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  • 101 _різне

    aim at the stars, but keep your feet on the ground all are not thieves that dogs bark at all cats are grey in the dark all roads lead to Rome always lend a helping hand among the blind the one-eyed man is king as the days grow longer, the storms are stronger at a round table, there is no dispute of place a bad excuse is better than none a bad vessel is seldom broken be just before you're generous be just to all, but trust not all the best things come in small packages the best way to resist temptation is to give in to it better alone than in bad company better an empty house than a bad tenant better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion better ride an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me better to beg than to steal, but better to work than to beg better a tooth out than always aching between two stools one goes to the ground a bird may be known by its flight a bird never flew on one wing a bit in the morning is better than nothing all day a bleating sheep loses a bite a blind man would be glad to see a blind man needs no looking glass bread always falls buttered side down a burden which one chooses is not felt butter to butter is no relish cast no dirt in the well that gives you water the chain is no stronger than its weakest link a change is as good as a rest Christmas comes but once a year circumstances after cases cleanliness is next to godliness the cobbler's wife is the worst shod a cold hand, a warm heart comparisons are odious consistency is a jewel consideration is half of conversation a creaking door hangs long on its hinges desperate diseases must have desperate remedies the devil looks after his own diamond cut diamond dirt shows the quickest on the cleanest cotton discontent is the first step in progress do as you would be done by dog does not eat dog a dog that will fetch a bone will carry a bone a dog will not cry if you beat him with a bone do not spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar do not throw pearls before swine do your best and leave the rest with God do your duty and be afraid of none don't be a yes-man don't cut off your nose to spite your face don't drown yourself to save a drowning man don't look a gift horse in the mouth don't spur a willing horse don't strike a man when he is down don't swap the witch for the devil eagles don't catch flies eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together the English are a nation of shopkeepers even a stopped clock is right twice a day every cock sings in his own way every fish that escapes seems greater than it is every man is a pilot in a calm sea every medal has its reverse side every thing comes to a man who does not need it every tub smells of the wine it holds evil communications corrupt good manners the exception proves the rule exchange is no robbery extremes meet facts are stubborn things familiarity breeds contempt fast bind, fast find fields have eyes, and woods have ears fight fire with fire figure on the worst but hope for the best fingers were made before forks the fire which lights us at a distance will burn us when near the first shall be last and the last, first follow your own star forbearance is no acquittance the fox knows much, but more he that catches him from the day you were born till you ride in a hearse, there's nothing so bad but it might have been worse from the sweetest wine, the tartest vinegar fruit is golden in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair the game is not worth the candles a gentleman never makes any noise the gift bringer always finds an open door the giver makes the gift precious a good horse cannot be of a bad colour a good tale is none the worse for being twice told good riddance to bad rubbish the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong the half is more than the whole half a loaf is better than no bread half an orange tastes as sweet as a whole one hawk will not pick out hawk's eyes the heart has arguments with which the understanding is unacquainted he may well swim that is held up by the chin he that doesn't respect, isn't respected he that lies down with dogs must rise with fleas he that would live at peace and rest must hear and see and say the best he who is absent is always in the wrong he who follows is always behind the higher the climb, the broader the view history is a fable agreed upon hitch your wagon to a star the ideal we embrace is our better self if a bee didn't have a sting, he couldn't keep his honey if a sheep loops the dyke, all the rest will follow I fear Greeks even when bringing gifts if each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city if the cap fits, wear it if the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain if you cannot bite, never show your teeth if you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have if you cannot speak well of a person, don't speak of him at all if you leave your umbrella at home, it is sure to rain if you wish to see the best in others, show the best of yourself ill news travels fast ill weeds grow apace an inch breaks no square it always pays to be a gentleman it costs nothing to ask it is easier to descend than ascend it is easier to pull down than to build up it is good fishing in troubled waters it is idle to swallow the cow and choke on the tail it is the last straw that breaks the camel's back it is sometimes best to burn your bridges behind you it is well to leave off playing when the game is at the best it is not clever to gamble, but to stop playing it's a small world it takes all sorts to make a world it takes a thief to catch a thief jealousy is a green-eyed monster jealousy is a proof of self-love keep a dress seven years and it will come back into style keep no more cats than will catch mice kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish kissing goes by favor jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today a joy that's shared is a joy made double justice is blind lay not the load on the lame horse learn to creep before you leap let the cock crow or not, the day will come the longest road is sometimes the shortest way home lookers-on see most of the game man does not live by bread alone many are called but few are chosen many go out for wool and come home shorn many stumble at a straw and leap over a block men cease to interest us when we find their limitations a misty morn may have a fine day the mob has many heads but no brains the moon is not seen when the sun shines the more the merrier mountain has brought forth a mouse much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of name not a halter in his house that hanged himself the nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat never be the first by whom the new is tried nor yet the last to lay the old aside never do anything yourself you can get somebody else to do never is a long time never let your left hand know what your right hand is doing never make a bargain with the devil on a dark day never quarrel with your bread and butter never tell tales out of school a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse no joy without alloy no man is a hero to his valet no mud can soil us but the mud we throw no names, no pack-drill no news good news no one but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches none is so blind as they who will not see none of us is perfect nothing is certain but the unforeseen nothing is easy to the unwilling nothing is so good but it might have been better nothing is stolen without hands nothing new under the sun nothing seems quite as good as new after being broken an old poacher makes the best keeper once is no rule one dog barks at nothing, the rest bark at him one good turn deserves another one half of the world does not know how the other half lives one hand washes the other one man's meat is another man's poison one picture is worth ten thousand words one volunteer is worth two pressed men one whip is good enough for a good horse; for a bad one, not a thousand opposites attract each other the orange that is squeezed too hard yields a bitter juice other people's burdens killed the ass out of the mire into the swamp painted flowers have no scent paper is patient: you can put anything on it people condemn what they do not understand pigs might fly the pitcher goes often to the well please ever; tease never plenty is no plague the porcupine, whom one must handle gloved, may be respected but is never loved the proof of the pudding is in the eating the remedy is worse than the disease reopen not the wounds once healed a rolling stone gathers no moss the rotten apple injures its neighbors scratch my back and I shall scratch yours the sea refuses no river seize what is highest and you will possess what is in between seldom seen, soon forgotten silence scandal by scandal the sharper the storm, the sooner it's over the sheep who talks peace with a wolf will soon be mutton since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get small faults indulged in are little thieves that let in greater solitude is at times the best society some people are too mean for heaven and too good for hell the soul of a man is a garden where, as he sows, so shall he reap sour grapes can never make sweet wine sow a thought and reap an act the sow loves bran better than roses a stick is quickly found to beat a dog with still waters run deep stoop low and it will save you many a bump through life a straw shows which way the wind blows a stream cannot rise above its source the style is the man the sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle the sun shines on all the world the sun will shine down our street too sunday plans never stand suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one sweetest nuts have the hardest shells the tail cannot shake the dog take things as they are, not as you'd have them tastes differ there are more ways of killing a dog than hanging it there is always room at the top there is life in the old dog yet there is no rose without a thorn there is small choice in rotten apples there is truth in wine there's as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it they need much whom nothing will content they that dance must pay the fiddler they walk with speed who walk alone those who hide can find three removals are as bad as a fire to the pure all things are pure to work hard, live hard, die hard, and go to hell after all would be hard indeed too far east is west translation is at best an echo a tree is known by its fruit a tree often transplanted neither grows nor thrives two can play at that game two dogs over one bone seldom agree venture a small fish to catch a great one the voice with a smile always wins wear my shoes and you'll know where they pitch we weep when we are born, not when we die what can you have of a cat but her skin what can't be cured must be endured what matters to a blind man that his father could see what you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail when a dog is drowning, everyone offers him drink when in doubt, do nowt when interest is lost, memory is lost when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others will build on it when a river does not make a noise, it is either empty or very full when the devil is dead, he never lacks a chief mourner when two ride on one horse one must sit behind where bees are, there is honey where it is weakest, there the thread breaks who seeks what he should not finds what he would not why keep a dog and bark yourself? a wonder lasts but nine days the worth of a thing is best known by its want the world is a ladder for some to go up and some down would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason you buy land, you buy stones; you buy meat, you buy bones you can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink you can tell the day by the morning you cannot lose what you never had you cannot touch pitch and not be defiled you can't put new wine in old bottles you can't walk and look at the stars if you have a stone in your shoe your looking glass will tell you what none of your friends will zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

    English-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > _різне

  • 102 fall

    1. I
    1) did you hear something fall? вы слышали, как что-то упало?; mind you don't fall смотрите, не упадите; don't let the cup fall не уроните чашку; leaves are beginning to fall листья начинают опадать: the rain (the snow) started to fall пошел дождь (снег)
    2) the curtain fell занавес опустился; her eyes fell она опустила глаза /потупила взор/ || night fell наступила ночь, стемнело
    3) many soldiers fell многие солдаты пали /погибли/; the fortress (the city, the reactionary government, etc.) will fall эта крепость и т.д. падет; he was tempted and fell он не устоял перед соблазном [и пал]
    4) the price (the standard of living, the temperature, etc.) falls цена и т.д. падает /понижается/; the wind fell ветер стих; the water /the river/ fell вода спала; his voice fell a) .он заговорил тише; б) он заговорил упавшим голосом; his spirits fell у него испортилось /упало/ настроение; the flames rose and fell пламя то разгоралось, то затухало; the music rose and fell музыка звучала то громче, то тише; where did the blow fall? куда пришелся удар?
    2. II
    1) fall in some manner fall suddenly /unexpectedly/ (quickly, noiselessly, etc.) падать /упасть/ внезапно и т.д.; the rain (the snow) was steadily falling дождь (снег) шел все время /не переставая/; he fell over and over and broke his left leg он упал, перевернулся и сломал ногу; fall full length растянуться во весь рост; fall somewhere fall overboard (downstairs, etc.) упасть за борт и т.д.
    2) fall in some manner the dress (the tunic, the curtain, etc.) is falling freely /loosely/ платье и т.д. падает свободно /спадает мягкими складками/
    3) fall in some manner the price (the temperature, the standard of living, etc.) fall sharply (heavily, quickly, etc.) цена и т.д. резко и т.д. падает /понижается/
    3. XIV
    fall doing smth.
    1) fall crying (laughing, etc.) упасть и заплакать и т.д.; fall going downhill упасть, спускаясь с горы /с холма/
    2) fall fighting пасть в бою /в борьбе/; fall defending the fortress пасть, защищая крепость
    4. XV
    fall in (to) some state fall ill /sick/ заболеть; fall asleep заснуть; fall silent замолчать, смолкнуть; fall dead упасть замертво; fall lame стать хромым; fall flat а) упасть плашмя; б) не иметь желаемого результата; his jokes fell flat его шутки не имели успеха /никого не веселили/; fall short of smth. не достигать цели; fall short of smb.'s expectations не оправдать чьих-л. ожиданий/надежд/ || fall due наступать (о сроке); the rent falls due next Monday срок внесения квартирной платы истекает в будущий понедельник
    5. XVI
    1) fall front /off /smth. fall from a great height (from a tree, off a chair, off a ladder, from a bridge, off a horse, etc.) упасть /свалиться/ с большой высоты и т.д.; the cover fell off the coffee-pot с кофейника свалилась крышка; not a word fell from his lips с его губ не сорвалось ни слова, он не проронил ни слова; fall down smth. fall down the flight of stairs (down the hill, down the embankment, down a precipice, etc.) скатиться /упасть/ с лестницы и т.д.; fall out of /from /smth. fall out of the window (out of the saddle, out of the box, etc.) выпасть из окна и т.д.; it fell out of /from/ my pocket это выпало у меня из кармана; fall into smth. fall into water (into a pond, into a well, into a pit, into the hold of a ship, etc.) падать /упасть/ в воду и т.д.; he fell into the hole which he has dug for others он угодил в яму, которую вырыл для других; fall (up)on smth. fall on grass (on the lawn, on [the] water, etc.) падать на траву и т.д.; snow is falling fast on the ground снег быстро покрывает землю; fall on one's knees (on one's hands, on one's feet, on one's buttocks, etc.) падать на колени и т.д., fall on one's head (on one's nose) упасть и разбить голову (нос), удариться /стукнуться/ головой (носом); a log fell (up)on his foot ему на ногу упало /свалилось/ бревно; the seed fell on favourable soil зерно упало /попало/ на благодатную почву; fall upon smb.'s neck броситься кому-л. на шею; fall to (towards) smth. fall to the ground (to the floor, towards the earth, etc.) падать на землю и т.д.; the book fell from the table to the floor книга упала со стола на пол; this typewriter is ready to fall to pieces эта пишущая машинка скоро развалится; his hopes (plans, etc.) fell to the ground его надежды и т.д. рухнули; fall over smth.. fall over a chair (over a stone, over his feet, etc.) упасть, споткнувшись о стул и т.д.; fall over a fence перевалиться через забор; fall over head and heels полететь кувырком; fall in smth. fall in a fit упасть и забиться в припадке; fall in a faint потерять сознание [и упасть], упасть в обморок; fall in a heap свалиться как подкошенный; the rain fell in torrents дождь лил как из ведра; fall in the storm (in the earthquake, etc.) падать /обрушиваться, рухнуть/ во время бури и т.д.; fall under smth. fall under its own weight падать под тяжестью собственного веса; fall under the wheels of a car попасть под колеса автомобиля; fall at smth. fall at smb.'s feet падать к чьим-л. ногам
    2) fall (up)on smth. the sun (a shadow, etc.) fell on the mountain peaks (on the wall, on smb.'s face, etc.) солнечные лучи и т.д. упали на /осветили/ вершины гор и т.д.; darkness fell upon everything все утонуло во тьме; fear (awe, sleep, etc.) fell upon them их охватил страх и т.д.; his eye (s) /look/ fell (up)on her (upon the curious object, upon the forgotten jewelry, upon a red umbrella, etc.) его взгляд упал на нее /остановился на ней/ и т.д.; fall to smth. his beard fell to his chest его борода доходила до груди; her cloak fell to her feet ее плащ ниспадал до самого пола; his eyes fell to the carpet он опустил глаза и уставился на ковер; fall before smth. her eyes fell before his steady gaze она опустила глаза под его пристальным взглядом; fall oner smb., smth. her hair falls over her shoulders волосы спадают ей на плечи; stillness /a hush/ fell over the crowd толпа смолкла /умолкла, затихла/; fall across smth. fall across the road (across the street, across the bridge, etc.) протянуться через дорогу и т.д.; fall in smth. fall in soft folds падать мягкими складками
    3) fall in (by, to) smth. fall in battle (in the war) пасть на поле битвы (на войне); fall by the sword пасть от сабельного удара; fall to the enemy bullet (to smb.'s gun, to smb.'s rifle, etc.) пасть от вражеской пули и т.д.; the city (the fort, etc.) fell to the enemy город и т.д. был захвачен противником || fall before /to/ temptation не устоять перед соблазном, поддаться соблазну
    4) fall to smth. their number fell to 10 их число упало /снизилось/ до десята; the thermometer fell to 20° below zero температура упала до двадцати градусов ниже нуля; his voice fell to a whisper его голос понизился до шепота, он перешел на шепот; fall in smth. fall in smb.'s esteem (in the public estimation, etc.) потерять в чьем-л. мнении и т.д.
    5) fall into smth. the river falls into sea (into a bay, into a lake, etc.) река впадает в море и т.д.; fall into (out of, in) some state fall into a deep sleep погрузиться в глубокий сон, fall into a doze задремать; fall into a stupor прийти в состояние оцепенения; fall into a rage рассердиться, разгневаться; fall into disgrace опозориться; fall into smb.'s disfavour лишиться чьего-л. расположения /чьей-л. благосклонности/; fall into disuse выйти из употребления; fall into ruin /into decay, into decline/ прийти в упадок, разрушиться; fall into poverty обнищать: fall into fallacy (into the same error, etc.) впадать в ошибку и т.д.; fall into the mistake of thinking that... ошибочно считать /полагать/, что...; fall into oblivion быть преданным забвению; fall into [a] habit приобретать привычку, привыкать; fall out of [a] habit отвыкать, отучаться от привычки; fall in love влюбляться; fall under smth. fall under smb.'s displeasure вызывать чье-л. неудовольствие; fall from smth. fall from people's favour (from one's former greatness, from smb.'s grace, etc.) потерять /утратить/ любовь народа и т.д.
    6) fall in(to) smth. fall in (to) two (into three groups, into four distinct parts, into the following classes, into five sections, into three periods, etc.) делиться /распадаться/ на две части и т.д.; the subject falls into four divisions в этой теме можно выделить четыре части /подтемы/
    7) fall on smth. the holiday (her birthday, the anniversary, etc.) falls on Sunday (on the 8th of April, on the same day, etc.) праздник a т.д. падает на воскресенье и т.д., the accent falls on the first syllable ударение падает на первый слог; fall on smb., smth. the choice (the blame, the suspicion, etc.) fell on him выбор и т.д. пал на него; the responsibility (all the expenses, etc.) falls on her /on her shoulders/ ответственность и т.д. ложится на нее /на ее плечи/; the duty fell on him эта обязанность была возложена на него; it has fallen on me to support the family (to open the discussion, to break the news to him, etc.) мне пришлось содержать семью и т.д.; the catastrophe fell on папу people во время катастрофы пострадали многие; fall to smb. the money (the estate, the inheritance, etc.) fell to him деньги и т.д. перешли к нему /достались ему/; the honours fell to him эта честь выпала ему /на его долю/; the tennis championship fell to our team наша команда стала чемпионом по теннису; fall to smb.'s lot выпадать на чью-л. долю; the lot fell to me жребий пал на меня
    8) fall under smth. fall under smb.'s influence (under smb.'s rule, under the spell of the book, etc.) подпадать под чье-л. влияние и т.д.; fall for smth. coll. fall for such an explanation (for her tears, etc.) поверить такому объяснению и т.д.; попасться на удочку, когда слышишь такое объяснение и т.д., fall for her sincere look быть обманутым ее невинным видом; his story sounded convincing so I fell for it его рассказ звучал так убедительно, что я попался на удочку; I'll not fall for any more of his tricks теперь он уже не проведет /не обманет/ меня своими штучками || fall for smb. coll. влюбиться в кого-л.; he falls for every pretty face he sees он влюбляется в каждую смазливую мордашку
    9) fall on smth. fall on evil days /on bad days, on hard times, etc./ попасть в трудную полосу, переживать тяжелые дни; fall into smth. fall into trouble попасть в беду; fall into difficulties испытывать трудности; fall into a trap /into a snare/ попасться в ловушку
    10) fall within smth. fall within this category (within article 10, within the scope of this discipline, within our agreement, etc.) входить в данную категорию и т.д.; fall under ( into) smth. fall under another category (under this heading, under this description, etc.) попадать в /подпадать под/ другую категорию и т.д.; it does not fall into either class это не попадает /не входит/ ни в тот, ни в другой класс
    11) fall among smb. fall among enemies (among thieves, among robbers, etc.) попасть к врагам /оказаться среди врагов/ и т.д.; fall into smth. fall into smb.'s hands (into smb.'s power) попасть в чьи-л. руки (оказаться в чьей-л. власти); fall into competent hands попасть в хорошие руки
    12) fall (up)on smb., smth. fall upon the enemy (on them from the rear, upon the unsuspecting travellers, on the village, etc.) нападать на врага и т.д.
    13) fall behind smb., smth. fall behind one's group (behind one's age, behind foreign competitors, etc.) отставать от своей группы и т.д.
    6. XVII
    fall to doing smth. fall to reading приняться за чтение и т.д.; fall to abusing smb. (to criticizing the main, etc.) начать оскорблять /ругать/ кого-л. и т.д.; fall to thinking of the past (of wondering where to go for the holidays, etc.) задуматься о прошлом и т.д.; fall to drinking запить, начать пьянствовать
    7. XXI1
    || fall [a] victim /prey/ to smth. пасть жертвой чего-л.; fall a victim to disease (to jealousy, to superstition, to lust, etc.) стать жертвой болезни и т.д.; fall prey to her charms стать жертвой ее обаяния

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > fall

  • 103 reach

    1. I
    abs as far as the arm can reach на расстоянии вытянутой руки; as far as the eye can reach насколько видит глаз или насколько может охватить взор, до горизонта; farther than the eye can reach так далеко, что не видно, далеко за горизонт (ом)
    2. II
    reach somewhere reach far простираться /тянуться/ далеко; how far does the new road reach? до какого места /куда/ доходит новая дорога?; I cannot reach so high (far enough) я не могу дотянуться так высоко (так далеко); the boots reach halfway up the legs сапоги доходят до половины икры
    3. III
    1) reach smth. reach the port (the town, London, the place, etc.) приезжать /прибывать/ в порт и т.д.; when does the train reach the city? когда поезд приходит в город?; reach one's destination (land, the coast, the top of a hill, the entrance, the other side of the room, etc.) добираться до места назначения и т.д.; the road (the railway) reaches our village (my house, etc.) (железная) дорога доходит до нашей деревни и т.д.; the path reaches the field дорожка выходит /ведет/ к полю; the steps by which you reach the entrance ступеньки, которые ведут к выходу; when he reached the end of the book... когда он уже кончал книгу /подошел к концу книги/...; the epidemic disease had reached the town эпидемия уже докатилась до города /охватила город/; reach the ground (the knee, the sill, etc.) доходить до /достигать/ земли и т.д.; the coat reached his heels пальто доходило /было/ ему до пят; the mass of books reaches the ceiling гора книг подпирает потолок; the anchor reached bottom якорь опустился на дно; the water was too deep for light to reach the bottom было глубоко, и [через толщу воды] свет не проникал /не мог пробиться/ на дно; the spire reaches the sky шпиль упирается в небо; when the chrystal reaches full size когда кристалл достигнет нужного размера или перестанет расти; reach a certain sum (price, billions, etc.) достигать определенной суммы [денег] и т.д.; the sum total of the expenses reaches thousands of francs общая сумма расходов равна ста тысячам франков /исчисляется тысячами франков/; the book reached its sixth edition книга уже вышла шестым изданием; reach old age (middle age, the age of sixty, the end of life, etc.) дожить до пожилого возраста и т.д.; reach adolescence достичь юношеского возраста; when he reached the age of fifty... когда ему исполнилось пятьдесят лет...; reach smb., smth. these rumours (smb.'s message, smb.'s request, smb.'s call for help, etc.) reached me когда эти слухи и т.д. дошли до меня; when the news reached me когда до меня дошло это известие, когда я узнал об этом событии; this must not reach his ears он об этом не должен (у)знать; not a sound reached our ears до нас /до нашего слуха/ не долетало /не доносилось/ ни звука; every syllable reached the audience до аудитории доходило каждое слово; the radio reached millions радио слушают миллионы [людей]; попе of their bullets reached the enemy их пули не настигли противника
    2) reach smth. reach one's aims /one's ends, the goal, the mark/ (the object of one's desires, a high standard, perfection, power, a stage of considerable skill, etc.) достигать /добиваться/ своей цели и т.д.; reach an agreement (an understanding, a compromise, etc.) достигать соглашения и т.д., приходить к соглашению и т.д.; reach a conclusion приходить к заключению; reach an opinion составить мнение
    3) reach smth. reach the shelf (the top of the door, the ceiling, the apple on the branch, etc.) дотянуться до полки и т.д.; he was so short that he could not reach the door handle он был такой маленький, что не мог дотянуться до дверной ручки /достать дверную ручку/; the stick doesn't reach the bottom палка не доходит /не достает/ до дна
    4) reach smb., smth. reach the general (the headquarters, etc.) связываться /устанавливать/ связь с генералом и т.д.; where can I reach you? где я могу вас найти?; there was no way of reaching him с ним никак нельзя было связаться; the law cannot reach him он недосягаем для закона
    5) reach smb., smth. reach children (the old woman, smb.'s heart, smb.'s conscience, etc.) произвести впечатление на /тронуть/ детей и т.д.; the words reached his heart эти слова дошли до его сердца /тронули его сердце/
    4. IV
    reach smth. in some manner he hardly reached my shoulders он едва доставал мне до плеча; the ladder won't quite reach the window лестница /стремянка/ немного не достает до окна; reach smb. somewhere you can reach me here вы меня найдете здесь; reach smb. at some time the letter reached me yesterday (today, too late, etc.) письмо пришло /дошло до меня/ вчера и т.д.
    5. V
    reach smb. smth. reach me (him, etc.) the pen (the book, the salt, the mustard, etc.) передайте мне и т.д. ручку и т.д.
    6. XI
    1) be reached by smth. the windows can be reached by a ladder до окон можно добраться при помощи стремянки; be reached by smth. in some manner the village is easily reached by rail до деревни легко добраться поездом /по железной дороге/
    2) be reached by (on) smth. the place cannot be reached by telephone с этим пунктом нет телефонной связи; he can always be reached on the office telephone с ним всегда можно связаться по служебному телефону
    3) be reached by smth. be reached by flattery быть падким на лесть; be reached by reason прислушиваться к голосу разума; how is her conscience to be reached? как подействовать /повлиять/ на ее совесть?
    7. XVI
    1) reach to (as far as) smth. reach to the river (to the sea, to the road, to the very mountains, as far as the sea, as far as my house, etc.) простираться /тянуться/ до реки и т.д.; reach nearly to the ground (to the bottom of the ocean, to the top of the wall, etc.) доходить /доставать/ почти до земли и т.д.; the sound of his voice reached easily to the back of the hall его голос было хорошо слышно в конце зала: reach to a considerable figure достигать значительной цифры /значительного количества/; reach to great heights (to the height of perfection, etc.) достигать, больших высот и т.д.; reach from smth. to smth. the rainbow reaches from heaven to earth радуга спускается с неба до самой земли; reach across smth. their voices reached across the lake (across. the river, across the street, etc.) их голоса доносились до противоположного берега озера и т.д.
    2) reach into smth. reach into September (into next week, into the XXth century, etc.) захватывать /распространяться на/ сентябрь и т.д.; the winter vacation reaches into February зимние каникулы захватывают часть февраля; reach into the millions (into many hundreds, etc.) насчитывать миллионы и т.д.
    3) reach for ( after, towards, etc.) smth. reach for a knife (for the bread, for one's hat, for the receiver, for one's gun, towards a book, after the newspaper, after smth. one has dropped, etc.) протянуть руку /потянуться/ за ножом и т.д.; greedily (promptly, impulsively, vainly, etc.) reach for food жадно и т.д. (по)тянуться к пище; reach after knowledge (after fame, after happiness, after affection, after an ideal, etc.) тянуться /стремиться/ к знаниям и т.д.; reach across smth. reach across the table протянуть руку /потянуться/ через [весь] стол (чтобы дать или достать что-л.)
    8. XXI1
    1) reach smth. at some time reach the city at six o'clock (the airport at three, the house in the morning, etc.) прибыть в город в шесть часов и т.д., добраться до города в шесть часов и т.д.; we reached the village at midnight мы добралась до деревни в полночь; reach smb. at some time your letter did not reach me until today я получил ваше письмо только сегодня; reach smb. about smb., smth. all that has reached me about him (about his condition, this event, etc.) все, что я слышал /что мне стало известно о нем и т.д.
    2) reach smth. from (on, etc.) smth. reach a book from a shelf (sugar on the top shelf, a box under the table, etc.) достать книгу с [высокой] полки и т.д.; reach me the book (the newspaper, the magazine, that box, etc.) on the top shelf [достаньте и] передайте мне книгу и т.д. с верхней полки

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > reach

  • 104 pool

    [pu:l] I noun
    1) (a small area of still water: The rain left pools in the road.) baltă
    2) (a similar area of any liquid: a pool of blood/oil.) baltă
    3) (a deep part of a stream or river: He was fishing (in) a pool near the river-bank.) bulboană
    4) (a swimming-pool: They spent the day at the pool.) piscină
    II 1. noun
    (a stock or supply: We put our money into a general pool.) fond comun
    2. verb
    (to put together for general use: We pooled our money and bought a caravan that we could all use.) a pune în comun
    - football pools
    - pools

    English-Romanian dictionary > pool

  • 105 pool

    [pu:l] I noun
    1) (a small area of still water: The rain left pools in the road.) λιμνούλα με νερό
    2) (a similar area of any liquid: a pool of blood/oil.) λιμνούλα
    3) (a deep part of a stream or river: He was fishing (in) a pool near the river-bank.) βαθύ σημείο ποταμού
    4) (a swimming-pool: They spent the day at the pool.) πισίνα,κολυμβητήριο
    II 1. noun
    (a stock or supply: We put our money into a general pool.) κοινό ταμείο
    2. verb
    (to put together for general use: We pooled our money and bought a caravan that we could all use.)
    - football pools
    - pools

    English-Greek dictionary > pool

  • 106 fall

    I [fɔːl] 1. гл.; прош. вр. fell, прич. прош. вр. fallen
    1)
    а) = fall down / over падать ( с высоты)

    The apple fell from the tree. — Яблоко упало с дерева.

    He fell down the stairs. — Он упал с лестницы.

    The child has fallen down and hurt his knee. — Ребёнок упал и ушиб колено.

    The little girl fell over and hit her head. — Маленькая девочка упала и ударилась головой.

    We fell on our knees before her. — Мы упали перед ней на колени.

    I fell back and hurt my head. — Я упал назад и ушиб голову.

    The boy fell through the ice. — Мальчик провалился под лёд.

    The water's deep here, mind you don't fall in. — Здесь глубоко, смотри не упади в воду.

    The roof of the mine fell in, trapping the miners. — Кровля шахты провалилась, и шахтёры оказались отрезанными.

    He fell over a rock in his path. — Он споткнулся о камень, который лежал на его пути, и упал.

    Syn:
    б) = fall off отпадать, отваливаться

    My top button has fallen off. — У меня оторвалась и упала верхняя пуговица.

    2)
    а) упасть, потерять положение в обществе; пасть морально

    By going to the club Patrick fell among a bad group of people and started stealing people's money. — Патрик стал ходить в клуб, связался с какими-то подонками и стал грабить людей.

    Syn:
    б) потерять невинность, утратить целомудрие ( обычно о женщине); забеременеть

    We had been married eight months before I fell. — Мы были женаты восемь месяцев, прежде чем я забеременела.

    3) падать, идти (об осадках, звёздах)
    4) приходить, наступать (о беде, болезни, сне); охватить ( о чувстве)

    A great stillness fell upon the place. — Наступила мёртвая тишина.

    Wonder fell on all. — Все изумились.

    5) спускаться, наступать (о темноте, ночи)

    Night fell. — Спустилась ночь.

    Dusk is falling. — Спускаются сумерки.

    6) = fall out опадать; выпадать прям. и перен.

    Her hair fell, and her face looked older. — Её волосы поредели и лицо выглядело более старым.

    Your hair is beginning to fall out. — Ваши волосы начинают выпадать.

    7) опускаться, падать

    to let fall — опускать, спускать (якорь, занавес, паруса)

    8) ниспадать, (свободно) падать (об одежде, волосах)

    Her dress falls in pleats from the waist. — Её платье спадает от талии свободными складками.

    Syn:
    10) ( fall from) срываться, слетать с ( уст)

    every word that fell from her lips — каждое слово, которое слетало с её губ

    11) опускаться, убывать

    There were signs of clearing in the west, and the waves began to fall. — На западе стало проясняться, и волны стали успокаиваться.

    My spirits fell. — Моё настроение упало.

    I'm disappointed in your work: it has fallen below your usual standard. — Я недоволен вашей работой, обычно вы работали лучше.

    Your work has fallen from the level we expected from you. — Уровень вашей работы ниже, чем мы от вас ожидали.

    Syn:
    13)
    а) = fall down спускаться вниз по (чему-л.)
    б) = fall off спускаться, иметь наклон ( о местности)

    The land falls off here towards the river. — Здесь резкий спуск к реке.

    Syn:
    14) впадать (о реке, потоке)
    15) стихать, ослабевать, успокаиваться (о ветре, погоде)

    Flames leaped up suddenly and fell again. — Языки пламени внезапно взметнулись вверх и снова погасли.

    The storm fell before seven o'clock. — Буря затихла к семи часам.

    Syn:
    abate, calm 3.
    16) терять живость; вытягиваться ( о выражении лица)

    The countenance of the old man fell. — Лицо старика вытянулось.

    Caleb's face fell a full inch. — Лицо Калеба вытянулось на целый дюйм.

    17) наклоняться; опускаться ( о глазах)
    18) падать, снижаться (о температуре, ценах)

    The temperature has fallen below zero. —Температура упала ниже нуля.

    The cost of meat finally fell. — Цены на мясо наконец снизились.

    The class has fallen below ten students this year. — В этом году в классе осталось меньше десяти человек.

    Syn:
    19) пасть, сдаваться, капитулировать (о городе, крепости, корабле)

    On the third day of the attack, the town fell. — На третий день штурма город пал.

    Syn:
    20) пасть; быть сброшенным ( о власти); гибнуть

    The Ministry was certain to fall in a short time. — Было очевидно, что правительство падёт очень быстро.

    Syn:
    be overthrown, perish
    22) карт. быть взятой, быть битой ( более крупной картой)
    23) крим. быть арестованным; быть осуждённым; быть посаженным в тюрьму
    24) обваливаться, оседать (о здании и т. п.)

    One of the towers had fallen with its own weight. — Одна из башен развалилась под собственной тяжестью.

    25) ( fall into)
    а) делиться, распадаться на (что-л.)
    б) = fall under / within принадлежать к (какому-л. классу)

    to fall into the category — относиться к категории, подпадать под категорию

    The population that falls under the category of poor is less than 7%. — Менее семи процентов населения подпадают под категорию бедных.

    Your suggestion falls within the general area of reorganization. — Ваше предложение - из серии идей по реорганизации.

    26) падать, выпадать, доставаться

    to fall to smb.'s lot — выпадать на чью-л. долю

    The lot fell upon him. — Жребий пал на него.

    The expense must fall upon the purchaser. — Затраты должны падать на покупателя.

    They alone fall to be considered here. — Здесь только на них и следует обращать внимание.

    The property will fall to the eldest son. — Имущество достанется старшему сыну.

    The stress falls on the second syllable. — Ударение падает на второй слог.

    28) ( fall in(to)) впадать в (какое-л. состояние); оказываться в (каком-л. положении)

    Henry fell into one of his fearful rages. — Генри впал в один из своих страшных приступов бешенства.

    to fall in love — ( with) влюбиться (в кого-л.)

    to fall out of love — ( with) разлюбить (кого-л.)

    29) ( fall for) влюбиться в (кого-л.); полюбить (что-л.)

    Jim fell for Mary in a big way when they first met. — Джим по уши влюбился в Мэри с того самого дня, когда они встретились.

    I think you're going to fall for this film. — Мне кажется, тебе понравится этот фильм.

    30) ( fall for) попадаться на (удочку, уловку и пр.)

    Don't fall for that old trick, he's trying to persuade you to buy his goods. — Не поддайся на эту старую как мир уловку, он же хочет впарить тебе свой товар.

    31) (fall + гл., прил.) становиться, перейти в состояние (чего-л.)

    to fall astern — мор. отстать

    The memory of his faults had already fallen to be one of those old aches. — Память о его вине превратилась в застарелую боль.

    32) ( fall (up)on) приходиться, падать, происходить, иметь место

    My birthday falls on Sunday. — Мой день рождения попадает на воскресенье.

    New Year's Day falls on a Wednesday. — Новый Год приходится на среду.

    Syn:
    33) рубить, валить ( деревья); валиться ( о дереве)
    Syn:
    34) ( fall from) бросать, покидать (кого-л.), отказываться от верности (кому-л.)

    The followers of Louis were falling from him. — Сторонники Людовика покидали его.

    35) ( fall into) начинать (что-л.), приниматься за (что-л.); приобретать (привычку и т. п.)

    You have fallen into a bad habit of repeating yourself. — У вас появилась дурная привычка повторяться.

    I fell into conversation with an interesting man. — Я вступил в разговор с интересным собеседником.

    36) ( fall (up)on) нападать на (что-л.), налетать на (что-л.); набрасываться на (что-л.)

    The hungry children fell on the food. — Голодные дети набросились на еду.

    37) ( fall (up)on) выпадать на (чью-л. долю), доставаться (кому-л.)

    It falls on me to thank our chairman for his speech. — Мне выпала честь поблагодарить нашего председателя за его речь.

    The blame fell on me as usual. — Как обычно, всю вину возложили на меня.

    38) ( fall (up)on) работать над (чем-л.), разрабатывать (что-л.)

    He fell on the new idea and in the course of time wrote an important book about it. — Он принялся разрабатывать эту идею и через некоторое время написал большую книгу по этому вопросу.

    39) ( fall (up)on) достигать
    40) (fall under / within) попадать в (сферу действия чего-л.); подвергаться (чему-л.)

    to fall within one's jurisdiction — входить в чью-л. компетенцию

    to fall under smb.'s influence — попадать под чьё-л. влияние

    If the answer to your difficulty falls within my experience, I'll give you all the help I can. — Если ваш вопрос относится к сфере моего опыта, я окажу Вам всю возможную помощь.

    These states of matter will fall under our observation. — Данное положение дел будет контролироваться нами.

    41) ( fall to) приниматься за (что-л.), начинать делать (что-л.); набрасываться на (что-л.)

    They fell to work immediately. — Они сразу взялись за работу.

    I fell to thinking about the happy days of the past. — Я принялся думать о счастливых днях прошлого.

    Syn:
    •
    - fall abreast of
    - fall across
    - fall apart
    - fall away
    - fall back
    - fall behind
    - fall down
    - fall foul of     - fall out
    - fall through
    ••

    to fall into line / step with smb. — подчиняться, соглашаться с кем-л.

    to fall over one another / each other — драться, бороться, соперничать друг с другом

    to fall over backwards to do smth. — разг. лезть из кожи вон, чтобы сделать что-л.

    to fall prey / sacrifice / victim to — прям. и перен. пасть жертвой (чего-л.)

    - fall over oneself
    - fall over backwards
    - fall to the ground
    - fall to pieces
    - fall into place     2. сущ.

    bad / nasty fall — неудачное падение

    to have / take a fall — падать

    The net broke the tightrope walker's fall. — Сетка смягчила падение канатоходца.

    Syn:
    2) моральное падение; потеря чести; потеря невинности

    The play was about the fall of an honest man. — В пьесе говорилось о моральном падении честного человека.

    Syn:
    3) ( the Fall) рел. грехопадение (согласно Библии, утрата человеком изначальной чистоты и богоподобия в результате первого греха - непослушания Богу; соблазнённые сатаной в образе змея, Адам и Ева нарушили запрет и вкусили плод с древа познания добра и зла, за что были изгнаны из рая)

    the Fall of Man — грехопадение человека, грехопадение Адама

    4) падение, сбрасывание; выпадение (осадков, метеоритов); количество осадков, выпавших за один раз или за определённый период времени
    5) приближение, наступление (сумерек, ночи, зимы)
    6) выпадение (зубов и т. п.)
    7) амер. осень
    Syn:
    8) око́т, рождение (ягнят и т. п.)

    The principal fall of lambs takes place now. — Именно сейчас идёт основной окот овец.

    9) помёт, выводок
    Syn:
    11) упадок, закат
    Syn:
    12) заключительный период, завершающая часть (дня, года, жизни)
    14) ( falls) водопад

    We could see the spray from the falls. — Мы видели брызги от водопада.

    Syn:
    15)
    а) обрыв, склон, откос ( холма); скат, спуск

    The girls saw a little fall of the ground. — Девочки увидели небольшой откос.

    Syn:
    б) высота (обрыва, склона и т. п.)
    16) понижение, снижение, падение (температуры и т. п.)
    17) муз. каданс, каденция
    Syn:
    19) снижение, падение, понижение ( цен)

    Yesterday saw a sudden fall in stock prices. — Вчера произошло резкое падение биржевого курса.

    Syn:
    20) спорт.
    б) схватка, раунд
    21)
    б) лес, сваленный за один сезон
    22) = fall trap капкан, ловушка, западня
    Syn:
    23) падение, поражение, капитуляция ( о городе или крепости)

    The fall of the city followed heavy bombardment. — Сдаче города предшествовала сильная бомбардировка.

    Syn:

    And women rent their tresses for their great prince's fall. — И женщины рвали на себе волосы, горюя о смерти своего великого государя.

    Syn:
    25) крим.
    26)
    а) покрывало, вуаль
    28) тех.; = block and fall канат, цепь подъёмного блока
    29) мор. фал
    30) тех. напор; высота напора
    ••

    Pride will have a fall. посл. — Гордыня до добра не доводит.

    II [fɔːl] сущ.; диал.
    1) крик, издаваемый китобоями, когда кит оказывается в пределах видимости или в пределах загарпунивания

    Англо-русский современный словарь > fall

  • 107 lead

    I [led] 1. сущ.
    1) хим. свинец
    - white lead
    2) = black lead графит для карандашей; грифель
    Syn:
    3) разг.; = cold lead пуля
    4) диал. бак, котёл
    5)
    а) мор. лот

    to heave / cast the lead — бросать лот; измерять глубину лотом

    б) грузило, отвес
    6) ( leads) свинцовые полосы для покрытия крыши; покрытая свинцом крыша; плоская крыша
    7) ( leads) полигр. шпоны
    ••
    - swing the lead
    - put lead in one's pencil 2. прил. 3. гл.
    1) тех. освинцовывать, покрывать свинцом
    2) полигр. разделять шпонами
    II [liːd] 1. сущ.
    1)
    а) лидерство; руководство; инициатива

    to assume / take the lead — взять на себя инициативу, выступить инициатором; брать на себя руководство

    to build up / increase one's lead — укреплять лидирующую позицию

    to give up / lose / relinquish the lead — уступать лидерство

    to hold / maintain the lead — держать лидерство

    Syn:
    б) пример, образец

    Most of the legislators followed the lead of the governor. — Большинство законодателей последовали примеру губернатора.

    to follow the lead of smb. — следовать примеру кого-л.

    Syn:
    в) директива, указание
    г) ключ (к разгадке чего-л.); указатель, намёк

    to run / track down a lead — найти решение

    The police haven't a single lead. — У полиции нет ни единой зацепки.

    Syn:
    д) журн. краткое изложение газетной статьи ( помещается непосредственно перед статьёй); первое, наиболее важное сообщение в сводке, информационном сообщении
    2) первое место, место впереди; спорт. преимущество, перевес

    in the lead — в положении лидера, в лидирующей позиции

    to gain / have the lead — занять первое место

    Each of our porters took the lead in turn. — Каждый наш носильщик по очереди занимал место во главе (отряда).

    The black horse took the lead. — Чёрная лошадь вышла вперёд.

    Your candidate has a slight lead. — Ваш кандидат немного впереди.

    3)
    в) тропинка; аллея
    г) поводок, цепь ( на которой водят собак)
    4) карт. первый ход ( когда берутся взятки); карта или масть, с которой идут

    to return one's partner's lead — получив руку, ходить с той же масти, что партнёр

    6) геол.
    Syn:
    б) = deep-lead / great-blue-lead золотоносный песок ( наносные залежи золота вдоль русла древних рек)
    7) театр.; кино
    Syn:
    leading role, star part
    8) муз. наиболее яркая часть пьесы (исполняемая оркестром, особенно джаз-бандом; солирующий исполнитель или инструмент; начальная часть пассажа, исполняемая солирующим инструментом)
    9) эл. подводящий провод
    10) тех.
    а) опережение, предварение (впуска пара и т. п.)
    б) шаг (спирали, винта), ход ( поршня)
    в) стрела, укосина
    11) воен. упреждение, приведение огня ( по движущейся цели)
    12) концерт, даваемый в пользу нуждающегося, больного человека его друзьями; от friendly lead
    2. прил.
    передний; передовой, лидирующий
    3. гл.; прош. вр., прич. прош. вр. led
    1)
    а) вести, сопровождать, быть проводником; вести (за руку, на поводке); воен. возглавить войско и направить движение

    to lead (a bride) to the altar, to church — вести (невесту) к алтарю, жениться

    They led us down to the river. — Они вывели нас к реке.

    She led the group from the bus to the auditorium. — Она провела группу из автобуса в аудиторию.

    The prisoners were led into the courtroom. — Заключённых ввели в зал суда.

    He longed to lead his men on to victory. — Он мечтал повести свои войска к победе.

    Syn:

    I led him by roughly two feet and pressed the trigger of the Luger. (D. Hamilton) — Я взял упреждение на два фута и спустил курок.

    2) влиять, склонять, убеждать

    The candidate's integrity and strength led the voters to support him. — Честность и сила кандидата побудили избирателей оказать ему поддержку.

    She knew the colonel was easily led. — Она знала, что полковник легко поддаётся убеждению.

    There was nothing in the prospectus to lead him to such a conclusion. — В проспекте не было ничего, что могло бы привести его к такому заключению.

    Syn:
    3)
    а) вести, служить каналом

    The path leads down to the river. — Тропинка ведёт к реке.

    Their road led them through a little copse. — Дорога вела их через небольшую рощицу.

    The road leads back to town. — Эта дорога ведёт обратно в город.

    The path leads down to the main road. — Дорожка приводит к главной дороге.

    Road signs lead the traffic out of the city. — Дорожные знаки указывают транспорту выезд из города.

    б) вести, приводить (о мотивах, условиях, обстоятельствах)

    Chance led him to London. — Случай привёл его в Лондон.

    Instinct early led him into the political arena. — Природное чутьё рано привело его на политическую арену.

    в) ( lead to) приводить к (каким-л. результатам); быть причиной (чего-л.)

    Social drinking may lead to alcoholism. — Пьянство в компаниях может привести к алкоголизму.

    г) ( lead into) приводить к (чему-л., обычно плохому), ввергать во (что-л.)

    Behaviour like this will lead you into trouble. — С таким поведением вам гарантированы неприятности.

    4) вести (какой-л. образ жизни)

    He leads a full, active life. — Он живёт полной насыщенной жизнью.

    - lead a depraved life
    - lead a loose life
    - lead a dissolute life
    Syn:
    5) возглавлять, руководить, управлять, командовать

    to lead a band / an orchestra — руководить оркестром, дирижировать оркестром

    The vice-chairman will lead the meeting. — Собрание будет вести заместитель председателя.

    The quarterback leads the football team. — Защитник возглавляет свою команду.

    Of the causes pneumonia led the list. — Пневмония возглавляет список всех болезней.

    Syn:
    6)
    а) быть первым, опережать ( в состязании); иметь преимущество, превосходить

    As a teacher he leads. — Как учитель он превосходит всех других.

    б) ( lead into) приступать к (чему-л.), вступать во (что-л.)

    The pianist led into the next piece of music. — Пианист перешёл к новой мелодии.

    7) юр. действовать в качестве главного адвоката в деле, возглавлять (защиту, обвинение)
    8) карт. ходить первым, иметь руку; начать игру или круг с ( определённой карты или масти)

    Lead originally from your strongest suit. — Сначала ходи с масти, которой у тебя больше всего.

    I led the king of trumps. — Я положил козырного короля.

    9) тех. опережать
    •
    - lead back to
    - lead off
    - lead on
    - lead out
    - lead through
    - lead up to
    ••
    - lead smb. a dance
    - lead smb. a chase
    - lead the dance
    - lead the van
    - lead by the nose
    - lead me to
    - lead with one's chin

    Англо-русский современный словарь > lead

  • 108 wash

    [wɔʃ] 1. гл.
    1) мыть; отмывать, смывать, промывать

    to wash one's hands / head — вымыть руки / голову

    We could talk afterwards - while Ernana is washing the dishes. (R. Bagot) — Мы могли бы поговорить попозже, пока Эрнана будет мыть посуду.

    I need some help to wash the walls down before painting. — Мне нужна помощь, чтобы помыть стены перед покраской.

    It seems that I can't wash out that ink that got onto the tablecloth. — Кажется, я не могу отмыть чернила, пролитые на скатерть.

    Syn:
    rinse 1.
    2) = wash away / down / off / out
    а) стирать, чистить

    She washed and ironed my handkerchiefs for me. — Она постирала и выгладила мои носовые платки.

    Syn:
    б) стираться, не линять ( о ткани при стирке)

    Warranted to wash. — При стирке не линяет.

    в) обелять, очищать ( от греха)
    Syn:
    3) мыться, умываться

    The cat washes several times a day. — Кошка "умывается" несколько раз в день.

    4)
    а) омывать (о море, океане)

    The cape is washed by two oceans. — Этот мыс омывается водами двух океанов.

    б) (wash upon / against) разбиваться о (скалы, берег; о волнах); плескаться

    The waves washed against the base of the cliff. — Волны с шумом бились о подножие утёса.

    5)
    а) литься, струиться; вливаться, переливаться
    в) нести, сносить, размывать ( о воде)

    The river banks have been washed away by the flood. The villagers must be warned of the danger! — Берега реки были размыты во время наводнения. Жителей деревни необходимо предупредить об опасности.

    The floods have washed most of the soil down from the river banks. — Паводки размыли бо́льшую часть почвы вдоль речных берегов.

    Heavy rain washed out three important roads overnight. — Прошлой ночью сильный дождь размыл три важнейшие дороги.

    - wash smth. ashore
    - wash smb. overboard
    - wash smth. overboard
    6) поэт. кропить, смачивать

    flowers washed with dew — цветы, омытые росой

    7)
    а) заливать; покрывать тонким слоем
    б) белить (потолок, стены)
    8)
    а) горн. обогащать (руду, уголь)
    9) преим. брит.; разг. быть (достаточно) убедительным; выдержать испытание, критику ( обычно употребляется с отрицанием)

    That excuse simply won't wash. — Такое оправдание неубедительно.

    I'm sorry but all his charm just doesn't wash with me. — Извини, но его обаяние на меня не действует.

    10) ( wash over) приходить на ум

    The thought washed over me that I might never see them again. — Вдруг мне пришла в голову мысль, что я могу никогда больше их не увидеть.

    11) ( wash over) овладеть (кем-л.), охватить (кого-л.; о чувствах, эмоциях)

    A deep feeling of sadness washed over her. — Чувство глубокой печали завладело ею.

    12) ( wash over) не взволновать (кого-л.), оставить (кого-л.) равнодушным

    The television headlines seemed to wash over her without meaning anything. — Казалось, что заголовки телепередач были для неё лишь пустым звуком и совершенно её не волновали.

    She manages to let criticism just wash over her. — Она старается не обращать внимания на критику и относиться к ней спокойно.

    •
    - wash out
    - wash up
    ••

    to wash one's hands of smth. — умыть руки, снять с себя всякую ответственность за что-л.

    2. сущ.

    to have a wash — умываться, мыться

    2)
    б) разг. выстиранное бельё

    to hang out a week's wash — вывесить сушиться бельё, скопившееся за неделю

    в) вещи, выстиранные вместе
    3) помои, отбросы
    Syn:
    refuse II 1.
    4) ( the wash) прибой, шум прибоя
    5)
    а) попутная струя, кильватер; (сильная) волна
    Syn:
    surge 1.
    б) авиа сильный воздушный поток
    6) болото, топь
    Syn:
    bog 1., marsh
    7)
    а) балка, овраг
    б) амер. старое русло ( реки)
    в) мелкое место, мелководье; мелкий водоём
    Syn:
    Syn:
    8) геол. аллювий; наносы; песок, гравий; золотоносный песок
    9)
    а) тонкий слой (чего-л.)

    The lights from the truck sent a wash of pale light over the snow. — Фары грузовика отбрасывали на снег полоску слабого света.

    Syn:
    10) акварель; акварельные краски
    11) пустая болтовня; переливание из пустого в порожнее; вода, многословие без мысли

    There's plenty of that sort of wash in the other pages for the readers who like it. (R. Brooke) — На других страницах любители пустопорожнего многословия найдут его в большом количестве.

    12)
    а) лечебный бальзам; растирка
    б) жидкое косметическое средство, лосьон

    Pure soft water is the truest beauty wash. — Чистая мягкая вода - вот самый лучший лосьон.

    Syn:
    в) уст. жидкая краска для волос
    13) с.-х. жидкие удобрения ( для растений)
    14) амер.; разг. что-л, не дающее ни прибыли, ни убытка

    The public is told that a certain percentage of the money will go for education. And it does. Except that the equivalent amount of money that had come from the general fund is now withdrawn, and it's a wash. — Людям говорят, что определённый процент этих денег пойдёт на образование. Так и происходит. Необходимо только учитывать, что затем из средств, поступивших из общего фонда, вычитается точно такая же сумма, и, в итоге, сколько было, столько и остаётся.

    ••
    3. прил.
    1) моющийся, нелиняющий, стирающийся
    Syn:
    2) стиральный, моющий ( о средстве)

    Англо-русский современный словарь > wash

  • 109 lie

    I [laɪ] n
    ложь, враньё, обман, неправда
    - deliberate lie
    - down-right lie
    - razen lie
    - bare-faced lie
    - rotten lie
    - monstrous lie
    - outrageous lie
    - endless lies
    - outright lie
    - transparent lies
    - diplomatic lies
    - white lie
    - medical lie
    - lie detector
    - pack of lies
    - web of lies
    - act a lie
    - be accustomed to smb's lies
    - catch smb in a lie
    - colour lies
    - confess to a lie
    - deceive smb by lies
    - find smb out in a lie
    - give the lie to smth
    - hate lies in any form
    - make up all sorts of lies
    - refute lies
    - show up smb's lie
    - take smth for a lie
    - tell lies
    - tell business lies
    - write monstrous lies
    - ask no questions and you will be told no lies     II [laɪ] v
    лгать, говорить неправду, врать, обманывать

    I hate lying. — Терпеть не могу лгать.

    I know he is lying. — Я знаю, что он врет.

    She lied to her husband. — Она соврала мужу

    III [laɪ] v
    (lay, lain) лежать

    The fields lay deep in snow. — На полях лежал глубокий снег.

    Our way lies along the river. — Наш путь идет вдоль реки.

    The town lies on both banks of the river. — Город расположен/лежит по обоим берегам реки.

    As you make your bed, so must you lie on it. — ◊ Как постелешь, так и поспишь. /Что посеешь, то и пожнешь.

    Beauty lies in lover's eyes. — ◊ Не то мило, что хорошо, а то хорошо, что мило.

    Let sleeping dogs lie. — ◊ Не буди лихо, пока спит тихо. /Не ищи беды, беда сама тебя сыщет.

    To lie (to be) in the lap of the gods. — ◊ Одному Богу известно.

    Truth lies at the bottom of a well. — ◊ Правда далеко, кривда под боком

    - lie in bed
    - lie on the floor
    - lie on one's back
    - lie quietly

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > lie

  • 110 scour

    1. n чистка, мытьё
    2. n промывание
    3. n промоина, размыв

    bed scour — размыв русла, русловая эрозия

    4. n вет. дизентерия, понос
    5. n спец. моющее средство
    6. v чистить, отчищать, оттирать дочиста; шабрить

    to scrub and scour — скрести и чистить; наводить чистоту

    7. v шутл. драить, тщательно мыть и чистить
    8. v очищать
    9. v спец. химически очищать, обезжиривать
    10. v освобождать, очищать
    11. v промывать
    12. v вымывать, образовывать промоину
    13. v геол. размывать
    14. v вымывать на поверхность, намывать
    15. v вет. давать слабительное
    16. v вет. страдать от поноса
    17. v вет. мездрить
    18. v вет. уст. бичевать, сурово наказывать
    19. v вет. арт. обстреливать, сметать
    20. v рыскать, бегать
    21. v тщательно искать; прочёсывать
    22. v редк. стремительно бежать, мчаться

    to scour away, to scour off — убегать, исчезать

    Синонимический ряд:
    1. cleanse (verb) cleanse; purge; purify
    2. eat (verb) bite; corrode; eat; eat away; erode; gnaw; wear away
    3. hurry (verb) barrel; barrelhouse; beeline; bucket; bullet; bustle; fleet; flit; fly; haste; hasten; highball; hotfoot; hurry; hustle; pelt; rock; rocket; run; rush; scoot; skin; smoke; speed; stave; whirl; whish; whisk; whiz; zip
    4. scrub (verb) abrade; brush; buff; clean; pumice; rub; sandpaper; scrape; scrub; wash
    5. search (verb) beat; comb; examine; finecomb; fine-tooth-comb; forage; grub; hunt; rake; ransack; rummage; search; seek
    Антонимический ряд:

    English-Russian base dictionary > scour

  • 111 pool

    [pu:l] I noun
    1) (a small area of still water: The rain left pools in the road.) flaque
    2) (a similar area of any liquid: a pool of blood/oil.) flaque
    3) (a deep part of a stream or river: He was fishing (in) a pool near the river-bank.) trou d'eau
    4) (a swimming-pool: They spent the day at the pool.) piscine
    II 1. noun
    (a stock or supply: We put our money into a general pool.) cagnotte, fonds commun
    2. verb
    (to put together for general use: We pooled our money and bought a caravan that we could all use.) mettre en commun
    - football pools
    - pools

    English-French dictionary > pool

  • 112 pool

    [pu:l] I noun
    1) (a small area of still water: The rain left pools in the road.) poça
    2) (a similar area of any liquid: a pool of blood/oil.) poça
    3) (a deep part of a stream or river: He was fishing (in) a pool near the river-bank.) pego
    4) (a swimming-pool: They spent the day at the pool.) piscina
    II 1. noun
    (a stock or supply: We put our money into a general pool.) fundo comum
    2. verb
    (to put together for general use: We pooled our money and bought a caravan that we could all use.) reunir
    - football pools
    - pools

    English-Portuguese (Brazil) dictionary > pool

  • 113 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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  • 114 большой

    прил.
    1) big;
    large( о неодушевл. предметах) Comb большой промежуток wide interval большой число great/large number
    2) (значительный, выдающийся) great
    3) (важный) important
    4) разг. (взрослый) grown-up ∙ большому кораблю большое плавание ≈ a great ship needs deep waters большой палец ≈ thumb (на руке) ;
    big toe (на ноге) большой спорт ≈ big-time sports большая буква ≈ capital letter
    больш|ой - big, large;
    (значительный, важный;
    тж. перен.) great;
    ~ город big/large city;
    ~ свет haute monde, society;
    ~ая река big/great river;
    ~ие глаза big eyes;
    ~ая скорость high/great speed;
    ~ мальчик big boy;
    ~ выбор big selection, wide choice;
    ~ спрос great demand;
    ~ие деньги a lot of money;
    с ~ими промежутками at long intervals;
    ~ие друзья great friends;
    ~ая жизнь full life;
    ~ успех great success;
    ~ая польза great/much benefit;
    получить ~ое удовольствие от чего-л. enjoy smth. very much;
    ~ая буква capital letter;
    ~ палец( руки) thumb;
    (ноги) big/great toe;
    Большой театр the Bolshoi Theater.

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > большой

  • 115 брод

    муж. ford;
    passing;
    wade;
    the shallow of the river переходимый брод ≈ fordable имеющая брод (о реке) ≈ passable переход вброд ≈ wade Не зная броду, не суйся в воду. ≈ Look before your leap. не узнавщи броду, сунуться в воду ≈ to go off the deep end
    ж. ford;
    не зная, не спросясь ~у, не суйся в воду посл. look before you leap.

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > брод

  • 116 полноводный

    прил. deep, full-flowing
    полноводн|ый - full-flowing;
    ~ая река full-flowing river.

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > полноводный

  • 117 broad

    brɔ:d
    1. прил.
    1) "геометрический" смысл а) широкий;
    обширный Syn: extensive, wide, ample, spacious Ant: narrow б) просторный в) фон. открытый( о звуке)
    2) перен. значение отсутствия ограничений а) свободный б) терпимый, широких взглядов, толерантный, незашоренный в) общий;
    описанный "грубо", в общих чертах
    3) перен. значение охвата большей части какой-л. области, ее сути а) главный, основной б) ясный, понятный;
    четко описанный in broad daylight broad Scotch broad hint в) неприкрытый, откровенный;
    (более далекий перенос) грубый, неприличный A collection of comic but extremely broad ballads. ≈ Сборник смешных, но уж очень неприличных стихов. ∙ it is as broad as it is long ≈ что в лоб, что по лбу;
    какая разница;
    не мытьем, так катанием
    2. нареч.
    1) широко Broad burst the lightnings, deep the thunders roll. ≈ Повсюду сверкают молнии, величественно гремит гром. Syn: widely, fully, far, abroad
    2) открыто, свободно;
    раскованно, откровенно;
    неприкрыто, прямо, без экивоков You speak too broad! ≈ Тебя заносит, ты заговариваешься!
    3) говорить с резким акцентом, используя диалектизмы и жаргон We Devonshire men speak very broad ≈ Мы, девонширцы, говорим попросту.
    4) мор. сбоку от курса ∙ broad awake broad waking Syn: quite, fully
    3. сущ.
    1) наиболее широкая часть( какого-л. предмета) To lie on the broad of one's back. ≈ Распластаться на спине.
    2) озеро, образованное расширением русла реки
    3) мн. карт. сл. игральные карты
    4) тех. прибор для полировки (особенно внутренних поверхностей труб, цилиндров)
    5) разг. женщина, подруга;
    сл. амер. проститутка( как носительница "широких взглядов") широкая часть (спины, спинки) (американизм) (разговорное) молодая девушка, девчонка - he refers to her as a * meaning no harm whatsoever он называет ее дечонкой, не имея в виду ничего плохого (американизм) (грубое) девка( устаревшее) старинная золотая монета в двадцать шиллингов (the B.) (разговорное) оксфордские студенты (кинематографический) осветительный прибор общего, рассеянного света, широкоизлучатель широкий - * chest широкая грудь - the river is 30 feet * река шириной в 30 футов обширный, просторный - the * lands stretched away as far as the eye could see широкие просторы раскинулись насколько мог видеть глаз широкий, свободный;
    терпимый - * opinions широкие взгляды - to take a * view of smth. широко смотреть на вещи явный, определенный;
    заметный - * hint ясный намек - * purpose явное намерение - * statement откровенное заявление - there is no * line of distinction нет отчетливого разграничения /-ой грани/ полный, совершенный - in * daylight средь бела дня заметный, сильный( об акценте) - * Scotch accent сильный шотландский акцент общий, широкий;
    в общих, основных чертах - a * outline of the plan общая наметка плана - in a * sense it is true в широком смысле это верно грубый, неприличный - * joke грубая шутка - * laugh грубый смех - * story неприличный анекдот свободный, несдержанный, раскованный, разболтанный - * mirth безудержное веселье (фонетика) открытый (о звуке) > it is as * as it is long то же на то выходит;
    что в лоб, что по лбу (редкое) широко;
    свободно, открыто;
    вполне - * awake вполне очнувшись от сна, полностью проснувшись (редкое) с заметным, сильным акцентом - to speak * говорить с сильным акцентом broad вполне;
    broad awake вполне очнувшись от сна или проснувшись ~ главный, основной ~ грубый, неприличный;
    broad joke грубая шутка ~ груб. девка, баба ~ обширный;
    просторный ~ общий, данный в общих чертах ~ фон. открытый (о звуке) ;
    it is as broad as it is long = то же на то же выходит;
    что в лоб, что по лбу ~ с резким акцентом ~ свободно, открыто ~ широкая часть (спины, спинки) ~ широкий, свободный, терпимый ~ широкий ~ широко ~ ясный, явный, ясно выраженный;
    in broad daylight средь бела дня;
    broad hint ясный намек;
    broad Scotch резкий шотландский акцент broad вполне;
    broad awake вполне очнувшись от сна или проснувшись ~ ясный, явный, ясно выраженный;
    in broad daylight средь бела дня;
    broad hint ясный намек;
    broad Scotch резкий шотландский акцент ~ грубый, неприличный;
    broad joke грубая шутка ~ ясный, явный, ясно выраженный;
    in broad daylight средь бела дня;
    broad hint ясный намек;
    broad Scotch резкий шотландский акцент ~ ясный, явный, ясно выраженный;
    in broad daylight средь бела дня;
    broad hint ясный намек;
    broad Scotch резкий шотландский акцент daylight: daylight гласность;
    in broad (или open) daylight средь бела дня;
    публично;
    to let daylight into предать гласности ~ фон. открытый (о звуке) ;
    it is as broad as it is long = то же на то же выходит;
    что в лоб, что по лбу

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > broad

  • 118 earth

    ə:θ
    1. сущ.
    1) а) земля, то, по чему ходят ногами (в противоположность небу) ;
    почва to circle the earth ≈ облетать землю to orbit the earth ≈ выходить на орбиту The earth revolves around the sun. ≈ Земля вращается вокруг солнца. The earth rotates on its axis. ≈ Земля вращается вокруг своей оси. on earth floating earth scorched earth earth water lose earth Syn: ground;
    soil, mould, dust, clay б) земля, суша (в противоположность воде, морю) в) земля как место для пахоты, пашня By means of sand it is, that the fatty earth is rendered fertile. ≈ С помощью песка жирную землю можно сделать плодородной. г) Земля, земной шар (планета) Syn: sphere, orb, planet д) земля как место, откуда люди пришли и куда уходят, могила Every earth is fit for burial. ≈ Какая разница, где тебя похоронят. earth-bed е) земля как противоположная небесам (раю) и аду, мир, в котором мы живем Earth is not a shadow of heaven, but heaven a dream of earth. ≈ Не земля - тень небес, но небеса - мечта земли.
    2) нора run to earth take earth go to earth
    3) электр. заземление, "земля" Earth is always green or green/yellow except in German-made appliances where earth is red. ≈ Земля всегда зеленая или зелено-желтая, за исключением продуктов, сделанных в Германии, там земля красная.
    4) хим. оксид какого-л. металла
    5) усилительное вставное слово The customer has a perfect right to ask for the earth, but the supplier, if he is wise, will not necessarily let him have it. ≈ Покупатель имеет полное право требовать звезд с неба, но поставщик, если он умен, не обязательно их ему предоставит. how on earth no use on earth why on earth
    6) архаич. народ, неселение земли The whole earth was of one language. ≈ Все люди говорили на одном языке( Быт., 11-
    1) ∙ earth balls earth bob earth hunger earth mover earth spider to come back to earth ≈ спуститься с неба на землю, перестать витать в облаках, обрести чувство реальности
    2. гл.
    1) а) закапывать, зарывать;
    засыпать землей The mouth of the river has earthed up again this year. ≈ Устье реки снова засыпали в этом году. The landslide earthed up the pool where the animals usually drank. ≈ Оползень засыпал пруд, куда звери обычно ходили на водопой. б) окучивать, закрывать землей (тж. earth up) Earth up the plants frequently. ≈ Растения надо регулярно окучивать.
    2) а) охот. загонять в нору б) прям. перен. зарываться, прятаться в нору The fox earthed at last, and had to be left for another day. ≈ Лисе все-таки удалось спрятаться в нору, пришлось ее оставить в покое до следующего дня. He earths himself in cellars deep. ≈ Он прячется в глубоких подвалах (д'Юрфе)
    3) эл. заземлять
    4) уст.;
    диал. хоронить, предавать земле земля;
    мир, в котором мы живем;
    земной шар - the greatest poet on * величайший поэт на земле - the most absurd spectacle on * такого абсурдного зрелища свет не видал (тж. E., the E.) Земля (планета) - the E. goes round the Sun Земля обращается вокруг Солнца - * crust земная кора - * gravity сила притяжения Земли земля, почва, грунт - clayey * глинистая почва - * bank земляная насыпь - * excavation выемка грунта - the airplace fell to( the) * самолет упал на землю суша (возвышенно) (земной) мир - among the things of * среди земных /житейских/ интересов (возвышенно) люди, смертные нора - to run to * загнать в нору (лисицу) ;
    скрыться в нору (тж. to take to *, to go to *) (возвышенно) прах;
    плоть - sinful * грешная плоть (устаревшее) страна - this *... this England (Shakespeare) наша страна... наша Англия (электротехника) "земля", заземление - * electrode заземляющий провод, молниеотвод( химическое) земля - rare *s редкие земли, редкоземельные элементы - alkaline *s щелочные земли > down to * практический, реалистический, приземленный > to bring smb. back /down/ to * заставить кого-л. спуститься с облаков на землю > to come to * спуститься с небес на землю, взглянуть на истинное положение вещей > no use on * решительно ни к чему > how on *? каким же образом? > how on * did you know it? как же вы все-таки это узнали?, как вам удалось это узнать? > what on * was I to do? что же мне в конце концов оставалось делать? > why on *? почему же?, с какой стати? > to run to * нагнать, разыскать;
    укрыться, скрыться, спрятаться > to cost the * стоить кучу денег > to burn the * (американизм) мчаться во весь опор, гнать машину окапывать, окучивать;
    напахивать борозды (тж. * up) загонять в нору зарываться в землю, в нору (диалектизм) зарывать, закапывать;
    предавать земле (электротехника) заземлять ~ ав. сажать( самолет) ;
    to be earthed сделать вынужденную посадку black ~ чернозем ~ attr. земляной;
    грунтовой;
    earth water жесткая вода;
    earth wax геол. озокерит;
    to come back to earth спуститься с облаков на землю, вернуться к реальности earth употр. для усиления: how on earth? каким образом?;
    no use on earth решительно ни к чему;
    why on earth? с какой стати? ~ загонять или зарываться в нору ~ эл. заземление ~ эл., радио заземлять ~ зарывать, закапывать;
    покрывать землей;
    окучивать ~ земля, земной шар;
    on earth на земле ~ земля ~ нора;
    to take earth скрыться в нору (о лисе) ~ почва;
    floating earth плывуны;
    scorched earth выжженная земля ~ прах ~ ав. сажать (самолет) ;
    to be earthed сделать вынужденную посадку ~ суша ~ attr. земляной;
    грунтовой;
    earth water жесткая вода;
    earth wax геол. озокерит;
    to come back to earth спуститься с облаков на землю, вернуться к реальности ~ attr. земляной;
    грунтовой;
    earth water жесткая вода;
    earth wax геол. озокерит;
    to come back to earth спуститься с облаков на землю, вернуться к реальности ~ attr. земляной;
    грунтовой;
    earth water жесткая вода;
    earth wax геол. озокерит;
    to come back to earth спуститься с облаков на землю, вернуться к реальности ~ почва;
    floating earth плывуны;
    scorched earth выжженная земля floating ~ плывуны earth употр. для усиления: how on earth? каким образом?;
    no use on earth решительно ни к чему;
    why on earth? с какой стати? earth употр. для усиления: how on earth? каким образом?;
    no use on earth решительно ни к чему;
    why on earth? с какой стати? ~ земля, земной шар;
    on earth на земле to run to ~ = to take earth to run to ~ выследить;
    настигнуть;
    отыскать to run to ~ спрятаться, притаиться ~ почва;
    floating earth плывуны;
    scorched earth выжженная земля ~ нора;
    to take earth скрыться в нору (о лисе) to run to ~ = to take earth earth употр. для усиления: how on earth? каким образом?;
    no use on earth решительно ни к чему;
    why on earth? с какой стати?

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  • 119 mine

    ̈ɪmaɪn I мест.;
    притяж. (абсолютная форма, не употр. атрибутивно;
    ср. my) принадлежащий мне;
    мой;
    моя;
    мое Is this book yours or mine? ≈ Это твоя книга или моя? She is an old friend of mine. ≈ Она моя давняя подруга. II
    1. сущ.
    1) а) рудник;
    копь;
    шахта;
    прииск to close down a mine ≈ закрывать рудник to open (up) a mine ≈ заложить/открыть шахту to operate, run, work a mine ≈ управлять рудником abandoned mine ≈ заброшенная шахта coal mine ≈ угольная шахта copper mine ≈ медный рудник diamond mine ≈ алмазная копь gold mine ≈ золотой прииск iron mine ≈ железный рудник lead mine ≈ свинцовый рудник salt mine ≈ солевой рудник silver mine ≈ серебряный рудник tin mine ≈ оловянный рудник zinc mine ≈ цинковый рудник б) ист. подкоп
    2) а) залежь, пласт, месторождение( руды) Syn: deposit
    1. б) перен. источник (информации, сведений, знаний и т. п.) My grandmother is a mine of information. ≈ Моя бабушка - это просто кладезь всякой информации. Syn: source, store
    3) воен. мина to clear, remove, sweep mines ≈ обезвредить мину to detect a mine ≈ найти мину to detonate, set off a mine ≈ взрывать мину to hit, strike a mine ≈ наткнуться на мину a mine blows up, explodes ≈ мина взрывается to disarm a mine ≈ обезвредить мину antipersonnel mine ≈ противопехотная, осколочная мина antitank mine ≈ противотанковая мина contact mine ≈ контактная мина;
    ударная мина drifting mine, floating mine ≈ правучая мина land mine ≈ наземная мина magnetic mine ≈ магнитная мина submarine mine ≈ подводная мина spring a mine on smb.
    2. гл.
    1) а) производить горные работы, разрабатывать рудник, добывать( руду и т. п.) (тж. mine out) The whole area has been mined out. ≈ Вокруг, как грибы, выросли рудники. to mine the for coal ≈ разрабатывать угольное месторождение Gold is mineed from deep under ground. ≈ Золото добывается из глубины земных недр. б) перен. извлекать, выкапывать( что-л. from - из какого-л. источника) information mined from the books ≈ информация, извлеченная из книг
    2) а) подкапывать, производить подкоп to mine the enemy's fortifications ≈ делать подкоп под укрепления противника Syn: undermine б) зарываться в землю, рыть норку ( о животных) Syn: burrow
    2.
    3) а) минировать;
    ставить мины to mine the entrance into the harbour ≈ заминировать вход в гавань б) взрывать с помощью мины The cruiser was mineed and sank in five minutes. ≈ Крейсер подорвался на мине и через пять минут затонул.
    4) подрывать( чью-л. репутацию и т. п.) Syn: undermine мой, моя, мое, мои;
    принадлежащий мне - it is * это мое - he's an old friend of * он мой старый друг, это один из моих старых друзей - it is no business of * это не мое дело - the game is * эту игру выиграл я эллиптически вместо сочетания my с существительным, часто уже употребленным в данном предложении мой, свой, моя, своя и т. п. - lend me your pen, I have lost * дай мне твою ручку, я потерял свою( ручку) - me and * я и мои (родные), я и моя семья( устаревшее) (вм. my перед гласными) мой, моя и т. п. - * eyes мои глаза (устаревшее) иногда с инверсией - o mistress /lady/ * о моя владычица, о повелительница! рудник;
    копь;
    шахта;
    прииск подземная выработка резрез, карьер залежь, пласт сокровищница;
    источник (сведений и т. п.) - a regular * of information подлинная сокровищница сведений, неистощимый источник информации( военное) (морское) мина;
    фугас - * area заминированный участок;
    минное поле - * belt минное заграждение;
    полоса минных заграждений - to lay a * устанавливать /ставить/ мину - to hit a * наскочить на мину - to trip /to spring, to touch off/ a * наступить на мину;
    подорваться на мине - to clear the road of *s разминировать дорогу (историческое) подкоп > to spring a * on smb. преподнести кому-л. неприятный сюрприз производить горные работы;
    разрабатывать рудник;
    добывать (руду и т. п.) - to * (for) coal добывать уголь - to * a bed of coal разрабатывать угольный пласт подкапывать;
    вести подкоп зарываться в землю;
    рыть норку (о животных) (военное) (морское) минировать, ставить мину - to * the entrance to a harbour заминировать вход в гавань подрывать - the cruiser was *d and sank крейсер был подорван и затонул подрывать, подтачивать - the river *s the foundations of the house река размывает фундамент дома - to * the foundations of a doctrine подрывать основы учения coal ~ угольная шахта delayed-action ~ воен. мина замедленного действия ~ (абсолютная форма, не употр. атрибутивно;
    ср. my) принадлежащий мне;
    мой;
    моя;
    мое;
    this is mine это мое, a friend of mine мой друг ~ воен. мина;
    to lay a mine for подвести мину под mine заговор, интрига;
    to spring a mine (on smb.) преподнести неприятный сюрприз;
    = подложить свинью( кому-л.) ~ залежь, пласт ~ зарываться в землю, рыть норку (о животных) ~ источник (сведений и т. п.) ~ воен. мина;
    to lay a mine for подвести мину под ~ минировать;
    ставить мины ~ подкапывать, копать под землей;
    вести подкоп ~ подкапываться( под кого-л.) ;
    подрывать (репутацию и т. п.) ~ ист. подкоп ~ (абсолютная форма, не употр. атрибутивно;
    ср. my) принадлежащий мне;
    мой;
    моя;
    мое;
    this is mine это мое, a friend of mine мой друг ~ производить горные работы, разрабатывать рудник, добывать (руду и т. п.) ~ рудник;
    копь;
    шахта;
    прииск ~ шахта, рудник mine заговор, интрига;
    to spring a mine (on smb.) преподнести неприятный сюрприз;
    = подложить свинью (кому-л.) ~ (абсолютная форма, не употр. атрибутивно;
    ср. my) принадлежащий мне;
    мой;
    моя;
    мое;
    this is mine это мое, a friend of mine мой друг

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  • 120 shallow

    ˈʃæləu
    1. прил.
    1) а) мелкий, мелководный shallow stream ≈ мелкий ручей shallow sea ≈ мелководное море shallow draft б) неглубокий;
    плоский shallow pan ≈ неглубокая сковорода shallow roots of a tree ≈ неглубокие корни shallow breathing ≈ неглубокое дыхание Syn: flat ∙ Ant: deep, profound
    2) перен. а) ограниченный, поверхностный, пустой shallow play ≈несерьезная, неглубокая пьеса shallow explanation ≈ поверхностное объяснение Syn: superficial, obvious Ant: profound б) некрепкий, не верный Theirs is only a shallow friendship. ≈У них некрепкая дружба.
    3) геол. аллювиальный, наносный
    2. сущ.;
    часто мн. мелкое место, мель;
    отмель Alligators live in the shallows. ≈ Аллигаторы водятся на мелководье.
    3. гл.
    1) мелеть
    2) а) уменьшать глубину;
    делать более плоским б) перен. упрощать;
    делать поверхностным, неглубоким часто pl мелкое место, мелководье, мель;
    отмель - the * of the river брод мелкий, мелководный;
    неглубокий - * stream мелкий ручей - * sea мелководное море - * tray плоский поднос - * hole неглубокая яма - * steps пологие ступени - * lens плоская линза поверхностный, ограниченный;
    пустой - * analysis поверхностный /неглубокий/ анализ - * thought мелкая /пошлая/ мысль - * person ограниченный /пустой/ человек - * generalizations непродуманные обобщения - * policy недальновидная политика - * argument необоснованный довод;
    мелкий спор - she is too * to be touched by this она слишком легкомысленна, чтобы ее это задело /тронуло, взволновало/ > where the water is *, no vessel will ride где мелкая вода, никакое судно не пройдет;
    по мелководью и утка не поплывет > * streams /waters/ make most din (пословица) мелкие ручейки звонко шумят;
    пустая бочка пуще гремит мелеть уменьшать глубину shallow мелеть ~ мелкий;
    shallow draft мор. небольшая осадка ~ мелкий ~ мелкое место, мель;
    отмель ~ поверхностный, пустой;
    shallow mind поверхностный, неглубокий ум ~ уменьшать глубину ~ мелкий;
    shallow draft мор. небольшая осадка ~ поверхностный, пустой;
    shallow mind поверхностный, неглубокий ум

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