debt
    - current external national debt
    - deferred debt
    - discounted debt
    - distressed debt
    - doubtful debt
    - dubious debt
    - due debt
    - effective debt
    - equalization debt
    - external debt
    - extinguished debt
    - fixed debt
    - floating debt
    - foreign debt
    - former debt
    - frozen debt
    - funded debt
    - government debt
    - government floating debt
    - gross debt
    - gross national debt
    - heavy debt
    - huge debt
    - hypothecary debt
    - inherited debt
    - interest-bearing debt
    - internal debt
    - irrecoverable debt
    - joint debt
    - joint and several debt
    - judgement debt
    - junior debt
    - liquid debt
    - liquidated debt
    - living debt
    - long-term debt
    - matured debt
    - maturing debt
    - money debt
    - mortgage debt
    - national debt
    - net debt
    - net bonded debt
    - nonperforming debt
    - nonrecoverable debt
    - nonrepayable debt
    - old debt
    - ordinary debt
    - outstanding debt
    - overlapping debt
    - paid debt
    - past debt
    - past due debt
    - permanent debt
    - petty debt
    - plain debt
    - preferential debt
    - preferred debt
    - privileged debt
    - productive debt
    - provable debts
    - public debt
    - recoverable debt
    - recourse debt
    - redeemed debt
    - repaid debt
    - residual debt
    - retired debt
    - rescheduled debt
    - restructured debt
    - secured debt
    - senior debt
    - short-term debt
    - speciality debt
    - stale debt
    - state debt
    - statute-barred debt
    - subordinated debt
    - total debt
    - uncollectible debt
    - undischarged debt
    - unfunded debt
    - unified debt
    - unpaid debt
    - unrecoverable debt
    - unredeemed debt
    - unsecured debt
    - unserviced debt
    - written-off debt
    - debt at law
    - debts in arrears
    - debts in foreign countries
    - debts of a business enterprise
    - debt of deferred maturity
    - debt on a bill
    - debts on loans
    - debt on pawn
    - debt under a contract
    - debts due
    - debt issued by a general government body
    - debts owing and accruing
    - debts owing by and debts owing to
    - debts receivable
    - debts repayable in annual installments
    - debt secured by a document
    - without debts
    - accumulate debt
    - acknowledge a debt
    - acquit a debt
    - acquit from a debt
    - amortize a debt
    - assume a debt
    - attach a debt
    - be encumbered with debts
    - be in debt
    - be involved in debts
    - be out of debt
    - call a debt
    - cancel a debt
    - clear a debt
    - collect debts
    - consolidate a debt
    - contract debts
    - convert debts into bills
    - cover a debt
    - deduct a debt
    - defer a debt
    - discharge a debt
    - encumber with debts
    - extinguish a debt
    - forgive a debt
    - get into debts
    - get out of debts
    - have debts
    - incur debts
    - liquidate a debt
    - make over a debt
    - meet a debt
    - pay a debt
    - pay back a debt
    - pay off a debt
    - pile up debts
    - recover a debt
    - redeem a debt
    - reduce a debt
    - reimburse a debt
    - release from a debt
    - remit a debt
    - repay a debt
    - repudiate a debt
    - reschedule a debt
    - restructure a debt
    - retire a debt
    - roll over the debt
    - run into debts
    - run up a debt
    - service a debt
    - settle a debt
    - sink a debt
    - slash a debt
    - sue for a debt
    - waive a debt
    - wipe out a debt
    - work out a debt
    - write off a debt

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  • 11 old chap

    фам.
    (old chap (cock, fellow, man или thing; жарг. old bean, egg, fruit или top; амер. old sock; амер., уст. old socks))
    дружище, голубчик, старина; см. тж. old boy 3)

    Bernard: "...Well good"-bye, old top: "Have a good time"John: "Thanks, old bean." (W. S. Maugham, ‘The Constant Wife’, act 3) — Бернард: "...До свидания, старина. Желаю хорошо провести время." Джон: "Спасибо, дружище."

    ‘Come on, Sally,’ she added, to one of the girls, ‘you an' me'll dance togither. Grind away, old cock!’ (W. S. Maugham, ‘Liza of Lambeth’, ch. I) — - Пошли потанцуем, Сэлли, - обратилась Лиза к одной из девушек. - А ты, старикан, - сказала она шарманщику, - наяривай посильнее!

    Clif was alarmed. ‘Look here, old socks. If you've gotten in debt, I'll raise the cash somehow.’ (S. Lewis, ‘Arrowsmith’, ch. VI) — Клиф встревожился: "Слушай, старик. Если ты залез в долги, я как-нибудь наскребу монет".

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  • 12 debt book

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  • 13 old-standing debt

    Банковское дело: давний долг

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  • 14 Old standing debt

    دين قديم

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  • 15 debt\ of\ old\ standing

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  • 16 a debt od old standing

    Общая лексика: старый долг

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  • 17 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 18 bad

    1. adjective,
    1) schlecht; (worthless) wertlos, ungedeckt [Scheck]; (rotten) schlecht, verdorben [Fleisch, Fisch, Essen]; faul [Ei, Apfel]; (unpleasant) schlecht, unangenehm [Geruch]

    she is in bad healthsie hat eine angegriffene Gesundheit

    [some] bad news — schlechte od. schlimme Nachrichten

    bad breath — Mundgeruch, der

    he is having a bad dayer hat einen schwarzen Tag

    bad hair day(coll) schlechter Tag

    I'm having a bad hair day(coll.) heute geht bei mir alles schief

    it is a bad business(fig.) das ist eine schlimme Sache

    in the bad old daysin den schlimmen Jahren

    not bad(coll.) nicht schlecht; nicht übel

    not half bad(coll.) [gar] nicht schlecht

    something is too bad(coll.) etwas ist ein Jammer

    too bad!(coll.) so ein Pech! (auch iron.)

    2) (noxious) schlecht; schädlich
    3) (wicked) schlecht; (immoral) schlecht; verdorben; (naughty) ungezogen, böse [Kind, Hund]

    [use] bad language — Kraftausdrücke [benutzen]

    5) (in ill health)

    she's bad todayes geht ihr heute schlecht

    I have a bad pain/finger — ich habe schlimme Schmerzen/(ugs.) einen schlimmen Finger

    6) (serious) schlimm, böse [Sturz, Krise]; schwer [Fehler, Krankheit, Unfall, Erschütterung]; hoch [Fieber]; schrecklich [Feuer]
    7) (coll.): (regretful)

    feel bad about something/not having done something — etwas bedauern/bedauern, dass man etwas nicht getan hat

    I feel bad about him/her — ich habe seinetwegen/ihretwegen ein schlechtes Gewissen

    8) (Commerc.)

    a bad debteine uneinbringliche Schuld (Wirtsch.). See also academic.ru/83116/worse">worse 1.; worst 1.

    2. noun

    be £100 to the bad — mit 100 Pfund in der Kreide stehen (ugs.)

    go to the badauf die schiefe Bahn geraten

    * * *
    [bæd]
    comparative - worse; adjective
    1) (not good; not efficient: He is a bad driver; His eyesight is bad; They are bad at tennis (= they play tennis badly).) schlecht
    2) (wicked; immoral: a bad man; He has done some bad things.) böse
    3) (unpleasant: bad news.) schlecht
    4) (rotten: This meat is bad.) schlecht
    5) (causing harm or injury: Smoking is bad for your health.) schlecht
    6) ((of a part of the body) painful, or in a weak state: She has a bad heart; I have a bad head (= headache) today.) schlecht
    7) (unwell: I am feeling quite bad today.) schlecht
    8) (serious or severe: a bad accident; a bad mistake.) schlimm
    9) ((of a debt) not likely to be paid: The firm loses money every year from bad debts.) ungünstig
    - badly
    - badness
    - badly off
    - feel bad about something
    - feel bad
    - go from bad to worse
    - not bad
    - too bad
    * * *
    <worse, worst>
    [bæd]
    I. adj
    1. (inferior, of low quality) schlecht
    not \bad! nicht schlecht!
    not half \bad! ( fam) [gar] nicht übel! fam
    to have \bad taste einen schlechten Geschmack haben
    2. (incompetent) schlecht
    to be \bad at sth etw nicht gut können
    he's \bad at flirting er kann nicht gut flirten
    to be very \bad at football sehr schlecht Fußball spielen
    to be \bad at German/maths schlecht in Deutsch/Mathe sein
    3. (unpleasant, unfavourable) schlecht; (difficult) schwierig
    they have a \bad marriage sie führen keine gute Ehe
    things are looking \bad [for him] es sieht nicht gut [für ihn] aus
    things look \bad in this company es sieht nicht gut für die Firma aus
    if it's \bad weather, we won't play bei schlechtem Wetter spielen wir nicht
    things are [or it is] going from \bad to worse es wird immer schlimmer
    this year their situation has gone from \bad to worse ihre Situation hat sich in diesem Jahr zunehmend verschlechtert [o verschlimmert]
    a \bad dream ein böser Traum
    \bad news schlechte Nachrichten
    a \bad situation eine schlimme Situation
    a \bad smell ein übler Geruch
    \bad times schwere Zeiten
    it was \bad of you to laugh at her in front of everybody es war gemein von dir, sie vor allen auszulachen
    to fall in with a \bad crowd in eine üble Bande geraten
    a \bad egg ( fig fam) eine ziemlich üble Person
    a \bad habit eine schlechte Angewohnheit
    to use \bad language Kraftausdrücke benutzen
    a \bad neighbourhood eine verkommene [Wohn]gegend
    to have a \bad personality eine unangenehme Art haben
    sb's \bad points jds schlechte Seiten
    to be a \bad sport ein schlechter Verlierer/eine schlechte Verliererin sein
    to have a \bad temper schlecht gelaunt sein
    5. (naughty) ungezogen; (wicked, aggressive) böse
    \bad blood böses Blut
    [to act] in \bad faith in böser Absicht [handeln]
    6. (pity) schade
    too \bad zu schade [o fam dumm
    to feel \bad about sth sich akk wegen einer S. gen schlecht fühlen
    8. (unfortunate) decision schlecht, unglücklich
    \bad luck Pech nt
    9. (harmful) schlecht, schädlich
    to be \bad for sb schlecht für jdn sein
    to be \bad for sb's health jds Gesundheit schaden
    to be \bad for one's teeth schlecht für die Zähne sein
    10. (spoiled) food verdorben, schlecht; ( fig) atmosphere, reputation schlecht
    to have a \bad name einen schlechten Ruf haben
    to go \bad verderben, schlecht werden
    11. (serious) schlimm
    to have a \bad cold eine schlimme Erkältung haben
    a \bad crime ein schweres Verbrechen
    a \bad debt eine uneinbringliche Schuld
    a \bad storm ein heftiger Sturm
    to be nowhere near as \bad as... nicht halb [o annähernd] so schlimm sein wie...
    12. MED schlecht
    I feel \bad mir geht es nicht gut
    to have a \bad leg ein schlimmes Bein haben
    to have \bad skin [or a bad complexion] schlechte Haut haben
    13. (not valid) cheque falsch
    14. AM (sl: cool) fabelhaft, super
    15.
    to give sth up as a \bad job BRIT etw abschreiben fig fam
    sb has it \bad (sl) jdn hat es schwer erwischt hum fam
    he's got it \bad for Lucy er ist total verknallt in Lucy fam
    to make the best of a \bad job das Beste aus einer schlechten Situation machen
    II. adv ( fam) sehr
    to need sth [real] \bad etw dringend brauchen
    to want sth \bad etw unbedingt haben wollen
    III. n no pl
    1. (ill luck)
    to take the \bad with the good auch das Schlechte [o die schlechten Seiten] in Kauf nehmen
    2. (evil) Schlechte(s) nt
    the \bad das Böse; (people) die Bösen pl
    there is good and \bad in everybody jeder hat seine guten und schlechten Seiten
    3. (immoral state)
    to go to the \bad auf die schiefe Bahn geraten
    to be in the \bad im Minus sein
    5. (mistake) Fehler m
    to be in \bad with sb bei jdm in Ungnade sein
    * * *
    I [bd]
    1. adj comp worse,
    superl worst
    1) schlecht; smell übel; habit schlecht, übel; insurance risk hoch; word unanständig, schlimm; (= immoral, wicked) böse; (= naughty, misbehaved) unartig, ungezogen; dog böse

    it was a bad thing to do —

    it was bad of you to treat her like that — das war gemein von dir, sie so zu behandeln

    I've had a really bad day —

    you bad boy!du ungezogener Junge!, du Lümmel! (also iro)

    he's been a bad boy —

    it's not so bad/not bad at all — es ist nicht/gar nicht so schlecht

    to go bad — schlecht werden, verderben

    to be bad for sb/sth — schlecht or nicht gut für jdn/etw sein

    he's bad at French —

    he's bad at sportsim Sport ist er schlecht or nicht gut, er ist unsportlich

    he speaks very bad English, his English is very bad — er spricht sehr schlecht(es) Englisch

    to be bad to sb —

    there's nothing bad about living together — es ist doch nichts dabei, wenn man zusammenlebt

    this is a bad town for violence —

    bad light stopped playdas Spiel wurde aufgrund des schlechten Lichts abgebrochen

    too bad you couldn't make it —

    2) (= serious) wound, sprain schlimm; accident, mistake, cold schlimm, schwer; headache stark
    3) (= unfavourable) time, day ungünstig, schlecht

    Thursday's bad, can you make it Friday? — Donnerstag ist ungünstig or schlecht, gehts nicht Freitag?

    4) (= in poor health, sick) stomach krank; leg, knee, hand schlimm; tooth (generally) schlecht; (now) schlimm

    he/the economy is in a bad way (Brit)

    I feel bad —

    how is he? – he's not so bad — wie geht es ihm? – nicht schlecht

    I didn't know she was so bad — ich wusste nicht, dass es ihr so schlecht geht or dass sie so schlimm dran ist (inf)

    5)

    (= regretful) I feel really bad about not having told him — es tut mir wirklich leid or ich habe ein schlechtes Gewissen, dass ich ihm das nicht gesagt habe

    don't feel bad about itmachen Sie sich (dat) keine Gedanken or Sorgen (darüber)

    6) debt uneinbringlich; voting slip, coin ungültig; (= damaged) copies etc beschädigt
    7) (COMPUT) data format ungültig (= corrupted) fehlerhaft
    2. n no pl
    1)

    there is good and bad in everything/everybody — alles/jeder hat seine guten und schlechten Seiten

    2)
    II pret See: of bid
    * * *
    bad1 [bæd]
    A adj komp worse [wɜːs; US wɜrs], sup worst [wɜːst; US wɜrst] (adv badly)
    1. allg schlecht
    2. böse, schlimm, arg, schwer:
    a bad accident ein schwerer Unfall;
    a bad dream ein böser Traum;
    a bad mistake ein schwerer Fehler; end Bes Redew
    3. böse, ungezogen (Junge etc)
    4. verdorben, lasterhaft (Frau etc)
    5. unanständig, unflätig:
    a) unanständige Ausdrücke pl,
    b) (gottes)lästerliche Reden pl,
    c) beleidigende Äußerungen pl;
    a bad word ein hässliches Wort
    6. falsch, fehlerhaft, schlecht:
    his bad English sein schlechtes Englisch;
    bad grammar grammatisch falsch oder schlecht
    7. unbefriedigend, schlecht (Ernte, Jahr, Plan etc):
    not bad nicht schlecht oder übel;
    not bad fun ganz amüsant
    8. ungünstig, schlecht (Nachrichten etc):
    he’s bad news umg er ist ein unangenehmer Zeitgenosse
    9. schädlich, ungesund, schlecht ( alle:
    for für):
    be bad for sb jemandem nicht guttun;
    be bad for sb’s health jemandes Gesundheit schaden
    10. unangenehm, ärgerlich:
    that’s too bad das ist (zu) schade, das ist (doch) zu dumm;
    too bad that … schade, dass …
    11. schlecht (Qualität, Zustand):
    in bad condition in schlechtem Zustand;
    bad trip sl Bad Trip m (Drogenrausch mit Angstzuständen); breath 1
    12. ungültig (Anspruch, Münze etc), ungedeckt (Scheck):
    bad debts WIRTSCH zweifelhafte Forderungen;
    bad shot SPORT ungültiger Schuss oder Schlag;
    bad title JUR mangelhafter Rechtstitel; penny 1
    13. schlecht, verdorben (Fleisch etc):
    go bad schlecht werden, verderben; apple 1
    14. schlecht, angegriffen (Gesundheit)
    15. a) unwohl, krank:
    she is ( oder feels) very bad today es geht ihr heute sehr schlecht;
    he is in a bad way (a. weitS.) es geht ihm schlecht, er ist übel dran;
    he was taken bad umg er wurde krank
    b) niedergeschlagen:
    feel bad about (sehr) deprimiert sein über (akk); ein schlechtes Gewissen haben wegen
    16. schlimm, böse, arg, heftig:
    a bad finger ein böser oder schlimmer Finger; cold C 3
    17. widerlich, schlecht (Geruch etc)
    18. schlecht, schwach (at in dat)
    B s
    1. (das) Schlechte, (das) Böse, Unglück n:
    be to the bad von Nachteil sein;
    go to the bad auf die schiefe Bahn geraten oder kommen;
    go from bad to worse immer schlimmer werden;
    take the bad with the good (auch) die Nachteile oder die schlechten Seiten in Kauf nehmen
    2. WIRTSCH Defizit n:
    be $25 to the bad ein Defizit oder einen Verlust von 25 Dollar haben, 25 Dollar im Minus sein
    3. umg be in bad with schlecht angeschrieben sein bei;
    get in bad with sich unbeliebt machen bei;
    my bad! bes US ich wars!
    C adv umg badly
    bad2 [bæd] obs prät von bid1
    * * *
    1. adjective,
    1) schlecht; (worthless) wertlos, ungedeckt [Scheck]; (rotten) schlecht, verdorben [Fleisch, Fisch, Essen]; faul [Ei, Apfel]; (unpleasant) schlecht, unangenehm [Geruch]

    [some] bad news — schlechte od. schlimme Nachrichten

    bad breath — Mundgeruch, der

    bad hair day (coll) schlechter Tag

    I'm having a bad hair day(coll.) heute geht bei mir alles schief

    it is a bad business(fig.) das ist eine schlimme Sache

    not bad(coll.) nicht schlecht; nicht übel

    not half bad(coll.) [gar] nicht schlecht

    something is too bad(coll.) etwas ist ein Jammer

    too bad!(coll.) so ein Pech! (auch iron.)

    2) (noxious) schlecht; schädlich
    3) (wicked) schlecht; (immoral) schlecht; verdorben; (naughty) ungezogen, böse [Kind, Hund]

    [use] bad language — Kraftausdrücke [benutzen]

    I have a bad pain/finger — ich habe schlimme Schmerzen/(ugs.) einen schlimmen Finger

    6) (serious) schlimm, böse [Sturz, Krise]; schwer [Fehler, Krankheit, Unfall, Erschütterung]; hoch [Fieber]; schrecklich [Feuer]
    7) (coll.): (regretful)

    feel bad about something/not having done something — etwas bedauern/bedauern, dass man etwas nicht getan hat

    I feel bad about him/her — ich habe seinetwegen/ihretwegen ein schlechtes Gewissen

    8) (Commerc.)

    a bad debteine uneinbringliche Schuld (Wirtsch.). See also worse 1.; worst 1.

    2. noun

    be £100 to the bad — mit 100 Pfund in der Kreide stehen (ugs.)

    * * *
    (for) adj.
    schädlich (für) adj. adj.
    bös adj.
    schlecht adj.
    schlimm adj.
    übel adj.

    English-german dictionary > bad

  • 19 settle

    ̈ɪˈsetl I сущ. скамья( - ларь) II гл.
    1) а) поселить(ся), водворить(ся), обосноваться (тж. settle down) б) населять заселять( какой-л. район) Syn: colonize
    2) а) регулировать(ся) ;
    приводить(ся) в порядок;
    утрясаться, улаживать(ся) ;
    устанавливать(ся) settle one's affairs б) перен. успокаивать(ся), смягчать(ся) (тж. settle down) (о "приведении в норму" психологического состояния) Syn: calm down
    3) усаживать(ся) ;
    укладывать(ся) ;
    устраивать(ся)
    4) приступать( к чему-л.), браться за какое-л. дело, начинать( что-л.) (часто settle down) Isn't it time you settled to work on your paper? ≈ Не пришло ли время начать писать тебе работу?
    5) решать, назначать, определять;
    приходить или приводить к решению that settles the matter/the questionвопрос исчерпан At last Mary settled on blue paint for the bedroom. ≈ В конце концов Мери остановилась на голубом цвете для спальни. Syn: decide
    6) а) отстаиваться;
    давать осадок б) оседать, садиться, опускаться вниз The heavier parts of the grain will settle to the bottom. ≈ Более крупные зерна опустятся вниз. в) давать отстояться
    7) разделываться, разбираться I'd like to settle with the man who attacked my daughter! ≈ Я хочу разделаться с человеком, который напал на мою дочь.
    8) оплачивать (счет) ;
    расплачиваться I should be able to settle with you at the end of the month. ≈ Мне нужно будет расплатиться с тобой в конце месяца.
    9) юр. оговаривать в завещании;
    завещать The old lady settled a small fortune on the young man who had helped her. ≈ Старая леди завещала небольшое состояние молодому человеку, который помогал ей. ∙ settle down settle for settle in settle up деревянная скамья с высокой спинкой;
    скамья-ларь( редкое) помост решать, принимать решение - there is nothing *d yet ничего еще не решено - that *s the matter это решает вопрос - questions not yet *d все еще не решенные вопросы - to * a question once and for all раз и навсегда решить какой-л. вопрос - your appointment is as good as *d ваше назначение можно считать решенным (делом) - (well) that *s it (ну) теперь все ясно;
    вопрос решен;
    это решает дело - everything is *d, it's all *d, the matter is *d все в порядке;
    все решено - * it any way you like решай как хочешь договариваться, определять - to * the price договориться о цене - to * a bargain заключить сделку;
    прийти к соглашению - to * one's route определить свой маршрут - to * the date of one's return назначить срок возвращения - the terms were *d об условиях договорились - to * with smb. договариваться /приходить к соглашению/ с кем-л.;
    расплачиваться, рассчитываться с кем-л.;
    заключать сделку с кем-л. - she *d it with her husband она договорилась об этом с мужем - to * with one's creditors рассчитаться с кредиторами выяснять, улаживать;
    разрешать - to * points of difficulty and doubt выяснять трудные и сомнительные вопросы - to * an argument улаживать спор - to * differences ликвидировать разногласия - * it among yourselves решайте сами, договаривайтесь между собой - that is *d then договорились, решено (юридическое) разрешать, урегулировать - to * a claim разрешить /урегулировать/ претензию - to * a case решать дело третейским судом;
    закончить /завершить/ дело;
    уплатить долг - to * an offence out of court( юридическое) прекратить дело без судебного разбирательства, пойти на мировую - to * a lawsuit amicably помириться /договориться/, не доводя дело до суда, прийти к полюбовному соглашению поселяться, обосновываться (тж. * down) - to * in London поселиться в Лондоне - a family long *d in the country семья, давно живущая в этой стране поселять, заселять;
    колонизировать - to * new lands заселять новые земли - to * smb. in a new country поселить кого-л. в новой стране - by whom was Canada *d? кем была колонизирована Канада? - Englishmen( were) *d in Virginia англичане обосновались в Виргинии - the most thickly *d portion of the country самая населенная часть страны устраиваться, усаживаться, укладываться (тж. * down) - to * (oneself) in a chair усаживаться на стуле - to * oneself in the saddle (прочно) усаживаться в седле - she has *d herself in a corner она пристроилась в уголочке устраивать, усаживать, укладывать - to * smb. in an arm-chair усадить кого-л. в кресло - to * an invalid among pillows усадить больного в подушках - to * an invalid for the night (удобно) устроить /уложить/ больного на ночь - to * off to sleep укладывать спать - she *d the child off (to sleep) она уложила ребенка (спать) устраивать, пристраивать (к делу и т. п.) - to * one's children устроить своих детей - to * one's daughter выдать замуж /пристроить/ свою дочь - to * one's son in business найти сыну место в деловом мире - he did not want his son to marry until he was well *d in his career он не хотел, чтобы сын женился раньше, чем сделает (себе) карьеру опускаться, оседать, садиться (тж. * down) - to let smth. * дать чему-л. осесть - the dust *d slowly пыль медленно осела - the dust *d on everything again все снова покрылось пылью - the leaf gently *d to the ground лист неслышно слетел на землю осаждаться, отстаиваться;
    давать осадок - the solids *d (down) to the bottom (of the liquid) твердые частицы осели на дно (сосуда с жидкостью) - to stand beer to * дать пиву отстояться - the dregs *d and the wine was clear осадок осел, и вино стало прозрачным давать отстояться, очищать от мути - a drop of cold water will * boiling coffee капля холодной воды - и кипящий кофе быстро осядет - the rain *d the dust дождь прибил пыль приводить в порядок, успокаивать - to * (one's) nerves успокаивать нервы - to * one's mind успокоиться, привести мысли в порядок;
    прийти к определенному мнению - to * the stomach наладить пищеварение - to * a heated imagination успокоить больное воображение - having a baby *d her после рождения ребенка она стала более уравновешенной успокаиваться;
    приходить в порядок - I'll wait until the class *s before starting the lesson прежде чем начать урок, я подожду, пока класс успокоится надевать;
    вдевать;
    помещать - to * one's hat on one's head надевать шляпу на голову - to * one's feet in the stirrups вдевать ноги в стремена платить, оплачивать;
    расплачиваться (тж. * up) - to * a bill /an account/ оплатить счет - to * a debt уплатить /покрыть/ долг - shall I * for everybody? мне заплатить за всех? - will you * for me? вы расплатитесь /заплатите/ за меня? устранять, рассеивать( сомнения, опасения, колебания) - to * hesitations устранять /рассеивать/ опасения - to * smb.'s doubts разрешить чьи-л. сомнения - to * smb.'s scruples успокоить кого-л. садиться (о птицах, насекомых и т. п.) - the bird *d on a branch птица села на ветку - a bee *d among the flowers on the table пчела села на цветы, стоящие на столе нависать( о темноте) ;
    воцаряться( о тишине и т. п.) - a great silence *d in the room в комнате воцарилась мертвая тишина - silence *d over the village в деревне все затихло, в деревне воцарилась тишина - storm-clouds *d darkly over the village над деревней нависли грозовые облака оседать, смещаться вниз (о фундаменте, дороге и т. п.) ;
    тж. * down) - the foundations have *d, and the walls are beginning to crack фундамент осел, и стены начали давать трещины - the road-bed *d полотно дороги осело погружаться, тонуть( о корабле;
    тж. * down) - the ship was settling корабль погружался в воду устанавливаться( о погоде, ветре) - the weather has *d at last погода наконец установилась - the wind is settling in the north ветер все время дует с севера - the wind has *d in the south-west подул юго-западный ветер утихать( о буре;
    тж. * down) улечься( о волнении, гневе;
    тж. * down) - to settle for smth. (разговорное) пойти, согласиться на что-л.;
    довольствоваться чем-л. - I would * for three hundred pounds я бы взял триста фунтов, меня бы устроила сумма в триста фунтов - I'd * for less than that я бы согласился и на меньшее - she was not prepared to * for being an ordinary housewife она не хотела примириться с жизнью обыкновенной домашней хозяйки - to settle into smth. принимать какую-л. форму, приобретать какое-л. качество - things will soon * into shape положение скоро определится - her face *d into a mask of contempt на ее лице застыло выражение презрения - to settle (up) on smth. остановиться на чем-л., сделать какой-л. выбор, принять какое-л. решение;
    останавливаться, задерживаться на чем-л. - to * upon a plan остановиться на каком-л. плане, принять какой-л. план - what have you *d on? на чем вы порешили? - they *d on the name of Victor( for the child) они остановились на имени Виктор( для ребенка) - our attention *d on the dog наше внимание привлекла собака - a smile *d on her face на ее лице застыла улыбка - the last rays of the sun *d for a moment on the mountain peak лучи заходящего солнца осветили на мгновение вершину горы - to settle smth. on smb. (юридическое) завещать, отказывать что-л. кому-л., закреплять что-л. за кем-л. - to * one's property on smb. завещать кому-л. свое имущество - to * an annuity on smb. назначать кому-л. ежегодную ренту - he *d his title on his nephew он передал свой титул племяннику, после его смерти титул перейдет к племяннику - to settle (down) on smb., smth. охватывать, завладевать кем-л., чем-л. - a deep melancholy *d on them both их обоих охватила грусть - almost iommediately the memory *d down on him once more и тотчас же им вновь завладели /на него нахлынули/ воспоминания - the inflammation *d on the lungs воспаление захватило легкие - to settle (down) to smth., to settle (down) to do smth. взяться за какое-л. дело;
    заняться какой-л. работой - to * down to work приниматься за работу - to * (oneself) down to think погрузиться в размышления - to * down to married life жениться, обзавестись семьей - to * down to a quiet life /to peace and comfort/ зажить спокойной жизнью - I fear he will never * to anything for long боюсь, что он никогда не будет ничем долго заниматься - he can't * to anything он не может ни на чем остановиться;
    он никак не может выбрать себе профессию - to settle (down) to /for/ smth. приготовиться к чему-л.;
    собираться делать что-л. - to * oneself to sleep устроиться в постели перед сном - to * down for a nap собираться вздремнуть - she *d herself for a great display of rhetorics она приготовилась к нудному назиданию - to settle down to /at/ smth. привыкать к чему-л., осваиваться с чем-л. - to * down to a task втягиваться в работу - he is settling down to his new job он привыкает к своей новой работе - to * down at a new school привыкать к новой школе - to settle (smth.) with smb. расквитаться с кем-л.;
    отомстить кому-л. - we'll * with him yet мы ему еще покажем - I've got a score to * with him у меня с ним свои счеты - he'll have an account to * with her ему предстоит с ней неприятный разговор (по какому-л. делу) - I'll * accounts with him! я с ним сведу счеты!, я рассчитаюсь с ним! > to * smb., to * smb.'s hash отделаться от кого-л., разделаться с кем-л.;
    заставить кого-л. замолчать, заткнуть кому-л. рот;
    (сленг) прикончить /"порешить"/ кого-л., прихлопнуть кого-л., отправить кого-л. на тот свет > another stroke will * him еще один удар, и с ним будет покончено /и он будет готов/ > to * smb.'s goose окончательно разгромить кого-л.;
    расправиться с кем-л. > to * down for life жениться, обзавестись семьей > to * the land удаляться от берега, терять берег из виду > to * a sail опустить парус ~ down приступать (к чему-л.) ;
    браться( за что-л.) ;
    the boy couldn't settle down to his homework мальчик никак не мог сесть за уроки ~ оседать, опускаться ко дну;
    садиться;
    the dust settleed on everything все покрылось пылью settle браться за определенное дело (часто settle down) ~ выяснять ~ давать отстояться;
    очищать от мути ~ договариваться ~ заключать коллективный договор ~ заключать сделку ~ юр. закреплять (за кем-л.) ;
    завещать;
    to settle an annuity (on smb.) назначить ежегодную ренту (кому-л.) ~ заселять, колонизировать ~ заселять, колонизировать ~ заселять ~ колонизировать ~ оплачивать (счет) ;
    расплачиваться;
    to settle an old score свести старые счеты ~ оплачивать ~ оплачивать обязательство ~ определять ~ оседать, опускаться ко дну;
    садиться;
    the dust settleed on everything все покрылось пылью ~ отстаиваться;
    осаждаться, давать осадок ~ погашать задолженность ~ покрывать ~ поселить(ся), водворить(ся), обосноваться (тж. settle down) ~ поселяться ~ принимать решение ~ проиходить к соглашению ~ разделываться;
    to settle (smb.'s) hash разделаться (с кем-л.), убить( кого-л.) ;
    погубить( кого-л.) ~ разрешать ~ расплачиваться ~ распоряжаться имуществом (в пользу кого-л.) ~ распоряжаться имуществом ~ рассчитываться по рыночной операции ~ регулировать(ся) ;
    приводить(ся) в порядок;
    улаживать(ся) ;
    устанавливать(ся) ~ решать, назначать, определять;
    приходить или приводить к решению;
    to settle (smb.'s) doubts разрешить (чьи-л.) сомнения ~ решать ~ скамья(-ларь) ~ улаживать ~ урегулировать ~ урегулировать платежи ~ урегулировать претензию ~ усаживать(ся) ;
    укладывать(ся) ;
    устраивать(-ся) ;
    to settle oneself in the arm-chair усесться в кресло ~ успокаивать(ся (тж. settle down) ;
    to settle (one's) nerves успокаиваться ~ устанавливать, решать, определять ~ a balance урегулировать сальдо по счету ~ a bill оплачивать счет ~ a bill платить по векселю ~ a bill урегулировать платеж по счету ~ a claim урегулировать претензию ~ a debt платить долг ~ a debt покрывать долг ~ a difference урегулировать разногласие ~ a dispute урегулировать спор ~ amounts drawn оплачивать выписанные суммы ~ an account расплачиваться по счету ~ an amount оплачивать сумму ~ юр. закреплять (за кем-л.) ;
    завещать;
    to settle an annuity (on smb.) назначить ежегодную ренту (кому-л.) to ~ an invalid among the pillows усадить больного в подушках ~ оплачивать (счет) ;
    расплачиваться;
    to settle an old score свести старые счеты ~ by arbitration решать в арбитражном порядке ~ решать, назначать, определять;
    приходить или приводить к решению;
    to settle (smb.'s) doubts разрешить (чьи-л.) сомнения ~ down поселить(ся), обосноваться ~ down приступать (к чему-л.) ;
    браться (за что-л.) ;
    the boy couldn't settle down to his homework мальчик никак не мог сесть за уроки ~ down успокоиться;
    остепениться;
    угомониться ~ down устроиться, привыкнуть к окружающей обстановке;
    to settle down to married life обзавестись семьей ~ down устроиться, привыкнуть к окружающей обстановке;
    to settle down to married life обзавестись семьей ~ разделываться;
    to settle (smb.'s) hash разделаться (с кем-л.), убить( кого-л.) ;
    погубить (кого-л.) ~ in вселить( - ся) ~ in court решать вопрос в суде to ~ one's affairs составить завещание;
    things will soon settle into shape положение скоро определится to ~ one's affairs устроить свои дела ~ усаживать(ся) ;
    укладывать(ся) ;
    устраивать(-ся) ;
    to settle oneself in the arm-chair усесться в кресло ~ out of court производить платеж без судебного решения ~ out of court урегулировать спор без судебного разбирательства ~ property on закреплять имущество that settles the matter (или the question) вопрос исчерпан;
    to settle the day определить срок, назначить день that settles the matter (или the question) вопрос исчерпан;
    to settle the day определить срок, назначить день to ~ one's affairs составить завещание;
    things will soon settle into shape положение скоро определится

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > settle

  • 20 get

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

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