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1 backward

= backwards

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['bækwəd]
adjective

1) (aimed or directed backwards: He left without a backward glance.) indietro

2) (less advanced in mind or body than is normal for one's age: a backward child.) ritardato

3) (late in developing a modern culture, mechanization etc: That part of Britain is still very backward; the backward peoples of the world.) in ritardo

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- backwardness
- backwards
- backwards and forwards
- bend/fall over backwards
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backward /ˈbækwəd/
A a.

1 (volto o diretto) all'indietro, a ritroso; di ritorno; regressivo: a backward glance, un'occhiata all'indietro; ( sport) backward dive, tuffo all'indietro; ( sport) backward pass, passaggio all'indietro; retropassaggio; a backward step, ( anche fig.) un passo indietro; (mecc.) backward stroke, corsa di ritorno ( di pistone)

2 arretrato; retrogrado; sottosviluppato: backward areas, zone sottosviluppate; backward countries, paesi arretrati

3 tardo di mente; ritardato: a backward child, un bambino ritardato

4 esitante; timido; riluttante; restio: a backward suitor, un corteggiatore timido; backward in doing st., esitante (o restio) a fare qc.

5 tardivo; in ritardo: backward spring, primavera tardiva

B avv.

► backwards

● (comput.) backward compatibility, compatibilità con le versioni precedenti □ (fam. GB) backward in coming forward, riluttante a farsi avanti; che si fa pregare; timido □ (org. az.) backward integration, integrazione a monte □ backward-looking, retrivo; retrogrado; antiquato; passatista; reazionario □ (comput.) backward printing, stampa da destra a sinistra □ (comput.) backward slash ► backslash □ (fisc.) backward shifting ( of taxes), traslazione d'imposta all'indietro □ (elettr.) backward wave, onda di ritorno; onda regressiva
backwardly
avv.

1 all'indietro; a ritroso

2 timidamente; con riluttanza
backwardness
n. [u]

1 arretratezza; sottosviluppo

2 esitazione; riluttanza; timidezza

3 ritardo mentale; tardività

4 tardività ( di stagione, di prodotto, ecc.).

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= backwards

English-Italian dictionary > backward
2 backward

[΄bækwəd] adv, a հետ, դեպի հետ. հետադարձ. չզարգացած, հետամնաց. give backward glance հետ նայել. a backward step մի քայլ hետ. a backward child թերզարգացած երեխա. backward areas հետամնաց շրջաններ. backward countries թեր զարգացած երկրներ. հմկրգ. backward reference հե տադարձ հղում. backward compatible հետադարձ հա մատեղելի

English-Armenian dictionary > backward
3 knock smth. on the head

положить конец чему-л., нанести смертельный удар, покончить с чем-л.; ≈ не оставить камня на камне (от аргументации, теории и т. п.)

‘Racing!’ said Soames. ‘It's a pity the War didn't knock that on the head.’ (J. Galsworthy, ‘To Let’, part I, ch. I) — - Уж эти мне скачки! - сказал Сомс. - Жаль, что война как следует не ударила по ним.

Secretary of State Acheson knocked on the head the idea that "Point Four" is a program for industrializing backward areas... (W. Foster, ‘Outline Political History of the Americas’, ch. 30) — Государственный секретарь Ачесон полностью развеял иллюзию, что "четвертый пункт" является программой индустриализации отсталых районов...

However, I'm against the theory that Cust committed these crimes without knowing he had done them. You might put that theory forward if it weren't for the letters. The letters knock the theory on the head. They show premeditation and a careful planning of the crime. (A. Christie, ‘The ABC Murders’, ch. XXXI) — И все-таки я против того, что Каст, совершая преступления, не ведал, что творил. С этой версией можно было бы согласиться, если бы не письма. Но письма не оставили от нее камня на камне. Они убедительно доказывают, что мы имеем дело с предумышленным, заранее и тщательно обдуманным преступлением.

Large English-Russian phrasebook > knock smth. on the head
4 back

1. n спина, спинка

the back of a coat — спина пальто

back pulling — съемка шкуры со спины

back to H-bar — спиной к перекладине

clear back — бескостная свиная спинка

bacon back — спинка английского бекона

fat back pork — свиная спинка со шпиком

2. n спинной хребет; позвоночник

he has broken his back — у него перелом позвоночника

back bone — позвоночник

back problem — проблема с позвоночником

back and fore rib — спинная часть говяжьей туши

back fat — шпиг, спинной жир, хребтовый шпиг, хребтовое сало

3. n поясница, крестец

a sharp pain in the back — острая боль в пояснице

back pain — боль в пояснице

small of the back — поясница

the small of the back — поясница

4. n задняя, тыльная часть

the back of the head — затылок

the back of the hand — тыльная сторона руки

the back of a leaf — нижняя поверхность листа

the back of the foot — тыл стопы

the back of a chair — спинка стула

the back of a book — корешок книги

back of a rudder — спинка руля

back of lode — часть рудной жилы

upper back — верхняя часть спины

back away — отходить задним ходом

back bell — команда о заднем ходе

camera back — задняя стенка камеры

5. n тех. задняя грань; затылок или обух инструмента

back of an arch — внешняя поверхность арки

back axle — задняя ось

back fin — задняя плена

back gap — задний зазор

back knife — задний нож

back stop — задний упор

6. n задняя часть; задний план

at the back of — сзади, позади

the garden at the back of the house — сад за домом

a room in the back of the house — задняя комната

back relief angle — задний угол

rooms to the back — задние комнаты

back of shank — задняя стенка ножки

back turbine — турбина заднего хода

cabinet back — задняя часть корпуса

7. n оборотная сторона; оборот, изнанка

the back of cloth — изнанка ткани

back of the hands — тыльные стороны ладоней

back off two turns — обтачивать на два оборота

back shoot-up to support — оборот назад в упоре

back hip circle dismount — оборотом назад соскок

keep back — держаться сзади, в стороне, в отдалении

8. n гребень

the monument stood on the back of a hill — памятник стоял на вершине холма

9. n нагота, неприкрытое тело; одежда

back and belly — одежда и стол

10. n спорт. защитник

half back — полузащитник

to play right back — играть правым защитником

centre back — центральный защитник

right back — правый защитник

11. n мор. киль; кильсон

12. n нижняя дека

lower back — нижний отдел спины

13. a задний

back rows — задние ряды

back garden — сад за домом

back entrance — чёрный ход

back seam — изнаночный шов

back edge — внутреннее поле

back elevation — вид сзади, задний фасад

back vowel — гласный заднего ряда

back light — кино задний контржурный свет

single - leg back lever — заднее равновесие на одной ноге

sloping back lining — наклонная футеровка задней стенки

engine back plate — задняя перегородка отсека двигателя

to put on a back burner — поставить на заднюю конфорку

back pay — уплата задним числом; задержанная зарплата

14. a отдалённый, дальний

back settlement — дальнее поселение

back street — глухая улица

back blocks — отдалённые кварталы

15. a обратный

back current — обратное течение

carry the goods back — осуществлять обратную транспортировку

back shears with half turn — обратное скрещение с поворотом

back course approach — заход на посадку с обратным курсом

trace back algorithm — алгоритм обратного прослеживания

back oscillations — колебания во время обратного хода

16. a запоздалый, отсталый

to have a back view of things — иметь отсталые взгляды

to feel oneself a back number — чувствовать, что отстал от жизни

17. a старый

back file — комплект предшествующих номеров периодического издания

those old trees are going back — эти старые деревья засыхают

back label — этикетка на задней стенке тары

18. a преим. амер. задержанный, просроченный; уплачиваемый за прошлое время

back rent — квартирная плата за прошедшее время

back payment — просроченный платёж

throttling back — сбрасывание газа

reach back — уходить назад, в прошлое

back to back loan — компенсационный заем

far back in the past — в далёком прошлом

he pulled back in time — он вовремя отступил

19. a воен. тыловой

back areas — тыл, тыловые районы

back area — тыловой район

back trough — тыловая впадина

back clearance — тыловой зазор

back surface — тыловая поверхность

back surface field — поле у тыловой поверхности

20. adv сзади, позади

keep back! — не подходи!, отойди!

back hang — вис сзади

back view — вид сзади

back hang — вис сзади,

back along the — позади

back seat — место сзади

21. adv обратно, назад

back and forth — взад и вперёд

there and back — туда и обратно

back there! — осади!; назад!

back home — на родине

I knew him back home — я знал его, когда жил на родине

to get back — получить назад

to go back — пойти обратно

to sit back — откинуться на спинку кресла; удобно усесться

to push the bolt back — отодвинуть засов

pike back fly-away dismount — соскок сальто назад согнувшись

flying back roll to side — сальто назад над жердями в соскок

back pullover — три четверти (/сальто назад со спины на ноги

seat to feet back somersault — сальто назад из седа на ноги

high jump into tuck back somersault — затяжное сальто назад

22. adv снова, опять

the liquid turned back into gas — жидкость снова превратилась в газ

back into — снова в

back up to — снова до

back on again — включить снова

to be back again — снова вернуться домой

to go back to drudgery — снова надеть хомут

23. adv тех. против часовой стрелки

turn the clock back — поворачивать стрелки назад

back around — менять направление против часовой стрелки

24. adv назад

an hour or so back — около часа назад

for years back — в течение многих лет

if we go back a few years … — если вернуться к тому, что было несколько лет назад …

back to — назад к

hark back! — назад!

back bend — наклон назад

back space — сдвиг назад

back roll — кувырок назад

25. adv с опозданием; с отставанием

he was three days back in his work — в своей работе он отстал на три дня

exit back to DOS — возврат в ДОС

sit back on heels — сед на пятках

oblique back sitting — сед на бедре

back break fall — сед с прямыми ногами

back somersault feet to seat — сальто назад в сед

26. v поддерживать, подкреплять

to back a plan — поддержать план

back up — поддерживать

back efforts — поддерживать усилия

back detente — поддерживать разрядку

27. v закреплять

28. v укреплять; подпирать

29. v наклонять; прислонять

he backed the mirror against the wall — он прислонил зеркало к стене

30. v субсидировать; финансировать

his father backed him in business — отец финансировал его дело

back in business — финансировать предприятие

back the investment — субсидировать инвестиции

31. v ставить

to turn the enemy back — заставить неприятеля отступить

32. v надеяться на

I backed on his ability to get out of scrapes — я рассчитывал на его способность выходить сухим из воды

back toss — сальто назад над жердями

back over bars — сальто назад над жердями

flying back roll — сальто назад над жердями

back echo — эхо-сигнал от заднего лепестка ДНА

back toss dismount — сальто назад над жердями в соскок

33. v двигать в обратном направлении; осаживать; отводить

to back a car — давать задний ход машине

to back in — ввести машину в гараж задним ходом

to back a horse — осаживать лошадь

to back the troops into position — отводить войска на исходные позиции

back scissors — обратное скрещение

back crossing — обратное скрещивание

back scattering — обратное рассеяние

back titration — обратное титрование

trace back code — код обратного пути

34. v двигаться в обратном направлении; идти задним ходом; отходить; отступать; пятиться

he backed a step or two to let them pass — он отступил на несколько шагов, чтобы пропустить их

back down — отступать

fall back — отступать

fell back — отступать

back door — чёрный ход

back run — обратный ход

35. v садиться на лошадь; ехать верхом; объезжать лошадь

she backed the horse at a jump — она вскочила на лошадь одним прыжком

drive back — возвращаться, ехать обратно

go back to your place — садитесь на своё место

the horse laid his ears back — лошадь заложила уши

flying back roll out — сальто назад над жердями в соскок

she tossed her head back — она резко откинула голову назад

36. v покрывать; снабжать спинкой

to back a book — переплести книгу

hooped chair back — изогнутая спинка стула

back splitting — разделка на пласт со спинки

hard rib back — твердая реберная свиная спинка

long rib back — длинная реберная свиная спинка

English back — свиная спинка английской разделки

37. v ставить на подкладку

a coat backed with fur — шуба на меху

back block — подкладка

back up plate — подкладка

turn back — заставить повернуть назад, прогнать

38. v примыкать

the hills backed the town — за городом раскинулись холмы, город стоял у подножия холмов

39. v подписывать, скреплять подписью; утверждать; визировать

back a bill — поставить подпись на оборотной стороне векселя; подпись на оборотной стороне векселя; гарантировать оплату векселя

40. v фин. индоссировать

to back a bill — поставить свою подпись на оборотной стороне векселя, гарантировать оплату векселя

back the bill — индоссировать вексель

endorse back of check — индоссировать чек

endorsed back of check — индоссировать чек

41. v аккомпанировать; сопровождать музыкой

he backed and filled until the last moment — он колебался до последней минуты

42. n корыто; чан; большой бак

grand turn in back hang — большой оборот назад в висе сзади

back hang giant circle — большой оборот в висе сзади

yeast back — бак для сбора товарных дрожжей

Синонимический ряд:

1. delayed (adj.) delayed; late; overdue

2. frontier (adj.) frontier; outlandish; unsettled

3. minor (adj.) minor; remote; untraveled

4. old (adj.) old; out-of-date; past; previous

5. posterior (adj.) after; hind; hinder; hindmost; posterior; postern; rear; retral

6. flip side (noun) flip side; reverse

7. rear (noun) end; heel; hind part; posterior; rear; rearward

8. spine (noun) backbone; rachis; spinal column; spine; vertebrae; vertebral column

9. capitalize (verb) bankroll; capitalize; grubstake; stake

10. finance (verb) finance; sponsor; subsidize

11. fund (verb) capitalise; fund; subsidise

12. justify (verb) attest; authenticate; bear out; confirm; corroborate; justify; substantiate; testify; validate; verify; warrant

13. mount (verb) bestride; mount

14. recede (verb) backtrack; fall back; recede; retract; retreat; retrocede; retrograde; retrogress

15. reverse (verb) go backward; move backward; push backward; repel; repulse; retire; reverse; withdraw

16. support (verb) abet; advocate; aid; assist; backstop; champion; endorse; favor; favour; further; get behind; help; plump for; promote; side with; stand behind; succor; support; uphold

17. about (other) about; again; around; in reverse; round; round about

18. away (other) away; far-off; off; out

19. backward (other) away; backward; backwards; off; rearward; rearwards; to the rear

Антонимический ряд:

advance; anterior; contradict; current; fore; front; major; oppose; repudiate

English-Russian base dictionary > back
5 depressed

dɪˈprest прил.
1) подавленный, угнетенный, унылый depressedd at the bad news ≈ подавленный плохими известиями Syn: sad, dispirited
2) пониженный, сниженный
3) вогнутый, сплющенный Syn: backward, concave, flattened out ∙ depressed areas подавленный, угнетенный;
унылый - * spirits подавленное настроение - to look * выглядеть подавленным - to feel * быть в подавленном настроении ослабленный;
уменьшенный пониженный, сниженный вогнутый;
сдавленный, сплющенный - * arch вогнутая арка - * fracture (медицина) вдавленный перелом > * areas районы хронической безработицы (в Англии) > * classes( эвфмеизм) "обездоленные" (о "неприкасаемых" в Индии) depressed p. p. от depress ~ вогнутый, сплющенный;
depressed areas районы хронической безработицы ~ подавленный, унылый ~ пониженный, сниженный ~ вогнутый, сплющенный;
depressed areas районы хронической безработицы

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > depressed
6 area

n

1) район; область; зона; регион

2) область деятельности, сфера деятельности, область исследования, сфера исследования, сфера применения, область применения

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to be in control of an area — контролировать район

to clear an area — очищать район / зону (от кого-л.)

to close off an area — оцеплять район; закрывать доступ в район

to comb an area — прочесывать район

to cordon off an area — оцеплять район; закрывать доступ в район

to declare a state an ecological disaster area — объявлять штат зоной экологического бедствия

to enter an area illegally — незаконно проникать в какой-л. район

to fight over an area — воевать за какой-л. район

to gain control of an area — устанавливать контроль над районом

to keep a grip on an area — удерживать какой-л. район

to look at areas showing most promise — рассматривать вопросы, по которым существует наибольшая вероятность достижения соглашения

to police an area — следить за соблюдением правопорядка в каком-л. районе

to recapture an area for a party — восстанавливать влияние политической партии в каком-л. районе

to regenerate an area — возрождать какой-л. район

to relinquish an area — покидать / оставлять район

to rope / to seal off an area — оцеплять район; закрывать доступ в район

- whites only area
- affluent area
- AFTA
- agricultural area
- area affected by smth
- area at the center of the dispute between smb
- area has been closed to foreign correspondents
- area is under a dusk-to-dawn curfew
- area of concern
- area of condition
- area of co-operation
- area of discussion
- area of disturbances
- area of economic activity
- area of international strife
- area of social life
- area of spending
- area of success
- area of unrest
- areas of agreement
- areas of disagreement
- Asian Free Trade Area
- assembly area
- border area
- built-up area
- catchment area
- city area
- closed area
- closed military area
- concentration area
- conservancy area
- currency area
- danger area
- densely populated area
- depressed area
- deprived area
- devastated area
- developed area
- developing area
- disaster area
- disaster-prone area
- disproportionately developed area
- disputed area
- disputed border area
- distressed area
- dollar area
- drought-affected area
- drought-stricken area
- earthquake-prone area
- ecologic disaster area
- ecological disaster area
- economic area
- economically backward area
- emergency area
- enemy-occupied area
- environmentally sensitive area
- famine-hit area
- flooded area
- free trade area
- fundamental area of contention
- geographical area
- government-controlled area
- grain-growing area
- guerilla-held area
- heavily populated area
- highly politicized area
- impacted area
- industrial area
- irrigated area
- key area
- lethal area
- liberated area
- littoral area
- logistical area
- main area of discussion
- market area
- metropolitan area
- model area
- monetary area
- national-liberation movement area
- navigation area
- negotiating area
- neutral area
- no-go area
- North American Free Trade Area
- occupied area
- oil-producing area
- populated area
- predominantly Protestant area
- priority area
- prohibited area
- residential area
- restricted area
- rioted area
- rural area
- safe area
- sensitive area
- service area
- shipping area
- sparsely populated area
- specified area
- staging area
- sterling area
- strategic area
- strike-affected areas
- thinly populated area
- tightly guarded area
- trade area
- trading area
- trouble area
- underdeveloped area
- underprivileged area
- uninhabited area
- unrest area
- unsettled area
- urban area
- volatile area

Politics english-russian dictionary > area
7 back

̈ɪbæk I сущ. чан;
корыто;
кадка (большая неглубокая емкость, особ. используемая пивоварами, красильщиками и изготовляющими маринады) Syn: tub
1., trough, vat, cistern II
1. сущ.
1) а) спина to turn one's back upon smb. ≈ отвернуться от кого-л.;
покинуть кого-л. to arch one's back ≈ сгорбиться, выгнуть спину The cat arched its back. ≈ Кот выгнул спину. a broad back ≈ широкая спина to stand back to back ≈ стоять вплотную, впритык They stood with their backs to the door. ≈ Они стояли спиной к двери. with one's back to the wall ≈ прижатый к стенке;
ид. в безвыходном положении to be on one's back ≈ лежать( больным) в постели б) позвоночник to break one's back ≈ сломать позвоночник Syn: spinal column
2) зад, задняя часть, задняя сторона back of the head ≈ затылок at/in the back (of) ≈ позади чего-л. from the back ≈ сзади a room at the back of the house ≈ задняя комната We sat in the back of the car. ≈ Мы сидели в машине на заднем сиденьи. a garden at the back of the house ≈ сад за домом a yard in back of the house ≈ двор за домом Syn: rear II
1.
3) а) оборот, оборотная сторона;
изнанка, подкладка back of the hand ≈ тыльная сторона руки back of a card ≈ рубашка( карты) to know the way one knows the back of one's hand ид. ≈ знать как свои пять пальцев б) корешок( книги) в) тыльная сторона (ножа) ;
обух( топора)
4) спинка( стула;
выкройки, платья и т. п.)
5) гребень (волны, холма)
6) мор. киль;
кильсон back of a ship ≈ киль судна
7) горн.;
геол. висячий бок( пласта) ;
кровля( забоя) ;
потолок( выработки)
8) спорт защитник( в футболе) ∙ at the back of one's mind ≈ подсознательно to be at the back of smth. ≈ быть тайной причиной чего-л. behind backs behind the back of turn one's back put one's back into break the back of
2. прил.
1) спинной Syn: dorsal
1.
2) задний back seat ≈ заднее сиденье back filling ≈ строит. засыпка, забутка back vowel фон. ≈ гласный заднего ряда back elevation ≈ вид сзади, задний фасад back door ≈ черный ход to take a back seat ≈ стушеваться, отойти на задний план Syn: rear II
2.
3) глухой, отдаленный;
воен. тыловой back street ≈ закоулок;
отдаленная улица back country ≈ глушь back areas ≈ тылы, тыловые районы Syn: remote
4) запоздалый;
просроченный( о платеже) back pay, back payment ≈ расчеты задним числом back salary, back wages ≈ зарплата, выплаченная с опозданием Syn: overdue, behindhand
1.
5) старый;
устаревший back numbers of a magazine ≈ старые номера журнала back view of things ≈ отсталые взгляды
6) обратный, противоположный back current ≈ обратное течение back slang ≈ жаргон, в котором слова произносятся в обратном порядке (напр., gip вм. pig) Syn: reverse
2.
3. гл.
1) а) поддерживать;
подкреплять;
финансировать, субсидировать to back smb. (up) ≈ оказывать кому-л. поддержку, содействовать кому-л. They backed the new enterprise by investing in it. ≈ Они поддержали новое предприятие, вложив в него деньги. demands which had been backed by an armed force ≈ требования, подкрепленные военной силой Syn: uphold, aid
2., support
2., assist, second I
3. б) подтверждать, подкреплять доказательствами и т. п. to back an argument with proof ≈ подкрепить аргументацию доказательствами Syn: substantiate в) муз. аккомпанировать( певцу)
2) а) двигать назад, в обратном направлении to back a car ≈ поддать автомобиль назад б) двигаться в обратном направлении, пятиться;
отступать
3) а) служить спинкой;
служить фоном;
служить подкладкой The wardrobe was backed with plywood. ≈ Задняя стенка шкафа была обшита фанерой. б) ставить на подкладку;
переплетать( книгу) a coat backed with fur ≈ шуба на меху
4) держать пари, ставить ( на лошадь и т. п.) to back the wrong horse ≈ ставить не на ту лошадь to back the field ≈ поставить на несколько лошадей против одной Syn: bet on
5) охот. делать стойку (не видя дичи) вслед за лидирующей собакой
6) редк. садиться в седло;
ездить верхом;
приучать( лошадь) к седлу She backed the horse at a jump. ≈ Она вскочила на лошадь одним прыжком.
7) а) подписывать, скреплять подписью б) индоссировать (вексель) to back a bill ≈ поставить свою подпись на оборотной стороне векселя, гарантировать оплату векселя
8) амер. граничить, примыкать сзади (on, upon)
9) амер.;
разг. носить на спине ∙ back away back down back into back off back onto back out back up to back the wrong horse ≈ сделать плохой выбор, просчитаться, ошибиться в расчетах
4. нареч.
1) назад (в обратном направлении) to step back ≈ шагать назад Back from the door! ≈ Прочь от двери! back and forth ≈ взад и вперед Syn: backward
3.
2) обратно (на прежнее место) on the way back ≈ на обратном пути back home ≈ снова дома, на родине When will he be back? ≈ Когда он вернется? Try to force this bolt back. ≈ Постарайся вставить этот болт обратно. Back came John in rage and fury. ≈ Назад Джон примчался в страшной ярости.
3) обратно, назад (к прежнему владельцу, в прежнее состояние и т. п.) to give back ≈ отдать назад to get back ≈ получить обратно I accepted his offer at once, lest he should draw back. ≈ Я принял его предложение, боясь как бы он не взял его обратно. The whole country fell back into heathenism. ≈ Вся страна вновь впала в язычество.
4) (тому) назад a while back ≈ некоторое время тому назад far back in the Middle Ages ≈ давным давно в Средние века In memory I can go back to a very early age. ≈ В памяти я могу вернуться назад в раннее детство. Syn: ago
5) указывает на ответное действие to answer back ≈ возражать to love back ≈ отвечать взаимностью to pay back ≈ отплачивать to talk back ≈ возражать to write back ≈ написать в ответ
6) сзади, позади The field lies back from the road. ≈ Поле лежит за дорогой.
7) (в состоянии задержки, сдерживания дальнейшего продвижения, улучшения и т. п.) a nation long kept back by a sterile soil and a severe climate ≈ страна, развитие которой сдерживали бесплодная земля и суровый климат ∙ back from to go back from/upon one's word ≈ отказаться от обещания
спина - broad * широкая спина;
широкие плечи - board * (медицина) щит (для исправления спины) - to carry smth. on one's * нести что-л. на спине;
нести непосильное бремя;
надеть себе на шею хомут - to lie on one's * лежать на спине - to fall on one's * упасть навзничь - to be on one's * лежать (больным) в постели - to pat on the * похлопать по спине;
покровительствовать;
поощрять;
подбадривать - to stab in the * всадить нож в спину;
предать;
предательски нападать;
клеветать, злословить за чьей-л. спиной - he has a strong * у него широкая спина;
он все вынесет;
его не сломить - excuse my * извините, я повернулся или я сижу к вам спиной спина, спинка (животного) - * wool шерсть со спины овцы высококачественные, первосортные кожи спина, спинка (одежды) - the * of a coat спина пальто спинной хребет;
позвоночник - he has broken his * у него перелом позвоночника поясница, крестец - a sharp pain in the * острая боль в пояснице - to strain one's * потянуть спину задняя, тыльная часть - the * os the head затылок - the * of the hand тыльная сторона руки - the * of a leaf нижняя поверхность листа - the * of the foot (анатомия) тыл стопы - the * of a chair спинка стула - the * of a book корешок книги - * of a rudder( морское) спинка руля - * of a knife тупая сторона ножа - this sound is pronounced with the * of the tongue (фонетика) этот звук произносится с помощью задней части языка( техническое) задняя грань (резца) ;
затылок или обух инструмента - * of an arch (строительство) внешняя поверхность арки задняя, более отдаленная часть;
задний план - at the * of сзади, позади - at the * of one's mind в глубине души - the garden at the * of the house сад за домом - a room in the * of the house задняя комната - the money was in the * of the drawer деньги лежали в глубине ящика - we must get to the * of this мы должны добраться /докопаться/ до сути дела оборотная сторона;
оборот, изнанка - the * of cloth изнанка ткани - see on the * смотри(те) на обороте - sign on the * распишитесь на обороте гребень (волны, горы) - the monument stood on the * of a hill памятник стоял на вершине холма нагота, неприкрытое тело;
одежда - * and belly одежда и стол /еда/ - I haven't a rag to my * мне нечего надеть;
мне нечем прикрыть свою наготу - she puts all she earns on her * она тратит на одежду все, что зарабатывает (спортивное) защитник (тж. full *) - half * полузащитник( морское) киль;
кильсон (горное) висячий бок (пласта) ;
кровля (забоя) ;
потолок (выработки) ;
кливажная трещина нижняя дека( музыкального инструмента) > * to * вплотную, впритык > the * of beyond глушь, край света > at the * of beyond на краю света;
в недосягаемости;
у черта на куличках > with one's * to /against/ the wall припертый к стенке, в отчаянном положении > behind smb.'s * за чьей-л. спиной, в отсутствие кого-л.;
за глаза, тайком > to be on smb.'s * привязываться /приставать/ к кому-л.;
не давать житья кому-л.;
придираться к кому-л.;
набрасываться /накидываться/ на кого-л. - she is always on his * if he comes home late когда он приходит домой поздно, ему всегда достается от нее - to get off smb.'s * отстать /отвязаться/ от кого-л.;
оставить в покое кого-л. - to be (flat /put, thrown/) on one's * быть в безнадежном /беспомощном/ положении - he is flat on his * after a long succession of failures постоянные неудачи сломили его;
его положили на обе лопатки - to be at the * of smb., to stand behind smb.'s * стоять за кем-л., оказывать кому-л. поддержку;
преследовать кого-л.;
гнаться по пятам за кем-л. - to be at the * of the pack "наступать на пятки", идти непосредственно за лидером, "дышать в спину" - to be at the * of smth. скрываться за чем-л., таиться в чем-л.;
быть зачинщиком чего-л. - what's at the * of it? что за этим кроется? - to turn one's * обратиться в бегство;
отступить;
показать пятки - to get one's * up рассердиться, разозлиться, выйти из себя;
ощетиниться;
заупрямиться, упереться - to put /to set/ smb.'s * up рассердить кого-л., восстановить кого-л. против себя - to see smb.'s *, to see the * of smb. видеть чей-л. уход;
избавиться /отделаться/ от кого-л. - I'm always glad to see the * of him я всегда жду не дождусь его ухода - to put one's * into one's work работать энергично /с энтузиазмом/;
вкладывать всю душу в работу - to give smb. the * отвернуться от кого-л., игнорировать кого-л. - to turn one's * upon /on/ smb. повернуться к кому-л. спиной, отвернуться от кого-л.;
порвать отношения с кем-л. - to bow /to crouch/ one's * гнуть спину;
подчиняться;
подхалимничать - to cast behind the * (библеизм) забыть и простить - to baet smb. * and belly избить до полусмерти - he has them on his * они сидят у него на шее - you give me a pain in the * ты мне ужасно надоел задний - * rows задние /последние/ ряды - * garden сад за домом - * entrance черный ход - * seam изнаночный шов - * edge /margin/ (полиграфия) внутреннее /корешковое/ поле( страницы) - * elevation( техническое) (строительство) вид сзади, задний фасад - * vowel( фонетика) гласный заднего ряда - * light (кинематографический) задний контжурный свет - * lighting( кинематографический) контржурное освещение - * projection( кинематографический) рирпроекция, проекция на просвет отдаленный, дальний - * settlement дальнее поселение - * street глухая улица - * alley глухой переулок;
трущобы, задворки - * blocks отдаленные кварталы - * district (американизм) сельский район, глушь - * road проселочная дорога обратный - * current обратное течение - * freight обратный фрахт /груз/ - * azimuth (топография) обратный азимут, обратное направление запоздалый, отсталый - to have a * view of things иметь отсталые взгляды старый - a * number /issue/ (of a magazine) старый номер (журнала) ;
отсталый человек, ретроград;
нечто устаревшее, несовременное, допотопное - * file комплект предшествующих номеров периодического издания преим. (американизм) задержанный, просроченный;
следуемый или уплачиваемый за прошлое время - * pay (американизм) жалованье за проработанное время;
задержанная зарплата - * rent (американизм) квартирная плата за прошедшее время - * payment просроченный платеж - * order невыполненный заказ - *lessons невыученные уроки, уроки за пропущенное время (военное) тыловой - * areas тыл(ы), тыловые районы - * line defence оборона тыловой полосы сзади. позади - keep *! не подходи(те) !, отойди(те) ! - he stood * in the crowd он стоял позади в толпе - the police kept the crowd * полиция сдерживала толпу обратно, назад - * and forth взад и вперед - there and * туда и обратно - * there! осади!;
назад! - * home на родине - I knew him * home я знал его, когда жил на родине - to get * получить назад /обратно/ - to go * пойти обратно - to sit * откинуться на спинку кресла;
удобно усесться - to look * оглядываться назад, кинуть взгляд в прошлое;
жалеть о прошлом;
раскаиваться в содеянном - to go * from /upon/ one's word не сдержать, нарушить слово - to step * сделать шаг назад;
нанести защитный удар - to push the bolt * отодвинуть засов /задвижку/ - he is just * from voyage он только что вернулся из морского путешествия - when will they be *? когда они вернутся? снова, опять - the liquid turned * into gas жидкость снова превратилась в газ( техническое) (в направлении) против часовой стрелки( тому) назад - an hour or so * около часа назад - for years * в течение многих лет( в прошлом) - if we go * a few years... если вернуться к тому /если вспомнить/, что было несколько лет( тому) назад... - it was way * in 1890 это было еще в 1890 году - far * in the Middle Ages давным-давно, еще в средние века с опозданием;
с отставанием - he was three days * in his work в своей работе он отстал на три дня указывает на ответное действие - to pay * отдать долг;
отплатить - to answer * возражать - to hit /to strike/ * дать сдачи - to love * отвечать взаимностью - to talk * огрызаться - to bow * to smb. отвечать на приветствие - I had a bit of my own * on him (разговорное) я отомстил ему указывает на сдерживание или задержку - to hold * the tears сдерживать слезы - to hold * wages задерживать зарплату в сочетаниях: - * from в стороне, вдалеке от - * from the road в стороне от дороги - * of (американизм) сзади, позади;
(стоящий или скрывающийся) за - he rode * of the cart он ехал верхом позади телеги - various motives were * of this reversal of policy эта перемена политики диктовалась многими соображениями - each speaker told what the organization * of him wanted каждый оратор рассказал, чего хочет организация, которую он представляет поддерживать, подкреплять (тж. * up) - to * a plan поддержать план - to * an argument with proof подкрепить аргументацию доказательствами - to * smb. (up) оказывать кому-л. поддержку, содействовать кому-л. закреплять (якорь и т.д.) укреплять;
подпирать наклонять;
прислонять - he *ed the mirror against the wall он прислонил зеркало к стене субсидировать;
финансировать - his father *ed him in business отец финансировал его дело /предприятие/ - the project was *ed by the Chicago financiers предприятие субсидировалось финансистами Чикаго ставить (на игрока, боксера, лошадь) - to * a wrong horse поставить не на ту лошадь;
просчитаться, ошибиться в расчетах (on) надеяться на - I *ed on his ability to get out of scrapes я рассчитывал на его способность выходить сухим из воды двигать в обратном направлении;
осаживать;
отводить - to * a car давать задний ход машине - to * in (a car) ввести машину в гараж задним ходом - to * out выехать откуда-л. задним ходом - to * a horse осаживать лошадь - to * the troops into position отводить войска на исходные позиции - to * the oars (морское) тарабанить - to * water( морское) тарабанить;
идти на попятный, отступать;
отступаться - * her! (морское) задний ход! двигаться в обратном направлении, идти задним ходом;
отходить, отступать;
пятиться - he *ed a step or two to let them pass он отступил на несколько шагов, чтобы пропустить их садиться на лошадь;
ехать верхом;
объезжать лошадь - she *ed the horse at a jump она вскочила на лошадь одним прыжком покрывать;
снабжать спинкой - to * a book переплести книгу - the wardrobe was *ed with plywood задняя стенка шкафа была обшита фанерой ставить на подкладку - a coat *ed with fur шуба на меху примыкать (сзади) - the hills *ed the town за городом раскинулись холмы, город стоял у подножия холмов - we saw a sandy beach *ed by chalk cliffs мы увидели песчаный пляж на фоне меловых утесов - our house *s on to a park задняя стена нашего дома выходит в парк подписывать, скреплять подписью;
утверждать;
визировать( финансовое) индоссировать (вексель) - to * a bill поставить свою подпись на оборотной стороне векселя, гарантировать оплату векселя аккомпанировать, сопровождать музыкой (тж. * up) > to * and fill (морское) лежать в дрейфе;
передвигаться зигзагами;
(американизм) колебаться, проявлять нерешительность > he *ed and filled until the last moment он колебался до последней минуты корыто;
чан;
большой бак

at the ~ of one's mind подсознательно;
to be at the back (of smth.) быть тайной причиной (чего-л.) ;
behind one's back без ведома, за спиной

back мор.: back of a ship киль судна ~ большой чан ~ горн., геол. висячий бок (пласта) ;
кровля (забоя) ;
потолок (выработки) ~ гарантировать ~ амер. граничить, примыкать (on, upon) ~ гребень (волны, холма) ~ давать поручительство по векселю ~ двигать(ся) в обратном направлении, пятить(ся) ;
осаживать;
отступать;
идти задним ходом;
to back water (или the oars) мор. табанить ~ держать пари, ставить ( на лошадь и т. п.) ~ ездить верхом;
приучать (лошадь) к седлу;
садиться в седло ~ завизировать ~ задний;
отдаленный;
back entrance черный ход;
back street отдаленная улица, улочка ~ задняя или оборотная сторона;
изнанка, подкладка;
back of the head затылок;
back of the hand тыльная сторона руки ~ запоздалый;
просроченный (о платеже) ;
back payment расчеты задним числом;
просроченный платеж ~ спорт. защитник (в футболе) ~ индоссировать (вексель) ~ индоссировать ~ корешок (книги) ~ назад, обратно ~ амер. разг. носить на спине ~ обратный ~ обух ~ отсталый;
a back view of things отсталые взгляды ~ переплетать (книгу) ~ поддерживать;
подкреплять;
субсидировать ~ поддерживать ~ подкреплять ~ подписывать ~ поставить подпись на обороте документа ~ скреплять подписью ~ служить подкладкой ~ служить спинкой ~ служить фоном ~ спина;
to turn one's back (upon smb.) отвернуться (от кого-л.) ;
покинуть (кого-л.) ;
to be on one's back лежать (больным) в постели ~ спинка (стула;
в одежде, выкройке) ~ ставить на подкладку ~ старый ~ субсидировать ~ тому назад ~ указывает на ответное действие;
to talk (или to answer) back возражать;
to pay back отплачивать;
to love back отвечать взаимностью ~ утверждать ~ финансировать

~ and forth взад и вперед;
back from the door! прочь от двери! forth: forth вперед, дальше;
back and forth туда и сюда;
взад и вперед

~ areas воен. тылы, тыловые районы

~ down отказываться ~ down отступать ~ down отступаться, отказываться (от чего-л.)

~ elevation стр., тех. вид сзади, задний фасад

~ задний;
отдаленный;
back entrance черный ход;
back street отдаленная улица, улочка

~ filling стр. засыпка, забутка

~ from в стороне, вдалеке от;
back from the road в стороне от дороги ~ from амер. сзади, позади;
за (тж. back of)

~ and forth взад и вперед;
back from the door! прочь от двери!

~ from в стороне, вдалеке от;
back from the road в стороне от дороги

~ home снова дома, на родине

~ number отсталый человек;
ретроград ~ number старый номер (газеты, журнала;
тж. back issue) ~ number (что-л.) устаревшее, утратившее новизну number: back ~ нечто устаревшее back ~ старый номер back ~ старый номер (газеты, журнала) back ~ человек, отставший от жизни

back мор.: back of a ship киль судна

~ задняя или оборотная сторона;
изнанка, подкладка;
back of the head затылок;
back of the hand тыльная сторона руки

~ задняя или оборотная сторона;
изнанка, подкладка;
back of the head затылок;
back of the hand тыльная сторона руки

~ out отказаться от участия;
уклониться( of - от чего-л.) ~ out вчт. отменить ~ out вчт. отменять ~ out отступать ~ out уклоняться

~ запоздалый;
просроченный (о платеже) ;
back payment расчеты задним числом;
просроченный платеж

~ задний;
отдаленный;
back entrance черный ход;
back street отдаленная улица, улочка

to ~ the wrong horse сделать плохой выбор, просчитаться, ошибиться в расчетах

~ up давать задний ход ~ up вчт. дублировать ~ up поддерживать

~ отсталый;
a back view of things отсталые взгляды

~ vowel фон. гласный заднего ряда

~ двигать(ся) в обратном направлении, пятить(ся) ;
осаживать;
отступать;
идти задним ходом;
to back water (или the oars) мор. табанить

at the ~ of one's mind подсознательно;
to be at the back (of smth.) быть тайной причиной (чего-л.) ;
behind one's back без ведома, за спиной

~ спина;
to turn one's back (upon smb.) отвернуться (от кого-л.) ;
покинуть (кого-л.) ;
to be on one's back лежать (больным) в постели

at the ~ of one's mind подсознательно;
to be at the back (of smth.) быть тайной причиной (чего-л.) ;
behind one's back без ведома, за спиной

blank ~ bill of lading оборотная сторона бланка коносамента

to put one's ~ (into) работать с энтузиазмом( над) ;
to break the back of закончить самую трудоемкую часть (работы)

buy ~ выкупать buy ~ покупать ценные бумаги для закрытия сделки

card ~ вчт. оборотная сторона платы

carry ~ производить зачет потерь при уплате налога за прошлый период carry: ~ back: to ~ (smb.) back напоминать( кому-л.) прошлое

change ~ вчт. вернуть

claim ~ отзывать иск claim ~ отказываться от претензии

get ~ возвращаться get: ~ back вернуться ~ back возмещать( потерю, убытки)

to get (или to put, to set) (smb.'s) ~ up рассердить (кого-л.) ;
раздражать( кого-л.)

give ~ возвращать give ~ отдавать give ~ отплатить give: ~ back возвращать, отдавать;
отплатить (за обиду)

to go ~ from (или upon) one's word отказаться от обещания

hand ~ возврат

keep ~ воздерживаться от покупки keep ~ держаться в стороне keep ~ задерживать keep ~ удерживать keep: ~ back держаться в стороне ~ back скрывать;
he kept the news back он утаил эту новость ~ back удерживать, задерживать

to know the way one knows the ~ of one's hand = знать как свои пять пальцев

lease ~ продавать с условием получить обратно в аренду

loop ~ вчт. возврат к началу цикла

~ указывает на ответное действие;
to talk (или to answer) back возражать;
to pay back отплачивать;
to love back отвечать взаимностью

~ указывает на ответное действие;
to talk (или to answer) back возражать;
to pay back отплачивать;
to love back отвечать взаимностью pay ~ возвращать деньги pay ~ выплачивать деньги pay: ~ back возвращать (деньги) ~ back отплачивать;
pay down платить наличными

plough ~ реинвестировать прибыль в основные фонды plough ~ самофинансироваться

to put one's ~ (into) работать с энтузиазмом (над) ;
to break the back of закончить самую трудоемкую часть (работы)

relation ~ обратное действие

sell ~ продавать с правом возврата товара

send ~ возвращать send ~ отправлять обратно send ~ отсылать назад

snatch ~ возвращение похищенного

to take a ~ seat стушеваться, отойти на задний план;
занять скромное положение

take ~ брать обратно

~ указывает на ответное действие;
to talk (или to answer) back возражать;
to pay back отплачивать;
to love back отвечать взаимностью talk: ~ away заговориться, заболтаться;
болтать без умолку;
talk back возражать, дерзить

transfer ~ переводить обратно

~ спина;
to turn one's back (upon smb.) отвернуться (от кого-л.) ;
покинуть (кого-л.) ;
to be on one's back лежать (больным) в постели to turn one's ~ обратиться в бегство

with one's ~ to the wall прижатый к стенке;
в безвыходном положении wall: to see through( или into) a brick ~ обладать необычайной проницательностью;
with one's back to the wall в безвыходном положении

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > back
8 deprived

a бедный; живущий в нищете

deprived areas of the city — трущобные районы города

Синонимический ряд:

1. backward (adj.) backward; depressed; disadvantaged; impoverished; underprivileged

2. dispossessed (noun) bereaved; bereft; denuded; dispossessed; forfeited; loser; ruined

3. bereaved or bereft (verb) bereaved or bereft; disinherited; dispossessed; lost; ousted

4. stripped (verb) bankrupted; bared; bereaved; denuded; deprived; dismantled; disrobed; divested; robbed; stripped

English-Russian base dictionary > deprived
9 depressed

1. past participle of depress

2. adjective

1) подавленный, унылый

2) пониженный, сниженный

3) вогнутый, сплющенный

depressed areas районы хронической безработицы

Syn:

backward

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1 (a) вогнутый; подавленный; пониженный; сдавленный; сниженный; сплющенный; угнетенный; уменьшенный; унылый

2 (n) ослабленный

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подавленный, угнетенный, унылый

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[de·pressed || dɪ'prest] adj. подавленный, угнетенный, унылый, ослабленный; пониженный, сниженный; вогнутый, сплющенный
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вогнутый

ослабленный

подавленный

пониженный

придавленный

сниженный

угнетенный

унылый

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1) подавленный 2) а) пониженный б) перен. ослабленный, уменьшенный; пониженный (особ. в экономике)

Новый англо-русский словарь > depressed
10 back

I [bæk] 1. сущ.
1)

а) спина

broad back — широкая спина

back pain — боль в спине

with one's back to the door — спиной к двери

to arch one's back — сгорбиться; выгнуть спину

to do smth. behind the back of smb. — делать что-л. за спиной у кого-л., делать что-л. тайно, скрытно

б) спина, спинка ( животного)

The cat arched its back. — Кот выгнул спину.

2) позвоночник

to break one's back — сломать позвоночник

Syn:

backbone, spine, spinal column

3) спина, спинка ( часть одежды)

4) спинка (стула, кресла)

5) тыльная часть, задняя часть

back of the head — затылок

back of the hand — тыльная сторона ладони

at / in the back of smth. — позади чего-л.

from the back — сзади

room at the back of the house — задняя комната

yard in back of the house — двор за домом

Syn:

rear II 1.

6)

а) оборот, оборотная сторона

back of a card — рубашка ( карты)

б) изнанка, подкладка

7) тыльная сторона ( ножа); обух ( топора)

8) корешок ( книги)

9) усердие; трудоспособность

He put his back into the task. — Он полностью выложился, выполняя это задание.

Syn:

endurance

10) спорт. защитник

11) геол. висячий бок ( пласта); кровля ( забоя); потолок ( выработки)

12) авиа верхняя часть корпуса самолёта

13) стр. верхняя выпуклая поверхность между пятами арки, свода

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back to back — вплотную, впритык

at the back of one's mind — подсознательно

with one's back to the wall — прижатый к стенке; в безвыходном положении

to be at the back of smth. — быть тайной причиной чего-л.

to know the way one knows the back of one's hand — знать как свои пять пальцев

to turn one's back (up)on smb. — отвернуться от кого-л.; покинуть кого-л.

to break the back of smth. — закончить самую трудоёмкую часть какой-л. работы

to get / put / set smb.'s back up — рассердить кого-л.; раздражать кого-л.

- turn one's back
- be on one's back 2. нареч.
1) назад ( в обратном направлении)

to step back — шагать назад

Back from the door! — Прочь от двери!

- back and forth

Syn:

backward 3.

2) обратно ( на прежнее место)

on the way back — на обратном пути

back home — снова дома, на родине

When will he be back? — Когда он вернётся?

Try to force this bolt back. — Постарайся вставить этот болт обратно.

3) обратно, назад (к прежнему владельцу, в прежнее состояние)

to give back — отдать назад

to get back — получить обратно

I accepted his offer at once, lest he should draw back. — Я принял его предложение, боясь как бы он не передумал.

The whole country fell back into heathenism. — Вся страна вновь впала в язычество.

4) (тому) назад

a while back — некоторое время тому назад

far back in the Middle Ages — давным-давно в Средние века

In memory I can go back to a very early age. — В памяти я могу вернуться назад в раннее детство.

Syn:

ago

5) указывает на ответное действие

to answer back — дерзить, грубить ( в ответ)

to love back — отвечать взаимностью

to pay back — отплачивать

to talk back — возражать

to write back — написать в ответ

6) сзади, позади

The field lies back from the road. — Поле лежит за дорогой.

7) в отсталом состоянии, с задержкой в развитии

a nation long kept back by a sterile soil and a severe climate — страна, развитие которой долго сдерживали бесплодная земля и суровый климат

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to go back from / upon one's word — отказаться от обещания

- back to square one
3. прил.
1) спинной

Syn:

dorsal 1.

2) задний

back seat — заднее сиденье

back vowel — лингв. гласный заднего ряда

back door — чёрный ход

back elevation — стр.; тех. вид сзади, задний фасад

Syn:

rear II 2.

3)

а) глухой, отдалённый

back street — закоулок; отдалённая улица

back country — отдалённые от центра районы; глушь

back settlement — амер. дальнее поселение

back road — просёлочная дорога; дорога местного значения

Syn:

remote

б) воен. тыловой

- back areas

4) запоздалый; просроченный ( о платеже)

back pay / payment — расчёты задним числом

back salary / wages — зарплата, выплаченная с опозданием

Syn:

overdue, behindhand 1.

5) старый; устаревший

back numbers of a magazine — старые номера журнала

6) обратный, противоположный

back current — обратное течение

back slang — обратная речь, речь-перевёртыш (жаргон, в котором слова произносятся в обратном порядке; например, gip вместо pig)

Syn:

reverse 2.

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to take a back seat — стушеваться, отойти на задний план
4. гл.
1) = back up поддерживать; подкреплять; финансировать, субсидировать

demands which had been backed by an armed force — требования, подкреплённые военной силой

to back smb. (up) — оказывать кому-л. поддержку, содействовать кому-л.

They backed the new enterprise by investing in it. — Они поддержали новое предприятие, вложив в него деньги.

Most members were against Mr Jones, who would have lost his position if you hadn't backed him up. — Многие были против мистера Джонса, который потерял бы своё место, если бы вы его не поддержали.

Back up, men, we need all the help we can get. — Поддержите нас, ребята, нам нужна ваша помощь.

Syn:

uphold, aid 2., support 2., assist, second II 4.

2) = back up подтверждать, подкреплять ( доказательствами)

to back an argument with proof — подкрепить аргументацию доказательствами

We need further facts to back up our statements. — Нам нужны дополнительные сведения, чтобы подкрепить наши утверждения.

Syn:

substantiate

3) муз. аккомпанировать ( певцу)

4)

а) двигать назад, в обратном направлении

to back a car — подать автомобиль назад

Next you must learn how to back a car into a parking space. — Затем вы должны научиться парковать машину с помощью заднего хода.

б) = back away / off / up двигаться в обратном направлении; пятиться; отступать; давать задний ход

Be careful how you back into the garage, the doorway is very narrow. — Будьте осторожны, въезжая задним ходом в гараж, дверь очень узкая.

The crowd backed away to let the wounded man pass through. — Толпа отступила, чтобы дать дорогу раненому.

The child backed away from the fierce dog. — Ребёнок отпрянул от злой собаки.

The crowd backed off in terror as the soldiers charged. — Толпа в ужасе отпрянула, когда солдаты пошли в атаку.

She backed up a few steps and then ran. — Она отступила на несколько шагов, а затем начала разбег.

The car backed up and hit the tree. — Машина дала задний ход и врезалась в дерево.

5) ( back into) вре́заться во (что-л.), двигаясь задним ходом

I backed into another car as I was coming out of the car park. — Я врезался задом в другую машину, когда выезжал со стоянки.

Harry had just bought a new car, and his son went and backed it into a lamppost! — Гарри только что купил новую машину, а его сын разбил её о фонарный столб!

6)

а) служить спинкой; служить подкладкой

The wardrobe was backed with plywood. — Задняя стенка шкафа была из фанеры.

б) ставить на подкладку; переплетать ( книгу)

a coat backed with fur — пальто на меху, пальто с меховой подкладкой

7) держать пари, ставить (на кого-л.)

to back a horse — ставить на лошадь

to back the field — поставить на несколько лошадей против одной

8)

а) подписывать, скреплять подписью

б) фин. индоссировать ( вексель)

- back a bill

9) ( back onto) амер. граничить, примыкать сзади

We chose this house because the garden backs onto the tennis courts. — Мы выбрали этот дом, потому что его сад примыкает к теннисному корту.

10) мор. менять направление против часовой стрелки ( о ветре)

Ant:

veer I 2. 2)

11) уст. садиться в седло

She backed the horse at a jump. — Она вскочила на лошадь одним прыжком.

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- back away
- back down
- back out
- back up
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to back the wrong horse — сделать плохой выбор, просчитаться, ошибиться в расчётах
II [bæk] сущ.
чан; корыто; кадка

Syn:

tub 1., trough, vat, cistern

Англо-русский современный словарь > back
11 area

1) участок, район, площадь, зона, территория; ареал

2) площадка; внутренний двор

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served by crane area — площадь, обслуживаемая краном

to allocate the area — выделять участок ( под строительную площадку)

to hand the area over to — передать участок (напр. в распоряжение подрядчика)

- area of airport terminal
- area of base - area of bearing - area of building - area of explosion - area of force - area of grate - area of harmfulness - area of heavy use of water - area of indentation - area of influence - area of influence line - area of moments - area of passage - area of pile head - area of reinforcement - area of section - area of steel - area of structure - area of the supposed construction - area of water section - area of well influence - abandoned area - active drainage area - administrative area - analysis area - ancillary area - assembly area - auxiliary area - backward area - bearing area - bending moments area - blighted area - blind area - blind drainage area - bond area - building area - built-on area - built-up area - catchment area - children's play area - clearance area - closed drainaged area - collecting area - common area - compression area - concrete area - congested area - conservation area - constructional area - contact area - control area - cross-section area - cross-sectional area - dead area - decontamination area - deficit area - densely populated area - depressed area - development area - diffusion area - dormitory area - drain area - drainage area - drainless area - drinking water protective area - dry area - dumping area - ecological risk area - effective area of concrete - emitting area - erection area - exit area - filter area - filtration area - floor area - flow area - flues area - gross area - gross residential area - gross site area - ground area of dwelling structures - housing area - improvement area - industrial area - infiltrating area - influence area - inlet area - intake area - interstream area - irrigated area - living area - living area per capita - loaded area - marginal reception area - market area - metropolitan area - moment area - natural drainage area - neglected area - neighbourhood area - net area - net floor area - net residential area - non-attainment area - non-contributing area - non-permit area - parking area - parking area per vehicle - play area - poor reception area - protected area - public area - punching shear area - rain area - recharge area - recreation area - reduced area - reference area - reinforcing steel area - rentable area - reserved area - residential area - sampling area - sectional area - sectorial area - seepage area of well - seismicity of the area - service area - setting area - settlement area - shear area - shopping area - spoil area - steel area - surface area - total area - turnaround area - unbuilt area - underprivilege area - unit area - unit surface area - urban area - urbanised area - usable floor area - waste area - water-collecting area - water-producing area - water quality problem area - water-shed area - water-surface area - wilderness area
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1.   площадь (помещения, поверхности, фигуры и т. п.)

2.   площадка

3.   внутренний двор

4.   пространство, зона

5.   приямок (напр. у окна подвального этажа)

per unit area — на единицу площади

area under control — ж.-д. стрелочная зона

area under the load-deformation curve — площадь, ограниченная (участком) кривой нагрузка — деформация
- area of bending moment diagram
- area of contact
- areas of cut and fill
- area of economic influence
- area of flues
- area of influence
- area of load distribution
- area of loading
- area of operation
- area of planting
- area of pressure
- area of reinforcing steel
- area of steel
- area of water supply
- area of waterway
- area of well influence
- accommodation area
- acting area
- active drainage area
- actual area
- aerodrome movement area
- airport construction area
- approach area
- architectural area
- assisted area
- backwater area
- baggage break-down area
- basic floor area
- bearing area
- bearing area of a foundation
- blast area
- blighted area
- blight area
- blind area
- bond area
- building area
- build-up area
- catchment area
- clearance area
- comprehensive development area
- concreting area
- congested area
- conservation area
- construction area
- contact area
- core area
- critical runway area
- cross-sectional area
- dangerous area
- daylight area
- dead-leg area
- depressed area
- designated area
- designated development area
- developed area
- development area
- differential area
- diffusion area
- diked area
- discharge area
- disposal area
- distressed area
- downtown area
- drainage area
- dry area
- earthquake area
- effective area of an orifice
- effective area of concrete
- effective area of reinforcement
- environmental area
- extension area
- face area
- filter area
- fire area
- flooded area
- floor area
- flow area
- free area
- fringe area
- gross area
- gross floor area
- gross leasable area
- gross retail area
- hangar area
- hard-to-reach area
- heat transfer area
- honeycombed area
- improvement area
- industrial area
- infiltration area
- influence area
- intermediate area
- interstream area
- kern area
- landing area
- lateral area
- leveed area
- light ventilation area
- loaded area
- manufacturing area
- metropolitan area
- moment area
- net cross-sectional area
- net room area
- net sale area
- net site area
- net structural area
- nominal area
- nominal body area
- off-limits area
- off-street area
- off-street parking area
- open air exhibit area
- open storage area
- original cross-sectional area
- outlining area
- parking area
- passage area
- pile surface unit area
- plan area
- preferential urbanization area
- priority development area
- processing area
- profile area
- protected area
- protected built-up area
- public transportation area
- radiation restricted area
- receiving area
- recreational area
- redevelopment area
- reserved area
- residential area
- rest area
- restrict area
- restricted area
- room area
- runway safety area
- scenic area
- seasonally frozen area
- sectional area
- service area
- serviced area
- shearing area
- shooting area
- shopping area
- shopping core area
- slum area
- slum clearance area
- small area
- small built-up area
- soil area
- sports area
- staging area
- standard metropolitan statistical area
- storage area
- surface area
- swamp area
- take-off and landing area
- terminal control area
- tight work area
- total area of reinforcement
- touchdown area
- traffic movement area
- transportation area
- unbuilt area
- undershoot area
- undeveloped area
- unreachable area
- urban area
- usable floor area
- valve area
- warehouse area
- water protection area
- water supply area
- wetted area
- working area

Англо-русский строительный словарь > area
12 Historical Portugal

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

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

   Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140

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

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

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

   Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640

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

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

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

   Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910

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

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

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

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

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

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

   First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26

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

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

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

   The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Contemporary Portugal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal
13 World War II

(1939-1945)

   In the European phase of the war, neutral Portugal contributed more to the Allied victory than historians have acknowledged. Portugal experienced severe pressures to compromise her neutrality from both the Axis and Allied powers and, on several occasions, there were efforts to force Portugal to enter the war as a belligerent. Several factors lent Portugal importance as a neutral. This was especially the case during the period from the fall of France in June 1940 to the Allied invasion and reconquest of France from June to August 1944.

   In four respects, Portugal became briefly a modest strategic asset for the Allies and a war materiel supplier for both sides: the country's location in the southwesternmost corner of the largely German-occupied European continent; being a transport and communication terminus, observation post for spies, and crossroads between Europe, the Atlantic, the Americas, and Africa; Portugal's strategically located Atlantic islands, the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde archipelagos; and having important mines of wolfram or tungsten ore, crucial for the war industry for hardening steel.

   To maintain strict neutrality, the Estado Novo regime dominated by Antônio de Oliveira Salazar performed a delicate balancing act. Lisbon attempted to please and cater to the interests of both sets of belligerents, but only to the extent that the concessions granted would not threaten Portugal's security or its status as a neutral. On at least two occasions, Portugal's neutrality status was threatened. First, Germany briefly considered invading Portugal and Spain during 1940-41. A second occasion came in 1943 and 1944 as Great Britain, backed by the United States, pressured Portugal to grant war-related concessions that threatened Portugal's status of strict neutrality and would possibly bring Portugal into the war on the Allied side. Nazi Germany's plan ("Operation Felix") to invade the Iberian Peninsula from late 1940 into 1941 was never executed, but the Allies occupied and used several air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands.

   The second major crisis for Portugal's neutrality came with increasing Allied pressures for concessions from the summer of 1943 to the summer of 1944. Led by Britain, Portugal's oldest ally, Portugal was pressured to grant access to air and naval bases in the Azores Islands. Such bases were necessary to assist the Allies in winning the Battle of the Atlantic, the naval war in which German U-boats continued to destroy Allied shipping. In October 1943, following tedious negotiations, British forces began to operate such bases and, in November 1944, American forces were allowed to enter the islands. Germany protested and made threats, but there was no German attack.

   Tensions rose again in the spring of 1944, when the Allies demanded that Lisbon cease exporting wolfram to Germany. Salazar grew agitated, considered resigning, and argued that Portugal had made a solemn promise to Germany that wolfram exports would be continued and that Portugal could not break its pledge. The Portuguese ambassador in London concluded that the shipping of wolfram to Germany was "the price of neutrality." Fearing that a still-dangerous Germany could still attack Portugal, Salazar ordered the banning of the mining, sale, and exports of wolfram not only to Germany but to the Allies as of 6 June 1944.

   Portugal did not enter the war as a belligerent, and its forces did not engage in combat, but some Portuguese experienced directly or indirectly the impact of fighting. Off Portugal or near her Atlantic islands, Portuguese naval personnel or commercial fishermen rescued at sea hundreds of victims of U-boat sinkings of Allied shipping in the Atlantic. German U-boats sank four or five Portuguese merchant vessels as well and, in 1944, a U-boat stopped, boarded, searched, and forced the evacuation of a Portuguese ocean liner, the Serpa Pinto, in mid-Atlantic. Filled with refugees, the liner was not sunk but several passengers lost their lives and the U-boat kidnapped two of the ship's passengers, Portuguese Americans of military age, and interned them in a prison camp. As for involvement in a theater of war, hundreds of inhabitants were killed and wounded in remote East Timor, a Portuguese colony near Indonesia, which was invaded, annexed, and ruled by Japanese forces between February 1942 and August 1945. In other incidents, scores of Allied military planes, out of fuel or damaged in air combat, crashed or were forced to land in neutral Portugal. Air personnel who did not survive such crashes were buried in Portuguese cemeteries or in the English Cemetery, Lisbon.

   Portugal's peripheral involvement in largely nonbelligerent aspects of the war accelerated social, economic, and political change in Portugal's urban society. It strengthened political opposition to the dictatorship among intellectual and working classes, and it obliged the regime to bolster political repression. The general economic and financial status of Portugal, too, underwent improvements since creditor Britain, in order to purchase wolfram, foods, and other materials needed during the war, became indebted to Portugal. When Britain repaid this debt after the war, Portugal was able to restore and expand its merchant fleet. Unlike most of Europe, ravaged by the worst war in human history, Portugal did not suffer heavy losses of human life, infrastructure, and property. Unlike even her neighbor Spain, badly shaken by its terrible Civil War (1936-39), Portugal's immediate postwar condition was more favorable, especially in urban areas, although deep-seated poverty remained.

   Portugal experienced other effects, especially during 1939-42, as there was an influx of about a million war refugees, an infestation of foreign spies and other secret agents from 60 secret intelligence services, and the residence of scores of international journalists who came to report the war from Lisbon. There was also the growth of war-related mining (especially wolfram and tin). Portugal's media eagerly reported the war and, by and large, despite government censorship, the Portuguese print media favored the Allied cause. Portugal's standard of living underwent some improvement, although price increases were unpopular.

   The silent invasion of several thousand foreign spies, in addition to the hiring of many Portuguese as informants and spies, had fascinating outcomes. "Spyland" Portugal, especially when Portugal was a key point for communicating with occupied Europe (1940-44), witnessed some unusual events, and spying for foreigners at least briefly became a national industry. Until mid-1944, when Allied forces invaded France, Portugal was the only secure entry point from across the Atlantic to Europe or to the British Isles, as well as the escape hatch for refugees, spies, defectors, and others fleeing occupied Europe or Vichy-controlled Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Through Portugal by car, ship, train, or scheduled civil airliner one could travel to and from Spain or to Britain, or one could leave through Portugal, the westernmost continental country of Europe, to seek refuge across the Atlantic in the Americas.

   The wartime Portuguese scene was a colorful melange of illegal activities, including espionage, the black market, war propaganda, gambling, speculation, currency counterfeiting, diamond and wolfram smuggling, prostitution, and the drug and arms trade, and they were conducted by an unusual cast of characters. These included refugees, some of whom were spies, smugglers, diplomats, and business people, many from foreign countries seeking things they could find only in Portugal: information, affordable food, shelter, and security. German agents who contacted Allied sailors in the port of Lisbon sought to corrupt and neutralize these men and, if possible, recruit them as spies, and British intelligence countered this effort. Britain's MI-6 established a new kind of "safe house" to protect such Allied crews from German espionage and venereal disease infection, an approved and controlled house of prostitution in Lisbon's bairro alto district.

   Foreign observers and writers were impressed with the exotic, spy-ridden scene in Lisbon, as well as in Estoril on the Sun Coast (Costa do Sol), west of Lisbon harbor. What they observed appeared in noted autobiographical works and novels, some written during and some after the war. Among notable writers and journalists who visited or resided in wartime Portugal were Hungarian writer and former communist Arthur Koestler, on the run from the Nazi's Gestapo; American radio broadcaster-journalist Eric Sevareid; novelist and Hollywood script-writer Frederick Prokosch; American diplomat George Kennan; Rumanian cultural attache and later scholar of mythology Mircea Eliade; and British naval intelligence officer and novelist-to-be Ian Fleming. Other notable visiting British intelligence officers included novelist Graham Greene; secret Soviet agent in MI-6 and future defector to the Soviet Union Harold "Kim" Philby; and writer Malcolm Muggeridge. French letters were represented by French writer and airman, Antoine Saint-Exupery and French playwright, Jean Giroudoux. Finally, Aquilino Ribeiro, one of Portugal's premier contemporary novelists, wrote about wartime Portugal, including one sensational novel, Volframio, which portrayed the profound impact of the exploitation of the mineral wolfram on Portugal's poor, still backward society.

   In Estoril, Portugal, the idea for the world's most celebrated fictitious spy, James Bond, was probably first conceived by Ian Fleming. Fleming visited Portugal several times after 1939 on Naval Intelligence missions, and later he dreamed up the James Bond character and stories. Background for the early novels in the James Bond series was based in part on people and places Fleming observed in Portugal. A key location in Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953) is the gambling Casino of Estoril. In addition, one aspect of the main plot, the notion that a spy could invent "secret" intelligence for personal profit, was observed as well by the British novelist and former MI-6 officer, while engaged in operations in wartime Portugal. Greene later used this information in his 1958 spy novel, Our Man in Havana, as he observed enemy agents who fabricated "secrets" for money.

   Thus, Portugal's World War II experiences introduced the country and her people to a host of new peoples, ideas, products, and influences that altered attitudes and quickened the pace of change in this quiet, largely tradition-bound, isolated country. The 1943-45 connections established during the Allied use of air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands were a prelude to Portugal's postwar membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

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