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  • 1 qualm

    noun
    1) (sudden misgiving) ungutes Gefühl
    2) (scruple) Bedenken, das; (meist Pl.) (over, about gegen)

    he had no qualms about borrowing money — er hatte keine Bedenken, sich (Dat.) Geld zu leihen

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    (a feeling of uncertainty about whether one is doing right: She had no qualms about reporting her husband's crime to the police.) das Bedenken
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    [kwɑ:m]
    n
    1. (doubt)
    ▪ \qualms pl Bedenken pl, Zweifel m meist pl, Skrupel m meist pl
    to feel [no] [or have] \qualms [about doing sth] [keine] Bedenken [o Skrupel] haben [etw zu tun]
    2. (uneasiness) ungutes [o unangenehmes] Gefühl
    without the slightest \qualm ohne die geringsten [o jeden] Skrupel
    3. (feeling of faintness) [plötzliche] Schwäche, Schwächeanfall m
    4. (feeling of sickness) [plötzliche] Übelkeit, [plötzliches] Unwohlsein
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    [kwAːm]
    n
    1) (= doubt, scruple) Skrupel m, Bedenken nt
    2) (= misgiving) Bedenken nt
    3) (old: nausea) Übelkeit f
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    qualm [kwɑːm; US auch kwɑːlm] s
    1. Übelkeit(sgefühl) f(n)
    2. pl fig (about) Skrupel pl (wegen), Bedenken pl (gegen), Zweifel pl (an dat):
    qualms of conscience Gewissensbisse;
    feel ( oder have) no qualms about doing sth keine Skrupel haben, etwas zu tun
    3. fig ungutes Gefühl ( about wegen)
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    noun
    1) (sudden misgiving) ungutes Gefühl
    2) (scruple) Bedenken, das; (meist Pl.) (over, about gegen)

    he had no qualms about borrowing money — er hatte keine Bedenken, sich (Dat.) Geld zu leihen

    English-german dictionary > qualm

  • 2 all

    1. attributive adjective
    1) (entire extent or quantity of) ganz

    all day — den ganzen Tag

    all my money — all mein Geld; mein ganzes Geld

    stop all this noise/shouting! — hör mit dem Krach/Geschrei auf!

    2) (entire number of) alle

    all my books — all[e] meine Bücher

    where are all the glasses? — wo sind all die Gläser?

    All Fools' Day — der 1. April

    3) (any whatever) jeglicher/jegliche/jegliches
    4) (greatest possible)

    in all innocence — in aller Unschuld

    with all speed — so schnell wie möglich

    2. noun

    one and all — [alle] ohne Ausnahme

    the happiest/most beautiful of all — der/die Glücklichste/die Schönste unter allen

    most of all — am meisten

    he ran fastest of all — er lief am schnellsten

    2) (every bit)

    all of it/the money — alles/das ganze od. alles Geld

    3)

    all of (coll.): (as much as) be all of seven feet tall — gut sieben Fuß groß sein

    4) (all things) alles

    all is not lost — es ist nicht alles verloren

    most of all — am meisten

    it was all but impossible — es war fast unmöglich

    all in all — alles in allem

    it's all the same or all one to me — es ist mir ganz egal od. völlig gleichgültig

    you are not disturbing me at all — du störst mich nicht im geringsten

    nothing at all — gar nichts

    not at all happy/well — überhaupt nicht glücklich/gesund

    not at all! — überhaupt nicht!; (acknowledging thanks) gern geschehen!; nichts zu danken!

    two [goals] all — zwei zu zwei; (Tennis)

    3. adverb

    all the better/worse [for that] — um so besser/schlimmer

    I feel all the better for it — das hat mir wirklich gut getan

    all at once — (suddenly) plötzlich; (simultaneously) alle[s] zugleich

    be all for something — (coll.) sehr für etwas sein

    be all in — (exhausted) total od. völlig erledigt sein (ugs.)

    go all out [to do something] — alles daransetzen[, etwas zu tun]

    be all ready [to go] — (coll.) fertig [zum Weggehen] sein (ugs.)

    something is all right — etwas ist in Ordnung; (tolerable) etwas ist ganz gut

    work out all right — gut gehen; klappen (ugs.)

    that's her, all right — das ist sie, ganz recht

    yes, all right — ja, gut

    it's all right by or with me — das ist mir recht

    lie all round the room — überall im Zimmer herumliegen

    I don't think he's all there — (coll.) ich glaube, er ist nicht ganz da (ugs.)

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    [o:l] 1. adjective, pronoun
    1) (the whole (of): He ate all the cake; He has spent all of his money.) ganz
    2) (every one (of a group) when taken together: They were all present; All men are equal.) alle
    2. adverb
    1) (entirely: all alone; dressed all in white.) ganz
    2) ((with the) much; even: Your low pay is all the more reason to find a new job; I feel all the better for a shower.) um so
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    - all-out
    - all-round
    - all-rounder
    - all-terrain vehicle
    - all along
    - all at once
    - all in
    - all in all
    - all over
    - all right
    - in all
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    [ɒ:l, AM also ɑ:l]
    I. adj attr, inv
    1. + pl n (the whole number of, every one of) alle
    are those \all the documents you can find? sind das alle Papiere, die du finden kannst?
    \all my glasses are broken alle meine [o meine ganzen] Gläser sind kaputt, meine Gläser sind alle [o fam allesamt] kaputt
    \all children should have a right to education alle Kinder sollten ein Recht auf Bildung haben
    \all her children go to public school alle ihre Kinder besuchen eine Privatschule, ihre Kinder besuchen alle [o fam allesamt] ein Privatschule
    20% of \all items sold had been reduced 20 % aller verkauften Artikel waren reduziert
    \all six [of the] men are electricians alle sechs [Männer] sind Elektriker
    I had to use \all my powers of persuasion ich musste meine ganze Überzeugungskraft aufbieten
    I've locked myself out — of \all the stupid things to do! ich habe mich ausgeschlossen! — wie kann man nur so blöd sein!
    on \all fours auf allen vieren
    from \all directions aus allen Richtungen
    \all the people alle [Leute]
    why did the take him, of \all people? warum haben sie ausgerechnet ihn genommen?
    \all the others alle anderen
    2. + sing n (the whole of) der/die/das ganze...
    they lost \all their money sie haben ihr ganzes Geld verloren
    \all day [long] den ganzen Tag [lang]
    \all her life ihr ganzes Leben
    for \all the money trotz des ganzen Geldes
    \all the time die ganze Zeit
    he was unemployed for \all that time er war all die Zeit [o die ganze Zeit über] [o während der ganzen Zeit] arbeitslos
    \all the way den ganzen [weiten] Weg
    \all week/year die ganze Woche/das ganze Jahr
    3. + sing n (every type of) jede(r, s)
    \all wood should be treated jedes Holz sollte [o alle Holzarten sollten] behandelt werden
    with \all haste [or speed] [or dispatch] ( form) so schnell wie möglich
    in \all honesty [or sincerity] ganz ehrlich
    with \all due respect,... bei allem Respekt,..., mit Verlaub,... geh
    with \all speed so schnell wie möglich
    in \all probability aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach
    5. (any whatever) jegliche(r, s)
    she denied \all knowledge of the matter sie stritt ab, irgendetwas über die Sache zu wissen
    beyond \all doubt jenseits allen Zweifels
    6.
    ▶ for \all trotz + gen
    for \all her money she is not happy trotz ihres ganzen Geldes ist sie nicht glücklich
    ▶ \all good things must come to an end ( prov) alles hat ein Ende
    ▶ ... and \all that jazz [or (pej!) rubbish]... und das ganze Zeug pej fam
    ▶ not as... as \all that:
    he's not as rich as \all that so reich ist er nun auch wieder nicht
    II. pron
    1. (the total, everybody, every one) alle
    the best-looking of \all der Bestaussehende von allen
    we saw \all of them wir haben [sie] alle gesehen
    \all of them [or they \all] liked the film der Film hat ihnen allen [o allen von ihnen] gefallen
    the house has four bedrooms, \all with balconies das Haus hat vier Schlafzimmer, alle mit Balkon
    her last novel was [the] best of \all ihr letzter Roman war der beste von allen
    \all but one of the pupils came to the outing bis auf einen Schüler nahmen alle am Ausflug teil
    \all and sundry jedermann, Gott und die Welt
    one and \all alle
    let's sing now one and \all! lasst uns jetzt alle zusammen singen!
    \all but... alle außer..., bis auf...
    2. (everything) alles
    it was \all very strange es war alles sehr seltsam
    \all is not lost yet noch ist nicht alles verloren
    tell me \all about it erzähl mir alles darüber
    he's eaten \all of it [or eaten it \all] er hat alles aufgegessen
    have you drunk \all of the milk? hast du die ganze Milch getrunken?
    first of \all zuerst; (most importantly) vor allem
    most of \all am meisten
    there are many professions which interest him, but most of \all, he'd like to be a zookeeper viele Berufe interessieren ihn, aber am liebsten wäre er Zoowärter
    \all in one alles in einem
    a corkscrew and bottle-opener \all in one ein Korkenzieher und Flaschenöffner in einem
    to give [or put] one's \all alles [o sein Letztes] geben
    and \all ( fam) und all dem
    what with the fog and \all, I'd really not drive tonight ( fam) bei dem Nebel und so möchte ich heute Nacht wirklich nicht fahren fam
    3. + relative clause (the only thing) alles
    it was \all that he had es war alles, was er hatte
    it's \all [that] I can do for you mehr kann ich nicht für dich tun
    \all I want is to be left alone ich will nur in Ruhe gelassen werden
    the remark was so silly, it was \all she could do not to laugh die Bemerkung war so dumm, dass sie sich sehr zusammenreißen musste, um nicht zu lachen
    \all [that] it takes is a little bit of luck man braucht nur etwas Glück
    that's \all I need right now ( iron) das hat mir jetzt gerade noch gefehlt pej
    for \all...:
    for \all I care,.... von mir aus...
    for \all I know,... (as far as I know) soviel [o soweit] ich weiß...; (I don't know) was weiß ich,...
    are the married? — for \all I know they could be sind sie verheiratet? — was weiß ich, schon möglich!
    where is she? — for \all I know she could be on holidays wo ist sie? — was weiß ich, vielleicht [ist sie] im Urlaub!
    4. (for emphasis)
    at \all überhaupt
    do you ever travel to the States at \all? fährst du überhaupt je in die Staaten?
    if at \all wenn überhaupt
    nothing [or not anything] at \all überhaupt nichts
    not at \all überhaupt nicht
    thanks very much for your help — not at \all, it was a pleasure vielen Dank für Ihre Hilfe — keine Ursache [o nichts zu danken], es war mir ein Vergnügen
    5.
    ▶ and \all ( fam: as well) auch
    I'm cold — yeah, me and \all mir ist kalt — ja, mir auch
    get one for me and \all bring mir auch einen
    ▶ \all for one, and one for \all ( saying) alle für einen, einer für alle
    ▶ in \all insgesamt
    that's £20 in \all das macht alles zusammen 20 Pfund
    ▶ \all in \all alles in allem
    ▶ \all of... (at least) mindestens...; (as much as) gut...; (as little as) ganze...
    it's going to cost \all of a million dollars das kostet mindestens eine Million Dollar
    the book has sold \all of 200/400,000 copies von dem Buch sind ganze 200/gut 400.000 Exemplare verkauft worden
    ▶ to be \all one to sb jdm egal [o gleich] sein
    ▶ \all told insgesamt
    they tried a dozen times \all told sie versuchten es insgesamt ein Dutzend Mal
    ▶ \all's well that ends well ( prov) Ende gut, alles gut prov
    III. adv inv
    1. (entirely) ganz, völlig
    it's \all about money these days heutzutage geht es nur ums Geld
    she's been \all round the world sie war schon überall auf der Welt
    to be \all in favour of sth ganz [o völlig] begeistert von etw dat sein
    \all in green ganz in Grün
    to be \all in one piece heil [o unbeschädigt] sein
    to be \all of a piece with sth mit etw dat völlig übereinstimmen
    to spill sth \all over the place/floor etw überall/über den gesamten Boden verschütten
    the baby got food \all over its bib das Baby hatte sich sein ganzes Lätzchen vollgekleckert
    to be \all over the place [or BRIT shop] ( fam) überall sein
    to be not \all that happy nicht gerade glücklich sein
    \all alone ganz allein
    \all along die ganze Zeit
    she's been fooling us \all along sie hat uns die ganze Zeit getäuscht
    to be \all over aus und vorbei sein
    to be \all for doing sth ganz dafür sein, etw zu tun
    my son is \all for spending the summer on the beach mein Sohn will den Sommer unbedingt am Strand verbringen
    the newspaper was \all advertisements die Zeitung bestand fast nur aus Anzeigen
    I was \all the family she ever had ich war die einzige Familie, die sie je hatte
    he was \all smiles er strahlte über das ganze Gesicht
    he's \all talk [or ( fam) mouth] er ist nur ein Schwätzer pej, er schwingt nur große Worte
    to be \all charm seinen ganzen Charme spielenlassen
    to be \all ears ganz Ohr sein
    to be \all eyes gespannt zusehen
    to be \all a flutter ganz aus dem Häuschen sein fam
    to be \all silk/wool aus reiner Seide/Wolle sein
    3.
    ▪ \all the... (even) umso...; (much) viel...
    \all the better [for that]! umso besser!
    now that he's a star he'll be \all the more difficult to work with jetzt wo er ein Star ist, wird die Zusammenarbeit mit ihm umso schwieriger sein
    I feel \all the better for your visit seit du da bist, geht es mir schon viel besser
    4. (for emphasis) äußerst, ausgesprochen
    she was \all excited sie war ganz aufgeregt
    now don't get \all upset about it nun reg dich doch nicht so [furchtbar] darüber auf
    your proposal is \all very well in theory, but... in der Theorie ist dein Vorschlag ja schön und gut, aber...
    \all too... nur zu...
    I'm \all too aware of the problems die Probleme sind mir nur zu gegenwärtig
    the end of the holiday came \all too soon der Urlaub war nur viel zu schnell zu Ende
    5. SPORT (to both sides)
    the score is three \all es steht drei zu drei [unentschieden] [o drei beide
    6.
    to not do sth \all that well (not really) etw nicht gerade toll tun fam
    she doesn't sing \all that well sie kann nicht besonders toll singen fam
    to not be \all that... (not as much as thought) so... nun auch wieder nicht sein
    he's not \all that important so wichtig ist er nun auch wieder nicht
    7. (nearly)
    \all but fast
    the party was \all but over when we arrived die Party war schon fast vorbei, als wir ankamen
    it was \all but impossible to read his writing es war nahezu unmöglich, seine Handschrift zu entziffern
    8.
    ▶ to go \all out for sth alles für etw akk tun
    ▶ \all in (exhausted)
    he felt \all in er war völlig erledigt; BRIT (including everything) alles inklusive
    the holiday cost £600 \all in alles inklusive hat der Urlaub hat 600 Pfund gekostet
    ▶ to be \all over sb ( pej: excessively enthusiastic) sich akk [geradezu] auf jdn stürzen; ( fam: harass) jdn total anmachen fam, über jdn herfallen ÖSTERR fam
    ▶ that's sb \all over das sieht jdm ähnlich
    he invited me out for dinner and then discovered he didn't have any money — that's Bill \all over! er lud mich ein, mit ihm auswärts zu essen, und merkte dann, dass er kein Geld bei sich hatte — typisch Bill!
    ▶ to be \all over the place [or BRIT shop] ( fam: badly organised) [völlig] chaotisch sein; (confused) völlig von der Rolle [o ÖSTERR daneben] sein fam
    ▶ \all round [or around] AM (in every way) rundum; (for each person) für alle
    that was a success/good performance \all round das war ein voller Erfolg/eine rundum gelungene Vorstellung
    he bought drinks \all round er gab eine Runde Getränke aus
    ▶ to be not \all there ( fam) nicht ganz richtig [im Kopf] sein fam, nicht alle Tassen im Schrank haben fig fam
    ▶ to be \all up with sb ( fam)
    it looks as though it's \all up with us now es sieht so aus, als seien wir nun endgültig am Ende fam
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    [ɔːl]
    1. ADJECTIVE
    with nouns plural alle; (singular) ganze(r, s), alle(r, s)When alle is used to translate all the it is not followed by the German article.

    all the problems have been solved — alle or sämtliche Probleme wurden gelöst

    all the tobacco —

    all the milk all the fruit — die ganze Milch, alle Milch das ganze Obst, alles Obst

    all day ( long) — den ganzen Tag (lang)

    all my books/friends — alle meine Bücher/Freunde, meine ganzen Bücher/Freunde

    they all came —

    I invited them all — ich habe sie alle eingeladen Note that it all is usually translated by alles alone:

    he took/spent it all — er hat alles genommen/ausgegeben

    it all happened so quickly — alles geschah so schnell, es geschah alles so schnell

    he's seen/done it all — für ihn gibt es nichts Neues mehr, ihn kann nichts mehr erschüttern (inf)

    what's all this/that about? — was soll das Ganze?

    what's all this/that? — was ist denn das?; (annoyed) was soll denn das!

    2. PRONOUN
    1) = everything alles

    I'm just curious, that's all — ich bin nur neugierig, das ist alles

    that's all he said — das ist alles, was er gesagt hat, mehr hat er nicht gesagt

    that is all (that) I can tell you — mehr kann ich Ihnen nicht sagen

    it was all I could do not to laugh — ich musste an mich halten, um nicht zu lachen

    all of Paris/of the house — ganz Paris/das ganze Haus

    all of 5 kms/£5 —

    2) = everybody alle pl

    all who knew him — alle, die ihn kannten

    the score was two all — es stand zwei zu zwei

    3. ADVERB
    (= quite, entirely) ganz

    dressed all in white, all dressed in white — ganz in Weiß (gekleidet)

    all dirty/excited etc — ganz schmutzig/aufgeregt etc

    an all wool carpet — ein reinwollener Teppich, ein Teppich aus reiner Wolle

    he ordered whiskies/drinks all round —

    4. NOUN
    __diams; one's all alles

    he staked his all on this race/deal — er setzte alles auf dieses Rennen/Unternehmen

    5. SET STRUCTURES
    __diams; all along (= from the start) von Anfang an, die ganze Zeit (über)

    I feared that all along — das habe ich von Anfang an befürchtet, das habe ich schon die ganze Zeit (über) befürchtet

    he all but died —

    the party won all but six of the seats — die Partei hat alle außer sechs Sitzen or alle bis auf sechs Sitze gewonnen

    I'm all for it! — ich bin ganz dafür __diams; all found insgesamt, alles in allem __diams; all in ( inf

    to be or feel all in — total erledigt sein (inf) __diams; all in all alles in allem

    all the hotter/prettier/happier etc — noch heißer/hübscher/glücklicher etc

    all the funnier because... — umso lustiger, weil...

    or vacation (US) — jetzt, wo ich Urlaub gemacht habe, gehts mir viel besser

    all the more so since... —

    all the same, it's a pity — trotzdem ist es schade

    it's all the same to me —

    he's all there/not all there — er ist voll da/nicht ganz da (inf) __diams; all too + adjective/adverb

    all too soon/quickly — viel zu or allzu früh/schnell

    he ate the orange, peel and all — er hat die ganze Orange gegessen, samt der Schale

    the whole family came, children and all — die Familie kam mit Kind und Kegel

    did/didn't you say anything at all? — haben Sie überhaupt etwas gesagt/gar or überhaupt nichts gesagt?

    I'm not at all sure, I'm not sure at all — ich bin mir ganz und gar nicht sicher, ich bin gar nicht ganz sicher

    I'm not at all angry etc, I'm not angry etc at all — ich bin überhaupt nicht wütend etc, ich bin ganz und gar nicht wütend etc

    for all that — trotz allem, trotzdem

    for all I know she could be ill —

    is he in Paris? – for all I know he could be — ist er in Paris? – schon möglich, was weiß ich!

    ten people in all — insgesamt zehn Personen __diams; all that ( US inf ) einfach super (inf)

    it's not all that bad, it's not as bad as all that — so schlimm ist es nun auch wieder nicht

    happiest/earliest/clearest etc of all —

    I like him best of all — von allen mag ich ihn am liebsten

    most of all —

    most of all I'd like to be... — am liebsten wäre ich...

    the best car of all — das allerbeste Auto __diams; to be all things to all men (person) sich mit jedem gutstellen; (thing, invention, new software etc) das Ideale sein

    a party which claims to be all things to all men — eine Partei, die behauptet, allen etwas zu bieten __diams; you all ( US inf ) ihr (alle); (to two people) ihr (beide)

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    all [ɔːl]
    A adj
    1. all, sämtlich, gesamt, vollständig, ganz:
    all one’s courage seinen ganzen Mut;
    all mistakes alle oder sämtliche Fehler;
    all my friends alle meine Freunde;
    all night (long) die ganze Nacht (hindurch);
    all (the) day, all day long den ganzen Tag, den lieben langen Tag;
    all day and every day tagelang; tagaus, tagein;
    open all day ganztägig geöffnet;
    a) die ganze Zeit (über),
    b) ständig, immer;
    at all times zu jeder Zeit, jederzeit;
    all the town die ganze Stadt, jedermann; → day 6
    2. jeder, jede, jedes, alle pl:
    at all hours zu jeder Stunde;
    beyond all question ohne Frage, fraglos;
    in all respects in jeder Hinsicht;
    deny all responsibility jede Verantwortung ablehnen; → sundry
    3. vollkommen, völlig, total, ganz, rein:
    all nonsense reiner Unsinn;
    all wool US reine Wolle; → leg Bes Redew
    B adv
    1. ganz (u. gar), gänzlich, völlig:
    all alone ganz allein;
    all the um so …;
    all the better um so besser;
    she was all gratitude sie war voll(er) Dankbarkeit;
    she is all kindness sie ist die Güte selber;
    all one einerlei, gleichgültig;
    he is all for it er ist unbedingt dafür;
    all important äußerst wichtig, entscheidend;
    all mad völlig verrückt;
    all wrong ganz falsch; → same C
    2. für jede Seite, beide:
    the score was two all das Spiel stand zwei zu zwei
    3. poet gerade, eben
    C pron alles:
    all of it alles, das Ganze;
    all of us wir alle;
    good night, all gute Nacht allerseits!;
    all of a year ein ganzes Jahr;
    it took me all of two days ich brauchte zwei volle oder ganze zwei Tage ( to do zu tun);
    that’s all das ist oder wäre alles;
    that’s all there is to it das ist die ganze Geschichte;
    all or nothing alles oder nichts;
    it’s all or nothing for es geht um alles oder nichts für;
    it all began die ganze Sache begann;
    and all that und dergleichen;
    when all is said and done letzten Endes, schließlich; → end B 1
    D s
    1. alles:
    a) sein Hab und Gut,
    b) auch his all and all sein Ein und Alles
    2. oft All PHIL (Welt)All nBesondere Redewendungen: all along die ganze Zeit (über);
    a) rund(her)um, ringsumher,
    b) überall,
    c) durch die Bank umg, durchweg all in alles inklusive;
    be ( oder feel) all in umg total fertig oder erledigt sein;
    all in all alles in allem;
    his wife is all in all to him seine Frau bedeutet ihm alles;
    all out umg
    a) total fertig oder erledigt,
    b) auf dem Holzweg (im Irrtum),
    c) mit aller Macht ( for sth auf etwas aus), mit restlosem Einsatz,
    d) vollständig ( → all-out) go all out umg
    a) alles daransetzen, aufs Ganze gehen,
    b) besonders SPORT das Letzte aus sich herausholen all over
    a) umg ganz und gar,
    b) überall,
    c) überallhin, in ganz England etc herum, im ganzen Haus etc herum,
    d) auch all over one’s body am ganzen Körper, überall that is Doug all over das ist ganz oder typisch Doug, das sieht Doug ähnlich;
    news from all over Nachrichten von überall her;
    be all over sb umg an jemandem einen Narren gefressen haben;
    a) ganz recht oder richtig,
    b) schon gut,
    c) in Ordnung (auch Person), engS. unbeschädigt,
    d) na schön!,
    e) umg mit Sicherheit, ohne Zweifel,
    f) erlaubt I’m all right bei mir ist alles in Ornung;
    he’s all right ihm ist nichts passiert;
    I’m all right, Jack umg Hauptsache, mir geht’s gut;
    a) geeignet sein oder passen für,
    b) annehmbar sein für it’s all right for you to laugh du hast gut lachen;
    I’m all right for money umg bei mir stimmt die Kasse;
    are you all right in that chair? sitzt du gut in dem Sessel?;
    is it all right if I’ …? darf ich …?;
    it’s all right with ( oder by) me von mir aus, ich habe nichts dagegen;
    he arrived all right er ist gut angekommen;
    a) rund(her)um, ringsumher,
    b) überall,
    c) durch die Bank umg, durchweg taken all round umg alles in allem;
    all there gewitzt, gescheit, auf Draht umg;
    he is not all there er ist nicht ganz bei Trost;
    all up umg total fertig oder erledigt;
    it’s all up with him mit ihm ists aus;
    he of all people came ausgerechnet er kam;
    * * *
    1. attributive adjective

    all my money — all mein Geld; mein ganzes Geld

    stop all this noise/shouting! — hör mit dem Krach/Geschrei auf!

    all my books — all[e] meine Bücher

    All Fools' Day — der 1. April

    3) (any whatever) jeglicher/jegliche/jegliches
    2. noun

    one and all — [alle] ohne Ausnahme

    the happiest/most beautiful of all — der/die Glücklichste/die Schönste unter allen

    all of it/the money — alles/das ganze od. alles Geld

    3)

    all of (coll.): (as much as) be all of seven feet tall — gut sieben Fuß groß sein

    4) (all things) alles

    it's all the same or all one to me — es ist mir ganz egal od. völlig gleichgültig

    not at all happy/well — überhaupt nicht glücklich/gesund

    not at all! — überhaupt nicht!; (acknowledging thanks) gern geschehen!; nichts zu danken!

    two [goals] all — zwei zu zwei; (Tennis)

    3. adverb

    all the better/worse [for that] — um so besser/schlimmer

    all at once — (suddenly) plötzlich; (simultaneously) alle[s] zugleich

    be all for something — (coll.) sehr für etwas sein

    be all in — (exhausted) total od. völlig erledigt sein (ugs.)

    go all out [to do something] — alles daransetzen[, etwas zu tun]

    be all ready [to go] — (coll.) fertig [zum Weggehen] sein (ugs.)

    something is all right — etwas ist in Ordnung; (tolerable) etwas ist ganz gut

    work out all right — gut gehen; klappen (ugs.)

    that's her, all right — das ist sie, ganz recht

    yes, all right — ja, gut

    it's all right by or with me — das ist mir recht

    I don't think he's all there — (coll.) ich glaube, er ist nicht ganz da (ugs.)

    * * *
    adj.
    all adj.
    ganz adj.
    jeder adj.
    sämtlich adj.

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  • 3 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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    1. II
    throw in some manner he throws well он хорошо удит, он умеет удить рыбу
    2. III
    1) throw smth. throw a ball (a stone, a pebble, a book, a plate, etc.) бросать /кидать, швырять/ мяч и т.д.; throw the discus (the javelin, etc.) sport. метать диск и т.д.; who threw that? кто это бросил?; а hose throws water из шланга бьет вода; [learn] to throw a fly [научиться] забрасывать удочку с "мухой", ловить рыбу на "муху"; throw a good line быть хорошим рыболовом; throw smb. throw a rider сбрасывать всадника; the horse threw him лошадь сбросила его; he threw his opponent он бросил противника на ковер
    2) throw smth. throw one's skin (one's horns, one's antlers, hoofs) сбрасывать /менять/ кожу и т.д.
    3) throw smth. throw a switch включить рубильник; you'll have to throw that switch to get the machine started нужно включить ток, чтобы пустить машину в ход
    4) throw smth. sl. throw a party (a ball, etc.) устроить /закатить/ вечеринку и т.д.; throw a dinner давать обед; I nearly threw a fit when I heard it я чуть в обморок не упал, когда об этом услышал
    5) semiaux throw smb. coll. it was her falsetto voice that really threw me что меня действительно поразило /удивило/, так это ее фальцет
    3. IV
    1) throw smth., smb. somewhere throw smth. high (far, down, back, etc.) бросать что-л. высоко и т.д..; throw the ball up and catch it as it falls подбросьте мяч вверх и поймайте его, когда он будет падать; she threw her body backward она откинулась назад; throw aside all caution отбрасывать всякую предосторожность; throw aside all decorum отбросить всякое внешнее приличие /всякий этикет/; throw smth., smb. over /overboard/ выбрасывать что-л., кого-л. за борт; throw a scheme overboard отказываться от плана; he threw the letter down он бросил /швырнул/ письмо; throw down one's arms бросать оружие, сдаваться; he threw his opponent down он сбил с ног или повалял на землю своего противника; throw smth., smb. in some manner throw smth., smb. quickly (deliberately, defiantly, violently, suddenly, etc.) бросать /кидать, швырять/ что-л., кого-л. быстро и т.д..
    2) throw smth. somewhere throw the light ever here направьте сюда свет; she threw a glance backwards она взглянула /бросила взгляд/ назад
    4. V
    1) throw smb. smth. throw smb. a ball (a book, а горе, а bone, etc.) бросать /кидать/ кому-л. мяч и т.д.; throw smth. some distance throw smth. three yards (ten feet, etc.) бросить что-л. на три ярда и т.д.
    2) throw smb. smth. throw smb. a kiss послать кому-л. воздушный поцелуй
    5. VI
    || throw smth. open резко открывать что-л.; throw the lid open откинуть крышку; throw the window open распахнуть окно; throw open the door to smb. распахивать дверь перед кем-л.; throw open one's house to smb. (to the public, to all and sundry, etc.) открывать кому-л. и т.д. доступ в свой дом; throw a castle (gardens, etc.) open открывать замок и т.д. для [широкого доступа] публики; throw open the public parks on Sundays открывать общественные парки для широкой публики по воскресеньям
    6. XI
    1) be thrown in smth. two of the jockeys were thrown in the second race во втором заезде были сброшены с лошадей два жокея; be thrown off /from/ smb., smth. he was thrown off his horse его сбросила лошадь; he was thrown from a moving car его на ходу выбросили из машины; be thrown (up)on (into, etc.) smth. be thrown (up)on an unknown coast (on a reef, on the rocks, etc.) быть выброшенным на незнакомый берег и т.д.; the sacks were thrown into the river мешки сбросили в воду; be thrown on the streets быть выброшенным на улицу; be thrown out of the hall быть вышвырнутым из зала; be thrown out of work быть выброшенным с работы
    2) be thrown (up)on smth. the view appeared as if it had been suddenly thrown on a screen перед нами открылся вид, словно его внезапно спроектировали на экране; new light has been thrown on the text об этом тексте узнали новое; new light may be thrown upon the cause of cancer by research исследования могут пролить новый свет на причину [возникновения] рака || be thrown into [the] shade померкнуть; the old teacher was thrown into the shade by the new master новый учитель затмил старого
    3) be thrown at (from) smb., smth. he had these words thrown at him ему /в его адрес/ бросили эти слова; angry words of disapproval were thrown from the audience из зала неслись возгласы неодобрения
    4) || be thrown out of gear a) tech. быть выключенным (о передаче); б) быть дезорганизованным /расстроенным/
    5) be thrown open all the windows were thrown open распахнули /были распахнуты/ все окна; the [royal] gardens will be thrown open on Sundays по воскресеньям [королевские] сады будут открыты для доступа широкой публики; be thrown open to foreign trade быть [широко] открытым для внешней торговли
    6) be thrown into smth. be thrown into confusion (into discord, into utter despair, into an uproar, into an upheaval into a state of anarchy, etc.) быть приведенным /быть ввергнутым, впасть/ в замешательство и т.д.; the city was thrown into a panic through a report that... в городе возникла паника из-за сообщения о том, что...; the whole assembly was thrown into fits of laughter присутствующие на собрании разразились смехом
    7) be thrown into smth. I was thrown into their company by accident в их компанию я попал случайно; he was thrown into a dilemma он оказался перед дилеммой /был поставлен в затруднительное положение/ || be thrown upon /on/ one's own resources оказаться предоставленным самому себе
    7. XVI
    throw at smb., smth. the dog threw at her собака набросилась на нее; throw at smb.'s neck вешаться кому-л. на шею
    8. XVIII
    1) throw oneself into (on, upon, to, etc.) smth. throw oneself into the water (into a chair, upon the floor, on to one's knees, to the ground, under an approaching train, etc.) бросаться /кидаться/ в воду и т.д.; he threw himself down on the bed он бросился на кровать; he threw himself on the horse он взлетел /одним махом сел/ на лошадь; throw oneself into smb.'s arms броситься в чьи-л. объятия; throw oneself blindly into smb.'s hands слепо подчиниться кому-л.; throw oneself from smth. throw oneself from the tower (from the rock, from the loth storey, etc.) бросаться /кидаться/ с башни и т.д. ; throw oneself [uneasily] from side to side of the bed [беспокойно] метаться по кровати
    2) throw oneself against /at/ smb., smth. throw oneself against /at/ the enemy ринуться на врага; oneself against the fence кидаться на /биться о/ забор; throw oneself at smb. /at smb.'s head/ бросаться /вешаться/ кому-л. на шею
    3) throw oneself into smth. throw oneself into the work посвятить себя работе, с головой уйти в работу; throw oneself eagerly into the task of... энергично взяться за выполнение задачи...; throw oneself into the fray ввязаться /влезть/ в драку
    4) throw oneself (apian smth. throw oneself on smb.'s generosity (upon smb.'s kindness, etc.) довериться чьему-л. великодушию и т.д., положиться на чье-л. великодушие и т.д.; the author throws himself upon the kind indulgence of his readers автор полагается /рассчитывает/ на доброту /снисхождение своих читателей; throw oneself upon the mercy of the court (of the judge, of one's captors, etc.) отдаться на милость правосудия и т.д.
    9. XXI1
    1) throw smth., smb. in (to) (over, on, through, out of, etc.) smth. throw a stone into the water (a cap into the air, him into the dust, a ball over the wall, a book on the floor, etc.) бросать /кидать, швырять/ камень в воду и т.д.; throw a ball through the window забросить мяч в окно; throw smb. out of the window (a rowdy out of the house, the opposition out of a meeting, etc.) вышвырнуть кого-л. из окна и т.д.; he threw the letter in the waste-paper basket он выкинул письмо в мусорную корзину; throw smb. out of work (the workers out of employment, etc.) выбросить /уволить/ кого-л. с работы и т.д.; throw a train off the rails спускать /сбрасывать/ поезд под откос; the hose threw water upon the conflagration из шланга в огонь била вода; throw smth. to smb. throw a bone to a dog (a ball to one's sister, kisses to one another, etc.) бросать /кидать, швырять/ кость собаке и т.д. ; throw a sop to smb. бросать кому-л. подачку; they were throwing a ball to each other они перебрасывались мячом; throw smth. at smb., smth. throw a stone at a dog (a knife at the soldier, a pebble at the window, a plate at her, etc.) бросать /кидать, швырять/ камнем в собаку и т.д.; throw mud /dirt/ at smb. а) забрызгать грязью кого-л.; б) обливать кого-л. грязью, чернить кого-л.; throw smb., smth. to (on, etc.) smth. he seized the man and threw him to the ground он схватил мужчину и швырнул его на землю; she threw her hat on the bed она бросила шляпу на кровать
    2) throw smth. on (at, upon, etc.) smb., smth. he threw an angry (hasty, merry, etc.) look /glance/ on me он бросил на меня сердитый и т.д. взгляд; she threw a glance at him backward over her shoulder она быстро взглянула на него через плечо; throw doubt's) upon smth. брать что-л. под сомнение, подвергать что-л. сомнению; throw suspicion upon smth. навлекать подозрение на что-л.; throw difficulties in the way of smth. создавать трудности /препятствия/ на пути к чему-л.; throw obstacles in smb.'s way чинить препятствия кому-л.; throw temptation in smb.'s way искушать кого-л. || throw smth. to the wind пренебрегать чем-л.; they threw to the wind all respect for things or persons они перестали относиться с уважением к кому-л. и чему-л.
    3) throw smth. on smth. throw light on smth. a) отбрасывать свет на что-л.; the lamp threw a strong light on the table лампа отбрасывала яркий свет на стол; б) проливать свет на что-л.; can you throw any light on this question? вы можете как-нибудь объяснить этот вопрос?; throw a /one's/ shadow on smth. а) отбрасывать /бросать/ тень на что-л.; the trees threw long shadows on the ground на землю от деревьев ложились длинные тени; б) порочить что-л. || throw smb. into the shade задвинуть /оттеснять/ кого-л. на второе место
    4) throw smb. into smth. throw troops into action (more soldiers into action, an army into battle, etc.) вводить /бросать/ войска в бой и т.д.; throw smb. into prison бросить кого-л. в тюрьму; throw smth. against smb. throw a division against the enemy бросить против противника целую дивизию
    5) throw smth. over (round, across, etc.) smb., smth. throw a pail of water over smb. окатить /облить/ кого-л. ведром воды; throw a sheet over smth. набрасывать чехол на что-л.; throw a cloak round smb. набрасывать /накидывать/ плащ на кого-л.; throw a shawl (a wrap, etc.) over one's shoulders накидывать шаль и т.д. на плечи; she threw her arms round his neck она обвила его шею руками; throw a bridge across /over/ a river (over a stream, etc.) перебрасывать /наводить/ мост через реку и т.д.
    6) throw smth. on smb. throw the blame (the responsibility) on smb. сваливать /перекладывать/ вину (ответственность) на кого-л.
    7) throw smth. into smth. throw all one's energy (one's soul, one's heart, one's spirit, one's efforts, etc.) into one's work вложить всю свою энергию и т.д. в работу
    8) semiaux throw smb., smth. into (on, off) some state throw smb. into confusion (into a state of agitation, into [а] [high] fever, etc.) приводить кого-л. в замешательство и т.д.; throw smb. into ecstasy привести кого-л. в экстаз; throw smb. into a fever of excitement (of joy) сильно взволновать (обрадовать) кого-л.; throw smb. into a dilemma поставить кого-л. перед дилеммой /выбором/; the tempest threw the room into darkness с приближением бури комната погрузилась в темноту; he threw the manuscript into a form suitable for publication он привел рукопись в приемлемый для печати вид; throw the enemy on the defensive mil. заставить противника занять оборону; throw smb. off balance выводить кого-л. из себя; throw the dogs off the scent сбить собак со следа || throw smb. upon his own resources заставить положиться на себя; his father's death threw him upon his own resources смерть отца заставила его рассчитывать только на себя
    10. XXIV2
    || throw smth. aside as.useless отказываться от чего-л. как от бесполезного /ненужного/

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > throw

  • 5 strike

    I 1. [straɪk]
    1) sciopero m.

    to be on strike — essere in o fare sciopero

    to come out on strike — entrare o mettersi in sciopero

    2) (attack) attacco m. (on, against contro) (anche mil.)
    3) min. (discovery) scoperta f. (di un giacimento)

    lucky strike — fig. colpo di fortuna

    2.
    modificatore [committee, notice] di sciopero; [ leader] degli scioperanti
    II 1. [straɪk]
    1) (hit) [person, stick] colpire [person, object, ball]; [ missile] colpire, centrare [ target]; [ship, car] colpire, urtare [rock, tree]

    to strike sth. with — battere qcs. con [stick, hammer]

    to be struck by lightning — [tree, person] essere colpito da un fulmine

    to strike sb. a blow — dare un colpo a qcn.

    to strike sb. dead — [ lightning] fulminare qcn.

    2) (afflict) [disease, storm, disaster] abbattersi su, colpire [area, people]

    to strike terror into sb. o sb.'s heart — terrorizzare qcn

    3) (make impression on) [idea, thought] venire in mente a; [ resemblance] colpire

    to strike sb. as odd — sembrare o parere strano a qcn.

    how does the idea strike you? — che cosa ne pensi o te ne pare di questa idea?

    I was struck with him — colloq. mi ha colpito

    4) (discover) scoprire, trovare [ gold]; finire su, trovare [ road]
    5) (achieve) concludere [ bargain]
    6) (ignite) accendere [ match]
    7) [ clock] battere [ time]
    8) (delete) cancellare [word, sentence]
    9) (dismantle) smontare [ tent]

    to strike camp — levare il campo, togliere le tende

    10) econ. (mint) battere [ coin]
    2.
    1) (deliver blow) colpire
    2) (attack) [army, animal] attaccare; [ killer] aggredire; [disease, storm] colpire

    Henry strikes again! — colloq. scherz. Henry colpisce o ha colpito ancora!

    3) [ worker] scioperare, fare sciopero
    4) [ match] accendersi
    5) [ clock] battere, suonare

    to strike across — prendere per [ field]; attraversare [ country]

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    1. past tense - struck; verb
    1) (to hit, knock or give a blow to: He struck me in the face with his fist; Why did you strike him?; The stone struck me a blow on the side of the head; His head struck the table as he fell; The tower of the church was struck by lightning.) battere, colpire
    2) (to attack: The enemy troops struck at dawn; We must prevent the disease striking again.) attaccare
    3) (to produce (sparks or a flame) by rubbing: He struck a match/light; He struck sparks from the stone with his knife.) accendere, far sprizzare
    4) ((of workers) to stop work as a protest, or in order to force employers to give better pay: The men decided to strike for higher wages.) scioperare
    5) (to discover or find: After months of prospecting they finally struck gold/oil; If we walk in this direction we may strike the right path.) trovare
    6) (to (make something) sound: He struck a note on the piano/violin; The clock struck twelve.) suonare
    7) (to impress, or give a particular impression to (a person): I was struck by the resemblance between the two men; How does the plan strike you?; It / The thought struck me that she had come to borrow money.) colpire, impressionare
    8) (to mint or manufacture (a coin, medal etc).) coniare
    9) (to go in a certain direction: He left the path and struck (off) across the fields.) prendere, tagliare
    10) (to lower or take down (tents, flags etc).) abbassare; levare
    2. noun
    1) (an act of striking: a miners' strike.) sciopero
    2) (a discovery of oil, gold etc: He made a lucky strike.) scoperta
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    - striking
    - strikingly
    - be out on strike
    - be on strike
    - call a strike
    - come out on strike
    - come
    - be within striking distance of
    - strike at
    - strike an attitude/pose
    - strike a balance
    - strike a bargain/agreement
    - strike a blow for
    - strike down
    - strike dumb
    - strike fear/terror into
    - strike home
    - strike it rich
    - strike lucky
    - strike out
    - strike up
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    strike /straɪk/
    n.
    1 (econ.) sciopero: to be on strike, essere in sciopero; to go on strike, scendere in sciopero; scioperare; to call a strike, proclamare uno sciopero; general strike, sciopero generale; dock strike, sciopero dei portuali; strike to the last, sciopero a oltranza; a wave of strikes, un'ondata di scioperi; unofficial strike, sciopero non dichiarato (o spontaneo)
    3 (ind. min.) scoperta di un giacimento ( minerario); (fig.) colpo di fortuna, buon colpo ( anche in Borsa, ecc.)
    4 (mil.) attacco; (spec.) attacco aereo, incursione
    6 ( baseball) ‘strike’: Three strikes put the batter out, dopo tre strike il battitore viene eliminato
    8 ( calcio) tiro a rete (o in porta); botta, staffilata, stangata, zampata, mazzata (fig.); gol di prepotenza
    9 ( calcio, ecc.) attacco; incursione; percussione
    ● (mil.) strike aircraft, aereo da combattimento □ all-out strike, sciopero totale □ strike ban, proibizione di scioperare; precettazione □ strike benefit = strike pay ► sotto □ strike call, proclamazione d'uno sciopero □ strike epidemics, conflittualità permanente □ (geol.) strike fault, faglia longitudinale □ strike force, (mil.) forza d'urto; ( calcio, ecc.) capacità di percussione, potenza d'attacco □ strike pay, sussidio ( pagato dai sindacati) durante uno sciopero □ (geol.) strike-slip fault, faglia trascorrente □ (fam. USA, dal baseball) to have two strikes against one, avere due punti a sfavore (o due handicap); ( anche) avere già subìto due gravi condanne: I have two strikes against me for getting the job: I don't have much experience and I haven't finished school, vorrei ottenere questo lavoro ma ho due punti a sfavore, la poca esperienza e la mancanza di un diploma; (polit., leg. USA) Three strikes and you're out, alla terza condanna, ti becchi l'ergastolo NOTE DI CULTURA: three strikes: in alcuni Stati americani alla terza condanna per reati commessi con la violenza è obbligatorio l'ergastolo. Il nome popolare di queste leggi, three strikes and you're out oppure la three-strikes law, è ripreso dal baseball, nel quale alla terza palla sbagliata ( strike) il battitore viene eliminato.
    ♦ (to) strike /straɪk/
    (pass. struck, p. p. struck, raro stricken)
    A v. t.
    1 battere; colpire; percuotere; picchiare; (fig.) impressionare: to strike a nail with the hammer, battere un chiodo col martello; He struck his fist on the desk, batté il pugno sulla scrivania; The tree was struck by lightning, l'albero è stato colpito dal fulmine; What struck me was her generosity, ciò che mi colpì (o mi fece impressione) fu la sua generosità
    2 assestare; appioppare: I struck him a violent blow, gli assestai (o diedi) un forte colpo
    3 sbattere; urtare: to strike one's foot against a stone, sbattere un piede contro un sasso; inciampare in un sasso; I struck my elbow against the table, urtai la tavola col gomito
    4 battere, suonare ( le ore): The tower clock was striking midnight, l'orologio della torre batteva la mezzanotte
    5 coniare; stampare; (fin.) battere: to strike a new coin [a medal], coniare una moneta nuova [una medaglia]; The Royal Mint strikes coins, la Zecca Reale batte moneta
    6 accendere; strofinare; far sprizzare ( battendo o strofinando): to strike a match, accendere (strofinare) un fiammifero; to strike a light, accendere una luce; far luce ( con una candela, lampada, ecc.); to strike fire out of flint, accendere il fuoco battendo sulla pietra focaia
    7 arrivare a; raggiungere: I struck the highway late in the morning, nel tardo mattino arrivai alla strada maestra
    8 (spec. ind. min.) scoprire; trovare: to strike a coal seam, scoprire uno strato di carbone; to strike gold [water], trovare l'oro [l'acqua]
    9 (mil., naut.) abbassare; ammainare: to strike one's flag, ammainare la bandiera; (fig.) arrendersi; to strike sails, ammainare le vele
    10 abbattere; levare; togliere: to strike the tents, levar le tende
    11 investire; urtare contro; (naut.) urtare ( uno scoglio, ecc.) con la chiglia: The car struck a lamppost, l'automobile ha urtato contro un lampione; The landing plane struck the tree-tops, l'aereo in atterraggio ha urtato contro le cime degli alberi
    12 configgere; conficcare; infiggere; piantare
    13 venire in mente, passare per la testa a (q.): A doubt struck me, mi è venuto un dubbio; Suddenly it struck me that he had left no message for me, all'improvviso mi venne fatto di pensare che non aveva lasciato alcun messaggio per me
    14 fare una certa impressione a (q.); sembrare, parere a (q.) (impers.): Her plan struck me as extremely complicated, il suo piano mi parve assai complicato; How does that strike you?, che impressione ti fa?; che ne pensi?; How does the idea strike you?, che te ne pare dell'idea?
    15 pareggiare ( cereali, ecc.) con la rasiera; rasierare
    16 (mus.) toccare ( un tasto); pizzicare ( una corda)
    17 ( calcio, ecc.) colpire, calciare (il pallone); battere ( una punizione, un rigore)
    19 ( tennis, ecc.) colpire ( la palla)
    B v. i.
    1 assestar colpi; menar botte
    2 (mil.) attaccare: The enemy struck at dawn, il nemico ha attaccato all'alba
    3 batter le ore; suonare: The clock is striking, l'orologio batte l'ora; Four o'clock had just struck, erano appena suonate le quattro
    4 colpire; cozzare; urtare; sbattere contro: The ball struck against the wall [the goalpost], la palla ha colpito il muro [il palo della porta]
    5 ( di fiammiferi e sim.) accendersi; prendere fuoco: This match won't strike, questo fiammifero non si accende
    6 (econ.) scioperare: The railwaymen have been striking for two weeks, i ferrovieri scioperano da due settimane; to strike for higher wages, scioperare per ottenere un aumento di salario
    7 filtrare; infiltrarsi; penetrare; inoltrarsi: We struck into the forests of the interior, ci siamo inoltrati nei boschi dell'interno
    8 prendere ( una direzione); dirigersi, volgere i passi; voltare; uscire: to strike for the borderline, dirigersi verso il confine; Go straight on and then strike to the right, va' dritto e poi volta a destra!
    9 (mil.) ammainare la bandiera; (fig.) arrendersi
    10 ( di pianta) attecchire; mettere radici
    11 (naut.) andare in secco; incagliarsi
    12 ( sport) dare una bracciata (o un colpo di gambe; nuotando)
    13 ( canottaggio) fare ( un certo numero di battute) al minuto: Oxford were striking 38, l'armo di Oxford stava facendo 38 battute al minuto
    ● to strike an attitude, assumere un atteggiamento □ to strike an average, fare una media □ (rag.) to strike a balance, (rag.) fare il bilancio, far quadrare i conti; (fig.) raggiungere un accordo, fare un compromesso □ to strike a bargain, concludere un affare; fare un buon affare □ to strike sb. blind, accecare q. ( con un colpo o fig.) □ to strike blows, assestare (o portare) colpi □ (fig.) to strike ( a blow) for freedom, combattere (una battaglia) per la libertà; battersi per la libertà □ (naut.) to strike the bottom, arenarsi; incagliarsi □ (mil., ecc.) to strike camp, levare il campo □ (agric.) to strike a cutting, piantare una talea □ to strike sb. dead, fulminare q.; fare schiattare q. □ to strike sb. deaf, assordare q. ( con un colpo o di colpo) □ to strike a deal, concludere (o fare) un affare; raggiungere un accordo; fare un patto (o un compromesso) □ ( boxe e fig.) to strike the decisive blow, assestare il colpo decisivo □ to strike sb. for his (o her) autograph, chiedere un autografo a q. □ ( di un atleta, ecc.) to strike form, entrare in piena forma □ to strike st. from sb. 's hand, far saltar qc. di mano a q. (con un sol colpo); strappare qc. a q. □ (fig.) to strike it rich, arricchire di colpo; trovare l'America (fig.) □ (fam. ingl.) to strike it lucky, avere un colpo di fortuna □ (leg.) to strike a jury, formare una giuria ( cancellando nomi, ecc.) □ (fig.) to strike a note of caution, far squillare il campanello d'allarme □ to strike oil, trovare il petrolio; (fig.) arricchire di colpo, trovare l'America □ to strike a pose, assumere una posa □ ( anche fig.) to strike the right track, trovare la pista buona (o la strada giusta) □ (bot. e fig.) to strike root(s), attecchire; metter radici □ (naut.) to strike soundings, fare degli scandagli □ (mus.) to strike a tone, far vibrare una nota □ (fig.) to strike a warning note, far squillare il campanello d'allarme □ ( pesca) to strike a whale, colpire (o arpionare) una balena □ ( calcio, ecc.) to strike the woodwork, colpire il legno ( della porta); colpire un palo (o la traversa) □ (fam.) to be struck all of a heap, rimanere sbigottito; restar di sale □ to be struck dumb, ammutolire; restare senza parola □ (fam.) to be struck on sb., essere (innamorato) cotto di q. □ (fig.) to be struck with, esser colpito da; ricevere una forte impressione da □ to be struck with dizziness, avere un improvviso capogiro □ The wind struck cold, tirava un vento freddo e tagliente □ ( anche fig.) The hour has struck, l'ora è suonata □ ( slang) Strike me dead!, peste mi colga; mi venga un accidente! possa morire ( se non è vero, ecc.) □ (prov.) Strike while the iron is hot, bisogna battere il ferro finché è caldo.
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    I 1. [straɪk]
    1) sciopero m.

    to be on strike — essere in o fare sciopero

    to come out on strike — entrare o mettersi in sciopero

    2) (attack) attacco m. (on, against contro) (anche mil.)
    3) min. (discovery) scoperta f. (di un giacimento)

    lucky strike — fig. colpo di fortuna

    2.
    modificatore [committee, notice] di sciopero; [ leader] degli scioperanti
    II 1. [straɪk]
    1) (hit) [person, stick] colpire [person, object, ball]; [ missile] colpire, centrare [ target]; [ship, car] colpire, urtare [rock, tree]

    to strike sth. with — battere qcs. con [stick, hammer]

    to be struck by lightning — [tree, person] essere colpito da un fulmine

    to strike sb. a blow — dare un colpo a qcn.

    to strike sb. dead — [ lightning] fulminare qcn.

    2) (afflict) [disease, storm, disaster] abbattersi su, colpire [area, people]

    to strike terror into sb. o sb.'s heart — terrorizzare qcn

    3) (make impression on) [idea, thought] venire in mente a; [ resemblance] colpire

    to strike sb. as odd — sembrare o parere strano a qcn.

    how does the idea strike you? — che cosa ne pensi o te ne pare di questa idea?

    I was struck with him — colloq. mi ha colpito

    4) (discover) scoprire, trovare [ gold]; finire su, trovare [ road]
    5) (achieve) concludere [ bargain]
    6) (ignite) accendere [ match]
    7) [ clock] battere [ time]
    8) (delete) cancellare [word, sentence]
    9) (dismantle) smontare [ tent]

    to strike camp — levare il campo, togliere le tende

    10) econ. (mint) battere [ coin]
    2.
    1) (deliver blow) colpire
    2) (attack) [army, animal] attaccare; [ killer] aggredire; [disease, storm] colpire

    Henry strikes again! — colloq. scherz. Henry colpisce o ha colpito ancora!

    3) [ worker] scioperare, fare sciopero
    4) [ match] accendersi
    5) [ clock] battere, suonare

    to strike across — prendere per [ field]; attraversare [ country]

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    English-Italian dictionary > strike

  • 6 ♦ turn

    ♦ turn /tɜ:n/
    n.
    1 giro; rotazione; torsione: a few turns of the crank, qualche giro di manovella; to give the key a turn, dare un giro di chiave; with a neat turn of the wrist, con una perfetta torsione del polso
    2 turno; volta: «Whose turn is it?» «It's my turn», «a chi tocca?» «tocca a me» («è il mio turno»); Wait your turn, aspetta il tuo turno!; My turn will come, verrà il mio turno; ( oppure) verrà la volta buona anche per me!; by turns, a turni; uno alla volta; in rotazione
    3 curva; svolta ( anche fig.); voltata; traversa; ( di fiume) ansa: a sharp turn, una curva stretta; a turn to the right, una svolta a destra; The car took a sudden turn to the left, l'automobile fece un'improvvisa voltata a sinistra; Take the second turn on the right, prendi la seconda traversa a destra!; at the turn of the century, alla svolta (o alla fine, all'inizio) del secolo
    4 (naut., aeron.) accostata; virata
    5 giro, volta ( di una fune); giro (o tratto) di sagola; spira ( di una molla); (elettr.) spira
    6 cambiamento di direzione; piega (fig.): His illness took a turn for the worse, l'andamento della sua malattia prese una brutta piega
    7 (teatr.) numero; attrattiva; attrazione
    8 azione; servizio; tiro (fig.): He's done me many a good turn, m'ha reso più di un servizio; Let's hope he won't do me a bad turn, speriamo che non mi giochi un brutto tiro
    9 (arc.) giretto; passeggiatina
    10 (arc.) vena; attitudine; disposizione; tendenza: turn of mind, attitudine mentale; indole
    11 fine; proposito; scopo: No doubt this tool will serve your turn, senz'altro questo attrezzo risponderà al tuo scopo (o ti potrà tornare utile); This serves my turn precisely, questo fa proprio al caso mio
    12 giro; modo d'essere (o di esprimersi); forma: a nice turn of phrase, un bel giro di frase; the turn of an ankle, la forma d'una caviglia
    13 (fam.) colpo; brutto colpo; scossa; spavento: It gave him a turn, hearing the sergeant's voice, sentire la voce del sergente è stato per lui un colpo
    14 (fam.) lieve indisposizione; breve malessere; attacco: He's had one of his turns again, non è che uno dei suoi soliti attacchi
    15 (mecc.) tornio ( da orologiaio)
    17 (mus.) esse coricato; gruppetto ( segno)
    18 (comm.) commissione, provvigione ( di intermediario)
    19 tendenza; corso; inversione di tendenza
    21 ( Borsa, fin.) scarto; differenza tra denaro e lettera; guadagno dell'operatore; plusvalenza professionale
    22 ( calcio, ecc.) ( di un giocatore) giro su sé stesso; giravolta; avvitamento
    23 (equit.) piroetta ( nel dressage)
    26 (ipp.) curva
    30 ( sci) curva; voltata
    ● (aeron.) turn and bank indicator, indicatore di virata e sbandamento □ turn and turn about, a turno; uno dopo l'altro; in successione; di seguito □ turn bench, tornio ( da orologiaio) □ turn bridge, ponte girevole □ ( anche fig.) a turn of the screw, un giro di vite □ the turn of the sentence, il giro dato alla frase □ (naut.) the turn of the tide, il cambiamento della marea □ turn of the wheel, giro della ruota; (fig.) volgere della sorte, repentino cambiamento della fortuna □ at every turn, a ogni svolta; (fig.) a ogni piè sospinto; tutti i momenti □ in turn, a turno; uno alla volta; a vicenda; a rotazione; a sua volta: I told Sam in (my) turn, a mia volta, l'ho detto a Sam; I asked each student in turn, ho fatto la domanda agli studenti uno alla volta □ (autom.) number of turns lock-to-lock, numero dei giri del volante per sterzata totale □ to owe sb. a good turn, essere indebitato verso q. (fig.) □ to take turns (o it in turns), fare a turno □ to take a turn at the wheel, mettersi al volante; dare il cambio alla guida □ ( anche autom.) to take a wrong turn, svoltare nel posto sbagliato; sbagliare al bivio (o all'incrocio) □ to be on the turn, ( del tempo, ecc.) (stare per) cambiare; ( di cibo) guastarsi; ( del latte) stare per inacidire: Public opinion seems to be on the turn, pare che la pubblica opinione stia cambiando; This wine is on the turn, questo vino si sta guastando □ out of turn, a sproposito; fuori luogo; al momento sbagliato: to speak out of turn, parlare a sproposito □ Turn for turn!, a buon rendere! □ (prov.) One good turn deserves another, i favori vanno ricambiati.
    ♦ (to) turn /tɜ:n/
    A v. t.
    1 girare; far girare; voltare: to turn the corner, girare l'angolo; ( d'automobile) fare la curva; ( d'automobilista) prendere la curva; (fig.) superare il momento critico; Turn the key, gira la chiave!; Turn the knob to the right, gira a destra il pomello!; (mecc.) to turn a crank [a shaft, a wheel], far girare una manovella [un albero, una ruota]; ( anche fig.) to turn one's back on sb., voltare (o volgere) le spalle a q.; Turn your face this way, volta la faccia da questa parte!; She was turning the pages of the album, voltava le pagine dell'album
    2 rivoltare; rovesciare; far rivoltare; ribaltare; invertire: (mecc.) to turn the edge of a plate, rivoltare l'orlo d'una lamiera; to turn the spade, rivoltare la vanga; to turn a collar, rovesciare un colletto; to turn sb. 's stomach, far rivoltare lo stomaco a q.; ( calcio, ecc.) to turn the match, rovesciare il risultato
    3 rovesciare; versare; vuotare: She turned the soup into the tureen, ha rovesciato la minestra nella zuppiera
    4 dirigere; volgere; rivolgere: to turn one's eyes, volgere lo sguardo; to turn one's attention to a problem, rivolgere la propria attenzione a un problema; The bird turned its flight southwards, l'uccello diresse il volo verso sud
    5 distogliere; sviare; (far) deviare: No one could turn me from my purpose, nessuno è riuscito a distogliermi dal mio proposito; Luckily the helmet turned the bullet, per fortuna l'elmetto ha deviato il proiettile; to turn the course of history, deviare il corso della storia
    6 ( anche mil.) aggirare: The enemy cavalry turned the left flank of the Roman army, la cavalleria nemica aggirò il fianco sinistro dell'esercito romano
    7 smussare; ottundere: to turn the edge of a knife, smussare il filo di un coltello
    8 cambiare; convertire; mutare; trasformare; far diventare: Christ turned water into wine, Cristo mutò l'acqua in vino; I turned him to more liberal views, lo convertii a idee più liberali; The cold weather has turned the leaves red, il freddo ha fatto diventar rosse le foglie; This machine turns cream into butter, questa macchina trasforma la panna in burro; to turn defeat into a victory, trasformare una sconfitta in una vittoria; DIALOGO → - Weather- It's turned chilly hasn't it?, si è fatto freschino, vero?
    9 volgere; tradurre: to turn prose into verse, volgere prosa in versi
    10 (falegn., mecc.) lavorare ( un pezzo) al tornio; tornire ( anche fig.): to turn wood [brass, ivory], tornire il legno [l'ottone, l'avorio]; a well-turned phrase, un'espressione ben tornita
    11 storcere; slogare: to turn one's foot, storcersi un piede
    12 far inacidire; far andare a male ( alimenti): The heat has turned the milk, il caldo ha fatto inacidire il latte
    13 ( boxe, ecc.) deviare; sviare ( colpi)
    14 ( baseball, cricket, ecc.) imprimere una rotazione, dare l'effetto a ( una palla)
    15 ( calcio, ecc.) girare ( il pallone)
    16 ( calcio, ecc.) (spec. di un portiere) deviare: Our keeper turned the striker's powerful left-foot shot against the post, il nostro portiere ha deviato sul palo il potente sinistro dell'attaccante
    17 ( ginnastica) fare; eseguire: to turn cartwheels, fare la ruota; to turn a somersault, fare un salto mortale
    B v. i.
    1 girare ( anche fig.); girarsi; volgersi; voltare; voltarsi; svoltare: Several artificial satellites are now turning round the earth, diversi satelliti artificiali girano ora intorno alla terra; My head is turning, mi gira la testa; The key won't turn, la chiave non gira (nella toppa); The road turns to the left, la strada svolta a sinistra; to turn down a street, svoltare in una strada; Let's turn now and go back, adesso voltiamo e torniamo indietro!; Suddenly he turned and hit me, all'improvviso si è girato e mi ha colpito
    2 dirigersi; rivolgersi; fare ricorso a (q.): She turned to God in her sorrow, nel suo dolore, si rivolse a Dio; I scarcely knew which way to turn, quasi non sapevo da che parte dirigermi (fig.: a che santo votarmi); to turn to one's notes, fare ricorso ai propri appunti
    3 girarsi, rivoltarsi ( nel letto, ecc.); ( dello stomaco) rivoltarsi: I was so upset that I tossed and turned all night, ero così turbato che mi agitai e rivoltai tutta la notte; My stomach turns at the smell of cucumbers, mi si rivolta lo stomaco all'odore dei cetrioli
    4 mutarsi; trasformarsi; diventare; farsi: The rain turned to sleet, la pioggia si mutò in nevischio; The wine turned to vinegar, il vino è diventato aceto; Joy has turned to sorrow, la gioia s'è trasformata in dolore; He turned Muslim, si fece maomettano; She turned pale, si è fatta pallida; è impallidita
    5 (naut., aeron.) invertire la rotta ( anche fig.); virare: The ship turned round, la nave virò di bordo; Suddenly the stock market turned, all'improvviso il mercato azionario ha invertito la rotta
    6 ( di cibo o bevanda) inacidire; andare a male; guastarsi: The milk has turned, il latte s'è inacidito
    7 cambiare colore: Now the leaves are turning ( yellow), ora le foglie mutano colore (o ingialliscono)
    8 (naut.: del vento, della marea) girare; cambiare: The tide is turning, la marea sta girando; when the weather turns, quando cambia il vento
    9 (comm., USA) andare; vendersi: Unisex garments are turning well this year, quest'anno i capi di vestiario unisex vanno bene (fam.: forte)
    10 (autom., ecc.) fare una curva
    13 ( sci) curvare; fare una curva
    15 ( slang USA) diventare omosessuale; passare al nemico (scherz.)
    ● to turn one's back to one's problems, mettere da parte i (o non pensare ai) propri problemi □ to turn belly up, finire a pancia all'aria; ( di un pesce e fig.) morire, tirare le cuoia; (fig.) guastarsi, andare in tilt □ to turn sb. 's brain, far dar di volta il cervello a q.; far ammattire q. □ (fig.) to turn one's coat, voltar casacca, voltar gabbana; cambiare partito □ to turn a deaf ear, far orecchi da mercante; non voler sentire □ (autom.) «Turn left [right]» ( cartello), «svolta a sinistra [a destra]» □ to turn sb. 's head, far girare la testa (montare la testa) a q.: Success has turned his head, il successo gli ha montato la testa (o gli ha dato alla testa) □ (fam.) to turn an honest penny, fare un onesto guadagno □ to turn loose, lasciar libero ( un animale domestico); dare la massima libertà a (q.); (mil., USA) impiegare, aprire il fuoco con ( cannoni, ecc.) □ to turn low, abbassare, diminuire ( il gas, la luce, ecc.) □ to turn red, arrossire; far arrossire □ to turn the scales, far traboccare la bilancia; (fig.) essere decisivo □ to turn tail, fuggire, darsela a gambe □ (volg. USA) to turn a trick, fare una marchetta □ (tipogr.) turned comma, virgoletta □ (fig.) not to turn a hair, non batter ciglio □ (mecc.) This material turns well [easily], questo materiale si lavora bene [facilmente] al tornio □ The clock turned seven, l'orologio segnò le sette □ He has just turned twenty, ha appena compiuto vent'anni □ (autom.) «Lorries turning» ( cartello), «autocarri in manovra».

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  • 7 rule the roost

    задавать тон; хозяйничать, распоряжаться, заправлять делами; верховодить, командовать, повелевать; руководить [первонач. rule the roast]

    And he added suddenly: ‘I'm not easy. If I'd realized how that chap Elderson ruled the roost, I doubt if I should have come on that Board.’ (J. Galsworthy, ‘The White Monkey’, part I, ch. VI) — И Сомс внезапно добавил: - Я не вполне спокоен. Если бы я знал раньше, как этот Элдерсон ведет дела, - вряд ли я вошел бы в правление.

    Byron and Shelley had to fly to Italy, whilst Castlereagh and Eldon ruled the roost at home. (B. Shaw, ‘Back to Methuselah’, ‘Preface’) — Байрон и Шелли должны были бежать в Италию, когда Каслрей и Элдон правили Англией.

    Up till then it had been a little religious community where the church elders ruled the roost. (A. Saxton, ‘The Great Midland’, part III, ‘The University’) — В то время это была маленькая религиозная община, где всем заправляли церковные старейшины.

    Wouldn't like to be her ol' [= old] man. Bet she rules the roost. (D. Hewett, ‘Bobbin Up’, ch. XVI) — Вот уж не хотела бы быть на месте ее мужа. Она ведь заправляет всем в доме.

    Its aim has been to make possible the creation of "federal" states in which feudal and tribal reaction would play a key role, and British imperialism would be left, in effect, to rule the roost from behind the scenes. (J. Woddis, ‘Africa. The Way Ahead’, ch. VI) — Они решили добиваться создания в Африке "федеральных" государств, в которых ведущая роль принадлежала бы реакционной феодальной и племенной верхушке, а фактическую власть негласно осуществляли бы английские империалистические круги.

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  • 8 place

    1. noun
    1) Ort, der; (spot) Stelle, die; Platz, der

    I left it in a safe place — ich habe es an einem sicheren Ort gelassen

    it was still in the same place — es war noch an derselben Stelle od. am selben Platz

    all over the place — überall; (coll.): (in a mess) ganz durcheinander (ugs.)

    in places — hier und da; (in parts) stellenweise

    find a place in something — (be included) in etwas (Akk.) eingehen; see also academic.ru/73191/take">take 1. 4)

    2) (fig.): (rank, position) Stellung, die

    know one's place — wissen, was sich für einen gehört

    3) (building or area for specific purpose)

    a [good] place to park/to stop — ein [guter] Platz zum Parken/eine [gute] Stelle zum Halten

    do you know a good/cheap place to eat? — weißt du, wo man gut/billig essen kann?

    place of residence — Wohnort, der

    place of work — Arbeitsplatz, der; Arbeitsstätte, die

    place of worship — Andachtsort, der

    4) (country, town) Ort, der

    Paris/Italy is a great place — Paris ist eine tolle Stadt/Italien ist ein tolles Land (ugs.)

    place of birth — Geburtsort, der

    go places — (coll.) herumkommen (ugs.); (fig.) es [im Leben] zu was bringen (ugs.)

    5) (coll.): (premises) Bude, die (ugs.); (hotel, restaurant, etc.) Laden, der (ugs.)

    she is at his/John's place — sie ist bei ihm/John

    [shall we go to] your place or mine? — [gehen wir] zu dir oder zu mir?

    6) (seat etc.) [Sitz]platz, der

    change places [with somebody] — [mit jemandem] die Plätze tauschen; (fig.) [mit jemandem] tauschen

    lay a/another place — ein/noch ein Gedeck auflegen

    7) (in book etc.) Stelle, die

    lose one's place — die Seite verschlagen od. verblättern; (on page) nicht mehr wissen, an welcher Stelle man ist

    8) (step, stage)

    why didn't you say so in the first place? — warum hast du das nicht gleich gesagt?

    in the first/second/third etc. place — erstens/zweitens/drittens usw.

    9) (proper place) Platz, der

    everything fell into place — (fig.) alles wurde klar

    into place — fest[nageln, -schrauben, -kleben]

    out of place — nicht am richtigen Platz; (several things) in Unordnung; (fig.) fehl am Platz

    10) (position in competition) Platz, der

    take first/second etc. place — den ersten/zweiten usw. Platz belegen

    11) (job, position, etc.) Stelle, die; (as pupil; in team, crew) Platz, der
    12) (personal situation)
    2. transitive verb
    1) (put) (vertically) stellen; (horizontally) legen

    place in position — richtig hinstellen/hinlegen

    place an announcement/advertisement in a paper — eine Anzeige/ein Inserat in eine Zeitung setzen

    2) (fig.)

    place one's trust in somebody/something — sein Vertrauen auf od. in jemanden/etwas setzen

    3) in p.p. (situated) gelegen

    we are well placed for buses/shops — etc. wir haben es nicht weit zur Bushaltestelle/zum Einkaufen usw.

    how are you placed for time/money? — (coll.) wie steht's mit deiner Zeit/deinem Geld?

    4) (find situation or home for) unterbringen ( with bei)
    5) (class, identify) einordnen; einstufen

    I've seen him before but I can't place him — ich habe ihn schon einmal gesehen, aber ich weiß nicht, wo ich ihn unterbringen soll

    be placed second in the race — im Rennen den zweiten Platz belegen

    * * *
    [pleis] 1. noun
    1) (a particular spot or area: a quiet place in the country; I spent my holiday in various different places.) der Ort
    2) (an empty space: There's a place for your books on this shelf.) der Platz
    3) (an area or building with a particular purpose: a market-place.) der Platz
    4) (a seat (in a theatre, train, at a table etc): He went to his place and sat down.) der Platz
    5) (a position in an order, series, queue etc: She got the first place in the competition; I lost my place in the queue.) der Platz
    6) (a person's position or level of importance in society etc: You must keep your secretary in her place.) der Platz
    7) (a point in the text of a book etc: The wind was blowing the pages of my book and I kept losing my place.) die Stelle
    8) (duty or right: It's not my place to tell him he's wrong.) die Aufgabe
    9) (a job or position in a team, organization etc: He's got a place in the team; He's hoping for a place on the staff.) der Platz
    10) (house; home: Come over to my place.) die Wohnung
    11) ((often abbreviated to Pl. when written) a word used in the names of certain roads, streets or squares.) der Platz
    12) (a number or one of a series of numbers following a decimal point: Make the answer correct to four decimal places.) die Stelle
    2. verb
    1) (to put: He placed it on the table; He was placed in command of the army.) stellen, setzen
    2) (to remember who a person is: I know I've seen her before, but I can't quite place her.) einordnen
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    - place-name
    - go places
    - in the first
    - second place
    - in place
    - in place of
    - out of place
    - put oneself in someone else's place
    - put someone in his place
    - put in his place
    - take place
    - take the place of
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    [pleɪs]
    I. NOUN
    1. (location) Ort m
    I hate busy \places ich hasse Orte, an denen viel los ist
    the hotel was one of those big, old-fashioned \places das Hotel war eines dieser großen altmodischen Häuser
    we're staying at a bed-and-breakfast \place wir übernachten in einer Frühstückspension
    let's go to a pizza \place lass uns eine Pizza essen gehen
    this is the exact \place! das ist genau die Stelle!
    this plant needs a warm, sunny \place diese Pflanze sollte an einem warmen, sonnigen Ort stehen
    Scotland is a very nice \place Schottland ist ein tolles Land fam
    that café is a nice \place dieses Café ist echt nett fam
    a nice little \place at the seaside ein netter kleiner Ort am Meer
    please put this book back in its \place bitte stell dieses Buch wieder an seinen Platz zurück
    this is the \place my mother was born hier wurde meine Mutter geboren
    sorry, I can't be in two \places at once tut mir leid, ich kann nicht überall gleichzeitig sein
    \place of birth Geburtsort m
    \place of custody Verwahrungsort m
    \place of death Sterbeort m
    \place of delivery Erfüllungsort m
    \place of employment Arbeitsplatz m
    \place of jurisdiction Gerichtsstand m
    \place of performance Erfüllungsort m
    \place of refuge Zufluchtsort m
    \place of residence Wohnort m
    a \place in the sun ( fig) ein Plätzchen an der Sonne
    \place of work Arbeitsplatz m, Arbeitsstätte f
    to go \places AM weit herumkommen, viel sehen
    in \places stellenweise
    this plant still exists in \places diese Pflanze kommt noch vereinzelt vor
    2. no pl (appropriate setting) [geeigneter] Ort
    this meeting isn't the \place to discuss individual cases diese Konferenz ist nicht der Ort, um Einzelfälle zu diskutieren
    university was not the \place for me die Universität war irgendwie nicht mein Ding fam
    that bar is not a \place for a woman like you Frauen wie du haben in solch einer Bar nichts verloren
    I'm looking for a \place to live ich bin auf Wohnungssuche
    we'll have a meeting at my \place/Susan's \place wir treffen uns bei mir/bei Susan
    where's your \place? wo wohnst du?; ( fam)
    your \place or mine? zu dir oder zu mir?
    they're trying to buy a larger \place wir sind auf der Suche nach einer größeren Wohnung
    4. ( fig: position, rank) Stellung f
    she's got friends in high \places sie hat Freunde in hohen Positionen
    they have a \place among the country's leading exporters sie zählen zu den führenden Exporteuren des Landes
    it's not your \place to tell me what to do es steht dir nicht zu, mir zu sagen, was ich zu tun habe
    I'm not criticizing you — I know my \place das ist keine Kritik — das würde ich doch nie wagen!
    to keep sb in their \place jdn in seine Schranken weisen
    to put sb in his/her \place [or show sb his/her \place] jdm zeigen, wo es langgeht fam
    ▪ in \place of stattdessen
    you can use margarine in \place of butter statt Butter kannst du auch Margarine nehmen
    I invited Jo in \place of Les, who was ill Les war krank, daher habe ich Jo eingeladen
    ▪ to be in \place an seinem Platz sein; ( fig: completed) fertig [o abgeschlossen] sein
    the chairs were all in \place die Stühle waren alle dort, wo sie sein sollten; ( fig)
    the arrangements are all in \place now die Vorbereitungen sind jetzt abgeschlossen; ( fig)
    the new laws are now in \place die neuen Gesetze gelten jetzt; ( fig)
    suddenly all fell into \place plötzlich machte alles Sinn
    to be out of \place nicht an der richtigen Stelle sein; person fehl am Platz[e] sein; ( fig)
    the large desk was totally out of \place in such a small room der große Schreibtisch war in solch einem kleinen Zimmer völlig deplatziert
    what you've just said was completely out of \place was du da gerade gesagt hast, war völlig unangebracht
    to push sth in \place etw in die richtige Position schieben
    7. MATH (in decimals) Stelle f
    to five \places of decimals bis auf fünf Stellen hinter dem Komma
    8. (job, position) Stelle f; (in team) Platz m; (at university) Studienplatz m
    your \place is here by my side du gehörst an meine Seite
    to take the \place of sb jds Platz einnehmen
    9. (in book) Stelle f
    to find one's \place die [richtige] Stelle wiederfinden
    to keep one's \place markieren, wo man gerade ist/war
    to lose one's \place die Seite verblättern[, wo man gerade war]; (on page) nicht mehr wissen, wo man gerade ist
    10. (seat) Platz m
    is this \place taken? ist dieser Platz noch frei?
    to change \places with sb mit jdm die Plätze tauschen
    to keep sb's \place [or save sb a \place] jdm den Platz freihalten
    to lay a/another \place ein/noch ein Gedeck auflegen
    to take one's \place at table Platz nehmen
    11. (position) Stelle f
    just put yourself in my \place versetzen Sie sich doch mal in meine Lage!
    if I were in your \place... ich an deiner Stelle...
    what would you do in my \place? was würden Sie an meiner Stelle tun?
    12. (ranking) Platz m, Position f
    the song went from tenth to second \place in the charts das Lied stieg vom zehnten auf den zweiten Platz in den Charts
    our team finished in second \place unsere Mannschaft wurde Zweiter
    to take [or esp BRIT get] first/second \place Erste(r)/Zweite(r) werden
    to take first/second \place ( fig) an erster/zweiter Stelle kommen
    their children always take first \place ihre Kinder stehen für sie immer an erster Stelle
    in second \place auf dem zweiten Platz
    13. SPORT
    to get a \place sich akk platzieren; AM Zweite(r) werden
    14. AM ( fam: somewhere)
    I know I left that book some \place ich weiß, dass ich das Buch irgendwo gelassen habe
    15.
    ▶ all over the \place (everywhere) überall; (badly organized) [völlig] chaotisch; (spread around) in alle Himmelsrichtungen zerstreut
    ▶ a \place for everything and everything in its \place ( prov) jedes Ding hat seinen Platz
    ▶ in the first \place (at first) zuerst; (at all) überhaupt
    we shouldn't have got married in the first \place! wir hätten erst gar nicht heiraten dürfen!
    but why didn't you say that in the first \place? aber warum hast du denn das nicht gleich gesagt?
    ▶ in the first/second \place (firstly, secondly) erstens/zweitens
    ▶ to give \place to sb/sth jdm/etw Platz machen
    ▶ to go \places ( fam) auf dem Weg nach oben sein
    ▶ to take \place stattfinden
    ▶ there is a \place and time for everything alles zu seiner Zeit
    ▪ to \place sth somewhere etw irgendwohin stellen; (lay) etw irgendwohin legen
    bowls of flowers had been \placed on tables auf den Tischen waren Blumenvasen aufgestellt
    the Chancellor \placed a wreath on the tomb der Kanzler legte einen Kranz auf dem Grab nieder
    she \placed her name on the list sie setzte ihren Namen auf die Liste
    he \placed his hand on my shoulder er legte mir die Hand auf die Schulter
    to \place an advertisement in the newspaper eine Anzeige in die Zeitung setzen
    to \place sth on the agenda etw auf die Tagesordnung setzen
    to \place a bet on sth auf etw akk wetten
    to \place sb under sb's care jdn in jds Obhut geben
    to \place a comma ein Komma setzen
    to \place one foot in front of the other einen Fuß vor den anderen setzen
    to \place a gun at sb's head jdn eine Pistole an den Kopf setzen
    to \place money on sth Geld auf etw akk setzen
    ▪ to be \placed shop, town liegen
    2. (impose)
    to \place an embargo on sb/sth über jdn/etw ein Embargo verhängen
    to \place a limit [or ceiling] on sth etw begrenzen
    to \place ten pounds/half a million on sth etw mit zehn Pfund/einer halben Million veranschlagen
    3. (ascribe)
    to \place the blame on sb jdm die Schuld geben
    to \place one's faith [or trust] in sb/sth sein Vertrauen in jdn/etw setzen
    to \place one's hopes on sb/sth seine Hoffnungen auf jdn/etw setzen
    to \place importance on sth auf etw akk Wert legen
    ... and she \placed the emphasis on the word ‘soon’... und die Betonung lag auf ‚schnell‘
    he \placed stress on every second syllable er betonte jede zweite Silbe
    4. (arrange for)
    to \place a call ein Telefongespräch anmelden
    to \place sth at sb's disposal jdm etw überlassen
    5. (appoint to a position)
    ▪ to \place sb/sth somewhere jdn/etw irgendwo unterbringen [o SCHWEIZ platzieren]
    to \place sb on [the] alert jdn in Alarmbereitschaft versetzen
    to \place sb under arrest jdn festnehmen
    to \place sb in charge [of sth] jdm die Leitung [von etw dat] übertragen
    to \place sb in jeopardy jdn in Gefahr bringen
    to \place sb under pressure jdn unter Druck setzen
    to \place a strain on sb/sth jdn/etw belasten
    to \place staff Personal unterbringen [o vermitteln]
    to \place sb under surveillance jdn unter Beobachtung stellen
    the town was \placed under the control of UN peacekeeping troops die Stadt wurde unter die Aufsicht der UN-Friedenstruppen gestellt
    ▪ to \place sb/sth face, person, voice, accent jdn/etw einordnen
    ▪ to \place sb/sth jdn/etw einordnen
    to be \placed SPORT sich akk platzieren; AM unter die ersten zwei kommen
    to be \placed first/second SPORT Erste(r)/Zweite(r) werden
    ▪ to \place sth above [or before] [or over] sth etw über etw akk stellen
    sb \places sth above all other things etw steht bei jdm an erster Stelle
    I'd \place him among the world's ten most brilliant scientists für mich ist er einer der zehn hervorragendsten Wissenschaftler der Welt
    they \placed the painting in the Renaissance sie ordneten das Bild der Renaissance zu
    8. ECON
    ▪ to \place sth goods etw absetzen
    to \place an order for sth etw bestellen
    to \place an order with a firm einer Firma einen Auftrag erteilen
    9. passive (good position)
    ▪ to be well \placed for sth für etw akk eine gute Ausgangsposition haben
    we're well \placed for the shops wir haben es nicht weit zum Einkaufen fam
    to be well \placed financially finanziell gut dastehen
    to be well \placed to watch sth von seinem Platz aus etw gut sehen können
    10. passive (have at disposal)
    ▪ to be well \placed for sth:
    how \placed are you for time/money? wie sieht es mit deiner Zeit/deinem Geld aus?
    SPORT sich akk platzieren; AM also (finish second) Zweite(r) werden
    * * *
    [pleɪs]
    1. NOUN
    1) general Platz m, Stelle f

    this is the place where he was born —

    bed is the best place for him — im Bett ist er am besten aufgehoben

    we found a good place to watch the procession from — wir fanden einen Platz, von dem wir den Umzug gut sehen konnten

    in the right/wrong place — an der richtigen/falschen Stelle

    some/any place — irgendwo

    a poor man with no place to go — ein armer Mann, der nicht weiß, wohin

    this is no place for you/children —

    there is no place for the unsuccessful in our society your place is by his side — für Erfolglose ist in unserer Gesellschaft kein Platz dein Platz ist an seiner Seite

    this isn't the place to discuss politics — dies ist nicht der Ort, um über Politik zu sprechen

    I can't be in two places at once! —

    she likes to have a place for everything and everything in its place — sie hält sehr auf Ordnung und achtet darauf, dass alles an seinem Platz liegt

    2) = geographical location = district Gegend f; (= country) Land nt; (= building) Gebäude nt; (= town) Ort m

    there's nothing to do in the evenings in this place —

    3) = home Haus nt, Wohnung f

    come round to my place some time — besuch mich mal, komm doch mal vorbei

    4) in book etc Stelle f

    to keep one's place — sich (dat) die richtige Stelle markieren

    to lose one's place — die Seite verblättern; (on page) die Zeile verlieren

    5) = seat, position at table, in team, school, hospital Platz m; (at university) Studienplatz m; (= job) Stelle f

    to take one's place (at table) —

    take your places for a square dance! — Aufstellung zur Quadrille, bitte!

    if I were in your place — an Ihrer Stelle, wenn ich an Ihrer Stelle wäre

    to take the place of sb/sth — jdn/etw ersetzen, jds Platz or den Platz von jdm/etw einnehmen

    6) in hierarchy Rang m, Stellung f

    to know one's place — wissen, was sich (für einen) gehört

    of course I'm not criticizing you, I know my place! (hum) — ich kritisiere dich selbstverständlich nicht, das steht mir gar nicht zu

    it's not my place to comment/tell him what to do — es steht mir nicht zu, einen Kommentar abzugeben/ihm zu sagen, was er tun soll

    that put him in his place! — das hat ihn erst mal zum Schweigen gebracht, da hab ichs/hat ers etc ihm gezeigt (inf)

    7) in exam, competition Platz m, Stelle f

    Lunt won, with Moore in second place — Lunt hat gewonnen, an zweiter Stelle or auf dem zweiten Platz lag Moore

    to win first place — Erste(r, s) sein

    to take second place to sth — einer Sache (dat) gegenüber zweitrangig sein

    to get a place —

    to back a horse for a place — auf Platz wetten, eine Platzwette abschließen

    9) in street names Platz m
    10) MATH Stelle f
    11)

    set structures __diams; place of + noun place of amusement — Vergnügungsstätte f

    place of business or work — Arbeitsstelle f __diams; in places stellenweise

    make sure the wire/screw is properly in place — achten Sie darauf, dass der Draht/die Schraube richtig sitzt

    to look out of place —

    McCormack played in goal in place of Miller — McCormack stand anstelle von Miller im Tor __diams; to fall into place Gestalt annehmen

    in the first place..., in the second place... — erstens..., zweitens...

    he's going places (fig inf) — er bringts zu was (inf) __diams; to give place to sth einer Sache (dat) Platz machen

    2. TRANSITIVE VERB
    1) = put setzen, stellen; (= lay down) legen; person at table etc setzen; guards aufstellen; shot (with gun) anbringen; (FTBL, TENNIS) platzieren; troops in Stellung bringen; announcement (in paper) inserieren (in in +dat); advertisement setzen (in in +acc)

    she slowly placed one foot in front of the other —

    he placed the cue ball right behind the black he placed a gun to my head — er setzte die Spielkugel direkt hinter die schwarze Kugel er setzte mir eine Pistole an den Kopf

    she placed a finger on her lips —

    to place confidence/trust in sb/sth — Vertrauen in jdn/etw setzen

    how are you placed for time/money? — wie sieht es mit deiner Zeit/deinem Geld aus?

    we are well placed for the shops — was Einkaufsmöglichkeiten angeht, wohnen wir günstig

    they were well placed to observe the whole battle — sie hatten einen günstigen Platz, von dem sie die ganze Schlacht verfolgen konnten

    we are well placed now to finish the job by next year —

    2) = rank stellen

    to place local interests above or before or over those of central government — kommunale Interessen über die der Zentralregierung stellen

    3) = identify context of einordnen

    in which school would you place this painting? —

    I don't know, it's very difficult to place I can't quite place him/his accent — ich weiß es nicht, es ist sehr schwer einzuordnen ich kann ihn/seinen Akzent nicht einordnen

    historians place the book in the 5th century AD — Historiker datieren das Buch auf das 5. Jahrhundert

    4) COMM goods absetzen; order erteilen (with sb jdm); contract abschließen (with sb mit jdm)

    who did you place the computer typesetting job with? —

    this is the last time we place any work with you — das ist das letzte Mal, dass wir Ihnen einen Auftrag erteilt haben

    5) money (= deposit) deponieren; (= invest) investieren
    6) phone call anmelden
    7) = find job for unterbringen (with bei)

    the agency is trying to place him with a building firm — die Agentur versucht, ihn bei einer Baufirma unterzubringen

    * * *
    place [pleıs]
    A s
    1. Ort m, Stelle f, Platz m:
    from place to place von Ort zu Ort;
    in places stellenweise;
    the goalkeeper was exactly in the right place SPORT der Torhüter stand goldrichtig;
    all over the place umg überall;
    his hair was all over the place umg er war ganz zerzaust;
    come to the wrong place an die falsche Adresse geraten;
    keep sb’s place jemandem seinen Platz frei halten ( in a queue in einer Schlange);
    lay a place for sb für jemanden decken;
    take place stattfinden;
    win a place in the semifinals SPORT ins Halbfinale einziehen, sich fürs Halbfinale qualifizieren; → safe A 1
    2. (mit adj) Stelle f:
    3. (eingenommene) Stelle:
    take sb’s place
    a) jemandes Stelle einnehmen,
    b) jemanden vertreten;
    take the place of ersetzen, an die Stelle treten von (od gen);
    in place of anstelle von (od gen);
    if I were in your place I would … ich an Ihrer Stelle würde …; wenn ich Sie wäre, würde ich …;
    put yourself in my place versetzen Sie sich (doch einmal) in meine Lage!
    4. Platz m (Raum):
    give place (to) Platz machen (für oder dat) (a. fig), nachgeben (dat)
    5. (richtiger oder ordnungsgemäßer) Platz (auch fig): in his library every book has its place hat jedes Buch seinen Platz;
    find one’s place sich zurechtfinden;
    know one’s place wissen, wohin man gehört;
    in (out of) place (nicht) am (richtigen) Platz;
    this remark was out of place diese Bemerkung war deplatziert oder unangebracht;
    feel out of place sich fehl am Platz fühlen;
    a) das oder hier ist nicht der (geeignete) Ort für,
    b) das ist nicht der richtige Zeitpunkt für;
    such people have no place in our club für solche Leute ist kein Platz in unserem Verein;
    put sth back in its place etwas (an seinen Platz) zurücklegen oder -stellen;
    put sb back in their place jemanden in die oder seine Schranken verweisen; → click1 B 4, fall into 1, slot1 C
    6. Ort m, Stätte f:
    one of the best places to eat eines der besten Restaurants oder Speiselokale;
    place of amusement Vergnügungsstätte;
    place of birth Geburtsort;
    place of interest Sehenswürdigkeit f;
    place of work Arbeitsplatz m, -stelle f;
    a) Kultstätte,
    b) Gotteshaus n;
    a) ausgehen,
    b) (umher)reisen,
    c) fig es zu etwas bringen; → assembly 1
    7. WIRTSCH Ort m, Platz m, Sitz m:
    place of business Geschäftssitz;
    place of delivery Erfüllungsort;
    place of jurisdiction Gerichtsstand m;
    place of payment Zahlungsort;
    8. Haus n, Wohnung f:
    at his place bei ihm (zu Hause);
    he came over to my place yesterday er kam gestern zu mir;
    your place or mine? umg bei dir od bei mir?
    9. Ort(schaft) m(f):
    Munich is a nice place to live in München lebt man angenehm oder lässt es sich angenehm leben; → exile A 1
    10. Gegend f:
    11. THEAT Ort m (der Handlung)
    12. umg Lokal n:
    go to a Greek place zum Griechen gehen
    13. SCHIFF Platz m, Hafen m:
    place of tran(s)shipment Umschlagplatz;
    place of call Anlaufhafen
    14. Raum m (Ggs Zeit)
    15. Stelle f (in einem Buch etc):
    lose one’s place die Seite verblättern oder verschlagen;
    I’ve lost my place auch ich weiß nicht mehr, wo (an welcher Stelle) ich war;
    the audience laughed in the right places an den richtigen Stellen
    16. MATH (Dezimal) Stelle f:
    of many places vielstellig;
    place value Stellenwert m
    17. Platz m, Stelle f (in einer Reihenfolge):
    a) an erster Stelle, erstens, zuerst, als Erst(er, e, es),
    b) in erster Linie,
    c) überhaupt (erst),
    d) ursprünglich;
    why did you do it in the first place? warum haben Sie es überhaupt getan?;
    you should not have done it in the first place Sie hätten es von vornherein bleiben lassen sollen;
    why didn’t you admit it in the first place? warum hast du es nicht gleich zugegeben?;
    in the last place an letzter Stelle, zuletzt, als letzt(er, e, es); schließlich; → second1 A 1
    18. SPORT etc Platz m:
    in third place auf dem dritten Platz;
    take third place den dritten Platz belegen; → second1 A 1
    19. (Sitz)Platz m, Sitz m:
    take your places nehmen Sie Ihre Plätze ein!
    20. a) (An)Stellung f, (Arbeits)Stelle f, Posten m:
    out of place stellenlos
    b) UNIV Studienplatz m
    21. Amt n:
    a) Dienst m:
    in place im Amt (Minister etc), im Staatsdienst
    b) fig Aufgabe f, Pflicht f:
    it is not my place to do this es ist nicht meine Aufgabe, dies zu tun
    22. (soziale) Stellung, Stand m, Rang m:
    in high places an hoher Stelle;
    persons in high places hochstehende Persönlichkeiten
    23. fig Grund m:
    there’s no place for doubt es besteht kein Grund zu zweifeln
    B v/t
    1. stellen, setzen, legen (alle auch fig):
    place together Tische etc zusammenstellen;
    place a call ein (Telefon)Gespräch anmelden;
    place a coffin einen Sarg aufbahren;
    place in order zurechtstellen, ordnen;
    place sb in a difficult place jemanden in eine schwierige Lage bringen;
    he places hono(u)r above wealth ihm ist Ehre wichtiger als Reichtum;
    place on record aufzeichnen, (schriftlich) festhalten;
    the referee was well placed SPORT der Schiedsrichter stand günstig
    2. Posten etc aufstellen:
    place o.s. sich aufstellen oder postieren
    3. I can’t place him ich weiß nicht, wo ich ihn unterbringen oder wohin ich ihn tun soll (woher ich ihn kenne)
    4. einen Wohnungssuchenden etc unterbringen ( with bei), einen Arbeitssuchenden auch vermitteln
    5. jemanden ein-, anstellen
    6. jemanden ernennen oder in ein Amt einsetzen
    7. (der Lage nach) näher bestimmen
    8. WIRTSCH
    a) eine Anleihe, Kapital unterbringen
    b) (with) Aufträge erteilen (dat), vergeben (an akk), eine Bestellung aufgeben (bei)
    c) einen Vertrag, eine Versicherung abschließen:
    place an issue eine Emission unterbringen oder platzieren
    9. Ware absetzen
    10. a) be placed SPORT sich platzieren, platziert sein, unter den ersten drei sein:
    be placed 6th sich an 6. Stelle platzieren
    b) how are you placed for money? bes Br wie sieht es bei dir finanziell aus?
    11. SPORT
    a) den Ball platzieren
    b) Rugby: ein Tor mit einem Platztritt schießen
    12. ELEK schalten:
    place in parallel parallel schalten
    C v/i SPORT US
    a) → B 10 a
    b) den zweiten Platz belegen
    pl. abk
    1. place Pl.
    3. plural Pl.
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) Ort, der; (spot) Stelle, die; Platz, der

    all over the place — überall; (coll.): (in a mess) ganz durcheinander (ugs.)

    in places — hier und da; (in parts) stellenweise

    find a place in something — (be included) in etwas (Akk.) eingehen; see also take 1. 4)

    2) (fig.): (rank, position) Stellung, die

    know one's place — wissen, was sich für einen gehört

    it's not my place to do that — es kommt mir nicht zu, das zu tun

    a [good] place to park/to stop — ein [guter] Platz zum Parken/eine [gute] Stelle zum Halten

    do you know a good/cheap place to eat? — weißt du, wo man gut/billig essen kann?

    place of residence — Wohnort, der

    place of work — Arbeitsplatz, der; Arbeitsstätte, die

    place of worship — Andachtsort, der

    4) (country, town) Ort, der

    Paris/Italy is a great place — Paris ist eine tolle Stadt/Italien ist ein tolles Land (ugs.)

    place of birth — Geburtsort, der

    go places — (coll.) herumkommen (ugs.); (fig.) es [im Leben] zu was bringen (ugs.)

    5) (coll.): (premises) Bude, die (ugs.); (hotel, restaurant, etc.) Laden, der (ugs.)

    she is at his/John's place — sie ist bei ihm/John

    [shall we go to] your place or mine? — [gehen wir] zu dir oder zu mir?

    6) (seat etc.) [Sitz]platz, der

    change places [with somebody] — [mit jemandem] die Plätze tauschen; (fig.) [mit jemandem] tauschen

    lay a/another place — ein/noch ein Gedeck auflegen

    7) (in book etc.) Stelle, die

    lose one's place — die Seite verschlagen od. verblättern; (on page) nicht mehr wissen, an welcher Stelle man ist

    8) (step, stage)

    in the first/second/third etc. place — erstens/zweitens/drittens usw.

    9) (proper place) Platz, der

    everything fell into place — (fig.) alles wurde klar

    into place — fest[nageln, -schrauben, -kleben]

    out of place — nicht am richtigen Platz; (several things) in Unordnung; (fig.) fehl am Platz

    take first/second etc. place — den ersten/zweiten usw. Platz belegen

    11) (job, position, etc.) Stelle, die; (as pupil; in team, crew) Platz, der
    2. transitive verb

    place in position — richtig hinstellen/hinlegen

    place an announcement/advertisement in a paper — eine Anzeige/ein Inserat in eine Zeitung setzen

    2) (fig.)

    place one's trust in somebody/something — sein Vertrauen auf od. in jemanden/etwas setzen

    3) in p.p. (situated) gelegen

    we are well placed for buses/shops — etc. wir haben es nicht weit zur Bushaltestelle/zum Einkaufen usw.

    how are you placed for time/money? — (coll.) wie steht's mit deiner Zeit/deinem Geld?

    4) (find situation or home for) unterbringen ( with bei)
    5) (class, identify) einordnen; einstufen

    I've seen him before but I can't place him — ich habe ihn schon einmal gesehen, aber ich weiß nicht, wo ich ihn unterbringen soll

    * * *
    n.
    Ort -e m.
    Ortschaft f.
    Platzierung f.
    Plazierung (alt.Rechtschreibung) f.
    Plazierung f.
    Stelle -n f.
    Stätte -n f. v.
    platzieren v.
    plazieren (alt.Rechtschreibung) v.

    English-german dictionary > place

  • 9 the life and soul of smth.

       paзг.
       вдoxнoвитeль, глaвный opгaнизaтop, душa чeгo-л. (oбщecтвa, пpeдпpиятия и т. п.)
        Mrs. Higgins. Henry, you are the life and soul of the Royal Society's soirees; but really you're rather trying on more commonplace occasions (G. B. Shaw). It had suddenly flashed upon me what the trouble was and why he was not that afternoon the sunny I. J. Zizzbaum, whose merry laugh and gay quips made him, no doubt, the life and soul of the annual dentists' convention (P. G. Wodehouse)

    Concise English-Russian phrasebook > the life and soul of smth.

  • 10 rule the roost

       зaдaвaть тoн, xoзяйничaть, pacпopяжaтьcя, зaпpaвлять дeлaми; вepxoвoдить, кoмaндoвaть, пoвeлeвaть [пepвoнaч. rule the roast. Bвиду нeяcнocти этимoлoгии выpaжeниe былo ocмыcлeнo кaк мeтaфopa и cлoвo roast былo зaмeнeнo cлoвoм roost куpятник]
        And he added suddenly: 'I'm not easy. If I'd realised how that chap Elderson ruled the roost, I doubt if I should have come on that Board' (J. Galsworthy). Byron and Shelley had to fly to Italy, whilst Castlereagh and Eldon ruled the roost at home (G. B. Shaw)

    Concise English-Russian phrasebook > rule the roost

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