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bring about a conflict

  • 1 bring about a conflict

    Общая лексика: вызвать конфликт

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > bring about a conflict

  • 2 conflict

    1. n
    1) конфликт, столкновение
    2) борьба, столкновение (линий, принципов и т.п.)
    •

    to bring a conflict to an end — прекратить конфликт, положить конец конфликту

    to bring about a conflict — вызывать конфликт, приводить к конфликту

    to drag smb into a conflict — втягивать кого-л. в конфликт

    to eliminate the cause of a conflict — ликвидировать / устранять причину конфликта

    to end a conflict — прекратить конфликт, положить конец конфликту

    to escalate / to exacerbate a conflict — обострять конфликт

    to halt a conflict — прекратить конфликт, положить конец конфликту

    to involve smb in a conflict — вовлекать кого-л. в конфликт

    to lead to a conflict — вызывать конфликт, приводить к конфликту

    to pull smb into the conflict — втягивать кого-л. в конфликт

    to put an end to a conflict — прекратить конфликт, положить конец конфликту

    to shift / to spread the conflict to a place — расширять зону конфликта

    to stand tall in a conflict — быть на высоте в каком-л. конфликте

    to stop / to terminate a conflict — прекратить конфликт, положить конец конфликту

    to touch off / to trigger (off) a conflict — вызывать конфликт; служить толчком к конфликту

    to widen a conflict — расширять рамки / зону конфликта

    - aggravation of a conflict
    - armed conflict
    - bitter conflict
    - bloody conflict
    - border conflict
    - class conflict
    - coming conflict
    - communal conflict
    - conflict broke out
    - conflict of evidence
    - conflict of interest
    - escalation of a conflict
    - ethnic conflict
    - factional conflict
    - flash point of a military conflict
    - frontier conflict
    - growing conflict
    - hotbed of a conflict
    - imminent conflict
    - industrial conflict
    - internal conflict
    - interstate conflict
    - labor conflict
    - local conflict
    - non-nuclear conflict
    - on the brink of a conflict
    - opening shots in the conflict
    - outbreak of a conflict
    - out-of-area conflict
    - political conflict
    - political settlement of the conflict
    - race conflict
    - racial conflict
    - regionalization of a conflict
    - seat of a conflict
    - settlement of international conflicts by negotiations
    - simmering conflict
    - social conflict
    - unprovoked conflict
    - unresolved conflict
    - unsettled conflict     2. v

    Politics english-russian dictionary > conflict

  • 3 вызвать конфликт

    2) Mass media: bring conflict

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > вызвать конфликт

  • 4 вызывать конфликт

    to bring about a conflict, to excite / provoke a conflict, to lead to a conflict, to set at variance, to trigger off a conflict

    Русско-английский словарь по проведению совещаний > вызывать конфликт

  • 5 вызвать конфликт

    to bring about a conflict, to excite / provoke a conflict, to lead to a conflict, to set at variance, to trigger off a conflict

    Русско-английский словарь по проведению совещаний > вызвать конфликт

  • 6 situación

    f.
    1 situation, state, picture.
    2 position, siting.
    3 presentation of the fetus, lie, lie of the fetus, presentation.
    * * *
    1 (circunstancia) situation
    2 (posición) position
    3 (emplazamiento) situation, location
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=circunstancias) situation

    ¿qué harías en una situación así? — what would you do in a situation like that?

    2) (=emplazamiento) situation, location

    la casa tiene una situación inmejorable — the house is in a superb location, the house is superbly located o situated

    3) [en la sociedad] position, standing

    crearse una situación — to do well for o.s.

    situación económica — financial position, financial situation

    4) (=estado) state
    5)

    precio de situación — LAm bargain price

    * * *
    1)
    a) ( coyuntura) situation
    b) ( en la sociedad) position, standing
    2) ( emplazamiento) position, situation (frml), location (frml)
    * * *
    = event, location, picture, position, scenario, scene, setting, situation, state, state of affairs, pass, set and setting, landscape, juncture, setup [set-up], footing, stage, climate, conjuncture.
    Ex. The concept of corporate body includes named occasional groups and events, such as meetings, conferences, congresses, expeditions, exhibitions, festivals, and fairs.
    Ex. Having been alerted to the existence of a document, the user needs information concerning the actual location of the document, in order that the document may be read.
    Ex. Outside the Gwynedd, Dyfed and Clwyd heartland the picture was not encouraging.
    Ex. The directory is a finding list which lists for every field its tag, the number of characters in the field, and the starting character position of the field within the record.
    Ex. This article describes a scenario in which the training of junior staff on-the-job is discussed emphasising that the reality in New Zealand libraries falls far short of the ideal.
    Ex. Scenes that include conflict, emotions, prejudices, misunderstandings, and unreasonableness but also kindliness, humor, friendliness, and goodwill are acted out daily in different kinds of libraries.
    Ex. Over 700 CRT terminals are online to Columbus and are used in a variety of ways to improve service in the local library settings.
    Ex. Even in this apparently straightforward situation, complications can arise.
    Ex. Before she could respond and follow up with a question about her distraught state, Feng escaped to the women's room.
    Ex. One likely effect of this would be that the information-rich would become richer and the information-poor poorer, a state of affairs which many would consider highly undesirable.
    Ex. As he traversed the length of the corridor to the media center, Anthony Datto reflected on the events that had brought him to this unhappy pass.
    Ex. For me a picture of myself in a dentist's waiting room is a perfect metaphor for set and setting very much in play against the easily obtained pleasures I usually get from reading.
    Ex. During the post-war period international organizations have become a prominent feature of the international landscape.
    Ex. For all national libraries a major factor is technological change in communication proceeding at an ever accelerating rating which has brought them to the current juncture.
    Ex. 'You know,' she had said amiably, 'there might be a better job for you here once things get rolling with this new regional setup'.
    Ex. Certain new factors have fertilized the ground for the rooting and growth of activity on a stronger and firmer footing than has ever been possible in the past.
    Ex. Although this study examines the international management stage, there are some points of relevance to this project.
    Ex. The article 'Keeping your ear to the ground' discusses the skills and knowledge information professionals need to have in today's IT-rich climate.
    Ex. This has opened up issues of what is & is not thinkable &, therefore, doable in the present conjuncture of crisis & instability.
    ----
    * aceptar la situación = accept + situation.
    * adaptable a la situación = situation-aware.
    * afrontar la situación = bear + the strain.
    * agravar una situación = exacerbate + situation, aggravate + situation.
    * analizar los pormenores de una situación = look + behind the scene.
    * aprovechar la situación = ride + the wave.
    * cambiar a la situación anterior = reverse.
    * cambiar la situación = change + the course of events.
    * complicar la situación = cloud + the issue, confuse + the issue.
    * confundir la situación = cloud + the view, cloud + the picture.
    * contemplar una situación = address + situation.
    * controlar la situación = tame + the beast.
    * corregir una situación = correct + situation, redress + situation.
    * crear una situación = create + a situation.
    * dada la situación = in the circumstances.
    * darse una situación más esperanzadora = sound + a note of hope.
    * desafiar una situación = challenge + situation.
    * describir una situación = depict + situation.
    * disfrutar de la situación = ride + the wave.
    * dominar la situación = tame + the beast.
    * empeorar la situación = make + things worse.
    * empeorar una situación = exacerbate + situation, aggravate + situation.
    * encontrarse con una situación = come across + situation, meet + situation.
    * encontrarse en una mejor situación económica = be economically better off.
    * en cualquier otra situación = in the normal run of things, in the normal run of events.
    * en cualquier situación = in any given situation.
    * en esta situación = at this juncture.
    * enfrentarse a una situación = face + situation, meet + situation.
    * en la situación concreta = on the scene.
    * en situación de = in the position to.
    * en situación de crisis = on the rocks.
    * en situaciones de riesgo = in harm's way.
    * en situaciones normales = under normal circumstances.
    * en situaciones peligrosas = in harm's way.
    * en una situación de emergencia = in an emergency situation, in an emergency.
    * en una situación desesperada = in dire straits.
    * en una situación muy problemática = in deep trouble, in deep water.
    * estado de una situación = state of being.
    * estar en situación de = be in a position to.
    * estar en una situación diferente = be on a different track.
    * explicar la situación = explain + the situation.
    * gravedad de la situación, la = seriousness of the situation, la, gravity of the situation, the.
    * hacer frente a la situación = tackle + situation.
    * hacer que se produzca una situación = bring about + situation.
    * hecho para una situación específica = niche-specific.
    * imaginarse una situación = envision + situation.
    * información que permite mejorar la situación social de Alguien = empowering information.
    * informe de situación = status report.
    * informe sobre la situación actual = state of the art report.
    * la situación = the course of events.
    * mecanismo de reducción de situaciones difíciles = threat-reduction mechanism.
    * mejora de situación social = upward mobility.
    * mejorar la situación = improve + the lot.
    * mejorar una situación = ameliorate + situation.
    * meterse en una situación embarazosa = put + Reflexivo + into + position.
    * ocupar una situación idónea para = be well-placed to.
    * pasar a una situación económica más confortable = improve + Posesivo + lot.
    * perder el control de la situacion = things + get out of hand.
    * reaccionar ante una situación = respond to + situation.
    * rectificar una situación = rectify + situation.
    * remediar una situación = remedy + situation.
    * resolver una situación = manage + situation, resolve + situation.
    * responder a una situación = respond to + situation.
    * salir de una situación difícil = haul + Reflexivo + out of + Posesivo + bog.
    * sensible a la situación = situation-aware.
    * simulacro de una situación supuesta = play-acting.
    * situación actual = current situation, current state, present state, current status.
    * situación actual, la = scheme of things, the.
    * situación + agravar = situation + exacerbate.
    * situación análoga = analogue.
    * situación apremiante = plight.
    * situación apurada = hardship.
    * situación azarosa = predicament.
    * situación buena = strong position.
    * situación + cambiar = tide + turn.
    * situación cómica = comedy sketch.
    * situación confusa = muddy waters.
    * situación cotidiana = everyday situation, daily situation.
    * situación crítica = critical situation.
    * situación de decadencia irreversible = terminal decline.
    * situación de desesperación = scene of despair.
    * situación de estrés = stress situation.
    * situación de préstamo = loan status.
    * situación desagradable = unpleasantness.
    * situación de tensión = stress situation.
    * situación diaria = daily situation.
    * situación difícil = plight, hardship, bumpy ride.
    * situación económica = financial situation, economic status.
    * situación económica, la = economics of the situation, the.
    * situación embarazosa = embarrassing situation.
    * situación en la que hay un vencedor y un perdedor = win-lose + Nombre.
    * situación en la que las dos partes salen ganando = win-win + Nombre.
    * situaciones = sphere of activity, sphere of life, walks (of/in) life.
    * situaciones de la vida = life situations [life-situations].
    * situación experimental = laboratory situation.
    * situación forzada = Procrustean bed.
    * situación hipotética = scenario.
    * situación ideal = ideal situation.
    * situación insoportable = unbearable situation.
    * situación insostenible = unbearable situation.
    * situación + irse de las manos = things + get out of hand.
    * situación laboral = employment situation, employment status.
    * situación + mejorar = situation + ease.
    * situación peligrosa = endangerment, dangerous situation.
    * situación penosa = plight.
    * situación poco clara = clouding.
    * situación política = political scene.
    * situación posible = scenario.
    * situación precaria = precarious situation.
    * situación privilegiada = advantageous location.
    * situación problemática = problem situation.
    * situación sin solución = impasse.
    * situación + surgir = situation + arise.
    * situación tensa = stress situation.
    * situación ventajosa = winning situation.
    * superar una situación difícil = weather + the bumpy ride, weather + the storm.
    * verse en la situación = find + Reflexivo + in the position.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( coyuntura) situation
    b) ( en la sociedad) position, standing
    2) ( emplazamiento) position, situation (frml), location (frml)
    * * *
    = event, location, picture, position, scenario, scene, setting, situation, state, state of affairs, pass, set and setting, landscape, juncture, setup [set-up], footing, stage, climate, conjuncture.

    Ex: The concept of corporate body includes named occasional groups and events, such as meetings, conferences, congresses, expeditions, exhibitions, festivals, and fairs.

    Ex: Having been alerted to the existence of a document, the user needs information concerning the actual location of the document, in order that the document may be read.
    Ex: Outside the Gwynedd, Dyfed and Clwyd heartland the picture was not encouraging.
    Ex: The directory is a finding list which lists for every field its tag, the number of characters in the field, and the starting character position of the field within the record.
    Ex: This article describes a scenario in which the training of junior staff on-the-job is discussed emphasising that the reality in New Zealand libraries falls far short of the ideal.
    Ex: Scenes that include conflict, emotions, prejudices, misunderstandings, and unreasonableness but also kindliness, humor, friendliness, and goodwill are acted out daily in different kinds of libraries.
    Ex: Over 700 CRT terminals are online to Columbus and are used in a variety of ways to improve service in the local library settings.
    Ex: Even in this apparently straightforward situation, complications can arise.
    Ex: Before she could respond and follow up with a question about her distraught state, Feng escaped to the women's room.
    Ex: One likely effect of this would be that the information-rich would become richer and the information-poor poorer, a state of affairs which many would consider highly undesirable.
    Ex: As he traversed the length of the corridor to the media center, Anthony Datto reflected on the events that had brought him to this unhappy pass.
    Ex: For me a picture of myself in a dentist's waiting room is a perfect metaphor for set and setting very much in play against the easily obtained pleasures I usually get from reading.
    Ex: During the post-war period international organizations have become a prominent feature of the international landscape.
    Ex: For all national libraries a major factor is technological change in communication proceeding at an ever accelerating rating which has brought them to the current juncture.
    Ex: 'You know,' she had said amiably, 'there might be a better job for you here once things get rolling with this new regional setup'.
    Ex: Certain new factors have fertilized the ground for the rooting and growth of activity on a stronger and firmer footing than has ever been possible in the past.
    Ex: Although this study examines the international management stage, there are some points of relevance to this project.
    Ex: The article 'Keeping your ear to the ground' discusses the skills and knowledge information professionals need to have in today's IT-rich climate.
    Ex: This has opened up issues of what is & is not thinkable &, therefore, doable in the present conjuncture of crisis & instability.
    * aceptar la situación = accept + situation.
    * adaptable a la situación = situation-aware.
    * afrontar la situación = bear + the strain.
    * agravar una situación = exacerbate + situation, aggravate + situation.
    * analizar los pormenores de una situación = look + behind the scene.
    * aprovechar la situación = ride + the wave.
    * cambiar a la situación anterior = reverse.
    * cambiar la situación = change + the course of events.
    * complicar la situación = cloud + the issue, confuse + the issue.
    * confundir la situación = cloud + the view, cloud + the picture.
    * contemplar una situación = address + situation.
    * controlar la situación = tame + the beast.
    * corregir una situación = correct + situation, redress + situation.
    * crear una situación = create + a situation.
    * dada la situación = in the circumstances.
    * darse una situación más esperanzadora = sound + a note of hope.
    * desafiar una situación = challenge + situation.
    * describir una situación = depict + situation.
    * disfrutar de la situación = ride + the wave.
    * dominar la situación = tame + the beast.
    * empeorar la situación = make + things worse.
    * empeorar una situación = exacerbate + situation, aggravate + situation.
    * encontrarse con una situación = come across + situation, meet + situation.
    * encontrarse en una mejor situación económica = be economically better off.
    * en cualquier otra situación = in the normal run of things, in the normal run of events.
    * en cualquier situación = in any given situation.
    * en esta situación = at this juncture.
    * enfrentarse a una situación = face + situation, meet + situation.
    * en la situación concreta = on the scene.
    * en situación de = in the position to.
    * en situación de crisis = on the rocks.
    * en situaciones de riesgo = in harm's way.
    * en situaciones normales = under normal circumstances.
    * en situaciones peligrosas = in harm's way.
    * en una situación de emergencia = in an emergency situation, in an emergency.
    * en una situación desesperada = in dire straits.
    * en una situación muy problemática = in deep trouble, in deep water.
    * estado de una situación = state of being.
    * estar en situación de = be in a position to.
    * estar en una situación diferente = be on a different track.
    * explicar la situación = explain + the situation.
    * gravedad de la situación, la = seriousness of the situation, la, gravity of the situation, the.
    * hacer frente a la situación = tackle + situation.
    * hacer que se produzca una situación = bring about + situation.
    * hecho para una situación específica = niche-specific.
    * imaginarse una situación = envision + situation.
    * información que permite mejorar la situación social de Alguien = empowering information.
    * informe de situación = status report.
    * informe sobre la situación actual = state of the art report.
    * la situación = the course of events.
    * mecanismo de reducción de situaciones difíciles = threat-reduction mechanism.
    * mejora de situación social = upward mobility.
    * mejorar la situación = improve + the lot.
    * mejorar una situación = ameliorate + situation.
    * meterse en una situación embarazosa = put + Reflexivo + into + position.
    * ocupar una situación idónea para = be well-placed to.
    * pasar a una situación económica más confortable = improve + Posesivo + lot.
    * perder el control de la situacion = things + get out of hand.
    * reaccionar ante una situación = respond to + situation.
    * rectificar una situación = rectify + situation.
    * remediar una situación = remedy + situation.
    * resolver una situación = manage + situation, resolve + situation.
    * responder a una situación = respond to + situation.
    * salir de una situación difícil = haul + Reflexivo + out of + Posesivo + bog.
    * sensible a la situación = situation-aware.
    * simulacro de una situación supuesta = play-acting.
    * situación actual = current situation, current state, present state, current status.
    * situación actual, la = scheme of things, the.
    * situación + agravar = situation + exacerbate.
    * situación análoga = analogue.
    * situación apremiante = plight.
    * situación apurada = hardship.
    * situación azarosa = predicament.
    * situación buena = strong position.
    * situación + cambiar = tide + turn.
    * situación cómica = comedy sketch.
    * situación confusa = muddy waters.
    * situación cotidiana = everyday situation, daily situation.
    * situación crítica = critical situation.
    * situación de decadencia irreversible = terminal decline.
    * situación de desesperación = scene of despair.
    * situación de estrés = stress situation.
    * situación de préstamo = loan status.
    * situación desagradable = unpleasantness.
    * situación de tensión = stress situation.
    * situación diaria = daily situation.
    * situación difícil = plight, hardship, bumpy ride.
    * situación económica = financial situation, economic status.
    * situación económica, la = economics of the situation, the.
    * situación embarazosa = embarrassing situation.
    * situación en la que hay un vencedor y un perdedor = win-lose + Nombre.
    * situación en la que las dos partes salen ganando = win-win + Nombre.
    * situaciones = sphere of activity, sphere of life, walks (of/in) life.
    * situaciones de la vida = life situations [life-situations].
    * situación experimental = laboratory situation.
    * situación forzada = Procrustean bed.
    * situación hipotética = scenario.
    * situación ideal = ideal situation.
    * situación insoportable = unbearable situation.
    * situación insostenible = unbearable situation.
    * situación + irse de las manos = things + get out of hand.
    * situación laboral = employment situation, employment status.
    * situación + mejorar = situation + ease.
    * situación peligrosa = endangerment, dangerous situation.
    * situación penosa = plight.
    * situación poco clara = clouding.
    * situación política = political scene.
    * situación posible = scenario.
    * situación precaria = precarious situation.
    * situación privilegiada = advantageous location.
    * situación problemática = problem situation.
    * situación sin solución = impasse.
    * situación + surgir = situation + arise.
    * situación tensa = stress situation.
    * situación ventajosa = winning situation.
    * superar una situación difícil = weather + the bumpy ride, weather + the storm.
    * verse en la situación = find + Reflexivo + in the position.

    * * *
    A
    1 (coyuntura) situation
    nuestra situación económica our financial situation o position
    no está en situación de poder ayudarnos she is not in a position to be able to help us
    se encuentra en una situación desesperada her situation o plight is desperate, she is in a desperate situation
    apenas crearon situaciones de gol they hardly made any scoring chances
    salvar la situación to save the day o rescue the situation
    2 (en la sociedad) position, standing
    Compuesto:
    extreme situation
    B (emplazamiento) position, situation ( frml), location ( frml)
    la situación del local es excelente the premises are ideally situated o located
    * * *

     

    situación sustantivo femenino
    1


    2 ( emplazamiento) position, situation (frml), location (frml)
    situación sustantivo femenino
    1 (económica) situation
    2 (trance) me puso en una situación muy embarazosa, he put me in an awkward situation
    3 (emplazamiento) location
    4 (condiciones, disposición) state: no estamos en situación de rechazarlo, we are in no position to refuse it
    ' situación' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abusiva
    - abusivo
    - acierto
    - aclimatarse
    - adueñarse
    - afianzarse
    - airosa
    - airoso
    - ambiente
    - ámbito
    - anterioridad
    - aprovechar
    - caer
    - calibrar
    - callejón
    - cañón
    - capear
    - cargo
    - caso
    - comparable
    - comprometedor
    - comprometedora
    - comprometida
    - comprometido
    - compromiso
    - condición
    - conducir
    - considerablemente
    - correr
    - coyuntura
    - crisis
    - decantar
    - desdramatizar
    - desembocar
    - detonante
    - dimanar
    - disposición
    - dueña
    - dueño
    - embrollo
    - emotiva
    - emotivo
    - endemoniada
    - endemoniado
    - enrarecerse
    - enredar
    - enredarse
    - entrar
    - estar
    - estado
    English:
    aggravate
    - anywhere
    - applicable
    - apprise
    - aspect
    - assess
    - assessment
    - awkward
    - backdrop
    - border on
    - break
    - bullet
    - business
    - case
    - command
    - confuse
    - consolidate
    - danger
    - defuse
    - deteriorate
    - dinner
    - dire
    - disgusting
    - distressing
    - encouraging
    - end
    - explosive
    - fraught
    - fuel
    - further
    - grim
    - heat
    - hook
    - hot up
    - in
    - indoors
    - inflammable
    - injustice
    - irritating
    - joke
    - mess
    - misjudge
    - muddy
    - nasty
    - need
    - no-win
    - off
    - ongoing
    - pass
    - picture
    * * *
    1. [circunstancias] situation;
    [legal, social] status;
    estar en situación de hacer algo [en general] to be in a position to do sth;
    [enfermo, borracho] to be in a fit state to do sth;
    estar en una situación privilegiada to be in a privileged position
    situación económica economic situation;
    situación límite extreme o critical situation
    2. [ubicación] location;
    la tienda está en una situación muy céntrica the shop is in a very central location
    * * *
    f situation;
    estar en situación de be in a position to
    * * *
    situación nf, pl - ciones : situation
    * * *
    situación n situation

    Spanish-English dictionary > situación

  • 7 конфликт

    (столкновение) conflict, clash; (спор, особ. полит.) dispute

    вовлечь в конфликт — to embroil (smb.) in a conflict / in a clash; to draw / to involve (smb.) in a conflict

    вовлечённый в конфликт — involved / embroiled in a conflict

    избежать конфликта — to avoid a conflict / a clash, to sidestep / to elude a conflict

    предотвратить конфликт — to avert / to head off a conflict

    привести к конфликту — to result in a clash, to bring about / to lead to a conflict

    спровоцировать конфликт — to provoke / to engineer a conflict

    уладить конфликт — to defuse a conflict, to adjust / to conciliate a dispute

    урегулировать конфликт — to solve / to reconcile a dispute

    военный конфликт — military / warlike conflict

    очаги опасных военных конфликтов — hotbeds / flashpoints of dangerous military conflicts

    вечный конфликт — eternal / ongoing conflict

    прекратить вооружённый конфликт — to stop / to halt an armed conflict

    провоцировать вооружённый конфликт — to provoke / to engineer a war / military conflict

    международный конфликт — international conflict / dispute

    мирное разрешение международных конфликтов — peaceful / nonhostile settlement of international differences / conflicts

    назревающий конфликт — coming / imminent conflict

    ненужный конфликт, конфликт, которого можно избежать — unnecessary conflict

    неразрешённый / нерешённый конфликт — unresolved problem, pendent dispute

    пограничный конфликт — border / frontier conflict; frontier dispute

    провоцирование пограничного конфликта — provoking / engineering of a border / frontier conflict

    политический конфликт — political conflict / dispute

    разрешение / решение конфликта — solution of a conflict

    расширение / эскалация конфликта — escalation of a conflict

    урегулирование конфликта — resolving / settlement of conflict

    Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > конфликт

  • 8 समृ


    sam-ṛi
    P. - iyarti, - ṛiṇoti, - ṛiṇvati, orﾠ - ricchati (in some forms alsoﾠ Ā.;

    for - ṛicchati, te- seeﾠ Pāṇ. 1-3, 29),
    to join together, bring to pass, bring about RV. III, 2, 1 ;
    to bring together, drive together (3. sg. aor. - ārata;
    perf. p. - ārāṇa) ib. I, 54, 1 ;
    to be brought about ib. III, 11, 2 ;
    to run together, hasten together towards (acc. orﾠ loc.), meet with (instr.), come into collision orﾠ conflict RV. AV. ṠBr. Kauṡ. Bhaṭṭ.:
    Caus. - arpayati, - te, to throw at, hurl at (acc.), strike, hit AV. MBh. ;
    to cause to come into conflict orﾠ collision ṠBr. ;
    to fix orﾠ place orﾠ insert in, put in orﾠ on orﾠ down ib. etc. etc.;
    to impose, enjoin R. ;
    to deliver over, consign, commit Kāv. Kathās. Sāh. ;
    to send off, despatch (a messenger) R.

    Sanskrit-English dictionary > समृ

  • 9 doprowa|dzić

    pf — doprowa|dzać impf Ⅰ vt 1. (przyprowadzić) przewodnik doprowadzi was na sam szczyt/do wioski the guide will take you to the very top/the village
    - doprowadzę cię do szosy, dalej sama trafisz I’ll take you as far as the road, and then you’ll be able to find the way
    - doprowadził statek do portu he took the ship into port
    - doprowadzić armię do zwycięstwa to lead an army to victory
    2. Admin., Prawo doprowadzić podejrzanego na przesłuchanie to take a suspect (in) for questioning 3. (zainstalować) doprowadzić gaz/prąd do budynku to supply gas/electricity to a building 4. (dostarczyć) doprowadzać krew do serca to supply blood to the heart 5. (skierować) to lead
    - ślady opon muszą nas doprowadzić do wioski the tyre tracks have to lead to a village
    - wieloletnie obserwacje doprowadziły uczonych do wniosku/hipotezy, że… many years of research led scholars to the conclusion/hypothesis that…
    6. (spowodować) doprowadzić firmę/rodzinę do bankructwa to lead a. bring the company/family to bankruptcy
    - doprowadzić zwaśnione strony do pojednania to reconcile the parties, to bring about reconciliation between the parties
    - doprowadzić negocjacje/projekt do skutku to bring the negotiations/project to a conclusion
    - doprowadzisz się do choroby ciągłym zamartwianiem się you’ll make yourself sick worrying
    - ten tryb życia w końcu doprowadzi cię do zawału this lifestyle will give you a heart attack
    - co zacznę, muszę doprowadzić do końca I have to finish what I begin
    - doprowadzić wodę do wrzenia to bring the water to the boil
    - doprowadzić kogoś do płaczu a. łez to reduce sb to tears
    - doprowadzić kogoś do rozpaczy to reduce sb to despair
    - doprowadzić kogoś do szału/do białej gorączki to make sb mad/furious
    - twoje ciągłe narzekanie doprowadza mnie do szału your constant moaning is driving me mad
    - nie doprowadzaj mnie do ostateczności! don’t make me mad a. furious
    7. (zmienić) doprowadzić coś do ładu/do porządku to put something in order/to set sth right
    - umyła się i doprowadziła fryzurę do porządku she washed herself and tidied her hair
    - doprowadzić się do porządku to tidy oneself up
    8. (kontynuować) doprowadzić czyjeś dzieje do roku… to take sb’s biography up to the year… Ⅱ vi doprowadzić do równowagi między podażą a popytem to balance supply and demand
    - doprowadzić do pożądanego efektu/skutku to get a. obtain the desired effect/result
    - doprowadzić do czyjejś śmierci to cause a. bring about sb’s death
    - doprowadzić do wojny/konfliktu między państwami [wydarzenia] to lead to a. to bring about war/an international conflict
    - to do niczego dobrego nie doprowadzi this will not lead anywhere, this is to no avail

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > doprowa|dzić

  • 10 конфликт

    сущ.
    clash; conflict; dispute

    вызывать (провоцировать) конфликт — to bring about (lead to, provoke, trigger off) a conflict

    подтверждать или отрицать наличие конфликта — ( спора) to affirm or deny the existence of a conflict (of a dispute)

    разжигать конфликт — to fan (foment, kindle, stir up) a conflict

    разрешать (урегулировать) конфликт мирным путём (посредством мировой сделки) — to resolve (settle) a conflict (a dispute) by peaceful means (through an out-of-court settlement)

    - вооружённый конфликт
    - пограничный конфликт
    - трудовой конфликт
    - этнический конфликт

    Русско-английский юридический словарь > конфликт

  • 11 reclamar

    v.
    1 to demand, to ask for.
    le he reclamado todo el dinero que me debe I've demanded that he return to me all the money he owes me
    la multitud reclamaba que cantara otra canción the crowd clamored for her to sing another song
    2 to demand, to require.
    el negocio reclama toda mi atención the business requires o demands all my attention
    3 to ask for.
    te reclaman en la oficina they're asking for you at the office
    4 to protest.
    5 to claim, to ask for, to demand, to lay claim to.
    Ellos reclaman su premio They claim their prize.
    6 to reclaim, to recover, to recuperate.
    Reclamaron mucha tierra junto al mar They reclaimed a lot of land by the sea
    7 to complain.
    Ellos reclaman siempre They always complain.
    8 to file a claim, to lodge a claim.
    Ellos reclamaron hace un mes They filed a claim about a month ago.
    * * *
    1 (pedir) to demand, claim
    2 (exigir) to require, demand
    1 (protestar) to protest ( contra, against)
    2 DERECHO to appeal
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ herencia, tierras] to claim; [+ derechos] to demand
    2) [+ atención, solución] to demand
    3) [+ aves] to call to
    2.
    VI (=quejarse) to complain

    reclamar contra una sentencia — (Jur) to appeal against a sentence

    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) persona <derecho/indemnización> to claim; ( con insistencia) to demand
    b) situación/problema to require, demand
    2.
    reclamar vi to complain
    * * *
    = claim, recall, lay + claim(s) to, clamour for [clamor, -USA], reclaim, make + claim, place + claim, call on/upon, contest, appeal.
    Ex. Periodicals control -- the procedures for receiving, ( claiming), and binding single issues of periodicals and serials -- is restricted to authorized users.
    Ex. To send a recall, display the circulation status of the copy to be recalled.
    Ex. If librarians would calmly and publicly and increasingly lay claim to this area as their professional domain, they would gradually bring about the change in attitude that many desire to see.
    Ex. I've seen people clamor for a say and when it's given to them they don't take it.
    Ex. The article ' Reclaiming our technological future' discusses the effects of electronic technology on the future development of libraries and librarians.
    Ex. The claim is made that society is evolving from one whose formal communication patterns have, for centuries, been based primarily on print on paper to one in which communication channels will be largely paperless (electronic).
    Ex. Overall the on-line method of placing claims was preferred because it resulted in a faster response from the vendor and a quicker receipt of the journal.
    Ex. This article calls on libraries to forge a renewed national commitment to cooperate in the building of a national information network for scholarly communications.
    Ex. Unfortunately I have not been able to find another survey which incorporates data which would support or contest the conclusions of the Luton survey.
    Ex. The judge rejected it because it was considered an intimidation tactic and there was no opportunity for those denied voting from appealing before the polls closed.
    ----
    * reclamar daños = claim + damages.
    * reclamar el control de = make + claim upon.
    * reclamar el derecho a Algo = stake + Posesivo + claim.
    * reclamar una decisión = appeal + decision.
    * reclamar venganza = bay for + blood, bay for + vengeance.
    * sin reclamar = unredeemed.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) persona <derecho/indemnización> to claim; ( con insistencia) to demand
    b) situación/problema to require, demand
    2.
    reclamar vi to complain
    * * *
    = claim, recall, lay + claim(s) to, clamour for [clamor, -USA], reclaim, make + claim, place + claim, call on/upon, contest, appeal.

    Ex: Periodicals control -- the procedures for receiving, ( claiming), and binding single issues of periodicals and serials -- is restricted to authorized users.

    Ex: To send a recall, display the circulation status of the copy to be recalled.
    Ex: If librarians would calmly and publicly and increasingly lay claim to this area as their professional domain, they would gradually bring about the change in attitude that many desire to see.
    Ex: I've seen people clamor for a say and when it's given to them they don't take it.
    Ex: The article ' Reclaiming our technological future' discusses the effects of electronic technology on the future development of libraries and librarians.
    Ex: The claim is made that society is evolving from one whose formal communication patterns have, for centuries, been based primarily on print on paper to one in which communication channels will be largely paperless (electronic).
    Ex: Overall the on-line method of placing claims was preferred because it resulted in a faster response from the vendor and a quicker receipt of the journal.
    Ex: This article calls on libraries to forge a renewed national commitment to cooperate in the building of a national information network for scholarly communications.
    Ex: Unfortunately I have not been able to find another survey which incorporates data which would support or contest the conclusions of the Luton survey.
    Ex: The judge rejected it because it was considered an intimidation tactic and there was no opportunity for those denied voting from appealing before the polls closed.
    * reclamar daños = claim + damages.
    * reclamar el control de = make + claim upon.
    * reclamar el derecho a Algo = stake + Posesivo + claim.
    * reclamar una decisión = appeal + decision.
    * reclamar venganza = bay for + blood, bay for + vengeance.
    * sin reclamar = unredeemed.

    * * *
    reclamar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 «persona» ‹derecho/indemnización› to claim; (con insistencia) to demand
    si no reclama el pago dentro de seis meses if you do not claim payment within six months
    reclamó su parte de los beneficios he claimed his share of the profits
    los manifestantes reclamaban el derecho al voto the demonstrators were demanding the right to vote
    el enfermo reclamaba constantemente atención the patient was constantly demanding attention
    2 «situación/problema» to require, demand
    la situación reclama mucho tacto the situation calls for o requires a great deal of tact
    estos problemas reclaman soluciones inmediatas these problems need to be sorted out immediately, these problems require o demand immediate solutions
    ■ reclamar
    vi
    to complain
    tiene derecho a reclamar si no está satisfecho you have the right to complain o to make a complaint if you are not satisfied
    reclamó ante los tribunales she took the matter to court
    reclamé contra la multa I appealed against the fine
    * * *

     

    reclamar ( conjugate reclamar) verbo transitivo
    a) [ persona] ‹derecho/indemnización› to claim;

    ( con insistencia) to demand
    b) [situación/problema] to require, demand

    verbo intransitivo
    to complain;

    reclamar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (un derecho, una propiedad) to claim, demand
    2 (requerir) to call: la empresa lo reclama en la sede central, the company have summoned him to the headquarters
    Jur (a un testigo, inculpado) to summon
    3 (exigir) este trabajo reclama nuestra paciencia, this work demands our patience
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 to complain, protest [contra, against]
    2 Jur to appeal

    ' reclamar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    reivindicar
    English:
    claim
    - demand
    - reclaim
    - stake
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [pedir, exigir] to demand, to ask for;
    le he reclamado todo el dinero que me debe I've demanded that he return to me all the money he owes me;
    reclamó ante un tribunal una indemnización she went to court to claim compensation;
    la multitud reclamaba que cantara otra canción the crowd clamoured for her to sing another song
    2. [necesitar] to demand, to require;
    el negocio reclama toda mi atención the business requires o demands all my attention;
    este conflicto reclama una solución inmediata this conflict calls for an immediate solution
    3. [llamar] to ask for;
    te reclaman en la oficina they're asking for you at the office
    4. Der
    reclamar a alguien to summon sb to appear before the court
    ♦ vi
    [quejarse] to make a complaint;
    reclamaron por los malos tratos recibidos they made a complaint about the ill-treatment they had received;
    reclamó contra la sanción he made a formal protest against the suspension
    * * *
    I v/t claim, demand
    II v/i complain
    * * *
    1) exigir: to demand, to require
    2) : to claim
    : to complain
    * * *
    1. (protestar) to complain
    2. (exigir) to demand / to claim

    Spanish-English dictionary > reclamar

  • 12 конфликт

    сущ.
    clash;
    conflict;
    dispute
    - вооружённый конфликт
    - пограничный конфликт
    - трудовой конфликт
    - этнический конфликт

    вызывать (провоцировать) конфликт — to bring about (lead to, provoke, trigger off) a conflict

    обострение \конфликта — sharpening of a conflict

    эскалация \конфликта — escalation of a conflict

    Юридический русско-английский словарь > конфликт

  • 13 путь

    1. road
    Тяжел был путь к победе. - The road to victory was arduous.
    2. course
    Реакционеры пытались силой оружия заставить их свернуть с избранного пути. - Reactionary forces tried by force of arms to sway/divert them from their chosen course.
    3. policy
    Дискуссия продемонстрировала широкое понимание того, что путь военной конфронтации не может привести к миру. - The discussion showed general understanding of the fact that a policy of military confrontation cannot bring about/lead to peace.
    4. work, task, endeavor, field, this
    Наша страна желает вам успехов на этом пути. - Our country wishes you success in this work/task/endeavor/ field/ in this.
    5. approach
    путь к решению вопроса – approach to the solution
    6. ways, means (способ, средства решения вопроса)
    Мы выступаем за то, чтобы активизировать коллективные поиски путей разблокирования конфликтной ситуации, за конструктивный поиск путей и средств скорейшего выполнения решений нашей организации. –
    We would like to see intensification of the/a joint search for ways/joint approach to defusing/a process for resolving/ to defuse this conflict situation, and a search for ways and means to implement the decisions of our organization as soon as possible/in a speedy manner/to bring about speedy implementation of the decisions of our organization.
    7. direction
    Важным шагом на этом пути была бы подготовка плана. - An important step in that direction/in making progress would be the preparation/drawing up/drafting of a plan.
    8. through
    Путем грубого экономического давления эта страна навязала соглашение... - Through crude economic pressure this country imposed an agreement...
    9. (путями мн.ч.) how
    Давно не скрывается и то, какими путями закупленное оружие попадает в руки террористов. - It has long been obvious ( antonymic translation) how the weapons which were purchased ended up in the hands of the terrorists ( time-saver: got to the terrorists).
    В продвижении на пути к реальному разоружению - In making progress towards real disarmament
    Все препятствия, которые стоят на пути к разоружению - All the obstacles to disarmament

    Словарь переводчика-синхрониста (русско-английский) > путь

  • 14 путь

    1. road
    Тяжел был путь к победе. - The road to victory was arduous.
    2. course
    Реакционеры пытались силой оружия заставить их свернуть с избранного пути. - Reactionary forces tried by force of arms to sway/divert them from their chosen course.
    3. policy
    Дискуссия продемонстрировала широкое понимание того, что путь военной конфронтации не может привести к миру. - The discussion showed general understanding of the fact that a policy of military confrontation cannot bring about/lead to peace.
    4. work, task, endeavor, field, this
    Наша страна желает вам успехов на этом пути. - Our country wishes you success in this work/task/endeavor/ field/ in this.
    5. approach
    путь к решению вопроса – approach to the solution
    6. ways, means (способ, средства решения вопроса)
    Мы выступаем за то, чтобы активизировать коллективные поиски путей разблокирования конфликтной ситуации, за конструктивный поиск путей и средств скорейшего выполнения решений нашей организации. –
    We would like to see intensification of the/a joint search for ways/joint approach to defusing/a process for resolving/ to defuse this conflict situation, and a search for ways and means to implement the decisions of our organization as soon as possible/in a speedy manner/to bring about speedy implementation of the decisions of our organization.
    7. direction
    Важным шагом на этом пути была бы подготовка плана. - An important step in that direction/in making progress would be the preparation/drawing up/drafting of a plan.
    8. through
    Путем грубого экономического давления эта страна навязала соглашение... - Through crude economic pressure this country imposed an agreement...
    9. (путями мн.ч.) how
    Давно не скрывается и то, какими путями закупленное оружие попадает в руки террористов. - It has long been obvious ( antonymic translation) how the weapons which were purchased ended up in the hands of the terrorists ( time-saver: got to the terrorists).
    В продвижении на пути к реальному разоружению - In making progress towards real disarmament
    Все препятствия, которые стоят на пути к разоружению - All the obstacles to disarmament

    Русско-английский словарь переводчика-синхрониста > путь

  • 15 originar

    v.
    1 to cause.
    2 to originate, to bring about, to begin, to cause.
    Esa actitud origina problemas That attitude originates trouble.
    3 to be brought about to, to be originated to, to be caused to.
    Se les originó un problema A problem was brought about to them.
    * * *
    1 to cause, give rise to
    1 to originate
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1.
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo to start, give rise to
    2.
    originarse v pron idea/costumbre to originate; movimiento to start, come into being, originate; incendio/disputa to start
    * * *
    = spawn.
    Ex. Both the original production and revision of STC spawned a large crop of such items which are worth following up.
    ----
    * originarse = come, source.
    * originarse en = date back to + Expresión Temporal, originate (from), date from + Expresión Temporal.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo to start, give rise to
    2.
    originarse v pron idea/costumbre to originate; movimiento to start, come into being, originate; incendio/disputa to start
    * * *

    Ex: Both the original production and revision of STC spawned a large crop of such items which are worth following up.

    * originarse = come, source.
    * originarse en = date back to + Expresión Temporal, originate (from), date from + Expresión Temporal.

    * * *
    originar [A1 ]
    vt
    ‹conflicto› to start, be the source of, give rise to, spark off; ‹debate› to start, give rise to, spark off
    «idea/costumbre» to originate; «movimiento» to start, come into being, originate; «incendio/disputa» to start
    * * *

    originar ( conjugate originar) verbo transitivo
    to start, give rise to
    originarse verbo pronominal [idea/costumbre] to originate;
    [ movimiento] to start, come into being, originate;
    [incendio/disputa] to start
    originar verbo transitivo to cause, give rise to: su error originó una tragedia, her mistake resulted in tragedy
    ' originar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    dimanar
    - suscitar
    English:
    originate
    - start
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    [conflicto, problema] to give rise to, to cause; [discusión, incendio, epidemia] to start; [crisis] to spark (off), to precipitate
    * * *
    v/t give rise to
    * * *
    : to originate, to give rise to
    * * *
    originar vb to cause / to lead to [pt. & pp. led]

    Spanish-English dictionary > originar

  • 16 Sá da Bandeira, the Marquis of

    (1795-1876)
       Famous 19th-century career soldier turned politician, colonial reformer and planner, and statesman. Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo, later named the Marquis of Sá da Bandeira, was a soldier from the young age of 15 who fought against the armies of Napoleon in the Peninsular Wars. The historian Alexandre Herculano described him as "the most illustrious Portuguese of his century." Among the people, he was nicknamed "Sá-the one-handed or "one-armed," since he had lost his right arm in battle. Trained in engineering and mathematics, and with residence abroad, he first made a reputation as an outstanding military leader in the campaigns against the French in Portugal (1811) and in the civil wars of 1828-34.
       Devoted to the cause of King Pedro IV of maintaining Pedro's young daughter, Maria da Glória, on Portugal's throne, Sá da Bandei-ra's image and style seemed to be in conflict with those of a general more typical of the age of romanticism. Spare in body, methodical and frugal, and serene in spirit, he achieved the highest offices in government, following the triumph of the cause of constitutional monarchy by 1834. Concerned with Portugal's overseas empire, severely weakened by the loss of Brazil in 1822, Sá da Bandeira relentlessly pursued colonial reform plans and efforts to create for Portugal "another Brazil in Africa." Active in politics into his old age, in the 1870s, he worked to bring about reforms of the colonial economy, to move from an economy based on slave trade and slavery to one based on legitimate trade and industry, especially in Angola and Mozambique. This soldier and politician became, in effect, the heart and soul of Portugal's first modern colonial movement, 1835-75.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Sá da Bandeira, the Marquis of

  • 17 entrar

    v.
    1 to enter, to come in (introducirse) (viniendo).
    déjame entrar let me in
    entrar en algo to enter something, to come/go into something
    entré por la ventana I got in through the window
    El auto entró fácilmente The car entered easily.
    Elsa entró los datos Elsa entered the data.
    2 to go in.
    entrar en algo to go into something
    3 to fit.
    esta llave no entra en la cerradura this key won't fit in the lock
    este anillo no me entra I can't get this ring on my finger
    el pie no me entra en el zapato I can't get this shoe on
    4 to join in.
    entrar en to join in; (discusión, polémica) to get in on (negocio)
    no entremos en cuestiones morales let's not get involved in moral issues
    yo ahí ni entro ni salgo it has nothing to do with me
    5 to start (time).
    el verano entra el 21 de junio summer starts on 21 June
    entrar en to reach; (edad, vejez) to start (año nuevo)
    6 to engage (automobiles).
    no entra la tercera it won't go into third gear
    7 to bring in.
    8 to take in.
    9 to approach, to deal with.
    a ése no hay por donde entrarle there's no way of getting through to him
    10 to be visited by.
    Nos entraron muchos turistas We were visited by many tourists.
    11 to catch, to take.
    Me entró un resfrío I cought [took] a cold.
    * * *
    1 (ir adentro) to come in, go in
    2 (tener entrada) to be welcome
    3 (en una sociedad etc) to join; (en una profesión) to take up, join
    4 (encajar, caber) to fit
    5 (empezar - año, estación) to begin, start; (- período, época) to enter; (- libro, carta) to begin, open
    6 (venir) to come over, come on
    7 (alcanzar) to reach
    8 (deberes, planes) to come, enter
    9 (adoptar) to enter (into), get (into)
    10 INFORMÁTICA to access
    11 AUTOMÓVIL to engage, change into
    12 MÚSICA to come in, enter (al escenario) to enter
    1 (meter) to put
    2 (de contrabando) to smuggle
    3 COSTURA to take in
    1 to get in
    \
    bien entrado,-a... well into...
    el año que entra next year, the coming year
    entrado,-a en años / entrado,-a en edad figurado getting on in years
    entrar a trabajar to begin work
    entrar con buen pie figurado to get off on the right foot
    entrar en cólera to get angry
    entrar en contacto to get in touch
    entrar en detalles to go into details
    entrar en materia to give an introduction
    entrar en religión to enter a religious order
    ese tío no me entra familiar I can't stand that guy
    hacer entrar to invite in
    no entrar ni salir en algo familiar to be indifferent to something
    no me entra el latín familiar I can't get the hang of Latin
    no me entra en la cabeza familiar I can't believe it, I can't get my head round it
    * * *
    verb
    1) to enter, go in
    * * *
    1. VI
    1) [en un lugar] [acercándose al hablante] to come in, enter más frm; [alejándose del hablante] to go in, enter más frm

    -¿se puede? -sí, entra — "may I?" - "yes, come in"

    entré en o LAm a la casa — I went into the house

    espera un momento, es solo entrar y salir — wait for me a minute, I won't be long

    2) (=encajar)

    ¿entra uno más? — is there room for one more?, will one more fit?

    estoy lleno, ya no me entra nada más — I'm full, I couldn't eat another thing

    las historias de este libro entran de lleno en el surrealismo — the stories in this book are genuinely surrealist, the stories in this book come right into the category of surrealism

    3) (=estar incluido)
    4) (=comenzar)
    a) [persona]

    ¿a qué hora entras a clase? — what time do you start school?

    b)
    c) [época, estación]

    el mes que entra — the coming month, next month

    5) [con sensaciones]
    6) [conocimientos, idea]
    7) * (=soportar) to bear, stand

    ese tío no me entra — I can't bear o stand that fellow

    8) (Inform) to access
    9) (Mús) [instrumento, voz] to come in
    10) (Teat) to enter
    2. VT
    1) * [+ objeto] [acercándose al hablante] to bring in; [alejándose del hablante] to take in
    2) * (=abordar a) to deal with, approach
    3) [+ futbolista] to tackle
    4) (Mil) to attack
    ENTRAR Para precisar la manera de entrar Entrar (en ) por regla general se suele traducir por come in(to ) o por go in(to), según la dirección del movimiento (hacia o en dirección contraria al hablante), pero, come y go se pueden substituir por otros verbos de movimiento si la frase en español explica la forma en que se entra: Entró cojeando en Urgencias He limped into Casualty Acabo de ver a un ratón entrar corriendo en ese agujero I've just seen a mouse running into that hole Para otros usos y ejemplos ver la entrada
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) ( acercándose) to come in; ( alejándose) to go in

    hazla entrar — tell her to come in, show her in

    entró corriendo — he ran in, he came running in

    ¿se puede entrar con el coche? — can you drive in?

    ¿cómo entró? — how did he get in?

    entrar en or (esp AmL) a algo: entró en el or al banco she went into the bank; nunca he entrado en or a esa tienda I've never been into o in that shop; no los dejaron entrar en or a Francia they weren't allowed into France; las tropas entraron en or a Varsovia — the troops entered Warsaw

    2)
    a) (en etapa, estado)
    b) ( en tema)
    3)
    a) (introducirse, meterse)

    cierra la puerta, que entra frío — close the door, you're letting the cold in

    ¿entrará por la puerta? — will it get through the door?

    c) ( ser lo suficientemente grande) (+ me/te/le etc)
    d) (fam) materia/lección/idea (+ me/te/le etc)

    la física no le entra — he just can't get the hang of o get to grips with physics (colloq)

    ya se lo he explicado, pero no le entra — I've explained it to him but he just doesn't understand o he just can't get it into his head

    e) (Auto) cambios/marchas
    4) hambre/miedo (+ me/te/le etc)

    le entró hambre/miedo — she felt o got hungry/frightened

    me entró sueño/frío — I got o began to feel sleepy/cold

    5) ( empezar) to start, begin

    entró de or como aprendiz — he started o began as an apprentice

    entrar a matar — (Taur) to go in for the kill

    6)

    entrar en or (esp AmL) a algo — ejército/empresa/convento to enter something

    el año que entré en or a la universidad — the year I started college

    acabo de entrar en or a la asociación — I've just joined the association

    entrar en algo — guerra/campeonato/negociación to enter something

    b) (Mús) instrumento/voz to come in, enter
    7)

    ¿cuántas entran en un kilo? — how many do you get in a kilo?

    eso no entraba en mis planes — I hadn't allowed for that, that wasn't part of the plan

    8)
    a) toro
    b) futbolista to tackle

    recoge Márquez, le entra Gordillo — Márquez gets the ball and he is tackled by Gordillo

    2.
    entrar vt ( traer) to bring in; ( llevar) to take in

    ¿cómo van a entrar el sofá? — how are they going to get the sofa in?

    * * *
    = go into, go into, pass into, go in, step inside, walk in/into, come in, walk through + the door, patronise [patronize, -USA], patronage.
    Ex. As something you may or may not know, every item going into the processing stream is assigned a priority, and our judgment will in many cases be different from yours, as our needs will be different from yours.
    Ex. As something you may or may not know, every item going into the processing stream is assigned a priority, and our judgment will in many cases be different from yours, as our needs will be different from yours.
    Ex. An abstracting bulletin is generally a weekly or monthly current-awareness service containing abstracts of all documents of interest that have passed into the library or information unit during that time.
    Ex. But in the country the processes of printing always provoke such lively curiosity that the customers preferred to go in by a glazed door set in the shop-front and giving onto the street.
    Ex. He pushed open the door and stepped inside.
    Ex. 'When you walked in here, Tony, you looked as if you'd just seen a ghost' = "Tony, cuando entrastes aquí parecía como si hubieras visto un fantasma".
    Ex. Their duty is to come in before school each morning and check that the book checking system is in order and that the library is tidy and presentable.
    Ex. As I walk through the door of the first sporting goods store, I look for the running shoes I want.
    Ex. In the light of the continuing authoritarianism demonstrated by most librarians towards their patrons, it is small wonder that so few people patronized America's public libraries.
    Ex. 'Exit' is a vow, or intention, to never again patronage the offending library.
    ----
    * al entrar = on entry.
    * aventurarse a entrar en = venture into.
    * entrado en años = long in the tooth.
    * Entra en mi salón, dijo la araña... = Come into my parlour, said the spider....
    * entrar a formar parte de = enter in.
    * entrar a hurtadillas = steal into.
    * entrar apresuradamente = hurry in.
    * entrar a saco = burst into, storm into.
    * entrar bajo la competencia de = fall under + the purview of.
    * entrar con buen pie = start + Nombre + off on the right foot.
    * entrar de lleno = plunge into.
    * entrar de lleno en = get + stuck into, get + stuck into.
    * entrar dentro de = fall into, fall under.
    * entrar dentro de la categoría de = fall under + the heading of.
    * entrar dentro de la competencia de = fall + under the purview of.
    * entrar dentro de la competencia de Alguien = fall within + Posesivo + purview.
    * entrar dentro de la jurisdicción de = fall under + the jurisdiction of.
    * entrar dentro del ámbito de = fall into + the ambit of.
    * entrar dentro de la responsabilidad de = fall under + the jurisdiction of, fall under + the auspices of, fall under + the purview of.
    * entrar dentro del dominio de = fall under + the umbrella of.
    * entrar dentro de una categoría = fall into + category, fall under + rubric.
    * entrar de sopetón = burst into, storm into.
    * entrar en = fall within/into, get into, walk into, move into, slip into, turn into, come into, set + foot (inside/in/on).
    * entrar en acción = enter + the picture.
    * entrar en conflicto = come into + conflict (with), run into + conflict.
    * entrar en conflicto con = conflict with, clash with, run + afoul of, fall + afoul of.
    * entrar en contacto = come into + contact.
    * entrar en contacto con = get in + touch with.
    * entrar en decadencia = go to + seed.
    * entrar en el ámbito de = fall within + the ambit of.
    * entrar en erupción = erupt.
    * entrar en funcionamiento = go into + operation.
    * entrar en juego = bring into + play, call into + play.
    * entrar en la cabeza = get + Posesivo + head around, wrap + Posesivo + head around, get it into + Posesivo + head.
    * entrar en la dinámica = enter + the fray.
    * entrar en la mollera = get it into + Posesivo + head.
    * entrar en liquidación = go into + liquidation.
    * entrar en prensa = go to + press.
    * entrar en razón = come to + Posesivo + senses.
    * entrar en trance = go into + trance.
    * entrar en vigor = come into + force, come into + effect, go into + effect.
    * entrar hambre después del esfuerzo = work up + an appetite.
    * entrar hipo = hiccup.
    * entrar ilegalmente = break in, break into.
    * entrar mediante engaño = bluff + Posesivo + way into.
    * entrar miedo = become + jittery.
    * entrar presionando = snap into.
    * entrar rápidamente = dart onto.
    * entrar rápidamente en = whisk into.
    * entrar sed después del esfuerzo = work up + a thirst.
    * entrar sin autorización = trespass.
    * entrar sin ser visto = sneak into.
    * entrar y salir = come and go, drift in and out, wander in and out, go into and out of.
    * entrar y salir corriendo = run in and out.
    * evitar que + entrar = keep + Nombre + out.
    * no dejar entrar = turn + Nombre + away, keep out.
    * por un lado entra + Nombre + y por otro sale + Nombre = in go + Nombre + at one end, and out come + Nombre + at the other.
    * que entran en juego = at play.
    * que hace entrar en calor = warming.
    * recesión + entrar = recession + set in.
    * volver a entrar = come back in.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) ( acercándose) to come in; ( alejándose) to go in

    hazla entrar — tell her to come in, show her in

    entró corriendo — he ran in, he came running in

    ¿se puede entrar con el coche? — can you drive in?

    ¿cómo entró? — how did he get in?

    entrar en or (esp AmL) a algo: entró en el or al banco she went into the bank; nunca he entrado en or a esa tienda I've never been into o in that shop; no los dejaron entrar en or a Francia they weren't allowed into France; las tropas entraron en or a Varsovia — the troops entered Warsaw

    2)
    a) (en etapa, estado)
    b) ( en tema)
    3)
    a) (introducirse, meterse)

    cierra la puerta, que entra frío — close the door, you're letting the cold in

    ¿entrará por la puerta? — will it get through the door?

    c) ( ser lo suficientemente grande) (+ me/te/le etc)
    d) (fam) materia/lección/idea (+ me/te/le etc)

    la física no le entra — he just can't get the hang of o get to grips with physics (colloq)

    ya se lo he explicado, pero no le entra — I've explained it to him but he just doesn't understand o he just can't get it into his head

    e) (Auto) cambios/marchas
    4) hambre/miedo (+ me/te/le etc)

    le entró hambre/miedo — she felt o got hungry/frightened

    me entró sueño/frío — I got o began to feel sleepy/cold

    5) ( empezar) to start, begin

    entró de or como aprendiz — he started o began as an apprentice

    entrar a matar — (Taur) to go in for the kill

    6)

    entrar en or (esp AmL) a algo — ejército/empresa/convento to enter something

    el año que entré en or a la universidad — the year I started college

    acabo de entrar en or a la asociación — I've just joined the association

    entrar en algo — guerra/campeonato/negociación to enter something

    b) (Mús) instrumento/voz to come in, enter
    7)

    ¿cuántas entran en un kilo? — how many do you get in a kilo?

    eso no entraba en mis planes — I hadn't allowed for that, that wasn't part of the plan

    8)
    a) toro
    b) futbolista to tackle

    recoge Márquez, le entra Gordillo — Márquez gets the ball and he is tackled by Gordillo

    2.
    entrar vt ( traer) to bring in; ( llevar) to take in

    ¿cómo van a entrar el sofá? — how are they going to get the sofa in?

    * * *
    = go into, go into, pass into, go in, step inside, walk in/into, come in, walk through + the door, patronise [patronize, -USA], patronage.

    Ex: As something you may or may not know, every item going into the processing stream is assigned a priority, and our judgment will in many cases be different from yours, as our needs will be different from yours.

    Ex: As something you may or may not know, every item going into the processing stream is assigned a priority, and our judgment will in many cases be different from yours, as our needs will be different from yours.
    Ex: An abstracting bulletin is generally a weekly or monthly current-awareness service containing abstracts of all documents of interest that have passed into the library or information unit during that time.
    Ex: But in the country the processes of printing always provoke such lively curiosity that the customers preferred to go in by a glazed door set in the shop-front and giving onto the street.
    Ex: He pushed open the door and stepped inside.
    Ex: 'When you walked in here, Tony, you looked as if you'd just seen a ghost' = "Tony, cuando entrastes aquí parecía como si hubieras visto un fantasma".
    Ex: Their duty is to come in before school each morning and check that the book checking system is in order and that the library is tidy and presentable.
    Ex: As I walk through the door of the first sporting goods store, I look for the running shoes I want.
    Ex: In the light of the continuing authoritarianism demonstrated by most librarians towards their patrons, it is small wonder that so few people patronized America's public libraries.
    Ex: 'Exit' is a vow, or intention, to never again patronage the offending library.
    * al entrar = on entry.
    * aventurarse a entrar en = venture into.
    * entrado en años = long in the tooth.
    * Entra en mi salón, dijo la araña... = Come into my parlour, said the spider....
    * entrar a formar parte de = enter in.
    * entrar a hurtadillas = steal into.
    * entrar apresuradamente = hurry in.
    * entrar a saco = burst into, storm into.
    * entrar bajo la competencia de = fall under + the purview of.
    * entrar con buen pie = start + Nombre + off on the right foot.
    * entrar de lleno = plunge into.
    * entrar de lleno en = get + stuck into, get + stuck into.
    * entrar dentro de = fall into, fall under.
    * entrar dentro de la categoría de = fall under + the heading of.
    * entrar dentro de la competencia de = fall + under the purview of.
    * entrar dentro de la competencia de Alguien = fall within + Posesivo + purview.
    * entrar dentro de la jurisdicción de = fall under + the jurisdiction of.
    * entrar dentro del ámbito de = fall into + the ambit of.
    * entrar dentro de la responsabilidad de = fall under + the jurisdiction of, fall under + the auspices of, fall under + the purview of.
    * entrar dentro del dominio de = fall under + the umbrella of.
    * entrar dentro de una categoría = fall into + category, fall under + rubric.
    * entrar de sopetón = burst into, storm into.
    * entrar en = fall within/into, get into, walk into, move into, slip into, turn into, come into, set + foot (inside/in/on).
    * entrar en acción = enter + the picture.
    * entrar en conflicto = come into + conflict (with), run into + conflict.
    * entrar en conflicto con = conflict with, clash with, run + afoul of, fall + afoul of.
    * entrar en contacto = come into + contact.
    * entrar en contacto con = get in + touch with.
    * entrar en decadencia = go to + seed.
    * entrar en el ámbito de = fall within + the ambit of.
    * entrar en erupción = erupt.
    * entrar en funcionamiento = go into + operation.
    * entrar en juego = bring into + play, call into + play.
    * entrar en la cabeza = get + Posesivo + head around, wrap + Posesivo + head around, get it into + Posesivo + head.
    * entrar en la dinámica = enter + the fray.
    * entrar en la mollera = get it into + Posesivo + head.
    * entrar en liquidación = go into + liquidation.
    * entrar en prensa = go to + press.
    * entrar en razón = come to + Posesivo + senses.
    * entrar en trance = go into + trance.
    * entrar en vigor = come into + force, come into + effect, go into + effect.
    * entrar hambre después del esfuerzo = work up + an appetite.
    * entrar hipo = hiccup.
    * entrar ilegalmente = break in, break into.
    * entrar mediante engaño = bluff + Posesivo + way into.
    * entrar miedo = become + jittery.
    * entrar presionando = snap into.
    * entrar rápidamente = dart onto.
    * entrar rápidamente en = whisk into.
    * entrar sed después del esfuerzo = work up + a thirst.
    * entrar sin autorización = trespass.
    * entrar sin ser visto = sneak into.
    * entrar y salir = come and go, drift in and out, wander in and out, go into and out of.
    * entrar y salir corriendo = run in and out.
    * evitar que + entrar = keep + Nombre + out.
    * no dejar entrar = turn + Nombre + away, keep out.
    * por un lado entra + Nombre + y por otro sale + Nombre = in go + Nombre + at one end, and out come + Nombre + at the other.
    * que entran en juego = at play.
    * que hace entrar en calor = warming.
    * recesión + entrar = recession + set in.
    * volver a entrar = come back in.

    * * *
    entrar [A1 ]
    ■ entrar (verbo intransitivo)
    A acercándose, alejándose
    B
    1 en una etapa, un estado
    2 en un tema
    C
    1 introducirse, meterse
    2 poderse meter
    3 ser lo suficientemente grande
    4 entrar en la cabeza
    5 Automovilismo
    6 Informática
    D entrarle frío etc
    E empezar
    F
    1 incorporarse
    2 Música
    G
    1 estar incluido
    2 ser incluido
    3 entrarle a algo
    H
    1 Tauromaquia
    2 Deporte
    3 entrarle a algn
    ■ entrar (verbo transitivo)
    1 traer, llevar
    2 en costura
    vi
    A (acercándose) to come in; (alejándose) to go in
    entra, no te quedes en la puerta come in, don't stand there in the doorway
    quiero entrar a comprar cigarrillos I want to go in and buy some cigarettes
    en ese momento entró Nicolás just then Nicolás came o walked in, just then Nicolás entered the room
    entraron sin pagar/por la ventana they got in without paying/through the window
    déjame entrar let me in
    hazla entrar tell her to come in, show her in
    entró corriendo/cojeando he ran/limped in, he came running/limping in
    ése en mi casa no entra I am not having him in my house
    ¿se puede entrar con el coche? can you drive in?, can you take the car in?
    entrar a puerto to put into port
    aquí nunca entró esa moda that fashion never took off here
    hay gente constantemente entrando y saliendo there are always people coming and going
    fue entrar y salir I was in and out in no time
    entrar EN or ( esp AmL) A algo:
    entró en el or al banco a cambiar dinero she went into the bank to change some money
    nunca he entrado en or a esa tienda I've never been into o in that shop
    no los dejaron entrar en or a Francia they weren't allowed into France
    entraron en el or al país ilegalmente they entered the country illegally
    un Ford negro entró en el or al garaje a black Ford pulled into the garage
    las tropas entraron en or a Varsovia the troops entered Warsaw
    yo por ahí no entro ( fam); I'm not having that! ( colloq)
    B
    1 (en una etapa, un estado) entrar EN algo to enter sth
    pronto entraremos en una nueva década we shall soon be entering a new decade
    al entrar en la pubertad on reaching puberty
    entró en contacto con ellos he made contact with them
    no logro entrar en calor I just can't get warm
    entró en coma he went into a coma
    cuando el reactor entró en funcionamiento when the reactor began operating o became operational
    2 (en un tema) entrar EN algo to go into sth
    sin entrar en los aspectos más técnicos without going into the more technical aspects
    no quiero entrar en juicios de valor I don't want to get involved in o to make value judgments
    C
    1
    (introducirse, meterse): cierra la puerta, que entra frío close the door, you're letting the cold in
    le entra por un oído y le sale por el otro it goes in one ear and out the other
    entrar EN algo:
    me ha entrado arena en los zapatos I've got sand in my shoes
    2
    (poderse meter): no entra por la puerta it won't go through the door
    está llena, no entra ni una cosa más it's full, you won't get anything else in
    estos clavos no entran en la pared these nails won't go into the wall
    estoy repleta, no me entra nada más I'm full, I couldn't eat another thing
    estos vaqueros ya no me entran I can't get into these jeans anymore, these jeans don't fit me anymore
    el zapato no le entra he can't get his shoe on
    4 ( fam)
    «materia/lección/idea» (+ me/te/le etc): la física no le entra he just doesn't understand physics, he just can't get the hang of o get to grips with physics ( colloq)
    ya se lo he explicado varias veces, pero no le entra I've explained it to him several times but he just doesn't understand o he just can't get it into his head
    que la haya dejado es algo que no me entra (en la cabeza) I just can't understand him leaving her
    «cambios/marchas»: no (me) entran las marchas I can't get it into gear
    no me entra la segunda I can't get it into second (gear)
    6 ( Informática) tb
    entrar en el sistema to log in, log on
    D
    «frío/hambre/miedo» (+ me/te/le etc): me está entrando hambre I'm beginning to feel hungry
    le entró miedo cuando lo vio she felt o was frightened when she saw it
    ya me ha entrado la duda I'm beginning to have my doubts now
    me entró sueño/frío I got o began to feel sleepy/cold
    E (empezar) to start, begin
    ¿a qué hora entras a trabajar? what time do you start work?
    entró de or como aprendiz he started o began o joined as an apprentice
    termina un siglo y entra otro one century comes to a close and another begins
    entrar A + INF:
    entró a trabajar allí a los 18 años he started (working) there when he was 18
    entrar a matar ( Taur) to go in for the kill
    ahí entré a sospechar ( RPl fam); that's when I started o began to get suspicious
    F
    1 (incorporarse) entrar EN or ( esp AmL) A algo:
    entró en el or al convento muy joven she entered the convent when she was very young
    el año que viene entra en la or a la universidad she's going to college o she starts college next year
    el año que entré en la asociación the year that I joined the association
    entró en la or a la empresa de jefe de personal he joined the company as personnel manager
    2 ( Música) «instrumento/voz» to come in, enter
    G
    1 (estar incluido) entrar EN algo:
    ese tema no entra en el programa that subject is not on o in the syllabus
    el postre no entra en el precio dessert is not included in the price
    ¿cuántas entran en un kilo? how many do you get in a kilo?
    eso no entraba en mis planes I hadn't allowed for that, that wasn't part of the plan
    no entraba en or dentro de sus obligaciones it was not part of o one of his duties
    esto ya entra en or dentro de lo ridículo this is becoming o getting ridiculous
    2
    (ser incluido): creo que entraremos en la segunda tanda I think we'll be in the second group
    los números no premiados entrarán en un segundo sorteo the non-winning numbers will go into o be included in o be entered for a second draw
    3
    ( Méx fam): entrarle A algo (participar en) to be game FOR sth
    ¡ándale! éntrale a estos frijoles, están muy buenos come on! tuck into these beans, they're very good
    H
    1
    ( Tauromaquia) «toro»: el toro no entraba al capote the bull wouldn't charge at the cape
    2 ( Deporte) «futbolista» to tackle
    recoge Márquez, (le) entra Gordillo Márquez gets the ball and is tackled by Gordillo
    3
    ( AmL fam) (abordar): entrarle a algn to chat sb up ( colloq)
    ■ entrar
    vt
    1 (traer) to bring in; (llevar) to take in
    va a llover, hay que entrar la ropa it's going to rain, we'll have to bring the washing in
    voy a entrar el coche I'm just going to put the car away o put the car in the garage
    ¿cómo van a entrar el sofá? how are they going to get the sofa in?
    no se puede entrar animales al país you are not allowed to take/bring animals into the country
    lo entró de contrabando he smuggled it in
    2
    (en costura): hay que entrarle un poco de los costados it needs taking in a bit at the sides
    * * *

     

    entrar ( conjugate entrar) verbo intransitivo
    1 ( acercándose) to come in;
    ( alejándose) to go in;

    hazla entrar tell her to come in, show her in;
    entró corriendo he ran in, he came running in;
    ¿se puede entrar con el coche? can you drive in?;
    había gente entrando y saliendo there were people coming and going;
    ¿cómo entró? how did he get in?;
    entrar en or (esp AmL) a algo ‹a edificio/habitación› to go into sth;
    entró en el or al banco she went into the bank
    2 (en etapa, estado) entrar en algo ‹en periodo/guerra/negociaciones› to enter sth;

    entró en coma he went into a coma
    3
    a) (introducirse, meterse):

    ◊ cierra la puerta, que entra frío close the door, you're letting the cold in;

    me entró arena en los zapatos I've got sand in my shoes

    ◊ ¿entrará por la puerta? will it get through the door?;


    (+ me/te/le etc):

    el zapato no le entra he can't get his shoe on;
    no me entra la segunda (Auto) I can't get it into second (gear)
    4 [ hambre] (+ me/te/le etc):
    ◊ le entró hambre she felt o got hungry;

    me ha entrado la duda I'm beginning to have my doubts;
    me entró sueño I got o began to feel sleepy
    5 ( empezar) to start, begin;
    ◊ entró de aprendiz he started o began as an apprentice

    6 ( incorporarse) entrar en or (esp AmL) a algo ‹en empresa/ejército/club› to join sth;
    ‹ en convento› to enter sth;
    el año que entré en or a la universidad the year I started college I've just joined the association
    7 ( estar incluido):

    ¿cuántas entran en un kilo? how many do you get in a kilo?
    verbo transitivo ( traer) to bring in;
    ( llevar) to take in;
    ◊ ¿cómo van a entrar el sofá? how are they going to get the sofa in?

    entrar
    I verbo intransitivo
    1 to come in, go in, enter: los ladrones entraron por la ventana, the burglars entered through the window ➣ Ver nota en ir
    2 (encajar) to fit: esta llave no entra, this key doesn't fit
    3 (estar incluido) to be included: eso no entra en el precio, that's not included in the price
    4 (en una organización, partido) to join, get into: entró en el club, he was admitted to the club
    5 (en una situación) to go into: el avión entró en barrena, the plane went into a spin
    entrar en calor, to warm up
    6 (comenzar) el mes que entra, next month, the coming month
    7 (sobrevenir) to come over: le entraron ganas de llorar, he felt like crying
    me entró un ataque de histeria, I went into hysterics
    8 (agradar) no me entran las lentejas, I don't like lentils
    II verbo transitivo
    1 to bring in: entra las sillas, take the chairs in
    2 Inform to enter
    ♦ Locuciones: entrar en la cabeza: no me entra en la cabeza que hayas hecho eso, I can't understand why you have done that
    ni entrar ni salir, to play no part in the matter: en cuestiones sentimentales ni entro ni salgo, I steer well clear of touchy subjects

    ' entrar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abarrotada
    - abarrotado
    - acceder
    - adherirse
    - arriar
    - asomarse
    - barrena
    - caber
    - calor
    - codazo
    - colarse
    - dejar
    - disminuir
    - erupción
    - escena
    - funcionamiento
    - guardacantón
    - hacer
    - irse
    - le
    - meterse
    - pasar
    - perdón
    - razón
    - robar
    - saco
    - tocar
    - trance
    - vigencia
    - vigor
    - bala
    - chequeo
    - chocar
    - colar
    - coma
    - conflicto
    - contacto
    - desorden
    - detalle
    - dificultad
    - duda
    - ebullición
    - esperar
    - función
    - gata
    - hurtadillas
    - introducir
    - juego
    - limpiar
    - meter
    English:
    access
    - admit
    - barge
    - barge in
    - break into
    - bring in
    - burglarize
    - burst in
    - climb
    - come in
    - come into
    - crowd
    - customary
    - dash in
    - dash into
    - detail
    - effect
    - enter
    - entry
    - erupt
    - fetch in
    - flounce
    - force
    - get in
    - go in
    - go into
    - hear of
    - in
    - input
    - inside
    - join
    - jump in
    - keep out
    - left
    - let in
    - LIFO
    - listen
    - log in
    - log on
    - may
    - move in
    - penetrate
    - pop in
    - re-enter
    - reason
    - roll in
    - run in
    - sense
    - show up
    - slip in
    * * *
    ♦ vi
    1. [introducirse] [viniendo] to enter, to come in;
    [yendo] to enter, to go in;
    déjame entrar let me in;
    entrar en algo to enter sth, to come/go into sth;
    acababa de entrar en casa cuando… she had just got back home o got into the house when…;
    lo vi entrar en el restaurante I saw him go into the restaurant;
    entré por la ventana I got in through the window;
    no tiene edad para entrar en discotecas she's not old enough to go to discos;
    entra al campo Rubio en sustitución de un compañero Rubio is coming on for his teammate
    2. [penetrar] to go in;
    cierra la puerta, entra mucho viento close the door, you're letting the wind in;
    este disquete no entra en la disquetera this disk won't go into the disk drive
    3. [caber] to fit (en in);
    esta llave no entra en la cerradura this key won't fit in the lock;
    en esta habitación entran dos alfombras there's room for two rugs in this room;
    este anillo no me entra I can't get this ring on my finger;
    el pie no me entra en el zapato I can't get this shoe on
    4. [incorporarse]
    entrar (en algo) [colegio, empresa] to start (at sth);
    [club, partido político] to join (sth);
    entró en la universidad a los dieciocho años he went to university when he was eighteen;
    entrar en la Unión Europea to join the European Union;
    entró a trabajar de ayudante he started off as an assistant
    5. [empezar]
    entramos a las nueve we start at nine o'clock;
    entrar a hacer algo to start doing sth;
    entró a trabajar hace un mes she started work a month ago;
    RP Fam
    cuando me lo dijo, entré a atar cabos when he told me, I started putting two and two together;
    RP Fam
    cuando entró a pensar en el asunto, ya era demasiado tarde by the time he began thinking about the matter, it was already too late
    6. [participar] to join in;
    entrar en [discusión, polémica] to join in;
    [negocio] to get in on;
    no entremos en cuestiones morales let's not get involved in moral issues;
    no tuvo tiempo de entrar en juego she didn't have time to get into the game;
    yo ahí ni entro ni salgo it has nothing to do with me;
    yo no entro en temas políticos porque no entiendo I don't discuss politics because I don't understand it
    7. [estar incluido]
    entrar en, entrar dentro de to be included in;
    la cena entra en el precio dinner is included in the price;
    ¿cuántos entran en un kilo? how many do you get to the kilo?;
    ¿esto entra en o [m5] para el examen? does this come into the exam?
    8. [figurar]
    entro en el grupo de los disconformes I number among the dissidents;
    este retraso no entraba en nuestros planes this delay did not form part of our plans
    9. [estado físico, de ánimo]
    le entraron ganas de hablar he suddenly felt like talking;
    me entran ganas de ponerme a cantar I've got an urge to start singing;
    me está entrando frío/sueño I'm getting cold/sleepy;
    me entró mucha pena I was filled with pity;
    entró en calor rápidamente she soon warmed up o got warm;
    me entran sudores sólo de pensarlo it makes me break out in a cold sweat just thinking about it;
    me entró la risa I got the giggles
    10. [periodo de tiempo] to start;
    el verano entra el 21 de junio summer starts on 21 June;
    entrar en [edad, vejez] to reach;
    [año nuevo] to start;
    entramos en una nueva era de cooperación we are entering a new era of cooperation
    11. [concepto, asignatura]
    no le entra la geometría he can't get the hang of geometry;
    no le entra en la cabeza que eso no se hace he can't seem to get it into his head that that sort of behaviour is out
    12. Aut to engage;
    no entra la tercera it won't go into third gear
    13. Mús to come in;
    ahora entra la sección de viento now the wind section comes in
    14. Taurom to charge;
    entrar al engaño to charge the cape
    15. Fam [comida, bebida] to go down;
    ¡qué bien entra este vino! this wine goes down a treat!;
    no, gracias, no me entra más no thanks, I couldn't take any more
    ♦ vt
    1. [introducir] [trayendo] to bring in;
    [llevando] to take in;
    entra la ropa antes de que se moje take o bring the washing in before it gets wet;
    entra las herramientas en el cobertizo y vamos a pasear put the tools in the shed and we'll go for a walk;
    ¿por dónde entraremos el piano? where are we going to get the piano in?;
    entran tabaco de contrabando they bring in contraband tobacco, they smuggle tobacco
    2. [acometer] to approach;
    a ése no hay por donde entrarle it's impossible to know how to approach him;
    hay un chico que le gusta, pero no sabe cómo entrarle there's a boy she fancies, but she doesn't know how to get talking to him
    3. [en fútbol] to tackle;
    entró al contrario con violencia he made a heavy challenge on his opponent;
    entrar en falta a alguien to commit a foul on sb
    * * *
    I v/i
    1 para indicar acercamiento come in, enter;
    ¡entre! come in!;
    yo en eso no entro ni salgo that has nothing to do with me, I have nothing to do with that
    2 para indicar alejamiento go in, enter
    3 caber fit;
    el pantalón no me entra these pants don’t fit me;
    la llave no entra the key doesn’t fit;
    no me entra en la cabeza I can’t understand it
    4
    :
    ¿cuántos plátanos entran en un kilo? how many bananas are there in a kilo?
    5
    :
    me entró frío/sueño I got cold/sleepy, I began to feel cold/sleepy;
    me entró miedo I got scared, I began to feel scared
    6
    :
    entrar en go into;
    7 ( gustar)
    :
    este tipo no me entra I don’t like the look of the guy, I don’t like the guy’s face
    8 ( empezar)
    :
    entrar (a trabajar) a las ocho start (work) at eight o’clock
    II v/t
    3 INFOR enter
    4 en fútbol tackle
    * * *
    entrar vi
    1) : to enter, to go in, to come in
    2) : to begin
    entrar vt
    1) : to bring in, to introduce
    2) : to access
    * * *
    entrar vb
    1. (ir adentro) to go in
    2. (lograr acceso, subir a un coche) to get in
    3. (pasar) to come in [pt. came; pp. come]
    entra, que hace frío fuera come in it's cold outside
    4. (caber) to fit [pt. & pp. fitted]
    5. (ingresar) to join / to get into
    6. (estar incluido) to be included
    7. (empezar) to start / to begin [pt. began; pp. begun]
    8. (sobrevenir) to get / to feel [pt. & pp. felt]
    9. (en fútbol) to tackle

    Spanish-English dictionary > entrar

  • 18 problema

    m.
    1 problem.
    el problema del terrorismo the terrorist problem, the problem of terrorism
    los niños no causan más que problemas children cause nothing but trouble o problems
    el problema es que no nos queda tiempo the problem o thing is that we don't have any time left
    2 glitch, bug.
    * * *
    1 problem
    \
    dar problemas to cause problems
    tener problemas con to have trouble with
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    1. SM
    1) (=dificultad) problem

    ¿tienes problemas de dinero? — do you have any money worries o financial problems?

    2) (Mat) problem
    3) Méx (=accidente) accident, mishap
    2.
    ADJ INV (=problemático) problem antes de s
    * * *
    masculino problem

    resolver/solucionar un problema — to solve a problem

    si se enteran, vas a tener problemas — if they find out, you'll be in trouble

    no te hagas problema — (AmL) don't worry about it

    * * *
    = dilemma, issue, problem, rough spot, snag, bug, hitch, mischief, trouble spot, tyranny, catch, tribulation, show-stopper [showstopper], hassle, rub, kink, kicker.
    Ex. Unfortunately documents which present dilemmas in the selection of author headings are present in even the smallest library collections.
    Ex. These issues are reviewed more thoroughly in chapter 10.
    Ex. When the cataloguer turns to the description of a piece of music a common problem will be the absence of a title page to be used as the chief source of information.
    Ex. But despite the many catalog worlds, and herein lies the rub -- or at least a rough spot -- we have been proceeding on the assumption that the catalog exists in the form of the data distributed by the Library of Congress.
    Ex. Another snag was the existence of entrenched divergent cataloguing habits among the multinational staff, not to mention their fear of the unknown = Otro problema era la existencia de hábitos de catalogación divergentes y ya arraigados entre el personal multinacional, por no mencionar su miedo hacia lo desconocido.
    Ex. A bug is an error in a program or an equipment malfunction.
    Ex. Keeping pace with these changes may well mean more work than the seven year hitch experienced by DC users.
    Ex. The author discusses the characteristics of programs designed specifically to cause mischief to computer owners who download and run the programs = El autor analiza las características de los programas diseñados específicamente para causar problemas a los propietarios de ordenadores que los descargan y ejecutan.
    Ex. The statistics collected served as an early warning signal for trouble spots.
    Ex. Information access, such as satellites, overcomes the tyranny of distance for students, teachers and researchers in Australasia.
    Ex. Whilst these achievements are commendable, there is a catch in them -- there can be used to 'intensify' the economic exploitation of women.
    Ex. The author discusses the tribulations of equipment selection.
    Ex. In engineering use, a show-stopper is usually some aspect of a project that is so bad that it threatens to cancel the project unless it is corrected.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'How to implement electronic subscriptions replacing the routing list hassle'.
    Ex. But as elegant and efficient as this seems, this strategy has a rub - you've got to have technology to track shipments, since you're ultimately responsible for purchases, warranties and returns.
    Ex. However, like any emerging technology, there are still a few kinks in the system.
    Ex. The kicker is that this type of money transfer service is less convenient and no safer than many online money transfers.
    ----
    * abordar un problema = address + problem.
    * acción de averiguar y resolver problemas = troubleshooting [trouble shooting].
    * aclarar un problema = clear up + problem.
    * acometer un problema = attack + problem.
    * acosado por problemas = beset with + problems.
    * acotar un problema = delineate + problem.
    * acuciado por problemas = embattled.
    * acumular problemas = build up + problems.
    * afrontar los problemas cotidianos = grapple with + life's problems.
    * afrontar un problema = face + issue, confront + problem.
    * agobiado por problemas = beset with + problems.
    * agravar un problema = compound + problem.
    * ahí está el problema = herein lies the rub, there's the rub.
    * anticipar un problema = anticipate + problem.
    * aprendizaje a través de solución de problemas = problem based learning.
    * aquejado de problemas = troubled, ailing.
    * arreglar un problema = fix + problem.
    * asediado por problemas = embattled.
    * atajar un problema = grapple with + problem.
    * ausencia de problemas = smoothness.
    * averiguar un problema = investigate + problem.
    * buscar problemas = ask for + trouble, court + disaster, make + trouble.
    * capacidad de resolver problemas = problem-solving ability.
    * causar problemas = cause + problems, cause + trouble, make + trouble.
    * combatir un problema = combat + problem.
    * complicar un problema = compound + problem.
    * con problemas = in hot water.
    * con problemas de aprendizaje = learning disabled.
    * con problemas de lectura = print disabled.
    * con problemas de vista = vision impaired.
    * con problemas visuales = vision impaired.
    * considerar un problema = consider + problem.
    * convertirse en un gran problema = grow to + a crisis.
    * corregir un problema = correct + problem.
    * crear problemas = make + waves, build up + problems, make + trouble.
    * darle vueltas a un problema = puzzle over + problem.
    * dar lugar a problemas = give + rise to problems.
    * dar problemas = play up.
    * darse cuenta de un problema = alight on + problem.
    * debatir un problema = discuss + problem.
    * decisión precipitada ante un problema = crisis decision.
    * dedicar + Posesivo + atención a un problema = turn + Posesivo + attention to problem.
    * definición del problema = problem statement.
    * definir un problema = delineate + problem.
    * delimitar un problema = isolate + problem.
    * desarrollarse sin problemas = go + smoothly.
    * detectar un problema = spot + problem, spot + trouble.
    * diagnosticar el problema = diagnose + problem.
    * dirigir + Posesivo + atención a un problema = turn + Posesivo + attention to problem.
    * el final de los problemas = the light at the end of the tunnel.
    * eliminar un problema = sweep away + problem, work out + kink.
    * el problema no es el qué, sino el cómo = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * el problema obvio = the elephant in the room.
    * el único problema = a fly in the soup, the fly in the ointment.
    * el verdadero problema = the elephant in the room.
    * encontrar el modo de paliar un problema = find + way (a)round + problem.
    * encontrarse con problemas = run into + trouble.
    * encontrarse con un problema = encounter + problem, meet with + problem, run up against + issue, come across + problem.
    * enfrentarse a un problema = challenge + threat, confront + question, cope with + problem, face + issue, face + issue, face + problem, come up against + problem, struggle with + issue, wrestle with + problem, deal with + issue.
    * enfrentarse un problema = confront + problem, experience + problem.
    * enunciado del problema = problem statement.
    * esbozar un problema = outline + problem.
    * ese es el problema = herein lies the rub, there's the rub.
    * esquivar el problema = sidestep + the problem.
    * esquivar un problema = duck + issue.
    * estar lleno de problemas = bristle with + problems.
    * evitar problemas = stay out of + trouble.
    * evitar un problema = avoid + problem.
    * exarcerbar un problema = inflame + problem.
    * exteriorizar un problema = externalise + problem.
    * forma de evitar un problema = way round + problem.
    * franquear un problema = negotiate + problem.
    * hacer frente a un problema = attack + problem, combat + problem, wrestle with + problem.
    * identificar un problema = outline + problem, identify + problem, isolate + problem.
    * ilustrar un problema = illustrate + problem.
    * investigar un problema = investigate + problem.
    * libre de problemas = problem-free, trouble free [trouble-free].
    * lleno de problemas = plagued with problems, problem-ridden.
    * llevarse los problemas a casa = bring + problems home.
    * mencionar un problema = bring + problem up.
    * meterse en problemas = get into + trouble.
    * mitigar un problema = alleviate + problem.
    * no haber problemas = be fine.
    * no tener ningún problema con = be okay with.
    * no terminar nunca de tener problemas con = have + no end of problems with.
    * obtener el enunciado del problema = elicit + problem statement.
    * ocasionar problemas = cause + problems.
    * orientado hacia la resolución de problemas = problem-orientated, problem-oriented.
    * paliar problemas = minimise + problems.
    * paliar un problema = solve + problem.
    * percatarse de un problema = alight on + problem.
    * persona con problemas de aprendizaje = learning disabled person.
    * persona o mecanismo que resuelve problemas = solver.
    * persona que intenta averiguar y resolver problemas = troubleshooter.
    * personas con problemas de lectura = print handicapped people, print handicapped, the.
    * personas con problemas de lectura de la letra impresa = print disabled people.
    * personas con problemas de vista, las = visually impaired, the, visually disabled, the, visually handicapped, the, visually impaired people (VIPs), visually challenged, the.
    * personas con problemas mentales = disturbed people.
    * persona sin problemas de vista = sighted person.
    * plagado de problemas = plagued with problems, problem-wracked [problem-racked].
    * plagar de problemas = bedevil.
    * plantear un problema = pose + dilemma, pose + problem, raise + question, raise + concern, raise + issue, raise + problem, articulate + problem.
    * presentar problemas = present + problems.
    * presentar un problema = pose + problem, air + problem.
    * prestar + Posesivo + atención a un problema = turn + Posesivo + attention to problem.
    * problema + acosar = problem + dog.
    * problema acuciante = pressing problem.
    * problema + acuciar = problem + beset.
    * problema + afectar = problem + afflict, problem + plague.
    * problema + afligir = problem + afflict.
    * problema + agravar = problem + exacerbate.
    * problema alimenticio = eating problem.
    * problema asociado = attending problem.
    * problema auditivo = hearing problem.
    * problema + avecinarse = problem + lie ahead.
    * problema cada vez mayor = growing problem.
    * problema con el alcohol = drinking problem.
    * problema con los niños de la llave = latchkey problem.
    * problema cotidiano = daily problem.
    * problema de comportamiento = behaviour problem, behavioural problem.
    * problema de espacio = space problem.
    * problema de imagen = image problem.
    * problema de peso = weight problem.
    * problema de salud = health problem.
    * problema + desaparecer = problem + go away.
    * problema de seguridad = security problem.
    * problema diario = daily problem.
    * problema difícil = thorny problem, poser.
    * problema difícil de resolver = tough nut to crack, hard nut to crack, brain tickler.
    * problema doméstico = domestic problem.
    * problema económico = economic problem, financial problem.
    * problema + encontrarse = problem + lie.
    * problema en la escuela = school problem.
    * problema escolar = school problem.
    * problema espinoso = knotty problem, thorny problem, thorny issue, thorny question.
    * problema + estar = problem + lie, problem + come with.
    * problema familiar = family problem.
    * problema informático = computing problem.
    * problema inicial = startup problem.
    * problema insoluble = insoluble problem.
    * problema monetario = monetary problem.
    * problema motriz = motor disability.
    * problema peliagudo = thorny problem, thorny issue, thorny question.
    * problema + persistir = problem + persist.
    * problema personal = personal problem.
    * problema + plantearse = problem + come with.
    * problema práctico = practical problem.
    * problema racial = racial conflict, ethnic conflict.
    * problema + radicar = trouble + lie.
    * problema real = real problem.
    * problema + residir = problem + reside, problem + lie, problem + come with.
    * problemas = trouble, crisis [crises, -pl.], problem areas, trials and tribulations, trouble at mill.
    * problemas auditivos = impaired hearing, hearing impairment, hearing disability.
    * problemas cada vez mayores = mounting problems.
    * problemas con el alcohol = problem drinking.
    * problemas con la bebida = problem drinking.
    * problemas con la vista = poor eyesight.
    * problemas de la vida = life problems [life-problems].
    * problemas del crecimiento = growing pains.
    * problemas de lectura = reading difficulties.
    * problemas dentales = dental disease.
    * problemas de oído = poor hearing.
    * problema seguro = accident waiting to happen.
    * problemas familiares = family crisis.
    * problemas + girar en torno a = problems + turn on, problems + revolve around.
    * problemas inherentes al crecimiento = growing pains.
    * problemas iniciales = teething problems, teething troubles, growing pains.
    * problema siquiátrico = psychiatric problem.
    * problema social = societal problem, social problem.
    * problemas sociales = social crisis.
    * problema + surgir = problem + arise, problem + surface, problem + come with.
    * problemas visuales = visual impairment.
    * problema técnico = glitch, technical difficulty, technical problem.
    * problema técnico desconocido = gremlin.
    * quitar importancia a un problema = trivialise + trouble.
    * raíz del problema, la = root of the problem, the.
    * resolución de problemas = problem solving [problem-solving].
    * resolver los problemas = iron out + the bugs.
    * resolver un problema = resolve + issue, resolve + problem, solve + problem, work out + problem, unlock + problem, settle + problem, sort out + problem, clear up + problem, work + problem + through, address + limitation, straighten out + problem, iron out + problem, work out + kink.
    * sacar a colación un problema = bring + problem up.
    * salvar un problema = circumvent + problem, negotiate + problem.
    * ser un problema = be at issue.
    * sin meterse en problemas = keep out of + trouble.
    * sin problemas = smoothly, smooth [smoother -comp., smoothest -sup.], problem-free, trouble free [trouble-free], without a hitch, unproblematically, carefree, without difficulty, in good standing.
    * sin problemas de vista = sighted.
    * solución a problemas = problem solution.
    * solucionar los problemas = put + things right.
    * solucionar problemas = problem solving [problem-solving].
    * solucionar un problema = solve + problem, settle + problem, iron out + problem.
    * subproblema = sub-problem [subproblem].
    * subsanar un problema = remedy + problem.
    * superar el problema de credibilidad = overcome + credibility gap.
    * superar un problema = surmount + problem, conquer + problem, get over + problem.
    * surgir un problema de credibilidad = credibility gap + arise.
    * suscitar un problema = provoke + problem, raise + problem, raise + concern.
    * tener problema con Algo = experience + trouble with.
    * tener problemas = have + problems.
    * tener problemas con = fall + foul of, run + afoul of problems, run + afoul of, fall + afoul of.
    * tener problemas con la ley = fall + foul of the law, go + afoul of the law, fall + afoul of the law.
    * tener un problema = experience + problem.
    * tener un problema medio resuelto = have + problem half licked.
    * tocar un problema = touch on/upon + problem.
    * toparse con un problema = encounter + problem, come across + problem.
    * tratar un problema = address + problem, deal with + problem, handle + problem, tackle + problem, address + limitation, grapple with + problem, treat + problem, address + concern.
    * tratar un problema de pasada = touch on/upon + problem.
    * trivializar un problema = trivialise + trouble.
    * tropezar con problemas = run into + problems.
    * * *
    masculino problem

    resolver/solucionar un problema — to solve a problem

    si se enteran, vas a tener problemas — if they find out, you'll be in trouble

    no te hagas problema — (AmL) don't worry about it

    * * *
    = dilemma, issue, problem, rough spot, snag, bug, hitch, mischief, trouble spot, tyranny, catch, tribulation, show-stopper [showstopper], hassle, rub, kink, kicker.

    Ex: Unfortunately documents which present dilemmas in the selection of author headings are present in even the smallest library collections.

    Ex: These issues are reviewed more thoroughly in chapter 10.
    Ex: When the cataloguer turns to the description of a piece of music a common problem will be the absence of a title page to be used as the chief source of information.
    Ex: But despite the many catalog worlds, and herein lies the rub -- or at least a rough spot -- we have been proceeding on the assumption that the catalog exists in the form of the data distributed by the Library of Congress.
    Ex: Another snag was the existence of entrenched divergent cataloguing habits among the multinational staff, not to mention their fear of the unknown = Otro problema era la existencia de hábitos de catalogación divergentes y ya arraigados entre el personal multinacional, por no mencionar su miedo hacia lo desconocido.
    Ex: A bug is an error in a program or an equipment malfunction.
    Ex: Keeping pace with these changes may well mean more work than the seven year hitch experienced by DC users.
    Ex: The author discusses the characteristics of programs designed specifically to cause mischief to computer owners who download and run the programs = El autor analiza las características de los programas diseñados específicamente para causar problemas a los propietarios de ordenadores que los descargan y ejecutan.
    Ex: The statistics collected served as an early warning signal for trouble spots.
    Ex: Information access, such as satellites, overcomes the tyranny of distance for students, teachers and researchers in Australasia.
    Ex: Whilst these achievements are commendable, there is a catch in them -- there can be used to 'intensify' the economic exploitation of women.
    Ex: The author discusses the tribulations of equipment selection.
    Ex: In engineering use, a show-stopper is usually some aspect of a project that is so bad that it threatens to cancel the project unless it is corrected.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'How to implement electronic subscriptions replacing the routing list hassle'.
    Ex: But as elegant and efficient as this seems, this strategy has a rub - you've got to have technology to track shipments, since you're ultimately responsible for purchases, warranties and returns.
    Ex: However, like any emerging technology, there are still a few kinks in the system.
    Ex: The kicker is that this type of money transfer service is less convenient and no safer than many online money transfers.
    * abordar un problema = address + problem.
    * acción de averiguar y resolver problemas = troubleshooting [trouble shooting].
    * aclarar un problema = clear up + problem.
    * acometer un problema = attack + problem.
    * acosado por problemas = beset with + problems.
    * acotar un problema = delineate + problem.
    * acuciado por problemas = embattled.
    * acumular problemas = build up + problems.
    * afrontar los problemas cotidianos = grapple with + life's problems.
    * afrontar un problema = face + issue, confront + problem.
    * agobiado por problemas = beset with + problems.
    * agravar un problema = compound + problem.
    * ahí está el problema = herein lies the rub, there's the rub.
    * anticipar un problema = anticipate + problem.
    * aprendizaje a través de solución de problemas = problem based learning.
    * aquejado de problemas = troubled, ailing.
    * arreglar un problema = fix + problem.
    * asediado por problemas = embattled.
    * atajar un problema = grapple with + problem.
    * ausencia de problemas = smoothness.
    * averiguar un problema = investigate + problem.
    * buscar problemas = ask for + trouble, court + disaster, make + trouble.
    * capacidad de resolver problemas = problem-solving ability.
    * causar problemas = cause + problems, cause + trouble, make + trouble.
    * combatir un problema = combat + problem.
    * complicar un problema = compound + problem.
    * con problemas = in hot water.
    * con problemas de aprendizaje = learning disabled.
    * con problemas de lectura = print disabled.
    * con problemas de vista = vision impaired.
    * con problemas visuales = vision impaired.
    * considerar un problema = consider + problem.
    * convertirse en un gran problema = grow to + a crisis.
    * corregir un problema = correct + problem.
    * crear problemas = make + waves, build up + problems, make + trouble.
    * darle vueltas a un problema = puzzle over + problem.
    * dar lugar a problemas = give + rise to problems.
    * dar problemas = play up.
    * darse cuenta de un problema = alight on + problem.
    * debatir un problema = discuss + problem.
    * decisión precipitada ante un problema = crisis decision.
    * dedicar + Posesivo + atención a un problema = turn + Posesivo + attention to problem.
    * definición del problema = problem statement.
    * definir un problema = delineate + problem.
    * delimitar un problema = isolate + problem.
    * desarrollarse sin problemas = go + smoothly.
    * detectar un problema = spot + problem, spot + trouble.
    * diagnosticar el problema = diagnose + problem.
    * dirigir + Posesivo + atención a un problema = turn + Posesivo + attention to problem.
    * el final de los problemas = the light at the end of the tunnel.
    * eliminar un problema = sweep away + problem, work out + kink.
    * el problema no es el qué, sino el cómo = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * el problema obvio = the elephant in the room.
    * el único problema = a fly in the soup, the fly in the ointment.
    * el verdadero problema = the elephant in the room.
    * encontrar el modo de paliar un problema = find + way (a)round + problem.
    * encontrarse con problemas = run into + trouble.
    * encontrarse con un problema = encounter + problem, meet with + problem, run up against + issue, come across + problem.
    * enfrentarse a un problema = challenge + threat, confront + question, cope with + problem, face + issue, face + issue, face + problem, come up against + problem, struggle with + issue, wrestle with + problem, deal with + issue.
    * enfrentarse un problema = confront + problem, experience + problem.
    * enunciado del problema = problem statement.
    * esbozar un problema = outline + problem.
    * ese es el problema = herein lies the rub, there's the rub.
    * esquivar el problema = sidestep + the problem.
    * esquivar un problema = duck + issue.
    * estar lleno de problemas = bristle with + problems.
    * evitar problemas = stay out of + trouble.
    * evitar un problema = avoid + problem.
    * exarcerbar un problema = inflame + problem.
    * exteriorizar un problema = externalise + problem.
    * forma de evitar un problema = way round + problem.
    * franquear un problema = negotiate + problem.
    * hacer frente a un problema = attack + problem, combat + problem, wrestle with + problem.
    * identificar un problema = outline + problem, identify + problem, isolate + problem.
    * ilustrar un problema = illustrate + problem.
    * investigar un problema = investigate + problem.
    * libre de problemas = problem-free, trouble free [trouble-free].
    * lleno de problemas = plagued with problems, problem-ridden.
    * llevarse los problemas a casa = bring + problems home.
    * mencionar un problema = bring + problem up.
    * meterse en problemas = get into + trouble.
    * mitigar un problema = alleviate + problem.
    * no haber problemas = be fine.
    * no tener ningún problema con = be okay with.
    * no terminar nunca de tener problemas con = have + no end of problems with.
    * obtener el enunciado del problema = elicit + problem statement.
    * ocasionar problemas = cause + problems.
    * orientado hacia la resolución de problemas = problem-orientated, problem-oriented.
    * paliar problemas = minimise + problems.
    * paliar un problema = solve + problem.
    * percatarse de un problema = alight on + problem.
    * persona con problemas de aprendizaje = learning disabled person.
    * persona o mecanismo que resuelve problemas = solver.
    * persona que intenta averiguar y resolver problemas = troubleshooter.
    * personas con problemas de lectura = print handicapped people, print handicapped, the.
    * personas con problemas de lectura de la letra impresa = print disabled people.
    * personas con problemas de vista, las = visually impaired, the, visually disabled, the, visually handicapped, the, visually impaired people (VIPs), visually challenged, the.
    * personas con problemas mentales = disturbed people.
    * persona sin problemas de vista = sighted person.
    * plagado de problemas = plagued with problems, problem-wracked [problem-racked].
    * plagar de problemas = bedevil.
    * plantear un problema = pose + dilemma, pose + problem, raise + question, raise + concern, raise + issue, raise + problem, articulate + problem.
    * presentar problemas = present + problems.
    * presentar un problema = pose + problem, air + problem.
    * prestar + Posesivo + atención a un problema = turn + Posesivo + attention to problem.
    * problema + acosar = problem + dog.
    * problema acuciante = pressing problem.
    * problema + acuciar = problem + beset.
    * problema + afectar = problem + afflict, problem + plague.
    * problema + afligir = problem + afflict.
    * problema + agravar = problem + exacerbate.
    * problema alimenticio = eating problem.
    * problema asociado = attending problem.
    * problema auditivo = hearing problem.
    * problema + avecinarse = problem + lie ahead.
    * problema cada vez mayor = growing problem.
    * problema con el alcohol = drinking problem.
    * problema con los niños de la llave = latchkey problem.
    * problema cotidiano = daily problem.
    * problema de comportamiento = behaviour problem, behavioural problem.
    * problema de espacio = space problem.
    * problema de imagen = image problem.
    * problema de peso = weight problem.
    * problema de salud = health problem.
    * problema + desaparecer = problem + go away.
    * problema de seguridad = security problem.
    * problema diario = daily problem.
    * problema difícil = thorny problem, poser.
    * problema difícil de resolver = tough nut to crack, hard nut to crack, brain tickler.
    * problema doméstico = domestic problem.
    * problema económico = economic problem, financial problem.
    * problema + encontrarse = problem + lie.
    * problema en la escuela = school problem.
    * problema escolar = school problem.
    * problema espinoso = knotty problem, thorny problem, thorny issue, thorny question.
    * problema + estar = problem + lie, problem + come with.
    * problema familiar = family problem.
    * problema informático = computing problem.
    * problema inicial = startup problem.
    * problema insoluble = insoluble problem.
    * problema monetario = monetary problem.
    * problema motriz = motor disability.
    * problema peliagudo = thorny problem, thorny issue, thorny question.
    * problema pequeño = a cloud no bigger than a man's hand.
    * problema + persistir = problem + persist.
    * problema personal = personal problem.
    * problema + plantearse = problem + come with.
    * problema práctico = practical problem.
    * problema racial = racial conflict, ethnic conflict.
    * problema + radicar = trouble + lie.
    * problema real = real problem.
    * problema + residir = problem + reside, problem + lie, problem + come with.
    * problemas = trouble, crisis [crises, -pl.], problem areas, trials and tribulations, trouble at mill.
    * problemas auditivos = impaired hearing, hearing impairment, hearing disability.
    * problemas cada vez mayores = mounting problems.
    * problemas con el alcohol = problem drinking.
    * problemas con la bebida = problem drinking.
    * problemas con la vista = poor eyesight.
    * problemas de la vida = life problems [life-problems].
    * problemas del crecimiento = growing pains.
    * problemas de lectura = reading difficulties.
    * problemas dentales = dental disease.
    * problemas de oído = poor hearing.
    * problema seguro = accident waiting to happen.
    * problemas familiares = family crisis.
    * problemas + girar en torno a = problems + turn on, problems + revolve around.
    * problemas inherentes al crecimiento = growing pains.
    * problemas iniciales = teething problems, teething troubles, growing pains.
    * problema siquiátrico = psychiatric problem.
    * problema social = societal problem, social problem.
    * problemas sociales = social crisis.
    * problema + surgir = problem + arise, problem + surface, problem + come with.
    * problemas visuales = visual impairment.
    * problema técnico = glitch, technical difficulty, technical problem.
    * problema técnico desconocido = gremlin.
    * quitar importancia a un problema = trivialise + trouble.
    * raíz del problema, la = root of the problem, the.
    * resolución de problemas = problem solving [problem-solving].
    * resolver los problemas = iron out + the bugs.
    * resolver un problema = resolve + issue, resolve + problem, solve + problem, work out + problem, unlock + problem, settle + problem, sort out + problem, clear up + problem, work + problem + through, address + limitation, straighten out + problem, iron out + problem, work out + kink.
    * sacar a colación un problema = bring + problem up.
    * salvar un problema = circumvent + problem, negotiate + problem.
    * ser un problema = be at issue.
    * sin meterse en problemas = keep out of + trouble.
    * sin problemas = smoothly, smooth [smoother -comp., smoothest -sup.], problem-free, trouble free [trouble-free], without a hitch, unproblematically, carefree, without difficulty, in good standing.
    * sin problemas de vista = sighted.
    * solución a problemas = problem solution.
    * solucionar los problemas = put + things right.
    * solucionar problemas = problem solving [problem-solving].
    * solucionar un problema = solve + problem, settle + problem, iron out + problem.
    * subproblema = sub-problem [subproblem].
    * subsanar un problema = remedy + problem.
    * superar el problema de credibilidad = overcome + credibility gap.
    * superar un problema = surmount + problem, conquer + problem, get over + problem.
    * surgir un problema de credibilidad = credibility gap + arise.
    * suscitar un problema = provoke + problem, raise + problem, raise + concern.
    * tener problema con Algo = experience + trouble with.
    * tener problemas = have + problems.
    * tener problemas con = fall + foul of, run + afoul of problems, run + afoul of, fall + afoul of.
    * tener problemas con la ley = fall + foul of the law, go + afoul of the law, fall + afoul of the law.
    * tener un problema = experience + problem.
    * tener un problema medio resuelto = have + problem half licked.
    * tocar un problema = touch on/upon + problem.
    * toparse con un problema = encounter + problem, come across + problem.
    * tratar un problema = address + problem, deal with + problem, handle + problem, tackle + problem, address + limitation, grapple with + problem, treat + problem, address + concern.
    * tratar un problema de pasada = touch on/upon + problem.
    * trivializar un problema = trivialise + trouble.
    * tropezar con problemas = run into + problems.

    * * *
    1 ( Mat) problem
    resolver un problema to solve a problem
    2 (dificultad, preocupación) problem
    nos está creando muchos problemas it is causing us a lot of problems o a lot of trouble
    problemas económicos financial difficulties o problems
    me gustaría ir, el problema es que no tengo dinero I'd like to go, the snag o trouble o problem o thing is I don't have any money
    los coches viejos siempre dan muchos problemas old cars always give a lot of trouble, old cars always play up a lot ( colloq)
    si se enteran, vas a tener problemas if they find out, you'll be in trouble
    no te hagas problema ( AmL); don't worry about it
    * * *

     

    problema sustantivo masculino
    problem;
    ◊ resolver/solucionar un problema to solve a problem;

    los coches viejos dan muchos problemas old cars give a lot of trouble;
    no te hagas problema (AmL) don't worry about it
    problema sustantivo masculino problem: les está dando muchos problemas, it is giving them a lot of trouble
    problemas económicos, financial difficulties

    ' problema' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abordar
    - acotar
    - circunscribirse
    - comprensión
    - conciencia
    - concienciarse
    - conjuntamente
    - contingente
    - deforestación
    - desarrollo
    - desforestación
    - desmenuzar
    - diferente
    - drogodependencia
    - eficacia
    - encarar
    - endemoniada
    - endemoniado
    - enfocar
    - enfocada
    - enfocado
    - enfoque
    - enrevesada
    - enrevesado
    - enunciado
    - inconveniente
    - intrincada
    - intrincado
    - magnitud
    - mano
    - orden
    - plantear
    - presentarse
    - profundizar
    - profundidad
    - radicar
    - raíz
    - remediar
    - remontar
    - replantear
    - resolución
    - resolver
    - robar
    - rompecabezas
    - salida
    - sencilla
    - sencillez
    - sencillo
    - sensibilizar
    - sinsabor
    English:
    answer
    - appreciate
    - appreciation
    - approach
    - approachable
    - arithmetic
    - attack
    - avenue
    - awkward
    - bit
    - bypass
    - can
    - care
    - central
    - come up
    - compound
    - deal with
    - define
    - devil
    - difficulty
    - emerge
    - emotional
    - form
    - formidable
    - graft
    - grapple
    - growing
    - hard
    - hassle
    - ignore
    - issue
    - knotty
    - knowledge
    - land
    - lie
    - magnitude
    - major
    - matter
    - meditate
    - meet with
    - nut
    - object
    - outstanding
    - overcome
    - pin down
    - pose
    - present
    - problem
    - question
    - relation
    * * *
    1. [dificultad] problem;
    el problema del terrorismo the terrorist problem, the problem of terrorism;
    los niños no causan más que problemas children cause nothing but trouble o problems;
    no quiero más problemas I don't want any more trouble;
    el problema es que no nos queda tiempo the problem o thing is that we don't have any time left;
    Am
    no te hagas problema don't worry about it
    2. [matemático] problem;
    resolver un problema to solve a problem
    * * *
    m problem;
    sin problema without difficulty, without any problems
    * * *
    : problem
    * * *
    problema n problem

    Spanish-English dictionary > problema

  • 19 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.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 20 discutir

    v.
    1 to argue.
    ha discutido con su hermano she's had an argument with her brother
    discuten por cualquier tontería they argue about the least little thing
    María arguye cada vez que sale Mary argues every time she's out.
    2 to discuss.
    discutir de o sobre algo to discuss something, to talk about something
    eso es mejor que lo discutas con tu padre you'd be better discussing that with your father
    3 to dispute.
    no te discuto que tengas razón I don't dispute that you're right
    * * *
    1 (examinar) to discuss
    2 (contender) to dispute, question, argue
    1 (examinar) to discuss (de, -)
    2 (contender) to argue
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=debatir) [+ plan, proyecto, idea] to discuss; [+ precio] to argue about
    2) (=contradecir) to question, challenge

    discutir a algn lo que está diciendo — to question o challenge what sb is saying

    2. VI
    1) (=dialogar) to discuss, talk
    2) (=disputar) to argue (de, sobre about, over)

    ¡no discutas! — don't argue!

    discutir de política — to argue about politics, talk politics

    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( debatir) <problema/asunto> to discuss; < proyecto de ley> to debate, discuss
    b) ( cuestionar) < derecho> to challenge, dispute

    todo lo que digo me lo discute — he questions o challenges everything I say

    2.
    discutir vi to argue, quarrel

    discutieron y no se han vuelto a hablar — they had an argument o a quarrel and haven't spoken to each other since

    * * *
    = argue, debate, discuss, dispute, talk over, spar, deliberate, bicker, quarrel, squabble, bring into + discussion.
    Ex. Cutter argued that when it could be established that the second term was definitely more significant then inversion of headings was acceptable.
    Ex. The reader is left to debate the relative merits of such a format - obviously its applications are limited.
    Ex. This review also illustrates some of the issues which cataloguers have discussed over the years, and demonstrates other solutions to standards in cataloguing than those embodied in modern cataloguing codes.
    Ex. Whatever viewpoint is taken, it is difficult to dispute the significance of AACR1.
    Ex. Let's try to talk this over calmly and coolly.
    Ex. Feaver remarked with the easy manner of familiars who are accustomed to sparring good-naturedly with each other that he certainly seemed to have picked up a great deal of miscellaneous information from that particular talk.
    Ex. Ethical principles are called into play when deliberating about values, particularly when values run into conflict.
    Ex. Chapter 4 presents solutions for when children fight, bicker, compete, namecall, and hit.
    Ex. But, firstly, the big German banks quarrelled among themselves over the division of the spoils.
    Ex. Let's not squabble about the fact that Bush actually eked out a razor-thin victory in the popular vote.
    Ex. Furthermore, this example brings into discussion the concept of a more complex relationship between the human senses and water in architecture.
    ----
    * discutir, debatir, tratar = bring into + discussion.
    * discutir del asunto con = take + the matter + up with.
    * discutir sobre nimiedades = split + hairs.
    * discutir una cuestión = air + issue.
    * discutir una idea = float + concept.
    * evitar discutir una cuestión = circumvent + issue.
    * sin discutir = no arguments!, undiscussed.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( debatir) <problema/asunto> to discuss; < proyecto de ley> to debate, discuss
    b) ( cuestionar) < derecho> to challenge, dispute

    todo lo que digo me lo discute — he questions o challenges everything I say

    2.
    discutir vi to argue, quarrel

    discutieron y no se han vuelto a hablar — they had an argument o a quarrel and haven't spoken to each other since

    * * *
    = argue, debate, discuss, dispute, talk over, spar, deliberate, bicker, quarrel, squabble, bring into + discussion.

    Ex: Cutter argued that when it could be established that the second term was definitely more significant then inversion of headings was acceptable.

    Ex: The reader is left to debate the relative merits of such a format - obviously its applications are limited.
    Ex: This review also illustrates some of the issues which cataloguers have discussed over the years, and demonstrates other solutions to standards in cataloguing than those embodied in modern cataloguing codes.
    Ex: Whatever viewpoint is taken, it is difficult to dispute the significance of AACR1.
    Ex: Let's try to talk this over calmly and coolly.
    Ex: Feaver remarked with the easy manner of familiars who are accustomed to sparring good-naturedly with each other that he certainly seemed to have picked up a great deal of miscellaneous information from that particular talk.
    Ex: Ethical principles are called into play when deliberating about values, particularly when values run into conflict.
    Ex: Chapter 4 presents solutions for when children fight, bicker, compete, namecall, and hit.
    Ex: But, firstly, the big German banks quarrelled among themselves over the division of the spoils.
    Ex: Let's not squabble about the fact that Bush actually eked out a razor-thin victory in the popular vote.
    Ex: Furthermore, this example brings into discussion the concept of a more complex relationship between the human senses and water in architecture.
    * discutir, debatir, tratar = bring into + discussion.
    * discutir del asunto con = take + the matter + up with.
    * discutir sobre nimiedades = split + hairs.
    * discutir una cuestión = air + issue.
    * discutir una idea = float + concept.
    * evitar discutir una cuestión = circumvent + issue.
    * sin discutir = no arguments!, undiscussed.

    * * *
    discutir [I1 ]
    vt
    1 (debatir) ‹problema/asunto› to discuss; ‹proyecto de ley› to debate, discuss
    discutieron el nuevo convenio they discussed the new agreement
    esto habrá que discutirlo con el jefe de ventas this will have to be discussed with the sales manager
    2 (cuestionar) ‹derecho› to challenge, dispute
    que es muy generoso no te lo discuto, pero … I don't deny o dispute that he's very generous, but …
    todo lo que digo me lo discute he questions o challenges o disputes everything I say
    mis órdenes no se discuten, se obedecen my orders are to be obeyed without question, my orders are not to be questioned
    ■ discutir
    vi
    to argue, quarrel
    se pasan el día discutiendo they spend all day arguing o quarreling
    no quiero discutir contigo I don't want to argue with you
    discutieron y no se han vuelto a hablar they had an argument o a quarrel and haven't spoken to each other since
    ¿por qué discutes de política con tu padre? why do you argue with your father about politics?
    discutir POR algo to argue ABOUT sth
    discuten por todo/por cualquier nimiedad they argue about everything/about the slightest little thing
    discutirle A algn to argue WITH sb
    ¡no me/le discutas! don't argue with me/her!
    * * *

     

    discutir ( conjugate discutir) verbo transitivo
    a) ( debatir) ‹problema/asunto› to discuss;

    ‹ proyecto de ley› to debate, discuss
    b) ( cuestionar) ‹derecho/afirmación› to question, challenge

    verbo intransitivo
    to argue, quarrel;

    discutir por algo to argue about sth;
    discutirle a algn to argue with sb
    discutir
    I verbo intransitivo
    1 to argue [de/sobre, about]
    2 (regañar, reñir) to argue, have an argument
    II verbo transitivo
    1 (debatir, considerar) to discuss, talk about
    2 (rebatir, poner en cuestión) to challenge, question

    ' discutir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bregar
    - chocar
    - comentar
    - gana
    - hablar
    - menos
    - pelear
    - pelearse
    - tarifar
    - tratar
    - alegar
    - mucho
    - pleitear
    - reñir
    - reunión
    English:
    argue
    - argument
    - bicker
    - blue
    - debate
    - disagree
    - discuss
    - dispute
    - fall out
    - horn
    - occasion
    - point
    - quarrel
    - quibble
    - talk over
    - talk through
    - thrash out
    - use
    - pointless
    - spar
    - talk
    - thrash
    - wrangle
    * * *
    ♦ vi
    1. [hablar] to discuss;
    discutir de o [m5] sobre algo to discuss sth, to talk about sth;
    se pasan el día discutiendo de o [m5] sobre fútbol they spend the whole day talking about o discussing football
    2. [pelear] to argue (con/por with/about);
    ya han vuelto a discutir they've had another of their arguments;
    ha discutido con su hermano she's had an argument with her brother;
    discuten por cualquier tontería they argue about the least little thing
    ♦ vt
    1. [hablar sobre] to discuss;
    [debatir] to discuss, to debate;
    eso mejor que lo discutas con tu padre you'd be better discussing that with your father;
    el asunto será discutido en el parlamento the matter will be discussed in parliament
    2. [contradecir] to dispute;
    no te discuto que tengas razón I don't dispute that you're right;
    es un buen tipo, sí, eso nadie te lo discute he's a nice guy, sure, no one disputes that;
    no me discutas lo que te mando y obedece don't question what I tell you to do, just do it
    * * *
    I v/t discuss
    II v/i argue ( sobre about)
    * * *
    1) : to discuss
    2) : to dispute
    altercar: to argue, to quarrel
    * * *
    1. (reñir) to argue / to quarrel
    cuando llegué a casa, mis padres discutían when I got home, my parents were arguing
    2. (debatir, hablar) to discuss
    3. (cuestionar) to question

    Spanish-English dictionary > discutir

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