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1 defend home

захищати (свій) дім

English-Ukrainian law dictionary > defend home
2 defend

захищати (в т. ч. в суді), обороняти; захищатися, оборонятися; забороняти; обстоювати, підтримувати ( думку тощо) оскаржувати права позивача (скаржника); заперечувати; заперечувати свою винуватість, заперечувати свою причетність до злочину ( про обвинуваченого); захищати (в суді), виступати в якості захисника, виступати захисником

defend a country form an aggressor — захищати країну від нападу агресора

defend a patent from act of infringement — захищати патент від порушення

defend freedom and independence — захищати свободу і незалежність

defend oneself on being attacked — захищатися від нападу

- defend a case
- defend a company from bandits
- defend a suit
- defend an action
- defend home
- defend independence
- defend interests
- defend legality
- defend legitimate interests
- defend oneself
- defend property
- defend rights
- defend sovereignty
- defend the rights of citizens

English-Ukrainian law dictionary > defend
3 захищати дім

defend home

Українсько-англійський юридичний словник > захищати дім
4 bronić

(-nię, -nisz); imp -ń; perf; o-; vt

to defend; (osłaniać, strzec) to guard; ( zabraniać) perf; za- to forbid

broń Boże! — God forbid!, heaven forbid!

bronić dostępu do kogoś/czegoś — to bar the way to sb/sth

bronić pracy doktorskiej — to defend one's PhD thesis lub dissertation

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bronić

ipf.

1. + Gen. defend (sb l. sth) (przed czymś/kimś against sb/sth); bronić kraju przed wrogiem fight in defense of one's country; bronić miasta defend a city; bronić domu przed napastnikami defend one's home against aggressors.

2. + Gen. l. Acc. (= strzec, chronić) protect, shield; bronić przed niebezpieczeństwem protect from l. against harm; wały broniące miasta przed powodzią embankments protecting the town against flooding; bronić pokoju keep the peace; bronić swoich interesów protect l. look after one's interests; broń Boże! l. niech Bóg broni! l. niech ręka boska broni! God l. heaven forbid!

3. + Gen. (= odpierać zarzuty wobec) defend; (sprawy, idei) champion; bronić swojego stanowiska defend one's position; stick to one's guns; bronić swoich praw stand up for one's rights; bronić przyjaciół stand up l. stick up for one's friends; bronić doktoratu defend one's dissertation.

4. + Acc. prawn. defend, plead the case of (sb).

5. (= zabraniać) forbid ( komuś robienia czegoś sb doing sth l. to do sth); prohibit ( komuś (robienia) czegoś sb from (doing) sth); bronić komuś łowić ryby forbid sb fishing l. to fish; bronić komuś wstępu do swojego domu refuse sb entrance into one's house.

6. sport defend; bronić bramki keep goal.

bronić się

ipf.

1. (= odpierać atak) defend o.s.; bronić się dzielnie put up a good fight; bronić się do upadłego fight to one's last l. to one's dying breath; bronić się do ostatka fight to the last l. to the bitter end.

2. (= odpierać zarzuty) defend o.s.; bronić się przed oskarżeniami defend o.s. against accusations; bronić się w sądzie defend o.s. in court.

3. (= strzec się) protect o.s., shield o.s. (przed kimś/czymś from l. against sb/sth); bronić się przed złymi myślami l. od złych myśli suppress bad thoughts; bronić się przed ciekawością sąsiadów shield o.s. against the prying of one's neighbors; bronić się przed napływającymi łzami fight back tears.

The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > bronić
5 защищать

гл.

1. to defend; 2. to protect; 3. to shield; 4. to guard; 5. to uphold

Русский глагол защищать относится к любому виду угрозы, опасности или неприятности. Английские эквиваленты в отличие от русского указывают на характер того, от чего исходит угроза и на цели защиты.

1. to defend — защищать, оборонять, защищаться, отстаивать (подразумевает защиту от угрожающей опасности; предполагается предпринимать любые действия, чтобы прийти на помощь кому-либо или чему-либо, находящемуся в опасности и нуждающемуся в защите): to defend smb, smth — защищать кого-либо, что-либо; to defend the goal — защищать ворота; to defend one's point of view (one's principles) — отстаивать свою точку зрения (свои принципы); to defend oneself from/ against smb — защищаться от кого-либо; to defend one's action — защищать свои действия; to defend a town — защищать город They defended the city to the last. — Они обороняли город до последнего./Они защищали город до конца. At school he always defended his little brother. — В школе он всегда защищал своего младшего брата. It became impossible to defend the base from airborne attack.— От воздушного нападения базу защищать стало невозможно. She picked up a stick (о defend herself against her attacker. — Она подняла с земли палку, чтобы защититься от нападающего./Она схватила с земли палку, чтобы защитить себя от нападающего. John was the only one who defended me when things started going wrong. — Только Джон встал на мою защиту, когда начались неприятности. As a politician you have to be able to defend yourself when things get rough. — Как политический деятель, вы должны уметь защищаться от резкой критики. Union bosses pleaded that they would courageously defend their members' right to strike. — Профсоюзные лидеры клялись, что будут упорно отстаивать право своих членов на забастовки.

2. to protect — защищать, предохранять, ограждать (от возможных опасностей или неприятностей, таких как наводнения, пожары или болезни): to protect smb, smth — защищать кого-либо, что-либо; to protect children from catching cold — защищать детей от простуды/предохранять детей от простуды; to protect one's eyes from the sun — защищать глаза от солнца The fence protects the roses from the wind. — Забор защищает розы от ветра. Не was protected by a bodyguard. — Его сопровождал телохранитель./ Он шел с охраной./Его защищал охранник. you should insure to protect yourself in case of fire. — Вам надо застраховаться на случай пожара. The camera comes with a true leather carrying case to protect it. — Фотоаппарат выпускается в кожаном футляре, который его предохраняет./Фотоаппарат продается с кожаным футляром, который его предохраняет. The union's basic function is to protect the interests and employment rights of its members. — Основная функция профсоюзов заключается в защите интересов и права его членов на труд. I jumped behind the wall to protect myself from the explosion. — Я спрятался за стену, чтобы защитить себя от взрыва.

3. to shield — защищать, предохранять, заслонять, прикрывать (от опасности, особенно встав между ее источником и тем, на что или кого это действие направлено): to shield one's eyes with one's hand — прикрыть глаза рукой; to shield one's child with one's own body — прикрыть ребенка собственным телом; to shield oneself behind smb else — спрятаться за чью-либо спину Не had received a gunshot wound while trying to shield his children. — Он получил огнестрельное ранение, когда пытался защитить детей./Он был ранен, когда пытался спасти своих детей, загородив их собой. A new type of glass has been produced, which shields your eyes from the sun violet rays. —Теперь выпускается новое стекло, которое предохраняет глаза от ультрафиолетовых лучей солнца. These plants should be shielded from direct sunlight. — Эти растения нужно прикрывать от прямого попадания солнечных лучей. The house was shielded from the view by tall trees. — Высокие деревья скрывали дом от посторонних взглядов, She shielded her eyes against the sun glare. — Она заслонила глаза от яркого солнца. She is anxious to shield her children from the press. — Она стремится оградить своих детей от вмешательства прессы в их жизнь.

4. tо guard — защищать, стоять на страже, охранять, караулить, стеречь, сторожить (предполагает действия, направленные на сохранение того или тех, кто был доверен кому-либо): to guard smb's life (one's reputation) — охранять чью-либо жизнь (свою репутацию); to guard prisoners — караулить узников/охранять пленных; to guard treasure — охранять клад/сторожить клад/караулить клад; to guard one's property against thieves — стеречь/караулить имущество от воров The dog is guarding the sheep. — Собака сторожит овец./Собака караулит овец. There were two soldiers guarding the main gate. — Главные ворота охранялись двумя солдатами. The palace entrance is guarded round the clock. — Подъезд дворца охраняется круглые сутки. The trees guarded the farm from the wind. — Деревья защищали ферму от ветра. The company is fiercely guarding its independence. — Фирма упорно защищает свою независимость./Фирма яростно отстаивает свою независимость./Фирма стоит на страже своей независимости. They have been guarding the details of their research. — Они хранили в секрете результаты своего исследования./Они строго охраняли результаты своего исследования.

5. to uphold — защищать, поддерживать (предполагает высказывания в защиту/в пользу чего-либо, подтверждения чьих-либо решений или высказанных предположений): The court of appeal upheld the verdict. — Апелляционный суд подтвердил приговор. The headmaster upheld the teacher's decision. — Директор поддержал решение учителя. The Home Secretary's decision was upheld by the House of Lords. — Решение министра внутренних дел получило одобрение в палате лордов./Решение министра внутренних дел было поддержано в палате лордов. They were fighting to uphold the rights of small nations. — Они боролись за права малых народов./Они выступали в поддержку малых народов и их прав./Они выступали в защиту малых народов.

Русско-английский объяснительный словарь > защищать
6 sustentar

v.

1 to support.

sustenta a toda la familia con su salario he supports his entire family on his salary

Las columnas sustentan a las paredes The columns support the walls.

2 to defend (defender) (argumento, teoría).

3 to hold, to believe in, to sustain, to uphold.

Ellos sustentan sus creencias They uphold their beliefs.

La comida sustenta a los chicos The food sustains the boys.

4 to substantiate, to bear out, to provide evidence for, to support.

Sus acciones sustentan el caso His actions provide evidence for the case.

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sustentar

► verbo transitivo

1 (familia etc) to maintain, support, sustain

2 (sostener) to hold up, support

3 (teoría, opinión) to support, defend

► verbo pronominal sustentarse

1 (alimentarse) to sustain oneself, live (de, on)

2 (sostenerse) to support oneself

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verb

1) to sustain

2) maintain

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1. VT

1) (=sujetar) to hold up, support, bear the weight of

2) (=alimentar) to sustain, nourish

3) [+ familia, hijos] to support, maintain

4) [+ esperanzas] to sustain, keep alive

5) [+ idea, teoría] to maintain, uphold

6) (Ecología) to sustain

2.

See:

sustentarse

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1.
verbo transitivo

1)

a) < peso> to support

b) <persona/familia> to support, maintain

2) <opinión/teoría> to hold, maintain; <moral/esperanza> to sustain, keep up
2.
sustentarse v pron

a) ( mantenerse) to support oneself

b) ( alimentarse)

sustentarse DE or CON algo — to sustain oneself with something, to subsist on something

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= support, sustain, underpin.

Ex. In order to support these three elements, and to ensure that schemes are updated it is important to have some organisation which takes responsibility for revision and publication.

Ex. Publishers in the United Stated benefit from a larger home market which serves to sustain the production of an information tool.

Ex. This process is underpinned by a patient-based information system which is timely, accessible and credible to all participants.

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1.
verbo transitivo

1)

a) < peso> to support

b) <persona/familia> to support, maintain

2) <opinión/teoría> to hold, maintain; <moral/esperanza> to sustain, keep up
2.
sustentarse v pron

a) ( mantenerse) to support oneself

b) ( alimentarse)

sustentarse DE or CON algo — to sustain oneself with something, to subsist on something

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= support, sustain, underpin.

Ex: In order to support these three elements, and to ensure that schemes are updated it is important to have some organisation which takes responsibility for revision and publication.

Ex: Publishers in the United Stated benefit from a larger home market which serves to sustain the production of an information tool.

Ex: This process is underpinned by a patient-based information system which is timely, accessible and credible to all participants.

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sustentar [A1 ]

vt

A ‹persona/familia› to support, maintain

B

1 ‹opinión/teoría› to hold, maintain

2 ‹moral/esperanza› to sustain, keep up

■ sustentarse

v pron

1 (mantenerse) to support oneself

2 (alimentarse) sustentarse DE or CON algo to sustain oneself WITH sth, to subsist ON sth

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sustentar ( conjugate sustentar) verbo transitivo
a) ‹ peso› to support

b) ‹persona/familia› to support, maintain

sustentar verbo transitivo
1 (mantener) to support, maintain: gana lo suficiente para sustentar a la familia, she earns enough to support her family
2 (una opinión, una teoría) to uphold, maintain
3 (sujetar, soportar un peso) to support, hold up
' sustentar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
mantener
- sostener
English:
sustain

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sustentar

♦ vt

1. [sostener, mantener] to support;

sustenta a toda la familia con su salario he supports his entire family on his salary

2. [defender] [argumento, teoría] to defend;
[opinión] to hold, to subscribe to
3. [apoyar] to base;

sustenta sus teorías en una premisa errónea his theories are founded on a false premise

♦ See also the pronominal verb sustentarse

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sustentar

v/t

1 sustain

2 familia support

3 opinión maintain

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sustentar vt

1) : to support, to hold up

2) : to sustain, to nourish

3) : to maintain, to hold (an opinion)

♦ See also the reflexive verb sustentarse

Spanish-English dictionary > sustentar
7 protect

[prə'tekt] 1.
verbo transitivo

1) (keep safe) proteggere [home, person, skin, data, identity]; salvaguardare, proteggere [ environment]

2) (defend) difendere, tutelare [consumer, interests, privilege] ( against da); proteggere, tutelare [ investment] ( against, from da); proteggere [standards, economy] ( against, from contro, da); difendere [ privacy] ( against, from contro, da)
2.
verbo riflessivo

to protect oneself — (against threat) tutelarsi ( against, from contro, da); (against attack) proteggersi, difendersi ( against, from da)

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[prə'tekt]
verb

(to guard or defend from danger; to keep safe: She protected the children from every danger; Which type of helmet protects the head best?; He wore a fur jacket to protect himself against the cold.) proteggere

- protected
- protection
- protective
- protector
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[prə'tekt] 1.
verbo transitivo

1) (keep safe) proteggere [home, person, skin, data, identity]; salvaguardare, proteggere [ environment]

2) (defend) difendere, tutelare [consumer, interests, privilege] ( against da); proteggere, tutelare [ investment] ( against, from da); proteggere [standards, economy] ( against, from contro, da); difendere [ privacy] ( against, from contro, da)
2.
verbo riflessivo

to protect oneself — (against threat) tutelarsi ( against, from contro, da); (against attack) proteggersi, difendersi ( against, from da)

English-Italian dictionary > protect
8 wissen

vt/i; weiß, wusste, gewusst

1. know ( von oder geh. um about); wissen lassen, dass... let on that...; jemanden etw. wissen lassen let s.o. know s.th.; ich weiß genau, dass... I know for a fact that...; weißt du noch? (do you) remember?; ich weiß seinen Namen nicht mehr I can’t remember his name; weißt du schon das Neueste? have you heard the latest?; woher weißt du das? how do you know?; sie weiß nicht, was sie will she doesn’t know what she wants; er weiß nicht, was er sagt he doesn’t know what he’s talking about; sie ist sehr hübsch, aber sie weiß es auch she’s very pretty and she knows it; er weiß immer alles besser iro. he always knows better; das musst du selber wissen that’s up to you; ich möchte wissen, wie etc. (ich frage mich) I wonder how etc.; ich möchte ( doch) gern wissen... I’d (really) like to know...; ich möchte nicht wissen, was... I wouldn’t like to know what...; wenn ich nur wüsste,... if I only knew...; das hätte ich ( früher) wissen sollen! I wish I’d known (earlier); woher soll ich denn das wissen? oder was ich immer alles wissen soll! umg. how am I supposed to know that!; woher will er denn das wissen? where’s he got ( oder where’d he learn) that from?; das weiß doch jedes Kind! any child knows that!; ich will von ihm / davon nichts wissen I don’t want anything to do with him / it; ich will von ihr nichts mehr wissen I’m through with her; von Geld wollte er nichts wissen he refused to ( oder he wouldn’t) accept any money; jetzt will ich’s aber wissen! umg. (beweisen, versuchen etc.) there’s only one way to find out!; Bescheid 3, Rat1 1

2. in Redefloskeln und Wendungen: weißt du was? umg. (do) you know what?; weißt du,... you know...; du musst ( nämlich) wissen, dass... you must know that...; erklärend: I have to tell you that...; nicht / wohl wissend, dass... not knowing / knowing very well that...; gewusst, wie! umg. it’s easy when you know how!; was weiß ich! umg. how should I know?, how am I supposed to know?; ich weiß nicht recht I’m not (so) sure, I dunno umg.; man kann nie wissen umg. you never know; bei ihr kann man nie wissen with her you never know; soviel ich weiß as far as I know; ich wüsste nicht warum / wie! I’ve no idea why / how!; nicht, dass ich wüsste! not that I know of; (ja,) wenn ich das wüsste! (well) if I knew that!; weiß der Geier oder Henker oder das wissen die Götter! God knows!; was ich nicht weiß, macht mich nicht heiß Sprichw. what you don’t know can’t hurt you, what the eye doesn’t see the heart doesn’t grieve over; ich weiß, dass ich nichts weiß Sokrates: I know that I know nothing

3. (+ Inf. mit zu): sich zu helfen / verteidigen / wehren wissen be able ( oder know how) to look after / defend o.s.; ich werde ihn schon zu finden wissen I’ll find him all right, I’ll find him, don’t you worry; sie weiß nichts mit sich / mit i-r Freiheit anzufangen she doesn’t know what to do with herself / her freedom

4. geh.: jemanden / sich in Sicherheit wissen know that s.o. / one is safe; er wusste sie gesund und sicher zu Hause he knew that she was safe and well at home; ich möchte das so verstanden wissen I’d like to have that understood

5. umg., verstärkend: und was weiß ich noch alles and what not; als ob es wer weiß was gekostet hätte as if it had cost goodness knows how much; er hält sich für wer weiß wie klug he thinks he’s ever so clever (Am. smart)

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das Wissen

know-how; knowledge; learning

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Wịs|sen ['vɪsn]
nt -s, no pl
knowledge
meines Wissens — to my knowledge

etw ohne jds Wissen tun — to do sth without sb's knowledge

(sein) besseres Wissen tun — to do sth against one's better judgement

nach bestem Wissen und Gewissen — to the best of one's knowledge and belief

mit jds Wissen und Willen — with sb's knowledge and consent

Wissen ist Macht — knowledge is power

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1) (to be aware of or to have been informed about: He knows everything; I know he is at home because his car is in the drive; He knows all about it; I know of no reason why you cannot go.) know

2) (the fact of knowing: She was greatly encouraged by the knowledge that she had won first prize in the competition.) knowledge

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Wis·sen

<-s>

[ˈvɪsn̩]

nt kein pl knowledge no pl

nach bestem \Wissen und Gewissen (geh) to the best of one's knowledge

\Wissen ist Macht knowledge is power

wider/gegen besseres \Wissen against one's better judgement

ohne jds \Wissen und Willen without sb's knowledge and consent

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das; Wissens knowledge

meines Wissens — to my knowledge

wider od. gegen besseres Wissen — against one's better judgement

nach bestem Wissen und Gewissen — to the best of one's knowledge and belief

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wissen v/t & v/i; weiß, wusste, gewusst

1. know (

von oder geh

um about);

wissen lassen, dass … let on that …;

jemanden etwas wissen lassen let sb know sth;

ich weiß genau, dass … I know for a fact that …;

weißt du noch? (do you) remember?;

ich weiß seinen Namen nicht mehr I can’t remember his name;

weißt du schon das Neueste? have you heard the latest?;

woher weißt du das? how do you know?;

sie weiß nicht, was sie will she doesn’t know what she wants;

er weiß nicht, was er sagt he doesn’t know what he’s talking about;

sie ist sehr hübsch, aber sie weiß es auch she’s very pretty and she knows it;

er weiß immer alles besser iron he always knows better;

das musst du selber wissen that’s up to you;

ich möchte wissen, wie etc (ich frage mich) I wonder how etc;

ich möchte (doch) gern wissen … I’d (really) like to know …;

ich möchte nicht wissen, was … I wouldn’t like to know what …;

wenn ich nur wüsste, … if I only knew …;

das hätte ich (früher) wissen sollen! I wish I’d known (earlier);

woher soll ich denn das wissen? oder

was ich immer alles wissen soll! umg how am I supposed to know that!;

woher will er denn das wissen? where’s he got ( oder where’d he learn) that from?;

das weiß doch jedes Kind! any child knows that!;

ich will von ihm/davon nichts wissen I don’t want anything to do with him/it;

ich will von ihr nichts mehr wissen I’m through with her;

von Geld wollte er nichts wissen he refused to ( oder he wouldn’t) accept any money;

jetzt will ich’s aber wissen! umg (beweisen, versuchen etc) there’s only one way to find out!; → Bescheid 3, Rat¹ 1

2. in Redefloskeln und Wendungen:

weißt du was? umg (do) you know what?;

weißt du, … you know …;

du musst (nämlich) wissen, dass … you must know that …; erklärend: I have to tell you that …;

nicht/wohl wissend, dass … not knowing/knowing very well that …;

gewusst, wie! umg it’s easy when you know how!;

was weiß ich! umg how should I know?, how am I supposed to know?;

ich weiß nicht recht I’m not (so) sure, I dunno umg;

man kann nie wissen umg you never know;

bei ihr kann man nie wissen with her you never know;

soviel ich weiß as far as I know;

ich wüsste nicht warum/wie! I’ve no idea why/how!;

nicht, dass ich wüsste! not that I know of;

(ja,) wenn ich das wüsste! (well) if I knew that!;

weiß der Geier oder

Henker oder

das wissen die Götter! God knows!;

was ich nicht weiß, macht mich nicht heiß sprichw what you don’t know can’t hurt you, what the eye doesn’t see the heart doesn’t grieve over;

ich weiß, dass ich nichts weiß Sokrates: I know that I know nothing

3. (+inf mit zu):

sich zu helfen/verteidigen/wehren wissen be able ( oder know how) to look after/defend o.s.;

ich werde ihn schon zu finden wissen I’ll find him all right, I’ll find him, don’t you worry;

sie weiß nichts mit sich/mit i-r Freiheit anzufangen she doesn’t know what to do with herself/her freedom

4. geh:

jemanden/sich in Sicherheit wissen know that sb/one is safe;

er wusste sie gesund und sicher zu Hause he knew that she was safe and well at home;

ich möchte das so verstanden wissen I’d like to have that understood

5. umg, verstärkend:

und was weiß ich noch alles and what not;

als ob es wer weiß was gekostet hätte as if it had cost goodness knows how much;

er hält sich für wer weiß wie klug he thinks he’s ever so clever (US smart)

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das; Wissens knowledge

meines Wissens — to my knowledge

wider od. gegen besseres Wissen — against one's better judgement

nach bestem Wissen und Gewissen — to the best of one's knowledge and belief

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n.

knowledge n.

Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > wissen
9 sostener

v.

1 to support, to hold up.

sostenme esto, por favor hold this for me, please

La columna sostiene la pared The column supports the wall.

Elsa sostiene la verdad Elsa sustains=adduces the truth.

2 to defend (defender) (idea, opinión, tesis).

sostener que… to maintain that…

3 to support.

4 to hold, to have (tener) (conversación).

sostener correspondencia con alguien to correspond with somebody

5 to sustain.

La organización sostiene a María The organization sustains Mary.

6 to maintain to.

Ella sostiene tener crédito She maintains to have a credit.

7 to claim to, to hold to.

Elsa sostiene la verdad Elsa sustains=adduces the truth.

Ella sostuvo ser la heredera She claimed to be the heiress.

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sostener

Conjugation model [ TENER], like link=tener tener

► verbo transitivo

1 (mantener firme) to support, hold up

2 (sujetar) to hold

3 figurado (apoyar) to support, back

4 figurado (soportar) to endure, bear, put up with

5 figurado (defender) to defend, uphold

6 figurado (afirmar) to maintain, affirm

7 figurado (alimentar) to support, keep

8 figurado (velocidad, correspondencia, relación, etc) to keep up, maintain

► verbo pronominal sostenerse

1 (mantenerse) to support oneself; (de pie) to stand up

2 (permanecer) to stay, remain

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FRASEOLOGÍA

sostener la palabra figurado to keep one's word

sostener una conversación figurado to hold a conversation

sostener la mirada a alguien figurado to stare somebody out

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verb

1) to support

2) hold

3) defend, uphold

4) maintain, sustain

•

- sostenerse

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1. VT

1) (=sujetar)

a) [en las manos, los brazos] to hold

¡sostén esto un momentito! — hold this a minute!

yo llevaba las cajas mientras él me sostenía la puerta — I carried the boxes while he held the door open for me

b) [en pie] [+ construcción, edificio, techo] to hold up, support

los pilares que sostienen el puente — the pillars which hold up o support the bridge

las piernas apenas me sostenían — my legs could barely hold me up o support me

entró borracho, sostenido por dos amigos — he came in drunk, held up o supported by two friends

c) (=soportar) [+ peso, carga] to bear, carry, sustain frm

2) (=proporcionar apoyo a)

a) [económicamente] to support

no gano suficiente para sostener a una familia — I don't earn enough to support a family

algunas de las alternativas sugeridas para sostener al club — some of the alternatives suggested to keep the club going

b) (=alimentar) to support, sustain frm

la tierra no da para sostener a todo el mundo — the land does not provide enough to support o frm sustain everyone

c) [moralmente] to support

la élite ha dejado de sostener al régimen — the elite has stopped supporting the regime

una mayoría capaz de sostener al Gobierno — a majority large enough to keep o support the government in power

solo lo sostiene el cariño de sus hijos — the love of his children is all that keeps him going

3) (=mantener)

a) [+ opinión] to hold

siempre he sostenido lo contrario — I've always held the opposite opinion

sostiene un punto de vista muy diferente — he has o holds a very different point of view

no tiene datos suficientes para sostener esa afirmación — she doesn't have enough information to back up o support that statement

la investigación no ha terminado, como sostiene el juez — the investigation has not concluded, as the judge maintains o holds

• sostener que — to maintain o hold that

sigue sosteniendo que es inocente — she still maintains o holds that she is innocent

b) [+ situación] to maintain, keep up

no podrán sostener su puesto en la clasificación — they won't be able to maintain o keep up their place in the ranking

los campesinos han sostenido desde siempre una fuerte lucha con el medio — country people have always kept up o carried on a hard struggle against the environment

• sostener la mirada de algn — to hold sb's gaze

4) (=tener) [+ conversación, enfrentamiento, polémica] to have
[+ reunión, audiencia]
sostuvo recientemente un enfrentamiento con el presidente — he recently had a clash with the president

sostuvo un breve encuentro con sus ministros — he held a brief meeting with his ministers

5) (Mús) [+ nota] to hold, sustain

2.

See:

sostenerse

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1.
verbo transitivo

1) ( apoyar)

a) <estructura/techo> to hold up, support; <carga/peso> to bear

tenían que sostenerlo los dos — it needed both of them to support him o hold him up o prop him up

b) ( en un estado) to keep

lo único que la sostiene es su fuerza de voluntad — it's sheer willpower that keeps her going

c) ( sustentar) < familia> to support, maintain

2) (sujetar, tener cogido) < paquete> to hold

no tengas miedo, yo te sostengo — don't be afraid, I've got you o I'm holding you

sostén la puerta — hold the door open

3) <conversación/relación/reunión> to have

la polémica que sostiene con Godoy — the dispute that he and Godoy are engaged in

4)

a) ( opinar) to hold

yo siempre he sostenido que... — I have always maintained o held that...

b) <argumento/afirmación> to support, back up

5)

a) <lucha/ritmo/resistencia> to keep up, sustain

ella sostuvo mi mirada — she held my gaze

b) (Mús) < nota> to hold, sustain
2.
sostenerse v pron

1)

a) ( no caerse)

la estructura se sostiene sola — the structure stays up without support

apenas se sostenía en pie — he could hardly stand

b) ( en un estado) to remain

se sostuvo en el poder — she managed to stay o remain in power

la economía se ha sostenido firme — the economy has held firm

se sostuvo en su negativa — he stuck firmly to his refusal

2) ( mantenerse)

no puede sostenerse con lo que gana — he can't support himself on what he earns

se sostiene a base de leche — she lives on o survives on milk

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1.
verbo transitivo

1) ( apoyar)

a) <estructura/techo> to hold up, support; <carga/peso> to bear

tenían que sostenerlo los dos — it needed both of them to support him o hold him up o prop him up

b) ( en un estado) to keep

lo único que la sostiene es su fuerza de voluntad — it's sheer willpower that keeps her going

c) ( sustentar) < familia> to support, maintain

2) (sujetar, tener cogido) < paquete> to hold

no tengas miedo, yo te sostengo — don't be afraid, I've got you o I'm holding you

sostén la puerta — hold the door open

3) <conversación/relación/reunión> to have

la polémica que sostiene con Godoy — the dispute that he and Godoy are engaged in

4)

a) ( opinar) to hold

yo siempre he sostenido que... — I have always maintained o held that...

b) <argumento/afirmación> to support, back up

5)

a) <lucha/ritmo/resistencia> to keep up, sustain

ella sostuvo mi mirada — she held my gaze

b) (Mús) < nota> to hold, sustain
2.
sostenerse v pron

1)

a) ( no caerse)

la estructura se sostiene sola — the structure stays up without support

apenas se sostenía en pie — he could hardly stand

b) ( en un estado) to remain

se sostuvo en el poder — she managed to stay o remain in power

la economía se ha sostenido firme — the economy has held firm

se sostuvo en su negativa — he stuck firmly to his refusal

2) ( mantenerse)

no puede sostenerse con lo que gana — he can't support himself on what he earns

se sostiene a base de leche — she lives on o survives on milk

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sostener¹

¹ = sustain, balance, hold.

Nota: Verbo irregular: pasado y participio held.

Ex: Publishers in the United Stated benefit from a larger home market which serves to sustain the production of an information tool.

Ex: He lifted about five lines from the top of the nearest page on a setting rule and balanced it on his left hand, with the face of the letter towards him and the last line uppermost.

Ex: If the search is made with a call number, a summary of copies with that call number which are held by the library is first displayed.

sostener²

² = be + Posesivo + contention, contend, submit, uphold, underpin, hold, maintain.

Ex: It is our contention that an understanding of such basic principles is fundamental to an appreciation of the many and varied contexts that the individual is likely to encounter.

Ex: The author contends that it is possible to view the search conducted with the aid of a series of menus as having strong similarities with the search through the hierarchy of a enumerative classification scheme.

Ex: I submit that no ordinary, right-minded library user who is looking for Western Behavioral Institute is going to look under LA JOLLA, California.

Ex: It's about time that we go back to these principles and make sure that the quality of cataloging is upheld.

Ex: This process is underpinned by a patient-based information system which is timely, accessible and credible to all participants.

Ex: Some theorists hold that one stage must be completely worked through before the next stage can be entered.

Ex: They maintain, in an article written for Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS) 'that automated cataloging systems have addressed only half of the problems of maintaining a library catalog'.

* sostener la opinión = argue.

* sostener una opinión = hold + view, hold + opinion.

* sostener un punto de vista = assert + view, hold + point of view.

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sostener [ E27 ]

vt

A (apoyar)

1 ‹estructura/techo› to hold up, support; ‹carga/peso› to bear

tenían que sostenerlo los dos it needed both of them to support him o hold him o prop him up

2 (en un estado) to keep

las fuerzas que lo sostuvieron en el poder the forces which kept him in power

lo único que la sostiene es la fuerza de voluntad it's sheer willpower that's keeping her going

3 (sustentar) ‹familia› to support, maintain

B (sujetar, tener cogido) ‹paquete› to hold

no tengas miedo, yo te sostengo don't be afraid, I've got you o I'm holding you o I'll keep hold of you

sostén la puerta hold the door open

ponte un pasador para sostener el pelo put a barrette ( AmE) o ( BrE) slide in your hair to keep it in place ( o up etc)

C ‹conversación/relación/reunión› to have

sostuvieron una acalorada discusión they had a heated discussion

no he sostenido nunca una relación duradera I've never had a lasting relationship

la polémica que sostiene con Godoy the dispute that he and Godoy are engaged in o that he is carrying on with Godoy

D

1 (opinar) to hold

yo siempre he sostenido que … I have always maintained o held that …

2 ‹argumento/afirmación› to support, back up

no tienes pruebas para sostener esa afirmación you don't have any proof to back up o support that statement

E

1 ‹lucha/ritmo/resistencia› to keep up, sustain

la miró y ella sostuvo su mirada he looked at her and she held his gaze

2 ( Mús) ‹nota› to hold, sustain

■ sostenerse

v pron

A

1

(no caerse): la estructura se sostiene sola the structure stays up o stands up without support

estaba tan débil que apenas se sostenía en pie he was so weak that he could hardly stand

la planta ya no se sostiene the plant doesn't stand up on its own o can't support itself any more

2 (en un estado) to remain

se sostuvo en el poder a pesar de la crisis she managed to stay o remain in power despite the crisis

la economía se ha sostenido firme the economy has held o stood firm

se sostuvo en su negativa he kept o stuck firmly to his refusal

B

(sustentarse): apenas puede sostenerse con lo que gana he can hardly support himself on what he earns

se sostiene a base de zumos y de leche she lives on o survives on fruit juice and milk

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sostener ( conjugate sostener) verbo transitivo
1 ( apoyar)
a) ‹estructura/techo› to hold up, support;

‹carga/peso› to bear
b) ( sustentar) ‹ familia› to support, maintain

2 (sujetar, tener cogido) ‹ paquete› to hold;
◊ no tengas miedo, yo te sostengo don't be afraid, I've got you o I'm holding you

3 ‹conversación/relación/reunión› to have
4
a) ( opinar) to hold

b) ‹argumento/afirmación› to support, back up

5
a) ‹lucha/ritmo/resistencia› to keep up, sustain;

◊ ella sostuvo mi mirada she held my gaze

b) (Mús) ‹ nota› to hold, sustain

sostenerse verbo pronominal
a) ( no caerse):

◊ la estructura se sostiene sola the structure stays up without support;

apenas se sostenía en pie he could hardly stand
b) ( en un estado) to remain;

◊ se sostuvo en el poder she managed to remain in power

sostener verbo transitivo
1 (un peso, cúpula, etc) to support, hold up
(con la mano) sosténme el paraguas un momento, hold the umbrella for me for a moment
2 fig (un derecho, etc) to uphold
(una teoría) to maintain
3 (a la familia) to support
4 (negociaciones, una conversación) to have
' sostener' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
coger
- mantener
- mirada
- sujetarse
- aguantar
- sostuve
- sujetar
- tener
English:
allege
- argue
- bolster
- contend
- hold up
- submit
- support
- sustain
- uphold
- hold
- prop

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sostener

♦ vt

1. [sujetar] [edificio, estructura, lo que se tambalea] to support, to hold up;
[objeto, puerta, bebé] to hold;
cuatro columnas sostienen todo el peso de la cúpula four columns take o support the entire weight of the dome;

sosténgame esto, por favor hold this for me, please;

si no nos llegan a sostener nos hubiéramos peleado if they hadn't held us back, we'd have started fighting;

sólo les sostiene su inquebrantable optimismo the only thing that keeps them going is their unshakeable optimism

2. [dar manutención a, sustentar] to support

3. [mantener] [idea, opinión, tesis] to defend;
[promesa, palabra] to keep;
sostienen su oferta/invitación their offer/invitation still stands;

sostener que… to maintain that…

4. [tener] [conversación] to have;
[reunión, negociaciones] to hold, to have;
sostener correspondencia con alguien to correspond with sb;

durante semanas sostuvo una agria polémica he was involved in a bitter dispute which lasted several weeks

5. Fig [aguantar]
el corredor no podía sostener aquel ritmo de carrera the athlete couldn't keep up with the pace of the race;

era una situación imposible de sostener the situation was untenable;

le sostuve la mirada I held her gaze

6. Mús
sostener una nota to hold a note

♦ See also the pronominal verb sostenerse

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sostener

I v/t

1 familia support

2 opinión hold

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sostener {80} vt

1) : to support, to hold up

2) : to hold

sostenme la puerta: hold the door for me

sostener una conversación: to hold a conversation

3) : to sustain, to maintain

♦ See also the reflexive verb sostenerse

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sostener vb

1. (sujetar) to hold [pt. & pp. held]

sostenía un libro en la mano he held a book in his hand

2. (aguantar) to support

las vigas sostienen el techo the beams support the ceiling

3. (afirmar, mantener) to maintain

sostiene que vio un fantasma she maintains that she saw a ghost

sostenerse en pie to stand up [pt. & pp. stood]

Spanish-English dictionary > sostener
10 mantener

v.

1 to keep.

mantener algo en buen estado to keep something in good condition

mantener una promesa to keep a promise

mantener la calma to stay calm

Los mantengo trabajando I keep them working.

Ellos mantienen el proyecto They maintain the project.

2 to support (with scaffold, columns).

mantén los brazos en alto keep your arms in the air

3 to support.

con su sueldo mantiene a toda la familia he has to support o keep his whole family with his wages

4 to have (relationships, conversations).

mantener relaciones con alguien to have a relationship with somebody

5 to stick to (to defend) (conviction).

mantiene su inocencia she maintains that she is innocent

mantiene que no la vió he maintains that he didn't see her

6 to maintain, to keep, to conserve, to hold.

Ellos mantienen unas mantas They maintain some bedcovers.

Mantiene sus mismas creencias de antes He keeps his old views.

Ellos mantienen su opinión They maintain their opinion.

María mantiene a su hijo Mary maintains=provides for her son.

Ella mantiene su declaración She maintains her declaration.

7 to claim to, to hold to, to maintain to.

Ellos mantienen haber limpiado They claim to have cleaned.

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mantener

Conjugation model [ TENER], like link=tener tener

► verbo transitivo

1 (conservar) to keep

■ la policía mantiene el orden público the police keep law and order

■ la nevera mantiene los alimentos en buenas condiciones the fridge keeps food fresh

■ 'Mantenga Zamora limpia' "Keep Zamora tidy"

2 (tener) to keep

■ 'Mantener en posición vertical' "Keep vertical"

■ 'Mantener fuera del alcance de los niños' "Keep out of the reach of children"

3 (sostener) to support, hold up, hold

■ estos pilares mantienen el techo these pillars support the roof

■ no sé como se mantiene en pie con lo que ha bebido I don't know how he can stand up after having drunk so much

4 (sustentar) to support, maintain

■ ella sola mantiene a toda la familia she supports the whole family by herself

5 (afirmación etc) to maintain

■ pues yo mantengo que no es verdad well, I maintain that it is not true

6 (conversación, relaciones) to have; (reunión) to hold, have; (correspondencia) to keep up; (promesa, palabra) to keep

■ afirma que no mantuvieron relaciones sexuales he states that they did not have sexual intercourse

■ mantuvieron una larga correspondencia they kept up a lengthy correspondence

■ mantuvimos una reunión en su despacho we held a meeting in her office

► verbo pronominal mantenerse

1 (sostenerse) to remain, stand

2 (continuar en un estado, una posición) to keep

■ se mantuvo a distancia she kept her distance

■ se mantiene firme en sus creencias he remains firm in his beliefs

3 (sustenerse) to manage, maintain oneself, support oneself

4 (alimentarse) to eat, live

■ se mantiene a base de fruta she lives on fruit, she eats only fruit

■ no nos mantenemos del aire we can't live on air

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FRASEOLOGÍA

mantener algo en secreto to keep something secret

mantenerse aparte to stay out of it, not get involved

mantenerse en contacto con to stay in contact with

mantenerse en forma to keep in shape, keep in trim, keep fit

mantenerse en pie to stand, remain standing

mantenerse en sus trece to stick to one's guns

mantenerse vivo,-a to stay alive

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verb

1) to keep

2) maintain

3) hold

4) support

5) sustain

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1. VT

1) (=sostener) [gen] to hold; [+ puente, techo] to support

mantén la caja un momento — hold the box a minute

los pilares que mantienen el puente — the pillars which support the bridge

2) (=preservar)

a) [en un lugar] to store, keep

una vez abierto manténgase refrigerado — once opened keep in a refrigerator

"manténgase en un lugar fresco y seco" — "store in a cool dry place"

b) [en un estado o situación] to keep

la ilusión es lo único que lo mantiene vivo — hope is the only thing that keeps him alive o going

hay que mantener actualizada la base de datos — we have to keep the database up to date

para mantener el motor en buen estado — to keep the engine in good condition

mantenga limpia su ciudad — keep your city clean

manténgase fuera del alcance de los niños — keep out of the reach of children

• mantener algo caliente — to keep sth hot

• mantener algo en equilibrio — to balance sth, keep sth balanced

• mantener algo en secreto — to keep sth a secret

mantuvo en secreto que tenía dos hijos — she kept her two children a secret
raya I, 1)
3) (=conservar) [+ opinión] to maintain, hold; [+ costumbre, ideales] to keep up, maintain; [+ disciplina] to maintain, keep; [+ promesa] to keep

un alto porcentaje mantenía su opinión sobre la crisis — a high percentage maintained o held their opinion about the crisis

me marcho manteniendo mi opinión — I'm leaving, but I stand by my opinion

una civilización que lucha por mantener sus tradiciones — a civilization struggling to uphold o maintain its traditions

eran partidarios de mantener el antiguo orden social — they were in favour of preserving the old social order

mantener el orden público — to keep the peace

• al conducir hay que mantener la distancia de seguridad — you have to keep (at) a safe distance when driving

• mantener el equilibrio — to keep one's balance

le cuesta mantener el equilibrio — he finds it difficult to keep his balance

hemos conseguido mantener el equilibrio entre ingresos y gastos — we have managed to maintain a balance between income and expenditure

• mantener el fuego — to keep the fire going

• mantener la línea — to keep one's figure, keep in shape

• mantener la paz — to keep the peace, maintain peace

- mantenella y no emendalla
calma, distancia
4) [económicamente] to support, maintain

ahora tiene una familia que mantener — now he has a family to support o maintain

ya no pienso mantenerla más — I refuse to keep o support o maintain her any longer

5) [+ conversación, contacto] to maintain, hold

es incapaz de mantener una conversación coherente — he is incapable of maintaining o holding a coherent conversation

en las conversaciones que hemos mantenido con el presidente — in the talks we have held with the president

¿han mantenido ustedes relaciones sexuales? — have you had sexual relations?
correspondencia 2)
6) (=afirmar) to maintain

siempre he mantenido lo contrario — I've always maintained the opposite

2.

See:

mantenerse

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1.
verbo transitivo

1) ( económicamente) <familia/persona> to support, maintain; < perro> to keep; < amante> to keep

2)

a) (conservar, preservar) to keep

mantener la calma/la compostura — to keep calm/one's composure

para mantener su peso actual — to maintain his present weight

mantener las viejas tradiciones — to keep up the old traditions

el euro ha mantenido su valor — the euro has held its value

b) (cierto estado, cierta situación) (+ compl) to keep

mantener el equilibrio — to keep one's balance

mantener algo en equilibrio — to balance sth

mantenga limpia su ciudad — keep Norwich (o York etc) tidy

3)

a) < conversaciones> to have; < contactos> to maintain, keep up; < correspondencia> to keep up; < relaciones> to maintain

las negociaciones mantenidas en Ginebra — the negotiations held in Geneva

b) ( cumplir) <promesa/palabra> to keep

4) (afirmar, sostener) to maintain
2.
mantenerse verbo pronominal

1) ( sustentarse económicamente) to support oneself

2) (en cierto estado, cierta situación) (+ compl) to keep

se mantuvieron en primera división — they kept their place in the first division

la torre aún se mantiene en pie — the tower is still standing

mantenerse a distancia — to keep one's distance

mantenerse en contacto con algn — to keep in touch with sb

se mantuvo neutral en la disputa — he remained neutral in the dispute

3) ( alimentarse)

mantenerse a base de latas — to live off tinned food

se mantiene a base de vitaminas — he lives on vitamin pills

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= hold together, keep, maintain, maintain, preserve, retain, store, support, sustain, uphold, hold, service, carry on, keep + Nombre + going, operate, hold on to.

Ex. The organization was trembling on the brink of financial disaster, and only the journal, American Documentation, was holding it together.

Ex. Guard book or scrapbook type arrangement, with possibly a loose-leaf format, is suitable for organising and keeping cuttings, letters and other small items.

Ex. Expressiveness can be difficult to maintain as new subjects are added.

Ex. They maintain, in an article written for Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS) 'that automated cataloging systems have addressed only half of the problems of maintaining a library catalog'.

Ex. The concepts are organised into facets, and the facets are arranged and applied in such a way that the general to special order is preserved.

Ex. At an earlier stage, the Library of Congress had decided to retain certain pre-AACR headings, in order to avoid the expense of extensive recataloguing.

Ex. The records in a computer data base are structured in order to suit the information that is being stored for various applications.

Ex. In order to support these three elements, and to ensure that schemes are updated it is important to have some organisation which takes responsibility for revision and publication.

Ex. Publishers in the United Stated benefit from a larger home market which serves to sustain the production of an information tool.

Ex. It's about time that we go back to these principles and make sure that the quality of cataloging is upheld.

Ex. Some theorists hold that one stage must be completely worked through before the next stage can be entered.

Ex. Special storage facilities have been constructed which are at present serviced manually but will soon be computerised.

Ex. If a child detects that no very strong value is placed on reading then he feels no compulsion to develop his own reading skill beyond the minimal, functional level we all need simply to carry on our daily lives in our print-dominated society.

Ex. The author explains how libraries can keep their services going without being slaves to the job.

Ex. These references operate in a similar fashion whether they are used to link authors' names or subject headings.

Ex. The girls were swept away by the water as they failed to hold on to the bus stand.

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* capacidad de mantener la atención = attention span.

* debate + mantenerse = debate + rage.

* de mantener una conversación = conversational.

* el que mantiene a la familia = breadwinner [bread winner].

* mantener a Alguien alerta = keep + Nombre + on + Posesivo + toes.

* mantener a Alguien atento = keep + Nombre + on + Posesivo + toes.

* mantener a Alguien en vilo = keep + Nombre + on + Posesivo + toes.

* mantener a Alguien informado de = keep + Nombre + posted on.

* mantener activo = keep + Nombre + going.

* mantener a flote = keep + afloat.

* mantener a la par de = keep up with.

* mantener alejado = keep away, keep + Nombre + out.

* mantener Algo abierto = hold + Nombre + open.

* mantener Algo activo = keep + Nombre + at the fore.

* mantener Algo alejado = keep + Nombre + at arm's length.

* mantener Algo al mínimo = keep + Nombre + at a minimum.

* mantener Algo a salvo = keep + Nombre + out of harm's way.

* mantener Algo controlado = keep + Nombre + in check.

* mantener Algo en el buen camino = keep + Nombre + on track.

* mantener Algo en equilibrio = keep + Nombre + in balance.

* mantener Algo en la dirección correcta = keep + Nombre + on track.

* mantener Algo en orden = keep + Nombre + in order.

* mantener Algo fuera de peligro = keep + Nombre + out of harm's way.

* mantener Algo ordenado = keep + Nombre + tidy, keep + Nombre + in order.

* mantener Algo vivo = keep + the flame alive, keep + Nombre + at the fore.

* mantener al ralentí = idle.

* mantener a mano = keep to + hand.

* mantener aparte = keep + separate.

* mantener a raya = keep at + bay, hold off, keep + Nombre + in line, hold at + bay.

* mantener bajo control = keep + a rein on.

* mantener bajo vigilancia = keep under + observation.

* mantener constancia de = keep + record of.

* mantener contacto = maintain + contact.

* mantener control = hold + the reins of control.

* mantener cooperación = maintain + cooperation.

* mantener dentro = keep + Nombre + in.

* mantener el control = stay in + control.

* mantener el ímpetu = maintain + momentum.

* mantener el interés = hold + the interest.

* mantener el orden = keep + order, police.

* mantener el orden público = maintain + public order.

* mantener el ritmo = keep + pace.

* mantener el tipo = keep + a stiff upper lip.

* mantener en observación = hold under + observation, keep under + observation.

* mantener en privado = be out of the public eye.

* mantener en reserva = keep on + reserve, keep in + reserve.

* mantener en secreto = keep + secret, keep + hush hush, keep + confidential, keep + Nombre + under wraps.

* mantener en sintonía = keep in + step.

* mantener firme = keep + steady, hold in + line, hold + steady.

* mantener informado = keep + informed.

* mantener junto = keep together.

* mantener la atención de Alguien = hold + Posesivo + attention.

* mantener la boca cerrada = keep + Posesivo + mouth shut.

* mantener la bola rodando = keep + the ball rolling.

* mantener la cabeza = keep + Posesivo + head, keep + Posesivo + head together.

* mantener la cabeza alta = hold + Posesivo + head high.

* mantener la cabeza fría = keep + a cool head, remain + cool-headed, play it + cool.

* mantener la calma = keep + Posesivo + head, keep + Posesivo + head together, keep + Pronombre + cool, remain + cool-headed, keep + a cool head, play it + cool.

* mantener la coherencia = maintain + consistency.

* mantener la compostura = keep + a cool head, remain + cool-headed, play it + cool.

* mantener la condición (de) = retain + Posesivo + status (as).

* mantener la continuidad = maintain + continuity.

* mantener la delantera = keep + ahead.

* mantener la disciplina = maintain + discipline.

* mantener la palabra = keep + Posesivo + word, live up to + Posesivo + word.

* mantener la posición = hold + the line.

* mantener las apariencias = keep up + appearances.

* mantener las cosas en marcha = keep + the ball rolling, keep + it rolling.

* mantener las cosas en movimiento = keep + the ball rolling, keep + it rolling.

* mantener las cosas funcionando = keep + the ball rolling, keep + it rolling.

* mantener las cuentas = keep + Posesivo + accounts.

* mantener las distancias con = keep + Nombre + at arm's length.

* mantener la serenidad = keep + Pronombre + cool, keep + a cool head, remain + cool-headed, play it + cool.

* mantener la tradición = keep with + tradition.

* mantener la vida = sustain + life.

* mantener libre de = keep + free of.

* mantener los ojos bien abiertos = keep + Posesivo + eyes (wide) open, keep + Posesivo + eyes peeled, keep + Posesivo + eyes skinned.

* mantener los precios = hold + prices down.

* mantener oculto = keep + Nombre + under wraps.

* mantener ocupado = keep + busy.

* mantener ordenado = keep + Nombre + neat and tidy.

* mantener presente = keep before.

* mantener presionado = hold down.

* mantener registro de = keep + record of.

* mantener relaciones = maintain + contact, maintain + relationships, maintain + relations.

* mantener relaciones comerciales = do + business.

* mantenerse actualizado = keep up to + date (with).

* mantenerse actualizado de = keep + abreast of.

* mantenerse a distancia = stand off.

* mantenerse a flote = keep + Posesivo + head above the water, keep + the wolves from the door, stay + afloat, stay in + business.

* mantenerse aislado = keep to + Reflexivo.

* mantenerse a la cabeza = stay + ahead of the pack.

* mantenerse a la escucha = stay + tuned.

* mantenerse al corriente = keep + current.

* mantenerse al corriente de = keep + abreast of, stay + abreast of, keep + track of.

* mantenerse al día = keep up to + date (with), keep up with + the current scene, keep + current.

* mantenerse al día de = keep + abreast of, keep + pace with, keep up with, stay + abreast of, keep + a finger on the pulse of, stay in + step with, keep in + step with, keep + step with.

* mantenerse al día de las noticias = keep up with + the news.

* mantenerse al día de los avances = track + developments.

* mantenerse alejado = stay away, remain + aloof.

* mantenerse alejado de = stay away from, steer + clear of, give + Nombre + a wide berth, steer away from.

* mantenerse alejado de la mirada del público = shun + the public eye, keep out of + the public eye.

* mantenerse alejado de la mirada pública = shun + the public eye, keep out of + the public eye.

* mantenerse alejado de + Nombre = keep + Nombre + at a distance.

* mantenerse alerta = keep + alert, keep + an eye open, keep + Posesivo + eyes (wide) open.

* mantenerse al frente = keep + ahead.

* mantenerse al margen = keep to + Reflexivo, take + a back seat, stand by, remain on + the sidelines.

* mantenerse al margen de = remain + uninvolved in, hold + Reflexivo + apart from.

* mantenerse al margen de Algo = stay above + Algo.

* mantenerse al tanto = stay + tuned.

* mantenerse al tanto de = keep in + sync, keep + a finger on the pulse of, keep + track of, stay in + step with, keep in + step with, keep + step with.

* mantenerse al tanto de las cosas = stay on + top of things, keep on + top of things, be on top of things.

* mantenerse al tanto de las noticias = keep up with + the news.

* mantenerse al tanto de los avances = track + developments.

* mantenerse atento = keep + Posesivo + eyes (wide) open.

* mantenerse atento a lo que ocurre alrededor = have + an ear to the ground, keep + Posesivo + ear to the ground.

* mantenerse bien = keep + well.

* mantenerse caliente = keep + warm.

* mantenerse callado = keep + quiet.

* mantenerse callado y pensativo con cierto resentimiento = brood.

* mantenerse como válido = hold up.

* mantener secreto = keep + secret.

* mantenerse despierto = keep + alert, stay + awake.

* mantenerse en buen estado físico = keep + fit.

* mantenerse en contacto = stay + tuned.

* mantenerse en contacto (con) = keep in + touch (with), stay in + touch (with).

* mantenerse en espera = stay + tuned.

* mantenerse en forma = keep + fit.

* mantenerse en línea con = keep in + line with.

* mantenerse en pie = hold + Posesivo + own.

* mantenerse en + Posesivo + trece = stick to + Posesivo + guns.

* mantenerse en sincronía = keep in + sync.

* mantenerse en su sitio = stand + Posesivo + ground.

* mantenerse en sus trece = stand + Posesivo + ground.

* mantenerse fiel a = stick with.

* mantenerse fiel a los principios de Uno = stick to + Posesivo + principles.

* mantenerse firme = stand + Posesivo + ground, stick to + Posesivo + guns.

* mantenerse impasible = keep + a stiff upper lip.

* mantenerse informado = keep up to + date (with), keep + current.

* mantenerse informado de = keep + abreast of.

* mantenerse lejos de = steer + clear of, give + Nombre + a wide berth, steer away from.

* mantenerse líder = stay + ahead of the pack.

* mantener(se) ocupado = keep + busy.

* mantener separado = keep apart.

* mantenerse por delante = keep + ahead.

* mantenerse por delante de la competencia = keep + one step ahead of the game, keep + one step ahead of the competition.

* mantenerse unidos = stick together.

* mantenerse vigente = hold + Posesivo + own.

* mantener silencio = keep + silent, keep + silence.

* mantener sincronizado = keep in + step.

* mantener suspenso en el aire = suspend.

* mantener todo controlado = stay on + top of things, keep on + top of things, be on top of things.

* mantener una actitud = hold + attitude.

* mantener una actitud abierta = be open-minded.

* mantener una apariencia de = maintain + a semblance of.

* mantener una conversación = hold + conversation.

* mantener una opinión = hold + view, hold + opinion.

* mantener una promesa = keep + Posesivo + promise.

* mantener una relación con = carry on + relationship with.

* mantener un concepto = hold + concept.

* mantener un control férreo sobre = hold + an iron grip on.

* mantener un debate = hold + discussion.

* mantener un equilibrio = balance, maintain + a balance, keep + a balance.

* mantener un estándar = uphold + standard.

* mantener un interés = pursue + interest.

* mantener un registro = keep + log.

* mantener un registro de = keep + track of, record.

* mantener un sistema de turnos = hold + a rota of.

* mantener vigente = keep + alive.

* mantener vivo = keep + alive, maintain + momentum, keep + Nombre + going.

* máquina que mantiene las constantes vitales = life-support system.

* para mantener(se) ocupado = keep-busy.

* voluntad de mantener Algo en secreto = secretiveness.

* * *
1.
verbo transitivo

1) ( económicamente) <familia/persona> to support, maintain; < perro> to keep; < amante> to keep

2)

a) (conservar, preservar) to keep

mantener la calma/la compostura — to keep calm/one's composure

para mantener su peso actual — to maintain his present weight

mantener las viejas tradiciones — to keep up the old traditions

el euro ha mantenido su valor — the euro has held its value

b) (cierto estado, cierta situación) (+ compl) to keep

mantener el equilibrio — to keep one's balance

mantener algo en equilibrio — to balance sth

mantenga limpia su ciudad — keep Norwich (o York etc) tidy

3)

a) < conversaciones> to have; < contactos> to maintain, keep up; < correspondencia> to keep up; < relaciones> to maintain

las negociaciones mantenidas en Ginebra — the negotiations held in Geneva

b) ( cumplir) <promesa/palabra> to keep

4) (afirmar, sostener) to maintain
2.
mantenerse verbo pronominal

1) ( sustentarse económicamente) to support oneself

2) (en cierto estado, cierta situación) (+ compl) to keep

se mantuvieron en primera división — they kept their place in the first division

la torre aún se mantiene en pie — the tower is still standing

mantenerse a distancia — to keep one's distance

mantenerse en contacto con algn — to keep in touch with sb

se mantuvo neutral en la disputa — he remained neutral in the dispute

3) ( alimentarse)

mantenerse a base de latas — to live off tinned food

se mantiene a base de vitaminas — he lives on vitamin pills

* * *

= hold together, keep, maintain, maintain, preserve, retain, store, support, sustain, uphold, hold, service, carry on, keep + Nombre + going, operate, hold on to.

Ex: The organization was trembling on the brink of financial disaster, and only the journal, American Documentation, was holding it together.

Ex: Guard book or scrapbook type arrangement, with possibly a loose-leaf format, is suitable for organising and keeping cuttings, letters and other small items.

Ex: Expressiveness can be difficult to maintain as new subjects are added.

Ex: They maintain, in an article written for Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS) 'that automated cataloging systems have addressed only half of the problems of maintaining a library catalog'.

Ex: The concepts are organised into facets, and the facets are arranged and applied in such a way that the general to special order is preserved.

Ex: At an earlier stage, the Library of Congress had decided to retain certain pre-AACR headings, in order to avoid the expense of extensive recataloguing.

Ex: The records in a computer data base are structured in order to suit the information that is being stored for various applications.

Ex: In order to support these three elements, and to ensure that schemes are updated it is important to have some organisation which takes responsibility for revision and publication.

Ex: Publishers in the United Stated benefit from a larger home market which serves to sustain the production of an information tool.

Ex: It's about time that we go back to these principles and make sure that the quality of cataloging is upheld.

Ex: Some theorists hold that one stage must be completely worked through before the next stage can be entered.

Ex: Special storage facilities have been constructed which are at present serviced manually but will soon be computerised.

Ex: If a child detects that no very strong value is placed on reading then he feels no compulsion to develop his own reading skill beyond the minimal, functional level we all need simply to carry on our daily lives in our print-dominated society.

Ex: The author explains how libraries can keep their services going without being slaves to the job.

Ex: These references operate in a similar fashion whether they are used to link authors' names or subject headings.

Ex: The girls were swept away by the water as they failed to hold on to the bus stand.

* capacidad de mantener la atención = attention span.

* debate + mantenerse = debate + rage.

* de mantener una conversación = conversational.

* el que mantiene a la familia = breadwinner [bread winner].

* mantener a Alguien alerta = keep + Nombre + on + Posesivo + toes.

* mantener a Alguien atento = keep + Nombre + on + Posesivo + toes.

* mantener a Alguien en vilo = keep + Nombre + on + Posesivo + toes.

* mantener a Alguien informado de = keep + Nombre + posted on.

* mantener activo = keep + Nombre + going.

* mantener a flote = keep + afloat.

* mantener a la par de = keep up with.

* mantener alejado = keep away, keep + Nombre + out.

* mantener Algo abierto = hold + Nombre + open.

* mantener Algo activo = keep + Nombre + at the fore.

* mantener Algo alejado = keep + Nombre + at arm's length.

* mantener Algo al mínimo = keep + Nombre + at a minimum.

* mantener Algo a salvo = keep + Nombre + out of harm's way.

* mantener Algo controlado = keep + Nombre + in check.

* mantener Algo en el buen camino = keep + Nombre + on track.

* mantener Algo en equilibrio = keep + Nombre + in balance.

* mantener Algo en la dirección correcta = keep + Nombre + on track.

* mantener Algo en orden = keep + Nombre + in order.

* mantener Algo fuera de peligro = keep + Nombre + out of harm's way.

* mantener Algo ordenado = keep + Nombre + tidy, keep + Nombre + in order.

* mantener Algo vivo = keep + the flame alive, keep + Nombre + at the fore.

* mantener al ralentí = idle.

* mantener a mano = keep to + hand.

* mantener aparte = keep + separate.

* mantener a raya = keep at + bay, hold off, keep + Nombre + in line, hold at + bay.

* mantener bajo control = keep + a rein on.

* mantener bajo vigilancia = keep under + observation.

* mantener constancia de = keep + record of.

* mantener contacto = maintain + contact.

* mantener control = hold + the reins of control.

* mantener cooperación = maintain + cooperation.

* mantener dentro = keep + Nombre + in.

* mantener el control = stay in + control.

* mantener el ímpetu = maintain + momentum.

* mantener el interés = hold + the interest.

* mantener el orden = keep + order, police.

* mantener el orden público = maintain + public order.

* mantener el ritmo = keep + pace.

* mantener el tipo = keep + a stiff upper lip.

* mantener en observación = hold under + observation, keep under + observation.

* mantener en privado = be out of the public eye.

* mantener en reserva = keep on + reserve, keep in + reserve.

* mantener en secreto = keep + secret, keep + hush hush, keep + confidential, keep + Nombre + under wraps.

* mantener en sintonía = keep in + step.

* mantener firme = keep + steady, hold in + line, hold + steady.

* mantener informado = keep + informed.

* mantener junto = keep together.

* mantener la atención de Alguien = hold + Posesivo + attention.

* mantener la boca cerrada = keep + Posesivo + mouth shut.

* mantener la bola rodando = keep + the ball rolling.

* mantener la cabeza = keep + Posesivo + head, keep + Posesivo + head together.

* mantener la cabeza alta = hold + Posesivo + head high.

* mantener la cabeza fría = keep + a cool head, remain + cool-headed, play it + cool.

* mantener la calma = keep + Posesivo + head, keep + Posesivo + head together, keep + Pronombre + cool, remain + cool-headed, keep + a cool head, play it + cool.

* mantener la coherencia = maintain + consistency.

* mantener la compostura = keep + a cool head, remain + cool-headed, play it + cool.

* mantener la condición (de) = retain + Posesivo + status (as).

* mantener la continuidad = maintain + continuity.

* mantener la delantera = keep + ahead.

* mantener la disciplina = maintain + discipline.

* mantener la palabra = keep + Posesivo + word, live up to + Posesivo + word.

* mantener la posición = hold + the line.

* mantener las apariencias = keep up + appearances.

* mantener las cosas en marcha = keep + the ball rolling, keep + it rolling.

* mantener las cosas en movimiento = keep + the ball rolling, keep + it rolling.

* mantener las cosas funcionando = keep + the ball rolling, keep + it rolling.

* mantener las cuentas = keep + Posesivo + accounts.

* mantener las distancias con = keep + Nombre + at arm's length.

* mantener la serenidad = keep + Pronombre + cool, keep + a cool head, remain + cool-headed, play it + cool.

* mantener la tradición = keep with + tradition.

* mantener la vida = sustain + life.

* mantener libre de = keep + free of.

* mantener los ojos bien abiertos = keep + Posesivo + eyes (wide) open, keep + Posesivo + eyes peeled, keep + Posesivo + eyes skinned.

* mantener los precios = hold + prices down.

* mantener oculto = keep + Nombre + under wraps.

* mantener ocupado = keep + busy.

* mantener ordenado = keep + Nombre + neat and tidy.

* mantener presente = keep before.

* mantener presionado = hold down.

* mantener registro de = keep + record of.

* mantener relaciones = maintain + contact, maintain + relationships, maintain + relations.

* mantener relaciones comerciales = do + business.

* mantenerse actualizado = keep up to + date (with).

* mantenerse actualizado de = keep + abreast of.

* mantenerse a distancia = stand off.

* mantenerse a flote = keep + Posesivo + head above the water, keep + the wolves from the door, stay + afloat, stay in + business.

* mantenerse aislado = keep to + Reflexivo.

* mantenerse a la cabeza = stay + ahead of the pack.

* mantenerse a la escucha = stay + tuned.

* mantenerse al corriente = keep + current.

* mantenerse al corriente de = keep + abreast of, stay + abreast of, keep + track of.

* mantenerse al día = keep up to + date (with), keep up with + the current scene, keep + current.

* mantenerse al día de = keep + abreast of, keep + pace with, keep up with, stay + abreast of, keep + a finger on the pulse of, stay in + step with, keep in + step with, keep + step with.

* mantenerse al día de las noticias = keep up with + the news.

* mantenerse al día de los avances = track + developments.

* mantenerse alejado = stay away, remain + aloof.

* mantenerse alejado de = stay away from, steer + clear of, give + Nombre + a wide berth, steer away from.

* mantenerse alejado de la mirada del público = shun + the public eye, keep out of + the public eye.

* mantenerse alejado de la mirada pública = shun + the public eye, keep out of + the public eye.

* mantenerse alejado de + Nombre = keep + Nombre + at a distance.

* mantenerse alerta = keep + alert, keep + an eye open, keep + Posesivo + eyes (wide) open.

* mantenerse al frente = keep + ahead.

* mantenerse al margen = keep to + Reflexivo, take + a back seat, stand by, remain on + the sidelines.

* mantenerse al margen de = remain + uninvolved in, hold + Reflexivo + apart from.

* mantenerse al margen de Algo = stay above + Algo.

* mantenerse al tanto = stay + tuned.

* mantenerse al tanto de = keep in + sync, keep + a finger on the pulse of, keep + track of, stay in + step with, keep in + step with, keep + step with.

* mantenerse al tanto de las cosas = stay on + top of things, keep on + top of things, be on top of things.

* mantenerse al tanto de las noticias = keep up with + the news.

* mantenerse al tanto de los avances = track + developments.

* mantenerse atento = keep + Posesivo + eyes (wide) open.

* mantenerse atento a lo que ocurre alrededor = have + an ear to the ground, keep + Posesivo + ear to the ground.

* mantenerse bien = keep + well.

* mantenerse caliente = keep + warm.

* mantenerse callado = keep + quiet.

* mantenerse callado y pensativo con cierto resentimiento = brood.

* mantenerse como válido = hold up.

* mantener secreto = keep + secret.

* mantenerse despierto = keep + alert, stay + awake.

* mantenerse en buen estado físico = keep + fit.

* mantenerse en contacto = stay + tuned.

* mantenerse en contacto (con) = keep in + touch (with), stay in + touch (with).

* mantenerse en espera = stay + tuned.

* mantenerse en forma = keep + fit.

* mantenerse en línea con = keep in + line with.

* mantenerse en pie = hold + Posesivo + own.

* mantenerse en + Posesivo + trece = stick to + Posesivo + guns.

* mantenerse en sincronía = keep in + sync.

* mantenerse en su sitio = stand + Posesivo + ground.

* mantenerse en sus trece = stand + Posesivo + ground.

* mantenerse fiel a = stick with.

* mantenerse fiel a los principios de Uno = stick to + Posesivo + principles.

* mantenerse firme = stand + Posesivo + ground, stick to + Posesivo + guns.

* mantenerse impasible = keep + a stiff upper lip.

* mantenerse informado = keep up to + date (with), keep + current.

* mantenerse informado de = keep + abreast of.

* mantenerse lejos de = steer + clear of, give + Nombre + a wide berth, steer away from.

* mantenerse líder = stay + ahead of the pack.

* mantener(se) ocupado = keep + busy.

* mantener separado = keep apart.

* mantenerse por delante = keep + ahead.

* mantenerse por delante de la competencia = keep + one step ahead of the game, keep + one step ahead of the competition.

* mantenerse unidos = stick together.

* mantenerse vigente = hold + Posesivo + own.

* mantener silencio = keep + silent, keep + silence.

* mantener sincronizado = keep in + step.

* mantener suspenso en el aire = suspend.

* mantener todo controlado = stay on + top of things, keep on + top of things, be on top of things.

* mantener una actitud = hold + attitude.

* mantener una actitud abierta = be open-minded.

* mantener una apariencia de = maintain + a semblance of.

* mantener una conversación = hold + conversation.

* mantener una opinión = hold + view, hold + opinion.

* mantener una promesa = keep + Posesivo + promise.

* mantener una relación con = carry on + relationship with.

* mantener un concepto = hold + concept.

* mantener un control férreo sobre = hold + an iron grip on.

* mantener un debate = hold + discussion.

* mantener un equilibrio = balance, maintain + a balance, keep + a balance.

* mantener un estándar = uphold + standard.

* mantener un interés = pursue + interest.

* mantener un registro = keep + log.

* mantener un registro de = keep + track of, record.

* mantener un sistema de turnos = hold + a rota of.

* mantener vigente = keep + alive.

* mantener vivo = keep + alive, maintain + momentum, keep + Nombre + going.

* máquina que mantiene las constantes vitales = life-support system.

* para mantener(se) ocupado = keep-busy.

* voluntad de mantener Algo en secreto = secretiveness.

* * *

mantener [ E27 ]

vt

A (sustentar económicamente) ‹familia/persona› to support, maintain

cuesta una fortuna mantener a ese perro tan grande it costs a fortune to keep that enormous dog

¡y pretende que ella lo mantenga! and he expects her to support o keep him!

B

1 (conservar, preservar) to keep

mantener la calma/la compostura to keep calm/one's composure

mantener el orden to keep o ( frml) maintain order

para mantener la paz in order to keep the peace

mantener su peso actual to maintain his present weight

mantener las viejas tradiciones to keep up the old traditions

2 (en cierto estado, cierta situación) (+ compl) to keep

los postes mantienen la viga en posición the posts keep the beam in position

mantener el equilibrio to keep one's balance

lo mantiene en equilibrio sobre la punta de la nariz he balances it on the end of his nose

los militares lo mantuvieron en el poder the military kept him in power

todos los medicamentos deben mantenerse fuera del alcance de los niños all medicines should be kept out of reach of children

[ S ] mantenga limpia su ciudad keep Norwich ( o York etc) tidy

[ S ] una vez abierto manténgase refrigerado keep refrigerated once open

no mantiene su coche en buenas condiciones he doesn't keep his car in good condition, he doesn't maintain his car very well

sigue manteniendo vivos sus ideales he still keeps his ideals alive

C

1 ‹conversaciones› to have; ‹contactos› to maintain, keep up; ‹correspondencia› to keep up; ‹relaciones› to maintain

durante las negociaciones mantenidas en Ginebra during the negotiations held in Geneva

2 (cumplir) ‹promesa/palabra› to keep

D (afirmar, sostener) to maintain

mantiene que es inocente he maintains that he is innocent

■ mantenerse

v pron

A (sustentarse económicamente) to support o maintain o keep oneself

B (en cierto estado, cierta situación) (+ compl) to keep

se mantuvieron en primera división they kept their place o they stayed in the first division

mantenerse en forma to keep in shape, to keep fit

lo único que se mantiene en pie es la torre all that remains is the tower, only the tower is still standing

se mantiene al día she keeps up to date

siempre se mantuvo a distancia he always kept his distance

se mantuvo en contacto con sus amigos de la infancia he kept in touch with o kept up with his childhood friends

se mantuvo neutral en la disputa he remained neutral in the dispute

C

(alimentarse): nos mantuvimos a base de latas we lived off tinned food

se mantiene a base de vitaminas he lives on vitamin pills

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mantener ( conjugate mantener) verbo transitivo
1 ( económicamente) ‹familia/persona› to support, maintain;
‹ amante› to keep
2 (conservar, preservar) to keep;
◊ mantener la calma to keep calm;

mantener el equilibrio to keep one's balance;
mantener algo en equilibrio to balance sth;
para mantener su peso actual to maintain his present weight
3
a) ‹ conversaciones› to have;

‹ contactos› to maintain, keep up;
‹ correspondencia› to keep up;
‹ relaciones› to maintain
b) ( cumplir) ‹promesa/palabra› to keep

4 (afirmar, sostener) to maintain
mantenerse verbo pronominal
1 ( sustentarse económicamente) to support oneself
2 (en cierto estado, cierta situación) to keep;
◊ mantenerse en forma to keep fit;

la torre aún se mantiene en pie the tower is still standing;
mantenerse en contacto (con algn) to keep in touch (with sb)
3 ( alimentarse):
◊ mantenerse a base de latas to live off tinned food

mantener verbo transitivo
1 (conservar) to keep: ella mantiene vivo su recuerdo, she keeps his memory alive
mantén la calma, keep calm
2 (sostener) to have: mantuvimos una conversación muy seria, we had a very serious talk
(una teoría, hipótesis) to defend, maintain
3 (alimentar, sustentar) to support, feed: no podían mantener las dos casas, they couldn't keep up both houses
4 (peso) to support, hold up
' mantener' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
callarse
- conchabarse
- conservar
- conservarse
- continuismo
- escribirse
- ir
- hilo
- línea
- raya
- sustentar
- tener
- tipo
- ahuyentar
- alerta
- calma
- correspondencia
- corriente
- disciplina
- flote
- guardar
- llevar
- mantiene
- mantuve
- orden
- preservar
- sujetar
English:
balance
- bay
- buoy
- captive
- carry on
- cherish
- cool
- fire
- hold
- hold off
- house
- hygiene
- image
- keep
- keep away
- keep down
- keep up
- maintain
- order
- preserve
- provide for
- retain
- secrecy
- stall
- support
- suspense
- sustain
- swear
- track
- unionist
- uphold
- weight-watching
- white elephant
- carry
- clear
- conduct
- correspond
- credit
- door
- go
- head
- inform
- occupy
- peace
- police
- provide
- segregate
- stand
- stick
- struggle

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mantener

♦ vt

1. [económicamente] to support;

con su sueldo mantiene a toda la familia he has to support o keep his whole family with his wages

2. [sostener] to keep;

un andamio mantiene el edificio en pie a scaffold supports the building o keeps the building from falling down;

mantén los brazos en alto keep your arms in the air

3. [conservar] to keep;
[ritmo, nivel, presión] to keep up;
mantener las amistades to keep up one's friendships;

mantener algo en buen estado to keep sth in good condition;

mantener la calma to stay calm;

mantener el orden to keep order;

mantener la línea to keep one's figure;

mantener una promesa/la palabra to keep a promise/one's word;

mantenga limpia su ciudad [en letrero] keep your city tidy;

manténgase en un lugar seco [en etiqueta] keep in a dry place;

manténgase fuera del alcance de los niños [en medicamento, producto tóxico] keep out of the reach of children;

es incapaz de mantener la boca cerrada he can't keep his mouth shut

4. [tener] [conversación] to have;
[negociaciones, diálogo] to hold;
mantener correspondencia con alguien to correspond with sb;

mantener relaciones con alguien to have a relationship with sb;

mantener contactos con alguien to be in contact with sb

5. [defender] [convicción, idea] to stick to;
[candidatura] to refuse to withdraw;
mantiene su inocencia she maintains that she is innocent;

mantiene que no la vio he maintains that he didn't see her

♦ See also the pronominal verb mantenerse

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mantener

v/t

1 ( sujetar) hold; techo etc hold up

2 ( preservar) keep

3 conversación, relación have

4 económicamente support

5 ( afirmar) maintain

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mantener {80} vt

1) sustentar: to support, to feed

mantener uno su familia: to support one's family

2) conservar: to keep, to preserve

3) continuar: to keep up, to sustain

mantener una correspondencia: to keep up a correspondence

4) afirmar: to maintain, to affirm

♦ See also the reflexive verb mantenerse

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mantener vb

1. (en general) to keep [pt. & pp. kept]

la nevera mantiene los alimentos fríos the fridge keeps food cold

he mantenido mi promesa I've kept my promise

2. (económicamente) to support

su hijo mantiene a toda la familia their son supports the whole family

3. (afirmar) to maintain

mantengo lo que dije el mes pasado I maintain what I said last month

4. (sujetar) to hold [pt. & pp. held]

mantén bien sujeto el cuadro hold the picture tight

Spanish-English dictionary > mantener
11 patria

adj.&f.

feminine of PATRIO.

f.

native country, fatherland.

patria chica home town

patria potestad (law) parental authority

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patria

► nombre femenino

1 homeland

\

FRASEOLOGÍA

patria celestial heaven

patria chica home town

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noun f.

homeland

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SF native land, fatherland

madre patria — mother country

luchar por la patria — to fight for one's country

- hacer patria

patria adoptiva — adopted country

patria chica — home town, home area

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femenino homeland, motherland, fatherland

luchar/morir por la patria — to fight/die for one's country

viva la patria! — God save Colombia (o Spain etc)!

hacer patria — to fly the flag (for one's country)

- patria adoptiva

- patria chica

- patria potestad

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= motherland, homeland.

Ex. When the Second World War broke out, my motherland was arduously fighting against Japanese imperialism.

Ex. A great number of these publications were significantly influenced by the political scene in their respective homelands.

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* madre patria = motherland.

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femenino homeland, motherland, fatherland

luchar/morir por la patria — to fight/die for one's country

viva la patria! — God save Colombia (o Spain etc)!

hacer patria — to fly the flag (for one's country)

- patria adoptiva

- patria chica

- patria potestad

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= motherland, homeland.

Ex: When the Second World War broke out, my motherland was arduously fighting against Japanese imperialism.

Ex: A great number of these publications were significantly influenced by the political scene in their respective homelands.

* madre patria = motherland.

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patria

feminine

homeland, mother country, fatherland

luchar/morir por la patria to fight/die for one's country

¡viva la patria! God save Colombia ( o Spain etc)!

hacer patria to fly the flag (for one's country)

y para hacer patria lo único que bebemos es vino español ( hum); we do our bit for our country by only drinking Spanish wine ( colloq)

Compuestos:

● patria adoptiva

adopted country

● patria chica

hometown

● patria potestad

custody, guardianship

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patria sustantivo femenino
homeland, motherland, fatherland;
◊ luchar por la patria to fight for one's country

patria sustantivo femenino native country

' patria' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
nostalgia
- nostálgica
- nostálgico
- servir
- suelo
- traición
- a
- adoptivo
- amor
- añorar
- apátrida
- deshonrar
- fiesta
- querido
- traicionar
English:
fatherland
- home
- homeland
- motherland
- native
- country
- father
- mother

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patria nf

native country, fatherland;

la madre patria the mother country, the motherland;

defender la patria to defend one's country;

morir por la patria to die for one's country;

Comp

hacer patria to fly the flag

Comp
patria chica home town; Der patria potestad parental authority
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patria

f homeland

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patria nf

: native land

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patria n your native country

decidió volver a su patria he decided to go back to his native country

Spanish-English dictionary > patria
12 call

1. I
abs

1) 1 heard smb. calling я слышал, что кто-то звал /кричал/; did you hear me call? вы слышали, как я звал?; obey when duty calls подчиняться требованию долга /, когда призывает долг/; [this is] London calling говорит Лондон

2) did anybody call? кто-нибудь приходил /был/?; he was out when I called его не было [дома], когда я заходил
2. II
call at some time call often (seldom, again, etc.) заходить /наведываться/ часто и т. д.; I'll call tomorrow я забегу завтра; has the laundry called yet? из прачечной уже приезжали?; very few neighbours have called yet нас пока навестили еще очень немногие соседи; call somewhere call there заходить туда; all sorts of people call here сюда заходят всякие люди
3. III
1) call smb., smth. call a dog (the boys, etc.) звать /окликать, подзывать/ собаку и т. д.; I called him but he didn't hear me я крикнул ему, но он меня не услышал; your mother is calling you тебя зовет мать; call a doctor (a witness, the police, a taxi, etc.) вызывать врача и т. д., call smb.'s name окликать кого-л. по имени, выкрикивать чье-л. имя; call a register делать перекличку; call a meeting созывать собрание; call a strike объявлять забастовку

2) call smb., smth. usually in the interrogative what are you going to call the baby? как вы собираетесь назвать ребенка?; what do you call this flower? как называется этот цветок?; I don't know what to call it не знаю, как это назвать

3) call smb. will you call me or shall I call you? вы мне позвоните или я вам?
4. IV
1) call smb. in some manner call smb. persistently (urgently, frantically, etc.) настоятельно и т. д. звать кого-л.; call smb. together созывать кого-л.; call smb. somewhere call smb. aside отзывать кого-л. в сторону; call smb. down попросить кого-л. сойти вниз; call smb. in

приглашать кого-л. войти; call the children in позовите детей домой /в дом/; call smb. at some time he asked to call him early он просил разбудить его рано

2) call smb. at some time please call me tomorrow пожалуйста, позвоните мне завтра [по телефону]
5. V
1) call smb. smth., smb. call smb. a taxi (a cab, a doctor, etc.) вызывать кому-л. /для кого-л./ такси и т. д.

2) call smb. smth., smb. call the baby Mary (the dog Rex, etc.) называть ребенка [именем] Мэри и т. д.; his name is Richard but we all call him Dick его имя Ричард, но мы все зовем его Диком; call smb. a liar (a fool, a rogue, a child, everything under the sun, a miser, an ass, etc.) называть /обзывать/ кого-л. лжецом и т. д.).

3) call smth. smb., smth. call it a swindle (that a low-down trick, her a slut, that a shame, this a very good house, etc.) считать /называть/ это мошенничеством и т. д.; do you call English an easy language? вы считаете /можете назвать/ английский язык легким?; I call that show a success по-моему, спектакль имел успех; this is what I call real coffee вот это я называю настоящим кофе
6. VI
call smth. as possessing some quality call smth. fair (dishonest, mean, nice, etc.) считать что-л. справедливым и т. д.; I don't call this cheap я не нахожу, что это дешево
7. VII
call smb. to do smth. call the police to stop the fight (him to witness the event, etc.) позвать полицию, чтобы прекратить драку и т. д., call smth. to do smth. he called her name to see if she was at home он позвал ее по имени, чтобы проверить, дома ли она /чтобы убедиться, что она дома/
8. XI
1) be called in some manner the singer was called three times певца вызывали три раза; be called somewhere be called to the manager (before the judge, before the committee, to the Ministry, etc.) быть вызванным к управляющему и т. д.; I was called home on urgent business меня вызвали домой по срочному делу; the ambassador was called home посол был отозван; be called to smth. his attention was called to the dangerous state of the building ему указали /его внимание обратили/ на аварийное состояние здания; the meeting was called to order by the chairman председатель призвал собрание к порядку; be called for some time the meeting was called for Monday собрание было назначено на понедельник be called into being быть вызванным к жизни, возникнуть; the plant was called into being by war requirements этот завод появился в ответ на требования военного времени

2) be called smth. be called John (Магу, etc.) зваться Джоном и т. д.; what is it called? как это называется?; the book is called "The Gadfly" книга называется "Овод"; be called after smb. fin smb.'s honour/ be called after smb.'s mother (after smb.'s uncle, etc.) быть названным в честь матери и т. д.

3) be called smb., smth. be called the best writer of the period (a scholar, an outstanding scientist, a marvel, the most beautiful city, etc.) считаться /слыть/ лучшим писателем своего времени и т. д.; Chaucer is called the Father of English Poetry Чосера называют отцом английской поэзии

4) be called (up)on [by smb.]' I don't like to be called on before 11 a. m. я не люблю, когда ко мне приходят до одиннадцати утра; we were called on by the neighbours нас навестили /к нам зашли/ соседи; be called for the letter (the parcel, books, etc.) will be called for за письмом и т. д. придут /зайдут/; this envelope is to be left till called for конверт лежит /остается/ здесь, пока за ним не придут

5) be called for strong measures (drastic steps, etc.) are called for необходимы /нужны, требуются/ решительные меры и т. д.; you must take such steps as seem to be called for вы должны предпринять необходимые шаги; an explanation is called for a данном случае не обойтись без объяснений; no excuses are called for объяснений не требуется; if a second edition is called for если возникнет необходимость во втором издании; be called (up)on to do smth. be called upon to speak (to do so many things, to take part in it, etc.) оказаться вынужденным выступить и т. д.; my friend was called upon to make a report моего друга попросили выступить с отчетом /с докладом/; he felt called upon to speak он счел себя не в праве промолчать; I was never called on to play мне ни разу не пришлось играть; I feel called upon to warn you я чувствую себя обязанным предупредить вас
9. XIII
call to do smth. I called to see how you were (to see you, to know whether you wanted anything, etc.) я заходил, чтобы узнать, как вы поживаете и т. д.', а man has called to read the electric power meter приходил какой-то человек снять показания счетчика
10. XVI
1) call for smth., smb. call for a taxi (for a cab, etc.) позвать /остановить/ такси и т. д., call for help звать на помощь; call for smb. звать кого-л.; call to smb. I called to him but he appeared not to hear я его окликнул, но он, казалось, не слышал; call to smb. to do smth. /for smth./ he called to me to help /for help/ он позвал меня на помощь; call to smth. the trumpet called to battle труба звала в бой; call from some place call from the roof (from downstairs, from upstairs, etc.) кричать с крыши и т. д.; call across smth. call across a river (across the street, across the hall, etc.) звать /кричать/ с того берега реки и т. д.', call upon smb. I now call upon Mr. Smith я предоставляю слово господину Смиту, слово имеет господин Смит

2) call at some place call at smb.'s house (at the hotel, at an office, at a shop, at the library, etc.) заходить к кому-л. домой и т. д.;I will call at the post office on my way home я зайду на почту по дороге домой; the train calls at every station поезд останавливается на каждой станции; the boat calls at intermediate ports пароход заходит в промежуточные порты; call (up)on smb. call on a friend (on us, on him without an invitation, on her with a letter of introduction, etc.) заходить к другу /приятелю/ и т. д.', I shall call on him personally я сам к нему загляну; they are not people one can call upon они не такие люди, к которым можно зайти запросто; we must call on our new neighbour нам надо навестить нашего нового соседа; call at some time call at noon (at three o'clock, etc.) заходить в полдень и т. д.; call for some time call for a moment (for a minute, etc.) зайти / заскочить/ на минутку и т. д.; call for smth., smb. call for the parcel (for one's pipe, for her, etc.) заходить за посылкой и т. д., call for orders явиться за указаниями; he called for me with a car он заехал за мной на машине; I'll call for you at your house я заеду или зайду за вами домой

3) callf rom some place call from a pay booth (from a pay station, from Leningrad, etc.) (по-)звонить [по телефону] из автомата и т. д.

4) call on smb. I hope we shall not have to call on you я надеюсь, нам не придется прибегать к вашим услугам, обращаться к вам [за помощью]; call ( up)on smth. call on smb.'s help (on smb.'s services, etc.) прибегать к чьей-л. помощи и т. д.; call on smb.'s knowledge (on smb.'s skill, etc.) использовать чьи-л. звания и т.д., I had to call upon all my strength мне пришлось напрячь все силы; call on smb. for smth. call on you for help (on him for a hundred pounds, on her for an explanation, etc.) обращаться к вам за помощью и т. д., call on him for a speech просить его выступить; call (up)on smb. to do smth. call upon us to help / (up)on us to give assistance/ (upon them to defend the country, upon the rebels to surrender, etc.) взывать к нам о помощи и т. д.; you must call on him to apologize вы должны потребовать, чтобы он извинился; the teacher called on him to answer учитель вызвал его отвечать

5) call for smth. call for a discussion (for a three-power conference, for an increase of salary, for reduction of prices, etc.) выступать с требованием провести дискуссию /обсуждение/ и т. д.; call for drastic measures (for prompt action, for immediate solution, for a cool head, etc.) требовать решительных мер и т. д.; the situation calls for tact and patience в такой ситуации необходимы такт и терпение /нужно вооружиться тактом и терпением/; the results of the experiment called for a discussion было необходимо обсудить результаты опыта
11. XVIII
call oneself smb., smth. call oneself a colonel (a philosopher, a scholar, etc.) называть себя полковником и т.д., назваться полковником и т. д.
12. XXI1
1) call smb. (in)to smth. call the children into the house (the messenger into the office, the girl (in)to the garden, etc.) звать детей в дом и т. д.; will you call the family to dinner? будьте добры позвать всех обедать; they called him to the Ministry его вызвали в министерство; call smth. smb. for smb. call a taxi for me (a doctor for him, etc.) вызовите мне такси и т.д., would you call the porter for me? будьте добры, позовите мне носильщика; call smb. by smth. call him by wireless (her by a letter, etc.) вызвать его телеграммой и т. д., call smb. at some time call smb. at six o'clock (early in the morning, etc.) (разбудить кого-л. в шесть часов и т. д.; call smth. for fame time call a meeting for August (the session for three o'clock, etc.) созывать /назначать/ собрание на август и т. д.

2) call smth., smb. to smth. call the meeting to order (the class to order, etc.) призывать собрание к порядку и т. д.; three times during the lesson the teacher had to call one of the pupils to attention три раза за время урока преподавателю пришлось обратиться к ученику /окликнуть ученика/, чтобы он не отвлекался; call smb. to account призвать кого-л. к ответу; call smth., smb. to mind вспоминать что-л., кого-л.; I can't call this scene to mind я не могу вспомнить эту сцену; call smb.'s attention to the picture (to the unusual man, etc.) обращать чье-л. внимание на картину и т.д., please call attention to any errors that you find просьба сообщать о всех замеченных ошибках; she tried not to call attention to herself она старалась не привлекать к себе внимания

3) || call smth. into being /into existence/ создать что-л., вызвать /пробудить/ что-л. к жизни; better living conditions called into being new and wider Interest вследствие улучшения условий жизни возникли / появились/ новые, более широкие интересы

4) call smb. by some name call the child by the name of Paul (him by his brother's name, etc.) назвать ребенка именем Поль /Полем/ и т. д.; don't call me by my first name не называйте меня no имени; call smb., smth. after smb., smth. call the child after his father (the town after the first settler, etc.) называть ребенка именем /в честь/ отца и т. д.; call smth. in some language what do you call this in Russian? как это называется по-русски? id call things by their true /proper/ names называть вещи своими именами

5) call smb. from somewhere call smb. from London (from out of town, etc.) (позвонить кому-л. из Лондона и т. д.; I am calling from a pay station я звоню) с переговорной || call smb. on the telephone позвонить кому-л. по телефону
13. XXVI
1) call smth. what... you can call it what you like можете называть это, как хотите

2) call smb. when... (if..., etc.) call me when you arrive (if he comes, etc.) позвоните мне, когда приедете и т. д.
14. XXVII2
1) call on smb. while... (when..., etc.) someone called on you while /when/ you were out кто-то приходил к вам, пока вас не было

2) call on smb. whenever (if..., etc.) whenever (if) you need help, feel free to call on me когда бы вам ни понадобилась помощь ( если вам понадобится помощь), не стесняйтесь обратиться ко мне

English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > call
13 Volkssturm

m im Nationalsozialismus: territorial army created toward(s) end of the Second World War (Am. WWII) designed to act as a home guard

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Vọlks|sturm
m (HIST)
Volkssturm, German territorial army
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Volks·sturm

m kein pl HIST

▪ der \Volkssturm the German territorial army created to defend the home front in World War II

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Volkssturm m im Nationalsozialismus: territorial army created toward(s) end of the Second World War (US WWII) designed to act as a home guard

Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Volkssturm
14 sprawa

- wy; -wy; dat sg - wie; f

( wydarzenie) matter, affair; ( interes) business; PRAWO case, ( wzniosły cel) cause

Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych — Ministry of the Interior, ≈Home Office (BRIT)

Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych — Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ≈Foreign Office (BRIT), ≈Department of State (US)

(to) nie twoja sprawa — it's none of your business

zdawać (zdać perf) sobie sprawę z czegoś — to be (become) aware of sth

to sprawa tygodnia — it's a matter of one week

to inna sprawa — that's another matter

brać (wziąć perf) sprawę w swoje ręce — to take the matter into one's hands

robić z czegoś (wielką) sprawę — to make an issue of sth

zajmować się swoimi sprawami — to go about one's business

sprawa cywilna/karna/sądowa — civil/criminal/court case

wnosić (wnieść perf) sprawę do sądu — to bring lub file a suit

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sprawa

f.

1. ( fakt) affair, matter; sprawy rodzinne family matters; sprawy zawodowe business; sprawy codzienne everyday concerns; sprawy państwowe public affairs; nie wtrącaj się do cudzych spraw mind your own business; jak się mają sprawy? where l. how do things stand?; ruszyć sprawę z miejsca get things going; gorsza sprawa, że... what's worse...; niepokojąca sprawa matter of concern; delikatna sprawa touch-and-go; niezałatwiona sprawa loose end; pilna sprawa urgent matter; przegrana sprawa lost cause; nieczysta sprawa shady business; omawiana sprawa issue l. matter under discussion; inna sprawa, że... not to mention that...; to załatwia sprawę that settles it; sprawa jest oczywista no doubt about it, it's (pretty) straightforward; sprawa honoru matter of honor; sprawa wagi państwowej matter of the state, pressing issue; sprawa urzędowa official business; sprawa otwarta open question; sprawy sercowe affairs of the heart; na dobrą sprawę as a matter of fact, strictly speaking, to tell the truth; zdać sprawę z czegoś render an account of sth, report on sth; zdać sobie jasno sprawę z... take sth in, be well aware of sth, awake to sth; zdałem sobie sprawę, że... I realized that..., it occurred to me that...; władze zdały sobie w końcu sprawę z rozmiaru problemu authorities finally awoke to the extent of the problem; nie zdawać sobie sprawy z czegoś be unaware l. unconscious l. ignorant of sth; pokpić sprawę blow it; przeczekać sprawę let things lie, lie low; zakończyć sprawę call it quits; zaciemniać sprawę fog l. cloud l. confuse the issue; zajmować stanowisko w sprawie take a stand on an issue; to jego sprawa it's his problem l. business; to nie twoja sprawa (it's) none of your business, mind your own business; to nie moja sprawa it's not my business l. concern; to sprawa kilku dni it's a matter l. question of a few days; to poważna sprawa this is no laughing matter; to sprawa przesądzona there's nothing I(you etc.) can do about it; sprawa życia i śmierci a matter of life and death; to całkiem inna sprawa that's a different kettle of fish, it's an altogether different matter; zająć się sprawą... address the issue of...; komplikować sprawę make things difficult; pogarszać sprawę make things l. matters worse, rub salt into the wound; to przesądza sprawę that settles it; załagodzić sprawę pour oil on the waters l. on troubled waters; stawiać jasno sprawę be clear about sth; nie dostrzegać istoty sprawy miss the point; zostawić sprawę w spokoju drop the matter, let the matter rest; porządkować swoje sprawy set l. put one's own house in order, order l. settle one's affair przejść do sedna sprawy get down to the point; sedno sprawy the heart l. crux of the matter; sprawy nie układają się najlepiej things are not going right.

2. ( interes) business; mam do pana sprawę I have a favor to ask of you; nie mam do niego żadnej sprawy I have no business with him; zwracać się do kogoś w jakiejś sprawie approach l. turn to sb about sth; sprawa niecierpiąca zwłoki urgent matter; zrób coś w tej sprawie do sth about it; kilka spraw do załatwienia a few things to attend to; wziąć sprawę w swoje ręce take matters into one's hands; mieć mnóstwo spraw na głowie have a lot on one's mind, have many things to take care of; przedyskutować wiele spraw cover a lot of ground, discuss many issues; doprowadzić sprawę do końca tie up the loose ends, bring the matter to an issue; mam jeszcze kilka spraw do załatwienia I still have a few errands to do l. run; mieć inne/ważniejsze sprawy na głowie have other/bigger fish to fry; nie ma sprawy pot. no problem, (it's) no big deal, forget it, it's no trouble at all; Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; US the Department of State; Br. the Foreign Office; Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych the Ministry of Internal Affairs; US the Department of Homeland Security; Br. the Home Office; sprawy wewnętrzne/zagraniczne home/foreign affairs.

3. lit. (= wzniosły cel) cause; sprawa wielkiej wagi matter of great importance; poświęcić się dla sprawy sacrifice o.s. for the cause; walczyć o wspólną sprawę fight for the common cause; słuszna sprawa fair cause; bronić słusznej sprawy defend a good cause; zrobić coś dla dobra sprawy do sth towards promoting the cause.

4. prawn. case; sprawa cywilna civil case; sprawa karna criminal case; sprawa rozwodowa divorce case; prowadzić sprawę ( o inspektorze policji) be on the case; wygrać/przegrać sprawę win/lose a case; umorzyć sprawę discontinue proceedings; załatwić sprawę polubownie settle a case out of court; oddać sprawę do sądu go to court; wytoczyć komuś sprawę take legal action against sb, bring an action against sb.

The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > sprawa
15 muerte

f.

1 death (fin de la vida).

fallecer de muerte natural to die of natural causes

fallecer de muerte violenta to die a violent death

ha sido herido de muerte he has been fatally wounded

a muerte to the death (lucha)

la odio a muerte I hate her with all my heart, I absolutely loathe her

un susto de muerte a terrible shock

de mala muerte (informal) third-rate, lousy

muerte cerebral brain death

muerte súbita sudden infant death; (en la cuna) tie break (en tenis)

2 murder (homicidio).

se le acusa de la muerte de varias mujeres he has been accused of murdering o of the murder of several women

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muerte

► nombre femenino

1 death

■ una muerte natural a natural death

2 (asesinato) murder

3 la muerte death

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FRASEOLOGÍA

a vida o muerte life-and-death

dar muerte a alguien to kill somebody

de mala muerte familiar grotty, crummy, rotten

■ nos alojamos en una pensión de mala muerte we stayed in this grotty old guest house

estar de muerte familiar (comida) to be scrumptious 2 (persona) to be gorgeous

a muerte to the death

■ un duelo a muerte a duel to the death

hasta que la muerte nos separe till death do us part

odiar a muerte to detest, loathe

muerte cerebral brain death

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noun f.

death

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SF

1) (=por enfermedad, accidente) death

tuvo una buena muerte — he had a good death, he died a good death

hasta que la muerte nos separe — till death us do part

murió de muerte natural — he died a natural death o of natural causes

se debatía entre la vida y la muerte — he was fighting for his life

• una lucha a muerte — a fight to the death

defenderé mis derechos a muerte — I will defend my rights to the death

mantuvo una guerra a muerte con la enfermedad — he fought his illness to the bitter end

luchar a muerte — to fight to the death

odiar algo/a algn a muerte — to detest sth/sb, loathe sth/sb

• causar la muerte a algn — to kill sb, cause the death of sb

las heridas que le causaron la muerte — the injuries that killed him o caused his death

• encontrar la muerte — to die, meet one's death

• herido de muerte — fatally injured

el ciervo escapó herido de muerte — the deer escaped fatally injured

la democracia estaba herida de muerte — democracy was on its last legs

• pena de muerte — death sentence

• estar a las puertas de la muerte — to be at death's door

• un susto de muerte — a terrible fright

me diste un susto de muerte — you scared me to death, you gave me a terrible fright

- estar de muerte

la comida estaba de muerte — the meal was out of this world *

- de mala muerte

nos detuvimos en un pueblucho de mala muerte — we stopped in a grotty little town **

era un hotel de mala muerte — the hotel was a real dump **, the hotel was really grotty **

- cada muerte de obispo

- ser la muerte

este trabajo es la muerte — this job is really hell *

este calor es la muerte — this heat is killing me *

esa noria es la muerte — that big wheel is amazing *

muerte cerebral — brain death

muerte civil — loss of civil rights

muerte clínica, en situación de muerte clínica — clinically dead

muerte súbita — (Med) sudden death; (Tenis) tie-break; (Golf) sudden death play-off; (Ftbl) sudden death

muerte prematura — premature death

muerte repentina — sudden death

muerte violenta — violent death
vida 1)
2) (=asesinato) murder

fue declarado culpable de varias muertes — he was found guilty of various murders

• dar muerte a algn — to kill sb

muerte a mano airada — violent death

3) (=desaparición) [de imperio, civilización] death, demise frm

la muerte de las civilizaciones indígenas — the death o demise of native civilizations

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femenino

a) ( de ser vivo) death

muerte natural/repentina — natural/sudden death

el veneno le produjo la muerte — the poison killed him

condenado a muerte — sentenced to death

amenaza de muerte — death threat

a la muerte de su padre — on her father's death

herido de muerte — fatally wounded

me dio un susto de muerte — (fam) she scared the living daylights out of me (colloq), she scared me to death (colloq)

odiar a muerte — to loathe, detest

cada muerte de obispo — (AmL fam) once in a blue moon

de mala muerte — (fam) < pensión> grotty (colloq), cheesy (AmE colloq)

un pueblo de mala muerte — a dump (colloq), a really grotty place

ser de muerte lenta — (Ven fam) to be fantastic (colloq)

ser la muerte — (fam) ( ser atroz) to be hell o murder (colloq); ( ser estupendo) to be great o fantastic (colloq)

b) ( homicidio)

lo acusan de la muerte de tres personas — he is accused of killing three people

dar muerte a alguien — (frml) to kill somebody

c) ( fin) death

- muerte cerebral

- muerte clínica

- muerte de cuna

- muerte súbita

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= death, loss of life, last breath, passing, fatality, die-off.

Ex. Typically, the additions to the name will fall within the following categories: title of nobility, title of honour, address, date of birth, and date of death.

Ex. The war involved not only extensive loss of life and destruction of property, but also widespread damage to cultural monuments and objects.

Ex. When she died in a bus accident in Bolivia while serving in a women's cooperative, her legacy did not stop with her last breath.

Ex. The Rutgers University Libraries are sad to report on the passing of Thelma Tate.

Ex. A summary is then presented of the number and percentage of snowmobile fatalities in these three states during winter 2002-03.

Ex. We all know that there is no guarantee that, even if we do everything we can, the result won't be human die-off and environmental devastation.

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* afligido por la muerte de un familiar cercano = bereaved.

* agarrar un resfriado de muerte = catch + Posesivo + death (of cold).

* a muerte = bitter, bitterly.

* apedrear hasta la muerte = stone to + death.

* coger un resfriado de muerte = catch + Posesivo + death (of cold).

* condenado a muerte = death row.

* condenar a la pena de muerte = sentence + Nombre + to death.

* condenar a muerte = sentence + Nombre + to death, condemn + Nombre + to death.

* con peligro de muerte = life threatening.

* corredor de la muerte = death row.

* cuestión de vida o muerte = life or death issue.

* dar un susto de muerte = frighten + the living daylights out of, frighten + Nombre + to death, scare + the hell out of.

* dar un susto de muerto = scare + the living daylights out of.

* derecho a la muerte = right to die.

* de vida o muerte = lifesaving, life threatening.

* encuentro con la muerte = close shave with death, close encounter with death.

* enemistad a muerte = blood feud.

* enfrentarse a la muerte = face + death.

* enzarzarse en una lucha a muerte = get into + a fight to the death.

* escuadrón de la muerte = death squadron, death squad.

* experiencia cercana a la muerte = near death experience.

* firmar la sentencia de muerte = sound + the death knell for.

* firmar una sentencia de muerte = sign + a death warrant (for).

* frío de muerte = freezing cold.

* hasta la muerte = until the end, forever, until the bitter end.

* Hasta que la muerte nos separe = Till death do us part.

* herido de muerte = mortally wounded.

* herir de muerte = fatally + shoot.

* lecho de muerte = deathbed [death bed].

* lucha a muerte = fight to death.

* lucha hasta la muerte = fight to death.

* luchar a muerte = fight to + death, get into + a fight to the death.

* luchar hasta la muerte = fight to + death.

* morir de muerte natural = die + a natural death.

* morir una muerte horrible = suffer + a horrible death, die + a horrible death.

* muerte accidental = accidental death.

* muerte aparente = suspended animation.

* muerte asistida = assisted death, assisted dying.

* muerte cerebral = brain death.

* muerte clínica = brain death, clínical death.

* muerte de un familiar = bereavement, death in the family.

* muerte digna = dignified death.

* muerte embrionaria = embryonal death.

* muerte fetal = foetal death.

* muerte, la = Reaper, the, Grim Reaper, the.

* muerte natural = natural death.

* muerte neonatal = neonatal death.

* muerte por suicidio = suicidal death.

* muerte prematura = premature death, untimely death.

* muerte súbita = cot death, crib death, sudden death.

* pelea a muerte = fight to death.

* pelea hasta la muerte = fight to death.

* pelear a muerte = fight to + death.

* pelear hasta la mueerte = fight to + death.

* pena de muerte = death penalty, death row.

* penado con la muerte = punishable by death.

* pillar un resfriado de muerte = catch + Posesivo + death (of cold).

* pulsión de muerte = death-wish.

* roce con la muerte = close shave with death, close encounter with death.

* sentencia de muerte = death sentence, death warrant, death knell.

* sentenciar a la pena de muerte = sentence + Nombre + to death, condemn + Nombre + to death.

* sentenciar a muerte = sentence + Nombre + to death, condemn + Nombre + to death.

* sentido de la vida y al muerte, el = meaning of life and death, the.

* síndrome infantil de muerte súbita (SIMS) = sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

* tener una muerte digna = die with + dignity, have + a dignified death, die + a dignified death.

* tener una muerte horrible = die + a horrible death, suffer + a horrible death.

* una cuestión de vida o muerte = a matter of life and death.

* ver la muerte de cerca = have + brushes with death.

* vida después de la muerte = afterlife [after-life].

* vida or muerte = life or death.

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femenino

a) ( de ser vivo) death

muerte natural/repentina — natural/sudden death

el veneno le produjo la muerte — the poison killed him

condenado a muerte — sentenced to death

amenaza de muerte — death threat

a la muerte de su padre — on her father's death

herido de muerte — fatally wounded

me dio un susto de muerte — (fam) she scared the living daylights out of me (colloq), she scared me to death (colloq)

odiar a muerte — to loathe, detest

cada muerte de obispo — (AmL fam) once in a blue moon

de mala muerte — (fam) < pensión> grotty (colloq), cheesy (AmE colloq)

un pueblo de mala muerte — a dump (colloq), a really grotty place

ser de muerte lenta — (Ven fam) to be fantastic (colloq)

ser la muerte — (fam) ( ser atroz) to be hell o murder (colloq); ( ser estupendo) to be great o fantastic (colloq)

b) ( homicidio)

lo acusan de la muerte de tres personas — he is accused of killing three people

dar muerte a alguien — (frml) to kill somebody

c) ( fin) death

- muerte cerebral

- muerte clínica

- muerte de cuna

- muerte súbita

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la muerte

= Reaper, the, Grim Reaper, the

Ex: The film parades a frenzy between an old woman being taken by the Reaper and being saved continuously by a playboy doctor with a team of pin-up nurses.

Ex: These days, the Grim Reaper is usually portrayed as a skeleton or a cadaverous figure, garbed from head to foot in a black habit and hood, and carrying a large scythe.

= death, loss of life, last breath, passing, fatality, die-off.

Ex: Typically, the additions to the name will fall within the following categories: title of nobility, title of honour, address, date of birth, and date of death.

Ex: The war involved not only extensive loss of life and destruction of property, but also widespread damage to cultural monuments and objects.

Ex: When she died in a bus accident in Bolivia while serving in a women's cooperative, her legacy did not stop with her last breath.

Ex: The Rutgers University Libraries are sad to report on the passing of Thelma Tate.

Ex: A summary is then presented of the number and percentage of snowmobile fatalities in these three states during winter 2002-03.

Ex: We all know that there is no guarantee that, even if we do everything we can, the result won't be human die-off and environmental devastation.

* afligido por la muerte de un familiar cercano = bereaved.

* agarrar un resfriado de muerte = catch + Posesivo + death (of cold).

* a muerte = bitter, bitterly.

* apedrear hasta la muerte = stone to + death.

* coger un resfriado de muerte = catch + Posesivo + death (of cold).

* condenado a muerte = death row.

* condenar a la pena de muerte = sentence + Nombre + to death.

* condenar a muerte = sentence + Nombre + to death, condemn + Nombre + to death.

* con peligro de muerte = life threatening.

* corredor de la muerte = death row.

* cuestión de vida o muerte = life or death issue.

* dar un susto de muerte = frighten + the living daylights out of, frighten + Nombre + to death, scare + the hell out of.

* dar un susto de muerto = scare + the living daylights out of.

* derecho a la muerte = right to die.

* de vida o muerte = lifesaving, life threatening.

* encuentro con la muerte = close shave with death, close encounter with death.

* enemistad a muerte = blood feud.

* enfrentarse a la muerte = face + death.

* enzarzarse en una lucha a muerte = get into + a fight to the death.

* escuadrón de la muerte = death squadron, death squad.

* experiencia cercana a la muerte = near death experience.

* firmar la sentencia de muerte = sound + the death knell for.

* firmar una sentencia de muerte = sign + a death warrant (for).

* frío de muerte = freezing cold.

* hasta la muerte = until the end, forever, until the bitter end.

* Hasta que la muerte nos separe = Till death do us part.

* herido de muerte = mortally wounded.

* herir de muerte = fatally + shoot.

* lecho de muerte = deathbed [death bed].

* lucha a muerte = fight to death.

* lucha hasta la muerte = fight to death.

* luchar a muerte = fight to + death, get into + a fight to the death.

* luchar hasta la muerte = fight to + death.

* morir de muerte natural = die + a natural death.

* morir una muerte horrible = suffer + a horrible death, die + a horrible death.

* muerte accidental = accidental death.

* muerte aparente = suspended animation.

* muerte asistida = assisted death, assisted dying.

* muerte cerebral = brain death.

* muerte clínica = brain death, clínical death.

* muerte de un familiar = bereavement, death in the family.

* muerte digna = dignified death.

* muerte embrionaria = embryonal death.

* muerte fetal = foetal death.

* muerte, la = Reaper, the, Grim Reaper, the.

* muerte natural = natural death.

* muerte neonatal = neonatal death.

* muerte por suicidio = suicidal death.

* muerte prematura = premature death, untimely death.

* muerte súbita = cot death, crib death, sudden death.

* pelea a muerte = fight to death.

* pelea hasta la muerte = fight to death.

* pelear a muerte = fight to + death.

* pelear hasta la mueerte = fight to + death.

* pena de muerte = death penalty, death row.

* penado con la muerte = punishable by death.

* pillar un resfriado de muerte = catch + Posesivo + death (of cold).

* pulsión de muerte = death-wish.

* roce con la muerte = close shave with death, close encounter with death.

* sentencia de muerte = death sentence, death warrant, death knell.

* sentenciar a la pena de muerte = sentence + Nombre + to death, condemn + Nombre + to death.

* sentenciar a muerte = sentence + Nombre + to death, condemn + Nombre + to death.

* sentido de la vida y al muerte, el = meaning of life and death, the.

* síndrome infantil de muerte súbita (SIMS) = sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

* tener una muerte digna = die with + dignity, have + a dignified death, die + a dignified death.

* tener una muerte horrible = die + a horrible death, suffer + a horrible death.

* una cuestión de vida o muerte = a matter of life and death.

* ver la muerte de cerca = have + brushes with death.

* vida después de la muerte = afterlife [after-life].

* vida or muerte = life or death.

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muerte

feminine

1 (de un ser vivo) death

muerte natural/repentina natural/sudden death

el veneno le produjo la muerte instantánea the poison killed him instantly

200 personas encontraron la muerte en el incendio 200 people lost their lives o ( liter) met their death in the fire

condenado a muerte sentenced to death

amenaza de muerte death threat

hasta que la muerte nos separe till death us do part

a la muerte de su padre heredó una fortuna she inherited a fortune on her father's death o when her father died

herido de muerte fatally wounded

me dio un susto de muerte ( fam); she scared the living daylights out of me ( colloq), she scared me to death ( colloq)

luchó or se debatió varios días con la muerte he was at death's door o fighting for his life for several days

odiar a muerte to loathe, detest

cada muerte de obispo ( AmL fam); once in a blue moon

de mala muerte ( fam); ‹pensión› grotty ( colloq), cheesy ( AmE colloq)

es un pueblo de mala muerte it's a dump o a hole ( colloq), it's a really grotty place

ser de muerte lenta ( Ven fam); to be fantastic ( colloq)

ser la muerte ( fam) (ser atroz) to be hell o murder ( colloq); (ser estupendo) to be great o fantastic ( colloq)

meterse de profesor es la muerte en vida it's murder going into teaching ( colloq)

se cree/te crees la muerte he thinks he's/you think you're the bee's knees o the cat's whiskers ( colloq)

2

(homicidio): lo acusan de la muerte de tres personas he is accused of killing three people o of causing the deaths of three people

dar muerte a algn ( frml); to kill sb

3 (fin) death

la muerte de una civilización the death o demise of a civilization

Compuestos:

● muerte cerebral

brain death

● muerte clínica

certificaron la muerte clínica dos horas despúes he/she was pronounced clinically dead two hours later

● muerte de cuna

cot death, sudden infant death syndrome ( tech)

● muerte súbita

(literal) sudden death; (en fútbol, etc) sudden death; (en tenis) tiebreaker, tiebreak

● muerte violenta

violent death

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muerte sustantivo femenino
death;
◊ condenado a muerte sentenced to death;

a la muerte de su padre on her father's death;
muerte de cuna crib death (AmE), cot death (BrE);
me dio un susto de muerte (fam) she scared me to death (colloq);
dar muerte a algn (frml) to kill sb;
de mala muerte (fam) ‹pueblo/hotel› grotty (colloq);
ser la muerte (fam) ( ser atroz) to be hell o murder (colloq);

( ser estupendo) to be fantastic (colloq)
muerte sustantivo femenino
1 death: murió de muerte natural, she died a natural death
2 (homicidio) killing
(asesinato) murder: al criminal se le imputan tres muertes, the criminal is charged with three murders
♦ Locuciones: a muerte, to death: defender a muerte, to defend to the death
odiar a muerte, to loathe sb
familiar de mala muerte, lousy, rotten
(buenísimo) de muerte, fantastic, great
' muerte' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
abandonarse
- afectar
- amenazar
- borde
- cabecilla
- caer
- condenar
- condenada
- condenado
- conmutar
- desafiar
- ejecución
- enloquecer
- enterada
- enterado
- garito
- garrote
- genuina
- genuino
- hasta
- instantánea
- instantáneo
- lamentar
- lecho
- local
- mal
- marcar
- obsesionar
- origen
- palo
- pena
- pérdida
- puerta
- reciente
- sabrosa
- sabroso
- sacudir
- semblante
- sentida
- sentido
- simbolizar
- sobreponerse
- tugurio
- vida
- violenta
- violento
- amenaza
- apenar
- baja
- desafío
English:
afterlife
- anarchy
- brain death
- cheat
- commute
- curtain
- cutthroat
- death
- death penalty
- death row
- death squad
- deathbed
- demise
- dice
- doom
- drive
- dump
- early
- fatal
- fatally
- get
- hole
- inquest
- lead to
- matter
- meet
- misadventure
- mortally
- mourn
- natural
- opposed
- pain
- penalty
- point
- punishable
- register
- release
- scare
- sentence
- shock
- silly
- snuff movie
- squad
- upset
- wit
- accidental
- against
- bereaved
- bereavement
- blow

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muerte nf

1. [fin de la vida] death;

la malaria le produjo la muerte malaria was the cause of death;

ha sido herido de muerte he has been fatally wounded;

una lucha a muerte a fight to the death;

la odio a muerte I hate her with all my heart, I absolutely loathe her;

hasta que la muerte nos separe till death us do part;

tener una muerte dulce to die peacefully;

Comp
Am Fam
cada muerte de obispo once in a blue moon;

Comp
Fam
de muerte: vas a agarrar un resfriado de muerte you're going to catch your death of cold;

me he llevado un susto de muerte I got the fright of my life;

hace un frío de muerte it's absolutely freezing;

esta sopa está de muerte this soup is yummy;

Comp
Fam
de mala muerte [cine, restaurante] third-rate;

un bar de mala muerte a dive;

un pueblo/una casa de mala muerte a hole, a dump;

Comp
Ven Fam
ser de muerte [muy bueno] to be fantastic;
[muy malo] to be the pits
Comp
muerte aparente suspended animation;
muerte cerebral brain death;
Der muerte civil civil death, attainder;
muerte natural: [m5] morir de muerte natural to die of natural causes;

vivió en una residencia hasta su muerte natural she lived in a home until she died of old age;

muerte súbita [del bebé] sudden infant death;
[en tenis] tie break; [en golf] play-off;
muerte violenta violent death;

morir de muerte violenta to die a violent death

2. [homicidio] murder;

se le acusa de la muerte de varias mujeres he has been accused of murdering o of the murder of several women;

dar muerte a alguien to kill sb

3.
la muerte [ser imaginario] death

4. [final, desaparición] death, demise;

la muerte de los regímenes comunistas the demise of the Communist regimes

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muerte

f death;

a muerte to the death;

odiar a muerte loathe, detest;

me dio un susto de muerte it frightened me to death;

dar muerte a alguien kill s.o.;

de mala muerte fig fam lousy fam, awful fam

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muerte nf

: death

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muerte n death

Spanish-English dictionary > muerte
16 HÖND

hand

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(gen. handar, dat. hendi; pl. hendr), f.

1) hand;

taka hendi á e-u, to touch with the hand;

hafa e-t í hendi, to hold in the hand;

drepa hendi við e-u, to refuse;

halda hendi yfir e-m, to protect one;

taka e-n höndum, to seize, capture;

bera hönd fyrir höfuð sér, to defend oneself;

eiga hendr sínar at verja, to act in self defence;

láta e-t hendi firr, to let go out of one’s hands, to lose;

taka í hönd e-m, to join hands with one;

eiga e-t jöfnum höndum, to own in equal shares;

sverja sér af hendi, to forswear;

af hendi e-s, on one’s behalf, on the part of (af hendi landsmanna);

at hendi, as adv. in turn;

hverr at hendi, each in turn;

felast á hendi e-m, to be under one’s protection;

hvat er þér á höndum, what hast thou in hand?;

ef honum væri ekki á höndum, if he had nothing in hand, if his hands were free;

eiga e-t fyrir hendi (höndum), to have in hand (duty, business, engagement);

vera í hendi, to be at hand, at one’s disposal;

hafa vel (illa) í höndum, to behave well (badly);

hafa e-t með höndum, to have in hand, manage, discharge;

hljóta e-t undan hendi e-s, from one, at one’s hand;

á hönd, á hendr, against (lýsa vígi á hönd e-m);

snúa vanda á hendr e-m, to throw the responsibility on one;

fœrast e-t á hendr, to undertake;

ganga (drífa) á hönd e-m, to submit to one;

bjargast á sínar hendr, by one’s own handiwork;

selja, gefa, fá e-t í hönd (hendr) e-m, to give into one’s hands, hand over;

búa e-t í hendr e-m, to make it ready for one;

kalla til e-s í hendr e-m, to lay claim to a thing at the hands of another;

þá sömu nótt, er fór í hönd, the following night;

veðr óx í hönd, the wind rose higher and higher;

vera hœgt um hönd, to be easy in hand;

til handa e-m, into one’s hands;

ganga til handa e-m, to put oneself in another’s hands, submit to him;

ef þat berr þér til handa, if it befalls thee;

þá skömrn kýs ek mér eigi til handa, I will not have that shame at my door;

biðja konu til handa e-m, on one’s behalf, for him;

2) the arm and hand, the arm (höndin gekk af axlarliðnum; hann hefir á hœgri hendi hring fyrir ofan ölnboga);

var eigi djúpara en þeim tók undir hendr, the water just reached to their armpits;

3) hand, side;

á hœgri (vinstri) hönd, on the right (left) hand, side;

á hvára hönd, on either hand;

minnar (yðvarrar) handar, for my (your) part;

4) kind, sort;

allra handa árgœzka, great abundance of all things.

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f., gen. handar, dat. hendi, acc. hönd, pl. hendr, mod. proncd. höndur, gen. handa; [Goth. handus; A. S. and Engl. hand; O. H. G. hant; Germ. hand; Dan. haand; Swed. hand]:—a hand; beit höndina þar er nú heitir úlfliðr, Edda 17; armleggir, handleggir ok hendr, Anecd. 6; kné eðr hendi, Grág. ii. 8; ganga á höndum, Fms. vi. 5; með hendi sinni, K. Þ. K. 5 new Ed.; taka hendi á e-u, to touch with the hand, Fms. x. 110; taka höndum um háls e-m, Nj. 10; hvítri hendi, Hallfred; hafa e-t í hendi, to hold in hand, wield, Eg. 297, Nj. 84, 97, 255; hrjóta ór hendi e-m, Fms. xi. 141; hafa fingrgull á hendi, Nj. 146; handar-högg, Fms. xi. 126, Fas. ii. 459; sjá ekki handa sinna skil (deili), not to be able to see one’s hands, of a dense fog.

2. the arm and hand, the arm, like Gr. χείρ, Nj. 160, 253; á hendi heitir alnbogi, Edda 110; hendr til axla, Fas. i. 160; leggir handa ok fóta, Magn. 532; hönd fyrir ofan úlnlið, Nj. 84; hafa hring á hendi, of an arm-ring, Nj. 131; hring á hægri hendi fyrir ofan ölnboga, Fms. iv. 383:—the arm and arm-pit, ná, taka undir hönd ( arm-pit) e-m, Gþl. 380; var eigi djúpara en þeim tók undir hendr, the water reached to their arm-pits, Ld. 78; taka undir hönd sér, to take hold under one’s arms, Eg. 237, Nj. 200; sjá undir hönd e-m, Fas. ii. 558; renna undir hendr e-m, to backspan one, Háv. 40, 41; þykkr undir hönd, stout, Ld. 272.

3. metaph. handwriting, hand; rita góða hönd, to write a good hand; snar-hönd, running hand, italics.

II. the hand, side; hægri hönd, the right hand; vinstri hönd, the left hand; á hvára hönd, on either hand, each side, Landn. 215; á vinstri hönd, Nj. 196; á hægri hönd; á tvær hendr, on both hands or sides, Ísl. ii. 368, Fas. i. 384; á báðar hendr, Grág.; hvat sem á aðra hönd ber, whatsoever may happen; á aðra hönd … en á aðra, Ld. 46; til hvárigrar handara, Fms. x. 313; til annarrar handar, Nj. 50, 97; til sinnar handar hvárr, 140; til beggja handa, Eg. 65; til ýmsa handa, Bs. i. 750; þver-hönd, a hand’s breadth; örv-hönd.

III. sayings and phrases referring to the hand:

1. sayings; sjálfs hönd er hollust, one’s own hand is best, i. e. if you want to have a thing well done, do it yourself, Glúm. 332, Ó. H. 157; blíð er bætandi hönd, blessed is the mending hand; gjörn er hönd á venju, Grett. 150, Nj. (in a verse), and Edda (Ht. 26); margar hendr vinna létt verk; fiplar hönd á feigu tafli; betri ein kráka í hendi en tvær á skógi, Ld. 96; skamma stund verðr hönd höggvi fegin, see högg.

2. phrases; drepa hendi við, to refuse, Nj. 71; halda hendi yfir e-m, to hold one’s hand over, protect, 266, Fbr. 22, Anecd. 14; taka e-n höndum, to take hold with the hands, seize, capture, Fms. x. 314, Nj. 265, passim; eiga hendr sínar at verja, to act in self-defence, 84, 223; hefja handa, to lift the hands, stir for action, 65, Ld. 262; bera hönd fyrir höfuð sér, to put one’s hand before one’s head, stand on one’s guard, defend oneself; vera í hers höndum, óvina höndum, to be in a state of war, exposed to rapine; vera í góðum höndum, vina-höndum, góðra manna höndum, to be in good hands, among friends.

β. læknis-hendr, ‘leech hands,’ healing hands; pains and sickness were believed to give way to the magical touch of a person gifted with such hands, Sdm. 4, Magn. S. Góða ch. 36 (Fms. vi. 73), cp. Rafns S. ch. 2; hönd full, a handful, Fms. ii. 302, vi. 38, viii. 306; fullar hendr fjár, hands full of gold:—kasta hendinni til e-s, to huddle a thing up; með harðri hendi, with hard hand, harshly, rudely; með hangandi hendi, with drooping hand, slothfully; fegins hendi, with glad hand, joyfully; sitja auðum höndum, to sit with empty hands, sit idle; but með tómar hendr, empty-handed, portionless, Thom.:—láta hendr standa fram úr ermum, to work briskly; víkja hendi til e-s (handar-vik), to move the hand to do a thing; það er ekki í tveim höndum að hafa við e-n, of double handed (i. e. faltering) half measures, when the one hand undoes what the other has done; kann ek þat sjá at ekki má í tveim höndum hafa við slíka menn, Band. 3; láta hönd selja hendi, of a ready bargain; láta e-t ganga hendi firr, to let go out of one’s hands, lose, Ld. 202; ok lét sér eigi hendi firr ganga, and never lost sight of him, 656 ii. 4; e-m fallask hendr, to be discomfited, lose one’s head (see falla); leggja görva hönd á allt, to be a ready hand, adept in everything, Thom. 300 (see göra F. 2); taka í hönd e-m, to join hands, Nj. 3; takask í hendr, to join, shake hands, Grág. ii. 80; leggja hendr saman, id., Gþl. 18,—of shaking hands as symbolical of a bargain, see the compds hand-lag, hand-festi, handa-band; eiga, taka, jöfnum höndum, to own, take with even hands, i. e. in equal shares, Grág. i. 171, ii. 66, Hkr. i. 318; vinna jöfnum höndum, to work even-handed, to help one another; e-m eru mislagðar hendr, one’s hands are amiss, when bad work is done by one from whom better was expected; honum hafa verið mislagðar hendr, etc.

B. Metaph. usages:

I. dat., sverja sér af hendi, to forswear, Fms. vii. 176; færa af höndum sér, to dismiss, Grág. i. 248; hefjask af höndum e-m, Fms. xi. 59:—af hendi e-s, on one’s behalf, part, Landn. 154; af hendi Hákonar, Fms. i. 20, iv. 118; af hendi landsmanna, ix. 359; af sinni hendi, of one’s own hand, for one’s own part, Grág. i. 392; reiða, greiða, gjalda, inna af hendi or höndum, to discharge, pay off, Fms. vii. 230, Nj. 146, 190, 232, 239, 257, 281, Grág. i. 82, ii. 374; selja, láta af hendi (höndum), to part with, dismiss, Nj. 186, 231, Fms. vii. 173, Rb. 12; líða af hendi, to pass, of time, Ísl. ii. 144, Fms. iv. 83: koma, bera at hendi, to happen, Nj. 71, 177: at hendi, as adv. in turn; hvern at hendi, each in turn, Fms. i. 150: þar næst Gunnarr, þá Loðinn, þá hverr at hendi, Nj. 140; hverr segir at hendi þat er frá honum hefir stolit verit, Mar.: felask á hendi e-m, to be under one’s charge, protection, Nj. 201, Bs. i. 167, 173. vera e-m á hendi, id., Fms. vii. 243; vera bundinn á hendi e-m, Sturl. i. 57: hafa e-t á höndum (hendi), to have a thing in hand, of duty, business to be done, Grág. i. 38; eiga ferð á höndum, Ld. 72; hvat er þér á höndum, what hast thou in hand? for what art thou concerned, distressed? Nj. 133, Ld. 270; ella eru þér stórir hlutir á höndum, Fms. vii. 30; ef honum væri ekki á höndum, if he had nothing in hand, if his hands were free, Ld. 42: eiga e-t fyrir hendi (höndum), to have in hand (duty, business, engagement), Fas. ii. 557; farvegr langr fyrir hendi, Fms. xi. 316; tveir kostir fyrir höndum, Nj. 264, Grág. i. 279; hafa sýslu fyrir höndum, Ísl. ii. 344; eiga vandræði fyrir höndum, Ld. 4; eiga gott fyrir höndum, Hkr. iii. 254: vera í hendi, to be at hand, within reach, at one’s disposal, in one’s power; hann er eigi í hendi, Fms. vi. 213; þat er eigi í hendi, ‘tis no easy matter, v. l.; hafa raun ( evidence) í hendi, Bs. i. 708; hafa ráð e-s í hendi sér, Ld. 174, Fas. i. 260; hafa vel, ílla í höndum, to behave well, badly, Ísl. ii. 387, Eg. 158; varð honum þat vel í höndum, 50: hafa e-t með höndum (fé, auðæfi, embætti, etc.), to have in hand, manage, discharge, Grág. ii. 389, Greg. 25, Stj. 248, Hkr. iii. 131; to design, hafa ráð, stórræði með höndum, 623. 51: hljóta undan hendi e-s, from one, at one’s hands, Fas. i. 365: undir höndum, eigi lítill undir höndum, not a small man to handle, Fms. vii. 17; vera undir höndum e-m, to be under or in one’s hands, under one’s protection, in one’s power, Sks. 337, Fms. i. 7, 13; sitja undir hendi e-m, Hkr. i. 166,—um hendr, Fms. iv. 71, is prob. an error = undir hendi.

2. absol., annarri hendi, on the other hand, Fms. vii. 158; en annarri hendi vildu þeir gjarna veita konungi hlýðni, ix. 258.

II. acc., with prepp.; á hönd, á hendr, against; höfða sök, lýsa vígi (etc.) á hönd e-m, to make a suit … against, Grág. i. 19, Nj. 86, 87, 98, 99, 101, 110, 120, 230; hyggja e-t á hendr e-m, to lay a thing to a person’s charge, Hom. 115; reynask á hendr e-m, to have a charge brought home to one, Fms. xi. 76; snúa vanda á hendr e-m, to throw the responsibility upon …, Nj. 215; færa, segja stríð á hendr e-m, to wage, declare war against one; fara geystr á hendr e-m, to rage against, Fms. vii. 230; færask e-t á hendr, to undertake, Nj. 126; ganga á hönd e-m, to vex one, 625. 33; sótt elnar á hendr e-m, Eg. 126; leggja e-t á hendr e-m, to lay ( a burden) on one’s hands, Fms. xi. 98; in a good sense, ganga á hönd, to pay homage to, submit, Ó. H. 184; dreif allt fólk á hönd honum, submitted to him, filled his ranks, Fms. i. 21; bjargask á sínar hendr, by one’s own handwork, Vápn. 28; (for at hönd, Grág. i. 135, read á hönd): selja, fá, gefa e-t í hönd, hendr e-m, to give into one’s hands, hand over; selja sök í hönd e-m (handsöl), Grág. ii. 80, Nj. 4, 98, 112, 186; so, halda e-u í hönd e-m, Ísl. ii. 232, Fms. vii. 274; búa í hendr e-m, to make it ready for one, Ld. 130; veiði berr í hendr e-m, Nj. 252; kalla til e-s í hendr e-m, to lay claim to a thing at the hands of another, Ld. 300, Eg. 350, Fms. iv. 222, ix. 424; þegar í hönd, offhand, immediately, Bs. i; þá sömu nótt er fór í hönd, the following night, Fms. viii. 397, Glúm. 341; gjalda í hönd, to pay in cash, Vm. 16; veðr óx í hönd, the wind rose higher and higher, Fb. i. 432: undir jafna hönd, equally, Sturl. iii. 243; standa óbrigðiliga undir jafna hönd, Dipl. v. 26: væra hægt um hönd, to be easy in hand, Nj. 25; þegar eg vil er hægt um hönd, heima á Fróni að vera, Núm. 1. 10; but mér er e-t um hönd, it is awkward, costs trouble: hafa við hönd sér, to keep at hand, Fms. x. 264; tóku konur manna ok dætr ok höfðu við hönd sér viku, Grett. 97; hafa e-t við höndina, to have it at hand.

III. gen., with prepp.; til handa e-m, into one’s hands; fara Guði til handa, to go into God’s hands, Blas. 51; ganga til handa e-m, to put oneself in another’s hands, submit to him, Rb. 404, Eg. 12, Fms. vii. 234, Fas. ii. 522; ef þat berr þér til handa, if it befalls thee, i. 135; þá skömm kýs ek mér eigi til handa, I will not have that shame at my door, Nj. 191: for one, on one’s behalf, biðja konu til handa e-m, 120, 180, Grág. i. 353; í þeirri bæn er hann orti oss til handa, for its, for our use, our sake, 655 i. 2; hann hélt fénu til handa Þrándi, Landn. 214, Nj. 151; safnar konungr liði (til) handa Oddi, Fas. ii. 553; til handa Þorkatli, Fs.

β. dropping the prep. til; mikit fé handa honum, Rd. 195 (late MSS.): whence, handa has become an adverb with dat., handa e-m, for one, Lat. alicui, which is freq. in mod. usage.

2. adverbial; allra handa, Dan. allehaande, of every kind; allra handa árgæzka, Edda (pref.); allra handa ganganda fé, Þórð. 51 new Ed.; fjögurra handa, of a fourfold kind, H. E. i. 525.

3. absol., minnar handar, for my part, Ísl. ii. 356; yðvarrar handar, for your part, Fms. ix. 498; hvárrar-tveggju handar, on either hand, Skálda 164; innan handar, within one’s hands, easy, Ld. 112; þótti þeim innan handar falla at taka land þetta hjá sér sjálfum, 210.

C. COMPDS:

I. plur., handa-afl, n., Edda, = handafl, p. 237. handa-band, n. a joining or shaking of hands, as a law term = handlag, Dipl. i. 11, iv. 2, Vígl. 23; in plur., Bs. (Laur. S.); heilsa, kveðja með handabandi. handa-festi, f. a hold for the hands, Fms. ii. 276. handa-gangr, m. grasping after a thing with all hands, Fas. iii. 345. handa-görvi, f. ‘hand-gear,’ gloves, Sd. 143, Fbr. 139. handa-hóf, n., in the phrase, af handahófi, at random. handa-kenning, f. hand touching, Eluc. 20. handa-klapp, n. a clapping of hands, Skálda 174. handa-læti, n. pl. gestures with the arms, Sks. 116. handar-mál, n., in the phrase, at handarmáli, in heaps; var þá drepit lið hans at handarmáli, Fas. i. 41. handa-saumr, m. tight gloves, Bs. ii. 10. handa-síðr, adj. = handsíðr. handa-skil, n. pl., in the phrase, sjá ekki h., not to see one’s own hands, as in the dark, in a dense fog. handa-skol, n. pl. maladroitness; það er allt í handaskolum. handa-skömm, f. shameful work, a scandal; það er mesta h.! handa-staðr, m. the print of the hands. Fas. i. 285. handa-tak, n., -tekt, f., -tekja, u, f. a taking of hands, as a bargain, Háv. 42, H. E. ii. 194, D. N. i. 398. handa-tæki, n. pl. a laying hold, a fight, Bs. i. (Laur. S.): a pledging of hands, Dipl. ii. 6, D. N. passim. handa-upphald, n. a lifting the arms, Stj. 296. handa-verk, n. pl. one’s handiwork, doings, N. G. L. i. 76, Fms. vii. 295, Stj. 198; í handaverkum eða bókfræði, 46; handaverk manna, men’s handiwork, Blas. 47; Guðs h.; ek em þín h., Sks. 610; hans h., Fms. viii. 406.

II. sing., handar-bak, n. the back of the hand, Sdm. 7. handar-gagn, n. a being ready to the hand; leggja e-t til handargagns, to lay it so as to be ready at hand, Hkr. ii, 158, 249. handar-grip, n. a measure, = spönn, Karl. 481. handar-hald, proncd. handarald, n. a handle, Fas. ii. 355. handar-jaðarr, m. the hand’s edge; in the phrase, vera undir handar-jaðri e-s, to be in one’s hands, in one’s power, Fær. 201. handar-kriki, a, m. ‘hand’s-creek,’ the arm-pit, Eg. 396, Fms. vi. 348, Sturl. ii. 37. handar-mein, n. a sore in the hand, Bs. i. 115, 187, Sturl. ii. 177. handar-stúfr, m. a ‘hand-stump,’ stump of the arm, the hand being hacked off, Fms. x. 258, xi. 119. handar-vani, a, m. maimed in hand, Hm. 70, Matth. xviii. 8. handar-veif, n., í handarveifi, in a ‘wave of the hand,’ in a moment. handar-vik, n. the hands’ reach, movement, work; lítið handarvik, a small work. handar-væni, a, m. want of hands (?), Hm. 72.

☞ For the compds in hand- see pp. 237, 238.

Íslensk-ensk orðabók > HÖND
17 bulwark

1. n вал, бастион

2. n оплот, защита

a bulwark of peace — оплот мира

3. n мол, волнолом

4. n обыкн. мор. фальшборт

bulwark plate — лист фальшборта

bulwark stay — стойка фальшборта

bulwark brace — стойка фальшборта

bulwark rail — планширь фальшборта

free bulwark — свободный фальшборт

5. v редк. укреплять валом

tumble-home bulwark — фальшборт с завалом

6. v редк. служить оплотом

friends bulwarked him about — друзья стояли за него горой

Синонимический ряд:

1. fortification (noun) barrier; bastion; breastwork; buttress; defense; dike; fort; fortification; palisade; parapet; rampart; stockade; trench

2. defend (verb) cover; defend; fend; guard; protect; safeguard; screen; secure; shield

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18 Historical Portugal

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

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

   Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140

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

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

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

   Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640

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

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

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

   Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910

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

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

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

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

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

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

   First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26

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

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

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

   The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Contemporary Portugal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal
19 Answer

subs.

P. and V. ἀπόκρισις, ἡ (Eur., frag.).

Defence: P. ἀπολογία, ἡ.

Oracular answer: P. and V. χρησμός, ὁ, μαντεῖον, τό, Ar. and V. μάντευμα, τό; see Oracle.

In answer to, prep.: P. and V. πρός (acc.).

Send an answer by letter: P. ἐπιστολὴν ἀντεπιτιθέναι (Thuc. 1, 129).

The answer to the letter was as follows: P. ἀντεγέγραπτο τάδε (Thuc. 1, 129).

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v. trans.

P. and V. ἀποκρίνεσθαι (Eur., Supp. 516, Bacch. 1272), ἀντιλίγειν, ἀντειπεῖν, V. ἀνταυδᾶν, ἀντιφωνεῖν, ἀμείβεσθαι, ἀνταμείβεσθαι.

Retort: P. ὑπολαμβάνειν.

Answer on behalf of ( another): Ar. ὑπεραποκρίνεσθαι (gen.).

Of an oracle: P. and V. χρῆν, ἀναιρεῖν.

Answer ( a riddle): P. and V. λύειν, V. διειπεῖν; see Solve.

Answer a knock: P. ὑπακούειν (absol. or dat. of pers.).

Answer ( charges): P. and V. ἀπολογεῖσθαι (πρός, acc.) (cf. Eur., Bacch. 41).

Correspond to: P. and V. συνᾴδειν (dat.), συμφέρειν (dat.); see Correspond.

Equal: P. and V. ἰσοῦσθαι (dat.), ἐξισοῦσθαι (dat.).

Suit: P. and V. ἁρμόζειν (dat.).

Answer for: see Guarantee.

Defend: Ar. ὑπεραποκρίνεσθαι; see Defend.

Answer to: see correspond to.

Resemble: P. and V. ὁμοιοῦσθαι (dat.), ἐξομοιοῦσθαι (dat.).

Obey: P. and V. πείθεσθαι (dat.).

Bid him sail home to answer the charges the city brought against him: P. κελεύειν ἀποπλεῖν εἰς ἀπολογίαν ὼν ἡ πόλις ἐνεκάλει (Thuc. 6, 53). V. intrans.

Succeed: P. and V. εὖ χωρεῖν, προχωρεῖν, ὀρθοῦσθαι, κατορθοῦν (or pass.), εὖ φέρεσθαι, καλῶς φέρεσθαι.

Turn out: P. and V. ἐκβαίνειν, P. ἀποβαίνειν; see turn out.

Woodhouse English-Greek dictionary. A vocabulary of the Attic language > Answer
20 leave

̈ɪli:v I сущ.
1) а) позволение, разрешение to ask leave (to do smth.) ≈ просить позволения (сделать что-л.) Syn: permission б) воен. увольнительная, увольнение( разрешение об отлучке, выданное служащему армии)
2) отпуск (тж. leave of absence) to cancel smb.'s leave ≈ выйти из отпуска to extend smb.'s leave ≈ продлевать чей-л. отпуск to give, grant a leave ≈ давать отпуск to go on leave ≈ уходить в отпуск to overstay one's leave ≈ засидеться в отпуске to take a leave ≈ брать отпуск annual leave maternity leave paid leave research leave sabbatical leave sick leave terminal leave leave without pay leave allowance leave travel
3) а) отъезд, уход;
отправление, отход б) расставание, прощание Syn: departure, parting ∙ to take leave of one's senses ≈ потерять рассудок II гл.;
прош. вр. и прич. прош. вр. - left
1) а) покидать( кого-л.;
какое-л. место) Syn: abandon, desert, go, retire, forsake Ant: come, remain, stay at, stay in, stay with, stick to, stick with, approach б) переезжать, уезжать to leave Paris for London ≈ переезжать из Парижа в Лондон She left her comfortable home for a rugged life in the desert. ≈ Она променяла свой уютный дом на суровую жизнь в пустыне. He was left for dead on the battlefield. ≈ Его оставили на поле брани как убитого. Syn: depart, withdraw, quit
2) а) оставлять (след) the wound left an deep scar ≈ после раны остался глубокий шрам б) забывать, оставлять I left my keys at my grandma's. ≈ Я забыла ключи у бабушки. в) оставаться (о какой-либо части) Ten minus five leaves five. ≈ От десяти отнять пять - останется пять.
3) оставлять в том же состоянии to leave smth. unsaid ≈ не сказать( чего-л., о чем-л.) to leave smth. undone ≈ не сделать( чего-л.) They left the fields fallow. ≈ Они оставили поля под паром. I left him working in the garden. ≈ Когда я уходил, он работал в саду. The film left me cold. ≈ Фильм не тронул его. Ant: keep, persevere in
4) оставлять, передавать, поручать( with) to leave word for smb. ≈ велеть передать кому-л. (что-либо) They left the children with her mother. ≈ Они оставили детей с ее матерью. She left her books with us. ≈ Она оставила нам книги.
5) приводить в какое-л. состояние The insult left him speechless. ≈ Оскорбление лишило его дара речи. The flood left them homeless. ≈ Потоп оставил их без крова.
6) предоставлять She left the report for me. ≈ Она поручила доклад мне. We left them to muddle through on their own. ≈ Мы предоставили им самим довести это дело до конца. Syn: entrust
7) а) завещать, оставлять (наследство) After his death she was well left. ≈ После его смерти она была хорошо обеспечена наследством. He left his estate to her. ≈ Он оставил ей наследство. Syn: bequeath, devise
2. б) оставить( после себя) He left a widow and two children. ≈ (После его смерти) осталась вдова с двумя детьми.
8) прекращать It is time to leave talking and begin acting. ≈ Пора перестать разговаривать и начать действовать.
9) разг., амер. разрешать, позволять Syn: allow, permit, let ∙ leave alone leave aside leave out of leave behind leave off leave out leave over to leave oneself wide open амер. ≈ подставить себя под удар to leave smth. in the air ≈ оставлять незаконченным (мысль, речь и т. п.) to leave smb. to himself ≈ не вмешиваться в чьи-л. дела it leaves much to be desired ≈ оставляет желать много лучшего to be/get (nicely) left разг. ≈ быть покинутым, обманутым, одураченным leave open leave up III гл. покрываться листвой The poplars were leaved out. ≈ Тополя покрылись листвой Syn: leaf
2. разрешение, позволение - by /with/ your * с вашего позволения - * of court разрешение суда - to ask /to beg/ * to do smth. спрашивать /просить/ разрешение /позволения/ сделать что-л. - to give /to grant/ smb. to smth. дать кому-л. разрешение /позволение/ сделать что-л.;
позволить /разрешить/ кому-л. сделать что-л. - who gave you * to go? кто разрешил вам уйти? (тж. * of absence) отпуск - on * в отпуске - sick * отпуск по болезни - six mounth' * шестимесячный отпуск - research * (американизм) творческий отпуск (военное) увольнение - * pass увольнительная записка;
отпускное свидетельство - * allowance отпускное денежное содержание - compassionate * увольнение по семейным обстоятельствам прощание, расставание - to take (one's) * прощаться, уходить - to take * of one's friends попрощаться с друзьями исходная позиция (для бильярдных шаров) > to take * of one's senses сойти с ума, рехнуться уходить, уезжать - to * the room выйти из комнаты - to * the Moscow уехать из Москвы - when does the train *? когда отходит поезд? (for) направляться, уезжать ( куда-л.) - to * for London уезжать в Лондон оставлять - to * one's coat in the hall повесить /оставить/ пальто в прихожей - to * smth. for smb. to eat оставить что-л. кому-л. поесть - we left room in the car for your sister мы оставили в машине место для вашей сестры - "to be left until called for" "до востребования" (надпись на конверте) оставлять после себя - the wound left an ugly scar после раны остался некрасивый шрам - the train left a trail of smoke поезд оставил за собой хвост дыма (по) забыть - I've left my notebook at home я забыл тетрадь дома покидать;
бросать - to * one's job бросить работу, уйти с работы - to * school бросить школу;
окончить школу - to * society удалиться от общества;
покинуть общество - to * one's wife оставить /бросить/ жену - to * the track /the rails/ сойти с рельсов - his cold did not * him for weeks он долго не мог избавиться от простуды оставлять в каком-л. положении или состоянии - to * the door open оставить дверь открытой - to * a question open оставить вопрос открытым;
не выносить окончательного решения - to * oneself open открываться (бокс) - to * oneself wide open (американизм) ставить себя под удар - to * smth. undone оставить что-л. несделанным - some things are better left unsaid есть вещи, о которых лучше не говорить - to * smb. cool /cold, unmoved/ не производить впечатления на кого-л. - his illness has left him weak он ослабел после болезни - her words left him furious ее слова привели его в бешенство - his behaviour *s much to be desired его поведение оставляет желать (много) лучшего откладывать, переносить - to * smth. until tomorrow оставить /отложить/ что-л. на /до/ завтра завещать - to * smb. $100 завещать кому-л. 100 долларов - to be badly /poorly/ left получить маленькое /скудное/ наследство оставлять после смерти - he left a widow and two children после него осталась вдова и двое детей - he left many water-colour sketches после него осталось много акварелей оставлять неиспользованным - give what is left to the dog остатки отдай собаке получать, оставаться в остатке - seven from ten *s three десять минус семь равняется трем, от десяти отнять семь, получится /будет/ три предоставить, поручить - to * smth. to chance /to accident/ предоставить дело случаю - to * the matter in smb.'s hands передать дело в чьи-л. руки - he left his relative in charge of the house он поручил родственнику присматривать за домом - * it to me предоставьте это (дело) мне передавать, оставлять - to * a card on smb. оставить кому-л. свою визитную карточку - to * word for smb. (that) велеть передать кому-л. (что) - did he * any message for me? он не оставил мне записки?;
он ничего не велел мне передатЬ? позволять, разрешать - to * smb. to do smth. позволять кому-л. делать что-л. - to * smb. to go отпускать кого-л. - to * smb. to attend to the matter позволить кому-л. заняться этим делом - * him do it! не мешайте ему! отпускать, выпускать, не держать;
не удерживать - to * go /hold/ of smth. выпустить что-л. из рук, перестать держаться за что-л. - * go on my hair! не тяни меня за волосы! проходить мимо, миновать - to * the church on the left оставить церковь по левую руку, обойти церковь с правой стороны > to * smb. alone оставить кого-л. в покое, не трогать кого-л. > * me alone! отстань от меня! > I should * that question alone if I were you я бы на вашем месте не поднимал этого вопроса > * well alone, (американизм) * well enough alone не трогайте (уже сделанную работу) ;
не пытайтесь улучшить( картину и т. п.) > to * smb. be оставить кого-л. в покое, не трогать кого-л. > * him be! не приставай /не лезь/ к нему! > the baby is crying, but * him be, he'll soon stop ребенок плачет, но ты его не трогай /не обращай внимания/, он скоро перестанет > to get /to be/ (nicely) left быть покинутым /обманутым, одураченным/;
быть побежденным > let's * it at that! не будем больше( говорить) об этом! > to * smb. to himself /to one's own devices/ предоставить кого-л. самому себе покрываться листьями, одеваться листьями annual ~ ежегодный отпуск to be (или to get) (nicely) left разг. быть покинутым, обманутым, одураченным leave завещать, оставлять (наследство) ;
to be well left быть хорошо обеспеченным наследством care ~ отпуск по уходу (за больным, ребенком, инвалидом и т. п.) child care ~ отпуск по уходу за ребенком child-care ~ отпуск по уходу за ребенком compassionate ~ отпуск по семейным обстоятельствам educational ~ отпуск для прохождения обучения (курсов переквалификации, очной сессии в заочном учебном заведении), учебный отпуск educational ~ учебный отпуск I should ~ that question alone if I were you на вашем месте я не касался бы этого вопроса ~ разрешение, позволение;
by (или with) your leave с вашего разрешения;
I take leave to say беру на себя смелость сказать ~ приводить в (какое-л.) состояние;
the insult left him speechless оскорбление лишило его дара речи ~ прекращать;
it is time to leave talking and begin acting пора перестать разговаривать и начать действовать;
leave it at that! разг. оставьте!, довольно! it leaves much to be desired оставляет желать много лучшего leave завещать, оставлять (наследство) ;
to be well left быть хорошо обеспеченным наследством ~ завещать ~ оставлять ~ оставлять;
to leave the rails сойти с рельсов;
to leave hold of выпустить из рук;
seven from ten leaves three 10 - 7 = = 3 ~ оставлять в том же состоянии;
the story leaves him cold рассказ не трогает его;
to leave (smth.) unsaid (undone) не сказать (не сделать) (чего-л.) ~ отпуск ~ отпуск (тж. leave of absence) ;
on leave в отпуске;
on sick leave в отпуске по болезни;
paid leave оплачиваемый отпуск ~ отъезд, уход;
прощание;
to take one's leave (of smb.) прощаться (с кем-л.) ~ передавать, оставлять;
to leave a message (for smb.) оставлять (кому-л.) записку;
просить передать (что-л.) ;
to leave word (for smb.) велеть передать (кому-л. что-л.) ~ позволение ~ покидать ~ (left) покидать ~ покрываться листвой ~ предоставлять;
leave it to me предоставьте это мне;
nothing was left to accident все было предусмотрено;
всякая случайность была исключена ~ прекращать;
it is time to leave talking and begin acting пора перестать разговаривать и начать действовать;
leave it at that! разг. оставьте!, довольно! ~ разрешение, позволение;
by (или with) your leave с вашего разрешения;
I take leave to say беру на себя смелость сказать ~ разрешение ~ приводить в (какое-л.) состояние;
the insult left him speechless оскорбление лишило его дара речи ~ воен. увольнение ~ уезжать, переезжать;
my sister has left for Moscow моя сестра уехала в Москву;
when does the train leave? когда отходит поезд? ~ передавать, оставлять;
to leave a message (for smb.) оставлять (кому-л.) записку;
просить передать (что-л.) ;
to leave word (for smb.) велеть передать (кому-л. что-л.) message: ~ сообщение, донесение;
письмо, послание;
send me a message известите меня;
to leave a message (for smb.) просить передать (что-л. кому-л.) ~ allowance воен. отпускное денежное содержание;
leave travel воен. поездка в отпуск или из отпуска ~ for work допуск к работе ~ оставлять;
to leave the rails сойти с рельсов;
to leave hold of выпустить из рук;
seven from ten leaves three 10 - 7 = = 3 to ~ open оставить открытым (вопрос и т. п.) ;
to leave oneself wide open амер. подставить себя под удар;
to leave (smth.) in the air оставлять незаконченным (мысль, речь и т. п.) ~ прекращать;
it is time to leave talking and begin acting пора перестать разговаривать и начать действовать;
leave it at that! разг. оставьте!, довольно! ~ предоставлять;
leave it to me предоставьте это мне;
nothing was left to accident все было предусмотрено;
всякая случайность была исключена ~ off останавливаться ~ off останавливаться;
where did we leave off last time? на чем мы остановились в прошлый раз?;
we left off at the end of chapter мы остановились в конце третьей главы ~ off переставать делать (что-л.), бросать привычку;
to leave off one's winter clothes перестать носить, снять теплые вещи;
to leave off smoking бросить курить ~ off прекращать ~ off переставать делать (что-л.), бросать привычку;
to leave off one's winter clothes перестать носить, снять теплые вещи;
to leave off smoking бросить курить ~ off переставать делать (что-л.), бросать привычку;
to leave off one's winter clothes перестать носить, снять теплые вещи;
to leave off smoking бросить курить to ~ open оставить открытым (вопрос и т. п.) ;
to leave oneself wide open амер. подставить себя под удар;
to leave (smth.) in the air оставлять незаконченным (мысль, речь и т. п.) to ~ open оставить открытым (вопрос и т. п.) ;
to leave oneself wide open амер. подставить себя под удар;
to leave (smth.) in the air оставлять незаконченным (мысль, речь и т. п.) open: leave ~ оставлять нерешенным leave ~ оставлять открытым ~ out не учитывать ~ out пропускать, не включать ~ out пропускать ~ out упускать ~ over откладывать ~ оставлять;
to leave the rails сойти с рельсов;
to leave hold of выпустить из рук;
seven from ten leaves three 10 - 7 = = 3 ~ to appeal право на апелляцию ~ to appeal разрешение на апелляцию ~ to defend право на защиту to ~ (smb.) to himself не вмешиваться( в чьи-л. дела) ~ allowance воен. отпускное денежное содержание;
leave travel воен. поездка в отпуск или из отпуска ~ оставлять в том же состоянии;
the story leaves him cold рассказ не трогает его;
to leave (smth.) unsaid (undone) не сказать (не сделать) (чего-л.) ~ without pay отпуск без сохранения содержания ~ передавать, оставлять;
to leave a message (for smb.) оставлять (кому-л.) записку;
просить передать (что-л.) ;
to leave word (for smb.) велеть передать (кому-л. что-л.) maternity ~ отпуск по беременности и родам, декретный отпуск maternity ~ отпуск по беременности и родам maternity: ~ benefit пособие роженице;
maternity leave отпуск по беременности и родам ~ уезжать, переезжать;
my sister has left for Moscow моя сестра уехала в Москву;
when does the train leave? когда отходит поезд? ~ предоставлять;
leave it to me предоставьте это мне;
nothing was left to accident все было предусмотрено;
всякая случайность была исключена nursing ~ отпуск по уходу за маленьким ребенком ~ отпуск (тж. leave of absence) ;
on leave в отпуске;
on sick leave в отпуске по болезни;
paid leave оплачиваемый отпуск ~ отпуск (тж. leave of absence) ;
on leave в отпуске;
on sick leave в отпуске по болезни;
paid leave оплачиваемый отпуск paid educational ~ оплаченный учебный отпуск paid educational ~ оплачиваемый учебный отпуск ~ отпуск (тж. leave of absence) ;
on leave в отпуске;
on sick leave в отпуске по болезни;
paid leave оплачиваемый отпуск paid sick ~ оплаченный отпуск по болезни parental ~ родительский отпуск paternity ~ отпуск отцу (например, по уходу за ребенком) paternity ~ отпуск по причине отцовства ~ оставлять;
to leave the rails сойти с рельсов;
to leave hold of выпустить из рук;
seven from ten leaves three 10 - 7 = = 3 sick ~ отпуск по болезни some things are better left unsaid есть вещи, о которых лучше не говорить ~ оставлять в том же состоянии;
the story leaves him cold рассказ не трогает его;
to leave (smth.) unsaid (undone) не сказать (не сделать) (чего-л.) study ~ отпуск на учебу;
учебный отпуск to take ~ of one's senses потерять рассудок ~ отъезд, уход;
прощание;
to take one's leave (of smb.) прощаться (с кем-л.) ticket of ~ досрочное освобождение заключенного ~ off останавливаться;
where did we leave off last time? на чем мы остановились в прошлый раз?;
we left off at the end of chapter мы остановились в конце третьей главы ~ уезжать, переезжать;
my sister has left for Moscow моя сестра уехала в Москву;
when does the train leave? когда отходит поезд? ~ off останавливаться;
where did we leave off last time? на чем мы остановились в прошлый раз?;
we left off at the end of chapter мы остановились в конце третьей главы

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