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1 efficient people

Экономика: квалифицированный персонал

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > efficient people
2 efficient people

квалифицированный персонал

English-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > efficient people
3 efficient people

квалифицированный персонал

Англо-русский строительный словарь > efficient people
4 people

n

1) народ

2) родные, родственники

3) служащие, персонал

- advertising people
- common people
- country people
- efficient people
- engineering people
- farm people
- moneyed people
- old people
- operating people
- operational people
- qualified people
- senior people
- service people
- skilled people
- technical people
- village people

English-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > people
5 people

1) население, жители

2) служащие, персонал

3) населять, заселять

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- efficient people
- engineering people - homeless people - operating people

Англо-русский строительный словарь > people
6 BIOS

['baios] n. shkurtesë nga b asic i nput o utput s ystem ( BIOS) sistemi themelor për hyrje-dalje ( informatikë)

What is BIOS?

BIOS is an acronym for Basic Input/Output System. It is the boot firmware program on a PC, and controls the computer from the time you start it up until the operating system takes over. When you turn on a PC, the BIOS first conducts a basic hardware check, called a Power-On Self Test (POST), to determine whether all of the attachments are present and working. Then it loads the operating system into your computer's random access memory, or RAM.

The BIOS also manages data flow between the computer's operating system and attached devices such as the hard disk, video card, keyboard, mouse, and printer.

The BIOS stores the date, the time, and your system configuration information in a battery-powered, non-volatile memory chip, called a CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) after its manufacturing process.

Although the BIOS is standardized and should rarely require updating, some older BIOS chips may not accommodate new hardware devices. Before the early 1990s, you couldn't update the BIOS without removing and replacing its ROM chip. Contemporary BIOS resides on memory chips such as flash chips or EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory), so that you can update the BIOS yourself if necessary.

For detailed information about BIOS updates, visit:

What is firmware?

Firmware consists of programs installed semi-permanently into memory, using various types of programmable ROM chips, such as PROMS, EPROMs, EEPROMs, and flash chips.

Firmware is non-volatile, and will remain in memory after you turn the system off.

Often, the term firmware is used to refer specifically to boot firmware, which controls a computer from the time that it is turned on until the primary operating system has taken over. Boot firmware's main function is to initialize the hardware and then to boot (load and execute) the primary operating system. On PCs, the boot firmware is usually referred to as the BIOS.

What is the difference between memory and disk storage?

Memory and disk storage both refer to internal storage space in a computer.

The term memory usually means RAM (Random Access Memory). To refer to hard drive storage, the terms disk space or storage are usually used.

Typically, computers have much less memory than disk space, because RAM is much more expensive per megabyte than a hard disk. Today, a typical desktop computer might come with 512MB of RAM, and a 40 gigabyte hard disk.

Virtual memory is disk space that has been designated to act like RAM.

Computers also contain a small amount of ROM, or read-only memory, containing permanent or semi-permanent (firmware) instructions for checking hardware and starting up the computer. On a PC, this is called the BIOS.

What is RAM?

RAM stands for Random Access Memory. RAM provides space for your computer to read and write data to be accessed by the CPU (central processing unit). When people refer to a computer's memory, they usually mean its RAM.

New computers typically come with at least 256 megabytes (MB) of RAM installed, and can be upgraded to 512MB or even a gigabyte or more.

If you add more RAM to your computer, you reduce the number of times your CPU must read data from your hard disk. This usually allows your computer to work considerably faster, as RAM is many times faster than a hard disk.

RAM is volatile, so data stored in RAM stays there only as long as your computer is running. As soon as you turn the computer off, the data stored in RAM disappears.

When you turn your computer on again, your computer's boot firmware (called BIOS on a PC) uses instructions stored semi-permanently in ROM chips to read your operating system and related files from the disk and load them back into RAM.

Note: On a PC, different parts of RAM may be more or less easily accessible to programs. For example, cache RAM is made up of very high-speed RAM chips which sit between the CPU and main RAM, storing (i.e., caching) memory accesses by the CPU. Cache RAM helps to alleviate the gap between the speed of a CPU's megahertz rating and the ability of RAM to respond and deliver data. It reduces how often the CPU must wait for data from main memory.

What is ROM?

ROM is an acronym for Read-Only Memory. It refers to computer memory chips containing permanent or semi-permanent data. Unlike RAM, ROM is non-volatile; even after you turn off your computer, the contents of ROM will remain.

Almost every computer comes with a small amount of ROM containing the boot firmware. This consists of a few kilobytes of code that tell the computer what to do when it starts up, e.g., running hardware diagnostics and loading the operating system into RAM. On a PC, the boot firmware is called the BIOS.

Originally, ROM was actually read-only. To update the programs in ROM, you had to remove and physically replace your ROM chips. Contemporary versions of ROM allow some limited rewriting, so you can usually upgrade firmware such as the BIOS by using installation software. Rewritable ROM chips include PROMs (programmable read-only memory), EPROMs (erasable read-only memory), EEPROMs (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory), and a common variation of EEPROMs called flash memory.

What is an ACPI BIOS?

ACPI is an acronym that stands for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, a power management specification developed by Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba. ACPI support is built into Windows 98 and later operating systems. ACPI is designed to allow the operating system to control the amount of power provided to each device or peripheral attached to the computer system. This provides much more stable and efficient power management and makes it possible for the operating system to turn off selected devices, such as a monitor or CD-ROM drive, when they are not in use.

ACPI should help eliminate computer lockup on entering power saving or sleep mode. This will allow for improved power management, especially in portable computer systems where reducing power consumption is critical for extending battery life. ACPI also allows for the computer to be turned on and off by external devices, so that the touch of a mouse or the press of a key will "wake up" the computer. This new feature of ACPI, called OnNow, allows a computer to enter a sleep mode that uses very little power.

In addition to providing power management, ACPI also evolves the existing Plug and Play BIOS (PnP BIOS) to make adding and configuring new hardware devices easier. This includes support for legacy non-PnP devices and improved support for combining older devices with ACPI hardware, allowing both to work in a more efficient manner in the same computer system. The end result of this is to make the BIOS more PnP compatible.

What is CMOS?

CMOS, short for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor, is a low-power, low-heat semiconductor technology used in contemporary microchips, especially useful for battery-powered devices. The specific technology is explained in detail at:

http://searchsmb.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid44_gci213860,00.html

Most commonly, though, the term CMOS is used to refer to small battery-powered configuration chips on system boards of personal computers, where the BIOS stores the date, the time, and system configuration details.

How do I enter the Setup program in my BIOS?

Warning: Your BIOS Setup program is very powerful. An incorrect setting could cause your computer not to boot properly. You should make sure you understand what a setting does before you change it.

You can usually run Setup by pressing a special function key or key combination soon after turning on the computer, during its power-on self test (POST), before the operating system loads (or before the operating system's splash screen shows). During POST, the BIOS usually displays a prompt such as:

Press F2 to enter Setup

Many newer computers display a brief screen, usually black and white, with the computer manufacturer's logo during POST.

Entering the designated keystroke will take you into the BIOS Setup. Common keystrokes to enter the BIOS Setup are F1, F2, F10, and Del.

On some computers, such as some Gateway or Compaq computers, graphics appear during the POST, and the BIOS information is hidden. You must press Esc to make these graphics disappear. Your monitor will then display the correct keystroke to enter.

Note: If you press the key too early or too often, the BIOS may display an error message. To avoid this, wait about five seconds after turning the power on, and then press the key once or twice.

What's the difference between BIOS and CMOS?

Many people use the terms BIOS (basic input/output system) and CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) to refer to the same thing. Though they are related, they are distinct and separate components of a computer. The BIOS is the program that starts a computer up, and the CMOS is where the BIOS stores the date, time, and system configuration details it needs to start the computer.

The BIOS is a small program that controls the computer from the time it powers on until the time the operating system takes over. The BIOS is firmware, which means it cannot store variable data.

CMOS is a type of memory technology, but most people use the term to refer to the chip that stores variable data for startup. A computer's BIOS will initialize and control components like the floppy and hard drive controllers and the computer's hardware clock, but the specific parameters for startup and initializing components are stored in the CMOS.

English-Albanian dictionary > BIOS
7 work

1. n
1) работа, труд; производство

2) печатный труд, сочинение, произведение

3) pl предприятие

4) pl механизм

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to absent oneself from work — совершать прогул

to appeal to smb to return to work — призывать кого-л. вернуться на работу

to assist women at work — оказывать помощь работающим женщинам

to assure continuity of work — обеспечивать непрерывность работы

to ban smb from work — запрещать кому-л. работать

to be back at work — возвращаться на работу ( после забастовки)

to be on piece-work — работать сдельно

to be out of work — быть безработным

to be the work of smb — быть делом рук кого-л.

to call for a return to work — призывать к возобновлению работы

to carry on / out work — выполнять / делать работу, заниматься работой

to cease work — прекращать работу

to clock in to work — являться на работу

to conduct / to do work — выполнять / делать работу, заниматься работой

to co-ordinate the economic and social work — координировать экономическую и социальную деятельность

to cut / to lessen / to reduce the hours of work — сокращать рабочий день

to direct and co-ordinate smb's work — направлять и координировать чью-л. деятельность

to do the donkey work — разг. вкалывать, ишачить

to drift back to work — постепенно возвращаться на работу ( после забастовки)

to eliminate shortcomings in the work — устранять недостатки в работе

to ensure the continuity of the work — обеспечивать непрерывность работы

to focus the work on economic and social development — сосредоточивать работу на социально-экономическом развитии

to force a return to work — заставлять (забастовщиков) вернуться на работу

to fulfill the work — выполнять работу

to furnish work — предоставлять работу

to go back to work — прекращать забастовку и возвращаться на работу

to induce smb to return to work — побуждать кого-л. вернуться на работу

to initiate work — начинать работу, приступить к работе

to inspect smb's work — проверять чью-л. работу

to intensify the work — усиливать работу, интенсифицировать труд

to load smb with work — загружать кого-л. работой

to look for work — искать работу

to oversee work — следить за ходом работы

to perform the work — выполнять / делать работу, заниматься работой

to pour sand in the work — перен. вставлять палки в колеса

to put a lot of people out of work — лишать многих людей работы

to remove shortcomings in the work — устранять недостатки в работе

to reorganize the work — перестраивать работу

to report for work — являться на работу

to resume work — возобновлять работу

to return to work — возвращаться на работу (напр. после забастовки)

to show up for work — являться на работу

to stay away from work — не выходить на работу; бастовать

to stimulate and advance work — поощрять и стимулировать работу

to stop work — прекращать работу, бастовать

to supplement the work of smb — дополнять чью-л. работу

to suspend work — приостанавливать работу ( при забастовке)

to take time off work — отпрашиваться с работы

to throw people out of work — выбрасывать работников на улицу

to turn up for work — являться на работу

to undertake work — браться за / начинать / предпринимать работу

- accessory work
- active work
- allotment of work
- amount of work
- brain work
- casual work
- classified work
- collective work
- contract work
- contractual work
- creative work
- cultural work
- day-to-day work
- dead horse work
- decontamination work
- development work
- disincentive to work
- educational work
- efficient work
- emergency work
- explanatory work
- extra work
- field work
- fruitful work
- full-time work
- habits of work
- hand work
- hard work
- health work
- ideological work
- improvement in work
- in search of work
- independent work
- international work
- joint work
- killing work
- low-paid work
- maintenance work
- manual work
- mental work
- odd work
- office work
- organizational work
- out of work
- overtime work
- pace of work
- part-time work
- person out of work
- physical work
- pick-and-shovel work
- Pickle Work
- piece work
- political work
- practical work
- preliminary work
- preparatory work
- productive work
- program of work

- propaganda work
- public sector work
- public work
- publicity work
- quality of work
- regular work
- relief work
- research work
- return to work
- right to work

- routine work
- rush work
- schedule work
- seasonal work
- short-time work
- skilled work
- skunk work
- slovenly work
- social work
- subsidiary work
- task work
- team work
- temporary work
- theoretical works
- those in work
- time work
- undercover works
- vital work
- volunteer work
- wage work
- wet work
- work in process
- year-round work 2. v
работать; трудиться

to work closely with smb — тесно сотрудничать с кем-л.

to work fine on the upside — быть хорошим стимулятором развития экономики

to work for free — работать бесплатно

to work for Jesus — жарг. "работать на дядю" ( бесплатно выполнять дополнительную работу)

to work hand in hand — тесно сотрудничать

to work in collaboration with smb — работать в сотрудничестве с кем-л.

to work out — разрабатывать (план и т.п.)

to work smth out on paper — разрабатывать что-л. на бумаге

to work step by step — действовать поэтапно

to work together — работать вместе; сотрудничать

to work without hindrance — работать беспрепятственно

Politics english-russian dictionary > work
8 run

[rʌn] 1. гл.; прош. вр. ran; прич. прош. вр. run
1)

а) бежать, бегать

to run home — бежать домой

to run upstairs — побежать наверх

to run the streets — бегать по улицам

I've got to run for my bus. — Мне пришлось побежать, чтобы успеть на автобус.

He ran the mile in under four minutes. — Он пробежал милю меньше чем за четыре минуты.

The dog ran at the visitor and bit him. — Собака бросилась на посетителя и укусила его.

I opened the door and the cat ran in. — Я открыл дверь, и в дом забежала кошка.

He ran at me and kicked me. — Он подбежал ко мне и ударил.

Would you run up and get my glasses? — Поднимись, пожалуйста, принеси мне очки.

Lots of people ran out to see what had caused the noise. — Масса народу выбежала на улицу поглядеть, из-за чего этот шум.

Don't run away, I want to talk to you. — Погоди, я хочу с тобой поговорить.

- run for it

б) бегать, передвигаться свободно, без ограничений

Let chickens run loose. — Пусть цыплята побегают на свободе.

в) быстро уходить, убегать; спасаться бегством, дезертировать

The robbers took the money and ran. — Грабители забрали деньги и сбежали.

I should have to run the country. — Мне придётся покинуть страну.

If they run their board I shall have to pay it. — Если они сбегут, не заплатив за еду, платить придётся мне.

Syn:

leave, depart, abscond, desert

2)

а) преследовать; гнать

to run a fox to cover — гнать лису в укрытие

б) заставлять (лошадь и т. п.) быстро бежать ( особенно при езде верхом), гнать, погонять

The horses were run rapidly forward to the skirmish-line. — Лошадей галопом направили к линии огня.

в) загонять

to run smb. ragged / off his legs — загонять кого-л. до изнеможения

He had almost run himself to a standstill. — Он набегался так, что не мог сдвинуться с места.

You'd never believe that woman was nearly eighty, she could run us all off our feet. — Ни за что не скажешь, что этой женщине было почти восемьдесят, она нас всех могла загонять.

г) ( run out (of)) выгонять (откуда-л.)

There's enough of us here to run you out. — Нас здесь вполне достаточно для того, чтобы тебя прогнать.

3)

а) двигать, передвигать, заставлять скользить быстро и без труда

I cook a meal for him occasionally and I run a vacuum over the place. — Время от времени я готовлю ему еду и провожу уборку с помощью пылесоса.

б) иск. двигать, перемещать ( декорации) по сцене

4)

а) быстро перемещаться; двигаться, ехать ( о транспорте)

б) ходить, курсировать, плавать (о поездах, судах и т. п.)

to run late — опоздать, прийти не по расписанию

The shuttle runs daily from New York to Boston. — Самолёты каждый день совершают регулярные рейсы Нью-Йорк - Бостон.

The trains aren't running now. — Поезда сейчас не ходят.

Syn:

go, ply

5)

а) плыть

Far ran the naked moon. — Высоко плыла беззащитная луна.

On that day she deviated from the course of the voyage and ran for Mauritius. — В тот день корабль отклонился от намеченного пути и взял курс на остров Маврикий.

We were winning the boat race until our boat ran aground on a sandbank. — Мы шли впереди всех в лодочной гонке, пока наша лодка не налетела на мель.

б) быстро плыть, идти на нерест ( о рыбе)

6)

а) управлять (транспортным средством, судном и т. п.)

They no longer run steamers there. — Они больше не водят здесь пароходы.

б) направлять ( транспортное средство)

She got back after lunch and ran the car into the garage. — Она вернулась после завтрака и поставила машину в гараж.

в) держать (двигатель, машину и т. п.) работающим, действующим

I can't collect you. I don't run a car. — Я не могу за тобой заехать. У меня не заводится машина.

7)

а) перевозить, транспортировать; доставлять к месту назначения

The engine runs trucks to and from the piers on the island. — На острове машина привозила и отвозила товары с пирса и на пирс.

б) = run across, = run along подвозить (кого-л.)

I ran Johnson back to my house. — Я отвёз Джонсона обратно к себе домой.

Don't wait for the bus in this cold weather, I'll run you across to your mother's. — Зачем тебе ждать автобуса на холоде, давай я подброшу тебя до дома твоей матери.

There's no hurry to get there; I can run you along in the car. — Незачем спешить, я подвезу тебя на своей машине.

в) перевозить, ввозить ( контрабандный товар)

8) = run over, = run up совершать краткое путешествие

During the last five years Fry had formed the habit of running over to Paris. — В течение последних пяти лет у Фрая выработалась привычка ненадолго ездить в Париж.

9)

а) (run (up)on / against / into) налетать, наталкиваться на (что-л.); сталкиваться с (чем-л.)

The boat ran (up)on the rocks. — Лодка наскочила на камни.

Guess whom I ran against in London the other day? — Угадай, с кем я на днях столкнулся в Лондоне?

б) (run against, run into) ударять, стукать обо (что-л. / кого-л.), сталкивать с (чем-л. / кем-л.)

to run one's head against the door — стукнуться головой о дверь

10)

а) двигаться, катиться (о мяче; о костях, когда их кидают)

The ball ran into the street. — Мяч выкатился на улицу.

б) ударять (по шару, особенно в бильярде), катить (шар, особенно в боулинге)

He ran the ball strongly 30ft. past the hole. — Он ударил по мячу так, что тот на 30 футов перелетел через лунку.

11) проводить, пробегать (рукой, глазами и т. п.)

She ran her fingers over the smooth material. — Она провела пальцами по гладкой ткани.

I caught myself running my glance round. — Я поймал себя на том, что мельком оглядываю всё вокруг.

She ran down the first page of her letter. — Она пробежала первую страницу письма.

His eye swiftly ran from line to line. — Его глаза быстро перебегали с одной строчки на другую.

Let's run through the whole play from the beginning. — Давайте посмотрим всю пьесу сначала.

Syn:

glance, pass, glide

12)

а) вращаться, крутиться

In which case the wheel will have liberty to run. — В этом случае колесо сможет свободно вращаться.

Syn:

revolve, turn

б) идти, крутиться (о киноплёнке, магнитной плёнке); демонстрироваться ( о фильме)

I'd been to see a film in the afternoon, and it ran longer than I expected. — Днём я пошёл посмотреть фильм, и он продолжался дольше, чем я думал.

The film began to run. — Начался фильм.

13)

а) литься, струиться, течь

The stream runs down the valley. — Поток стекает в долину.

Tears ran from her eyes. — Из глаз у неё текли слёзы.

б) ( run with) сделаться мокрым от (чего-л.)

The mud walls ran down with damp. — Грязные стены отсырели от влажности.

Syn:

flow, stream

в) протекать, течь; переполняться ( о сосудах); наполняться ( о ванне)

Syn:

leak, overflow

14) расплываться; линять (о рисунке и т. п.)

Her red blouse ran on the lighter colored clothes in the wash. — При стирке красная блузка линяла, окрашивая более светлые вещи.

15)

а) плавиться, таять, течь ( в результате таяния)

The ice cream ran in the warm sun. — Мороженое на солнце растаяло.

Syn:

dissolve, melt

б) соединяться (в один кусок, особенно во влажном или расплавленном состоянии), затвердевать ( комком)

16)

а) скользить, легко двигаться, идти гладко

The neck-halter seems to have been tarry, and did not run. — Верёвка с петлей, похоже, не была пропитана и поэтому не скользила.

б) ( run through) проводить по (чему-л.), пропускать через (что-л.)

to run a comb through one's hair — провести расчёской по волосам

to run a pen through smth. — зачеркнуть, перечеркнуть что-л. ручкой

Will you run a thread through an eyelet? — Продень нитку в иголку, будь так добр.

17)

а) простираться, расстилаться, тянуться прям. и перен.

A balustrade runs round the building. — Вокруг здания тянется балюстрада.

He was brilliantly attired in crimson pyjamas. Who would have thought his taste would run to the exotic? (S. Woods) — Он был облачён в малиновую пижаму. Кто бы мог предположить, что он дойдёт до такой экзотики?

Syn:

extend, stretch

б) тянуться, расти, обвиваться ( о растениях)

18) спорт.

а) соревноваться, участвовать (в соревнованиях, скачках)

Syn:

compete

б) проводить (бега, гонки, скачки)

The Derby has been run in a snowstorm. — Дерби проводилось во время бурана.

в) заявлять ( лошадь) на скачки

No person can run more than one horse for any plate. — На любые скачки на приз каждый может заявить только одну лошадь.

19) брать назад (слово, обещание и т. п.), расторгать, нарушать ( договор)

The contracting party may be inclined to run from his word. — Договаривающаяся сторона, возможно, захочет взять назад своё слово.

20) ( run off) не оказывать влияния на (кого-л.)

The scoldings run off him like water off a duck's back. — Его ругают, а с него всё как с гуся вода.

21)

а) преим. амер. баллотироваться, выставлять (свою) кандидатуру на выборах

Richard Roe will run for mayor. — Ричард Роу выставит свою кандидатуру на пост мэра.

How many people are running in this election? — Сколько кандидатов участвуют в выборах?

б) выставлять в качестве кандидата

22) амер. навязывать, расхваливать, рекламировать

I went with him to the house he was running for. — Я пошёл с ним к дому, который он так расхваливал.

23) быстро распространяться

A whisper ran through the crowd. — По толпе пробежал шёпот.

The news ran all over town. — Известие быстро распространилось по всему городу.

Syn:

spread

24) муз.; = run down исполнять, выводить рулады; быстро пропевать

25)

а) быстро вырастать, давая семена

б) отставать ( о коре деревьев)

26)

а) распускаться ( о петлях)

Her stocking ran. — У неё на чулке спустилась петля.

б) расстёгиваться

27) работать, функционировать

One of these little engines recently ran forty-seven days and nights without stoppage. — Один из этих маленьких моторчиков недавно проработал сорок семь суток без остановки.

The American university: how it runs, where it is going. — Американский университет: как он живёт, куда он движется.

28) крутиться, вертеться, постоянно возвращаться ( о мыслях)

phrase running in the head — фраза, которая крутится в голове

It runs in my head that I've heard something about it. — У меня вертелось в голове, что я где-то уже об этом слышал.

My thoughts have been running upon the future. — Я всё думаю о будущем.

29)

а) проходить, бежать, лететь

How fast the years run by! — Как быстро летят годы!

Life ran smoothly in its ordinary grooves. — Жизнь текла гладко в своём привычном русле.

Their talks ran on for hours. — Они говорили часами.

Syn:

elapse, pass, go by

б) кончаться

The night was almost run. — Ночь почти прошла.

Syn:

come to an end, expire

30) идти, продолжаться, длиться; быть действительным ( на определённый срок)

The lease runs for five years. — Аренда действительна на пять лет.

Syn:

continue, go on, last

31)

а) идти (о пьесе, фильме)

This film is now running at all cinemas. — Этот фильм идёт сейчас во всех кинотеатрах.

б) показывать (пьесу, фильм)

32)

а) иметь хождение, быть в обращении ( о деньгах)

б) действовать на определённой территории, распространяться на определённой территории (о законах, воззваниях)

33) быть характерным ( для членов одной семьи)

Musical ability runs in my family. — В нашей семье ярко выражены музыкальные способности.

34)

а) быть напечатанным, быть опубликованным, появиться

The story ran in all the papers. — История появилась во всех газетах.

Syn:

print, publish, display

б) печатать, публиковать

The ad was run in the paper for two days. — Объявление публиковалось в газете два дня.

35) гласить (о документе, тексте и т. п.); быть выраженным ( определённым способом)

telex running as follows — телекс следующего содержания

I know not how his proper official title ran. — Я не знаю, каков был его официальный титул.

36) = run out, = run up достигать ( определённого) количества, стоимости, доходить, равняться

Last autumn arrests of illegal immigrants were running 80 a week. — Прошлой осенью число арестов нелегальных иммигрантов доходило до 80 в неделю.

How much will the repairs run? — Сколько будет стоить ремонт?

The bill runs to $100. — Счёт составляет 100 долларов.

The prices run from $5 to $200. — Цены варьируются от 5 до 200 долларов.

The book ran into five editions. — Книга выдержала пять изданий.

The total area runs out at 25,000 square miles. — Вся область составляет 25000 квадратных миль.

The bill for the repairs might run up to $300. — Счёт за ремонт может составить около 300 долларов.

Syn:

extend, cost, amount, total

37) придерживаться ( определённых взглядов)

The members encouraged one another in running the Christian course. — Все члены поддерживали друг друга в следовании христианской религии.

38) подвергаться (опасности, риску и т. п.)

We run a danger of wasting time. — Мы рискуем потерять время.

She's not afraid to run a risk. — Она не боится риска.

Syn:

encounter, meet

39)

а) прорывать, преодолевать (какое-л. препятствие); пробиваться сквозь (что-л.)

to run the blockade — прорвать блокаду

to run the cutter — ускользать от таможенного судна

The escaped prisoners ran the roadblock. — Сбежавшие заключённые проскочили сквозь дорожно-пропускной пункт.

б) разг. проскочить ( на красный свет)

Wilson told officers the brakes of his truck failed, causing him to run a red light at the intersection. — Уилсон сказал полицейским, что у его грузовика отказали тормоза, поэтому ему пришлось на перекрёстке проскочить на красный свет.

40)

а) сшивать на скорую руку, смётывать

б) штопать для укрепления ( пятку чулка)

в) прикреплять (ленту, тесьму и т. п.), пропуская через прорези в одежде

41) ( be run) быть стеснённым (в чём-л.)

I shall be hard run unless I can get a certain sum of money. — У меня будут большие денежные затруднения, если я не достану определённую сумму денег.

Both author and artist were notoriously always run for time. — И писатель, и художник были известны тем, что у них всегда не хватало времени.

42) наседать, поджимать (в состязаниях, соперничестве)

Gloriana would run her very close on the score of beauty. — Глориана не отставала от неё по красоте.

43) преим. амер. руководить, управлять; вести (дело, предприятие и т. п.); следить (за кем-л.), контролировать

Teach me how to run the business. — Научи меня вести дела.

Why couldn't Mother let me run my own birthday? — Почему мама не разрешает мне самому организовать свой день рождения?

Our staff are highly efficient; the place runs itself almost without our interference. — У нас высококвалифицированные служащие; предприятие работает практически без нашего вмешательства.

You're my father and all that, but I'll be damned if you run me any more. — Ты мой отец и всё такое, но будь я проклят, если я ещё хоть раз позволю тебе собой командовать.

- run the show

Syn:

direct, conduct, carry on

44) ввести (кого-л.) в общество

45) амер. помогать, обеспечивать средствами к существованию

46) страдать ( от лихорадки или высокой температуры)

I was running a small fever. — У меня была небольшая температура.

I don't like her running this temperature. — Мне не нравится, что у неё такая высокая температура.

47) = run through приводить в действие, включать ( кинокамеру)

48) проводить (эксперимент, тест), проводить измерения

49) амер.; австрал.; разг. дразнить, досаждать, изводить,

Syn:

tease, nag, vex

50) разг. заявлять (о ком-л.) в полицию, передавать (кого-л.) в руки полиции

51) воен. выдвигать обвинение против (кого-л.)

52) подтасовывать, фальсифицировать

Syn:

manipulate, falsify

53)

а) вырезать ( знак), рисовать, чертить ( линию) на поверхности

б) вести, тянуть, проводить (что-л. в определённом направлении или до определённой длины)

Syn:

extend, lead, take, carry

54) прослеживать, устанавливать (параллели, сходство); проводить ( различия)

55) объединять, соединять

The events of two days have been run into one. — События двух дней были объединены в одно.

Syn:

unite, combine

56) ( run to) тяготеть к (чему-л.), иметь склонность к (чему-л.)

to run to extremes — впадать в крайности

The writer runs to descriptive details. — Этот писатель очень любит подробно описывать детали.

57) ( run to) обращаться к (кому-л., за помощью или советом)

to run to Jim for assistance — обратиться к Джиму за помощью

58) ( run to) хватать, быть достаточным для (чего-л.)

The money won't run to a car. — Этих денег не хватит на машину.

Syn:

lope, race, sprint

59) ( run with) общаться с (кем-л.); водить компанию с (кем-л.)

In his younger days he ran with some very undesirable types. — В юности он общался с некоторыми очень подозрительными типами.

60) ( run across) (случайно) встретиться с (кем-л.); натолкнуться на (кого-л. / что-л.)

I ran across my former teacher this afternoon. — Сегодня я встретил своего старого учителя.

I ran across an excellent book on history. — Я тут обнаружил замечательную книгу по истории.

61) ( run after) "бегать", ухаживать за (кем-л.)

All the girls are running after the attractive new student. — Девушки прохода не дают этому симпатичному студенту-новичку.

62) ( run into) наезжать на (что-л.), врезаться во (что-л.)

I ran into the gatepost and hurt my knee. — Я налетел на столб и повредил колено.

This lamppost looks as if it's been run into by a bus. — Этот столб выглядит так, как будто в него врезался автобус.

63) ( run into) случайно встретить (кого-л.), столкнуться с (кем-л.)

Guess who I run into in the High Street this afternoon? — Знаешь, кого я сегодня встретил на Хай-Стрит?

Syn:

bang I 2. 8), bump, barge, knock

64) ( run into) столкнуться с (чем-л. неприятным)

to run into debt — влезть в долги

65) ( run (up)on) касаться (какой-л. темы), вращаться вокруг (какой-л. темы)

His thoughts ran upon the happy times that he had spent there. — Он вспомнил о том счастливом времени, которое провёл здесь когда-то.

66) ( run over) просматривать; повторять (что-л.)

Just run over your notes before the examination. — Просто прогляди свои конспекты перед экзаменом.

67) ( run through) промотать ( деньги)

How can you have run through so much money so quickly? — Как ты мог потратить так быстро так много денег?

68) (run + прил.) становиться, делаться

The little pond ran dry. — Маленький пруд высох.

The roads ran wild. — Дороги заросли.

Some say whiskey will run a man crazy. — Некоторые говорят, что от виски человек становится психом.

- run low
- run cold
- run mad
- run hot
Syn:

become, get

69) держать, мыть ( под краном)

to run one's hands under the tap — мыть руки под краном

70) соединять ( линией или верёвкой) две точки

накапливаться, образовываться ( о долге)

It is found a great safeguard against debt not to run long accounts. — Хорошая гарантия не делать долгов - не накапливать счёта.

71)

а) ( run into) втыкать, вонзать во (что-л.)

б) ( run through) прокалывать, пронзать, протыкать (кого-л.)

Ormonde ran two of the cowards through the body. — Ормонд пронзил тела двух трусов.

72) иметь ( определённый) склад, характер, свойство, форму

His hair was brown, with a tendency to run in ringlets. — У него были каштановые волосы, имеющие тенденцию завиваться колечками.

73)

а) преим. австрал. выпускать на подножный корм (коров, овец)

Syn:

graze

б) запустить (хорька, которого держат для отлова кроликов, уничтожения крыс) в нору

74) диал. скисать, сквашиваться ( о молоке)

Syn:

coagulate, curdle

75)

а) истекать (чем-л.)

His lips, his fangs, ran blood. — С его губ, с его клыков стекала кровь.

б) выпускать

The drains will run the water out of the land. — Дренажные канавы осушат земли.

Syn:

discharge, convey

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- run ashore
- run aground
- run foul of
- run short
- run counter
- run about
- run along
- run around
- run away
- run back
- run down
- run in
- run off
- run on
- run out
- run over
- run round
- run through
- run up
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to run one's mouth / off at the mouth — амер.; разг. неумеренно болтать, пустозвонить

- run to form
- run off the rails
- run for luck
- run messages
- run it close
- run it fine
- run smth. close
- run smb. close
- run too far
- run the gantlope
- run oneself into the ground
- run away with the idea 2. сущ.
1)

а) бег, пробег, пробежка

five-minutes' run — пятиминутная пробежка

to go for a run — пробежаться

to keep smb. on the run — не давать кому-л. остановиться

We took a run around the track. — Мы побежали по беговой дорожке.

Syn:

running, trot, canter

б) перебежка, за которую засчитывается очко ( в крикете или бейсболе)

в) гон; забег ( на скачках)

2) короткая поездка, небольшое путешествие

Let's take a run upstate for the day. — Давай съездим на денёк за город.

Syn:

trip, excursion, journey

3)

а) плавание, переход ( особенно между двумя портами)

- run-boat

б) ж.-д. пробег (паровоза, вагона)

в) ж.-д. отрезок пути; прогон

4) прогулка быстрым шагом; пробежка ( в современном употреблении преимущественно о прогулке собак)

to give one's dog a short run — вывести собаку на короткую прогулку

Syn:

perambulation

5)

а) воен. наступательная операция, атака с моря или воздуха

б) авиа заход на цель

The aircraft is seen making its second run over the target. — Видно, как самолёт делает второй заход на цель.

- dummy run

6) авиа

а) полёт, перелёт; рейс

I was on the Sydney-Melbourne run. — Я совершал перелёт из Сиднея в Мельбурн.

б) расстояние, пролетаемое самолётом

7) выгрузка контрабандного товара ( доставляемого по морю), прибытие контрабандного товара

Keep careful watch tonight; run expected. — Будьте на страже сегодня ночью; ожидается прибытие контрабандного товара.

8) регулярный обход, объезд

paper run — разноска газет

milk run — развоз молока

At night when they had done the evening run on their traps they would return home. — Вечером после того, как они объезжали все свои ловушки, они возвращались домой.

9) амер.

а) ручей, речушка

Syn:

flow, brook, rivulet, watercourse

б) сток, водослив

Syn:

channel, overflow

в) поток, сильный прилив

10) струя песка, обвал, оползень

Syn:

slip, slide

11) потёк ( краски)

12) муз. рулада

13) период времени, полоса (удач, неудач и т. п.)

Gamblers always hope for a run of good luck. — Игроки всегда надеются, что наступит полоса удач.

We have had a long-continued run of the loveliest weather. — На длительный период установилась чудеснейшая погода.

Syn:

series, course, continuance, continuation

14) геол. простирание пласта; направление рудной жилы

15) длина ( провода)

16) амер. спустившаяся петля ( обычно на чулке)

I'm darning up a run in my old ski sweater. — Я зашиваю спустившуюся петлю на старом свитере.

Syn:

ladder

17) непрерывная серия, последовательность

18) рыба, идущая на нерест

19) подшивка ( периодических изданий)

run of the Field Newspaper from 1985 — подшивка газеты "Филд" с 1985 года

20) горн. поезд или ряд вагонеток ( в шахте)

21) ( the run) разг. приступ поноса

22)

а) фин. наплыв требований к банкам о немедленных выплатах

In July the failure of some commercial firms resulted in a run on several German banks. — В июле банкротство нескольких коммерческих фирм привело к массовому изъятию вкладов из нескольких немецких банков.

б) спрос (на какой-л. товар)

The book has a considerable run. — Книга хорошо распродаётся.

в) наплыв, скопление (покупателей и т. п.)

23) период, в который спектакль, фильм остаётся на сцене, идёт в прокате; период, в который выставка открыта для посетителей

This comedy has a lengthened run. — Эта комедия уже долго идёт на сцене.

The International Textile Exhibition closed yesterday after a run of something like six weeks. — Вчера закрылась международная текстильная выставка, которая работала около шести недель.

24)

а) ток ( жидкости); количество жидкости, протекающее в единицу времени

It was no hard run - but my 104 buckets would probably yield 40 or 50 gallons of maple sap today. — Ток был не очень обильным - однако сегодня 104 моих ведра, возможно, дали 40 или 50 галлонов кленового сока.

б) нефт. погон, фракция

25)

а) ход, работа, действие (машины, двигателя)

б) испытание, эксперимент ( особенно с помощью автоматического оборудования)

Only one experimental run to test the machinery has been made. — Для проверки оборудования было проведено только одно экспериментальное испытание.

в) информ. (однократный) проход, прогон ( программы)

26) нечто среднее, стандарт; большинство

common / general / normal / ordinary run — обычный, средний тип, класс

We've had nothing exciting - just the usual run of applicants. — У нас не происходило ничего особенного - обычные просители.

a man of mind, above the run of men — умный человек, превосходящий большинство людей

27) выводок (о детёнышах животных, птиц)

Syn:

batch, drove

28) партия товара, класс товара

The best runs of English and foreign wheat sell at full prices. — Лучшие сорта английской и иностранной пшеницы продаются по полной цене.

29) тираж

run of 3,000 copies — тираж в 3000 экземпляров

30) тропа, проложенная животными

31) нора, убежище

The kids are building a rabbit run. — Дети строят норку для кролика.

Syn:

enclosure, pen

32)

а) огороженное место ( для домашних животных)

Fowls are restricted to a narrow yard or run. — Домашние птицы содержатся в узком загоне или вольере.

б) австрал. (овечье) пастбище

в) австрал. скотоводческая ферма

33) уклон; трасса

34) ( runs) амер. место разгрузки, погрузки или сортировки вагонов, горка

35)

а) жёлоб, лоток, труба и т. п. (для воды)

б) горн. бремсберг, уклон

36) мор. кормовое заострение ( корпуса)

37) направление; тенденция развития

We shall find, I think, the general run of things to be such as I have represented it. — Я думаю, что мы обнаружим общую тенденцию развития такой, как я здесь представил.

Syn:

course, passage, tendency, direction

38) разг. свобода, возможность пользования (чем-л.)

You have the run of my office. — Вы можете свободно пользоваться моим офисом.

Then I have the run of the place entirely to myself. — Итак, это место в полном моём распоряжении.

Syn:

freedom

39) амер. переселение колонистов на новые земли

40) австрал.; новозел. стрижка овцы

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at a run — подряд

the run of one's teeth / knife — бесплатное питание ( обычно за выполненную работу)

in the long run — в конце концов; в общем

to go with a run — идти как по маслу

to get the run — преим. австрал.; разг. быть уволенным с работы

- a run for one's money
- be on the run
- do smth. on the run
- have smb. on the run
- get smb. on the run
- keep smb. on the run 3. прил.
1) жидкий

2) мор. сбежавший, дезертировавший

run man — дезертир

3) идущий на нерест, нерестящийся ( о рыбе)

4) шотл. туго затянутый ( об узле)

5) горн. мягкий

6) диал. скисший, свернувшийся ( о молоке)

Syn:

coagulated, clotted

7) разг. контрабандный ( о товаре)

Syn:

smuggled

8)

а) растопленный

run butter — топлёное масло

б) расплавленный

run metal — расплавленный металл

run steel — расплавленная сталь

9) гонимый, преследуемый; измученный погоней, выдохшийся

Syn:

hunted, chased

10) продолжающийся, непрерывный

Syn:

continuous

11) (- run) происходящий ( определённым образом)

hard-run day of battle — день ожесточённой битвы

Nothing differs more from a true-run race than the ordinary careful gallop used in training. — Настоящие скачки кардинально отличаются от обычного аккуратного галопа при тренировке.

Англо-русский современный словарь > run
9 good

1. n добро, благо

good and evil — добро и зло

god is good — Бог благ

did good — сделал добро

done good — делал добро

good morning — доброе утро

doing good — делающий добро

2. n польза

to do good — быть полезным, приносить пользу

that will do more harm than good — это принесёт больше вреда, чем пользы

it will do you good to spend a week in the country — неделя в деревне пойдёт вам на пользу, вам будет полезно провести неделю в деревне

an influence for good — благотворное влияние

for the public good — на общее благо

what good will it do? — что пользы в этом?

what is the good of it? — какой в этом смысл?; что в этом толку?

what good will that do you?, what good will it be to you? — зачем вам это?, какой вам смысл делать это?

a lot of good that will do you! — напрасно вы это затеваете; от этого толку не будет

to come to good — дать хороший результат

to come to no good — плохо кончить

he will come to no good — для него это добром не кончится; он плохо кончит

do good — приносить пользу

ultimate good — максимальная польза

to good purpose — с большим успехом; с большой пользой

3. n добрые люди

the good and the bad — добрые и злые

to be 500 dollars to the good — получить 500 долларов прибыли

for good — навсегда, окончательно

to settle down for good — осесть окончательно

the Good Shepherd — пастырь добрый

good will mission — визит доброй воли

with good intent — с добрым намерением

good faith deposit — депозит доброй воли

envoys of good will — посланцы доброй воли

4. a хороший

good house — хороший дом

good play — хорошая пьеса

good manners — хорошие манеры

good soil — хорошая земля

good humour — хорошее настроение

of good family — из хорошей семьи

good breeding — хорошее воспитание, хорошие манеры

in good English — на хорошем английском языке, безупречным английским языком

very good! — прекрасно!, отлично!, замечательно!

good luck! — желаю удачи!

good points — хорошие стати, хороший экстерьер

Good Conduct Badge — значок за безупречную службу

to feel good — хорошо себя чувствовать

to have a good time — хорошо провести время, здорово повеселиться

to have a good night — хорошо спать

to bring good news — приносить хорошие новости

good job — хорошая работа

no good — ничего хорошего

good dream — хороший сон

good kind — хороший сорт

good start — хороший старт

5. a приятный, хороший

good looks — приятная внешность

to be a good golfer — хорошо играть в гольф

uncommon good beer — чертовски хорошее пиво

be on good terms — быть в хороших отношениях

good shot at golf — хороший игрок в гольф

good crop prospects — хорошие виды на урожай

6. a выгодный; удобный

good marriage — выгодный брак

good through — годный до

good bargain — выгодная сделка

a good racket — выгодное дельце

good berth — выгодная должность

a good pennyworth — выгодная сделка

7. a имеющий хорошую репутацию; хороший

to live at a good address — жить в фешенебельном квартале

tobacco of good burning quality — табак с хорошей горючестью

she has a feel for good poetry — она чувствует хорошие стихи

it is rather good than bad — это скорее хороший, чем плохой

a room with good ventilation — комната с хорошей вентиляцией

a good Jack makes a good Jill — у хорошего мужа хорошая жена

8. a высокий, важный

people of a good position — люди, занимающие высокое положение

not very good — неважный

good workmanship — высокое качество работ

none so good — вовсе не хороший, неважный

good beef — говядина выше средней категории

it matters a good deal to me — для меня это очень важно

9. a полезный

medicine good for a headache — лекарство, хорошо помогающее от головной боли

oil is good for burns — ожоги хорошо смазывать маслом

meat is not good for you — мясо вам вредно

he drinks more than is good for him — он чересчур много пьёт; он пьёт во вред здоровью

good time — полезное время

10. a годный

are acorns good to eat? — жёлуди употребляют в пищу?

this water is good to drink — эта вода вполне пригодна для питья

be good money — выгодный; выгодно помещенные деньги

partially good chip — частично годный кристалл

11. a умелый, искусный, хороший

good workman — искусный ремесленник

good scholar — серьёзный учёный

good swimmer — хороший пловец

to be a good skater — хорошо кататься на коньках

to be a good dancer — быть хорошим танцором, хорошо танцевать

workmanship good — хорошее качество работы

good holding ground — хорошо держащий грунт

good quality beam — пучок хорошей геометрии

good wheat land — хорошая почва для пшеницы

having a good chance — имеющий хороший шанс

12. a подходящий; отвечающий цели, назначению; соответствующий

good mother — хорошая мать

a good man for the work — человек, подходящий для данной работы

a good light for reading — свет, удобный для чтения

to take a good aim — метко стрелять, точно попадать в цель

making good on agoal — достижение цели

make good on agoal — достигать цель

13. a добрый, доброжелательный

good works — добрые дела

good nature — добродушие

good feeling — симпатия

good neighbourship — добрососедские отношения

good motive — доброе побуждение

Good Hope — — мыс Доброй Надежды

good will visit — визит доброй воли

the good old times — добрые старые времена

to bid good morning — пожелать доброго утра

14. a благоприятный, положительный

have a good press — получить благоприятные отзывы в печати

good inheritance — благоприятная наследственность

15. a добродетельный; чистый

good Christian — добрый христианин

good citizen — лояльный гражданин

16. a воспитанный, послушный

good child — послушный ребёнок

to have good manners — быть воспитанным

17. a милый, любезный, добрый

be good enough to … — будьте так любезны …

good wishes — добрые пожелания

good enough — достаточно любезный

with a good grace — охотно, любезно

good tidings — хорошие новости, добрые вести

good faith letter — письмо в духе доброй воли

18. a свежий, неиспорченный; доброкачественный

good food — доброкачественная пища

turning out good food — приготовление доброкачественной пищи

turned out good food — приготовил доброкачественную пищу

19. a настоящий, неподдельный

good money — настоящие деньги

good trencher-man — настоящий гурман или обжора

20. a надёжный; кредитоспособный

good man — кредитоспособный человек

21. a здоровый, хороший

good sight — хорошее зрение

he is a good penman — у него хороший почерк

good geometry beam — пучок хорошей геометрии

in good fix — в порядке, в хорошем состоянии

make good weather — хорошо выдерживать шторм

on good securities — под хорошее обеспечение

22. a способный, в состоянии

he is good for some years more — он проживёт ещё несколько лет

have good reason — иметь все основания

in good repair — в хорошем состоянии

in good repair — в исправном состоянии

I wish you good luck — желаю вам удачи

good working condition — исправное состояние

23. a действительный; действующий

the ticket is good for two months — билет действителен в течение двух месяцев

good till month order — приказ, действующий в течение месяца

good this month order — приказ, действующий в течение месяца

good till week order — приказ, действующий в течение недели

good right — юридически действительное право

speed made good — действительная скорость

24. a основательный; оправданный; справедливый; законный

good excuse — основательная причина

good claim — справедливое притязание

to stand good — оставаться в силе

good title — законный титул

a good clean — основательная уборка

to have a good tuck-in — основательно подзакусить

25. a достаточный; обильный, изрядный

a good round sum — кругленькая сумма

a good few — немало

a good while — довольно долго

a good deal — много, значительное количество

I have a good many books — у меня много книг

a good half hour — добрых полчаса

a good part of the day — значительная часть дня

a good share of the work — значительная часть работы

a good piece of cake — изрядный кусок пирога

to walk a good three miles — пройти добрых три мили

to have a good laugh — хорошенько посмеяться

to earn good money — неплохо заработать

to come in a good third — занять почётное третье добрый, милый

my good friend — мой добрый друг

my good man — мой дорогой

a good bit — изрядно, много

good ground — достаточное основание

26. a эмоц. -усил. сильный, большой, крепкий; как следует

good hard work — тяжёлая работа

good thrashing — здоровая трёпка

good blow — сильный удар

good bruise — большой синяк

a good strong dose — изрядная доза

good cast — сильный состав

good number — большое количество

good and hungry — голодный как волк

good many — многие; большое количество

made good track — точно следовал курсу

27. a хорошо

good night — доброй ночи

the Good Book — библия; священное писание

good God!, good gosh!, good gracious! — господи!, боже мой!, боже правый!

good grief! — чёрт возьми!; ну и ну!

good old John ! — браво, Джон !

good Lord, deliver us! — господи, спаси и помилуй!

all in good time — всё в своё время

good sport — славный парень

the good people — эльфы, феи

in good faith

to fulfil in good faith — добросовестно выполнять

as good as — почти; всё равно что

he is as good as dead — он уже не жилец на свете

he has as good as got the job — это место у него в кармане; считай, что он уже получил эту работу

as good as a feast — вполне достаточно

as good as pie — очень хороший, симпатичный; благонравный, паинька

as good as wheat — очень хорошо, подходяще

as good as a play — очень интересно, забавно

his word is as good as his bond — он никогда не нарушает обещаний, он всегда держит своё слово

his example is as good as his sermon — у него слово не расходится с делом

too good to be true — так хорошо, что не верится; невероятно, не может быть

to have a good mind to … — намереваться, собираться

to make good the ground — закрепляться на местности

jolly good — очень хорошо

good goer — хороший ходок

good oar — хороший гребец

good table — хороший стол

good sign — хороший признак

Синонимический ряд:

1. admirable (adj.) admirable; capital; exceptional; precious; satisfactory; valuable

2. advantageous (adj.) advantageous; auspicious; benefic; beneficial; benignant; brave; favoring; favourable; fortunate; gainful; helpful; lucrative; moneymaking; paying; profitable; promising; propitious; remunerative; serviceable; toward; useful; well-paying; worthwhile

3. appropriate (adj.) appropriate; befitting; convenient; expedient; fit; fitting; meet; proper; suitable; tailor-made; useful

4. big (adj.) altruistic; benevolent; benign; big; charitable; chivalrous; eleemosynary; humane; humanitarian; kind-hearted; philanthropic

5. blameless (adj.) blameless; exemplary; guiltless; inculpable; innocent; irreprehensible; irreproachable; lily-white; moral; righteous; unblamable; upright; virtuous

6. choice (adj.) choice; excellent; quality; superior

7. clever (adj.) clever; scintillating; smart; sprightly

8. commendable (adj.) commendable; favorable; flattering

9. conscientious (adj.) conscientious; dependable

10. considerable (adj.) considerable; great; immeasurable; large; sensible; sizable

11. considerate (adj.) considerate; generous

12. decent (adj.) acceptable; adequate; all of; all right; ample; common; decent; full; right; sufficient; tolerable; unexceptionable; unexceptional; unimpeachable; unobjectionable

13. delicious (adj.) delicious; flavorful; tasty

14. genial (adj.) agreeable; cheering; enjoyable; genial; satisfying

15. healthful (adj.) healthful; hygienic; salubrious; salutary; salutiferous; wholesome

16. healthy (adj.) healthy; sound; vigorous

17. honest (adj.) honest; just; pure

18. honorable (adj.) honorable; noble; respectable

19. kind (adj.) beneficent; friendly; kind; kindly; obliging; well-disposed

20. obedient (adj.) decorous; dutiful; heedful; obedient; tractable; well-behaved

21. pleasant (adj.) congenial; grateful; gratifying; nice; pleasant; pleasing; pleasurable; pleasureful; welcome

22. real (adj.) authentic; genuine; original; real; true; undoubted; unquestionable; valid

23. reliable (adj.) loyal; reliable; trustworthy

24. safe (adj.) safe; solid; stable

25. skillful (adj.) able; adept; adroit; au fait; capable; competent; dexterous; efficient; pretty; proficient; qualified; skilful; skilled; skillful; wicked; workmanlike; workmanly

26. well-founded (adj.) cogent; justified; well-founded; well-grounded

27. whole (adj.) complete; entire; flawless; intact; perfect; round; unbroken; undamaged; unhurt; unimpaired; uninjured; unmarred; untouched; whole

28. worthy (adj.) deserving; fair; honourable; immaculate; unblemished; unsullied; worthy

29. advantage (noun) advantage; asset; benediction; benefit; blessing; boon; gain; godsend; interest; profit; prosperity; usefulness; utility; weal; welfare; well-being; worth

30. kindness (noun) excellence; kindness; merit; righteousness

31. right (noun) right; straight

32. virtue (noun) goodness; morality; probity; purity; rectitude; rightness; uprightness; virtue; virtuousness

Антонимический ряд:

abominable; bad; base; bland; calamity; contemptible; corrupt; counterfeit; curse; debased; defective; depraved; detestable; detriment; disadvantage; disagreeable; disgraceful; fickle; harm; ill; improper; incompetent; inferior; irresponsible; naughty; notorious; uncomplimentary; unstable

English-Russian base dictionary > good
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.

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11 hold

hold [həʊld]

tenir ⇒ 1A (a), 1A (f), 1B (a), 1B (b), 1D (b), 1D (d), 2 (d) avoir ⇒ 1A (c) retenir ⇒ 1A (e), 1C (b) contenir ⇒ 1A (f) exercer ⇒ 1A (g) réserver ⇒ 1A (e), 1A (h) conserver ⇒ 1A (i) stocker ⇒ 1A (i) maintenir ⇒ 1B (a) détenir ⇒ 1A (i), 1C (a) croire ⇒ 1D (a) continuer ⇒ 1D (e) se tenir ⇒ 2 (a) tenir bon ⇒ 2 (b) durer ⇒ 2 (c) attendre ⇒ 2 (f) prise ⇒ 3D (a)-(c) en attente ⇒ 4D

(pt & pp held [held])

1 transitive verb

A.

(a) (clasp, grasp) tenir;

∎ to hold sth in one's hand (book, clothing, guitar) avoir qch à la main; (key, money) tenir qch dans la main;

∎ to hold sth with both hands tenir qch à deux mains;

∎ will you hold my coat a second? peux-tu prendre ou tenir mon manteau un instant?;

∎ to hold the door for sb tenir la porte à ou pour qn;

∎ also figurative to hold sb's hand tenir la main à qn;

∎ to hold hands se donner la main, se tenir (par) la main;

∎ hold my hand while we cross the street donne-moi la main pour traverser la rue;

∎ to hold sb in one's arms tenir qn dans ses bras;

∎ to hold sb close or tight serrer qn contre soi;

∎ hold it tight and don't let go tiens-le bien et ne le lâche pas;

∎ to hold one's nose se boucher le nez;

∎ to hold one's sides with laughter se tenir les côtes de rire

(b) (keep, sustain)

∎ to hold sb's attention/interest retenir l'attention de qn;

∎ the film doesn't hold the attention for long le film ne retient pas l'attention très longtemps;

∎ to hold an audience tenir un auditoire;

∎ to hold one's serve (in tennis) défendre son service;

∎ Politics to hold a seat (to be an MP) occuper un siège de député; (to be re-elected) être réélu;

∎ to hold one's own se défendre, bien se débrouiller;

∎ the Prime Minister held her own during the debate le Premier ministre a tenu bon ou ferme pendant le débat;

∎ she is well able to hold her own elle sait se défendre;

∎ he can hold his own in chess il se défend bien aux échecs;

∎ our products hold their own against the competition nos produits se tiennent bien par rapport à la concurrence;

∎ to hold the floor garder la parole;

∎ the senator held the floor for an hour le sénateur a gardé la parole pendant une heure

(c) (have, possess → degree, permit, ticket) avoir, posséder; (→ job, position) avoir, occuper;

∎ do you hold a clean driving licence? avez-vous déjà été sanctionné pour des infractions au code de la route?;

∎ she holds the post of treasurer elle occupe le poste de trésorière;

∎ to hold office (chairperson, deputy) être en fonction, remplir sa fonction; (minister) détenir ou avoir un portefeuille; (political party, president) être au pouvoir ou au gouvernement;

∎ Religion to hold a living jouir d'un bénéfice;

∎ Finance to hold stock or shares détenir ou avoir des actions;

∎ to hold 5 percent of the shares in a company détenir 5 pour cent du capital d'une société;

∎ also figurative to hold a record détenir un record;

∎ she holds the world record for the javelin elle détient le record mondial du javelot

(d) (keep control or authority over) Military

∎ the guerrillas held the bridge for several hours les guérilleros ont tenu le pont plusieurs heures durant;

∎ Military to hold the enemy contenir l'ennemi;

∎ figurative to hold centre stage occuper le centre de la scène;

∎ hold it!, hold everything! (stop and wait) attendez!; (stay still) arrêtez!, ne bougez plus!;

∎ familiar figurative hold your horses! pas si vite!

(e) (reserve, set aside) retenir, réserver;

∎ we'll hold the book for you until next week nous vous réserverons le livre ou nous vous mettrons le livre de côté jusqu'à la semaine prochaine;

∎ will the restaurant hold the table for us? est-ce que le restaurant va nous garder la table?

(f) (contain) contenir, tenir;

∎ this bottle holds 2 litres cette bouteille contient 2 litres;

∎ will this suitcase hold all our clothes? est-ce que cette valise sera assez grande pour tous nos vêtements?;

∎ the car is too small to hold us all la voiture est trop petite pour qu'on y tienne tous;

∎ the hall holds a maximum of 250 people la salle peut accueillir ou recevoir 250 personnes au maximum, il y a de la place pour 250 personnes au maximum dans cette salle;

∎ to hold one's drink bien supporter l'alcool;

∎ the letter holds the key to the murder la lettre contient la clé du meurtre

(g) (have, exercise) exercer;

∎ the subject holds a huge fascination for some people le sujet exerce une énorme fascination sur certaines personnes;

∎ sport held no interest for them pour eux, le sport ne présentait aucun intérêt

(h) (have in store) réserver;

∎ who knows what the future may hold? qui sait ce que nous réserve l'avenir?

(i) (conserve, store) conserver, détenir; Computing stocker;

∎ we can't hold this data forever nous ne pouvons pas conserver ou stocker ces données éternellement;

∎ how much data will this disk hold? quelle quantité de données cette disquette peut-elle stocker?;

∎ the commands are held in the memory/in a temporary buffer les instructions sont gardées en mémoire/sont enregistrées dans une mémoire intermédiaire;

∎ my lawyer holds a copy of my will mon avocat détient ou conserve un exemplaire de mon testament;

∎ this photo holds fond memories for me cette photo me rappelle de bons souvenirs

(j) Cars

∎ the new car holds the road well la nouvelle voiture tient bien la route

B.

(a) (maintain in position) tenir, maintenir;

∎ she held her arms by her sides elle avait les bras le long du corps;

∎ her hair was held in place with hairpins des épingles (à cheveux) retenaient ou maintenaient ses cheveux;

∎ what's holding the picture in place? qu'est-ce qui tient ou maintient le tableau en place?;

∎ hold the picture a bit higher tenez le tableau un peu plus haut

(b) (carry) tenir;

∎ to hold oneself upright or erect se tenir droit;

∎ also figurative to hold one's head high garder la tête haute

C.

(a) (confine, detain) détenir;

∎ the police are holding him for questioning la police l'a gardé à vue pour l'interroger;

∎ they're holding him for murder ils l'ont arrêté pour meurtre;

∎ she was held without trial for six weeks elle est restée en prison six semaines sans avoir été jugée

(b) (keep back, retain) retenir;

∎ Law to hold sth in trust for sb tenir qch par fidéicommis pour qn;

∎ the post office will hold my mail for me while I'm away la poste gardera mon courrier pendant mon absence;

∎ figurative once she starts talking politics there's no holding her! dès qu'elle commence à parler politique, rien ne peut l'arrêter!;

∎ American one burger, hold the mustard! (in restaurant) un hamburger, sans moutarde!

(c) (delay)

∎ don't hold dinner for me ne m'attendez pas pour dîner;

∎ they held the plane another thirty minutes ils ont retenu l'avion au sol pendant encore trente minutes;

∎ hold all decisions on the project until I get back attendez mon retour pour prendre des décisions concernant le projet;

∎ hold the front page! ne lancez pas la une tout de suite!;

∎ hold the lift! ne laissez pas les portes de l'ascenseur se refermer, j'arrive!

(d) (keep in check)

∎ we have held costs to a minimum nous avons limité nos frais au minimum;

∎ inflation has been held at the same level for several months le taux d'inflation est maintenu au même niveau depuis plusieurs mois;

∎ they held their opponents to a goalless draw ils ont réussi à imposer le match nul

D.

(a) (assert, claim) maintenir, soutenir; (believe) croire, considérer;

∎ formal I hold that teachers should be better paid je considère ou j'estime que les enseignants devraient être mieux payés;

∎ the Constitution holds that all men are free la Constitution stipule que tous les hommes sont libres;

∎ he holds strong beliefs on the subject of abortion il a de solides convictions en ce qui concerne l'avortement;

∎ she holds strong views on the subject elle a une opinion bien arrêtée sur le sujet;

∎ her statement is held to be true sa déclaration passe pour vraie

(b) (consider, regard) tenir, considérer;

∎ to hold sb responsible for sth tenir qn pour responsable de qch;

∎ I'll hold you responsible if anything goes wrong je vous tiendrai pour responsable ou je vous considérerai responsable s'il y a le moindre incident;

∎ the president is to be held accountable for his actions le président doit répondre de ses actes;

∎ to hold sb in contempt mépriser ou avoir du mépris pour qn;

∎ to hold sb in high esteem avoir beaucoup d'estime pour qn, tenir qn en haute estime

(c) Law (judge) juger;

∎ the appeal court held the evidence to be insufficient la cour d'appel a considéré que les preuves étaient insuffisantes

(d) (carry on, engage in → conversation, meeting) tenir; (→ party) donner; (organize) organiser;

∎ to hold an election/elections procéder à une élection/à des élections;

∎ the book fair is held in Frankfurt la foire du livre se tient ou a lieu à Francfort;

∎ the classes are held in the evening les cours ont lieu le soir;

∎ interviews will be held in early May les entretiens auront lieu au début du mois de mai ou début mai;

∎ to hold talks être en pourparlers;

∎ the city is holding a service for Armistice Day la ville organise un office pour commémorer le 11 novembre;

∎ mass is held at eleven o'clock la messe est célébrée à onze heures

(e) (continue without deviation) continuer;

∎ Nautical to hold course tenir la route;

∎ we held our southerly course nous avons maintenu le cap au sud, nous avons continué notre route vers le sud;

∎ Music to hold a note tenir une note

(f) Telecommunications

∎ will you hold (the line)? voulez-vous patienter?;

∎ hold the line! ne quittez pas!;

∎ the line's busy just now - I'll hold le poste est occupé pour le moment - je patiente ou je reste en ligne;

∎ hold all my calls ne me passez aucun appel

2 intransitive verb

(a) (cling → person) se tenir, s'accrocher;

∎ she held tight to the railing elle s'est cramponnée ou accrochée à la rampe;

∎ hold fast!, hold tight! accrochez-vous bien!;

∎ figurative their resolve held fast or firm in the face of fierce opposition ils ont tenu bon face à une opposition acharnée

(b) (remain in place → nail, fastening) tenir bon;

∎ the rope won't hold for long la corde ne tiendra pas longtemps

(c) (last → luck) durer; (→ weather) durer, se maintenir;

∎ prices held at the same level as last year les prix se sont maintenus au même niveau que l'année dernière;

∎ the pound held firm against the dollar la livre s'est maintenue par rapport au dollar;

∎ we might buy him a guitar if his interest in music holds nous lui achèterons peut-être une guitare s'il continue à s'intéresser à la musique

(d) (remain valid → invitation, offer) tenir; (→ argument, theory) valoir, être valable;

∎ to hold good (invitation, offer) tenir; (promises) tenir, valoir; (argument, theory) rester valable;

∎ the principle still holds good le principe tient ou vaut toujours;

∎ that theory only holds if you consider... cette théorie n'est valable que si vous prenez en compte...;

∎ the same holds for Spain il en est de même pour l'Espagne

(e) (stay, remain) familiar

∎ hold still! ne bougez pas!^□

(f) (on telephone) attendre;

∎ the line's British engaged or American busy, will you hold? la ligne est occupée, voulez-vous patienter?

3 noun

(a) (grasp, grip) prise f; (in wrestling) prise f; Boxing tenu m;

∎ to catch or to grab or to seize or to take hold of sth se saisir de ou saisir qch;

∎ she caught hold of the rope elle a saisi la corde;

∎ grab (a) hold of that towel tiens! prends cette serviette;

∎ there was nothing for me to grab hold of il n'y avait rien à quoi m'accrocher ou me cramponner;

∎ get a good or take a firm hold on or of the railing tenez-vous bien à la balustrade;

∎ I still had hold of his hand je le tenais toujours par la main;

∎ to get hold of sth (find) se procurer ou trouver qch;

∎ it's difficult to get hold of this book ce livre est difficile à trouver;

∎ we got hold of the book you wanted nous avons trouvé le livre que tu voulais;

∎ where did you get hold of that idea? où est-ce que tu es allé chercher cette idée?;

∎ to get hold of sb trouver qn;

∎ I've been trying to get hold of you all week! je t'ai cherché toute la semaine!;

∎ just wait till the newspapers get hold of the story attendez un peu que les journaux s'emparent de la nouvelle;

∎ she kept hold of the rope elle n'a pas lâché la corde;

∎ you'd better keep hold of the tickets tu ferais bien de garder les billets;

∎ get a hold on yourself ressaisis-toi, ne te laisse pas aller;

∎ to take hold (fire) prendre; (idea) se répandre;

∎ Sport & figurative no holds barred tous les coups sont permis

(b) (controlling force or influence) prise f, influence f;

∎ the Church still exerts a strong hold on the country l'Église a toujours une forte mainmise sur le pays;

∎ to have a hold over sb avoir de l'influence sur qn;

∎ I have no hold over him je n'ai aucune prise ou influence sur lui;

∎ the Mafia obviously has some kind of hold over him de toute évidence, la Mafia le tient d'une manière ou d'une autre

(c) (in climbing) prise f

(d) (delay, pause) pause f, arrêt m;

∎ the company has put a hold on all new orders l'entreprise a suspendu ou gelé toutes les nouvelles commandes

(e) American (order to reserve) réservation f;

∎ the association put a hold on all the hotel rooms l'association a réservé toutes les chambres de l'hôtel

(f) (prison) prison f; (cell) cellule f; (fortress) place f forte

(g) (store → in plane) soute f; (→ in ship) cale f

(h) Music point m d'orgue

4 on hold adverb

(gen) & Telecommunications en attente;

∎ to put sb on hold mettre qn en attente;

∎ we've put the project on hold nous avons mis le projet en attente;

∎ the operator kept me on hold for ten minutes le standardiste m'a mis en attente pendant dix minutes

➲ hold against separable transitive verb

∎ to hold sth against sb en vouloir à qn de qch;

∎ his collaboration with the enemy will be held against him sa collaboration avec l'ennemi lui sera préjudiciable;

∎ he lied to her and she still holds it against him il lui a menti et elle lui en veut toujours;

∎ I hope you won't hold it against me if I decide not to accept j'espère que tu ne m'en voudras pas si je décide de ne pas accepter

➲ hold back

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (control, restrain → animal, person) retenir, tenir; (→ crowd, enemy forces) contenir; (→ anger, laughter, tears) retenir, réprimer; (→ inflation) contenir;

∎ the government has succeeded in holding back inflation le gouvernement a réussi à contenir l'inflation

(b) (keep → money, supplies) retenir; figurative (→ information, truth) cacher, taire;

∎ she's holding something back from me elle me cache quelque chose

(c) American School

∎ they held her back a year ils lui ont fait redoubler une classe, ils l'ont fait redoubler

(d) (prevent progress of) empêcher de progresser;

∎ his difficulties with maths are holding him back ses difficultés en maths l'empêchent de progresser;

∎ lack of investment is holding industry back l'absence d'investissements freine l'industrie

2 intransitive verb

(stay back) rester en arrière; figurative (restrain oneself) se retenir;

∎ he has held back from making a commitment il s'est abstenu de s'engager;

∎ the president held back before sending in the army le président a hésité avant d'envoyer les troupes;

∎ don't hold back, tell me everything vas-y, dis-moi tout

➲ hold down separable transitive verb

(a) (keep in place → paper, carpet) maintenir en place; (→ person) forcer à rester par terre, maintenir au sol;

∎ it took four men to hold him down il a fallu quatre hommes pour le maîtriser ou pour le maintenir au sol

(b) (keep to limit) restreindre, limiter;

∎ they're holding unemployment down to 4 percent ils maintiennent le taux de chômage à 4 pour cent;

∎ to hold prices down empêcher les prix de monter, empêcher la montée des prix

(c) (of employee)

∎ to hold down a job (occupy) avoir un emploi; (keep) garder un emploi;

∎ he's never managed to hold down a job il n'a jamais pu garder un emploi bien longtemps;

∎ although she's a student, she holds down a full-time job bien qu'elle étudie, elle occupe un poste à plein temps

(d) Computing (key, mouse button) maintenir enfoncé

➲ hold forth intransitive verb

pérorer, disserter;

∎ he held forth on the evils of drink il a fait un long discours sur les conséquences néfastes de l'alcool

➲ hold in separable transitive verb

(a) (stomach) rentrer

(b) (emotion) retenir; (anger) contenir

➲ hold off

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (keep at distance) tenir à distance ou éloigné;

∎ the troops held off the enemy les troupes ont tenu l'ennemi à distance;

∎ they managed to hold off the attack ils ont réussi à repousser l'attaque;

∎ I can't hold the reporters off any longer je ne peux plus faire attendre ou patienter les journalistes

(b) (delay, put off) remettre à plus tard;

∎ he held off going to see the doctor until May il a attendu le mois de mai pour aller voir le médecin;

∎ I held off making a decision j'ai remis la décision à plus tard

2 intransitive verb

(a) (rain)

∎ at least the rain held off au moins il n'a pas plu

(b) (abstain) s'abstenir;

∎ hold off from smoking for a few weeks abstenez-vous de fumer ou ne fumez pas pendant quelques semaines

➲ hold on

1 intransitive verb

(a) (grasp, grip) tenir bien, s'accrocher;

∎ to hold on to sth bien tenir qch, s'accrocher à qch, se cramponner à qch;

∎ hold on! accrochez-vous!;

∎ hold on to your hat! tenez votre chapeau (sur la tête)!

(b) (keep possession of) garder;

∎ hold on to this contract for me (keep it) garde-moi ce contrat;

∎ all politicians try to hold on to power tous les hommes politiques essaient de rester au pouvoir;

∎ hold on to your dreams/ideals accrochez-vous à vos rêves/idéaux

(c) (continue, persevere) tenir, tenir le coup;

∎ how long can you hold on? combien de temps pouvez-vous tenir (le coup)?;

∎ I can't hold on much longer je ne peux pas tenir (le coup) beaucoup plus longtemps

(d) (wait) attendre; (stop) arrêter;

∎ hold on just one minute! (stop) arrêtez!; (wait) attendez!, pas si vite!;

∎ hold on, how do I know I can trust you? attends un peu! qu'est-ce qui me prouve que je peux te faire confiance?;

∎ Telecommunications hold on please! ne quittez pas!;

∎ I had to hold on for several minutes j'ai dû patienter plusieurs minutes

2 separable transitive verb

(maintain in place) tenir ou maintenir en place;

∎ her hat is held on with pins son chapeau est maintenu (en place) par des épingles

➲ hold out

1 intransitive verb

(a) (last → supplies, stocks) durer;

∎ will the car hold out till we get home? la voiture tiendra-t-elle (le coup) jusqu'à ce qu'on rentre?

(b) (refuse to yield) tenir bon, tenir le coup;

∎ the garrison held out for weeks la garnison a tenu bon pendant des semaines;

∎ the management held out against any suggested changes la direction a refusé tous les changements proposés

2 separable transitive verb

(extend) tendre;

∎ she held out the book to him elle lui a tendu le livre;

∎ also figurative to hold out one's hand to sb tendre la main à qn;

∎ I held out my hand j'ai tendu la main;

∎ his mother held her arms out to him sa mère lui a ouvert ou tendu les bras

3 inseparable transitive verb

(offer) offrir;

∎ I can't hold out any promise of improvement je ne peux promettre aucune amélioration;

∎ the doctors hold out little hope for him les médecins ont peu d'espoir pour lui;

∎ science holds out some hope for cancer patients la science offre un espoir pour les malades du cancer

➲ hold out for inseparable transitive verb

exiger;

∎ the workers held out for a shorter working week les ouvriers réclamaient une semaine de travail plus courte;

∎ we're holding out for a higher offer nous attendons qu'on nous en offre un meilleur prix

➲ hold out on inseparable transitive verb

familiar

∎ you're holding out on me! tu me caches quelque chose!^□

➲ hold over separable transitive verb

(a) (position) tenir au-dessus de;

∎ she held the glass over the sink elle tenait le verre au-dessus de l'évier;

∎ figurative they hold the threat of redundancy over their workers ils maintiennent la menace de licenciement sur leurs ouvriers

(b) (postpone) remettre, reporter;

∎ we'll hold these items over until the next meeting on va remettre ces questions à la prochaine réunion;

∎ payment was held over for six months le paiement a été différé pendant six mois

(c) (retain) retenir, garder;

∎ they're holding the show over for another month ils vont laisser le spectacle à l'affiche encore un mois

(d) Music tenir

➲ hold to

1 inseparable transitive verb

(promise, tradition) s'en tenir à, rester fidèle à; (decision) maintenir, s'en tenir à;

∎ you must hold to your principles vous devez rester fidèle à vos principes

2 separable transitive verb

∎ we held him to his promise nous lui avons fait tenir parole;

∎ if I win, I'll buy you lunch - I'll hold you to that! si je gagne, je t'invite à déjeuner - je te prends au mot!

➲ hold together separable transitive verb

(book, car) maintenir; (two objects) maintenir ensemble; (community, family) maintenir l'union de;

∎ the two pieces of wood are held together by nails les deux morceaux de bois sont cloués ensemble;

∎ we need a leader who can hold the workers together il nous faut un chef qui puisse rallier les ouvriers

➲ hold up

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (lift, raise) lever, élever;

∎ I held up my hand j'ai levé la main;

∎ hold the picture up to the light tenez la photo à contre-jour;

∎ to hold up one's head redresser la tête;

∎ figurative she felt she would never be able to hold her head up again elle pensait qu'elle ne pourrait plus jamais marcher la tête haute

(b) (support) soutenir;

∎ my trousers were held up with safety pins mon pantalon était maintenu par des épingles de sûreté

(c) (present as example)

∎ they were held up as an example of efficient local government on les présentaient comme un exemple de gouvernement local compétent;

∎ to hold sb up to ridicule tourner qn en ridicule

(d) (delay) retarder; (stop) arrêter;

∎ the traffic held us up la circulation nous a mis en retard;

∎ the accident held up traffic for an hour l'accident a bloqué la circulation pendant une heure;

∎ our departure was held up by bad weather notre départ a été retardé par le mauvais temps;

∎ I was held up j'ai été retenu;

∎ the project was held up for lack of funds (before it started) le projet a été mis en attente faute de financement; (after it started) le projet a été interrompu faute de financement;

∎ the goods were held up at customs les marchandises ont été immobilisées à la douane

(e) (rob) faire une attaque à main armée;

∎ to hold up a bank faire un hold-up dans une banque

2 intransitive verb

(clothing, equipment) tenir; (supplies) tenir, durer; (weather) se maintenir;

∎ the car held up well during the trip la voiture a bien tenu le coup pendant le voyage;

∎ she's holding up well under the pressure elle supporte bien la pression;

∎ my finances are holding up well je tiens le coup financièrement

➲ hold with inseparable transitive verb

British (agree with) être d'accord avec; (approve of) approuver;

∎ I don't hold with her ideas on socialism je ne suis pas d'accord avec ou je ne partage pas ses idées concernant le socialisme;

∎ his mother doesn't hold with private schools sa mère est contre ou désapprouve les écoles privées

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прил. able, adept, advised, aware, competent, conversant, informed, knowing, literate, qualified, read, sciential, studied, wise знающий свое дело ≈ efficient

знающ|ий - able;
competent;
~ие люди well-informed people.

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13 bad

1. adjective,
worse, worst

1) schlecht; (worthless) wertlos, ungedeckt [Scheck]; (rotten) schlecht, verdorben [Fleisch, Fisch, Essen]; faul [Ei, Apfel]; (unpleasant) schlecht, unangenehm [Geruch]

something gives somebody a bad name — etwas trägt jemandem einen schlechten Ruf ein

somebody gets a bad name — jemand kommt in Verruf

she is in bad health — sie hat eine angegriffene Gesundheit

[some] bad news — schlechte od. schlimme Nachrichten

bad breath — Mundgeruch, der

he is having a bad day — er hat einen schwarzen Tag

bad hair day — (coll) schlechter Tag

I'm having a bad hair day — (coll.) heute geht bei mir alles schief

bad business — ein schlechtes Geschäft

it is a bad business — (fig.) das ist eine schlimme Sache

in the bad old days — in den schlimmen Jahren

not bad — (coll.) nicht schlecht; nicht übel

something is not a bad idea — etwas ist keine schlechte Idee

not half bad — (coll.) [gar] nicht schlecht

something is too bad — (coll.) etwas ist ein Jammer

too bad! — (coll.) so ein Pech! (auch iron.)

go bad — schlecht werden

2) (noxious) schlecht; schädlich

3) (wicked) schlecht; (immoral) schlecht; verdorben; (naughty) ungezogen, böse [Kind, Hund]

4) (offensive)

[use] bad language — Kraftausdrücke [benutzen]

5) (in ill health)

she's bad today — es geht ihr heute schlecht

I have a bad pain/finger — ich habe schlimme Schmerzen/(ugs.) einen schlimmen Finger

be in a bad way — in schlechtem Zustand sein

6) (serious) schlimm, böse [Sturz, Krise]; schwer [Fehler, Krankheit, Unfall, Erschütterung]; hoch [Fieber]; schrecklich [Feuer]

7) (coll.): (regretful)

a bad conscience — ein schlechtes Gewissen

feel bad about something/not having done something — etwas bedauern/bedauern, dass man etwas nicht getan hat

I feel bad about him/her — ich habe seinetwegen/ihretwegen ein schlechtes Gewissen

8) (Commerc.)

a bad debt — eine uneinbringliche Schuld (Wirtsch.). See also academic.ru/83116/worse">worse 1.; worst 1.
2. noun
be £100 to the bad — mit 100 Pfund in der Kreide stehen (ugs.)

go to the bad — auf die schiefe Bahn geraten

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[bæd]
comparative - worse; adjective

1) (not good; not efficient: He is a bad driver; His eyesight is bad; They are bad at tennis (= they play tennis badly).) schlecht

2) (wicked; immoral: a bad man; He has done some bad things.) böse

3) (unpleasant: bad news.) schlecht

4) (rotten: This meat is bad.) schlecht

5) (causing harm or injury: Smoking is bad for your health.) schlecht

6) ((of a part of the body) painful, or in a weak state: She has a bad heart; I have a bad head (= headache) today.) schlecht

7) (unwell: I am feeling quite bad today.) schlecht

8) (serious or severe: a bad accident; a bad mistake.) schlimm

9) ((of a debt) not likely to be paid: The firm loses money every year from bad debts.) ungünstig

•

- badly
- badness
- badly off
- feel bad about something
- feel bad
- go from bad to worse
- not bad
- too bad
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bad

<worse, worst>

[bæd]

I. adj

1. (inferior, of low quality) schlecht

not \bad! nicht schlecht!

not half \bad! ( fam) [gar] nicht übel! fam

to have \bad taste einen schlechten Geschmack haben

2. (incompetent) schlecht

▪ to be \bad at sth etw nicht gut können

he's \bad at flirting er kann nicht gut flirten

to be very \bad at football sehr schlecht Fußball spielen

to be \bad at German/maths schlecht in Deutsch/Mathe sein

3. (unpleasant, unfavourable) schlecht; (difficult) schwierig

they have a \bad marriage sie führen keine gute Ehe

things are looking \bad [for him] es sieht nicht gut [für ihn] aus

things look \bad in this company es sieht nicht gut für die Firma aus

if it's \bad weather, we won't play bei schlechtem Wetter spielen wir nicht

things are [or it is] going from \bad to worse es wird immer schlimmer

this year their situation has gone from \bad to worse ihre Situation hat sich in diesem Jahr zunehmend verschlechtert [o verschlimmert]

a \bad dream ein böser Traum

\bad news schlechte Nachrichten

a \bad situation eine schlimme Situation

a \bad smell ein übler Geruch

\bad times schwere Zeiten

4. (objectionable) person, character, manners schlecht

it was \bad of you to laugh at her in front of everybody es war gemein von dir, sie vor allen auszulachen

to fall in with a \bad crowd in eine üble Bande geraten

a \bad egg ( fig fam) eine ziemlich üble Person

a \bad habit eine schlechte Angewohnheit

to use \bad language Kraftausdrücke benutzen

a \bad neighbourhood eine verkommene [Wohn]gegend

to have a \bad personality eine unangenehme Art haben

sb's \bad points jds schlechte Seiten

to be a \bad sport ein schlechter Verlierer/eine schlechte Verliererin sein

to have a \bad temper schlecht gelaunt sein

5. (naughty) ungezogen; (wicked, aggressive) böse

\bad blood böses Blut

[to act] in \bad faith in böser Absicht [handeln]

6. (pity) schade

too \bad zu schade [o fam dumm

7. (regretful)

to feel \bad about sth sich akk wegen einer S. gen schlecht fühlen

8. (unfortunate) decision schlecht, unglücklich

\bad luck Pech nt

9. (harmful) schlecht, schädlich

▪ to be \bad for sb schlecht für jdn sein

to be \bad for sb's health jds Gesundheit schaden

to be \bad for one's teeth schlecht für die Zähne sein

10. (spoiled) food verdorben, schlecht; ( fig) atmosphere, reputation schlecht

to have a \bad name einen schlechten Ruf haben

to go \bad verderben, schlecht werden

11. (serious) schlimm

to have a \bad cold eine schlimme Erkältung haben

a \bad crime ein schweres Verbrechen

a \bad debt eine uneinbringliche Schuld

a \bad storm ein heftiger Sturm

to be nowhere near as \bad as... nicht halb [o annähernd] so schlimm sein wie...

12. MED schlecht

I feel \bad mir geht es nicht gut

to have a \bad leg ein schlimmes Bein haben

to have \bad skin [or a bad complexion] schlechte Haut haben

13. (not valid) cheque falsch

14. AM (sl: cool) fabelhaft, super

15.

▶ to give sth up as a \bad job BRIT etw abschreiben fig fam

▶ sb has it \bad (sl) jdn hat es schwer erwischt hum fam

he's got it \bad for Lucy er ist total verknallt in Lucy fam

▶ to make the best of a \bad job das Beste aus einer schlechten Situation machen

II. adv ( fam) sehr

to need sth [real] \bad etw dringend brauchen

to want sth \bad etw unbedingt haben wollen

III. n no pl

1. (ill luck)

to take the \bad with the good auch das Schlechte [o die schlechten Seiten] in Kauf nehmen

2. (evil) Schlechte(s) nt

▪ the \bad das Böse; (people) die Bösen pl

there is good and \bad in everybody jeder hat seine guten und schlechten Seiten

3. (immoral state)

to go to the \bad auf die schiefe Bahn geraten

4. (debt)

to be in the \bad im Minus sein

5. (mistake) Fehler m

6. (disfavour)

to be in \bad with sb bei jdm in Ungnade sein

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I [bd]
1. adj comp worse,
superl worst
1) schlecht; smell übel; habit schlecht, übel; insurance risk hoch; word unanständig, schlimm; (= immoral, wicked) böse; (= naughty, misbehaved) unartig, ungezogen; dog böse

it was a bad thing to do —

it was bad of you to treat her like that — das war gemein von dir, sie so zu behandeln

he went through a bad time — er hat eine schlimme Zeit durchgemacht

I've had a really bad day —

you bad boy! — du ungezogener Junge!, du Lümmel! (also iro)

he's been a bad boy —

I didn't mean that word in a bad sense — ich habe mir bei dem Wort nichts Böses gedacht

it's a bad business — das ist eine üble Sache

it's not so bad/not bad at all — es ist nicht/gar nicht so schlecht

things are going from bad to worse — es wird immer schlimmer

to go bad — schlecht werden, verderben

he's gone bad (US) — er ist auf die schiefe Bahn geraten

to be bad for sb/sth — schlecht or nicht gut für jdn/etw sein

he's bad at French —

he's bad at sports — im Sport ist er schlecht or nicht gut, er ist unsportlich

I'm very bad at telling lies — ich kann schlecht or nicht gut lügen

he speaks very bad English, his English is very bad — er spricht sehr schlecht(es) Englisch

to be bad to sb —

there's nothing bad about living together — es ist doch nichts dabei, wenn man zusammenlebt

this is a bad town for violence —

bad light stopped play — das Spiel wurde aufgrund des schlechten Lichts abgebrochen

it would not be a bad thing — das wäre nicht schlecht or keine schlechte Idee

that's not a bad idea! — das ist keine schlechte Idee!

(that's) too bad! (indignant) — so was!

it's too bad of you — das ist wirklich nicht nett von dir

too bad you couldn't make it —

to have a bad hair day (inf) (fig) — Probleme mit der Frisur haben total durch den Wind sein (inf)

to be in bad with sb (US) — bei jdm schlecht angeschrieben sein

2) (= serious) wound, sprain schlimm; accident, mistake, cold schlimm, schwer; headache stark

he's got it bad (inf) — ihn hats schwer erwischt (inf)

to have it bad for sb (inf) — in jdn schwer or unheimlich verknallt sein (inf)

3) (= unfavourable) time, day ungünstig, schlecht

Thursday's bad, can you make it Friday? — Donnerstag ist ungünstig or schlecht, gehts nicht Freitag?

4) (= in poor health, sick) stomach krank; leg, knee, hand schlimm; tooth (generally) schlecht; (now) schlimm

he/the economy is in a bad way (Brit) —

I've got a bad head (Brit) — ich habe einen dicken Kopf (inf)

to feel bad — sich nicht wohlfühlen

I feel bad —

to be taken bad (Brit) to take a bad turn (inf) — plötzlich krank werden

how is he? – he's not so bad — wie geht es ihm? – nicht schlecht

I didn't know she was so bad — ich wusste nicht, dass es ihr so schlecht geht or dass sie so schlimm dran ist (inf)

5)

(= regretful) I feel really bad about not having told him — es tut mir wirklich leid or ich habe ein schlechtes Gewissen, dass ich ihm das nicht gesagt habe

don't feel bad about it — machen Sie sich (dat) keine Gedanken or Sorgen (darüber)

6) debt uneinbringlich; voting slip, coin ungültig; (= damaged) copies etc beschädigt

7) (COMPUT) data format ungültig (= corrupted) fehlerhaft

2. n no pl

1)

to take the good with the bad — (auch) die schlechten Seiten in Kauf nehmen

there is good and bad in everything/everybody — alles/jeder hat seine guten und schlechten Seiten

2)

he's gone to the bad (Brit) — er ist auf die schiefe Bahn geraten
II pret See: of bid
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bad¹ [bæd]

A adj komp worse [wɜːs; US wɜrs], sup worst [wɜːst; US wɜrst] (adv → badly)

1. allg schlecht

2. böse, schlimm, arg, schwer:

a bad accident ein schwerer Unfall;

a bad dream ein böser Traum;

a bad mistake ein schwerer Fehler; → end Bes Redew

3. böse, ungezogen (Junge etc)

4. verdorben, lasterhaft (Frau etc)

5. unanständig, unflätig:

bad language

a) unanständige Ausdrücke pl,

b) (gottes)lästerliche Reden pl,

c) beleidigende Äußerungen pl;

a bad word ein hässliches Wort

6. falsch, fehlerhaft, schlecht:

his bad English sein schlechtes Englisch;

bad grammar grammatisch falsch oder schlecht

7. unbefriedigend, schlecht (Ernte, Jahr, Plan etc):

not bad nicht schlecht oder übel;

not bad fun ganz amüsant

8. ungünstig, schlecht (Nachrichten etc):

he’s bad news umg er ist ein unangenehmer Zeitgenosse

9. schädlich, ungesund, schlecht ( alle:

for für):

be bad for sb jemandem nicht guttun;

be bad for sb’s health jemandes Gesundheit schaden

10. unangenehm, ärgerlich:

that’s too bad das ist (zu) schade, das ist (doch) zu dumm;

too bad that … schade, dass …

11. schlecht (Qualität, Zustand):

in bad condition in schlechtem Zustand;

bad trip sl Bad Trip m (Drogenrausch mit Angstzuständen); → breath 1

12. ungültig (Anspruch, Münze etc), ungedeckt (Scheck):

bad debts WIRTSCH zweifelhafte Forderungen;

bad shot SPORT ungültiger Schuss oder Schlag;

bad title JUR mangelhafter Rechtstitel; → penny 1

13. schlecht, verdorben (Fleisch etc):

go bad schlecht werden, verderben; → apple 1

14. schlecht, angegriffen (Gesundheit)

15. a) unwohl, krank:

she is ( oder feels) very bad today es geht ihr heute sehr schlecht;

he is in a bad way (a. weitS.) es geht ihm schlecht, er ist übel dran;

he was taken bad umg er wurde krank

b) niedergeschlagen:

feel bad about (sehr) deprimiert sein über (akk); ein schlechtes Gewissen haben wegen

16. schlimm, böse, arg, heftig:

a bad finger ein böser oder schlimmer Finger; → cold C 3

17. widerlich, schlecht (Geruch etc)

18. schlecht, schwach (at in dat)

B s

1. (das) Schlechte, (das) Böse, Unglück n:

be to the bad von Nachteil sein;

go to the bad auf die schiefe Bahn geraten oder kommen;

go from bad to worse immer schlimmer werden;

take the bad with the good (auch) die Nachteile oder die schlechten Seiten in Kauf nehmen

2. WIRTSCH Defizit n:

be $25 to the bad ein Defizit oder einen Verlust von 25 Dollar haben, 25 Dollar im Minus sein

3. umg be in bad with schlecht angeschrieben sein bei;

get in bad with sich unbeliebt machen bei;

my bad! bes US ich wars!

C adv umg → badly

bad² [bæd] obs prät von bid¹

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1. adjective,
worse, worst

1) schlecht; (worthless) wertlos, ungedeckt [Scheck]; (rotten) schlecht, verdorben [Fleisch, Fisch, Essen]; faul [Ei, Apfel]; (unpleasant) schlecht, unangenehm [Geruch]

something gives somebody a bad name — etwas trägt jemandem einen schlechten Ruf ein

somebody gets a bad name — jemand kommt in Verruf

she is in bad health — sie hat eine angegriffene Gesundheit

[some] bad news — schlechte od. schlimme Nachrichten

bad breath — Mundgeruch, der

he is having a bad day — er hat einen schwarzen Tag

bad hair day — (coll) schlechter Tag

I'm having a bad hair day — (coll.) heute geht bei mir alles schief

bad business — ein schlechtes Geschäft

it is a bad business — (fig.) das ist eine schlimme Sache

in the bad old days — in den schlimmen Jahren

not bad — (coll.) nicht schlecht; nicht übel

something is not a bad idea — etwas ist keine schlechte Idee

not half bad — (coll.) [gar] nicht schlecht

something is too bad — (coll.) etwas ist ein Jammer

too bad! — (coll.) so ein Pech! (auch iron.)

go bad — schlecht werden

2) (noxious) schlecht; schädlich

3) (wicked) schlecht; (immoral) schlecht; verdorben; (naughty) ungezogen, böse [Kind, Hund]

4) (offensive)

[use] bad language — Kraftausdrücke [benutzen]

5) (in ill health)

she's bad today — es geht ihr heute schlecht

I have a bad pain/finger — ich habe schlimme Schmerzen/(ugs.) einen schlimmen Finger

be in a bad way — in schlechtem Zustand sein

6) (serious) schlimm, böse [Sturz, Krise]; schwer [Fehler, Krankheit, Unfall, Erschütterung]; hoch [Fieber]; schrecklich [Feuer]

7) (coll.): (regretful)

a bad conscience — ein schlechtes Gewissen

feel bad about something/not having done something — etwas bedauern/bedauern, dass man etwas nicht getan hat

I feel bad about him/her — ich habe seinetwegen/ihretwegen ein schlechtes Gewissen

8) (Commerc.)

a bad debt — eine uneinbringliche Schuld (Wirtsch.). See also worse 1.; worst 1.
2. noun
be £100 to the bad — mit 100 Pfund in der Kreide stehen (ugs.)

go to the bad — auf die schiefe Bahn geraten

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(for) adj.

schädlich (für) adj. adj.

bös adj.

schlecht adj.

schlimm adj.

übel adj.

English-german dictionary > bad
14 system

n

1) система

2) способ; метод

3) сеть

4) строй

•

to abandon a system — отказываться от системы

to alter the system — изменять систему

to apply the trusteeship system to territories — распространять систему опеки на территории

to choose its own economic system — выбирать свою собственную экономическую систему

to consolidate the system — укреплять систему

to deploy a system — размещать / разворачивать систему (напр. обороны)

to destroy the system — разрушать систему

to develop an antiballistic missile system — разрабатывать систему ПРО ( противоракетной обороны)

to discard the system — отказываться от системы

to displace a system — вытеснять систему

to elaborate a new electoral system — разрабатывать новую избирательную систему

to eliminate the system — ликвидировать систему

to establish a system — создавать систему

to expand the system — расширять систему

to formulate a system — разрабатывать / вырабатывать систему

to implement a system — внедрять систему

to improve system — улучшать систему

to introduce a multiparty system — вводить многопартийную систему

to join in the political system of a country — становиться членом политической системы страны

to maintain the system — поддерживать систему

to make a breach in the system — пробивать брешь в системе

to merge one's monetary systems — объединять свои валютные системы

to move faster towards a market system — быстрее двигаться к рыночной экономике

to overhaul / to reform a country's political system — перестраивать политическую систему страны

to phase the new system in gradually — постепенно вводить новую систему

to place under the trusteeship system — учреждать опеку

to reshape the banking system — преобразовывать банковскую систему

to revamp the electoral system — пересматривать систему выборов

to set up a system — создавать / учреждать систему

to shatter the system — разрушать систему

to strengthen the system — укреплять систему

to support the development of health systems — поддерживать развитие систем здравоохранения

to undermine a democratic system — подрывать демократическую систему

to weaken the system — ослаблять систему

- ABM system
- abolition of the system
- accounting system
- administrative system
- advanced system
- advantages of the system
- air-based system
- aircraft telecommunications system
- antagonistic systems
- anti-ballistic missile system
- anti-missile defense system
- anti-missile space defense system
- anti-satellite systems
- ASAT systems
- authoritative system
- automated management systems
- automated system
- automatic control system
- automatic data processing system
- banking system
- bipartisan system
- biparty system
- bonus system
- break-up of the system
- British entry into the European Monetary System
- bureaucrat system
- capitalist economic system
- capitalist system
- career development system
- centrally planned system
- clan system
- classified national defense system
- collapse of the system
- collective security system
- communal system
- communications system
- competitive price system
- complex system
- comprehensive system
- compulsory purchase system
- computer system
- constitutional system
- contract system
- control system
- conventional system
- country programming system
- credit and banking system
- credit system
- crisis of the system
- cultural system
- currently-operating system
- decentralized system
- defense system
- deficiency of the system
- delivery system
- democratic political systems
- deterrent system
- different social systems
- disintegration of the system
- distribution system
- dynamic international system
- early warning system
- ecological system
- economic system
- educational system
- effective system
- efficient system
- election system
- electoral system
- electronic system
- EMS
- European Monetary System
- exploitation system
- exploiting system
- fair system
- family-planning system
- federal grant system
- finance and credit system
- financial system
- first-past-the-post voting system
- forecasting system
- formation of the system
- free enterprise system
- free market system
- generalized system of preferences
- global system
- grid system
- ground-based system
- health care system
- health system
- historically established system
- home security system
- immunity system
- industrial system
- inequitable system
- information system
- INIS
- institutional system
- integrated system
- intelligence system
- International Nuclear Information System
- international system
- International Trusteeship System
- irrigation system
- job-by-job system of payment
- judicial system
- land tenure system
- land-based antiballistic missile system
- legal system
- liberalization of the political system
- life-support system
- majority system
- management system
- managerial system
- mandate system
- mandatory system
- market system
- mayor-council system
- merit system
- metric system
- missile and satellite detection system
- missile delivery system
- misuse of the judicial system for political purposes
- monarchical system
- monetary and credit system
- monetary system
- monitoring system
- monopolistic system
- motor-road and railway system
- multifaceted system
- multilateral payments system
- multiparty system
- mutually-acceptable system
- national accounting and control system
- national defense system
- new arms systems
- noncapitalist system
- obsolete social system
- old system
- one-man-one-vote system
- one-member-one-vote system
- one-party system
- opposing social systems
- optimum system
- outmoded system
- overhaul of the tax system
- parliamentary system
- party system
- payments system
- pension system
- people's democratic system
- philosophical system
- planning system
- political system
- post adjustment system
- power system
- preferential system
- premium system
- presidential system
- price system
- private enterprise system
- program budgeting system
- proportional representation system
- public pension system
- records system
- regimented political system
- remnants of the system
- reports system
- republican system
- ruling system
- safeguards system
- satellite-tracking system
- sea-based system
- security system
- social security system
- social system
- socio-economic system
- socio-political system
- space defense system
- space weapons systems
- space-based system
- spoils system
- stability system
- stable system
- state political system
- state system
- state-managed social security system
- strategic nuclear-weapon systems
- submarine-based system
- supply system
- system of collective security
- system of exploitation
- system of geographical distribution
- system of government and public organizations
- system of government

- tariff system
- taxation system
- technologically advanced weapons systems
- territorial system
- training system
- transition to a multiparty system
- tribal system
- trusteeship system
- two-party system
- united economic system
- visa system
- voting system
- wage system
- world system
- world trading system

Politics english-russian dictionary > system
15 rogue

•• rogue, rogue state

•• Rogue 1. a criminally dishonest person. 2. a playfully mischievous person (The Random House Dictionary).
•• Даже самые современные словари ограничиваются в описании этого слова такими значениями, как жулик, мошенник, негодяй, проказник, плюс несколько технических значений. Приводится также словосочетание rogue elephant (слон-отшельник), а также довольно известный полицейский термин rogue’s gallery (архив фотографий преступников). А теперь несколько примеров актуального употребления этого слова. Газета International Herald Tribune цитирует высказывание премьер-министра Малайзии: We still believe there are sincere investors out there. But there are still quite a few rogues who can cause an avalanche forcing others to run for cover. Американские дипломаты нередко называют такие страны, как Ливия, Ирак, Иран, rogue states. Думаю, что ни в первом, ни особенно во втором случае слова мошенник или негодяй не подойдут. Тем более в следующем примере из статьи бывшего прокурора Трибунала ООН по военным преступлениям: The likelihood that a rogue prosecutor would be appointed, let alone the idea that a diverse panel of independent judges would permit the indictment of anyone for political motives, is negligible. Что такое rogue prosecutor? В статье вполне достаточно подсказок. США, пишет автор, опасаются, что its soldiers might one day face frivolous prosecutions by the permanent international court (т.е. что американские военнослужащие будут подвергнуты необоснованному судебному преследованию). Но, пишет он далее, the careful procedures and demanding qualification for the selection of the prosecutor and judges... serve as an effective check against irresponsible behavior. Именно в слове irresponsible и содержится разгадка. Итак, a rogue prosecutor это безответственный прокурор (способный без достаточных оснований возбудить судебное дело). Соответственно a rogue state – «безответственное» государство, государство, не признающее международных норм, государство-изгой. Я встречал также в русских текстах словосочетание экстремистские государства. А в высказывании премьер-министра Малайзии rogues скорее все-таки безответственные лица, чем негодяи или мошенники.
•• * Когда перевод закрепился в прессе, изменить существующую практику фактически невозможно. Едва ли не все предлагавшиеся варианты соответствий rogue states – экстремистские/ безответственные/ опасные и даже опальные государства – лучше, чем государства-изгои, но ничего уже не поделаешь (в разговоре с французскими коллегами в ООН выяснилось, что им закрепившийся в печати перевод états-voyous тоже не нравится). Но, конечно, слово rogue употребляется не только в этом сочетании. Оно высокочастотно и имеет множество оттенков значений. В этом можно убедиться, заглянув в словари, но и они не передают всего богатства возможных вариантов перевода.
•• Вот цитата из New York Times:
•• At a critical turn in the crisis over the sexual abuse of children by rogue priests, the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops tried to show their commitment to reform last year by naming a review board of prominent laypeople led by former Gov. Frank Keating of Oklahoma.
•• Можно говорить о значении, примерно описываемом так: дискредитировавший себя, запятнавший свою репутацию неподобающим поведением и т.п. Вообще элемент безответственности, незаконности, неправильного поведения – общий в словосочетаниях rogue state и rogue priest. В более широком смысле общим является элемент опасности: rogue elephants опасны для жителей соседних деревень, rogue priests – для семей верующих и для общества в целом, rogue states – для международного сообщества. В приведенной выше фразе возможен, конечно, контекстуальный перевод, основанный на знании ситуации (священники, виновные в развращении несовершеннолетних).
•• В статье Энн Эплбаум в New York Review of Books читаем:
•• A few years ago, a series of bombs went off around Moscow and elsewhere in Russia. President Putin blamed the Chechens <...> Others blamed “ rogue elements” in the Russian security services, and even offered evidence.
•• Здесь rogue elements можно, по-моему, перевести и как преступные элементы, и даже как темные силы, но точнее всего – вышедшие из-под контроля сотрудники спецслужб. Элемент вышедший из-под контроля имплицитно присутствует и в rogue elephant, и в какой-то мере в rogue state. Но вообще-то это довольно близко к пресловутым оборотням в погонах. Конечно, нередко встречающийся в англоязычной печати «перевод» werewolves wearing police epaulets крайне неудачен. Сказочно-мифический персонаж здесь совсем неуместен, да и «погоны» не надо понимать буквально. Police/ security service turncoats (или просто turncoats) вполне приемлемо.
•• Несмотря на установленное «самой жизнью» соответствие rogue policemen или police turncoats и «оборотней в погонах», американские корреспонденты в Москве продолжают настаивать на werewolves. David Filipow (Boston Globe) – he should know better! – пишет:
•• Russians call them “ werewolves in uniform” - police officers who abuse their power to extort and rob the citizens they are supposed to safeguard.
•• Конечно, журналистам хочется добавить немного местного колорита, отсюда Russians call them (что тоже в общем неверно: выражение запущено в оборот бывшим министром Грызловым, оно неприятно напоминает «убийц в белых халатах» и в речи обычных Russians встречается редко).
•• Вообще, надо сказать, атрибутивное rogue – богатейшее слово, причем, как выясняется, англичане любят его не меньше, чем американцы.
•• Все следующие примеры с сайта www.bbc.co.uk:
•• Researchers may have uncovered why the « rogue» prion protein which causes BSE and CJD is such an efficient destroyer of brain cells. Scientists at two US research centres have discovered that the presence of the protein in one particular part of the brain cell is enough to poison it. CJD is the best-known type of disease thought to be caused by “ rogue” prions. These are “ misshapen” versions of a normal cell protein, which stop behaving in the normal way and cannot be disposed of by the cell.
•• Rogue white blood cells may hold the secret to how and why some life-threatening diseases develop, US scientists believe.
•• It could lead to rogue GM crop plants that are harder to control, warns the government agency, which champions wildlife conservation in Britain.
•• Scientists have discovered that a rogue wave pattern helped cause one of the UK’s biggest maritime disasters.
•• The United Nations has warned that about 30% of pesticides marketed in the developing world contain toxic substances which pose a serious threat to human health and the environment. The rogue pesticides contained chemicals either banned or severely restricted elsewhere in the world, or concentrations of chemicals which exceeded international limits.
•• A space mission to knock a potential rogue asteroid off course is undergoing feasibility studies with money from the European Space Agency.
•• Investigators suspect that a rogue scientist may have obtained access to samples of the bacteria.
•• В первых нескольких примерах стержневым для переводчика смысловым элементом является аномальность (клеток крови, белка, генетически модифицированных растений, волн). В случае с астероидом подойдет перевод опасный. Rogue scientist – что-то вроде «преступника в белом халате». А может быть, ученый-оборотень? Языковая мода – оружие огромной силы.
•• Еще примеры. Из статьи Энн Коултер (эта дама – «правее всех правых»):
•• Liberals waged a vicious campaign of vilification against Bork, saying he would bring back segregated lunch counters, government censorship and “rogue police” engaging in midnight raids.
•• Здесь rogue police, конечно, не оборотни в погонах, а скорее полиция, сорвавшаяся с тормозов. А может быть – в этом контексте – просто обнаглевшие полисмены.
•• С сайта BBC:
•• According to CNN political analyst Bill Schneider, the American people, by 2-to-1, think that he [Rumsfeld] should be allowed to stay on the job. It is not because they are not outraged and disgusted by the prisoner abuse scandal but because they believe that these were “rogue acts of criminality.”
•• В данном случае, пожалуй, лучше всего просто преступный произвол. Но можно перевести (слегка «русифицируя») и как преступные действия горстки отщепенцев.
•• Из «Известий»:
•• Главный врач столичной скорой помощи рассказал «Известиям» об «оборотнях» в белых халатах.
•• Напрашивается: rogue doctors/first aid workers.

English-Russian nonsystematic dictionary > rogue
16 rogue state

•• rogue, rogue state

•• Rogue 1. a criminally dishonest person. 2. a playfully mischievous person (The Random House Dictionary).
•• Даже самые современные словари ограничиваются в описании этого слова такими значениями, как жулик, мошенник, негодяй, проказник, плюс несколько технических значений. Приводится также словосочетание rogue elephant (слон-отшельник), а также довольно известный полицейский термин rogue’s gallery (архив фотографий преступников). А теперь несколько примеров актуального употребления этого слова. Газета International Herald Tribune цитирует высказывание премьер-министра Малайзии: We still believe there are sincere investors out there. But there are still quite a few rogues who can cause an avalanche forcing others to run for cover. Американские дипломаты нередко называют такие страны, как Ливия, Ирак, Иран, rogue states. Думаю, что ни в первом, ни особенно во втором случае слова мошенник или негодяй не подойдут. Тем более в следующем примере из статьи бывшего прокурора Трибунала ООН по военным преступлениям: The likelihood that a rogue prosecutor would be appointed, let alone the idea that a diverse panel of independent judges would permit the indictment of anyone for political motives, is negligible. Что такое rogue prosecutor? В статье вполне достаточно подсказок. США, пишет автор, опасаются, что its soldiers might one day face frivolous prosecutions by the permanent international court (т.е. что американские военнослужащие будут подвергнуты необоснованному судебному преследованию). Но, пишет он далее, the careful procedures and demanding qualification for the selection of the prosecutor and judges... serve as an effective check against irresponsible behavior. Именно в слове irresponsible и содержится разгадка. Итак, a rogue prosecutor это безответственный прокурор (способный без достаточных оснований возбудить судебное дело). Соответственно a rogue state – «безответственное» государство, государство, не признающее международных норм, государство-изгой. Я встречал также в русских текстах словосочетание экстремистские государства. А в высказывании премьер-министра Малайзии rogues скорее все-таки безответственные лица, чем негодяи или мошенники.
•• * Когда перевод закрепился в прессе, изменить существующую практику фактически невозможно. Едва ли не все предлагавшиеся варианты соответствий rogue states – экстремистские/ безответственные/ опасные и даже опальные государства – лучше, чем государства-изгои, но ничего уже не поделаешь (в разговоре с французскими коллегами в ООН выяснилось, что им закрепившийся в печати перевод états-voyous тоже не нравится). Но, конечно, слово rogue употребляется не только в этом сочетании. Оно высокочастотно и имеет множество оттенков значений. В этом можно убедиться, заглянув в словари, но и они не передают всего богатства возможных вариантов перевода.
•• Вот цитата из New York Times:
•• At a critical turn in the crisis over the sexual abuse of children by rogue priests, the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops tried to show their commitment to reform last year by naming a review board of prominent laypeople led by former Gov. Frank Keating of Oklahoma.
•• Можно говорить о значении, примерно описываемом так: дискредитировавший себя, запятнавший свою репутацию неподобающим поведением и т.п. Вообще элемент безответственности, незаконности, неправильного поведения – общий в словосочетаниях rogue state и rogue priest. В более широком смысле общим является элемент опасности: rogue elephants опасны для жителей соседних деревень, rogue priests – для семей верующих и для общества в целом, rogue states – для международного сообщества. В приведенной выше фразе возможен, конечно, контекстуальный перевод, основанный на знании ситуации (священники, виновные в развращении несовершеннолетних).
•• В статье Энн Эплбаум в New York Review of Books читаем:
•• A few years ago, a series of bombs went off around Moscow and elsewhere in Russia. President Putin blamed the Chechens <...> Others blamed “ rogue elements” in the Russian security services, and even offered evidence.
•• Здесь rogue elements можно, по-моему, перевести и как преступные элементы, и даже как темные силы, но точнее всего – вышедшие из-под контроля сотрудники спецслужб. Элемент вышедший из-под контроля имплицитно присутствует и в rogue elephant, и в какой-то мере в rogue state. Но вообще-то это довольно близко к пресловутым оборотням в погонах. Конечно, нередко встречающийся в англоязычной печати «перевод» werewolves wearing police epaulets крайне неудачен. Сказочно-мифический персонаж здесь совсем неуместен, да и «погоны» не надо понимать буквально. Police/ security service turncoats (или просто turncoats) вполне приемлемо.
•• Несмотря на установленное «самой жизнью» соответствие rogue policemen или police turncoats и «оборотней в погонах», американские корреспонденты в Москве продолжают настаивать на werewolves. David Filipow (Boston Globe) – he should know better! – пишет:
•• Russians call them “ werewolves in uniform” - police officers who abuse their power to extort and rob the citizens they are supposed to safeguard.
•• Конечно, журналистам хочется добавить немного местного колорита, отсюда Russians call them (что тоже в общем неверно: выражение запущено в оборот бывшим министром Грызловым, оно неприятно напоминает «убийц в белых халатах» и в речи обычных Russians встречается редко).
•• Вообще, надо сказать, атрибутивное rogue – богатейшее слово, причем, как выясняется, англичане любят его не меньше, чем американцы.
•• Все следующие примеры с сайта www.bbc.co.uk:
•• Researchers may have uncovered why the « rogue» prion protein which causes BSE and CJD is such an efficient destroyer of brain cells. Scientists at two US research centres have discovered that the presence of the protein in one particular part of the brain cell is enough to poison it. CJD is the best-known type of disease thought to be caused by “ rogue” prions. These are “ misshapen” versions of a normal cell protein, which stop behaving in the normal way and cannot be disposed of by the cell.
•• Rogue white blood cells may hold the secret to how and why some life-threatening diseases develop, US scientists believe.
•• It could lead to rogue GM crop plants that are harder to control, warns the government agency, which champions wildlife conservation in Britain.
•• Scientists have discovered that a rogue wave pattern helped cause one of the UK’s biggest maritime disasters.
•• The United Nations has warned that about 30% of pesticides marketed in the developing world contain toxic substances which pose a serious threat to human health and the environment. The rogue pesticides contained chemicals either banned or severely restricted elsewhere in the world, or concentrations of chemicals which exceeded international limits.
•• A space mission to knock a potential rogue asteroid off course is undergoing feasibility studies with money from the European Space Agency.
•• Investigators suspect that a rogue scientist may have obtained access to samples of the bacteria.
•• В первых нескольких примерах стержневым для переводчика смысловым элементом является аномальность (клеток крови, белка, генетически модифицированных растений, волн). В случае с астероидом подойдет перевод опасный. Rogue scientist – что-то вроде «преступника в белом халате». А может быть, ученый-оборотень? Языковая мода – оружие огромной силы.
•• Еще примеры. Из статьи Энн Коултер (эта дама – «правее всех правых»):
•• Liberals waged a vicious campaign of vilification against Bork, saying he would bring back segregated lunch counters, government censorship and “rogue police” engaging in midnight raids.
•• Здесь rogue police, конечно, не оборотни в погонах, а скорее полиция, сорвавшаяся с тормозов. А может быть – в этом контексте – просто обнаглевшие полисмены.
•• С сайта BBC:
•• According to CNN political analyst Bill Schneider, the American people, by 2-to-1, think that he [Rumsfeld] should be allowed to stay on the job. It is not because they are not outraged and disgusted by the prisoner abuse scandal but because they believe that these were “rogue acts of criminality.”
•• В данном случае, пожалуй, лучше всего просто преступный произвол. Но можно перевести (слегка «русифицируя») и как преступные действия горстки отщепенцев.
•• Из «Известий»:
•• Главный врач столичной скорой помощи рассказал «Известиям» об «оборотнях» в белых халатах.
•• Напрашивается: rogue doctors/first aid workers.

English-Russian nonsystematic dictionary > rogue state
17 good

[gud] 1. прил.; сравн. ст. better; превосх. ст. best
1)

а) хороший

Where can we get some good pizza? — Где бы нам достать хорошую пиццу?

William Faulkner's novels are particularly good. — Романы Уильяма Фолкнера особенно хороши.

б) неиспорченный, свежий

good food — доброкачественная, свежая пища

в) здоровый

one good arm — здоровая рука

г) плодородный ( о земле)

2)

а) достойный, добропорядочный, добродетельный

Abraham Lincoln was a wise and good man. — Авраам Линкольн был мудрым и добропорядочным человеком.

б) хороший, добрый, доброжелательный

Florence Nightingale was renowned for her good deeds. — Флоренс Найтингейл славилась своими добрыми делами.

в) милый, любезный

How good of you! — Как это мило с вашей стороны!

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Syn:

virtuous, righteous

3) послушный; благонравный, хорошего поведения; ведущий себя прилично, пристойно

Have you been a good boy today? — Ты был сегодня хорошим мальчиком?

Syn:

dutiful, obedient, proper, seemly, well-mannered, decorous, well-behaved, orderly

4) искусный, умелый; опытный, квалифицированный

The office needs another good typist. — В офисе требуется ещё одна квалифицированная машинистка.

- be good at

Syn:

skilled, skilful, capable, efficient, proficient, adroit, thorough, first-rate, excellent, first-class, ace

5) полезный; годный; подходящий, благоприятный

Milk is good for you. — Молоко тебе полезно.

It's a good day for swimming. — Это подходящий день для плавания.

Syn:

beneficial, healthful, healthy, salutary, advantageous, suitable, appropriate, favorable, right, proper, fitting, fit, qualified, useful, adequate, becoming, adapted, deserving

6) приятный, доставляющий удовольствие; милый, весёлый, компанейский, общительный

Have a good time on your vacation. — Приятно тебе провести отпуск.

An entertainer has to have a good personality. — Эстрадный артист должен быть общителен.

Syn:

enjoyable, pleasant, agreeable, cheerful, lively, sunny, genial, convivial, sociable, companionable

7) хороший, лучший (обладающий каким-л. или большим преимуществом среди других подобных)

Why don't you wear your good suit to the party? — Почему ты не одеваешь на вечер свой хороший костюм?

Syn:

best, new, smartest, valuable, precious, priceless

8) кредитоспособный; надёжный; подлинный

I would cash the cheque if I could be sure it was good. — Я бы обналичил этот чек, если бы был уверен в его подлинности.

Syn:

valid, bona fide, sound, real, genuine, authentic, honest, legitimate, proper, worthwhile, valuable

9)

а) полный, целый; значительный, большой, изрядный; обильный; достаточный

I waited a good hour. — Я прождал целый час.

The old farm is a good mile from here. — Старая ферма находится в доброй миле отсюда.

She spends a good amount of time playing bridge. — Она проводит изрядное количество времени за игрой в бридж.

good deal — значительное количество, много

б) употребляется в эмоционально-усилительном значении

a good many of us — весьма многие из нас

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Syn:

full, complete, solid, entire, considerable, large, fairly great, substantial, sizable, ample, adequate, sufficient

10) убедительный, обоснованный

good reasons — убедительные причины

Syn:

well-founded, cogent

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Gram:

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as good as — всё равно что; почти; фактически

to be as good as one's word — держать (своё) слово

Is he any good at chess? — Он хотя бы как-нибудь умеет играть в шахматы?

- good morning!
- good gracious!
- good hour 2. сущ.
1) праведность, добродетельность; благо, добро

the common good — общее благо

the highest good — высшее благо

to bring out the good in smb. — обнаруживать в ком-л. хорошие качества

No one's all bad - everyone has some good in him. — Нет полностью плохого человека - в каждом есть что-то хорошее.

More people should concern themselves with doing good. — Многие люди занимаются благотворительными делами.

Syn:

goodness, virtue, merit, worth, value, excellence, righteousness

2) выгода, польза

to the good — на пользу кому-л.

to come to no good — не добиться ничего хорошего

I am telling you this for your good. (A. S. Hornby) — Я говорю вам это для вашей же пользы.

You must try harder for the good of the team. — Ради команды вы должны посильнее постараться.

It is no good. — Бесполезно.

Syn:

benefit, advantage, gain, profit, prosperity, success, welfare, interest, well-being, improvement, service, favour, boon, enjoyment, happiness, wealth, blessing, godsend, prize, windfall

3) ( the good) хорошие, добрые люди; хорошие вещи

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for good (and all) — навсегда, окончательно
3. нареч.; разг.
хорошо

He showed me how good I was doing. — Он показал мне, как хорошо я поступаю.

Syn:

well

Англо-русский современный словарь > good
18 learning curve

сущ.

кривая обучения ( зависимость объёма полученных знаний или навыков от затраченного времени)

He has a steep learning curve ahead of him. — Ему предстоит многому научиться в предельно короткий срок.

Back then, we were all on a learning curve that could only go up. People were making all sorts of messes. — Мы тогда были на самой нижней точке кривой обучения. Каких только ошибок не допускали!

We find ladies have a far more efficient learning curve than men. — Мы находим, что эффективность обучения у женщин намного выше, чем у мужчин.

The learning curve depends not on length of time so much as on talent. — Показатели кривой обучения зависят не столько от количества времени, сколько от способностей.

Англо-русский современный словарь > learning curve
19 cause

1. n

1) дело; общее дело

- espouse the antinuclear cause

- espouse the ecological cause

2) причина, основание; повод

- cause and effect

- just cause for reprisals

3) юр. судебное дело, процесс

- gain one's cause

- plead a cause

4) юр. соображения, высказываемые стороной (на процессе)

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- cause of action

- efficient cause

- intervening cause

- cherished cause of the people

- probable cause

- remote cause

- lost cause

- good cause

- legitimate cause

2. v

вызывать; служить поводом; быть причиной

- cause widespread long-term damage to the natural environment

English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > cause
20 able

1. a способный, обладающий способностью

to be able to … — мочь …, быть в состоянии …

the baby is able to walk already — ребёнок уже научился ходить

as I had money I was able to help her — у меня были деньги, и я имел возможность ей помочь

shall you be able to come? — вы сможете прийти?

you are better able to do it than I am — у вас это лучше получится, чем у меня

able to — способный

2. a крепкий, здоровый; годный

he is old but still quite able — он стар, по ещё крепок

able for duty — годный к военной службе

3. a способный, талантливый

able actor — способный актёр

few people are able to understand him — мало кто способен понять его

4. a компетентный, квалифицированный, умелый

able lawyer — знающий адвокат

5. a юр. компетентный, правоспособный

able in mind — в здравом рассудке

6. a мор. обладающий хорошими мореходными качествами

able rating — матрос

Синонимический ряд:

1. capable (adj.) adept; adequate; apt; au fait; capable; competent; efficient; fit; proficient; proper; qualified; skilful; skilled; wicked

2. skillful (adj.) accomplished; clever; dexterous; endowed; expert; gifted; good; skillful; strong; talented

Антонимический ряд:

feeble; incapable; incompetent; ineffective; inefficient; inept; infirm; silly; stupid; unable; unqualified; unskillful; weak

English-Russian base dictionary > able

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