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be depended upon

  • 1 depended upon

    depended on — зависел от; получать помощь от

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  • 2 depended

    depended on — зависел от; получать помощь от

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  • 3 depend

    1. I
    it depends все зависит от обстоятельств
    2. XI
    be depended upon she can be depended upon на нее можно рассчитывать, она не подведет; be depended at some time he can never be depended upon на него совсем нельзя положиться
    3. XVI
    1) depend (up)on smth., smb. depend on the railway timetable (on that rope, on one's own efforts, on smb.'s help, on her brother, etc.) рассчитывать /полагаться, надеяться/ на железнодорожное расписание и т. д.: I depended on the map but it was wrong я полагался на карту, а она оказалась неправильной; depend upon my word поверьте моему слову; depend upon it будьте уверены. можете не сомневаться
    2) depend (up)on smth., smb. depend on the price (on her answer, (up)on the number of travellers, on his courage, on the state of one's mind (up)on one's health, on the weather, on your mother, etc.) зависеть от цены и т. д.; the value of a book does not depend on its size ценность книги не определяется ее объемом
    3) depend on smb., smth. depend on one's parents (on one's relatives, etc.) находиться на иждивении родителей и т. д.; depend on charity пользоваться благотворительностью, жить за счет благотворительности; рассчитывать на вспомоществование; I have no one to depend on but myself мне не на кого рассчитывать, кроме как на самого себя, я могу рассчитывать только на самого себя; depend (up)on smb. to do smth. depend (up)on him to do the job (to come early, to be in time, etc.) рассчитывать /надеяться/, что он сделает эту работу и т. д.; I depend upon him to help you я рассчитываю /надеюсь/, что он вам поможет; depend on smth., smb. for smth. depend on one's pen (on one's piano, on one's sewing, on one's wits, etc.) for a living зарабатывать на жизнь пером и т. д.; I depend on newspapers for information я получаю информацию только из газет; I depend on him for entertainment я рассчитываю, что он организует развлечения /возьмет развлечения на себя/
    4. XVII
    depend (up)on smb.'s doing smth.
    1) depend on his coming (on her being there, on his doing the right thing on their helping us to finish the work, etc.) рассчитывать /полагаться/ на то, что он придёт в т. д.
    2) depend on his coming (on their helping us, on her giving the right answer, etc.) зависеть от того. придет он или нет /от его прихода/ и т. д.
    5. XXVII1
    depend on what... you may depend on what he says может! полагаться на то /верить тому/, что он говорит

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  • 4 depend

    /di'pend/ * nội động từ - (+ on, upon) phụ thuộc, tuỳ thuộc, tuỳ thuộc =an agriculture that doesn't depend on weather+ một nền công nghiệp không phụ thuộc vào thời tiết =that depends upon him+ cái đó còn tuỳ thuộc ở anh ta =that depends+ cái đó còn tuỳ - (+ on, upon) dựa vào, ỷ vào, trông mong vào =to depend on one's children+ dựa vào con cái =to depend upon one's own efforts+ trông vào sự cố gắng của bản thân mình - (+ upon) tin vào =he is not to be depended upon+ hắn là một người không thể tin được =to depend upon it+ cứ tin là như thế - (pháp lý) treo, chưa giải quyết, chưa xử (án...) - (từ cổ,nghĩa cổ) (+ from) treo lủng lẳng

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  • 5 Dagges

    A term applied to a fantastic cutting and slashing of garments or the borders of them. The fashion appears to have become so ridiculous that in the year 1188 laws were passed to forbid it, but not much notice was taken of the laws! until in 1407 it was ordained that no man should be permitted to wear a gown or garment cut or slashed into pieces in the form of letters, rose-leaves and posies of various kinds, or any such devices, under the penalty of forfeiting the same, and that no tailor should presume to make such a garment under the pain of imprisonment and fine, and his liberation depended upon the king's pleasure.

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  • 6 Wool Classing

    An estimation of wool quality by examination of wool fleeces before the wool is presented for sale. It is carried out in a manner to enable buyers to form a fair valuation of the quality of the wool. Wool classing is usually performed on the sheep station or farm. The size of the flock and variations in fleece characters influence the classing. Although the wool is classed in fleece form the valuations of experienced wool classers can be depended upon. (See Tops)

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  • 7 Cotchett, Thomas

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    fl. 1700s
    [br]
    English engineer who set up the first water-powered textile mill in Britain at Derby.
    [br]
    At the beginning of the eighteenth century, silk weaving was one of the most prosperous trades in Britain, but it depended upon raw silk worked up on hand twisting or throwing machines. In 1702 Thomas Cotchett set up a mill for twisting silk by water-power at the northern end of an island in the river Derwent at Derby; this would probably have been to produce organzine, the hard twisted thread used for the warp when weaving silk fabrics. Such mills had been established in Italy beginning with the earliest in Bologna in 1272, but it would appear that Cotchett used Dutch silk-throwing machinery that was driven by a water wheel that was 13½ ft (4.1 m) in diameter and built by the local engineer, George Sorocold. The enterprise soon failed, but it was quickly revived and extended by Thomas and John Lombe with machinery based on that being used successfully in Italy.
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    Further Reading
    D.M.Smith, 1965, Industrial Archaeology of the East Midlands, Newton Abbot (provides an account of Cotchett's mill).
    W.H.Chaloner, 1963, "Sir Thomas Lombe (1685–1739) and the British silk industry", History Today (Nov.).
    R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (a brief coverage of the development of early silk throwing mills).
    Technology, Part 9, Textile Technology: spinning and reeling, Cambridge (covers the diffusion of the techniques of the mechanization of the silk-throwing industry from China to the West).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Cotchett, Thomas

  • 8 Heathcote, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 7 August 1783 Duffield, Derbyshire, England
    d. 18 January 1861 Tiverton, Devonshire, England
    [br]
    English inventor of the bobbin-net lace machine.
    [br]
    Heathcote was the son of a small farmer who became blind, obliging the family to move to Long Whatton, near Loughborough, c.1790. He was apprenticed to W.Shepherd, a hosiery-machine maker, and became a frame-smith in the hosiery industry. He moved to Nottingham where he entered the employment of an excellent machine maker named Elliott. He later joined William Caldwell of Hathern, whose daughter he had married. The lace-making apparatus they patented jointly in 1804 had already been anticipated, so Heathcote turned to the problem of making pillow lace, a cottage industry in which women made lace by arranging pins stuck in a pillow in the correct pattern and winding around them thread contained on thin bobbins. He began by analysing the complicated hand-woven lace into simple warp and weft threads and found he could dispense with half the bobbins. The first machine he developed and patented, in 1808, made narrow lace an inch or so wide, but the following year he made much broader lace on an improved version. In his second patent, in 1809, he could make a type of net curtain, Brussels lace, without patterns. His machine made bobbin-net by the use of thin brass discs, between which the thread was wound. As they passed through the warp threads, which were arranged vertically, the warp threads were moved to each side in turn, so as to twist the bobbin threads round the warp threads. The bobbins were in two rows to save space, and jogged on carriages in grooves along a bar running the length of the machine. As the strength of this fabric depended upon bringing the bobbin threads diagonally across, in addition to the forward movement, the machine had to provide for a sideways movement of each bobbin every time the lengthwise course was completed. A high standard of accuracy in manufacture was essential for success. Called the "Old Loughborough", it was acknowledged to be the most complicated machine so far produced. In partnership with a man named Charles Lacy, who supplied the necessary capital, a factory was established at Loughborough that proved highly successful; however, their fifty-five frames were destroyed by Luddites in 1816. Heathcote was awarded damages of £10,000 by the county of Nottingham on the condition it was spent locally, but to avoid further interference he decided to transfer not only his machines but his entire workforce elsewhere and refused the money. In a disused woollen factory at Tiverton in Devonshire, powered by the waters of the river Exe, he built 300 frames of greater width and speed. By continually making inventions and improvements until he retired in 1843, his business flourished and he amassed a large fortune. He patented one machine for silk cocoon-reeling and another for plaiting or braiding. In 1825 he brought out two patents for the mechanical ornamentation or figuring of lace. He acquired a sound knowledge of French prior to opening a steam-powered lace factory in France. The factory proved to be a successful venture that lasted many years. In 1832 he patented a monstrous steam plough that is reputed to have cost him over £12,000 and was claimed to be the best in its day. One of its stated aims was "improved methods of draining land", which he hoped would develop agriculture in Ireland. A cable was used to haul the implement across the land. From 1832 to 1859, Heathcote represented Tiverton in Parliament and, among other benefactions, he built a school for his adopted town.
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    Bibliography
    1804, with William Caldwell, British patent no. 2,788 (lace-making machine). 1808. British patent no. 3,151 (machine for making narrow lace).
    1809. British patent no. 3,216 (machine for making Brussels lace). 1813, British patent no. 3,673.
    1825, British patent no. 5,103 (mechanical ornamentation of lace). 1825, British patent no. 5,144 (mechanical ornamentation of lace).
    Further Reading
    V.Felkin, 1867, History of the Machine-wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufacture, Nottingham (provides a full account of Heathcote's early life and his inventions).
    A.Barlow, 1878, The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power, London (provides more details of his later years).
    W.G.Allen, 1958 John Heathcote and His Heritage (biography).
    M.R.Lane, 1980, The Story of the Steam Plough Works, Fowlers of Leeds, London (for comments about Heathcote's steam plough).
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London, and C.Singer (ed.), 1958, A History of
    Technology, Vol. V, Oxford: Clarendon Press (both describe the lace-making machine).
    RLH

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  • 9 Saxby, John

    [br]
    b. 17 August 1821 Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, England
    d. 22 April 1913 Hassocks, Sussex, England
    [br]
    English railway signal engineer, pioneer of interlocking.
    [br]
    In the mid-1850s Saxby was a foreman in the Brighton Works of the London Brighton \& South Coast Railway, where he had no doubt become familiar with construction of semaphore signals of the type invented by C.H. Gregory; the London-Brighton line was one of the first over which these were installed. In the 1850s points and signals were usually worked independently, and it was to eliminate the risk of accident from conflicting points and signal positions that Saxby in 1856 patented an arrangement by which related points and signals would be operated simultaneously by a single lever.
    Others were concerned with the same problem. In 1855 Vignier, an employee of the Western Railway of France, had made an interlocking apparatus for junctions, and in 1859 Austin Chambers, who worked for the North London Railway, installed at Kentish Town Junction an interlocking lever frame in which a movement that depended upon another could not even commence until the earlier one was completed. He patented it early in 1860; Saxby patented his own version of such an apparatus later the same year. In 1863 Saxby left the London Brighton \& South Coast Railway to enter into a partnership with J.S.Farmer and established Saxby \& Farmer's railway signalling works at Kilburn, London. The firm manufactured, installed and maintained signalling equipment for many prominent railway companies. Its interlocking frames made possible installation of complex track layouts at increasingly busy London termini possible.
    In 1867 Saxby \& Farmer purchased Chambers's patent of 1860, Later developments by the firm included effective interlocking actuated by lifting a lever's catch handle, rather than by the lever itself (1871), and an improved locking frame known as the "gridiron" (1874). This was eventually superseded by tappet interlocking, which had been invented by James Deakin of the rival firm Stevens \& Co. in 1870 but for which patent protection had been lost through non-renewal.
    Saxby \& Farmer's equipment was also much used on the European continent, in India and in the USA, to which it introduced interlocking. A second manufacturing works was set up in 1878 at Creil (Oise), France, and when the partnership terminated in 1888 Saxby moved to Creil and managed the works himself until he retired to Sussex in 1900.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1856, British patent no. 1,479 (simultaneous operation of points and signals). 1860, British patent no. 31 (a true interlocking mechanism).
    1867, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 538 (improvements to the interlocking mechanism patented in 1860).
    1870, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 569 (the facing point lock by plunger bolt).
    1871, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 1,601 (catch-handle actuated interlocking) 1874, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 294 (gridiron frame).
    Further Reading
    Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company, 1956, John Saxby (1821–1913) and His Part in the Development of Interlocking and of the Signalling Industry, London (published to mark the centenary of the 1856 patent).
    PJGR

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  • 10 depend

    {di'pend}
    v завися (on, upon)
    that DEPENDs зависи, може би
    DEPENDing on в зависимост от
    на издръжка съм, издържам се (on, upon)
    разчитам, уповавам се (on, upon)
    you may DEPEND upon it бъди уверен, юр. очаквам разрешение (за въпрос)
    ост. вися (from)
    * * *
    {di'pend} v завися (on, upon); that depends зависи, може би; depending o
    * * *
    уповавам се; разчитам; завися;
    * * *
    1. depending on в зависимост от 2. that depends зависи, може би 3. v завися (on, upon) 4. you may depend upon it бъди уверен, юр. очаквам разрешение (за въпрос) 5. на издръжка съм, издържам се (on, upon) 6. ост. вися (from) 7. разчитам, уповавам се (on, upon)
    * * *
    depend[di´pend] v 1. завися (on, upon); that \depends зависи, може би; \depending on в зависимост от; 2. разчитам, вярвам, уповавам се (on, upon); a man to be \depended on човек, на който може да се разчита; ( you may) \depend upon it бъди уверен; 3. на издръжка съм, издържам се (on, upon); 4. юрид. в процес е на разглеждане, очаква разрешение; 5. ост. вися ( from).

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  • 11 depend

    depend [dɪ'pend]
    dépendre;
    ∎ that depends, it all depends ça dépend
    (a) (be determined by) dépendre de;
    ∎ the outcome of the war will depend on or upon a number of factors l'issue de la guerre dépendra d'un certain nombre de facteurs;
    ∎ his job depends on his or him getting the contract il ne gardera son emploi que s'il obtient le contrat;
    ∎ survival depended on their finding enough water pour survivre, il leur fallait trouver suffisamment d'eau;
    ∎ her future may depend on it son avenir en dépend peut-être
    (b) (rely on) dépendre de;
    ∎ the firm depends heavily on orders from abroad l'entreprise dépend beaucoup des commandes de l'étranger;
    ∎ she depends on the money her children give her l'argent qu'elle reçoit de ses enfants est sa seule ressource;
    ∎ ironic you can depend on him to be late on peut être sûr qu'il arrive en retard
    (c) (trust, be sure of) compter sur;
    ∎ he's a friend you can depend on c'est un ami sur qui vous pouvez compter;
    ∎ I'm depending on you to help me je compte sur vous pour m'aider;
    ∎ we need somebody who can be depended on to be discreet il nous faut quelqu'un sur la discrétion de qui on puisse compter;
    ∎ you can depend on it! vous pouvez en être sûr ou compter là-dessus!
    selon;
    ∎ a degree takes three or four years of study, depending on the subject chosen un diplôme demande trois ou quatre ans d'études, selon la matière choisie

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  • 12 ♦ (to) depend

    ♦ (to) depend /dɪˈpɛnd/
    v. i.
    1 dipendere ( anche gramm.): «Are you coming?» «I don't know, it depends», «vieni?» «non lo so, dipende»; DIALOGO → - Discussing books 2- It depends how I'm feeling, dipende da come mi sento; «How much is a good laptop?» «That depends what specifications you want», «quanto costa un buon computer portatile?» «dipende da quali specifiche vuoi»; to depend on st., dipendere da q.; Prices depend on supply and demand, i prezzi dipendono dall'offerta e dalla domanda; Your success will depend on how hard you work, la tua riuscita dipende da quanto lavori sodo NOTA D'USO: - dipendere-
    2 – to depend on sb. ( for st.), dipendere da q. (per qc.): He depends on his wife for everything, dipende dalla moglie per qualsiasi cosa; I don't want to depend on anyone, non voglio dipendere da nessuno; The future of the economy depends on people learning new skills, il futuro dell'economia dipende dal fatto che la gente acquisisca nuove competenze
    3 – to depend on sb., contare su q., fare affidamento su q.: He is a man to be depended on, è un uomo su cui si può contare; I know I can depend on you whatever happens, so di poter contare su di te qualunque cosa accada; I'm depending on you to protect us, conto su di te per proteggerci
    ● You can depend on it!, puoi contarci!: Ann will be late again, depend upon it!, Anna sarà di nuovo in ritardo, puoi contarci □ depending on, a seconda di: DIALOGO → - Giving directions- Depending on the traffic I should be there about six-ish, a seconda del traffico, dovrei essere lì intorno alle sei □ as if one's life depended on it, come se ne andasse della vita di q.: They shouted as if their lives depended on it, gridavano come se ne andasse della loro vita.

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  • 13 ♦ (to) depend

    ♦ (to) depend /dɪˈpɛnd/
    v. i.
    1 dipendere ( anche gramm.): «Are you coming?» «I don't know, it depends», «vieni?» «non lo so, dipende»; DIALOGO → - Discussing books 2- It depends how I'm feeling, dipende da come mi sento; «How much is a good laptop?» «That depends what specifications you want», «quanto costa un buon computer portatile?» «dipende da quali specifiche vuoi»; to depend on st., dipendere da q.; Prices depend on supply and demand, i prezzi dipendono dall'offerta e dalla domanda; Your success will depend on how hard you work, la tua riuscita dipende da quanto lavori sodo NOTA D'USO: - dipendere-
    2 – to depend on sb. ( for st.), dipendere da q. (per qc.): He depends on his wife for everything, dipende dalla moglie per qualsiasi cosa; I don't want to depend on anyone, non voglio dipendere da nessuno; The future of the economy depends on people learning new skills, il futuro dell'economia dipende dal fatto che la gente acquisisca nuove competenze
    3 – to depend on sb., contare su q., fare affidamento su q.: He is a man to be depended on, è un uomo su cui si può contare; I know I can depend on you whatever happens, so di poter contare su di te qualunque cosa accada; I'm depending on you to protect us, conto su di te per proteggerci
    ● You can depend on it!, puoi contarci!: Ann will be late again, depend upon it!, Anna sarà di nuovo in ritardo, puoi contarci □ depending on, a seconda di: DIALOGO → - Giving directions- Depending on the traffic I should be there about six-ish, a seconda del traffico, dovrei essere lì intorno alle sei □ as if one's life depended on it, come se ne andasse della vita di q.: They shouted as if their lives depended on it, gridavano come se ne andasse della loro vita.

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  • 14 depend

    v
    (on, upon)
    2) полагаться, рассчитывать (на кого-л., что-л.)
    •

    to depend heavily on / upon smb — сильно зависеть от кого-л.

    to be fully depended on / upon smth — находиться в полной зависимости от чего-л.

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  • 15 depend

    [di'pend]
    1) (to rely on: You can't depend on his arriving on time.) zanašati se
    2) (to rely on receiving necessary (financial) support from: The school depends for its survival on money from the Church.) biti odvisen
    3) ((of a future happening etc) to be decided by: Our success depends on everyone working hard.) biti odvisen
    •
    - dependant
    - dependent
    - it/that depends
    - it all depends
    * * *
    [dipénd]
    intransitive verb poetically ( from) viseti; (on, upon) zaviseti, biti odvisen; zanesti, zanašati se, računati s čim
    it all depends — vse je odvisno od okoliščin, vse je retativno
    depend upon it! — na to se lahko zaneseš

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  • 16 Girard, Philippe de

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 1775 France
    d. 1845
    [br]
    French developer of a successful flax-heckling machine for the preparation of fibres for power-spinning.
    [br]
    Early drawing and spinning processes failed to give linen yarn the requisite fineness and homogeneity. In 1810 Napoleon offered a prize of a million francs for a successful flax-spinning machine as part of his policy of stimulating the French textile industries. Spurred on by this offer, Girard suggested three improvements. He was too late to win the prize, but his ideas were patented in England in 1814, although not under his own name. He proposed that the fibres should be soaked in a very hot alkaline solution both before drawing and immediately before they went to the spindles. The actual drawing was to be done by passing the dried material through combs or gills that moved alternately; gill drawing was taken up in England in 1816. His method of wet spinning was never a commercial success, but his processes were adopted in part and developed in Britain and spread to Austria, Poland and France, for his ideas were essentially good and produced a superior product. The successful power-spinning of linen thread from flax depended primarily upon the initial processes of heckling and drawing. The heckling of the bundles or stricks of flax, so as to separate the long fibres of "line" from the shorter ones of "tow", was extremely difficult to mechanize, for each strick had to be combed on both sides in turn and then in the reverse direction. It was to this problem that Girard next turned his attention, inventing a successful machine in 1832 that subsequently was improved in England. The strick was placed between two vertical sheets of combs that moved opposite to each other, depositing the tow upon a revolving cylinder covered with a brush at the bottom of the machine, while the holder from which the strick was suspended moved up and down so as to help the teeth to penetrate deeper into the flax. The tow was removed from the cylinder at the bottom of the machine and taken away to be spun like cotton. The long line fibres were removed from the top of the machine and required further processing if the yarn was to be uniform.
    When N.L.Sadi Carnot's book Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu, was published in 1824, Girard made a favourable report on it.
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    Further Reading
    M.Daumas (ed.), 1968, Histoire générale des techniques, Vol. III: L'Expansion du
    Machinisme, Paris.
    C.Singer (ed.), 1958, A History of'Technology, Vol. IV, Oxford: Clarendon Press. T.K.Derry and T.I.Williams, 1960, A Short History of Technology from the Earliest
    Times to AD 1900, Oxford.
    W.A.McCutcheon, 1966–7, "Water power in the North of Ireland", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 39 (discusses the spinning of flax and mentions Girard).
    RLH

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  • 17 depend

    [di'pend]
    1) (to rely on: You can't depend on his arriving on time.) contar
    2) (to rely on receiving necessary (financial) support from: The school depends for its survival on money from the Church.) depender de
    3) ((of a future happening etc) to be decided by: Our success depends on everyone working hard.) depender
    •
    - dependant
    - dependent
    - it/that depends
    - it all depends
    * * *
    de.pend
    [dip'end] (on, upon) vt+vi 1 depender de alguém ou de alguma coisa. 2 contar com, confiar em, fiar-se em. you may depend on it / conte com isso. 3 estar na dependência de, estar subordinado a, estar sob domínio, autoridade ou influência de, ser dependente. 4 ( from) pender, estar pendurado. a man to be depended on homem de confiança. that depends isso depende, talvez. to have little to depend on ter poucas rendas.

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  • 18 life

    noun
    , pl. lives
    1) Leben, das

    it is a matter of life and death — es geht [dabei] um Leben und Tod; (fig.): (it is of vital importance) es ist äußerst wichtig (to für)

    come to life — [Bild, Statue:] lebendig werden

    run etc. for one's life — um sein Leben rennen usw.

    late in life — erst im fortgeschrittenen Alter

    for life — lebenslänglich [inhaftiert]

    he's doing life — (coll.) er sitzt lebenslänglich (ugs.)

    get life — (coll.) lebenslänglich kriegen (ugs.)

    expectation of life — Lebenserwartung, die

    get the fright/shock of one's life — (coll.) zu Tode erschrecken/den Schock seines Lebens bekommen (ugs.)

    he will do anything for a quiet life — für ihn ist die Hauptsache, dass er seine Ruhe hat

    make life easy for oneself/somebody — es sich (Dat.) /jemandem leicht machen

    make life difficult for oneself/somebody — sich (Dat.) /jemandem das Leben schwer machen

    this is the life! — (expr. content) so lässt sich's leben!

    that's life, life's like that — so ist das Leben [nun mal]

    not on your life — (coll.) nie im Leben! (ugs.)

    save one's/somebody's life — sein Leben/jemandem das Leben retten

    something is as much as somebody's life is worth — mit etwas setzt jemand sein Leben aufs Spiel

    take one's [own] life — sich (Dat.) das Leben nehmen

    get a life — (coll.) was aus seinem Leben machen

    2) (energy, animation) Leben, das

    there is still life in something — in etwas (Dat.) steckt noch Leben

    3) (living things and their activity) Leben, das

    bird/insect life — die Vogelwelt/die Insekten

    4) (living form or model)

    as large as life — (life-size) lebensgroß; (in person) in voller Schönheit (ugs. scherzh.)

    5) (specific aspect) [Privat-, Wirtschafts-, Dorf]leben, das

    in this life — (on earth) in diesem Leben

    the other or the future or the next life — (in heaven) das zukünftige Leben [nach dem Tode]

    eternal or everlasting life — ewiges Leben

    6) (of battery, lightbulb, etc.) Lebensdauer, die
    * * *
    plural - lives; noun
    1) (the quality belonging to plants and animals which distinguishes them from rocks, minerals etc and things which are dead: Doctors are fighting to save the child's life.) das Leben
    2) (the period between birth and death: He had a long and happy life.) das Leben
    3) (liveliness: She was full of life and energy.) das Leben
    4) (a manner of living: She lived a life of ease and idleness.) das Leben
    5) (the period during which any particular state exists: He had many different jobs during his working life.) das Leben
    6) (living things: It is now believed that there may be life on Mars; animal life.) das Leben
    7) (the story of a life: He has written a life of Churchill.) die Lebensbeschreibung
    8) (life imprisonment: He was given life for murder.) lebenslängliche Haftstrafe, lebenslang
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    - life-and-death
    - lifebelt
    - lifeboat
    - lifebuoy
    - life-cycle
    - life expectancy
    - lifeguard
    - life-jacket
    - lifeline
    - lifelong
    - life-saving
    - life-sized
    - life-size
    - lifetime
    - as large as life
    - bring to life
    - come to life
    - for life
    - the life and soul of the party
    - not for the life of me
    - not on your life! - take life
    - take one's life
    - take one's life in one's hands
    - to the life
    * * *
    <pl lives>
    [laɪf, pl laɪvz]
    I. n
    1. (existence) Leben nt
    cats are supposed to have nine lives man sagt, Katzen haben neun Leben nt
    run for your \life! renn um dein Leben!
    it's a matter of \life and death! es geht um Leben und Tod!
    a \life and death issue eine Frage, die über Leben und Tod entscheiden kann
    in a previous \life in einem früheren Leben
    to believe in \life after death an ein Leben nach dem Tod[e] glauben
    to depart this \life ( euph form) verscheiden euph geh
    to give [or lay down] one's \life for sb/sth sein Leben für jdn/etw geben
    to lose one's \life sein Leben lassen, ums Leben kommen
    to save sb's \life jdm das Leben retten
    to seek sb's \life jdm nach dem Leben trachten
    to take sb's \life ( form) jdn töten [o umbringen]
    to take one's own \life sich dat [selbst] das Leben nehmen
    2. no pl (quality, force) Leben nt
    \life is a precious gift das Leben ist ein wertvolles Gut
    he tried to discover some sign of \life in the boy's body er versuchte irgendein Lebenszeichen im Körper des Jungen festzustellen
    I love \life ich liebe das Leben
    to be one/another of \life's great mysteries ( hum) eines/ein weiteres der großen Geheimnisse des Lebens sein
    3. no pl (living things collectively) Leben nt
    there are no signs of \life on the planet auf dem Planeten gibt es keinen Hinweis auf Leben
    animal \life Tierwelt f
    plant \life Pflanzenwelt f
    insect \life Welt f der Insekten, Insekten pl
    intelligent/sentient \life intelligentes/empfindendes Leben
    4. no pl (mode or aspect of existence) Leben nt
    to be deeply rooted in American \life tief im Leben der Amerikaner verwurzelt sein
    family \life Familienleben nt
    love \life Liebesleben nt
    private \life Privatleben nt
    working \life Arbeitsleben nt
    5. no pl (energy) Lebendigkeit f
    come on, show a little \life! los, jetzt zeig' mal ein bisschen Temperament! fam
    put more \life into your voice bringen Sie etwas mehr Timbre in die Stimme
    there isn't much \life here hier ist nicht viel los
    to be full of \life voller Leben sein, vor Leben [nur so] sprühen
    to bring sth to \life etw lebendiger machen
    to come to \life lebendig werden fig
    after an hour the party finally came to \life nach einer Stunde kam endlich Leben in die Party
    6. (total circumstances of individual) Leben nt
    teaching has been her \life der Lehrberuf war ihr Leben
    she only wants two things in \life sie wünscht sich nur zwei Dinge im Leben
    who's the man in your \life now? [und] wer ist der neue Mann in deinem Leben?
    a dull/exciting \life ein langweiliges/aufregendes Leben
    to make [or start] a new \life ein neues Leben anfangen [o beginnen]
    to want sth out of [or in] \life etw vom Leben erwarten
    7. (person) Menschenleben nt
    how many lives were lost in the fire? wie viele Menschenleben hat der Brand gekostet?
    to save a \life ein Menschenleben retten
    8. (human activities) Leben nt
    I left home at 16 to see \life ich ging mit 16 von zu Hause fort, um etwas vom Leben und von der Welt zu sehen
    to give sb an outlook on \life jdm eine Lebenseinstellung vermitteln
    9. (biography) Biografie f, Lebensbeschreibung f
    10. (time until death) Leben nt
    ▪ for \life friendship lebenslang
    I believe marriage is for \life ich finde, eine Ehe sollte für das ganze Leben geschlossen werden
    he's behind bars for \life er sitzt lebenslänglich [hinter Gittern] fam
    a job for \life eine Stelle auf Lebenszeit
    11. (duration) of a device, battery Lebensdauer f, Nutzungsdauer f; of an institution Bestehen nt kein pl; of a contract Laufzeit f
    during the \life of the present parliament während der jetzigen Legislaturperiode [des Parlaments]
    12. no pl ( fam: prison sentence) lebenslänglich
    to be doing/get \life lebenslänglich sitzen fam/bekommen
    to draw [or sketch] sb/sth from \life jdn/etw nach einem Modell zeichnen/skizzieren
    taken from the \life nach einem Modell
    14. (reality)
    true to \life wirklichkeitsgetreu
    15.
    ▶ \life's a bitch (sl) das Leben kann manchmal schon verdammt hart sein! fam
    ▶ for dear \life verzweifelt
    she hung on for dear \life sie klammerte sich fest, als hinge ihr Leben davon ab
    ▶ to frighten [or scare] the \life out of sb jdn furchtbar [o zu Tode] erschrecken
    ▶ for the \life of me ( fam) um alles in der Welt fam
    ▶ not for the \life of me nicht um alles in der Welt
    ▶ to get a \life aufwachen fig, auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurückkommen
    get a \life! komm endlich auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurück!
    ▶ the good \life das süße Leben, das [o die] Dolce Vita
    ▶ it's a hard \life! ( iron fam) das Leben ist eins der härtesten fam
    ▶ how's \life [treating you]? ( fam) wie geht's [denn so]? fam
    ▶ larger than \life car, house riesig, riesengroß; person energiegeladen und charismatisch
    ▶ to lead [or live] the \life of Riley ( dated fam) leben wie Gott in Frankreich
    ▶ not on your \life! ( fam) nie im Leben! fam
    ▶ to be the \life [ BRIT and soul] of the/any party der [strahlende] Mittelpunkt der/jeder Party sein
    ▶ \life's rich tapestry die Sonnen- und Schattenseiten des Lebens
    ▶ to roar [or thunder] into \life mit aufheulendem Motor losfahren/starten
    ▶ to save one's [own] \life:
    he couldn't sing to save his \life er konnte ums Verrecken nicht singen sl
    ▶ to be set [up] for \life für den Rest des Lebens ausgesorgt haben
    ▶ to take one's \life in one's hands ( fam) Kopf und Kragen riskieren fam
    ▶ that's \life! [das ist] Schicksal! fam, so ist das Leben [eben]!
    ▶ this is the \life [for me]! so lässt sich's leben! fam, Mensch, ist das ein Leben! fam
    ▶ to be sb to the \life ( dated) jdm wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten sein
    that sketch is Joanna to the \life diese Zeichnung trifft Joanna aufs Haar
    ▶ one's \life [or \life's] work jds Lebenswerk
    II. n modifier
    \life drawing/[drawing] class Aktzeichnung f/Aktzeichnen nt (Kunststunde, in der nach Modell gemalt wird)
    * * *
    [laɪf]
    n pl lives
    1) Leben nt

    bird/plant life — die Vogel-/Pflanzenwelt

    to bring sb back to life — jdn wiederbeleben, jdn ins Leben zurückrufen

    I'm the sort of person who comes to life in the evenings — ich bin ein Typ, der erst abends munter wird

    they swam for dear life —

    they looked at him in the oxygen tent fighting for dear life — sie sahen, wie er im Sauerstoffzelt um sein Leben kämpfte

    2)

    (= individual life) how many lives were lost? — wie viele (Menschen) sind ums Leben gekommen?

    to take one's own life — sich (dat) das Leben nehmen

    to save sb's life (lit) — jdm das Leben retten; (fig) jdn retten

    the suspected murderer is on trial for his life —

    early in life, in early life — in frühen Jahren

    later in life, in later life — in späteren Jahren, später im Leben

    I can't for the life of me... (inf) — ich kann beim besten Willen nicht...

    would you ever disobey him? – not on your life! (inf) — würdest du je seine Befehle missachten? – nie im Leben!

    get a life! (inf) — sonst hast du keine Probleme? (inf)

    it seemed to have a life of its own —

    he is a good/bad life (Insur) — er ist ein niedriges/hohes Risiko

    3)

    (= the world, social activity) to see life — die Welt sehen

    4) (= liveliness) Leben nt

    was full of life —

    of the party — John will überall im Mittelpunkt stehen

    5) (= way of life) Leben nt

    this is the life! — ja, ist das ein Leben!

    such is life, that's life — so ist das Leben

    6) (= useful or active life) Lebensdauer f

    during the life of the present Parliament —

    there's not much life left in the battery, the battery's nearing the end of its life — die Batterie machts nicht mehr lange (inf)

    7) (= biography) Biografie f; (of saint, king etc) Lebensbeschreibung f
    * * *
    life [laıf] pl lives [laıvz] s
    1. (organisches) Leben:
    how did life begin? wie ist das Leben entstanden?
    2. Leben(skraft) n(f)
    3. Leben n:
    a) Lebenserscheinungen pl
    b) Lebewesen pl:
    there is no life on the moon auf dem Mond gibt es kein Leben;
    marine life das Leben im Meer, die Lebenserscheinungen oder Lebewesen im Meer
    4. (Menschen) Leben n:
    they lost their lives sie verloren ihr Leben, sie kamen ums Leben;
    three lives were lost drei Menschenleben sind zu beklagen;
    with great sacrifice of life mit schweren Verlusten an Menschenleben;
    risk life and limb Leib und Leben riskieren
    5. Leben n (eines Einzelwesens):
    a matter (question) of life and death eine lebenswichtige Angelegenheit (Frage);
    early in life in jungen Jahren;
    my early life meine Jugend;
    late in life in vorgerücktem Alter;
    as much as one’s life is worth lebensgefährlich, weitS. sehr gefährlich oder riskant;
    as if ( oder though) his life depended on it als ob sein Leben davon abhinge, als ob es um sein Leben ginge;
    he’s out of my life er existiert für mich überhaupt nicht mehr; → danger A 1, matter A 3, own Bes Redew, risk B 1
    6. a) Leben n, Lebenszeit f, Lebensdauer f ( auch TECH einer Maschine etc), Dauer f, Bestehen n:
    all his life sein ganzes Leben lang;
    the life of a book die Erfolgszeit eines Buches;
    during the life of the republic während des Bestehens der Republik; → expectation 3
    b) WIRTSCH, JUR Laufzeit f (eines Wechsels, Vertrags etc), besonders WIRTSCH Haltbarkeit f, Lagerfähigkeit f:
    7. Leben n, Lebensweise f, -führung f, -art f, -wandel m: → anything A 2, married A 1, saint A 1
    8. Leben(sbeschreibung) n(f), Biografie f
    9. Leben n, menschliches Tun und Treiben, Welt f:
    life in Australia das Leben in Australien;
    see life das Leben kennenlernen oder genießen
    10. Leben n, Schwung m:
    full of life lebendig, voller Leben;
    the life of the Constitution der wesentliche Inhalt der Verfassung;
    he was the life and soul of the party er brachte Schwung in die Party, er unterhielt die ganze Party
    11. KUNST Leben n:
    from (the) life nach dem Leben, nach der Natur; → large A 1
    a) auf Lebenszeit Versicherte(r) m/f(m) (im Hinblick auf die Lebenserwartung)
    b) auch life business Lebensversicherungsgeschäft n
    13. JUR umg lebenslängliche Freiheitsstrafe:
    he is doing life er sitzt lebenslänglich;
    he got life er bekam „lebenslänglich“Besondere Redewendungen: for life
    a) fürs (ganze) Leben, für den Rest seines Lebens,
    b) besonders JUR, POL lebenslänglich, auf Lebenszeit appointed for life auf Lebenszeit ernannt;
    imprisonment for life lebenslängliche Freiheitsstrafe;
    not for the life of me umg nicht um alles in der Welt;
    I couldn’t get to sleep for the life of me umg ich konnte ums Verrecken nicht einschlafen;
    not on your life umg ganz bestimmt nicht, unter keinen Umständen;
    to the life nach dem Leben, lebensecht, naturgetreu;
    upon my life! so wahr ich lebe!;
    that’s life so ist nun einmal das Leben;
    music was his life die Musik war sein Leben;
    where ( oder while) there’s life there’s hope (Sprichwort) MED man darf die Hoffnung nie aufgeben, weitS. a. es hofft der Mensch, solange er lebt;
    a) auch put life into beleben, Leben oder Schwung bringen in (akk), auch jemanden in Schwung bringen
    b) ins Leben rufen come to life sich beleben, (auch Person) in Schwung kommen;
    after some time the party came to life nach einiger Zeit kam Leben oder Schwung in die Party;
    a) wieder zu(m) Bewusstsein oder zu sich kommen,
    b) wieder gesund werden lead ( oder live) the life of Riley Br umg wie Gott in Frankreich leben;
    run for dear ( oder one’s) life um sein Leben laufen;
    I couldn’t get it open to save my life umg ich brachte es nicht ums Verrecken auf;
    sell one’s life dearly sein Leben teuer verkaufen;
    show (signs of) life Lebenszeichen von sich geben;
    seek sb’s life jemandem nach dem Leben trachten;
    take sb’s life jemanden umbringen;
    take one’s own life sich das Leben nehmen;
    take one’s life in one’s (own) hands umg sein Leben riskieren oder aufs Spiel setzen; → bet B, bowl1 1 b, breathe B 1, bring back 4, charm B 2
    * * *
    noun
    , pl. lives
    1) Leben, das

    it is a matter of life and death — es geht [dabei] um Leben und Tod; (fig.): (it is of vital importance) es ist äußerst wichtig (to für)

    come to life — [Bild, Statue:] lebendig werden

    run etc. for one's life — um sein Leben rennen usw.

    for life — lebenslänglich [inhaftiert]

    he's doing life — (coll.) er sitzt lebenslänglich (ugs.)

    get life — (coll.) lebenslänglich kriegen (ugs.)

    expectation of life — Lebenserwartung, die

    get the fright/shock of one's life — (coll.) zu Tode erschrecken/den Schock seines Lebens bekommen (ugs.)

    he will do anything for a quiet life — für ihn ist die Hauptsache, dass er seine Ruhe hat

    make life easy for oneself/somebody — es sich (Dat.) /jemandem leicht machen

    make life difficult for oneself/somebody — sich (Dat.) /jemandem das Leben schwer machen

    this is the life! — (expr. content) so lässt sich's leben!

    that's life, life's like that — so ist das Leben [nun mal]

    not on your life — (coll.) nie im Leben! (ugs.)

    save one's/somebody's life — sein Leben/jemandem das Leben retten

    take one's [own] life — sich (Dat.) das Leben nehmen

    get a life — (coll.) was aus seinem Leben machen

    2) (energy, animation) Leben, das

    there is still life in something — in etwas (Dat.) steckt noch Leben

    bird/insect life — die Vogelwelt/die Insekten

    as large as life — (life-size) lebensgroß; (in person) in voller Schönheit (ugs. scherzh.)

    5) (specific aspect) [Privat-, Wirtschafts-, Dorf]leben, das

    in this life — (on earth) in diesem Leben

    the other or the future or the next life — (in heaven) das zukünftige Leben [nach dem Tode]

    eternal or everlasting life — ewiges Leben

    6) (of battery, lightbulb, etc.) Lebensdauer, die
    * * *
    n.
    (§ pl.: lives)
    = Leben -- n.
    Lebensdauer f.

    English-german dictionary > life

  • 19 ebb and flow

    быстрая смена (настроения и т. п.); превратности судьбы

    His changes of mood did not offend me, because I saw that I had nothing to do with their alteration; the ebb and flow depended on causes quite disconnected with me. (Ch. Brontë, ‘Jane Eyre’, ch. XIV) — Эти перемены в его настроениях не обижали меня, я чувствовала, что все это ко мне не имеет отношения; изменчивость его настроения зависела от причин, совершенно не связанных со мной.

    ...in the ebb and flow of world events even his great figure seemed small. (J. Galsworthy, ‘On Forsyte 'Change’, ‘Soames and the Flag’) —...в калейдоскопе мировых событий даже он казался незначительной фигурой.

    This tale had always haunted her, and as she lay there and left the ebb and flow of her pain she wondered if she had remembered it so well because she was called upon to emulate such brave isolation. (M. Drabble, ‘The Waterfall’) — Рассказ об этой мужественной и одинокой женщине врезался в память Джейн. И когда Джейн лежала там, когда начались схватки и она чувствовала, как боль то нарастает, то отпускает ненадолго, она спрашивала себя, не потому ли эта женщина так ей запомнилась, что и ей самой, выпало на долю одиночество, которое она так мужественно переносила.

    Large English-Russian phrasebook > ebb and flow

  • 20 Spínola, Antônio de

    (1910-1996)
       Senior army general, hero of Portugal's wars of African insurgency, and first president of the provisional government after the Revolution of 25 April 1974. A career army officer who became involved in politics after a long career of war service and administration overseas, Spinola had a role in the 1974 coup and revolution that was somewhat analogous to that of General Gomes da Costa in the 1926 coup.
       Spinola served in important posts as a volunteer in Portugal's intervention in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), a military observer on the Russian front with the Third Reich's armed forces in World War II, and a top officer in the Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR). His chief significance in contemporary affairs, however, came following his military assignments and tours of duty in Portugal's colonial wars in Africa after 1961.
       Spinola fought first in Angola and later in Guinea- Bissau, where, during 1968-73, he was both commanding general of Portugal's forces and high commissioner (administrator of the territory). His Guinean service tour was significant for at least two reasons: Spinola's dynamic influence upon a circle of younger career officers on his staff in Guinea, men who later joined together in the Armed Forces Movement (MFA), and Spinola's experience of failure in winning the Guinea war militarily or finding a political means for compromise or negotiation with the Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), the African insurgent movement that had fought a war with Portugal since 1963, largely in the forested tropical interior of the territory. Spinola became discouraged after failure to win permission to negotiate secretly for a political solution to the war with the PAIGC and was reprimanded by Prime Minister Marcello Caetano.
       After his return—not in triumph—from Guinea in 1973, Spinola was appointed chief of staff of the armed forces, but he resigned in a dispute with the government. With the assistance of younger officers who also had African experience of costly but seemingly endless war, Spinola wrote a book, Portugal and the Future, which was published in February 1974, despite official censorship and red tape. Next to the Bible and editions of Luís de Camoes's The Lusi- ads, Spinola's controversial book was briefly the best-selling work in Portugal's modern age. While not intimately involved with the budding conspiracy among career army majors, captains, and others, Spinola was prepared to head such a movement, and the planners depended on his famous name and position as senior army officer with the right credentials to win over both military and civil opinion when and where it counted.
       When the Revolution of 25 April 1974 succeeded, Spinola was named head of the Junta of National Salvation and eventually provisional president of Portugal. Among the military revolutionaries, though, there was wide disagreement about the precise goals of the revolution and how to achieve them. Spinola's path-breaking book had subtly proposed three new goals: the democratization of authoritarian Portugal, a political solution to the African colonial wars, and liberalization of the economic system. The MFA immediately proclaimed, not coincidentally, the same goals, but without specifying the means to attain them.
       The officers who ran the newly emerging system fell out with Spinola over many issues, but especially over how to decolonize Portugal's besieged empire. Spinola proposed a gradualist policy that featured a free referendum by all colonial voters to decide between a loose federation with Portugal or complete independence. MFA leaders wanted more or less immediate decolonization, a transfer of power to leading African movements, and a pullout of Portugal's nearly 200,000 troops in three colonies. After a series of crises and arguments, Spinola resigned as president in September 1974. He conspired for a conservative coup to oust the leftists in power, but the effort failed in March 1975, and Spinola was forced to flee to Spain and then to Brazil. Some years later, he returned to Portugal, lived in quiet retirement, and could be seen enjoying horseback riding. In the early 1980s, he was promoted to the rank of marshal, in retirement.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Spínola, Antônio de

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