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1 cause serious damage to

Общая лексика: привести к серьезному повреждению (чего-либо или кого-либо)

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > cause serious damage to
2 cause serious damage

izazvati ozbiljnu štetu

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izazvati ozbiljnu Å¡tetu

English-Croatian dictionary > cause serious damage
3 damage

damage ['dæmɪdʒ]

1 noun

(a) (UNCOUNT) (harm) dommage m, dommages mpl; (visible effects) dégâts mpl, dommages mpl; (to ship, shipment) avarie f, avaries fpl;

∎ damage to property dégâts mpl matériels;

∎ the storm did a lot of damage l'orage a causé des dégâts importants;

∎ he said he would make good the damage il a dit qu'il allait réparer les dégâts;

∎ smoking can cause serious damage to your health le tabac nuit gravement à la santé

(b) figurative tort m, préjudice m;

∎ the scandal has done the government serious damage le scandale a fait énormément de tort ou a énormément porté préjudice au gouvernement;

∎ the damage is done le mal est fait;

∎ familiar what's the damage? (how much do I owe?) ça fait combien?^□

2 transitive verb

(harm → crop, object) endommager, causer des dégâts à; (→ food) abîmer, gâter; (→ eyes, health) abîmer; (→ ship, shipment) avarier; (→ reputation) porter atteinte à, nuire à; (→ cause) faire du tort à, porter préjudice à;

∎ the storm damaged a lot of trees de nombreux arbres ont été endommagés par la tempête;

∎ damaged goods marchandises fpl avariées; figurative (person) personne f au passé chargé

3 damages plural noun

Law dommages mpl et intérêts mpl, dommages-intérêts mpl;

∎ to award damages to sb for sth accorder des dommages et intérêts à qn pour qch;

∎ to sue sb for damages poursuivre qn en dommages et intérêts;

∎ liable for damages civilement responsable;

∎ war damages dommages mpl ou indemnités fpl de guerre

►► damage limitation effort m pour limiter les dégâts

Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > damage
4 serious

serious ['sɪərɪəs]

adjective

(a) (not frivolous → suggestion, subject, writer, publication) sérieux; (→ occasion) solennel;

∎ is that a serious offer? c'est une offre sérieuse?;

∎ she's not really a serious novelist (doesn't write real literature) ce n'est pas un écrivain majeur;

∎ she's a serious actress (cinema) elle fait des films sérieux; (theatre) elle joue dans des pièces sérieuses;

∎ the serious cinemagoer le cinéphile averti;

∎ the book is meant for the serious student of astronomy le livre est destiné aux personnes qui possèdent déjà de solides connaissances en astronomie;

∎ life is a serious business la vie est une affaire sérieuse;

∎ can I have a serious conversation with you? est-ce qu'on peut parler sérieusement?

(b) (in speech, behaviour) sérieux;

∎ you can't be serious! vous n'êtes pas sérieux!, vous plaisantez!;

∎ I'm quite serious je suis tout à fait sérieux, je ne plaisante absolument pas;

∎ is he serious about emigrating? est-ce qu'il envisage sérieusement d'émigrer?;

∎ is she serious about Peter? est-ce qu'elle tient vraiment à Peter?

(c) (thoughtful → person, expression) sérieux, plein de sérieux; (→ voice, tone) sérieux, grave; (careful → examination) sérieux, approfondi; (→ consideration) sérieux, sincère;

∎ don't look so serious ne prends pas cet air sérieux;

∎ to give serious thought or consideration to sth songer sérieusement à qch

(d) (grave → mistake, problem, illness, injury) grave; (→ loss) lourd; (→ doubt) sérieux;

∎ the situation is serious la situation est préoccupante;

∎ serious crime délit m grave;

∎ those are serious allegations ce sont de graves accusations;

∎ it poses a serious threat to airport security cela constitue une menace sérieuse pour la sécurité des aéroports;

∎ there have been several serious border clashes il y a eu plusieurs affrontements graves à la frontière;

∎ Medicine his condition is described as serious son état est jugé préoccupant;

∎ the fire caused serious damage to the hotel l'incendie a causé d'importants dégâts à l'hôtel

(e) familiar (as intensifier)

∎ we're talking serious money here il s'agit de grosses sommes d'argent^□ ;

∎ she makes serious money elle gagne un fric fou;

∎ they go in for some really serious drinking at the weekends le week-end, qu'est-ce qu'ils descendent!;

∎ that is one serious computer c'est pas de la gnognotte, cet ordinateur

►► British serious crime squad brigade f criminelle;

British Serious Fraud Office ≃ Service m de la répression des fraudes

Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > serious
5 damage

'dæmi‹
1. noun
1) (injury or hurt, especially to a thing: The storm did/caused a lot of damage; She suffered brain-damage as a result of the accident.) daño

2) ((in plural) payment for loss or injury suffered: The court awarded him $5,000 damages.) daños y perjuicios

2. verb
(to make less effective or less usable etc; to spoil: The bomb damaged several buildings; The book was damaged in the post.) dañar, hacer daño a

- damaged

damage¹ n daño / daños

the rain caused serious damage to the crops la lluvia causó daños importantes a los cultivos

damage² vb dañar / estropear / perjudicar

the storm damaged hundreds of trees la tormenta dañó centenares de árboles

El gerundio de damage se escribe damaging

damage

tr['dæmɪʤ]

noun

1 (gen) daño; (to reputation, cause, health) perjuicio, daños nombre masculino plural; (destruction) destrozos nombre masculino plural, daños nombre masculino plural, estragos nombre masculino plural

■ the scandal did a great deal of damage to his reputation el escándalo causó grave perjuicio a su reputación

■ the storm caused serious damage to several buildings la tormenta produjo daños importantes en varios edificios

transitive verb

1 (gen) dañar, hacer daño a; (health, reputation, cause) dañar, perjudicar

■ smoking damages your health el tabaco perjudica la salud

■ the theatre was severely damaged by the fire el teatro sufrió grandes daños en el incendio

■ it has damaged her self-confidence su autoestima se ha visto mermada

plural noun damages

1 SMALLLAW/SMALL daños nombre masculino plural y perjuicios

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

to be damaged / get damaged dañarse

what's the damage? (asking for bill) tráeme la dolorosa, ¿cuánto se debe?

brain damage lesión nombre femenino cerebral

damage ['dæmɪʤ] vt, - aged ; - aging : dañar (un objeto o una máquina), perjudicar (la salud o una reputación)

damage n

1) : daño m, perjuicio m

2) damages npl

: daños y perjuicios mpl

damage

n.

• avería s.f.

• daño s.m.

• descalabro s.m.

• injuria s.f.

• lesión s.f.

• mal s.m.

• perjuicio s.m.

• quebranto s.m.

• quiebra s.f.

v.

• averiar v.

• damnificar v.

• dañar v.

• descabalar v.

• descalabrar v.

• estropear v.

• lacrar v.

• lastimar v.

• malear v.

• malparar v.

• perjudicar v.

I 'dæmɪdʒ
noun

1) u ( to object) daño m; (to reputation, cause) daño m, perjuicio m

storm/fire damage — daños ocasionados por una tormenta/un incendio

the damage is done — el daño ya está hecho

what's the damage? — (sl) ¿cuánto se debe?

2) damages pl ( Law) daños y perjuicios mpl

II

transitive verb

a) \<\<building/vehicle\>\> dañar; \<\<health\>\> perjudicar*, ser* perjudicial para; \<\<reputation/cause\>\> perjudicar*, dañar

b) damaged past p < stock> dañado, averiado

['dæmɪdʒ]
1. N

1) (gen) daño m ; (visible, eg on car) desperfectos mpl ; (to building, area) daños pl

to do or cause damage to — [+ building] causar daños a; [+ machine] causar desperfectos en

the bomb did a lot of damage — la bomba causó muchos daños

not much damage was caused to the car — el coche no sufrió grandes desperfectos

2) (fig) (to chances, reputation etc) perjuicio m, daño m

to do or cause damage to sth/sb — causar perjuicio a algo/algn, perjudicar algo/a algn

the damage is done — el daño ya está hecho

- what's the damage?

3) damages (Jur) daños mpl y perjuicios; recover 1., 2)

2.

VT (=harm) dañar; [+ machine] averiar, causar desperfectos en; [+ health, chances, reputation] perjudicar

to be damaged in a collision — sufrir daños en un choque

3.

CPD

damage control N — = damage limitation

damage control operation (US) N — campaña f para minimizar los daños

damage limitation N —

• an exercise in damage limitation — una campaña para minimizar los daños

• to be engaged in damage limitation — esforzarse en minimizar los daños

damage limitation exercise N — campaña f para minimizar los daños

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I ['dæmɪdʒ]
noun

1) u ( to object) daño m; (to reputation, cause) daño m, perjuicio m

storm/fire damage — daños ocasionados por una tormenta/un incendio

the damage is done — el daño ya está hecho

what's the damage? — (sl) ¿cuánto se debe?

2) damages pl ( Law) daños y perjuicios mpl

II

transitive verb

a) \<\<building/vehicle\>\> dañar; \<\<health\>\> perjudicar*, ser* perjudicial para; \<\<reputation/cause\>\> perjudicar*, dañar

b) damaged past p < stock> dañado, averiado

English-spanish dictionary > damage
6 damage

ˈdæmɪdʒ
1. сущ.
1) вред;
повреждение, поломка;
убыток, ущерб( from, to) Was there much damage to the car? ≈ Сильно ли повреждена машина? The damage done to the house was extensive. ≈ Дом очень сильно пострадал. fire damage, damage from the fire ≈ повреждения от пожара brain damage ≈ разрушение, повреждение мозга material damage, property damage ≈ материальный ущерб irreversible brain damage ≈ необратимое разрушение мозга grave damage to one's reputation ≈ тяжелый удар по чьей-либо репутации grave damage, great damage, serious damage, severe damage ≈ тяжелый ущерб extensive damage, irreparable damage, lasting damage, permanent damage, widespread damage ≈ невосстановимые убытки, потери light damage, slight damage ≈ незначительные убытки, потери, повреждение cause damage do damage to inflict damage on suffer damage sustain damage repair damage undo damage Syn: harm, injury
2) мн.;
юр. убытки;
возмещение убытков to bring an action of damages against smb. ≈ предъявить кому-л. иск за убытки The court awarded damage. ≈ Суд принял решение о возмещении убытков. to award damage ≈ возмещать убытки to claim for damage ≈ возбуждать иск о возмещении убытков to pay damage ≈ возмещать убытки to recover damage ≈ возмещать убытки to receive damage ≈ получать возмещение убытков to sue for damage ≈ возбуждать иск о возмещении убытков compensatory damage ≈ компенсационные выплаты exemplary damage ≈ типовая компенсация nominal damage ≈ номинально-символические убытки Syn: harm, compensation
3) сл. стоимость, трата, расход What's the damage? ≈ Сколько стоит? Syn: cost
1., expense
2. гл.
1) повреждать, портить, наносить ущерб, убыток to damage badly ≈ сильно повреждать easily damaged ≈ слегка поврежденный A large number of bombs had been dropped to damage an area intensively. ≈ Было сброшено большое количество бомб, чтобы полностью разрушить территорию. Syn: harm
2., hurt
2.
2) бесславить, бесчестить, дискредитировать, пятнать It shall go hard but we shall damage the theory. ≈ Будет тяжело, но мы дискредитируем эту теорию. A calumny damaged his reputation. ≈ Клеветнические измышления запятнали его репутацию. вред, повреждение;
поломка, порча;
убыток, ущерб, урон - to the * of smth. во вред чему-л. - severe * серьезный ущерб;
- physical * механическое повреждение - blast * разрушения, вызываемые ударной волной - diplacement * (специальное) повреждение кристаллической решетки в результате смещения атомов - * beyond repair неустранимое повреждение - to sustain great * сильно пострадать, быть серьезно поврежденным - to do /to cause/ * (to) причинять убытки;
наносить ущерб;
портить;
вредить, подрывать;
причинять беспокойство - the fire caused great * to the house дом сильно пострадал от пожара - this has done severe * to his reputation это серьезно подорвало его репутацию (юридическое) убытки;
компенсация за убытки, возмещение убытков - action for *s иск о возмещении убытков - to claim *s требовать возмещения убытков - to repair the *s возмещать убытки - to sue for а thousand dollars in *s требовать через суд тысячу долларов в порядке компенсации за убытки - to recover *s получать компенсацию за убытки - to be awarded * получить право на возмещение убытков часто pl (разговорное) стоимость, расход - whal's the * почем? - I'll stand the *s я плачу, я угощаю, угощенье за мой счет( устаревшее) невыгода, неудобство повреждать;
портить;
причинять ущерб, убыток - to * а house повредить дом - the luggage was badly *d bу fire багаж сильно пострадал от огня - war *s cities война несет разрушение городам вредить, мешать, портить - this will * his prospects это повредит его карьере - her face was not *d bу time время не оставило следов на ее лице повредить;
подбить, ушибить - to * one's nose разбить нос - her appearance was *d на ее лице были следы ушибов дискредитировать, чернить, пятнать - his reputation was *d его репутация была подорвана портиться acceptable ~ допустимый ущерб alleged ~ инкриминируемый ущерб ascertain ~ страх. устанавливать размер ущерба ~ pl юр. убытки;
компенсация за убытки;
to bring an action of damages( against smb.) предъявить (кому-л.) иск за убытки cargo ~ мор. страх. повреждение груза cause ~ вызывать повреждение cause ~ приносить убыток cause ~ причинять ущерб collateral ~ дополнительный ущерб collision ~ повреждение при столкновении collision ~ страх. ущерб при столкновении component ~ частичное повреждение concealed ~ скрытый ущерб consequential ~ косвенный ущерб contact ~ повреждение контактов contact ~ разрушение контактов corrosion ~ страх. ущерб от коррозии criminal ~ преступное причинение ущерба crop ~ потеря урожая damage авария ~ вред;
повреждение ~ вред ~ наносить урон ~ наносить ущерб, убыток ~ наносить ущерб ~ повреждать, портить ~ повреждать ~ повреждение ~ позорить, дискредитировать ~ поломка ~ портить ~ порча ~ (тж. pl) разг. стоимость;
what's the damage? сколько это стоит?;
I will stand the damages я заплачу ~ терпеть аварию ~ pl юр. убытки;
компенсация за убытки;
to bring an action of damages (against smb.) предъявить (кому-л.) иск за убытки ~ убыток;
ущерб ~ убыток ~ урон ~ разг. ушибить, повредить (о частях тела) ~ ущерб ~ ущерб от аварии ~ by damp повреждение сыростью ~ by falling stones повреждение падающими камнями ~ by fire повреждение огнем ~ by fire повреждение пожаром ~ by insects повреждение насекомыми ~ by water повреждение водой ~ of earlier date повреждение более раннего периода ~ to cargo повреждение груза ~ to cargo порча груза ~ to goods in custody повреждение товара, находящегося под охраной ~ to health ущерб здоровью ~ to hull повреждение корпуса судна ~ to machinery повреждение оборудования ~ to person ущерб личности ~ to property материальный ущерб ~ to property повреждение имущества property: damage to ~ ущерб имуществу ~ to property of others ущерб, причиненный чужой собственности ~ to rented property повреждение арендуемого имущества database ~ вчт. повреждение базы данных economic ~ экономический ущерб ensuing ~ возникающий ущерб environmental ~ разрушение окружающей среды environmental ~ ущерб окружающей среде exposure to ~ незащищенность от повреждения extensive ~ значительный ущерб fire ~ повреждение от огня fire ~ ущерб от пожара frost ~ повреждение от заморозков general ~ общий ущерб gradual ~ постепенное повреждение hailstorm ~ страх. убыток, причиненный градом hidden ~ скрытый ущерб high-water ~ страх. ущерб, причиненный паводком hull ~ повреждение корпуса ~ (тж. pl) разг. стоимость;
what's the damage? сколько это стоит?;
I will stand the damages я заплачу ice ~ повреждение от льда indirect ~ косвенный ущерб inherent vice ~ ущерб вследствие врожденного порока malicious ~ злоумышленное причинение вреда material ~ значительный ущерб material ~ материальный ущерб monetary ~ денежный ущерб nonmaterial ~ нематериальный ущерб nonpecuniary ~ неденежный ущерб nonpecuniary ~ неимущественный ущерб nonpecuniary ~ нематериальный ущерб nuclear ~ ущерб, причиненный радиоактивностью own ~ собственный ущерб partial ~ частичный ущерб processing ~ убыток при обработке property ~ имущественный ущерб property ~ урон, причиненный имуществу property ~ ущерб умуществу radiation ~ лучевая болезнь radiation ~ радиационное повреждение radiation ~ радиационное разрушение rainwater ~ ущерб от атмосферных осадков rainwater ~ ущерб от дождя sea ~ повреждение в море sea ~ повреждение груза морской водой seriously ~ терпеть серьезную аварию severe ~ значительный ущерб slight ~ небольшой ущерб slight ~ незначительный ущерб small ~ небольшой ущерб smoke ~ ущерб от дыма snow ~ ущерб от снегопада snow ~ ущерб от снежных заносов substantial ~ существенный ущерб trivial ~ незначительный ущерб underwater ~ повреждение в подводной части корпуса vindictive ~ денежное возмещение, взыскиваемое с ответчика как штраф water ~ ущерб, причиненный водой ~ (тж. pl) разг. стоимость;
what's the damage? сколько это стоит?;
I will stand the damages я заплачу wilful ~ умышленная порча имущества

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > damage
7 damage

1. n
1) ущерб; урон, убыток; вред; повреждение

2) pl убытки, потери; компенсация за убытки, компенсация за потери, возмещение убытков, возмещение потерь

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to assess the damage — оценивать размер ущерба

to award damages against smb — принимать судебное постановление, обязывающее кого-л. возместить убытки

to award damages to smb — присуждать выплату компенсации кому-л.

to award smb $... in damages — присуждать кому-л. денежную компенсацию в размере... долларов

to be awarded damage — получать право на получение компенсации за (понесенные) убытки

to be responsible for damage caused to smb — нести ответственность за ущерб, причиненный кому-л.

to cause damage to smth — наносить / причинять ущерб / урон чему-л.

to claim damages — требовать возмещения убытков

to collect damages — взыскивать убытки

to contain the damage — ограничивать размер ущерба

to create serious damage — создавать серьезный ущерб

to deal a damage — наносить / причинять ущерб

to demand indemnities for damages — требовать компенсации / возмещения убытков

to do damage to a country's image — наносить ущерб репутации страны

to incur damage to smth — наносить / причинять ущерб / урон чему-л.

to inflict severe damage (on smth) — наносить / причинять огромный ущерб чему-л.

to lay damages at smb — взыскивать убытки с кого-л.

to minimize the damage — сводить к минимуму ущерб

to pay $... in damages — возмещать убытки в сумме... долларов

to recover damages — получать компенсацию за (понесенные) убытки

to repair the damages — возмещать убытки

to repair the damages caused in a recent earthquake — восстанавливать повреждения, вызванные недавним землетрясением

to seek damages from smb — добиваться денежной компенсации от кого-л.

to suffer damages — нести убытки

to suffer serious damage — нести значительный ущерб / значительные потери

to sustain a damage — нести ущерб / урон

to the damage of smth — в ущерб / во вред чему-л.

- actual damages
- anticipatory damages
- collateral damage
- considerable damage
- criminal damage
- ecological damage
- economic damage
- environmental damage
- first-strike offensive damages
- heavy damage
- indirect damage to a country's economy
- irreparable damage
- irreversible damage
- libel damages
- little damage
- long-term damage
- material damage
- money damage
- moral damage
- political damage
- recovery of damages
- reparation of war damage
- spiritual damage
- substantial damage
- tangible damage
- the total cost of the damage is estimated at $... mln.
- untold damage
- vindictive damages
- war damage
- weather damage 2. v
1) повреждать, причинять ущерб, наносить ущерб

2) дискредитировать, чернить

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to damage one's reputation — подрывать чью-л. репутацию

Politics english-russian dictionary > damage
8 damage

1. n

1) повреждение, поломка; порча; ущерб, убыток

2) pl возмещение ущерба, убытков, компенсация за убытки

- accident damage
- accident damage to fixed capital
- accidental damage
- actual damage
- aircraft damage
- anticipatory damages
- chafing damage
- compensatory damages
- concealed damage
- consequential damages
- considerable damage
- contemptuous damages
- crop damage
- discretionary damages
- disproportionate damages
- environmental damage
- excessive damages
- exemplary damages
- extensive damage
- external damage
- external packing damage
- fair damages
- frost damage
- gale damage
- general damages
- grave damage
- great damage
- heavy damage
- hidden damage
- indirect damage
- insect damage
- irreparable damage
- liquidated damages
- loading damage
- lump-sum damages
- maintenance damage
- major damage
- marginal damage
- material damage
- mechanical damage
- minimal damage
- minor damage
- mitigated damages
- monetary damage
- money damages
- mould damage
- negligible damage
- nominal damages
- ordinary damages
- part damage
- partial damage
- pecuniary damage
- punitive damages
- real damages
- recoverable damage
- rust damage
- sea damage
- sentimental damage
- serious damage
- severe damage
- slight damage
- special damage
- specific damage
- stevedore damage
- stipulated damages
- substantial damages
- surface damage
- sweat damage
- transit damage
- transport damage
- treble damages
- unliquidated damages
- vibration damage
- warehouse damage
- water damage
- weather damage
- wet damage
- damages at large
- damage by collision
- damage by hooks
- damage by jettison
- damage by rodents
- damage by sea water
- damage by water
- damage during transportation
- damages for detention
- damage from handling operations
- damage in storage
- damage in transit
- damage through deprivation of use
- damage to the agriculture
- damage to cargo
- damage to the environment
- damage to equipment
- damage to goods
- damage to the marking
- damage to packing
- damage to persons
- damage to property
- damage to roads
- liable for damages
- adjust damages
- ascertain damages
- assess the damage
- assess damages
- avoid damage
- award damages
- cause damage
- claim damages
- declare damage
- determine the extent of damages
- discover damage
- do damage
- eliminate the damage
- estimate the damage
- experience damage
- fix damages
- incur damages
- indemnify against damage to property
- indemnify for the damage
- indemnify for damages
- inflict damage
- obtain damages
- offset damages
- patch the damage
- pay damages
- protect against damage
- receive damages
- recover damages
- refund damages
- remedy the damage
- repair the damage
- repair damages
- safeguard from damage
- subject to damage
- sue for damages
- suffer damage
- sustain damage
2. v

портить; причинять ущерб

English-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > damage
9 serious injury

serious injury

An injury which is sustained by a person in an accident and which:

a) requires hospitalization for more than 48 hours, commencing within seven days from the date the injury was received; or

b) results in a fracture of any bone (except simple fractures of fingers, toes or nose); or

c) involves lacerations which cause severe haemorrhage, nerve, muscle or tendon damage; or

d) involves injury to any internal organ; or

e) involves second or third degree burns, or any burns affecting more than 5 per cent of the body surface; or

f) involves verified exposure to infectious substances or injurious radiation.

(AN 13; AN 18)

серьёзное телесное повреждение

Teлeснoe пoврeждeниe, кoтoрoe пoлучeнo лицoм вo врeмя aвиaциoннoгo прoисшeствия и кoтoрoe:

a) требует госпитализации более чем 48 часов в течение семи дней с момента получения пoврeждeния; или

b) привeлo к пeрeлoму любoй кoсти (зa исключeниeм прoстых пeрeлoмoв пaльцeв рук, нoг или нoсa); или

c) связaнo с рaзрывaми ткaни, вызывaющими сильное кровотечение, поврeждeниe нeрвoв, мышц или сухoжилий; или

d) связaнo с пoврeждeниeм любoгo внутрeннeгo oргaнa; или

e) связaнo с пoлучeниeм oжoгoв втoрoй или трeтьeй стeпeни или любых oжoгoв, пoрaжaющих бoлee 5 прoцeнтoв пoвeрхнoсти тeлa; или

f) связaнo с пoдтвeрждённым фaктoм вoздeйствия инфeкциoнных вeщeств или пoрaжaющeй рaдиaции.

International Civil Aviation Vocabulary (English-Russian) > serious injury
10 damage

['dæmɪʤ] 1. сущ.
1) вред, повреждение; дефект, поломка; убыток, ущерб, урон

fire damage/ damage from the fire — повреждения от пожара

brain damage — разрушение, повреждение мозга

property damage — имущественный ущерб

grave / great / serious / severe damage — тяжёлый ущерб

material damage — материальный ущерб; существенный ущерб

grave damage to smb.'s reputation — тяжёлый удар по чьей-либо репутации

irreparable damage — невосстановимые убытки, потери

light / slight damage — незначительные убытки, потери, повреждение

to cause / do / inflict damage on — причинять вред, наносить ущерб

to suffer / sustain damage — получать повреждение, терпеть убытки

to repair / undo damage — восстанавливать, возмещать убытки; исправлять повреждение

Was there much damage to the car? — Сильно ли была повреждена машина?

Fortunately there was no damage done. — К счастью, не было нанесено никакого ущерба.

Syn:

injury

2) ( damages) юр. убытки

to claim damages — требовать возмещения убытков

to sue for damages — подавать иск о возмещении убытков

to pay the damages — возмещать убытки

to recover damages — получать компенсацию за убытки

to dispute the amount of damages — оспаривать размер компенсации ущерба

to bring an action of damages against smb. — предъявить кому-л. иск о возмещении убытков

The plaintiff was awarded $52,644 in damages. — Суд постановил выплатить истцу компенсацию ущерба в размере $ 52644.

Syn:

fine, compensation

3) разг. стоимость, расход

What's the damage? — Почём?

••

The damage is done. — брит. Сделанного не воротишь.

- damage limitation
- damage control 2. гл.
1) повреждать, портить; наносить ущерб, убыток

Many buildings were badly damaged during the war. — Во время войны многие здания получили серьёзные повреждения.

Syn:

harm 2., hurt 2.

2) дискредитировать, пятнать, чернить

His reputation was badly damaged. — Его репутация сильно пострадала.

Англо-русский современный словарь > damage
11 damage

['dæmɪʤ]
1. n

ущерб, убыток, вред, повреждение, поломка

damage to property — материальный ущерб

great/serious/severe damage — тяжёлый ущерб

to cause damage — причинять вред/ущерб/убыток

to award/ pay/recover/undo damage — возмещать убытки, восстанавливать, исправлять повреждение

2. v

1) повреждать, портить, наносить ущерб

to damage badly — сильно повреждать

2) бесчестить, дискредитировать, пятнать

2000 самых употребительных английских слов > damage
12 cause for concern principle
1. причина озабоченности
причина озабоченности
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EN

cause for concern principle
Principle connected with the precautionary principle: it means that, if there are strong reasons for expecting serious or irreversible damage to the environment following a given project, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation. Critics of this approach are concerned about large commitments of resources to deal with vaguely defined problems. (Source: GILP96a)
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Тематики
- охрана окружающей среды
EN
- cause for concern principle
DE
- Vorsorgeprinzip
FR
- principe de précaution
Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > cause for concern principle
13 animal damage
1. ущерб, наносимый животными
ущерб, наносимый животными
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EN

animal damage
Harm caused to the environment by animals as, for instance, in the case of overgrazing, trampling, etc. Overgrazing damage is reduced by properly located watering facilities to decrease daily travel by livestock. Rotation of grazing areas allows time for recovery of grass. Some land can be easily restored if grazing is allowed only during one season. Animals may cause damage to crops when agriculture land borders on virgin territory or game reserves. In addition wild animals may bring disease in valuable domestic herds. Cattle overstocking has caused serious degradation of habitat, and cattle raising is thus, to some extent, counterproductive. (Source: WPR)
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Тематики
- охрана окружающей среды
EN
- animal damage
DE
- Schaden durch Tiere
FR
- dégât animal
Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > animal damage
14 bugger

1. noun
1) (coarse) (fellow) Bursche, der (ugs.); Macker, der (salopp); as insult Scheißkerl, der (derb)

2) (coarse): (thing) Scheißding, das (derb)
2. transitive verb
(coarse): (damn)

bugger you/him — (dismissive) du kannst/der kann mich mal (derb)

bugger this car/him! — (angry) dieses Scheißauto/dieser Scheißkerl! (derb)

bugger it! — ach du Scheiße! (derb); (in surprise)

well, bugger me or I'll be buggered! — ach du Scheiße! (derb)

Phrasal Verbs:

- academic.ru/96210/bugger_about">bugger about

- bugger off

- bugger up

* * *

bug·ger

[ˈbʌgəʳ, AM -ɚ]

I. n

1. BRIT, AUS ( vulg: contemptible person) Scheißkerl m derb, Arschloch nt derb

2. BRIT, AUS ( vulg: pitied person) armes Schwein fam

3. BRIT, AUS ( vulg: annoying thing) Scheißding nt pej derb

4. ( pej vulg: practising anal intercourse) Arschficker m vulg

5. (lucky)

you lucky \bugger! du hast vielleicht ein Schwein! sl

6.

▶ it's got \bugger all to do with you! BRIT, AUS (sl) das geht dich einen Dreck an! derb

▶ he knows \bugger all about computers BRIT, AUS (sl) er hat keinen blassen Schimmer von Computern fam

II. interj esp BRIT, AUS ( vulg)

\bugger! Scheiße! derb

\bugger it! Scheiß drauf! derb, zum Teufel damit! fam

\bugger me! [ach] du meine Fresse! sl

III. vt

1. BRIT, AUS (sl: cause serious damage)

▪ to \bugger sth/sb etw/jdn ruinieren

2. LAW (have anal intercourse)

▪ to \bugger sb mit jdm Analverkehr haben

3. ( vulg: have anal intercourse)

▪ to \bugger sb jdn in den Arsch ficken vulg

* * *
['bʌgə(r)]
1. n (inf)
Scheißkerl m (inf), Arschloch nt (vulg); (when not contemptible) Kerl m (inf); (= thing) Scheißding nt (inf)
this nail's a bugger, it won't come out — dieser Scheißnagel geht einfach nicht raus (inf)

you lucky bugger! — du hast vielleicht ein Schwein! (inf)

to play silly buggers ( Brit inf ) — Scheiß machen (sl)

2. interj (Brit inf)
Scheiße (inf)
bugger ( it)! — Scheiße! (inf)

bugger this car! — dieses Scheißauto (inf)

bugger the cost! — ich scheiß auf die Kosten! (sl)

bugger him — dieser Scheißkerl (inf)

bugger me! (surprise) — (du) meine Fresse! (sl); (annoyance) so'n Scheiß! (inf)

3. vt

1) (lit) anal verkehren mit

2) (Brit sl) versauen (sl)

* * *

bugger [ˈbʌɡə(r); US auch ˈbʊ-]

A s

1. a) jemand, der Analverkehr oder (US) Oralverkehr praktiziert

b) Homosexuelle(r) m

c) Sodomit m

2. vulg

a) besonders Br Scheißkerl m, Arschloch n

b) allg Kerl m:

a poor bugger ein armer Hund, ein armes Schwein

c) besonders Br that job is a real bugger diese Arbeit ist einfach beschissen;

this bugger of a headache diese verfluchten Kopfschmerzen

B int vulg Scheiße!

C v/t

1. a) anal oder (US) oral verkehren mit

b) Sodomie treiben mit

2. vulg jemanden fertigmachen umg:

we were completely buggered wir waren fix und fertig

3. vulg bugger it! Scheiße!;

bugger him!

a) dieser Scheißkerl!, dieses Arschloch!,

b) der soll mich mal am Arsch lecken!

4. bugger about ( oder around) vulg Br

a) jemanden wie einen Deppen behandeln,

b) jemanden verarschen

5. meist bugger up vulg bes Br etwas versauen:

buggered up im Arsch

D v/i

1. bugger about ( oder around) vulg Br

a) herumgammeln,

b) herumspielen ( with mit)

2. bugger off vulg Br (meist imp) sich verpissen

* * *
1. noun
1) (coarse) (fellow) Bursche, der (ugs.); Macker, der (salopp); as insult Scheißkerl, der (derb)

2) (coarse): (thing) Scheißding, das (derb)
2. transitive verb
(coarse): (damn)

bugger you/him — (dismissive) du kannst/der kann mich mal (derb)

bugger this car/him! — (angry) dieses Scheißauto/dieser Scheißkerl! (derb)

bugger it! — ach du Scheiße! (derb); (in surprise)

well, bugger me or I'll be buggered! — ach du Scheiße! (derb)

Phrasal Verbs:

- bugger about

- bugger off

- bugger up

English-german dictionary > bugger
15 bugger

bug·ger [ʼbʌgəʳ, Am -ɚ] n

1) (Brit, Aus) (vulg: contemptible person) Scheißkerl m ( derb), Arschloch nt ( derb)

2) (Brit, Aus) (vulg: pitied person) armes Schwein ( fam)

3) (Brit, Aus) (vulg: annoying thing) Scheißding nt ( pej) ( derb)

4) (pej vulg: practising anal intercourse) Arschficker m ( vulg)

5) ( lucky)

you lucky \bugger! du hast vielleicht ein Schwein! (sl)

PHRASES:

it's got \bugger all to do with you! (Brit, Aus) (sl) das geht dich einen Dreck an! ( derb)

he knows \bugger all about computers (Brit, Aus) (sl) er hat keinen blassen Schimmer von Computern ( fam) interj (esp Brit, Aus) ( vulg);

\bugger! Scheiße! ( derb)

\bugger it! Scheiß drauf! ( derb), zum Teufel damit! ( fam)

\bugger me! [ach] du meine Fresse! (sl) vt

1) (Brit, Aus) (sl: cause serious damage)

to \bugger sth/sb etw/jdn ruinieren

2) law ( have anal intercourse)

to \bugger sb mit jdm Analverkehr haben

3) (vulg: have anal intercourse)

to \bugger sb jdn in den Arsch ficken ( vulg)

English-German students dictionary > bugger
16 injury

plural - injuries; noun ((an instance of) harm or damage: Badly designed chairs can cause injury to the spine; The motorcyclist received severe injuries in the crash.) lesión

injury n herida / lesión

serious injuries heridas graves

El plural de injury se escribe injuries

injury

tr['ɪnʤərɪ]

noun (pl injuries)

1 herida, lesión nombre femenino

■ a head injury una lesión en la cabeza

■ she suffered severe injuries sufrió heridas graves

■ he won't be playing due to injury no jugará a causa de una lesión

2 figurative use (to feelings etc) daño; (to reputation) agravio

\

SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

to do oneself an injury hacerse daño, lastimarse

injury time SMALLSPORT/SMALL tiempo de descuento

injury ['ɪnʤəri] n, pl - ries

1) wrong: mal m, injusticia f

2) damage, harm: herida f, daño m, perjuicio m

injury

n.

• daño s.m.

• deterioro s.m.

• herida s.f.

• injuria s.f.

• lesión s.f.

• mal s.m.

• mella s.f.

'ɪndʒəri
count & mass noun (pl - ries) herida f

to do oneself an injury — hacerse* daño, lastimarse; (before n)

injury time — (BrE Sport) tiempo m de descuento

['ɪndʒǝrɪ]
1. N

1) (physical) herida f ; (esp Sport) lesión f

he sustained minor injuries to the hands and face — sufrió heridas leves en las manos y la cara

he was taken to hospital with serious injuries — lo llevaron al hospital herido de gravedad

to do o.s. an injury * — hacerse daño

to do sb an injury — hacer daño a algn

2) (fig) (to reputation) daño m, perjuicio m ; (to feelings) agravio m ; insult

2.

CPD

injury list N — (Sport) lista f de lesionados

injury time N — (Brit) (Sport) tiempo m de descuento

* * *
['ɪndʒəri]
count & mass noun (pl - ries) herida f

to do oneself an injury — hacerse* daño, lastimarse; (before n)

injury time — (BrE Sport) tiempo m de descuento

English-spanish dictionary > injury
17 strike

1. noun
1) (Industry) Streik, der; Ausstand, der

be on/go [out] or come out on strike — in den Streik getreten sein/in den Streik treten

2) (Finance, Mining, Oil Industry) Treffer, der (fig. ugs.)

make a strike — sein Glück machen; (Mining) fündig werden

3) (sudden success)

[lucky] strike — Glückstreffer, der

4) (act of hitting) Schlag, der

5) (Mil.) Angriff, der (at auf + Akk.)
2. transitive verb,
struck, struck or (arch.) stricken

1) (hit) schlagen; [Schlag, Geschoss:] treffen [Ziel]; [Blitz:] [ein]schlagen in (+ Akk.), treffen; (afflict) treffen; [Epidemie, Seuche, Katastrophe usw.:] heimsuchen

strike one's head on or against the wall — mit dem Kopf gegen die Wand schlagen

the car struck a pedestrian — das Auto erfasste einen Fußgänger

the ship struck the rocks — das Schiff lief auf die Felsen

2) (delete) streichen (from, off aus)

3) (deliver)

strike two punches — zweimal zuschlagen

strike somebody a blow — jemandem einen Schlag versetzen

who struck [the] first blow? — wer hat zuerst geschlagen?

strike a blow against somebody/against or to something — (fig.) jemandem/einer Sache einen Schlag versetzen

strike a blow for something — (fig.) eine Lanze für etwas brechen

4) (produce by hitting flint) schlagen [Funken]; (ignite) anzünden [Streichholz]

5) (chime) schlagen

6) (Mus.) anschlagen [Töne auf dem Klavier]; anzupfen, anreißen [Töne auf der Gitarre]; (fig.) anschlagen [Ton]

7) (impress) beeindrucken

strike somebody as [being] silly — jemandem dumm zu sein scheinen od. dumm erscheinen

it strikes somebody that... — es scheint jemandem, dass...

how does it strike you? — was hältst du davon?

8) (occur to) einfallen (+ Dat.)

9) (cause to become)

a heart attack struck him dead — er erlag einem Herzanfall

be struck blind/dumb — erblinden/verstummen

10) (attack) überfallen; (Mil.) angreifen

11) (encounter) begegnen (+ Dat.)

12) (Mining) stoßen auf (+ Akk.)

strike gold — auf Gold stoßen; (fig.) einen Glückstreffer landen (ugs.) (in mit)

13) (reach) stoßen auf (+ Akk.) [Hauptstraße, Weg, Fluss]

14) (adopt) einnehmen [[Geistes]haltung]

15) (take down) einholen [Segel, Flagge]; abbrechen [Zelt, Lager]
3. intransitive verb,
struck, struck or (arch.) stricken

1) (deliver a blow) zuschlagen; [Pfeil:] treffen; [Blitz:] einschlagen; [Unheil, Katastrophe, Krise, Leid:] hereinbrechen (geh.); (collide) zusammenstoßen; (hit) schlagen ( against gegen, [up]on auf + Akk.)

2) (ignite) zünden

3) (chime) schlagen

4) (Industry) streiken

5) (attack; also Mil.) zuschlagen (fig.)

6) (make a find) (Mining) fündig werden

strike lucky — Glück haben

7) (direct course)

strike south — etc. sich nach Süden usw. wenden

Phrasal Verbs:

- academic.ru/118652/strike_at">strike at

- strike back

- strike down

- strike off

- strike out

- strike through

- strike up

* * *
1. past tense - struck; verb
1) (to hit, knock or give a blow to: He struck me in the face with his fist; Why did you strike him?; The stone struck me a blow on the side of the head; His head struck the table as he fell; The tower of the church was struck by lightning.) (ein)schlagen

2) (to attack: The enemy troops struck at dawn; We must prevent the disease striking again.) zuschlagen

3) (to produce (sparks or a flame) by rubbing: He struck a match/light; He struck sparks from the stone with his knife.) entzünden, schlagen

4) ((of workers) to stop work as a protest, or in order to force employers to give better pay: The men decided to strike for higher wages.) streiken

5) (to discover or find: After months of prospecting they finally struck gold/oil; If we walk in this direction we may strike the right path.) finden, stoßen auf

6) (to (make something) sound: He struck a note on the piano/violin; The clock struck twelve.) (an)schlagen, spielen

7) (to impress, or give a particular impression to (a person): I was struck by the resemblance between the two men; How does the plan strike you?; It / The thought struck me that she had come to borrow money.) beeindrucken

8) (to mint or manufacture (a coin, medal etc).) schlagen

9) (to go in a certain direction: He left the path and struck (off) across the fields.) den Weg einschlagen

10) (to lower or take down (tents, flags etc).) abbrechen, streichen
2. noun
1) (an act of striking: a miners' strike.) der Streik

2) (a discovery of oil, gold etc: He made a lucky strike.) der Treffer

•

- striker
- striking
- strikingly
- be out on strike
- be on strike
- call a strike
- come out on strike
- come
- be within striking distance of
- strike at
- strike an attitude/pose
- strike a balance
- strike a bargain/agreement
- strike a blow for
- strike down
- strike dumb
- strike fear/terror into
- strike home
- strike it rich
- strike lucky
- strike out
- strike up
* * *

strike¹

[straɪk]

I. n

1. (of labour) Streik m, Ausstand m

sit-down \strike Sitzstreik m

solidarity \strike Solidaritätsstreik m

steel \strike Stahlarbeiterstreik m

sympathy \strike Sympathiestreik m

a wave of \strikes eine Streikwelle

wildcat \strike esp AM wilder Streik

to be [out] on \strike streiken

to be on \strike against sth/sb AM etw/jdn bestreiken

to call a \strike einen Streik ausrufen

to call for a \strike zu einem Streik aufrufen

to go [or come out] on \strike in [den] Streik treten, streiken

2. (occurrence)

one-\strike-and-you're-out policy Politik f des harten Durchgreifens

II. vi streiken, in den Ausstand treten form

▪ to \strike for sth für etw akk streiken

the right to \strike das Recht zu streiken, das Streikrecht

striking workers streikende Arbeiter

strike²

[straɪk]

I. n

1. MIL Angriff m, Schlag m ( against gegen + akk)

air \strike Luftangriff m

military \strike Militärschlag m

missile \strike Raketenangriff m

nuclear \strike Atomschlag m, Atomangriff m

pre-emptive \strike Präventivschlag m; ( fig) vorbeugende Maßnahme

retaliatory \strike Vergeltungsschlag m, Vergeltungsangriff m

surgical \strike gezielter Angriff

to launch a \strike einen Angriff starten, einen Schlag durchführen

2. (discovery) Fund m

gold/oil \strike Gold-/Ölfund m

to make a gold \strike auf Gold stoßen

3. AM ( also fig: conviction) Verurteilung f a. fig

if you're poor and you've been to prison you've already got two \strikes against you ( fig fam) wenn man arm ist und im Gefängnis war, ist man von vornherein doppelt benachteiligt

4. AM (in baseball) Fehlschlag m

5. STOCKEX Basispreis f einer Option

II. vt

<struck, struck or OLD, AM also stricken>

1. (beat)

▪ to \strike sb/an animal [with sth] jdn/ein Tier [mit etw dat] schlagen; (bang against)

▪ to \strike sth [with sth] [mit etw dat] gegen etw akk schlagen; (bang on)

▪ to \strike sth [with sth] [mit etw dat] auf etw akk schlagen

to \strike the door/table with one's fist mit der Faust gegen die Tür/auf den Tisch schlagen

to \strike sb in the face jdn ins Gesicht schlagen

2. (send by hitting)

to \strike a ball einen Ball schlagen/schießen

you struck the ball perfectly! das war ein perfekter Schlag/Schuss!

3. usu passive (reach, damage)

to be struck by a bullet/missile/by lightning von einer Kugel/Rakete/vom Blitz getroffen werden

4. (meet, bump against)

▪ to \strike sth gegen etw akk stoßen; (drive against)

▪ to \strike sth gegen etw akk fahren

▪ to \strike sb jdn anfahren; (sail into)

▪ to \strike sth auf etw akk auflaufen; (collide with)

▪ to \strike sth mit etw dat zusammenstoßen

her head struck the kerb sie schlug mit dem Kopf auf die Bordsteinkante

he was struck by a car er wurde von einem Auto angefahren

5. (knock, hurt)

▪ to \strike sth against/on sth mit etw dat gegen/auf etw akk schlagen

to \strike one's fist against the door/on the table mit der Faust gegen die Tür/auf den Tisch schlagen

to \strike one's elbow/head against [or on] sth mit dem Ellbogen/Kopf gegen etw akk schlagen

6. (inflict)

to \strike a blow zuschlagen

to \strike two blows zweimal zuschlagen

to \strike sb a blow jdm einen Schlag versetzen

to \strike a blow against [or at] sb/sth ( fig) jdm/etw einen Schlag versetzen fig

to \strike a blow for sth ( fig) eine Lanze für etw akk brechen geh

the judge's ruling \strikes a blow for racial equality das Urteil des Richters ist ein wichtiger Sieg im Kampf für die Rassengleichheit

7. (devastate)

▪ to \strike sb/sth jdn/etw heimsuchen

the flood struck Worcester die Flut brach über Worcester herein

8. (give an impression)

▪ to \strike sb as... jdm... scheinen

almost everything he said struck me as absurd fast alles, was er sagte, schien mir ziemlich verworren [o kam mir ziemlich verworren vor]

how does Jimmy \strike you? wie findest du Jimmy?

she doesn't \strike me as [being] very motivated sie scheint mir nicht besonders motiviert [zu sein]

▪ it \strikes sb that... es scheint jdm, dass...

it \strikes me that she's not very motivated es scheint mir, dass sie nicht besonders motiviert ist

9. (impress)

to \strike sb forcibly jdn sehr beeindrucken

▪ to be struck by sth von etw dat beeindruckt sein

to be struck on sb/sth ( fam: be infatuated) sich akk in jdn/etw verguckt haben fam

10. (arouse, induce)

to \strike sb's fancy jds Interesse erregen

to \strike fear [or terror] into sb jdn in Angst versetzen

11. (achieve)

▪ to \strike sth etw erreichen

how can we \strike a balance between economic growth and environmental protection? wie können wir einen Mittelweg zwischen Wirtschaftswachstum und Umweltschutz finden?

one of the tasks of a chairperson is to \strike a balance between the two sides es gehört zu den Aufgaben eines Vorsitzenden, beiden Seiten gerecht zu werden

to \strike a deal [or AM also bargain] with sb mit jdm eine Vereinbarung treffen

12. (manufacture)

to \strike coins/a medal Münzen/eine Medaille prägen

13. (discover)

▪ to \strike sth auf etw akk stoßen

to \strike gold/oil auf Gold/Öl stoßen; ( fig fam) einen Glückstreffer landen fig

to \strike gold ( fig fam: at the Olympics) die Goldmedaille gewinnen

14. (play)

to \strike a chord/note einen Akkord/Ton anschlagen

to \strike the right note den richtigen Ton treffen

15. (adopt)

to \strike an attitude ( pej) sich akk in Szene setzen pej

to \strike a note of warning about sth vor etw dat warnen

to \strike a false [or wrong] note sich akk im Ton vergreifen

to \strike more serious note eine ernstere Tonart [o einen ernsteren Ton] anschlagen

to \strike the right note den richtigen Ton treffen

to \strike a pose eine Pose einnehmen

they have chosen to \strike a pose of resistance ( fig) sie haben sich zu einer ablehnenden Haltung entschieden

16. clock

to \strike midnight/the hour Mitternacht/die [volle] Stunde schlagen

to \strike twelve zwölf schlagen

the clock struck twelve die Uhr schlug zwölf, es schlug zwölf Uhr

17. (occur to)

▪ to \strike sb jdm einfallen

she was suddenly struck by the thought that... plötzlich kam ihr der Gedanke, dass...

has it ever struck you that...? ist dir je der Gedanke gekommen dass...?

it's just struck me that... mir ist gerade eingefallen, dass...

18. (remove)

to \strike camp das Lager abbrechen

to \strike one's flag die Flaggen streichen

to \strike sb/a name off a list jdn/einen Namen von einer Liste streichen

to \strike sth from the record AM LAW etw aus den Aufzeichnungen streichen

to \strike sb off the register jdm die Zulassung entziehen

19. (ignite)

to \strike a match ein Streichholz anzünden

to \strike sparks Funken schlagen

20. (render)

to be struck dumb sprachlos sein

21.

▶ to \strike a chord with sb (memories) bei jdm Erinnerungen wecken; (agreement) bei jdm Anklang finden

to \strike a responsive chord with sb bei jdm auf großes Verständnis stoßen

▶ to \strike a familiar note [with sb] [jdm] bekannt vorkommen

▶ to \strike it lucky ( fam) einen Glückstreffer landen fig

▶ to \strike it rich das große Geld machen fam

III. vi

<struck, struck or OLD, AM also stricken>

1. (reach aim, have impact) treffen; lightning einschlagen

lightning never \strikes in the same place ein Blitz schlägt nie zweimal an derselben Stelle ein

▪ to \strike at sb/sth jdn/etw treffen

the missiles struck at troops based around the city die Raketen trafen Stellungen rund um die Stadt

to \strike at the heart of sth etw vernichtend treffen

we need to \strike at the heart of this problem wir müssen dieses Problem an der Wurzel packen

to \strike at the heart of sb ( fig) jdn ins Herz treffen fig

to \strike home ins Schwarze treffen fig

the message seems to have struck home die Botschaft ist offensichtlich angekommen

2. (act) zuschlagen; (attack) angreifen

the snake \strikes quickly die Schlange beißt schnell zu

the police have warned the public that the killer could \strike again die Polizei hat die Bevölkerung gewarnt, dass der Mörder erneut zuschlagen könnte

▪ to \strike at sb/sth jdn/etw angreifen; hit out nach jdm/etw schlagen

sometimes terrorists \strike at civilians manchmal greifen Terroristen Zivilisten an

3. (cause suffering) illness, disaster ausbrechen; fate zuschlagen

4. clock schlagen

midnight has just struck es hat gerade Mitternacht geschlagen

5. (find)

▪ to \strike on/upon sth etw finden

she has just struck upon an idea ihr ist gerade eine Idee gekommen, sie hatte gerade eine Idee

6.

▶ to \strike while the iron is hot ( prov) das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist prov

▶ to \strike lucky BRIT, AUS ( fam) einen Glückstreffer landen fig

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[straɪk] vb: pret struck, ptp struck or ( old) stricken
1. n

1) Streik m, Ausstand m

official/unofficial strike — offizieller/wilder Streik

to be on strike — streiken, im Ausstand sein

to be on official/unofficial strike — offiziell/wild streiken

to come out on strike, to go on strike — in den Streik or Ausstand treten

to bring sb out on strike — jdn zum Streik veranlassen

See:

→ hunger strike

2) (= discovery of oil, gold etc) Fund m

a big oil strike — ein großer Ölfund

to make a strike — fündig werden

a lucky strike — ein Treffer m, ein Glücksfall m

3) (BASEBALL) verfehlter Schlag; (TENPIN BOWLING) Strike m, alle zehne

to get a strike to have the strike (Cricket) — alle zehne werfen, abräumen (inf) schlagen

three strikes and you're out — wenn du den Ball dreimal verfehlst, bist du draußen

it/she has two strikes against it/her ( esp US inf ) — es/sie hat zwei Nachteile

4) (FISHING)

he got three strikes — drei haben angebissen

5) (MIL: attack) Angriff m

6) (= act of striking) Schlag m

2. vt

1) (= hit) schlagen; door schlagen an or gegen (+acc); nail, table schlagen auf (+acc); metal, hot iron etc hämmern; (stone, blow, bullet etc) treffen; (snake) beißen; (pain) durchzucken, durchfahren; (misfortune, disaster) treffen; (disease) befallen

to strike one's fist on the table, to strike the table with one's fist — mit der Faust auf den Tisch schlagen

to strike sb/sth a blow — jdm/einer Sache einen Schlag versetzen

who struck the first blow? — wer hat zuerst (zu)geschlagen?

to strike a blow for sth (fig) — eine Lanze für etw brechen

to strike a blow (at sth) (fig) — einen Schlag (gegen etw) führen

to be struck by lightning —

he struck his forehead in surprise to strike 38 ( per minute) — er schlug sich (dat) überrascht an die Stirn 38 Ruderschläge (pro Minute) machen

2) (= collide with, meet person) stoßen gegen; (spade) stoßen auf (+acc); (car) fahren gegen; ground aufschlagen or auftreffen auf (+acc); (ship) auflaufen auf (+acc); (sound, light) ears, eyes treffen; (lightning) person treffen; tree einschlagen in (+acc), treffen

to strike one's head against sth — mit dem Kopf gegen etw stoßen, sich (dat) den Kopf an etw (acc) stoßen

to strike problems (fig) —

a terrible sight struck my eyes — plötzlich sah ich etwas Schreckliches

3) (= sound) instrument zu spielen anfangen; string, chord, note anschlagen; (clock) schlagen

to strike the keys (of piano, typewriter) — in die Tasten greifen

to strike the hour — die volle Stunde schlagen

to strike 4 — 4 schlagen

that struck a familiar note — das kam mir/ihm etc bekannt vor

See:

→ note

4) (HORT) cutting schneiden; (plant) roots schlagen

5) (= occur to) in den Sinn kommen (+dat)

to strike sb as cold/unlikely etc — jdm kalt/unwahrscheinlich etc vorkommen

that strikes me as a good idea — das kommt mir sehr vernünftig vor

the funny side of it struck me later — erst später ging mir auf, wie lustig das war

a thought struck me — mir kam plötzlich ein Gedanke

6) (= impress) beeindrucken

to be struck by sth — von etw beeindruckt sein

how does it strike you? — wie finden Sie das?, was halten Sie davon?

how does she strike you? — welchen Eindruck haben Sie von ihr?

she struck me as being very competent — sie machte auf mich einen sehr fähigen Eindruck

See:

→ also struck

7) (= produce, make) coin, medal prägen; (fig) agreement, truce sich einigen auf (+acc), aushandeln; pose einnehmen

to strike a light — Feuer machen

to strike a match —

to strike sparks — Funken schlagen

to be struck blind/deaf/dumb — blind/taub/stumm werden, mit Blindheit/Taubheit/Stummheit geschlagen werden (geh)

to strike fear or terror into sb/sb's heart —

strike a light! (inf) — ach du grüne Neune! (inf), hast du da noch Töne! (inf)

8) (= find) gold, oil, correct path finden, stoßen auf (+acc)

to strike it rich — das große Geld machen

to strike gold (fig) — auf eine Goldgrube stoßen

See:

→ oil

9) (= make) path hauen

10) (= take down) camp, tent abbrechen; (NAUT) flag, sail einholen, streichen; mast kappen, umlegen; (THEAT) set abbauen

11) (= remove) streichen

stricken from a list/the record — von einer Liste/aus dem Protokoll gestrichen werden

3. vi

1) (= hit) treffen; (lightning) einschlagen; (snake) zubeißen; (tiger) die Beute schlagen; (attack, MIL ETC) zuschlagen, angreifen; (disease) zuschlagen; (panic) ausbrechen

to strike against sth — gegen etw stoßen

to strike at sb/sth (lit) — nach jdm/etw schlagen; ( fig : at democracy, existence ) an etw (dat) rütteln

they struck at his weakest point — sie trafen ihn an seinem wundesten Punkt

to strike at the roots of sth — etw an der Wurzel treffen

to be/come within striking distance of sth — einer Sache (dat) nahe sein

to put sb within striking distance of sth — jdn in Reichweite von etw bringen

to come within striking distance of doing sth — nahe daran sein, etw zu tun

they were within striking distance of success —

the snake struck at me — die Schlange fuhr auf mich los

See:

→ home, iron

2) (clock) schlagen

when midnight strikes — wenn es Mitternacht schlägt

3) (workers) streiken

4) (match) zünden, angehen

5) (NAUT: run aground) auflaufen (on auf +acc)

6) (FISHING) anbeißen

7)

inspiration struck — er/sie etc hatte eine Eingebung

to strike on a new idea — eine neue Idee haben, auf eine neue Idee kommen

8) (= take root) Wurzeln schlagen

9)

(= go in a certain direction) to strike across country — querfeldein gehen

to strike into the woods — sich in die Wälder schlagen

the sun struck through the mist — die Sonne brach durch den Dunst

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strike [straık]

A s

1. Schlag m, Hieb m, Stoß m

2. (Glocken) Schlag m

3. Schlag(werk) m(n) (einer Uhr)

4. WIRTSCH Streik m, Ausstand m:

be on strike streiken;

go on strike in (den) Streik oder in den Ausstand treten;

on strike streikend

5. Bowling: Strike m (Abräumen beim 1. Wurf)

6. Angeln:

a) Ruck m mit der Angel

b) Anbeißen n (des Fisches)

7. Münzherstellung: Prägungsmenge f

8. Bergbau:

a) Streichen n (der Schichten)

b) (Streich)Richtung f

9. umg Treffer m, Glücksfall m:

a lucky strike ein Glückstreffer

10. MIL

a) (besonders Luft-) Angriff m

b) (Atom) Schlag m

B v/t prät struck [strʌk], pperf struck, stricken [ˈstrıkən]

1. schlagen, Schläge oder einen Schlag versetzen (dat), allg treffen:

strike sb in the face jemanden ins Gesicht schlagen;

strike together zusammen-, aneinanderschlagen;

she was struck by a stone sie wurde von einem Stein getroffen;

he was struck dead by lightning er wurde vom Blitz erschlagen;

strike me dead! sl so wahr ich hier stehe!

2. ein Messer etc stoßen ( into in akk)

3. einen Schlag führen: → blow² 1

4. MUS einen Ton, auch eine Glocke, Saite, Taste anschlagen: → chord¹ 2, note A 9, A 11

5. a) ein Streichholz anzünden, ein Feuer machen

b) Funken schlagen

6. mit dem Kopf, Fuß etc stoßen oder schlagen ( against gegen)

7. stoßen oder schlagen gegen oder auf (akk), zusammenstoßen mit, SCHIFF auflaufen auf (akk), einschlagen in (akk) (Geschoss, Blitz)

8. fallen auf (akk) (Licht), auftreffen auf (akk), das Auge oder Ohr treffen:

a sound struck his ear ein Laut schlug an sein Ohr;

strike sb’s eye jemandem ins Auge fallen

9. fig jemandem einfallen oder in den Sinn kommen:

an idea struck him ihm kam oder er hatte eine Idee

10. jemandem auffallen:

what struck me was … was mir auffiel oder worüber ich staunte, war …

11. Eindruck machen auf (akk), jemanden beeindrucken:

be struck by beeindruckt oder hingerissen sein von;

be struck on a girl umg in ein Mädchen verknallt sein

12. jemandem gut etc vorkommen:

how does it strike you? was hältst du davon?;

it struck her as ridiculous es kam ihr lächerlich vor

13. stoßen auf (akk), (zufällig) treffen oder entdecken, Gold etc finden: → oil A 1, rich A 7

14. Wurzeln schlagen: → root¹ A 1

15. THEAT Kulissen etc abbauen

16. ein Zelt etc abbrechen: → camp¹ A 1

17. SCHIFF

a) die Flagge, Segel streichen

b) (weg)fieren: → flag¹ A 1, A 2, sail A 1

18. den Fisch mit einem Ruck (der Angel) auf den Haken spießen

19. a) seine Beute schlagen (Habicht etc)

b) die Giftzähne schlagen in (akk) (Schlange)

20. TECH glatt streichen

21. a) MATH den Durchschnitt, das Mittel nehmen

b) WIRTSCH die Bilanz, den Saldo ziehen

c) WIRTSCH eine Dividende ausschütten: → balance A 7, mean³ B 1, B 2

22. streichen ( off von einer Liste etc): → Medical Register, roll A 2, strike off 2, strike through

23. eine Münze, Medaille schlagen, prägen

24. die Stunde etc schlagen (Uhr): → twelve A

25. fig jemanden schlagen, heimsuchen, treffen (Unglück, Not etc), befallen (Krankheit)

26. jemanden erfüllen ( with mit Schrecken, Schmerz etc)

27. jemanden blind, taub etc machen: → dumb A 3

28. ein Tempo, eine Gangart anschlagen

29. eine Haltung oder Pose an-, einnehmen

30. WIRTSCH einen Handel abschließen: → bargain Bes Redew

31. strike work

a) WIRTSCH die Arbeit niederlegen,

b) Feierabend machen

C v/i

1. a) (zu)schlagen, (-)stoßen: → iron A 1

b) fig zuschlagen:

the killer has struck again

2. schlagen, treffen:

strike at

a) jemanden oder nach jemandem schlagen,

b) fig zielen auf (akk): → root¹ A 1

3. fig zuschlagen, angreifen

4. zubeißen (Schlange)

5. (on)

a) schlagen, stoßen (an akk, gegen)

b) SCHIFF auflaufen (auf akk), (auf Grund) stoßen

6. fallen (Licht), auftreffen (Lichtstrahl, Schall etc) (on auf akk)

7. strike on auf Öl, Erz etc stoßen ( → B 13)

8. schlagen (Uhr): → hour 3

9. sich entzünden (Streichholz)

10. ELEK sich (plötzlich) entladen (Funke): → strike across

11. einschlagen, treffen (Blitz, Geschoss)

12. BOT Wurzeln schlagen

13. den Weg einschlagen, sich (plötzlich) wenden ( beide:

to the right, etc nach rechts etc):

strike for home umg heimgehen;

strike into

a) einbiegen in (akk), einen Weg einschlagen,

b) fig plötzlich verfallen in (akk), etwas beginnen;

strike into a gallop in Galopp verfallen;

strike into a subject sich einem Thema zuwenden

14. WIRTSCH streiken ( for um; against gegen)

15. SCHIFF die Flagge streichen (to vor dat) (auch fig)

16. GEOL streichen (Schicht)

17. Angeln:

a) anbeißen (Fisch)

b) den Fisch mit einem Ruck (der Angel) auf den Haken spießen

18. (durch)dringen (to zu; into in akk; through durch) (Kälte etc)

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1. noun
1) (Industry) Streik, der; Ausstand, der

be on/go [out] or come out on strike — in den Streik getreten sein/in den Streik treten

2) (Finance, Mining, Oil Industry) Treffer, der (fig. ugs.)

make a strike — sein Glück machen; (Mining) fündig werden

3) (sudden success)

[lucky] strike — Glückstreffer, der

4) (act of hitting) Schlag, der

5) (Mil.) Angriff, der (at auf + Akk.)
2. transitive verb,
struck, struck or (arch.) stricken

1) (hit) schlagen; [Schlag, Geschoss:] treffen [Ziel]; [Blitz:] [ein]schlagen in (+ Akk.), treffen; (afflict) treffen; [Epidemie, Seuche, Katastrophe usw.:] heimsuchen

strike one's head on or against the wall — mit dem Kopf gegen die Wand schlagen

the car struck a pedestrian — das Auto erfasste einen Fußgänger

the ship struck the rocks — das Schiff lief auf die Felsen

2) (delete) streichen (from, off aus)

3) (deliver)

strike two punches — zweimal zuschlagen

strike somebody a blow — jemandem einen Schlag versetzen

who struck [the] first blow? — wer hat zuerst geschlagen?

strike a blow against somebody/against or to something — (fig.) jemandem/einer Sache einen Schlag versetzen

strike a blow for something — (fig.) eine Lanze für etwas brechen

4) (produce by hitting flint) schlagen [Funken]; (ignite) anzünden [Streichholz]

5) (chime) schlagen

6) (Mus.) anschlagen [Töne auf dem Klavier]; anzupfen, anreißen [Töne auf der Gitarre]; (fig.) anschlagen [Ton]

7) (impress) beeindrucken

strike somebody as [being] silly — jemandem dumm zu sein scheinen od. dumm erscheinen

it strikes somebody that... — es scheint jemandem, dass...

how does it strike you? — was hältst du davon?

8) (occur to) einfallen (+ Dat.)

9) (cause to become)

a heart attack struck him dead — er erlag einem Herzanfall

be struck blind/dumb — erblinden/verstummen

10) (attack) überfallen; (Mil.) angreifen

11) (encounter) begegnen (+ Dat.)

12) (Mining) stoßen auf (+ Akk.)

strike gold — auf Gold stoßen; (fig.) einen Glückstreffer landen (ugs.) (in mit)

13) (reach) stoßen auf (+ Akk.) [Hauptstraße, Weg, Fluss]

14) (adopt) einnehmen [[Geistes]haltung]

15) (take down) einholen [Segel, Flagge]; abbrechen [Zelt, Lager]
3. intransitive verb,
struck, struck or (arch.) stricken

1) (deliver a blow) zuschlagen; [Pfeil:] treffen; [Blitz:] einschlagen; [Unheil, Katastrophe, Krise, Leid:] hereinbrechen (geh.); (collide) zusammenstoßen; (hit) schlagen ( against gegen, [up]on auf + Akk.)

2) (ignite) zünden

3) (chime) schlagen

4) (Industry) streiken

5) (attack; also Mil.) zuschlagen (fig.)

6) (make a find) (Mining) fündig werden

strike lucky — Glück haben

7) (direct course)

strike south — etc. sich nach Süden usw. wenden

Phrasal Verbs:

- strike at

- strike back

- strike down

- strike off

- strike out

- strike through

- strike up

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n.

Stoß ¨-e m.

Streik -s m.

Treffer - m. v.

(§ p.,p.p.: struck)

or p.p.: stricken•) = anzünden v.

auffallen v.

drücken v.

schlagen v.

(§ p.,pp.: schlug, geschlagen)

stoßen v.

(§ p.,pp.: stieß, gestossen)

streiken v.

treffen v.

(§ p.,pp.: traf, getroffen)

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18 Historical Portugal

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

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

   Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140

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

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

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

   Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640

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

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

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

   Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910

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

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

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

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

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

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

   First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26

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

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

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

   The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Contemporary Portugal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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19 sustain

sustain [sə'steɪn]

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(a) (maintain, keep up → conversation) entretenir; (→ effort, attack, pressure) soutenir, maintenir; (→ someone's interest) maintenir;

∎ if the present level of economic growth is sustained si le niveau actuel de croissance économique est maintenu

(b) (support physically) soutenir, supporter;

∎ steel girders sustain the weight of the bridge le pont est soutenu par des poutres en acier

(c) (support morally) soutenir;

∎ it was only their belief in God that sustained them seule leur croyance en Dieu les a soutenus

(d) Music (note) tenir, soutenir

(e) (nourish) nourrir;

∎ they had only dried fruit and water to sustain them ils n'avaient que des fruits secs et de l'eau pour subsister;

∎ one meal a day is not enough to sustain you l'homme a besoin pour vivre de plus d'un repas par jour;

∎ a planet capable of sustaining life une planète capable de maintenir la vie

(f) (suffer → damage) subir; (→ defeat, loss) subir, essuyer; (→ injury) recevoir;

∎ to sustain an injury recevoir une blessure, être blessé;

∎ the man sustained a serious blow to the head l'homme a été grièvement atteint à la tête

(g) (withstand) supporter;

∎ her fragile condition will not sustain another shock étant donné la fragilité de son état, elle ne supportera pas un nouveau choc

(h) Law (accept as valid) admettre;

∎ the court refused to sustain the motion le tribunal refusa d'admettre ou d'accorder la requête;

∎ objection sustained objection admise;

∎ the court sustained her claim le tribunal lui accorda gain de cause

(i) (corroborate → assertion, theory, charge) corroborer

(j) Theatre (role) tenir

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An order of small Arachnida with rounded bodies. Mites are very abundant in the soil, feeding on plant material and invertebrate animals. Some parasitic mites (e.g. red spider) damage crops and can be serious pests. Others cause diseases in animals. Ticks are blood-suckers, some being vectors of diseases such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans and fowls, and louping ill in cattle and sheep. (Source: ALL)
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