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for the rest of one's natural (life)

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1 for the rest of one's natural life

до конца своих дней

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > for the rest of one's natural life
2 for the rest of one's natural life

до конца своих дней

Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь > for the rest of one's natural life
3 for the rest of one's natural life

до конца своих дней

Новый англо-русский словарь > for the rest of one's natural life
4 for the rest of one's natural (life)

до конца своих дней

Англо-русский современный словарь > for the rest of one's natural (life)
5 for the rest of one's natural (life)

до конца своих дней

Англо-русский современный словарь > for the rest of one's natural (life)
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natural [ˊnætʃǝrəl]

1. a

1) есте́ственный, приро́дный;

natural power си́лы приро́ды
;

natural resources приро́дные бога́тства
;

natural weapons есте́ственное ору́жие (кулаки, зубы и т.п.)
;

natural selection биол. есте́ственный отбо́р
;

natural phenomena явле́ния приро́ды

2) настоя́щий, натура́льный;

natural food натура́льные (пищевы́е) проду́кты
;

natural flowers живы́е цветы́
;

natural teeth «свои́» зу́бы

3) есте́ственный, обы́чный;

to die a natural death умере́ть есте́ственной сме́ртью
;

the term of one's natural life вся жизнь
;

for the rest of one's natural (life) до конца́ свои́х дней

4) есте́ственный, относя́щийся к естествозна́нию;

natural history есте́ственная исто́рия
;

natural philosophy уст. фи́зика; натурфилосо́фия
;

natural science есте́ственные нау́ки
;

natural dialectics диале́ктика приро́ды

5) ди́кий, некультиви́рованный; необрабо́танный;

natural growth ди́кая расти́тельность
;

natural steel незакалённая сталь

6) обы́чный, норма́льный; поня́тный;

natural mistake поня́тная, есте́ственная оши́бка

7) непринуждённый, есте́ственный;

it comes natural to him

а) э́то получа́ется у него́ есте́ственно;

б) э́то легко́ ему́ даётся;

he is a very natural person он о́чень непосре́дственный челове́к

8) прису́щий; врождённый;

a natural comedian прирождённый ко́мик
;

with the bravery natural to him с прису́щей ему́ хра́бростью

9) о́чень похо́жий, как живо́й ( о портрете и т.п.)

10) земно́й, физи́ческий;

natural world реа́льный мир

11) внебра́чный, незаконнорождённый;

natural child внебра́чный ребёнок
;

natural son побо́чный сын

2. n

1) разг. са́мое подходя́щее; са́мый подходя́щий челове́к (для чего-л.);

he is a natural for art он со́здан для иску́сства

2) уст. идио́т от рожде́ния; дурачо́к

3) муз. бека́р, знак бека́ра

4) муз. ключ C

◊
it's a natural! превосхо́дно!

Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > natural
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natural

A n

1 ○ ( person) as an actress, she's a natural c'est une actrice née ; he's a natural for the role of Hamlet il est fait pour jouer Hamlet ;

2 Mus ( sign) bécarre m ; ( note) note f naturelle ;

3 ‡( simpleton) imbécile mf.

B adj

1 ( not artificial or man-made) [phenomenon, force, disaster, harbour, light, resources, process, progression, beauty, material, food] naturel/-elle ; the natural world le monde naturel ; in its natural state à l'état naturel ;

2 (usual, normal) naturel/-elle, normal ; it's natural to do/to be c'est normal de faire/d'être ; it's natural for sb to do c'est normal que qn fasse ; the natural thing to do would be to protest la chose la plus normale serait de protester ; it's only natural c'est tout à fait naturel ; it's not natural! ce n'est pas normal! ; to die of natural causes mourir de mort naturelle or de sa belle mort ; death from natural causes Jur mort naturelle ; for the rest of one's natural life Jur à vie ;

3 ( innate) [gift, talent, emotion, trait] inné ; [artist, professional, storyteller] né ; [affinity] naturel/-elle ; a natural advantage (of person, party, country) un atout ;

4 ( unaffected) [person, manner] simple, naturel/-elle ; try and look more natural essaie d'avoir l'air plus naturel ;

5 (actual, real) [parent] naturel/-elle ; ‡( illegitimate) [child] naturel/-elle ;

6 Mus naturel/-elle ; natural horn cor m d'harmonie.

Big English-French dictionary > natural
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ˈnætʃrəl
1. прил.
1) а) естественный, природный natural resources natural weapons - natural selection natural phenomena natural day die a natural death the term of one's natural life for the rest of one's natural life natural power natural law Syn: normal б) настоящий, натуральный, неискусственный;
обычный, обыкновенный natural flowers natural teeth natural gas Ant: artificial;
marvellous в) дикий, некультивированный natural growth natural steel г) присущий, врожденный with the bravery natural to him ≈ с присущей ему храбростью She has a natural ability to understand the motives of others. ≈ У нее была врожденная способность понимать причины поведения других людей. natural frequency Syn: innate Ant: acquired
2) а) обычный, нормальный;
понятный That comes natural to me. ≈ Для меня это естественно. It's natural to want a nice car. ≈ Желание иметь хороший автомобиль - вполне естественное. It's perfectly natural that children love ice cream. ≈ Совершенно нормально, что дети любят мороженое. б) естественный, непринужденный He is a very natural person. ≈ Он очень непосредственный человек. come natural to one
3) естественный, относящийся к естествознанию natural philosopher - natural history - natural philosophy natural dialectics
4) а) ист. и уст. свой, неусыновленный;
рожденный в браке б) внебрачный, незаконнорожденный, побочный Syn: illegitimate, bastard
5) мат. натуральный - natural logarithm - natural number
2. сущ.
1) а) что-л. естественное б) у негров: вид прически, оставляющий волосы в первозданном виде
2) а) одаренный человек, самородок б) идиот от рождения;
дурачок, предмет издевательств
3) а) разг. самое подходящее, то, что нужно (для чего-л., в частности, о человеке) He is a natural for art. ≈ Он создан для искусства. He is a natural with any kind of engine. ≈ Он легко обращается с любыми механизмами. She proved to be a natural on camera. ≈ Она продемонстрировала умение держать себя естественно и непринужденно перед камерой. б) карт. в игре в очко: двадцать одно, сданное в первых двух картах;
в других азартных играх: любая комбинация, дающая сразу окончательный выигрыш, тж. перен.
4) а) муз. скрипичный ключ, ключ С б) муз. бекар (знак и связанные с ним действия) в) муз. белая клавиша( на любом клавишном инструменте)
5) редк. гениталии (также мн.) Any female with the desire of fulfilling the functions of her natural. ≈ (Дж. Джойс, "Улисс",)
6) археол. фундамент, пласт, лежащий под культурным слоем ∙ it's a natural! ≈ превосходно! кретин, идиот ( от рождения) - she is not quite a * она не круглая идиотка (разговорное) подходящий( для чего-л.) человек - Bob is a * for this job Боб как будто создан для этой работы( разговорное) самое подходящее - this job's a * for Jim эта работа как раз по Джиму - it's a *! превосходно!, как раз то, что нужно! (сленг) жизнь, земное существование - in all my * за всю (свою) жизнь (музыкальное) бекар (американизм) африканская прическа (без выпрямления и окраски волос) (американизм) "афро", прическа "под африканца";
высокая прическа из мелких завитков естественный, природный - * forces силы природы - * grandeur and beauty величие и красота природы - * resourses природные богатства /ресурсы/ - * gas природный газ - * radioactivity естественная радиоактивность - * harbour естественная гавань - * day сутки - * weapons естественное оружие( кулаки, зубы) - * death естественная смерть - * year тропический год - * number (математика) натуральное число - * cover( военное) естественное укрытие - * seeding самосев, естественное обсеменение( о растениях) - * infancy (юридическое) детство( до 7 лет) - * loss /wastage/ (коммерческое) естественная убыль (усушка, утечка и т. п.) - * horizon (авиация) видимый горизонт - the * cause of a seeming miracle естественно-научное обьяснение кажущегося чуда - * economy натуральное хозяйство - animals living in their * state животные в естественных условиях земной, физический - * life земное существование - the * world этот свет, земное существование - imprisonment for the term of one's * life (юридическое) пожизненное заключение настоящий, натуральный - * wool натуральная шерсть - * flowers живые цветы - * teeth свои зубы - * complexion естественный цвет лица( без косметики) - * portrait портрет, точно передающий сходство;
как живой - * scale( специальное) натуральная величина, масштаб 1:1 - * weight( коммерческое) натуральный вес( зерна) естественный, относящийся к естествознанию - * dialectics диалектика природы - * historian натуралист - * philosophy( устаревшее) физика;
натурфилософия;
философия природы обычный, нормальный;
понятный - * mistake понятная /естественная/ ошибка - it is * for a baby to cry if it is hungry вполне понятно /естественно, нормально/, что ребенок плачет, когда он голоден дикий, некультивированный - * growth дикая растительность - * state первобытное состояние - the * man человек, каким его создала природа;
(философское) естественный человек необработанный, не подвергшийся обработке - * steel незакаленная сталь врожденный, присущий - * gift врожденный дар - * linguist человек с врожденными способностями к языкам - * оrator прирожденный оратор - * fool дурак( от рождения) - with his * modesty со свойственной ему скромностью - it is * for a duck to swim утка обладает врожденными умением плавать непринужденный, естественный - it comes * to him это получается у него естественно /само собой/;
это ему дается легко - it was a very * piece of acting актер играл очень естественно /правдиво/ побочный, внебрачный - his * son его побочный сын - her * brother ее побочный брат, побочный сын ее отца ( американизм) в стиле "афро" (о прическе) (геология) материнский - * rock материнская порода - * ground материк( физическое) собственный - * frequency собственная частота - * vibration собственные колебания ~ естественный, природный;
to die a natural death умереть естественной смертью;
the term of one's natural life вся жизнь for the rest of one's ~ (life) до конца своих дней;
natural power силы природы ~ разг. самое подходящее;
самый подходящий человек (для чего-л.) ;
he is a natural for art он создан для искусства it comes ~ to him это легко ему дается;
he is a very natural person он очень непосредственный человек it comes ~ to him это легко ему дается;
he is a very natural person он очень непосредственный человек it comes ~ to him это получается у него естественно natural муз. бекар, знак бекара;
it's a natural! превосходно! natural муз. бекар, знак бекара;
it's a natural! превосходно! ~ внебрачный, незаконнорожденный;
natural child внебрачный ребенок;
natural son побочный сын ~ дикий, некультивированный;
natural growth дикая растительность;
natural steel незакаленная сталь ~ естественный, относящийся к естествознанию;
natural history естественная история ~ естественный, природный;
to die a natural death умереть естественной смертью;
the term of one's natural life вся жизнь ~ естественный ~ идиот от рождения;
дурачок ~ муз. ключ С ~ настоящий, натуральный;
natural flowers живые цветы;
natural teeth "свои" зубы ~ настоящий ~ натуральный ~ непринужденный, естественный ~ обычный, нормальный;
понятный;
natural mistake понятная, естественная ошибка ~ обычный ~ одаренный человек, самородок ~ понятный ~ природный ~ присущий;
врожденный;
with the bravery natural to him с присущей ему храбростью ~ разг. самое подходящее;
самый подходящий человек (для чего-л.) ;
he is a natural for art он создан для искусства ~ самородный ~ philosophy физика;
natural philosopher физик;
естествоиспытатель;
natural dialectics диалектика природы ~ настоящий, натуральный;
natural flowers живые цветы;
natural teeth "свои" зубы ~ дикий, некультивированный;
natural growth дикая растительность;
natural steel незакаленная сталь ~ естественный, относящийся к естествознанию;
natural history естественная история ~ обычный, нормальный;
понятный;
natural mistake понятная, естественная ошибка ~ selection биол. естественный отбор;
natural phenomena явления природы ~ philosophy физика;
natural philosopher физик;
естествоиспытатель;
natural dialectics диалектика природы philosopher: philosopher философ;
natural philosopher физик;
естествоиспытатель;
philosophers, stone философский камень ~ philosophy физика;
natural philosopher физик;
естествоиспытатель;
natural dialectics диалектика природы for the rest of one's ~ (life) до конца своих дней;
natural power силы природы ~ resources природные богатства;
natural weapons естественное оружие (кулаки, зубы и т. п.) resource: ~ (обыкн. pl) ресурсы, средства, запасы;
natural resources природные богатства resources: natural ~ природные ресурсы ~ selection биол. естественный отбор;
natural phenomena явления природы ~ внебрачный, незаконнорожденный;
natural child внебрачный ребенок;
natural son побочный сын ~ дикий, некультивированный;
natural growth дикая растительность;
natural steel незакаленная сталь ~ настоящий, натуральный;
natural flowers живые цветы;
natural teeth "свои" зубы ~ resources природные богатства;
natural weapons естественное оружие (кулаки, зубы и т. п.) ~ естественный, природный;
to die a natural death умереть естественной смертью;
the term of one's natural life вся жизнь ~ присущий;
врожденный;
with the bravery natural to him с присущей ему храбростью

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > natural
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[ˈnætʃrəl]

natural естественный, природный; to die a natural death умереть естественной смертью; the term of one's natural life вся жизнь for the rest of one's natural (life) до конца своих дней; natural power силы природы natural разг. самое подходящее; самый подходящий человек (для чего-л.); he is a natural for art он создан для искусства it comes natural to him это легко ему дается; he is a very natural person он очень непосредственный человек it comes natural to him это легко ему дается; he is a very natural person он очень непосредственный человек it comes natural to him это получается у него естественно natural муз. бекар, знак бекара; it's a natural! превосходно! natural муз. бекар, знак бекара; it's a natural! превосходно! natural внебрачный, незаконнорожденный; natural child внебрачный ребенок; natural son побочный сын natural дикий, некультивированный; natural growth дикая растительность; natural steel незакаленная сталь natural естественный, относящийся к естествознанию; natural history естественная история natural естественный, природный; to die a natural death умереть естественной смертью; the term of one's natural life вся жизнь natural естественный natural идиот от рождения; дурачок natural муз. ключ С natural настоящий, натуральный; natural flowers живые цветы; natural teeth "свои" зубы natural настоящий natural натуральный natural непринужденный, естественный natural обычный, нормальный; понятный; natural mistake понятная, естественная ошибка natural обычный natural одаренный человек, самородок natural понятный natural природный natural присущий; врожденный; with the bravery natural to him с присущей ему храбростью natural разг. самое подходящее; самый подходящий человек (для чего-л.); he is a natural for art он создан для искусства natural самородный natural philosophy физика; natural philosopher физик; естествоиспытатель; natural dialectics диалектика природы natural настоящий, натуральный; natural flowers живые цветы; natural teeth "свои" зубы natural дикий, некультивированный; natural growth дикая растительность; natural steel незакаленная сталь natural естественный, относящийся к естествознанию; natural history естественная история natural обычный, нормальный; понятный; natural mistake понятная, естественная ошибка natural selection биол. естественный отбор; natural phenomena явления природы natural philosophy физика; natural philosopher физик; естествоиспытатель; natural dialectics диалектика природы philosopher: philosopher философ; natural philosopher физик; естествоиспытатель; philosophers, stone философский камень natural philosophy физика; natural philosopher физик; естествоиспытатель; natural dialectics диалектика природы for the rest of one's natural (life) до конца своих дней; natural power силы природы natural resources природные богатства; natural weapons естественное оружие (кулаки, зубы и т. п.) resource: natural (обыкн. pl) ресурсы, средства, запасы; natural resources природные богатства resources: natural natural природные ресурсы natural selection биол. естественный отбор; natural phenomena явления природы natural внебрачный, незаконнорожденный; natural child внебрачный ребенок; natural son побочный сын natural дикий, некультивированный; natural growth дикая растительность; natural steel незакаленная сталь natural настоящий, натуральный; natural flowers живые цветы; natural teeth "свои" зубы natural resources природные богатства; natural weapons естественное оружие (кулаки, зубы и т. п.) natural естественный, природный; to die a natural death умереть естественной смертью; the term of one's natural life вся жизнь natural присущий; врожденный; with the bravery natural to him с присущей ему храбростью

English-Russian short dictionary > natural
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['næʧ(ə)r(ə)l] 1. прил.
1)

а) естественный, природный

- natural resources

- natural selection

- natural phenomena
- natural day
- the term of one's natural life
- for the rest of one's natural life
- for the rest of one's natural
- natural power
- die a natural death
- natural law

- natural weapons

б) настоящий, натуральный, неискусственный; обычный, обыкновенный

- natural flowers
- natural teeth
- natural gas

Ant:

artificial, marvellous

в) дикий, некультивированный

- natural growth
- natural steel
г) присущий, врождённый

with the bravery natural to him — с присущей ему храбростью

She has a natural ability to understand the motives of others. — У неё была врождённая способность понимать причины поведения других людей.

Syn:

innate

Ant:

acquired

2) обычный, нормальный; понятный

natural reaction — естественная, нормальная реакция

That comes natural to me. — Для меня это естественно.

It's natural to want a nice car. — Желание иметь хороший автомобиль вполне естественно.

It's perfectly natural that children love ice cream. — Совершенно нормально, что дети любят мороженое.

Syn:

normal

3) естественный, непринуждённый

He is a very natural person. — Он очень непосредственный человек.

- come natural to one

4) естественный, относящийся к естествознанию

- natural philosopher

- natural history

- natural philosophy

- natural dialectics

5)

а) уст. кровный, неусыновлённый; рождённый в браке ( о ребёнке)

б) внебрачный, незаконнорождённый, побочный

Syn:

illegitimate, bastard

6) мат. натуральный

- natural logarithm

- natural number

7) муз.

а) чистый, без диезов и бемолей ( о нотах)

б) со значком бекар ( о нотах)

A natural — ля чистое, ля ( в отличие от ля диез или ля бемоль); ля бекар

8) физ. собственный

- natural frequency
2. сущ.
1) подходящий для чего-л. человек

He is a natural for art. — Он создан для искусства.

He is a natural with any kind of engine. — Он легко обращается с любыми механизмами.

She proved to be a natural on camera. — Она продемонстрировала умение держать себя естественно и непринуждённо перед камерой.

2) одарённый человек, самородок

3) муз.

а) скрипичный ключ, ключ С

б) бекар

в) белая клавиша ( на любом клавишном инструменте)

4) амер. вид причёски, оставляющий волосы в первозданном виде ( у негров)

5) карт. выигрышная комбинация (в игре в очко: двадцать одно, сданное в первых двух картах; в других азартных играх: любая комбинация, дающая сразу окончательный выигрыш)

6) идиот от рождения; дурачок, предмет издевательств

7) уст. гениталии

Any female with the desire of fulfilling the functions of her natural. — Любая особа женского пола, желающая не оставить втуне свойственные своему плотскому естеству функции. (Дж.Джойс, "Улисс")

8) археол. фундамент, пласт, лежащий под культурным слоем

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it's a natural! — превосходно!

Англо-русский современный словарь > natural
11 natural

1. adjective
1) natürlich; Natur[zustand, -begabung, -talent, -seide, -schwamm, -faser, -erscheinung]

the natural world — die Natur[welt]

be a natural blonde — naturblondes Haar haben

it is natural for dogs to fight — es ist natürlich, dass Hunde kämpfen

die of or from natural causes — eines natürlichen Todes sterben

have a natural tendency to... — naturgemäß dazu neigen,... zu...

2) (unaffected) natürlich [Art, Lächeln, Stil]

3) leiblich [Eltern, Kind usw.]; natürlich (Rechtsspr. veralt.) [Kind]
2. noun
(person) Naturtalent, das

she's a natural for the part — die Rolle ist ihr auf den Leib geschrieben

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['næ ərəl] 1. adjective
1) (of or produced by nature, not made by men: Coal, oil etc are natural resources; Wild animals are happier in their natural state than in a zoo.) natürlich

2) (born in a person: natural beauty; He had a natural ability for music.) angeboren

3) ((of manner) simple, without pretence: a nice, natural smile.) natürlich

4) (normal; as one would expect: It's quite natural for a boy of his age to be interested in girls.) natürlich

5) (of a musical note, not sharp or flat: G natural is lower in pitch than G sharp.) ohne Vorzeichen
2. noun
1) (a person who is naturally good at something.) das Naturtalent

2) (in music (a sign () indicating) a note which is not to be played sharp or flat.) das Auflösungszeichen

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- naturally
- natural gas
- natural history
- natural resources
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natu·ral

[ˈnætʃ^ər^əl, AM -ɚəl]

I. adj

1. (not artificial) flavour, ingredients, mineral water natürlich; colour, curls, dye, fertilizer Natur-; SCI natürlich

\natural abundance NUCL natürliche Isotopenhäufigkeit

\natural oscillation Eigenschwingung f

\natural sciences pl Naturwissenschaften pl

to be a \natural blonde naturblondes Haar haben

\natural fibre [or AM fiber] Naturfaser f

\natural material Naturprodukt m

\natural pearls echte Perlen

\natural phenomenon Naturphänomen nt

2. (as in nature) harbour, reservoir, camouflage natürlich; fabric, wood naturbelassen; MATH nicht logarithmisch

\natural state Naturzustand m

it's not \natural for a woman to be so thin es ist gegen die weibliche Natur, so dünn zu sein

3. (caused by nature) natürlich

\natural causes natürliche Ursachen

to die from \natural causes eines natürlichen Todes sterben

\natural disaster Naturkatastrophe f

4. (inborn) angeboren

he has a \natural talent for sports er hat eine natürliche Begabung für Sport

to be a \natural leader ein geborener Führer/eine geborene Führerin sein

5. BIOL, SOCIOL

\natural father/mother/parents leiblicher Vater/leibliche Mutter/Eltern

6. (normal) natürlich, normal

I'm sure there's a \natural explanation for it ich bin sicher, es gibt dafür eine ganz normale Erklärung

it's quite \natural... es ist ganz natürlich,...

\natural inclination Neigung f

\natural wastage ECON natürliche Fluktuation

7. after n MUS ohne Vorzeichen nach n

8. MATH number natürlich

II. n

1. ( approv fam) Naturtalent nt

to be a \natural for sth ein Naturtalent für etw akk sein

she is a \natural for the role of Ophelia sie ist die Idealbesetzung für die Rolle der Ophelia

he is a \natural for that type of work Arbeit dieser Art liegt ihm

as a teacher, he's a \natural er ist der ideale Lehrer

2. MUS Auflösungszeichen nt

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['ntSrəl]
1. adj

1) natürlich, Natur-; rights naturgegeben; (= understandable) mistake verständlich

natural phenomenon — Naturphänomen nt

it is ( only) natural for you/him to think... — es ist nur natürlich, dass Sie denken/er denkt...

natural resources — Naturschätze pl

the natural world — die Natur

in its natural state — im Naturzustand

to die a natural death or of natural causes — eines natürlichen Todes sterben

death from natural causes (Jur) — Tod durch natürliche Ursachen

to be imprisoned for the rest of one's natural life (Jur) —

a natural son of Utah — in Utah geboren

2) (= chemical-free) food, hair colour natürlich

natural cosmetics — Naturkosmetik f

natural remedy — Naturheilmittel nt

she is a natural blonde — sie ist von Natur aus blond, blond ist ihre natürliche Haarfarbe

3) (= inborn) gift, ability, quality angeboren

to have a natural talent for sth — eine natürliche Begabung für etw haben

he is a natural artist/comedian —

it is natural for birds to fly — Vögel können von Natur aus fliegen

sth comes natural to sb — etw fällt jdm leicht

4) (= unaffected) manner natürlich, ungekünstelt; person, charm natürlich

there was something not quite natural about her way of speaking — ihre Sprechweise hatte etwas Gekünsteltes

5) (MATH) number natürlich

6) parents leiblich; (old) child natürlich

2. n

1) (MUS) (= symbol) Auflösungszeichen nt; (= note) Note f ohne Vorzeichen; (= note with a natural symbol) Note f mit Auflösungszeichen

B natural — H, h

D natural — D, d

you played F sharp instead of F natural — Sie haben fis statt f gespielt

See:

→ also major, minor

2) (inf: person) Naturtalent nt

he's a natural for this part — diese Rolle ist ihm wie auf den Leib geschrieben

3) (inf: life) Leben nt

I've never heard the like in all my natural — ich habe so was mein Lebtag noch nicht gehört (inf)

4) (old: idiot) Einfaltspinsel m

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natural [ˈnætʃrəl]

A adj (adv → naturally)

1. natürlich, Natur…:

a natural blonde eine echte Blondine;

die a natural death eines natürlichen Todes sterben;

natural disaster Naturkatastrophe f;

there is a natural explanation for it es gibt eine natürliche Erklärung dafür;

natural ice Natureis n;

natural law Naturgesetz n;

natural wonder Naturwunder n; → person 1, representative A 1

2. naturgemäß, der menschlichen Natur entsprechend

3. naturbedingt, den Naturgesetzen entsprechend oder folgend

4. angeboren, eigen ( beide:

to dat):

natural talent natürliche Begabung

5. geboren (Führungsperson etc)

6. real, wirklich, physisch

7. selbstverständlich, natürlich:

it comes quite natural to him es fällt ihm leicht

8. natürlich, ungezwungen, ungekünstelt (Benehmen etc)

9. üblich, normal, natürlich:

it is natural for him to get drunk es ist ganz normal, dass er sich betrinkt; → wastage 1

10. naturgetreu, natürlich wirkend (Nachahmung, Bild etc)

11. unbearbeitet, Natur…, Roh…:

natural food naturbelassene Lebensmittel pl

12. naturhaft, urwüchsig:

natural landscape Naturlandschaft f

13. a) unehelich

b) leiblich (Eltern etc)

14. BOT in der Natur oder wild wachsend

15. MATH natürlich (Logarithmus, Zahl)

16. MUS

a) ohne Vorzeichen

b) mit einem Auflösungszeichen (versehen) (Note)

c) Vokal…:

natural music

B s

1. obs Idiot(in), Schwachsinnige(r) m/f(m)

2. umg

a) Naturtalent n (Person):

be a natural for (wie) geboren oder geschaffen sein für

b) (sicherer) Erfolg (auch Person), (eine) klare Sache‘ ( for sb für jemanden)

3. MUS

a) Auflösungszeichen n

b) aufgelöste Note

c) Stammton m

d) weiße Taste (einer Klaviatur)

nat. abk

1. national

2. native

3. natural

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1. adjective
1) natürlich; Natur[zustand, -begabung, -talent, -seide, -schwamm, -faser, -erscheinung]

the natural world — die Natur[welt]

be a natural blonde — naturblondes Haar haben

it is natural for dogs to fight — es ist natürlich, dass Hunde kämpfen

die of or from natural causes — eines natürlichen Todes sterben

have a natural tendency to... — naturgemäß dazu neigen,... zu...

2) (unaffected) natürlich [Art, Lächeln, Stil]

3) leiblich [Eltern, Kind usw.]; natürlich (Rechtsspr. veralt.) [Kind]
2. noun
(person) Naturtalent, das

she's a natural for the part — die Rolle ist ihr auf den Leib geschrieben

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adj.

naturgemäß adj.

natürlich adj. n.

natürliche Zahl (Mathematik) f.

English-german dictionary > natural
12 natural

1. adjective

1) естественный, природный; to die a natural death умереть естественной смертью; the term of one's natural life вся жизнь; for the rest of one's natural (life) до конца своих дней; natural power силы природы; natural resources природные богатства; natural weapons естественное оружие (кулаки, зубы и т. п.); natural selection biol. естественный отбор; natural phenomena явления природы

2) настоящий, натуральный; natural flowers живые цветы; natural teeth 'свои' зубы

3) естественный, относящийся к естествознанию; natural history естественная история; natural philosophy физика; natural philosopher физик; естествоиспытатель; natural dialectics диалектика природы

4) обычный, нормальный; понятный; natural mistake понятная, естественная ошибка

5) дикий, некультивированный; natural growth дикая растительность; natural steel незакаленная сталь

6) самородный

7) присущий; врожденный; with the bravery natural to him с присущей ему храбростью

8) непринужденный, естественный;

it comes natural to him

а) это получается у него естественно;

б) это легко ему дается; he is a very natural person он очень непосредственный человек

9) внебрачный, незаконнорожденный; natural child внебрачный ребенок; natural son побочный сын

Syn:

normal

2. noun

1) одаренный человек, самородок

2) collocation самое подходящее; самый подходящий человек (для чего-л.); he is a natural for art он создан для искусства

3) идиот от рождения; дурачок

4) mus. ключ С

5) mus. бекар, знак бекара

it's a natural! превосходно!

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(a) естественный; натурный; природный

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естественный, природный

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[nat·u·ral || 'nætʃrəl] adj. естественный, природный, земной; физический; настоящий, натуральный, как живой; обычный, нормальный; дикий, некультивированный; незаконнорожденный; самородный n. что-либо естественное; одаренный человек; идиот от рождения; бекар [муз.]
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естественен

естественный

натурален

натуральный

природный

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1. прил. 1) а) естественный б) настоящий, натуральный в) дикий г) присущий 2) а) обычный б) естественный 3) естественный, относящийся к естествознанию 2. сущ. 1) а) что-л. естественное б) 2) а) одаренный человек б) идиот от рождения; дурачок, предмет издевательств 3) а) разг. самое подходящее, то, что нужно б) карт. 4) муз. а) скрипичный ключ, ключ С б) бекар в) белая клавиша

Новый англо-русский словарь > natural
13 natural

natural ['nætʃərəl]

1 adjective

(a) (created by or existing in nature → scenery, environment, light, resources, process) naturel;

∎ a natural harbour un port naturel;

∎ in a natural state à l'état naturel;

∎ the natural world la nature

(b) (not artificial → wood, finish) naturel;

∎ she's a natural redhead c'est une vraie rousse

(c) (normal → explanation, desire, wish) naturel, normal;

∎ it's only natural for her to be worried or that she should be worried il est tout à fait normal ou il est tout naturel qu'elle se fasse du souci;

∎ I'm sure there's a perfectly natural explanation for it je suis sûr qu'on peut l'expliquer de façon tout à fait naturelle;

∎ death from natural causes mort f naturelle;

∎ in the natural course of events dans le cours normal des choses;

∎ one's or the natural reaction is to… la réaction instinctive est de…;

∎ as is (only) natural comme de juste

(d) (unaffected → person, manner) naturel, simple

(e) (innate → talent) inné, naturel;

∎ she's a natural organizer c'est une organisatrice-née, elle a un sens inné de l'organisation

(f) (free of additives) naturel

(g) (child) naturel

(h) (real → parents) naturel

(i) Music naturel; (after accidental) bécarre (inv);

∎ G natural sol bécarre

(j) Mathematics naturel

2 adverb

∎ familiar try to act natural! soyez naturel!^□

3 noun

(a) familiar (gifted person)

∎ she's a natural elle a ça dans le sang;

∎ he's a natural for the job il a le profil de l'emploi^□ ;

∎ she's a natural for the part elle est faite pour ce rôle^□

(b) Music bécarre m

►► natural break (in film, text) coupure f qui va de soi;

∎ they reached a natural break in the meeting ils arrivèrent à une étape de la réunion où il était naturel de faire une pause;

natural childbirth accouchement m naturel;

natural disaster catastrophe f naturelle;

natural economy économie f non monétaire;

natural family planning = contraception par des moyens naturels;

Physics & Electricity natural frequency fréquence f propre;

natural gas gaz m naturel;

natural historian naturaliste mf;

natural history histoire f naturelle;

natural immunity immunité f naturelle;

natural justice droits mpl naturels;

natural language langage m naturel, langue f naturelle;

natural language processing traitement m (automatique) du langage naturel;

natural law loi f naturelle;

natural life (of person, animal, company) durée f de vie; (of product) durée f utile;

∎ for the rest of his/her natural life (sentenced) à perpétuité;

Mathematics natural logarithm logarithme m naturel ou népérien;

natural medicine médecine f douce ou naturelle, physiothérapie f;

natural number nombre m naturel;

Law natural person personne f physique ou naturelle;

old-fashioned Physics natural philosophy physique f;

natural resources ressources fpl naturelles;

natural science (UNCOUNT) sciences fpl naturelles;

∎ botany is a natural science la botanique fait partie des sciences naturelles;

natural selection sélection f naturelle;

the Natural State = surnom donné à l'Arkansas;

natural theology théologie f naturelle;

Economics & Industry natural wastage départs mpl volontaires et en retraite;

natural yoghurt yaourt m nature

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Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > natural
14 ♦ natural

♦ natural /ˈnætʃrəl/
A a.

1 naturale; innato; congenito; spontaneo; della natura: natural food, alimento naturale; a natural blonde, una bionda naturale; a natural fibre, una fibra naturale; natural harbour, porto naturale; natural life, vita naturale; the natural world, il mondo della natura; He addressed me in a natural voice, si rivolse a me con voce naturale; natural phenomena, fenomeni naturali; natural forces, le forze della natura; natural history, storia naturale; natural language, linguaggio naturale; (leg.) natural law, diritto naturale; natural science, scienze naturali; (biol.) natural selection, selezione naturale; natural talents, talenti naturali; natural gas, gas naturale; (mus.) natural key, chiave naturale; (leg.) a natural son, un figlio naturale; a natural gift, un dono naturale; una qualità innata; It's only natural that you should be worried, è più che normale che tu sia preoccupato

2 per natura; nato: a natural comedian, un commediante nato

B n.

1 (fam.) persona con un dono naturale (per fare qc.): As a race car driver, he's a natural, è un pilota da corsa nato

2 (mus., = natural sign) nota naturale; bequadro

3 persona (o cosa) adatta allo scopo, che va benissimo

4 ( slang USA) condanna a sette anni di carcere

● natural-born, di nascita; ( USA) per natura; nato: ( USA) a natural-born actor, un attore nato; a natural-born Scotsman, uno scozzese di nascita □ (med.) natural childbirth, parto naturale; parto eutocico □ a natural historian, un naturalista □ (comput.) natural language processing, elaborazione del linguaggio naturale □ ( the) natural man, l'uomo allo stato di natura □ (econ.) natural monopoly, monopolio naturale □ (mat.) natural number, numero naturale □ (leg.) a natural person, una persona fisica □ (arc.) natural philosopher, fisico □ (arc.) natural philosophy, fisica □ (med.) natural practitioner, medico omeopatico; omeopata □ (econ.) natural rate of unemployment, tasso naturale di disoccupazione □ to die a natural death, morire di morte naturale □ for the term (o rest) of one's natural life, vita natural durante □ It comes natural to me, mi viene naturale (o spontaneo).

English-Italian dictionary > ♦ natural
15 life

plural - lives; noun

1) (the quality belonging to plants and animals which distinguishes them from rocks, minerals etc and things which are dead: Doctors are fighting to save the child's life.) vida

2) (the period between birth and death: He had a long and happy life.) vida

3) (liveliness: She was full of life and energy.) vida

4) (a manner of living: She lived a life of ease and idleness.) vida

5) (the period during which any particular state exists: He had many different jobs during his working life.) vida

6) (living things: It is now believed that there may be life on Mars; animal life.) vida

7) (the story of a life: He has written a life of Churchill.) biografía

8) (life imprisonment: He was given life for murder.) cadena perpetua

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- lifeless
- lifelike
- life-and-death
- lifebelt
- lifeboat
- lifebuoy
- life-cycle
- life expectancy
- lifeguard
- life-jacket
- lifeline
- lifelong
- life-saving
- life-sized
- life-size
- lifetime
- as large as life
- bring to life
- come to life
- for life
- the life and soul of the party
- not for the life of me
- not on your life!
- take life
- take one's life
- take one's life in one's hands
- to the life

life n vida

she saved my life me salvó la vida

El plural de life se escribe lives

life

tr[laɪf]

noun (pl lives tr[laɪvz])

1 vida

■ she can't play tennis for her life es una negada para el tenis

■ never in my life have I heard such nonsense! ¡jamás en la vida había oído tales estupideces!

2 (of battery) duración nombre femenino

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

for dear life con toda su fuerza

it's a matter of life and death es cuestión de vida o muerte

not on your life! familiar ¡ni hablar!

run for your life «(lives)»! ¡sálvese quien pueda!

to be the life and soul of the party ser el alma de la fiesta

to bring somebody back to life resucitar a alguien

to come to life cobrar vida

to have the time of one's life pasárselo como nunca

to live the life of Riley familiar pegarse la gran vida

to lose one's life perder la vida

to take one's life in one's hands (risk) arriesgar la vida 2 (control) controlar su propia vida

to take one's own life suicidarse, quitarse la vida

to take somebody's life matar a alguien

life belt / life buoy salvavidas nombre masculino

life cycle ciclo vital

life expectancy esperanza de vida

life insurance seguro de vida

life imprisonment cadena perpetua

life jacket chaleco salvavidas

life preserver SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL salvavidas nombre masculino

life sentence cadena perpetua

life story biografía

life style estilo de vida

life ['laɪf] n, pl lives ['laɪvz]

1) : vida f

plant life: la vida vegetal

2) existence: vida f, existencia f

3) biography: biografía f, vida f

4) duration: duración f, vida f

5) liveliness: vivacidad f, animación f

life

adj.

• perpetuo, -a adj.

• vital adj.

• vitalicio, -a adj.

n.

(§ pl.: lives) = animación s.f.

• existencia s.f.

• ser s.m.

• tiempo de vida s.m.

• vida s.f.

• vigencia s.f.

• vivir s.m.

laɪf
noun (pl lives)

1) c u ( existence) vida f

it will last you for life — te durará toda la vida

maimed for life — lisiado de por vida

for the rest of my life — por el resto de mis días

early in life — en su (or mi, etc) juventud

in later life — más tarde or más adelante

at my time of life — a mi edad, con la edad que tengo

he began life as a car salesman — empezó vendiendo coches

the man/woman in your life — el hombre/la mujer de tu vida

to have the time of one's life — divertirse* como nunca or (fam) de lo lindo

to live life to the full — vivir la vida al máximo

to see life — ver* mundo

you can bet your life we'll be late! — (colloq) te apuesto lo que quieras a que llegamos tarde!

to lose one's life — perder* la vida

no lives were lost — no hubo muertos

to risk one's life — arriesgar* la vida

to save somebody's life — salvarle la vida a alguien

to take somebody's life — (frml) darle* muerte a alguien (frml)

to take one's (own) life — (frml) quitarse la vida (frml)

a matter of life and death — una cuestión de vida o muerte

as large as life — en carne y hueso

he couldn't darn a sock to save his life — no sería capaz de zurcir un calcetín ni aun si le fuera la vida en ello

larger than life: the characters are all larger than life todos los personajes son creaciones que desbordan la realidad; he was a larger-than-life character era un personaje exuberante; not for the life of one: I can't remember for the life of me no me puedo acordar por nada del mundo; not on your life! ni muerto!; to cling/hold on for dear life aferrarse/agarrarse desesperadamente; to fight/run for one's life: they had to run for their lives tuvieron que correr como alma que lleva el diablo; run for your lives! sálvese quien pueda!; he was fighting for (his) life se debatía entre la vida y la muerte; to frighten o scare the life out of somebody darle* or pegarle* un susto mortal a alguien; (to have) the shock of one's life llevarse el susto de su (or mi etc) vida; she gave the performance of her life actuó como nunca; to risk life and limb arriesgar* la vida; to take one's life in one's hands jugarse* la vida; (before n) <member, pension, president> vitalicio; life force fuerza f vital; life imprisonment cadena f perpetua; life sentence condena f a perpetuidad or a cadena perpetua; his life story — la historia de su vida

2) u

a) ( vital force) vida f

it brings the history of this period to life — hace cobrar vida a este período de la historia

to bring somebody back to life — resucitar a alguien

to come to life — \<\<party\>\> animarse; \<\<puppet/doll\>\> cobrar vida

b) ( vitality) vida f, vitalidad f

to inject new life into something — revitalizar* algo

to be the life o (esp BrE) the life and soul of the party — ser* el alma de la fiesta

3) u ( lifestyle) vida f

married life — la vida de casado

this is the life (for me)! — esto sí que es vida!

to live the life of Riley — darse* la gran vida, vivir a cuerpo de rey

4) u ( living things) vida f

animal/plant life — vida animal/vegetal

5) u ( duration - of battery) duración f, vida f; (- of agreement) vigencia f

6) u ( imprisonment) (colloq) cadena f perpetua

he got life — lo condenaron a cadena perpetua

7) u ( Art)

to paint/draw from life — pintar/dibujar del natural

8) c ( biography) vida f

[laɪf]
1. N
(pl lives)
1) (=animate state) vida f

life on earth — la vida en la tierra

bird life — los pájaros

there is not much insect life here — aquí hay pocos insectos

plant life — vida f vegetal, las plantas fpl

• to bring sb back to life — resucitar or reanimar a algn

• a matter of life and death — cosa f de vida o muerte

I don't believe in life after death — no creo en la vida después de la muerte

• to risk life and limb — jugarse la vida

2) (=existence) vida f

the life of an ant — la vida de una hormiga

how's life? * — ¿cómo te va (la vida)?, ¿qué hubo? (Mex, Chile)

I do have a life outside of work, you know — yo hago otras cosas en mi vida aparte de trabajar ¿sabes?

• to begin life as... — empezar la vida como...

life begins at 40 — la vida comienza a los 40

• to depart this life — liter partir de esta vida

• in early/later life — en los años juveniles/maduras

• I can't for the life of me remember * — por más que lo intento no puedo recordar

I clung on for dear life — me agarré como si me fuera la vida en ello

she was fighting for her life — se debatía entre la vida y la muerte

run for your life! — ¡sálvese quien pueda!

to be on trial for one's life — ser acusado de un crimen capital

• you gave me the fright of my life! — ¡qué susto me diste!

• life goes on or must go on — la vida sigue

• to lay down one's life — dar su vida, entregar su vida

• to lose one's life — perder la vida

how many lives were lost? — ¿cuántas víctimas hubo?

three lives were lost — murieron tres

• never in my life — en mi vida

• in the next life — en el más allá, en la otra vida

• to have a life of its own — [object, machine] tener vida propia

• in real life — en la vida real

• to see life — ver mundo

• to spend one's life doing sth — pasar la vida haciendo algo

• to take sb's life — quitar la vida a algn

to take one's own life — quitarse la vida, suicidarse

you'll be taking your life in your hands if you climb up there — subir allí es jugarse la vida

• at my time of life — a mi edad, con los años que yo tengo

• his life won't be worth living — más le valdría morirse

it's more than my life's worth — sería jugarme la vida
bed 1., 4), private 3., save I, 1., 1)
3) (=way of living)

• country/ city life — la vida de la ciudad/del campo

• the good life — una vida agradable; (Rel) la vida santa

it's a good life — es una vida agradable

I've had a good life — la vida me ha tratado bien

• it's a hard life — la vida es muy dura

• to make a new life for o.s., to start a new life — comenzar una vida nueva

• to live one's own life — ser dueño de su propia vida

• to lead a quiet life — llevar una vida tranquila
Riley
4) (in exclamations)

• get a life! * — ¡espabílate y haz algo!

• (upon) my life! — † ¡Dios mío!

• not on your life! * — ¡ni hablar!

• such is life!, that's life! — ¡así es la vida!

• this is the life! — ¡esto sí que es vida!, ¡esto es jauja!

what a life! — (=bad) ¡qué vida esta!; (=good) ¡vaya vida!, ¡eso sí que es vivir bien!

5) (=liveliness) vida f

• his acting brought the character to life — su actuación dio vida al personaje

she brought the party to life — animó la fiesta

• to come to life — animarse

• to put or breathe new life into sth/sb — infundir nueva vida a algo/algn

you need to put a bit of life into it — tienes que ponerle un poco de garra

• the life and soul of the party — el alma de la fiesta

6) (=lifespan) [of person] vida f ; [of licence] vigencia f, validez f ; [of battery] vida f, duración f

during the life of this government — durante el mandato de este gobierno

• friends for life — amigos mpl para siempre

scarred for life — con una cicatriz de por vida

a job for life — un trabajo para toda la vida

these birds mate for life — estas aves tienen una sola pareja en su vida

• it was her life's work — fue el trabajo de toda su vida

7) * (=life imprisonment)

• to do life — cumplir una condena de cadena or reclusión perpetua

• to get life, be sentenced to life — ser condenado a cadena or reclusión perpetua

8) (Art)

• to paint from life — pintar del natural

• true to life — fiel a la realidad

9) (=biography) vida f

10) (US)
** [of prostitute]
she's in the life — hace la calle *, es una mujer de la vida

2.

CPD

life and death struggle N — lucha f a vida o muerte

life annuity N — pensión f or anualidad f vitalicia

life assurance N — seguro m de vida

life class N — (Art) clase f de dibujo al natural

life coach N — profesional encargado de mejorar la situación laboral y personal de sus clientes

life cycle N — ciclo m vital

life drawing N — dibujo m del natural

life expectancy N — esperanza f de vida

life force N — fuerza f vital

life form N — forma f de vida

Life Guards NPL — (Brit) (Mil) regimiento de caballería

life history N — [of person] (historia f de la) vida f ; hum, iro vida f y milagros * mpl

the life history of the salmon — (la historia de) la vida del salmón

life imprisonment N — cadena f perpetua

life insurance N — = life assurance

life interest N — usufructo m vitalicio

life jacket N — chaleco m salvavidas

life member N — miembro m vitalicio

life membership N —

to take out a life membership — inscribirse como miembro vitalicio or de por vida

life peer N — (Brit) (Parl) miembro de la Cámara de los Lores de carácter no hereditario

life preserver N — (Brit) cachiporra f ; (US) chaleco m salvavidas

life president N — presidente mf de por vida

life raft N — balsa f salvavidas

life sciences NPL — ciencias fpl de la vida

life sentence N — condena f a perpetuidad

life span N — [of person] vida f ; [of product] vida f útil

life story N — biografía f

life vest N — (US) chaleco m salvavidas

* * *
[laɪf]
noun (pl lives)

1) c u ( existence) vida f

it will last you for life — te durará toda la vida

maimed for life — lisiado de por vida

for the rest of my life — por el resto de mis días

early in life — en su (or mi, etc) juventud

in later life — más tarde or más adelante

at my time of life — a mi edad, con la edad que tengo

he began life as a car salesman — empezó vendiendo coches

the man/woman in your life — el hombre/la mujer de tu vida

to have the time of one's life — divertirse* como nunca or (fam) de lo lindo

to live life to the full — vivir la vida al máximo

to see life — ver* mundo

you can bet your life we'll be late! — (colloq) te apuesto lo que quieras a que llegamos tarde!

to lose one's life — perder* la vida

no lives were lost — no hubo muertos

to risk one's life — arriesgar* la vida

to save somebody's life — salvarle la vida a alguien

to take somebody's life — (frml) darle* muerte a alguien (frml)

to take one's (own) life — (frml) quitarse la vida (frml)

a matter of life and death — una cuestión de vida o muerte

as large as life — en carne y hueso

he couldn't darn a sock to save his life — no sería capaz de zurcir un calcetín ni aun si le fuera la vida en ello

larger than life: the characters are all larger than life todos los personajes son creaciones que desbordan la realidad; he was a larger-than-life character era un personaje exuberante; not for the life of one: I can't remember for the life of me no me puedo acordar por nada del mundo; not on your life! ni muerto!; to cling/hold on for dear life aferrarse/agarrarse desesperadamente; to fight/run for one's life: they had to run for their lives tuvieron que correr como alma que lleva el diablo; run for your lives! sálvese quien pueda!; he was fighting for (his) life se debatía entre la vida y la muerte; to frighten o scare the life out of somebody darle* or pegarle* un susto mortal a alguien; (to have) the shock of one's life llevarse el susto de su (or mi etc) vida; she gave the performance of her life actuó como nunca; to risk life and limb arriesgar* la vida; to take one's life in one's hands jugarse* la vida; (before n) <member, pension, president> vitalicio; life force fuerza f vital; life imprisonment cadena f perpetua; life sentence condena f a perpetuidad or a cadena perpetua; his life story — la historia de su vida

2) u

a) ( vital force) vida f

it brings the history of this period to life — hace cobrar vida a este período de la historia

to bring somebody back to life — resucitar a alguien

to come to life — \<\<party\>\> animarse; \<\<puppet/doll\>\> cobrar vida

b) ( vitality) vida f, vitalidad f

to inject new life into something — revitalizar* algo

to be the life o (esp BrE) the life and soul of the party — ser* el alma de la fiesta

3) u ( lifestyle) vida f

married life — la vida de casado

this is the life (for me)! — esto sí que es vida!

to live the life of Riley — darse* la gran vida, vivir a cuerpo de rey

4) u ( living things) vida f

animal/plant life — vida animal/vegetal

5) u ( duration - of battery) duración f, vida f; (- of agreement) vigencia f

6) u ( imprisonment) (colloq) cadena f perpetua

he got life — lo condenaron a cadena perpetua

7) u ( Art)

to paint/draw from life — pintar/dibujar del natural

8) c ( biography) vida f

English-spanish dictionary > life
16 natural

'næ ərəl
1. adjective
1) (of or produced by nature, not made by men: Coal, oil etc are natural resources; Wild animals are happier in their natural state than in a zoo.) natural

2) (born in a person: natural beauty; He had a natural ability for music.) natural, innato

3) ((of manner) simple, without pretence: a nice, natural smile.) natural

4) (normal; as one would expect: It's quite natural for a boy of his age to be interested in girls.) natural, normal

5) (of a musical note, not sharp or flat: G natural is lower in pitch than G sharp.) natural

2. noun
1) (a person who is naturally good at something.) nato

2) (in music (a sign () indicating) a note which is not to be played sharp or flat.) becuadro

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- naturalist
- naturally
- natural gas
- natural history
- natural resources

natural adj

1. natural

natural fibres are better than man made ones las fibras naturales son mejores que las sintéticas

2. normal

it's natural to feel afraid of the dark es normal tener miedo a la oscuridad

natural adjetivo 1
a) ‹fenómeno/ingrediente› natural;
‹ fruta› fresh;
◊ al natural ‹ mejillones› in brine

b) ( a temperatura ambiente) ‹cerveza/gaseosa› unchilled

c) (Mús) natural
2
a) ( espontáneo) ‹gesto/persona› natural

b) ( inherente) natural, innate

c) ( normal) natural;

◊ me parece lo más natural del mundo it seems perfectly natural to me
3 (frml) ( nativo) ser natural de to be a native of, to come from ■ sustantivo masculino
a) ( carácter) nature

b) ( nativo) native;

◊ los naturales del lugar people from the area

natural
I adjetivo
1 natural: es una persona muy natural, he's a very natural person (no artificial, fresco) fresh: es una rosa natural, it's a fresh rose
a tamaño natural, life-size
2 (normal, lógico) me parece natural, it seems natural to me
3 (nativo) soy natural de Castilla, I come from Castilla
4 Mat natural
II sustantivo masculino
1 (temperamento, inclinación) nature
2 Arte life: lo pintó del natural, he painted it from life
III mf (oriundo) native ' natural' also found in these entries: Spanish: canal - cien - cruda - crudo - día - emanación - expolio - hijo - limonada - lógica - lógico - luz - mirador - muerte - nata - nato - reserva - sencilla - sencillo - sobrexplotación - tamaña - tamaño - turba - anfiteatro - café - cataclismo - en - franco - gruta - llano - museo - naturalidad - naturismo - naturista - pantano - parque - recurso - riqueza - siniestro English: border - born - curl - designate - fair - full-scale - hail - life - life-size - life-sized - lifelike - mention - native - natural - natural childbirth - naturally - nature reserve - nature trail - plain - process - reserve - successor - sunlight - unaffected - unnatural - unnaturally - unspoilt - wear - wild - wildlife park - die - dry - effortless - environment - flair - full - good - may - might - nature - pond - resource - should - unspoiled - wastage - wilderness

natural

tr['næʧərəl]

adjective

1 natural

■ the natural world el mundo natural

2 (born) nato,-a

■ he's a natural footballer es un futbolista nato

3 (usual) natural, normal

■ it's only natural to feel afraid es normal tener miedo

noun

1 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL (note) nota natural; (sign) becuadro

\

SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

to die of natural causes morir por causas naturales, fallecer de muerte natural

natural childbirth parto natural

natural gas gas nombre masculino natural

natural history historia natural

natural resources recursos nombre masculino plural naturales

natural science ciencias nombre femenino plural naturales

natural selection selección nombre femenino natural

natural wastage reducción de plantilla consistente en no substituir a los que se jubilen o se marchen

natural ['næʧərəl] adj

1) : natural, de la naturaleza

natural woodlands: bosques naturales

natural childbirth: parto natural

2) innate: innato, natural

3) unaffected: natural, sin afectación

4) lifelike: natural, vivo

natural n

to be a natural : tener un talento innato (para algo)

natural

adj.

• innato, -a adj.

• nacido, -a adj.

• nativo, -a adj.

• natural adj.

• normal adj.

• propio, -a adj.

• tenue adj.

n.

• becuadro s.m.

• imbécil s.m.

I 'nætʃrəl
adjective

1) ( as in nature) natural

these animals are natural enemies — estos animales son enemigos por naturaleza

I'm a natural blonde — soy rubia natural

death from natural causes — muerte f natural or por causas naturales

2)

a) <talent/propensity> innato

b) (before n) < leaderoublemaker> nato, por naturaleza

c) <reaction/response> natural, normal; < successor> lógico

she's the natural choice for the job — lo natural es que le ofrezcan el puesto a ella

it is natural THAT — es natural que (+ subj)

3) ( not forced) <warmth/enthusiasm/style> natural

4) ( related by blood) <child/parent> biológico

II

noun ( person)

to be a natural — tener* un talento innato

III

adverb

act natural — (colloq) disimula

['nætʃrǝl]
1. ADJ

1) (=occurring naturally) [environment, substance, disaster, remedy] natural

she isn't a natural blonde — no es rubia natural

he died of natural causes — murió de muerte natural

the rest of his natural life — el resto de sus días
die I, 1)
2) (=understandable) [reaction, behaviour, feeling] natural, normal; [mistake] comprensible; [explanation] lógico y natural

it's a perfectly natural mistake to make — es un error totalmente comprensible

there is a perfectly natural explanation — hay una explicación perfectamente lógica y natural

it's only natural — es normal or natural

it's only natural that she should be upset — es normal or natural que esté disgustada

3) (=inborn) [ability, talent] innato; [reaction, fear] instintivo

he had a natural flair for business — tenía un don innato para los negocios

she is a natural leader/athlete — es una líder/atleta innata

natural instinct — instinto m natural

4) (=relaxed, unforced) [person, manner, charm] natural

I was able to be very natural with him — con él pude ser yo mismo

5) (=biological) [father, mother, child] biológico

6) (Mus) natural

2. N

1) (=person)

she's a natural with computers — tiene un don innato para los ordenadores

2) (Mus) (=note) nota f natural; (=sign) becuadro m

3.

CPD

natural causes NPL —

to die of natural causes — morir de muerte natural

natural childbirth N — parto m natural

natural disaster N — desastre m natural

natural gas N — gas m natural

natural history N — historia f natural

natural law N — ley f natural

natural number N — (Math) número m natural

natural philosophy N — filosofía f natural

natural resources NPL — recursos mpl naturales

natural science N — (uncount) ciencias fpl naturales; (count) ciencia f de la naturaleza

natural selection N — selección f natural

by natural selection — por selección natural

natural wastage N — (Brit) (Ind) bajas voluntarias de los empleados de una empresa, y cuyos puestos quedan sin cubrir

the jobs will be lost through natural wastage — los puestos irán desapareciendo a medida que se produzcan bajas voluntarias

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I ['nætʃrəl]
adjective

1) ( as in nature) natural

these animals are natural enemies — estos animales son enemigos por naturaleza

I'm a natural blonde — soy rubia natural

death from natural causes — muerte f natural or por causas naturales

2)

a) <talent/propensity> innato

b) (before n) <leader/troublemaker> nato, por naturaleza

c) <reaction/response> natural, normal; < successor> lógico

she's the natural choice for the job — lo natural es que le ofrezcan el puesto a ella

it is natural THAT — es natural que (+ subj)

3) ( not forced) <warmth/enthusiasm/style> natural

4) ( related by blood) <child/parent> biológico

II

noun ( person)

to be a natural — tener* un talento innato

III

adverb

act natural — (colloq) disimula

English-spanish dictionary > natural
17 Smeaton, John

SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Steam and internal combustion engines

[br]

b. 8 June 1724 Austhorpe, near Leeds, Yorkshire, England

d. 28 October 1792 Austhorpe, near Leeds, Yorkshire, England

[br]

English mechanical and civil engineer.

[br]

As a boy, Smeaton showed mechanical ability, making for himself a number of tools and models. This practical skill was backed by a sound education, probably at Leeds Grammar School. At the age of 16 he entered his father's office; he seemed set to follow his father's profession in the law. In 1742 he went to London to continue his legal studies, but he preferred instead, with his father's reluctant permission, to set up as a scientific instrument maker and dealer and opened a shop of his own in 1748. About this time he began attending meetings of the Royal Society and presented several papers on instruments and mechanical subjects, being elected a Fellow in 1753. His interests were turning towards engineering but were informed by scientific principles grounded in careful and accurate observation.

In 1755 the second Eddystone lighthouse, on a reef some 14 miles (23 km) off the English coast at Plymouth, was destroyed by fire. The President of the Royal Society was consulted as to a suitable engineer to undertake the task of constructing a new one, and he unhesitatingly suggested Smeaton. Work began in 1756 and was completed in three years to produce the first great wave-swept stone lighthouse. It was constructed of Portland stone blocks, shaped and pegged both together and to the base rock, and bonded by hydraulic cement, scientifically developed by Smeaton. It withstood the storms of the English Channel for over a century, but by 1876 erosion of the rock had weakened the structure and a replacement had to be built. The upper portion of Smeaton's lighthouse was re-erected on a suitable base on Plymouth Hoe, leaving the original base portion on the reef as a memorial to the engineer.

The Eddystone lighthouse made Smeaton's reputation and from then on he was constantly in demand as a consultant in all kinds of engineering projects. He carried out a number himself, notably the 38 mile (61 km) long Forth and Clyde canal with thirty-nine locks, begun in 1768 but for financial reasons not completed until 1790. In 1774 he took charge of the Ramsgate Harbour works.

On the mechanical side, Smeaton undertook a systematic study of water-and windmills, to determine the design and construction to achieve the greatest power output. This work issued forth as the paper "An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills" and exerted a considerable influence on mill design during the early part of the Industrial Revolution. Between 1753 and 1790 Smeaton constructed no fewer than forty-four mills.

Meanwhile, in 1756 he had returned to Austhorpe, which continued to be his home base for the rest of his life. In 1767, as a result of the disappointing performance of an engine he had been involved with at New River Head, Islington, London, Smeaton began his important study of the steam-engine. Smeaton was the first to apply scientific principles to the steam-engine and achieved the most notable improvements in its efficiency since its invention by Newcomen, until its radical overhaul by James Watt. To compare the performance of engines quantitatively, he introduced the concept of "duty", i.e. the weight of water that could be raised 1 ft (30 cm) while burning one bushel (84 lb or 38 kg) of coal. The first engine to embody his improvements was erected at Long Benton colliery in Northumberland in 1772, with a duty of 9.45 million pounds, compared to the best figure obtained previously of 7.44 million pounds. One source of heat loss he attributed to inaccurate boring of the cylinder, which he was able to improve through his close association with Carron Ironworks near Falkirk, Scotland.

[br]

Principal Honours and Distinctions

FRS 1753.

Bibliography

1759, "An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Towards the end of his life, Smeaton intended to write accounts of his many works but only completed A Narrative of the Eddystone Lighthouse, 1791, London.

Further Reading

S.Smiles, 1874, Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie, London. A.W.Skempton, (ed.), 1981, John Smeaton FRS, London: Thomas Telford. L.T.C.Rolt and J.S.Allen, 1977, The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen, 2nd edn, Hartington: Moorland Publishing, esp. pp. 108–18 (gives a good description of his work on the steam-engine).

LRD

Biographical history of technology > Smeaton, John
18 reserve

I 1. [rɪ'zɜːv]
nome

1) (resource, stock) riserva f., scorta f.

oil reserves — riserve petrolifere

to keep o hold sth. in reserve — tenere qualcosa di scorta

2) (reticence) riserbo m., reticenza f.

3) (doubt) riserva f.

without reserve — senza riserve

4) mil.

the reserve — la riserva

the reserves — le riserve

5) sport riserva f.

6) (area of land) riserva f.

wildlife reserve — riserva, parco naturale
2.
modificatore [fund, supplies, forces] di riserva; sport [ team] delle riserve

reserve player — riserva
II [rɪ'zɜːv]
verbo transitivo

1) (set aside) mettere da parte, serbare, riservare

he reserves his fiercest criticism for — ha riservato le sue critiche più feroci a

to reserve one's strength — risparmiare le forze

to reserve the right to do sth. — riservarsi il diritto di fare qcs.

to reserve judgment — riservarsi il giudizio

2) (book) prenotare, riservare [room, seat]

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[rə'zə:v] 1. verb
1) (to ask for or order to be kept for the use of a particular person, often oneself: The restaurant is busy on Saturdays, so I'll phone up today and reserve a table.) prenotare

2) (to keep for the use of a particular person or group of people, or for a particular use: These seats are reserved for the committee members.) riservare
2. noun
1) (something which is kept for later use or for use when needed: The farmer kept a reserve of food in case he was cut off by floods.) riserva

2) (a piece of land used for a special purpose eg for the protection of animals: a wild-life reserve; a nature reserve.) riserva

3) (the habit of not saying very much, not showing what one is feeling, thinking etc; shyness.) riservatezza

4) ((often in plural) soldiers, sailors etc who do not belong to the regular full-time army, navy etc but who are called into action when needed eg during a war.) riserva

•

- reservation
- reserved
- have
- keep in reserve
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reserve /rɪˈzɜ:v/
A n.

1 riserva; scorta: a reserve of fuel, una riserva di carburante; to keep st. in reserve, tenere qc. da parte: I always keep some money in reserve for emergencies, tengo sempre un po' di soldi da parte per le emergenze

2 ( sport) riserva; giocatore di riserva; (mil.) riserva, riservista: the reserves, le riserve; to be in (o to be on) the reserve, appartenere alla riserva

3 [u] riserbo; riservatezza: Some may mistake his natural reserve for unfriendliness, alcuni potrebbero scambiare il suo naturale riserbo per antipatia; without reserve, senza riserve; incondizionatamente

4 riserva; parco naturale: a game reserve, una riserva di caccia

5 ( banca, fin., rag.) (fondo di) riserva: the gold reserve, la riserva aurea; bank reserves, riserve bancarie

6 (Austral.) parco giochi

7 (in USA e in Canada) riserva indiana

8 – (fin.) the Reserve, la riserva della Banca d'Inghilterra

B a. attr.

di riserva: reserve stock, provvista di riserva; (org. az.) scorta tampone, stock stabilizzatore; (fin.) reserve assets, attività di riserva; riserve ufficiali

● (rag.) reserve account, conto (di) riserva; fondo: reserve account for bad debts, fondo svalutazione crediti; reserve account for depreciation, fondo svalutazione ( di merci, titoli, ecc.); reserve account for income taxes, fondo imposte da pagare □ (ass.) reserve against unsettled claims, riserva sinistri □ (fin.) reserve bank, una delle 12 banche che formano il «Federal Reserve System» (► Fed, def. 3) in USA □ (fin., leg.) reserve capital, capitale di riserva ( di una società) □ (fin.) reserve currency, valuta di riserva; valuta pregiata □ (rag.) reserve for depreciation, fondo ammortamento □ (fin.) reserve fund, fondo di riserva □ reserve parachute, paracadute di riserva □ reserve price, prezzo di riserva; prezzo minimo ( a un'asta pubblica) □ (fin.) reserve ratio, aliquota (o coefficiente) di riserva ( bancaria) □ (fin.) reserve requirement, riserva obbligatoria □ (ass.) reserve value, valore di riserva ( di una polizza) □ ( banca: di un assegno bancario) under usual reserve, salvo buon fine □ with all ( due) reserves, con tutte le riserve (del caso).
♦ (to) reserve /rɪˈzɜ:v/
v. t.

1 riservare; tenere da parte: Parking spaces have been reserved for disabled use, dei posteggi sono stati riservati ai disabili; I reserved the top floor for myself and rented out the rest of the house, ho tenuto per me l'ultimo piano e affittato il resto della casa; Reserve your strength for later, risparmia le forze per dopo

2 prenotare; riservare (cfr. to book): to reserve a seat on a train [on a plane, at the theatre], prenotare un posto in treno [in aereo, a teatro]; I have reserved a table for two, ho prenotato un tavolo per due

3 riservare; riservarsi: I reserve the right to change my mind, mi riservo il diritto di cambiare idea; The umpire reserved his decision, l'arbitro si è riservato di decidere; I'll reserve judgement until I know her better, mi riservo di giudicarla quando la conoscerò meglio.

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I 1. [rɪ'zɜːv]
nome

1) (resource, stock) riserva f., scorta f.

oil reserves — riserve petrolifere

to keep o hold sth. in reserve — tenere qualcosa di scorta

2) (reticence) riserbo m., reticenza f.

3) (doubt) riserva f.

without reserve — senza riserve

4) mil.

the reserve — la riserva

the reserves — le riserve

5) sport riserva f.

6) (area of land) riserva f.

wildlife reserve — riserva, parco naturale
2.
modificatore [fund, supplies, forces] di riserva; sport [ team] delle riserve

reserve player — riserva
II [rɪ'zɜːv]
verbo transitivo

1) (set aside) mettere da parte, serbare, riservare

he reserves his fiercest criticism for — ha riservato le sue critiche più feroci a

to reserve one's strength — risparmiare le forze

to reserve the right to do sth. — riservarsi il diritto di fare qcs.

to reserve judgment — riservarsi il giudizio

2) (book) prenotare, riservare [room, seat]

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19 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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1) право; привилегия

- rights and freedoms

- rights and duties

- prescribe the rights and duties

- regulate the rights and duties

- rights under the treaty

- right to cancel a treaty

- right to challenge a candidate

- right to an adequate standard of living

- right to appeal against court decisions

- rights relating to asylum

- right to be elected

- right to be confronted

- right to citizenship

- right to determine the route of transportation

- right to discharge passengers, baggage, cargo and mail

- right to an effective remedy

- right to enforce

- right to enjoy cultural benefits

- right to equality in legal capacity

- right to fly a maritime flag

- right to a free choice of employment

- right to freedom of opinion and expression

- right to freedom of residence

- right to freedom and security of person

- right to an independent existence

- right to invoke a ground for withdrawing

- right to invoke a ground for suspending the operation of a treaty

- right to invoke a ground for invalidating a treaty

- right to invoke a ground for terminating a treaty

- right to independence

- right to housing

- right to know

- right to land for technical and commercial purposes at the terminal point of the agreed route

- right to leave any country including his own and to return to his country

- right to life, liberty and security of person

- right to national independence and sovereignty

- right to a nationality

- right to nationalization or transfer of ownership to its nationals

- right to privatisation

- right to own property

- right to pardon

- right to pick up passengers, baggage, cargo and mail

- right to protection against unemployment

- right to protection of the law

- right to ratification

- right to exist

- right to reclaim one's natural resources

- right to recognition

- right to residence

- right to rest and leisure

- right to restitution and full compensation for the exploitation and depletion of, and damages to the natural and all other resources

- right to self-determination

- right to social security

- right to take part in cultural life

- right to take part in government

- right to travel

- right to work

- right to terminate contract

- right to vote

- with a right to vote

- without a right to vote

- in one's own right

- abandonment of rights

- deliberate abandonment of rights

- abuse of rights

- exercise of rights

- flouting of the lawful rights

- loss of a right to

- movement for rights

- mutuality of rights and obligations

- nature and extent of the right and the responsibility of a coastal state

- preservation of rights

- recognition of the rights of man

- reservation of a right

- restriction of rights and freedoms

- reversion of rights

- reversion of rights to

- suspension of a right

- suspension of the rights of membership

- right in personam

- accord a right

- abuse the rights

- acquire a right

- affect the right of the vessels

- annul rights

- arrogate to oneself a right

- assert upon one's rights

- stand upon one's rights

- call the rights into existence

- confer on smb. special rights

- contest a right

- deny a right

- claim a right

- disclaim a right

- enjoy a right

- enjoy one's rights

- enjoy full political rights

- exercise a right

- broaden the rights

- exercise civil and political rights

- exercise one's right to vote

- expand the rights

- give a right

- give a state the right to perform certain acts on the territory of another state

- grant the rights

- grant certain rights to foreign citizens

- grant the right to navigation

- have certain rights

- nullify the rights

- possess a right

- renounce tacitly one's rights

- prejudice smb.'s rights

- protect the rights

- reserve the right to do smth.

- reserve the right to terminate the contract

- reserve to oneself the right to do smth.

- vest a right

2) правильность, справедливость

- be in the right

- defend the right

3) обыкн. pl действительные факты, истинное положение вещей

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- right of free access to the sea

- equal rights of nations large and small

- right of exploitation of the surface and the subsoil

- right of self-defence

- right of protection over citizens abroad

- observance of human rights

- personal rights

- realization of human rights

- right of access to public service

- treaty rights

- impair the treaty rights

- right of collective self-defence

- preferential right

- active right of legation

- semi-automatic drawing rights in IMF

- safeguard sovereign rights

- right of common

- ascertainable right

- State right

- right of individual petition

- right of economic cooperation

- natural rights

- mineral rights

- navigation right

- right of association and of assembly

- promotion of human rights

- inalienable right

- sole right

- oil rights

- right of landing

- conception of the inherent rights of man

- right of intervention

- fundamental human rights

- acquired rights

- right of visit and search

- suppression of human rights

- right of existence

- property rights

- protection of human rights

- right of equal access to public service

- equal rights

- allocation of special drawing rights

- preferred right

- right of expatriation

- fishery right in waters

- right of territorial and personal supremacy

- right of sanctuary

- right of emigration

- drawing rights in IMF

- rights of mankind

- usurped rights

- basic rights

- right of possession, enjoyment and disposal

- defence of human rights

- right of search

- private right

- repression of human rights

- right of correction

- right of veto

- right of protection

- legitimate right

- right of option

- inherent right

- right of individual self-defence

- right of stopping and anchoring

- right of appeal

- mutual right

- right of sovereignty over the air

- right of intercourse

- right of every state to dispose of its wealth and its natural resources

- passive right of legation

- right of priority

- right of succession

- extend the right of asylum

- enjoying equal rights

- priority right

- special drawing rights

- right of inspection

- right of navigation

- right of legation

- connive at the violation of human rights

- right of withdrawal

- civil rights

- proprietary or quasi-proprietary rights

- inalienable and imprescriptible right

- enjoy the right of innocent passage

- fundamental rights

- respect for human rights

- right of the people to decide their own destiny

- repatriation rights

- right of chapel

- sacred human right

- respect fundamental rights of aliens

- right of transit

- right of everyone to an adequate standard of living

- sovereign rights

- right of denunciation

- human rights

- right of action

- right of visit

- accord women equal rights with men

- trade union rights

- enjoy equal rights

- belligerent rights

- violation of human rights

- water rights

- right of approach

- right of communication

- right of war

- concede belligerent rights

- right of expulsion

- prescriptive right

- rights of aliens

- right of asylum

- vested rights

- intellectual and industrial property rights

- prior right

- patent rights

- right of nations to sovereignty over their natural resources

- right of fishing

- right of passage

- right of parties to be heard by the court

- exercising equal rights

- right of fishery

- right of nations to self-determination

- international recognition of human rights

- exclusive right of establishment

- sanctuary right

- right of jurisdiction

- enjoy the right of active and passive legation

- right of holding and acquiring territory

- natural right of man

- right of self-preservation

- right of visitation

- trample human rights

- rights of states of transit

- social, economic, political and personal rights and freedoms

- right of innocent passage

- right of seizure
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1. n ( the Right) собир. полит.

правая партия, правые, консерваторы

- parties of the right

2. a (часто Right) полит.

правый, реакционный

- right wing of a party

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