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1 стереть с лица земли
•An avalanche can wipe out a whole town.
Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > стереть с лица земли
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2 abgehen
(unreg., trennb., -ge-)I v/i (ist)1. EISENB., FLUG. leave; Schiff: auch sail; Post: go; das Schreiben geht mit der nächsten Post ab the letter will go out with the next post; und ab geht die Post! umg., fig. here we go!, get a move on!; da geht was ab! Jugendspr. (ist viel los) it’s a really cool ( oder wild) place2. von der Bühne: make one’s exit (auch fig.); Anweisung: ... geht ( gehen) ab exit (exeunt)...; von der Schule: leave school; mit Abschluss Am. auch: graduate; vom rechten Wege abgehen leave the straight and narrow3. (sich lösen) Knopf etc.: come off; Farbe auch: come out (von etw. of s.th.); Schuss: go off, be fired; der Fleck will nicht abgehen I, they etc. can’t get rid of the stain ( oder can’t get the stain out)6. MED. (abgesondert werden) Fötus: be aborted; Stein: pass; Würmer: be discharged; Blähungen abgehen lassen break wind; ihm ist einer abgegangen vulg. he shot his load ( oder wad)7. (abgezogen werden) von einem Betrag etc.: be deducted, be taken off (von etw. from s.th.)8. umg. (fehlen): er geht mir sehr ab I miss him a lot; mir geht jegliches Verständnis dafür ab I simply fail to understand that; geht hier nicht was ab? isn’t there something missing?9. (abweichen): von einem Vorhaben abgehen give up a plan; von einer Meinung abgehen change one’s mind ( oder views); nicht von etw. abgehen persist in s.th., (bestehen auf) insist on s.th.; davon gehe ich nicht ab nothing’s going to change my mind about that; er geht nicht davon ab auch he won’t give up10. (verlaufen) go; das wird nicht ohne Probleme abgehen that won’t be straightforward ( oder so easy); auch umg. it won’t be a bed of roses; es ging alles gut ab everything went ( oder passed off) well oder smoothly1. (abmessen) pace out2. (überwachen) patrol* * *(abfahren) to leave;(abweichen) to deviate;(abzweigen) to fork; to branch off;(sich loslösen) to come off; to come loose* * *ạb|ge|hen sep irreg aux sein1. vi2) (SPORT = abspringen) to jump downer ging mit einem Doppelsalto vom Barren ab — he did a double somersault down from or off the bars
3) (THEAT = abtreten) to exit, to make one's exit4) (= ausscheiden) (von der Schule old aus einem Amt) to leavevon der Schule abgehen —
mit dem Tode or mit Tod abgehen (old form) — to die in office
5) (MED sl = sterben) to die6) (= sich lösen) to come off; (= herausgehen Farbe etc) to come out or offan meiner Jacke ist ein Knopf abgegangen — a button has come off my jacket
ihm ist einer abgegangen (sl) — he shot or came off (sl)
8) (=losgehen Schuss) to be fired, to be loosed off9) (= abgesandt werden) to be sent or dispatched; (Funkspruch) to be sent10) (inf = fehlen)jdm geht Verständnis/Taktgefühl ab — sb lacks understanding/tact
11) (= abgezogen werden) (vom Preis) to be taken off; (von Verdienst) to be taken off, to be deducted; (vom Gewicht) to come off(von etw) abgehen (von Preis) — to be taken off (sth); (von Verdienst auch) to be deducted (from sth); (von Gewicht) to be taken off (sth)
davon gehen 5% ab — 5% is taken off that
13)von seiner Meinung abgehen —
davon kann ich nicht abgehen — I must insist on that; (bei Versprechungen etc) I can't go back on that
14) (= verlaufen) to gogut/glatt/friedlich abgehen — to go well/smoothly/peacefully
es ging nicht ohne Streit ab — there was an argument
15) (sl)da geht aber was ab — it's a really happening place (inf)
was geht ab? — what's doing? (inf)
2. vt1) (= entlanggehen) to go or walk along; (hin und zurück) to walk or go up and down; (MIL) Gebäudekomplex, Gelände to patrol; (= inspizieren) to inspect2) (= messen) to pace out3)(
SCH inf = verweisen) abgegangen werden — to be thrown or chucked (inf) out* * *1) (to go away: The tour departed from the station at 9 a.m.) depart2) (to fall off: Her shoe came off.) come off3) (to be given, sold etc: The prize goes to John Smith; The table went for $100.) go* * *ab|ge·hen1I. vi Hilfsverb: sein1. (sich lösen)davon gehen noch 10 % ab 10 % will be taken off that3. (abgeschickt werden) to be sent [off]▪ \abgehend outgoing4. (abzweigen)5. (abfahren)▪ [von irgendwo] \abgehen to leave [or depart] [from somewhere]der Zug ging pünktlich in Berlin ab the train left Berlin on time6. (abweichen)von einem Vorhaben \abgehen to drop a planvon seiner Meinung nicht \abgehen to stick [or hold fast] to one's opinion▪ jdm geht etw ab sb lacks sthdir geht ja jegliches Taktgefühl ab you have absolutely no tact whatsoeverdie Fähigkeit, sich in andere hineinzudenken, geht ihr völlig ab she is completely unable to put herself in sb else's positionvon einem Amt \abgehen to leave [or retire from] an officevon der Schule \abgehen to leave [or pej drop out of] schoolII. vt Hilfsverb: sein1. (entlanggehen und abmessen)▪ etw \abgehen to pace sth out▪ etw \abgehen to inspect sthab|ge·hen2vi irreg Hilfsverb: sein1. (verlaufen) to goglatt/gut \abgehen to go smoothly/wellwenn die zwei aufeinandertreffen, geht es nie ohne Ärger ab there's always trouble when those two meet2. impers to be happeningauf der Party ist irre 'was abgegangen (sl) the party was really happening* * *unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein2) (ausscheiden) leave3) (abfahren) <train, ship, bus> leave, depart4) (abgeschickt werden) < message, letter> be sent [off]5) (abzweigen) branch off; (in andere Richtung) turn off7) (Turnen) dismount9) (fehlen)jemandem geht etwas [völlig] ab — somebody is [totally] lacking in something
10)ihm ging einer ab — (derb) he shot his load (coarse)
* * *abgehen (irr, trennb, -ge-)A. v/i (ist)das Schreiben geht mit der nächsten Post ab the letter will go out with the next post;und ab geht die Post! umg, fig here we go!, get a move on!;vom rechten Wege abgehen leave the straight and narrow4. SPORT, vom Barren, Reck etc: jump down5. (abzweigen) branch off (nach towards); (sich gabeln) auch forkBlähungen abgehen lassen break wind;7. (abgezogen werden) von einem Betrag etc: be deducted, be taken off (von etwas from sth)8. umg (fehlen):er geht mir sehr ab I miss him a lot;mir geht jegliches Verständnis dafür ab I simply fail to understand that;geht hier nicht was ab? isn’t there something missing?9. (abweichen):von einem Vorhaben abgehen give up a plan;von einer Meinung abgehen change one’s mind ( oder views);nicht von etwas abgehen persist in sth, (bestehen auf) insist on sth;davon gehe ich nicht ab nothing’s going to change my mind about that;er geht nicht davon ab auch he won’t give up10. (verlaufen) go;das wird nicht ohne Probleme abgehen that won’t be straightforward ( oder so easy); auch umg it won’t be a bed of roses;1. (abmessen) pace out2. (überwachen) patrol* * *unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein1) (sich entfernen) leave; go away or off; (Theater) exit; go off2) (ausscheiden) leave3) (abfahren) <train, ship, bus> leave, depart4) (abgeschickt werden) <message, letter> be sent [off]5) (abzweigen) branch off; (in andere Richtung) turn off7) (Turnen) dismount9) (fehlen)jemandem geht etwas [völlig] ab — somebody is [totally] lacking in something
10)ihm ging einer ab — (derb) he shot his load (coarse)
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3 perro de rastreo
(n.) = rescue dog, sniffer dog, search dogEx. The services is made up of three avalanche rescue dogs, five policemen, and two detonation experts.Ex. Sniffer dogs can normally be trained only to detect one illicit item, normally either explosive, substances or drugs.Ex. The next morning she was found safe and sound by Leni, the search dog, and his handlers.* * *(n.) = rescue dog, sniffer dog, search dogEx: The services is made up of three avalanche rescue dogs, five policemen, and two detonation experts.
Ex: Sniffer dogs can normally be trained only to detect one illicit item, normally either explosive, substances or drugs.Ex: The next morning she was found safe and sound by Leni, the search dog, and his handlers. -
4 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, 714-1140The 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, 1140-1385Two 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 inPortugal (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, 1385-1580The 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, 1580-1640Despite 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, 1640-1822Foreign 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 theChurch (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, 1822-1910During 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, 1910-26Portugal'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), 1926-74During 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, 1974-76Following 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 untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After 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. -
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* * *das1) (a loud rumbling: the thunder of horses' hooves.) thunder2) (to sound, rumble etc: It thundered all night.) thunder3) (to make a noise like thunder: The tanks thundered over the bridge.) thunder* * *don·nern[ˈdɔnɐn]I. vi impers Hilfsverb: haben to thunderhörst du, wie es donnert? can you hear the thunder?II. vi▪ [mit etw dat] an etw akk/gegen etw akk \donnern to bang fam [or hammer] [or pound] on/at sth [with sth]der Fußball donnerte genau gegen die Schaufensterscheibe the football slammed into the shop window▪ an jdm vorbei\donnern to thunder past sbein schwerer Laster donnerte heran a heavy lorry came thundering by* * *1.intransitives Verb1) (unpers.) thunder5) mit sein (ugs.): (prallen)2.transitives Verb* * *A. v/i1. (hat gedonnert) unpers: thunder;es blitzt und donnert there’s thunder and lightning2. (hat) fig Stimme, Wasserfall etc: thunder, roar; Stimme: auch boomgegen eine Mauer donnern crash ( oder smash) into a wall4. (hat) umg (schlagen):mit der Faust auf den Tisch donnern bang one’s fist on the tableB. v/t (hat)2. umg:jemandem eine donnern give sb a thumping ( oder pasting);eine gedonnert kriegen get a clip (a)round the ears; (angebrüllt werden) get shouted at (good and proper)* * *1.intransitives Verb1) (unpers.) thunder3) mit sein (sich laut fortbewegen) <train, avalanche, etc.> thunder5) mit sein (ugs.): (prallen)2.transitives Verb* * *v.to boom v.to fulminate v.to thunder v. -
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НУ ДА! coll Interj Invar fixed WO1. used to express agreement, affirmation, understanding etc in response to a question or statementyes, indeedof course (in limited contexts) why, so it is ( usu. as an acknowledgment of a reminder) oh, that.(Анна Андреевна:)...Кто ж бы это такой был? (Марья Антоновна:) Это Добчинский, маменька. (Анна Андреевна:) Какой Добчинский?.. Совсем не Добчинский... (Марья Антоновна:) Право, маменька, Добчинский. (Анна Андреевна:) Ну вот: нарочно, чтобы только поспорить. Говорят тебе - не Добчинский. (Марья Антоновна:)...Видите, что Добчинский. (Анна Андреевна:) Ну да, Добчинский, теперь я вижу (Гоголь 4). (A.A.:) Whoever could it be? (M.A.:) It's Mr Dobbin, Mummy. (A.A.:) Mr Dobbin indeed?...Certainly not Mr Dobbin.... (M.A.:) It's Mr Dobbin, Mummy, it really is. (A.A.:) There now, you said that deliberately, simply for the sake of argument. I tell you it is not Mr Dobbin. (M.A.:)...You can see it is Mr Dobbin. (A.A.:) Why, so it is, it's Mr Dobbin. I can see now... (4b).«Кстати, - напомнил Ефим, - ты „Лавину" прочёл?» -«„Лавину"? - переспросил Баранов. - Что ещё за „Лавина"?» - «Мой роман. Который я тебе подарил на прошлой неделе». - «А, ну да», - сказал Баранов (Войнович 6). uAnd by the way," Yefim asked, "did you read AvalancheW "Avalanche. What's AvalancheV "My novel. The one I gave you last week." "Oh, that," Kostya said (6a).2. iron used to express disbelief, incredulity, objection etcoh (yeah), sure!oh, right of course;my foot!(Фролов:) Получил назначение... В район. На селекционную станцию. (Колесов:) Подожди, на селекционную?.. У Маши, кажется, там родители? (Фролов:) Совпадение. (Букин:) Нуда, совпадение! Скрадывает мою жену. Очевидно (Вампилов 3). (Е:) I've been told where I'm going to work....Out of town. At the plant-breeding station. (K.:) Hang on, did you say the plant-breeding station? Isn't that where Masha's parents live? (E:) Coincidence. (B.:) Oh yeah, sure-coincidence. He's stealing my wife. It's obvious (3a).(Васенька:) Встретимся завтра! Один раз! На полчаса! На прощанье!.. (Макарская:) Ну да! От тебя потом не отвяжешься (Вампилов 4). (V.:) We'll meet tomorrow' Just once! For half an hour! For the last time!... (M.:) Oh, sure! And there'll be no getting rid of you afterwards (4a) -
7 ну да!
• НУ ДА! coll[Interj; Invar; fixed WO]=====1. used to express agreement, affirmation, understanding etc in response to a question or statement: yes, indeed; of course; [in limited contexts] why, so it is; [usu. as an acknowledgment of a reminder]⇒ oh, that.♦ [Анна Андреевна:]...Кто ж бы это такой был? [Марья Антоновна:] Это Добчинский, маменька. [Анна Андреевна:] Какой Добчинский?.. Совсем не Добчинский... [Марья Антоновна:] Право, маменька, Добчинский. [Анна Андреевна:] Ну вот: нарочно, чтобы только поспорить. Говорят тебе - не Добчинский. [Марья Антоновна:]...Видите, что Добчинский. [Анна Андреевна:] Ну да, Добчинский, теперь я вижу (Гоголь 4). [A.A.:] Whoever could it be? [M.A.:] It's Mr Dobbin, Mummy. [A.A.:] Mr Dobbin indeed?...Certainly not Mr Dobbin.... [M.A.:] It's Mr Dobbin, Mummy, it really is. [A.A.:] There now, you said that deliberately, simply for the sake of argument. I tell you it is not Mr Dobbin. [M.A.:]... You can see it is Mr Dobbin. [A.A.:] Why, so it is, it's Mr Dobbin. I can see now... (4b).♦ "Кстати, - напомнил Ефим, - ты "Лавину" прочёл?" - ""Лавину"? - переспросил Баранов. - Что ещё за "Лавина"?" - "Мой роман. Который я тебе подарил на прошлой неделе". - "А, ну да", - сказал Баранов (Войнович 6). "And by the way," Yefim asked, "did you read AvalancheW "Avalanche. What's AvalancheV "My novel. The one I gave you last week." "Oh, that," Kostya said (6a).2. iron used to express disbelief, incredulity, objection etc:- oh (yeah), sure!;- oh, right;- of course;- ..., my foot!♦ [Фролов:] Получил назначение... В район. На селекционную станцию. [Колесов:] Подожди, на селекционную?.. У Маши, кажется, там родители? [Фролов:] Совпадение. [Букин:] Нуда, совпадение! Скрадывает мою жену. Очевидно (Вампилов 3). [F:] I've been told where I'm going to work....Out of town. At the plant-breeding station. [K.:] Hang on, did you say the plant-breeding station? Isn't that where Masha's parents live? [F:] Coincidence. [B.:] Oh yeah, sure-coincidence. He's stealing my wife. It's obvious (3a).♦ [Васенька:] Встретимся завтра! Один раз! На полчаса! На прощанье!.. [Макарская:] Ну да! От тебя потом не отвяжешься (Вампилов 4). [V.:] We'll meet tomorrow! Just once! For half an hour! For the last time!... [M.:] Oh, sure! And there'll be no getting rid of you afterwards (4a) -
8 delante
adv.1 in front.ve tú delante, yo me sentaré detrás you go in the front, I'll sit at the backel de delante the one in frontel asiento de delante the seat in frontdelante de mí/ti in front of me/youlo tienes delante de las narices it's in front of your nose2 opposite (enfrente).delante hay una fábrica there's a factory opposite* * *► adverbio1 (enfrente) in front; (adelantado) in front, ahead2 de delante in front3 delante de in front of, ahead of, before4 por delante in front, ahead\llevarse todo por delante figurado to destroy everything* * *adv.* * *ADV1) in fronten el coche me gusta sentarme delante — I like to sit in the front of the car, when I'm in a car I like to sit in the front
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de delante, la parte de delante — the front part•
hacia delante, hizo un movimiento hacia delante — he moved forward(s)•
por delante, yo iba por delante con la linterna — I went in front with the torchllevarse 2)resuelve todos los problemas que se le pongan por delante — he solves any problem you put in front of him
2)• delante de — in front of
3) esp Cono Surdelante mío/tuyo — in front of me/you
* * *1) (lugar, parte) [Latin American Spanish also uses adelante in many of these examples]yo voy delante — I'll go ahead o in front
llevarse algo/a alguien por delante: el coche se lo llevó por delante the car went o ran straight into it/him; se lleva a todo el mundo por delante — he rides roughshod over everybody
2)delante de — (loc prep)
a) ( en lugar anterior a) in front ofdelante de mí/ti/él — in front of me/you/him
b) ( en presencia de) in front of* * *= ahead, in front.Ex. He glanced casually at the ill-balanced frontages of the buildings ahead that stretched on and on until they melded in an indistinguishable mass of gray at Laurence Street.Ex. At first glance, one may only be conscious of the people stationed behind the desk and those waiting in front.----* caerse hacia delante = fall forward.* con una mano delante y otra detrás = penniless, skint, broke.* dar un paso hacia delante = step up.* de delante hacia atrás = front to back, fore and aft.* delante de = before, in front of.* delante del pelotón = ahead of the pack.* delante de + Posesivo + propios ojos = before + Posesivo + (own two) eyes, before + Posesivo + very eyes.* delante y detrás = front and back.* en la parte de delante = at the front.* enumerar hacia delante = list + forwards.* estar muy por delante de = be way out ahead of.* estar muy por delante de su tiempo = be years ahead of + Posesivo + time.* estar por delante de = be ahead of.* inclinarse hacia delante = tip forward.* ir delante = lead + the way.* ir hacia delante = page + forward.* mantenerse por delante = keep + ahead.* mantenerse por delante de la competencia = keep + one step ahead of the game, keep + one step ahead of the competition.* moverse hacia atrás y hacia delante = move back and forth.* muy por delante de = far ahead of.* pasar por delante de = make + Posesivo + way past.* poner Algo por delante de = put + Nombre + ahead of.* poner delante de = lay before.* por delante = ahead.* por delante de = ahead of.* por delante de la competencia = ahead of the game.* por delante y por detrás = front and back.* seguir por delante de = keep + one step ahead of.* tambalearse hacia delante y hacia atrás = wobble back and forth.* tener delante = have + before.* trabajar hacia delante = work forward.* un paso por delante de = one step ahead of.* * *1) (lugar, parte) [Latin American Spanish also uses adelante in many of these examples]yo voy delante — I'll go ahead o in front
llevarse algo/a alguien por delante: el coche se lo llevó por delante the car went o ran straight into it/him; se lleva a todo el mundo por delante — he rides roughshod over everybody
2)delante de — (loc prep)
a) ( en lugar anterior a) in front ofdelante de mí/ti/él — in front of me/you/him
b) ( en presencia de) in front of* * *= ahead, in front.Ex: He glanced casually at the ill-balanced frontages of the buildings ahead that stretched on and on until they melded in an indistinguishable mass of gray at Laurence Street.
Ex: At first glance, one may only be conscious of the people stationed behind the desk and those waiting in front.* caerse hacia delante = fall forward.* con una mano delante y otra detrás = penniless, skint, broke.* dar un paso hacia delante = step up.* de delante hacia atrás = front to back, fore and aft.* delante de = before, in front of.* delante del pelotón = ahead of the pack.* delante de + Posesivo + propios ojos = before + Posesivo + (own two) eyes, before + Posesivo + very eyes.* delante y detrás = front and back.* en la parte de delante = at the front.* enumerar hacia delante = list + forwards.* estar muy por delante de = be way out ahead of.* estar muy por delante de su tiempo = be years ahead of + Posesivo + time.* estar por delante de = be ahead of.* inclinarse hacia delante = tip forward.* ir delante = lead + the way.* ir hacia delante = page + forward.* mantenerse por delante = keep + ahead.* mantenerse por delante de la competencia = keep + one step ahead of the game, keep + one step ahead of the competition.* moverse hacia atrás y hacia delante = move back and forth.* muy por delante de = far ahead of.* pasar por delante de = make + Posesivo + way past.* poner Algo por delante de = put + Nombre + ahead of.* poner delante de = lay before.* por delante = ahead.* por delante de = ahead of.* por delante de la competencia = ahead of the game.* por delante y por detrás = front and back.* seguir por delante de = keep + one step ahead of.* tambalearse hacia delante y hacia atrás = wobble back and forth.* tener delante = have + before.* trabajar hacia delante = work forward.* un paso por delante de = one step ahead of.* * *A(lugar, parte) [ Latin American Spanish also uses adelante in many of these examples] voy yo delante, que sé el camino I'll go ahead o in front, I know the wayno te pongas delante, que no veo don't stand/sit in front of me, I can't seetengo tu carta delante I have your letter in front of meel asiento de delante the front seatla parte de delante the frontla falda cierra por delante the skirt buttons up at the fronttienes toda la vida por delante you have your whole life ahead of youcualquier obstáculo que se le pusiera por delante any obstacle that got in her wayllevarse algo/a algn por delante: el coche se lo llevó por delante the car went o ran straight into himse llevó a todo el mundo por delante (físicamente) he pushed everybody out of the way; (atropellando sus derechos) he rode roughshod over everybodyB1 (en lugar anterior a) in front ofdelante de la ventana in front of the windowdelante de mí/ti/él or ( crit) delante mío/tuyo/suyo in front of me/you/him2 (en presencia de) in front ofla insultó delante de todos he insulted her in front of everyone* * *
delante adverbio
1 (lugar, parte) Latin American Spanish also uses◊ adelante in many of these examples: yo voy delante I'll go ahead o in front;
no te pongas delante don't stand in front of me;
lo tengo aquí delante I have it right here;
el asiento de delante the front seat;
la parte de delante the front;
el pasajero de delante the passenger in the front
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delante adverbio
1 (lugar) in front: delante de nosotros había un hombre, there was a man in front of us
siéntate tú delante, sit in front
la puerta de delante, the front door
(movimiento) los niños iban caminando delante de mí, the children were walking ahead of me
pase usted delante, por favor, you go first, please
se inclinó hacia delante, he bent forward
2 (en presencia de) in front of: se puso a gritar delante de todos, she started to shout in front of everyone
♦ Locuciones: se lo lleva todo por delante, she destroys everything in her path
tienes toda la vida por delante, you have your whole life ahead of you
' delante' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
A
- actual
- algún
- apoltronarse
- atusarse
- bastante
- buen
- cacerolada
- clavada
- clavado
- delgada
- delgado
- el
- en seguida
- enferma
- enfermo
- enseguida
- extensa
- extenso
- frente
- justamente
- mal
- muerdo
- nutrido-a
- pasmada
- pasmado
- por
- primer
- revés
- sombra
- tan
- telonera
- telonero
- ti
- toda
- todo
- vuestra
- vuestro
- adelantar
- alguno
- alto
- ante
- antepenúltimo
- anteponer
- antiguo
- auténtico
- aventajar
- bueno
- cada
- ciento
English:
A
- actual
- ahead
- alive
- alone
- also
- always
- and
- appreciate
- asleep
- before
- busline
- by
- carry along
- draw up
- drive
- eye
- fast forward
- first
- forward
- front
- frozen
- go ahead
- humiliate
- lead
- little
- marmalade
- mat
- neither
- never
- nice
- often
- past
- quite
- still
- thrust forward
- tip forward
- tip forwards
- to
- undress
- very
- way
- wind forward
- dead
- follow
- great
- pull
- right
- rough
- slog
* * *delante adv1. [en primer lugar, en la parte delantera] in front;[enfrente] opposite;delante hay una fábrica there's a factory opposite;¿dónde has aparcado? – delante where have you parked? – opposite;ve tú delante, yo me sentaré detrás you go in the front, I'll sit in the back;nos sentamos delante para ver mejor we sat at the front so we could see better;el de delante the one in front;las luces/el asiento de delante [en automóvil] the front lights/seat;está sentado en el asiento de delante [en el inmediatamente anterior] he's sitting in the seat in front of me;delante de in front of;delante de mí/ti in front of me/you;lo tienes delante de las narices it's right in front of o under your nose;pasamos por delante de la catedral we passed in front of the cathedral;hay que acortar el vestido por delante the dress needs taking up at the front;visto por delante resulta impresionante it's very impressive (seen) from the front;la avalancha se llevó a los esquiadores por delante the avalanche engulfed the skiers;tenemos un mes entero por delante we have a whole month ahead of us2. [presente] present;cuando no está delante, todos hablan mal de él everyone speaks ill of him behind his back, whenever he's not there, everyone speaks ill of him;delante de [en presencia de] in front of;se desnudó delante de todo el mundo she undressed in front of everyone;comparecer delante de un tribunal to appear before a court* * *adv1 in front;lo tengo delante I have it in front of me;el asiento de delante the front seat;se abrocha por delante it does up at the front;tener algo por delante have sth ahead of o in front of onepor delante ahead;¡pase usted delante! you first!, after you!3 ( enfrente) opposite4:delante de in front of* * *delante adv1) enfrente: ahead, in front2)delante de : before, in front of* * *delante adv in front -
9 начинаться
•Before transcription of the genes can commence (or begin, or start),...
•Before the development of the North Sea oil fields got under way,...
•If a high reverse voltage is applied to a p-n junction very rapidly, avalanche multiplication may set in.
Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > начинаться
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10 reißen
n; -s, kein Pl.1. tearing etc.; reißen3. umg. (Rheuma) rheumatics Pl., Am. rheumatiz* * *to tear; to rend; to tug; to jolt; to jerk; to rip; to pull* * *Rei|ßen ['raisn]nt -s,no pl2) (inf = Gliederreißen) ache* * *1) split2) (to make (a bare patch, a hole etc) by rubbing, use etc: I've worn a hole in the elbow of my jacket.) wear3) (to make or get a hole or tear in by pulling, tearing etc: He ripped his shirt on a branch; His shirt ripped.) rip4) (to pull suddenly and sharply: She yanked the child out of the mud.) yank* * *Rei·ßen1<-s>[ˈraisn̩]Rei·ßen2<-s>[ˈraisn̩]nt kein pl (veraltend fam) achewas stöhnst du so, hast du wieder das \Reißen im Rücken? why are you groaning like that, is your back aching again?* * *1.unregelmäßiges transitives Verb1) tearjemandem etwas aus den Händen/Armen reißen — snatch or tear something from somebody's hands/arms
jemanden aus seinen Gedanken reißen — (fig.) awaken somebody rudely from his/her thoughts
eine Welle riss ihn zu Boden — a wave knocked him to the ground
jemanden in die Tiefe reißen — drag somebody down into the depths
[innerlich] hin und her gerissen sein od. werden — (fig.) be torn [two ways]
5)etwas an sich reißen — (fig.) seize something
7) (Leichtathletik)2.die Latte/eine Hürde reißen — knock the bar down/knock a hurdle over
unregelmäßiges intransitives Verbwenn alle Stricke od. Stränge reißen — (fig.) if all else fails
2) (ziehen)an etwas (Dat.) reißen — pull at something
3) (Leichtathletik) bring the bar down/knock the hurdle over3.1) tear oneself/itself (aus, von from)2) (ugs.): (sich bemühen um)sie reißen sich um die Eintrittskarten — they are scrambling to or fighting each other to get tickets
* * *reißen; reißt, riss, ist oder hat gerissenA. v/t (hat)sich (dat)der Sturm riss mir den Hut vom Kopf the gale tore ( oder whipped) the hat from my headjemanden zu Boden reißen drag sb to the ground;das Lenkrad nach rechts reißen wrench the steering to the right;der Fluss riss das Haus einfach mit sich the river simply swept the house away;zehn Skifahrer wurden von der Lawine mit in den Tod gerissen the avalanche swept ten skiers to their deaths3. (beschädigen) tear, rip;sich (dat)einen Splitter in den Finger reißen get a splinter into one’s finger;sich (dat)ein Loch in die Hose reißen tear a hole in one’s trousers (US pants)4. fig:aus dem Schlaf gerissen werden be rudely awakened;aus seinen Illusionen gerissen werden come down to earth with a bump umg;die Macht an sich reißen seize power;sie war hin und her gerissen she couldn’t make up her mind; (war begeistert) she was thrilled to bits (US pieces) umg;das reißt mich nicht gerade vom Hocker umg I can’t say I’m thrilled, it’s nothing to write home about; → Witz, Zote etc5. Raubtier: (töten) killB. v/t & v/i (hat) SPORT Gewichtheben: lift in the snatch; Hochsprung, Pferdesport: knock off the bar;C. v/ider Film/Schnürsenkel ist gerissen the film tore/the shoelace broke;da riss ihm die Geduld his patience snapped ( oder gave out [on him]);jetzt reißt mir aber gleich der Geduldsfaden my patience is running out2. (hat) (zerren):D. v/r:sich um einen Fußballer/Filmstar reißen try to outbid one another to get a footballer/film star (US moviestar);ich reiße mich nicht darum, ihn kennen zu lernen I’m not exactly dying to get to know him* * *1.unregelmäßiges transitives Verb1) tearsich (Dat.) ein Loch in die Hose reißen — tear or rip a hole in one's trousers
jemandem etwas aus den Händen/Armen reißen — snatch or tear something from somebody's hands/arms
sich (Dat.) die Kleider vom Leibe reißen — tear one's clothes off
jemanden aus seinen Gedanken reißen — (fig.) awaken somebody rudely from his/her thoughts
3) (werfen, ziehen)[innerlich] hin und her gerissen sein od. werden — (fig.) be torn [two ways]
5)etwas an sich reißen — (fig.) seize something
2.die Latte/eine Hürde reißen — knock the bar down/knock a hurdle over
unregelmäßiges intransitives Verbwenn alle Stricke od. Stränge reißen — (fig.) if all else fails
2) (ziehen)an etwas (Dat.) reißen — pull at something
3) (Leichtathletik) bring the bar down/knock the hurdle over3.1) tear oneself/itself (aus, von from)2) (ugs.): (sich bemühen um)sie reißen sich um die Eintrittskarten — they are scrambling to or fighting each other to get tickets
* * *v.(§ p.,pp.: riß, ist/hat gerissen)= to pull v.to rend v.(§ p.,p.p.: rent)to rip v.to wrench v. -
11 valoir
valoir [valwaʀ]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━➭ TABLE 291. <a. to be worth• valoir 1 000 € to be worth 1,000 euros• 500 € à valoir sur votre prochaine facture 500 euros credit against your next bill• je lui fis valoir que... I pointed out to him that...► valoir mieux• dans ce cas, il vaut mieux refuser or mieux vaut refuser in that case, it's better to say no• avertis-le, ça vaut mieux it would be better if you told him• il vaut mieux le prévenir we'd (or you'd etc) better tell himb. ( = être valable) to holdc. ( = équivaloir à) la campagne vaut bien la mer the countryside is every bit as good as the seaside2. <• qu'est-ce qui nous vaut l'honneur de cette visite ? to what do we owe the honour of this visit?3. <► se valoir ( = être équivalent)• et pour le prix ? -- ça se vaut and pricewise? -- there's hardly any difference* * *valwaʀ
1.
valoir à quelqu'un — to earn somebody [châtiment, éloges, critiques]; to win somebody [amitié, admiration]; to bring somebody something [ennuis]
ça ne m'a valu que des ennuis — it brought me nothing but trouble, I got nothing but trouble out of it
que me vaut l'honneur de ta visite? — hum to what do I owe the honour [BrE] (of this visit)?
2.
verbe intransitif1) ( en termes monétaires) to be worthça vaut bien 50 euros — ( à peu près) it must be worth 50 euros; ( largement) it's well worth 50 euros
valoir de l'or — fig to be very valuable
2) ( qualitativement)que vaut ce film/vin? — what's that film/wine like?
le film ne vaut pas grand-chose — the film isn't very good ou isn't up to much (colloq)
il ne vaut pas cher — he is a worthless individual ou a bad lot (colloq)
ne rien valoir — [matériau, produit, roman] to be rubbish, to be no good; [outil, traitement, méthode] to be useless; [argument] to be worthless
la chaleur/le climat ne me vaut rien — the heat/the climate doesn't suit me
le film vaut surtout par la qualité du dialogue — the principal merit of the film is the quality of the dialogue [BrE]
ça ne me dit rien qui vaille — (projet, annonce) I don't like the sound of it
3) ( égaler) to be as good aston travail vaut bien/largement le leur — your work is just as good/every bit as good as theirs
le frère vaut la sœur — hum the brother is just as bad as the sister
4) ( équivaloir à) to be worth5) ( mériter) to be worthça en vaut la peine, ça vaut le coup — (colloq) it's worth it
6) ( être valable) [règle, critique] to apply7) ( avec faire)faire valoir — ( faire fructifier) to put [something] to work [argent]; to farm [terrain]; to turn [something] to good account [bien]; ( mettre en avant) to point out [mérite, nécessité]; to emphasize, to highlight [qualité, trait]; to advance [argument]; to assert [droit]; to make [something] known [intention]
faire valoir que — to point out that, to argue that
se faire valoir — to push oneself forward, to get oneself noticed ( auprès de quelqu'un by somebody)
3.
se valoir verbe pronominal [produit, œuvres] to be the same
4.
verbe impersonnelil vaut mieux faire, mieux vaut faire — it's better to do
mieux vaut or il vaut mieux une dispute qu'un malentendu — an argument is better than a misunderstanding, rather an argument than a misunderstanding
cela vaut mieux — (colloq) it's better like that ou that way
* * *valwaʀ1. vi1) (= être valable) [argument, observation] to hold, [règle] to applyLe directeur a rappelé que ce règlement valait aussi bien pour les anciens employés que pour les nouveaux. — The manager reminded everyone that the rule applied as much to existing employees as to new ones.
valoir mieux; Ça vaut mieux. — That would be better.
Il vaut mieux se taire. — It would be better to say nothing., It's better to say nothing.
Il vaut mieux que je parte. — It's better if I leave., It would be better if I left.
à valoir COMMERCE — on account
2. vt1) [prix, valeur, effort] to be worthCette voiture vaut très cher. — This car's worth a lot of money.
2) (= causer)valoir qch à qn [prix] — to earn sb sth, [ennuis] to cause sb sth
Ce type de comportement lui a déjà valu des ennuis. — This kind of behaviour has already caused him problems.
faire valoir [droits, prérogatives] — to assert, [domaine, capitaux] to exploit
* * *valoir verb table: valoirA vtr ( procurer) valoir qch à qn to earn sb [châtiment, éloges, critiques, inimitiés]; to win sb [amitié, admiration]; to bring sb [ennuis]; ça ne m'a valu que des ennuis it brought me nothing but trouble, I got nothing but trouble out of it; ce qui lui a valu d'aller en prison which earned ou got him/her a prison sentence; cela lui a valu d'être élu/exclu du parti it got him elected/expelled from the party; tout ce que t'a valu ta baignade, c'est un bon rhume all you got out of going swimming is a nasty cold; que me vaut l'honneur de ta visite? hum to what do I owe the honourGB (of your visit)?B vi1 ( en termes monétaires) [maison, article] valoir une fortune/cher/encore plus cher to be worth a fortune/a lot/even more; ça vaut combien? how much is it (worth), what is it worth?; ça vaut bien 50 euros ( à peu près) it must be worth 50 euros; ( largement) it's well worth 50 euros; ça ne vaut pas grand-chose it's not worth much; valoir de l'or fig [idée] to be very valuable; [employé] to be worth one's weight in gold; ⇒ avertir, deux;2 ( qualitativement) que vaut ce film/vin? what's that film/wine like?; que vaut-il en tant que gestionnaire? how good an administrator is he?; il ne vaut pas mieux que son frère he's no better than his brother; ils ne valent pas mieux l'un que l'autre there's nothing to choose between them; le film ne vaut pas grand-chose the film isn't very good ou isn't up to much○; il ne vaut pas cher he is a worthless individual ou a bad lot○; ne rien valoir [matériau, produit, roman] to be rubbish, to be no good; [outil, traitement, méthode] to be useless; [argument] to be worthless; il ne vaut rien comme cuisinier he's a useless cook; le pneu ne vaut plus rien the tyre has had it○; la chaleur/le climat ne me vaut rien heat/the climate doesn't suit me; l'alcool ne vaut rien pour le foie alcohol doesn't do the liver much good; le voyage ne m'a rien valu the journey hasn't done me any good; le film vaut surtout par la qualité du dialogue the principal merit of the film is the quality of the dialogueGB; je sais ce que je vaux I know my own worth; il n'y a rien qui vaille dans cette œuvre there's nothing good about this work; il ne me dit rien qui vaille I've got misgivings about him; ça ne me dit rien qui vaille (projet, annonce) I don't like the sound of it; elle valait mieux que cela! she deserved better than that!;3 ( égaler) to be as good as; ton travail vaut bien/largement le leur your work is just as good/every bit as good as theirs; une explication qui en vaut une autre an explanation which is as good as any other; rien ne vaut la soie nothing beats silk; tout cela ne vaut pas la Corse it's still not as good as Corsica; le frère vaut la sœur iron the brother is just as bad as the sister;4 ( équivaloir à) to be worth; un ouvrier expérimenté vaut trois débutants an experienced worker is worth three novices;5 ( mériter) to be worth; le musée vaut la visite or le déplacement/le détour the museum is worth a visit/a detour; la question vaut d'être posée the question is worth asking; ça vaut/ne vaut pas la peine or le coup○ d'y aller it is/isn't worth going; ça vaut la peine que tu y ailles it's worth your going; ça en vaut la peine, ça vaut le coup○ it's worth it; ça vaut le coup d'œil○ it's worth seeing;6 ( être valable) [règle, critique] to apply; la règle vaut pour tous les cas/pour tout le monde the rule applies in all cases/to everybody; ceci vaut surtout pour son dernier roman this is particularly true of his/her last novel;7 ( avec faire) faire valoir ( faire fructifier) to put [sth] to work [argent]; to put [sth] to good use [terrain]; to turn [sth] to good account [bien]; ( mettre en avant) to point out [mérite, nécessité]; to emphasize, highlight [qualité, trait]; to advance [argument]; to assert [droit]; to make [sth] known [intention]; faire valoir que to point out that, to argue that; faire valoir la difficulté qu'il y aurait à faire qch to point out the difficulty of doing sth; faire valoir ses droits à la retraite to claim one's right to retirement; faire valoir ses relations to mention one's connections; se faire valoir to push oneself forward, to get oneself noticed (auprès de qn by sb);C se valoir vpr [produit, œuvres] to be the same; les deux candidats se valent there's nothing to choose between the two candidates; ça se vaut○ it's all the same.D v impers il vaut mieux faire, mieux vaut faire it's better to do; mieux vaut or il vaut mieux une dispute qu'un malentendu an argument is better than a misunderstanding, rather an argument than a misunderstanding; il vaut mieux que tu y ailles you'd better go; il aurait mieux valu qu'il se taise he would have done better to keep quiet; cela vaut mieux○ it's better like that ou that way.vaille que vaille somehow or other; un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l'auras, il vaut mieux tenir que courir a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.[valwar] verbe intransitif1. [avoir tel prix] to be worthas-tu une idée de ce que peut valoir ce guéridon? have you any idea how much this little table might be worth?une famille qui vaut plusieurs milliards de dollars (familier) a family worth several billion dollars[coûter] to costvaloir très cher to cost a lot, to be very expensive, to be very dearne pas valoir cher to be cheap ou inexpensive2. [avoir telle qualité] to be worthje sais ce que je vaux I know my worth ou what I'm worthque vaut une vie d'artiste sans la reconnaissance du public? what's the point of being an artist without public recognition?quand je manque de sommeil, je ne vaux rien if I haven't had enough sleep I'm uselessne pas valoir grand-chose: l'émission d'hier ne valait pas grand-chose yesterday's programme wasn't up to muchvaloir mieux que: elle vaut mieux que la réputation qu'on lui fait she's much better than her reputation would suggest3. [origine de la valeuré]valoir par: ma bague ne vaut que par les souvenirs qu'elle représente my ring has only sentimental value4. [être valable, applicable]valoir pour to apply to, to hold for5. COMMERCEà valoir sur: il y a deux euros à valoir sur votre prochain achat you'll get two euros off your next purchase6. (locution)a. [argument] to emphasize, to put forward (separable)b. [opinion, raisons] to put forward (separable)c. [droit] to assert, to enforced. [qualité] to highlight, to bring out (separable)faire valoir un capital ÉCONOMIE to turn a sum of money to (good) account, to make a sum of money yield a good profitfaire valoir des terres/une propriété to derive profit from land/a propertydans ce cas, mieux vaut s'abstenir in that case, it's better to do nothingil vaut mieux ne pas répondre it's best ou better not to answeril vaudrait mieux que tu y réfléchisses you'd do better to ou you should think about itça vaut mieux: appelle le médecin, ça vaut mieux it would be better ou safer if you called the doctorje vais lui dire — je crois que ça vaut mieux I'm going to tell him — I think that would be the best thing to doça vaut mieux ainsi/pour lui it's better that way/for him————————[valwar] verbe transitif1. [procurer]valoir quelque chose à quelqu'un to earn somebody something, to bring something to somebodyses efforts lui ont valu une médaille aux jeux Olympiques his efforts earned him a medal at the Olympic Gamesqu'est-ce qui me vaut l'honneur/le plaisir de ta visite? to what do I owe the honour/pleasure of your visit?l'émission d'hier soir nous a valu une avalanche de coups de téléphone we were deluged with telephone calls after last night's programmene rien valoir à quelqu'un [ne pas lui convenir] to be no good for somebody, not to agree with somebody, not to suit somebody3. [mériter] to be worthle village vaut le détour/déplacement the village is worth the detour/journeyl'enjeu de l'affaire vaut que l'on prenne le temps de la réflexion it's worth taking time to reflect when you see what's at stake in the dealquand je paie 40 euros pour un spectacle, je veux que ça en vaille la peine if I spend 40 euros on a show I like to get my money's worthj'ai gagné 3 000 euros — dis donc, ça vaut le coup! I won 3,000 euros — well, that was certainly worth it!à ce prix-là, ça vaut le coup at that price, you can't go wrongah, rien ne vaut les confitures de grand-mère! there's nothing like grandma's jam!ça ne vaut pas Éric, tu sais ce qu'il m'a dit? (familier) what about Eric then? do you know what he told me?————————se valoir verbe pronominaltu vas voter Dupond ou Dufort? — tout ça se vaut! are you going to vote Dupond or Dufort? — it's six of one and half a dozen of the other ou it's all the same thing!vaille que vaille locution adverbiale -
12 ионизация
ionization, ion production* * *иониза́ция ж.
ionizationдава́ть эффе́кт за счёт иониза́ции — produce effect because of the ionizationиониза́ция мо́жет происходи́ть не́сколькими путя́ми — ionization can occur by several mechanismsиониза́ция осуществля́ется в результа́те поглоще́ния излуче́ния — ionization occurs by absorption of radiationиониза́ция осуществля́ется под де́йствием, напр. излуче́ния на моле́кулы — ionization occurs by the action of, e. g., radiation on moleculesподверга́ться иониза́ции — undergo ionizationиониза́ция, вы́званная га́мма-излуче́нием — gamma-induced ionizationдвукра́тная иониза́ция — second-order ionizationдиссоциати́вная иониза́ция — dissociative ionizationдро́бная иониза́ция — fractional ionization«коло́нная» иониза́ция — columnar ionizationлави́нная иониза́ция — cumulative [avalanche, Townsend] ionizationла́зерная иониза́ция — laser [laser-beam induced] ionizationметео́рная иониза́ция — meteoric ionizationмногокра́тная иониза́ция — multiple ionizationиониза́ция на пове́рхности — surface ionizationнача́льная иониза́ция — initial ionizationнеравнове́сная иониза́ция — non-equilibrium ionizationобъё́мная иониза́ция — volume ionizationоднокра́тная иониза́ция — single [first-order] ionizationоста́точная иониза́ция — residual ionizationпове́рхностная иониза́ция — surface ionizationпо́лная иониза́ция — total [cumulative] ionizationпредвари́тельная иониза́ция — pre-ionizationиониза́ция при́меси — impurity ionizationспонта́нная иониза́ция — spontaneous ionizationступе́нчатая иониза́ция — step ionizationтерми́ческая иониза́ция — thermal ionizationуда́рная иониза́ция — ionization by (a) collision (process), collision ionizationуде́льная иониза́ция — specific ionizationфо́новая иониза́ция — background ionization -
13 lösen
lö·sen [ʼlø:zn̩]vt1) (ab\lösen)etw [von etw] \lösen to remove sth [from sth];das Fleisch vom Knochen \lösen to take the meat off the bone;den Schmutz \lösen to remove the dirt;etw aus dem Zusammenhang \lösen ( fig) to take sth out of context2) ( aufbinden)etw \lösen to untie sth;die Fesseln/den Knoten \lösen to undo the shackles/the knot3) ( Arretierung aufheben)die Bremse \lösen to release the brake4) ( entspannen)eine Schraube/einen Verband \lösen to loosen a screw/bandage;Alkohol löst die Zunge ( fig) alcohol loosens the tongue;die Hemmungen \lösen to relieve inhibitions5) ( klären)etw \lösen to solve sth;einen Konflikt/eine Schwierigkeit \lösen to resolve a conflict/difficulty;ein Problem/Rätsel \lösen to solve a problem/mystery;einen Mordfall \lösen to solve a murder6) (aufheben, annullieren)etw \lösen to break off sth;den Bund der Ehe \lösen ( geh) to dissolve a marriage;eine Verbindung \lösen to sever a connection;eine Verlobung \lösen to break off an engagement;einen Vertrag \lösen to cancel a contract7) ( zergehen lassen)im Wasser gelöste Brausetabletten effervescent tabletseinen Schuss \lösen to fire [a shot]9) ( ein Ticket kaufen)eine Fahrkarte \lösen to buy a ticket [for public transport]vr1) (sich ab\lösen)sich [von etw] \lösen to come off [of sth];die Tapete löst sich von der Wand the wallpaper is coming off the wall;eine Lawine löste sich an avalanche started2) (sich freimachen, trennen)sich von jdm \lösen to free oneself of sb;sich von seinen Eltern/altmodischen Ansichten \lösen to break away from one's parents/old-fashioned views;sich aus etw \lösen to free oneself from sth;sich aus einer Umarmung \lösen to free oneself from an embrace3) ( sich aufklären)sich \lösen to be solved;das Rätsel löste sich von ganz alleine the mystery solved itself4) (sich auf\lösen)5) ( sich lockern) to loosen;der Knoten lässt sich nicht \lösen I can't undo this knot; -
14 Reißen
rei·ßen1. rei·ßen <riss, gerissen> [ʼraisn̩]vibilliges Papier reißt leicht cheap paper tears easily;alte Hemden können an zerschlissenen Stellen \Reißen old shirts can tear at the parts that are worndas Seil riss unter dem Gewicht dreier Bergsteiger the rope broke under the weight of three climbers; s. a. Geduldsfaden, Strickan etw \Reißen dat to pull [on] sth, to tug at sth;wütend bellend riss der Hund an seiner Kette barking furiously the dog strained at its lead;der Fallschirmspringer muss an dieser Leine \Reißen the parachutist has to pull [on] this cord[das] Reißen snatch;das Reißen ist nicht die Stärke dieses Gewichthebers the snatch is not one of this weightlifter's strengthsbeim letzten Versuch im Hochsprung darf sie nicht \Reißen she mustn't knock the bar off during her final attempt in the high jump;an diesem Hindernis hat noch fast jeder Reiter gerissen nearly every rider has knocked this fence downvt haben1) ( runterreißen)etw von etw \Reißen to tear sth from sth;sie rissen die alten Tapeten von den Wänden they tore the old wallpaper off the walls2) ( entreißen)etw von jdm \Reißen to tear [or snatch] sth from sb;er riss ihr das Foto aus der Hand he snatched the photo out of her hand;der Mann wollte ihr das Kind aus den Armen \Reißen the man wanted to tear the child from her arms;pass auf, dass der Wind dir nicht den Hut vom Kopf reißt! watch out that the wind doesn't blow your hat off [your head]3) ( hineinreißen)[sich] etw in etw \Reißen akk to tear sth in [one's] sth;verdammt, ich habe mir ein Loch in die Hose gerissen! blast! I've torn a hole in my trousers!4) ( willkürlich entnehmen)etw aus etw \Reißen to take sth out of sth;die Bemerkung ist wahrscheinlich aus dem Zusammenhang gerissen worden the comment has probably been taken out of context5) ( hinunterreißen)die Lawine riss mehrere der Wanderer mit sich zu Tale the avalanche took several of the hikers with it [down] into the valley; s. a. Verderben6) ( unversehens unterbrechen)jdn aus etw \Reißen to rouse sb from sth;das Klingeln des Telefons riss sie aus ihren Gedanken the ringing of the telephone roused her from her thoughts7) ( gewaltsam übernehmen)etw an sich \Reißen akk to seize sth;die Revolutionäre wollen die Herrschaft an sich \Reißen the revolutionaries are planning to seize power8) ( rasch an sich ziehen)sie riss die Handtasche an sich she clutched her handbag to heretw \Reißen to snatch sth;423 kg hat bisher noch kein Gewichtheber gerissen no weightlifter yet has been able to snatch 423 kgetw \Reißen to knock down sth sep;die Reiterin hat eine Latte gerissen the rider knocked a pole downetw \Reißen to kill sth;der Löwe verschlang die Antilope, die er gerissen hatte the lion devoured the antelope that it had killedWENDUNGEN:hin und her gerissen sein/ werden to be tornvr haben1) ( sich losreißen)2. Rei·ßen <-s> [ʼraisn̩] ntkein pl (veraltend) ( fam) ache;was stöhnst du so, hast du wieder das \Reißen im Rücken? why are you groaning like that, is your back aching again? -
15 reißen
rei·ßen1. rei·ßen <riss, gerissen> [ʼraisn̩]vibilliges Papier reißt leicht cheap paper tears easily;alte Hemden können an zerschlissenen Stellen \reißen old shirts can tear at the parts that are worndas Seil riss unter dem Gewicht dreier Bergsteiger the rope broke under the weight of three climbers; s. a. Geduldsfaden, Strickan etw \reißen dat to pull [on] sth, to tug at sth;wütend bellend riss der Hund an seiner Kette barking furiously the dog strained at its lead;der Fallschirmspringer muss an dieser Leine \reißen the parachutist has to pull [on] this cord[das] Reißen snatch;das Reißen ist nicht die Stärke dieses Gewichthebers the snatch is not one of this weightlifter's strengthsbeim letzten Versuch im Hochsprung darf sie nicht \reißen she mustn't knock the bar off during her final attempt in the high jump;an diesem Hindernis hat noch fast jeder Reiter gerissen nearly every rider has knocked this fence downvt haben1) ( runterreißen)etw von etw \reißen to tear sth from sth;sie rissen die alten Tapeten von den Wänden they tore the old wallpaper off the walls2) ( entreißen)etw von jdm \reißen to tear [or snatch] sth from sb;er riss ihr das Foto aus der Hand he snatched the photo out of her hand;der Mann wollte ihr das Kind aus den Armen \reißen the man wanted to tear the child from her arms;pass auf, dass der Wind dir nicht den Hut vom Kopf reißt! watch out that the wind doesn't blow your hat off [your head]3) ( hineinreißen)[sich] etw in etw \reißen akk to tear sth in [one's] sth;verdammt, ich habe mir ein Loch in die Hose gerissen! blast! I've torn a hole in my trousers!4) ( willkürlich entnehmen)etw aus etw \reißen to take sth out of sth;die Bemerkung ist wahrscheinlich aus dem Zusammenhang gerissen worden the comment has probably been taken out of context5) ( hinunterreißen)die Lawine riss mehrere der Wanderer mit sich zu Tale the avalanche took several of the hikers with it [down] into the valley; s. a. Verderben6) ( unversehens unterbrechen)jdn aus etw \reißen to rouse sb from sth;das Klingeln des Telefons riss sie aus ihren Gedanken the ringing of the telephone roused her from her thoughts7) ( gewaltsam übernehmen)etw an sich \reißen akk to seize sth;die Revolutionäre wollen die Herrschaft an sich \reißen the revolutionaries are planning to seize power8) ( rasch an sich ziehen)sie riss die Handtasche an sich she clutched her handbag to heretw \reißen to snatch sth;423 kg hat bisher noch kein Gewichtheber gerissen no weightlifter yet has been able to snatch 423 kgetw \reißen to knock down sth sep;die Reiterin hat eine Latte gerissen the rider knocked a pole downetw \reißen to kill sth;der Löwe verschlang die Antilope, die er gerissen hatte the lion devoured the antelope that it had killedWENDUNGEN:hin und her gerissen sein/ werden to be tornvr haben1) ( sich losreißen)2. Rei·ßen <-s> [ʼraisn̩] ntkein pl (veraltend) ( fam) ache;was stöhnst du so, hast du wieder das \reißen im Rücken? why are you groaning like that, is your back aching again? -
16 reißen;
reißt, riss, ist oder hat gerissenI v/t (hat)1. tear; (herausreißen, abreißen) pull; (Papier) tear, rip; (wegreißen) snatch; eine Seite aus einem Buch reißen tear ( oder rip) a page out of a book; sich (Dat) die Kleider vom Leibe reißen tear ( oder rip) off one’s clothes; jemandem etw. aus der Hand reißen snatch s.th. away from s.o. ( oder out of s.o.’s hand); der Sturm riss mir den Hut vom Kopf the gale tore ( oder whipped) the hat from my head2. in eine Richtung zwingen: pull, drag; Fluten: sweep; jemanden zu Boden reißen drag s.o. to the ground; das Lenkrad nach rechts reißen wrench the steering to the right; der Fluss riss das Haus einfach mit sich the river simply swept the house away; zehn Skifahrer wurden von der Lawine mit in den Tod gerissen the avalanche swept ten skiers to their deaths3. (beschädigen) tear, rip; sich (Dat) einen Splitter in den Finger reißen get a splinter into one’s finger; sich (Dat) ein Loch in die Hose reißen tear a hole in one’s trousers (Am. pants)4. fig.: aus dem Schlaf gerissen werden be rudely awakened; aus seinen Illusionen gerissen werden come down to earth with a bump umg.; die Macht an sich reißen seize power; die Führung an sich reißen SPORT take the lead; weitS. take over, take command; sie war hin und her gerissen she couldn’t make up her mind; (war begeistert) she was thrilled to bits (Am. pieces) umg.; das reißt mich nicht gerade vom Hocker umg. I can’t say I’m thrilled, it’s nothing to write home about; Witz, Zote etc.5. Raubtier: (töten) killII vt/i (hat) SPORTa) Gewichtheben: lift in the snatch;b) Hochsprung, Pferdesport: knock off the bar; er hat (die 1,97 m) dreimal gerissen he failed three times (at 1.97 m)III v/i1. (ist) tear; Kette, Saite etc.: break; Lippen: chap; Nebel: lift suddenly; der Film / Schnürsenkel ist gerissen the film tore / the shoelace broke; da riss ihm die Geduld his patience snapped ( oder gave out [on him]); jetzt reißt mir aber gleich der Geduldsfaden my patience is running outIV v/refl: sich reißen um fig. fight ( oder scramble oder squabble) over; sich um einen Fußballer / Filmstar reißen try to outbid one another to get a footballer / film star (Am. moviestar); ich reiße mich nicht darum I’m not that keen (Am. eager) (to have it); ich reiße mich nicht darum, ihn kennen zu lernen I’m not exactly dying to get to know him -
17 pige
n. f.1. Year. (The word can be used in conjunction with someone's age, but occurs more often in relation to time elapsed and in the context of prison sentences. Ça va bientôt faire dix piges que je l'ai pas vu: It's going on ten years since I saw him. Il a écopé de quínze píges: He got fifteen years' porridge.)2. Faire la pige à quelqu'un: To 'lick' someone, to 'go one-up on', to surpass someone. Côté méninges, un peu qu'il vous fait la pige! When it comes to brains, he's in a totally different league!3. Etre ( payé) à la pige (of journalist, novelette- cum-soap-opera writer): To write on a 'penny-a-line' basis. (Alphonse Allais boasted of having once conned an absent-minded editor out of a fair amount of money, whilst working à la pige, with an avalanche of easy-to-write 'one-word' lines that went 'Vous?!' 'Oui!'—Ah, non!'—'Si!'—'Ça alors!'—'Mais oui!', etc.)
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Avalanche chess — is a chess variant designed by Ralph Betza in 1977. After moving one of your own pieces, you must move one of your opponent s pawns forward one space. Rules Rules are as normal chess except for the following. After you move one of your own pieces … Wikipedia
Avalanche (drinking game) — Avalanche (also known as Three) is a drinking game of chance which can be played with any number of players. Play passes counterclockwise around a circle. The current player adds some of his/her drink of an amount of his/her choosing to the game… … Wikipedia
