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being admitted

  • 1 being admitted as a solicitor

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > being admitted as a solicitor

  • 2 postulant (A person on probation before being admitted as a candidate for holy orders in the Episcopal Church)

    Религия: кандидат в священники

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > postulant (A person on probation before being admitted as a candidate for holy orders in the Episcopal Church)

  • 3 ingresar


    ingresar ( conjugate ingresar) verbo intransitivo 1 [ persona] (en organización, club) to join; ( en colegio) to enter; ( en el ejército) to join; ingresó cadáver (Esp) he was dead on arrival 2 [ dinero] to come in verbo transitivo 1 persona› ( en hospital): hubo que ingresarlo de urgencia he had to be admitted as a matter of urgency; fueron ingresados en esta prisión they were taken to this prison 2 (Esp) (Fin) ‹dinero/cheque to pay in; [ banco] to credit an account with a sum
    ingresar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 Fin (en un banco) to deposit, pay in (recibir ganancias) to take in
    2 Med to admit: me ingresaron con una crisis nerviosa, I was admitted with a nervous breakdown
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 to enter: este año ingresa en la Universidad, this year he goes to University
    ingresar en un club, to join a club
    2 Med ingresó a las cinco, he was admitted (to hospital) at five (o'clock)
    ingresó cadáver, to be dead on arrival ' ingresar' also found in these entries: English: admit - bank - deposit - enter - hospitalize - join - pay in - credit - grammar - pay

    English-spanish dictionary > ingresar

  • 4 ingreso

    Del verbo ingresar: ( conjugate ingresar) \ \
    ingreso es: \ \
    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    ingresó es: \ \
    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo
    Multiple Entries: ingresar     ingreso
    ingresar ( conjugate ingresar) verbo intransitivo 1 [ persona] (en organización, club) to join; ( en colegio) to enter; ( en el ejército) to join; ingresó cadáver (Esp) he was dead on arrival 2 [ dinero] to come in verbo transitivo 1 persona› ( en hospital): hubo que ingresolo de urgencia he had to be admitted as a matter of urgency; fueron ingresados en esta prisión they were taken to this prison 2 (Esp) (Fin) ‹dinero/cheque to pay in; [ banco] to credit an account with a sum
    ingreso sustantivo masculino 1
    a) ( en organización): el año de mi ingreso a or en la universidad/el ejército/la compañía the year I started o entered university/joined the army/joined the company;
    2 (Fin)
    a) (Esp) ( depósito) deposit
    b)
    ingresos sustantivo masculino plural ( ganancias) income;
    ingresos brutos/netos gross/net income
    ingresar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 Fin (en un banco) to deposit, pay in (recibir ganancias) to take in
    2 Med to admit: me ingresaron con una crisis nerviosa, I was admitted with a nervous breakdown
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 to enter: este año ingresa en la Universidad, this year he goes to University
    ingresar en un club, to join a club
    2 Med ingresó a las cinco, he was admitted (to hospital) at five (o'clock)
    ingresó cadáver, to be dead on arrival
    ingreso sustantivo masculino
    1 Fin deposit: necesito hacer un ingreso de tres mil pesetas, I need to pay in three thousand pesetas
    2 (entrada) entry [en, into] (admisión) admission [en, to] 3 ingresos, (sueldo, renta) income sing, revenue sing ' ingreso' also found in these entries: Spanish: acceso - cadáver - formularia - formulario - ingresar - entrada - examen - menor English: admission - admit - DOA - enter - entrance - entrance examination - eventual - grammar school - pay in - paying-in-slip - pronounce - deposit - membership

    English-spanish dictionary > ingreso

  • 5 postulant

    ['pɒstjʊlənt]
    1) Общая лексика: готовящийся к вступлению в религиозный орден, кандидат (особ. на поступление в религиозный орден), кандидат в священники, послушник, проситель
    2) Религия: (A person admitted to a religious order as a probationary candidate for membership) готовящийся к вступлению в религиозный орден, (A person on probation before being admitted as a candidate for holy orders in the Episcopal Church) кандидат в священники

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > postulant

  • 6 privilege

    noun
    1) (right, immunity) Privileg, das; collect. Privilegien Pl.
    2) (special benefit) Sonderrecht, das; (honour) Ehre, die

    it was a privilege to listen to himes war ein besonderes Vergnügen, ihm zuzuhören

    * * *
    ['privəli‹]
    ((a) favour or right available, or granted, to only one person, or to a small number of people: Senior students are usually allowed certain privileges.) das Privileg
    - academic.ru/58061/privileged">privileged
    * * *
    privi·lege
    [ˈprɪvəlɪʤ]
    I. n
    1. (special right) Privileg nt, Vorrecht nt
    to enjoy [or have] a \privilege ein Vorrecht besitzen [o Privileg genießen
    2. (honour) Ehre f; ( iron) Vergnügen nt iron
    it is a \privilege [for sb] to do sth es ist [jdm] eine Ehre, etw zu tun
    it's a \privilege to meet you, Mr Brown es ist mir eine Ehre, Sie kennenzulernen, Herr Brown
    to have the \privilege of doing sth die Ehre haben, etw tun zu dürfen
    3. no pl (advantage) Sonderrecht nt, Privileg nt
    to be a man of wealth and \privilege reich und privilegiert sein
    to enjoy [or have] certain \privileges gewisse Sonderrechte besitzen [o genießen]
    diplomatic \privilege diplomatische Immunität
    parliamentary \privilege BRIT Immunität f eines Abgeordneten/einer Abgeordneten
    4. LAW
    attorney-client \privilege Aussageverweigerungsrecht nt des Anwalts/der Anwältin, Anwaltsgeheimnis nt
    5. COMPUT Zugriffsrecht nt
    6. COMM (financial perk) Vergünstigung f
    1. (give privileges to)
    to \privilege sb jdn privilegieren [o bevorrechtigen]
    I am \privileged to be able to present to you Robin Williams ich habe die besondere Ehre, Ihnen Robin Williams vorstellen zu dürfen
    2. (exempt from)
    to be \privileged from sth von etw dat befreit [o ausgenommen] sein
    * * *
    ['prIvIlɪdZ]
    1. n
    1) (= prerogative) Privileg nt, Sonderrecht nt; (= honour) Ehre f; (PARL) Immunität f
    2) (COMPUT) Zugriffsrecht nt
    2. vt
    privilegieren, bevorrechtigen
    * * *
    privilege [ˈprıvılıdʒ]
    A s
    1. Privileg n, Sonder-, Vorrecht n, Vergünstigung f:
    a) Übertretung f der Machtbefugnis,
    b) PARL Br Vergehen n gegen die Vorrechte des Parlaments;
    privilege of Parliament PARL Br Immunität f der Abgeordneten;
    privilege from arrest JUR persönliche Immunität;
    privilege of self-defence (US - defense) JUR (Recht n der) Notwehr f;
    with kitchen privileges mit Küchenbenutzung;
    privilege tax WIRTSCH US Konzessionssteuer f
    2. fig (besonderer) Vorzug:
    have the privilege of being admitted den Vorzug haben, zugelassen zu werden;
    it is a privilege to converse with him es ist eine besondere Ehre, mit ihm sprechen zu dürfen
    3. US (verbürgtes oder verfassungsmäßiges) Recht, Grundrecht n:
    this is his privilege das ist sein gutes Recht;
    it is my privilege to do this es steht mir frei, das zu tun
    4. Börse: Prämien- oder Stellgeschäft n:
    privilege broker US Prämienmakler(in)
    B v/t
    1. privilegieren, bevorrechtigen, bevorzugen, jemandem das Vorrecht einräumen ( to do zu tun):
    be privileged to do sth die Ehre oder den Vorzug haben, etwas zu tun
    2. ausnehmen, befreien ( beide:
    from von)
    * * *
    noun
    1) (right, immunity) Privileg, das; collect. Privilegien Pl.
    2) (special benefit) Sonderrecht, das; (honour) Ehre, die

    it was a privilege to listen to him — es war ein besonderes Vergnügen, ihm zuzuhören

    * * *
    n.
    Privileg -ien n.
    Recht -e n.
    Sonderrecht n.
    Vorrecht -e n. v.
    mit einem Privileg ausstatten ausdr.

    English-german dictionary > privilege

  • 7 gray IPO market

    gray IPO market (BE) BANK, STOCK grauer IPO-Markt m, Graumarkt m, grauer Emissionsmarkt m, grauer Markt m (synonymous: BE gray market, AE gray market; trading of new issues in an unofficial ‘gray’ market on an ‘if, as and when issued’ basis prior to being admitted to the official after-market; unreglementierter Handel in Neuemissionen vor der offiziellen Begebung auf ‘If, as and when issued’-Basis; cf Handel per Erscheinen, IPO-trading)

    Englisch-Deutsch Fachwörterbuch der Wirtschaft > gray IPO market

  • 8 trading on an if, as and when issued basis

    trading on an if, as and when issued basis STOCK Handel m auf ‘If, as and when issued’-Basis (IPOs; trading of new issues in an unofficial ‘gray’ market prior to being admitted to the official after-market; a risk transfer instrument = Risikotransfer-Instrument for participants in auctions; e.g. the ‘US Treasury when issued market’; ‘vorbörslicher’ Handel mit Neuemissionen vor ihrer offiziellen Begebung; cf IPO-trading, Handel per Erscheinen, gray market)

    Englisch-Deutsch Fachwörterbuch der Wirtschaft > trading on an if, as and when issued basis

  • 9 admit

    1. transitive verb,
    - tt-
    1) (let in) hinein-/hereinlassen

    admit somebody to a clubjemanden in einen Klub aufnehmen

    be admitted to hospitalins Krankenhaus eingeliefert werden

    2) (accept as valid)

    if we admit that argument/evidence — wenn wir davon ausgehen, dass dieses Argument zutrifft/dass diese Beweise erlaubt sind

    3) (acknowledge) zugeben; eingestehen

    admit to being drunk — zugeben, betrunken zu sein

    2. intransitive verb,
    - tt-
    * * *
    [əd'mit]
    past tense, past participle - admitted; verb
    1) (to allow to enter: This ticket admits one person.) Zutritt gewähren
    2) (to say that one accepts as true: He admitted (that) he was wrong.) zugeben
    - academic.ru/773/admissible">admissible
    - admission
    - admittance
    - admittedly
    * * *
    ad·mit
    <- tt->
    [ədˈmɪt]
    I. vt
    to \admit sth etw zugeben [o eingestehen]
    to \admit defeat seine Niederlage eingestehen
    to \admit an error [or a mistake] /one's guilt einen Irrtum [o Fehler] /seine Schuld zugeben [o einräumen]
    to freely \admit sth etw ohne Umschweife zugeben
    2. (allow entrance)
    to \admit sb/sth jdn/etw hereinlassen/hineinlassen
    this ticket \admits one person only diese Eintrittskarte ist nur für eine Person gültig
    no minors [or minors not] \admitted Zutritt ab 18 Jahren
    to \admit sb to [AM the] hospital jdn ins Krankenhaus einliefern
    to \admit sth etw zulassen
    to \admit evidence LAW ein Beweismittel zulassen
    4. (hold)
    to \admit sb jdm Platz bieten
    the theatre \admits 300 people das Theater fasst 300 Personen
    II. vi
    to \admit to sth etw zugeben [o eingestehen]
    * * *
    [əd'mɪt]
    vt
    1) (= let in) hereinlassen; (= permit to join) zulassen (to zu), aufnehmen (to in +acc)

    he was not admitted to the cinema/to college — er wurde nicht ins Kino hineingelassen/zur Universität zugelassen or in der Universität aufgenommen

    this ticket admits twodie Karte ist für zwei (Personen)

    2) (= have space for halls, harbours etc) Platz bieten für
    3) (= acknowledge) zugeben

    do you admit (to) stealing his hat? — geben Sie zu, seinen Hut gestohlen zu haben?

    he admitted himself beaten —

    it is generally admitted that... — es wird allgemein zugegeben, dass...

    to admit the truth of sth — zugeben, dass etw wahr ist

    * * *
    admit [ədˈmıt]
    A v/t
    1. jemanden ein-, vorlassen, jemandem Einlass gewähren
    2. (into, to) jemanden aufnehmen (in eine Gesellschaft, in einem Krankenhaus), zulassen (zu einer Institution, einem Amt etc):
    admit sb into one’s confidence jemanden ins Vertrauen ziehen; bar A 19
    3. B 2
    4. anerkennen, gelten lassen:
    admit the justification of a criticism die Berechtigung einer Kritik anerkennen
    5. seine Schuld etc zugeben, (ein)gestehen, bekennen:
    admit doing sth zugeben, etwas getan zu haben
    6. zugeben, einräumen ( that dass):
    admitted! zugegeben!, das gebe ich zu!; defeat B 2
    7. Platz haben oder bieten für, fassen, aufnehmen:
    the hall admits 200 persons in dem Saal haben 200 Personen Platz
    8. TECH Luft, Kraftstoff etc zuführen
    B v/i
    1. admit to führen in (akk) oder zu (Tür etc)
    2. admit of gestatten, erlauben, zulassen:
    admit of no doubt keinen Zweifel zulassen;
    it admits of no excuse es lässt sich nicht entschuldigen, es ist nicht zu entschuldigen;
    these facts admit of no other explanation diese Fakten lassen sich nicht anders erklären;
    a sentence that admits of two interpretations ein Satz, der zwei Interpretationen zulässt
    3. admit to A 5
    * * *
    1. transitive verb,
    - tt-
    1) (let in) hinein-/hereinlassen

    if we admit that argument/evidence — wenn wir davon ausgehen, dass dieses Argument zutrifft/dass diese Beweise erlaubt sind

    3) (acknowledge) zugeben; eingestehen

    admit to being drunk — zugeben, betrunken zu sein

    2. intransitive verb,
    - tt-
    * * *
    v.
    einlassen v.
    zugeben v.
    zulassen v.

    English-german dictionary > admit

  • 10 presence

    noun
    1) (being present) (of person) Gegenwart, die; Anwesenheit, die; (of things) Vorhandensein, das

    in the presence of his friendsin Gegenwart od. Anwesenheit seiner Freunde

    2) (bearing) Auftreten, das
    3) (being represented) Präsenz, die

    police presence — Polizeipräsenz, die

    4)

    presence of mind — Geistesgegenwart, die

    * * *
    ['prezns]
    1) (the state, or fact, of being present: The committee requests your presence at Thursday's meeting.) die Gegenwart
    2) (a striking, impressive manner or appearance: The headmistress certainly has presence.) das Auftreten
    - academic.ru/116928/in_the_presence_of">in the presence of
    - presence of mind
    * * *
    pres·ence
    [ˈprezən(t)s]
    n
    1. no pl (attendance) Anwesenheit f; (occurrence) Vorhandensein nt; ( form)
    your \presence is requested Sie sind eingeladen
    to make one's \presence felt sich akk bemerkbar machen
    in sb's \presence, in the \presence of sb in jds Gegenwart [o Anwesenheit]
    in the \presence of a third party Dritten gegenüber
    in the \presence of two witnesses in Gegenwart [o im Beisein] zweier Zeugen/Zeuginnen
    in my \presence in meiner Gegenwart
    2. ( approv: dignified bearing) Haltung f, Auftreten nt
    to have \presence of person ein gutes Auftreten haben
    3. (supernatural) Gegenwart f kein pl
    to feel sb's \presence jds Gegenwart [förmlich] spüren können
    military/police \presence Militär-/Polizeipräsenz f
    * * *
    ['prezns]
    n
    1) Gegenwart f, Anwesenheit f

    in sb's presence, in the presence of sb — in jds (dat)

    he was admitted to the king's presenceer wurde zum König vorgelassen

    in the presence of dangerim Angesicht der Gefahr

    2)

    a military/police presence — Militär-/Polizeipräsenz f

    3) (= bearing, dignity) Auftreten nt, Haltung f; (of actor also stage presence) Ausstrahlung f
    4)

    they felt a ghostly/an invisible presence — sie spürten, dass etwas Geisterhaftes/Unsichtbares anwesend war

    * * *
    presence [ˈprezns] s
    1. a) Gegenwart f, Anwesenheit f, Präsenz f:
    in the presence of, in sb’s presence in Gegenwart oder in Anwesenheit oder im Beisein von (od gen);
    presence of mind Geistesgegenwart;
    have the presence of mind to do sth die Geistesgegenwart haben oder so geistesgegenwärtig sein, etwas zu tun;
    he had the presence of mind to jump out of the way auch er sprang geistesgegenwärtig zur Seite;
    make one’s presence felt sich bemerkbar machen;
    police presence Polizeipräsenz; impose A 2 a, save1 A 9
    b) MIL, POL militärische Präsenz
    2. (unmittelbare) Nähe, Vorhandensein n:
    bring sb into the presence of the king jemanden vor den König bringen;
    be admitted into the presence (zur Audienz) vorgelassen werden;
    in the presence of danger angesichts der Gefahr
    3. besonders Br hohe Persönlichkeit(en pl)
    4. a) (das) Äußere, Aussehen n, (stattliche) Erscheinung
    b) Auftreten n, Haltung f
    c) (persönliche) Ausstrahlung (eines Schauspielers etc)
    d) (das) Eindrucksvolle, Wirksamkeit f
    5. Anwesenheit f eines unsichtbaren Geistes:
    * * *
    noun
    1) (being present) (of person) Gegenwart, die; Anwesenheit, die; (of things) Vorhandensein, das

    in the presence of his friendsin Gegenwart od. Anwesenheit seiner Freunde

    2) (bearing) Auftreten, das
    3) (being represented) Präsenz, die

    police presence — Polizeipräsenz, die

    4)

    presence of mind — Geistesgegenwart, die

    * * *
    n.
    Anwesenheit f.
    Gegenwart f.
    Präsenz -en f.

    English-german dictionary > presence

  • 11 acronyms (new and funny)

    •• Широкое употребление сокращений – неотъемлемая черта любого живого современного языка. Многих это раздражает, но сокращения – реальность, с которой обязательно должен считаться переводчик. И в русском, и в английском языке, особенно в течение ХХ столетия, «накопились» тысячи, а возможно десятки тысяч сокращений. Но не случайно я поставил это слово в кавычки, ибо сокращения не столько накапливаются, сколько появляются и либо «прячутся», либо исчезают. Иными словами, у них часто весьма узкая сфера распространения и недолгий век. Но какие-то из них – довольно многие – закрепляются в языке практически на всем его «пространстве». Так, почти любому американцу известны такие сокращения, как UN – именно так, а не UNO (United Nations), DC (District of Columbia), NFL (National Football League), PTA (Parent Teacher Association), CD (в зависимости от контекста compact disc или certificate of deposit – срочный сберегательный вклад), MBA (Master of Business Administration), CNN (Cable News Network). В двух последних случаях сокращение живет, можно сказать, своей собственной жизнью, так как многие не знают или забыли его расшифровку. У нас в стране все или почти все знают, что такое ООН, ИТАР-ТАСС (тоже, пожалуй, в отрыве от расшифровки), ЧП, НТВ, ВВС (Военно-воздушные силы), фактически превратившиеся в слова вуз и кпд (коэффициент полезного действия) и многие другие сокращения.

    •• Для переводчика английского языка проблематика сокращений особенно актуальна, так как в последние два десятилетия американцы стали употреблять их значительно чаще, чем раньше. Наверное, они очень спешат, и даже электроника, вроде бы экономящая уйму времени, кажется, лишь подстегивает их бег.
    •• Начнем поэтому с сокращений, многие из которых получили распространение в переписке по электронной почте (ежедневно по электронной почте отправляется 9,8 миллиарда сообщений, из них, согласно оценкам, около половины – в Америке), но постепенно проникают и в другие сферы:
    •• ASAP (произносится по буквам) – as soon as possible;
    •• BTW – by the way;
    •• FCOL – for crying out loud! Это забавное выражение, приблизительный русский эквивалент которого – Ну неужели не ясно? – популярно особенно среди молодежи, но мне приходилось слышать его и от людей достаточно солидных, например, бывшего госсекретаря США Джеймса Бейкера;
    •• FYI – for your information;
    •• IMO – in my opinion (вариант, популярный в молодежной среде – IMHO – in my humble opinion);
    •• IOW – in other words;
    •• OTOH – on the other hand;
    •• TTYL – talk to you later;
    •• WYSIWYG – what you see is what you get. Это выражение, которое впервые встретилось мне в 1972 году во время показа по телевидению знаменитой хоккейной серии СССР-Канада (плакат с этим лозунгом развернули на трибунах канадские болельщики), каждый понимает, наверное, немного по-своему. В данном случае оно значило что-то вроде Мы играем в открытую, а может быть Мы вам покажем. Иногда возможен и почти буквальный перевод: Что видишь, то имеешь. He’s not changed. I’ll argue that till death. What you see is what you get (губернатор штата Коннектикут Дж. Роуланд о президенте Дж.Буше, цитирую по «Нью-Йорк таймс») –...Он весь на виду. В последнее время сокращение WYSIWYG используется также для обозначения программ, позволяющих создавать страницы (сайты) в Интернете, не прибегая к кодированию. Кстати, это выражение не следует путать с as is – так говорят о товарах (часто с явными или скрытыми дефектами), которые продаются с большой скидкой, но без права покупателя предъявлять претензии ( complaintsсм. статью претензия в русско-английской части словаря).
    •• Интересный класс сокращений – имена президентов США. Мне известно по крайней мере три таких сокращения:
    •• FDR – Franklin Delano Roosevelt и, соответственно, FDR Drive – шоссе имени Рузвельта (в Нью-Йорке);
    •• JFK – John Fitzgerald Kennedy и JFK Airport (в Нью-Йорке);
    •• LBJ – Lyndon Baines Johnson.
    •• При президенте Клинтоне некоторое распространение получили сокращения POTUS, VPOTUS и FLOTUS, соответственно President/Vice President/First Lady of the United States.
    •• Нынешнего президента Джорджа Буша (у нас принято называть его «младшим») в США именуют George W. Bush (его отец – просто George Bush, хотя официальное его имя – George H. W. Bush – George Herbert Walker Bush). В журналистике встречается упоминание его имени как W или фамильярное Dubya, например, в заголовке статьи в журнале Men’s Health: Dubya’s Sobering Up Strategy: Will It Work for You? – Подходит ли вам стратегия протрезвления «младшего»?
    •• Эпоха компьютеров и Интернета породила огромное количество сокращений, большинство из которых знакомы лишь «продвинутой» публике, однако некоторые надо знать:
    •• FAQ – frequently asked questions (специальная страница на многих сайтах, содержащая ответы на часто задаваемые вопросы);
    •• HTML – hypertext markup language (система кодирования для создания страниц в Интернете);
    •• ICQ – I seek you (специальный адрес для группового общения в Интернете);
    •• URL – uniform resource locator (унифицированная форма обозначения адресов).
    •• Сокращение ICQ особенно интересно, так как здесь мы имеем дело с так называемым meta-acronym – сокращением по фонетическому подобию. Раньше было известно, пожалуй, лишь одно такое сокращение: IOU ( I owe you) – долговая расписка, вексель. (Интересно, что похожее MOU – вполне обычное сокращение, которое расшифровывается memorandum of understanding – меморандум о договоренности/взаимопонимании.) В переписке по электронной почте встречается сокращение OIC – Oh I see.
    •• В виде одного из компонентов «фонетических псевдосокращений» может выступать цифра 2:
    •• B2B – business to business (деловые отношения «бизнес-бизнес»);
    •• B2C – business to consumer/customer («бизнес-клиент»).
    •• Сокращения с использованием цифр приобретают все большее распространение. Некоторые из них, строго говоря, сокращениями не являются, но условно их можно отнести к этой категории, например 20/20 (произносится twenty-twenty) – то же самое, что у нас окулисты называют единицей, т.е. идеальное зрение. Когда о человеке говорят He has the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, то имеют в виду, что он крепок задним умом.
    •• Похожее цифровое сокращение – 24/7 (произносится twenty-four seven). Смысл его ясен из рекламного лозунга телефонной компании: Sprint will be there for you 24/7 – «Спринт» всегда с вами – семь дней в неделю, двадцать четыре часа в сутки.
    •• Любому образованному американцу известно, что такое 101: например, History 101 – это начальный курс истории, читаемый первокурсникам (freshmen; второкурсники – sophomores; третьекурсники – juniors; четверокурсники – seniors) в американских университетах. В переносном смысле – азы.
    •• Некоммерческие организации, пожертвования в которые позволяют налогоплательщику уменьшить подлежащую обложению сумму своего дохода, называются в США 501 (c) 3 organizations – по нумерации соответствующей статьи законодательства (в устном переводе можно сказать просто благотворительная организация).
    •• Также от нумерации идет и сокращение 401 (k) – так называются индивидуальные сберегательные пенсионные счета с отложенной уплатой налога, открываемые работодателями для своих работников. Аналогичные счета, открываемые частными лицами, называются IRA – Individual Retirement Account (в совершенно ином контексте те же буквы обозначают Irish Republican Army – террористическую организацию Ирландская республиканская армия).
    •• К условной категории «цифровых сокращений» относится 1-800 number (произносится one eight hundred) – так называются специальные телефонные номера, по которым можно звонить бесплатно (они покупаются компаниями или организациями, заинтересованными в максимальном количестве обращений).
    •• Другое «телефонное сокращение» – 911 (произносится nine one one) – номер службы спасения (в США это, как правило, структурное подразделение полиции).
    •• Трагический день 11 сентября 2001 года в устной и письменной речи часто обозначается как 9/11 или 9-11 (произносится nine eleven).
    •• Номер 411 (произносится four one one) набирается в большинстве штатов при звонке в справочное бюро. В разговорной речи это словосочетание употребляется в смысле информация, сведения: Here’s the 411 on the fishing trip.
    •• Наконец, пресловутая компьютерная «проблема-2000», о которой так много говорили, а сейчас потихоньку забывают, обозначалась сокращением Y2K (буква Y в данном случае означает the year, а К – тысячу).
    •• Вошли в язык фактически на правах лексических единиц, понятных большинству, принятые Американской киноассоциацией категории кинофильмов, обозначающие их приемлемость для показа зрителям разных возрастов:
    •• G – General Audience. All ages admitted;
    •• PG – Parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for younger children;
    •• PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13;
    •• R – Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian;
    •• NC-17 – No one 17 and under admitted.
    •• Эта добровольная, принятая в 1968 году классификация не включает фильмов, которые характеризуются как X-rated (синоним – porn). Кто-то хорошо сказал: «Я не знаю определения порнографии, но всегда узнаю́ ее, когда вижу». Производители подобной продукции не представляют ее на рассмотрение классификационной комиссии Американской киноассоциации и ее не показывают в обычных кинотеатрах. Интересно, что буква X не обязательно обозначает нечто неприличное. Так, Generation X (существует также вариант gen-x и gen-xers) – поколение Икс – это обозначение нового, «непонятного» поколения, вышедшего на арену в 1990-е годы (своего рода «племя младое, незнакомое»). The X-files - название известного кинофильма, переведенное у нас как «Секретные материалы». Здесь просматривается смысловой компонент «запретности», «ограниченного доступа», а в слове X-rays – рентгеновские лучи – скорее «новизны», недостаточной изученности.
    •• Значительно проще классификация кинофильмов, принятая в Соединенном Королевстве:
    •• U (в соседней Ирландии – Gen) – General release;
    •• 12 – Restricted to over-12s (в Ирландии 12PG – Under 12s admitted if accompanied by a parent or guardian);
    •• 15 – Restricted to over-15s (в Ирландии 15PG – Under 15s admitted if accompanied by a parent or guardian);
    •• 18 – Restricted to over-18s.
    •• В переводе категории киноклассификации следует давать латиницей с пояснением на русском языке (например, фильм категории PG-13 – «некоторые фрагменты нежелательно смотреть детям до 13 лет»).
    •• Несколько слов о так называемых emoticons – emotional icons. Они были придуманы на заре электронной почты, в 1979 году, Кевином Маккензи (Kevin MacKenzie) для обозначения на письме эмоций, выражения лица и т.п. Наиболее известные из них – :) и :( обозначают, соответственно, улыбку и недовольство. Список этих значков желающие могут найти, например, на сайте www.pb.org/emoticon.html. Иногда их заменяют буквенными сокращениями:
    •• <J> – joking;
    •• <L> – laughing;
    •• <S> – smiling;
    •• <Y> – yawning.
    •• И последнее. Сейчас в нашей печати и устной речи английские сокращения нередко даются латиницей без расшифровки и перевода, например NTSC, PAL – системы цветного телевидения, GSM – система мобильной телефонной связи, B-1, G-4 – виды американских въездных виз, www. – начальные буквы адресов в Интернете и многие другие. Это, однако, не освобождает переводчика от необходимости внимательно следить за возникающими сокращениями. Скорее наоборот. Ведь если вы «не в курсе», то рискуете не только не понять, но даже не услышать сокращение, которое будет восприниматься как своего рода фонетический шум.
    •• * Акронимы, порождаемые во все большем количестве самим темпом нынешней жизни, являются законным предметом лексикографической дискуссии. Например, должны ли отражаться в словарях сокращения, содержащие фонетически читаемые числительные? Есть мнение, что сокращение gr8 ( great) – это просто «выпендреж». Вот что пишет одна из моих корреспонденток: «Есть большая разница между B2B (business-to-business) и gr8. В первом случае создан новый термин, в духе интернетовской лапидарности, а gr8 никакого оправдания, по-моему, не имеет. Просто сор. Упаси Бог от расширения применения таких окказиональных акронимов и их утверждения в языке: в истории письменности была уже революция, связанная с использованием пиктограмм как символов алфавита. Зачем нужна новая (фактически обратная) – непонятно». Уточнение другого корреспондента: «Такой “сор”, как gr8, возник благодаря “услуге обмена короткими сообщениями” (SMS) между мобильными телефонами».
    •• И довольно информативное возражение (благодарю автора, выступающего на сайте www.lingvoda.ru под псевдонимом vtora, за это сообщение и многие другие интересные комментарии и замечания): «Подростки с сотовыми телефонами, так называемое Thumb-Generation, т. е. поколение с гиперразвитыми от постоянного клацанья по сотовому большими пальцами, через десять-пятнадцать лет станут CEOs, журналистами, преподавателями, лексикографами и т.д. Часть из них не откажется от SMS-языка, поэтому я не советую игнорировать это явление. Вот сочинение на тему «Как я провел лето» с переводом на BBC English:
    •• My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we usd 2 go 2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3:-\@ kds FTF. ILNY, its gr8.
    •• Bt my Ps wr so:-/BC o 9/11 tht they dcdd 2 stay in SCO & spnd 2wks up N.
    •• Up N, WUCIWUG – 0. I ws vvv brd in MON. 0 bt baas & ^^^^.
    •• AAR8, my Ps wr:-) – they sd ICBW, & tht they wr ha-p 4 the pc&qt...IDTS!! I wntd 2 go hm ASAP, 2C my M8s again.
    •• 2day, I cam bk 2 skool. I feel v O:-) BC I hv dn all my hm wrk. Now its BAU
    •• Here’s the translation:
    •• My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend and their three screaming kids face to face. I love New York, it’s a great place.
    •• But my parents were so worried because of the terrorism attack on September 11 that they decided we would stay in Scotland and spend two weeks up north.
    •• Up north, what you see is what you get – nothing. I was extremely bored in the middle of nowhere. Nothing but sheep and mountains.
    •• At any rate, my parents were happy. They said that it could be worse, and that they were happy with the peace and quiet. I don’t think so! I wanted to go home as soon as possible, to see my friends again.
    •• Today I came back to school. I feel very saintly because I have done all my homework. Now it’s business as usual.
    •• Должен сказать, что мне удалось правильно расшифровать почти все, за исключением IDTS!, который я принял за Idiots!
    •• По сообщению Daily Telegraph, в новом издании Collins English Dictionary есть следующие сокращения:
    •• A3 means anytime, anywhere, any place; ATB, all the best; BBL, be back later; HAND, have a nice day; KISS, keep it simple, stupid; and IYKWIMAITYD, if you know what I mean and I think you do. GAL, incidentally, translates as get a life.
    •• Недавно по экранам прошло два фильма с подобными акронимами – 2 Fast 2 Furious (с нехитрым «дубль-антандром» – в фильме два главных героя) и известный у нас фильм Л. Мудисона Lilya 4-Ever. Налицо тенденция, набирающая силу.
    •• Конечно, SMS – не единственный источник новых сокращений. Их генераторами продолжают являться такие сферы, как политика, война, бюрократия и т.д. Многие из них входят в язык и должны отражаться в словарях.
    •• Вот, например, цитата из более чем респектабельного New York Review of Books:
    •• The Coalition Media Center, at the Saliyah military base in Doha, Qatar, seems designed to be as annoying and inconvenient as possible for reporters. To get there from the center of town, you have to take a half-hour ride through a baking, barren expanse of desert. At the gate, you have to submit your electronic equipment to a K-9 search, your bags to inspection, and your body to an X-ray scan.
    •• K-9 search – обыск с собаками ( canine search). Сразу можно и не догадаться. (Мне сообщили, что K-9 обязан своей популяризацией одноименному фильму с Дж. Белуши и немецкой овчаркой.)
    •• Интересное сообщение одного из моих корреспондентов: «Видел карикатуру в журнале New Yorker: в легковом автомобиле едет Годзилла, на заднем плане дымящиеся развалины небоскребов. Номерной знак на машине: “I 8 NY”. Еще есть нефтеперерабатывающая компания Q8. Угадайте откуда». Для недогадливых: I ate New York и Kuwait.
    •• Еще одно сокращение стало актуальным в связи с иракской войной. Судя по статье в New York Times, оно пока не всем известно:
    •• A few days ago I talked to a soldier just back from Iraq. He’d been in a relatively calm area; his main complaint was about food. Four months after the fall of Baghdad, his unit was still eating the dreaded M.R.E.’s: meals ready to eat. When Italian troops moved into the area, their food was way more realistic- and American troops were soon trading whatever they could for some of that Italian food.
    •• Забавно здесь и сказанное о еде way more realistic, т.е. гораздо больше похоже на настоящую/реальную еду. Комментарий моего активного корреспондента (псевдоним Red Threat): «Американцы в шутку расшифровывают MRE как Meals Refused by Ethiopians. Насчет того, что они dreaded, – сказки, просто американцы малость закушались. Лично доводилось умять не одну упаковку – вполне съедобно, пусть и не “обеды, как у мамы”».
    •• Официальное американское название «войны с терроризмом» – global war on terrorism, и нередко в текстах это сокращение появляется без предварительной или последующей расшифровки. Так, в одной из статей в журнале Weekly Standard цитируется официальный доклад о Китае:
    •• Although most Chinese observers believe the U.S. force posture post-September 11 is based on a legitimate need to prosecute the GWOT, many remain suspicious and have implied that the ‘real’ U.S. intentions behind the realignment will not be known until the GWOT is more or less over.
    •• Напоминает нашу ВОВ ( Великую Отечественную войну) – сокращение, которое многих коробит. Еще из этого репертуара – GITMO ( Guantanamo) – строго говоря, не сокращение, а условный акроним, как, скажем, LAX ( аэропорт Лос-Анджелес). Наконец, часто встречается AQ ( Al Qaeda).
    •• А вот еще одно сокращение, встречающееся без расшифровки и не всем известное, – FUBAR. Цитата из журнала Atlantic:
    •• I never failed to be impressed by the notion that old-fashioned morality – inflexible and unforgiving – is sufficient unto any FUBAR situation human beings can dream up.
    •• Расшифровку найти было нетрудно: f( ucked) u(p) b( eyond) a(ll) r( ecognition), равно как и определение: utterly botched or confused (оба – из American Heritage Dictionary). Словари дают и другие расшифровки (часто с пометой polite): fouled up beyond all reason/ recognition/ recovery/ reality. Происхождение сокращения (как и аналогичного SNAFU – situation normal all fouled up) – военное: ( WWII military slang) Fucked up beyond all recognition ( or repair). В переводе приведенного примера, как мне кажется, нет особой необходимости искать что-нибудь аналогичное, с военным оттенком. Вариант:
    •• Мне всегда казалась удивительной идея, что старомодной нравственности – никому не уступающей и ничего не прощающей – вполне достаточно, чтобы найти выход из любой, даже самой идиотской/дикой ситуации, в которой может оказаться человек.
    •• Свежий пример акронима, порожденного политической борьбой, – RINO. Расшифровка и определение – в статье из журнала Time:
    •• Republican Senator Arlen Specter, who has angered conservatives by opposing big tax cuts and being pro-choice, now has the RINO hunterson his trail. RINO stands for Republicans in Name Only- meaning moderate Republicans, who are the target of a zealous but increasingly potent group of conservatives called the Club for Growth. <...> “If we’re going to be a major political force,” says club president Stephen Moore, “we have to defeat one of the incumbent RINOs.
    •• То есть республиканцы только на словах.
    •• Помимо отмеченных в «Моем несистематическом словаре» POTUS и FLOTUS встречается (без расшифровки) также SOTU – the State of the Union ( address). Пример из журнала Atlantic:
    •• Within the confines of a SOTU address, something for everyone is the traditional way to go. <...> Each of the President’s SOTU addresses has included a surprise element.
    •• Первое предложение так и хочется перевести:
    •• В посланиях президента « О положении страны» традиционным является принцип «всем сестрам – по серьгам».
    •• Следует добавить в словари и сравнительно новую расшифровку PC – political correctness ( politically correct), часто встречающуюся в публицистике:
    •• From the mouth of a liberal politician, this list of religious symbols might be criticized as PC-style multiculturalism. (Atlantic) - Прозвучи этот перечень религиозных символов из уст политика-либерала, его стали бы ругать за проповедь культурного многообразия в духе политкорректности.
    •• Еще одно дополнение к «Несистематическому»: читая книгу Сузанны Мур In the Cut, я обнаружил, что упущен 900 number. Вот цитата, из которой ясно значение:
    •• Before his death Gacy’s voice could be heard on a 900-number by anyone interested enough to pay three dollars a minute to hear Gacy explain that he didn’t kill those boys. (Чаще пишут без дефиса.)
    •• Эти номера называют pay-per-call numbers (номера, звонок на который оплачивается). Не знаю, есть ли краткий русский эквивалент. Полезная информация о нюансах этой системы на сайте Федеральной комиссии по связи: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/900Fact.html.

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  • 12 ♦ (to) admit

    ♦ (to) admit /ədˈmɪt/
    A v. t.
    1 ammettere; riconoscere; confessare: to admit defeat, riconoscere la propria sconfitta; to admit having paid bribes, ammettere di aver pagato tangenti; He admitted five charges, si riconobbe colpevole di cinque capi d'accusa; I admit I was too hasty, riconosco di essere stato troppo precipitoso
    2 ammettere; accettare; lasciar entrare: to be admitted to Oxford University, essere ammesso all'università di Oxford; We were admitted free, ci hanno lasciato entrare gratis; l'ingresso era gratuito
    3 ( di biglietto, ecc.) consentire l'ingresso a; essere valido per: This ticket only admits to the park, questo biglietto consente solo l'ingresso al parco; Admits two, valido per due persone
    5 accettare come valido; accogliere: to admit a claim, accogliere un reclamo; (leg.) to admit evidence, accettare prove
    B v. i.
    1 to admit of, ammettere; lasciare adito a: to admit of a delay, ammettere un ritardo; It admits of no doubt, non lascia adito a dubbi
    2 to admit to, ammettere; riconoscere: to admit to a crime, riconoscersi colpevole di un crimine; I admit to being sceptical about it, riconosco di essere scettico in proposito; ammetto il mio scetticismo
    3 to admit to, dare accesso a: This door admits to the back garden, questa porta dà accesso al giardino sul retro.
    NOTA D'USO: - to admit to do o to admit doing?-

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  • 13 ♦ (to) admit

    ♦ (to) admit /ədˈmɪt/
    A v. t.
    1 ammettere; riconoscere; confessare: to admit defeat, riconoscere la propria sconfitta; to admit having paid bribes, ammettere di aver pagato tangenti; He admitted five charges, si riconobbe colpevole di cinque capi d'accusa; I admit I was too hasty, riconosco di essere stato troppo precipitoso
    2 ammettere; accettare; lasciar entrare: to be admitted to Oxford University, essere ammesso all'università di Oxford; We were admitted free, ci hanno lasciato entrare gratis; l'ingresso era gratuito
    3 ( di biglietto, ecc.) consentire l'ingresso a; essere valido per: This ticket only admits to the park, questo biglietto consente solo l'ingresso al parco; Admits two, valido per due persone
    5 accettare come valido; accogliere: to admit a claim, accogliere un reclamo; (leg.) to admit evidence, accettare prove
    B v. i.
    1 to admit of, ammettere; lasciare adito a: to admit of a delay, ammettere un ritardo; It admits of no doubt, non lascia adito a dubbi
    2 to admit to, ammettere; riconoscere: to admit to a crime, riconoscersi colpevole di un crimine; I admit to being sceptical about it, riconosco di essere scettico in proposito; ammetto il mio scetticismo
    3 to admit to, dare accesso a: This door admits to the back garden, questa porta dà accesso al giardino sul retro.
    NOTA D'USO: - to admit to do o to admit doing?-

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  • 14 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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  • 15 press

    pres
    1. verb
    1) (to use a pushing motion (against): Press the bell twice!; The children pressed close to their mother.) apretar, presionar
    2) (to squeeze; to flatten: The grapes are pressed to extract the juice.) exprimir, estrujar; prensar
    3) (to urge or hurry: He pressed her to enter the competition.) presionar; apremiar
    4) (to insist on: The printers are pressing their claim for higher pay.) presionar, insistir
    5) (to iron: Your trousers need to be pressed.) planchar

    2. noun
    1) (an act of pressing: He gave her hand a press; You had better give your shirt a press.) apretón; planchado
    2) ((also printing-press) a printing machine.) prensa
    3) (newspapers in general: It was reported in the press; (also adjective) a press photographer.) prensa
    4) (the people who work on newspapers and magazines; journalists: The press is/are always interested in the private lives of famous people.) prensa
    5) (a device or machine for pressing: a wine-press; a flower-press.) prensa
    - press conference
    - press-cutting
    - be hard pressed
    - be pressed for
    - press for
    - press forward/on

    press1 n prensa
    press2 vb apretar / pulsar
    to print the document, press F7 para imprimir el documento, pulsa F7
    tr[pres]
    1 (newspapers) prensa
    the gutter press la prensa sensacionalista, la prensa amarilla
    2 (printing machine) prensa, imprenta
    3 (for grapes, flowers) prensa
    1 (push down - button, switch) pulsar, apretar, presionar; (- accelerator) pisar; (- key on keyboard) pulsar; (- trigger) apretar
    3 (crush - fruit) exprimir, estrujar; (- grapes, olives, flowers) prensar
    4 (clothes) planchar, planchar a vapor
    5 (record) imprimir
    6 (urge, put pressure on) presionar, instar; (insist on) insistir en, exigir
    1 (push) apretar, presionar
    2 (crowd) apretujarse, apiñarse
    3 (urge, pressurize) presionar, insistir; (time) apremiar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    at the time of going to press al cierre de la edición
    to go to press entrar en prensa
    to have a good/bad press tener buena/mala prensa
    to press a point recalcar un punto
    to press charges against somebody presentar cargos contra alguien, formular cargos contra alguien
    to press home an advantage aprovechar una ventaja
    press agency agencia de prensa
    press conference conferencia de prensa, rueda de prensa
    press cutting recorte nombre masculino de prensa
    press box tribuna de prensa
    press release comunicado de prensa
    press stud botón nombre masculino de presión
    press ['prɛs] vt
    1) push: apretar
    2) squeeze: apretar, prensar (frutas, flores, etc.)
    3) iron: planchar (ropa)
    4) urge: instar, apremiar
    he pressed me to come: insistió en que viniera
    press vi
    1) push: apretar
    press hard: aprieta con fuerza
    2) crowd: apiñarse
    3) : abrirse paso
    I pressed through the crowd: me abrí paso entre el gentío
    4) urge: presionar
    1) crowd: multitud f
    2) : imprenta f, prensa f
    to go to press: entrar en prensa
    3) urgency: urgencia f, prisa f
    4) printer, publisher: imprenta f, editorial f
    5)
    the press : la prensa
    freedom of the press: libertad de prensa
    adj.
    de prensa adj.
    n.
    (§ pl.: presses) = estampa s.f.
    imprenta s.f.
    prensa s.f.
    presión s.f.
    urgencia s.f.
    v.
    empujar v.
    estrechar v.
    estrujar v.
    gravitar v.
    instar v.
    oprimir v.
    planchar v.
    prensar v.
    presionar v.
    pulsar (Tecla, botón) v.
    urgir v.
    pres
    I
    1) u
    a) (newspapers, journalists) prensa f

    the freedom of the press — la libertad de prensa; (before n) <box, gallery> de (la) prensa

    press agency — (BrE) agencia f de prensa

    press agent — encargado, -da m,f de prensa

    press clipping o (BrE) cutting — recorte m de prensa

    press officeoficina f de prensa

    press photographer — reportero gráfico, reportera gráfica m,f

    press releasecomunicado m de prensa

    press run — (AmE) tirada f

    to get a good/bad press — tener* buena/mala prensa, tener* buena/mala acogida por parte de la prensa

    2) c
    a) ( printing press) prensa f, imprenta f
    b) ( publishing house) editorial f
    3) c (for pressing - grapes, flowers, machine parts) prensa f; (- trousers) prensa f plancha-pantalones

    II
    1.
    1) ( push) \<\<button/doorbell\>\> apretar*, pulsar; \<\<pedal/footbrake\>\> pisar
    2)
    a) ( squeeze) apretar*
    b) ( in press) \<\<grapes/olives/flowers\>\> prensar
    c) \<\<disk/album\>\> imprimir*
    d) \<\<clothes\>\> planchar
    3)

    when pressed, she admitted it — cuando la presionaron, lo admitió

    to press somebody FOR something/to + INF: I pressed him for an answer insistí en que or exigí que me diera una respuesta; they pressed him to change his policy — ejercieron presión sobre él para que cambiara de política

    b) ( pursue)

    to press charges against somebodypresentar or formular cargos en contra de alguien


    2.
    vi
    1)

    press firmlypresione or apriete con fuerza

    to press (down) ON something — apretar* algo, hacer* presión sobre algo

    b) (crowd, push) \<\<people\>\> apretujarse, apiñarse
    2) (urge, pressurize) presionar

    to press FOR something: they've been pressing for an inquiry han estado presionando para que se haga una investigación; time presses o is pressing — el tiempo apremia

    Phrasal Verbs:
    [pres]
    1. NOUN
    1) (Publishing)
    a) (=newspapers collectively) prensa f

    to get or have a good/ bad press — (lit, fig) tener buena/mala prensa

    the press — (=newspapers, journalists) la prensa

    the press reported that... — la prensa informó que...

    member of the pressperiodista mf, miembro mf de la prensa

    the national/local press — la prensa nacional/regional

    free 1., 4), gutter I, 2.
    b) (=printing press) imprenta f

    to go to press — entrar en prensa

    hot off the press(es) — recién salido de la imprenta

    to be in press — estar en prensa

    to pass sth for press — aprobar algo para la prensa

    to set the presses rolling — poner las prensas en marcha

    c) (=publishing firm) editorial f
    2) (=touch) (with hand) apretón m

    at the press of a button — con solo apretar un botón

    to give sth a press — planchar algo

    4) (=apparatus, machine) (for wine, olives, cheese, moulding) prensa f ; (also: trouser press) prensa f para planchar pantalones; (for racket) tensor m

    hydraulic pressprensa f hidráulica

    cider 2., printing 2.
    5) (=crush) apiñamiento m, agolpamiento m
    6) (Weightlifting) presa f
    7) (=cupboard) armario m
    2. TRANSITIVE VERB
    1) (=push, squeeze)
    a) [+ button, switch, doorbell] pulsar, apretar; [+ hand, trigger] apretar; [+ accelerator] pisar

    select the option required, then press "enter" — escoja la opción que desee, y luego pulse or apriete "intro"

    he pressed his face against the window — apretó la cara contra el cristal

    she pressed herself against me/the wall — se apretó contra mí/contra la pared

    she pressed a note into his hand — le metió un billete en la mano

    she pressed the lid on (to) the box — cerró la caja apretando la tapa

    he pressed her to him — la atrajo hacia sí

    he pressed his fingertips togetherjuntó las yemas de los dedos

    - press the flesh
    b) (painfully) apretujar

    as the crowd moved back he found himself pressed up against a wall — a medida que la multitud retrocedía, se vio apretujado contra una pared

    2) (using press) [+ grapes, olives, flowers] prensar
    3) (=iron) [+ clothes] planchar
    4) (Tech) (=make) [+ machine part] prensar; [+ record, disk] imprimir
    5) (=pressurize) presionar

    when pressed, she conceded the point — cuando la presionaron, les dio la razón

    to press sb for sth — exigir algo de algn

    to press sb for payment — insistir en que algn pague, exigir a algn el pago de lo que se debe

    to press sb into doing sth — obligar a algn a hacer algo

    to press sb to do sth — (=urge) insistir en que algn haga algo; (=pressurize) presionar a algn para que haga algo

    pressed
    6) (=insist)

    she smiles coyly when pressed about her private life — cuando insisten en querer saber sobre su vida privada, sonríe con coquetería

    7) (=force)

    to press sth on sb — insistir en que algn acepte algo

    8)

    to be pressed into service, we were all pressed into service — todos tuvimos que ponernos a trabajar

    9) (=pursue) [+ claim] insistir en; [+ demand] exigir

    his officials have visited Washington to press their case for economic aid — sus representantes han ido a Washington para hacer presión a favor de la ayuda económica

    to press charges (against sb) — presentar cargos (contra algn)

    the champion failed to press home his advantage — el campeón no supo aprovechar su ventaja

    I shan't press the pointno insistiré más sobre eso

    suit 1., 4)
    3. INTRANSITIVE VERB
    1) (=exert pressure) apretar

    does it hurt when I press here? — ¿le duele cuando le aprieto aquí?

    I felt something hard press into my back — noté la presión de algo duro que se apretaba contra mi espalda

    the bone was pressing on a nerve — el hueso estaba pinzando un nervio

    2) (=move, push)

    he pressed against her — se apretó contra ella

    the crowd pressed round him — la muchedumbre se apiñó en torno a él

    he pressed through the crowd — se abrió paso entre la muchedumbre

    the audience pressed towards the exit — el público se apresuró hacia la salida

    3) (=urge, agitate)

    to press for sth — exigir algo, insistir en algo

    to press for sb to resign — exigir la dimisión de algn, insistir en que algn dimita

    time is pressing — el tiempo apremia

    4) (=weigh heavily)

    to press on sb — pesar sobre algn

    4.
    COMPOUNDS

    press agency Nagencia f de prensa

    press agent Nencargado(-a) m / f de prensa

    press attaché Nagregado(-a) m / f de prensa

    press baron Nmagnate m de la prensa

    press box Ntribuna f de prensa

    press briefing Nrueda f de prensa, conferencia f de prensa

    press card Npase m de periodista, carnet m de prensa

    press clipping N= press cutting

    press conference Nrueda f de prensa, conferencia f de prensa

    to call a press conferenceconvocar una rueda or una conferencia de prensa

    to hold a press conferencecelebrar una rueda or una conferencia de prensa

    press corps Nprensa f acreditada

    press coverage Ncobertura f periodística

    press cutting Nrecorte m (de periódico)

    press gallery Ntribuna f de prensa

    press gang N — (Hist) leva f

    press kit Nkit m de prensa

    press launch Nlanzamiento m de prensa

    press office Noficina f de prensa

    press officer Nagente mf de prensa

    press pack N(=information pack) dosier m de prensa; pej (=group of reporters) grupo m de reporteros; (=sensationalist press) prensa f amarilla

    press pass Npase m de prensa

    press photographer Nfotógrafo(-a) m / f de prensa

    press release Ncomunicado m de prensa

    to issue or put out a press release — publicar un comunicado de prensa

    press report Nnota f de prensa, reportaje m de prensa

    press room Nsala f de prensa

    press run N(US) tirada f

    press secretary Nsecretario(-a) m / f de prensa

    press stud N(Brit) automático m, broche m de presión

    press view Npreestreno m (para prensa)

    * * *
    [pres]
    I
    1) u
    a) (newspapers, journalists) prensa f

    the freedom of the press — la libertad de prensa; (before n) <box, gallery> de (la) prensa

    press agency — (BrE) agencia f de prensa

    press agent — encargado, -da m,f de prensa

    press clipping o (BrE) cutting — recorte m de prensa

    press officeoficina f de prensa

    press photographer — reportero gráfico, reportera gráfica m,f

    press releasecomunicado m de prensa

    press run — (AmE) tirada f

    to get a good/bad press — tener* buena/mala prensa, tener* buena/mala acogida por parte de la prensa

    2) c
    a) ( printing press) prensa f, imprenta f
    b) ( publishing house) editorial f
    3) c (for pressing - grapes, flowers, machine parts) prensa f; (- trousers) prensa f plancha-pantalones

    II
    1.
    1) ( push) \<\<button/doorbell\>\> apretar*, pulsar; \<\<pedal/footbrake\>\> pisar
    2)
    a) ( squeeze) apretar*
    b) ( in press) \<\<grapes/olives/flowers\>\> prensar
    c) \<\<disk/album\>\> imprimir*
    d) \<\<clothes\>\> planchar
    3)

    when pressed, she admitted it — cuando la presionaron, lo admitió

    to press somebody FOR something/to + INF: I pressed him for an answer insistí en que or exigí que me diera una respuesta; they pressed him to change his policy — ejercieron presión sobre él para que cambiara de política

    b) ( pursue)

    to press charges against somebodypresentar or formular cargos en contra de alguien


    2.
    vi
    1)

    press firmlypresione or apriete con fuerza

    to press (down) ON something — apretar* algo, hacer* presión sobre algo

    b) (crowd, push) \<\<people\>\> apretujarse, apiñarse
    2) (urge, pressurize) presionar

    to press FOR something: they've been pressing for an inquiry han estado presionando para que se haga una investigación; time presses o is pressing — el tiempo apremia

    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > press

  • 16 admit

    [əd'mit]
    past tense, past participle - admitted; verb
    1) (to allow to enter: This ticket admits one person.) admitir
    2) (to say that one accepts as true: He admitted (that) he was wrong.) reconhecer
    - admission
    - admittance
    - admittedly
    * * *
    ad.mit
    [ədm'it] vt+vi 1 admitir: a) aceitar, permitir, consentir, acolher. to admit into one’s confidence / fazer alguém seu confidente. b) reconhecer (a verdade), confessar, revelar. he admited being guilty / ele admitiu ser culpado. 2 conceder o direito (de passagem, entrada, uso). this ticket admits two / este bilhete vale para duas pessoas. 3 tolerar. 4 comportar, necessitar. 5 acomodar. to admit of a doubt dar margem a dúvidas. to admit to bar autorizar a prática da advocacia.

    English-Portuguese dictionary > admit

  • 17 herself

    pronoun
    1) (emphatic) selbst

    she herself said so — sie selbst hat das gesagt

    she saw it herselfsie hat es selbst gesehen

    she was just being herselfsie gab sich einfach so wie sie ist

    she is [quite] herself again — sie ist wieder ganz die alte; (after an illness) sie ist wieder auf der Höhe (ugs.)

    all right in herselfim Wesentlichen gesund

    [all] by herself — (on her own, by her own efforts) [ganz] allein[e]

    2) refl. sich; allein[e] [tun, wählen]

    she wants to see for herselfsie will [es] selbst sehen

    younger than/as heavy as herself — jünger als/so schwer wie sie selbst

    ... she thought to herself —... dachte sie sich [im stillen];... dachte sie bei sich

    * * *
    1) (used as the object of a verb or preposition when a female person or animal is the object of an action she performs: The cat licked herself; She looked at herself in the mirror.) sich
    2) (used to emphasize she, her, or the name of a female person or animal: She herself played no part in this; Mary answered the letter herself.) selbst
    3) (without help etc: She did it all by herself.) allein
    * * *
    her·self
    [həˈself, AM hɚˈ-]
    1. after vb sich; (not others) sich selbst
    she enjoyed \herself at the party sie hatte Spaß auf der Party
    she found \herself utterly lost sie bemerkte, dass sie sich hoffnungslos verirrt hatte
    2. after prep sich; (not others) sich selbst
    she talks to \herself sie spricht mit sich [selbst]
    she voted for \herself in the election sie stimmte bei der Wahl für sich selbst
    3. ( form: her) sie/ihr [selbst]
    like \herself, many people had to start at the bottom wie sie [selbst] mussten viele Menschen von unten beginnen
    like \herself, many failed the first time wie ihr selbst gelang es vielen beim ersten Mal nicht
    4. ( emph: personally) selbst
    she decorated the cake \herself sie verzierte die Torte selbst
    she \herself admitted that... sie gab selbst zu, dass...
    the president of the college \herself die Präsidentin des College persönlich
    for \herself selbst
    5. (alone) sich selbst
    she's got the whole house to \herself now sie hat jetzt das ganze Haus für sich allein
    [all] by \herself ganz allein [o fam alleine]
    for \herself für sich
    6. (normal)
    to be \herself sie selbst sein
    she is now \herself again sie ist jetzt wieder ganz die Alte
    she didn't look \herself in her new clothes sie sah in ihren neuen Kleidern ganz fremd aus
    * * *
    [hɜː'self]
    1. pers pron
    1) (dir and indir obj, with prep) sich → also academic.ru/48848/myself">myself
    See:
    → also myself
    2. n (Ir inf)
    * * *
    herself pron
    1. (verstärkend) sie (nom oder akk) selbst, ihr (dat) selbst:
    she did it herself, she herself did it sie hat es selbst getan, sie selbst hat es getan;
    by herself von selbst, allein, ohne Hilfe;
    she’s married to a man very much older than herself der sehr viel älter ist als sie;
    a) sie ist nicht ganz auf der Höhe umg,
    b) sie ist nicht ganz normal oder umg oder bei Trost;
    she is quite herself again sie ist wieder ganz die Alte
    2. reflexiv sich:
    she thought herself wise sie hielt sich für klug
    3. sich (selbst):
    * * *
    pronoun
    1) (emphatic) selbst

    she is [quite] herself again — sie ist wieder ganz die alte; (after an illness) sie ist wieder auf der Höhe (ugs.)

    [all] by herself — (on her own, by her own efforts) [ganz] allein[e]

    2) refl. sich; allein[e] [tun, wählen]

    she wants to see for herself — sie will [es] selbst sehen

    younger than/as heavy as herself — jünger als/so schwer wie sie selbst

    ... she thought to herself —... dachte sie sich [im stillen];... dachte sie bei sich

    English-german dictionary > herself

  • 18 fact

    1. n факт, событие, явление; обстоятельство

    salient facts — самые существенные факты; суть дела

    to let children know the facts of life — сообщать детям сведения, нужные для их полового воспитания

    2. n истина, реальность, действительность

    to look facts in the face — видеть вещи такими, какие они есть; смотреть фактам в лицо

    I know it for a fact — я знаю, что это факт ; в этом нет никакого сомнения

    in point of fact — в действительности; фактически

    3. n l
    4. n данные; аргументы
    5. n юр. доказательства, улики
    6. n юр. противоправное деяние; правонарушение; преступление

    accessory after the fact — соучастник после события преступления, укрыватель, недоноситель

    Синонимический ряд:
    1. act (noun) accomplishment; act; action; affair; deed; performance; proceeding; transaction
    2. being (noun) being; entity; existence
    3. detail (noun) circumstance; detail; element; factor; particular; point
    4. event (noun) episode; event; experience; happening; incident; manifestation; occurrence; phenomenon
    5. substantiality (noun) palpability; permanence; solidity; stability; substantiality
    6. truth (noun) actuality; certainty; certitude; factuality; factualness; reality; truism; truth; verity
    Антонимический ряд:
    chimera; delusion; falsehood; fiction; invention; lie; romance; unreality

    English-Russian base dictionary > fact

  • 19 Denny, William

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 25 May 1847 Dumbarton, Scotland
    d. 17 March 1887 Buenos Aires, Argentina
    [br]
    Scottish naval architect and partner in the leading British scientific shipbuilding company.
    [br]
    From 1844 until 1962, the Clyde shipyard of William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, produced over 1,500 ships, trained innumerable students of all nationalities in shipbuilding and marine engineering, and for the seventy-plus years of their existence were accepted worldwide as the leaders in the application of science to ship design and construction. Until the closure of the yard members of the Denny family were among the partners and later directors of the firm: they included men as distinguished as Dr Peter Denny (1821(?)–95), Sir Archibald Denny (1860–1936) and Sir Maurice Denny (1886– 1955), the main collaborator in the design of the Denny-Brown ship stabilizer.
    One of the most influential of this shipbuilding family was William Denny, now referred to as William 3! His early education was at Dumbarton, then on Jersey and finally at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, before he commenced an apprenticeship at his father's shipyard. From the outset he not only showed great aptitude for learning and hard work but also displayed an ability to create good relationships with all he came into contact with. At the early age of 21 he was admitted a partner of the shipbuilding business of William Denny and Brothers, and some years later also of the associated engineering firm of Denny \& Co. His deep-felt interest in what is now known as industrial relations led him in 1871 to set up a piecework system of payment in the shipyard. In this he was helped by the Yard Manager, Richard Ramage, who later was to found the Leith shipyard, which produced the world's most elegant steam yachts. This research was published later as a pamphlet called The Worth of Wages, an unusual and forward-looking action for the 1860s, when Denny maintained that an absentee employer should earn as much contempt and disapproval as an absentee landlord! In 1880 he initiated an awards scheme for all company employees, with grants and awards for inventions and production improvements. William Denny was not slow to impose new methods and to research naval architecture, a special interest being progressive ship trials with a view to predicting effective horsepower. In time this led to his proposal to the partners to build a ship model testing tank beside the Dumbarton shipyard; this scheme was completed in 1883 and was to the third in the world (after the Admiralty tank at Torquay, managed by William Froude and the Royal Netherlands Navy facility at Amsterdam, under B.J. Tideman. In 1876 the Denny Shipyard started work with mild-quality shipbuilding steel on hulls for the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, and in 1879 the world's first two ships of any size using this weight-saving material were produced: they were the Rotomahana for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand and the Buenos Ayrean for the Allan Line of Glasgow. On the naval-architecture side he was involved in Denny's proposals for standard cross curves of stability for all ships, which had far-reaching effects and are now accepted worldwide. He served on the committee working on improvements to the Load Line regulations and many other similar public bodies. After a severe bout of typhoid and an almost unacceptable burden of work, he left the United Kingdom for South America in June 1886 to attend to business with La Platense Flotilla Company, an associate company of William Denny and Brothers. In March the following year, while in Buenos Aires, he died by his own hand, a death that caused great and genuine sadness in the West of Scotland and elsewhere.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 1886. FRS Edinburgh 1879.
    Bibliography
    William Denny presented many papers to various bodies, the most important being to the Institution of Naval Architects and to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland. The subjects include: trials results, the relation of ship speed to power, Lloyd's Numerals, tonnage measurement, layout of shipyards, steel in shipbuilding, cross curves of stability, etc.
    Further Reading
    A.B.Bruce, 1889, The Life of William Denny, Shipbuilder, London: Hodder \& Stoughton.
    Denny Dumbarton 1844–1932 (a souvenir hard-back produced for private circulation by the shipyard).
    Fred M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde. A History of Clyde Shipbuilding, Cambridge: PSL.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Denny, William

  • 20 responsibility

    1) (something which a person has to look after, do etc: He takes his responsibilities very seriously.) responsabilidad
    2) (the state of having important duties: a position of responsibility.) responsabilidad
    3) (the state of being responsible: his responsibility for the accident.) responsabilidad
    responsibility n responsabilidad
    tr[rɪspɒnsɪ'bɪlɪtɪ]
    1 responsabilidad nombre femenino
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to accept responsibility for responsabilizarse de
    responsibility [ri.spɑntsə'bɪlət̬i] n, pl - ties : responsabilidad f
    n.
    carga s.f.
    cargo s.m.
    encargo s.m.
    responsabilidad s.f.
    rɪ'spɑːnsə'bɪləti, rɪˌspɒnsə'bɪləti
    noun (pl - ties)
    a) c (task, duty) responsabilidad f
    b) u (authority, accountability) responsabilidad f

    to take responsibility for something — responsabilizarse* or encargarse* or hacerse* cargo de algo

    c) u (liability, blame) responsabilidad f
    [rɪsˌpɒnsǝ'bɪlɪtɪ]
    N
    1) (=liability) responsabilidad f

    he has accepted or admitted responsibility for the tragedy — ha aceptado ser responsable de la tragedia

    the group which claimed responsibility for the attack — el grupo que reivindicó el atentado

    joint responsibility — responsabilidad f conjunta

    to place or put the responsibility for sth on sb — hacer a algn responsable de algo, hacer que la responsabilidad de algo recaiga sobre algn

    shared responsibility — responsabilidad f compartida

    the company takes no responsibility for objects left here — la empresa no asume responsabilidad por los objetos que se dejen aquí, la empresa no se responsabiliza de los objetos que se dejen aquí

    diminished
    2) (=duty, obligation) responsabilidad f

    she's not your responsibility — ella no es responsabilidad tuya, ella no está bajo tu responsabilidad

    it's my responsibility to lock up — cerrar es responsabilidad mía, yo soy el responsable de cerrar

    she didn't want to take on more responsibilities — no quería asumir más responsabilidades

    you have a responsibility to your family — tienes una responsabilidad con or hacia tu familia

    3) (=authority, accountability) responsabilidad f

    to have responsibility for sth — ser responsable de algo

    to take on/ take over (the) responsibility for sth — asumir la responsabilidad de algo, responsabilizarse de algo, hacerse responsable de algo

    4) (=maturity) responsabilidad f
    * * *
    [rɪ'spɑːnsə'bɪləti, rɪˌspɒnsə'bɪləti]
    noun (pl - ties)
    a) c (task, duty) responsabilidad f
    b) u (authority, accountability) responsabilidad f

    to take responsibility for something — responsabilizarse* or encargarse* or hacerse* cargo de algo

    c) u (liability, blame) responsabilidad f

    English-spanish dictionary > responsibility

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