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considerable of his life

  • 1 considerable

    adjective
    beträchtlich; erheblich [Schwierigkeiten, Ärger]; groß [Freude, Charakterstärke]; eingehend [Überlegung]; (Amer.): (large) ansehnlich [Gebäude, Edelstein]
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    adjective (great: considerable wealth; a considerable number of people.) beträchtlich
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    con·sid·er·able
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    adj erheblich, beträchtlich
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    [k\@n'sIdərəbl]
    adj
    beträchtlich, erheblich; sum of money, achievement also ansehnlich; loss also, interest, income groß; (used admiringly) number, size, achievement, effort etc beachtlich

    to a considerable extent or degree —

    to face considerable difficultiesmit beträchtlichen or erheblichen or gewaltigen Schwierigkeiten konfrontiert sein

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    A adj (adv considerably)
    1. beachtlich, beträchtlich, erheblich, ansehnlich
    2. bedeutend, wichtig (auch Person)
    B s US umg eine ganze Menge, viel: he spent considerable of his life abroad einen Großteil seines Lebens
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    adjective
    beträchtlich; erheblich [Schwierigkeiten, Ärger]; groß [Freude, Charakterstärke]; eingehend [Überlegung]; (Amer.): (large) ansehnlich [Gebäude, Edelstein]
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    adj.
    ansehnlich adj.
    beachtlich adj.
    beträchtlich adj.
    erheblich adj.
    stattlich adj.

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  • 2 Historical Portugal

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 During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.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

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    I [set] n
    1. 1) комплект, набор; коллекция

    in sets - в комплектах, в наборах

    a set of surgical instruments [of weights] - набор хирургических инструментов [гирь]

    a set of exchange - ком. комплект экземпляров переводного векселя

    a set of teeth - а) зубы, ряд зубов; б) вставные зубы, вставная челюсть

    a set of sails - мор. комплект парусов

    well-chosen [valuable] set - хорошо подобранная [ценная] коллекция

    2) сервиз
    3) гарнитур
    4) прибор

    toilet /dressing-table/ set - туалетный прибор

    writing /desk/ set - письменный прибор

    5) (полный) комплект издания

    a set of Pravda - комплект «Правды»

    2. 1) серия, ряд

    a set of assumptions - ряд допущений /предположений/

    2) совокупность
    3. 1) группа ( лиц); состав

    a poor set of players - плохая команда, плохие игроки

    four sets of dancers /partners/ - четыре пары танцоров

    a new set of customers - новый круг покупателей /клиентов/

    2) набор, состав (учащихся, студентов и т. п.)
    3) компания, круг

    the political [the literary] set - политические [литературные] круги

    the smart /the fashionable/ set - а) законодатели мод; б) фешенебельное общество

    gambling set - картёжники, завсегдатаи игорных домов

    he belonged to the best set in the college - в колледже он принадлежал к числу избранных

    he is not in their set, he does not belong to their set - он не принадлежит к их кругу [см. тж. 4)]

    4) банда, шайка

    he is not in their set, he does not belong to their set - он не из их шайки [см. тж. 3)]

    4. 1) театр., кино декорация

    set designer - художник по декорациям; художник кинофильма

    set dresser - кино декоратор

    2) кино съёмочная площадка
    5. спец. прибор, аппарат; установка, агрегат
    6. приёмник
    7. фигура ( в танце); последовательность фигур

    we danced three or four sets of quadrilles - мы протанцевали три или четыре кадрили

    8. завивка и укладка волос
    9. сюита духовной музыки (месса и т. п.)
    10. редк. меблированная квартира
    11. дор. брусчатка, каменная шашка
    12. спорт.
    1) партия ( часть матча)
    2) сет ( теннис)
    13. спорт. расстановка игроков
    14. геол. свита ( пород)
    15. горн. оклад крепи
    16. мат. множество
    17. мат. семейство ( кривых)
    18. полигр. гарнитура шрифта
    19. полигр. набор
    20. карт. недобор взяток ( бридж)
    II
    1. [set] n
    1. тк. sing общие очертания, линия

    the set of his back [of his shoulders] - линия спины [плеч]

    the set of the hills - линия /очертание/ гор

    2. строение; конфигурация; (тело)сложение

    the set of smb.'s head - посадка головы

    3. тк. sing
    1) направление

    the set of a tide [of a current, of wind] - направление прилива [течения реки, ветра]

    2) направленность; тенденция

    the set of public opinion /of public feeling/ - тенденция общественного мнения

    a set towards mathematics - склонность к математике; математический склад ума

    3) психол. направленность, установка ( на принятие наркотика)
    4) наклон, отклонение

    a set to the right - отклонение /наклон/ вправо

    4. тк. sing поэт. заход, закат ( солнца)
    5. музыкальный вечер (особ. джазовой музыки)
    6. сад. молодой побег ( растения); завязь ( плода)
    7. с.-х.
    1) = set onion
    2) посадочный материал (клубни картофеля и т. п.)
    8. охот. стойка
    9. тех. разводка для пил, развод зубьев пилы, ширина развода
    10. стр. осадка ( сооружений)
    11. тех. остаточная деформация
    12. тех. обжимка, державка
    13. полигр. толщина ( литеры)

    to be at a dead set - завязнуть, застрять

    to make a dead set at smb. - а) обрушиваться /нападать/ на кого-л.; резко критиковать кого-л.; ≅ вцепиться в кого-л. зубами и когтями; б) делать всё возможное, чтобы завоевать кого-л. /завоевать чью-л. любовь, дружбу, доверие и т. п./; в) вешаться кому-л. на шею, навязывать свою любовь, пытаться влюбить в себя (обыкн. о женщине); г) охот. делать стойку ( о собаке)

    2. [set] a
    1. неподвижный; застывший

    with a set face /countenance/ - с каменным лицом

    2. 1) определённый, твёрдо установленный, постоянный

    set wage - твёрдый оклад, постоянная заработная плата

    the hall holds a set number of people - зал вмещает определённое количество людей

    2) неизменный, постоянный; незыблемый

    set programme - постоянная /неизменная/ программа

    to dine at a set hour - обедать в определённые часы /в одно и то же время/ [ср. тж. 4]

    to be set in one's ways [ideas] - никогда не изменять своим привычкам [взглядам]

    3) шаблонный; стереотипный

    in set terms /phrases/ - в шаблонных /избитых/ выражениях, казённым /официальным/ языком

    3. установленный (законом, традицией)
    4. заранее установленный, оговорённый

    at set hours - в установленные часы [ср. тж. 2, 2)]

    set subject - обязательная тема (для сочинения и т. п.)

    set visit - визит ( официального лица) по предварительной договорённости

    5. упрямый, настойчивый; упорный

    set rains - непрекращающиеся /упорные/ дожди

    a man of set opinions - человек, упорно придерживающийся /не меняющий/ своих взглядов

    his jaw looked too square and set - ≅ его лицо выражало упрямство

    6. умышленный, преднамеренный

    on set purpose - уст. нарочно

    7. разг. готовый, горящий желанием (сделать что-л.)

    all set - шутл. ≅ в полной боевой готовности

    all set to do smth. - горящий желанием сделать что-л.

    we were set for an early morning start - мы подготовились к тому, чтобы выступить рано утром

    is everyone set? - все готовы?

    8. встроенный, прикреплённый

    set affair - вечеринка с очень хорошим угощением

    set dinner - а) званый обед; б) обед за общим столом ( в ресторане); в) общий обед, не включающий порционные блюда ( в ресторане)

    to be hard set - находиться в затруднительном положении /в стеснённых обстоятельствах/

    to be sharp set - быть голодным, проголодаться

    to get set - толстеть, терять стройность

    3. [set] v (set)
    I
    1. 1) ставить, помещать, класть; положить, поставить

    to set a cup [a glass, a dish] (down) on the table - (по)ставить чашку [стакан, блюдо] на стол

    to set smth. in its place again - поставить /положить/ что-л. на своё место

    to set a chair at /by/ the table - поставить стул около стола /к столу/

    to set chairs for visitors - (по)ставить /расставить/ стулья для гостей

    to set one's hand on smb.'s shoulder - класть /положить/ руку на чьё-л. плечо

    to set a trap /snare/ - поставить силки

    to set an ambush - воен. устроить засаду

    to set a crown on smb.'s head - возложить корону на чью-л. голову

    to set smb. on a pedestal - возвести кого-л. на пьедестал

    he took off his hat and set it on the floor - он снял шляпу и положил её на пол

    2) ставить на какое-л. место; придавать ( то или иное) значение

    to set Vergil before Homer - ставить /считать/ Вергилия выше Гомера

    to set smb. among the great writers - считать кого-л. одним из великих писателей

    to set smb., smth. at naught - а) ни во что не ставить, презирать кого-л., что-л.; to set smb.'s good advice at naught - пренебречь чьим-л. разумным советом; б) издеваться над кем-л., чем-л.

    to set much /a great deal/ on smth. - придавать чему-л. большое значение

    he sets a great deal by daily exercise - он придаёт большое значение ежедневным упражнениям

    to set little on smth. - придавать чему-л. мало значения

    I don't set myself up to be better than you - я не считаю себя лучше /выше/ вас

    2. обыкн. pass помещаться, располагаться

    a house set in a beautiful garden - дом, стоящий в прекрасном саду

    a little town set north of London - маленький городок, расположенный к северу от Лондона

    blue eyes set deep in a white face - голубые, глубоко посаженные глаза на бледном лице

    the pudding sets heavily on the stomach - пудинг тяжело ложится на желудок

    3. сажать, усаживать

    to set smb. by the fire - усадить кого-л. у камина /у костра/

    to set smb. on horseback - посадить кого-л. на лошадь

    to set a king on a throne - посадить /возвести/ короля на трон

    4. насаживать, надевать
    5. (in) вставлять
    6. 1) направлять; поворачивать

    to set smb. on the right [wrong] track - направить кого-л. по правильному [ложному] следу

    to set the police after a criminal - направить полицию по следам преступника

    2) иметь ( то или иное) направление, ( ту или иную) тенденцию

    public opinion is setting with [against] him - общественное мнение за [против] него, общественное мнение складывается в [не в] его пользу

    7. подготавливать; снаряжать; приводить в состояние готовности

    to set the scene - описать (в общих чертах) обстановку /положение/

    to set the stage - а) расставлять декорации; б) (под)готовить почву (для чего-л.)

    to set the stage for the application of a new method of therapy - подготовить почву для нового метода лечения

    to be set for smth. - быть готовым к чему-л.

    it was all set now - теперь всё было готово /подготовлено/

    it /the stage/ was all set for a first-class row - всё предвещало первостатейный скандал

    I was all set for the talk - я готовился к этому разговору; я знал, что меня ждёт /мне предстоит/ этот разговор

    he was all set for a brilliant career - перед ним открывалась блестящая карьера, его ждала блестящая карьера

    set! - спорт. внимание!, приготовиться!

    8. устанавливать, определять, назначать

    to set a limit /boundary/ - устанавливать границы /пределы/

    to set a limit to smth. - установить предел чему-л., пресечь что-л.

    to set bounds to smth. - ограничивать что-л.

    to set the pace - а) устанавливать скорость шага /бега/; б) служить образцом, примером; [см. тж. 10]

    to set the style /tone/ - задавать тон

    to set the course - спорт. измерить дистанцию

    to set a time [a date] - назначить время [дату]

    to set a price on smb.'s head /on smb.'s life/ - оценивать чью-л. голову /жизнь/, назначать сумму вознаграждения за поимку кого-л.

    he sets no limit to his ambitions - его честолюбие безгранично /не знает пределов/

    the time and date of the meeting have not yet been set - время и день собрания ещё не назначены

    then it's all set for Thursday at my place - значит решено - в четверг у меня

    9. 1) диал., часто ирон. идти, быть к лицу

    do you think this bonnet sets me? - как вы думаете, идёт мне эта шляпка?

    2) редк. сидеть ( о платье)

    to set well /badly/ - хорошо [плохо] сидеть (на ком-л.)

    10. тех. устанавливать, регулировать

    to set the camera lens to infinity - фото устанавливать объектив на бесконечность

    to set the spark-gap - авт. отрегулировать искровой промежуток

    to set the pace - регулировать скорость [см. тж. 8]

    11. мор. пеленговать
    12. стр. производить кладку
    II А
    1. садиться, заходить ( о небесных светилах)

    his star has /is/ set - образн. его звезда закатилась

    2. ставить (стрелку, часы и т. п.)

    to set a clock /a watch/, to set the hands of a clock - (по)ставить часы (правильно)

    to set one's watch by the town clock [by the time-signal] - ставить свои часы по городским [по сигналу поверки времени]

    to set an alarm-clock - поставить /завести/ будильник

    to set a thermostat at seventy - поставить стрелку термостата на семьдесят

    to set the speedometer to zero - авт. установить спидометр на нуль

    I want you to set your watch by mine - я хочу, чтобы вы поставили свои часы по моим

    3. 1) ставить (задачи, цели и т. п.)
    2) задавать (уроки, вопросы и т. п.)

    the teacher set his boys a difficult problem - учитель задал ученикам трудную задачу

    what questions were set in the examination? - какие вопросы задавали на экзамене?

    4. подавать ( пример)

    to set good [bad] examples - подавать хорошие [дурные] примеры

    5. 1) вводить ( моду)
    2) вводить, внедрять (модель и т. п.)

    to set a new model - внедрять новую модель /-ый образец/

    6. 1) стискивать, сжимать (зубы, губы)

    he set his teeth doggedly [hard] - он упрямо [крепко] стиснул зубы; б) принять твёрдое решение; упрямо стоять на своём, заупрямиться

    with jaws set in an effort to control himself - стиснув зубы, он пытался овладеть собой

    2) сжиматься (о губах, зубах)
    7. застывать, становиться неподвижным (о лице, глазах и т. п.)
    8. 1) твердеть ( о гипсе)
    2) стр. схватываться (о цементе, бетоне)

    the mortar joining these bricks hasn't set yet - известковый раствор, скрепляющий эти кирпичи, ещё не затвердел

    3) застывать (о желе, креме)
    4) заставлять твердеть или застывать (известь и т. п.)
    9. 1) загустеть; свёртываться (о крови, белке); створаживаться ( о молоке)
    2) сгущать (кровь и т. п.); створаживать ( молоко)
    10. 1) оформиться, сформироваться (о фигуре, характере)

    his mind and character are completely set - у него зрелый ум и вполне сложившийся характер

    2) формировать (характер и т. п.); развивать ( мускулатуру)

    too much exercise sets a boy's muscles prematurely - от чрезмерного увлечения гимнастикой мускулы подростка развиваются слишком быстро ( опережая рост)

    11. ставить ( рекорд)

    he set a record for the half mile - он установил рекорд (в беге) на полмили

    12. накрывать ( на стол)

    he quickly set the table (for three) - он быстро накрыл стол (на три персоны)

    the hostess ordered to have a place set for the guest - хозяйка распорядилась поставить прибор для (нового) гостя

    13. 1) вправлять (кости, суставы)

    to set a broken leg [arm, a dislocated joint] - вправить ногу [руку, вывихнутый сустав]

    2) срастаться ( о кости)
    14. вставлять в оправу ( драгоценные камни)

    to set diamonds - вставлять в оправу /оправлять/ бриллианты

    15. приводить в порядок, поправлять (шляпу, платок, галстук, волосы)
    16. укладывать ( волосы); сделать укладку

    to set one's hair - делать причёску, укладывать волосы

    2) муз. аранжировать

    to set a piece of music for the violin - переложить музыкальную пьесу для скрипки

    to set a melody half a tone higher - транспонировать мелодию на полтона выше

    18. подавать ( сигнал)
    19. точить (нож, бритву и т. п.)
    20. выставлять (часовых и т. п.)

    to set the guard - воен. выставлять караул

    to set guards [sentries, watches] - расставить караульных [часовых, стражу]

    21. высаживать (на берег, остров и т. п.; тж. set ashore)

    to set smb., smth. ashore - а) высаживать кого-л. на берег; б) выгружать что-л. на берег

    22. возлагать ( надежды)

    to set one's hopes on smb. - возлагать надежды на кого-л.

    23. накладывать (запрет, наказание и т. п.)

    to set a veto on smth. - наложить запрет на что-л.

    to set a punishment [a fine] - накладывать взыскание [штраф]

    24. ставить, прикладывать ( печать)

    to set a seal - а) поставить печать; б) наложить отпечаток

    25. сажать (растения, семена)

    to set seed [plants, fruit-trees] - сажать семена [растения, фруктовые деревья]

    the young plants should be set (out) at intervals of six inches - молодые растения следует высаживать на расстоянии шести дюймов друг от друга

    26. 1) приниматься ( о деревьях)
    2) бот. завязываться, образовывать завязи (о плодах, цветах)
    27. разрабатывать, составлять ( экзаменационные материалы)

    they had to set fresh papers - им пришлось составлять новую письменную работу

    to set an examination paper - составлять письменную экзаменационную работу

    to set questions in an examination - составлять вопросы для экзаменационной работы

    to set a book - включить какую-л. книгу в учебную программу

    28. 1) определиться (о направлении ветра, течения и т. п.)
    2) заставлять двигаться (в каком-л. направлении)
    29. делать стойку ( об охотничьих собаках)
    30. 1) сажать ( наседку на яйца)
    2) подкладывать ( яйца под наседку)
    31. сажать в печь ( хлебные изделия)
    32. редк. устанавливаться ( о погоде)
    33. спец. растягивать ( кожу)
    34. закрепить ( краску)
    35. полигр. набирать ( шрифт; тж. set up)

    to set close [wide] - набирать плотно [свободно]

    the editorial was set in boldface type - передовая была набрана жирным шрифтом

    36. налаживать ( станок)
    37. тех. осаживать ( заклёпку)
    38. школ. распределять учеников по параллельным классам или группам в зависимости от способностей
    II Б
    1. 1) to set about ( doing) smth. приниматься за что-л., начинать делать что-л., приступать к чему-л.

    to set about one's work - взяться /приняться/ за работу

    to set about one's packing [getting dinner ready] - начинать упаковывать вещи [готовить обед]

    to set about stamp-collecting [learning the German language] - взяться за собирание марок [изучение немецкого языка]

    I don't know how to set about it - я не знаю, как взяться за это дело /как подступиться к этому/

    2) to set smb. about ( doing) smth. засадить кого-л. за какую-л. работу, заставить кого-л. приняться за что-л., начать что-л.

    to set smb. about a task - заставить кого-л. приступить к выполнению задания

    2. 1) to set to do /doing/ smth. приниматься за что-л., начинать делать что-л.

    to set to work - приступить к работе, приниматься за работу

    they set to fighting [arguing] - они стали драться [спорить]

    2) to set smb. (on) to (do) smth. заставить кого-л. приняться за что-л.; поставить кого-л. на какую-л. работу

    to set smb. to work [to dictation] - усадить кого-л. за работу [за диктант]

    to set smb. to saw wood [to dig a field] - заставить кого-л. пилить дрова [вскапывать поле]

    who(m) did you set to do this? - кому вы поручили сделать это?

    she would do what she was set to do with great thoroughness - она тщательно выполняла то, что ей поручали

    3. to set oneself to smth., to set oneself to do /doing/ smth. энергично взяться за что-л.; твёрдо решить сделать что-л.

    she set herself to put him at his ease - она делала всё возможное, чтобы он чувствовал себя свободно

    it is no pleasant task but let us set ourselves to it - это не очень приятное задание, но давайте приступим к его выполнению

    4. 1) to be set to do smth. быть готовым что-л. сделать

    he was (all) set to go when I came - он уже был (совсем) готов (идти), когда я пришёл

    2) to be set on doing smth. твёрдо решить сделать что-л.
    5. to be set (up) on smth. очень хотеть чего-л.; поставить себе целью добиться чего-л.

    to be dead set on smth. - упорно /страстно/ желать чего-л.

    we didn't much like the idea of his going back to New York but he was set on it - мы не очень одобряли его план вернуться в Нью-Йорк, но он твёрдо решил сделать это

    6. to be set against ( doing) smth., to set oneself against ( doing) smth. быть категорически против чего-л., противиться чему-л.

    he set himself against my proposal - он заупрямился и отказался принять моё предложение

    the mother was violently set against the match - мать была категорически против этого брака

    he (himself) was set against going there - он (сам) упорно отказывался идти туда

    7. 1) to set about /at, (up)on/ smb. нападать, напускаться на кого-л.

    to set upon smb. with blows - наброситься на кого-л. с кулаками

    to set upon smb. with arguments - атаковать кого-л. доводами

    they set upon me like a pack of dogs - они набросились на меня, как свора собак

    I'd set about you myself if I could - если бы я мог, я бы сам отколотил тебя

    2) to set smb. at /on, against/ smb. натравить, напустить кого-л. на кого-л.

    to set the dog on /at/ smb. - натравить на кого-л. собаку

    to set detectives on smb. /on smb.'s tracks/ - установить за кем-л. слежку

    he is trying to set you against me - он старается восстановить вас против меня

    3) to set smb. on to do smth. подбить (на что-л.); подтолкнуть (к чему-л.)

    to set smb. on to commit a crime - толкнуть кого-л. на преступление

    8. to set smth. against smth. книжн.
    1) противопоставлять что-л. чему-л., сравнивать что-л. с чем-л.

    when theory is set against practice - когда теорию противопоставляют практике

    when we set one language against another - когда мы сравниваем один язык с другим

    against the cost of a new car, you can set the considerable saving on repairs and servicing - покупка нового автомобиля стоит денег, но, с другой стороны, это даёт экономию на ремонте и обслуживании

    2) опираться чем-л. обо что-л., упираться

    he set a hand against the door and shoved it - он упёрся рукой в дверь и толкнул её

    9. to set smb. (up) over smb. возвысить кого-л., дать кому-л. власть над кем-л.

    to set smb. (up) over a people - посадить кого-л. на трон, сделать кого-л. королём, дать кому-л. власть над народом

    10. to set oneself down as smb.
    1) выдавать себя за кого-л.
    2) зарегистрироваться, записаться ( в гостинице)
    11. to set smb. down for smb. принимать кого-л. за кого-л.

    to set smb. down for an actor - принять кого-л. за актёра

    he set her down for forty - он считал, что ей лет сорок

    12. to set up for smth. выдавать себя за кого-л.

    to set up for a professional [for a scholar] - выдавать себя за профессионала [за учёного]

    13. to set smth. in motion привести что-л. в движение

    to set a chain reaction in motion - физ. привести в действие цепную реакцию

    14. to set smth. with smth.
    1) осыпать, усеивать что-л. чем-л.; украшать что-л. чем-л.

    to set the top of wall with broken glass - утыкать верхнюю часть стены битым стеклом

    tables set with flowers - столы, украшенные цветами

    the sky set with stars - небо, усеянное звёздами

    a coast set with modern resorts - побережье со множеством современных курортов

    2) засевать что-л. чем-л.
    15. to be set to smth. иметь склонность к чему-л.

    a soul that is set to melancholy - душа, склонная к печали

    16. to set smth. to smth. подносить, прикладывать, приставлять что-л. к чему-л.; приближать что-л. к чему-л.

    to set a match [a lighter] to a cigarette - поднести спичку [зажигалку] к сигарете

    to set one's lips to a glass, to set a glass to one's lips - поднести стакан ко рту

    to set one's hand /one's name, one's signature, one's seal/ to a document - подписать документ

    to set pen to paper - взяться за перо, начать писать

    17. to set smth. apart /aside/ for smb., smth. отводить, предназначать, откладывать что-л. для кого-л., чего-л.

    to set apart funds for some purpose - выделять фонды для какой-л. цели

    to set some food apart for further use - откладывать часть продуктов на будущее

    the rooms set apart for the children were large and beautiful - комнаты, отведённые для детей, были просторны и красивы

    18. to set smth. before smb. излагать что-л. кому-л.

    to set a plan [facts] before smb. - излагать /представлять на рассмотрение/ кому-л. план [факты]

    he set his plan before the council - он изложил /представил/ совету свой план

    III А
    1. в сочетании с последующим прилагательным, наречием или предложным оборотом означает приведение в какое-л. состояние:

    to set a prisoner free /at liberty/ - освободить арестованного

    to set afloat - а) мор. спускать на воду; б) приводить в движение; дать (чему-л.) ход

    anger set afloat all his inner grievances - гнев всколыхнул затаённые обиды

    to set smb. wrong - вводить кого-л. в заблуждение

    set your mind at ease! - не беспокойтесь!

    to set smb.'s mind at rest - успокоить кого-л.

    to set a question /affair/ at rest - разрешить какой-л. вопрос, покончить с каким-л. вопросом

    to set smb.'s fears at rest - рассеять чьи-л. опасения

    to set smb.'s curiosity agog - возбудить /вызвать/ чьё-л. любопытство

    to set smb. on the alert - заставить кого-л. насторожиться

    to set at ready - воен. приводить в готовность

    to set one's affairs [papers, room] in order - приводить свои дела [бумаги, комнату] в порядок

    to set going - а) запускать (машину и т. п.); to set machinery going - приводить в действие механизм; б) пускать в ход, в действие

    to set on foot = to set going б)

    2) побуждение к какому-л. действию:

    to set smb. laughing [in a roar] - рассмешить, заставить кого-л. смеяться [покатиться со смеху]

    his jokes set the whole room [the table] laughing - все, кто был в комнате [кто сидел за столом], до упаду смеялись над его шутками

    to set smb. (off) thinking, to set smb. to thinking - заставить кого-л. призадуматься

    to set smb. wondering - вызывать у кого-л. удивление

    to set smb. flying - обратить кого-л. в бегство

    to set tongues wagging - вызывать толки, давать пищу для сплетен

    this incident set everybody's tongue wagging - этот инцидент наделал много шуму

    to set the company talking - а) развязать языки; б) дать пищу злым языкам

    I set him talking about the new discovery - я навёл его на разговор о новом открытии

    to set foot somewhere - ходить куда-л., появляться где-л.

    not to set foot in smb.'s house - не переступать порога чьего-л. дома

    to set foot on shore - ступить на землю /на берег/

    to set one's feet on the path - пуститься в путь /дорогу/

    to set one's heart on smth. - стремиться к чему-л., страстно желать чего-л.

    to set one's heart on doing smth. - стремиться сделать что-л.

    he set his heart on going to the South - он очень хотел /твёрдо решил/ поехать на юг

    he has set his heart on seeing Moscow - его заветной мечтой было повидать Москву

    why should it be that man she has set her heart upon? - почему она полюбила именно этого человека?

    to set one's wits to smb.'s (wits) - поспорить /помериться силами/ с кем-л.

    to set one's wits to smth. - пытаться (раз)решить что-л.; ≅ шевелить мозгами

    to set one's wits to work - ломать себе голову над чем-л.

    to set people by the ears /at variance, at loggerheads/ - ссорить, натравливать людей друг на друга

    to set smth. on fire, to set fire /a light/ to smth. - сжечь /поджечь, зажечь/ что-л.

    to have smb. set - схватить кого-л. за горло, прижать кого-л. к стенке

    to set the law [smb.] at defiance - бросать вызов закону [кому-л.]

    НБАРС > set

  • 4 run

    1. [rʌn] n
    I
    1. 1) бег, пробег

    at a run - бегом [см. тж. ]

    to cross exposed areas at a run - воен. преодолевать открытые участки перебежками

    on the run - а) на ходу, в движении; to be on the run all day - быть весь день в бегах; б) второпях; [см. тж. 2) и 3)]

    to keep smb. on the run - а) не давать кому-л. остановиться; б) не давать кому-л. покоя

    to break into a run - побежать, пуститься бегом

    to make a run for it - а) броситься куда-л. со всех ног; б) сделать перебежку куда-л. (под пулями и т. п.)

    he took a short run and cleared the fence - он разбежался и перепрыгнул через забор

    there was no run left in me - я больше не мог /у меня больше не было сил/ бежать

    2) бегство; беспорядочное отступление

    to be on the run - поспешно отступать, бежать [см. тж. 1) и 3)]

    to keep the enemy on the run - воен. не давать противнику закрепляться ( в ходе преследования)

    3) побег; нахождение в бегах

    the criminal was on the run - преступник был в бегах [см. тж. 1) и 2)]

    he is on the run from the police - он скрывается /бегает/ от полиции

    4) короткая прогулка (пешком, на лошади и т. п.); пробежка

    to go for a run - а) пробежаться; б) проехаться (в автомобиле, на лошади и т. п.)

    to go for a short run before breakfast - а) немного пробежаться /сделать небольшую пробежку/ перед завтраком; б) совершить небольшую (автомобильную, верховую и т. п.) прогулку перед завтраком

    to give smb. a run - дать пробежаться

    I was giving my dog a run in the park - я пустил свою собаку побегать в парке

    2. короткая поездка

    good run! - счастливого пути!

    3. рейс, маршрут

    ship's run - маршрут /рейс/ корабля

    the boat was taken off its usual run - судно было снято со своего обычного рейса

    4. 1) переход

    trial run - испытательный пробег [см. тж. II 1]

    it is a two hour's run from London - это находится в двух часах езды от Лондона

    2) ж.-д. перегон, прогон
    3) ав. полёт; перелёт
    5. 1) пройденное расстояние; отрезок пути
    2) ж.-д. пробег (локомотива, вагона)
    3) ав. отрезок трассы
    6. ав. пробег ( при посадке); разбег ( при взлёте)
    8. период, отрезок ( времени), полоса

    a run of success [of good luck] - полоса успеха [везения /удачи/]

    a run of ill luck - несчастливая полоса, полоса невезения

    9. 1) направление

    the run of the mountains is S.W. - горы тянутся на юго-запад

    2) геол. направление рудной жилы
    10. партия ( изделий)
    11. тираж (книги и т. п.)
    1) единица счёта
    2) перебежка
    3) очко за перебежку
    13. 1) стадо ( животных)
    2) стая ( птиц)
    3) косяк ( рыбы)
    14. карт. ряд, серия

    a run of cards - карты одной масти, идущие подряд по достоинству; «стрит» ( в покере)

    15. средний тип, сорт или разряд

    the general run of smth. - что-л. обычное /среднее/

    an ordinary run of cloth - обыкновенный /стандартный/ сорт ткани

    the common /general, ordinary/ run of men - обыкновенные люди

    out of the run - необыкновенный, из ряда вон выходящий, незаурядный

    above the ordinary run of mankind - необыкновенный, незаурядный

    not like the common run of girls - не такая, как все девушки

    16. спрос

    a run on rubber [on a book] - большой спрос на резину [на книгу]

    the book had a considerable run - книга пользовалась спросом; книга хорошо распродавалась

    a run on the bank - ком. наплыв в банк требований о возвращении вкладов, массовое изъятие вкладов из банка

    17. разг. разрешение, право пользоваться (чем-л.)

    to have the run of smb.'s house - иметь право распоряжаться в чьём-л. доме

    to give smb. the (free) run of one's house [books] - разрешить кому-л. (свободно, беспрепятственно) распоряжаться /пользоваться/ своим домом [своими книгами]

    I had the run of a well-stocked library - в моём полном распоряжении оказалась богатая библиотека

    18. 1) загон (для овец и т. п.)
    2) вольер (для кур и т. п.)
    3) австрал. пастбище, особ. овечье
    4) австрал. скотоводческая ферма
    19. амер. ручей, поток
    20. 1) сильный прилив, приток (воды и т. п.)
    2) амер. ток ( жидкости); истечение
    21. уклон, трасса
    22. обвал, оползень
    23. труба, жёлоб, лоток ( для воды)
    24. длина (провода, труб)

    a 500 ft run of pipe - пятисотфутовый отрезок трубы; труба длиной в пятьсот футов

    25. размер ( стиха)
    26. 1) ход рыбы на нерест
    2) нерестящаяся рыба
    27. марш ( лестницы)
    28. мор. кормовое заострение ( корпуса)
    29. муз. рулада
    II
    1. ход, работа, действие (мотора, машины)

    test /trial/ run - испытание (машины, оборудования и т. п.) [см. тж. I 4, 1)]

    an experimental run to test the machinery - опытный /пробный/ запуск агрегата

    2. течение, ход (событий и т. п.)

    the run of the disease - ход /течение/ болезни

    the usual /ordinary/ run of things - обычное положение вещей

    the run of the market - ком. общая тенденция рыночных цен

    3. демонстрирование, показ, просмотр (фильма, спектакля)

    the first run of the film - премьера кинофильма, выпуск кинофильма на экран

    4. провоз ( контрабанды)
    5. ав. заход на цель (тж. bombing run)
    6. амер. спустившаяся петля ( на чулке)
    7. серия ( измерений)

    at a run - подряд, один за другим [см. тж. I 1, 1)]

    in the long run - в конце концов; в конечном счёте; в общем

    to go with a run - ≅ идти как по маслу

    prices [temperature] came down with a run - цены [температура] резко упали [упала]

    to give smb. /to let smb. have/ a good run for his money - а) предоставить кому-л. все удовольствия на свете (обыкн. ирон.); б) заставить кого-л. побегать, поволноваться и т. п.

    it's all in the day's run - это всё обычно, мы ко всему этому привыкли

    the run of one's teeth - бесплатное питание (обыкн. за проделанную работу)

    2. [rʌn] a
    1. жидкий; расплавленный; растопленный
    2. вылитый в расплавленном состоянии; литой
    3. отцеженный, отфильтрованный
    4. разг. контрабандный
    5. нерестящийся

    run fish - рыба, пришедшая в пресную воду на нерест

    6. спец. мягкий

    run coal - мягкий или сыпучий уголь; мягкий битуминозный уголь; рядовой уголь

    7. диал. свернувшийся, скисший ( о молоке)
    3. [rʌn] v (ran, run)
    I
    1. бежать, бегать

    to run fast [slowly, as hard as one can, like a deer] — бегать быстро [медленно, изо всех сил, как олень]

    to run a mile — пробежать милю [ср. тж. II А 6, 2)]

    to run about the streets [the fields] — бегать /носиться/ по улицам [по полям]

    to run at smb.'s heels — бежать рядом ( о собаке)

    to run past smb. — пробежать мимо кого-л.

    to run after smb. — а) бежать за кем-л.; run after him — беги за ним!, догони его!; б) ухаживать, «бегать» за кем-л.

    run after smth. — бежать за чем-л.

    to run for smb. — сбегать за кем-л.

    to run to smb. for help — побежать к кому-л. за помощью

    she always runs to me in case of trouble — когда у неё неприятности, она всегда прибегает /обращается/ ко мне

    I must run now — я должен уже бежать, мне пора (уходить)

    2. гнать, подгонять

    he ran me breathless /off my logs, off my feet/ — он меня совершенно загнал, он меня загнал до изнеможения

    3. убегать, спасаться бегством (тж. run away, run off)

    to run from smb., smth. — убегать от кого-л., чего-л.

    to run for itразг. удирать, спасаться, искать спасения в бегстве

    to run for one's life /for dear life/ — разг. бежать /удирать/ изо всех сил

    to run before the seaмор. уходить от волны

    to run out of rangeвоен. выходить за пределы досягаемости ( огня)

    4. 1) двигаться, катиться, скользить

    to run on rails — ходить /двигаться/ по рельсам

    to run off the railsа) сойти с рельсов (о поезде, трамвае); б) сбиться с пути (праведного); в) ≅ с катушек долой

    the ship ran before the wind — а) корабль плыл с попутным ветром; б) мор. корабль шёл на фордевинд

    life runs smoothly for her — её жизнь течёт гладко /спокойно/

    2) амер. разг. катать в автомобиле (кого-л.)
    5. 1) ходить, следовать, курсировать, плавать

    to run every three minutes [daily] — ходить каждые три минуты [ежедневно]

    to run behind schedule — опаздывать, отставать от расписания

    to run straight forмор. идти прямо в

    to run off the courseмор. сбиваться с курса

    to run in with the shoreмор. идти вдоль берега

    2) двигаться, идти ( с определённой скоростью)

    this train runs at 50 miles an hour — этот поезд делает /идёт со скоростью/ пятьдесят миль в час

    we run from forty to fifty miles a day — мы проходим /делаем/ от сорока до пятидесяти миль в день

    3) съездить (куда-л.) на короткий срок

    to run up to town (for a day or two)съездить в город (обыкн. в Лондон) (на день-два)

    to run up and visit smb. — съездить к кому-л. погостить

    to run down to the country — съездить в деревню /в провинцию/ (обыкн. из Лондона)

    4) ав. совершать пробег, разбег
    5) ав. заходить на цель
    6. 1) бежать, лететь, протекать ( о времени)

    time runs fast — время бежит /летит/

    2) идти, происходить (о событиях и т. п.)
    7. проноситься, мелькать

    thoughts run in /through/ one's head [mind] — мысли мелькают /проносятся/ в голове [в уме]

    8. (быстро) распространяться

    a rumour ran through the town — по городу разнёсся /распространился, пополз/ слух

    the news ran like wildfire /like lightning/ — новость распространилась с молниеносной быстротой

    a murmur ran through the ranks — ропот пробежал /прокатился/ по рядам

    a cheer ran down the line — возгласы одобрения /крики ура/ прокатились по строю

    I felt the blood running to my head — я почувствовал, как кровь ударила /бросилась/ мне в голову

    9. 1) тянуться, простираться, расстилаться

    to run north and south — тянуться /простираться/ на север и на юг

    this line runs from... to... — этот маршрут проходит от... до..., эта линия соединяет...

    2) ползти, виться ( о растениях)
    10. проводить, прокладывать
    11. 1) быть действительным на определённый срок
    2) распространяться на определённую территорию, действовать на определённой территории

    so far as British justice runs — там, где действует британское правосудие

    3) иметь хождение ( о деньгах)
    4) сопровождать в качестве непременного условия

    a right-of-way that runs with the land — земля, через которую проходит полоса отчуждения (шоссе и т. п.)

    12. 1) течь, литься, сочиться, струиться

    this river runs smoothly — эта река течёт плавно /спокойно/

    wait till the water runs hot — подожди, пока не пойдёт горячая вода

    blood ran in torrents — кровь текла /лилась/ ручьём

    till the blood ran — пока не потекла /не показалась/ кровь

    tears ran down her cheeks — слёзы текли /катились/ по её щекам /лицу/

    her eyes ran with tears — её глаза наполнились слезами; из её глаз потекли слёзы

    the kettle is beginning to run — чайник закипает /льётся через край/

    the scolding ran off him like water off a duck's back — его ругают, а с него как с гуся вода

    2) протекать, течь

    this tap [barrel, pen] runs — этот кран [бочонок, эта ручка] течёт

    his nose was running, he was running at the nose — у него текло из носу

    his eyes run — у него слезятся /гноятся/ глаза

    3) разливаться, расплываться
    4) таять, течь
    5) (into) сливаться, переходить (во что-л.)

    to run into one — сливаться, объединяться воедино

    to run into one another — переходить один в другой, сливаться в одно

    13. лить, наливать

    to run water into a bath-tub — наливать воду в ванну, напускать ванну

    14. 1) вращаться

    a wheel [a spindle] runs — колесо [шпиндель] вращается

    to run (up)on an axis — а) вращаться вокруг оси; б) вращаться на оси

    2) (on, upon) касаться (какой-л. темы и т. п.)

    his mind kept running on the problem — его мысли всё время вертелись вокруг этой проблемы; он всё время думал об этой проблеме

    our talk /the conversation/ ran on recent events — мы всё время говорили /разговор шёл/ о недавних событиях

    3) (over) касаться, слегка дотрагиваться до (чего-л.)
    15. гласить

    the story runs that (the bank will close) — говорят, что (банк закроется)

    the proverb runs like this — вот как звучит эта пословица, эта пословица гласит

    16. проходить; преодолевать ( препятствие)

    to run rapids — преодолевать пороги, проходить через пороги

    17. линять
    18. амер., австрал. дразнить (кого-л.), приставать (к кому-л.), дёргать (кого-л.)
    19. стр. покрывать штукатуркой
    II А
    1. руководить (учреждением и т. п.); вести (дело, предприятие и т. п.)

    to run a business — вести дело, управлять предприятием

    to run a factory — управлять фабрикой, быть управляющим на фабрике

    to run a theatre — руководить театром, быть директором театра

    to run the house (for smb.) — вести (чьё-л.) хозяйство

    to run the showразг. заправлять (чем-л.)

    who is running the show?разг. кто здесь главный?

    2. 1) управлять ( автомобилем); водить (автобус и т. п.)

    to run the engine — запускать двигатель /мотор/

    to run a car into a garage [off the road] — поставить автомобиль в гараж [съехать на обочину]

    2) водить корабль без конвоя ( во время войны)
    3. ставить ( опыт); производить ( испытания)

    to run (the) trialsмор. а) производить ходовые испытания; б) проходить ходовые испытания

    4. работать, действовать ( о машине)

    the motor runs smoothly [very nice] — мотор работает ровно /спокойно/ [хорошо]

    you mustn't let the machine run free /idle/ — ты не должен допускать, чтобы машина работала вхолостую /на холостом ходу/

    an engine that runs at a very high speed — мотор, работающий на больших скоростях

    5. 1) пускать ( линию); открывать (трассу, сообщение)

    an express train runs between these cities — между этими городами ходит поезд /есть железнодорожное сообщение/

    2) отправлять (автобусы и т. п.) на линию, по маршруту
    6. 1) проводить (соревнования, бега, скачки; тж. run off)

    we are running a competition to find new dancers — мы проводим конкурс, чтобы выявить новых танцоров

    2) участвовать (в соревнованиях, в беге, в скачках)

    to run (a race over) a mile — участвовать в беге на одну милю [ср. тж. I 1]

    3) занимать место (в соревнованиях и т. п.)

    to run second [third] — прийти вторым [третьим]

    my horse ran last — моя лошадь пришла последней /заняла последнее место/

    also ranтакже участвовала (в соревнованиях и т. п.о лошадях), но не заняла призового места [см. тж. ]

    7. 1) демонстрировать, показывать (пьесу, фильм)
    2) идти (о пьесе, фильме)

    the film runs for nearly 21/2 hours — фильм идёт почти два с половиной часа

    8. 1) перевозить, транспортировать ( груз)

    to run smb. into London — отвезти кого-л. в Лондон

    2) провозить контрабандой

    to run liquor [drugs, arms] — нелегально /контрабандой/ провозить спиртные напитки [наркотики, оружие]

    9. 1) преследовать, травить (зверя и т. п.)

    to run to earth — а) загнать в нору; б) скрыться в нору; в) выследить; найти, обнаружить; настигнуть; I was run to earth by Ben — Бен еле-еле разыскал меня; to run a quarry to earth — настичь, жертву; г) спрятаться, притаиться

    2) преследовать ( по суду)
    10. подвергаться (риску, опасности)

    to run risks /hazards, chances/ — рисковать

    we ran a chance of getting no dinner — мы могли /нам грозило, мы рисковали/ остаться без обеда

    you run the danger of being suspected of theft — есть опасность, что вас заподозрят в краже

    11. печатать, опубликовывать, помещать (в газете, журнале)

    to run a story on the third page — помещать /давать/ рассказ на третьей странице

    12. 1) баллотироваться ( на пост)

    to run for parliament [for office, for president] — баллотироваться в парламент [на (какую-л.) должность, на пост президента]

    2) выставлять ( кандидатуру)

    to run a candidate — выставлять /выдвигать/ кандидата

    13. выполнять ( поручение)

    to run errands — а) выполнять поручения; б) быть на посылках, на побегушках

    to run messages — быть посыльным, разносить телеграммы и т. п.

    14. болтать; распускать ( язык)
    15. спускаться ( о петле)
    16. смётывать (платье и т. п.); сшить на скорую руку (тж. to run up)
    17. идти ( на нерест)
    18. 1) плавить ( металл)
    2) лить, отливать ( металл)
    19. отставать ( о коре деревьев)
    20. ударить ( по шару), покатить ( шарв биллиарде)
    21. диал.
    1) скисать, свёртываться ( о молоке)
    2) квасить, приводить к свёртыванию ( молоко)
    II Б
    1. to run across smb., smth. случайно встретить кого-л., что-л., случайно встретиться с кем-л., чем-л.; натолкнуться на кого-л., что-л.

    I ran across him in the street — я случайно встретился /столкнулся/ с ним на улице

    2. to run against smth. наталкиваться, налетать, наскакивать на что-л., сталкиваться с чем-л.

    to run against a rock — наскочить на скалу, удариться о скалу

    3. to run against smb. идти, действовать, выступать против кого-л.
    4. to run smth. against smth. столкнуть что-л. с чем-л.; стукнуть что-л. обо что-л.

    to run one's head against a wall — а) стукнуться головой о стену; б) прошибать лбом стену

    5. to run smb., smth. against smb. выдвигать кого-л., что-л. против кого-л.
    6. to run at smb., smth. нападать, набрасываться, накидываться на кого-л., что-л.

    to run at smth. with a knife — броситься на кого-л. с ножом

    7. to run into smth.
    1) налетать, наскакивать, наталкиваться на что-л., сталкиваться с чем-л.

    to run into a wall [into a tree, into a boulder] — налететь на стену [на дерево, на камень]

    to run into a galeмор. попасть в шторм

    climbing higher, we ran into thick mist — поднявшись выше, мы попали в густой туман /оказались в густом тумане/

    2) попадать в какое-л. положение

    to run into danger [into mischief, into trouble] — попасть в опасное положение [в беду]

    we expect to run into a few snags before the machine is ready for production — вполне возможно, что прежде чем машина будет готова к запуску в производство, в ней обнаружатся некоторые недоделки

    3) достигать определённого количества, исчисляться определённой суммой

    the damages ran into thousands — компенсация за убытки исчислялась тысячами /достигала нескольких тысяч/ (фунтов)

    the ship runs into so many tons displacementмор. корабль имеет водоизмещение, достигающее стольких-то тонн

    8. to run into smb. случайно встретить кого-л., столкнуться с кем-л.

    to run slap into smb. — разг. налететь на кого-л., столкнуться лицом к лицу с кем-л.

    9. to run smth., smb. into smth.
    1) втыкать, вгонять, вонзать что-л. во что-л.
    2) вводить, ставить; кого-л. в что-л.

    to run smb. into expense — ввести кого-л. в расход

    to run smb. into difficulties — поставить кого-л. в трудное положение

    10. to run smth., smb. into smth., smb. столкнуть что-л., кого-л. с чем-л., кем-л.; заставить что-л., кого-л. налететь, наскочить, натолкнуться на что-л., на кого-л.
    11. to run on smth. = to run upon smth.
    12. to run out of smth. истощать запас чего-л.; иссякать (о запасах и т. п.)

    to run out of ammunitionвоен. израсходовать боеприпасы

    to run out of altitudeав. терять высоту полёта

    13. to run smth. over smth., smb. проводить чем-л. по чему-л., кому-л.

    to run one's hand [fingers] (down [up]) over his face [her] — провести рукой [пальцами] (вниз [вверх]) по его лицу [по ней]

    to run an eye over smth., smb. — окинуть взглядом, бегло осмотреть что-л., кого-л.

    he ran a rapid eye over the papers — он бросил быстрый взгляд на бумаги /газеты/, он быстро пробежал глазами бумаги /газеты/

    14. to run smth. through smth. продевать, пропускать что-л. через что-л.

    to run a thread through an eyelet — продеть нитку в ушко /в петлю/

    to run one's fingers [a comb] through one's [smb.'s] hair — провести пальцами [расчёской] по своим [по чьим-л.] волосам

    to run a pen [a pencil] through smth. — зачеркнуть /прочеркнуть, перечеркнуть/ что-л. ручкой [карандашом]

    15. to run smth. through smb., to run smb. through with smth. пронзать, прокалывать кого-л. чем-л.

    to run a sword through smb., to run smb. through with a sword — проколоть /проткнуть, пронзить/ кого-л. шпагой

    16. to run through smth.
    1) бегло прочитывать /просматривать/ что-л.

    to run through the text [papers] — бегло /быстро/ просмотреть текст /бумаги/

    2) разг. повторять (особ. вкратце)

    would you mind running through your proposals? — пожалуйста, перечислите вкратце ваши предложения

    3) репетировать
    4) тратить

    to run through money /fortune/ — промотать деньги /состояние/

    17. to run over smth.
    1) бегло просматривать, пробегать (что-л. глазами)

    to run over a text [one's part, the names] — просматривать текст [свою роль, список имён]

    2) повторять
    3) репетировать; прослушивать актёра, читающего роль

    just run over my lines with me before the rehearsal begins — пожалуйста, послушайте мою роль, пока ещё не началась репетиция (всей пьесы)

    18. to run to smth.
    1) тяготеть к чему-л., иметь склонность к чему-л.

    to run to fat — а) быть предрасположенным к полноте; б) разг. толстеть, жиреть; в) превращаться в жир

    to run to sentiment — а) быть склонным к сентиментальности; б) быть сентиментальным

    to run to any length /to anything/ — пойти на что угодно

    to run to forgeryпойти на подделку (подписи, документов)

    2) достигать (суммы, цифры)

    that will run to a pretty penny — это влетит /встанет/ в копеечку

    3) хватать, быть достаточным
    19. to run (up)on smth. неожиданно, внезапно встретиться с чем-л., натолкнуться, наскочить на что-л.

    to run (up)on rocks — а) потерпеть крушение; б) натолкнуться на непреодолимые препятствия

    to run on a mineмор. наскочить на мину

    20. to run smth. (up)on smth. натолкнуть на что-л., заставить наехать на что-л.
    21. to run smb. up /over, down/ to some place отвезти кого-л. куда-л.

    to run smb. up to town — отвезти кого-л. в город (обыкн. в Лондон)

    22. to run with smb. преим. амер. общаться с кем-л.; водить компанию с кем-л.

    a ram running with ewes — баран, пасущийся с овечками

    23. to run counter to smth. противоречить, идти вразрез с чем-л.
    III А
    1. становиться, делаться

    to run dry — а) высыхать; the river ran dry — река высохла /пересохла/; б) выдыхаться, иссякать

    my imagination ran dry — моё воображение истощилось, моя фантазия иссякла

    to run highа) подниматься ( о приливе); б) волноваться ( о море); the sea runs high — море волнуется; в) разгораться ( о страстях); passions /feelings/ ran high — страсти разгорались /бушевали/; г) возрастать ( о ценах)

    the tide is running strong — вода быстро прибывает, прилив быстро поднимается

    to run low — а) понижаться, опускаться; б) истощаться, иссякать, быть на исходе; кончаться

    supplies ran low — запасы были на исходе /кончались/

    his funds [stores] are running low — его фонды [запасы] подходят к концу

    to run short — истощаться, подходить к концу

    I have run short of money, my money has run short — у меня кончились деньги, мне не хватило денег

    to run wild — а) бурно разрастаться; the garden is running wild — сад зарастает; б) расти без присмотра; не получить образования; в) разойтись, разыграться; his imagination ran wild — его воображение разыгралось; г) не знать удержу, пуститься во все тяжкие

    2. быть, являться

    the apples [pears] run large /big/ this year — в этом году яблоки [груши] крупные

    they run in all shapes — они бывают разной формы /всех видов, всякие, разные/

    to run in the blood /in the family/ — быть наследственным

    courage [the collecting spirit, fondness for music] runs in the family — храбрость [страсть к коллекционированию, любовь к музыке] — это у них семейное

    3. иметь

    I think I am running a temperature — мне кажется, что у меня (поднимается) температура

    he always runs a fever if he gets his feet wet — его всегда лихорадит, если он промочит ноги

    an also ran — неудачник [см. тж. II А 6, 3)]

    to run riot см. riot I

    to run the show — распоряжаться; быть во главе; ≅ командовать парадом

    to run smth. close — быть почти равным (по качеству и т. п.)

    to run smb. close — а) быть чьим-л. опасным соперником; б) быть почти равным кому-л.

    to run to cover — уйти от /избежать/ опасности; принять меры предосторожности

    to cut and run — убегать; удирать, спасаться бегством; бежать со всех ног; улепётывать

    to run foul (of)а) мор. столкнуться ( с другим судном); б) ист. брать на абордаж; в) поссориться; вступить в конфликт

    to run oneself [smb.] into the ground — измотать себя [кого-л.]; совершенно измочалить себя (работой, спортом и т. п.)

    to run smb. ragged см. ragged

    to run to seed см. seed I

    to run a mile (from) — бегать от кого-л.; изо всех сил избегать кого-л.

    he was a bore whom everyone ran a mile from — он был занудой, от которого все старались избавиться

    to run it /things/ fine — иметь в обрез (времени, денег)

    to run out of steam см. steam I 3

    to run rings round см. ring1 I

    to run before the hounds — забегать вперед, опережать события

    to run the wrong hare — просчитаться, ошибиться в расчётах; пойти по ложному следу

    to run agroundмор. а) сесть или посадить на мель; to run a ship aground — посадить корабль на мель; б) выбрасываться на берег

    to run ashoreмор. выбрасываться на берег; приткнуться к берегу

    to run a line [a rope] ashore — передать /бросить/ конец [трос] на берег

    to run with the hare and hunt with the houndsпосл. ≅ служить и нашим и вашим; вести двойную игру

    he who runs may readпосл. всякий поймёт, всякому доступно /понятно/ (о чём-л. лёгком, доступном для понимания)

    НБАРС > run

  • 5 run

    1. I
    1) set off running пуститься бежать; run and fetch the doctor сбегай за врачом; when I called he came running когда я позвал его, он тут же прибежал /примчался/; the enemy ran противник бежал; he dropped his gun and ran он бросил ружье и пустился наутек; I must run мне надо бежать /срочно идти/
    2) a ball (a sledge, etc.) runs мяч и т.д. катится; a wheel (a spindle, etc.) runs колесо вращается /вертится/
    3) water (blood, etc.) runs вода и т.д. течет /льется/; the pus was running сочился гной; the ice cream (the jelly, the coating, etc.) is beginning to run мороженое и т.д. потекло; the candle ran свеча оплыла; the butter ran масло растаяло; this ink does not run эти чернила не расплываются; colours are guaranteed not to run прочность красок гарантируется; I'm afraid the colours ran when I washed that skirt к сожалению, юбка в стирке полиняла; wash this towel separately the dye runs стирай это полотенце отдельно run оно линяет || let water run спустить воду
    4) the tap (the barrel, the vessel, the kettle, etc.) runs кран и т.д. течет; who has left the tap running? кто оставил кран открытым /не закрыл кран/?; this pen runs ручка течет /сажает кляксы/; his nose is running у него течет из носу, у него насморк; his eyes are running у него слезятся глаза; we laughed till our eyes ran мы смеялись до слез; an ulcer (a wound, a sore, etc.) that runs язва и т.д., которая гноится
    5) trains (buses, boats, ships, etc.) run поезда и т.д. ходят; trams are not running трамваи не ходят
    6) a motor (a machine, the works, etc.) runs мотор и т.д. работает; the lift is not running лифт не работает; leave the engine running не выключай мотор; the plant has ceased running завод встал /остановился/; the clock (the watch) runs часы идут /ходят/
    7) time runs время летит /мчится/
    8) several days running несколько дней подряд; he hit the target seven times running он попал в цель семь раз подряд
    9) the agreement (the contract, the lease of the house, etc.) has two more years to run срок соглашения и т.д. действует еще два года
    10) my stocking has run у меня на чулке спустилась петля; stockings guaranteed not to run чулки с неспускающимися петлями
    2. II
    1) run in some manner run run fast (slowly, noiselessly, etc.) бегать быстро и т.д.; the horse runs well лошадь хорошо бежит /идет/, у лошади хороший ход; run somewhere run about бегать повсюду, суетиться, сновать взад и вперед; let the dogs run about пусть собаки побегают /порезвятся/; the children are running about дети играют /резвятся/; chickens run about as soon as they are out of the shell стоит только цыплятам вылупиться, как они начинают бегать; run up /upstairs/ (down/downstairs/) бегать вверх (вниз) [по лестнице]; run upstairs and get the iodine сбегай наверх и принеси йод; run at some time I must run now мне пора бежать /уходить/
    2) run in some manner the river runs quietly (smoothly, sluggishly, etc.) река течет спокойно и т.д.; the current is running strong сейчас сильное течение; the tide is running strong вода сильно поднимается (при приливе), blood ran in torrents кровь лилась ручьями; his ideas ran freely его мысли текли свободно; run somewhere the water has run out вся вода вытекла
    3) run at some time these pens (such taps, etc.) often run эти ручки и т.д. часто текут
    4) run at some time these trains (the steamers, the buses, etc.) run daily /every day/ (every ten minutes, etc.) эти поезда и т.д. ходят ежедневно и т.д.; the traffic runs day and night движение на улице не прекращается ни днем ни ночью; the 9 o'clock train is not running today девятичасовой поезд сегодня отменен /не ходит/
    5) run in some manner an engine (a sewing-machine, etc.) runs smoothly (well, badly, efficiently, etc.) мотор и т.д. работает ритмично и т.д.; the саг is running nicely машина идет хорошо; the printing-press doesn't run properly печатный станок плохо работает; the drawer doesn't run easily ящик открывается /выдвигается/ с трудом; how does your new watch runrun? как идут ваши новые часы?
    7) run somewhere the road (the boundary, the forest, etc.) runs east (north and south, up, etc.) дорога и т.д. идет /тянется/ на восток и т.д.; the river runs south река течет на юг; new streets will run here здесь пройдут /будут проложены/ новые улицы
    8) run in some manner months (years, days, etc.) run fast быстро проходит месяц за месяцем; time runs fast время летит быстро; his life runs smoothly (quietly, etc.) жизнь его течет спокойно /гладко/ и т.д.; how time runs! как бежит /летит/ время!
    9) run for some time this law (this bill) will run much longer этот закон (этот билль) будет действовать значительно дольше; run at /in/ some place regions (places, offices, etc.) where these rules do not run районы и т.д., где не действуют эти правила /на которые не распространяются эти правила/; this writ doesn't run here здесь это постановление /распоряжение/ не действует / не имеет силы/
    10) run in some manner the letter (the note, the clause, the contract, etc.) ran thus... письмо и т.д. гласило следующее...; so the story ran вот что говорилось в рассказе; this is how the tune runs вот как звучит эта мелодия; I don't remember how the first line runs я не помню первую строку
    11) run somewhere the ship /the boat/ ran aground корабль сел на мель; the boat ran ashore лодка врезалась в берег
    12) run at some time silk stockings often (sometimes) run на шелковых чулках часто (иногда) спускаются петли; run in some manner these stockings run easily на этих чулках очень легко спускаются петли; эти чулки быстро рвутся
    13) run in some manner all my arrangements ran smoothly все шло, как было обусловлено; is everything running well in your office? на работе у вас все в порядке?, дела на работе идут нормально?
    3. III
    1) run smth. run a mile (six miles. etc.) пробежать милю и т.д., участвовать в беге на одну милю и т.д.; run a distance бежать на какую-л. дистанцию; run a race участвовать в забеге /в скачках/; the children ran races дети бегали наперегонки
    2) run smth. run errands /messages/ быть посыльным; быть на посылках; I want you to run an errand я хочу послать тебя с поручением
    3) run smb., smth. run a fox (a hare, a stag, etc.) гнать /преследовать лису/ и т.д.; run a false scent идти по ложному следу; run cattle (horses, etc.) гнать скот и т.д.; run logs сплавлять /гнать/ лес /бревна/
    4) run smth. run extra (special) trains пускать дополнительные (специальные) поезда
    5) run smth. run cargoes (a cargo of coffee, etc.) перевозить /транспортировать/ грузы и т.д.; run arms (drugs, liquor, narcotics. etc.) нелегально /контрабандой/ ввозить в страну оружие и т.д.
    6) run smth., smb. run a blockade прорвать /прорваться через/ блокаду; run the rapids пройти /преодолеть/ пороги; run the guard проскользнуть /пройти незамеченным/ мимо охраны
    7) run smth. run a саг (a bus, a taxi, etc.) водить машину и т.д.; he runs a blue Volga он ездит на голубой "Волге"; run the engine запускать мотор /двигатель/; run a tractor (a sewing-machine, a ferry, etc.) работать на тракторе и т.д.; can you run a washing-machine? вы умеете обращаться со стиральной машиной?; run a bath наполнить ванну
    10) run some distance the river (the road, etc.) run 200 miles река (дорога и т.д.) тянется на 200 миль
    11) || run its course идти своим чередом; the illness must run its course болезнь должна идти своим ходом; the war was running its course война все продолжалась
    12) run smth. run a business (a bus company, a factory, etc.) управлять предприятием и т.д.; run a theatre (a newspaper, a youth club, etc.) руководить театром и т.д.; run a shop (a hotel, etc.) заведовать магазином и т.д.; run a competition (a match, a race, etc.) проводить соревнования и т.д.; run the external affairs of a country направлять внешнюю политику государства, руководить внешней политикой страны; run a new system of payment осуществлять /внедрять/ новую систему оплаты; run smb.'s house вести чье-л. хозяйство; she runs the household она ведет хозяйство; весь дом на ней; run the show cool. заправлять чем-л.; who is running the show? кто здесь главный?; run one's life (one's fortune) самому строить свою жизнь (свое счастье); run experiments ставить /проводить/ опыты; run a blood test сделать анализ крови
    13) run smb. run a candidate выставлять чью-л. кандидатуру, выдвигать кого-л. кандидатом
    14) semiaux run smth. run debts залезать в /делать/ долги; run a temperature температурить
    15) id run smth. run a risk (the risk of discovery, the risk of losing one's job, a danger, the danger of being fired, the chance of being suspect of theft, etc.) подвергаться риску и т.д.; run chances положиться на счастье
    4. IV
    1) run smth. т some time this bus (a car, ale.) runs 40 miles (an hour, etc.) автобус и т.д. делает сорок миль в час и т.д.; we ran 20 knots a day мы делали двадцать узлов в день
    2) run smb. in some manner run smb. (too) fast гнать кого-л. (очень) быстро; run smb. somewhere run a horse up and down прохаживать лошадь [взад и вперед]; run the gun out выкапывать орудие; run the car downhill (uphill) ехать на машине с горы (в гору)
    3) run smth. at some time run a bus every three minutes отправлять автобус каждые три минуты; run cars day and night держать машины на линии круглые сутки, обеспечивать работу у машин круглосуточно
    4) run smb. somewhere run smb. home отвозить кого-л. домой; run smb. out выгнать кого-л.
    5) run smth. for (in) some time run the machine (the press, etc.) 24 hours a day работать на машине и т.д. двадцать четыре часа в сутки /круглосуточно/; run 500 barrels of oil daily (1000 bottles of milk a day, etc.) выпускать 500 бочек масла и т.д. в день
    6) run smth. at some time run a film often (twice a week, six times, etc.) демонстрировать /показывать/ фильм часто и т.д.; I'll run the first part of the film through again я прокручу еще раз первую часть фильма
    7) run smth. at some time interviews (oral examinations, the programme, etc.) ran twenty minutes behind интервью и т.д. началось на двадцать минут позже; the rehearsal (the meeting, etc.) can ten minutes earlier репетиция и т.д. началась на десять минут раньше
    8) run smth. somewhere run a ship aground посадить корабль на мель; run a boat (a ship) ashore направить лодку корабль) к берегу
    5. V
    1) run smb. some distance run a fox (a hare, etc.) five miles (a long distance, the length of the field, etc.) преследовать /гнать/ лису и т.д. пять миль и т.д.
    2) run smb. some sum of money the dress (this picture, this boat, the new house, this car, etc.) will run you a considerable sum of money это платье и т.д. будет вам дорого стоить
    6. VI
    semiaux run smb. to some state run smb. breathless гонять кого-л. до изнеможения || run smb. close (hard) не уступать кому-л., быть чьим-л. опасным противником /соперником/; run smth. close быть почти равным чему-л.; run it fine иметь (времени, денег) в обрез
    7. XI
    1) be run after she is much run after a) с ней многие ищут знакомства; б) за ней многие ухаживают; I hate to feel that I am being run after терпеть не могу, когда за мной бегают
    2) || be run off one's feet coll. сбиться с ног; I was run off my feet that day я набегался за день
    3) be run into smth. molten metal is run into moulds расплавленный металл разливают в формы
    4) be run at some time sleepingcars (express trains, these boats, etc.) are run twice a week (on week days, etc.) поезда со спальными вагонами и т.д. ходят два раза в неделю и т.д.; be run somewhere these trains are run between X and Y эти поезда курсируют между X и Y
    5) be run on smth. trains (buses, etc.) are run on electricity (on coal, on steam, etc.) поезда и т.д. работают на электричестве и т.д.; be run at smth. be run at some cost обходиться в определенную сумму (об эксплуатации машины и т.п.); this car can be run at a small cost расходы на эксплуатацию этой машины очень невелика
    6) be run on smth. this book is to be run on good paper эта книга будет издана на хорошей бумаге
    7) be run through he was run through and through ему было нанесено множество колотых ран; be run through by smth. he was run through by a bayonet его пронзили штыком, его закололи штыком
    8) be run at some time the race (the match, the competition, etc.) will be run tomorrow (next week, etc.) скачки и т.д. состоятся /будут проводиться/ завтра и т.д.; the cup will be run for today сегодня состоятся соревнования на кубок /состоится розыгрыш кубка/; be run in some condition the Derby was run in a snowstorm (in rain, etc.) дерби проводилось во время сильного снегопада /вьюги/ и т.д.; be run as (on) smth. this business (it, this scheme, etc.) is run /is being run/ as a commercial enterprise /on a commercial basis/ это дело и т.д. ведется на коммерческой основе; be run by smb. he is (hard) run by his wife (by his secretary, etc.) он под башмаком у своей жены и т.д.; the school is run by a committee школа управляется советом
    8. XIII
    run to do smth. run to catch the train (to meet us, to see what is going on, etc.) бежать /торопиться/, чтобы успеть на писал и т.д.; she ran to help us она бросилась нам на помощь
    9. XV
    1) run in some state run free /loose/ бегать на свободе; let the dog run loose дай собаке побегать на воле
    2) run in some order run second (third, etc.) a) бежать вторым и т.д.; б) идти /прийти/ вторым и т.д.; my horse ran last моя лошадь пришла последней /заняла последнее место/
    3) abs run parallel идти /бежать/ параллельно /бок о бок/ || run foul of smth. налететь на что-л.; run foul of a hidden reef налететь на скрытый риф; run foul of the law нарушить закон; run foul of smb. вызвать чье-л. недовольство; the ships ran foul of each other корабли столкнулись [в море]
    4) semiaux run to some state run low /short/ a) понижаться, опускаться; б) иссякать; our provisions /our supplies, our stock, our stores /are running low /short/ наши запасы кончаются /на исходе/; I am running short of time у меня остается мало времени; run dry высыхать, пересыхать; the well ran dry колодец высох; the river ran dry река пересохла; my imagination ran dry моя фантазия иссякла, мое воображение истощилось; run cold похолодеть; my blood ran cold у меня кровь застыла в жилах; run hot нагреваться; wait till the water runs hot at the tap подожди, пока из крана пойдет горячая вода; run clear быть чистым; rivers run clear вода в реках частая; run high a) подниматься; б) возрастать; the sea runs high море волнуется; the waves run high волны вздымаются; the tide runs high /strong/ прилив нарастает, вода прибывает; feelings /passions/ run high страсти бушуют; the debates ran high споры разгорелись; the prices run high цены растут; run strong набирать силу; run mad сходить с ума; run wild не знать удержу; she lets her children run wild она оставляет детей без присмотра; the garden ran wild сад запущен; we are letting the flowers run wild за цветами у нас никто не ухаживает; his imagination ran wild у него разыгралось воображение; run a certain size apples (pears, potatoes, etc.) run big (small, etc.) this year яблоки и т.д. в этом году крупные и т.д.
    10. XVI
    1) run about (across, around, up, down, in, etc.) smth. run about the streets (about the fields, about the garden, in the pastures, in the yard, etc.) бегать по улицам и т.д.; run across the road (across the street, across the square, etc.) перебегать дорогу и т.д.; run down the road (down the street, down the hill, down the path, down the mountain, down the lane, etc.) бежать вниз по дороге и т.д.; run along the wall (along the bank of the river, etc.) бежать вдоль стены и т.д.; run up the path (up the mountain, etc.) бежать вверх по тропинке и т.д.; run out of the house (out of the room, etc.) выбежать из дома и т.д.; run into a room вбежать в комнату; run through the garden (through the yard, through the village, etc.) пробегать через сад и т.д.; every morning he ran around the garden to keep in condition каждое утро он бегал по саду, чтобы быть в форме; run to /towards/ smth., smb. run towards the door (to the coming visitors, to her son, etc.) подбежать /броситься/ к двери и т.д.; run before (behind, past, by, etc.) smb. run before the crowd (behind the marchers, by her past the waiting people, etc.) бежать впереди толпы и т.д.; he ran past her without saying "hello" он пробежал мимо и даже не поздоровался; run before the wind идти по ветру
    2) run after smb., smth. run after the burglar (after the thief, after a rabbit, etc.) гнаться за грабителем и т.д.; don't bother running after the bus, you'll never catch it какой толк бежать за автобусом, все равно его не догонишь; run after him, he's left his wallet behind догони его, он забыл свой бумажник; who's running after you? кто за вами гонится?; I can't keep running after you all day! coll. я не могу бегать за тобой весь день!; run from smth., smb. run from the village (from the enemy, from danger, etc.) бежать из деревни и т.д.; run to (for) smth., smb. run to smb.'s help поспешить кому-л. на помощь; run to the post-office сбегать на почту; run for the doctor (for the police, etc.) сбегать за врачом и т.д.; run for a prize бежать на приз; run to smb. for help бежать к кому-л. за помощью; run to his mother (to his parents, etc.) with every little problem бегать к матери и т.д. с каждой мелочью; run in smth. run in a race участвовать в забеге /в соревнованиях по бегу/ || run for one's life colt. бежать во весь дух; run for it coll, бежать что есть мочи
    3) run after smb. coll. she runs after every good-looking man in the village она бегает за каждым красивым парнем в деревне; you shouldn't run after him не надо вешаться ему на шею, run after the great увлекаться великими людьми: run after smth. coll. he runs after the country club set он стремится попасть в круг членов загородного клуба; run after new theories увлекаться новыми веяниями
    4) run along (over, past, on, etc.) smth. run along the highway (along the streets, over the hill, over slippery roads, through the city, etc.) двигаться /мчаться, нестись/ по шоссе и т.д.; cars run along these roads по этим дорогам движутся автомобили; sledges run well over frozen snow сани хорошо скользят по мерзлому снегу, the train ran past the signal поезд проскочил светофор; the ball ran past the hole шарик прокатился мимо лунки; the ball ran over the curb and into the street мяч перекатился через обочину и попал /выкатился/ на дорогу; run on snow (on macadam roads, etc.) передвигаться /катиться, скользить/ по снегу и т.д.; trains run on rails поезда ходят по рельсам; the table runs on wheels стол передвигается на колесиках; file drawers run on ball bearings каталожные ящики двигаются /выдвигаются, ходят/ на подшипниках; the fire ran along the ground огонь побежал по земле the fire ran through the-building огонь охватил все здание; run at some speed run at a very high speed (at full speed, at 60 miles an hour, etc.) двигаться с очень большой скоростью и т.д. the train ran at an illegal speed поезд шел с превышением предела скорости
    5) run at smb. run at the enemy (на)броситься на врага
    6) run down ( along, into, to, from, at, etc.) smth. run down the wind screen (down the rain-pipe, down the slope, down smb.'s face, down her cheeks,.etc.) катится /стекать/ по ветровому стеклу и т.д.; the rapids run over the rocks на камнях вода образовывает пороги; run over the table (over the floor, etc.) растекаться или рассыпаться по столу и т.д.; wax ran down the burning candle воск оплывал и стекал по горящей свече; the river runs into the ocean (into the sea, etc.) река впадает в океан и т.д.; water is running into the bath в ванну наливается вода; water runs from a tap (from a cistern from a cask, etc.) из крана и т.д. бежит /льётся вода; sweat was running from his forehead (from his face) у него по лбу (по лицу) струился пот; blood ran from a wound (from a cut, etc.) из раны и т.д. потекла кровь; tears ran from her eyes у нее из глаз катились слезы; he is running at the nose (at the mouth) у него течет из носу (изо рта); I felt tile blood running to my head я чувствовал, как кровь бросилась мне в голову; good blood runs in his veins в его жилах течет хорошая кровь; the colours (the dyes) run in the washing при стирке краски линяют; run with smth. run with sweat взмокнуть от пота, обливаться потом; his eyes ran with tears у него глаза наполнились слезами; the floor (the streets, etc.) ran with water (with blood, with wine, etc.) пол и т.д. был залит водой и т.д.; run off smb. water ran off him с него стекала вода id run off smb. as /like/ water off a duck's back = как с гуся вода; her words (scoldings, admonitions, etc.) ran off him like water off a duck's back на все ее слова и т.д. он не обращал ни малейшего внимания
    7) run to (between) smth. a morning train runs to Paris (to the south, to this city, etc.) в Париж и т.д. ходит утренний поезд; trains (boats, buses, etc.) run between the capitals of these countries (between these towns, between London and the coast. etc.) между столицами этих стран и т.д. ходят /курсируют/ поезда и т.д.
    8) run on (off) smth. cars run on gasoline автомобили работают на бензине; the apparatus runs off the mains аппаратура работает от сети
    9) run for some time the play ran for 200 nights (for a year) пьеса выдержала двести спектаклей (шла целый год); the picture runs for 3 hours фильм идет три часа; the interval sometimes runs to as much as half an hour антракт иногда длится полчаса; run at some place the play (the film) is now running at the Lyceum пьеса сейчас идет в театре "Лицеум"
    10) run across ( along, through, over, up, etc.) smth. the road (the path, etc.) runs across the plain (along the river, along the shore, through the wood, over a hill, up the mountain, close to the village, right by my house, at right angles to the highway, etc.) дорога и т.д. проходит по равнине и т.д.; a corridor runs through the house по всей длине дома тянется коридор; shelves run round the walls (round the room) по всем стенам (по всей комнате) идут полки; a fence runs round the house дом обнесен забором: ivy runs all over the wall (up the side of the house, upon other plants, etc.) плющ вьется по всей стене и т.д.; vine.runs over the porch крыльцо увито виноградом; a scar runs across his left cheek через всю его левую щеку проходит шрам; run from smth. to smth. the chain of mountains runs from north to south горная цепь тянется с севера на юг; shelves run from floor to ceiling полки идут от пола до потолка; this road runs from the village to the station эта дорога идет от деревни к станции; run for some distance the river ( the unpaved section, the path, etc.) runs for 200 miles (for eight miles, etc.) река и т.д. тянется на двести миль и т.д.
    11) run in smth. what sizes do these dresses run in? каких размеров бывают в продаже эти платья?; run in certain numbers иметь определенные номера; on this side house numbers run in odd numbers по этой стороне [улицы] идут нечетные номера домов
    12) run over smth. his fingers ran over the strings (over the piano, over the keys, etc.) он пробежал пальцами по струнам и т.д.; run over one's pockets ощупать свой карманы; run over the seams of the boat осмотреть /ощупать/ швы лодки
    13) run down ( over, through, etc.) smth. a cheer ran down the line (down the ranks of spectators) возгласы одобрения /крики ура/ прокатились по строю (по рядам зрителей); a murmur (a whisper) ran through the crowd по толпе пробежал /прокатился/ ропот (шепот); the news ran all over the town новость облетела весь город; rumours ran through the village (through the town, etc.) no деревне и т.д. прошли /разнеслись/ слухи; a thought (an idea, etc.) ran in /through/ his head /his mind/ у него в голове пронеслась /промелькнула/ мысль и т.д.; this idea run-s through the whole book эта идея проходит через /пронизывает/ всю книгу; the song (the old tune, his words, a snatch of their conversation, etc.) kept running in my mind /through my head/ эта песенка и т.д. неотвязно звучала у меня в ушах; his influence runs through every department его влияние чувствуется /ощущается/ во всех отделах; run up /down/ smth. a cold shiver ran up /down/ his spine холодная дрожь пробежала у него по спине; a sharp pain ran up /down/ his arm (his spine, his leg, etc.) он почувствовал острую боль в руке и т.д.
    14) run into smth. days ran into weeks дни складывались в недели; one year ran into the next шел год за годом
    15) run (up)on smth. the talk (the whole argument, etc.) ran on this point (on this subject, upon the past, on this problem, on the matter, on the same event, on the recent occurrence, etc.) разговор и т.д. вертелся вокруг этого вопроса и т.д.; the conversation ran on politics разговор шел о политике; the boy's thoughts /mind/ kept running on the same theme (on food, on the event, etc.) мальчик все время думал об одном и том же и т.д. || run along familiar lines касаться привычных тем, думать или говорить традиционно
    16) run for some time the law (the contract, the lease, etc.) runs for 3 years этот закон и т.д. имеет /сохраняет/ силу в течение трех лет; your interest runs from January 1st to December 31 вам начисляются проценты с первого января по тридцать первое декабря
    17) run out of smth. we have run out of sugar (out of provisions, out of food, out of petrol, out of tobacco, out of bread, etc.) у нас кончился сахар и т.д.
    18) run over (through, down) smth. run over one's notes (over these proofs, over the story, through one's mail, through the main points of the subject, down the list of names, etc.) просмотреть /пробежать глазами/ свои заметки и т.д.; her eyes ran over the room она окинула комнату беглым взглядом; his eyes ran down the front row and stopped suddenly он глазами пробежал по первому ряду, и вдруг его взгляд на ком-то задержался; don't run through your work so fast не делайте свою работу в спешке
    19) run over/through/ smth. just run over /through/ my lines with me before the rehearsal begins повторите со мной роль до начала репетиции; we'll run over that song again мы еще раз пропоем эту песенку; she ran over his good points она перечислила его достоинства; run through the scene оживить в своей памяти эту сцену
    20) run in (on, etc.) smth. the account (the story, the article, etc.) ran in all the papers сообщение и т.д. было напечатано /опубликовано/ во всех газетах; this item ran under a sensational heading эта информация была напечатана под сенсационным заголовком; political cartoons run on the editorial page политические карикатуры печатаются /помещаются/ на той же полосе, где и передовая статья || run in certain words быть сформулированным определённым образом; the order ran in these words приказ был сформулирован именно следующими словами
    21) run into /through /smth. the book (his novel, etc.) ran into /through/ 5 editions (10 impressions, thousands of copies, etc.) эта книга выдержала пять изданий и т.д.
    22) run through smth. run through a fortune (through the money he won, through his winnings, etc.) растратить /растранжирить/ наследство и т.д.; he ran through his father's money very quickly он очень быстро промотал отцовские деньги; money runs through his fingers [like water through a sieve], he runs through money quickly деньги у него не задерживаются; we run through a lot of sugar in a week мы расходуем много сахара за неделю
    23) run in (to) some amount his income (her bank account, their inheritance, etc.) runs to ten or twelve thousand pounds его доходы и т.д. исчисляются в десять-двенадцать тысяч фунтов; our hotel bill ran to t 500 наш счет за гостиницу достиг суммы в пятьсот фунтов /равняется пятистам фунтам/; the losses run into five figures убытки выражаются в пятизначных числах; a boat like that runs into a lot of money (to a pretty penny) такая лодка стоит больших денег (станет в копеечку); prices run from 50 pence to a pound цены колеблются от пятидесяти пенсов до одного фунта; my money won't run to a car на машину у меня не хватит денег; we can't run to a holiday abroad this year в этом году мы себе не можем позволить провести отпуск за границей; the story (the manuscript, etc.) runs to 16 pages (to three volumes, etc.) рассказ и т.д. занимает шестнадцать страниц и т.д.; her letter ran to a great length она написала очень длинное письмо
    24) run against (into, on, at, etc.) smth. run against /into/ a tree (into a wall, into a bank of soft mud, at the railing, etc.) налететь на дерево и т.д., врезаться в дерево и т.д.; run against a rock (on a mine, etc.) наскочить на скалу и т.д.; run into a patch of thick mist (into a gale, into a storm, etc.) попасть в густой туман и т.д.
    25) run into (across, etc.) smb. run into each other (into an old classmate, into an old friend, etc.) случайно встретить друг друга и т.д.; run across smb. in the street столкнуться с кем-л. на улице; when did you last run across him? когда вы с ним последний раз виделись?; you never know whom you'll run into at a party никогда не знаешь, кого встретишь на вечеринке
    26) run into (across) smth. run into danger (into trouble, into mischief, etc.) попасть в опасное положение и т.д.; run into difficulties очутиться в затруднительном положении; run into debts залезть в долга; run across one of his earliest recordings (across the first edition of this book in a second-hand bookshop, etc.) натолкнуться на /случайно найти/ одну из его ранних записей и т.д.; he ran across her name in the phone book он случайно встретил /увидел/ ее имя в телефонной книге; run against smth. this runs against my interests это идет вразрез с моими интересами
    27) run for smth. run for parliament (for office, for the presidency, for governor, etc.) баллотироваться в члены парламента и т.д.; run in smth. run in an election баллотироваться на выборах; how many candidates is the Liberal Party running in the General Election? сколько кандидатов выставляет либеральная партия на выборах?; run against smb. whom will the Republicans run against the Democratic candidate? кого выставят республиканцы против кандидата от демократической партии?
    28) aux run in smth. musical talent (courage, broadmindedness, red hair, etc) runs in the family (in the blood) музыкальность и т.д. - их семейная черта (у них в крови); run to smth. run to sentiment /to sentimentality/ (to fat, etc.) быть склонным /расположенным/ к сентиментальности и т.д.; they run to big noses (to red hair, to being overweight, etc.) in that family в их семье у всех большие носы и т.д.; the novel runs to long descriptions в романе слишком много затянутых описаний
    11. XIX1
    1) run like smb., smth. run like a deer /like a hare, like the devil, like hell, like blazes, like anything/ бежать во весь опор /что есть мочи/
    2) run like smth. news (rumours) run like wildfire (like lightning) новости (слухи) распространяются как лесной пожар (с быстротой молнии)
    12. XX3
    2) || run as follows гласить следующее; the conversation ran as follows... разговор был такой...
    13. XXI1
    1) run smth. in (over) smth. run two miles in six minutes проехать две мили за шесть минут; run a race over a mile бежать на дистанцию в одну милю;
    2) run smb. across (out of, etc.) smth. run a horse across a field погонять лошадь по полю; run oneself out of breath бежать так, что начинаешь задыхаться
    3) run smb., smth. (in)to (off, out of, etc.) smth. run a fox to cover /to earth/ загнать лису в нору; they ran him off his property его согнали с собственной земля; run smb. out of the country выдворить кого-л. из страны; run a саг into a garage (a ship into harbour, a cart into the yard, etc.) завезти машину в гараж и т.д.
    4) run smth. in (to) smth. run some water into glasses (milk into casks, lead into moulds, etc.) наливать воду в стаканы и т.д.; run bullets into a mould отливать пули; run oil in a still рафинировать масло; run smth. for smb., smth. run a hot tub for smb. сделать для кого-л. горячую ванну; run the water for a tub наполнять ванну водой
    5) run smth. to smth. run ships (trains, etc.) to London водить корабли и т.д. в Лондон; run smth. between smth. run trains (buses, etc.) between these towns пускать поезда и т.д. между этими городами; run a ferry between these villages соединить эти деревни паромом; run smth. from smth. to smth. run trains ( line of mail-boats, etc.) from the capital to other cities пускать поезда и т.д. из столицы в другие города; run smth. during smth. run extra trains during rush hours пускать дополнительные поезда в часы пик
    6) run smth., smb. across (into, to, etc.) smth. run guns (narcotics, drugs, etc.) across the border (into the country) провозить /переправлять/ оружие и т.д. [контрабандой] через границу (в какую-л. страну); run smb. up to town отвозить кого-л. в город
    7) run smth. at smth. run a factory at a loss иметь от фабрики один убытки; run a саг at small cost тратить на содержание машины немного денег; run smth. off smth. she runs her electric sewing-machine off the mains ее электрическая швейная машина работает от сети; run smth., smb. in smth. run a car (a bicycle, etc.) in a race участвовать в автогонках и т.д.; he runs horses in races a) он жокей; б) он держит конюшню /скаковых лошадей/
    8) run smth. across (around, from... to, etc.) smth. run a partition across a room разгородить комнату перегородкой; run a rope across the street натянуть канат через улицу; run a fence around the lot обнести участок забором; run a telephone cable from one place to another проложить /провести/ телефонный кабель от одного пункта в другой, соединять два пункта телефонным кабелем
    9) run smth. against (over, through, etc.) smth. run one's fingers (one's hand) against a door (over a surface, over the seams of the boat, etc.) провести пальцами (рукой) по двери и т.д.; ощупать дверь и т.д.; run a comb through one's hair расчесать волосы гребнем; run one's hand over one's hair пригладить волосы ладонью; run one's fingers over the strings of a harp (over the keys of a piano, etc.) пробежать пальцами по струнам арфы и т.д.; run one's eyes over a page (over a letter, etc.) пробежать глазами страницу и т.д.; run one's finger down the list просмотреть список, водя по строчкам пальцем; run one's pencil through these names (through a word, etc.) зачеркнуть эти фамилии и т.д. карандашом; run a line on a map (over a surface, etc.) провести /прочертить/ линию на карте и т.д.
    10) run smth. behind smth. run a few minutes behind schedule (behind time) не укладываться в расписание (во времени); if we run ten minutes behind schedule the whole evening's viewing will be thrown out of gear если расписание сдвинется больше, чем на десять минут, то программа всего вечера будет нарушена; the programmes are running 10 minutes behind schedule наши программы сегодня запаздывают на десять минут
    11) run smb., smth. through smth. run the actors through their parts заставить актеров повторить свои роли или партии; I'd like to run you through that scene я бы хотел, чтобы вы еще раз провели эту сцену
    12) run smth. to smth. run tile rumour to its source выяснить источник слухов; run a quotation to earth выяснить, откуда взята цитата
    13) run smth. on smth. run the story (this account, the article, this cartoon, etc.) on page one напечатать рассказ и т.д. на первой странице
    14) run smth., smb. into (on) smth., smb. run a саг into a tree (into a wall, into a post, etc.) врезаться машиной в дерево и т.д.; run a ship on a rock разбить корабль о скалу; run the troops into an ambush загнать или заманить войска в засаду; he ran me into a сор из-за него я налетел на полицейского; run smb. into a corner загнать кого-л. в угол; run smth. against smth. run one's head against a wall стукнуться /удариться/ головой о стену; run one's nose against a post (against a wall, etc.) разбить нос о столб и т.д.
    15) run smth. into (through) smth., smb. run a nail into a board забить /загнать/ гвоздь в доску; run a splinter into one's toe (into one's foot, into one's finger, etc.) занозить палец и т.д.; run a thorn (a needle) into one's finger загнать шип (иголку) в палец; run a knife into a loaf разрезать буханку хлеба ножом; run a thread through an eyelet (a rope through a loop) продеть нитку в иголку (веревку в петлю); run a sword through one's enemy пронзить /проколоть/ своего противника шпагой; run smb. through with smth. run a man through with a sword проткнуть кого-л. шпагой
    16) || run a stocking on smth. рвать чулок обо что-л.; run a stocking on a nail разодрать чулок о гвоздь
    17) run smth. for smb. who runs his house for him? кто ведет у него хозяйство?
    18) run smb. (in)to smth. run smb. into expense ввести кого-л. в расход; run smb. into debts заставить кого-л. влезть в долги; run oneself to death до смерти забегаться || this ran me clean off my legs я из-за этого столько бегал, что теперь ног под собой не чую
    19) aux run smth. on (at) smth. I can't afford to run a car on my salary на свою зарплату я не могу содержать машину; run 60 head of cattle on this ranch держать на ранчо шестьдесят голов скота; run an account at the grocery иметь счет у бакалейщика
    14. XXV
    1) run if... (when..., etc.) you'll have to run if you want to catch the train тебе придется бежать, если ты хочешь успеть на поезд; he used to run when he was at college когда он был студентом, он занимался бегом
    2) run when the colour of the dress ran when it was washed платье полиняло в стирке
    3) run that... the story (the rumour) runs that... по рассказам (по слухам)...

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > run

  • 6 Reynolds, Richard

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    b. 1 November 1735 Bristol, England
    d. 10 September 1816 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
    [br]
    English ironmaster who invented iron rails.
    [br]
    Reynolds was born into a Quaker family, his father being an iron merchant and a considerable customer for the products of the Darbys (see Abraham Darby) of Coalbrookdale in Shropshire. After education at a Quaker boarding school in Pickwick, Wiltshire, Reynolds was apprenticed to William Fry, a grocer of Bristol, from whom he would have learned business methods. The year before the expiry of his apprenticeship in 1757, Reynolds was being sent on business errands to Coalbrookdale. In that year he met and married Hannah Darby, the daughter of Abraham Darby II. At the same time, he acquired a half-share in the Ketley ironworks, established not long before, in 1755. There he supervised not only the furnaces at Ketley and Horsehay and the foundry, but also the extension of the railway, linking this site to Coalbrookdale itself.
    On the death of Abraham Darby II in 1763, Reynolds took charge of the whole works during the minority of Abraham Darby III. During this period, the most notable development was the introduction by the Cranage brothers of a new way of converting pig-iron to wrought iron, a process patented in 1766 that used coal in a reverberatory furnace. This, with other processes for the same purpose, remained in use until superseded by the puddling process patented by Henry Cort in 1783 and 1784. Reynolds's most important innovation was the introduction of cast-iron rails in 1767 on the railway around Coalbrookdale. A useful network had been in operation for some time with wooden rails, but these wore out quickly and were expensive to maintain. Reynolds's iron rails were an immediate improvement, and some 20 miles (32 km) were laid within a short time. In 1768 Abraham Darby III was able to assume control of the Coalbrookdale works, but Reynolds had been extending his own interest in other ironworks and various other concerns, earning himself considerable wealth. When Darby was oppressed with loan repayments, Reynolds bought the Manor of Madely, which made him Landlord of the Coalbrookdale Company; by 1780 he was virtually banker to the company.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    A.Raistrick, 1989, Dynasty of Iron Founders, 2nd edn, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust (contains many details of Reynolds's life).
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  • 7 sacrifice

    ˈsækrɪfaɪs
    1. сущ.
    1) жертва;
    жертвоприношение( to - кому-л.) animal sacrifices to the gods ≈ животные, приносимые в жертву богам at the sacrifice of smth. ≈ пожертвовав чем-л. heroic sacrifice ≈ героическая жертва human sacrifice ≈ человеческая жертва, человеческое жертвоприношение personal sacrifice ≈ личная жертва He gave his life as a sacrifice for his country. ≈ Он пожертвовал своей жизнью во имя родины. great sacrifice last sacrifice supreme sacrifice ultimate sacrifice Syn: offering, oblation
    2) убыток( при продаже чего-л. по заниженной цене) sell at a sacrifice sacrifice price sacrifice market Syn: loss
    2. гл.
    1) приносить в жертву( to - кому-л.), совершать жертвоприношение;
    жертвовать to sacrifice a lamb to the gods ≈ принести в жертву богам ягненка He sacrificed his life to save the drowning child. ≈ Он пожертвовал соей жизнью, чтобы спасти тонущего ребенка. Are you prepared to sacrifice the pleasures of nature to the convenience of city life? ≈ Вы готовы пожертвовать красотами природы ради удобств городской жизни? Syn: forgo
    2) продавать себе в убыток особ. коммерч. Syn: sell at a sacrifice
    3) убивать (подопытное животное) для проведения научного эксперимента жертва - noble * благородная жертва - a * willingly offered добровольная жертва - to make *s приносить жертвы - to give one's life as a * for one's country пожертвовать своей жизнью за родину - to fall a * to smth. (редкое) пасть жертвой чего-л. - to make *s for one's children идти на лишения /на жертвы/ ради (своих) детей - to offer up a * приносить жертву - it must be done at any * это нужно сделать любой ценой /не считаясь с жертвами/ - to win a battle at a great * of life выиграть сражение ценой больших потерь - it must be done without a * in dignity это надо сделать, не поступившись (своим) достоинством - you will gain nothing by the * of your principles вы ничего не добьетесь, поступившись своими принципами жертвоприношение;
    пожертвование - the fire of * жертвенный огонь - a * to the gods жертвоприношение богам - to make a * of fruit приносить в жертву плоды - to offer animals in * приносить в жертву животных (коммерческое) убыток - * prices убыточные цены;
    оценка себе в убыток - to sell goods at a (great) * продавать товары по убыточной цене /себе в убыток/ - goods are cleared off at a very considerable * товары распродаются со значительной скидкой (церковное) месса (тж. Eucharistic S.) > the great /the last, the supreme/ * смерть в бою за родину жертвовать, приносить жертвы - to * one's life to save one's child пожертвовать жизнью, чтобы спасти ребенка - he *d his whole life to the cause of revolution он отдал свою жизнь делу революции - to * accuracy for vividness поступиться точностью ради живости (изложения) - to * a piece пожертвовать фигуру (шахматы) совершать жертвоприношение - to * to the gods совершать жертвоприношение богам - to * sheep приносить в жертву овец (коммерческое) продавать в убыток sacrifice жертва;
    to make a sacrifice приносить жертву;
    at the sacrifice (of smth.) пожертвовав (чем-л.) ;
    the great (или last) sacrifice смерть в бою за родину equal ~ principle принцип равных жертв sacrifice жертва;
    to make a sacrifice приносить жертву;
    at the sacrifice (of smth.) пожертвовав (чем-л.) ;
    the great (или last) sacrifice смерть в бою за родину sacrifice жертва;
    to make a sacrifice приносить жертву;
    at the sacrifice (of smth.) пожертвовав (чем-л.) ;
    the great (или last) sacrifice смерть в бою за родину sacrifice жертва;
    to make a sacrifice приносить жертву;
    at the sacrifice (of smth.) пожертвовав (чем-л.) ;
    the great (или last) sacrifice смерть в бою за родину ~ жертва ~ жертвовать ~ жертвоприношение ~ недостача ~ потеря ~ приносить в жертву, жертвовать;
    to sacrifice oneself жертвовать собой;
    to sacrificea piece шахм. пожертвовать фигурой ~ продавать в убыток ~ совершать жертвоприношение ~ убыток;
    to sell at a sacrifice продавать себе в убыток ~ убыток ~ приносить в жертву, жертвовать;
    to sacrifice oneself жертвовать собой;
    to sacrificea piece шахм. пожертвовать фигурой ~ приносить в жертву, жертвовать;
    to sacrifice oneself жертвовать собой;
    to sacrificea piece шахм. пожертвовать фигурой ~ убыток;
    to sell at a sacrifice продавать себе в убыток

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > sacrifice

  • 8 Smeaton, John

    [br]
    b. 8 June 1724 Austhorpe, near Leeds, Yorkshire, England
    d. 28 October 1792 Austhorpe, near Leeds, Yorkshire, England
    [br]
    English mechanical and civil engineer.
    [br]
    As a boy, Smeaton showed mechanical ability, making for himself a number of tools and models. This practical skill was backed by a sound education, probably at Leeds Grammar School. At the age of 16 he entered his father's office; he seemed set to follow his father's profession in the law. In 1742 he went to London to continue his legal studies, but he preferred instead, with his father's reluctant permission, to set up as a scientific instrument maker and dealer and opened a shop of his own in 1748. About this time he began attending meetings of the Royal Society and presented several papers on instruments and mechanical subjects, being elected a Fellow in 1753. His interests were turning towards engineering but were informed by scientific principles grounded in careful and accurate observation.
    In 1755 the second Eddystone lighthouse, on a reef some 14 miles (23 km) off the English coast at Plymouth, was destroyed by fire. The President of the Royal Society was consulted as to a suitable engineer to undertake the task of constructing a new one, and he unhesitatingly suggested Smeaton. Work began in 1756 and was completed in three years to produce the first great wave-swept stone lighthouse. It was constructed of Portland stone blocks, shaped and pegged both together and to the base rock, and bonded by hydraulic cement, scientifically developed by Smeaton. It withstood the storms of the English Channel for over a century, but by 1876 erosion of the rock had weakened the structure and a replacement had to be built. The upper portion of Smeaton's lighthouse was re-erected on a suitable base on Plymouth Hoe, leaving the original base portion on the reef as a memorial to the engineer.
    The Eddystone lighthouse made Smeaton's reputation and from then on he was constantly in demand as a consultant in all kinds of engineering projects. He carried out a number himself, notably the 38 mile (61 km) long Forth and Clyde canal with thirty-nine locks, begun in 1768 but for financial reasons not completed until 1790. In 1774 he took charge of the Ramsgate Harbour works.
    On the mechanical side, Smeaton undertook a systematic study of water-and windmills, to determine the design and construction to achieve the greatest power output. This work issued forth as the paper "An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills" and exerted a considerable influence on mill design during the early part of the Industrial Revolution. Between 1753 and 1790 Smeaton constructed no fewer than forty-four mills.
    Meanwhile, in 1756 he had returned to Austhorpe, which continued to be his home base for the rest of his life. In 1767, as a result of the disappointing performance of an engine he had been involved with at New River Head, Islington, London, Smeaton began his important study of the steam-engine. Smeaton was the first to apply scientific principles to the steam-engine and achieved the most notable improvements in its efficiency since its invention by Newcomen, until its radical overhaul by James Watt. To compare the performance of engines quantitatively, he introduced the concept of "duty", i.e. the weight of water that could be raised 1 ft (30 cm) while burning one bushel (84 lb or 38 kg) of coal. The first engine to embody his improvements was erected at Long Benton colliery in Northumberland in 1772, with a duty of 9.45 million pounds, compared to the best figure obtained previously of 7.44 million pounds. One source of heat loss he attributed to inaccurate boring of the cylinder, which he was able to improve through his close association with Carron Ironworks near Falkirk, Scotland.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1753.
    Bibliography
    1759, "An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
    Towards the end of his life, Smeaton intended to write accounts of his many works but only completed A Narrative of the Eddystone Lighthouse, 1791, London.
    Further Reading
    S.Smiles, 1874, Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie, London. A.W.Skempton, (ed.), 1981, John Smeaton FRS, London: Thomas Telford. L.T.C.Rolt and J.S.Allen, 1977, The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen, 2nd edn, Hartington: Moorland Publishing, esp. pp. 108–18 (gives a good description of his work on the steam-engine).
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  • 9 Ravenscroft, George

    [br]
    b. 1632 Alconbury, Huntingdonshire, England
    d. 7 June 1683 Barnet, Hertfordshire, England
    [br]
    English inventor of lead-crystal glass.
    [br]
    George's father James was a successful lawyer and merchant, engaging in overseas trade.
    A devout but necessarily circumspect Catholic, James sent his sons to the English College at Douai, now in northern France. Leaving there in 1651, George began to learn his father's business and spent some fifteen years in Venice. He took an increasingly important part in it, doubtless dealing in Venice's leading products of lace and glass. By 1666 he was back in England and, perhaps because the supply of Venetian glass was beginning to decline, he started to manufacture glass himself. In 1673 he set up a glassworks in the Savoy in London and succeeded so well that in the following year he petitioned the King for the grant of a patent to make glassware. This was granted on 16 May 1674, stimulating the Glass Sellers' Company to enter into an agreement with Ravenscroft to buy the glassware he produced. Later in 1674 the company allowed Ravenscroft to establish a second glasshouse at Henley-onThames. At first his ware was beset with "crizzling", i.e. numerous fine surface cracks. The Glass Sellers probably urged Ravenscroft to cure this defect, and this he achieved in 1675 by replacing crushed flint with increasing amounts of lead oxide, rising finally to a content of 30 per cent. He thereby obtained a relatively soft, heavy glass with high refractive index and dispersive power. This made it amenable to deep cutting, to produce the brilliant prismatic effects of cut glass. At about the same time, the Duke of Buckingham, a considerable promoter of the glass industry, agreed that Ravenscroft should manage his works at Vauxhall for the making of plate glass for mirrors. Ravenscroft terminated his agreement with the Glass Sellers in 1678, the date of the last evidence of his activities as a maker of crystal glass, and the patent expired in 1681. His new glass had immediately rivalled the best Venetian crystal glass and has been a valued product ever since.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    R.F.Moody, 1988, The life of George Ravenscroft', Glass Technology 29 (1):198–210;
    Glass Technology 30(5):191–2 (additional notes on his life).
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  • 10 high

    1. adjective
    1) hoch [Berg, Gebäude, Mauer]
    2) (above normal level) hoch [Stiefel]

    the river/water is high — der Fluss/das Wasser steht hoch

    be left high and dry(fig.) auf dem trock[e]nen sitzen (ugs.)

    3) (far above ground or sea level) hoch [Gipfel, Punkt]; groß [Höhe]
    4) (to or from far above the ground) hoch [Aufstieg, Sprung]

    high diving — Turmspringen, das; see also academic.ru/5412/bar">bar 1. 2)

    5) (of exalted rank) hoch [Beamter, Amt, Gericht]

    high and mighty(coll.): (highhanded) selbstherrlich; (coll.): (superior) hochnäsig (ugs.)

    be born or destined for higher things — zu Höherem geboren od. bestimmt sein

    6) (great in degree) hoch; groß [Gefallen, Bedeutung]; stark [Wind]

    be held in high regard/esteem — hohes Ansehen/hohe Wertschätzung genießen

    high blood pressure — Bluthochdruck, der

    have a high opinion of somebody/something — eine hohe Meinung von jemandem/etwas haben (geh.); viel von jemandem/etwas halten

    7) (noble, virtuous) hoch [Ideal, Ziel, Prinzip, Berufung]; edel [Charakter]

    it is high time you leftes ist od. wird höchste Zeit, dass du gehst

    high summer — Hochsommer, der

    9) (luxurious, extravagant) üppig [Leben]
    10) (enjoyable)

    have a high [old] time — sich bestens amüsieren

    11) (coll.): (on a drug) high nicht attr. (ugs.) (on von)

    get high onsich anturnen mit (ugs.) [Haschisch, LSD usw.]

    12) (in pitch) hoch [Ton, Stimme, Lage, Klang usw.]
    13) (slightly decomposed) angegangen (landsch.) [Fleisch]
    14) (Cards) hoch
    2. adverb
    1) (in or to a high position) hoch

    search or hunt or look high and low — überall suchen

    3. noun
    1) (highest level/figure) Höchststand, der; see also all-time

    on highhoch oben od. (geh., südd., österr.) droben; (in heaven) im Himmel

    3) (Meteorol.) Hoch, das
    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) (at, from, or reaching up to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: a high mountain; a high dive; a dive from the high diving-board.) hoch
    2) (having a particular height: This building is about 20 metres high; My horse is fifteen hands high.) hoch
    3) (great; large; considerable: The car was travelling at high speed; He has a high opinion of her work; They charge high prices; high hopes; The child has a high fever/temperature.) hoch
    4) (most important; very important: the high altar in a church; Important criminal trials are held at the High Court; a high official.) Haupt-...
    5) (noble; good: high ideals.) hoch
    6) ((of a wind) strong: The wind is high tonight.) stark
    7) ((of sounds) at or towards the top of a (musical) range: a high note.) hoch
    8) ((of voices) like a child's voice (rather than like a man's): He still speaks in a high voice.) hoch
    9) ((of food, especially meat) beginning to go bad.) angegangen
    10) (having great value: Aces and kings are high cards.) hoch
    2. adverb
    (at, or to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: The plane was flying high in the sky; He'll rise high in his profession.) hoch
    - highly
    - highness
    - high-chair
    - high-class
    - higher education
    - high fidelity
    - high-handed
    - high-handedly
    - high-handedness
    - high jump
    - highlands
    - high-level
    - highlight
    3. verb
    (to draw particular attention to (a person, thing etc).) hervorheben
    - highly-strung
    - high-minded
    - high-mindedness
    - high-pitched
    - high-powered
    - high-rise
    - highroad
    - high school
    - high-spirited
    - high spirits
    - high street
    - high-tech
    4. adjective
    ((also hi-tech): high-tech industries.)
    - high tide
    - high treason
    - high water
    - highway
    - Highway Code
    - highwayman
    - high wire
    - high and dry
    - high and low
    - high and mighty
    - the high seas
    - it is high time
    * * *
    [haɪ]
    I. adj
    1. (altitude) hoch präd, hohe(r, s) attr
    he lives on the \highest floor er wohnt im obersten Stockwerk
    I knew him when he was only so \high ich kannte ihn schon als kleines Kind
    the river is \high der Fluss führt Hochwasser
    she wore a dress with a \high neckline sie trug ein hochgeschlossenes Kleid
    to fly at a \high altitude in großer Höhe fliegen
    the rooms in our flat have \high ceilings unsere Wohnung hat hohe Räume
    thirty centimetres/one metre \high dreißig Zentimeter/ein Meter hoch
    \high cheekbones hohe Wangenknochen
    to do a \high dive einen Kopfsprung aus großer Höhe machen
    \high forehead hohe Stirn
    \high latitude GEOG hohe Breite
    2. (above average) hohe(r, s) attr, hoch präd
    she got very \high marks sie bekam sehr gute Noten
    the job demands a \high level of concentration die Tätigkeit erfordert hohe Konzentration
    to have \high hopes sich dat große Hoffnungen machen
    to have \high hopes for sb für jdn große Pläne haben
    to have a \high IQ einen hohen IQ haben
    a \high-scoring match ein Match nt mit vielen Treffern
    to have a \high opinion of sb von jdm eine hohe Meinung haben
    to be full of \high praise [for sb/sth] [für jdn/etw] voll des Lobes sein
    to pay a \high price for sth ( also fig) für etw akk einen hohen Preis bezahlen a. fig
    to drive at \high speed mit hoher Geschwindigkeit fahren
    to demand \high standards from sb/sth hohe Ansprüche [o Anforderungen] an jdn/etw stellen
    3. (of large numerical value)
    the casualty toll from the explosion was \high die Explosion forderte viele Opfer
    \high calibre [or AM caliber] gun großkalibrige Waffe
    of the \highest calibre [or AM caliber] ( fig) hervorragend
    the \highest common denominator der größte gemeinsame Nenner
    \high number hohe [o große] Zahl
    safety is \high on my list of priorities Sicherheit steht weit oben auf meiner Prioritätenliste
    to have sth on the \highest authority ( esp hum) etw aus zuverlässiger Quelle wissen
    \high crimes schwere Vergehen
    to hold/resign from \high office ein hohes Amt innehaben/niederlegen
    to have friends in \high places wichtige Freunde haben
    of \high rank hochrangig
    to be of \high birth adliger Abstammung sein
    to have \high principles hohe Prinzipien haben
    6. ( pej: arrogant) arrogant
    to be \high and mighty ( pej) herablassend sein
    7. (intense)
    to have a \high complexion ein gerötetes Gesicht haben
    to be \high drama hochdramatisch sein
    \high wind starker Wind
    8. MED
    \high blood-pressure hoher Blutdruck
    \high fever hohes Fieber
    9. FOOD (rich)
    \high in calories kalorienreich
    to be \high in calcium/iron viel Kalzium/Eisen enthalten
    10. (intoxicated, euphoric) high a. fig fam
    to be \high on drugs mit Drogen vollgepumpt sein
    to be [as] \high as a kite ( fam: euphoric) total high sein sl; (drunk) stockbesoffen sein sl
    11. (shrill)
    to sing in a \high key in einer hohen Tonlage singen
    a \high note ein hoher Ton
    a \high voice eine schrille Stimme
    12. LING
    \high vowel hoher Vokal
    13. pred (gone off)
    to be \high food riechen; game Hautgout haben
    14.
    with one's head held \high hoch erhobenen Hauptes
    come hell or \high water um jeden Preis
    come hell or \high water, I'm going to get this finished by midnight und wenn die Welt untergeht, bis Mitternacht habe ich das fertig
    to leave sb \high and dry jdn auf dem Trockenen sitzen lassen
    to stink to \high heaven (smell awful) wie die Pest stinken sl; (be very suspicious) zum Himmel stinken fig sl
    sb's stock is \high jds Aktien stehen gut fig, jd steht hoch im Kurs
    \high time höchste Zeit
    II. adv
    1. (position) hoch
    you have to throw the ball \high du musst den Ball in die Höhe werfen
    \high up hoch oben
    2. (amount) hoch
    the prices are running \high die Preise liegen hoch
    he said he would go as \high as 500 dollars er meinte, er würde maximal 500 Dollar ausgeben
    the sea was running \high das Meer tobte; ( fig)
    feelings were running \high die Gemüter erhitzten sich
    4.
    to hold one's head \high stolz sein
    \high and low überall
    to look [or search] for sth \high and low das Unterste nach oben kehren fig
    to live \high on [or off] the hog fürstlich leben
    III. n
    1. (high point) Höchststand m
    to reach an all-time [or a record] \high einen historischen Höchststand erreichen
    2. METEO Hoch nt
    \highs and lows Höhen und Tiefen fig
    to be on a \high high sein sl
    on \high im Himmel, in der Höhe poet
    God looked down from on \high Gott blickte vom Himmel herab; ( hum fig fam)
    the orders came from on \high die Befehle kamen von höchster Stelle
    5. AUTO höchster Gang
    to move into \high den höchsten Gang einlegen
    * * *
    [haɪ]
    1. adj (+er)
    1) mountain, wall, forehead, building hoch pred, hohe(r, s) attr

    a high diveein Kopfsprung m aus großer Höhe

    I knew him when he was only so high — ich kannte ihn, als er nur SO groß war or noch so klein war

    See:
    → also high ground
    2) (= important, superior) hoch pred, hohe(r, s) attr
    3) (= considerable, extreme, great) opinion, speed, temperature, fever, pressure, salary, price, rate, density, sea hoch pred, hohe(r, s) attr; reputation ausgezeichnet, hervorragend; altitude groß; wind stark; complexion, colour (hoch)rot

    /quality — von bestem Format/bester Qualität

    casualties were highes gab viele Opfer; (Mil) es gab hohe Verluste

    to put a high value on sth —

    to have high expectations of sb/sth — hohe Erwartungen an jdn/etw stellen

    in (very) high spirits — in Hochstimmung, in äußerst guter Laune

    to have a high old time (inf) — sich prächtig amüsieren, mächtig Spaß haben (inf)

    4) (= good, admirable) ideals, principles hoch
    5)

    (of time) high noon — zwölf Uhr mittags

    it's high time you went home — es ist or wird höchste Zeit, dass du nach Hause gehst

    6) sound, note hoch; (= shrill) schrill
    7) (inf on drugs) high (inf); (on drink) blau (inf)
    8) meat angegangen
    9) (CARDS) hoch pred, hohe(r, s) attr
    2. adv (+er)
    1) hoch

    high up (position) — hoch oben; (motion) hoch hinauf

    birds circling very high up — Vögel, die ganz weit oben kreisen

    higher up the hill was a small farmetwas weiter oben am Berg lag ein kleiner Bauernhof

    2)

    to go as high as £200 — bis zu £ 200 (hoch) gehen

    inflation is climbing higher and higher —

    3. n
    1)
    2)

    unemployment/the pound has reached a new high — die Arbeitslosenzahlen haben/das Pfund hat einen neuen Höchststand erreicht

    3) (MET) Hoch nt
    4) (US AUT

    = top gear) in high —

    5) (US inf = high school) Penne f (inf)
    * * *
    high [haı]
    A adj (adv highly)( higher, highest)
    1. hoch:
    ten feet high zehn Fuß hoch;
    at high altitudes in großen Höhen; beam A 6, horse A 1
    2. hoch (gelegen):
    High Asia Hochasien n
    3. GEOG hoch (nahe den Polen):
    high latitude hohe Breite
    4. hoch (Grad):
    high expectations große oder hohe Erwartungen;
    high favo(u)r hohe Gunst;
    high hopes große Hoffnungen;
    high praise großes Lob;
    keep the pace high SPORT das Tempo hoch halten;
    a) hohe Geschwindigkeit,
    b) SCHIFF hohe Fahrt, äußerste Kraft;
    high starting number SPORT hohe Startnummer;
    be high in calories viele Kalorien haben;
    be high in fat fettreich sein; gear A 3
    5. stark, heftig:
    high passion wilde Leidenschaft;
    high wind starker Wind;
    high words heftige oder scharfe Worte
    6. hoch (im Rang), Hoch…, Ober…, Haupt…:
    a high official ein hoher Beamter;
    the Most High der Allerhöchste (Gott)
    7. bedeutend, hoch, wichtig:
    high aims hohe Ziele;
    high politics pl (oft als sg konstruiert) hohe Politik
    8. hoch (Stellung), vornehm, edel:
    of high birth von hoher oder edler Geburt, hochgeboren;
    high society High Society f, gehobene Gesellschaftsschicht; standing A 1
    9. hoch, erhaben, edel:
    high spirit erhabener Geist
    10. hoch, gut, erstklassig (Qualität etc):
    high performance hohe Leistung
    11. hoch, Hoch… (auf dem Höhepunkt stehend):
    High Middle Ages pl Hochmittelalter n;
    high period Glanzzeit f (eines Künstlers etc)
    12. hoch, fortgeschritten (Zeit):
    high summer Hochsommer m;
    it is high day es ist heller Tag; high time 1, noon A 1
    13. (zeitlich) fern, tief:
    in high antiquity tief im Altertum
    14. LING
    a) Hoch… (Sprache)
    b) hoch (Laut):
    high tone Hochton m
    15. hoch (im Kurs), teuer:
    land is high Land ist teuer
    17. extrem, eifrig (Sozialdemokrat etc)
    18. a) hoch, hell (Ton etc)
    b) schrill, laut (Stimme etc)
    19. lebhaft (Farben):
    high complexion rosiger Teint
    20. erregend, spannend (Abenteuer etc)
    21. a) gehoben, heiter: jinks, spirit A 8
    b) umg blau (betrunken)
    c) umg high (im Drogenrausch)
    22. umg scharf, erpicht ( beide:
    on auf akk)
    23. GASTR angegangen, mit Hautgout (Wild):
    be high Hautgout haben
    24. SCHIFF hoch am Wind
    B adv
    1. hoch:
    aim high fig sich hohe Ziele setzen oder stecken;
    lift high in die Höhe heben, hochheben;
    a) hochgehen (See, Wellen),
    b) fig toben (Gefühle);
    feelings ran high die Gemüter erhitzten sich;
    search high and low überall suchen, etwas wie eine Stecknadel suchen
    2. stark, heftig, in hohem Grad oder Maß
    3. teuer:
    pay high teuer bezahlen
    4. hoch, mit hohem Einsatz:
    5. üppig:
    live high in Saus und Braus leben
    6. SCHIFF hoch am Wind
    C s
    1. (An)Höhe f, hoch gelegener Ort:
    a) hoch oben, droben,
    b) hoch hinauf,
    c) im oder zum Himmel;
    a) von oben,
    b) vom Himmel
    2. METEO Hoch(druckgebiet) n
    3. TECH
    a) hochübersetztes oder hochuntersetztes Getriebe (an Fahrzeugen), besonders Geländegang m
    b) höchster Gang:
    move ( oder shift) into high den höchsten Gang einlegen
    4. fig Höchststand m:
    his life was full of highs and lows sein Leben war voller Höhen und Tiefen
    5. umg für high school
    6. he’s still got his high umg er ist noch immer blau oder high
    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) hoch [Berg, Gebäude, Mauer]
    2) (above normal level) hoch [Stiefel]

    the river/water is high — der Fluss/das Wasser steht hoch

    be left high and dry(fig.) auf dem trock[e]nen sitzen (ugs.)

    3) (far above ground or sea level) hoch [Gipfel, Punkt]; groß [Höhe]
    4) (to or from far above the ground) hoch [Aufstieg, Sprung]

    high diving — Turmspringen, das; see also bar 1. 2)

    5) (of exalted rank) hoch [Beamter, Amt, Gericht]

    high and mighty(coll.): (highhanded) selbstherrlich; (coll.): (superior) hochnäsig (ugs.)

    be born or destined for higher things — zu Höherem geboren od. bestimmt sein

    6) (great in degree) hoch; groß [Gefallen, Bedeutung]; stark [Wind]

    be held in high regard/esteem — hohes Ansehen/hohe Wertschätzung genießen

    high blood pressure — Bluthochdruck, der

    have a high opinion of somebody/something — eine hohe Meinung von jemandem/etwas haben (geh.); viel von jemandem/etwas halten

    7) (noble, virtuous) hoch [Ideal, Ziel, Prinzip, Berufung]; edel [Charakter]
    8) (of time, season)

    it is high time you leftes ist od. wird höchste Zeit, dass du gehst

    high summer — Hochsommer, der

    9) (luxurious, extravagant) üppig [Leben]

    have a high [old] time — sich bestens amüsieren

    11) (coll.): (on a drug) high nicht attr. (ugs.) (on von)

    get high onsich anturnen mit (ugs.) [Haschisch, LSD usw.]

    12) (in pitch) hoch [Ton, Stimme, Lage, Klang usw.]
    13) (slightly decomposed) angegangen (landsch.) [Fleisch]
    14) (Cards) hoch
    2. adverb

    search or hunt or look high and low — überall suchen

    3. noun
    1) (highest level/figure) Höchststand, der; see also all-time

    on highhoch oben od. (geh., südd., österr.) droben; (in heaven) im Himmel

    3) (Meteorol.) Hoch, das
    * * *
    adj.
    hoch adj.
    hoh adj. n.
    Hoch nur sing. n.
    Höchststand m.

    English-german dictionary > high

  • 11 Hunter, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology
    [br]
    b. 14 (registered 13) February 1728 East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Scotland
    d. 16 October 1793 London, England
    [br]
    Scottish surgeon and anatomist, pioneer of experimental methods in medicine and surgery.
    [br]
    The younger brother of William Hunter (1718–83), who was of great distinction but perhaps of slightly less achievement in similar fields, he owed much of his early experience to his brother; William, after a period at Glasgow University, moved to St George's Hospital, London. In his later teens, John assisted a brother-in-law with cabinet-making. This appears to have contributed to the lifelong mechanical skill which he displayed as a dissector and surgeon. This skill was particularly obvious when, after following William to London in 1748, he held post at a number of London teaching hospitals before moving to St George's in 1756. A short sojourn at Oxford in 1755 appears to have been unfruitful.
    Despite his deepening involvement in the study of comparative anatomy, facilitated by the purchase of animals from the Tower menagerie and travelling show people, he accepted an appointment as a staff surgeon in the Army in 1760, participating in the expedition to Belle Isle and also serving in Portugal. He returned home with over 300 specimens in 1763 and, until his appointment as Surgeon to St George's in 1768, was heavily involved in the examination of this and other material, as well as in studies of foetal testicular descent, placental circulation, the nature of pus and lymphatic circulation. In 1772 he commenced lecturing on the theory and practice of surgery, and in 1776 he was appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to George III.
    He is rightly regarded as the founder of scientific surgery, but his knowledge was derived almost entirely from his own experiments and observations. His contemporaries did not always accept or understand the concepts which led to such aphorisms as, "to perform an operation is to mutilate a patient we cannot cure", and his written comment to his pupil Jenner: "Why think. Why not trie the experiment". His desire to establish the aetiology of gonorrhoea led to him infecting himself, as a result of which he also contracted syphilis. His ensuing account of the characteristics of the disease remains a classic of medicine, although it is likely that the sequelae of the condition brought about his death at a relatively early age. From 1773 he suffered recurrent anginal attacks of such a character that his life "was in the hands of any rascal who chose to annoy and tease him". Indeed, it was following a contradiction at a board meeting at St George's that he died.
    By 1788, with the death of Percival Pott, he had become unquestionably the leading surgeon in Britain, if not Europe. Elected to the Royal Society in 1767, the extraordinary variety of his collections, investigations and publications, as well as works such as the "Treatise on the natural history of the human teeth" (1771–8), gives testimony to his original approach involving the fundamental and inescapable relation of structure and function in both normal and disease states. The massive growth of his collections led to his acquiring two houses in Golden Square to contain them. It was his desire that after his death his collection be purchased and preserved for the nation. It contained 13,600 specimens and had cost him £70,000. After considerable delay, Par-liament voted inadequate sums for this purpose and the collection was entrusted to the recently rechartered Royal College of Surgeons of England, in whose premises this remarkable monument to the omnivorous and eclectic activities of this outstanding figure in the evolution of medicine and surgery may still be seen. Sadly, some of the collection was lost to bombing during the Second World War. His surviving papers were also extensive, but it is probable that many were destroyed in the early nineteenth century.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1767. Copley Medal 1787.
    Bibliography
    1835–7, Works, ed. J.F.Palmer, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London.
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  • 12 Roberts, Richard

    [br]
    b. 22 April 1789 Carreghova, Llanymynech, Montgomeryshire, Wales
    d. 11 March 1864 London, England
    [br]
    Welsh mechanical engineer and inventor.
    [br]
    Richard Roberts was the son of a shoemaker and tollkeeper and received only an elementary education at the village school. At the age of 10 his interest in mechanics was stimulated when he was allowed by the Curate, the Revd Griffith Howell, to use his lathe and other tools. As a young man Roberts acquired a considerable local reputation for his mechanical skills, but these were exercised only in his spare time. For many years he worked in the local limestone quarries, until at the age of 20 he obtained employment as a pattern-maker in Staffordshire. In the next few years he worked as a mechanic in Liverpool, Manchester and Salford before moving in 1814 to London, where he obtained employment with Henry Maudslay. In 1816 he set up on his own account in Manchester. He soon established a reputation there for gear-cutting and other general engineering work, especially for the textile industry, and by 1821 he was employing about twelve men. He built machine tools mainly for his own use, including, in 1817, one of the first planing machines.
    One of his first inventions was a gas meter, but his first patent was obtained in 1822 for improvements in looms. His most important contribution to textile technology was his invention of the self-acting spinning mule, patented in 1825. The normal fourteen-year term of this patent was extended in 1839 by a further seven years. Between 1826 and 1828 Roberts paid several visits to Alsace, France, arranging cottonspinning machinery for a new factory at Mulhouse. By 1826 he had become a partner in the firm of Sharp Brothers, the company then becoming Sharp, Roberts \& Co. The firm continued to build textile machinery, and in the 1830s it built locomotive engines for the newly created railways and made one experimental steam-carriage for use on roads. The partnership was dissolved in 1843, the Sharps establishing a new works to continue locomotive building while Roberts retained the existing factory, known as the Globe Works, where he soon after took as partners R.G.Dobinson and Benjamin Fothergill (1802–79). This partnership was dissolved c. 1851, and Roberts continued in business on his own for a few years before moving to London as a consulting engineer.
    During the 1840s and 1850s Roberts produced many new inventions in a variety of fields, including machine tools, clocks and watches, textile machinery, pumps and ships. One of these was a machine controlled by a punched-card system similar to the Jacquard loom for punching rivet holes in plates. This was used in the construction of the Conway and Menai Straits tubular bridges. Roberts was granted twenty-six patents, many of which, before the Patent Law Amendment Act of 1852, covered more than one invention; there were still other inventions he did not patent. He made his contribution to the discussion which led up to the 1852 Act by publishing, in 1830 and 1833, pamphlets suggesting reform of the Patent Law.
    In the early 1820s Roberts helped to establish the Manchester Mechanics' Institute, and in 1823 he was elected a member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. He frequently contributed to their proceedings and in 1861 he was made an Honorary Member. He was elected a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1838. From 1838 to 1843 he served as a councillor of the then-new Municipal Borough of Manchester. In his final years, without the assistance of business partners, Roberts suffered financial difficulties, and at the time of his death a fund for his aid was being raised.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member, Institution of Civil Engineers 1838.
    Further Reading
    There is no full-length biography of Richard Roberts but the best account is H.W.Dickinson, 1945–7, "Richard Roberts, his life and inventions", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 25:123–37.
    W.H.Chaloner, 1968–9, "New light on Richard Roberts, textile engineer (1789–1864)", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 41:27–44.
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  • 13 Wheatstone, Sir Charles

    SUBJECT AREA: Telecommunications
    [br]
    b. 1802 near Gloucester, England
    d. 19 October 1875 Paris, France
    [br]
    English physicist, pioneer of electric telegraphy.
    [br]
    Wheatstone's family moved to London when he was 4 years old. He was educated at various schools in London and excelled in physics and mathematics. He qualified for a French prize but forfeited it because he was too shy to recite a speech in French at the prize-giving.
    An uncle, also called Charles Wheatstone, has a musical instrument manufacturing business where young Charles went to work. He was fascinated by the science of music, but did not enjoy business life. After the uncle's death, Charles and his brother William took over the business. Charles developed and patented the concertina, which the firm assembled from parts made by "outworkers". He devoted much of his time to studying the physics of sound and mechanism of sound transmission through solids. He sent speech and music over considerable distances through solid rods and stretched wires, and envisaged communication at a distance. He concluded, however, that electrical methods were more promising.
    In 1834 Wheatstone was appointed Professor of Experimental Philosophy—a part-time posi-tion—in the new King's College, London, which gave him some research facilities. He conducted experiments with a telegraph system using several miles of wire in the college corridors. Jointly with William Fothergill Cooke, in 1837 he obtained the first patent for a practical electric telegraph, and much of the remainder of his life was devoted to its improvement. In 1843 he gave a paper to the Royal Society surveying the state of electrical measurements and drew attention to a bridge circuit known ever since as the "Wheatstone bridge", although he clearly attributed it to S.H.Christie. Wheatstone devised the "ABC" telegraph, for use on private lines by anyone who could read, and a high-speed automatic telegraph which was adopted by the Post Office and used for many years. He also worked on the French and Belgian telegraph systems; he died when taken ill on a business visit to Paris.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    B.Bowers, 1975, Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS, London: HMSO.
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  • 14 Jobard, Jean-Baptiste-Ambroise Marcelin

    [br]
    b. 14 May 1792 Baissey, Haute-Marne, France
    d. 27 October 1861 Brussels, Belgium
    [br]
    French technologist, promoter of Belgian industry.
    [br]
    After attending schools in Langres and Dijon, Jobard worked in Groningen and Maastricht as a cadastral officer from 1811 onwards. After the Netherlands had been constituted as a new state in 1814, he became a Dutch citizen in 1815 and settled in Brussels. In 1825, when he had learned of the invention of lithography by Alois Senefelder, he retired and established a renowned lithographic workshop in Belgium, with considerable commercial profit. After the political changes which led to the separation of Belgium from the Netherlands in 1830, he devoted his activities to the progress of science and industry in this country, in the traditional idea of enlightenment. His main aim was to promote all branches of the young economy, to which he contributed with ceaseless energy. He cultivated especially the transfer of technology in many articles he wrote on his various journeys, such as to Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland, and he continued to do so when he became the Director of the Museum of Industry in Brussels in 1841, editing its Bulletin until his death. Jobard, as a member of societies for the encouragement of arts and industry in many countries, published on almost any subject and produced many inventions. Being a restless character by nature, and having, in addition, a strong attitude towards designing and constructing, he also contributed to mining technology in 1828 when he was the first European to practise successfully the Chinese method of rope drilling near Brussels.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1840, Plan d'organisation du Musée de l'industrie, présenté au Ministre de l'interieur, Brussels.
    1844, Machines à vapeur, arrêtes et instructions, Brussels.
    1846, Comment la Belgique peut devenir industrielle, à propos de la Société d'exportation, Brussels.
    considérées comme blason de l'industrie et du commerce, dédié à la Société des inventeurs et protecteurs de l'industrie, Brussels.
    1855, Discours prononcé à l'assemblée des industriels réunis pour l'adoption de la marque obligatoire, Paris.
    Further Reading
    H.Blémont, 1991, article in Dictionnaire de biographie française, Paris, pp. 676–7 (for a short account of his life).
    A.Siret, 1888–9, article in Biographie nationale de belgique, Vol. X, Brussels, col. 494– 500 (provides an impressive description of his restless character and a selected bibliography of his many publications.
    T.Tecklenburg, 1900, Handbuch der Tiefbohrkunde, 2nd edn, Vol. IV, Berlin, pp. 7–8 (contains detailed information on his method of rope drilling).
    WK

    Biographical history of technology > Jobard, Jean-Baptiste-Ambroise Marcelin

  • 15 effect

    ɪˈfekt
    1. сущ.
    1) результат, следствие Nature begins from causes, and thence descends to effects. ≈ Природа начинается с причин, а затем переходит к следствиям. have effect produce an effect of no effect to no effect without effect cause and effect law of effect Syn: result, consequence
    2) а) действие, влияние;
    воздействие to have a profound effect on smth. ≈ глубокое влиять на что-л. to negate, nullify the effect ≈ нейтрализовать воздействие to sleep off the effect ≈ снять эффект с помощью сна adverse effect ≈ обратный эффект beneficial effect, salutary effectблагоприятное воздействие calculated effect ≈ спецэффект deleterious, harmful effect ≈ вредное воздействие desired effectжелаемый эффект dramatic effect ≈ драматический эффект hypnotic effect ≈ гипнотическое воздействие limited effect ≈ ограниченное воздействие marginal effectнезначительный эффект minimal effect ≈ минимальное воздействие heighten an effect feel an effect take effect accompanying effects domino effect greenhouse effect placebo effect ripple effect side effects Syn: efficacy, influence б) действие, сила put into effect bring to effect carry into effect give effect to in effect go into effect come into effect with effect from Syn: operation в) эффективность, результативность A law was made but it had little effect. ≈ Был принят закон, но эффективность его была низкая. Syn: efficacy г) тех. производительность - useful effect
    3) а) намерение, цель;
    содержание, смысл to this effect Syn: purport, drift, tenor б) впечатление, эффект do for effect general effect calculated for effect Syn: impression в) мн.;
    театр., кино звуковые эффекты sound effects special effects Syn: contrivance г) эффект, наблюдаемое явление природы Doppler effect Vavilov-Cherenkov effect
    4) а) мн. юр. движимое (в частности, личное) имущество no effects leave no effects sale of household effects personal effect Syn: belonging
    2) б) денежные средства Syn: money
    2. гл.
    1) осуществлять, совершать, выполнять (обычно подразумевается преодоление каких-л. препятствий) The most skilful chemists have hitherto failed to effect such decomposition. ≈ Даже наиболее одаренным химикам не удавалось до сих пор произвести такое разложение. I'll cross the Sea to effect this marriage. ≈ Чтобы заключить этот брак, я переплыву море( Шекспир, "Генрих VI", часть 3, акт 2, сцена
    4) The earliest purchases are effected in immediate proximity to the mines. ≈ Наиболее ранние закупки производятся в непосредственной близости от шахт. effect an insurance policy effect payment Syn: bring about, accomplish
    2) а) делать, изготовлять, производить б) редк. архаич. строить The Lighthouse happily effected by Mr. Rudyerd. ≈ Маяк, успешно возведенный мистером Редьярдом. ∙ Syn: cause, produce, realize, fulfil, carry out Ant: destroy, deter, hinder, prevent, stop результат, следствие - cause and * причина и следствие - *s of war последствия войны - beneficial * положительное воздействие - salutary * благотворное влияние - long-range *s долгосрочные последствия - worries have a bad * on the nervous system неприятности плохо действуют на нервную систему - he began to feel the evil *s of drinking он начал ощущать пагубные /зловещие/ последствия пьянства - of no *, to no *, without * безрезультатно, безрезультатный - to have /to take/ * дать( желаемый) результат;
    подействовать - the medicine has had no * on her symptoms лекарство не сняло симптомов болезни цель, намерение - to this * для этого, для этой цели - to no * бесцельно смысл, сущность, существо (дела) ;
    содержание - in * в сущности;
    по существу, фактически - his poetry was, in *, his life по существу /по сути дела/ поэзия была его жизнью действие, воздействие, влияние - flutter * (специальное) вибрация, дрожание - the * of light действие света;
    (фотографическое) актинический эффект - to exercise * оказывать воздействие - the * of environmen' upon man's life вдияние окружающей среды на жизнь человека действие, действенность;
    сила - binding * (дипломатическое) обязательная сила - lack of * (юридическое) недействительность - to take * вступать в силу - with * from... вступающий в силу с... - to be in effect действовать, быть действительным( о законе, соглашении и т п) осуществление, выполнение - to give * to приводить в действие( закон) - to put/to bring, to carry/into/to/ * осуществлять, проводить в жизнь, выполнять - in order to give * to the decisions of the Security Council для осуществления решений Совета Безопасности - to give practical * to an idea осуществить замысел эффект, впечатление - for * для (внешнего) эффекта, напоказ;
    чтобы произвести впечатление - general * общее впечатление - the speech did not fail to have its * on the audience как и ожидалось, речь произвела впечатление на аудиторию pl (кинематографический) звуковое сопровождение кинофильма (кроме речи и музыки) ;
    шум - special * специальные эффекты (дождь, снег, туман, пожар и т п) - *s track фонограмма шумов (военное) огневое воздействие, убойность( техническое) полезный эффект, производительность (машины) > to the * that... в том смысле, что...;
    следующего содержания... > there is considerable authority to the * that многие компетентные люди полагают, что... > the answer was to the * that... они ответили (в том смысле), что... > the letter was to the following * содержание письма сводилось к следующему > he said he did not care, or words to that * он сказал, что ему все равно или что-то в этом роде осуществлять;
    совершать;
    выполнять;
    проводить( в жизнь) ;
    производить - to * the will of citizens осуществлять волю граждан - to * a settlement of a dispute добиться урегулирования спора - their transition to automation was *ed last year их переход на автоматику был проведен в прошлом году - the admission of membership in the U N will be *ed by a desigion... прием в члены ООН производится постановлением... - to payment( финансовое) производить платеж заключать, оформлять( сделку и т. п.) - to * a marriage заключить брак - to * a policy( of insurance) застраховаться, приобрести сираховой полис advertising ~ воздействие рекламы advertising ~ эффект рекламы ~ действие, влияние;
    воздействие;
    the effect of light on plants действие света на растения;
    argument has no effect on him убеждение на него никак не действует beneficial ~ благоприятное воздействие binding ~ обязательное действие binding ~ обязывающее действие to bring to ~, to give ~ to, to carry (или to put) into ~ осуществлять, приводить в исполнение, проводить в жизнь ~ эффект, впечатление;
    general effect общее впечатление;
    calculated for effect рассчитанный на эффект carrying into ~ ввод в действие carrying into ~ вступление в силу ~ следствие, результат;
    cause and effect причина и следствие clustering ~ вчт. образование кластеров collateral ~ побочное воздействие collateral ~ побочный эффект combined ~ комбинированный эффект combined ~ совместный эффект coming into ~ вступление в действие coming into ~ вступление в силу communication ~ рекл. эффект взаимопонимания consequent ~ последствие counterbalance the ~ нейтрализовать действие crowding-out ~ полит.эк. эффект вытеснения deflationary ~ дефляционный эффект degrading ~ вчт. эффект ухудшения delaying ~ задерживающий эффект delaying ~ замедляющее воздействие deterrent ~ сдерживающий эффект to do (smth.) for ~ делать (что-л.), чтобы произвести впечатление, пустить пыль в глаза edge ~ вчт. краевой эффект effect влияние, последствие, эффект, действие, сила ~ влияние ~ воздействие ~ выполнять ~ действенность ~ действие, сила;
    to go (или to come) into effect, to take effect вступать в силу (о законе, постановлении, правиле и т. п.) ~ действие, влияние;
    воздействие;
    the effect of light on plants действие света на растения;
    argument has no effect on him убеждение на него никак не действует ~ заключать ~ pl театр., кино звуковые эффекты ~ pl имущество, пожитки;
    sale of household effects распродажа домашних вещей;
    to leave no effects умереть ничего не оставив наследникам ~ исполнение ~ осуществлять, совершать, заключать (договор) ~ осуществлять ~ оформлять ~ тех. полезный эффект, производительность (машины) ~ предпринимать ~ причинять ~ производить;
    выполнять, совершать;
    осуществлять;
    to effect a change in a plan произвести изменение в плане;
    to effect an insurance policy застраховать ~ производить (платеж) ~ результат ~ сила ~ следствие, результат;
    cause and effect причина и следствие ~ следствие, результат ~ следствие ~ содержание;
    the letter was to the following effect письмо было следующего содержания ~ содержание, существо ~ цель, намерение;
    to this effect для этой цели;
    в этом смысле ~ эффект, впечатление;
    general effect общее впечатление;
    calculated for effect рассчитанный на эффект ~ эффект ~ юридическое действие ~ производить;
    выполнять, совершать;
    осуществлять;
    to effect a change in a plan произвести изменение в плане;
    to effect an insurance policy застраховать ~ производить;
    выполнять, совершать;
    осуществлять;
    to effect a change in a plan произвести изменение в плане;
    to effect an insurance policy застраховать ~ of legitimacy законное действие ~ действие, влияние;
    воздействие;
    the effect of light on plants действие света на растения;
    argument has no effect on him убеждение на него никак не действует ~ of validation законное действие failure ~ вчт. последствия отказа feedback ~ вчт. эффект обратной связи field ~ полевой эффект fiscal ~ налог. финансовый результат funnelting ~ эффект суммирования шумов ~ эффект, впечатление;
    general effect общее впечатление;
    calculated for effect рассчитанный на эффект to bring to ~, to give ~ to, to carry (или to put) into ~ осуществлять, приводить в исполнение, проводить в жизнь give ~ to осуществлять give ~ to приводить в действие give ~ to приводить в исполнение give ~ to проводить в жизнь ~ действие, сила;
    to go (или to come) into effect, to take effect вступать в силу (о законе, постановлении, правиле и т. п.) halo ~ рекл. эффект ореола to have ~ иметь желательный результат;
    подействовать immediate ~ немедленный эффект in ~ в действительности, в сущности income ~ эффект дохода inflationary ~ инфляционный эффект injurious ~ неблагоприятное воздействие the law goes into ~ soon закон скоро вступит в силу leading ~ эффект опережения ~ pl имущество, пожитки;
    sale of household effects распродажа домашних вещей;
    to leave no effects умереть ничего не оставив наследникам legal ~ правовые последствия legal ~ юридическая сила ~ содержание;
    the letter was to the following effect письмо было следующего содержания leverage ~ влияние системы рычагов государственного регулирования liquidity absorbing ~ поглощающий эффект ликвидности liquidity ~ эффект ликвидности liquidity tightening ~ уплотняющий эффект ликвидности long-term ~ вчт. отдаленное последействие magnetostrictive ~ магнитострикционный эффект masking ~ вчт. эффект маскировки material ~ существенное влияние memory ~ вчт. эффект запоминания изображения no ~s нет средств (надпись банка на неакцептованном чеке) of (или to) no ~, without ~ безрезультатно;
    бесцельно of (или to) no ~, without ~ безрезультатный of (или to) no ~, without ~ бесполезный Pigou ~ эффект Пигу (рост потребительского спроса под влиянием увеличения реальной стоимости кассовых остатков, вызванного понижением цен) predictive ~ предсказуемостный эффект prejudicial ~ наносящее ущерб юридическое действие price-raising ~ результат повышения цен probe ~ эффект зондирования protective ~ защитный эффект publicity ~ влияние рекламы put into ~ осуществлять put into ~ проводить в жизнь real balance ~ эффект Пигу real balance ~ эффект реальных кассовых остатков reinforcing ~ усиливающее действие resulting ~ конечный результат retroactive ~ обратная сила retroactive ~ обратное действие ripple ~ волновой эффект ~ pl имущество, пожитки;
    sale of household effects распродажа домашних вещей;
    to leave no effects умереть ничего не оставив наследникам second-system ~ эффект вторичной системы secondary ~ побочный эффект side ~ побочный эффект side: ~ attr. побочный;
    a side effect побочное действие (лекарства, лечения и т. п.) ;
    to put on one side игнорировать stage ~ сценический эффект suspensive ~ приостанавливающий эффект ~ действие, сила;
    to go (или to come) into effect, to take effect вступать в силу (о законе, постановлении, правиле и т. п.) take ~ вступать в силу take ~ иметь желаемый результат take ~ оказывать действие take ~ приводить к желаемому результату take ~ производить передачу фьючерсного контракта биржевым брокером третьему лицу take: to ~ effect вступить в силу;
    возыметь действие;
    to take leave уходить;
    прощаться (of) ;
    to take notice замечать;
    to take a holiday отдыхать ~ цель, намерение;
    to this effect для этой цели;
    в этом смысле useful ~ полезное действие useful: ~ полезный, пригодный;
    useful effect тех. полезное действие, отдача wave ~ волновой эффект weaken the ~ ослаблять эффект wealth ~ эффект богатства with ~ from today вступающий в силу с сегодняшнего дня with immediate ~ с немедленным вступлением в силу of (или to) no ~, without ~ безрезультатно;
    бесцельно of (или to) no ~, without ~ безрезультатный of (или to) no ~, without ~ бесполезный

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > effect

  • 16 effect

    1. [ıʹfekt] n
    1. результат, следствие

    worries have a bad effect on the nervous system - неприятности плохо действуют на нервную систему

    he began to feel the evil effects of drinking - он начал ощущать пагубные /зловещие/ последствия пьянства

    of no effect, to no effect, without effect - а) безрезультатно; б) безрезультатный; [ср. тж. 2, 1)]

    to have /to take/ effect - дать (желаемый) результат; подействовать [см. тж. 3, 2)]

    the medicine took effect - лекарство подействовало /помогло/

    the medicine has had no effect on her symptoms - лекарство не сняло симптомов болезни

    2. 1) цель; намерение

    to this effect - для этого, для этой цели

    to no effect - бесцельно [ср. тж. 1]

    2) смысл; сущность, существо ( дела): содержание

    in effect - в сущности; по существу, фактически

    his poetry was, in effect, his life - по существу /по сути дела/ поэзия была его жизнью

    3. 1) действие, воздействие, влияние

    flutter effect - спец. вибрация, дрожание

    the effect of light - а) действие света; б) фото актинический эффект

    the effect of environment upon man's life - влияние окружающей среды на жизнь человека

    2) действие, действенность; сила

    binding effect - дип. обязательная сила

    lack of effect - юр. недействительность

    to take effect - вступать в силу [см. тж. 1]

    with effect from... - вступающий в силу с...

    to be in effect - действовать, быть действительным (о законе, соглашении и т. п.)

    4. осуществление, выполнение

    to put /to bring, to carry/ into /to/ effect - осуществлять, проводить в жизнь, выполнять

    in order to give effect to the decisions of the Security Council - для осуществления решений Совета Безопасности

    5. эффект, впечатление

    for effect - для (внешнего) эффекта, напоказ; чтобы произвести впечатление

    the speech did not fail to have its effect on the audience - как и ожидалось, речь произвела впечатление на аудиторию

    6. pl кино звуковое сопровождение кинофильма ( кроме речи и музыки); шум

    special effect - специальные эффекты (дождь, снег, туман, пожар и т. п.)

    7. воен. огневое воздействие, убойность
    8. тех. полезный эффект; производительность ( машины)

    to the effect that... - в том смысле, что...; следующего содержания...

    there is considerable authority to the effect that - многие компетентные люди полагают, что...

    the answer was to the effect that... - они ответили (в том смысле), что...

    the letter was to the following effect - содержание письма сводилось к следующему

    he said he did not care, or words to that effect - он сказал, что ему всё равно или что-то в этом роде

    2. [ıʹfekt] v
    1. осуществлять; совершать; выполнять; проводить ( в жизнь); производить

    their transition to automation was effected last year - их переход на автоматику был проведён в прошлом году

    the admission to membership in the U.N. will be effected by a decision... - приём в члены ООН производится постановлением...

    to effect payment - фин. производить платёж

    2. заключать, оформлять (сделку и т. п.)

    to effect a policy (of insurance) - застраховаться, приобрести страховой полис

    НБАРС > effect

  • 17 Howe, William

    SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering
    [br]
    b. 12 May 1803 Spencer, Massachusetts, USA
    d. 19 September 1852 Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
    [br]
    American bridge engineer.
    [br]
    He was uncle of Elias Howe and spent his youth in the neighbourhood of his birthplace, primarily as a farmer. In 1838 he was commissioned to build a bridge at Warren, Massachusetts, for the Boston \& Albany Railway. He worked on this for two years, incorporating some novel features for which he applied for patents. His design was a truss with wooden diagonals and vertical iron ties in single and double systems which was said to be an improvement on the Long type of truss, introduced by Colonel Stephen Long in 1830. Howe was the first to incorporate the rectangular truss frame. Soon after this, he was to use his patent truss over the Connecticut River at Springfield for the Western Railroad. So successful was he that he became engaged for the rest of his life in the design of bridges and roof trusses, which, together with selling royalties for the rights to his patents, brought to him a considerable fortune. Many Howe truss bridges were built until the introduction of the iron bridge. In 1846 he took out a third patent for an improvement in the original rectangular truss, consisting of a curved timber member rising from each buttress to the centre of the span and greatly adding to the strength.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of American Biography, 1932–3, New York: Charles Scribner.
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  • 18 Sturgeon, William

    SUBJECT AREA: Electricity
    [br]
    b. 22 May 1783 Whittington, Lancashire, England
    d. 4 December 1850 Prestwich, Manchester, England
    [br]
    English inventor and lecturer, discoverer of the electromagnet, and inventor of the first electric motor put to practical use.
    [br]
    After leaving an apprenticeship as a shoemaker, Sturgeon enlisted in the militia. Self-educated during service as a private in the Royal Artillery, he began to construct scientific apparatus. When he left the army in 1820 Sturgeon became an industrious writer, contributing papers to the Philosophical Magazine. In 1823 he was appointed Lecturer in Natural Science at the East India Company's Military College in Addiscombe. His invention in 1823 of an electromagnet with a horseshoe-shaped, soft iron core provided a much more concentrated magnetic field than previously obtained. An electric motor he designed in 1832 embodied his invention of the first metallic commutator. This was used to rotate a meat-roasting jack. Over an extended period he conducted researches into atmospheric electricity and also introduced the practice of amalgamating zinc in primary cells to prevent local action.
    Sturgeon became Lecturer at the Adelaide Gallery, London, in 1832, an appointment of short duration, terminating when the gallery closed. In 1836 he established a monthly publication, The Annals of Electricity, Magnetism and Chemistry; and Guardian of Experimental Science, the first journal in England to be devoted to the subject. It was to this journal that James Prescot Joule contributed the results of his own researches in electromagnetism. Due to lack of financial support the publication ceased in 1843 after ten volumes had been issued. At the age of 57 Sturgeon became Superintendent of the Victoria Gallery of Practical Science in Manchester; after this gallery closed, the last five years of his life were spent in considerable poverty.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Society of Arts Silver Medal 1825.
    Bibliography
    1836, Annals of Electricity 1:75–8 (describes his motor).
    All his published papers were collected in Scientific Researches, Experimental and Theoretical in Electricity, Magnetism and Electro-Chemistry, 1850, Bury; 1852, London.
    Further Reading
    J.P.Joule, 1857, biography, in Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society 14, Manchester: 53–8.
    Biography, 1895, Electrician 35:632–5 (includes a list of Sturgeon's published work). P.Dunsheath, 1957, A History of Electrical Engineering, London: Faber \& Faber.
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  • 19 run

    /rʌn/ * danh từ - sự chạy =at a run+ đang chạy =on the run all day+ chạy ngược, chạy xuôi suốt ngày, bạn rộn suốt ngày =to be on the run+ chạy đi, chạy trốn, chuồn =to break into a run+ bắt đầu chạy =to keep the enemy on the run+ truy kích (đuổi theo) quân địch =to go for a short run before breakfast+ chạy một quâng ngắn trước khi ăn sáng - cuộc hành trình ngắn, cuộc đi tham quan ngắn; cuộc đi dạo, cuộc đi chơi =a run up to town+ cuộc đi thăm tỉnh ngắn ngày - chuyến đi; quâng đường đi (xe lửa, tàu thuỷ...) =it is only a 30 minute's run to our place+ đến chỗ chúng tôi ở chỉ mất 30 phút - sự hoạt động, sự vận hành, sự chạy (máy móc...); thời gian vận hành - sự giảm nhanh, sự tụt nhanh, sự hạ nhanh, sự sụp đổ nhanh =the temperature came down with a run+ độ nhiệt giảm nhanh =run of ground+ sự lở đất, sự sụp đất - thời gian liên tục, hồi, cơn, loạt =a long run of power+ sự nắm quyền trong một thời gian dài =a run of luck+ hồi đó =the play has a run of 50 nights+ vở kịch được diễn đi diễn lại trong một thời gian liên tục năm mươi đêm liền - tầng lớp đại đa số, loại bình thường; hạng bình thường =the commom run of men; the run of mankind+ những người bình thường =the run of the mill+ những sản phẩm bình thường của nhà máy - loại, hạng, thứ (hàng hoá) - đàn (cá...), bầy (súc vật...) - sân nuôi (gà, cịt...), cánh đồng cỏ (nuôi cừu...), bâi rào kín (để chăn nuôi) - dấu vết quâng đường thường lui tới (của một thú rừng...) - máng dẫn nước - (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) ngòi, lạch, nước, dòng suối - hướng; chiều hướng, xu thế =the run of the mountains is N.E.+ dây núi chạy theo hướng đông bắc =the run of public opinion+ chiều hướng của dư luận - nhịp điệu (của một câu thơ...) - dải liên tục, đường dây liên tục, dòng mạch chạy dài =a run of gold+ mạch mỏ vàng chạy dài =run of tide+ dòng thuỷ triều - sự đổ xô tới; nhu cầu lớn, sự đòi hỏi nhiều (một thứ hàng gì...) =a run on the bank+ sự đổ xô tới đòi rút tiền ở nhà ngân hàng ra =the book has a considerable run+ quyển sách bán được rất chạy (được nhiều người hỏi mua) - sự cho phép tự do sử dụng =to have the run of somebody's books+ được phép tự do sử dụng sách của ai - (hàng không) sự bay theo đường thẳng với một tốc độ cố định (trước khi hoặc lúc ném bom) - (ngành mỏ) mặt nghiêng, mặt dốc - (hàng hải) phần đáy đuôi tàu (đáy tàu về phía bánh lái) - (âm nhạc) Rulat !in the long run - (xem) long !to keep the run of something - (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) nắm được diễn biến của việc gì, nắm được việc gì !to lose the run of something - không nắm được diễn biến của việc gì, không nắm được việc gì !to make a run of it - chạy trốn, trốn thoát !out of the common run - khác thường, không bình thường =to put the run the somebody+ buộc ai phải chạy trốn !to take (have) the run for one's money - được hưởng những sự vui thích xứng với đồng tiền bỏ ra; được vui thích bõ công khó nhọc !with a run !by the run - rất nhanh, nhanh vùn vụt - ngay lập tức, không chậm trễ * nội động từ ran, run - chạy =to run dowen a slope+ chạy xuống con đường dốc =a cold shiver ran down gis spine+ cơn rùng mình ớn lạnh chạy suốt dọc theo xương sống anh ta - chạy vội, vội vã =to run to meet somebody+ vội vã đến gặp ai =to run to help somebody+ chạy vội đến giúp ai - chạy trốn, tẩu thoát =to run for one's life+ chạy trốn bán sống bán chết =to run for it+ (thông tục) chạy trốn =to cut and run+ (từ lóng) chuồn, tẩu - chạy đua =to run in a race+ chạy đua =to run second+ chạy về thứ nhì - chạy, vận hành, hoạt động (máy móc, nhà máy...) =to leave the engine of the motorcar running+ để cho động cơ ô tô chạy - trôi đi, lướt đi, trượt đi, chạy lướt, lăn mau... =the pen runs on the paper+ ngòi bút chạy lướt trên trang giấy =time runs fast+ thời gian trôi nhanh =how his tongue runs!+ mồm nó cứ nói lem lẻm suốt đi! =his life runs smoothly+ cuộc đời anh ta cứ êm dềm trôi đi =the rope runs freely in the pulley+ cái dây thừng trượt đi một cách dễ dàng trên ròng rọc - xoay quanh (một cái trục...; một vấn đề...) =that is the point on which the whole argument runs+ đó là điểm mà tất cả cuộc tranh luận xoay quanh - bỏ khắp, mọc lan ra (cây) - chạy dài, chạy quanh =the road runs across a plain+ con đường chạy qua cánh đồng =the moutain range runs North and South+ dây núi chạy dài từ phía bắc đến phía nam =the fence runs round the house+ hàng rao bao quanh ngôi nhà - được viết, được thảo, được kể, có nội dung (thư, văn kiện, câu chuyện...) =the letter runs as follows+ bức thư được viết như sau =the story runs in these words+ câu chuyện được kể như thế này - tiếp tục tồn tại, tiếp diễn trong một quãng thời gian liên tục, kéo dài =the play has been running for six months+ vở kịch được diễn đi diễn lại sáu tháng liền - có giá trị, có hiệu lực =the contract runs for seven years+ bản giao kèo có giá trị trong bảy năm - ám ảnh, vương vấn =the tune is still running in my head+ điệu nhạc đó cứ vương vấn mãi trong óc tôi - lưu luyến, truyền mãi, còn mãi mãi =it runs in the family+ cái đó truyền mâi trong gia đình - lan nhanh, truyền đi =the news ran like wild fire+ tin tức lan đi rất nhanh - hướng về, nghĩ về =the eyes run over something+ đưa mắt nhìn (hướng về) cái gì =to run back over the past+ nghĩ về quá khứ - chạy trên tuyến đường (xe khách, tàu chở khách...) =the boat runs between Hanoi and Namdinh+ con tàu chạy trên tuyến đường Hà nội Nam định - nhoè (mực); thôi (màu), phai, bạc (màu) - chảy =blood runs in veins+ máu chảy trong mạch máu =the tide runs strong+ thuỷ triều chảy mạnh =pus is running+ mủ chảy =nose runs+ mũi chảy nước =eyes run+ chảy nước mắt - đầm đìa, lênh láng, dầm dề =to be running with sweat+ đầm đìa mồ hôi =to be running with blood+ máu đổ lênh láng - rỉ rò (chùng, chậu...) - lên tới, đạt tới =rice runs five tons a hectare this year+ năm nay lúa đạt năm tấn một hecta - trở nên, trở thành, có xu thế, có chiều hướng =potatoes run big this year+ khoai tây năm nay to củ =to run mad+ hoá điên =to run to extremes+ đi đến chỗ quá khích, đi đến chỗ cực đoan - (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) tuột =silk stockings sometimes run+ bít tất tơ đôi khi bị tuột sợi - ngược nước để đẻ (cá) - ứng cử =to run for parliament+ ứng cử vào nghị viện =to run for president+ ứng cử tổng thống * ngoại động từ - chạy (một quâng đường...) - chạy đua, chạy thi, cho (ngựa) chạy đua =to run a horse+ cho ngựa chạy đua =to run a race+ chạy đua - cho chạy =to run a ship to...+ cho tàu chạy tới... =to run a machine+ cho máy chạy =to run a car into a garage+ đánh ô tô vào nhà để xe - vượt qua; chọc thủng, phá vỡ =to run rapids+ vượt tác ghềnh =to run to a blockade+ tránh thoát vòng vây - cầu, phó mặc (may rủi...) =to chance+ cầu may - theo, đi theo =to let things run their cours+ cứ để cho mọi việc tiến hành theo lệ thường của nó =to run a scent+ theo vết (thú săn) - đuổi theo, rượt theo (thú săn...) =to run to earth+ đuổi (chồn...) vào tận hang - cho chảy; đổ (kim loại...) vào khuôn =to run the water off+ cho nước chảy đi =to run metal into mould+ đổ kim loại vào khuôn - chỉ huy, điều khiển, quản lý, trông nom =to run a hotel+ quản lý một khách sạn =to run a factory+ điều khiển một nhà máy =to run the show+ điều khiển mọi việc - xô vào, lao vào, đụng vào =to run one's head against the wall+ lao đầu vào tường - đâm vào, chọc vào =to run one's sword through somebody; to run somebody through with one's sword+ đâm lưỡi kiếm xuyên qua người ai - luồn =to run a rope through a ring+ luồn sợi dây thừng qua cái vòng - đưa lướt đi =to run one's hand over something+ đưa tay lướt trên vật gì =to run one's fingers through one's hair+ đưa ngón tay lên vuốt tóc - đổ tràn trề, đổ chứa chan, đổ lai láng, chảy đầm đìa, chảy ròng ròng =to run wine+ đổ rượu tràn trề =to run blood+ đổ máu lênh láng - cho ra đồng cỏ (vật nuôi) - buôn lậu =to run arms+ buôn lậu khí giới - khâu lược (cái áo...) - gạch, vẽ (một đường...); đặt (đường dây điện thoại...) - để cho chất đống (nợ nầm...) - đem (so sánh...) =to paralled; to run a simile+ đem so sánh, đem đối chiếu - đề cử, giới thiệu; ủng hộ (một người ra ứng cử) =to run a candidate+ giới thiệu người ứng cử; ủng hộ một người ứng cử

    English-Vietnamese dictionary > run

  • 20 ride

    1. I
    1) he can't ride он не умеет ездить верхом; he is learning to ride он учится ездить верхом /верховой езде/; how far did you ride? как далеко /сколько/ вы проехали [верхом]?; I've given up riding я перестал заниматься верховой ездой, я бросил /оставил/ верховую езду
    2) coll. let the matter ride пусть будет как будет
    2. III
    ride in some manner ride swiftly (slowly, carefully, blindly, recklessly, proudly, gracefully, etc.) быстро и т.д. ехать верхом; ride hard /full speed, full tilt/ мчаться во весь опор; ride at full gallop скакать галопом; ride a [good] расе ехать аллюром, иноходью; ride for some time I rode all the way я весь путь проделал /проскакал/ верхом; ride somewhere he jumped on his horse and rode away он вскочил на лошадь и уехал; they rode away waving goodbye to us они поехали и помахали нам на прощание рукой; he rode off он уехал /ускакал/; ride at some time we rode a lot last year мы много ездили верхом в прошлом году; he's getting too old to ride now он стареет и не может теперь ездить верхом
    2)
    ride somewhere cyclists riding alongside велосипедисты, едущие рядом; shall you ride back or walk back? вы обратно поедете или пойдете пешком?; ride at some time the witches ride by night ведьмы летают [верхом на помеле] по ночам
    3)
    ride in some manner the car rides smoothly эта машина идет очень плавно; the cart rides hard в телеге сильно трясет
    3. III
    1) ride smb., smth. ride a horse (a donkey, etc.) ездить верхом на лошади и т.д.; he's ridden horses all his life он всю свою жизнь ездил верхом; ride a race участвовать в скачках; ride side-saddle ездить на дамском седле; ride a bicycle (a motor cycle, a car, etc.) ездить /кататься/ на велосипеде и т.д.; do you know how to ride a bike? вы умеете ездить на велосипеде?; ride a broomstick летать верхом на помеле; ride a considerable distance (a hundred miles, etc.) ехать на значительное расстояние и т.д.
    2) ride smb. coll. leave her alone and stop riding her - she is doing her best оставь ее в покое и перестань ее дергать ride- она старается
    4. IV
    1) ride smth. somewhere ride a horseback home вернуться домой верхом на лошади
    2) ride smth. somewhere he rode a bicycle down a country road он ехал на велосипеде по проселочной дороге
    3) || ride smb. hard загнать кого-л.; he rode his horse hard он загнал свою лошадь
    5. XI
    2) be ridden by smth. be ridden by doubts (by [foolish] fears, etc,) быть охваченным сомнениями и т.д.; he is ridden by superstitions (by prejudice, etc.) он находится во власти суеверий и т.д.
    6. XVI
    1) ride (up)on smth. ride on horseback (on a camel, on an elephant, on an ass, upon an ox, on a stick, etc.) ехать /ездить/ верхом на лошади и т.д.; ride on smb.'s knee (on smb.'s foot, etc.) качаться, сидя у кого-л. на коленях и т.д.; ride round smth. he rode round his estate (round the fields, etc.) each day он каждый день верхом объезжал свое имение и т.д.; ride at smb., smth. he rode straight at us он направил лошадь /поехал/ прямо на нас: he rode straight at the fence он ехал прямо на барьер /на забор/
    2) ride in (on, around) smth. ride in a bus (in an omnibus, in a tramcar, in a vehicle, in /on/ a cart, in /on/ a railway train, etc.) ездить в автобусе и т.д.; ride in the train in the same compartment (up the hill in a jeep, up and down in an elevator, in a boat across /over/ a river, etc.) ехать в поезде в том же купе и т.д.; we rode in a boat on the river мы ехали в лодке по реке; ride around in his car кататься на машине; ride to smth. ride back and forth to one's work in a city ездить в город на работу и обратно; ride into smth. ride into town въезжать в город; ride straight into a lamppost наехать прямо на фонарный столб; ride over through, about/ smth. ride over /through/ the country (over /through/ a desert, over /through/ a ford, about /through/ [London] streets, etc.) ездить по стране и т.д.; ride on (over) smth. ride on (over) the waves плыть /скользить/ по волнам; ride past smth. I rode past my station я проехал мимо своей станции /свою станцию/
    7. XIX1
    ride like smth. ride like the wind лететь [на лошади] как ветер
    8. XIX2
    ride like being in some state ride like mad мчаться /нестись/ на лошади как безумный
    9. XXI1
    1) ride smb. at smth. ride one's horse at a fence направить лошадь к забору; ride smb. to death ride a horse to death загнать лошадь id ride a joke to death заездить шутку, затаскать остроту; he rides this theory to death он совсем заездил эту теорию
    2) ride smb. on smth. ride a child on one's shoulders (on one's back, etc.) нести ребенка на плечах и т.д.

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > ride

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