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1 sense

I [sens] n
1) чувство, ощущение, восприятие

He has an exaggerated sense of his own importance. — Его распирает чувство собственной значимости.

I had a sudden sense that someone was standing behind me. — Я вдруг почувствовал, что кто-то стоит за моей спиной.

- five senses
- sense of taste
- sense of smell
- sense of duty
- a strong sense of justice

- out of sense of duty
- find smth by the sense of smell
- have a bad sense of direction
- dull the senses
- dull the sense of reality
- develop a high sense of responsibility
- lose all sense of shame
2) (только pl) рассудок

- be in one's right senses
- be out of one's senses
- doubt one's own senses
- lose one's senses
- recover one's senses
- frighten smb out of his senses
- come to one's senses
- bring smb to his senses II [sens] n
1) значение

The phrase is used in special (in various, in two) senses. — Эта фраза используется в специальных (в различных, в двух) значениях.

- in the strict sense of the word
- in the full sense of the word
- in more senses than one
- in all senses
- in a certain sense
- in much the same sense
- have a more restricted sense
- make no sense at all
2) смысл, разум, ум

There is much/a lot of sense in what she says. — В ее словах много правды/смысла.

He has not much sense. — Ему не хватает разума.

Sense comes with age. — Мудрость приходит с годами/с возрастом

- have common sense
- be guided by common sense
- appeal to smb's common sense
- act against all senses
- talk sense
- write sense

English-Russian combinatory dictionary > sense
2 to develop a high sense of responsibility

to develop (to encourage) a high sense of responsibility развивать (воспитывать) высокое чувство ответственности

English-Russian combinatory dictionary > to develop a high sense of responsibility
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I [teɪst]
nome

1) (sensation) gusto m., sapore m.; (sense) gusto m.

bitter to the taste — amaro (al palato)

to leave a bad o nasty taste in the mouth — lasciare un gusto cattivo in bocca; fig. lasciare l'amaro in bocca

2) (small quantity) pizzico m., pezzettino m.

add just a taste of brandy — aggiungete una goccia di brandy

3) fig. (brief experience, foretaste) assaggio m.

4) (liking) gusto m.

to acquire o develop a taste for sth. prendere gusto a qcs.; too violent for my taste(s) troppo violento per i miei gusti; is this to your taste? è di tuo gusto? add salt to taste — salare quanto basta

5) (sense of beauty, appropriateness) (buon)gusto m.

he has exquisite taste in clothes — ha un ottimo gusto nel vestire

that's a matter of taste — è un questione di gusti

it would be in bad o poor taste to do — sarebbe di cattivo gusto fare

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there's no accounting for tastes! — tutti i gusti sono gusti!
II 1. [teɪst]
verbo transitivo

1) (perceive flavour)

I can taste the brandy in this coffee — sento il gusto del brandy nel caffè

2) (try) assaggiare [wine, food]

3) fig. (experience) assaporare [freedom, success, power]; conoscere [failure, hardship]
2.
verbo intransitivo

to taste sweet — essere, avere un sapore dolce

to taste horrible — avere un gusto terribile

the milk tastes off to me — secondo me il latte è diventato acido

what does it taste like? — che gusto ha?

it tastes of apple — sa di mela

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[teist] 1. verb
1) (to be aware of, or recognize, the flavour of something: I can taste ginger in this cake.) gustare, sentire

2) (to test or find out the flavour or quality of (food etc) by eating or drinking a little of it: Please taste this and tell me if it is too sweet.) assaggiare

3) (to have a particular flavour or other quality that is noticed through the act of tasting: This milk tastes sour; The sauce tastes of garlic.) sapere di

4) (to eat (food) especially with enjoyment: I haven't tasted such a beautiful curry for ages.) assaporare

5) (to experience: He tasted the delights of country life.) assaporare, provare
2. noun
1) (one of the five senses, the sense by which we are aware of flavour: one's sense of taste; bitter to the taste.) gusto

2) (the quality or flavour of anything that is known through this sense: This wine has an unusual taste.) gusto, sapore

3) (an act of tasting or a small quantity of food etc for tasting: Do have a taste of this cake!) assaggio

4) (a liking or preference: a taste for music; a queer taste in books; expensive tastes.) gusto

5) (the ability to judge what is suitable in behaviour, dress etc or what is fine and beautiful: She shows good taste in clothes; a man of taste; That joke was in good/bad taste.) gusto

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I [teɪst]
nome

1) (sensation) gusto m., sapore m.; (sense) gusto m.

bitter to the taste — amaro (al palato)

to leave a bad o nasty taste in the mouth — lasciare un gusto cattivo in bocca; fig. lasciare l'amaro in bocca

2) (small quantity) pizzico m., pezzettino m.

add just a taste of brandy — aggiungete una goccia di brandy

3) fig. (brief experience, foretaste) assaggio m.

4) (liking) gusto m.

to acquire o develop a taste for sth. prendere gusto a qcs.; too violent for my taste(s) troppo violento per i miei gusti; is this to your taste? è di tuo gusto? add salt to taste — salare quanto basta

5) (sense of beauty, appropriateness) (buon)gusto m.

he has exquisite taste in clothes — ha un ottimo gusto nel vestire

that's a matter of taste — è un questione di gusti

it would be in bad o poor taste to do — sarebbe di cattivo gusto fare

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there's no accounting for tastes! — tutti i gusti sono gusti!
II 1. [teɪst]
verbo transitivo

1) (perceive flavour)

I can taste the brandy in this coffee — sento il gusto del brandy nel caffè

2) (try) assaggiare [wine, food]

3) fig. (experience) assaporare [freedom, success, power]; conoscere [failure, hardship]
2.
verbo intransitivo

to taste sweet — essere, avere un sapore dolce

to taste horrible — avere un gusto terribile

the milk tastes off to me — secondo me il latte è diventato acido

what does it taste like? — che gusto ha?

it tastes of apple — sa di mela

English-Italian dictionary > taste
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1. transitive verb
1) schmecken; (try a little) probieren; kosten

2) (recognize flavour of) [heraus]schmecken

3) (fig.): (experience) kosten (geh.) [Macht, Freiheit, [Miss]erfolg, Glück, Niederlage]
2. intransitive verb
1) (have sense of flavour) schmecken

2) (have certain flavour) schmecken (of nach)

not taste of anything — nach nichts schmecken
3. noun
1) (flavour) Geschmack, der

to taste — nach Geschmack [verdünnen]

this dish has no taste — dieses Gericht schmeckt nach nichts

there's a taste of garlic in something — etwas schmeckt nach Knoblauch

leave a nasty/bad etc. taste in the mouth — (lit. or fig.) einen unangenehmen/üblen usw. Nachgeschmack hinterlassen

2) (sense)

[sense of] taste — Geschmack[ssinn], der

3) (discernment) Geschmack, der

taste in art/music — Kunst-/Musikgeschmack, der

have good taste in clothes — sich geschmackvoll kleiden

it would be bad taste to do that — es wäre geschmacklos, das zu tun

in good/bad taste — geschmackvoll/geschmacklos

4) (sample, lit. or fig.) Kostprobe, die

have a taste of — probieren [Speise, Getränk]; kennen lernen [Freiheit, jemandes Jähzorn, Arroganz]

give somebody a taste of something — (lit. or fig.) jemandem eine Kostprobe einer Sache (Gen.) geben

5) (liking) Geschmack, der (in für)

have a/no taste for something — an etwas (Dat.) Geschmack/keinen Geschmack finden

have expensive tastes in clothes — etc. eine Vorliebe für teure Kleidung usw. haben

be/not be to somebody's taste — nach jemandes/nicht nach jemandes Geschmack sein

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[teist] 1. verb
1) (to be aware of, or recognize, the flavour of something: I can taste ginger in this cake.) schmecken

2) (to test or find out the flavour or quality of (food etc) by eating or drinking a little of it: Please taste this and tell me if it is too sweet.) probieren

3) (to have a particular flavour or other quality that is noticed through the act of tasting: This milk tastes sour; The sauce tastes of garlic.) schmecken

4) (to eat (food) especially with enjoyment: I haven't tasted such a beautiful curry for ages.) kosten

5) (to experience: He tasted the delights of country life.) erleben
2. noun
1) (one of the five senses, the sense by which we are aware of flavour: one's sense of taste; bitter to the taste.) der Geschmackssinn

2) (the quality or flavour of anything that is known through this sense: This wine has an unusual taste.) der Geschmack

3) (an act of tasting or a small quantity of food etc for tasting: Do have a taste of this cake!) die Kostprobe

4) (a liking or preference: a taste for music; a queer taste in books; expensive tastes.) der Geschmack

5) (the ability to judge what is suitable in behaviour, dress etc or what is fine and beautiful: She shows good taste in clothes; a man of taste; That joke was in good/bad taste.) der Geschmack

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taste

[teɪst]

I. n

1. no pl (flavour) Geschmack m

she still had the \taste of onions in her mouth sie hatte immer noch den Zwiebelgeschmack im Mund

sense of \taste Geschmackssinn m

to leave a bad \taste in the mouth ( fig) einen üblen Nachgeschmack hinterlassen

2. (small portion/mouthful of food) [kleiner] Bissen

just a \taste of cake for me, please für mich bitte nur ein kleines Stückchen Kuchen

3. (liking, fondness) Vorliebe f

I've never understood Liz's \taste in men ich habe Liz' Geschmack, was Männer anbelangt, nie verstanden

these olives are an acquired \taste diese Oliven sind gewöhnungsbedürftig

to be a question of \taste Geschmackssache sein

to have different \tastes verschiedene Geschmäcker haben

to have an expensive \taste einen teuren Geschmack haben

to acquire a \taste for sth an etw dat Geschmack finden

to get a \taste for sth Gefallen an etw dat finden

to lose the \taste for sth den Gefallen an etw dat verlieren

4. no pl (aesthetic quality/discernment) Geschmack m

jokes about death are rather in poor \taste Witze über den Tod sind ziemlich geschmacklos

to be a matter of [personal] \taste Geschmackssache sein

bad \taste schlechter Geschmack

to be in excellent \taste von exzellentem Geschmack zeugen

to be in terrible \taste äußerst geschmacklos sein

to have [good] \taste [einen guten] Geschmack haben

5. no pl ( fig: short encounter) Kostprobe f fig

to give sb a \taste of the whip jdn die Peitsche spüren lassen

to have a \taste of sth einen Vorgeschmack von etw dat bekommen

II. vt

1. (perceive flavour)

▪ to \taste sth etw schmecken; (test) etw probieren [o geh kosten]

I can't \taste anything ich schmecke gar nichts

2. (experience briefly)

▪ to \taste sth luxury, success [einmal] etw erleben

III. vi schmecken

▪ to \taste of sth nach etw dat schmecken

to \taste bitter/salty/sweet bitter/salzig/süß schmecken

to \taste like sth wie etw schmecken

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[teɪst]
1. n

1) (= sense) Geschmack(sinn) m

to be sweet to the taste — süß schmecken, einen süßen Geschmack haben

2) (= flavour) Geschmack m

I don't like the taste — das schmeckt mir nicht

her cooking has no taste — ihr Essen schmeckt nach nichts

a taste of onions — ein Zwiebelgeschmack

to leave a bad taste in the mouth (lit, fig) — einen üblen Nachgeschmack hinterlassen

3) (= small amount) Kostprobe f, Versucherchen nt (inf); (fig, as an example) Kostprobe f; (of sth in the future) Vorgeschmack m

would you like some? – just a taste — möchten Sie etwas? – nur eine Idee

to have a taste (of sth) (lit) — (etw) probieren or kosten; (fig) eine Kostprobe (von etw) bekommen; (of sth to come) einen Vorgeschmack (von etw) haben

two years in the army will give him a taste of discipline —

to give sb a taste of the whip he gave them a taste of his bad temper a taste of what was to come — jdn die Peitsche or Knute spüren lassen er gab ihnen eine (Kost)probe seiner schlechten Laune ein Vorgeschmack dessen, was noch kommen sollte

4) (= liking) Geschmack m no pl

to have a taste for sth — eine Vorliebe für etw haben

to acquire or develop a taste for sth — Geschmack an etw (dat) finden

it's an acquired taste — das ist etwas für Kenner

she has expensive tastes in hats — was Hüte anbelangt, hat sie einen teuren Geschmack

my taste in music has changed over the years — mein musikalischer Geschmack hat sich mit der Zeit geändert

to be to sb's taste — nach jds Geschmack sein

it is a matter of taste — das ist Geschmack(s)sache

there is no accounting for tastes — über Geschmack lässt sich ( nicht) streiten

tastes differ — die Geschmäcker sind verschieden

sweeten to taste (Cook) — nach Geschmack or Bedarf süßen

her novels are too violent for my taste — ihre Romane enthalten für meinen Geschmack zu viel Gewalt

5) (= discernment) Geschmack m

she has very good taste in furniture — was Möbel anbelangt, hat sie einen sehr guten Geschmack

she has no taste at all when it comes to choosing friends — sie ist nicht sehr wählerisch in der Auswahl ihrer Freunde

a man of taste — ein Mann mit Geschmack

in good taste — geschmackvoll

in bad taste — geschmacklos

to be in doubtful taste —

that joke shows very poor taste — dieser Witz ist geschmacklos

the house is furnished in impeccable taste — das Haus ist, was Geschmack betrifft, tadellos eingerichtet

2. vt

1) (= perceive flavour of) schmecken; blood lecken

I can't taste anything —

I can't taste anything wrong — ich kann nichts Besonderes schmecken

once you've tasted real champagne — wenn Sie einmal echten Sekt getrunken haben

I've never tasted caviar — ich habe noch nie Kaviar gekostet (geh) or gegessen

wait till you taste this — warten Sie mal, bis Sie das probiert haben

he hadn't tasted food for a week — er hatte seit einer Woche nichts zu sich genommen

2) (= take a little) versuchen, probieren, kosten

3) (= test) wine verkosten; food products probieren; (official) prüfen

taste the sauce before adding salt — schmecken Sie die Soße ab, bevor Sie Salz beigeben

4) (fig) power, freedom, success, victory erfahren, erleben

once the canary had tasted freedom... — als der Kanarienvogel erst einmal Geschmack an der Freiheit gefunden hatte...

3. vi

1) (food, drink) schmecken

to taste good or nice — (gut) schmecken

it tastes all right to me — ich schmecke nichts

to taste of sth — nach etw schmecken

2)

to taste of (liter) —

those who have tasted of the knowledge of Zen — diejenigen, denen die Weisheit des Zen zuteilgeworden ist (geh)

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taste [teıst]

A v/t

1. Speisen etc kosten, (ab)schmecken, probieren (auch fig): → blood A 1

2. essen, trinken:

he had not tasted food for days er hatte seit Tagen keinen Bissen gegessen

3. a) (in) etwas herausschmecken (aus), etwas schmecken (in dat)

b) etwas schmecken:

I’ve got a cold, I can’t taste anything

4. fig kosten, kennenlernen, erleben, erfahren

5. fig genießen

B v/i

1. schmecken (of nach):

the soup didn’t taste of anything

2. taste of fig riechen oder schmecken nach

3. kosten, versuchen, probieren ( alle:

of von oder akk)

4. taste of fig → A 4

C s

1. Geschmack m, pl auch Geschmacksrichtungen pl:

there was a sour taste in his mouth er hatte einen sauren Geschmack im Mund;

have no (a funny) taste nach nichts (komisch) schmecken;

I have no taste for … … schmeckt oder schmecken mir nicht;

improve the taste of etwas geschmacklich verfeinern;

leave a bad ( oder nasty) taste in one’s mouth bes fig bei jemandem einen üblen Nachgeschmack hinterlassen

2. Geschmack(ssinn) m

3. (Kost) Probe f (of von oder gen):

a) kleiner Bissen, Happen m

b) Schlückchen n:

have a taste of sth etwas kosten oder probieren

4. fig (of) (Kost)Probe f (gen), Vorgeschmack m (von):

give sb (have) a taste of sth

5. fig Beigeschmack m, Anflug m ( beide:

of von)

6. fig (künstlerischer oder guter) Geschmack:

be a man of taste Geschmack haben;

have expensive tastes einen teuren Geschmack haben;

what are your tastes in music? welche Musik mögen Sie?;

each to their taste jeder nach seinem Geschmack;

in bad ( oder poor) taste

a) geschmacklos,

b) weitS. taktlos;

in good taste

a) geschmackvoll,

b) weitS. taktvoll; → account B 3, matter A 3

7. fig Geschmacksrichtung f, Mode f:

today’s tastes pl der Geschmack von heute

8. fig (for)

a) Neigung f (zu), Vorliebe f, Sinn m (für):

a taste for music

b) Geschmack m, Gefallen n (an dat):

that’s not to my taste das ist nicht nach meinem Geschmack;

that’s not to everybody’s taste das ist nicht jedermanns Sache;

have a (no) taste for (keinen) Geschmack finden an

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1. transitive verb
1) schmecken; (try a little) probieren; kosten

2) (recognize flavour of) [heraus]schmecken

3) (fig.): (experience) kosten (geh.) [Macht, Freiheit, [Miss]erfolg, Glück, Niederlage]
2. intransitive verb
1) (have sense of flavour) schmecken

2) (have certain flavour) schmecken (of nach)

not taste of anything — nach nichts schmecken
3. noun
1) (flavour) Geschmack, der

to taste — nach Geschmack [verdünnen]

this dish has no taste — dieses Gericht schmeckt nach nichts

there's a taste of garlic in something — etwas schmeckt nach Knoblauch

leave a nasty/bad etc. taste in the mouth — (lit. or fig.) einen unangenehmen/üblen usw. Nachgeschmack hinterlassen

2) (sense)

[sense of] taste — Geschmack[ssinn], der

3) (discernment) Geschmack, der

taste in art/music — Kunst-/Musikgeschmack, der

have good taste in clothes — sich geschmackvoll kleiden

it would be bad taste to do that — es wäre geschmacklos, das zu tun

in good/bad taste — geschmackvoll/geschmacklos

4) (sample, lit. or fig.) Kostprobe, die

have a taste of — probieren [Speise, Getränk]; kennen lernen [Freiheit, jemandes Jähzorn, Arroganz]

give somebody a taste of something — (lit. or fig.) jemandem eine Kostprobe einer Sache (Gen.) geben

5) (liking) Geschmack, der (in für)

have a/no taste for something — an etwas (Dat.) Geschmack/keinen Geschmack finden

have expensive tastes in clothes — etc. eine Vorliebe für teure Kleidung usw. haben

be/not be to somebody's taste — nach jemandes/nicht nach jemandes Geschmack sein

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n.

Geschmack m.

Kostprobe f. (of) v.

kosten v.

schmecken (nach) v. v.

kosten (Essen) v.

schmecken v.

English-german dictionary > taste
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teist
1. verb
1) (to be aware of, or recognize, the flavour of something: I can taste ginger in this cake.) notar/sentir el sabor

2) (to test or find out the flavour or quality of (food etc) by eating or drinking a little of it: Please taste this and tell me if it is too sweet.) probar, degustar

3) (to have a particular flavour or other quality that is noticed through the act of tasting: This milk tastes sour; The sauce tastes of garlic.) saber (a)

4) (to eat (food) especially with enjoyment: I haven't tasted such a beautiful curry for ages.) saborear

5) (to experience: He tasted the delights of country life.) experimentar, probar, conocer

2. noun
1) (one of the five senses, the sense by which we are aware of flavour: one's sense of taste; bitter to the taste.) gusto, paladar

2) (the quality or flavour of anything that is known through this sense: This wine has an unusual taste.) sabor, gusto

3) (an act of tasting or a small quantity of food etc for tasting: Do have a taste of this cake!) prueba, degustación

4) (a liking or preference: a taste for music; a queer taste in books; expensive tastes.) gusto por, afición

5) (the ability to judge what is suitable in behaviour, dress etc or what is fine and beautiful: She shows good taste in clothes; a man of taste; That joke was in good/bad taste.) gusto

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taste¹ n

1. gusto

he has terrible taste in clothes tiene muy mal gusto para vestirse

2. gusto / sabor

this yoghurt has a funny taste este yogur tiene un sabor raro

taste² vb

1. probar

would you like to taste my fish? ¿quieres probar mi pescado?

2. saber / tener un sabor

this chocolate tastes of almonds este chocolate sabe a almendras

El gerundio de taste se escribe tasting

taste

tr[teɪst]

noun

1 (faculty) gusto

2 (flavour) sabor nombre masculino

■ it's got a sweet taste tiene un sabor dulce

■ it is sweet to the taste es dulce al paladar

■ this cheese hasn't got much taste este queso no tiene sabor

■ this fish's got a strange taste to it este pescado tiene un gusto raro

■ it's an acquired taste es un gusto adquirido

3 (small sample) muestra, poquito; (experience) experiencia

■ have a taste of this cake prueba este pastel

■ she had a taste of independence conoció la independencia

4 (ability to make good judgements) gusto; (liking) afición nombre femenino ( for, a), gusto ( for, por)

■ he's got good taste in clothes tiene muy buen gusto para vestirse

■ pop music is not to my taste la música pop no es de mi gusto

transitive verb

1 (try food) probar; (wine) catar, degustar

2 (eat, drink) probar

■ this is the most delicious cake I've ever tasted es el pastel más delicioso que he probado

3 (experience) conocer

4 (perceive flavour) notar

■ you can taste the pepper in this stew se nota la pimienta en este estofado

intransitive verb

1 saber (of/like, a)

■ what does it taste like? ¿a qué sabe?

■ it tastes bitter tiene un gusto amargo, sabe a amargo

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

to be in bad/poor taste ser de mal gusto

to be in good taste ser de buen gusto

to give somebody a taste of their own medicine pagar a alguien con la misma moneda, darle a alguien de su medicina

to leave a nasty taste in the mouth dejar un mal sabor de boca

to taste al gusto

taste bud papila gustativa

taste ['teɪst] v, tasted ; tasting vt

: probar (alimentos), degustar, catar (vinos)

taste this soup: prueba esta sopa

taste vi

: saber

this tastes good: esto sabe bueno

taste n

1) sample: prueba f, bocado m (de comida), trago m (de bebidas)

2) flavor: gusto m, sabor m

3) : gusto m

she has good taste: tiene buen gusto

in bad taste: de mal gusto

taste

n.

• boca s.f.

• embocadura s.f.

• gustación s.f.

• gusto s.m.

• muestra s.f.

• paladar s.m.

• regosto s.m.

• sabor s.m.

• sazón s.f.

• sorbo s.m. (Food, drink)

v.

• probar (Comida, bebida) v.

v.

• ensayar v.

• gustar v.

• libar v.

• notar un gusto de v.

• paladear v.

• saber (Tener sabor) v.

• saborear v.

teɪst
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noun

1) u

a) ( flavor) sabor m, gusto m

a strong taste of garlic — un fuerte sabor or gusto a ajo

it has no taste — no sabe a nada

the sweet taste of freedom/success — el dulce sabor de la libertad/del éxito

to leave a bad taste in the mouth — dejarle a alguien (un) mal sabor de boca

b) ( sense) gusto m

2) (no pl)

a) (sample, small amount)

can I have a taste of your ice cream? — ¿me dejas probar tu helado?

b) ( experience)

we got a taste of what was to come — fue un anticipo de lo que nos esperaba

it was their first taste of democracy — era su primera experiencia de la democracia

a taste of one's own medicine: I'll give her a taste of her own medicine — la voy a tratar como ella trata a los demás, le voy a dar una sopa de su propio chocolate (Méx)

3) c u ( liking) gusto m

a taste (FOR something): if you have a taste for adventure... si te gusta la aventura...; to be to one's taste ser* de su (or mi etc) gusto; it's not to everyone's taste no le gusta a todo el mundo, no es del gusto de todo el mundo; add salt to taste añadir sal a voluntad or al gusto; there's no accounting for taste — sobre gustos no hay nada escrito

4) u ( judgment) gusto m

she has excellent taste in clothes — tiene un gusto excelente para vestirse, se viste con muy buen gusto

in bad taste — de mal gusto

in extremely poor taste — de pésimo gusto

II
1.

transitive verb

a) ( test flavor of) \<\<food/wine\>\> probar*

b) ( test quality of) \<\<food\>\> degustar; \<\<wine\>\> catar

c) ( perceive flavor)

I can't taste the sherry in the soup — la sopa no me sabe a jerez, no le siento gusto a jerez a la sopa (AmL)

d) ( eat) comer, probar*

he hadn't tasted food for six days — llevaba seis días sin probar bocado or sin comer nada

e) ( experience) \<\<happiness/freedom\>\> conocer*, disfrutar de

2.

vi saber*

it tastes bitter — tiene (un) sabor or gusto amargo, sabe amargo

this tastes delicious — esto está delicioso or riquísimo

to taste OF something — saber* a algo

[teɪst]
1. N

1) (=sense) gusto m

• a keen sense of taste — un agudo sentido del gusto

• it's quite sweet to the taste — tiene un gusto bastante dulce al paladar

2) (=flavour) sabor m, gusto m

it has an odd taste — tiene un sabor or gusto raro

• to leave a bad or nasty taste in the mouth — (fig) dejar mal sabor de boca

his jokes leave a bad or nasty taste in the mouth — sus chistes te dejan mal sabor de boca

• it has no taste — no sabe a nada, no tiene sabor

3) (=small amount)

"more wine?" - "just a taste" — -¿más vino? -solo un poco or un poquito

would you like a taste? — ¿quieres probarlo?

may I have a taste? — ¿puedo probarlo?

- give sb a taste of their own medicine

- get a taste of one's own medicine

4) (=experience) experiencia f; (=sample) muestra f

it was her first taste of freedom — fue su primera experiencia de la libertad or su primer contacto con la libertad

we got a taste of his anger — nos ofreció una muestra de su enfado

now that she has had a taste of stardom, she won't ever be content with ordinariness again — ahora que ha probado las mieles del estrellato or saboreado el estrellato, nunca más se conformará con lo normal y corriente

he's had a taste of prison — ha conocido or probado la cárcel

• to give sb a taste of sth — dar una idea de algo a algn

it gave him a taste of military life — le dio una idea de lo que era la vida militar

• it was a taste of things to come — era una muestra de lo que estaba por venir

5) (=liking) gusto m

tastes differ — los gustos cambian

• he was a man of catholic tastes — era un hombre de gustos variados

• a taste for sth, to acquire or develop a taste for sth — tomarle gusto a algo

it gave him a taste for reading — esto hizo que le tomara gusto a la lectura

she has a taste for adventure — le gusta la aventura

• we have the same tastes in music — tenemos el mismo gusto para la música

he has expensive tastes in cars — en cuanto a coches, tiene gustos caros

• season to taste — (Culin) sazonar al gusto

it's not to my taste — no es de mi gusto

is it to your taste? — ¿le gusta?, ¿es de su gusto?

- there's no accounting for taste
acquired
6) (=discernment) gusto m

people of taste — la gente con gusto

• to be in bad taste — ser de mal gusto

it would be in bad taste to meet without him — sería de mal gusto reunirnos sin él, reunirnos sin él sería hacerle un desprecio or un feo

• she has very good taste — tiene muy buen gusto

his taste in clothes is extremely good — viste con muchísimo gusto

I don't think that remark was in very good taste — no me pareció un comentario de muy buen gusto

• to have taste — [person] tener gusto

to have no taste — [person] no tener gusto

• the house is furnished in impeccable taste — la casa está amueblada con muchísimo gusto or con un gusto exquisito

• to be in poor taste — ser de mal gusto

2. VT

1) (=sample) [+ food, drink] probar; (at tasting) degustar, catar

just taste this — pruebe esto
wine
2) (=perceive flavour of)

I can't taste the rum in this — no noto el sabor del ron en esto, esto apenas me sabe a ron

I can't taste anything when I have a cold — la comida no me sabe a nada cuando estoy resfriado

3) (=eat) comer, probar

I haven't tasted salmon for years — hace años que no como salmón or pruebo el salmón

he had not tasted food for a week — llevaba una semana sin probar bocado

4) (=experience) [+ success, power] saborear; [+ poverty, loneliness] conocer

3.

VI (=have flavour) saber

the brandy tasted bitter — el brandy sabía amargo, el brandy tenía un sabor or un gusto amargo

it tastes good — está rico or bueno

it tastes all right to me — a mí me sabe bien

it tastes horrible — tiene un sabor horrible, sabe horrible or a rayos *

• to taste like sth — saber a algo

the meat tasted like chicken — la carne sabía a pollo

• to taste of sth — saber a algo

what does it taste of? — ¿a qué sabe?

4.

CPD

taste bud N — papila f gustativa

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[teɪst]
I

noun

1) u

a) ( flavor) sabor m, gusto m

a strong taste of garlic — un fuerte sabor or gusto a ajo

it has no taste — no sabe a nada

the sweet taste of freedom/success — el dulce sabor de la libertad/del éxito

to leave a bad taste in the mouth — dejarle a alguien (un) mal sabor de boca

b) ( sense) gusto m

2) (no pl)

a) (sample, small amount)

can I have a taste of your ice cream? — ¿me dejas probar tu helado?

b) ( experience)

we got a taste of what was to come — fue un anticipo de lo que nos esperaba

it was their first taste of democracy — era su primera experiencia de la democracia

a taste of one's own medicine: I'll give her a taste of her own medicine — la voy a tratar como ella trata a los demás, le voy a dar una sopa de su propio chocolate (Méx)

3) c u ( liking) gusto m

a taste (FOR something): if you have a taste for adventure... si te gusta la aventura...; to be to one's taste ser* de su (or mi etc) gusto; it's not to everyone's taste no le gusta a todo el mundo, no es del gusto de todo el mundo; add salt to taste añadir sal a voluntad or al gusto; there's no accounting for taste — sobre gustos no hay nada escrito

4) u ( judgment) gusto m

she has excellent taste in clothes — tiene un gusto excelente para vestirse, se viste con muy buen gusto

in bad taste — de mal gusto

in extremely poor taste — de pésimo gusto

II
1.

transitive verb

a) ( test flavor of) \<\<food/wine\>\> probar*

b) ( test quality of) \<\<food\>\> degustar; \<\<wine\>\> catar

c) ( perceive flavor)

I can't taste the sherry in the soup — la sopa no me sabe a jerez, no le siento gusto a jerez a la sopa (AmL)

d) ( eat) comer, probar*

he hadn't tasted food for six days — llevaba seis días sin probar bocado or sin comer nada

e) ( experience) \<\<happiness/freedom\>\> conocer*, disfrutar de

2.

vi saber*

it tastes bitter — tiene (un) sabor or gusto amargo, sabe amargo

this tastes delicious — esto está delicioso or riquísimo

to taste OF something — saber* a algo

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6 taste

taste [teɪst]

1. noun

goût m

• it left a nasty taste in his mouth ça lui a laissé un mauvais goût dans la bouche ; (figurative) ça lui a laissé un goût amer

• to have (good) taste avoir du goût

• he has no taste il n'a aucun goût

• in good/bad taste de bon/mauvais goût

• the house is furnished in impeccable taste la maison est meublée avec beaucoup de goût

• to have a taste of sth [+ food] goûter (à) qch ; [+ power, freedom] goûter à qch

• would you like a taste (of it)? voulez-vous (y) goûter ?

• I gave him a taste of the wine je lui ai fait goûter le vin

• it gave him a taste of military life cela lui a donné un aperçu de la vie militaire

• to give sb a taste of his own medicine rendre à qn la monnaie de sa pièce

• it was a taste of things to come c'était un avant-goût de l'avenir

• to have a taste for... avoir un penchant pour...

• to develop a taste for... prendre goût à...

• sweeten to taste sucrer à volonté

• it's a matter of taste c'est affaire de goût

• there's no accounting for taste des goûts et des couleurs on ne discute pas

• her novels are too violent for my taste ses romans sont trop violents à mon goût

• his taste in music ses goûts musicaux

• she has expensive tastes elle a des goûts de luxe

2. transitive verb

a. ( = perceive flavour of) sentir (le goût de)

• I can't taste the garlic je ne sens pas le goût de l'ail

• I can't taste anything when I have a cold je trouve tout insipide quand j'ai un rhume

b. ( = sample) [+ food, drink, power, freedom] goûter à ; (to test) [+ food] goûter ; [+ wine] (at table) goûter ; (at wine-tasting) déguster

• just taste this! goûtez-moi ça !

• I have never tasted snails je n'ai jamais mangé d'escargots

3. intransitive verb

• to taste bitter avoir un goût amer

• to taste good avoir bon goût

• to taste of sth avoir un goût de qch

• it doesn't taste of anything in particular cela n'a pas de goût spécial

4. compounds

► taste bud noun papille f gustative

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[teɪst] 1.
noun

1) (sensation, sense) goût m

to leave a bad ou nasty taste in the mouth — lit, fig laisser un arrière-goût

have a taste of this — goûtes-en un peu

add just a taste of brandy — ajoutez une goutte de cognac

2) ( brief experience) gen expérience f; ( foretaste) avant-goût m

a taste of life in a big city — un aperçu de la vie dans une grande ville

3) (liking, preference) goût m

to acquire ou develop a taste for something — prendre goût à quelque chose

is this to your taste? — est-ce que ceci vous convient?

there's no accounting for tastes — chacun ses goûts

add salt to taste — saler à volonté

4) (sense of beauty, appropriateness) goût m

she has exquisite taste in clothes — elle s'habille avec un goût exquis

that's a matter of taste — ça dépend des goûts

it would be in bad ou poor taste to do — ce serait de mauvais goût de faire
2.
transitive verb

1) ( perceive flavour) sentir (le goût de)

2) ( try) goûter

3) fig ( experience) goûter à [freedom, success, power]; connaître [failure, hardship]
3.
intransitive verb ( have flavour)

to taste sweet — avoir un goût sucré

to taste horrible — avoir mauvais goût

the milk tastes off to me — je crois que ce lait est tourné

to taste like something — avoir le goût de quelque chose

it tastes of pineapple — cela a un goût d'ananas

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7 work out

1) (to solve or calculate correctly: I can't work out how many should be left.) calcular

2) (to come to a satisfactory end: Don't worry - it will all work out (in the end).) solucionar, resolver

3) (to perform physical exercises.) hacer ejercicio

work out vb

1. salir bien

don't worry, everything will work out no te preocupes, todo saldrá bien

2. calcular

work out how much it costs calcula cuánto cuesta

work out vt

1) develop, plan: idear, planear, desarrollar

2) resolve: solucionar, resolver

to work out the answer: calcular la solución

work out vi

1) turn out: resultar

2) succeed: lograr, dar resultado, salir bien

3) exercise: hacer ejercicio

work out

v.

• desarrollar v.

Sense I

1) v + adv

a) ( turn out) salir*, resultar

to work out well/badly — salir* or resultar bien/mal

to work out at something: it works out at $75 a head — sale (a) 75 dólares por cabeza

b) ( be successful) \<\<plan\>\> salir* bien

2) (train, exercise) ( Sport) hacer* ejercicio

Sense II

3) v + o + adv, v + adv + o

a) ( solve) \<\<sum\>\> hacer*; \<\<riddle/puzzle\>\> resolver*

things will work themselves out — las cosas se arreglarán solas

they've got to work things out for themselves — tienen que resolver las cosas por sí mismos

b) (find, calculate) \<\<percentage/probability\>\> calcular

have you worked out the answer? — ¿lo has resuelto?

c) ( understand) entender*

I couldn't work out what he meant — no lograba entender qué quería decir

4) (devise, determine) \<\<solution\>\> idear, encontrar*; \<\<plan\>\> elaborar, idear; \<\<procedure\>\> idear, desarrollar

we've worked out a deal with the unions — hemos llegado a un acuerdo con los sindicatos

the details still have to be worked out — todavía falta finalizar los detalles

I've got to work out what to do with the money — tengo que decidir qué hacer con el dinero

to have it all worked out — tenerlo* todo resuelto or planeado

5) ( complete) \<\<prison sentence\>\> cumplir

to work out one's notice — trabajar hasta el final del período de preaviso

1. VT + ADV

1) (=calculate) [+ cost, profit] calcular; [+ answer] encontrar

I worked it out in my head — lo calculé mentalmente

2) (=solve) [+ problem] resolver

things will work themselves out — al final, todo saldrá bien or se solucionará

3) (=devise) idear

to work out a plan — idear or frm urdir un plan

4) (=understand) lograr entender

I just couldn't work it out — no lograba entenderlo

can you work out where we are on the map? — ¿puedes determinar or averiguar dónde estamos en el mapa?

I can't work him out * — no puedo entenderle

5) (=exhaust) [+ mine, land] agotar

6) (in job)

to work out one's notice — trabajar hasta que se acabe el tiempo de preaviso

7) (=get rid of) [+ anger, frustration] librarse de

2. VI + ADV

1) (=allow solution) resolverse

it doesn't work out — [sum] no sale

2) (=amount to)

the cost worked out at five pounds — los costos ascendieron a cinco libras

how much does it work out at? — ¿cuánto suma?, ¿a cuánto sale?

it works out at ten pounds each — sale a diez libras esterlinas por persona

gas heating would work out cheaper — la calefacción de gas saldría más barata

3) (=succeed) salir bien

I hope it will work out well — espero que salga bien

everything worked out well — todo or la cosa salió bien

how did it work out? — ¿qué tal salió?

it hasn't worked out that way — no ha sido así

4) (=exercise) hacer ejercicio

I work out twice a week — hago ejercicio dos veces a la semana

* * *

Sense I

1) v + adv

a) ( turn out) salir*, resultar

to work out well/badly — salir* or resultar bien/mal

to work out at something: it works out at $75 a head — sale (a) 75 dólares por cabeza

b) ( be successful) \<\<plan\>\> salir* bien

2) (train, exercise) ( Sport) hacer* ejercicio

Sense II

3) v + o + adv, v + adv + o

a) ( solve) \<\<sum\>\> hacer*; \<\<riddle/puzzle\>\> resolver*

things will work themselves out — las cosas se arreglarán solas

they've got to work things out for themselves — tienen que resolver las cosas por sí mismos

b) (find, calculate) \<\<percentage/probability\>\> calcular

have you worked out the answer? — ¿lo has resuelto?

c) ( understand) entender*

I couldn't work out what he meant — no lograba entender qué quería decir

4) (devise, determine) \<\<solution\>\> idear, encontrar*; \<\<plan\>\> elaborar, idear; \<\<procedure\>\> idear, desarrollar

we've worked out a deal with the unions — hemos llegado a un acuerdo con los sindicatos

the details still have to be worked out — todavía falta finalizar los detalles

I've got to work out what to do with the money — tengo que decidir qué hacer con el dinero

to have it all worked out — tenerlo* todo resuelto or planeado

5) ( complete) \<\<prison sentence\>\> cumplir

to work out one's notice — trabajar hasta el final del período de preaviso

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8 taste

taste

A n

1 ( flavour) gen goût m ; ( pleasant) saveur f ; a strong taste of garlic un fort goût d'ail ; a delicate taste une saveur délicate ; to leave a bad ou nasty taste in the mouth lit laisser un goût déplaisant dans la bouche ; fig laisser un arrière-goût d'amertume ; it leaves a nasty taste in the mouth fig cela laisse de l'amertume or du degoût ; I was left with a nasty taste in the mouth fig j'en ai gardé de l'amertume ;

2 ( sense) le goût m ; the sense of taste le sens du goût ; to be bitter/sweet to the taste avoir un goût amer/sucré ; this cold has taken my (sense of) taste away avec ce rhume je ne sens plus le goût de rien ;

3 ( small quantity) petit peu m ; have a taste of this goûtes-en un peu ; add just a taste of brandy ajoutez une goutte de cognac ;

4 fig ( brief experience) gen expérience f, aperçu m ; ( foretaste) avant-goût m ; a taste of life in a big city un aperçu de la vie dans une grande ville ; they were experiencing their first taste of sth c'était leur première expérience de qch ; this was just a taste of the violence to come ce n'était qu'un avant-goût de la violence qui allait suivre ; a taste of things to come un avant-goût de l'avenir ; the taste of freedom le goût de la liberté ; she's not used to the taste of defeat/success elle n'est pas habituée à (l'idée de) l'échec/la réussite ;

5 (liking, preference) goût m ; to acquire ou develop a taste for sth prendre goût à qch ; he has strange tastes ou a strange taste in music/clothes etc il a des goûts bizarres en matière de musique/de vêtements etc ; it wasn't to her taste ce n'était pas à son goût ; is this to your taste? est-ce que ceci vous convient? ; it was too violent for my taste(s) c'était trop violent pour mon goût ; the resort has something to suit all tastes la station convient à tous les goûts ; sweeten/add salt to taste sucrer/saler à volonté ;

6 (sense of beauty, appropriateness, etc) goût m ; she has exquisite/awful taste in clothes elle s'habille avec un goût exquis/épouvantable ; to have good taste in sth avoir (bon) goût en matière de qch ; the room had been furnished in ou with excellent taste la pièce avait été meublée avec beaucoup de goût ; the joke was in poor taste la plaisanterie était de mauvais goût ; that's a matter of taste ça dépend des goûts ; it would be in bad ou poor taste to do ce serait de mauvais goût de faire.

B vtr

1 ( perceive flavour) sentir (le goût de) ; I can taste the brandy in this coffee je sens le (goût du) cognac dans ce café ; I can't taste a thing with this cold je trouve que rien n'a de goût avec ce rhume ;

2 ( eat or drink) ( to test flavour) goûter ; would you like to taste the wine? voulez-vous goûter le vin? ; that's the best stew/coffee I've ever tasted c'est le meilleur ragoût que j'ai jamais mangé/le meilleur café que j'ai jamais bu ; he's never tasted meat il n'a jamais mangé de viande ;

3 fig ( experience) goûter à, connaître [freedom, success, power] ; connaître [failure, defeat, hardship].

C vi

1 ( have flavour) to taste sweet/salty avoir un goût sucré/salé ; to taste good/horrible avoir bon/mauvais goût ; the milk tastes off to me je crois que ce lait est tourné ; to taste like sth avoir le goût de qch ; what does it taste like? quel goût cela a-t-il? ; to taste of sth avoir un goût de qch ; it tastes of pineapple cela a un goût d'ananas ;

2 ( perceive flavour) avoir du goût ; I can't taste j'ai perdu le goût.

Idiom

there's no accounting for tastes! chacun ses goûts. ⇒ medicine.

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9 taste

teɪst
1. сущ.
1) а) вкус (как одно из чувств, как само ощущение, как свойство чего-л., чему присуще такое ощущение) to leave a taste ≈ оставить какой-л. вкус The fruit left a pleasant taste in my mouth. ≈ Во рту остался приятный вкус от фрукта. The whole affair left a bitter taste in my mouth. ≈ В душе остался неприятный осадок от всего происшедшего. bitter taste ≈ горький вкус/привкус mild taste ≈ мягкий вкус/привкус nice taste, pleasant taste, sweet taste ≈ приятный вкус/привкус sour taste ≈ кислый вкус/привкус strong taste ≈ сильный привкус, стойкий вкус/привкус б) немного, чуточку, так, чтобы попробовать;
перен. представление, первое знакомство( с чем-л.) Give me a taste of the pudding. ≈ Дайте мне кусочек пудинга. to have a taste of skin-diving ≈ иметь представление о плавании под водой
2) а) вкус, понимание;
манера, стиль to acquire, cultivate, develop a taste ≈ прививать вкус, развивать вкус to demonstrate, display, show a taste ≈ проявить вкус, продемонстрировать вкус to develop a taste for music ≈ развивать любовь к музыке They showed good taste in planning the decor. ≈ Они показали хороший вкус в оформлении помещений. Everything was done in good taste. ≈ Все было сделано со вкусом. acquired taste ≈ приобретенный вкус artistic taste ≈ артистические наклонности bad taste ≈ безвкусица, дурной тон discriminating taste, elegant taste, excellent taste, exquisite taste, good taste ≈ тонкий вкус, хороший вкус Baroque taste ≈ стиль барокко б) склонность, пристрастие( for - к чему-л.)
2. гл.
1) а) (по) пробовать (на вкус), отведать to taste of danger ≈ подвергнуться опасности б) различать на вкус в) иметь вкус, привкус the food taste s of garlic ≈ в пище чувствуется привкус чеснока the food tastes good ≈ вкусная еда
2) перен. пережить, испытать, вкусить ∙ taste of вкус (чувство) - keen *, keen sense of * обостренная способность чувствовать вкус (пищи) - out of * неспособный различить вкус - nice to the * приятный на вкус - to add pepper to * добавить перца по вкусу вкус (свойство пищи) - sweet * сладкий вкус - сhocolate * вкус шоколада - to have a nice * быть приятным на вкус - to have no * быть безвкусным - to leave a bad * in the mouth оставить дурной вкус во рту;
оставить неприятное впечатление;
вызвать отвращение - to distinguish types of oranges by their * различать апельсины по вкусу вкус, понимание - true * безошибочный вкус - a man of * человек со вкусом - an education in * воспитание вкуса - in (good) *, with * со вкусом - in bad * безвкусно - to dress in good * одеваться со вкусом - to have a fine * in pictures тонко разбираться в живописи - to smb.'s * в чьем-л. вкусе - not at all to my * совсем не в моем вкусе - he found it to his * это пришлось ему по вкусу - this is a matter of * это дело вкуса - *s differ, there is no accounting for *s, everyone to his * о вкусах не спорят;
у каждого свой вкус такт - in bad * бестактно, неуместно - the remark was in bad * замечание было неуместным - it would be in bad * to refuse отказываться неудобно, отказ был бы бестактностью склонность;
влечение, пристрастие - to have a * for smth. иметь склонность к чему-л. - to acquire a * for smth. пристрститься к чему-л. - to follow one's natural *s удовлетворять свои природные склонности;
следовать своим естествденным влечениям - suit your own * делай, как тебе хочется стиль, манера - in the Moorish * в мавританском стиле проба;
глоточек;
кусочек - to have just a * of smth. попробовать что-л. - to have a * of claret (только) пригубить бордо - won't you have a * of this cake? попробуйте этого пирога немного, чуточка;
примесь, привкус - not a * of food in the house в доме не крошки - there was a * of irritation in his remark в его замечании сквозило раздражение представление;
образчик - to get a * of smb.'s skill получить предствление о чьем-л. мастерстве - give him a * of the whip дай ему отведать кнута - he has already had a * of prison он уже отведал тюрьмы, ону уже знает, что такое тюрьма;
он уже побывал за решеткой кухня, набор национальных блюд - the * of France французская кухня (устаревшее) проба, опробование пробовать, отведать - won't you * this jam? отведайте этого варенья дегустировать - to * wines дегустировать вина иметь вкус - to * sour быть кислым на вкус - to * of nothing at all быть соврешенно безвкусным - it *s like gin по вкусу похоже на джин иметь привкус;
отдавать( чем-л.) - to * of garlic отдавать чесноком различать на вкус - to * pepper in the dressing чувствовать перец в приправе чувствовать вкус - I have a bad cold and cannot * из-за насморка я не чувствую вкуса (пищи) есть, пить( особ. немного) - not to * ничего не попробовать, ничего не съесть - he hasn't *d food for two days два дня у него маковой росинки во рту не было - the children barely *d their breakfast дети почти не прикоснулись к завтраку (устаревшее) отведать, откушать - to * the joys of freedom вкусить счастье свободной жизни - to * power узнать вкус власти( устаревшее) вкусить, познакомиться;
испытать, познать на своем опыте - to fame вкусить славы - to * of danger подвергнуться опасности - to * of death посмотреть смерти в глаза содержать в себе элемент( чего-л.) ;
отдавать;
чувствоваться - a sharp word that *s of envy резкие слова, в которых чувствуется зависть( редкое) придавать вкус( устаревшее) иметь вкус, склонность > to * blood испытать новое чувство;
испытать острое наслаждение ~ манера, стиль;
the Baroque taste стиль барокко consumer ~ потребительский вкус taste вкус, понимание;
to dress in good (bad) taste одеваться со вкусом (безвкусно) ~ немного, чуточка;
кусочек, глоточек (на пробу) ;
give me a taste of the pudding дайте мне кусочек пудинга to have a ~ for music иметь склонность к музыке;
tastes differ, there is no accounting for tastes о вкусах не спорят ~ представление;
первое знакомство (с чем-л.) ;
to have a taste of skindiving иметь представление о плавании под водой to leave a bad ~ in the mouth оставить дурной вкус во рту;
перен. оставить неприятное впечатление ~ склонность, пристрастие (for - к чему-л.) ;
she has expensive tastes in clothes она любит носить дорогие вещи ~ иметь вкус, привкус;
to taste sour быть кислым на вкус, иметь кислый вкус;
the soup tastes of onions в супе (очень) чувствуется лук ~ вкус (чувство) ;
sour to the taste кислый на вкус taste вкус, понимание;
to dress in good (bad) taste одеваться со вкусом (безвкусно) ~ вкус (отличительная особенность пищи) ;
this medicine has no taste это лекарство безвкусно ~ вкус (чувство) ;
sour to the taste кислый на вкус ~ вкус ~ иметь вкус, привкус;
to taste sour быть кислым на вкус, иметь кислый вкус;
the soup tastes of onions в супе (очень) чувствуется лук ~ манера, стиль;
the Baroque taste стиль барокко ~ немного, чуточка;
кусочек, глоточек (на пробу) ;
give me a taste of the pudding дайте мне кусочек пудинга ~ представление;
первое знакомство (с чем-л.) ;
to have a taste of skindiving иметь представление о плавании под водой ~ (по) пробовать (на вкус) ;
отведать;
перен. вкусить, испытать;
to taste of danger книжн. подвергнуться опасности ~ различать на вкус ~ склонность, пристрастие (for - к чему-л.) ;
she has expensive tastes in clothes она любит носить дорогие вещи ~ (по) пробовать (на вкус) ;
отведать;
перен. вкусить, испытать;
to taste of danger книжн. подвергнуться опасности ~ иметь вкус, привкус;
to taste sour быть кислым на вкус, иметь кислый вкус;
the soup tastes of onions в супе (очень) чувствуется лук to have a ~ for music иметь склонность к музыке;
tastes differ, there is no accounting for tastes о вкусах не спорят to have a ~ for music иметь склонность к музыке;
tastes differ, there is no accounting for tastes о вкусах не спорят ~ вкус (отличительная особенность пищи) ;
this medicine has no taste это лекарство безвкусно

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > taste
10 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
11 Empire, Portuguese overseas

(1415-1975)

   Portugal was the first Western European state to establish an early modern overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean and perhaps the last colonial power to decolonize. A vast subject of complexity that is full of myth as well as debatable theories, the history of the Portuguese overseas empire involves the story of more than one empire, the question of imperial motives, the nature of Portuguese rule, and the results and consequences of empire, including the impact on subject peoples as well as on the mother country and its society, Here, only the briefest account of a few such issues can be attempted.

   There were various empires or phases of empire after the capture of the Moroccan city of Ceuta in 1415. There were at least three Portuguese empires in history: the First empire (1415-1580), the Second empire (1580-1640 and 1640-1822), and the Third empire (1822-1975).

   With regard to the second empire, the so-called Phillipine period (1580-1640), when Portugal's empire was under Spanish domination, could almost be counted as a separate era. During that period, Portugal lost important parts of its Asian holdings to England and also sections of its colonies of Brazil, Angola, and West Africa to Holland's conquests. These various empires could be characterized by the geography of where Lisbon invested its greatest efforts and resources to develop territories and ward off enemies.

   The first empire (1415-1580) had two phases. First came the African coastal phase (1415-97), when the Portuguese sought a foothold in various Moroccan cities but then explored the African coast from Morocco to past the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. While colonization and sugar farming were pursued in the Atlantic islands, as well as in the islands in the Gulf of Guinea like São Tomé and Príncipe, for the most part the Portuguese strategy was to avoid commitments to defending or peopling lands on the African continent. Rather, Lisbon sought a seaborne trade empire, in which the Portuguese could profit from exploiting trade and resources (such as gold) along the coasts and continue exploring southward to seek a sea route to Portuguese India. The second phase of the first empire (1498-1580) began with the discovery of the sea route to Asia, thanks to Vasco da Gama's first voyage in 1497-99, and the capture of strong points, ports, and trading posts in order to enforce a trade monopoly between Asia and Europe. This Asian phase produced the greatest revenues of empire Portugal had garnered, yet ended when Spain conquered Portugal and commanded her empire as of 1580.

   Portugal's second overseas empire began with Spanish domination and ran to 1822, when Brazil won her independence from Portugal. This phase was characterized largely by Brazilian dominance of imperial commitment, wealth in minerals and other raw materials from Brazil, and the loss of a significant portion of her African and Asian coastal empire to Holland and Great Britain. A sketch of Portugal's imperial losses either to native rebellions or to imperial rivals like Britain and Holland follows:

   • Morocco (North Africa) (sample only)

   Arzila—Taken in 1471; evacuated in 1550s; lost to Spain in 1580, which returned city to a sultan.

   Ceuta—Taken in 1415; lost to Spain in 1640 (loss confirmed in 1668 treaty with Spain).

   • Tangiers—Taken in 15th century; handed over to England in 1661 as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry to King Charles II.

   • West Africa

   • Fort/Castle of São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (in what is now Ghana)—Taken in 1480s; lost to Holland in 1630s.

   • Middle East

   Socotra-isle—Conquered in 1507; fort abandoned in 1511; used as water resupply stop for India fleet.

   Muscat—Conquered in 1501; lost to Persians in 1650.

   Ormuz—Taken, 1505-15 under Albuquerque; lost to England, which gave it to Persia in the 17th century.

   Aden (entry to Red Sea) — Unsuccessfully attacked by Portugal (1513-30); taken by Turks in 1538.

   • India

   • Ceylon (Sri Lanka)—Taken by 1516; lost to Dutch after 1600.

   • Bombay—Taken in 16th century; given to England in 1661 treaty as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry for Charles II.

   • East Indies

   • Moluccas—Taken by 1520; possession confirmed in 1529 Saragossa treaty with Spain; lost to Dutch after 1600; only East Timor remaining.

   After the restoration of Portuguese independence from Spain in 1640, Portugal proceeded to revive and strengthen the Anglo- Portuguese Alliance, with international aid to fight off further Spanish threats to Portugal and drive the Dutch invaders out of Brazil and Angola. While Portugal lost its foothold in West Africa at Mina to the Dutch, dominion in Angola was consolidated. The most vital part of the imperial economy was a triangular trade: slaves from West Africa and from the coasts of Congo and Angola were shipped to plantations in Brazil; raw materials (sugar, tobacco, gold, diamonds, dyes) were sent to Lisbon; Lisbon shipped Brazil colonists and hardware. Part of Portugal's War of Restoration against Spain (1640-68) and its reclaiming of Brazil and Angola from Dutch intrusions was financed by the New Christians (Jews converted to Christianity after the 1496 Manueline order of expulsion of Jews) who lived in Portugal, Holland and other low countries, France, and Brazil. If the first empire was mainly an African coastal and Asian empire, the second empire was primarily a Brazilian empire.

   Portugal's third overseas empire began upon the traumatic independence of Brazil, the keystone of the Lusitanian enterprise, in 1822. The loss of Brazil greatly weakened Portugal both as a European power and as an imperial state, for the scattered remainder of largely coastal, poor, and uncolonized territories that stretched from the bulge of West Africa to East Timor in the East Indies and Macau in south China were more of a financial liability than an asset. Only two small territories balanced their budgets occasionally or made profits: the cocoa islands of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea and tiny Macau, which lost much of its advantage as an entrepot between the West and the East when the British annexed neighboring Hong Kong in 1842. The others were largely burdens on the treasury. The African colonies were strapped by a chronic economic problem: at a time when the slave trade and then slavery were being abolished under pressures from Britain and other Western powers, the economies of Guinea- Bissau, São Tomé/Príncipe, Angola, and Mozambique were totally dependent on revenues from the slave trade and slavery. During the course of the 19th century, Lisbon began a program to reform colonial administration in a newly rejuvenated African empire, where most of the imperial efforts were expended, by means of replacing the slave trade and slavery, with legitimate economic activities.

   Portugal participated in its own early version of the "Scramble" for Africa's interior during 1850-69, but discovered that the costs of imperial expansion were too high to allow effective occupation of the hinterlands. After 1875, Portugal participated in the international "Scramble for Africa" and consolidated its holdings in west and southern Africa, despite the failure of the contra-costa (to the opposite coast) plan, which sought to link up the interiors of Angola and Mozambique with a corridor in central Africa. Portugal's expansion into what is now Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (eastern section) in 1885-90 was thwarted by its oldest ally, Britain, under pressure from interest groups in South Africa, Scotland, and England. All things considered, Portugal's colonizing resources and energies were overwhelmed by the African empire it possessed after the frontier-marking treaties of 1891-1906. Lisbon could barely administer the massive area of five African colonies, whose total area comprised about 8 percent of the area of the colossal continent. The African territories alone were many times the size of tiny Portugal and, as of 1914, Portugal was the third colonial power in terms of size of area possessed in the world.

   The politics of Portugal's empire were deceptive. Lisbon remained obsessed with the fear that rival colonial powers, especially Germany and Britain, would undermine and then dismantle her African empire. This fear endured well into World War II. In developing and keeping her potentially rich African territories (especially mineral-rich Angola and strategically located Mozambique), however, the race against time was with herself and her subject peoples. Two major problems, both chronic, prevented Portugal from effective colonization (i.e., settling) and development of her African empire: the economic weakness and underdevelopment of the mother country and the fact that the bulk of Portuguese emigration after 1822 went to Brazil, Venezuela, the United States, and France, not to the colonies. These factors made it difficult to consolidate imperial control until it was too late; that is, until local African nationalist movements had organized and taken the field in insurgency wars that began in three of the colonies during the years 1961-64.

   Portugal's belated effort to revitalize control and to develop, in the truest sense of the word, Angola and Mozambique after 1961 had to be set against contemporary events in Europe, Africa, and Asia. While Portugal held on to a backward empire, other European countries like Britain, France, and Belgium were rapidly decolonizing their empires. Portugal's failure or unwillingness to divert the large streams of emigrants to her empire after 1850 remained a constant factor in this question. Prophetic were the words of the 19th-century economist Joaquim Oliveira Martins, who wrote in 1880 that Brazil was a better colony for Portugal than Africa and that the best colony of all would have been Portugal itself. As of the day of the Revolution of 25 April 1974, which sparked the final process of decolonization of the remainder of Portugal's third overseas empire, the results of the colonization program could be seen to be modest compared to the numbers of Portuguese emigrants outside the empire. Moreover, within a year, of some 600,000 Portuguese residing permanently in Angola and Mozambique, all but a few thousand had fled to South Africa or returned to Portugal.

   In 1974 and 1975, most of the Portuguese empire was decolonized or, in the case of East Timor, invaded and annexed by a foreign power before it could consolidate its independence. Only historic Macau, scheduled for transfer to the People's Republic of China in 1999, remained nominally under Portuguese control as a kind of footnote to imperial history. If Portugal now lacked a conventional overseas empire and was occupied with the challenges of integration in the European Union (EU), Lisbon retained another sort of informal dependency that was a new kind of empire: the empire of her scattered overseas Portuguese communities from North America to South America. Their numbers were at least six times greater than that of the last settlers of the third empire.

    See also Luso-Tropicalism; Rose-colored map; Ultimatum, English.

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12 taste

taste [teɪst]

goût ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b), 1 (d), 1 (e) saveur ⇒ 1 (b) bouchée ⇒ 1 (c) goutte ⇒ 1 (c) aperçu ⇒ 1 (f) sentir ⇒ 2 (a) goûter à ⇒ 2 (b), 2 (d) manger ⇒ 2 (c) boire ⇒ 2 (c)

1 noun

(a) (sense) goût m;

∎ to lose one's sense of taste perdre le goût, specialist term être atteint d'agueusie;

∎ to be sweet/salty to the taste avoir un goût sucré/salé

(b) (flavour) goût m, saveur f;

∎ these apples have a lovely/strange taste ces pommes sont délicieuses/ont un drôle de goût;

∎ this cheese doesn't have much taste ce fromage n'a pas beaucoup de goût ou est assez fade;

∎ the cake has a taste of almonds/a burnt taste le gâteau a un goût d'amandes/de brûlé;

∎ add sugar to taste ajouter du sucre à volonté;

∎ to leave a bad taste in the mouth (food) laisser un mauvais goût dans la bouche; figurative laisser un mauvais souvenir ou un goût amer

(c) (small amount → of food) bouchée f; (→ of drink) goutte f;

∎ can I have a taste of the chocolate cake? est-ce que je peux goûter au gâteau au chocolat?;

∎ would you like (to have) a taste? voulez-vous goûter?

(d) (liking, preference) goût m, penchant m;

∎ to have expensive/simple tastes avoir des goûts de luxe/simples;

∎ to develop a taste for sth prendre goût à qch;

∎ to have a taste for sth avoir un penchant ou un faible pour qch;

∎ it's a matter of taste c'est (une) affaire de goût;

∎ musical/artistic tastes goûts mpl musicaux/artistiques;

∎ I don't share his taste in music je ne partage pas ses goûts en (matière de) musique, nous n'avons pas les mêmes goûts en (matière de) musique;

∎ is it to your taste? est-ce à votre goût?, est-ce que cela vous convient?, cela vous plaît?;

∎ did you find it to your taste? l'avez-vous trouvé à votre goût?

(e) (discernment) goût m;

∎ to have good taste avoir du goût, avoir bon goût;

∎ they have no taste ils n'ont aucun goût;

∎ she has good taste in clothes elle s'habille avec goût;

∎ they don't have much taste when it comes to art en matière d'art, ils n'ont pas beaucoup de goût;

∎ the joke was in extremely bad taste la plaisanterie était de très mauvais goût;

∎ it's bad taste to ask personal questions il est de mauvais goût de poser des questions indiscrètes

(f) (experience) aperçu m; (sample) échantillon m;

∎ to have a taste of freedom/happiness avoir un aperçu de la liberté/du bonheur;

∎ the sweet taste of success les joies fpl ou les délices fpl de la réussite;

∎ he's already had a taste of prison life il a déjà tâté ou goûté de la prison;

∎ the experience gave me a taste of life in the army l'expérience m'a donné un aperçu de la vie militaire;

∎ to give sb a taste of the whip faire tâter du fouet à qn;

∎ a taste of things to come un avant-goût de l'avenir

2 transitive verb

(a) (flavour, ingredient) sentir (le goût de);

∎ can you taste the brandy in it? est-ce que vous sentez le (goût du) cognac?;

∎ you can hardly taste the mint on sent à peine (le goût de) la menthe

(b) (sample, try) goûter à; (for quality) goûter;

∎ have you tasted the sauce? avez-vous goûté (à) la sauce?;

∎ to taste (the) wine (in restaurant) goûter le vin; (in vineyard) déguster le vin

(c) (eat) manger; (drink) boire;

∎ I've never tasted oysters before je n'ai jamais mangé d'huîtres;

∎ you don't often get a chance to taste such good wine on n'a pas souvent l'occasion de boire un aussi bon vin

(d) (experience → happiness, success) goûter, connaître

3 intransitive verb

∎ (food) to taste good/bad avoir bon/mauvais goût;

∎ to taste salty avoir un goût salé;

∎ to taste funny avoir un drôle de goût;

∎ it tastes fine to me moi je trouve ça bon;

∎ it tastes like chicken cela a un goût de poulet;

∎ to taste of sth avoir le ou un goût de qch;

∎ it doesn't taste of anything cela n'a aucun goût

►► taste bud papille f gustative

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13 Artificial Intelligence

   1) Programs and the Complexity of Human Mental Processes

   In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)

   2) Artificial Intelligence Is an Engineering Discipline

   Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)

   3) A Sceptical View of Artificial Intelligence

   Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inﬂated predictions....

   When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)

   4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually

   Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   5) Problems in Machine Intelligence Arise Because Things Obvious to Any Person Are Not Represented in the Program

   Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)

   6) The Meaning of a Symbolic Description

   What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   7) The Principle of Artificial Intelligence

   [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)

   8) Artificial Intelligence Recognizes the Need for Knowledge in Its Systems

   The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)

   9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form

   The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)

    10) There Are Many Types of Reasoning

   There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:

    Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins ﬂy? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can ﬂy, so robins probably can ﬂy."

    Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)

    11) Programs Are Beginning to Do Things That Critics Have Asserted to Be Impossible

   Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)

    12) The Synthesis of Man and Machine

   Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)

    13) The Thesis of Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI)

   The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)

    14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation

   It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)

    15) Four Kinds of Artificial Intelligence

   We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.

   ♦ Nonpsychological AI

   Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.

   ♦ Weak Psychological AI

   Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.

   ♦ Strong Psychological AI

... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)

   ♦ Suprapsychological AI

   Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)

    16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts

   Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)

    17) Form and Content Are Not Fundamentally Different

   Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System

   Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence

   The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.

   The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)

    20) Mathematical Logic Provides the Basis for Theory in AI

   The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....

   AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)

    21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions

   In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)

    22) Definitions of Artificial Intelligence

   Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)

    23) The Computer Can Not Be a Model of the Mind

   Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)

    24) Computers Will Not Always Be Inferior to Human Brains

   The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

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14 Cognitive Science

   1) The Basic Idea of Cognitive Science

   The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense.... [P]eople and intelligent computers turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)

   2) Experimental Psychology, Theoretical Linguistics, and Computational Simulation of Cognitive Processes Are All Components of Cognitive Science

   I went away from the Symposium with a strong conviction, more intuitive than rational, that human experimental psychology, theoretical linguistics, and computer simulation of cognitive processes were all pieces of a larger whole, and that the future would see progressive elaboration and coordination of their shared concerns.... I have been working toward a cognitive science for about twenty years beginning before I knew what to call it. (G. A. Miller, 1979, p. 9)

   3) The Nature of Cognitive Science

    Cognitive Science studies the nature of cognition in human beings, other animals, and inanimate machines (if such a thing is possible). While computers are helpful within cognitive science, they are not essential to its being. A science of cognition could still be pursued even without these machines.

    Computer Science studies various kinds of problems and the use of computers to solve them, without concern for the means by which we humans might otherwise resolve them. There could be no computer science if there were no machines of this kind, because they are indispensable to its being. Artificial Intelligence is a special branch of computer science that investigates the extent to which the mental powers of human beings can be captured by means of machines.

   There could be cognitive science without artificial intelligence but there could be no artificial intelligence without cognitive science. One final caveat: In the case of an emerging new discipline such as cognitive science there is an almost irresistible temptation to identify the discipline itself (as a field of inquiry) with one of the theories that inspired it (such as the computational conception...). This, however, is a mistake. The field of inquiry (or "domain") stands to specific theories as questions stand to possible answers. The computational conception should properly be viewed as a research program in cognitive science, where "research programs" are answers that continue to attract followers. (Fetzer, 1996, pp. xvi-xvii)

   4) The Nature of Cognitive Science

   What is the nature of knowledge and how is this knowledge used? These questions lie at the core of both psychology and artificial intelligence.

   The psychologist who studies "knowledge systems" wants to know how concepts are structured in the human mind, how such concepts develop, and how they are used in understanding and behavior. The artificial intelligence researcher wants to know how to program a computer so that it can understand and interact with the outside world. The two orientations intersect when the psychologist and the computer scientist agree that the best way to approach the problem of building an intelligent machine is to emulate the human conceptual mechanisms that deal with language.... The name "cognitive science" has been used to refer to this convergence of interests in psychology and artificial intelligence....

   This working partnership in "cognitive science" does not mean that psychologists and computer scientists are developing a single comprehensive theory in which people are no different from machines. Psychology and artificial intelligence have many points of difference in methods and goals.... We simply want to work on an important area of overlapping interest, namely a theory of knowledge systems. As it turns out, this overlap is substantial. For both people and machines, each in their own way, there is a serious problem in common of making sense out of what they hear, see, or are told about the world. The conceptual apparatus necessary to perform even a partial feat of understanding is formidable and fascinating. (Schank & Abelson, 1977, pp. 1-2)

   5) The New Field of Cognitive Science

   Within the last dozen years a general change in scientific outlook has occurred, consonant with the point of view represented here. One can date the change roughly from 1956: in psychology, by the appearance of Bruner, Goodnow, and Austin's Study of Thinking and George Miller's "The Magical Number Seven"; in linguistics, by Noam Chomsky's "Three Models of Language"; and in computer science, by our own paper on the Logic Theory Machine. (Newell & Simon, 1972, p. 4)

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15 form

fɔ:m
1. сущ.
1) форма;
внешний вид;
очертание to assume, take the form of smth. ≈ принимать форму чего-л. to assume human form ≈ принимать человеческий вид a fiend in human form ≈ волк в овечьей шкуре The cookies were in the form of squares. ≈ Булочки были квадратной формы. Syn: configuration, contour, figure, outline, shape, structure
2) фигура( особ. человека) This coat really fits one's form. ≈ Это пальто действительно хорошо сидит на фигуре. Syn: body, figure, shape, build, physique
3) форма, вид abridged, condensed form ≈ сокращенная форма, сокращенный вариант concise form ≈ краткая форма convenient form, handy form ≈ удобная форма revised form ≈ исправленная форма The book came out in abridged form. ≈ Книга издана в сокращенной форме. Ice is water in another form. ≈ Лед - это вода только в другом виде. Syn: appearance, phase, aspect, manifestation
4) вид, разновидность The ant is a form of insect. ≈ Муравей - это вид насекомых. Syn: type, variety, kind, sort;
genus, species, genre, class
5) порядок;
общепринятая форма in due form ≈ в должной форме, по всем правилам
6) бланк, образец, форма;
анкета to fill in a form брит., to fill out a form амер., to fill up a form уст. ≈ заполнить бланк tax form ≈ декларация о доходах tax return form ≈ бланк декларации о доходах application form
7) формальность;
церемония, этикет, установленный порядок They didn't follow the traditional form of the marriage service. ≈ Они не придерживались традиционных форм бракосочетания. Syn: prescribed method, rule, habit, proceeding, practice, ritual;
etiquette, conventionality
8) манеры, поведение good form, proper form ≈ хороший тон, хорошие манеры bad form ≈ дурной тон, плохие манеры It's bad form to come late to a formal reception. ≈ На официальную встречу опаздывать неприлично. Syn: social behavior, manner, deportment, conduct, style, mode;
way, manner
9) готовность, состояние;
хорошая спортивная форма The horse is in form. ≈ Лошадь вполне подготовлена к бегам. off form ≈ не в форме She was in superb form today. ≈ Она была сегодня в превосходной форме. If she's in form, she can win the match easily. ≈ Если она будет сегодня в форме, она легко выиграет матч. Syn: trim, fettle, fitness, shape, top condition, healthy condition
10) скамья
11) класс( в школе) in the fourth form ≈ в четвертом классе
12) нора( зайца)
13) грам. форма bound form colloquial form combining form diminutive form free form inflectional form obsolete form plural form singular form surface form underlying form
14) иск. вид, форма;
композиция You paint well, but your work lacks form. ≈ С красками у тебя все в порядке, но в твоей картине нет формы. Syn: order, system, structure, harmony, arrangement;
shapeliness, proportion, symmetry
15) тех. модель, форма When the cement has hardened, the form is removed. ≈ Когда цемент затвердеет, форма удаляется. Syn: mold, cast, frame, framework, matrix
16) полигр. печатная форма
17) строит. опалубка
18) ж.-д. формирование( поездов)
19) расписание racing form ≈ расписание скачек, программа скачек
2. гл.
1) а) придавать форму, вид to form chopped beef into patties ≈ делать лепешки из кусков говядины б) принимать форму, вид
2) а) составлять, образовывать The sofa is formed of three separate sections. ≈ Диван составлен из трех отдельных секций. б) включать в себя, содержать ∙ Syn: compose, comprise, make up, constitute;
serve to make up
3) а) создавать;
формулировать( идею, план и т. п.) б) создаваться, возникать
4) воспитывать, вырабатывать, формировать (характер, качества и т. п.) ;
дисциплинировать;
приобретать He formed the habit of peering over his glasses. ≈ У него выработалась привычка смотреть поверх очков. Syn: develop, acquire, contract, pick up
5) а) формировать, образовывать;
воен. формировать (части) ;
ж.-д. формировать (поезда) They formed an army out of rabble. ≈ Они сформировали армию из толпы. б) формироваться, образовываться;
строиться
6) тех. формовать Syn: mould
7) забираться в нору (о зайце) ∙ form up форма;
внешний вид;
очертание - without shape or * бесформенный - in any shape or * в любом виде - in the * of a cube в форме куба - to take * принять должную форму - to take the * of smth. принимать вид /форму/ чего-л. - the cloud was changing its * облако меняло очертания фигура (человека) - well-proportioned * пропорциональное сложение, хорошая фигура - fair of face and * с прекрасным лицом и фигурой - I saw a well-known * standing before me я увидел перед собой хорошо знакомую фигуру обличье - Proteus was able to appear in the * of any animal Протей мог являться в обличье любого животного стать (лошади) форма, вид - literary * литературная форма - in tabular * в виде таблицы - in the * of a sonnet в форме сонета - in the * of a drama в драматической форме - * and substance форма и содержание - a sense of * чувство формы вид, разновидность;
тип - *s of animal and vegetable life формы животной и растительной жизни - it's a * of influenza это особая форма гриппа - a * of activity род деятельности стиль, манера - his * in swimming is bad он плавает плохо /плохим стилем/ - bad * дурной тон;
плохие манеры - the rules of good * правила хорошего тона состояние;
форма (часто спортивная) ;
готовность - to be in( good) * быть в хорошем состоянии;
быть в хорошей спортивной форме;
быть в ударе - to be in bad *, to be out of * быть в плохом состоянии;
быть в плохой( спортивной) форме;
быть не в ударе, "не в форме" - to round into * (спортивное) приобретать спортивную форму настроение, душевное состояние - Jack was in great * at the dinner party Джек был в приподнятом настроении на званом обеде формальность;
проформа - as a matter of *, for *'s sake для проформы, формально - to attach importance to *s придавать значение формальностям церемония, порядок - in due * по всем правилам - found in good and due * (дипломатическое) найденные в должном порядке и надлежащей форме (о полномочиях) - * of action (юридическое) процессуальная форма установившаяся форма выражения;
формула - the * of greeting формула приветствия класс (в школе) - upper *s старшие классы - first * младший класс форма, бланк, образец;
анкета - printed * печатный бланк - a * for a deed бланк /форма/ для соглашения - a * of application форма заявления - to fill in /up/ a * заполнить бланк /анкету и т. п./ длинная скамья, скамейка нора (зайца) (грамматика) форма слова( специальное) форма исполнения (машины) модель, тип, образец;
торговый сорт( металла и т. п.) (техническое) форма для литья (полиграфия) печатная форма (строительство) форма;
опалубка - * removal распалубка( математическое) выражение придавать форму, вид - to * a piece of wood into a certain shape придавать куску дерева определенную форму - to * smth. after /upon, from, by, in accordance with/ a pattern создавать /делать/ что-л. по определенному образцу - state *ed after the Roman republic государство, созданное по образцу Римской республики принимать форму, вид составлять, образовывать;
формировать - these parts together * a perfect whole эти части образуют вместе гармоничное целое - the rain *ed large pools on the lawn от дождя на газоне образовались большие лужи - the clouds *ed a veil over the mountain-top облака затянули вершину горы - the baby is beginning to * short words ребенок начинает произносить короткие слова образовываться;
формироваться - crystals *ed in the retort в реторте образовались кристаллы - clouds are *ing on the hills на вершинах холмов сгущаются облака (грамматика) образовывать - to * the plural of the noun образовать множественное число существительного создавать, составлять;
формулировать - to * an idea создавать себе представление - to * an opinion составить мнение - to * a plan создать /выработать/ план - to * a habit приобрести привычку, привыкнуть( к чему-л.) возникать, оформляться - the idea slowly *ed in my mind эта мысль постепенно становилась у меня более отчетливой представлять собой;
являться - chocolate *s a wholesome substitute for staple food шоколад является полноценным заменителем основных продуктов питания - bonds *ed the bulk of his estate основную часть его состояния представляли облигации тренировать, дисциплинировать;
воспитывать;
развивать - to * the mind развивать ум - to * the character воспитывать характер - to * a child by care воспитывать ребенка заботливо - to * good habits прививать хорошие привычки /навыки хорошего поведения/ формировать, организовывать;
образовывать, создавать - to * a class for beginners создать группу начинающих - to * an army формировать армию - to * a government формировать правительство - to * a society организовывать общество - the children were *ed into small groups дети были разбиты на небольшие группы - they *ed themselves into a committee они сорганизовались в комитет( военное) строить - to * a column вытягиваться в колонну (военное) строиться( специальное) формировать (специальное) формовать (садоводчество) обрезать, подвергать обрезке;
формировать крону забираться, забиваться в нору (о зайце) форма (таксономическая единица) account ~ документ бухгалтерского учета adjustment ~ схема регулирования bill ~ бланк векселя bill ~ бланк счета bill ~ вексельный формуляр blank ~ чистый бланк business tax ~ бланк налоговой декларации для предпринимателя charge ~ форма платежа cheque ~ бланк чека claim ~ бланк заявления о выплате страхового возмещения clausal ~ вчт. стандартная форма coding ~ вчт. бланк программирования company ~ форма компании complete a ~ заполнять бланк contract ~ форма контракта customs declaration ~ бланк таможенной декларации customs ~ таможенный формуляр data collection ~ вчт. форма для сбора данных deposit ~ депозитный бланк draft ~ эскиз бланка due ~ установленная форма due ~ установленный образец entry ~ вчт. бланк ввода информации export ~ экспортный формуляр form анкета ~ бланк ~ вид, разновидность ~ воспитывать, вырабатывать (характер, качества и т. п.) дисциплинировать;
тренировать ~ заключать (договор) ~ класс (в школе) ~ нора (зайца) ~ образец, бланк;
анкета ~ образовывать ~ стр. опалубка ~ основывать ~ полигр. печатная форма ~ порядок;
общепринятая форма;
in due form в должной форме, по всем правилам ~ придавать или принимать форму, вид;
to form a vessel out of clay вылепить сосуд из глины ~ скамья ~ создавать(ся), образовывать(ся) ;
I can form no idea of his character не могу составить себе представления о его характере ~ создавать ~ составить ~ составлять;
parts form a whole части образуют целое ~ составлять ~ состояние, готовность;
the horse is in form лошадь вполне подготовлена к бегам ~ сформировать ~ установленный образец, проформа, бланк, формуляр, анкета ~ установленный образец ~ утверждать ~ учреждать, образовывать, основывать ~ фигура (особ. человека) ~ тех. форма, модель ~ иск. форма, вид;
literary form литературная форма ~ грам. форма ~ форма;
внешний вид;
очертание;
in the form of a globe в форме шара;
to take the form (of smth.) принять форму (чего-л.) ~ вчт. форма ~ форма ~ формальность, этикет, церемония;
good (bad) form хороший( дурной) тон, хорошие (плохие) манеры ~ ж.-д. формирование (поездов) ~ воен. формирование, построение ~ ж.-д. формировать (поезда) ~ воен. формировать (части) ~ формировать(-ся), образовывать(ся) ;
строиться ~ формировать ~ тех. формовать ~ формуляр forme: forme =form ~ придавать или принимать форму, вид;
to form a vessel out of clay вылепить сосуд из глины ~ for advance statement форма заявления об авансовых платежах ~ for estimating future income форма для оценки будущего дохода ~ of a summons бланк судебной повестки ~ of a writ форма искового заявления ~ of borrowing форма займа ~ of cooperation форма кооперации ~ of government форма правительства ~ of government форма правления ~ of organization форма организации ~ of request бланк заявки ~ of request форма запроса ~ of request форма требования ~ of sales форма продажи ~ of saving форма сбережения ~ of taxation форма налогообложения ~ of tender форма заявки ~ of tender форма предложения giro in-payment ~ бланк для платежа в системе жиросчетов giro transfer ~ бланк для жироперевода ~ формальность, этикет, церемония;
good (bad) form хороший (дурной) тон, хорошие (плохие) манеры horizontal ~ выч. бланк счета ~ состояние, готовность;
the horse is in form лошадь вполне подготовлена к бегам ~ создавать(ся), образовывать(ся) ;
I can form no idea of his character не могу составить себе представления о его характере in (good) ~ в ударе in (good) ~ "в форме" (о спортсмене) ~ форма;
внешний вид;
очертание;
in the form of a globe в форме шара;
to take the form (of smth.) принять форму (чего-л.) in-payment ~ форма платежа income tax ~ бланк декларации на подоходный налог inquiry ~ анкета legal ~ правовая форма legal ~ юридическая форма letter ~ образец письма linguistic ~ лингвистическая форма ~ иск. форма, вид;
literary form литературная форма market ~ форма рынка missing letter ~ утерянный бланк письма model ~ типовая форма money order ~ бланк денежного перевода mortgage deed ~ бланк залогового сертификата mortgage deed ~ бланк ипотечного свидетельства narrative ~ форма отчета order ~ бланк заказа order ~ бланк требования order ~ форма приказа outpayment ~ форма выплаты ~ составлять;
parts form a whole части образуют целое payment notification ~ бланк уведомления о платеже postal note ~ бланк почтового перевода на сумму до 5 долл. (США) postal order ~ бланк денежного перевода printed ~ печатный бланк proposal ~ бланк заявки на торгах receipt ~ бланк квитанции receipt ~ образец расписки reduced ~ вчт. приведенная форма registration ~ регистрационный бланк reply ~ бланк для ответа report ~ анкета report ~ опросный лист report ~ переписной бланк report ~ форма статистического опросного листа requisition ~ бланк заявки requisition ~ форма заявки screen ~ file вчт. файл экранных форм sentential ~ вчт. сентенциальная форма share transfer ~ форма передачи права собственности на акции signature ~ образец подписи stamped ~ бланк со штампом standard ~ вчт. стандартная форма statement ~ форма заявления table ~ вчт. табличная форма tabular ~ полигр. плоская печатная форма tabular ~ вчт. табличная форма ~ форма;
внешний вид;
очертание;
in the form of a globe в форме шара;
to take the form (of smth.) принять форму (чего-л.) tax ~ бланк налоговой декларации transfer ~ бланк перевода

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16 theory

ˈθɪərɪ сущ.
1) теория to advance, present, propose, suggest a theory ≈ предлагать, отстаивать теорию to advocate theory ≈ отстаивать теорию to combine theory and practice ≈ объединять теорию и практику to confirm a theory ≈ подтверждать теорию to develop a theory ≈ развивать теорию to disprove, explode, refute a theory ≈ опровергать, подрывать, разбивать теорию to formulate a theory ≈ формулировать теорию to test a theory ≈ проверять теорию pet theory ≈ излюбленная теория a theory evolves ≈ теория возникает, появляется a theory holds up ≈ теория подтверждается in theory ≈ в теории, теоретически In theory their plan makes sense. ≈ Теоретически их план имеет смысл. on a theory ≈ согласно теории They proceeded on the theory that the supplies would arrive on time. ≈ Они исходили из предположения, что припасы прибудут вовремя. She has a theory that drinking milk prevents colds. ≈ У нее была теория, что если будешь пить молоко, то не заболеешь. scientific theory game theory information theory political theory quantum theory systems theory big bang steady state theory theory of relativity numbers theory
2) разг. предположение теория;
- сoherent * последовательная теория - social-science theories социологические теории - general relativity * общая теория относительности - * of evolution теория эволюции - essays in * теоретические очерки - to formulate a * сформулировать теорию - to put forward a new * выдвинуть новую теорию - the theories that have sprung up in recent years теории, появившиеся в последние годы - the * of economic integration has made rapid strides теория экономической интеграции быстро развивалась (математика) раздел( математики), теория - game * туория игр - * of similarity теория подобия - the * of numbers теория чисел( разговорное) предположение, догадка;
особое мнение, взгляд - to have a * полагать - what's your * of the case? что вы думаете по этому поводу? - my * is that he is lying я думаю, что он лжет - my * has been amply born out моя точка зрения полностью подтвердилась теоретические правила, основы - the * of education теоретические основы воспитания без артикля: абстрактные, теоретические знания - * and practice теория и практика - in * в теории;
теоретически, абстрактно, отвлеченно - your plan is good in * вообще ваш план неплох applied decision ~ прикладная теория принятия решений automata ~ теория автоматов axiomatic ~ аксиоматическая теория communication ~ теория связи deterrence ~ теория устрашения expectation ~ теория вероятностей game ~ теория игр graph ~ теория графов theory разг. предположение;
to have a theory that... полагать, что... hemline ~ бирж. теория "длины дамских юбок" (шуточная теория о том, что цены акций движутся в одном направлении с длиной дамских юбок) information ~ теория информации intimidation ~ теория устрашения legal ~ правовая теория linear programming ~ теория линейного программирования liquidity preference ~ теория предпочтения ликвидности logic ~ матлогика logical ~ логическая теория nonlinearized ~ нелинейная теория ~ теория;
numbers theory теория чисел operations research ~ теория исследования операций optimal control ~ оптимальная теория управления optimization ~ теория оптимизации price ~ полит.эк. теория цен probabilistic decision ~ вероятностная теория принятия решений probability ~ теория вероятностей queueing ~ стат. теория массового обслуживания queueing ~ теория массового обслуживания representation ~ теория представлений sampling ~ теория выборочного метода theory разг. предположение;
to have a theory that... полагать, что... ~ теоретические основы ~ теоретические правила ~ теория;
numbers theory теория чисел ~ теория ~ of large samples теория больших выборок ~ of law теория права ~ of matrices теория матриц ~ of programming вчт. теория программирования ~ of queues стат. теория массового обслуживания ~ of random processes теория случайных процессов ~ of sets теория множеств ~ of statistical decision теория статистических решений ~ of stochastic processes теория случайных процессов ~ of testing hypothesis теория проверки гипотез ~ of time series теория временных рядов ~ of wages теория заработной платы ~ of waiting lines теория массового обслуживания ~ of weighted smoothing теория взвешенного сглаживания waiting line ~ стат. теория массового обслуживания

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17 taste

1. [teıst] n
1. вкус ( чувство)

keen taste, keen sense of taste - обострённая способность чувствовать вкус (пищи)

out of taste - неспособный различить вкус

nice to the taste - приятный на вкус

to add pepper [salt, sugar] to taste - добавить перца [соли, сахар] по вкусу

2. вкус ( свойство пищи)

sweet [bitter] taste - сладкий [горький] вкус

chocolate taste - вкус шоколада

to have a nice taste - быть приятным на вкус

to have no taste - быть безвкусным

to leave a bad /nasty/ taste in the mouth - а) оставить дурной вкус во рту; б) оставить неприятное впечатление; вызвать отвращение

to distinguish types of oranges by their taste - различать апельсины по вкусу

3. 1) вкус, понимание

true [false] taste - безошибочный /хороший/ [дурной] вкус

a man of taste - человек со вкусом

an education in taste - воспитание вкуса

in (good) taste, with taste - со вкусом

in bad /in poor/ taste - безвкусно [ср. тж. 2)]

to dress in good [in bad] taste - одеваться со вкусом [безвкусно]

to have a fine taste in pictures [in poetry] - тонко разбираться в живописи [в поэзии]

to smb.'s taste - в чьём-л. вкусе

not at all to my taste - совсем не в моём вкусе

he found it to his taste - это пришлось ему по вкусу

this is a matter of taste - это дело вкуса

tastes differ, there is no accounting for tastes, everyone to his taste - о вкусах не спорят; у каждого свой вкус

2) такт

in bad taste - бестактно, неуместно [ср. тж. 1)]

the remark was in bad /out of/ taste - замечание было неуместным /бестактным/

it would be in bad taste to refuse - отказываться неудобно, отказ был бы бестактностью

4. склонность; влечение, пристрастие

to have a taste for smth. - иметь склонность к чему-л.

to acquire /to develop/ a taste for smth. - пристраститься к чему-л.

to follow one's natural tastes - удовлетворять свои природные склонности; следовать своим естественным влечениям

suit your own taste - делай, как тебе хочется

5. стиль, манера

in the Moorish taste - в мавританском стиле

6. проба; глоточек; кусочек

to have just a taste of smth. - попробовать что-л.

to have a taste of claret - (только) пригубить бордо

won't you have a taste of this cake? - попробуйте /отведайте/ этого пирога

7. 1) немного, чуточка; примесь, привкус

not a taste of food in the house - в доме ни крошки

there was a taste of irritation [of sadness] in his remark - в его замечании сквозило раздражение [слышалась грусть]

2) представление; образчик

to get a taste of smb.'s skill [of smb.'s manners] - получить представление о чьём-л. мастерстве [о чьих-л. манерах]

give him a taste of the whip - дай ему отведать кнута

he has already had a taste of prison - он уже отведал тюрьмы, он уже знает, что такое тюрьма; он уже побывал за решёткой

8. кухня, набор национальных блюд

the taste of France - французская кухня

9. уст. проба, опробование
2. [teıst] v
1. 1) пробовать, отведать

won't you taste this jam? - отведайте /попробуйте/ этого варенья

2) дегустировать

to taste wines - дегустировать вина

2. 1) иметь вкус

to taste sour [sweet] - быть кислым [сладким] на вкус

to taste of nothing at all - быть совершенно безвкусным

it tastes like gin [like port] - по вкусу похоже на джин [на портвейн]

2) иметь привкус; отдавать (чем-л.)

to taste of garlic [of onions] - отдавать чесноком [луком]

3. 1) различать на вкус

to taste pepper /almond/ in the dressing - чувствовать перец /миндаль/ в приправе

2) чувствовать вкус

I have a bad cold and cannot taste - из-за насморка я не чувствую вкуса (пищи)

4. 1) есть, пить (особ. немного)

not to taste (a thing) - ничего не попробовать, ничего не съесть

he hasn't tasted food for two days - два дня у него маковой росинки во рту не было

the children barely tasted their breakfast - дети почти не прикоснулись к завтраку

2) уст. отведать, откушать

to taste strange dishes - отведать небывалых яств

5. вкушать, испытывать; получать представление, знакомиться

to taste the joys of freedom - вкусить счастье свободной жизни

to taste power - узнать вкус власти

6. (of)

1) арх. вкусить, познакомиться; испытать, познать на своём опыте

to taste of fame - вкусить славы

to taste of danger - подвергнуться опасности

to taste of death - посмотреть смерти в глаза

2) содержать в себе элемент (чего-л.); отдавать; ≅ чувствоваться

a sharp word that tastes of envy - резкие слова, в которых чувствуется зависть /в которых слышна нотка зависти/

7. редк. придавать вкус

8. уст. иметь вкус, склонность

♢ to taste blood - испытать новое чувство; испытать острое наслаждение

НБАРС > taste
18 developed

past tense, past participle; see develop

developed [di'vɛləpt] adj

: avanzado, desarrollado

dɪ'veləpt
adjective <nation/region> desarrollado

[dɪ'velǝpt]
ADJ [country, world] desarrollado; [sense of humour, justice etc] profundo
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[dɪ'veləpt]
adjective <nation/region> desarrollado

English-spanish dictionary > developed
19 taste

1. n

1) смак

nice to the taste — приємний на смак

2) смак, розуміння

a man of taste — людина зі смаком

in bad taste — без смаку

in good taste, with taste — зі смаком

3) схильність, пристрасть (до чогось — for)

to have a taste for music (literature, etc.) — мати схильність до музики (літератури тощо)

4) тактовність

in bad taste — нетактовно, недоречно

5) проба; ковток; шматочок, кусочок

give me a taste of the pudding — дайте мені шматочок пудингу

6) уявлення; перше знайомство (з чимсь)

to give a taste of smth. — давати деяке уявлення про щось

7) стиль, манера

in the Moorish taste — у мавританському стилі

8) наліт, присмак

there was a taste of irritation in his remark — у його зауваженні відчувалося роздратування

9) амер. тонка шовкова стрічка

2. v

1) пробувати на смак; куштувати

2) дегустувати

to taste wines — дегустувати вина

3) мати смак (присмак)

to taste sour — бути кислим на смак

the soup tastes of onions — суп відгонить цибулею

4) розрізняти на смак (за смаком)

5) відчувати смак

6) зазнати (чогось), дістати уявлення (про щось), відчути смак (чогось)

to taste of fame — зазнати слави

to taste of death — подивитися смерті в очі

to taste the joys of freedom — відчути смак свободи

7) їсти, пити

he hasn't tasted food for some days — кілька днів він нічого не їв

8) надавати смаку

9) мати схильність (смак) (до чогось)

to taste blood — відчувати велику насолоду

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I [teist] n
1) смак ( відчуття)

keen taste, keen sense of- — загострена здатність відчувати смак ( їжі)

to taste — на смак

2) смак ( властивість їжі)

chocolate taste — смак шоколаду

to leave a bad /nasty/ taste in the mouth — залишити дурний смак у роті; залишити неприємне враження; викликати відразу

3) смак, розуміння

a man of taste — людина зі смаком

in bad /in poor/ taste — без смаку; такт

in bad taste — безтактно, недоречно

4) схильність; потяг, пристрасть

to have a taste for smth — мати схильність до чогось

to acquire /to develop/ a taste for smth — пристраститися до чогось

5) стиль, манера

in the Moorish taste — у мавританському стилі

6) проба; ковточок; шматочок

7) небагато, трішечки; домішка, присмак

not a taste of food in the house — у будинку ні крихти; уявлення ( про щось); зразок ( чогось)

8) кухня, набір національних блюд

the taste of France — французька кухня

9) icт. проба, куштування
II [teist] v
1) пробувати, покуштувати; дегустувати ( вино)

2) мати смак

to taste sour [sweet] — бути кислим [солодким]на смак; мати присмак; віддавати ( чимсь)

to taste of garlic [of onions] — віддавати часником [цибулею]

3) розрізняти на смак ( у страві); відчувати смак

4) їсти, пити ( небагато); not to taste ( a thing) нічого не спробувати, нічого не з'їсти; icт. скуштувати

to taste strange dishes — покуштувати небувалих страв

5) випробувати; отримати уявлення, ознайомитися

to taste the joys of freedom — вкусити щастя вільного життя

6) icт. (of) вкусити, познайомитися; випробувати, пізнати на своєму досвіді

to taste of fame — вкусити слави

to taste of death — подивитися смерті в очі; містити в собі елемент ( чогось); віддавати; = відчуватись

a sharp word that tastes of envy — різкі слова, у яких почувається заздрість /у який чутна нотка заздрості/

7) додавати смак

8) icт. мати смак, схильність

totaste blood — відчути щось нове; відчути гостру насолоду

English-Ukrainian dictionary > taste
20 taste

I [teist] n
1) смак ( відчуття)

keen taste, keen sense of- — загострена здатність відчувати смак ( їжі)

to taste — на смак

2) смак ( властивість їжі)

chocolate taste — смак шоколаду

to leave a bad /nasty/ taste in the mouth — залишити дурний смак у роті; залишити неприємне враження; викликати відразу

3) смак, розуміння

a man of taste — людина зі смаком

in bad /in poor/ taste — без смаку; такт

in bad taste — безтактно, недоречно

4) схильність; потяг, пристрасть

to have a taste for smth — мати схильність до чогось

to acquire /to develop/ a taste for smth — пристраститися до чогось

5) стиль, манера

in the Moorish taste — у мавританському стилі

6) проба; ковточок; шматочок

7) небагато, трішечки; домішка, присмак

not a taste of food in the house — у будинку ні крихти; уявлення ( про щось); зразок ( чогось)

8) кухня, набір національних блюд

the taste of France — французька кухня

9) icт. проба, куштування
II [teist] v
1) пробувати, покуштувати; дегустувати ( вино)

2) мати смак

to taste sour [sweet] — бути кислим [солодким]на смак; мати присмак; віддавати ( чимсь)

to taste of garlic [of onions] — віддавати часником [цибулею]

3) розрізняти на смак ( у страві); відчувати смак

4) їсти, пити ( небагато); not to taste ( a thing) нічого не спробувати, нічого не з'їсти; icт. скуштувати

to taste strange dishes — покуштувати небувалих страв

5) випробувати; отримати уявлення, ознайомитися

to taste the joys of freedom — вкусити щастя вільного життя

6) icт. (of) вкусити, познайомитися; випробувати, пізнати на своєму досвіді

to taste of fame — вкусити слави

to taste of death — подивитися смерті в очі; містити в собі елемент ( чогось); віддавати; = відчуватись

a sharp word that tastes of envy — різкі слова, у яких почувається заздрість /у який чутна нотка заздрості/

7) додавати смак

8) icт. мати смак, схильність

totaste blood — відчути щось нове; відчути гостру насолоду

English-Ukrainian dictionary > taste

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