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  • 41 long

    I 1. [loŋ] adjective
    1) (measuring a great distance from one end to the other: a long journey; a long road; long legs.) ilgas
    2) (having a great period of time from the first moment to the last: The book took a long time to read; a long conversation; a long delay.) ilgas
    3) (measuring a certain amount in distance or time: The wire is two centimetres long; The television programme was just over an hour long.) ilgumo
    4) (away, doing or using something etc for a great period of time: Will you be long?) ilgai kuo užsiėmęs, išėjęs
    5) (reaching to a great distance in space or time: She has a long memory) toli siekiantis
    2. adverb
    1) (a great period of time: This happened long before you were born.) daug laiko
    2) (for a great period of time: Have you been waiting long?) ilgai
    •
    - long-distance
    - long-drawn-out
    - longhand
    - long house
    - long jump
    - long-playing record
    - long-range
    - long-sighted
    - long-sightedness
    - long-suffering
    - long-winded
    - as long as / so long as
    - before very long
    - before long
    - in the long run
    - the long and the short of it
    - no longer
    - so long!     II [loŋ] verb
    ((often with for) to wish very much: He longed to go home; I am longing for a drink.) labai norėti, geisti, trokšti
    - longingly

    English-Lithuanian dictionary > long

  • 42 long

    adj. lång; långvarig; långsträckt; orimlig (chans etc.); avlägsen
    --------
    adv. länge; för länge sedan; lång tid; hel
    --------
    n. lång tid; lång sak
    --------
    v. längta efter, tråna efter, trängta efter; sakna
    * * *
    I 1. [loŋ] adjective
    1) (measuring a great distance from one end to the other: a long journey; a long road; long legs.) lång
    2) (having a great period of time from the first moment to the last: The book took a long time to read; a long conversation; a long delay.) lång
    3) (measuring a certain amount in distance or time: The wire is two centimetres long; The television programme was just over an hour long.) lång
    4) (away, doing or using something etc for a great period of time: Will you be long?) länge, långvarig
    5) (reaching to a great distance in space or time: She has a long memory) lång [], gott []
    2. adverb
    1) (a great period of time: This happened long before you were born.) långt
    2) (for a great period of time: Have you been waiting long?) länge
    •
    - long-distance
    - long-drawn-out
    - longhand
    - long house
    - long jump
    - long-playing record
    - long-range
    - long-sighted
    - long-sightedness
    - long-suffering
    - long-winded
    - as long as / so long as
    - before very long
    - before long
    - in the long run
    - the long and the short of it
    - no longer
    - so long!     II [loŋ] verb
    ((often with for) to wish very much: He longed to go home; I am longing for a drink.) längta efter
    - longingly

    English-Swedish dictionary > long

  • 43 long

    I 1. [loŋ] adjective
    1) (measuring a great distance from one end to the other: a long journey; a long road; long legs.) dlouhý
    2) (having a great period of time from the first moment to the last: The book took a long time to read; a long conversation; a long delay.) dlouhý
    3) (measuring a certain amount in distance or time: The wire is two centimetres long; The television programme was just over an hour long.) dlouhý
    4) (away, doing or using something etc for a great period of time: Will you be long?) nadlouho
    5) (reaching to a great distance in space or time: She has a long memory) dobrý
    2. adverb
    1) (a great period of time: This happened long before you were born.) dávno
    2) (for a great period of time: Have you been waiting long?) dlouho
    •
    - long-distance
    - long-drawn-out
    - longhand
    - long house
    - long jump
    - long-playing record
    - long-range
    - long-sighted
    - long-sightedness
    - long-suffering
    - long-winded
    - as long as / so long as
    - before very long
    - before long
    - in the long run
    - the long and the short of it
    - no longer
    - so long!     II [loŋ] verb
    ((often with for) to wish very much: He longed to go home; I am longing for a drink.) toužit
    - longingly
    * * *
    • zatoužit
    • dlouho
    • dlouze
    • dlouhý

    English-Czech dictionary > long

  • 44 long

    I 1. [loŋ] adjective
    1) (measuring a great distance from one end to the other: a long journey; a long road; long legs.) dlhý
    2) (having a great period of time from the first moment to the last: The book took a long time to read; a long conversation; a long delay.) dlhý
    3) (measuring a certain amount in distance or time: The wire is two centimetres long; The television programme was just over an hour long.) dlhý
    4) (away, doing or using something etc for a great period of time: Will you be long?) nadlho
    5) (reaching to a great distance in space or time: She has a long memory) dobrý
    2. adverb
    1) (a great period of time: This happened long before you were born.) dávno
    2) (for a great period of time: Have you been waiting long?) dlho
    •
    - long-distance
    - long-drawn-out
    - longhand
    - long house
    - long jump
    - long-playing record
    - long-range
    - long-sighted
    - long-sightedness
    - long-suffering
    - long-winded
    - as long as / so long as
    - before very long
    - before long
    - in the long run
    - the long and the short of it
    - no longer
    - so long!     II [loŋ] verb
    ((often with for) to wish very much: He longed to go home; I am longing for a drink.) túžiť
    - longingly
    * * *
    • velmi si želat co
    • túžit po com
    • dychtit po com
    • dávno
    • dlho
    • dlhý
    • dlžka

    English-Slovak dictionary > long

  • 45 long

    I 1. [loŋ] adjective
    1) (measuring a great distance from one end to the other: a long journey; a long road; long legs.) lung
    2) (having a great period of time from the first moment to the last: The book took a long time to read; a long conversation; a long delay.) lung
    3) (measuring a certain amount in distance or time: The wire is two centimetres long; The television programme was just over an hour long.) lung de
    4) (away, doing or using something etc for a great period of time: Will you be long?) care durea­ză mult timp
    5) (reaching to a great distance in space or time: She has a long memory) bun
    2. adverb
    1) (a great period of time: This happened long before you were born.) cu mult timp (înainte)
    2) (for a great period of time: Have you been waiting long?) mult (timp)
    •
    - long-distance
    - long-drawn-out
    - longhand
    - long house
    - long jump
    - long-playing record
    - long-range
    - long-sighted
    - long-sightedness
    - long-suffering
    - long-winded
    - as long as / so long as
    - before very long
    - before long
    - in the long run
    - the long and the short of it
    - no longer
    - so long!     II [loŋ] verb
    ((often with for) to wish very much: He longed to go home; I am longing for a drink.) a tânji (după)
    - longingly

    English-Romanian dictionary > long

  • 46 long

    I 1. [loŋ] adjective
    1) (measuring a great distance from one end to the other: a long journey; a long road; long legs.)
    2) (having a great period of time from the first moment to the last: The book took a long time to read; a long conversation; a long delay.)
    3) (measuring a certain amount in distance or time: The wire is two centimetres long; The television programme was just over an hour long.)
    4) (away, doing or using something etc for a great period of time: Will you be long?)
    5) (reaching to a great distance in space or time: She has a long memory)
    2. adverb
    1) (a great period of time: This happened long before you were born.)
    2) (for a great period of time: Have you been waiting long?)
    •
    - long-distance
    - long-drawn-out
    - longhand
    - long house
    - long jump
    - long-playing record
    - long-range
    - long-sighted
    - long-sightedness
    - long-suffering
    - long-winded
    - as long as / so long as
    - before very long
    - before long
    - in the long run
    - the long and the short of it
    - no longer
    - so long!     II [loŋ] verb
    ((often with for) to wish very much: He longed to go home; I am longing for a drink.) λαχταρώ
    - longingly

    English-Greek dictionary > long

  • 47 long

    I [lɔŋ] 1. прил.
    1)
    а) длинный; больше своей ширины

    long legs / arms / fingernails — длинные ноги, руки, ногти

    long road / journey — дальняя дорога

    He came from a long way off. — Прибыл он издалека.

    б) разг. долговязый, высокий
    Syn:
    в) обладающий определённой протяжённостью; имеющий такую-то длину

    a mile / seven yards long — длиной в одну милю, семь ярдов

    2)
    а) долгий, длительный, существующий давно; продолжительный; затяжной

    a long(-lasting) relationship / friendship / love — длительные отношения, старинная дружба, любовь надолго

    long custom / tradition — старинный обычай, давняя традиция

    long words — длинная, долгая речь

    long memory — долгая, хорошая память

    in the long term — долгосрочный; перспективный

    long service — воен. сверхсрочная служба

    Long time no see! — амер.; шутл. Давно не виделись! ( намеренно коверкая язык)

    We took a long farewell. — Мы долго прощались.

    She gave him a long look / stare. — Она пристально посмотрела на него.

    б) обладающий определённой протяжённостью, длящийся столько-то

    a (whole) life long — длиной в (целую) жизнь; всю жизнь

    an hour / three hours long — часовой (продолжительностью в один час), трёхчасовой

    (two days, a week) at (the) longest — самое большее (два дня, неделю)

    How long does it take you to get there? — Сколько времени тебе нужно, чтобы добраться туда?

    3) долгий, медленный; неспешный, медлительный

    to be long about smth., to be long doing smth. — копошиться, копаться (делая что-л.); возиться, канителиться (с чем-л.)

    4)
    а) многочисленный, большой; обширный (состоящий из многих пунктов, насчитывающий много объектов)

    long list — огромный, длинный список

    long family — большая, многодетная семья

    б) огромный, избыточный, непомерно высокий

    long odds — карт. высокие ставки

    long prices — непомерные, бешеные цены

    Syn:
    5) длинный, далёкий ( далеко направленный)

    to hit the long ball — выбить мяч далеко, сильно ударить ( в футболе)

    at long weapon — воен. на расстоянии

    6) лингв.
    7)
    а) отдалённый, отложенный на будущее

    long guess — долгосрочный прогноз, ожидание на будущее

    б) фин. долгосрочный

    a long note / bill / lease — долгосрочный вексель, аренда

    8) ( long on)
    а) отличающийся (какой-л. чертой)

    to be long on patience — очень долго терпеть, уметь долго ждать

    б) амер.; разг. богатый (чем-л.), сильный в (чём-л.)

    He's long on good ideas. — Он полон хороших идей.

    9) целый, добрый

    long mile — целая миля, не меньше мили

    10) продолговатый, удлинённый
    11) фин. играющий на повышение

    They are now long on wheat. — Сейчас они играют на повышение цен на пшеницу.

    •
    - Long Tom
    - Long Parliament
    - long suit
    - long in the tooth
    Gram:
    [ref dict="LingvoGrammar (En-Ru)"]long[/ref]
    ••

    long ears — глупость, наивность

    long head — ум, башковитость; предусмотрительность

    to make a long nose — показать "нос"

    to make / pull a long face — помрачнеть

    to get a long start over smb. — значительно опередить кого-л.

    2. нареч.
    1)
    а) долго, длительно; в течение долгого времени

    It won't be long. — Это ненадолго.

    Stay for as long as you like. — Оставайтесь столько, сколько вам будет угодно.

    Wait a while longer. — Подождите ещё немного.

    I shall not wait (any) longer. — Не буду больше ждать.

    She didn't stay longer than midnight. — Она осталась только до полуночи.

    It is no longer possible. — Это больше невозможно.

    2) далеко, на далёкое расстояние

    I didn't travel that long. — Я так далеко не ездил.

    He threw the ball long. — Он бросил мяч далеко.

    Syn:
    3)
    а) давно, задолго до

    long ago / since — давным-давно, уже очень давно

    long past — давнопрошедший; давний, далёкий

    She was excited long before the big day. — Она была вся в нервном напряжении ещё задолго до этого события.

    б) потом; долгое время спустя
    4) полностью, целиком

    all day / night long — целый день, всю ночь (напролёт)

    all smb.'s life long — всю свою жизнь; в течение всей своей жизни

    5) фин. на повышение
    ••

    you may do smth. long enough — хоть в лепёшку разбейся

    as long as — пока; до тех пор, пока

    long live — да здравствует...

    3. сущ.
    1) долгое время; долгий срок, долгий период времени

    before long — скоро; вскоре, в ближайшем времени

    for long — надолго, на долгое время

    It can take long. — Это может занять много времени.

    It didn't take him long to come. — Его не пришлось долго ждать.

    2) лингв. долгий гласный; слоговой гласный дифтонга
    Syn:
    4) фин. маклер, спекулянт, играющий на повышение
    5) ( longs)
    а) брюки, длинные штаны ( в противопоставление shorts)
    ••
    - long and the short of it
    - long and short of it II [lɔŋ] гл.
    очень хотеть, страстно желать (чего-л.), испытывать потребность (в чём-л.), стремиться (к чему-л.)

    I long for you. — Ты мне очень нужен, я не могу без тебя.

    After she left me I was longing for a change in my life. — После того, как она меня покинула, мне очень хотелось радикально изменить свою жизнь.

    He was longing for a shower. — Он не мог дождаться момента, когда сможет принять душ.

    They long for peace but are driven to war. — Они стремятся к миру, а их заставляют воевать.

    I'm longing for a smoke. — До смерти хочется курить.

    Syn:

    Англо-русский современный словарь > long

  • 48 long

    I 1. [loŋ] adjective
    1) (measuring a great distance from one end to the other: a long journey; a long road; long legs.) long
    2) (having a great period of time from the first moment to the last: The book took a long time to read; a long conversation; a long delay.) long
    3) (measuring a certain amount in distance or time: The wire is two centimetres long; The television programme was just over an hour long.) de long, durant
    4) (away, doing or using something etc for a great period of time: Will you be long?) pour longtemps
    5) (reaching to a great distance in space or time: She has a long memory) bon
    2. adverb
    1) (a great period of time: This happened long before you were born.) longtemps avant
    2) (for a great period of time: Have you been waiting long?) longtemps
    •
    - long-distance - long-drawn-out - longhand - long house - long jump - long-playing record - long-range - long-sighted - long-sightedness - long-suffering - long-winded - as long as / so long as - before very long - before long - in the long run - the long and the short of it - no longer - so long! II [loŋ] verb
    ((often with for) to wish very much: He longed to go home; I am longing for a drink.) avoir très envie de qqch.
    - longingly

    English-French dictionary > long

  • 49 long

    I 1. [loŋ] adjective
    1) (measuring a great distance from one end to the other: a long journey; a long road; long legs.) longo
    2) (having a great period of time from the first moment to the last: The book took a long time to read; a long conversation; a long delay.) longo
    3) (measuring a certain amount in distance or time: The wire is two centimetres long; The television programme was just over an hour long.) de duração
    4) (away, doing or using something etc for a great period of time: Will you be long?) demorado
    5) (reaching to a great distance in space or time: She has a long memory) abrangente
    2. adverb
    1) (a great period of time: This happened long before you were born.) muito tempo
    2) (for a great period of time: Have you been waiting long?) muito tempo
    •
    - long-distance - long-drawn-out - longhand - long house - long jump - long-playing record - long-range - long-sighted - long-sightedness - long-suffering - long-winded - as long as / so long as - before very long - before long - in the long run - the long and the short of it - no longer - so long! II [loŋ] verb
    ((often with for) to wish very much: He longed to go home; I am longing for a drink.) ansiar por, desejar ardentemente
    - longingly

    English-Portuguese (Brazil) dictionary > long

  • 50 задолго до нас

    General subject: long before we were born

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > задолго до нас

  • 51 Durgin-Park

    "Дерджин-парк"
    Недорогой популярный ресторан в Бостоне, шт. Массачусетс, расположенный в районе продуктового рынка близ исторического памятника - Фэнл-холла [ Faneuil Hall]. Обычно посетители сидят на скамьях за длинными деревянными столами [communal tables]. Главное блюдо - огромная порция ростбифа [Yankee roast beef], а также ребрышки, устрицы, тушеная фасоль по-бостонски [Boston baked beans] и индийский пудинг. Основан в 1826; рекламный лозунг: "Основан до Вашего рождения" ["Established before you were born"]

    English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Durgin-Park

  • 52 may, might, can, could: possibility in the past

    Употребление модальных глаголов "may", "might", и "could" при сообщении о возможности чего-либо в прошлом
    1)
    а) В предположениях о том, что нечто, возможно, имело место в прошлом, используется конструкция may/might/could + perf. infinitive (см. Perfect infinitive and Perfect infinitive passive).

    The president may/might/could have testified falsely about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky — Возможно, президент дал ложные показания относительно своих отношений с Моникой Левински.

    Some tea may/might/could have remained in the teapot — Возможно, в чайнике оставалось еще немного чая.

    б) Конструкция can + perf. infinitive не используется в утвердительных предложениях.

    *He can have done this.

    She can't have left this place by land. — Не может быть, чтобы она уехала отсюда по суше.

    2) При описании события, которое могло бы произойти в прошлом, но в действительности не произошло, употребляется конструкция might/could + perf. infinitive (см. Perfect infinitive and Perfect infinitive passive).
    Конструкция may + perf. infinitive в этом случае не используется.

    The child might/could have got lost but in fact he came home earlier than others — Ребенок мог заблудиться, но на самом деле он пришел домой раньше, чем все остальные.

    If we had taken the other road we might/could have arrived earlier — Если бы мы поехали по другой дороге, мы, возможно, приехали бы раньше.

    3) Разница между сочетаниями may not/might not + perf. infinitive и can't/could not+ perf. infinitive состоит в следующем:
    may not/might not + perf. infinitive указывает на возможность того, что событие, обозначаемое инфинитивом, не имело места (may not/mightn't + A = возможно, не A).
    can't/couldn't + perf. infinitive указывает на невозможность того, что событие, обозначаемое инфинитивом, имело место (can't/couldn't + A = невозможно, чтобы A).

    You might not have seen him — Возможно, вы его не видели.

    You could not have seen him. He died before you were born — Вы не могли его видеть. Он умер до того, как вы родились.

    •

    — Употребление модальных глаголов may, might, can, could в предположениях о том, что что-то может произойти в настоящем или будущем см. may, might, can, could: possibility in the future and present

    — Употребление can и could для выражения способности или возможности см. can, could, be able to: ability

    — Употребление may, might, could в просьбах см. Requests

    — Употребление can, could, may, might с целью попросить разрешения, употребление can, may с целью дать разрешение см. Permission

    — Употребление can, could, may c целью предложить вещь или помощь см. Offers and suggestions

    — Модальные глаголы в условных предложениях см. Modals in condition

    English-Russian grammar dictionary > may, might, can, could: possibility in the past

  • 53 long for

    Синонимический ряд:
    covet (verb) choose; covet; crave; desire; envy; fancy; long; lust after; pant; want

    English-Russian base dictionary > long for

  • 54 long

    I [lɔŋ]
    1. adjective
    1) measuring a great distance from one end to the other:

    long legs.

    طَويل
    2) having a great period of time from the first moment to the last:

    a long delay.

    طَويل
    3) measuring a certain amount in distance or time:

    The television programme was just over an hour long.

    طول، في الطول
    4) away, doing or using something etc for a great period of time:

    Will you be long?

    لمدة طويله
    5) reaching to a great distance in space or time:
    لمسافةٍ او مُدَّةٍ طويلَه
    2. adverb
    1) a great period of time:

    This happened long before you were born.

    بوَقْت ٍ طويل
    2) for a great period of time:

    Have you been waiting long?

    لمُدَّةٍ طَويلَه II [lɔŋ] verb
    ( often with for) to wish very much:

    I am longing for a drink.

    يَشْتاق، يَتوقُ إلى

    Arabic-English dictionary > long

  • 55 for very long

    long term — долгий срок; долгосрочный

    for a long time — долго, давно; надолго

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  • 56 Historical Portugal

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

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  • 57 nacer

    v.
    1 to be born (venir al mundo) (niño, animal).
    al nacer at birth
    ¿dónde naciste? — nací en Brasil where were you born? — I was born in Brazil
    nacer de/en to be born of/in
    nacer de familia humilde to be born into a poor family
    nacer para algo to be born for something
    ha nacido cantante she's a born singer
    Nací libre I was born free.
    2 to grow (surgir) (pelo).
    3 to come to life.
    4 to be hatched, to hatch.
    5 to be born to.
    Nos nació un hijo A son was born to us.
    * * *
    (c changes to zc before a and o)
    Present Indicative
    nazco, naces, nace, nacemos, nacéis, nacen.
    Present Subjunctive
    Imperative
    nace (tú), nazca (él/Vd.), nazcamos (nos.), naced (vos.), nazcan (ellos/Vds.).
    * * *
    verb
    2) rise
    * * *
    1. VI
    1) [persona, animal] to be born; [ave, insecto, reptil] to hatch
    - volver a nacer
    2) [planta] [gen] to sprout, bud; (=aparecer) to come up; [pelo, plumas] to grow, sprout
    3) [estrella, sol] to rise; [día] to dawn
    4) [agua] to spring up, appear, begin to flow; [camino] to begin, start (de from) (en in)
    5) [revolución, miedo] to spring (de from)
    [idea] to come (de from) originate, have its origin (de, en in)

    el error nace del hecho de que... — the error springs o stems from the fact that...

    ¿de dónde nace la idea? — where does the idea come from?

    6)

    nacer a: con esa exposición nació a la vida artística — that exhibition saw the beginning of his artistic career

    2.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo
    1)
    a) niño/animal to be born

    ¿dónde naciste? — where were you born?

    nació en el Perú, de padres españoles — she was born in Peru to o of Spanish parents

    nacer para algo/+ inf — to be born to + inf

    nacer parado — (Chi, Ven fam) to have the luck of the devil (colloq)

    no nací ayer — I wasn't born yesterday

    b) pollito/insecto to hatch
    c) hoja/rama to sprout
    d) río to have its source; carretera to start
    e) pelo/plumas to grow
    2)
    a) ( surgir)

    nacer de algo — problema/situación to arise o spring from something

    nacer de alguien — idea/iniciativa

    b) (liter) ( iniciarse)
    * * *
    = be born, spring, come into + the world, see + the light of day.
    Ex. When using a 32-entry miniature catalog it is not necessary to know that I was born in 1914 to differentiate me from 31 other entries.
    Ex. My point is that all literature, every example we can think of, depends for its existence on the tradition out of which it springs -- even the most avant of the avant-garde.
    Ex. No one comes into the world already disposed for or against words in print.
    Ex. The article 'OSI: will it ever see the light of day?' concludes that the promise of OSI has been bold and ambitious but that its delivery has been significantly delayed beyond its initial projections = El artículo "OSI: ¿ verá alguna vez la luz del día?" concluye que la promesa de OSI ha sido osada y ambiciosa pero que su publicación se ha visto retrasada considerablemente por encima de las previsiones iniciales.
    ----
    * al nacer = at birth.
    * bebé que nace muerto = stillbirth [still-birth].
    * conforme + nacer = at birth.
    * en cuanto + nacer = at birth.
    * grandes robles nacen de pequeñas bellotas = great oaks from little acorns grow.
    * nacer prematuramente = be prematurely born.
    * nacido en = born in.
    * niños nacidos fuera del matrimonio = children born out of the wedlock.
    * persona nacida después del baby boom = baby buster.
    * persona nacida durante el baby boom = baby boomer.
    * peso al nacer = birthweight.
    * volver a nacer = have + a lucky escape, have + a narrow escape.
    * vuelto a nacer = born again.
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo
    1)
    a) niño/animal to be born

    ¿dónde naciste? — where were you born?

    nació en el Perú, de padres españoles — she was born in Peru to o of Spanish parents

    nacer para algo/+ inf — to be born to + inf

    nacer parado — (Chi, Ven fam) to have the luck of the devil (colloq)

    no nací ayer — I wasn't born yesterday

    b) pollito/insecto to hatch
    c) hoja/rama to sprout
    d) río to have its source; carretera to start
    e) pelo/plumas to grow
    2)
    a) ( surgir)

    nacer de algo — problema/situación to arise o spring from something

    nacer de alguien — idea/iniciativa

    b) (liter) ( iniciarse)
    * * *
    = be born, spring, come into + the world, see + the light of day.

    Ex: When using a 32-entry miniature catalog it is not necessary to know that I was born in 1914 to differentiate me from 31 other entries.

    Ex: My point is that all literature, every example we can think of, depends for its existence on the tradition out of which it springs -- even the most avant of the avant-garde.
    Ex: No one comes into the world already disposed for or against words in print.
    Ex: The article 'OSI: will it ever see the light of day?' concludes that the promise of OSI has been bold and ambitious but that its delivery has been significantly delayed beyond its initial projections = El artículo "OSI: ¿ verá alguna vez la luz del día?" concluye que la promesa de OSI ha sido osada y ambiciosa pero que su publicación se ha visto retrasada considerablemente por encima de las previsiones iniciales.
    * al nacer = at birth.
    * bebé que nace muerto = stillbirth [still-birth].
    * conforme + nacer = at birth.
    * en cuanto + nacer = at birth.
    * grandes robles nacen de pequeñas bellotas = great oaks from little acorns grow.
    * nacer prematuramente = be prematurely born.
    * nacido en = born in.
    * niños nacidos fuera del matrimonio = children born out of the wedlock.
    * persona nacida después del baby boom = baby buster.
    * persona nacida durante el baby boom = baby boomer.
    * peso al nacer = birthweight.
    * volver a nacer = have + a lucky escape, have + a narrow escape.
    * vuelto a nacer = born again.

    * * *
    nacer [E3 ]
    vi
    A
    1 «niño/cordero/gato» to be born
    ¿dónde naciste? where were you born?
    pesaba tres kilos al nacer she weighed three kilos at birth
    nacer antes de tiempo to be born prematurely, to be premature
    el niño nació muerto the child was stillborn
    nacer DE algn to be born TO sb
    nació en el Perú, de padres españoles she was born in Peru to o of Spanish parents
    nacer PARA algo:
    yo no nací para esta clase de trabajo I wasn't born to do this kind of work
    nació para (ser) músico he was born to be a musician
    naciste/nació parado (Chi, Ven fam); you have/he has the luck of the devil ( colloq)
    no nací/nació ayer I/he wasn't born yesterday
    volver a nacer or nacer de nuevo to have a lucky escape, be lucky to come out alive
    2 «pollito/insecto» to hatch
    3 «hoja/rama» to sprout
    le han nacido nuevas flores a la planta the plant has produced o grown some new flowers
    4 «río» to rise, have its source; «carretera» to start
    la pinza nace debajo de la manga the dart starts under the sleeve
    5 «pelo/plumas» to grow
    le nacieron alas he sprouted wings
    ya le volverá a nacer el pelo his hair will soon grow back
    B
    1
    (surgir) «sentimiento»: una gran amistad nació entre ellos a great friendship grew o sprang up o developed between them
    a ella no le nace ser amable con la gente being nice to people doesn't come naturally to her
    no me nace ser simpático con él I find it difficult to be nice to him
    2 «problema/situación»: nacer DE algo; to arise o spring FROM sth
    nace de su inseguridad this arises o springs from his insecurity
    3 ( liter) (iniciarse) nacer A algo to be awakened TO sth ( liter)
    nacer al amor to be awakened to love, to experience love for the first time
    * * *

     

    nacer ( conjugate nacer) verbo intransitivo
    1
    a) [niño/animal] to be born;

    ◊ ¿dónde naciste? where were you born?;

    al nacer at birth;
    nació para (ser) músico he was born to be a musician
    b) [pollito/insecto] to hatch

    c) [hoja/rama] to sprout


    [ carretera] to start
    e) [pelo/plumas] to grow

    2 ( surgir) [amistad/relación] to spring up;
    nacer de algo [problema/situación] to arise o spring from sth;

    nacer verbo intransitivo
    1 to be born: nació en el mes de julio, she was born in July
    al nacer, at birth
    (ave) to hatch (out)
    2 (pelo, dientes) to begin to grow
    3 (río, manantial) to rise
    4 (originarse) to start: la revuelta nació en Sevilla, the revolt started in Seville
    de su mutua comprensión nació el respeto, respect was born out of a mutual understanding
    5 (tener cualidades) naciste para payaso, you were born to be a clown
    ♦ Locuciones: nacer de pie, to be born under a lucky star
    ' nacer' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    volver
    English:
    bear
    - born
    - last
    - rise
    - birth
    - dawn
    - hatch
    - spring
    * * *
    nacer vi
    1. [niño, animal] to be born;
    al nacer at birth;
    pesó al nacer 3.700 g he weighed 3.7 kg at birth;
    ¿dónde naciste? – nací en Brasil where were you born? – I was born in Brazil;
    nacer de familia humilde to be born into a poor family;
    nació de padres italianos she was born of Italian parents, her parents were Italian;
    nacer para algo to be born for sth;
    ha nacido cantante she's a born singer;
    Fam
    tú has nacido cansado you were born lazy;
    no he nacido ayer I wasn't born yesterday;
    nació con un pan debajo del brazo the birth of the child was a blessing for the family;
    Esp Fam
    nació o [m5] ha nacido con una flor en el culo he has the luck of the devil;
    Méx Fam
    el que ha nacido en petate, siempre anda apestando a tule you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear;
    Ven Fam
    nacer parado to be born lucky;
    Fam Hum
    unos nacen con estrella y otros nacen estrellados fortune smiles on some people and not on others;
    volver a nacer to have a lucky escape
    2. [ave, reptil] to hatch (out)
    3. [planta] to sprout, to begin to grow
    4. [pelo] to grow
    5. [río] to rise, to have its source
    6. [sol, luna] to rise
    7. [originarse]
    la costumbre nació en Italia this custom has its roots in Italy;
    desde aquel momento, nació una gran amistad entre los dos that moment was the beginning of a close friendship between them;
    su nerviosismo nace de su inseguridad his nervousness stems from his insecurity;
    la revolución nació en el norte del país the revolution started in the north of the country;
    el Renacimiento nació en Italia the Renaissance had its origins in Italy
    * * *
    v/i
    1 be born; de un huevo hatch
    2 de una planta sprout
    3 de un río, del sol rise
    4 ( surgir) arise (de from)
    * * *
    nacer {48} vi
    1) : to be born
    nací en Guatemala: I was born in Guatemala
    no nació ayer: he wasn't born yesterday
    2) : to hatch
    3) : to bud, to sprout
    4) : to rise, to originate
    5)
    nacer para algo : to be born to be something
    6)
    volver a nacer : to have a lucky escape
    * * *
    nacer vb
    1. (persona, animal) to be born
    ¿cuándo naciste? when were you born?
    2. (planta) to grow [pt. grew; pp. grown]
    3. (pollito) to hatch

    Spanish-English dictionary > nacer

  • 58 да

    1. yes
    да де well, yes
    да или не yes or no
    и да и не yea and nay
    Познаваш ли го?-Да Do you know him?-Yes, I do
    Ще отидеш ли или няма да отидеш?-Да, ще отида Are you going or not?-Yes, I am going
    той каза да he said yes
    отговаряй само с "да" или "не" confine yourself to yes and no
    (влез) come in
    2. (подкана) let (с inf. без to)
    да вървим let's go
    3. (заповед, закана) без превод
    гледай да не закъснееш mind you're not late
    ти да мълчиш! you keep your mouth shut! да става каквото ще come what may
    който иска билети, да си ги набави сам whoever wants a ticket can get it himself
    4. (нереално условие, пожелание) if, if only, may
    да можех да го видя I wish I could see him
    да бях аз на твое място if I were you
    де да беше така if only it were so
    да не бях идвал would that I had never come
    да живее Х! long live Х! да крепне делото на мира! may the cause of peace prosper!
    5. (съмнение) без превод
    да не би да for fear (that) lest; in case
    да не би да ни чуят for fear that/they may hear us; lest they should hear us
    безпокоим се да не би да му се е случило нещо we are worried in case s.th. has happened to him
    не ще да е той it won't be him; I don't think it's him
    той да се държи така! that he should behave like that
    6. (дали, нима) без превод
    да вървим ли? shall we go?
    да не мислиш, че ме е страх? you don't think I'm afraid, do you?
    искам да го видя I want to see him
    лесно е да се говори it is easy to talk
    8. (за цел и със за) to, in order to, in order that, so that
    дойдох да те видя I came to see you
    трябва да тръгнем сега, за да не закъснеем we must start now in order that we may not be late
    макар и да, ако и да, дори и да though, even though, although
    без да without (с ger.)
    преди да before (c ger.)
    дори и да е късно, ще отида even though it is late, I shall go; late as it is, I shall go
    влез в стаята, без да го събудиш go into-the room without waking him
    той е умрял преди аз да съм бил роден he died before I was born
    преди да замине, той се сбогува с мене before leaving he said good-bye to me
    * * *
    да,
    част. ( за потвърждение или съгласие) yes; \да де well, yes; \да или не yes or no; и \да и не yea and nay; отговаряй само с “\да” или “не” confine yourself to yes and no; Познаваш ли го? ­ \да Do you know him? ­ Yes, I do; Ще отидеш ли или няма да отидеш? ­ \да, ще отида Are you going or not? ­ Yes, I am (going); ( влез) come in; ( при обаждане по телефона) hello, yes.
    ——————
    част.
    1. ( подкана) let (с inf. без to); \да вървим let’s go;
    2. ( заповед, закана) без превод: гледай \да не закъснееш mind you’re not late; \да става каквото ще come what may;
    3. ( нереално условие; пожелание) if, if only, may; \да бях аз на твое място if I were you; \да живее Х! long life X! \да крепне делото на мира! may the cause of peace prosper! \да можех да го видя I wish/if only I could see him; \да не бях идвал would that I had never come;
    4. ( съмнение) без превод: безпокоим се \да не би \да му се е случило нещо we are worried in case s.th. has happened to him; \да не би \да for fear (that), lest; in case; \да не би \да ни чуят for fear that/they may hear us; lest they should hear us; не ще \да е той it won’t be him; I don’t think it’s him; той \да се държи така! that he should behave like that;
    5. ( дали, нима) без превод: \да вървим ли? shall we go? \да не мислиш, че ме е страх? you don’t think I’m afraid, do you?;
    6. ( пред глагол) to; искам \да го видя I want to see him;
    7. (за цел и със за) to, in order to, in order that, so that; дойдох \да те видя I came to see you;
    8. (в съчет. със съюз и предл.): без \да without (с ger.); дори и \да е късно, ще отида even though it is late, I shall go; late as it is, I shall go; макар и \да, ако и \да, дори и \да though, even though, although; преди \да before (с ger.).
    * * *
    all right ; too {tu;} (за намерение); to (глагол в инфинитив); yeah - да живее
    * * *
    1. (амнистия пенсия, виза, стипендия 2. (в съчетание със съюзи и предлози) 3. (влез) come in 4. (връчвам) give, hand, deliver 5. (дали, нима) без превод: ДА вървим ли? shall we go? 6. (за обща цел) contribute 7. (за цел и със за) to, in order to, in order that,. so that 8. (заповед, закана) без превод: гледай ДА не закъснееш mind you're not late 9. (мома за женене) give in marriage 10. (награда, почести, звание) award (на to), confer (on), bestow (on) 11. (нереално условие, пожелание) if, if only, may 12. (подавам) hand, pass 13. (подарявам) give, present (s. o. with s. th.) 14. (пред глагол) to 15. (при обаждане по телефона) hello, yes 16. (сервирам) help (някому нещо s. о. to s. th.) 17. (съмнение) без превод: ДА не би ДА for fear (that) lest;in case 18. (храна на живoтно) feed (на to) 19. 1 (отпускам 20. 1 yes 21. 2 (подкана) let (с inf. без to) 22. give (някому нещо s.o. s.th., s.th. to s.o.) 23. ДА безплатно give away 24. ДА бях аз на твое място if I were you 25. ДА вървим let's go 26. ДА де well, yes 27. ДА живее Х! long live Х! ДА крепне делото на мира! may the cause of peace prosper! 28. ДА знак make a sign, beckon (на to) 29. ДА знак с ръка motion with o.'s hand 30. ДА израз на give expression/ utterance to 31. ДА или не yes or no 32. ДА мило и драго за be ready to give anything for 33. ДА много от себе си give much of o. s. 34. ДА можех да го видя I wish I could see him 35. ДА на заем lend 36. ДА на химическо чистене have s.th. dry-cleaned, send s.th. to be dry-cleaned 37. ДА не би ДА ни чуят for fear that/they may hear us;lest they should hear us 38. ДА не бях идвал would that I had never come 39. ДА не мислиш, че ме е страх? you don't think I'm afraid, do you? 40. ДА нещо на поправка have s.th. repaired 41. ДА някому достъп до give s.o. access to 42. ДА някому ролята на cast s. o. in the part of 43. ДА някому това, което му се пада give s. о. his (proper) due 44. ДА обещание make a promise, hold out a promise (на to), promise 45. ДА отговор give an answer (на to) 46. ДА отдих give/grant/allow respite 47. ДА подкуп на някого bribe s. о. 48. ДА подслон give shelter 49. ДА познания/ основа по ground in, give a grounding in 50. ДА помощ на give help to, lend assistance to 51. ДА първа помощ на give first aid to 52. ДА съгласието си give o.'s consent/assent 53. Познаваш ли го? - Да Do you know him?- Yes, I do 54. Ще отидеш ли или няма да отидеш? - Да, ще отида Are you going or not?- Yes, I am going 55. ако остана на if I should depend on 56. без ДА without (с ger.) 57. безпокоим се ДА не би ДА му се е случило нещо we are worried in case s.th. has happened to him 58. вж. останал 59. влез в стаята, без ДА го събудиш go into-the room without waking him 60. дава ми се 61. де ДА беше така if only it were so 62. дойдох ДА те видя I came to see you 63. дори и ДА е късно, ще отида even though it is late, I shall go;late as it is, I shall go 64. и ДА и не yea and nay 65. имам да ДА някому be in debt to s. o., be in s. o.'s debt, owe s. o. money, owe money to s. о. 66. искам ДА го видя I want to see him 67. който иска билети, да си ги набави сам whoever wants a ticket can get it himself 68. къде остана... ? what about... ? между нас да си остане, тук да си остане let this remain between us, keep mum about it 69. лесно е ДА се говори it is easy to talk 70. макар и ДА, ако и ДА, дори и ДА though, even though, although 71. малко остана да падна I almost/(very) nearly/all but fell 72. не ДА (помощ, съгласие) withhold 73. не ДА на детето да вдига шум I don't let the child make a noise 74. не ми дават да отида на кино they won't let me go to the cinema 75. не ще ДА е той it won't be him;I don't think it's him 76. независимост, концесии и пр.) grant 77. остават ми очите в нещо I can't keep my eyes off s. th. 78. остави другото, ами... what matters is... 79. остани си със здраве keep well, God be with you 80. отговаряй само с „да" или „не" confine yourself to yes and no 81. позволявам, разрешавам) allow, (с inf. без to), allow (c inf.) 82. преди ДА before (c ger.) 83. преди ДА замине, той се сбогува с мене before leaving he said good-bye to me. давам, дам 84. само това остава! that is the latest/the limit 85. се види it remains to be seen 86. та какво остава за to say nothing of 87. така си и остана it was left at that 88. ти ДА мълчиш! you keep your mouth shut! ДА става каквото ще come what may 89. той ДА се държи така! that he should behave like that 90. той е умрял преди аз ДА съм бил роден he died before I was born 91. той каза ДА he said yes 92. трябва ДА тръгнем сега, за ДА не закъснеем we must start now in order that we may not be late

    Български-английски речник > да

  • 59 peor

    adj.
    worse.
    he visto cosas peores I've seen worse
    adv.
    1 worse.
    ahora veo peor I see worse now
    ¿qué tal las vacaciones? — peor imposible how were your holidays? — they couldn't have been worse
    peor para ti/él/etc. that's your/his/etc problem
    peor que peor so much the worse
    2 worst.
    el que lo hizo peor the one who did it (the) worst
    * * *
    \
    peor es nada it's better than nothing
    * * *
    1. adv. 2. adj.
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [comparativo de malo] [producto, resultado, situación] worse; [oferta] lower; [calidad] poorer

    • ir a peor — to get worse

    • y lo que es peor — and what's worse

    • peor es nada — LAm it's better than nothing

    tanto 3., 2)
    2) [superlativo de malo] worst

    • en el peor de los casos — if the worst comes to the worst

    • lo peor, lo peor de todo es que no podemos hacer nada — the worst thing is that there is nothing we can do

    • la peor parte — the worst part

    2. ADV
    1) [comparativo de mal] worse

    • si no le gusta, peor para él — if he doesn't like it, that's his loss o that's just too bad

    mal 1., 6), mejor 2., 1)
    2) [superlativo de mal] worst

    ¿quién es el que lo hace peor de los tres? — who does it worst out of the three?, which of the three does it worst?

    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) ( comparativo de malo) <producto/película/profesor> worse; < calidad> poorer

    pues peor para él — that's his loss

    y si vienen los dos, tanto peor or peor que peor — and it'll be even worse if the two of them come

    b) ( comparativo de mal) worse
    2)
    a) ( superlativo de malo) ( entre dos)worse; ( entre varios) worst

    lo peor de todo es que... — the worst thing of all is that...

    los enfermos que estaban peor or peores — the patients who were most seriously ill

    son los que están peor or peores de dinero — they're the worst off (for money)

    II
    1) ( comparativo de mal) worse

    cuanto más lo mimas, peor se porta — the more you spoil him, the worse he behaves

    2) ( superlativo de mal) worst
    III
    masculino y femenino

    el/la peor — ( de dos) the worse; ( de varios) the worst

    * * *
    = worse off, worse, not-so-good, low-end, losingest.
    Ex. Thus far we seem to be worse off than before -- for we can enormously extend the record; yet even in its present bulk we can hardly consult it.
    Ex. There is now an even better (or worse) example that supplants rock music as the classical example of, not cultural lag, but musical lag, and that's GOSPEL MUSIC or GOSPEL SONGS, which has just now been established.
    Ex. The not-so-good news is that we now need to spend equally prodigious efforts at preserving the fruits of our labor.
    Ex. Therefore real time interaction is feasible on both low-end and high-end machines.
    Ex. Futility has followed them since the day they were born, and Sunday night was no different for the losingest team in sports history.
    ----
    * aun peor = worse, worse still, even worse, worse still.
    * cada vez peor = worsening.
    * de lo peor = at + Posesivo + very worst, at + Posesivo + worst.
    * de los peores = low-end.
    * el peor de todos = the worst of the lot.
    * en el momento peor de Alguien = at + Posesivo + weakest.
    * en el peor de los casos = at worst, in the worst of circumstances, at + Posesivo + very worst, the worst case scenario, at + Posesivo + worst, in the worst case.
    * esperar lo peor = expect + the worst.
    * ir de mal en peor = go from + bad to worse.
    * lo peor de = brunt of, the.
    * lo peor del = the armpit of the.
    * lo que es aun peor = worse still.
    * lo que es peor = what's worse.
    * los peores + Nombre = the poorest + Nombre.
    * mucho peor = far worse.
    * peor afectado = worst-hit.
    * peor aun = even worse.
    * peor caso, el = worst case, the.
    * peor... de, el = worst... in, the.
    * peor de los casos, el = worst case, the.
    * peor económicamente = worst off.
    * peor aun = worse still.
    * Posesivo + peor enemigo = Posesivo + worst enemy.
    * prepararse para lo peor = batten down, batten down + the hatches.
    * sacar a relucir lo peor de = bring out + the worst in.
    * salir peor = be a little worse off.
    * ser peor que = be sorrier than, compare + unfavourably.
    * y lo peor de todo = and worst of all.
    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) ( comparativo de malo) <producto/película/profesor> worse; < calidad> poorer

    pues peor para él — that's his loss

    y si vienen los dos, tanto peor or peor que peor — and it'll be even worse if the two of them come

    b) ( comparativo de mal) worse
    2)
    a) ( superlativo de malo) ( entre dos)worse; ( entre varios) worst

    lo peor de todo es que... — the worst thing of all is that...

    los enfermos que estaban peor or peores — the patients who were most seriously ill

    son los que están peor or peores de dinero — they're the worst off (for money)

    II
    1) ( comparativo de mal) worse

    cuanto más lo mimas, peor se porta — the more you spoil him, the worse he behaves

    2) ( superlativo de mal) worst
    III
    masculino y femenino

    el/la peor — ( de dos) the worse; ( de varios) the worst

    * * *
    = worse off, worse, not-so-good, low-end, losingest.

    Ex: Thus far we seem to be worse off than before -- for we can enormously extend the record; yet even in its present bulk we can hardly consult it.

    Ex: There is now an even better (or worse) example that supplants rock music as the classical example of, not cultural lag, but musical lag, and that's GOSPEL MUSIC or GOSPEL SONGS, which has just now been established.
    Ex: The not-so-good news is that we now need to spend equally prodigious efforts at preserving the fruits of our labor.
    Ex: Therefore real time interaction is feasible on both low-end and high-end machines.
    Ex: Futility has followed them since the day they were born, and Sunday night was no different for the losingest team in sports history.
    * aun peor = worse, worse still, even worse, worse still.
    * cada vez peor = worsening.
    * de lo peor = at + Posesivo + very worst, at + Posesivo + worst.
    * de los peores = low-end.
    * de mal en peor = out of the fire and into the frying pan.
    * el peor de todos = the worst of the lot.
    * en el momento peor de Alguien = at + Posesivo + weakest.
    * en el peor de los casos = at worst, in the worst of circumstances, at + Posesivo + very worst, the worst case scenario, at + Posesivo + worst, in the worst case.
    * esperar lo peor = expect + the worst.
    * ir de mal en peor = go from + bad to worse.
    * lo peor de = brunt of, the.
    * lo peor del = the armpit of the.
    * lo que es aun peor = worse still.
    * lo que es peor = what's worse.
    * los peores + Nombre = the poorest + Nombre.
    * mucho peor = far worse.
    * peor afectado = worst-hit.
    * peor aun = even worse.
    * peor caso, el = worst case, the.
    * peor... de, el = worst... in, the.
    * peor de los casos, el = worst case, the.
    * peor económicamente = worst off.
    * peor aun = worse still.
    * Posesivo + peor enemigo = Posesivo + worst enemy.
    * prepararse para lo peor = batten down, batten down + the hatches.
    * quedar peor = be a little worse prepared.
    * sacar a relucir lo peor de = bring out + the worst in.
    * salir peor = be a little worse off.
    * ser peor que = be sorrier than, compare + unfavourably.
    * y lo peor de todo = and worst of all.

    * * *
    A
    1 (comparativo de malo1 (↑ malo (1))) ‹producto/película/profesor› worse; ‹calidad› poorer
    resultó peor que el otro/de lo que pensábamos it was worse than the other one/than we expected, it wasn't as good as the other one/as we expected
    no quiere venir — peor para él he doesn't want to come — that's his loss o ( colloq) that's his lookout
    y si vienen los dos, tanto peoror peor que peor and it'll be even worse if the two of them come
    y para peor hacía un calor insoportable and to make matters worse the heat was unbearable
    éste huele peor que el otro this one smells worse than the other one, this one doesn't smell as good as the other one
    B
    de los dos, éste es el peor of the two, this one is worse
    es el peor alumno de la clase he's the worst pupil in the class
    en el peor de los casos podemos ir en tren if the worst comes to the worst we can go by train
    lo peor de todo es que … the worst thing of all is that …
    los enfermos que estaban peoror peores the patients who were most seriously ill
    de toda la familia son los que están peoror peores de dinero of the whole family they're the worst off (for money)
    A (comparativo de mal3 (↑ mal (3))) worse
    desde aquí se ve peor you can't see as well from here
    cuanto más lo mimas, peor se porta the more you spoil him, the worse he behaves
    juega cada vez peor she's playing worse and worse
    cantó peor que nunca he sang worse than ever, he's never sung so badly
    B (superlativo de mal3 (↑ mal (3))) worst
    el lugar donde peor se come en toda la ciudad the worst place to eat in the whole city
    es la novela peor escrita que he leído it's the most badly written novel I've ever read
    el/la peor (de dos) the worse; (de varios) the worst
    eligió el peor de los dos/de todos she chose the worse one of the two/the worst one of them all
    es el peor de la clase he's the worst in the class
    * * *

     

    peor adj/adv
    1 ( uso comparativo) worse;

    y si vienen los dos, tanto peor and it'll be even worse if the two of them come;
    cada vez peor worse and worse;
    su situación es peor que la mía his situation is worse than mine;
    está peor que nunca it's worse than ever
    2 ( uso superlativo) worst;

    lo peor que puede pasar the worst (thing) that can happen;
    en el peor de los casos if the worst comes to the worst;
    el lugar donde peor se come the worst place to eat in
    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino:
    ◊ el/la peor ( de dos) the worse;


    ( de varios) the worst
    peor
    I adjetivo
    1 (comparativo de malo) worse: esa marca es peor que esta otra, that brand is worse than this one
    2 (superlativo de malo) worst: es la peor película que he visto, it's the worst film I've ever seen
    II adverbio
    1 (comparativo de mal) worse: con estas gafas veo peor, I see worse with these glasses
    2 (superlativo de mal) worst: esa cama es donde peor se duerme, that is the worst bed to sleep in
    ♦ Locuciones: ir de mal en peor, to go from bad to worse
    en el peor de los casos, if the worst comes to the worst
    ¡peor para mí o ti!, too bad!
    ' peor' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cada
    - caso
    - desperdicio
    - deteriorarse
    - jamás
    - lo
    - nivel
    - tanta
    - tanto
    - temerse
    - última
    - último
    - vicio
    - cambiar
    - estar
    - ir
    - mal
    English:
    all
    - anything
    - arguably
    - at
    - booby prize
    - brunt
    - downhill
    - insomnia
    - mildly
    - miserably
    - part
    - pit
    - still
    - worse
    - worst
    - bad
    - booby
    - down
    - ever
    - far
    - history
    - in
    - memory
    - mercy
    - over
    - than
    - turn
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. (comparativo) worse ( que than);
    este disco es bastante peor this record is quite a lot worse;
    hace mucho peor tiempo en la montaña the weather is much worse in the mountains;
    he visto cosas peores I've seen worse;
    una televisión de peor calidad a worse quality television;
    es peor no decir nada it's even worse not to say anything at all;
    no hay nada peor que… there's nothing worse than…;
    podría haber sido peor it could have been worse;
    un cambio a peor a change for the worse;
    y lo que es peor… and what's worse…;
    fue peor el remedio que la enfermedad it only made things worse
    2. (superlativo)
    el/la peor… the worst…;
    el peor equipo de todos/del mundo the worst team of all/in the world;
    un producto de la peor calidad an extremely poor quality product;
    es lo peor que nos podía ocurrir it's the worst thing that could happen to us;
    es una persona despreciable, le deseo lo peor he's a horrible person, I hate him;
    lo peor fue que… the worst thing was that…;
    lo peor estaba aún por venir the worst was still to come;
    ponerse en lo peor to expect the worst
    ♦ nmf
    el/la peor the worst;
    el peor de todos/del mundo the worst of all/in the world;
    el peor de los dos the worse of the two;
    en el peor de los casos at worst, if the worst comes to the worst
    Am Fam Hum peor es nada [novio] boyfriend; [novia] girlfriend;
    vino con su peor es nada he came with his other half
    ♦ adv
    1. (comparativo) worse ( que than);
    ahora veo peor I can't see as well now;
    el francés se me da peor que el inglés I'm worse at French than I am at English;
    las cosas me van peor que antes things aren't going as well for me as before;
    ¿qué tal las vacaciones? – peor imposible how were your holidays? – they couldn't have been worse;
    está peor preparado que tú he's not as well prepared as you;
    lo hace cada vez peor she's getting worse and worse at it;
    está peor [el enfermo] he has got worse;
    estoy peor [de salud] I feel worse;
    peor para ti/él/ etc[m5]. that's your/his/ etc problem;
    que se calle, y si no quiere, peor que peor o [m5] tanto peor tell him to shut up, and if he doesn't want to, so much the worse for him;
    y si además llueve, peor que peor o [m5] tanto peor and if it rains too, that would be even worse
    2. (superlativo) worst;
    el que lo hizo peor the one who did it (the) worst;
    esto es lo que se me da peor this is what I'm worst at;
    los exámenes peor presentados the worst-presented exams
    * * *
    adj
    1 comp worse;
    de mal en peor from bad to worse;
    ir a peor get worse, deteriorate;
    peor que peor, tanto peor it will make matters worse
    2 sup
    :
    lo peor the worst (thing);
    haber pasado lo peor be over the worst
    * * *
    peor adv
    1) comparative of mal : worse
    se llevan peor que antes: they get along worse than before
    2) superlative of mal : worst
    me fue peor que a nadie: I did the worst of all
    peor adj
    1) comparative of malo : worse
    es peor que el original: it's worse than the original
    2) superlative of malo : worst
    el peor de todos: the worst of all
    * * *
    peor adj adv
    1. (comparativo) worse
    2. (superlativo) worst

    Spanish-English dictionary > peor

  • 60 santo

    m.
    1 saint, saintly man.
    2 tip.
    3 Santo.
    * * *
    1 (gen) holy, sacred
    2 (persona) holy, saintly
    3 familiar (para enfatizar) hell of a, real, right
    ■ recibió una santa bofetada he got a hell of a whack, he got a right whack
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 saint
    1 (imagen) image of a saint
    2 familiar (dibujo) picture
    3 (onomástica) saint's day
    \
    ¿a santo de qué? familiar why on earth?
    hacer su santa voluntad to do as one damn well pleases
    llegar y besar el santo familiar as easy as pie, a piece of cake
    no es santo de mi devoción familiar I'm not too fond of him, he's not my cup of tea
    ¡por todos los santos! familiar for heaven's sake!
    quedarse para vestir santos familiar to be left on the shelf
    Santo Oficio Holy Office
    santo y seña password
    un santo varón a saint of a man Table 1 NOTA See also san/Table 1
    ————————
    1 (imagen) image of a saint
    2 familiar (dibujo) picture
    3 (onomástica) saint's day
    * * *
    1. (f. - santa)
    noun
    2. (f. - santa)
    adj.
    1) holy
    * * *
    santo, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) (Rel) [vida, persona] holy; [tierra] consecrated; [persona] saintly; [mártir] blessed
    semana
    2) [remedio] wonderful, miraculous
    3) [enfático] blessed
    2. SM / F
    1) (Rel) saint

    santo/a patrón/ona, santo/a titular — patron saint

    2)
    - ¿a santo de qué?
    - ¿a qué santo?

    ¡que se te va el santo al cielo! — you're miles away!

    3) (=persona) saint
    3. SM
    1) (=onomástica) saint's day
    2) [en libro] picture
    3)

    santo y seña — (Mil) password

    4) Cono Sur (Cos) patch, darn
    SANTO As well as celebrating their birthday, many Spaniards and Latin Americans celebrate their santo or onomástica. This is the day when the saint whose name they have is honoured in the Christian calendar. It used to be relatively common for newborn babies to be named after the saint on whose day they were born. So a boy born on 25 July (Saint James's day) stood a good chance of being christened "Santiago". The tradition may be dying out now that parents are no longer restricted to names from the Christian calendar. In Spain, as with birthdays, the person whose santo it is normally buys the drinks if they go out with friends.
    * * *
    I
    - ta adjetivo
    1) (Relig)
    a) <lugar/mujer/vida> holy
    b) ( con nombre propio) St, Saint

    Santo Domingo — Saint Dominic; ver tb San

    2) (fam) ( uso enfático)
    II
    - ta masculino, femenino
    1) ( persona) saint

    por todos los santos! — for Heaven's o goodness' sake!

    ¿a santo de qué? — (fam) why on earth? (colloq)

    darse de santos — (Méx fam) to think oneself lucky (colloq)

    desnudar a un santo para vestir a otro — to rob Peter to pay Paul

    no es santo de mi/tu/su devoción — he/she is not my/your/his favorite person

    quedarse para vestir santos — to be left on the shelf

    se me/le fue el santo al cielo — it went right out of my/his head

    no te creas que fue llegar y besar el santo — don't think it was just handed to me/him on a plate

    2) santo masculino ( festividad) name day, saint's day; ( cumpleaños) (esp AmL) birthday
    •• Cultural note:
    Most first names in Spanish-speaking countries are those of saints. A person's santo, (also known as onomástico in Latin America and onomástica in Spain) is the saint's day of the saint that they are named for. Children were once usually named for the saint whose day they were born on, but this is less common now
    * * *
    I
    - ta adjetivo
    1) (Relig)
    a) <lugar/mujer/vida> holy
    b) ( con nombre propio) St, Saint

    Santo Domingo — Saint Dominic; ver tb San

    2) (fam) ( uso enfático)
    II
    - ta masculino, femenino
    1) ( persona) saint

    por todos los santos! — for Heaven's o goodness' sake!

    ¿a santo de qué? — (fam) why on earth? (colloq)

    darse de santos — (Méx fam) to think oneself lucky (colloq)

    desnudar a un santo para vestir a otro — to rob Peter to pay Paul

    no es santo de mi/tu/su devoción — he/she is not my/your/his favorite person

    quedarse para vestir santos — to be left on the shelf

    se me/le fue el santo al cielo — it went right out of my/his head

    no te creas que fue llegar y besar el santo — don't think it was just handed to me/him on a plate

    2) santo masculino ( festividad) name day, saint's day; ( cumpleaños) (esp AmL) birthday
    •• Cultural note:
    Most first names in Spanish-speaking countries are those of saints. A person's santo, (also known as onomástico in Latin America and onomástica in Spain) is the saint's day of the saint that they are named for. Children were once usually named for the saint whose day they were born on, but this is less common now
    * * *
    santo1
    1 = saint.

    Ex: The same person cannot be both a man and a woman, a saint and a sinner, a stay-at-home and an explorer, an ancient Roman and a modern Russian.

    * acabar con la paciencia de un santo = test + the patience of a saint, try + the patience of a saint.
    * adoración de los santos = saint worship.
    * desvestir a un santo para vestir a otro = rob Peter to pay Paul.
    * Día de Todos los Santos = All Saints' Day.
    * día de un santo = saint's day.
    * efecto del santo = halo effect.
    * írsele a Uno el santo al cielo = it + go + right/straight out of + Posesivo + mind.
    * írsele a Uno el santo al cielo = lose + track of time.
    * poner a prueba la paciencia de un santo = try + the patience of a saint.
    * poner a prueba la paciencia de un santo = test + the patience of a saint.
    * Posesivo + santo = Posesivo + saint's day.
    * santo Job = Saint Job.
    * santo y seña = shibboleth.
    * tener la paciencia del santo Job = have + the patience of Job.
    * tener la paciencia de un santo = have + the patience of a saint.
    * tener más paciencia que el santo Job = have + the patience of Job.
    * tener más paciencia que un santo = have + the patience of a saint.

    santo2
    2 = holy [holier -comp., holiest -sup.], saintly [saintlier -comp., santiliest -sup,].

    Ex: The title of the article is 'More holy men than learned: impressions from Indian manuscript libraries'.

    Ex: All people, regardless of how saintly or naughty, merited a notice of their important contributions or personal characteristics.
    * ¡Cielo Santo! = Good heavens!.
    * Día de los (Santos) Inocentes, el = April Fools' Day.
    * hombre santo = holy man.
    * Jueves Santo = Maundy Thursday, Holy Thursday.
    * Sábado Santo = Holy Saturday.
    * Sábana Santa de Turín, la = Shroud of Turin, the.
    * Sábana Santa, la = Shroud, the, Holy Shroud, the.
    * Santa Claus = Father Christmas, Santa Claus.
    * Santa Hermandad, la = Holy Order, the.
    * Santa Sede = Holy See.
    * ¡Santo Cielo! = Good heavens!.
    * ¡Santo Dios! = goodness gracious.
    * Santo Domingo = Santo Domingo.
    * santo grial = holy grail.
    * santo patrón = patron saint.
    * Santo Sepulcro, el = Holy Sepulchre, the.
    * santo varón = holy man.
    * todo el santo día = all day long.
    * Viernes Santo = Good Friday.

    * * *
    santo1 -ta
    A ( Relig)
    1 ‹lugar/mujer/vida› holy
    la santa misa holy mass
    la Santa Madre Iglesia the Holy Mother Church
    los santos mártires the blessed martyrs
    tu abuelo, que fue un santo varón your grandfather, who was a saintly man o a saint
    fue un hombre santo y bueno he was a good and saintly man
    Santa Teresa/Rosa Saint Theresa/Rosa
    Santo Domingo/Tomás Saint Dominic/Thomas
    Compuestos:
    feminine Holy Alliance
    la Santoa Sede the Holy See
    masculine Blessed Sacrament
    masculine Second Coming
    esperar a algn/algo como al Santo Advenimiento to wait impatiently for sb/sth
    masculine Holy Grail
    masculine Holy Office
    masculine Holy Father
    masculine patron saint
    masculine ( AmL) patron saint
    mpl Holy Innocents (pl)
    mpl holy places (pl)
    mpl holy oils (pl)
    B ( fam)
    (uso enfático): estuvo lloviendo todo el santo día it rained the whole blessed day ( colloq)
    siempre tenemos que hacer su santa voluntad we always have to do what he wants
    santo2 -ta
    masculine, feminine
    santo (↑ santo a1)
    A (persona) saint
    imágenes de santos images of saints
    se ha portado como una santa she's been a little angel
    no te hagas el santo don't act o come over all virtuous
    se necesita una paciencia de santo para ese trabajo you need the patience of a saint to do that kind of work
    tu madre es una santa your mother's a saint
    ¡por todos los santos! for Heaven's o goodness' sake!
    ¿a santo de qué? or ¿a qué santo? ( fam); why on earth? ( colloq)
    ¿a qué santo tuviste que ir a decírselo? why on earth did you have to go and tell him?
    cada uno or cada cual para su santo ( fam): nada de pagar tú todo, cada uno para su santo you're not footing the bill, everyone can pay for themselves o pay their share
    trabaja cada cual para su santo everyone is just working for themselves
    comerse los santos ( fam); to be very holy
    con el santo de espaldas ill-starred, unlucky
    darse de santos ( Méx fam); to think oneself lucky ( colloq)
    ni tanto que queme al santo, ni tanto que no lo alumbre ( Col); try to strike a happy medium
    no es santo de mi/tu/su devoción he/she is not my/your/his favorite person
    no sé/sabía a qué santo encomendarme ( fam); I don't/didn't know which way to turn ( colloq)
    quedarse para vestir santos to be left on the shelf
    se me/le fue el santo al cielo it went right out of my/his head
    ser llegar y besar el santo ( fam): no te creas que fue llegar y besar el santo don't think it was just handed to me/him on a plate o that it just fell into my/his lap
    te/le sienta como a un santo un par de pistolas ( fam hum); it looks awful on you/him o it doesn't suit you/him at all
    tener santos en la corte ( Chi fam); to have friends in high places ( colloq)
    Compuesto:
    password
    B
    santo masculine (festividad) name day, saint's day; (cumpleaños) ( esp AmL) birthday
    C ( Chi) (homenajeado) person who is celebrating his/her saint's day
    Most first names in Spanish-speaking countries are those of saints. A person's santo, (also known as onomástico in Latin America and onomástica in Spain) is the saint's day of the saint that they are named for. Children were once usually named for the saint whose day they were born on, but this is less common now.
    * * *

    Multiple Entries:
    S.    
    Sto.    
    santo
    S. (
    ◊ santo) St

    Sto. (Santo) St
    santo -ta adjetivo
    1 (Relig)
    a) ‹lugar/mujer/vida› holy



    ver tb San
    2 (fam) ( uso enfático) blessed;

    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    1 ( persona) saint;

    no te hagas el santo don't come over all virtuous;
    santo y seña password
    2
    ◊ santo sustantivo masculino ( festividad) name day, saint's day;


    ( cumpleaños) (esp AmL) birthday
    santo,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 Rel (lugar, hecho, vida, etc) holy
    2 (persona canonizada) Saint
    Santo Tomás, Saint Thomas
    3 acabó haciendo su santa voluntad, he ended up doing just as he wanted
    familiar todo el santo día, the whole blessed day
    II m,f (persona muy buena) saint
    III sustantivo masculino (onomástica) es mi santo, it's my saint's day o name day
    ♦ Locuciones: se me/le fue el santo al cielo, it went straight out of my/his head
    quedarse para vestir santos, familiar to be left on the shelf
    tener/no tener el santo de cara, to be very lucky/unlucky
    ¿a santo de qué?, why on earth?
    Mil ¡santo y seña!, password
    familiar (conseguir algo a la primera) llegar y besar el santo, to pull sthg off at the first attempt
    ' santo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bendita
    - bendito
    - cielo
    - devoción
    - espíritu
    - jueves
    - S.
    - sábado
    - san
    - santa
    - santidad
    - santificar
    - Santo Domingo
    - veladora
    - dios
    - San
    - Sto.
    - viernes
    English:
    Friday
    - god
    - good
    - Good Friday
    - grief
    - holy
    - mile
    - patron saint
    - rob
    - saint
    - saintly
    - shrine
    - tea
    - watchword
    - gracious
    - inquisition
    * * *
    santo, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [sagrado] holy
    el Santo Advenimiento the Second Coming; Hist la Santa Alianza the Holy Alliance;
    la santa cena the Last Supper;
    el Santo Grial the Holy Grail;
    los Santos Inocentes the Holy Innocents;
    los santos lugares the holy places;
    la Santa Madre Iglesia the Holy Mother Church;
    el Santo Oficio the Holy Office;
    el Santo Padre the Holy Father;
    Am santo patrono patron saint;
    los santos sacramentos the Sacraments;
    la Santa Sede the Holy See
    2. [virtuoso] saintly;
    su padre era un santo varón her father was a saintly man
    3. [antes de nombre propio] Santa Claus Santa Claus;
    Méx, Ven Santa Clos Santa Claus;
    Santa María Saint Mary;
    Santo Tomás Saint Thomas
    4. [en nombres geográficos] Santo Domingo Santo Domingo;
    Santa Elena Saint Helena;
    Santo Tomé São Tomé;
    Santo Tomé y Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe
    5. santa Rita [planta] bougainvillea
    6. Fam [dichoso, maldito] damn;
    todo el santo día all day long;
    no paró de nevar en todo el santo día it went on snowing all day long;
    el teléfono lleva sonando toda la santa mañana the damn phone hasn't stopped ringing all morning;
    él siempre hace su santa voluntad he always does whatever he damn well likes
    7. Fam [beneficioso] miraculous;
    esta infusión es cosa santa this herbal tea works wonders
    ♦ nm,f
    saint;
    su madre era una santa her mother was a saint
    santo patrón patron saint;
    santa patrona patron saint
    ♦ nm
    1. [onomástica] saint's day;
    hoy es su santo it's his saint's day today
    2. Fam [ilustración] illustration
    3. [contraseña]
    santo y seña password
    4. Chile [parche] patch
    5. Comp
    ¿a santo de qué? why on earth?, for what earthly reason?;
    ¿a santo de qué me llamas a casa? why on earth are you calling me at home?;
    desnudar a un santo para vestir a otro to rob Peter to pay Paul;
    se le fue el santo al cielo he completely forgot;
    llegar y besar el santo: fue llegar y besar el santo, nos dieron el permiso a los dos días it couldn't have been easier, we got the licence within two days;
    fue llegar y besar el santo, marcó a los dos minutos de su debut he was an instant success, he scored within two minutes of his debut;
    no es santo de mi devoción he's not my cup of tea;
    ¡por todos los santos! for heaven's sake!;
    quedarse para vestir santos to be left on the shelf;
    tener el santo de cara to have luck on one's side
    * * *
    I adj holy
    II m, santa f saint;
    ¿a santo de qué? fam what on earth for? fam ;
    no es santo de mi devoción fam I don’t like him very much, he isn’t my favorite o Br
    favourite person;
    quedarse para vestir santos fam be left on the shelf;
    tener el santo de cara be incredibly lucky, have the luck of the devil;
    tener el santo de espaldas have no luck at all;
    fue llegar y besar el santo fam everything fell into his lap;
    se me ha ido el santo al cielo fam it has gone right out of my head;
    dormir como un santo sleep like a baby o a log;
    Todos los Santos All Saints’ (Day)
    III m ( onomástica) saint’s day
    * * *
    santo, -ta adj
    1) : holy, saintly
    el Santo Padre: the Holy Father
    una vida santa: a saintly life
    2)
    Santa Clara: Saint Claire
    Santo Tomás: Saint Thomas
    San Francisco: Saint Francis
    santo, -ta n
    : saint
    santo nm
    1) : saint's day
    2) cumpleaños: birthday
    * * *
    santo1 adj
    1. (sagrado) holy [comp. holier; superl. holiest]
    santo2 n
    1. (persona) saint
    2. (día) saint's day

    Spanish-English dictionary > santo

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