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  • 1 education

    noun (instruction and teaching, especially of children and young people in schools, universities etc: His lack of education prevented him from getting a good job.) educación
    education n enseñanza / educación
    tr[edjʊ'keɪʃən]
    1 (system of teaching) educación nombre femenino, enseñanza
    2 (training) formación nombre femenino, preparación nombre femenino, instrucción nombre femenino
    5 (knowledge, culture) cultura
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    Minister of Education Ministro,-a de Educación
    Ministry of Education and Science Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia
    education [.ɛʤə'keɪʃən] n
    : educación f
    n.
    crianza s.f.
    cultura s.f.
    discipulado s.m.
    educación (Enseñanza) s.f.
    educción s.f.
    enseñanza s.f.
    formación s.f.
    instrucción s.f.
    'edʒə'keɪʃən, ˌedjʊ'keɪʃən
    1) (schooling, instruction) educación f

    primary/higher education — enseñanza f primaria/superior

    he didn't have a university educationno tuvo or (frml) no cursó estudios universitarios

    health educationclases fpl de higiene; (before n) <system, policy> educativo

    2) u ( academic subject) pedagogía f, (teoría f de la) educación f
    3) u (knowledge, culture) cultura f
    [ˌedjʊ'keɪʃǝn]
    1.
    N educación f, formación f ; (=teaching) enseñanza f ; (=knowledge, culture) cultura f ; (=studies) estudios mpl ; (=training) formación f ; (Univ) (=subject) pedagogía f

    Ministry of EducationMinisterio m or (LAm) Secretaría f de Educación

    primary/secondary education — enseñanza f primaria/secundaria, primera/segunda enseñanza f

    higher educationeducación f superior, enseñanza f superior

    physical/political education — educación f física/política

    literary/professional education — formación f literaria/profesional

    2.
    CPD

    education authority N(Brit) delegación f de educación, consejería f de educación (Sp)

    education department N(Brit) [of local authority] departamento m de educación; (=ministry) Ministerio m de Educación

    * * *
    ['edʒə'keɪʃən, ˌedjʊ'keɪʃən]
    1) (schooling, instruction) educación f

    primary/higher education — enseñanza f primaria/superior

    he didn't have a university educationno tuvo or (frml) no cursó estudios universitarios

    health educationclases fpl de higiene; (before n) <system, policy> educativo

    2) u ( academic subject) pedagogía f, (teoría f de la) educación f
    3) u (knowledge, culture) cultura f

    English-spanish dictionary > education

  • 2 education

    noun
    (instruction) Erziehung, die; (course of instruction) Ausbildung, die; (system) Erziehungs[- und Ausbildungs]wesen, das; (science) Erziehungswissenschaften Pl.; Pädagogik, die

    education is freedie Schulausbildung ist kostenlos

    * * *
    noun (instruction and teaching, especially of children and young people in schools, universities etc: His lack of education prevented him from getting a good job.) die Erziehung, die Ausbildung
    * * *
    edu·ca·tion
    [ˌeʤʊˈkeɪʃən]
    1. (teaching knowledge) Bildung f; (training) Ausbildung f
    he received most of his \education at home er wurde größtenteils zu Hause unterrichtet
    science \education naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht, Unterricht m in den naturwissenschaftlichen Fächern
    2. (knowledge) Bildung f
    to have a gap in one's \education eine Bildungslücke haben
    classical/literary \education klassische/literarische Bildung
    3. (system) Erziehungswesen nt; (schools, colleges, universities) Bildungswesen nt
    4. (study of teaching) Pädagogik f, Erziehungswissenschaft f
    * * *
    ["edjU'keISən]
    n
    Erziehung f; (= studies, training) Ausbildung f; (= knowledge, culture) Bildung f

    Ministry of EducationMinisterium nt für Erziehung und Unterricht, Kultusministerium nt

    College of Education — pädagogische Hochschule; (for graduates) Studienseminar nt

    (local) education authoritySchulbehörde f

    to study educationPädagogik or Erziehungswissenschaften studieren

    education is free —

    his education was interruptedseine Ausbildung wurde unterbrochen

    a literary/scientific education — eine literarische/naturwissenschaftliche Bildung

    she had little educationsie war ziemlich ungebildet

    * * *
    education [ˌedjuːˈkeıʃn; US ˌedʒə-] s
    1. Erziehung f (auch weitS.:
    to zu), (Aus)Bildung f: academic.ru/14907/compulsory">compulsory 2, university B
    2. (erworbene) Bildung, Bildungsstand m: general A 3
    3. Bildungs-, Schulwesen n: higher education, etc
    4. (Aus)Bildungsgang m
    5. Pädagogik f, Erziehungswissenschaft f:
    department of education UNIV pädagogisches Seminar
    6. Dressur f, Abrichtung f (von Tieren)
    ed. abk
    * * *
    noun
    (instruction) Erziehung, die; (course of instruction) Ausbildung, die; (system) Erziehungs[- und Ausbildungs]wesen, das; (science) Erziehungswissenschaften Pl.; Pädagogik, die
    * * *
    n.
    Ausbildung -- f.
    Bildung -en f.
    Bildungswesen n.
    Erziehung f.
    Unterricht m.

    English-german dictionary > education

  • 3 Education

       In Portugal's early history, education was firmly under the control of the Catholic Church. The earliest schools were located in cathedrals and monasteries and taught a small number of individuals destined for ecclesiastical office. In 1290, a university was established by King Dinis (1261-1325) in Lisbon, but was moved to Coimbra in 1308, where it remained. Coimbra University, Portugal's oldest, and once its most prestigious, was the educational cradle of Portugal's leadership. From 1555 until the 18th century, primary and secondary education was provided by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). The Catholic Church's educational monopoly was broken when the Marquis of Pombal expelled the Jesuits in 1759 and created the basis for Portugal's present system of public, secular primary and secondary schools. Pombal introduced vocational training, created hundreds of teaching posts, added departments of mathematics and natural sciences at Coimbra University, and established an education tax to pay for them.
       During the 19th century, liberals attempted to reform Portugal's educational system, which was highly elitist and emphasized rote memorization and respect for authority, hierarchy, and discipline.
       Reforms initiated in 1822, 1835, and 1844 were never actualized, however, and education remained unchanged until the early 20th century. After the overthrow of the monarchy on the Fifth of October 1910 by Republican military officers, efforts to reform Portugal's educational system were renewed. New universities were founded in Lisbon and Oporto, a Ministry of Education was established, and efforts were made to increase literacy (illiteracy rates being 80 percent) and to resecularize educational content by introducing more scientific and empirical methods into the curriculum.
       Such efforts were ended during the military dictatorship (192632), which governed Portugal until the establishment of the Estado Novo (1926-74). Although a new technical university was founded in Lisbon in 1930, little was done during the Estado Novo to modernize education or to reduce illiteracy. Only in 1964 was compulsory primary education made available for children between the ages of 6 and 12.
       The Revolution of 25 April 1974 disrupted Portugal's educational system. For a period of time after the Revolution, students, faculty, and administrators became highly politicized as socialists, communists, and other groups attempted to gain control of the schools. During the 1980s, as Portuguese politics moderated, the educational system was gradually depoliticized, greater emphasis was placed on learning, and efforts were made to improve the quality of Portuguese schools.
       Primary education in Portugal consists of four years in the primary (first) cycle and two years in the preparatory, or second, cycle. The preparatory cycle is intended for children going on to secondary education. Secondary education is roughly equivalent to junior and senior high schools in the United States. It consists of three years of a common curriculum and two years of complementary courses (10th and 11th grades). A final year (12th grade) prepares students to take university entrance examinations.
       Vocational education was introduced in 1983. It consists of a three-year course in a particular skill after the 11th grade of secondary school.
       Higher education is provided by the four older universities (Lisbon, Coimbra, Oporto, and the Technical University of Lisbon), as well as by six newer universities, one in Lisbon and the others in Minho, Aveiro, Évora, the Algarve, and the Azores. There is also a private Catholic university in Lisbon. Admission to Portuguese universities is highly competitive, and places are limited. About 10 percent of secondary students go on to university education. The average length of study at the university is five years, after which students receive their licentiate. The professoriate has four ranks (professors, associate professors, lecturers, and assistants). Professors have tenure, while the other ranks teach on contract.
       As Portugal is a unitary state, the educational system is highly centralized. All public primary and secondary schools, universities, and educational institutes are under the purview of the Ministry of Education, and all teachers and professors are included in the civil service and receive pay and pension like other civil servants. The Ministry of Education hires teachers, determines curriculum, sets policy, and pays for the building and upkeep of schools. Local communities have little say in educational matters.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Education

  • 4 education

    noun (instruction and teaching, especially of children and young people in schools, universities etc: His lack of education prevented him from getting a good job.) utdanning, undervisning, opplæring
    pedagogikk
    --------
    undervisning
    --------
    utdanning
    subst. \/ˌedjʊˈkeɪʃ(ə)n\/, \/ˌedʒʊˈkeɪʃ(ə)n\/
    1) utdannelse, opplæring, dannelse
    2) oppdragelse, oppfostring
    3) pedagogikk
    (an) education ( overført) interessant opplevelse
    education act skolelov

    English-Norwegian dictionary > education

  • 5 generate a higher return from education

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > generate a higher return from education

  • 6 graduate

    1.
    verb
    1) (to receive a degree, diploma etc: He graduated in German and French.) diplomarse en, licenciarse en
    2) (to mark out with regular divisions: A thermometer is graduated in degrees.) graduar

    2. -ət noun
    (a person who has been awarded a degree or diploma: a graduate in French.) diplomado, licenciado
    graduate1 n licenciado
    graduate2 vb licenciarse
    tr[ (n) 'grædjʊət; (vb) 'grædjʊeɪt]
    1 SMALLEDUCATION/SMALL (after 3 year course) diplomado,-a; (after 5 year course) licenciado,-a
    1 (grade, classify) graduar
    1 (after 3 year course) diplomarse (in, en); (after 5 year course) licenciarse (in, en)
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    graduate school SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL escuela para graduados
    graduate ['græʤʊ.eɪt] v, - ated ; - ating vi
    : graduarse, licenciarse
    : graduar
    a graduated thermometer: un termómetro graduado
    graduate ['græʤʊət] adj
    : de postgrado
    graduate course: curso de postgrado
    1) : licenciado m, -da f; graduado m, -da f (de la universidad)
    2) : bachiller mf (de la escuela secundaria)
    adj.
    graduado, -a adj.
    n.
    diplomado s.m.
    graduado s.m.
    v.
    graduar v.
    graduarse v.
    licenciar v.

    I
    1. 'grædʒueɪt
    1) ( Educ)
    a) (from a college, university) terminar la carrera, recibirse (AmL), graduarse*; ( obtain bachelor's degree) licenciarse

    she graduated from Cambridge in 1974se licenció en or (Esp) por la Universidad de Cambridge en 1974

    b) ( from high school) (AmE) terminar el bachillerato, recibirse de bachiller (AmL)
    2) ( progress)

    2.
    vt
    1)
    a) \<\<flask/test tube\>\> (frml) graduar*
    b) \<\<payments/contributions\>\> escalonar
    2) ( Educ) (AmE) \<\<student\>\> conferirle* el título a

    II 'grædʒuət
    a) ( from higher education) persona con título universitario; ( with a bachelor's degree) licenciado, -da m,f; (before n) <course, student> de posgrado or postgrado

    he went to graduate school — (AmE) hizo un curso de posgrado

    b) ( from high school) (AmE) bachiller mf
    1. N
    ['ɡrædjʊɪt]
    1) (Univ) licenciado(-a) m / f, graduado(-a) m / f, egresado(-a) m / f (LAm)
    2) (US) (Scol) bachiller mf
    2. VT
    ['ɡrædjʊeɪt]
    1) [+ thermometer etc] graduar
    2) (US) (Scol, Univ) otorgar el título a
    3. VI
    ['ɡrædjʊeɪt]
    1) (Univ) graduarse or licenciarse ( from en); recibirse (LAm) (as de)
    2) (US) (Scol) acabar el bachiller
    3) (=progress)
    4.
    CPD ['ɡrædjʊɪt]

    graduate course Ncurso m para graduados

    graduate school N(US) departamento m de graduados

    graduate student N(US) estudiante mf de posgrado

    See:
    * * *

    I
    1. ['grædʒueɪt]
    1) ( Educ)
    a) (from a college, university) terminar la carrera, recibirse (AmL), graduarse*; ( obtain bachelor's degree) licenciarse

    she graduated from Cambridge in 1974se licenció en or (Esp) por la Universidad de Cambridge en 1974

    b) ( from high school) (AmE) terminar el bachillerato, recibirse de bachiller (AmL)
    2) ( progress)

    2.
    vt
    1)
    a) \<\<flask/test tube\>\> (frml) graduar*
    b) \<\<payments/contributions\>\> escalonar
    2) ( Educ) (AmE) \<\<student\>\> conferirle* el título a

    II ['grædʒuət]
    a) ( from higher education) persona con título universitario; ( with a bachelor's degree) licenciado, -da m,f; (before n) <course, student> de posgrado or postgrado

    he went to graduate school — (AmE) hizo un curso de posgrado

    b) ( from high school) (AmE) bachiller mf

    English-spanish dictionary > graduate

  • 7 high

    1. adjective
    1) (at, from, or reaching up to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: a high mountain; a high dive; a dive from the high diving-board.) alto
    2) (having a particular height: This building is about 20 metres high; My horse is fifteen hands high.) de altura
    3) (great; large; considerable: The car was travelling at high speed; He has a high opinion of her work; They charge high prices; high hopes; The child has a high fever/temperature.) alto; elevado; grande
    4) (most important; very important: the high altar in a church; Important criminal trials are held at the High Court; a high official.) mayor; supremo; alto
    5) (noble; good: high ideals.) bueno, noble
    6) ((of a wind) strong: The wind is high tonight.) fuerte
    7) ((of sounds) at or towards the top of a (musical) range: a high note.) alto
    8) ((of voices) like a child's voice (rather than like a man's): He still speaks in a high voice.) agudo
    9) ((of food, especially meat) beginning to go bad.) pasado
    10) (having great value: Aces and kings are high cards.) importante; de gran valor

    2. adverb
    (at, or to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: The plane was flying high in the sky; He'll rise high in his profession.) alto
    - highness
    - high-chair
    - high-class
    - higher education
    - high fidelity
    - high-handed
    - high-handedly
    - high-handedness
    - high jump
    - highlands
    - high-level
    - highlight

    3. verb
    (to draw particular attention to (a person, thing etc).) destacar, hacer resaltar, poner de relieve
    - high-minded
    - high-mindedness
    - high-pitched
    - high-powered
    - high-rise
    - highroad
    - high school
    - high-spirited
    - high spirits
    - high street
    - high-tech

    4. adjective
    ((also hi-tech): high-tech industries.) de alta tecnología, de tecnología punta
    - high treason
    - high water
    - highway
    - Highway Code
    - highwayman
    - high wire
    - high and dry
    - high and low
    - high and mighty
    - the high seas
    - it is high time

    high adj
    1. alto
    it is over 29,000 feet high tiene más de 29.000 pies de altura
    2. fuerte
    3. agudo
    tr[haɪ]
    1 alto,-a
    how high is that mountain? ¿qué altura tiene aquella montaña?
    2 (elevated, intense) alto,-a, elevado,-a
    3 (important) alto,-a, importante; (strong) fuerte
    4 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL alto,-a
    5 (very good) bueno,-a,
    6 (going rotten - food) pasado,-a; (- game) manido,-a
    7 (of time) pleno,-a
    8 slang (on drugs) flipado,-a, colocado,-a
    1 alto
    1 punto máximo, récord nombre masculino
    2 SMALLMETEOROLOGY/SMALL zona de alta presión, anticiclón nombre masculino
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to be in for the high jump familiar tener los días contados
    to be in high spirits estar de buen humor
    to be on a high sentirse muy bien
    to fly high (bird, plane) volar alto, volar a gran altura 2 (person) picar alto
    to have friends in high places estar muy bien relacionado,-a
    to leave somebody high and dry dejar plantado,-a a alguien
    to search high and low for something buscar algo por todas partes
    high chair silla alta
    High Commissioner Alto Comisario, Alto Comisionado
    High Court Tribunal nombre masculino Supremo
    high jump SMALLSPORT/SMALL salto de altura
    high road carretera principal
    high season temporada alta
    high school SMALLBRITISH ENGLISH/SMALL instituto de enseñanza secundaria (para alumnos de entre 11 y 18 años) 2 SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL instituto de enseñanza secundaria (para alumnos de entre 15 y 18 años)
    high tea merienda-cena
    the high life la buena vida
    the High Street la Calle Mayor
    high ['haɪ] adv
    : alto
    high adj
    1) tall: alto
    a high wall: una pared alta
    2) elevated: alto, elevado
    high prices: precios elevados
    high blood pressure: presión alta
    3) great, important: grande, importante, alto
    a high number: un número grande
    high society: alta sociedad
    high hopes: grandes esperanzas
    4) : alto (en música)
    5) intoxicated: borracho, drogado
    high n
    1) : récord m, punto m máximo
    to reach an all-time high: batir el récord
    2) : zona f de alta presión (en meteorología)
    3) or high gear : directa f
    4)
    on high : en las alturas
    adj.
    alto, -a adj.
    atiplado, -a adj.
    de altura adj.
    elevado, -a adj.
    eminente adj.
    empinado, -a adj.
    encandilado, -a adj.
    encumbrado, -a adj.
    manido, -a adj.
    mayor adj.
    prócer adj.
    subido, -a adj.
    sumo, -a adj.
    superior adj.
    n.
    alta presión s.f.
    marcha directa s.f.

    I haɪ
    adjective -er, -est
    1)
    a) ( tall) <building/wall/mountain> alto

    how high is it? — ¿qué altura tiene?

    b) ( high up) <window/balcony> alto; < plateau> elevado

    high cheekbonespómulos mpl salientes

    c) ( in status) <office/rank/officials> alto
    d) (morally, ethically) <ideals/principles/aims> elevado
    e) ( in pitch) < voice> agudo; < note> alto
    2)
    a) (considerable, greater than usual) <temperature/speed/pressure> alto; < wind> fuerte

    to have a high color — ( permanently) ser* rubicundo; ( because of a fever) estar* muy colorado or rojo

    to pay a high price for something — pagar* algo muy caro

    to be high in vitamins/proteins — ser* rico en vitaminas/proteínas

    b) (good, favorable)
    3)
    a) (Lit, Theat)

    a moment of high comedy/drama — un momento comiquísimo/muy dramático

    b) ( climactic) culminante
    4)
    a) (happy, excited)

    we had a high old time — (colloq) lo pasamos estupendamente

    b) ( intoxicated) (colloq) drogado, colocado (Esp fam)

    to be/get high on something — estar* drogado or (Esp tb) colocado/drogarse* or (Esp tb) colocarse* con algo (fam)

    5) ( of time)
    6) < meat> pasado; < game> que tiene un olor fuerte

    II
    adverb -er, -est
    a) < fly> alto

    high up — arriba, en lo alto

    to aim high\<\<marksman\>\> apuntar alto; \<\<ambitious person\>\> picar* alto

    to search o hunt o look high and low (for something) — remover* cielo y tierra (para encontrar algo)

    b) ( in pitch) < sing> alto
    c) (in amount, degree)

    how high are you prepared to bid? — ¿hasta cuánto estás dispuesto a pujar or ofrecer?


    III
    1)
    a) c ( level) récord m
    b) u

    on high — ( in heaven) en las alturas; ( high above) en lo alto

    2) c ( Meteo) ( anticyclone) zona f de altas presiones; ( high temperature) máxima f
    3) c ( euphoria) (colloq) ( from drugs) viaje m (fam), colocón m (Esp fam); ( for other reasons)
    4) u ( top gear) (AmE Auto) (no art) directa f
    5) c ( high school) (AmE colloq) cole m (fam) ( secundario)
    [haɪ]
    1. ADJ
    (compar higher) (superl highest)
    1) (=tall, elevated) [building, mountain] alto; [plateau] elevado; [altitude] grande

    the ceilings are very high — los techos son muy altos

    high cheekbonespómulos mpl salientes

    he has a high foreheadtiene la frente muy ancha

    how high is Ben Nevis/that tree? — ¿qué altura tiene el Ben Nevis/ese árbol?

    economic reform is high on the agenda — la reforma económica figura entre los asuntos más importantes a tratar

    the river is high — el río está crecido

    I've known her since she was so high *la conozco desde que era así (de pequeña)

    the sun was high in the sky — el sol daba de pleno

    the boats lay at the river's edge, high and dry — los botes estaban en la orilla del río, varados

    - leave sb high and dry
    2) (=considerable, great) [level, risk, rent, salary, principles] alto; [price, tax, number] alto, elevado; [speed] alto, gran; [quality] alto, bueno; [colour] subido; [complexion] (characteristically) rojizo; (temporarily) enrojecido; [wind] fuerte

    temperatures were in the high 80s — las temperaturas alcanzaron los ochenta y muchos, las temperaturas rondaron los 90 grados

    to have high blood pressure — tener la tensión alta, ser hipertenso

    his team was of the highest calibresu equipo era del más alto nivel

    to have high hopes of sth, I had high hopes of being elected — tenía muchas esperanzas de que me eligieran

    parsley is high in calcium — el perejil es rico en calcio

    to have a high opinion of sb — (=think highly of) tener muy buena opinión or concepto de algn; (=be fond of) tener a algn en alta estima

    to pay a high price for sth — (lit) pagar mucho dinero por algo; (fig) pagar algo muy caro

    to have a high temperature — tener mucha fiebre, tener una fiebre muy alta

    - have a high old time

    it's high time... *

    gear, priority, profile, spirit, stake, high 1., 4)
    3) (=important, superior) [rank, position, office] alto

    high and mighty, she's too high and mighty — es demasiado engreída

    she moves in the circles of the high and mighty — se mueve en círculos de los poderosos, se mueve en círculos de gente de mucho fuste pej

    high officialalto funcionario(-a) m / f

    - get up on one's high horse

    there's no need to get (up) on your high horse! — ¡no hace falta que te subas a la parra!

    - come down off or get off one's high horse

    in high places —

    4) (=high-pitched) [sound, note] alto; [voice] agudo

    on a high note —

    5) * (=intoxicated)

    to be high (on)[+ drink, drugs] estar colocado (de) *

    to get high (on)[+ drink, drugs] colocarse (de) *

    she was high on her latest successestaba encantada or entusiasmada con su último éxito

    - be as high as a kite
    6) (Culin) (=mature) [game, cheese] que huele fuerte; (=rotten) [meat] pasado
    2. ADV
    (compar higher) (superl highest)
    1) (in height) [fly, rise] a gran altura

    high above, an eagle circled high above — un águila circulaba en las alturas

    the town is perched high above the river — el pueblo está en un alto, sobre el río

    to run high — [sea] estar embravecido; [river] estar crecido

    high up, his farm was high up in the mountains — su granja estaba en lo alto de las montañas

    - hold one's head up high
    - live high on the hog
    - hunt or search high and low for sth/sb
    aim, fly, head 1., 1), stand 3., 5)
    2) (in degree, number, strength)

    the bidding went as high as £500 — las ofertas llegaron hasta 500 libras

    3. N
    1)

    on high(=in heaven) en el cielo, en las alturas

    there's been a new directive from on high — (fig) ha habido una nueva directriz de arriba

    2) (=peak)
    - be on a high
    3) (Econ) máximo m

    the Dow Jones index reached a high of 2503 — el índice de Dow Jones alcanzó un máximo de 2.503

    4) (Met) zona f de altas presiones; (esp US) temperatura f máxima
    5) (US) (Aut) (=top gear) directa f
    4.
    CPD

    high altar Naltar m mayor

    high beam N (US) (Aut) —

    high camp N — (Theat) amaneramiento m

    high chair Nsilla f alta (para niño), trona f (Sp)

    High Church Nsector de la Iglesia Anglicana muy cercano a la liturgia y ritos católicos

    high comedy N — (Theat) comedia f de costumbres

    it was high comedy — (fig) era de lo más cómico

    high command N — (Mil) alto mando m

    high commission N(=international body) alto comisionado m; (=embassy) embajada f (que representa a uno de los países de la Commonwealth en otro)

    high commissioner N[of international body] alto comisario(-a) m / f; (=ambassador) embajador(a) m / f (de un país de la Commonwealth en otro)

    High Court N — (Jur) Tribunal m Supremo

    high-definition

    high dependency unit N — (Med) unidad f de alta dependencia

    high diving Nsaltos mpl de trampolín de gran altura

    high explosive Nexplosivo m de gran potencia; high-explosive

    high five, high-five Nchoque m de cinco

    to give sb a high five — chocar los cinco con algn

    high flier N

    he's a high flier — es ambicioso, tiene talento y promete

    high ground N (fig) —

    they believe they have or occupy the moral high ground in this conflict — creen que tienen moralmente la razón de su parte en este conflicto

    high hat Nsombrero m de copa, cilindro * m; high-hat

    high heels NPL(=heels) tacones mpl altos; (=shoes) zapatos mpl de tacón

    high jinks * NPLjolgorio msing, jarana f

    high jump N — (Sport) salto m de altura

    high jumper N — (Sport) saltador(a) m / f de altura

    the high life N (gen) la buena vida; (in high society) la vida de la buena sociedad

    High Mass Nmisa f mayor

    high noon N(=midday) mediodía m; (fig) (=peak) apogeo m; (=critical point) momento m crucial

    high point N[of show, evening] punto m culminante, clímax m inv ; [of visit, holiday] lo más destacado; [of career] punto m culminante, cenit m

    to throw or bring sth into high relief — (fig) poner algo de relieve

    high road N(esp Brit) carretera f

    the high road to success/disaster — el camino directo al éxito/desastre

    high roller N(US) (gen) derrochón(-ona) m / f; (gambling) jugador(a) m / f empedernido*

    high school N(US, Brit) instituto m de enseñanza secundaria, liceo m (LAm)

    junior high (school)(US) instituto donde se imparten los dos primeros años de bachillerato

    high school diploma N(US) bachillerato m

    high school graduate N(US) bachiller mf

    the high seas NPLalta mar fsing

    high season Ntemporada f alta

    high season prices/rates — precios mpl /tarifas fpl de temporada alta

    high sign Nseña f (acordada)

    high spot N[of show, evening] punto m culminante, clímax m inv ; [of visit, holiday] lo más destacado; [of career] punto m culminante, cenit m

    high stakes NPL

    - play for high stakes

    high street Ncalle f mayor, calle f principal

    high street banksbancos mpl principales

    high street shopstiendas fpl de la calle principal

    high summer Npleno verano m, pleno estío m

    high table N (gen) mesa f principal, mesa f presidencial; (Univ, Scol) mesa f de los profesores

    high tea N(Brit) merienda-cena f (que se toma acompañada de té)

    high tide Npleamar f, marea f alta

    at high tide — en la pleamar, en marea alta

    high water Npleamar f, marea f alta

    high-water mark

    high wire Ncuerda f floja

    high wire act Nnúmero m en la cuerda floja, número m de funambulismo

    HIGH SCHOOL En Estados Unidos las high schools son los institutos donde los adolescentes de 15 a 18 años realizan la educación secundaria, que dura tres cursos ( grades), desde el noveno hasta el duodécimo año de la enseñanza; al final del último curso se realiza un libro conmemorativo con fotos de los alumnos y profesores de ese año Yearbook y los alumnos reciben el diploma de high school en una ceremonia formal de graduación. Estos centros suelen ser un tema frecuente en las películas y programas de televisión estadounidenses en los que se resalta mucho el aspecto deportivo - sobre todo el fútbol americano y el baloncesto - además de algunos acontecimientos sociales como el baile de fin de curso, conocido como Senior Prom.
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    I [haɪ]
    adjective -er, -est
    1)
    a) ( tall) <building/wall/mountain> alto

    how high is it? — ¿qué altura tiene?

    b) ( high up) <window/balcony> alto; < plateau> elevado

    high cheekbonespómulos mpl salientes

    c) ( in status) <office/rank/officials> alto
    d) (morally, ethically) <ideals/principles/aims> elevado
    e) ( in pitch) < voice> agudo; < note> alto
    2)
    a) (considerable, greater than usual) <temperature/speed/pressure> alto; < wind> fuerte

    to have a high color — ( permanently) ser* rubicundo; ( because of a fever) estar* muy colorado or rojo

    to pay a high price for something — pagar* algo muy caro

    to be high in vitamins/proteins — ser* rico en vitaminas/proteínas

    b) (good, favorable)
    3)
    a) (Lit, Theat)

    a moment of high comedy/drama — un momento comiquísimo/muy dramático

    b) ( climactic) culminante
    4)
    a) (happy, excited)

    we had a high old time — (colloq) lo pasamos estupendamente

    b) ( intoxicated) (colloq) drogado, colocado (Esp fam)

    to be/get high on something — estar* drogado or (Esp tb) colocado/drogarse* or (Esp tb) colocarse* con algo (fam)

    5) ( of time)
    6) < meat> pasado; < game> que tiene un olor fuerte

    II
    adverb -er, -est
    a) < fly> alto

    high up — arriba, en lo alto

    to aim high\<\<marksman\>\> apuntar alto; \<\<ambitious person\>\> picar* alto

    to search o hunt o look high and low (for something) — remover* cielo y tierra (para encontrar algo)

    b) ( in pitch) < sing> alto
    c) (in amount, degree)

    how high are you prepared to bid? — ¿hasta cuánto estás dispuesto a pujar or ofrecer?


    III
    1)
    a) c ( level) récord m
    b) u

    on high — ( in heaven) en las alturas; ( high above) en lo alto

    2) c ( Meteo) ( anticyclone) zona f de altas presiones; ( high temperature) máxima f
    3) c ( euphoria) (colloq) ( from drugs) viaje m (fam), colocón m (Esp fam); ( for other reasons)
    4) u ( top gear) (AmE Auto) (no art) directa f
    5) c ( high school) (AmE colloq) cole m (fam) ( secundario)

    English-spanish dictionary > high

  • 8 high

    1. adjective
    1) hoch [Berg, Gebäude, Mauer]
    2) (above normal level) hoch [Stiefel]

    the river/water is high — der Fluss/das Wasser steht hoch

    be left high and dry(fig.) auf dem trock[e]nen sitzen (ugs.)

    3) (far above ground or sea level) hoch [Gipfel, Punkt]; groß [Höhe]
    4) (to or from far above the ground) hoch [Aufstieg, Sprung]

    high diving — Turmspringen, das; see also academic.ru/5412/bar">bar 1. 2)

    5) (of exalted rank) hoch [Beamter, Amt, Gericht]

    high and mighty(coll.): (highhanded) selbstherrlich; (coll.): (superior) hochnäsig (ugs.)

    be born or destined for higher things — zu Höherem geboren od. bestimmt sein

    6) (great in degree) hoch; groß [Gefallen, Bedeutung]; stark [Wind]

    be held in high regard/esteem — hohes Ansehen/hohe Wertschätzung genießen

    high blood pressure — Bluthochdruck, der

    have a high opinion of somebody/something — eine hohe Meinung von jemandem/etwas haben (geh.); viel von jemandem/etwas halten

    7) (noble, virtuous) hoch [Ideal, Ziel, Prinzip, Berufung]; edel [Charakter]

    it is high time you leftes ist od. wird höchste Zeit, dass du gehst

    high summer — Hochsommer, der

    9) (luxurious, extravagant) üppig [Leben]
    10) (enjoyable)

    have a high [old] time — sich bestens amüsieren

    11) (coll.): (on a drug) high nicht attr. (ugs.) (on von)

    get high onsich anturnen mit (ugs.) [Haschisch, LSD usw.]

    12) (in pitch) hoch [Ton, Stimme, Lage, Klang usw.]
    13) (slightly decomposed) angegangen (landsch.) [Fleisch]
    14) (Cards) hoch
    2. adverb
    1) (in or to a high position) hoch

    search or hunt or look high and low — überall suchen

    3. noun
    1) (highest level/figure) Höchststand, der; see also all-time

    on highhoch oben od. (geh., südd., österr.) droben; (in heaven) im Himmel

    3) (Meteorol.) Hoch, das
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    1. adjective
    1) (at, from, or reaching up to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: a high mountain; a high dive; a dive from the high diving-board.) hoch
    2) (having a particular height: This building is about 20 metres high; My horse is fifteen hands high.) hoch
    3) (great; large; considerable: The car was travelling at high speed; He has a high opinion of her work; They charge high prices; high hopes; The child has a high fever/temperature.) hoch
    4) (most important; very important: the high altar in a church; Important criminal trials are held at the High Court; a high official.) Haupt-...
    5) (noble; good: high ideals.) hoch
    6) ((of a wind) strong: The wind is high tonight.) stark
    7) ((of sounds) at or towards the top of a (musical) range: a high note.) hoch
    8) ((of voices) like a child's voice (rather than like a man's): He still speaks in a high voice.) hoch
    9) ((of food, especially meat) beginning to go bad.) angegangen
    10) (having great value: Aces and kings are high cards.) hoch
    2. adverb
    (at, or to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: The plane was flying high in the sky; He'll rise high in his profession.) hoch
    - highly
    - highness
    - high-chair
    - high-class
    - higher education
    - high fidelity
    - high-handed
    - high-handedly
    - high-handedness
    - high jump
    - highlands
    - high-level
    - highlight
    3. verb
    (to draw particular attention to (a person, thing etc).) hervorheben
    - highly-strung
    - high-minded
    - high-mindedness
    - high-pitched
    - high-powered
    - high-rise
    - highroad
    - high school
    - high-spirited
    - high spirits
    - high street
    - high-tech
    4. adjective
    ((also hi-tech): high-tech industries.)
    - high tide
    - high treason
    - high water
    - highway
    - Highway Code
    - highwayman
    - high wire
    - high and dry
    - high and low
    - high and mighty
    - the high seas
    - it is high time
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    [haɪ]
    I. adj
    1. (altitude) hoch präd, hohe(r, s) attr
    he lives on the \highest floor er wohnt im obersten Stockwerk
    I knew him when he was only so \high ich kannte ihn schon als kleines Kind
    the river is \high der Fluss führt Hochwasser
    she wore a dress with a \high neckline sie trug ein hochgeschlossenes Kleid
    to fly at a \high altitude in großer Höhe fliegen
    the rooms in our flat have \high ceilings unsere Wohnung hat hohe Räume
    thirty centimetres/one metre \high dreißig Zentimeter/ein Meter hoch
    \high cheekbones hohe Wangenknochen
    to do a \high dive einen Kopfsprung aus großer Höhe machen
    \high forehead hohe Stirn
    \high latitude GEOG hohe Breite
    2. (above average) hohe(r, s) attr, hoch präd
    she got very \high marks sie bekam sehr gute Noten
    the job demands a \high level of concentration die Tätigkeit erfordert hohe Konzentration
    to have \high hopes sich dat große Hoffnungen machen
    to have \high hopes for sb für jdn große Pläne haben
    to have a \high IQ einen hohen IQ haben
    a \high-scoring match ein Match nt mit vielen Treffern
    to have a \high opinion of sb von jdm eine hohe Meinung haben
    to be full of \high praise [for sb/sth] [für jdn/etw] voll des Lobes sein
    to pay a \high price for sth ( also fig) für etw akk einen hohen Preis bezahlen a. fig
    to drive at \high speed mit hoher Geschwindigkeit fahren
    to demand \high standards from sb/sth hohe Ansprüche [o Anforderungen] an jdn/etw stellen
    3. (of large numerical value)
    the casualty toll from the explosion was \high die Explosion forderte viele Opfer
    \high calibre [or AM caliber] gun großkalibrige Waffe
    of the \highest calibre [or AM caliber] ( fig) hervorragend
    the \highest common denominator der größte gemeinsame Nenner
    \high number hohe [o große] Zahl
    safety is \high on my list of priorities Sicherheit steht weit oben auf meiner Prioritätenliste
    to have sth on the \highest authority ( esp hum) etw aus zuverlässiger Quelle wissen
    \high crimes schwere Vergehen
    to hold/resign from \high office ein hohes Amt innehaben/niederlegen
    to have friends in \high places wichtige Freunde haben
    of \high rank hochrangig
    to be of \high birth adliger Abstammung sein
    to have \high principles hohe Prinzipien haben
    6. ( pej: arrogant) arrogant
    to be \high and mighty ( pej) herablassend sein
    7. (intense)
    to have a \high complexion ein gerötetes Gesicht haben
    to be \high drama hochdramatisch sein
    \high wind starker Wind
    8. MED
    \high blood-pressure hoher Blutdruck
    \high fever hohes Fieber
    9. FOOD (rich)
    \high in calories kalorienreich
    to be \high in calcium/iron viel Kalzium/Eisen enthalten
    10. (intoxicated, euphoric) high a. fig fam
    to be \high on drugs mit Drogen vollgepumpt sein
    to be [as] \high as a kite ( fam: euphoric) total high sein sl; (drunk) stockbesoffen sein sl
    11. (shrill)
    to sing in a \high key in einer hohen Tonlage singen
    a \high note ein hoher Ton
    a \high voice eine schrille Stimme
    12. LING
    \high vowel hoher Vokal
    13. pred (gone off)
    to be \high food riechen; game Hautgout haben
    14.
    with one's head held \high hoch erhobenen Hauptes
    come hell or \high water um jeden Preis
    come hell or \high water, I'm going to get this finished by midnight und wenn die Welt untergeht, bis Mitternacht habe ich das fertig
    to leave sb \high and dry jdn auf dem Trockenen sitzen lassen
    to stink to \high heaven (smell awful) wie die Pest stinken sl; (be very suspicious) zum Himmel stinken fig sl
    sb's stock is \high jds Aktien stehen gut fig, jd steht hoch im Kurs
    \high time höchste Zeit
    II. adv
    1. (position) hoch
    you have to throw the ball \high du musst den Ball in die Höhe werfen
    \high up hoch oben
    2. (amount) hoch
    the prices are running \high die Preise liegen hoch
    he said he would go as \high as 500 dollars er meinte, er würde maximal 500 Dollar ausgeben
    the sea was running \high das Meer tobte; ( fig)
    feelings were running \high die Gemüter erhitzten sich
    4.
    to hold one's head \high stolz sein
    \high and low überall
    to look [or search] for sth \high and low das Unterste nach oben kehren fig
    to live \high on [or off] the hog fürstlich leben
    III. n
    1. (high point) Höchststand m
    to reach an all-time [or a record] \high einen historischen Höchststand erreichen
    2. METEO Hoch nt
    \highs and lows Höhen und Tiefen fig
    to be on a \high high sein sl
    on \high im Himmel, in der Höhe poet
    God looked down from on \high Gott blickte vom Himmel herab; ( hum fig fam)
    the orders came from on \high die Befehle kamen von höchster Stelle
    5. AUTO höchster Gang
    to move into \high den höchsten Gang einlegen
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    [haɪ]
    1. adj (+er)
    1) mountain, wall, forehead, building hoch pred, hohe(r, s) attr

    a high diveein Kopfsprung m aus großer Höhe

    I knew him when he was only so high — ich kannte ihn, als er nur SO groß war or noch so klein war

    See:
    → also high ground
    2) (= important, superior) hoch pred, hohe(r, s) attr
    3) (= considerable, extreme, great) opinion, speed, temperature, fever, pressure, salary, price, rate, density, sea hoch pred, hohe(r, s) attr; reputation ausgezeichnet, hervorragend; altitude groß; wind stark; complexion, colour (hoch)rot

    /quality — von bestem Format/bester Qualität

    casualties were highes gab viele Opfer; (Mil) es gab hohe Verluste

    to put a high value on sth —

    to have high expectations of sb/sth — hohe Erwartungen an jdn/etw stellen

    in (very) high spirits — in Hochstimmung, in äußerst guter Laune

    to have a high old time (inf) — sich prächtig amüsieren, mächtig Spaß haben (inf)

    4) (= good, admirable) ideals, principles hoch
    5)

    (of time) high noon — zwölf Uhr mittags

    it's high time you went home — es ist or wird höchste Zeit, dass du nach Hause gehst

    6) sound, note hoch; (= shrill) schrill
    7) (inf on drugs) high (inf); (on drink) blau (inf)
    8) meat angegangen
    9) (CARDS) hoch pred, hohe(r, s) attr
    2. adv (+er)
    1) hoch

    high up (position) — hoch oben; (motion) hoch hinauf

    birds circling very high up — Vögel, die ganz weit oben kreisen

    higher up the hill was a small farmetwas weiter oben am Berg lag ein kleiner Bauernhof

    2)

    to go as high as £200 — bis zu £ 200 (hoch) gehen

    inflation is climbing higher and higher —

    3. n
    1)
    2)

    unemployment/the pound has reached a new high — die Arbeitslosenzahlen haben/das Pfund hat einen neuen Höchststand erreicht

    3) (MET) Hoch nt
    4) (US AUT

    = top gear) in high —

    5) (US inf = high school) Penne f (inf)
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    high [haı]
    A adj (adv highly)( higher, highest)
    1. hoch:
    ten feet high zehn Fuß hoch;
    at high altitudes in großen Höhen; beam A 6, horse A 1
    2. hoch (gelegen):
    High Asia Hochasien n
    3. GEOG hoch (nahe den Polen):
    high latitude hohe Breite
    4. hoch (Grad):
    high expectations große oder hohe Erwartungen;
    high favo(u)r hohe Gunst;
    high hopes große Hoffnungen;
    high praise großes Lob;
    keep the pace high SPORT das Tempo hoch halten;
    a) hohe Geschwindigkeit,
    b) SCHIFF hohe Fahrt, äußerste Kraft;
    high starting number SPORT hohe Startnummer;
    be high in calories viele Kalorien haben;
    be high in fat fettreich sein; gear A 3
    5. stark, heftig:
    high passion wilde Leidenschaft;
    high wind starker Wind;
    high words heftige oder scharfe Worte
    6. hoch (im Rang), Hoch…, Ober…, Haupt…:
    a high official ein hoher Beamter;
    the Most High der Allerhöchste (Gott)
    7. bedeutend, hoch, wichtig:
    high aims hohe Ziele;
    high politics pl (oft als sg konstruiert) hohe Politik
    8. hoch (Stellung), vornehm, edel:
    of high birth von hoher oder edler Geburt, hochgeboren;
    high society High Society f, gehobene Gesellschaftsschicht; standing A 1
    9. hoch, erhaben, edel:
    high spirit erhabener Geist
    10. hoch, gut, erstklassig (Qualität etc):
    high performance hohe Leistung
    11. hoch, Hoch… (auf dem Höhepunkt stehend):
    High Middle Ages pl Hochmittelalter n;
    high period Glanzzeit f (eines Künstlers etc)
    12. hoch, fortgeschritten (Zeit):
    high summer Hochsommer m;
    it is high day es ist heller Tag; high time 1, noon A 1
    13. (zeitlich) fern, tief:
    in high antiquity tief im Altertum
    14. LING
    a) Hoch… (Sprache)
    b) hoch (Laut):
    high tone Hochton m
    15. hoch (im Kurs), teuer:
    land is high Land ist teuer
    17. extrem, eifrig (Sozialdemokrat etc)
    18. a) hoch, hell (Ton etc)
    b) schrill, laut (Stimme etc)
    19. lebhaft (Farben):
    high complexion rosiger Teint
    20. erregend, spannend (Abenteuer etc)
    21. a) gehoben, heiter: jinks, spirit A 8
    b) umg blau (betrunken)
    c) umg high (im Drogenrausch)
    22. umg scharf, erpicht ( beide:
    on auf akk)
    23. GASTR angegangen, mit Hautgout (Wild):
    be high Hautgout haben
    24. SCHIFF hoch am Wind
    B adv
    1. hoch:
    aim high fig sich hohe Ziele setzen oder stecken;
    lift high in die Höhe heben, hochheben;
    a) hochgehen (See, Wellen),
    b) fig toben (Gefühle);
    feelings ran high die Gemüter erhitzten sich;
    search high and low überall suchen, etwas wie eine Stecknadel suchen
    2. stark, heftig, in hohem Grad oder Maß
    3. teuer:
    pay high teuer bezahlen
    4. hoch, mit hohem Einsatz:
    5. üppig:
    live high in Saus und Braus leben
    6. SCHIFF hoch am Wind
    C s
    1. (An)Höhe f, hoch gelegener Ort:
    a) hoch oben, droben,
    b) hoch hinauf,
    c) im oder zum Himmel;
    a) von oben,
    b) vom Himmel
    2. METEO Hoch(druckgebiet) n
    3. TECH
    a) hochübersetztes oder hochuntersetztes Getriebe (an Fahrzeugen), besonders Geländegang m
    b) höchster Gang:
    move ( oder shift) into high den höchsten Gang einlegen
    4. fig Höchststand m:
    his life was full of highs and lows sein Leben war voller Höhen und Tiefen
    5. umg für high school
    6. he’s still got his high umg er ist noch immer blau oder high
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    1. adjective
    1) hoch [Berg, Gebäude, Mauer]
    2) (above normal level) hoch [Stiefel]

    the river/water is high — der Fluss/das Wasser steht hoch

    be left high and dry(fig.) auf dem trock[e]nen sitzen (ugs.)

    3) (far above ground or sea level) hoch [Gipfel, Punkt]; groß [Höhe]
    4) (to or from far above the ground) hoch [Aufstieg, Sprung]

    high diving — Turmspringen, das; see also bar 1. 2)

    5) (of exalted rank) hoch [Beamter, Amt, Gericht]

    high and mighty(coll.): (highhanded) selbstherrlich; (coll.): (superior) hochnäsig (ugs.)

    be born or destined for higher things — zu Höherem geboren od. bestimmt sein

    6) (great in degree) hoch; groß [Gefallen, Bedeutung]; stark [Wind]

    be held in high regard/esteem — hohes Ansehen/hohe Wertschätzung genießen

    high blood pressure — Bluthochdruck, der

    have a high opinion of somebody/something — eine hohe Meinung von jemandem/etwas haben (geh.); viel von jemandem/etwas halten

    7) (noble, virtuous) hoch [Ideal, Ziel, Prinzip, Berufung]; edel [Charakter]
    8) (of time, season)

    it is high time you leftes ist od. wird höchste Zeit, dass du gehst

    high summer — Hochsommer, der

    9) (luxurious, extravagant) üppig [Leben]

    have a high [old] time — sich bestens amüsieren

    11) (coll.): (on a drug) high nicht attr. (ugs.) (on von)

    get high onsich anturnen mit (ugs.) [Haschisch, LSD usw.]

    12) (in pitch) hoch [Ton, Stimme, Lage, Klang usw.]
    13) (slightly decomposed) angegangen (landsch.) [Fleisch]
    14) (Cards) hoch
    2. adverb

    search or hunt or look high and low — überall suchen

    3. noun
    1) (highest level/figure) Höchststand, der; see also all-time

    on highhoch oben od. (geh., südd., österr.) droben; (in heaven) im Himmel

    3) (Meteorol.) Hoch, das
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    adj.
    hoch adj.
    hoh adj. n.
    Hoch nur sing. n.
    Höchststand m.

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  • 9 high

    I 1. [haɪ]
    1) (tall) [building, wall, table, forehead, cheekbones] alto
    2) (far from the ground) [shelf, ceiling, cloud] alto

    how high (up) are we? (on top of building) quanto siamo alti? (on plane, mountain) a che altezza siamo?

    3) (numerically large) [number, price, frequency] alto, elevato; [ratio, volume] alto; [ wind] forte

    high in — ricco di [fat, iron]

    4) (great) [degree, risk] alto, elevato; [hope, expectation] grande
    5) (important) [quality, rank] alto; [ standard] elevato
    6) (noble) [ principle] alto, elevato; [ ideal] grande, nobile
    7) (acute) [pitch, sound, note] alto, acuto; [ voice] acuto
    8) gastr. [ game] frollato
    9) colloq. (euphoric) (on drug) sballato; (happy) su di giri

    to be high on — essere sovreccitato per [ drug]

    2.
    1) (to a great height) [climb, throw] in alto; [ jump] alto, in alto

    to climb higher and higher — [person, animal] salire sempre più in alto; fig. [figures, unemployment] aumentare sempre di più

    don't go any higher than Ј 5,000 — non andare oltre o non superare le 5.000 sterline

    2) (at a high level) [set, turn on] alto

    to turn sth. up high — alzare qcs

    3) mus. [sing, play] in una tonalità alta
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    it's high time that sb. did — è proprio ora che qcn. faccia

    to search high and low for sth. — cercare qcs. in lungo e in largo, per mari e per monti

    II [haɪ]
    1) (livello) massimo m., picco m.

    to give sb. a high — [ drug] fare sballare qcn.; [ success] dare alla testa a qcn.

    to be on a highessere su di giri o eccitatissimo

    3) AE colloq. scol. scuola f. (media) superiore
    4)

    from on high — dall'alto; relig. dal Cielo

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    1. adjective
    1) (at, from, or reaching up to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: a high mountain; a high dive; a dive from the high diving-board.) alto
    2) (having a particular height: This building is about 20 metres high; My horse is fifteen hands high.) di altezza
    3) (great; large; considerable: The car was travelling at high speed; He has a high opinion of her work; They charge high prices; high hopes; The child has a high fever/temperature.) alto
    4) (most important; very important: the high altar in a church; Important criminal trials are held at the High Court; a high official.) principale, maggiore, alto
    5) (noble; good: high ideals.) alto
    6) ((of a wind) strong: The wind is high tonight.) forte
    7) ((of sounds) at or towards the top of a (musical) range: a high note.) alto
    8) ((of voices) like a child's voice (rather than like a man's): He still speaks in a high voice.) alto
    9) ((of food, especially meat) beginning to go bad.) passato, andato a male
    10) (having great value: Aces and kings are high cards.) alto
    2. adverb
    (at, or to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: The plane was flying high in the sky; He'll rise high in his profession.) alto
    - highness
    - high-chair
    - high-class
    - higher education
    - high fidelity
    - high-handed
    - high-handedly
    - high-handedness
    - high jump
    - highlands
    - high-level
    - highlight
    3. verb
    (to draw particular attention to (a person, thing etc).) dar rilievo a, mettere in evidenza
    - high-minded
    - high-mindedness
    - high-pitched
    - high-powered
    - high-rise
    - highroad
    - high school
    - high-spirited
    - high spirits
    - high street
    - high-tech
    4. adjective
    ((also hi-tech): high-tech industries.) (ad alto contenuto tecnologico)
    - high treason
    - high water
    - highway
    - Highway Code
    - highwayman
    - high wire
    - high and dry
    - high and low
    - high and mighty
    - the high seas
    - it is high time
    * * *
    I 1. [haɪ]
    1) (tall) [building, wall, table, forehead, cheekbones] alto
    2) (far from the ground) [shelf, ceiling, cloud] alto

    how high (up) are we? (on top of building) quanto siamo alti? (on plane, mountain) a che altezza siamo?

    3) (numerically large) [number, price, frequency] alto, elevato; [ratio, volume] alto; [ wind] forte

    high in — ricco di [fat, iron]

    4) (great) [degree, risk] alto, elevato; [hope, expectation] grande
    5) (important) [quality, rank] alto; [ standard] elevato
    6) (noble) [ principle] alto, elevato; [ ideal] grande, nobile
    7) (acute) [pitch, sound, note] alto, acuto; [ voice] acuto
    8) gastr. [ game] frollato
    9) colloq. (euphoric) (on drug) sballato; (happy) su di giri

    to be high on — essere sovreccitato per [ drug]

    2.
    1) (to a great height) [climb, throw] in alto; [ jump] alto, in alto

    to climb higher and higher — [person, animal] salire sempre più in alto; fig. [figures, unemployment] aumentare sempre di più

    don't go any higher than Ј 5,000 — non andare oltre o non superare le 5.000 sterline

    2) (at a high level) [set, turn on] alto

    to turn sth. up high — alzare qcs

    3) mus. [sing, play] in una tonalità alta
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    it's high time that sb. did — è proprio ora che qcn. faccia

    to search high and low for sth. — cercare qcs. in lungo e in largo, per mari e per monti

    II [haɪ]
    1) (livello) massimo m., picco m.

    to give sb. a high — [ drug] fare sballare qcn.; [ success] dare alla testa a qcn.

    to be on a highessere su di giri o eccitatissimo

    3) AE colloq. scol. scuola f. (media) superiore
    4)

    from on high — dall'alto; relig. dal Cielo

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  • 10 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       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. adjective
    1) (at, from, or reaching up to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: a high mountain; a high dive; a dive from the high diving-board.) høj
    2) (having a particular height: This building is about 20 metres high; My horse is fifteen hands high.) høj
    3) (great; large; considerable: The car was travelling at high speed; He has a high opinion of her work; They charge high prices; high hopes; The child has a high fever/temperature.) høj
    4) (most important; very important: the high altar in a church; Important criminal trials are held at the High Court; a high official.) høj-; højeste; højtstående
    5) (noble; good: high ideals.) høj
    6) ((of a wind) strong: The wind is high tonight.) stærk
    7) ((of sounds) at or towards the top of a (musical) range: a high note.) høj
    8) ((of voices) like a child's voice (rather than like a man's): He still speaks in a high voice.) høj
    9) ((of food, especially meat) beginning to go bad.) blive dårlig
    10) (having great value: Aces and kings are high cards.) høj
    2. adverb
    (at, or to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: The plane was flying high in the sky; He'll rise high in his profession.) højt
    - highness
    - high-chair
    - high-class
    - higher education
    - high fidelity
    - high-handed
    - high-handedly
    - high-handedness
    - high jump
    - highlands
    - high-level
    - highlight
    3. verb
    (to draw particular attention to (a person, thing etc).) fremhæve
    - high-minded
    - high-mindedness
    - high-pitched
    - high-powered
    - high-rise
    - highroad
    - high school
    - high-spirited
    - high spirits
    - high street
    - high-tech
    4. adjective
    ((also hi-tech): high-tech industries.) hightech-; højteknologisk
    - high treason
    - high water
    - highway
    - Highway Code
    - highwayman
    - high wire
    - high and dry
    - high and low
    - high and mighty
    - the high seas
    - it is high time
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    1. adjective
    1) (at, from, or reaching up to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: a high mountain; a high dive; a dive from the high diving-board.) høj
    2) (having a particular height: This building is about 20 metres high; My horse is fifteen hands high.) høj
    3) (great; large; considerable: The car was travelling at high speed; He has a high opinion of her work; They charge high prices; high hopes; The child has a high fever/temperature.) høj
    4) (most important; very important: the high altar in a church; Important criminal trials are held at the High Court; a high official.) høj-; højeste; højtstående
    5) (noble; good: high ideals.) høj
    6) ((of a wind) strong: The wind is high tonight.) stærk
    7) ((of sounds) at or towards the top of a (musical) range: a high note.) høj
    8) ((of voices) like a child's voice (rather than like a man's): He still speaks in a high voice.) høj
    9) ((of food, especially meat) beginning to go bad.) blive dårlig
    10) (having great value: Aces and kings are high cards.) høj
    2. adverb
    (at, or to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: The plane was flying high in the sky; He'll rise high in his profession.) højt
    - highness
    - high-chair
    - high-class
    - higher education
    - high fidelity
    - high-handed
    - high-handedly
    - high-handedness
    - high jump
    - highlands
    - high-level
    - highlight
    3. verb
    (to draw particular attention to (a person, thing etc).) fremhæve
    - high-minded
    - high-mindedness
    - high-pitched
    - high-powered
    - high-rise
    - highroad
    - high school
    - high-spirited
    - high spirits
    - high street
    - high-tech
    4. adjective
    ((also hi-tech): high-tech industries.) hightech-; højteknologisk
    - high treason
    - high water
    - highway
    - Highway Code
    - highwayman
    - high wire
    - high and dry
    - high and low
    - high and mighty
    - the high seas
    - it is high time

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  • 12 Coimbra, University of

       Portugal's oldest and once its most prestigious university. As one of Europe's oldest seats of learning, the University of Coimbra and its various roles have a historic importance that supersedes merely the educational. For centuries, the university formed and trained the principal elites and professions that dominated Portugal. For more than a century, certain members of its faculty entered the central government in Lisbon. A few, such as law professor Afonso Costa, mathematics instructor Sidônio Pais, anthropology professor Bernardino Machado, and economics professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar, became prime ministers and presidents of the republic. In such a small country, with relatively few universities until recently, Portugal counted Coimbra's university as the educational cradle of its leaders and knew its academic traditions as an intimate part of national life.
       Established in 1290 by King Dinis, the university first opened in Lisbon but was moved to Coimbra in 1308, and there it remained. University buildings were placed high on a hill, in a position that
       physically dominates Portugal's third city. While sections of the medieval university buildings are present, much of what today remains of the old University of Coimbra dates from the Manueline era (1495-1521) and the 17th and 18th centuries. The main administration building along the so-called Via Latina is baroque, in the style of the 17th and 18th centuries. Most prominent among buildings adjacent to the central core structures are the Chapel of São Miguel, built in the 17th century, and the magnificent University Library, of the era of wealthy King João V, built between 1717 and 1723. Created entirely by Portuguese artists and architects, the library is unique among historic monuments in Portugal. Its rare book collection, a monument in itself, is complemented by exquisite gilt wood decorations and beautiful doors, windows, and furniture. Among visitors and tourists, the chapel and library are the prime attractions to this day.
       The University underwent important reforms under the Pombaline administration (1750-77). Efforts to strengthen Coimbra's position in advanced learning and teaching by means of a new curriculum, including new courses in new fields and new degrees and colleges (in Portugal, major university divisions are usually called "faculties") often met strong resistance. In the Age of the Discoveries, efforts were made to introduce the useful study of mathematics, which was part of astronomy in that day, and to move beyond traditional medieval study only of theology, canon law, civil law, and medicine. Regarding even the advanced work of the Portuguese astronomer and mathematician Pedro Nunes, however, Coimbra University was lamentably slow in introducing mathematics or a school of arts and general studies. After some earlier efforts, the 1772 Pombaline Statutes, the core of the Pombaline reforms at Coimbra, had an impact that lasted more than a century. These reforms remained in effect to the end of the monarchy, when, in 1911, the First Republic instituted changes that stressed the secularization of learning. This included the abolition of the Faculty of Theology.
       Elaborate, ancient traditions and customs inform the faculty and student body of Coimbra University. Tradition flourishes, although some customs are more popular than others. Instead of residing in common residences or dormitories as in other countries, in Coimbra until recently students lived in the city in "Republics," private houses with domestic help hired by the students. Students wore typical black academic gowns. Efforts during the Revolution of 25 April 1974 and aftermath to abolish the wearing of the gowns, a powerful student image symbol, met resistance and generated controversy. In romantic Coimbra tradition, students with guitars sang characteristic songs, including Coimbra fado, a more cheerful song than Lisbon fado, and serenaded other students at special locations. Tradition also decreed that at graduation graduates wore their gowns but burned their school (or college or subject) ribbons ( fitas), an important ceremonial rite of passage.
       The University of Coimbra, while it underwent a revival in the 1980s and 1990s, no longer has a virtual monopoly over higher education in Portugal. By 1970, for example, the country had only four public and one private university, and the University of Lisbon had become more significant than ancient Coimbra. At present, diversity in higher education is even more pronounced: 12 private universities and 14 autonomous public universities are listed, not only in Lisbon and Oporto, but at provincial locations. Still, Coimbra retains an influence as the senior university, some of whose graduates still enter national government and distinguished themselves in various professions.
       An important student concern at all institutions of higher learning, and one that marked the last half of the 1990s and continued into the next century, was the question of increased student fees and tuition payments (in Portuguese, propinas). Due to the expansion of the national universities in function as well as in the size of student bodies, national budget constraints, and the rising cost of education, the central government began to increase student fees. The student movement protested this change by means of various tactics, including student strikes, boycotts, and demonstrations. At the same time, a growing number of private universities began to attract larger numbers of students who could afford the higher fees in private institutions, but who had been denied places in the increasingly competitive and pressured public universities.

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  • 13 secondary

    adjective
    1) (of less importance) zweitrangig; sekundär (geh.); Neben[akzent, -sache]; (derived from something primary) weiterverarbeitend [Industrie]

    secondary literature — Sekundärliteratur, die

    be secondary to somethingeiner Sache (Dat.) untergeordnet sein

    2) (indirectly caused) sekundär (geh., Med., Biol.)
    * * *
    1) (coming after, and at a more advanced level than, primary: secondary education.) höher
    2) (lesser in importance: a matter of secondary importance.) zweitrangig
    * * *
    sec·ond·ary
    [ˈsekəndəri, AM -deri]
    I. adj inv
    1. (not main) zweitrangig, sekundär geh
    \secondary aim sekundäres Ziel
    \secondary character Nebenrolle f
    to be of \secondary importance von untergeordneter Bedeutung sein
    to play a \secondary role eine untergeordnete Rolle spielen
    to be \secondary to sth gegenüber etw dat zweitrangig sein
    2. (education) höher
    \secondary education höhere Schulbildung; see also secondary school, secondary modern school
    3. MED Sekundär-
    \secondary infection Sekundärinfektion f
    4. ECON weiterverarbeitende(r, s)
    5. SCI
    \secondary amine CHEM sekundäres Amin
    \secondary circuit ELEC Sekundärkreis m
    \secondary quantum number PHYS Drehimpulsquantenzahl f
    \secondary reaction CHEM Folgereaktion f
    II. n
    1. MED Metastase f fachspr, Tochtergeschwulst f
    2. (secondary school) höhere [o weiterführende] Schule
    3. no pl (education) ≈ Hauptschule f; (more advanced level) ≈ Realschule f, ≈ Oberstufenrealgymnasium nt ÖSTERR, ≈ Sekundar-/Mittelschule f SCHWEIZ
    * * *
    ['sekəndərI]
    1. adj
    1) sekundär; industry verarbeitend; reason weniger bedeutend

    that was only secondary to our need to save moneydas kam erst an zweiter Stelle nach der Notwendigkeit, Geld zu sparen

    secondary character (Film, Theat)Nebenfigur f

    2) (= higher) education höher

    secondary modern ( school) ( dated Brit ) — ≈ Realschule f

    secondary teacherLehrer( in) m(f) an einer höheren Schule

    2. n
    (inf: school) höhere Schule
    * * *
    secondary [ˈsekəndərı; US -ˌderiː]
    A adj (adv academic.ru/65268/secondarily">secondarily)
    1. nächstfolgend: industry 1
    2. zweitrangig, -klassig, nebensächlich, untergeordnet:
    be of secondary importance zweitrangig oder nebensächlich sein
    3. besonders PHYS sekundär, Sekundär…
    4. Neben…:
    secondary axis (circle, effect, etc)
    5. CHEM sekundär, Sekundär…:
    6. ELEK sekundär, induziert, Sekundär…:
    secondary circuit B 3 a;
    7. GEOL
    a) sekundär
    8. LING
    a) sekundär, (aus einer abgeleiteten Form) abgeleitet
    b) Neben…:
    secondary accent ( oder stress) Nebenakzent m;
    secondary tense Nebentempus n
    9. Hilfs…, Neben…:
    secondary line BAHN Nebenlinie f
    10. SCHULE Oberschul…
    a) (nach)folgend auf (akk),
    b) bedingt durch
    B s
    1. (etwas) Untergeordnetes
    2. a) Untergeordnete(r) m/f(m)
    b) Stellvertreter(in)
    3. ELEK
    a) Sekundär(strom)kreis m
    b) Sekundärwicklung f
    4. ASTRON Satellit m
    5. ORN Nebenfeder f
    6. MED Metastase f, Tochtergeschwulst f
    sec. abk
    1. MATH secant
    2. second ( seconds pl) s, Sek.
    * * *
    adjective
    1) (of less importance) zweitrangig; sekundär (geh.); Neben[akzent, -sache]; (derived from something primary) weiterverarbeitend [Industrie]

    secondary literature — Sekundärliteratur, die

    be secondary to somethingeiner Sache (Dat.) untergeordnet sein

    2) (indirectly caused) sekundär (geh., Med., Biol.)
    * * *
    (high) school certificate n.
    Schulabschluss m. adj.
    gsächlich adj.
    sekundär adj.
    untergeordnet adj.
    zweitrangig adj.

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  • 14 Chronology

      15,000-3,000 BCE Paleolithic cultures in western Portugal.
      400-200 BCE Greek and Carthaginian trade settlements on coast.
      202 BCE Roman armies invade ancient Lusitania.
      137 BCE Intensive Romanization of Lusitania begins.
      410 CE Germanic tribes — Suevi and Visigoths—begin conquest of Roman Lusitania and Galicia.
      714—16 Muslims begin conquest of Visigothic Lusitania.
      1034 Christian Reconquest frontier reaches Mondego River.
      1064 Christians conquer Coimbra.
      1139 Burgundian Count Afonso Henriques proclaims himself king of Portugal; birth of Portugal. Battle of Ourique: Afonso Henriques defeats Muslims.
      1147 With English Crusaders' help, Portuguese seize Lisbon from Muslims.
      1179 Papacy formally recognizes Portugal's independence (Pope Alexander III).
      1226 Campaign to reclaim Alentejo from Muslims begins.
      1249 Last Muslim city (Silves) falls to Portuguese Army.
      1381 Beginning of third war between Castile and Portugal.
      1383 Master of Aviz, João, proclaimed regent by Lisbon populace.
      1385 April: Master of Aviz, João I, proclaimed king of Portugal by Cortes of Coimbra. 14 August: Battle of Aljubarrota, Castilians defeated by royal forces, with assistance of English army.
      1394 Birth of "Prince Henry the Navigator," son of King João I.
      1415 Beginning of overseas expansion as Portugal captures Moroccan city of Ceuta.
      1419 Discovery of Madeira Islands.
      1425-28 Prince D. Pedro, older brother of Prince Henry, travels in Europe.
      1427 Discovery (or rediscovery?) of Azores Islands.
      1434 Prince Henry the Navigator's ships pass beyond Cape Bojador, West Africa.
      1437 Disaster at Tangier, Morocco, as Portuguese fail to capture city.
      1441 First African slaves from western Africa reach Portugal.
      1460 Death of Prince Henry. Portuguese reach what is now Senegal, West Africa.
      1470s Portuguese explore West African coast and reach what is now Ghana and Nigeria and begin colonizing islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.
      1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas between kings of Portugal and Spain.
      1482 Portuguese establish post at São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (now Ghana).
      1482-83 Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reaches mouth of Congo River and Angola.
      1488 Navigator Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and finds route to Indian Ocean.
      1492-93 Columbus's first voyage to West Indies.
      1493 Columbus visits Azores and Portugal on return from first voyage; tells of discovery of New World. Treaty of Tordesillas signed between kings of Portugal and Spain: delimits spheres of conquest with line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde Islands (claimed by Portugal); Portugal's sphere to east of line includes, in effect, Brazil.
       King Manuel I and Royal Council decide to continue seeking all-water route around Africa to Asia.
       King Manuel I expels unconverted Jews from Portugal.
      1497-99 Epic voyage of Vasco da Gama from Portugal around Africa to west India, successful completion of sea route to Asia project; da Gama returns to Portugal with samples of Asian spices.
      1500 Bound for India, Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral "discovers" coast of Brazil and claims it for Portugal.
      1506 Anti-Jewish riots in Lisbon.
       Battle of Diu, India; Portugal's command of Indian Ocean assured for some time with Francisco de Almeida's naval victory over Egyptian and Gujerati fleets.
       Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Goa, India; beginning of Portuguese hegemony in south Asia.
       Portuguese conquest of Malacca; commerce in Spice Islands.
      1519 Magellan begins circumnavigation voyage.
      1536 Inquisition begins in Portugal.
      1543 Portuguese merchants reach Japan.
      1557 Portuguese merchants granted Chinese territory of Macau for trading factory.
      1572 Luís de Camões publishes epic poem, Os Lusíadas.
      1578 Battle of Alcácer-Quivir; Moroccan forces defeat army of King Sebastião of Portugal; King Sebastião dies in battle. Portuguese succession crisis.
      1580 King Phillip II of Spain claims and conquers Portugal; Spanish rule of Portugal, 1580-1640.
      1607-24 Dutch conquer sections of Asia and Brazil formerly held by Portugal.
      1640 1 December: Portuguese revolution in Lisbon overthrows Spanish rule, restores independence. Beginning of Portugal's Braganza royal dynasty.
      1654 Following Dutch invasions and conquest of parts of Brazil and Angola, Dutch expelled by force.
      1661 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance treaty signed: England pledges to defend Portugal "as if it were England itself." Queen Catherine of Bra-ganza marries England's Charles II.
      1668 February: In Portuguese-Spanish peace treaty, Spain recognizes independence of Portugal, thus ending 28-year War of Restoration.
      1703 Methuen Treaties signed, key commercial trade agreement and defense treaty between England and Portugal.
      1750 Pombal becomes chief minister of King José I.
      1755 1 November: Massive Lisbon earthquake, tidal wave, and fire.
      1759 Expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal and colonies.
      1761 Slavery abolished in continental Portugal.
      1769 Abandonment of Mazagão, Morocco, last Portuguese outpost.
      1777 Pombal dismissed as chief minister by Queen Maria I, after death of José I.
      1791 Portugal and United States establish full diplomatic relations.
      1807 November: First Napoleonic invasion; French forces under Junot conquer Portugal. Royal family flees to colony of Brazil and remains there until 1821.
      1809 Second French invasion of Portugal under General Soult.
      1811 Third French invasion of Portugal under General Masséna.
      1813 Following British general Wellington's military victories, French forces evacuate Portugal.
      1817 Liberal, constitutional movements against absolutist monarchist rule break out in Brazil (Pernambuco) and Portugal (Lisbon, under General Gomes Freire); crushed by government. British marshal of Portugal's army, Beresford, rules Portugal.
       Liberal insurrection in army officer corps breaks out in Cadiz, Spain, and influences similar movement in Portugal's armed forces first in Oporto.
       King João VI returns from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and early draft of constitution; era of constitutional monarchy begins.
      1822 7 September: João VI's son Pedro proclaims independence of
       Brazil from Portugal and is named emperor. 23 September: Constitution of 1822 ratified.
       Portugal recognizes sovereign independence of Brazil.
       King João VI dies; power struggle for throne ensues between his sons, brothers Pedro and Miguel; Pedro, emperor of Brazil, abdicates Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II, too young to assume crown. By agreement, Miguel, uncle of D. Maria, is to accept constitution and rule in her stead.
      1828 Miguel takes throne and abolishes constitution. Sections of Portugal rebel against Miguelite rule.
      1831 Emperor Pedro abdicates throne of Brazil and returns to Portugal to expel King Miguel from Portuguese throne.
      1832-34 Civil war between absolutist King Miguel and constitutionalist Pedro, who abandons throne of Brazil to restore his young daughter Maria to throne of Portugal; Miguel's armed forces defeated by those of Pedro. Miguel leaves for exile and constitution (1826 Charter) is restored.
      1834-53 Constitutional monarchy consolidated under rule of Queen Maria II, who dies in 1853.
      1851-71 Regeneration period of economic development and political stability; public works projects sponsored by Minister Fontes Pereira de Melo.
      1871-90 Rotativism period of alternating party governments; achieves political stability and less military intervention in politics and government. Expansion of colonial territory in tropical Africa.
       January: Following territorial dispute in central Africa, Britain delivers "Ultimatum" to Portugal demanding withdrawal of Portugal's forces from what is now Malawi and Zimbabwe. Portugal's government, humiliated in accepting demand under threat of a diplomatic break, falls. Beginning of governmental and political instability; monarchist decline and republicanism's rise.
       Anglo-Portuguese treaties signed relating to delimitation of frontiers in colonial Africa.
      1899 Treaty of Windsor; renewal of Anglo-Portuguese defense and friendship alliance.
      1903 Triumphal visit of King Edward VII to Portugal.
      1906 Politician João Franco supported by King Carlos I in dictatorship to restore order and reform.
      1908 1 February: Murder in Lisbon of King Carlos I and his heir apparent, Prince Dom Luís, by Portuguese anarchists. Eighteen-year-old King Manuel II assumes throne.
      1910 3-5 October: Following republican-led military insurrection in armed forces, monarchy falls and first Portuguese republic is proclaimed. Beginning of unstable, economically troubled, parliamentary republic form of government.
       May: Violent insurrection in Lisbon overturns government of General Pimenta de Castro; nearly a thousand casualties from several days of armed combat in capital.
       March: Following Portugal's honoring ally Britain's request to confiscate German shipping in Portuguese harbors, Germany declares war on Portugal; Portugal enters World War I on Allied side.
       Portugal organizes and dispatches Portuguese Expeditionary Corps to fight on the Western Front. 9 April: Portuguese forces mauled by German offensive in Battle of Lys. Food rationing and riots in Lisbon. Portuguese military operations in Mozambique against German expedition's invasion from German East Africa. 5 December: Authoritarian, presidentialist government under Major Sidónio Pais takes power in Lisbon, following a successful military coup.
      1918 11 November: Armistice brings cessation of hostilities on Western Front in World War I. Portuguese expeditionary forces stationed in Angola, Mozambique, and Flanders begin return trip to Portugal. 14 December: President Sidónio Pais assassinated. Chaotic period of ephemeral civil war ensues.
      1919-21 Excessively unstable political period, including January
      1919 abortive effort of Portuguese monarchists to restore Braganza dynasty to power. Republican forces prevail, but level of public violence, economic distress, and deprivation remains high.
      1921 October: Political violence attains peak with murder of former prime minister and other prominent political figures in Lisbon. Sectors of armed forces and Guarda Nacional Republicana are mutinous. Year of financial and corruption scandals, including Portuguese bank note (fraud) case; military court acquits guilty military insurrectionists, and one military judge declares "the country is sick."
       28 May: Republic overthrown by military coup or pronunciamento and conspiracy among officer corps. Parliament's doors locked and parliament closed for nearly nine years to January 1935. End of parliamentary republic, Western Europe's most unstable political system in this century, beginning of the Portuguese dictatorship, after 1930 known as the Estado Novo. Officer corps assumes reins of government, initiates military censorship of the press, and suppresses opposition.
       February: Military dictatorship under General Óscar Carmona crushes failed republican armed insurrection in Oporto and Lisbon.
       April: Military dictatorship names Professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar minister of finance, with dictatorial powers over budget, to stabilize finances and rebuild economy. Insurrectionism among military elements continues into 1931.
      1930 Dr. Salazar named minister for colonies and announces balanced budgets. Salazar consolidates support by various means, including creation of official regime "movement," the National Union. Salazar engineers Colonial Act to ensure Lisbon's control of bankrupt African colonies by means of new fiscal controls and centralization of authority. July: Military dictatorship names Salazar prime minister for first time, and cabinet composition undergoes civilianization; academic colleagues and protégés plan conservative reform and rejuvenation of society, polity, and economy. Regime comes to be called the Estado Novo (New State). New State's constitution ratified by new parliament, the National Assembly; Portugal described in document as "unitary, corporative Republic" and governance influenced by Salazar's stern personality and doctrines such as integralism, Catholicism, and fiscal conservatism.
      1936 Violent instability and ensuing civil war in neighboring Spain, soon internationalized by fascist and communist intervention, shake Estado Novo regime. Pseudofascist period of regime features creation of imitation Fascist institutions to defend regime from leftist threats; Portugal institutes "Portuguese Youth" and "Portuguese Legion."
      1939 3 September: Prime Minister Salazar declares Portugal's neutrality in World War II. October: Anglo-Portuguese agreement grants naval and air base facilities to Britain and later to United States for Battle of the Atlantic and Normandy invasion support. Third Reich protests breach of Portugal's neutrality.
       6 June: On day of Allies' Normandy invasion, Portugal suspends mining and export of wolfram ore to both sides in war.
       8 May: Popular celebrations of Allied victory and Fascist defeat in Lisbon and Oporto coincide with Victory in Europe Day. Following managed elections for Estado Novo's National Assembly in November, regime police, renamed PIDE, with increased powers, represses opposition.
      1947 Abortive military coup in central Portugal easily crushed by regime. Independence of India and initiation of Indian protests against Portuguese colonial rule in Goa and other enclaves.
      1949 Portugal becomes founding member of NATO.
      1951 Portugal alters constitution and renames overseas colonies "Overseas Provinces." Portugal and United States sign military base agreements for use of air and naval facilities in Azores Islands and military aid to Lisbon. President Carmona dies in office, succeeded by General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58). July: Indians occupy enclave of Portuguese India (dependency of Damão) by means of passive resistance movement. August: Indian passive resistance movement in Portuguese India repelled by Portuguese forces with loss of life. December: With U.S. backing, Portugal admitted as member of United Nations (along with Spain). Air force general Humberto Delgado, in opposition, challenges Estado Novo's hand-picked successor to Craveiro Lopes, Admiral Américo Tomás. Delgado rallies coalition of democratic, liberal, and communist opposition but loses rigged election and later flees to exile in Brazil. Portugal joins European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
       January and February: Estado Novo rocked by armed African insurrection in northern Angola, crushed by armed forces. Hijacking of Portuguese ocean liner by ally of Delgado, Captain Henrique Galvão. April: Salazar defeats attempted military coup and reshuffles cabinet with group of younger figures who seek to reform colonial rule and strengthen the regime's image abroad. 18 December: Indian army rapidly defeats Portugal's defense force in Goa, Damão, and Diu and incorporates Portugal's Indian possessions into Indian Union. January: Abortive military coup in Beja, Portugal.
      1965 February: General Delgado and his Brazilian secretary murdered and secretly buried near Spanish frontier by political police, PIDE.
      1968 August and September: Prime Minister Salazar, aged 79, suffers crippling stoke. President Tomás names former cabinet officer Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor. Caetano institutes modest reforms in Portugal and overseas.
      1971 Caetano government ratifies amended constitution that allows slight devolution and autonomy to overseas provinces in Africa and Asia. Right-wing loyalists oppose reforms in Portugal. 25 April: Military coup engineered by Armed Forces Movement overthrows Estado Novo and establishes provisional government emphasizing democratization, development, and decolonization. Limited resistance by loyalists. President Tomás and Premier Caetano flown to exile first in Madeira and then in Brazil. General Spínola appointed president. September: Revolution moves to left, as President Spínola, thwarted in his program, resigns.
       March: Military coup by conservative forces fails, and leftist response includes nationalization of major portion of economy. Polarization between forces and parties of left and right. 25 November: Military coup by moderate military elements thwarts leftist forces. Constituent Assembly prepares constitution. Revolution moves from left to center and then right.
       March: Constitution ratified by Assembly of the Republic. 25 April: Second general legislative election gives largest share of seats to Socialist Party (PS). Former oppositionist lawyer, Mário Soares, elected deputy and named prime minister.
      1977-85 Political pendulum of democratic Portugal moves from center-left to center-right, as Social Democratic Party (PSD) increases hold on assembly and take office under Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. July
      1985 elections give edge to PSD who advocate strong free-enterprise measures and revision of leftist-generated 1976 Constitution, amended modestly in 1982.
      1986 January: Portugal joins European Economic Community (EEC).
      1987 July: General, legislative elections for assembly give more than 50 percent to PSD led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. For first time, since 1974, Portugal has a working majority government.
      1989 June: Following revisions of 1976 Constitution, reprivatization of economy begins, under PS government.
       January: Presidential elections, Mário Soares reelected for second term. July: General, legislative elections for assembly result in new PSD victory and majority government.
       January-July: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Economic Community (EEC). December: Tariff barriers fall as fully integrated Common Market established in the EEC.
       November: Treaty of Maastricht comes into force. The EEC officially becomes the European Union (EU). Portugal is signatory with 11 other member-nations.
       October: General, legislative elections for assembly result in PS victory and naming of Prime Minister Guterres. PS replace PSD as leading political party. November: Excavations for Lisbon bank uncover ancient Phoenician, Roman, and Christian ruins.
       January: General, presidential elections; socialist Jorge Sampaio defeats PSD's Cavaco Silva and assumes presidency from Dr. Mário Soares. July: Community of Portuguese Languages Countries (CPLP) cofounded by Portugal and Brazil.
       May-September: Expo '98 held in Lisbon. Opening of Vasco da Gama Bridge across Tagus River, Europe's longest (17 kilometers/ 11 miles). June: National referendum on abortion law change defeated after low voter turnout. November: National referendum on regionaliza-tion and devolution of power defeated after another low voter turnout.
       October: General, legislative elections: PS victory over PSD lacks clear majority in parliament. Following East Timor referendum, which votes for independence and withdrawal of Indonesia, outburst of popular outrage in streets, media, and communications of Portugal approves armed intervention and administration of United Nations (and withdrawal of Indonesia) in East Timor. Portugal and Indonesia restore diplomatic relations. December: A Special Territory since 1975, Colony of Macau transferred to sovereignty of People's Republic of China.
       January-June: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the EU; end of Discoveries Historical Commemoration Cycle (1988-2000).
       United Nations forces continue to occupy and administer former colony of East Timor, with Portugal's approval.
       January: General, presidential elections; PS president Sampaio reelected for second term. City of Oporto, "European City of Culture" for the year, hosts arts festival. December: Municipal elections: PSD defeats PS; socialist prime minister Guterres resigns; President Sampaio calls March parliamentary elections.
       1 January: Portugal enters single European Currency system. Euro currency adopted and ceases use of former national currency, the escudo. March: Parliamentary elections; PSD defeats PS and José Durão Barroso becomes prime minister. Military modernization law passed. Portugal holds chairmanship of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
       May: Municipal law passed permitting municipalities to reorganize in new ways.
       June: Prime Minister Durão Barroso, invited to succeed Romano Prodi as president of EU Commission, resigns. Pedro Santana Lopes becomes prime minister. European Parliament elections held. Conscription for national service in army and navy ended. Mass grave uncovered at Academy of Sciences Museum, Lisbon, revealing remains of several thousand victims of Lisbon earthquake, 1755.
       February: Parliamentary elections; PS defeats PSD, socialists win first absolute majority in parliament since 1975. José Sócrates becomes prime minister.
       January: Presidential elections; PSD candidate Aníbal Cavaco Silva elected and assumes presidency from Jorge Sampaio. Portugal's national soccer team ranked 7th out of 205 countries by international soccer association. European Union's Bologna Process in educational reform initiated in Portugal.
       July-December: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Union. For reasons of economy, Portugal announces closure of many consulates, especially in France and the eastern US. Government begins official inspections of private institutions of higher education, following scandals.
      2008 January: Prime Minister Sócrates announces location of new Lisbon area airport as Alcochete, on south bank of Tagus River, site of air force shooting range. February: Portuguese Army begins to receive new modern battle tanks (Leopard 2 A6). March: Mass protest of 85,000 public school (primary and secondary levels) teachers in Lisbon schools dispute recent educational policies of minister of education and prime minister.

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  • 15 high

    1. adjective
    1) (at, from, or reaching up to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: a high mountain; a high dive; a dive from the high diving-board.) visok
    2) (having a particular height: This building is about 20 metres high; My horse is fifteen hands high.) visok
    3) (great; large; considerable: The car was travelling at high speed; He has a high opinion of her work; They charge high prices; high hopes; The child has a high fever/temperature.) visok
    4) (most important; very important: the high altar in a church; Important criminal trials are held at the High Court; a high official.) visok
    5) (noble; good: high ideals.) visok
    6) ((of a wind) strong: The wind is high tonight.) močan
    7) ((of sounds) at or towards the top of a (musical) range: a high note.) visok
    8) ((of voices) like a child's voice (rather than like a man's): He still speaks in a high voice.) visok
    9) ((of food, especially meat) beginning to go bad.) pokvarjen
    10) (having great value: Aces and kings are high cards.) visok
    2. adverb
    (at, or to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: The plane was flying high in the sky; He'll rise high in his profession.) visoko
    - highness
    - high-chair
    - high-class
    - higher education
    - high fidelity
    - high-handed
    - high-handedly
    - high-handedness
    - high jump
    - highlands
    - high-level
    - highlight
    3. verb
    (to draw particular attention to (a person, thing etc).) izpostaviti
    - high-minded
    - high-mindedness
    - high-pitched
    - high-powered
    - high-rise
    - highroad
    - high school
    - high-spirited
    - high spirits
    - high street
    - high-tech
    4. adjective
    ((also hi-tech): high-tech industries.) visokotehnološki
    - high treason
    - high water
    - highway
    - Highway Code
    - highwayman
    - high wire
    - high and dry
    - high and low
    - high and mighty
    - the high seas
    - it is high time
    * * *
    I [hái]
    adjective
    visok, dvignjen; velik, važen; močan, silen; plemenit, odličen, imeniten; obilen (hrana); začinjen, pikanten (meso, divjačina); daljen, star (čas); visok, prediren, rezek (glas); velike vrednosti, visoke cene, drag; skrajen, goreč, vnet ( a high Tory); napet, razburljiv (doživljaj); veder, jasen, vesel (razpoloženje)
    colloquially natrkan; slang omamljen (od mamila); American slang high onnor na kaj
    of high birth — plemenitega rodu, visokega rodu
    high day — beli dan, prazničen dan
    high and dry figuratively osamljen, zapuščen; nautical nasedel, na suhem
    to leave s.o. high and drypustiti koga na cedilu
    in high feather — dobre volje, opit
    with a high hand — samovoljno, ošabno
    to carry things off with a high hand — samovoljno, predrzno ravnati
    colloquially to mount ( —ali ride) the high horse — biti ponosen, biti domišljav
    high and mighty — nadut, ošaben
    high period — obdobje največje slave (umetnika itd.)
    on the high ropes — ohol, poln prezira; besen
    of high standing — visokega stanu, ugleden
    high spirit — razigranost, vedrost
    in high spirits — razigran, colloquially natrkan, "v rožicah"
    high words — ostre besede, prepir
    slang how is that for high?to je pa že malo preveč
    II [hái]
    adverb
    visoko; močno, zelo
    to run high — biti razburkan (morje); figuratively biti razburjen, razburiti se
    III [hái]
    noun
    višina; anticiklonsko področje; najvišja karta; technical najvišja prestava (v vozilu); American colloquially gimnazija; American slang omama (od mamila)
    on high — zgoraj, visoko gor; v nebesih, v nebesa
    from on high — od zgoraj, z nebes

    English-Slovenian dictionary > high

  • 16 France

       The continental European country with which Portugal has had the closest and most friendly relations since the Middle Ages and whose culture since early modern times has been the most important model for Portugal's culture. Beginning in the Reconquest, French groups assisted the Portuguese in fighting the Muslims, and Portugal's first royal dynasty was Burgundian. Various French religious orders settled in Portugal and brought new skills and ideas. Franco-Portuguese relations in diplomacy went through various phases after a virtual break between the two monarchies during the Hundred Years' War and Castile's campaigns to conquer Portugal up to the battle of Aljubarrota (1385), when France was the main ally of Castile. France gave Portugal vital assistance in the 16th and 17th centuries against Spanish aggression. French aid was given to Dom Antônio, Prior of Crato, who opposed Filipe's domination of Portugal, and to restoration Portugal during the War of Restoration (1640-68). With the important exception of the disastrous Napoleonic invasions and war (1807-11), Franco-Portuguese relations in diplomacy, trade, and culture were exceptionally good from the first quarter of the 19th century.
       In part as a response to unpopular Castilianization during Spain's domination, the Portuguese found French culture a comforting, novel foil and prestigious alternative. Despite Great Britain's dominance in matters commercial, diplomatic, and political under the Anglo- Portuguese Alliance, French culture and politics came to enjoy primary importance in Portugal. Even in commerce, France was Portugal's third or fourth best customer during the 19th century. Especially between 1820 and 1960, French influence provided a major model for the well-educated.
       A brief list of some key political, literary, philosophical, and artistic ideas Portugal eagerly embraced is suggestive. King Pedro IV's 1826 Charter ( A Carta) was directly modeled on an early French constitution. French models of liberalism and socialism prevailed in politics; impressionism in art; romanticism and realism, Parnassian-ism, and symbolism in literature; positivism and Bergsonianism in philosophy, etc. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Portuguese language, including vocabulary and orthography (spelling), experienced extensive Frenchification. French became the second language of Portugal's elite, providing access to knowledge and information vital for the education and development of isolated Portugal.
       French cultural influences became pervasive and entered the country by various means: through the French invasions before 1811, trade and commerce, improved international communication and transportation, Portuguese emigration to France (which became a mass movement after 1950), and close diplomatic and intellectual relations. An example of the importance of French culture until recently, when British and American cultural influences have become more significant, was that works in French dominated foreign book sections in Portuguese bookstores. If Portugal retained the oldest diplomatic link in world history with Britain, its chief cultural model until recently was France. Until after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, the largest portion of Portugal's educated elite studying abroad resided in France and took French higher degrees. The pattern of Portuguese students in higher education abroad has diversified in the years since, and now a significant portion are studying in other European continental states as well as in Britain and the United States. Diplomatic posts in France rank high in the pecking order of Portugal's small foreign service.

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  • 18 high

    1. adjective
    1) (at, from, or reaching up to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: a high mountain; a high dive; a dive from the high diving-board.) høy
    2) (having a particular height: This building is about 20 metres high; My horse is fifteen hands high.) høy
    3) (great; large; considerable: The car was travelling at high speed; He has a high opinion of her work; They charge high prices; high hopes; The child has a high fever/temperature.) stor, voldsom, kraftig, sterk
    4) (most important; very important: the high altar in a church; Important criminal trials are held at the High Court; a high official.) høy(-), høytstående
    5) (noble; good: high ideals.) høy, fornem
    6) ((of a wind) strong: The wind is high tonight.) sterk
    7) ((of sounds) at or towards the top of a (musical) range: a high note.) høy, lys
    8) ((of voices) like a child's voice (rather than like a man's): He still speaks in a high voice.) lys
    9) ((of food, especially meat) beginning to go bad.) vilt som har hengt lenge nok
    10) (having great value: Aces and kings are high cards.) av høy verdi
    2. adverb
    (at, or to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: The plane was flying high in the sky; He'll rise high in his profession.) høyt
    - highness
    - high-chair
    - high-class
    - higher education
    - high fidelity
    - high-handed
    - high-handedly
    - high-handedness
    - high jump
    - highlands
    - high-level
    - highlight
    3. verb
    (to draw particular attention to (a person, thing etc).) framheve, rette søkelyset mot
    - high-minded
    - high-mindedness
    - high-pitched
    - high-powered
    - high-rise
    - highroad
    - high school
    - high-spirited
    - high spirits
    - high street
    - high-tech
    4. adjective
    ((also hi-tech): high-tech industries.) høyteknologisk
    - high treason
    - high water
    - highway
    - Highway Code
    - highwayman
    - high wire
    - high and dry
    - high and low
    - high and mighty
    - the high seas
    - it is high time
    høy
    I
    subst. \/haɪ\/
    1) ( hverdagslig) topp, maksimum, rekord, høyde, høydepunkt, rekordtall
    2) ( meteorologi) høytrykk, høytrykksområde
    3) ( kortspill) høyeste kort, høyeste trumf
    4) ( hverdagslig) kick, rus, narkotikapåvirket tilstand
    5) (spesielt amer., hverdagslig, forkortelse for high school) videregående skole
    6) høygir, høyeste gir
    from on high fra oven, fra himmelen, fra det høye
    the High ( hverdagslig) storgaten (spesielt i Oxford)
    hit\/reach a new high sette en ny rekord, nå nye høyder
    on high i høyden, over i himmelen
    II
    adj.
    1) høy
    2) høyt beliggende, øvre, høy-
    3) innlands-, høylands-
    4) høy, høytstående, av høy rang, fornem, høyere
    5) høy, opphøyd
    6) fordelaktig, god
    7) alvorlig, graverende
    8) høy-, hoved-, over-
    9) høy, edel, nobel, fin, opphøyd
    10) høy, stor, sterk, kraftig, intens
    11) ( om pris eller sum) høy, dyr, kostbar
    12) ( om tid) høy, midt, middags-
    13) ( musikk) høy, lys, som ligger høyt på skalaen
    14) ( om lyd) skarp, skingrende
    15) hovmodig, arrogant, overlegen
    16) ekstrem, ytterliggående, ultra-
    17) ( kirkelig) ortodoks, høykirkelig
    18) ( hverdagslig) oppspilt, glad, oppløftet
    19) (hverdagslig, om alkoholrus) animert, brisen
    20) (hverdagslig, om narkotikarus) høy, påvirket, ruset
    21) luksuriøs, flott, ekstravagant
    22) ( om kjøtt) bedervet, harsk
    23) ( om vilt) godt hengt, vellagret, med sterk viltsmak
    24) (sjøfart, om vind) forklaring: som har styrke 10 på Beaufortskalaen, full storm
    25) (kortspill, om kort) forklaring: av høyere verdi enn andre kort eller farger
    26) (kortspill, om kort) i stand til å ta et stikk
    27) ( fonetikk) høy
    at high noon ( også overført) kl. 12 på dagen, når solen står høyest, middagstid
    at high tide ved høyvann
    have a high time ( hverdagslig) ha det kjempegøy
    high and dry ( sjøfart) på tørt land strandet ( overført) på bar bakke, isolert, stilt utenfor, forlatt
    high and low høyt og lavt
    high and mighty ( hverdagslig) arrogant, storaktig, stor på det, høy i hatten, storsnutet som tilhører det øvre sosiale sjikt
    high day midt på lyse dagen
    high definition (TV) med høy oppløsning
    high on something påvirket av noe
    high sign sesign, 1
    high Tory ultrakonservativ, erkekonservativ
    high, wide and handsome ( hverdagslig) glad, sorgløs, ubekymret
    after months of worrying, he looked positively high, wide and handsome
    etter måneder med bekymring, så han faktisk sorgløs ut
    in high places\/quarters på høyere hold
    leave someone high and dry la noen i stikken
    the Most High den høyeste
    of high antiquity svært gammel, av høy alder
    run high ( om elv) holde på å svømme over ( om bølger) gå høyt ( om følelser) gå høyt, være intense
    with a high hand egenmektig, selvrådig og vilkårlig
    III
    adv. \/haɪ\/
    1) høyt
    2) høyt, i høyt toneleie
    3) sterkt, kraftig, voldsomt
    4) (sjøfart, om seiling) høyt, skarpt, opp mot vinden
    as high as så høyt som, så mye som
    feelings ran high stemningen var opphisset, bølgene gikk høyt

    English-Norwegian dictionary > high

  • 19 high

    1. adjective
    1) (at, from, or reaching up to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: a high mountain; a high dive; a dive from the high diving-board.) alto
    2) (having a particular height: This building is about 20 metres high; My horse is fifteen hands high.) de altura
    3) (great; large; considerable: The car was travelling at high speed; He has a high opinion of her work; They charge high prices; high hopes; The child has a high fever/temperature.) elevado
    4) (most important; very important: the high altar in a church; Important criminal trials are held at the High Court; a high official.) principal
    5) (noble; good: high ideals.) nobre
    6) ((of a wind) strong: The wind is high tonight.) forte
    7) ((of sounds) at or towards the top of a (musical) range: a high note.) alto
    8) ((of voices) like a child's voice (rather than like a man's): He still speaks in a high voice.) alto
    9) ((of food, especially meat) beginning to go bad.) estragado
    10) (having great value: Aces and kings are high cards.) de valor
    2. adverb
    (at, or to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: The plane was flying high in the sky; He'll rise high in his profession.) alto
    - highness
    - high-chair
    - high-class
    - higher education
    - high fidelity
    - high-handed
    - high-handedly
    - high-handedness
    - high jump
    - highlands
    - high-level
    - highlight
    3. verb
    (to draw particular attention to (a person, thing etc).) realçar
    - high-minded
    - high-mindedness
    - high-pitched
    - high-powered
    - high-rise
    - highroad
    - high school
    - high-spirited
    - high spirits
    - high street
    - high-tech
    4. adjective
    ((also hi-tech): high-tech industries.)
    - high treason
    - high water
    - highway
    - Highway Code
    - highwayman
    - high wire
    - high and dry
    - high and low
    - high and mighty
    - the high seas
    - it is high time
    * * *
    [hai] n 1 lugar elevado, algo que é alto. 2 Meteor lugar de alta pressão atmosférica. 3 trunfo mais alto (jogo de cartas). • adj 1 elevado, grande, alto. 2 superior, interior. 3 principal, importante. 4 nobre, ilustre, sublime, distinto, respeitado. 5 excelente, eminente. 6 soberbo, arrogante, orgulhoso. 7 caro, dispendioso. 8 custoso, difícil. 9 Pol extremo, intenso. 10 Mus agudo. 11 de cheiro forte, estragado (carne). 12 veemente, irritado. 13 agitado (mar), turbulento, violento. 14 vivo, animado, embriagado. • adv 1 altamente, sumamente, grandemente, fortemente. 2 ao alto, em alto grau ou quantidade. as high as até a altura de. from on high de cima, do céu. high and low em todos os cantos. it is high time está mais do que na hora. on high no alto, no céu. on the high seas em alto-mar. the Most High o Supremo, Deus. to be high a) ter preço alto, ter cotação alta. b) estar alto (embriagado). to have high words dizer injúrias. to live high levar uma vida cara. to mount the high horse bancar o importante. to pay high pagar caro. to play high fazer um jogo caro, apostar muito. to run high a) fazer mar grosso (agitado, tempestuoso). b) exaltar-se. with a high hand com pulso forte.

    English-Portuguese dictionary > high

  • 20 получать

    несовер. - получать;
    совер. - получить( кого-л./что-л.) receive, get;
    obtain (доставать) ;
    catch, get, contract (болезнь) получать пальму первенства ≈ to bear the palm получать широкое применение ≈ to be widely adopted получать/сдавать зачет( по чему-л.) ≈ to pass a test (in) получить всеобщее признание ≈ to be generally recognized получать признание ≈ to be accorded recognition, to obtain recognition получать огласку ≈ to become known;
    to receive publicity;
    to be made known;
    to take air получать одобрение ≈ to meet with approval получать преимущество ≈ to get the better (of) ;
    to get the start (of) ;
    to come( over) получать повышение ≈ (по службе) to better oneself получать по заслугам ≈ to meet one's deserts, to meet with one's deserts, to get one's fairing, to get one's bitters амер. получать наследство ≈ to come into a fortune получать взбучку ≈ to have one's gruel;
    to get it on the nose получать расчет ≈ to get lay-off pay, to receive lay-off pay получать нагоняй ≈ to get one's pennyworth;
    to catch it, to get it, to get it hot разг. получать в подарок ≈ to receive as a present/gift получать патент ≈ to take out a patent получать поддержку ≈ to get/derive encouragement( from), to receive powerful backing( from) получать прибавку ≈ to get a rise получать прибыль ≈ to get a profit (out of), to receive a profit (from) ;
    to profit (by/from) получать приз ≈ to win a prize получить по шее ≈ to get it in the neck
    получ|ать -, получить (вн.) receive (smth.), get* (smth.) ;
    (добиваться тж.) obtain (smth.) ;
    получить письмо receive а letter;
    ~ газету take* а paper;
    ~ зарплату receive one`s wages;
    ~ доступ к чему-л. get* admission to smth. ;
    получить среднее, высшее образование receive/have* а secondary, higher education;
    получить профессуру be* appointed to а professorship;
    ~ огласку receive publicity;
    ~ повышение get* promotion;
    получить насморк catch*/get* а cold;
    получить выговор be* reprimanded;
    ~ лицензию obtain a license;
    получить чьё-л. согласие obtain/get* smb.`s consent;
    получить признание receive recognition;
    ~аться, получиться come* out;
    что получилось? what was the result of it?, what came of it?;
    результаты получились совершенно неожиданные the results were quite unexpected;
    может быть, из него получится хороший музыкант he may make a fine musician, he may turn out a fine musician;
    ~ение с. receipt;
    для ~ения in order to receive;
    подтвердить ~ение (рд.) acknowlege the receipt (of) ;
    расписка в ~ении receipt;
    по ~ении on receiving.

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > получать

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