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1 educated

educated [ˈedjʊkeɪtɪd]

1. verb

past participle of educate

2. adjective

( = cultured) cultivé ; ( = learned, trained) instruit ; [palate, ear] averti

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['edʒʊkeɪtɪd] 1.
noun

the educated — ( having education) les gens mpl instruits; ( cultivated) les gens mpl cultivés
2.
adjective [person] ( having an education) instruit; ( cultivated) cultivé; [taste] raffiné; [accent] élégant; [classes] instruit

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educated guess — opinion fondée (sur l'expérience)

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2 educated

educated

A n the educated (+ v pl) ( having an education) les gens mpl instruits ; ( cultivated) les gens mpl cultivés.

B adj [person] ( having an education) instruit ; ( cultivated) cultivé ; [mind, palate, taste, judgment] raffiné ; [language, style] dénotant un certain niveau d'instruction ; [accent] élégant ; to be very poorly educated ne pas avoir fait beaucoup d'études.

Idiom

to make an educated guess avancer une hypothèse.

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3 -Discussing university-

Education Discussing university
Have you applied to go to university? Hai fatto domanda per l'università?

My first choice is Manchester to study modern languages. La mia prima scelta è Manchester per studiare lingue moderne.

What did Manchester offer you? Che offerta ti ha fatto l'università di Manchester?

They gave me a conditional offer of two As and a B. L'offerta che mi hanno fatto è condizionata da due A e una B.

What offers have you had? Che offerte hai ricevuto?

I did surprisingly well in my mocks and Leeds gave me an unconditional offer. Sono andato molto meglio del previsto alle simulazioni d'esame e l'università di Leeds mi ha fatto un'offerta senza condizioni.

I'd rather go to Bristol. Preferirei andare a Bristol.

When did you get back from Manchester? Quando sei tornato da Manchester?

I got back yesterday by train. Sono tornato ieri in treno.

I came down from Edinburgh a couple of days ago. Sono tornata da Edimburgo un paio di giorni fa.

So how's life in Manchester treating you? Allora come ti sta andando la vita a Manchester?

I'm having a great time. Mi sto divertendo un mondo.

I've met so many people and I'm really enjoying the course. Ho conosciuto tanta gente e il corso mi sta piacendo molto.

I think I picked the wrong course. Credo di aver scelto il corso sbagliato.

I'm thinking of dropping out. Sto pensando di ritirarmi.

I wasn't too happy the first few weeks of university. Non ero molto contento nelle prime settimane all'università.

I've settled in now and I've got to like it here. Ora mi sono ambientato e questo posto ha cominciato a piacermi.

I'm going to give it a real go this year. Ce la metterò tutta quest'anno.

I spoke to my course tutor about the problem. Ho parlato del problema con il responsabile del mio corso.

She advised me to finish the first year and then think about changing course. Mi ha consigliato di finire il primo anno e poi di pensare se cambiare corso.

Economics is not for me. Economia non fa per me.

I can look into changing course at the end of the year. Posso valutare di cambiare corso alla fine dell'anno.

I'll do my best to pass the end-of-year exams. Farò del mio meglio per passare gli esami di fine anno.

If I fail the exams I might get kicked out of college. Se non passo gli esami potrei essere espulso dall'università.

It doesn't sound like you're too happy. Non mi sembri molto contento.

What was Freshers Week like? Com'è stata la settimana delle matricole?

I had a scream, I went out every night and met loads of people. È stata uno spasso, sono uscito tutte le sere e ho conosciuto un sacco di gente.

I'm not a good mixer. Non lego facilmente con le persone.

I don't find it that easy to make friends quickly. Non è facile per me fare amicizia rapidamente.

I had a great laugh and met tons of people too. Mi sono divertito un mondo e ho anche conosciuto una marea di gente.

I had a really good time. Mi sono divertito davvero tanto.

There were a few good gigs on at the Student Union. Ci sono stati un paio di concerti molto belli al circolo studentesco.

Manchester is good for bands. Manchester è un buon posto per i gruppi musicali.

Where are you from? Di dove sei?

How are you handling the course? Come te la stai cavando con il corso?

I'm handling the course quite well. Con il corso me la sto cavando abbastanza bene.

Make sure you get all your assignments in on time. Fa' in modo di consegnare tutti i lavori in tempo.

I've done presentations for all my tutorials. Ho fatto una presentazione per ogni seminario.

The first presentation was quite nerve-wracking, but it was easier after that. Ero molto tesa per la prima presentazione ma dopo è stato tutto più facile.

I'm not used to speaking in front of lots of people. Non sono abituata a parlare davanti a tanta gente.

How many hours of lectures do you have a week? Quante ore di lezione hai a settimana?

I've got twelve hours of lectures and four tutorials a week. Ho dodici ore di lezione e quattro seminari alla settimana.

I had to ask for an extension for my economics assignment. Ho dovuto chiedere una proroga per il mio compito di economia.

Did they give you an extension? Ti hanno dato una proroga?

My tutor was really understanding. Il mio insegnante è stato molto comprensivo.

I told my tutor I was having problems because I had been ill. Ho detto all'insegnante che avevo problemi perché ero stata malata.

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4 Historical Portugal

   Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.

   A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.

   Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140

   The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."

   In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.

   The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.

   Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385

   Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in

   Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.

   The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.

   Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580

   The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.

   The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.

   What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.

   By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.

   Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.

   The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.

   By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.

   In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.

   Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640

   Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.

   Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.

   On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.

   Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822

   Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.

   Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.

   In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the

   Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.

   Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.

   Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.

   Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910

   During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.

   Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.

   Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.

   Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.

   Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.

   As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.

   First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26

   Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.

   The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.

   Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.

   The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74

   During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."

   Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.

   For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),

   and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.

   The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.

   With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.

   During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.

   The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.

   At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.

   The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.

   Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76

   Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.

   Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.

   In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.

   In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.

   In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.

   The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until

   UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

   After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.

   From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.

   Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.

   Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.

   In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.

   In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.

   Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.

    Contemporary Portugal

   Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.

   The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.

   Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.

   Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).

   All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.

   The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.

   After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.

   Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.

   Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.

   From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.

   Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.

   In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.

   An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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5 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.) 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

- 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).) fremhæve

- 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.) hightech-; højteknologisk

- 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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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

- 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).) fremhæve

- 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.) hightech-; højteknologisk

- 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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6 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

- 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).) destacar, hacer resaltar, poner de relieve

- 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.) de alta tecnología, de tecnología punta

- 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

high adj

1. alto

the highest mountain in the world is Everest la montaña más alta del mundo es el Everest

it is over 29,000 feet high tiene más de 29.000 pies de altura

high temperatures temperaturas altas

2. fuerte

a high wind un viento fuerte

3. agudo

a high voice una voz aguda

high

tr[haɪ]

adjective

1 alto,-a

■ there are many high buildings in New York Nueva York tiene muchos edificios altos

■ how high is that mountain? ¿qué altura tiene aquella montaña?

2 (elevated, intense) alto,-a, elevado,-a

■ he's always had high blood pressure siempre ha tenido la presión sanguínea alta

■ consumer prices are high los precios al consumo son elevados

3 (important) alto,-a, importante; (strong) fuerte

■ she has a high position in life ostenta una posición elevada en la vida

■ high winds swept in from the north soplaron vientos fuertes del norte

■ he has a very high opinion of his wife habla muy bien de su esposa

4 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL alto,-a

5 (very good) bueno,-a,

■ she has a very high standard ella tiene un nivel muy alto

■ to have high principles tener buenos principios

6 (going rotten - food) pasado,-a; (- game) manido,-a

7 (of time) pleno,-a

8 slang (on drugs) flipado,-a, colocado,-a

adverb

1 alto

■ feelings often run high at football games a menudo los ánimos se exaltan en los partidos de fútbol

noun

1 punto máximo, récord nombre masculino

■ the stock market reached an all-time high la Bolsa marcó un récord absoluto

2 SMALLMETEOROLOGY/SMALL zona de alta presión, anticiclón nombre masculino

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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 fidelity alta fidelidad nombre femenino

high jump SMALLSPORT/SMALL salto de altura

high noon mediodía nombre masculino

high priest sumo sacerdote nombre masculino

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

high

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?

the tower is 40 m high — la torre tiene 40 m de alto or de altura

a 12 ft high wall — un muro de 12 pies de alto or de altura

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

at a high altitude — a gran altitud

the river is very high — el río está muy alto or crecido

a high forehead — una frente amplia

high cheekbones — pómulos mpl salientes

c) ( in status) <office/rank/officials> alto

he has friends in high places — tiene amigos muy bien situados

the high life — la gran vida

high society — la alta sociedad

d) (morally, ethically) <ideals/principles/aims> elevado

e) ( in pitch) < voice> agudo; < note> alto

the speech ended on a high note — el discurso terminó con una nota de optimismo

2)

a) (considerable, greater than usual) <temperature/speed/pressure> alto; < wind> fuerte

the temperature was in the high eighties — la temperatura rondaba los noventa grados

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

the death toll could rise as high as 20 — el número de muertos podría elevarse a 20

unemployment is very high — hay mucho desempleo

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

my hopes were high as I set out — tenía grandes esperanzas al partir

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

b) (good, favorable)

he has a high regard for you — tiene muy buen concepto de ti

3)

a) (Lit, Theat)

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

b) ( climactic) culminante

the high point — el punto culminante

4)

a) (happy, excited)

she was in high spirits — estaba muy animada

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)

high noon — mediodía m

in high summer — en pleno verano

high days and holidays — las grandes ocasiones

6) < meat> pasado; < game> que tiene un olor fuerte

II

adverb -er, -est

a) < fly> alto

the mountain towered high above us — la montaña se elevaba dominante sobre nosotros

high in the sky — en lo alto del cielo

high overhead — en las alturas

high up — arriba, en lo alto

it's pretty high (up) on the agenda — es uno de los asuntos más importantes

feelings are running high — los ánimos están exaltados

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

to leave somebody high and dry — dejar a alguien en la estacada, dejar a alguien tirado (fam)

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

noun

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)

I'm on a real high at the moment — las cosas me están yendo de maravilla

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

a building 60 metres high — un edificio de 60 metros de alto or de altura

it's 20 metres high — tiene 20 metros de alto or de altura

• at high altitudes — a grandes altitudes

• the ceilings are very high — los techos son muy altos

• high cheekbones — pómulos mpl salientes

• he has a high forehead — tiene 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

- high and dry

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

they offered me a higher salary — me ofrecieron un sueldo más alto

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

interest rates are high — los intereses están muy altos

we offer education of the highest quality — ofrecemos una educación de la más alta or de la mejor calidad

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

• his team was of the highest calibre — su 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... * —

it's high time you were in bed * — ya deberías estar acostado desde hace un buen rato

it's high time we were on our way * — ya deberíamos haber salido hace rato
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

you needn't act so high and mighty with me — no tienes por qué ponerte tan engreído conmigo

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 official — alto 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 —

to have friends in high places — tener amigos importantes or con influencias

people in high places — gente influyente or importante

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

he played another higher note — tocó otra nota más alta

she can still hit those high notes — todavía llega bien a los agudos

in a high voice — con voz aguda

on a high note —

he ended his career on a high note — terminó su carrera con un gran éxito

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 success — estaba 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

it rose high in the air — se elevó a gran altura

it sailed high over the house — volaba a gran altura por encima de la casa

• 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

high above my head — muy por encima de mi cabeza

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

feelings were running high — los ánimos estaban exaltados

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

we saw three birds circling very high up — vimos tres pájaros circulando en las alturas

she had put it too high up for me to reach — lo había puesto demasiado alto y no llegaba

his cousin is someone high up in the navy — su primo tiene un cargo importante en la marina

- 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)

sales have reached an all-time high — las ventas han alcanzado cifras récord

- 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

to be in high — ir en directa

4.

CPD

high altar N — altar m mayor

high beam N (US) (Aut) —

he had his lights on high beam — llevaba las luces largas or de cruce

high camp N — (Theat) amaneramiento m

high chair N — silla f alta (para niño), trona f (Sp)

High Church N — sector 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

a high court judge — un juez del Tribunal Supremo

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

high diving N — saltos mpl de trampolín de gran altura

high explosive N — explosivo m de gran potencia; high-explosive

high fashion N — alta costura f

high fidelity N — alta fidelidad f; high-fidelity

high finance N — altas finanzas fpl

high five, high-five N — choque 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 German N — alto alemán m

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 N — sombrero m de copa, cilindro * m; high-hat

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

high jinks † * NPL — jolgorio msing, jarana f

there were high jinks last night — hubo jolgorio or jarana anoche

to get up to high jinks — meterse en jarana

high jump N — (Sport) salto m de altura

- he's for the high jump

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 living N — la buena vida

High Mass N — misa 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

high priest N — sumo sacerdote m

high priestess N — suma sacerdotisa f

high relief N — alto relieve 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 NPL — alta mar fsing

on the high seas — en alta mar

high season N — temporada f alta

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

high sign N — seña f (acordada)

to give sb a high sign — hacer la seña a algn

high society N — la alta sociedad

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 N — calle f mayor, calle f principal

high street banks — bancos mpl principales

high street shops — tiendas fpl de la calle principal

high summer N — pleno 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 technology N — alta tecnología f

high tide N — pleamar f, marea f alta

at high tide — en la pleamar, en marea alta

high treason N — alta traición f

high water N — pleamar f, marea f alta
high-water mark
high wire N — cuerda f floja

high wire act N — número 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.
See:

see cultural note PROM,

see cultural note YEARBOOK in yearbook

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I [haɪ]
adjective -er, -est

1)

a) ( tall) <building/wall/mountain> alto

how high is it? — ¿qué altura tiene?

the tower is 40 m high — la torre tiene 40 m de alto or de altura

a 12 ft high wall — un muro de 12 pies de alto or de altura

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

at a high altitude — a gran altitud

the river is very high — el río está muy alto or crecido

a high forehead — una frente amplia

high cheekbones — pómulos mpl salientes

c) ( in status) <office/rank/officials> alto

he has friends in high places — tiene amigos muy bien situados

the high life — la gran vida

high society — la alta sociedad

d) (morally, ethically) <ideals/principles/aims> elevado

e) ( in pitch) < voice> agudo; < note> alto

the speech ended on a high note — el discurso terminó con una nota de optimismo

2)

a) (considerable, greater than usual) <temperature/speed/pressure> alto; < wind> fuerte

the temperature was in the high eighties — la temperatura rondaba los noventa grados

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

the death toll could rise as high as 20 — el número de muertos podría elevarse a 20

unemployment is very high — hay mucho desempleo

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

my hopes were high as I set out — tenía grandes esperanzas al partir

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

b) (good, favorable)

he has a high regard for you — tiene muy buen concepto de ti

3)

a) (Lit, Theat)

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

b) ( climactic) culminante

the high point — el punto culminante

4)

a) (happy, excited)

she was in high spirits — estaba muy animada

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)

high noon — mediodía m

in high summer — en pleno verano

high days and holidays — las grandes ocasiones

6) < meat> pasado; < game> que tiene un olor fuerte

II

adverb -er, -est

a) < fly> alto

the mountain towered high above us — la montaña se elevaba dominante sobre nosotros

high in the sky — en lo alto del cielo

high overhead — en las alturas

high up — arriba, en lo alto

it's pretty high (up) on the agenda — es uno de los asuntos más importantes

feelings are running high — los ánimos están exaltados

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

to leave somebody high and dry — dejar a alguien en la estacada, dejar a alguien tirado (fam)

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

noun

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)

I'm on a real high at the moment — las cosas me están yendo de maravilla

4) u ( top gear) (AmE Auto) (no art) directa f

5) c ( high school) (AmE colloq) cole m (fam) ( secundario)

English-spanish dictionary > high
7 technical

'teknikəl
adjective

1) (having, or relating to, a particular science or skill, especially of a mechanical or industrial kind: a technical college; technical skill; technical drawing.) técnico

2) ((having many terms) relating to a particular art or science: `Myopia' is a technical term for `short-sightedness'.) técnico

3) (according to strict laws or rules: a technical defeat.) técnico

•

- technicality
- technically
- technician

technical adj técnico

technical

tr['teknɪkəl]

adjective

1 técnico,-a

\

SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

technical college centro de formación profesional

technical drawing dibujo técnico

technical hitch fallo técnico, incidente nombre masculino técnico

technical term tecnicismo

technical ['tɛknɪkəl] adj

: técnico

♦ technically [-kli] adv

technical

adj.

• técnico, -a adj.

'teknɪkəl
adjective

1)

a) (of technology, technique) <education/equipment/skill> técnico

b) ( specialized) < languageanslator> técnico; < dictionary> técnico, especializado

technical term — tecnicismo m, término m técnico

2) ( in strict terms)

it was a technical victory — en teoría fue una victoria

['teknɪkǝl]
1.

ADJ técnico

this is getting too technical — esto se está poniendo muy técnico

a technical hitch — un fallo técnico

a technical offence — (Jur) un delito de carácter técnico, un cuasidelito

a technical point — un detalle técnico

for technical reasons — por motivos técnicos

the government has scored a technical victory — teóricamente, el gobierno ha logrado una victoria

2.

CPD

technical college N — (Brit) (Scol) ≈ escuela f politécnica, ≈ instituto m de formación profesional (Sp)

technical drawing N — dibujo m técnico

technical institute N — (US) instituto m tecnológico

technical knockout N — (Boxing) K.O. m técnico

technical support N — (Comput) (servicio m de) asistencia f técnica

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['teknɪkəl]
adjective

1)

a) (of technology, technique) <education/equipment/skill> técnico

b) ( specialized) <language/translator> técnico; < dictionary> técnico, especializado

technical term — tecnicismo m, término m técnico

2) ( in strict terms)

it was a technical victory — en teoría fue una victoria

English-spanish dictionary > technical
8 illiterate

[i'litərət]
adjective

1) (unable to read and write.) analfabet

2) (having little or no education.) analfabet; uuddannet

•

- illiteracy

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[i'litərət]
adjective

1) (unable to read and write.) analfabet

2) (having little or no education.) analfabet; uuddannet

•

- illiteracy

English-Danish dictionary > illiterate
9 well-educated

[ˌwel'edʒʊkeɪtɪd]
aggettivo (having a good education) istruito; (cultured) colto

* * *

adjective (educated to a good standard.) istruito

* * *
[ˌwel'edʒʊkeɪtɪd]
aggettivo (having a good education) istruito; (cultured) colto

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Ⅰ.

go¹ [gəʊ]

noun

(game) jeu m de go

Ⅱ.

go² [gəʊ]

aller ⇒ 1A (a)-(c), 1A (e), 1A (f), 1E (a)-(c), 1G (a), 2 (a) s'en aller ⇒ 1A (d) être ⇒ 1B (a) devenir ⇒ 1B (b) tomber en panne ⇒ 1B (c) s'user ⇒ 1B (d) se détériorer ⇒ 1B (e) commencer ⇒ 1C (a) aller (+ infinitif) ⇒ 1C (b), 1C (c) marcher ⇒ 1C (d) disparaître ⇒ 1D (a), 1D (c) se passer ⇒ 1E (d) s'écouler ⇒ 1E (e) s'appliquer ⇒ 1F (b) se vendre ⇒ 1F (e) contribuer ⇒ 1G (c) aller ensemble ⇒ 1H (a) tenir le coup ⇒ 1H (c) faire ⇒ 2 (b), 2 (c) coup ⇒ 3 (a) essai ⇒ 3 (a) tour ⇒ 3 (b) dynamisme ⇒ 3 (c)

(pl goes [gəʊz], 3rd pres sing goes [gəʊz], pt went [went], pp gone [gɒn])

1 intransitive verb

A.

(a) (move, travel → person) aller; (→ vehicle) aller, rouler;

∎ we're going to Paris/Japan/Spain nous allons à Paris/au Japon/en Espagne;

∎ he went to the office/a friend's house il est allé au bureau/chez un ami;

∎ I want to go home je veux rentrer;

∎ the salesman went from house to house le vendeur est allé de maison en maison;

∎ we went by car/on foot nous y sommes allés en voiture/à pied;

∎ there goes the train! voilà le train (qui passe)!;

∎ the bus goes by way of or through Dover le bus passe par Douvres;

∎ does this train go to Glasgow? ce train va-t-il à Glasgow?;

∎ the truck was going at 150 kilometres an hour le camion roulait à ou faisait du 150 kilomètres (à l')heure;

∎ go behind those bushes va derrière ces arbustes;

∎ where do we go from here? où va-t-on maintenant?; figurative qu'est-ce qu'on fait maintenant?;

∎ to go to the doctor aller voir ou aller chez le médecin;

∎ he went straight to the director il est allé directement voir ou trouver le directeur;

∎ to go to prison aller en prison;

∎ to go to the toilet aller aux toilettes;

∎ to go to sb for advice aller demander conseil à qn;

∎ let the children go first laissez les enfants passer devant, laissez passer les enfants d'abord;

∎ I'll go next c'est à moi après;

∎ who goes next? (in game) c'est à qui (le tour)?;

∎ Military who goes there? qui va là?, qui vive?;

∎ here we go again! ça y est, ça recommence!;

∎ there he goes! le voilà!;

∎ there he goes again! (there he is again) le revoilà!; (he's doing it again) ça y est, il est reparti!

(b) (engage in a specified activity) aller;

∎ to go shopping aller faire des courses;

∎ to go fishing/hunting aller à la pêche/à la chasse;

∎ to go riding aller faire du cheval;

∎ let's go for a walk/bike ride/swim allons nous promener/faire un tour à vélo/nous baigner;

∎ they went on a trip ils sont partis en voyage;

∎ British go and buy the paper, American go buy the paper va acheter le journal;

∎ I'll go to see her or American go see her tomorrow j'irai la voir demain;

∎ don't go and tell him!, don't go telling him! ne va pas le lui dire!, ne le lui dis pas!;

∎ don't go bothering your sister ne va pas embêter ta sœur;

∎ you had to go and tell him! il a fallu que tu le lui dises!;

∎ he's gone and locked us out! il est parti et nous a laissé à la porte!;

∎ you've gone and done it now! vraiment, tu as tout gâché!

(c) (proceed to specified limit) aller;

∎ he'll go as high as £300 il ira jusqu'à 300 livres;

∎ the temperature went as high as 36° C la température est montée jusqu'à 36° C;

∎ he went so far as to say it was her fault il est allé jusqu'à dire que c'était de sa faute à elle;

∎ now you've gone too far! là tu as dépassé les bornes!;

∎ I'll go further and say he should resign j'irai plus loin et je dirai qu'il ou j'irai jusqu'à dire qu'il devrait démissionner;

∎ the temperature sometimes goes below zero la température descend ou tombe parfois au-dessous de zéro;

∎ her attitude went beyond mere impertinence son comportement était plus qu'impertinent

(d) (depart, leave) s'en aller, partir;

∎ I must be going il faut que je m'en aille ou que je parte;

∎ they went early ils sont partis tôt;

∎ you may go vous pouvez partir;

∎ what time does the train go? à quelle heure part le train?;

∎ familiar get going! vas-y!, file!;

∎ archaic be gone! allez-vous-en!;

∎ either he goes or I go l'un de nous deux doit partir

(e) (indicating regular attendance) aller, assister;

∎ to go to church/school aller à l'église/l'école;

∎ to go to a meeting aller ou assister à une réunion;

∎ to go to work (to one's place of work) aller au travail

(f) (indicating direction or route) aller, mener;

∎ that road goes to the market square cette route va ou mène à la place du marché

B.

(a) (be or remain in specified state) être;

∎ to go barefoot/naked se promener pieds nus/tout nu;

∎ to go armed porter une arme;

∎ her family goes in rags sa famille est en haillons;

∎ the job went unfilled le poste est resté vacant;

∎ to go unnoticed passer inaperçu;

∎ such crimes must not go unpunished de tels crimes ne doivent pas rester impunis

(b) (become) devenir;

∎ my father is going grey mon père grisonne;

∎ she went white with rage elle a blêmi de colère;

∎ my hands went clammy mes mains sont devenues moites;

∎ the tea's gone cold le thé a refroidi;

∎ have you gone mad? tu es devenu fou?;

∎ to go bankrupt faire faillite;

∎ the country has gone Republican le pays est maintenant républicain

(c) (stop working → engine) tomber en panne; (→ fuse) sauter; (→ bulb, lamp) sauter, griller;

∎ the battery's going la pile commence à être usée

(d) (wear out) s'user; (split) craquer; (break) (se) casser;

∎ his trousers are going at the knees son pantalon s'use aux genoux;

∎ the jacket went at the seams la veste a craqué aux coutures

(e) (deteriorate, fail → health) se détériorer; (→ hearing, sight) baisser;

∎ all his strength went and he fell to the floor il a perdu toutes ses forces et il est tombé par terre;

∎ his voice is going il devient aphone;

∎ his voice is gone il est aphone, il a une extinction de voix;

∎ her mind has started to go elle n'a plus toute sa tête ou toutes ses facultés

C.

(a) (begin an activity) commencer;

∎ what are we waiting for? let's go! qu'est-ce qu'on attend? allons-y!;

∎ familiar here goes!, here we go! allez!, on y va!;

∎ go! partez!;

∎ you'd better get going on or with that report! tu ferais bien de te mettre à ou de t'attaquer à ce rapport!;

∎ it won't be so hard once you get going ça ne sera pas si difficile une fois que tu seras lancé;

∎ familiar go to it! (get to work) au boulot!; (in encouragement) allez-y!

(b) (expressing intention)

∎ to be going to do sth (be about to) aller faire qch, être sur le point de faire qch; (intend to) avoir l'intention de faire qch;

∎ you were just going to tell me about it vous étiez sur le point de ou vous alliez m'en parler;

∎ I was going to visit her yesterday but her mother arrived j'avais l'intention de ou j'allais lui rendre visite hier mais sa mère est arrivée

(c) (expressing future)

∎ are you going to be at home tonight? est-ce que vous serez chez vous ce soir?;

∎ we're going to do exactly as we please nous ferons ce que nous voulons;

∎ she's going to be a doctor elle va être médecin;

∎ there's going to be a storm il va y avoir un orage;

∎ he's going to have to work really hard il va falloir qu'il travaille très dur

(d) (function → clock, machine) marcher, fonctionner; (start functioning) démarrer;

∎ is the fan going? est-ce que le ventilateur est en marche ou marche?;

∎ the car won't go la voiture ne veut pas démarrer;

∎ he had the television and the radio going il avait mis la télévision et la radio en marche;

∎ the washing machine is still going la machine à laver tourne encore, la lessive n'est pas terminée;

∎ to get sth going (car, machine) mettre qch en marche; (business, project) lancer qch;

∎ her daughter kept the business going sa fille a continué à faire marcher l'affaire;

∎ to keep a conversation/fire going entretenir une conversation/un feu

(e) (sound → alarm clock, bell) sonner; (→ alarm, siren) retentir

(f) (make movement)

∎ she went like this with her eyebrows elle a fait comme ça avec ses sourcils

(g) (appear)

∎ to go on radio/television passer à la radio/à la télévision

D.

(a) (disappear) disparaître;

∎ the snow has gone la neige a fondu ou disparu;

∎ all the sugar's gone il n'y a plus de sucre;

∎ my coat has gone mon manteau n'est plus là ou a disparu;

∎ all our money has gone (spent) nous avons dépensé tout notre argent; (lost) nous avons perdu tout notre argent; (stolen) on a volé tout notre argent;

∎ I don't know where the money goes these days l'argent disparaît à une vitesse incroyable ces temps-ci;

∎ gone are the days when he took her dancing elle est bien loin, l'époque où il l'emmenait danser

(b) (be eliminated)

∎ the last paragraph must go il faut supprimer le dernier paragraphe;

∎ I've decided that car has to go j'ai décidé de me débarrasser de cette voiture;

∎ that new secretary has got to go il va falloir se débarrasser de la nouvelle secrétaire

(c) euphemism (die) disparaître, s'éteindre;

∎ he is (dead and) gone il nous a quittés;

∎ his wife went first sa femme est partie avant lui;

∎ after I go... quand je ne serai plus là...

E.

(a) (extend, reach) aller, s'étendre;

∎ our property goes as far as the forest notre propriété va ou s'étend jusqu'au bois;

∎ the path goes right down to the beach le chemin descend jusqu'à la mer;

∎ figurative her thinking didn't go that far elle n'a pas poussé le raisonnement aussi loin;

∎ my salary doesn't go very far je ne vais pas loin avec mon salaire;

∎ money doesn't go very far these days l'argent part vite à notre époque;

∎ their difference of opinion goes deeper than I thought leur différend est plus profond que je ne pensais

(b) (belong) aller, se mettre, se ranger;

∎ the dictionaries go on that shelf les dictionnaires se rangent ou vont sur cette étagère;

∎ where do the towels go? où est-ce qu'on met les serviettes?;

∎ that painting goes here ce tableau se met ou va là

(c) (be contained in, fit) aller;

∎ this last sweater won't go in the suitcase ce dernier pull n'ira pas ou n'entrera pas dans la valise;

∎ the piano barely goes through the door le piano entre ou passe de justesse par la porte;

∎ this belt just goes round my waist cette ceinture est juste assez longue pour faire le tour de ma taille;

∎ the lid goes on easily enough le couvercle se met assez facilement

(d) (develop, turn out) se passer;

∎ how did your interview go? comment s'est passé ton entretien?;

∎ I'll see how things go je vais voir comment ça se passe;

∎ we can't tell how things will go on ne sait pas comment ça se passera;

∎ everything went well tout s'est bien passé;

∎ if all goes well si tout va bien;

∎ the meeting went badly/well la réunion s'est mal/bien passée;

∎ the negotiations are going well les négociations sont en bonne voie;

∎ the vote went against them/in their favour le vote leur a été défavorable/favorable;

∎ there's no doubt as to which way the decision will go on sait ce qui sera décidé;

∎ everything was going fine until she showed up tout allait ou se passait très bien jusqu'à ce qu'elle arrive;

∎ everything went wrong ça a mal tourné;

∎ familiar how's it going?, how are things going? (comment) ça va?;

∎ the way things are going, we might both be out of a job soon au train où vont ou vu comment vont les choses, nous allons bientôt nous retrouver tous les deux au chômage

(e) (time → elapse) s'écouler, passer; (→ last) durer;

∎ the journey went quickly je n'ai pas vu le temps passer pendant le voyage;

∎ there were only five minutes to go before… il ne restait que cinq minutes avant…;

∎ time goes so slowly when you're not here le temps me paraît tellement long quand tu n'es pas là;

∎ how's the time going? combien de temps reste-t-il?

F.

(a) (be accepted)

∎ what your mother says goes! fais ce que dit ta mère!;

∎ whatever the boss says goes c'est le patron qui fait la loi;

∎ anything goes on fait ce qu'on veut

(b) (be valid, hold true) s'appliquer;

∎ that rule goes for everyone cette règle s'applique à tout le monde;

∎ that goes for us too (that applies to us) ça s'applique à nous aussi; (we agree with that) nous sommes aussi de cet avis

(c) (be expressed, run → report, story)

∎ the story or rumour goes that she left him le bruit court qu'elle l'a quitté;

∎ so the story goes du moins c'est ce que l'on dit ou d'après les on-dit;

∎ how does the story go? comment c'est cette histoire?;

∎ I forget how the poem goes now j'ai oublié le poème maintenant;

∎ how does the tune go? c'est quoi ou c'est comment, l'air?;

∎ her theory goes something like this sa théorie est plus ou moins la suivante

(d) (be identified as)

∎ to go by or under the name of répondre au nom de;

∎ he now goes by or under another name il se fait appeler autrement maintenant

(e) (be sold) se vendre;

∎ flats are going cheap at the moment les appartements ne se vendent pas très cher en ce moment;

∎ the necklace went for £350 le collier s'est vendu 350 livres;

∎ going, going, gone! (at auction) une fois, deux fois, adjugé!

G.

(a) (be given → award, prize) aller, être donné; (→ inheritance, property) passer;

∎ the contract is to go to a private firm le contrat ira à une entreprise privée;

∎ credit should go to the teachers le mérite en revient aux enseignants;

∎ every penny will go to charity tout l'argent va ou est destiné à une œuvre de bienfaisance

(b) (be spent)

∎ a small portion of the budget went on education une petite part du budget a été consacrée ou est allée à l'éducation;

∎ all his money goes on drink tout son argent part dans la boisson

(c) (contribute) contribuer, servir;

∎ all that just goes to prove my point tout ça confirme bien ce que j'ai dit;

∎ it has all the qualities that go to make a good film ça a toutes les qualités d'un bon film

(d) (have recourse) avoir recours, recourir;

∎ to go to arbitration recourir à l'arbitrage

H.

(a) (be compatible → colours, flavours) aller ensemble;

∎ orange and mauve don't really go l'orange et le mauve ne vont pas vraiment ensemble

(b) (be available)

∎ let me know if you hear of any jobs going faites-moi savoir si vous entendez parler d'un emploi;

∎ are there any flats going for rent in this building? y a-t-il des appartements à louer dans cet immeuble?;

∎ familiar any whisky going? tu as un whisky à m'offrir?^□

(c) (endure) tenir le coup;

∎ we can't go much longer without water nous ne pourrons pas tenir beaucoup plus longtemps sans eau

(d) euphemism (go to the toilet)

∎ we'll only stop if you're really desperate to go on ne s'arrête que si tu ne tiens vraiment plus;

∎ I went before I came j'ai fait avant de venir

(e) Mathematics

∎ 5 into 60 goes 12 60 divisé par 5 égale 12;

∎ 6 into 5 won't go 5 n'est pas divisible par 6

(f) (idioms)

∎ she isn't bad, as teachers go elle n'est pas mal comme enseignante;

∎ as houses go, it's pretty cheap ce n'est pas cher pour une maison;

∎ as things go today par les temps qui courent;

∎ there goes my chance of winning a prize je peux abandonner tout espoir de gagner un prix;

∎ there you go again, always blaming other people ça y est, toujours à rejeter la responsabilité sur les autres;

∎ there you go! (here you are) tiens!; (I told you so) voilà!;

∎ there you go, two hamburgers and a coke et voici, deux hamburgers et un Coca;

∎ there you go, what did I tell you? voilà ou tiens, qu'est-ce que je t'avais dit!

2 transitive verb

(a) (follow, proceed along) aller, suivre;

∎ if we go this way, we'll get there much more quickly si nous passons par là, nous arriverons bien plus vite

(b) (travel) faire, voyager;

∎ we've only gone 5 kilometres nous n'avons fait que 5 kilomètres;

∎ she went the whole length of the street before coming back elle a descendu toute la rue avant de revenir

(c) (say) faire; (make specified noise) faire;

∎ ducks go "quack" les canards font "coin-coin";

∎ the clock goes "tick tock" l'horloge fait "tic tac";

∎ the gun went bang et pan! le coup est parti;

∎ familiar then he goes "hand it over" puis il fait "donne-le-moi"

(d) (in gambling)

∎ to go 10 risquer 10;

∎ Cards to go no/two trumps annoncer sans/deux atout(s);

∎ figurative to go one better (than sb) surenchérir (sur qn)

(e) familiar (do with)

∎ I could really go a beer je me paierais bien une bière

(f) (idioms) familiar old-fashioned

∎ to go it (go fast) filer; (behave wildly) se défoncer;

∎ familiar how goes it? ça marche?

3 noun

(a) British (attempt, try) coup m, essai m;

∎ to have a go at sth/doing sth essayer qch/de faire qch;

∎ he had another go il a fait une nouvelle tentative, il a ressayé;

∎ let's have a go! essayons!; familiar (let me try) laisse-moi essayer!^□ ;

∎ have another go! encore un coup!;

∎ I've never tried it but I'll give it a go je n'ai encore jamais fait l'expérience mais je vais essayer;

∎ she passed her exams first go elle a eu ses examens du premier coup;

∎ he knocked down all the skittles at one go il a renversé toutes les quilles d'un coup;

∎ £1 a go (at fair etc) une livre la partie ou le tour;

∎ to have a go on the dodgems faire un tour d'autos tamponneuses;

∎ he wouldn't let me have or give me a go (on his bicycle etc) il ne voulait pas me laisser l'essayer

(b) British (in games → turn) tour m;

∎ it's your go c'est ton tour ou c'est à toi (de jouer);

∎ whose go is it? à qui de jouer?, à qui le tour?

(c) familiar (energy, vitality) dynamisme^□ m, entrain^□ m;

∎ to be full of go avoir plein d'énergie, être très dynamique;

∎ she's got plenty of go elle est pleine d'entrain;

∎ the new man has no go in him le nouveau manque d'entrain

(d) familiar (success) succès^□ m, réussite^□ f;

∎ he's made a go of the business il a réussi à faire marcher l'affaire;

∎ to make a go of a marriage réussir un mariage;

∎ I tried to persuade her but it was no go j'ai essayé de la convaincre mais il n'y avait rien à faire

(e) (fashion) mode f;

∎ short hair is all the go les cheveux courts sont le dernier cri ou font fureur

(f) familiar (idioms)

∎ to have a go at sb (physically) rentrer dans qn; (verbally) passer un savon à qn;

∎ they had a real go at one another! qu'est-ce qu'ils se sont mis!;

∎ she had a go at her boyfriend elle a passé un de ces savons à son copain;

∎ British police have warned the public not to have a go, the fugitive may be armed la police a prévenu la population de ne pas s'en prendre au fugitif car il pourrait être armé;

∎ it's all go ça n'arrête pas!;

∎ all systems go! c'est parti!;

∎ the shuttle is go for landing la navette est bonne ou est parée ou a le feu vert pour l'atterrissage

4 going on adverb

∎ he must be going on fifty il doit approcher de la ou aller sur la cinquantaine;

∎ it was going on (for) midnight by the time we finished quand on a terminé, il était près de minuit

5 on the go adjective familiar

(a) (busy)

∎ I've been on the go all day je n'ai pas arrêté de toute la journée^□ ;

∎ to be always on the go être toujours à trotter ou à courir, avoir la bougeotte;

∎ to keep sb on the go faire trimer qn

(b) (in hand)

∎ I have several projects on the go at present j'ai plusieurs projets en route en ce moment^□

6 to go

1 adverb

à faire;

∎ there are only three weeks/five miles to go il ne reste plus que trois semaines/cinq miles;

∎ five done, three to go cinq de faits, trois à faire

2 adjective

esp American (to take out) two hamburgers to go deux hamburgers à emporter!

➲ go about

1 intransitive verb

(a) (move) circuler; (of rumour) courir;

∎ policemen usually go about in pairs en général, les policiers circulent par deux;

∎ you can't go about saying things like that! il ne faut pas raconter des choses pareilles!

(b) Nautical (change tack) virer de bord

2 inseparable transitive verb

(a) (get on with) s'occuper de;

∎ to go about one's business vaquer à ses occupations

(b) (set about) se mettre à;

∎ she showed me how to go about it elle m'a montré comment faire ou comment m'y prendre;

∎ how do you go about applying for the job? comment doit-on s'y prendre ou faire pour postuler l'emploi?

(c) (country) parcourir

➲ go about with inseparable transitive verb

(frequent)

∎ her son goes about with an older crowd son fils fréquente des gens plus âgés que lui;

∎ he's going about with Rachel these days il sort avec Rachel en ce moment

➲ go across

1 inseparable transitive verb

traverser

2 intransitive verb

traverser;

∎ your brother has just gone across to the shop ton frère est allé faire un saut au magasin en face

➲ go after inseparable transitive verb

(a) (follow) suivre

(b) (pursue, seek → criminal) poursuivre; (→ prey) chasser; (→ job, prize) essayer d'obtenir;

∎ he goes after all the women il court après toutes les femmes;

∎ I'm going after that job je vais essayer d'obtenir cet emploi

➲ go against inseparable transitive verb

(a) (disregard) aller contre, aller à l'encontre de;

∎ she went against my advice elle n'a pas suivi mon conseil;

∎ I went against my mother's wishes je suis allé contre ou j'ai contrarié les désirs de ma mère

(b) (conflict with) contredire;

∎ that goes against what he told me c'est en contradiction avec ou ça contredit ce qu'il m'a dit;

∎ the decision went against public opinion la décision est allée à l'encontre de ou a heurté l'opinion publique;

∎ it goes against my principles c'est contre mes principes

(c) (be unfavourable to → of luck, situation) être contraire à; (→ of opinion) être défavorable à; (→ of behaviour, evidence) nuire à, être préjudiciable à;

∎ the verdict went against the defendant le verdict a été défavorable à l'accusé ou a été prononcé contre l'accusé;

∎ if luck should go against him si la chance lui était contraire;

∎ her divorce may go against her winning the election son divorce pourrait nuire à ses chances de gagner les élections

➲ go ahead intransitive verb

(a) (precede) passer devant;

∎ he went ahead of us il est parti avant nous;

∎ I let him go ahead of me in the queue je l'ai fait passer devant moi dans la queue

(b) (proceed) aller de l'avant;

∎ go ahead! tell me! vas-y! dis-le-moi!;

∎ the mayor allowed the demonstrations to go ahead le maire a permis aux manifestations d'avoir lieu;

∎ the move had gone ahead as planned le déménagement s'était déroulé comme prévu;

∎ to go ahead with sth démarrer qch;

∎ they're going ahead with the project after all ils ont finalement décidé de mener le projet à bien;

∎ he went ahead and did it (without hesitating) il l'a fait sans l'ombre d'une hésitation; (despite warnings) rien ne l'a arrêté

(c) (advance, progress) progresser, faire des progrès

➲ go along intransitive verb

(a) (move from one place to another) aller, avancer;

∎ go along and ask your mother va demander à ta mère;

∎ she went along with them to the fair elle les a accompagnés ou elle est allée avec eux à la foire;

∎ we can talk it over as we go along nous pouvons en discuter en chemin ou en cours de route;

∎ I just make it up as I go along j'invente au fur et à mesure

(b) (progress) se dérouler, se passer;

∎ things were going along nicely tout allait ou se passait bien

(c) (go to meeting, party etc) aller

➲ go along with inseparable transitive verb

(decision, order) accepter, s'incliner devant; (rule) observer, respecter;

∎ that's what they decided and I went along with it c'est la décision qu'ils ont prise et je l'ai acceptée;

∎ I go along with the committee on that point je suis d'accord avec ou je soutiens le comité sur ce point;

∎ I can't go along with you on that je ne suis pas d'accord avec vous là-dessus;

∎ he went along with his father's wishes il s'est conformé aux ou a respecté les désirs de son père

➲ go around intransitive verb

(a) (habitually) passer son temps à;

∎ he goes around mumbling to himself il passe son temps à radoter;

∎ she just goes around annoying everyone elle passe son temps à énerver tout le monde;

∎ he goes around in black leather il se promène toujours en ou il est toujours habillé en cuir noir

(b) (document, illness) circuler; (gossip, rumour) courir, circuler

(c) (be long enough for)

∎ will that belt go around your waist? est-ce que cette ceinture sera assez grande pour toi?

➲ go around with = go about with

➲ go at inseparable transitive verb

familiar (attack → food) attaquer, se jeter sur; (→ job, task) s'attaquer à; (→ person) attaquer;

∎ they were still going at it the next day ils y étaient encore le lendemain;

∎ she went at the cleaning with a will elle s'est attaquée au nettoyage avec ardeur

➲ go away intransitive verb

partir, s'en aller;

∎ go away! va-t'en!;

∎ I'm going away for a few days je pars pour quelques jours;

∎ she's gone away to think about it elle est partie réfléchir

➲ go back intransitive verb

(a) (return) revenir, retourner;

∎ she went back to bed elle est retournée au lit, elle s'est recouchée;

∎ to go back to sleep se rendormir;

∎ they went back home ils sont rentrés chez eux ou à la maison;

∎ I went back downstairs/upstairs je suis redescendu/remonté;

∎ to go back to work (continue task) se remettre au travail; (return to place of work) retourner travailler; (return to employment) reprendre le travail;

∎ to go back on one's steps rebrousser chemin, revenir sur ses pas;

∎ let's go back to chapter two revenons ou retournons au deuxième chapitre;

∎ we went back to the beginning nous avons recommencé;

∎ let's go back to why you said that revenons à la question de savoir pourquoi vous avez dit ça;

∎ the clocks go back one hour today on retarde les pendules d'une heure aujourd'hui

(b) (retreat) reculer;

∎ go back! recule!

(c) (revert) revenir;

∎ we went back to the old system nous sommes revenus à l'ancien système;

∎ he went back to his old habits il a repris ses anciennes habitudes;

∎ the conversation kept going back to the same subject la conversation revenait sans cesse sur le même sujet;

∎ men are going back to wearing their hair long les hommes reviennent aux cheveux longs ou se laissent à nouveau pousser les cheveux

(d) (in time) remonter;

∎ our records go back to 1850 nos archives remontent à 1850;

∎ this building goes back to the Revolution ce bâtiment date de ou remonte à la Révolution;

∎ familiar we go back a long way, Brad and me ça remonte à loin, Brad et moi

(e) (extend, reach) s'étendre;

∎ the garden goes back 150 metres le jardin s'étend sur 150 mètres

➲ go back on inseparable transitive verb

(fail to keep → agreement) rompre, violer; (→ promise) manquer à, revenir sur;

∎ they went back on their decision ils sont revenus sur leur décision;

∎ he won't go back on his word il ne manquera pas à sa parole

➲ go before

1 intransitive verb

(precede) passer devant; (happen before) précéder;

∎ that question has nothing to do with what went before cette question n'a rien à voir avec ce qui précède ou avec ce qui a été dit avant;

∎ the election was like nothing that had gone before l'élection ne ressemblait en rien aux précédentes;

∎ euphemism those who have gone before (the dead) ceux qui nous ont précédés

2 inseparable transitive verb

(a) (precede) précéder;

∎ we are indebted to those who have gone before us nous devons beaucoup à ceux qui nous ont précédés

(b) (appear before)

∎ your suggestion will go before the committee votre suggestion sera soumise au comité;

∎ to go before a judge/jury passer devant un juge/un jury;

∎ the matter went before the court l'affaire est allée devant les tribunaux

➲ go below intransitive verb

Nautical descendre dans l'entrepont

➲ go by

1 intransitive verb

(pass → car, person) passer; (→ time) passer, s'écouler;

∎ as the years go by avec les années, à mesure que les années passent;

∎ in days or in times or in years gone by autrefois, jadis;

∎ to let an opportunity go by laisser passer une occasion

2 inseparable transitive verb

(a) (act in accordance with, be guided by) suivre, se baser sur;

∎ don't go by the map ne vous fiez pas à la carte;

∎ I'll go by what the boss says je me baserai sur ce que dit le patron;

∎ he goes by the rules il suit le règlement

(b) (judge by) juger d'après;

∎ going by her accent, I'd say she's from New York si j'en juge d'après son accent, je dirais qu'elle vient de New York;

∎ you can't go by appearances on ne peut pas juger d'après ou sur les apparences

(c) (be known by)

∎ to go by a different/false name être connu sous un nom différent/un faux nom;

∎ the product goes by the name of "Bango" in France ce produit est vendu sous le nom de "Bango" en France

➲ go down

1 intransitive verb

(a) (descend, move to lower level) descendre;

∎ he went down on all fours or on his hands and knees il s'est mis à quatre pattes;

∎ going down! (in lift) on descend!, pour descendre!

(b) (proceed, travel) aller;

∎ we're going down to Tours/the country/the shop nous allons à Tours/à la campagne/au magasin

(c) (set → moon, sun) se coucher, tomber

(d) (sink → ship) couler, sombrer; (→ person) couler, disparaître (sous l'eau)

(e) (decrease, decline → level, price, quality) baisser; (→ amount, numbers) diminuer; (→ rate, temperature) baisser, s'abaisser; (→ fever) baisser, tomber; (→ tide) descendre;

∎ the dollar is going down in value le dollar perd de sa valeur, le dollar est en baisse;

∎ eggs are going down (in price) le prix des œufs baisse;

∎ my weight has gone down j'ai perdu du poids;

∎ he's gone down in my estimation il a baissé dans mon estime;

∎ the neighbourhood's really gone down since then le quartier ne s'est vraiment pas arrangé depuis;

∎ to have gone down in the world avoir connu des jours meilleurs

(f) (become less swollen → swelling) désenfler, dégonfler; (→ balloon, tyre) se dégonfler

(g) (food, medicine) descendre;

∎ this wine goes down very smoothly ce vin se laisse boire (comme du petit-lait)

(h) (produce specified reaction) être reçu;

∎ a cup of coffee would go down nicely une tasse de café serait la bienvenue;

∎ his speech went down badly/well son discours a été mal/bien reçu;

∎ how will the proposal go down with the students? comment les étudiants vont-ils prendre la proposition?;

∎ that kind of talk doesn't go down well with me je n'apprécie pas du tout ce genre de propos

(i) (lose) être battu;

∎ Mexico went down to Germany le Mexique s'est incliné devant l'Allemagne;

∎ Madrid went down to Milan by three points Milan a battu Madrid de trois points;

∎ I'm not going to go down without a fight je me battrai jusqu'à la fin

(j) (be relegated) descendre;

∎ our team has gone down to the second division notre équipe est descendue en deuxième division

(k) (be noted, recorded) être noté; (in writing) être pris ou couché par écrit;

∎ this day will go down in history ce jour restera une date historique;

∎ she will go down in history as a woman of great courage elle entrera dans l'histoire grâce à son grand courage

(l) (reach as far as) descendre, s'étendre;

∎ this path goes down to the beach ce sentier va ou descend à la plage

(m) (continue as far as) aller, continuer;

∎ go down to the end of the street allez ou continuez jusqu'en bas de la rue

(n) British University entrer dans la période des vacances

(o) Cards (in bridge) chuter

(p) Computing tomber en panne; (of computer network) planter;

∎ the computer's gone down l'ordinateur est en panne

(q) Music (lower pitch) descendre

(r) British familiar (be sent to prison)

∎ how long do you think he'll go down for? il écopera de combien, à ton avis?;

∎ he went down for three years il a écopé de trois ans

(s) American familiar (happen) se passer^□

2 inseparable transitive verb

(hill, stairs, ladder, street) descendre;

∎ my food went down the wrong way j'ai avalé de travers;

∎ Music the pianist went down an octave le pianiste a joué une octave plus bas ou a descendu d'une octave;

∎ British School to go down a class descendre d'une classe;

∎ figurative I don't want to go down that road je ne veux pas m'engager là-dedans

➲ go down on inseparable transitive verb

vulgar (fellate) sucer, tailler ou faire une pipe à; (perform cunnilingus on) sucer, brouter le cresson à

➲ go down with inseparable transitive verb

tomber malade de;

∎ he went down with pneumonia/the flu il a attrapé une pneumonie/la grippe

➲ go for inseparable transitive verb

(a) (fetch) aller chercher;

∎ he went for a doctor il est allé ou parti chercher un médecin

(b) (try to obtain) essayer d'obtenir, viser;

∎ she's going for his job elle va essayer d'obtenir son poste;

∎ familiar go for it! vas-y!;

∎ I'd go for it if I were you! à ta place, je n'hésiterais pas!;

∎ she was really going for it elle donnait vraiment son maximum

(c) (attack → physically) tomber sur, s'élancer sur; (→ verbally) s'en prendre à;

∎ dogs usually go for the throat en général, les chiens attaquent à la gorge;

∎ they went for each other (physically) ils se sont jetés l'un sur l'autre; (verbally) ils s'en sont pris l'un à l'autre;

∎ the newspapers really went for the senator les journaux s'en sont pris au sénateur sans retenue;

∎ go for him! (to dog) attaque!

(d) familiar (like) aimer^□, adorer^□ ;

∎ I don't really go for that idea l'idée ne me dit pas grand-chose;

∎ he really goes for her in a big way il est vraiment fou d'elle

(e) (choose, prefer) choisir, préférer

(f) (apply to, concern) concerner, s'appliquer à;

∎ what I said goes for both of you ce que j'ai dit vaut pour ou s'applique à vous deux;

∎ pollution is a real problem in Paris - that goes for Rome too la pollution pose un énorme problème à Paris - c'est la même chose à Rome;

∎ and the same goes for me et moi aussi

(g) (have as result) servir à;

∎ his twenty years of service went for nothing ses vingt ans de service n'ont servi à rien

(h) (be to the advantage of)

∎ she has a lot going for her elle a beaucoup d'atouts;

∎ that idea hasn't got much going for it frankly cette idée n'est franchement pas très convaincante

➲ go forth intransitive verb archaic or literary

(a) (leave) sortir;

∎ the army went forth into battle l'armée s'est mise en route pour la bataille;

∎ Bible go forth and multiply croissez et multipliez-vous

(b) (be pronounced) être prononcé; (be published) paraître;

∎ the command went forth that… il fut décrété que…

➲ go forward intransitive verb

(s')avancer;

∎ the clocks go forward tomorrow on avance les pendules demain;

∎ if this scheme goes forward… si ce projet est accepté…

➲ go in intransitive verb

(a) (enter) entrer, rentrer;

∎ it's cold - let's go in il fait froid - entrons;

∎ it's too big, it won't go in c'est trop grand, ça ne rentrera pas

(b) (disappear → moon, sun) se cacher

(c) Sport (in cricket) prendre son tour au guichet

(d) Military (attack) attaquer

➲ go in for inseparable transitive verb

(a) (engage in → activity, hobby, sport) pratiquer, faire; (→ occupation) se consacrer à; (→ politics) s'occuper de, faire;

∎ she went in for company law elle s'est lancée dans le droit commercial;

∎ he thought about going in for teaching il a pensé devenir enseignant

(b) familiar (be interested in) s'intéresser à^□ ; (like) aimer^□ ;

∎ I don't go in much for opera je n'aime pas trop l'opéra, l'opéra ne me dit rien;

∎ he goes in for special effects in a big way il est très branché effets spéciaux;

∎ we don't go in for that kind of film nous n'aimons pas ce genre de film;

∎ this publisher doesn't really go in for fiction cet éditeur ne fait pas tellement dans le roman

(c) familiar (use)

∎ they don't go in for injections so much nowadays ils ne sont pas tellement pour les piqûres de nos jours;

∎ why do scientists go in for all that jargon? pourquoi est-ce que les scientifiques utilisent tout ce jargon?

(d) (take part in → competition, race) prendre part à; (→ examination) se présenter à

(e) (apply for → job, position) poser sa candidature à, postuler

➲ go into inseparable transitive verb

(a) (enter → building, house) entrer dans; (→ activity, profession) entrer à ou dans; (→ politics, business) se lancer dans;

∎ she's gone into hospital elle est (r)entrée à l'hôpital;

∎ to go into the army (as profession) devenir militaire de carrière; (as conscript) partir au service;

∎ he went into medicine il a choisi la médecine

(b) (be invested → of effort, money, time)

∎ a lot of care had gone into making her feel at home on s'était donné beaucoup de peine pour la mettre à l'aise;

∎ two months of research went into our report nous avons mis ou investi deux mois de recherche dans notre rapport

(c) (embark on → action) commencer à; (→ explanation, speech) se lancer ou s'embarquer dans, (se mettre à) donner; (→ problem) aborder;

∎ I'll go into the problem of your taxes later j'aborderai le problème de vos impôts plus tard;

∎ the car went into a skid la voiture a commencé à déraper;

∎ to go into hysterics avoir une crise de nerfs;

∎ to go into fits of laughter être pris d'un fou rire

(d) (examine, investigate) examiner, étudier;

∎ you need to go into the question more deeply vous devez examiner le problème de plus près;

∎ the matter is being gone into l'affaire est à l'étude

(e) (explain in depth) entrer dans;

∎ the essay goes into the moral aspects of the question l'essai aborde les aspects moraux de la question;

∎ I won't go into details je ne vais pas entrer dans les détails;

∎ let's not go into that ne parlons pas de ça

(f) (begin to wear) se mettre à porter;

∎ to go into mourning prendre le deuil

(g) (hit, run into) entrer dans;

∎ a car went into him une voiture lui est rentrée dedans

(h) Computing (file, program) aller dans;

∎ to go into a file aller dans un fichier

➲ go off

1 intransitive verb

(a) (leave) partir, s'en aller;

∎ she went off to work elle est partie travailler;

∎ her husband has gone off and left her son mari l'a quittée;

∎ Theatre the actors went off les acteurs ont quitté la scène

(b) (stop operating → light, radio) s'éteindre; (→ heating) s'éteindre, s'arrêter; (→ pain) partir, s'arrêter;

∎ the electricity went off l'électricité a été coupée

(c) (become activated → bomb, firework) exploser; (→ gun) partir; (→ alarm, alarm clock) sonner;

∎ the grenade went off in her hand la grenade a explosé dans sa main;

∎ the gun didn't go off le coup n'est pas parti;

∎ figurative to go off into fits of laughter être pris d'un fou rire

(d) (have specified outcome) se passer;

∎ the interview went off badly/well l'entretien s'est mal/bien passé;

∎ her speech went off well son discours a été bien reçu

(e) (fall asleep) s'endormir

(f) British (deteriorate → food) s'avarier, se gâter; (→ milk) tourner; (→ butter) rancir; (→ athlete, sportsperson) perdre sa forme;

∎ the play goes off in the second half la pièce se gâte pendant la seconde partie

2 inseparable transitive verb

British familiar (stop liking) perdre le goût de^□ ;

∎ he's gone off classical music/smoking il n'aime plus la musique classique/fumer, la musique classique/fumer ne l'intéresse plus;

∎ I've gone off the idea cette idée ne me dit plus rien;

∎ she's gone off her boyfriend son copain ne l'intéresse plus;

∎ funny how you can go off people c'est drôle comme on se lasse des gens parfois

➲ go off with inseparable transitive verb

(a) (leave with) partir avec;

∎ he went off with the woman next door il est parti avec la voisine

(b) (make off with) partir avec;

∎ someone has gone off with his keys quelqu'un est parti avec ses clés;

∎ he went off with the jewels il s'est enfui avec les bijoux

➲ go on

1 intransitive verb

(a) (move, proceed) aller; (without stopping) poursuivre son chemin; (after stopping) repartir, se remettre en route;

∎ you go on, I'll catch up allez-y, je vous rattraperai (en chemin);

∎ they went on without us ils sont partis sans nous;

∎ after dinner they went on to Susan's house après le dîner, ils sont allés chez Susan;

∎ we went on home nous sommes rentrés

(b) (continue action) continuer;

∎ she went on (with her) reading elle a continué à ou de lire;

∎ the chairman went on speaking le président a continué son discours;

∎ "and that's not all", he went on "et ce n'est pas tout", a-t-il poursuivi;

∎ you can't go on being a student for ever! tu ne peux pas être étudiant toute ta vie!;

∎ go on looking! cherchez encore!;

∎ go on, ask her vas-y, demande-lui;

∎ familiar go on, be a devil vas-y, laisse-toi tenter!;

∎ go on, I'm listening continuez, je vous écoute;

∎ I can't go on like this! je ne peux plus continuer comme ça!;

∎ if he goes on like this, he'll get fired s'il continue comme ça, il va se faire renvoyer;

∎ their affair has been going on for years leur liaison dure depuis des années;

∎ the party went on into the small hours la soirée s'est prolongée jusqu'à très tôt le matin;

∎ life goes on la vie continue ou va son train;

∎ British familiar go on (with you)! allons, arrête de me faire marcher!;

∎ they have enough (work) to be going on with ils ont du pain sur la planche ou de quoi faire pour le moment;

∎ here's £25 to be going on with voilà 25 livres pour te dépanner

(c) (proceed to another action)

∎ he went on to explain why il a ensuite expliqué pourquoi;

∎ to go on to another question passer à une autre question;

∎ she went on to become a doctor elle est ensuite devenue médecin

(d) (be placed, fit) aller;

∎ the lid goes on this way le couvercle se met comme ça;

∎ I can't get the lid to go on je n'arrive pas à mettre le couvercle;

∎ the cap goes on the other end le bouchon se met ou va sur l'autre bout

(e) (happen, take place) se passer;

∎ what's going on here? qu'est-ce qui se passe ici?;

∎ there was a fight going on il y avait une bagarre;

∎ a lot of cheating goes on during the exams on triche beaucoup pendant les examens;

∎ several conversations were going on at once il y avait plusieurs conversations à la fois;

∎ while the war was going on pendant la guerre

(f) (elapse) passer, s'écouler;

∎ as the week went on au fur et à mesure que la semaine passait;

∎ as time goes on avec le temps, à mesure que le temps passe

(g) familiar (chatter, talk) parler^□, jacasser^□ ;

∎ she does go on! elle n'arrête pas de parler!, c'est un vrai moulin à paroles!;

∎ he goes on and on about politics il parle politique sans cesse;

∎ don't go on about it! ça va, on a compris!;

∎ I don't want to go on about it, but... je ne voudrais pas avoir l'air d'insister, mais...;

∎ what are you going on about now? qu'est-ce que vous racontez?

(h) familiar (act, behave) se conduire^□, se comporter^□ ;

∎ what a way to go on! en voilà des manières!

(i) (start operating → light, radio, television) s'allumer; (→ heating, motor, power) s'allumer, se mettre en marche

(j) Sport (player) prendre sa place, entrer en jeu

(k) Theatre (actor) entrer en scène

(l) (approach)

∎ he's going on for forty il va sur ses quarante ans

2 inseparable transitive verb

(a) (enter → boat, train) monter dans

(b) (embark on)

∎ to go on a journey/a holiday partir en voyage/en vacances;

∎ to go on a diet se mettre au régime

(c) (be guided by) se laisser guider par, se fonder ou se baser sur;

∎ the detective didn't have much to go on le détective n'avait pas grand-chose sur quoi s'appuyer ou qui puisse le guider;

∎ she goes a lot on instinct elle se fie beaucoup à ou se fonde beaucoup sur son instinct

(d) (approach)

∎ he's going on forty-five il va sur ses quarante-cinq ans;

∎ humorous she's fifteen going on forty-five (wise) elle a quinze ans mais elle est déjà très mûre; (old beyond her years) elle a quinze ans mais elle est vieille avant l'âge

(e) British familiar (usu neg) (appreciate, like) aimer^□ ;

∎ I don't go much on abstract art l'art abstrait ne me dit pas grand-chose

➲ go on at inseparable transitive verb

familiar (criticize) critiquer^□ ; (nag) s'en prendre à^□ ;

∎ the boss went on and on at her at the meeting le patron n'a pas cessé de s'en prendre à elle pendant la réunion;

∎ he's always going on at his wife about money il est toujours sur le dos de sa femme avec les questions d'argent;

∎ I went on at my mother to go and see the doctor j'ai embêté ma mère pour qu'elle aille voir le médecin;

∎ don't go on at me! laisse-moi tranquille!

➲ go out intransitive verb

(a) (leave) sortir;

∎ my parents made us go out of the room mes parents nous ont fait sortir de la pièce ou quitter la pièce;

∎ to go out for a meal aller au restaurant;

∎ to go out to dinner sortir dîner;

∎ to go out for a walk aller se promener, aller faire une promenade;

∎ she's gone out to get a paper elle est sortie (pour) acheter un journal;

∎ they went out to the country ils sont allés ou ils ont fait une sortie à la campagne;

∎ she goes out to work elle travaille en dehors de la maison ou hors de chez elle;

∎ he went out of her life il est sorti de sa vie;

∎ she was dressed to go out (ready to leave) elle était prête à sortir; (dressed up) elle était très habillée

(b) (travel) partir; (emigrate) émigrer;

∎ they went out to Africa (travelled) ils sont partis en Afrique; (emigrated) ils sont partis vivre ou ils ont émigré en Afrique

(c) (date) sortir;

∎ to go out with sb sortir avec qn;

∎ we've been going out together for a month ça fait un mois que nous sortons ensemble

(d) (fire, light) s'éteindre

(e) (disappear) disparaître;

∎ the joy went out of her eyes la joie a disparu de son regard;

∎ the spring went out of his step il a perdu sa démarche légère;

∎ all the heart went out of her elle a perdu courage

(f) (cease to be fashionable) passer de mode, se démoder;

∎ to go out of style/fashion ne plus être le bon style/à la mode;

∎ familiar that hairstyle went out with the ark cette coiffure remonte au déluge

(g) (tide) descendre, se retirer;

∎ the tide has gone out la marée est descendue, la mer s'est retirée;

∎ the tide goes out 6 kilometres la mer se retire sur 6 kilomètres

(h) figurative (set out)

∎ I went out to see for myself j'ai décidé de voir par moi-même;

∎ we have to go out and do something about this il faut que nous prenions des mesures ou que nous fassions quelque chose

(i) (be sent → letter) être envoyé; (be published → brochure, pamphlet) être distribué; (be broadcast → radio or television programme) être diffusé

(j) (feelings, sympathies) aller;

∎ our thoughts go out to all those who suffer nos pensées vont vers tous ceux qui souffrent;

∎ my heart goes out to her je suis de tout cœur avec elle dans son chagrin

(k) Sport (be eliminated) être éliminé;

∎ Agassi went out to Henman Agassi s'est fait sortir par Henman

(l) Cards terminer

(m) familiar (idiom)

∎ she went all out to help us elle a fait tout son possible pour nous aider^□

➲ go over

1 intransitive verb

(a) (move overhead) passer;

∎ I just saw a plane go over je viens de voir passer un avion

(b) (move in particular direction) aller; (cross) traverser;

∎ I went over to see her je suis allé la voir;

∎ they went over to talk to her ils sont allés lui parler;

∎ to go over to Europe aller en Europe

(c) (turn upside down) se retourner; (capsize → boat) chavirer, capoter

(d) (change, switch) changer;

∎ I've gone over to another brand of washing powder je viens de changer de marque de lessive;

∎ when will we go over to the metric system? quand est-ce qu'on va passer au système métrique?

(e) (change allegiance) passer, se joindre;

∎ he's gone over to the Socialists il est passé dans le camp des socialistes;

∎ she went over to the enemy elle est passée à l'ennemi

(f) (be received) passer;

∎ the speech went over badly/well le discours a mal/bien passé

2 inseparable transitive verb

(a) (move, travel over) passer par-dessus;

∎ the horse went over the fence le cheval a sauté (par-dessus) la barrière;

∎ we went over a bump on a pris une bosse

(b) (examine → argument, problem) examiner, considérer; (→ accounts, report) examiner, vérifier;

∎ would you go over my report? voulez-vous regarder mon rapport?

(c) (repeat) répéter; (review → notes, speech) réviser, revoir; (→ facts) récapituler, revoir; School réviser;

∎ she went over the interview in her mind elle a repassé l'entretien dans son esprit;

∎ I kept going over everything leading up to the accident je continuais de repenser à tous les détails qui avaient conduit à l'accident;

∎ let's go over it again reprenons, récapitulons;

∎ he goes over and over the same stories il rabâche les mêmes histoires

(d) (rehearse) refaire; (bars of music) rejouer; (sing) rechanter

(e) Television & Radio

∎ let's go over now to our Birmingham studios passons l'antenne à notre studio de Birmingham;

∎ we're going over live now to Paris nous allons maintenant à Paris où nous sommes en direct

➲ go past inseparable transitive verb

(move in front of) passer devant; (move beyond) dépasser

➲ go round

1 intransitive verb

(a) (be enough)

∎ is there enough cake to go round? est-ce qu'il y a assez de gâteau pour tout le monde?;

∎ to make the food go round ménager la nourriture

(b) (visit) aller;

∎ we went round to his house nous sommes allés chez lui;

∎ I'm going round there later on j'y vais plus tard

(c) (circulate → rumour) circuler, courir; (→ bottle, cold, flu) circuler

(d) (be continuously present → idea, tune)

∎ that song keeps going round in my head j'ai cette chanson dans la tête

(e) (spin → wheel) tourner;

∎ figurative my head's going round j'ai la tête qui tourne

(f) (make a detour) faire un détour;

∎ to go round the long way faire un long détour

2 inseparable transitive verb

(tour → museum) faire le tour de;

∎ I hate going round the shops j'ai horreur de faire les boutiques

➲ go through

1 inseparable transitive verb

(a) (crowd, tunnel) traverser;

∎ figurative a shiver went through her un frisson l'a parcourue ou traversée

(b) (endure, experience) subir, souffrir;

∎ he's going through hell c'est l'enfer pour lui;

∎ we all have to go through it sometime on doit tous y passer un jour ou l'autre;

∎ I can't face going through all that again je ne supporterais pas de passer par là une deuxième fois;

∎ after everything she's gone through après tout ce qu'elle a subi ou enduré;

∎ we've gone through a lot together nous avons vécu beaucoup de choses ensemble

(c) (consume, use up → supplies) épuiser; (→ money) dépenser; (→ food) consommer; (wear out) user;

∎ she goes through a pair of tights a week elle use une paire de collants par semaine;

∎ I've gone through the toes of my socks j'ai usé ou troué mes chaussettes au bout;

∎ humorous how many assistants has he gone through now? combien d'assistants a-t-il déjà eus?;

∎ his novel has gone through six editions il y a déjà eu six éditions de son roman

(d) (examine → accounts, document) examiner, vérifier; (→ list, proposal) éplucher; (→ mail) dépouiller; (→ drawer, pockets) fouiller (dans); (→ files) chercher dans; (sort) trier;

∎ we went through the contract together nous avons regardé ou examiné le contrat ensemble;

∎ did customs go through your suitcase? est-ce qu'ils ont fouillé votre valise à la douane?;

∎ he went through her pockets il a fouillé ses poches

(e) (of bill, law) être voté;

∎ the bill went through Parliament last week le projet de loi a été voté la semaine dernière au Parlement

(f) (carry out, perform → movement, work) faire; (→ formalities) remplir, accomplir;

∎ Music let's go through the introduction again reprenons l'introduction;

∎ we had to go through the whole business of applying for a visa nous avons dû nous farcir toutes les démarches pour obtenir un visa

(g) (participate in → course of study) étudier; (→ ceremony) participer à

(h) (practise → lesson, poem) réciter; (→ role, scene) répéter;

∎ let's go through it again from the beginning reprenons dès le début

2 intransitive verb

(a) (travel through, penetrate) passer, traverser

(b) (offer, proposal) être accepté; (business deal) être conclu, se faire; (bill, law) passer, être voté; (divorce) être prononcé;

∎ the adoption finally went through l'adoption s'est faite finalement

➲ go through with inseparable transitive verb

∎ to go through with sth aller jusqu'au bout de qch, exécuter qch;

∎ he'll never go through with it il n'ira jamais jusqu'au bout;

∎ they went through with their threat ils ont exécuté leur menace

➲ go together intransitive verb

(a) (colours, flavours) aller bien ensemble; (characteristics, ideas) aller de pair;

∎ the two things often go together les deux choses vont souvent de pair

(b) American (people) sortir ensemble

➲ go towards inseparable transitive verb

(a) (move towards) aller vers

(b) (effort, money) être consacré à;

∎ all her energy went towards fighting illiteracy elle a dépensé toute son énergie à combattre l'analphabétisme

➲ go under

1 intransitive verb

(a) (go down → ship) couler, sombrer; (→ person) couler, disparaître (sous l'eau)

(b) figurative (fail → business) couler, faire faillite; (→ project) couler, échouer; (→ person) échouer, sombrer

(c) (under anaesthetic) s'endormir

2 inseparable transitive verb

(a) (move, travel underneath) passer par-dessous

(b) (be known)

∎ to go under a false/different name utiliser ou prendre un faux nom/un nom différent;

∎ a glue that goes under the name of Stikit une colle qui s'appelle Stikit

➲ go up

1 intransitive verb

(a) (ascend, climb → person) monter, aller en haut; (→ lift) monter;

∎ to go up to town aller en ville;

∎ I'm going up to bed je monte me coucher;

∎ have you ever gone up in an aeroplane? êtes-vous déjà monté en avion?;

∎ going up! (in lift) on monte!;

∎ to go up in the world faire son chemin

(b) (increase → amount, numbers) augmenter, croître; (→ price) monter, augmenter; (→ temperature) monter, s'élever;

∎ rents are going up les loyers sont en hausse;

∎ meat is going up (in price) (le prix de) la viande augmente;

∎ to go up in sb's estimation monter dans l'estime de qn

(c) (sudden noise) s'élever;

∎ a shout went up un cri s'éleva

(d) (appear → notices, posters) apparaître; (be built) être construit;

∎ new buildings are going up all over town de nouveaux immeubles surgissent dans toute la ville

(e) (explode, be destroyed) sauter, exploser

(f) Music (raise pitch) monter

(g) Theatre (curtain) se lever;

∎ before the curtain goes up avant le lever du rideau

(h) British University entrer à l'université;

∎ she went up to Oxford in 1950 elle est entrée à Oxford en 1950

(i) American familiar (be sent to prison)

∎ he went up for murder il a fait de la taule pour meurtre

(j) Sport (be promoted)

∎ they look set to go up to the First Division ils ont l'air prêts à entrer en première division

2 inseparable transitive verb

monter;

∎ to go up a hill/ladder monter une colline/sur une échelle;

∎ Music the pianist went up an octave le pianiste a monté d'une octave;

∎ British School to go up a class monter d'une classe

➲ go up to inseparable transitive verb

(a) (approach)

∎ to go up to sb/sth se diriger vers qn/qch;

∎ the path goes up to the front door le chemin mène à la porte d'entrée

(b) (go as far as)

∎ the book only goes up to the end of the war le livre ne va que jusqu'à la fin de la guerre;

∎ I will go up to £100 je veux bien aller jusqu'à 100 livres

➲ go with inseparable transitive verb

(a) (accompany, escort) accompagner, aller avec;

∎ figurative to go with the crowd suivre la foule ou le mouvement;

∎ you have to go with the times il faut vivre avec son temps

(b) (be compatible → colours, flavours) aller avec;

∎ that hat doesn't go with your suit ce chapeau ne va pas avec ton ensemble;

∎ a white Burgundy goes well with snails le bourgogne blanc se marie bien ou va bien avec les escargots

(c) (be part of) aller avec;

∎ the flat goes with the job l'appartement va avec le poste;

∎ the sense of satisfaction that goes with having done a good job le sentiment de satisfaction qu'apporte le travail bien fait;

∎ mathematical ability usually goes with skill at chess des capacités en mathématiques vont souvent de pair avec un don pour les échecs

(d) familiar (spend time with) sortir avec^□ ;

∎ euphemism he's been going with other women (having sex) il a été avec d'autres femmes

➲ go without

1 inseparable transitive verb

se passer de, se priver de;

∎ he went without sleep or without sleeping for two days il n'a pas dormi pendant deux jours

2 intransitive verb

s'en passer;

∎ we'll just have to go without il faudra s'en passer, c'est tout

ⓘ Do not pass go, (do not collect £200/$200) Au Monopoly les joueurs tirent parfois une carte qui les envoie sur la case "prison". Sur cette carte sont inscrits les mots do not pass go, do not collect £200 (ou bien do not collect $200 s'il s'agit de la version américaine). Cette phrase, dont la version française est "ne passez pas par la case départ, ne recevez pas 20 000 francs", est utilisée de façon allusive et sur le mode humoristique dans différents contextes: on dira par exemple you do that again and you're going straight to jail, Bill. Do not pass go, do not collect $200 ("refais ça, Bill, et je t'assure que tu iras droit en prison). On peut également utiliser cette expression lorsque quelqu'un essaie de mener un projet à bien mais rencontre des obstacles: the country is trying hard to get back on its feet but because of the civil war it has not even been allowed to pass go, let alone collect £200 ("le pays fait de son mieux pour se rétablir mais la guerre civile n'arrange rien, bien au contraire").

ⓘ Go ahead, make my day C'est la formule prononcée par l'inspecteur Harry Callahan (incarné par Clint Eastwood) dans le film Sudden Impact (1983) lorsqu'il se trouve confronté à un gangster. Il s'agit d'une façon d'encourager le bandit à se servir de son arme afin de pouvoir l'abattre en état de légitime défense: "allez, vas-y, fais-moi plaisir". On utilise cette formule par allusion au film et en réaction à une personne qui vient de proférer des menaces. Ainsi, le président Reagan s'en servit en s'adressant à des travailleurs qui menaçaient de se mettre en grève.

Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > go
11 classical

adjective

klassisch

classical studies — Altphilologie, die

the classical world — die Antike

classical education — humanistische [Schul]bildung

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['klæsikəl] 1. adjective
1) ((especially of literature, art etc) of ancient Greece and Rome: classical studies.) klassisch

2) ((of music) having the traditional, established harmony and/or form: He prefers classical music to popular music.) klassisch

3) ((of literature) considered to be of the highest class.) erstklassig

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2. noun
1) (an established work of literature of high quality: I have read all the classics.) der Klassiker

2) ((in plural) the language and literature of Greece and Rome: He is studying classics.) klassisches Werk

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clas·si·cal

[ˈklæsɪk^əl]

adj

1. (simple and stylish) klassisch, zeitlos

2. inv (of ancient culture) architecture klassizistisch; ballet, literature, theatre klassisch

in \classical Rome im alten Rom, im Rom der Antike

3. inv (observing traditional standards) klassisch, traditionell

the \classical economics of Adam Smith die Klassische Schule von Adam Smith

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['klsIkəl]
adj
klassisch; (= in the style of classical architecture) klassizistisch; education humanistisch; method, solution also altbewährt
classical music — klassische Musik

the classical world — die antike Welt

a classical scholar — ein Altphilologe m

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classical [ˈklæsıkl] adj (adv classically)

1. → classic A 2, A 4, A 3 a, A 3 b

2. klassisch (dem antiken Stil entsprechend):

classical architecture

a) klassischer oder antiker Baustil,

b) klassizistischer Baustil

3. klassisch:

a) humanistisch gebildet

b) die klassische Kunst oder Literatur betreffend

c) altsprachlich:

classical education klassische oder humanistische (Aus)Bildung;

the classical languages die alten Sprachen;

classical scholar Altphilologe m, Altphilologin f, Humanist(in)

4. klassisch (Musik)

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adjective

klassisch

classical studies — Altphilologie, die

the classical world — die Antike

classical education — humanistische [Schul]bildung

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adj.

altsprachlich adj.

klassisch adj.

klassischer adj.

English-german dictionary > classical
12 religious

adjective

1) (pious) religiös; fromm

2) (concerned with religion) Glaubens[freiheit, -eifer]; Religions[freiheit, -unterricht, -kenntnisse]; religiös [Überzeugung, Zentrum]

3) (of monastic order) religiös [Orden]

religious community — Ordensgemeinschaft, die

4) (scrupulous) peinlich [Sorgfalt, Genauigkeit]

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adjective

1) (of religion: religious education; a religious leader/instructor.) Religions-...

2) (following the rules, forms of worship etc of a religion: a religious man.) religiös

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re·li·gious

[rɪˈlɪʤəs]

adj

1. (of religion) religiöse(r, s), Religions-

\religious bigotry Frömmelei f

\religious creed/organization Glaubensbekenntnis nt/-gemeinschaft f

\religious denomination [religiöses] Bekenntnis, Konfession f

\religious education/practice Religionsunterricht m/-ausübung f

\religious equality Gleichstellung f der Religionen

\religious fanatic religiöser Fanatiker/religiöse Fanatikerin

\religious zealot religiöser Eiferer/religiöse Eiferin

\religious fervour [or AM fervor] [or zeal] religiöser Eifer

\religious festival religiöses Fest

\religious freedom [or liberty] Religionsfreiheit f, Glaubensfreiheit f

\religious holiday religiöser Feiertag

\religious observance religiöse Pflicht

\religious persecution Verfolgung f aufgrund der Religionszugehörigkeit

\religious service Gottesdienst m

\religious retreat (place for religious meditation) religiöser Einkehrort; (for Roman Catholics) Exerzitien pl

\religious tradition/upbringing religiöser Brauch/religiöse Erziehung

2. (pious) religiös, fromm

deeply \religious tief religiös

3. ( fig: meticulous) gewissenhaft

to be very \religious about doing sth eifrig darauf bedacht sein, etw zu tun

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[rI'lɪdZəs]
1. adj

1) religiös; order geistlich

religious freedom/war — Glaubens- or Religionsfreiheit f/-krieg m

religious education or instruction (Sch) — Religionsunterricht m

religious holiday — kirchlicher Feiertag

religious leader — Religionsführer( in) m(f)

religious zeal — Glaubenseifer m

2) (= having religious beliefs) person gläubig; (= pious) fromm

she is a religious maniac or lunatic — sie ist eine religiöse Fanatikerin

3) (fig: conscientious) gewissenhaft; silence ehrfürchtig

2. n
Ordensmann m, Ordensfrau f
the Religious pl — die Ordensleute pl

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religious [rıˈlıdʒəs]

A adj (adv religiously)

1. religiös, Religions…:

religious book;

religious education ( oder instruction) SCHULE Religion(sunterricht) f(m);

religious holiday kirchlicher Feiertag;

religious liberty Religionsfreiheit f;

religious wars Religionskriege;

religious zeal Glaubenseifer m

2. religiös, fromm:

I’m not a religious man ich bin nicht religiös

3. ordensgeistlich, Ordens…:

religious order geistlicher Orden

4. fig äußerst gewissenhaft:

with religious care mit peinlicher Sorgfalt

5. fig andächtig (Schweigen etc)

B pl -gious s

1. Ordensbruder m, -schwester f, Mönch m, Nonne f

2. the religious koll die Gläubigen pl:

thousands of the religious Tausende von Gläubigen

relig. abk

1. religion

2. religious (religiously) relig.

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adjective

1) (pious) religiös; fromm

2) (concerned with religion) Glaubens[freiheit, -eifer]; Religions[freiheit, -unterricht, -kenntnisse]; religiös [Überzeugung, Zentrum]

3) (of monastic order) religiös [Orden]

religious community — Ordensgemeinschaft, die

4) (scrupulous) peinlich [Sorgfalt, Genauigkeit]

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adj.

fromm adj.

gewissenhaft adj.

gläubig adj.

religiös adj.

religös adj.

English-german dictionary > religious
13 Perry, John

SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering

[br]

b. 14 February 1850 Garvagh, Co. Londonderry, Ireland (now Northern Ireland)

d. 4 August 1920 London, England

[br]

Irish engineer, mathematician and technical-education pioneer.

[br]

Educated at Queens College, Belfast, Perry became Physics Master at Clifton College in 1870 until 1874. This was followed by a brief period of study under Sir William Thomson in Glasgow. He was then appointed Professor of Engineering at the Imperial College of Japan in Tokyo, where he formed a remarkable research partnership with W.E. Ayrton. On his return to England he became Professor of Engineering and Mathematics at City and Guilds College, Finsbury. Perry was the co-inventor with Ayrton of many electrical measuring instruments between 1880 and 1890, including an energy meter incorporating pendulum clocks and the first practicable portable ammeter and voltmeter, the latter being extensively used until superseded by instruments of greater accuracy. An optical indicator for high-speed steam engines was among Perry's many patents. Having made a notable contribution to education, particularly in the teaching of mathematics, he turned his attention in the latter period of his life to the improvement of the gyrostatic compass.

[br]

Principal Honours and Distinctions

FRS 1885. President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1900. Whitworth Scholar 1870.

Bibliography

28 April 1883, jointly with Ayrton, British patent no. 2,156 (portable ammeter and voltmeter).

1900, England's Neglect of Science, London (for Perry's collected papers on technical education).

Further Reading

Obituary, 1920, Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 58:901–2.

D.W.Jordan, 1985, "The cry for useless knowledge: education for a new Victorian technology", Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 132 (Part A): 587– 601.

GW

Biographical history of technology > Perry, John
14 deprive

transitive verb

1)

deprive somebody of something — jemandem etwas nehmen; (debar from having) jemandem etwas vorenthalten

deprive somebody of citizenship — jemandem die Staatsbürgerschaft aberkennen

be deprived of light — nicht genug Licht haben

2) (prevent from having normal life) benachteiligen

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verb

((with of) to take something away from: They deprived him of food and drink.) berauben, entziehen

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de·prive

[dɪˈpraɪv]

vt

▪ to \deprive sb of sth jdm etw entziehen [o vorenthalten]

to \deprive sb of his/her dignity jdn seiner Würde berauben geh

to \deprive sb of freedom jdn der Freiheit berauben geh

to \deprive sb of sleep jdm den Schlaf entziehen

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[dI'praɪv]
vt

to deprive sb of sth (of sth one has) — jdn einer Sache (gen) berauben; (of sth to which one has a right) jdm etw vorenthalten

we were deprived of our rights/freedom — wir wurden unserer Rechte/Freiheit beraubt

they were deprived of a decent education — ihnen wurde eine anständige Erziehung vorenthalten

I wouldn't want to deprive you of the pleasure of seeing her — ich möchte dir das Vergnügen, sie zu sehen, nicht vorenthalten

the team was deprived of the injured Owen — die Mannschaft musste ohne den verletzten Owen auskommen

she was deprived of sleep/oxygen — sie litt an Schlafmangel/Sauerstoffmangel

they are deprived of any sense of national identity — ihnen fehlt jedes Gefühl für nationale Identität

to deprive oneself of sth — sich (dat) etw nicht gönnen

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deprive [dıˈpraıv] v/t

1. (of sth) jemanden oder etwas (einer Sache) berauben, jemandem (etwas) entziehen oder nehmen:

deprive sb of a right;

be deprived of sth etwas entbehren (müssen);

he was deprived of his title SPORT ihm wurde der Titel aberkannt

2. (of sth) jemandem (etwas) vorenthalten

3. ausschließen, fern halten ( beide:

of sth von etwas)

4. absetzen

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transitive verb

1)

deprive somebody of something — jemandem etwas nehmen; (debar from having) jemandem etwas vorenthalten

deprive somebody of citizenship — jemandem die Staatsbürgerschaft aberkennen

be deprived of light — nicht genug Licht haben

2) (prevent from having normal life) benachteiligen

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v.

berauben v.

English-german dictionary > deprive
15 Private

1. adjective
1) (outside State system) privat; Privat[unterricht, -schule, -industrie, -klinik, -patient, -station usw.]

a doctor working in private medicine — ein Arzt, der Privatpatienten hat

have a private education — auf eine Privatschule gehen

2) (belonging to individual, not public, not business) persönlich [Dinge]; nichtöffentlich [Versammlung, Sitzung]; privat [Telefongespräch, Schriftverkehr]; Privat[eigentum, -wagen, -flugzeug, -strand, -parkplatz, -leben, -konto]

‘private’ — (on door) "Privat"; (in public building) "kein Zutritt"; (on private land) ‘Betreten verboten’

for [one's own] private use — für den persönlichen Gebrauch

3) (personal, affecting individual) persönlich [Meinung, Interesse, Überzeugung, Rache]; privat [Vereinbarung, Zweck]

4) (not for public disclosure) geheim [Verhandlung, Geschäft, Tränen]; still [Gebet, Nachdenken, Grübeln]; persönlich [Gründe]; (confidential) vertraulich

have a private word with somebody — jemanden unter vier Augen sprechen

5) (secluded) still [Ort]; (undisturbed) ungestört

6) (not in public office)

private citizen or individual — Privatperson, die
2. noun
1) (Brit. Mil.) einfacher Soldat

2)

in private — privat; in kleinem Kreis [feiern]; (confidentially) ganz im Vertrauen

speak to somebody in private — jemanden unter vier Augen sprechen

3) in pl. (coll.): (genitals) Geschlechtsteile Pl.

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1. adjective
1) (of, for, or belonging to, one person or group, not to the general public: The headmaster lives in a private apartment in the school; in my private (=personal) opinion; This information is to be kept strictly private; You shouldn't listen to private conversations.) privat

2) (having no public or official position or rank: It is your duty as a private citizen to report this matter to the police.) Privat-...
2. noun
(in the army, an ordinary soldier, not an officer.) gewöhnlicher Soldat

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- privately
- private enterprise
- private means
- in private
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pri·vate

[ˈpraɪvɪt, AM -vət]

I. adj

1. inv (personal) privat, Privat-

\private initiative/life Privatinitiative f/-leben nt

\private joke Insiderwitz m fam

to speak in some \private language in seiner eigenen Sprache reden

sb's \private opinion jds persönliche Meinung

\private papers persönliche Papiere

2. (not open to public) privat, Privat-; discussion, meeting nicht öffentlich

\private beach/club/collection Privatstrand m/-klub m/-sammlung f

\private function Privatveranstaltung f, private Feier

\private funeral Beerdigung f in aller Stille

\private land Privatgrund m

\private wedding ceremony Hochzeitsfeier f im engsten Familienkreis

3. (confidential) vertraulich

to keep sth \private etw für sich akk behalten

4. (not social) zurückhaltend, introvertiert

to be a very \private sort of person ein sehr verschlossener [o in sich akk gekehrter] Mensch sein

5. (secluded) abgelegen; (undisturbed) ungestört

6. inv (not governmental) privat, Privat-

\private business Privatwirtschaft f

\private financing Privatfinanzierung f

\private funds private Gelder

\private hospital Privatklinik f

7. (not as official)

as a \private person als Privatperson

II. n

1. no pl (not in public)

▪ in \private privat, im Privatleben; LAW unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit

to speak [or talk] to sb in \private jdn [o mit jdm] unter vier Augen sprechen

2. ( fam: genitals)

▪ \privates pl Geschlechtsteile pl

3. (soldier) Gefreiter m, einfacher Soldat

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['praIvɪt]
1. adj

1) privat; (= personal) letter, reasons persönlich, privat; (= confidential) matter, affair vertraulich; conversation, meeting, interview privat, vertraulich; (= secluded) place abgelegen; dining room separat; (= not public) funeral, wedding im engsten Kreis; hearing, sitting nicht öffentlich, nichtöffentlich

they were sharing a private joke — sie fanden irgend etwas lustig

it's just a private joke between us —

no private jokes! — lass uns auch mitlachen!

private and confidential — streng vertraulich

he acted in a private capacity — er handelte als Privatperson

they wanted to be private — sie wollten allein or für sich sein

to keep sth private — etw für sich behalten

his private life — sein Privatleben nt

in his private thoughts — in seinen ganz persönlichen Gedanken

2)

private branch exchange ( Brit Telec ) — Nebenstellenanlage f

private car — Privatwagen m

private citizen — Privatperson f

private education — Ausbildung f

private health insurance — private Krankenversicherung

private individual — Einzelne(r) mf

private law — Privatrecht nt

private limited company — ≈ Aktiengesellschaft f (die nicht an der Börse notiert ist)

private means — Privatvermögen nt

private pupil — Privatschüler(in) m(f)

private soldier (Mil) — gemeiner or einfacher Soldat

private treatment — Privatbehandlung f

private tutor — Privatlehrer(in) m(f)

private ward — Privatabteilung or -station f

3) (= withdrawn, reserved) person reserviert, zurückhaltend

2. n

1) (MIL) Gefreite(r) mf

Private X — der Gefreite X; (in address) Gefreiter X

private first class (US) — Obergefreite(r) mf

2) pl (= genitals) Geschlechtsteile pl

3)

in private — privat; (Jur) unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit

we must talk in private — wir müssen das unter uns besprechen

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Pte abk MIL Private Gefreiter m

Pvt. abk MIL Private Gefreiter m

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1. adjective
1) (outside State system) privat; Privat[unterricht, -schule, -industrie, -klinik, -patient, -station usw.]

a doctor working in private medicine — ein Arzt, der Privatpatienten hat

have a private education — auf eine Privatschule gehen

2) (belonging to individual, not public, not business) persönlich [Dinge]; nichtöffentlich [Versammlung, Sitzung]; privat [Telefongespräch, Schriftverkehr]; Privat[eigentum, -wagen, -flugzeug, -strand, -parkplatz, -leben, -konto]

‘private’ — (on door) "Privat"; (in public building) "kein Zutritt"; (on private land) ‘Betreten verboten’

for [one's own] private use — für den persönlichen Gebrauch

3) (personal, affecting individual) persönlich [Meinung, Interesse, Überzeugung, Rache]; privat [Vereinbarung, Zweck]

4) (not for public disclosure) geheim [Verhandlung, Geschäft, Tränen]; still [Gebet, Nachdenken, Grübeln]; persönlich [Gründe]; (confidential) vertraulich

have a private word with somebody — jemanden unter vier Augen sprechen

5) (secluded) still [Ort]; (undisturbed) ungestört

6) (not in public office)

private citizen or individual — Privatperson, die
2. noun
1) (Brit. Mil.) einfacher Soldat

2)

in private — privat; in kleinem Kreis [feiern]; (confidentially) ganz im Vertrauen

speak to somebody in private — jemanden unter vier Augen sprechen

3) in pl. (coll.): (genitals) Geschlechtsteile Pl.

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(military) n.

Gefreite -n (Soldat) m. adj.

nicht öffentlich adj.

persönlich adj.

privat adj.

English-german dictionary > Private
16 private

1. adjective
1) (outside State system) privat; Privat[unterricht, -schule, -industrie, -klinik, -patient, -station usw.]

a doctor working in private medicine — ein Arzt, der Privatpatienten hat

have a private education — auf eine Privatschule gehen

2) (belonging to individual, not public, not business) persönlich [Dinge]; nichtöffentlich [Versammlung, Sitzung]; privat [Telefongespräch, Schriftverkehr]; Privat[eigentum, -wagen, -flugzeug, -strand, -parkplatz, -leben, -konto]

‘private’ — (on door) "Privat"; (in public building) "kein Zutritt"; (on private land) ‘Betreten verboten’

for [one's own] private use — für den persönlichen Gebrauch

3) (personal, affecting individual) persönlich [Meinung, Interesse, Überzeugung, Rache]; privat [Vereinbarung, Zweck]

4) (not for public disclosure) geheim [Verhandlung, Geschäft, Tränen]; still [Gebet, Nachdenken, Grübeln]; persönlich [Gründe]; (confidential) vertraulich

have a private word with somebody — jemanden unter vier Augen sprechen

5) (secluded) still [Ort]; (undisturbed) ungestört

6) (not in public office)

private citizen or individual — Privatperson, die
2. noun
1) (Brit. Mil.) einfacher Soldat

2)

in private — privat; in kleinem Kreis [feiern]; (confidentially) ganz im Vertrauen

speak to somebody in private — jemanden unter vier Augen sprechen

3) in pl. (coll.): (genitals) Geschlechtsteile Pl.

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1. adjective
1) (of, for, or belonging to, one person or group, not to the general public: The headmaster lives in a private apartment in the school; in my private (=personal) opinion; This information is to be kept strictly private; You shouldn't listen to private conversations.) privat

2) (having no public or official position or rank: It is your duty as a private citizen to report this matter to the police.) Privat-...
2. noun
(in the army, an ordinary soldier, not an officer.) gewöhnlicher Soldat

- academic.ru/58044/privacy">privacy
- privately
- private enterprise
- private means
- in private
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pri·vate

[ˈpraɪvɪt, AM -vət]

I. adj

1. inv (personal) privat, Privat-

\private initiative/life Privatinitiative f/-leben nt

\private joke Insiderwitz m fam

to speak in some \private language in seiner eigenen Sprache reden

sb's \private opinion jds persönliche Meinung

\private papers persönliche Papiere

2. (not open to public) privat, Privat-; discussion, meeting nicht öffentlich

\private beach/club/collection Privatstrand m/-klub m/-sammlung f

\private function Privatveranstaltung f, private Feier

\private funeral Beerdigung f in aller Stille

\private land Privatgrund m

\private wedding ceremony Hochzeitsfeier f im engsten Familienkreis

3. (confidential) vertraulich

to keep sth \private etw für sich akk behalten

4. (not social) zurückhaltend, introvertiert

to be a very \private sort of person ein sehr verschlossener [o in sich akk gekehrter] Mensch sein

5. (secluded) abgelegen; (undisturbed) ungestört

6. inv (not governmental) privat, Privat-

\private business Privatwirtschaft f

\private financing Privatfinanzierung f

\private funds private Gelder

\private hospital Privatklinik f

7. (not as official)

as a \private person als Privatperson

II. n

1. no pl (not in public)

▪ in \private privat, im Privatleben; LAW unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit

to speak [or talk] to sb in \private jdn [o mit jdm] unter vier Augen sprechen

2. ( fam: genitals)

▪ \privates pl Geschlechtsteile pl

3. (soldier) Gefreiter m, einfacher Soldat

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['praIvɪt]
1. adj

1) privat; (= personal) letter, reasons persönlich, privat; (= confidential) matter, affair vertraulich; conversation, meeting, interview privat, vertraulich; (= secluded) place abgelegen; dining room separat; (= not public) funeral, wedding im engsten Kreis; hearing, sitting nicht öffentlich, nichtöffentlich

they were sharing a private joke — sie fanden irgend etwas lustig

it's just a private joke between us —

no private jokes! — lass uns auch mitlachen!

private and confidential — streng vertraulich

he acted in a private capacity — er handelte als Privatperson

they wanted to be private — sie wollten allein or für sich sein

to keep sth private — etw für sich behalten

his private life — sein Privatleben nt

in his private thoughts — in seinen ganz persönlichen Gedanken

2)

private branch exchange ( Brit Telec ) — Nebenstellenanlage f

private car — Privatwagen m

private citizen — Privatperson f

private education — Ausbildung f

private health insurance — private Krankenversicherung

private individual — Einzelne(r) mf

private law — Privatrecht nt

private limited company — ≈ Aktiengesellschaft f (die nicht an der Börse notiert ist)

private means — Privatvermögen nt

private pupil — Privatschüler(in) m(f)

private soldier (Mil) — gemeiner or einfacher Soldat

private treatment — Privatbehandlung f

private tutor — Privatlehrer(in) m(f)

private ward — Privatabteilung or -station f

3) (= withdrawn, reserved) person reserviert, zurückhaltend

2. n

1) (MIL) Gefreite(r) mf

Private X — der Gefreite X; (in address) Gefreiter X

private first class (US) — Obergefreite(r) mf

2) pl (= genitals) Geschlechtsteile pl

3)

in private — privat; (Jur) unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit

we must talk in private — wir müssen das unter uns besprechen

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private [ˈpraıvıt]

A adj (adv → privately)

1. privat, Privat…, eigen(er, e, es), Eigen…, persönlich:

private account Privatkonto n;

private address Privatadresse f, -anschrift f;

private affair ( oder concern, matter) Privatsache f, -angelegenheit f;

private army Privatarmee f;

private audience Privataudienz f;

private bill PARL Gesetzesvorlage in privatem od lokalem Interesse;

private citizen Privatperson f;

private collection Privatsammlung f;

private consumer Privatverbraucher(in);

private consumption Eigenverbrauch m;

private gentleman Privatier m;

private health insurance private Krankenversicherung;

have private health insurance privat versichert sein;

private law JUR Privatrecht n;

private liability persönliche Haftung;

private life Privatleben n;

private patient MED Br Privatpatient(in);

private person Privatperson f;

private property Privateigentum n, -besitz m;

private secretary Privatsekretär(in);

private treatment MED Br Behandlung f als Privatpatient(in)

2. privat, nicht öffentlich:

sell by private bargain ( oder contract) unter der Hand verkaufen;

at private sale unter der Hand (verkauft etc);

private beach eigener Strand (eines Hotels);

private (limited) company WIRTSCH Br Gesellschaft f mit beschränkter Haftung;

private corporation

a) JUR privatrechtliche Körperschaft,

b) WIRTSCH US Gesellschaft f mit beschränkter Haftung;

private enterprise privates Unternehmertum, Privatwirtschaft f;

private eye bes US umg, private investigator ( oder detective) Privatdetektiv(in);

private firm Einzelfirma f;

private industry Privatindustrie f, -wirtschaft f;

private instruction ( oder lessons pl) Privatunterricht m;

private performance THEAT etc geschlossene Vorstellung;

private road Privatweg m;

private school Privatschule f;

private sector WIRTSCH Privatsektor m;

private theater (bes Br theatre) Liebhabertheater n;

private view → preview A 2; → dick 2, hand A 6, nuisance 3

3. be a very private person sehr zurückgezogen leben;

wish to be private den Wunsch haben, (für sich) allein zu sein oder nicht gestört zu werden;

private prayer stilles Gebet

4. privat, der Öffentlichkeit nicht bekannt, nicht für die Öffentlichkeit bestimmt:

private reasons

a) private Gründe,

b) Hintergründe

5. geheim:

keep sth private etwas geheim halten oder vertraulich behandeln;

private negotiations geheime Verhandlungen;

private parts → B 2

6. vertraulich (Informationen etc):

this is for your private ear dies sage ich Ihnen ganz im Vertrauen;

be private to sth in etwas eingeweiht sein, über etwas Bescheid wissen

7. nicht amtlich oder öffentlich, außeramtlich (Angelegenheit)

8. PARL besonders Br private member nicht der Regierung angehörende(r) Abgeordnete(r);

private member’s bill von einem private member eingebrachte Gesetzesvorlage

9. JUR außergerichtlich:

private arrangement gütlicher Vergleich

10. private soldier → B 1

B s

1. MIL (einfacher) Soldat:

private 1st class US Gefreite(r) m

2. pl Geschlechtsteile pl

3. in private

a) im Privatleben, privat,

b) insgeheim,

c) unter vier Augen,

d) in privatem Kreis,

e) unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit

priv. abk

1. private priv.

2. LING privative

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1. adjective
1) (outside State system) privat; Privat[unterricht, -schule, -industrie, -klinik, -patient, -station usw.]

a doctor working in private medicine — ein Arzt, der Privatpatienten hat

have a private education — auf eine Privatschule gehen

2) (belonging to individual, not public, not business) persönlich [Dinge]; nichtöffentlich [Versammlung, Sitzung]; privat [Telefongespräch, Schriftverkehr]; Privat[eigentum, -wagen, -flugzeug, -strand, -parkplatz, -leben, -konto]

‘private’ — (on door) "Privat"; (in public building) "kein Zutritt"; (on private land) ‘Betreten verboten’

for [one's own] private use — für den persönlichen Gebrauch

3) (personal, affecting individual) persönlich [Meinung, Interesse, Überzeugung, Rache]; privat [Vereinbarung, Zweck]

4) (not for public disclosure) geheim [Verhandlung, Geschäft, Tränen]; still [Gebet, Nachdenken, Grübeln]; persönlich [Gründe]; (confidential) vertraulich

have a private word with somebody — jemanden unter vier Augen sprechen

5) (secluded) still [Ort]; (undisturbed) ungestört

6) (not in public office)

private citizen or individual — Privatperson, die
2. noun
1) (Brit. Mil.) einfacher Soldat

2)

in private — privat; in kleinem Kreis [feiern]; (confidentially) ganz im Vertrauen

speak to somebody in private — jemanden unter vier Augen sprechen

3) in pl. (coll.): (genitals) Geschlechtsteile Pl.

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(military) n.

Gefreite -n (Soldat) m. adj.

nicht öffentlich adj.

persönlich adj.

privat adj.

English-german dictionary > private
17 proper

proper [ˈprɒpə^r]

1. adjective

   a. ( = suitable) convenable ; ( = correct) correct ; ( = appropriate) approprié

• you'll have to apply for it in the proper way il faudra faire votre demande dans les règles

• the proper spelling l'orthographe f correcte

• in the proper sense of the word au sens propre du mot

• if you had come at the proper time si vous étiez venu à la bonne heure

• the staff were not given proper training le personnel n'a pas reçu une formation appropriée

• I regret not having had a proper education je regrette de ne pas avoir eu une véritable éducation

• do as you think proper faites comme bon vous semble

   b. ( = authentic) véritable ; (after noun) ( = strictly speaking) proprement dit

• I've never had a proper job je n'ai jamais eu un véritable travail

• outside Paris proper en dehors de Paris proprement dit

   c. ( = seemly) [person, book, behaviour] convenable

• it would not be proper for me to comment il ne serait pas convenable que je fasse des commentaires

2. adverb

[talk] (inf!) comme il faut (inf)

3. compounds

► proper name, proper noun noun nom m propre

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['prɒpə(r)]
adjective

1) ( right) [term, spelling] correct; [order, manner, tool, choice, response] bon/bonne; [sense] propre; [precautions] nécessaire; [clothing] qu'il faut

it's only proper for her to keep the money — il est tout naturel qu'elle garde l'argent

everything is in the proper place — tout est à sa place

to go through the proper channels — passer par la filière officielle

in the proper way — correctement

2) ( adequate) [funding, recognition] convenable; [education, training] bon/bonne; [care, control] requis

we have no proper tennis courts — nous n'avons pas de courts de tennis convenables

it has proper facilities — c'est bien équipé

3) ( fitting)

proper to — sout convenant à [position, status]

I did as I thought proper — j'ai agi comme je l'ai jugé bon

4) ( respectably correct) [person] correct; [upbringing] convenable

5) (real, full) [doctor, holiday, job] vrai (before n)

he did a proper job of repairing the car — il a bien réparé la voiture

6) (colloq) ( complete)

I felt a proper fool! — je me suis senti complètement stupide!

7) ( actual) (après n)

in the village proper — dans le village même

the competition proper — le concours proprement dit

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to beat somebody good and proper — fig battre quelqu'un haut la main

English-French dictionary > proper
18 problem

'probləm
noun

1) (a difficulty; a matter about which it is difficult to decide what to do: Life is full of problems; (also adjective) a problem child.) problema

2) (a question to be answered or solved: mathematical problems.) problema

•

- problematical
- problematic

problem n problema

no problem! ¡ningún problema! / ¡no hay problema!

problem

tr['prɒbləm]

noun

1 problema nombre masculino

■ the housing problem el problema de la vivienda

■ he's got a drink problem tiene problemas con la bebida

■ no problem! ¡no hay problema!, ¡ningún problema!

\

SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

to get to the root of a problem llegar a la raíz de un problema

problem child niño,-a difícil

problem page consultorio (sentimental)

problem ['prɑbləm] adj

: difícil

problem n

: problema m

problem

adj.

• difícil adj.

n.

• problema s.m.

'prɑːbləm, 'prɒbləm
noun

a) ( difficulty) problema m

he has a drink problem — bebe demasiado

I'm having problems deciding — no acabo de decidirme, me está costando decidirme

no problem! — (colloq) no hay problema!

what's the problem? — ¿qué pasa?, ¿algún problema?

that's their problem — es cosa suya; (before n) <family, child> difícil

problem page — (BrE Journ) consultorio m ( de problemas sentimentales etc de los lectores)

b) ( Math) problema m

['prɒblǝm]
1.

N (gen) (also Math) problema m

what's the problem? — ¿cuál es el problema?

that's your problem — eso es problema tuyo

it's not my problem — no es problema mío

loneliness isn't the problem — el problema no está en or no es la soledad

the problem is that she can't cook — el problema es que no sabe cocinar

his problem is that he's never satisfied — su problema es que nunca está satisfecho

• he has a drink problem — tiene problemas con la bebida, bebe demasiado

• she has a serious drug problem — tiene graves problemas con las drogas

this will not solve America's drug problem — esto no solucionará el problema de las drogas en América

• the real problem for the police is the lack of funding — el verdadero problema de la policía es la escasez de fondos

that presents a big problem for schools — eso supone un gran problema para las escuelas

• he shouldn't have a or any problem finding a job — no le será difícil encontrar trabajo

phone me if you have any problems — llámame si tienes cualquier problema

I had no problem getting a mortgage — no tuve problemas para conseguir una hipoteca

he's having problems deciding what subjects to study — le está costando decidir qué asignaturas estudiar

do you have a problem with that? * — ¿te molesta?

I have no problem with the ordination of women — no tengo nada en contra de la ordenación de las mujeres

• health problems — problemas mpl de salud

• to have a heart problem — tener problemas de corazón

• the housing problem — el problema de la vivienda

• no problem! * — (=of course) ¡claro!, ¡cómo no!; (=it doesn't matter) ¡no importa!, ¡no hay problema!

• the problem of how to fund education — el problema de cómo financiar la enseñanza

we've still got the problem of what to give them for lunch — aún nos queda por solucionar el problema de qué darles para comer

• to have a weight problem — tener problemas de peso

• the problem with men is that... — lo malo de los hombres es que...

2.

CPD

problem area N — (=place) zona f problemática; (fig) área m problemática

travel insurance is another potential problem area — el seguro de viaje es otra área problemática, el seguro de viaje es otro posible problema

problem case N — (Med, Sociol) caso m difícil

problem child N — niño(-a) m / f problemático(-a)

problem drinker N —

he's a problem drinker — tiene problemas con la bebida

problem drinking N —

his problem drinking is wrecking his marriage — sus problemas con la bebida están destrozando su matrimonio

problem family N — familia f con problemas

problem page N — consultorio m sentimental

problem play N — drama m de tesis

problem solving N — resolución f de problemas

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['prɑːbləm, 'prɒbləm]
noun

a) ( difficulty) problema m

he has a drink problem — bebe demasiado

I'm having problems deciding — no acabo de decidirme, me está costando decidirme

no problem! — (colloq) no hay problema!

what's the problem? — ¿qué pasa?, ¿algún problema?

that's their problem — es cosa suya; (before n) <family, child> difícil

problem page — (BrE Journ) consultorio m ( de problemas sentimentales etc de los lectores)

b) ( Math) problema m

English-spanish dictionary > problem
19 authority

noun

1) no pl. (power) Autorität, die; (delegated power) Befugnis, die

have the/no authority to do something — berechtigt od. befugt/nicht befugt sein, etwas zu tun

have/exercise authority over somebody — Weisungsbefugnis gegenüber jemandem haben

on one's own authority — in eigener Verantwortung

[be] in authority — verantwortlich [sein]

2) (body having power)

the authorities — die Behörde[n]

the highest legal authority — die höchste rechtliche Instanz

3) (expert, book, quotation) Autorität, die

have it on the authority of somebody/something that... — durch jemanden/etwas wissen, dass...

have it on good authority that... — aus zuverlässiger Quelle wissen, dass...

4) no pl.

give or add authority to something — einer Sache (Dat.) Gewicht verleihen

5) no pl. (masterfulness) Souveränität, die

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[o:'Ɵorəti]
plural - authorities; noun

1) (the power or right to do something: He gave me authority to act on his behalf.) die Befugnis; die Vollmacht

2) (a person who is an expert, or a book that can be referred to, on a particular subject: He is an authority on Roman history.) die Autorität

3) ((usually in plural) the person or people who have power in an administration etc: The authorities would not allow public meetings.) die Obrigkeit

4) (a natural quality in a person which makes him able to control and influence people: a man of authority.) die Autorität

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- academic.ru/4474/authoritarian">authoritarian
- authoritative
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author·ity

[ɔ:ˈθɒrəti, AM əˈθɔ:rət̬i]

n

1. no pl (right of control) Autorität f; ADMIN Amtsgewalt f, Weisungsbefugnis f; MIL Befehlsgewalt f

parental \authority elterliche Autorität; LAW elterliche Gewalt fachspr

to be in \authority verantwortlich [o zuständig sein] sein

we need to get the support of someone in \authority wir brauchen die Unterstützung eines Verantwortlichen

person in \authority Verantwortliche(r) f(m)

who is [the person] in \authority here? wer ist hier verantwortlich [o zuständig]?

to be in [or have] \authority over sb (empowered to give orders) jdm gegenüber weisungsbefugt sein; (be above in hierarchy) jdm übergeordnet sein

to be under sb's \authority (be answerable to) jdm gegenüber verantwortlich sein; (be below in hierarchy) jdm unterstehen

to exercise [or exert] [or use] \authority Autorität ausüben

to exercise [or exert] [or use] one's \authority over sb jdm gegenüber seine Autorität geltend machen

2. no pl (permission) Befugnis f; (to act on sb's behalf) Vollmacht f

\authority to purchase ECON, LAW Ankaufsermächtigung f

to give sb \authority to do sth jdn [dazu] befugen, etw zu tun; (to act on one's behalf) jdn [dazu] bevollmächtigen, etw zu tun

to have the \authority to do sth befugt sein, etw zu tun; (to act on sb's behalf) bevollmächtigt sein, etw zu tun

by \authority ADMIN, LAW mit [amtlicher] Genehmigung

on the \authority of sb im Auftrag [o mit Genehmigung] einer Person

on one's own \authority in eigener Verantwortung

without \authority unbefugt

to act without \authority unbefugt handeln

to act without [or to exceed one's] \authority seine Befugnisse überschreiten

3. no pl (strength of personality) Autorität f

to have \authority over/with sb [große] Autorität bei jdm genießen [o besitzen]

he's got no \authority over his students er besitzt [o genießt] bei seinen Studenten keine Autorität

4. no pl (knowledge) Sachverstand m, Kompetenz f

to speak with \authority on sth sich akk [sehr] kompetent zu etw dat äußern

5. (expert) Autorität f, Kapazität f, Experte, Expertin m, f

world \authority international anerkannte Autorität

to be an \authority for/on sth ein Experte/eine Expertin für etw akk sein

to be an \authority on microbiology eine Autorität [o Kapazität] auf dem Gebiet der Mikrobiologie sein

6. (organization) Behörde f, Amt nt

education \authority Schulamt nt

health \authority Gesundheitsbehörde f

7. (bodies having power)

▪ the authorities pl die Behörden pl

local authorities Kommunalbehörden pl

to report sb/sth to the authorities jdn/etw den Behörden melden

8. no pl (source) Quelle

I have it on my bosses \authority that... ich weiß von meinem Chef, dass...

to have sth on good \authority etw aus zuverlässiger Quelle wissen

I have it on good \authority that... ich weiß aus zuverlässiger Quelle, dass...

9. LAW

legal \authority (statement) Rechtsmeinung f; (judgement) Präzedenzentscheidung f

10. LAW

[level of] \authority Instanz f

proper \authority zuständige Instanz

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[ɔː'ɵɒrItɪ]
n

1) (= power) Autorität f; (= right, entitlement) Befugnis f; (= specifically delegated power) Vollmacht f; (MIL) Befehlsgewalt f

people who are in authority — Menschen, die Autorität haben

the person in authority — der Zuständige or Verantwortliche

who's in authority here? — wer ist hier der Verantwortliche?

I'm in authority here! — hier bestimme ich!

parental authority — Autorität der Eltern; (Jur) elterliche Gewalt

to be in or have authority over sb — Weisungsbefugnis gegenüber jdm haben (form); (describing hierarchy) jdm übergeordnet sein

to put sb in authority over sb —

those who are put in authority over us the Queen and those in authority under her — diejenigen, deren Aufsicht wir unterstehen die Königin und die ihr untergebenen Verantwortlichen

to be under the authority of sb — unter jds Aufsicht (dat) stehen; (in hierarchy) jdm unterstehen; (Mil) jds Befehlsgewalt (dat) unterstehen

on one's own authority — auf eigene Verantwortung

you'll have to ask a teacher for the authority to take the key —

under or by what authority do you claim the right to...? — mit welcher Berechtigung verlangen Sie, dass...?

to have the authority to do sth — berechtigt or befugt sein, etw zu tun

to have no authority to do sth — nicht befugt or berechtigt sein, etw zu tun

he was exceeding his area of authority — er hat seinen Kompetenzbereich or seine Befugnisse überschritten

to give sb the authority to do sth — jdn ermächtigen (form) or jdm die Vollmacht erteilen, etw zu tun

he had my authority to do it — ich habe es ihm gestattet or erlaubt

to have full authority to act — volle Handlungsvollmacht haben

to do sth on sb's authority — etw in jds Auftrag (dat) tun

who gave you the authority to do that? —

who gave you the authority to treat people like that? — mit welchem Recht glaubst du, Leute so behandeln zu können?

2) (also pl = ruling body) Behörde f, Amt nt; (= body of people) Verwaltung f; (= power of ruler) (Staats)gewalt f, Obrigkeit f

the university authorities — die Universitätsverwaltung

the water authority — die Wasserbehörde

the local authority or authorities — die Gemeindeverwaltung

the Prussian respect for authority —

the concept of authority in a state — der Autoritätsgedanke im Staat

they appealed to the supreme authority of the House of Lords — sie wandten sich an die höchste Autorität or Instanz, das Oberhaus

this will have to be decided by a higher authority — das muss an höherer Stelle entschieden werden

to represent authority — die Staatsgewalt verkörpern

the father represents authority — der Vater verkörpert die Autorität

you must have respect for authority — du musst Achtung gegenüber Respektspersonen haben

3) (= weight, influence) Autorität f

to have or carry ( great) authority — viel gelten (with bei); (person also) (große or viel) Autorität haben (with bei)

to speak/write with authority — mit Sachkunde or mit der Autorität des Sachkundigen sprechen/schreiben

I/he can speak with authority on this matter — darüber kann ich mich/kann er sich kompetent äußern

to give an order with authority —

to appeal to the authority of precedent — auf einen Präzedenzfall zurückgreifen

4) (= expert) Autorität f, Fachmann m/-frau f

I'm no authority but... —

he is an authority on art — er ist eine Autorität or ein Fachmann auf dem Gebiet der Kunst

5) (= definitive book etc) (anerkannte) Autorität f; (= source) Quelle f

to have sth on good authority —

on the best authority — aus bester Quelle

on whose authority do you have that? — aus welcher Quelle haben Sie das?

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authority [ɔːˈθɒrətı; US əˈθɑr-] s

1. Autorität f, (Amts)Gewalt f:

in authority verantwortlich;

those in authority die Verantwortlichen;

be in authority

a) verantwortlich sein,

b) das Sagen haben;

on one’s own authority in eigener Verantwortung;

be under sb’s authority jemandem verantwortlich sein

2. Autorität f, Ansehen n ( with bei), Einfluss m ( over auf akk): → carry B 6

3. Nachdruck m, Gewicht n:

add authority to einer Geschichte etc Nachdruck oder Gewicht verleihen

4. Vollmacht f, Ermächtigung f, Befugnis f:

by authority mit amtlicher Genehmigung;

on the authority of im Auftrage oder mit Genehmigung (gen);

without authority unbefugt, unberechtigt;

have the (no) authority to do sth (nicht) befugt oder berechtigt sein, etwas zu tun;

have full authority to act volle Handlungsvollmacht besitzen;

authority to sign Unterschriftsvollmacht, Zeichnungsberechtigung f

5. Behörde f

6. a) Quelle f

b) Grundlage f ( for für):

what is your authority for your thesis? worauf stützen Sie Ihre These?;

we have it on his authority that … wir wissen durch ihn, dass …;

I have it on good authority that … ich weiß aus sicherer oder verlässlicher Quelle, dass …

7. Autorität f, Kapazität f (on auf dem Gebiet gen)

8. JUR

a) maßgebliche Gerichtsentscheidung

b) Rechtsquelle f

c) bindende Kraft (einer gerichtlichen Vorentscheidung)

auth. abk

1. authentic

2. author (authoress)

3. authority

4. authorized

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noun

1) no pl. (power) Autorität, die; (delegated power) Befugnis, die

have the/no authority to do something — berechtigt od. befugt/nicht befugt sein, etwas zu tun

have/exercise authority over somebody — Weisungsbefugnis gegenüber jemandem haben

on one's own authority — in eigener Verantwortung

[be] in authority — verantwortlich [sein]

2) (body having power)

the authorities — die Behörde[n]

the highest legal authority — die höchste rechtliche Instanz

3) (expert, book, quotation) Autorität, die

have it on the authority of somebody/something that... — durch jemanden/etwas wissen, dass...

have it on good authority that... — aus zuverlässiger Quelle wissen, dass...

4) no pl.

give or add authority to something — einer Sache (Dat.) Gewicht verleihen

5) no pl. (masterfulness) Souveränität, die

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n.

Autorität f.

Berechtigung f.

Kompetenz f.

Legitimation f.

English-german dictionary > authority
20 drag

I 1. [dræg]
nome

1) colloq. (bore) barba f., lagna f.

Peter's a drag — Peter è una lagna

what a drag! — che barba!

2) aer. fis. resistenza f.

3) colloq. (puff) tiro m., tirata f.

to have a drag on — fare un tirata a

4) (women's clothes worn by men) abbigliamento m. da travestito

to dress up in drag — travestirsi

5) colloq. (road)

the main drag — la strada principale
2.
modificatore

1) teatr. [artist, show] en travesti

2) aut. sport [race, racing] di dragster
II 1. [dræg]
verbo transitivo (forma in -ing ecc. - gg-)

1) (pull) tirare, trascinare (to, up to fino a; towards verso)

to drag sth. along the ground — trascinare qcs. per terra

to drag sb. from — tirare qcn. giù da [chair, bed]

to drag sb. to — trascinare qcn. a [ match]; trascinare qcn. da [ dentist]

to drag sb. into — trascinare qcn. in, dentro [ room]

don't drag my mother into this — non tirare dentro mia madre, non coinvolgere mia madre in questo

2) (search) dragare [river, pond]

3) inform. trascinare [ icon]

4) (trail) trascinare, strascicare

to drag one's feet o heels — strascicare i piedi; fig. essere riluttante (on riguardo a), tirarla per le lunghe
2.
verbo intransitivo (forma in -ing ecc. - gg-)

1) (go slowly) [hours, days] trascinarsi; [story, plot] trascinarsi, procedere pesantemente

2) (trail)

to drag in — [hem, belt] strisciare, strascicare nel [ mud]

3) (inhale)

to drag on — fare un tiro, una tirata a [ cigarette]
3.
verbo riflessivo

to drag oneself to — trascinarsi (fino) a

- drag along

- drag away

- drag down

- drag in

- drag on

- drag out

- drag up

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[dræɡ] 1. past tense, past participle - dragged; verb
1) (to pull, especially by force or roughly: She was dragged screaming from her car.) trascinare, tirare

2) (to pull (something) slowly (usually because heavy): He dragged the heavy table across the floor.) trascinare

3) (to (cause to) move along the ground: His coat was so long it dragged on the ground at the back.) strascicarsi, strascinarsi

4) (to search (the bed of a lake etc) by using a net or hook: Police are dragging the canal to try to find the body.) dragare

5) (to be slow-moving and boring: The evening dragged a bit.) trascinarsi
2. noun
1) (something which slows something down: He felt that his lack of education was a drag on his progress.) ostacolo, impedimento

2) (an act of drawing in smoke from a cigarette etc: He took a long drag at his cigarette.) boccata

3) (something or someone that is dull and boring: Washing-up is a drag.) noia, scocciatura

4) (a slang word for women's clothes when worn by men.) abbigliamento di travestiti

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drag /dræg/
n.

1 (fam.) rottura (di scatole), cosa pallosa: It's a real drag having to get two buses to work every day, è veramente una rottura dover prendere due autobus tutti i giorni per andare a lavorare; Exams are a drag, gli esami sono una palla

2 (fam.) tipo palloso: Don't bring Howard, he's such a drag, non portare Howard, è un tipo così palloso

3 [u] (fam.) abbigliamento del sesso opposto, travesti (franc.): to be in drag, essere in travesti; Why do so many man like wearing drag?, perché a così tanti uomini piace vestirsi da donna?; a drag artist, una drag queen ( uomo), una «drag king» ( donna); a drag show, uno spettacolo drag

4 (fig.) freno, ostacolo: High unemployment is a drag on the economy, un'alta disoccupazione è un freno per l'economia; Having to support a large family was a drag on his career as a writer, il fatto di dover mantenere una famiglia numerosa ha frenato la sua carriera di scrittore; fiscal drag, drenaggio fiscale

5 (fam.) tirata, boccata: a drag on a cigarette, una tirata di sigaretta

6 [u] (mecc. dei fluidi) resistenza, trascinamento; (aeron.) resistenza aerodinamica

7 [u] (fam. USA) autorità, influenza

8 [u] ( caccia) odore di selvaggina; preda fittizia ( oggetto, che lascia un forte odore sul terreno, usato per l'allenamento di cani da caccia detti draghounds)

9 (agric.) erpice pesante; frangizolle

10 rozza slitta; treggia

11 ( un tempo) carrozza chiusa; tiro a quattro

12 (= dragnet) rete a strascico (da pesca o per selvaggina)

13 draga; cavafango

14 (arc.: in un carro agricolo) freno a ceppi; martinicca

15 (metall.) fondo della staffa

16 ( slang USA) strada; via

● (teatr.) drag act, numero di una drag queen (o di una «drag king») □ (mecc.) drag bar, barra di trazione □ drag boat, peschereccio a strascico □ drag chain, catena d'arresto di una ruota ( in un veicolo); (fig.) ostacolo, peso; (ferr.) catena di aggancio; (autom.) catenella di messa a terra □ drag hunt (o hunting), caccia con lo strascico □ drag king, «drag king», artista che si esibisce travestita da uomo □ (mecc.) drag-link, tirante longitudinale ( dello sterzo); quadrilatero articolato a doppia manovella □ drag queen, drag queen, artista che si esibisce travestito da donna; ( anche) travestito (con tratti femminili esasperati: trucco pesante, ecc.) □ drag race, gara di accelerazione (per ► dragster) □ drag racing, gare di accelerazione ( per dragster).
♦ (to) drag /dræg/
A v. t.

1 trascinare; tirare ( a fatica, con sforzo): They used horses to drag the plough, usavano dei cavalli per tirare l'aratro; He was dragging his bag behind him, si trascinava dietro la borsa; She was dragging the child along by the arm, trascinava il bambino tirandolo per il braccio; We dragged the wardrobe up two flights of stairs, abbiamo trascinato il guardaroba su per due rampe di scale; The police dragged away two demonstrators, la polizia ha trascinato via due manifestanti; He dragged me into the room, mi ha trascinato a forza nella stanza; Several men dragged him out of the car and beat him up, diversi uomini lo hanno trascinato fuori dalla macchina e lo hanno picchiato; We dragged the children out of bed and made them go for a walk, abbiamo tirato i bambini giù dal letto e gli abbiamo fatto fare una passeggiata; to drag a leg [a foot], trascinare una gamba [un piede]; She dragged a comb through her hair, si è data una passata col pettine sui capelli

2 (agric.) erpicare ( il terreno)

3 dragare, rastrellare ( un fiume, un lago, ecc.): They dragged the river for the body, hanno dragato il fiume alla ricerca del cadavere

4 frenare ( una ruota, un veicolo) con la martinicca

5 (comput.) trascinare: Drag the file into the folder, trascinate il file nella cartella

B v. i.

1 trascinarsi; strascicare: The bottom of her long skirt dragged on the ground, il fondo della lunga gonna le strascicava per terra

2 (fig.) trascinarsi, procedere a rilento: The long winter months dragged by, i lunghi mesi invernali si trascinavano; The play dragged badly in the second half, lo spettacolo procedeva davvero a rilento nel secondo tempo

3 (naut.) arare: The anchor dragged, l'ancora arava

4 ( di motivo musicale) essere lento; mancare di vivacità

5 pescare a strascico

6 (mecc.) ( dei freni) strisciare; aderire

7 (fam.) tirare una boccata: She dragged on her cigarette, ha tirato una boccata dalla sigaretta

● (comput.) drag and drop, trascina e rilascia ( istruzione) □ to drag oneself, trascinarsi: She managed to drag herself across the room and phoned for an ambulance, è riuscita a trascinarsi attraverso la stanza e ha chiamato un'ambulanza; He dragged himself into work despite having the flu, si è trascinato al lavoro nonostante avesse l'influenza; She dragged herself away from the book and started to tidy up, con grande sforzo, ha posato il libro e si è messa a riordinare □ to drag one's feet (o one's heels), strascicare i piedi; (fig.) tirarla per le lunghe; essere riluttante (a fare qc.): DIALOGO → - Business trip 1- We found out why they've been dragging their heels, abbiamo scoperto il motivo per cui sono andati per le lunghe □ (fig.) to drag sb. kicking and screaming, trascinare q. per i capelli □ (fig.) to drag sb. through the courts, trascinare q. in tribunale □ (fig.) to drag sb. 's name through the mud, trascinare il nome di q. nel fango.

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I 1. [dræg]
nome

1) colloq. (bore) barba f., lagna f.

Peter's a drag — Peter è una lagna

what a drag! — che barba!

2) aer. fis. resistenza f.

3) colloq. (puff) tiro m., tirata f.

to have a drag on — fare un tirata a

4) (women's clothes worn by men) abbigliamento m. da travestito

to dress up in drag — travestirsi

5) colloq. (road)

the main drag — la strada principale
2.
modificatore

1) teatr. [artist, show] en travesti

2) aut. sport [race, racing] di dragster
II 1. [dræg]
verbo transitivo (forma in -ing ecc. - gg-)

1) (pull) tirare, trascinare (to, up to fino a; towards verso)

to drag sth. along the ground — trascinare qcs. per terra

to drag sb. from — tirare qcn. giù da [chair, bed]

to drag sb. to — trascinare qcn. a [ match]; trascinare qcn. da [ dentist]

to drag sb. into — trascinare qcn. in, dentro [ room]

don't drag my mother into this — non tirare dentro mia madre, non coinvolgere mia madre in questo

2) (search) dragare [river, pond]

3) inform. trascinare [ icon]

4) (trail) trascinare, strascicare

to drag one's feet o heels — strascicare i piedi; fig. essere riluttante (on riguardo a), tirarla per le lunghe
2.
verbo intransitivo (forma in -ing ecc. - gg-)

1) (go slowly) [hours, days] trascinarsi; [story, plot] trascinarsi, procedere pesantemente

2) (trail)

to drag in — [hem, belt] strisciare, strascicare nel [ mud]

3) (inhale)

to drag on — fare un tiro, una tirata a [ cigarette]
3.
verbo riflessivo

to drag oneself to — trascinarsi (fino) a

- drag along

- drag away

- drag down

- drag in

- drag on

- drag out

- drag up

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