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  • 1 краен

    1. (за място) end (attr.), last, endmost
    крайният стол the end/outside seat
    крайната къща the end/last house
    2. (за срок, време) latest, final
    крайно време е да it is high time to, it is about time to
    краен срок latest/final date, dead line
    крайна спирка/гара terminal
    3. (заключителен) ultimate, supreme, final
    крайна цел an ultimate/a final aim
    4. (извънреден, изключителен) extreme; utter, uttermost
    крайният предел the extreme/utmost limit
    крайни мерки extreme measures
    краен консерватор die-hard
    краен реакционер an out and out reactionary, an extreme reactionary, a dyed in the wool reactionary
    крайна десница пол. extreme right
    в краен случай if the worst comes to the worst, in the last resort, as a last resort
    (за нужда и пр.) urgent, pressing, extreme
    в крайна нужда/мизерия in extreme/utter/bitter/abject poverty, in sore need
    краен продукт an end product
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    кра̀ен,
    прил., -йна, -йно, -йни 1. (за място) end (attr.), last, endmost; (в покрайнините) outlying;
    2. (за срок, време) latest, final; \краенен срок latest/final date, dead line; \краенйна спирка/гара terminal; \краенйно време е да it is high time to, it is about time to; \краенйно време е да тръгнеш it is high time you started;
    3. ( заключителен) ultimate, supreme, final; в \краенйна сметка in the event; \краенйна цел ultimate/final aim;
    4. ( извънреден, изключителен) extreme; utter, uttermost; exorbitant; (за нужда и пр.) dire; в \краенен случай if the worst comes to the worst, in the last resort, as a last resort; (за нужда и пр.) urgent, pressing, extreme; в \краенйна нужда/мизерия in extreme/utter/bitter/abject poverty, in sore need; до \краенйния предел to the utmost; \краенен консерватор die-hard, dyed-in-the-wool Tory; \краенен реакционер out and out reactionary, extreme reactionary, dyed in the wool reactionary; \краенйна десница полит. extreme right; \краенйна нужда extremity; \краенйни мерки extreme measures;
    5. ( окончателен) end (attr.); \краенен продукт end product.
    * * *
    completive; end{end}: the краен house - крайната къща; endmost; excessive; final{`fainxl}: a краен aim - крайна цел; finishing; marginal; out{aut}; outside; supreme; ultimate{`Xltimit}; ultra (за мярка, възгледи и пр.); utmost: the краен limit - крайният предел; utter
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    1. (в покрайнините) outlying 2. (за място) end (attr.), last, endmost 3. (за нужда и пр.) urgent, pressing, extreme 4. (за срок, време) latest, final 5. (заключителен) ultimate, supreme, final 6. (извънреден, изключителен) extreme;utter, uttermost 7. (окончателен) end (attr.) 8. КРАЕН консерватор die-hard 9. КРАЕН продукт an end product 10. КРАЕН реакционер an out and out reactionary, an extreme reactionary, a dyed in the wool reactionary 11. КРАЕН срок latest/final date, dead line 12. в КРАЕН случай if the worst comes to the worst, in the last resort, as a last resort 13. в крайна нужда/мизерия in extreme/utter/bitter/abject poverty, in sore need 14. до крайния предел to the utmost 15. крайна десница пол. extreme right 16. крайна нужда extremity 17. крайна спирка/гара terminal 18. крайна цел an ultimate/a final aim 19. крайната къща the end/last house 20. крайни мерки extreme measures 21. крайният предел the extreme/utmost limit 22. крайният стол the end/outside seat 23. крайно време е да it is high time to, it is about time to 24. крайно време е да тръгнеш it is high time you started

    Български-английски речник > краен

  • 2 puro

    adj.
    1 pure, cleanly, unblemished, unadulterated.
    2 pure, chaste, decent, vestal.
    3 pure, innocent, guileless, lily-white.
    4 mere, pure, sheer.
    5 unmixed, pure, unalloyed.
    m.
    cigar.
    * * *
    2 (mero) sheer, mere, pure
    3 (casto) chaste, pure
    1 cigar
    \
    caerle a alguien un puro to be for the high jump, be in big trouble, be for it
    ■ si se entera el jefe, te caerá un puro if the boss finds out, you're for it
    meterle un puro a alguien tabú to throw the book at somebody
    ————————
    1 cigar
    * * *
    (f. - pura)
    adj.
    1) pure
    2) sheer, simple
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) (=sin mezcla) [color, lenguaje] pure; [aire] clean; [oro] solid

    pura sangre — (=caballo) thoroughbred

    2) [con valor enfático] pure, simple
    3) (=casto) pure, chaste
    4) LAm (=uno solo) only, just
    5) esp And, Caribe, Méx (=idéntico) identical
    2.
    ADV
    3. SM
    1) (tb: cigarro puro) cigar
    2)
    3)

    a puro de — † by dint of, thanks only to

    * * *
    I
    - ra adjetivo
    1)
    a) (limpio, sin mezcla) pure

    el aire puro del campo — the fresh o clean country air

    b) (casto, inocente) < mujer> chaste, pure; < niño> innocent; <mirada/amor> innocent, pure
    2) (mero, simple) (delante del n) < verdad> plain, honest (colloq); <casualidad/coincidencia> pure, sheer
    3) (AmL fam) ( sólo)
    II
    1) (AmL fam) (muy, tan)
    2) (Col fam) ( justo) right
    III
    masculino cigar
    * * *
    I
    - ra adjetivo
    1)
    a) (limpio, sin mezcla) pure

    el aire puro del campo — the fresh o clean country air

    b) (casto, inocente) < mujer> chaste, pure; < niño> innocent; <mirada/amor> innocent, pure
    2) (mero, simple) (delante del n) < verdad> plain, honest (colloq); <casualidad/coincidencia> pure, sheer
    3) (AmL fam) ( sólo)
    II
    1) (AmL fam) (muy, tan)
    2) (Col fam) ( justo) right
    III
    masculino cigar
    * * *
    puro1
    1 = cigar.

    Ex: The Dutch, too, started making cigars using tobacco from their Far Eastern colonies.

    * caja de puros = cigar box.
    * cigarro puro = cigar.

    puro2
    2 = pure [pure -comp., purest -sup.], stark, unmixed, naked, raw, sheer [sheerer -comp., sheerest -sup.], stainless, chaste.

    Ex: The notation used in DC is pure, and numbers.

    Ex: To be sure, it still has its congeries of mills and factories, its grimy huddle of frame dwellings and congested tenements, its stark, jagged skyline, but its old face is gradually changing.
    Ex: But the next Oxford catalog, published in 1620, represented an unmixed finding catalog, consisting of one alphabetical listing of all the books in the library irrespective of their arrangement on the shelves.
    Ex: Everything in this book is set down without reference to context, or author's intention, or the naked facts and figures, or the difference between one kind of writing and reading and another.
    Ex: Vegetable fibres in their raw state contain the necessary strands of cellulose which can be converted into paper.
    Ex: The sheer bulk of the headings and the complexity of references structures is sufficient to confirm that a more systematic approach might prove fruitful.
    Ex: In this study of sapphism in the British novel, Moore often directs our attention to the periphery of sapphic romances, when an abjected body suffers on behalf of the stainless heroine.
    Ex: Believe it or not, you can be celibate without being chaste, and chaste without being celibate.
    * ciencias puras = pure sciences.
    * color puro = true colour.
    * notación pura = pure notation.
    * por pura curiosidad = just out of interest, (just) as a mater of interest.
    * por pura diversión = for kicks.
    * por puro entretenimiento = (just) for the fun of (doing) it, (just) for the hell of (doing) it.
    * por puro placer = (just) for the fun of (doing) it, (just) for the hell of (doing) it.
    * pura lana = pure wool.
    * pura lana virgen = pure new wool.
    * pura realidad = stark reality.
    * pura sangre = thoroughbred.
    * pura verdad, la = unvarnished truth, la, pure truth, the.
    * puro de corazón = pure of heart.
    * puro nervio = live wire.
    * puro y duro = unvarnished.

    * * *
    puro1 -ra
    A
    puro zumo de uva pure grape juice
    es de pura lana it's pure wool
    el aire puro del campo the fresh o clean country air
    2 (casto, inocente) ‹mujer› chaste, pure; ‹niño› innocent; ‹mirada/amor› innocent, pure
    Compuesto:
    B (mero, simple) ( delante del n):
    es la pura verdad it's the plain o honest truth ( colloq)
    acertó por pura casualidad she got it right by pure o sheer chance
    fue pura coincidencia it was pure o sheer coincidence
    esta carne es pura grasa this meat is nothing but fat o is all fat
    es puro músculo he's all muscle
    lo hizo por puro capricho she did it purely on a whim
    se quedó dormido de puro cansancio he fell asleep from sheer exhaustion
    en puro invierno ( Col); in the middle of winter
    C
    ( AmL fam) (sólo): en esa oficina trabajan puras mujeres there are only women in that office, there aren't any men at all in that office
    a ese bar van puros viejos only old men go to that bar
    son puras mentiras it's just a pack of lies ( colloq), it's all lies
    A
    ( AmL fam) (muy, tan): se murió de puro vieja she just died of old age
    ni se sabe de qué color es de puro sucio que está it's so filthy you can't even tell what color it is
    lo hizo de puro egoísta he did it out of sheer selfishness, he did it purely out of selfishness
    B ( Col fam) (justo) right
    lo mataron puro al borde de la carretera they killed him right beside the road
    1 (cigarro) cigar
    2
    ( Esp fam) (tarea difícil): esta asignatura es un puro this subject is really heavy going o is really tough ( colloq)
    3
    ( Esp fam) (castigo): ¡vaya puro! that's a bit stiff o tough! ( colloq)
    te van a meter un buen puro they're going to throw the book at you ( colloq)
    Compuesto:
    Havana cigar, Havana
    * * *

     

    puro 1
    ◊ -ra adjetivo

    1

    ( limpio) ‹ aire› fresh, clean
    b) (casto, inocente) ‹ mujer› chaste, pure;

    ‹ niño› innocent;
    ‹mirada/amor› innocent, pure
    2 ( delante del n)
    a) (mero, simple) ‹ verdad› plain, honest (colloq);

    ‹casualidad/coincidencia› pure, sheer;

    de puro cansancio from sheer exhaustion
    b) (AmL fam) ( sólo):


    son puras mentiras it's just a pack of lies (colloq)
    puro 2 adverbio (fam) (muy, tan):

    lo hizo de puro egoísta he did it out of sheer selfishness
    ■ sustantivo masculino
    cigar
    puro,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 (un producto, color, sensación, etc) pure
    al aire puro, outside
    2 (uso enfático) sheer, mere: fue un puro trámite, it was a mere formality
    es la pura verdad, it's the absolute truth
    3 (una persona) chaste, pure
    II sustantivo masculino
    1 (cigarro) cigar
    2 (reprimenda, castigo) trouble: si llegas tarde, te va a caer un puro, if you are late, you're going to get into trouble

    ' puro' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bastarda
    - bastardo
    - cigarro
    - legítima
    - legítimo
    - pura
    - teatro
    - anilla
    - bluff
    - café
    - capricho
    - castizo
    - cuentista
    - cuento
    - fumar
    - tabaco
    - vacilón
    English:
    cigar
    - fat
    - pure
    - sheer
    - solid
    - unadulterated
    - whip up
    - act
    - black
    - coffee
    - indulgence
    - light
    * * *
    puro, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [limpio, sin mezcla] pure;
    [oro] solid;
    este jersey es de pura lana this sweater is 100 percent wool
    2. [atmósfera, aire] clear
    3. [conducta, persona] decent, honourable;
    un alma pura a pure soul;
    la mirada pura de un niño the clear o pure gaze of a child
    4. [mero] sheer;
    [verdad] plain;
    por pura casualidad by pure chance;
    me quedé dormido de puro cansancio I fell asleep from sheer exhaustion;
    fue una pura coincidencia it was pure coincidence;
    Fam
    y ésta es la realidad pura y dura and that is the harsh reality of the matter
    ♦ nm
    1. [cigarro] cigar
    puro habano Havana (cigar)
    2. Comp
    Esp Fam
    meterle un puro a alguien [regañina] to read the riot act to sb, Br to give sb a row o rocket;
    [castigo] to throw the book at sb;
    si te descubren te caerá un buen puro if you're found out, you'll be in for it
    * * *
    I adj
    1 pure;
    la pura verdad the honest truth
    de puro miedo out of sheer fright
    3 Méx ( único) sole, only;
    te sirven la pura comida they just serve food
    II m cigar
    * * *
    puro adv
    : sheer, much
    de puro terco: out of sheer stubbornness
    puro, -ra adj
    1) : pure
    aire puro: fresh air
    2) : plain, simple, sheer
    por pura curiosidad: from sheer curiosity
    3) : only, just
    emplean puras mujeres: they only employ women
    4)
    pura sangre : Thoroughbred horse
    puro nm
    : cigar
    * * *
    puro1 adj
    1. (en general) pure
    2. (uso enfático) absolute / sheer
    puro2 n cigar

    Spanish-English dictionary > puro

  • 3 indécrottable

    indécrottable (inf) [ɛ̃dekʀɔtabl]
    adjective
    * * *
    (colloq) ɛ̃dekʀɔtabl adjectif ( incorrigible) hopeless (colloq)
    * * *
    ɛ̃dekʀɔtabl adj *
    * * *
    indécrottable○ adj ( incorrigible) hopeless.
    [ɛ̃dekrɔtabl] adjectif

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > indécrottable

  • 4 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 5 gorila

    f. & m.
    1 gorilla.
    2 bouncer, chucker-out.
    m.
    1 gorilla (animal).
    * * *
    1 (animal) gorilla
    2 familiar (guardaespaldas) bodyguard; (en club) bouncer
    * * *
    1. SM
    1) (Zool) gorilla
    2) * (=matón) tough *, thug *; [de club] bouncer *; (=guardaespaldas) bodyguard, minder *
    3) Cono Sur (Pol) * right-winger; (Mil) senior officer
    2.
    ADJ Cono Sur (Pol) * reactionary
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo (fam) fascist, dictatorial
    II
    1) (Zool) gorilla
    2) (fam)
    a) ( matón) thug, bully-boy (colloq)
    b) ( guardaespaldas) heavy (colloq)
    c) ( reaccionario) fascist
    d) (Esp) ( en un club) bouncer
    * * *
    Ex. The lion, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, hyena, wolf, dog, sheep, cow and elephant cultures are less desirable than the cat culture, which has to operate on the principle that cats cannot be made to do anything that they do not wish to do.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo (fam) fascist, dictatorial
    II
    1) (Zool) gorilla
    2) (fam)
    a) ( matón) thug, bully-boy (colloq)
    b) ( guardaespaldas) heavy (colloq)
    c) ( reaccionario) fascist
    d) (Esp) ( en un club) bouncer
    * * *

    Ex: The lion, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, hyena, wolf, dog, sheep, cow and elephant cultures are less desirable than the cat culture, which has to operate on the principle that cats cannot be made to do anything that they do not wish to do.

    * * *
    ( fam); fascist, dictatorial
    A ( Zool) gorilla
    B ( fam)
    1 (matón) thug, bully-boy ( colloq)
    2 (guardaespaldas) bodyguard, heavy ( colloq)
    3 (reaccionario) fascist
    4 ( Esp) (en un club) bouncer
    C
    ( Chi fam) (borrachera): andar or estar con el gorila ( fam); to be drunk
    * * *

    gorila sustantivo masculino
    1 (Zool) gorilla
    2 (fam)
    a) ( matón) thug

    b) ( guardaespaldas) heavy (colloq)


    d) (Esp) ( en un club) bouncer

    gorila sustantivo masculino
    1 Zool gorilla
    2 (portero de club, discoteca) bouncer
    (guardaespaldas, matón) bodyguard
    ' gorila' also found in these entries:
    English:
    bouncer
    - gorilla
    - hoodlum
    * * *
    gorila1 nm
    1. [animal] gorilla
    2. Fam [guardaespaldas] bodyguard
    3. Esp Fam [en discoteca, pub] bouncer
    ♦ adj
    [fascista] fascist, reactionary
    ♦ nm
    [fascista] fascist, reactionary
    * * *
    m ZO gorilla
    * * *
    gorila nm
    : gorilla
    * * *
    gorila n (animal) gorilla

    Spanish-English dictionary > gorila

  • 6 tildar

    v.
    1 to put the diacritical accent on, to put a tilde on, to put a tilde over, to put an accent on.
    Ellos tildaron algunas palabras They put a diacritical accent on some words.
    2 to call.
    Ellos tildaron a Ricardo They called Richard.
    * * *
    1 (poner tilde) to put a written accent on; (de la ñ) to put a tilde on
    2 (tachar) to cross out
    3 (a una persona) to call, brand
    * * *
    VT
    1) (=acusar)

    le tildaron de vago — they dismissed him as lazy, they called him lazy

    2) (Tip) [gen] to put an accent on; [sobre la n] to put a tilde over
    * * *
    verbo transitivo

    tildar algo a alguien DE algo — to brand something/somebody (as) something

    me tildaron de reaccionario — I was branded o called a reactionary

    * * *
    = stigmatise [stigmatize, -USA], label, accuse, discredit.
    Ex. Findings reaffirm that television stigmatises the occupation of business, independently of economic factors.
    Ex. Its primer purpose is the finding of specific documents, and consequently this type of catalogue has been labelled a finding list catalogue or an inventory catalogue.
    Ex. He accused her of lying when they said she was at the movies when she had called in sick.
    Ex. Such circulation may contribute little to the creation of whole personalities but it may do much to discredit the circulators.
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    * tildar de = brand (as), mark + Nombre + down as.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo

    tildar algo a alguien DE algo — to brand something/somebody (as) something

    me tildaron de reaccionario — I was branded o called a reactionary

    * * *
    = stigmatise [stigmatize, -USA], label, accuse, discredit.

    Ex: Findings reaffirm that television stigmatises the occupation of business, independently of economic factors.

    Ex: Its primer purpose is the finding of specific documents, and consequently this type of catalogue has been labelled a finding list catalogue or an inventory catalogue.
    Ex: He accused her of lying when they said she was at the movies when she had called in sick.
    Ex: Such circulation may contribute little to the creation of whole personalities but it may do much to discredit the circulators.
    * tildar de = brand (as), mark + Nombre + down as.

    * * *
    tildar [A1 ]
    vt
    tildar a algn DE algo to brand sb AS sth
    me han tildado de reaccionario I've been branded o called a reactionary
    lo tildaron de tacaño they said he was mean
    * * *

    tildar vtr (tachar) to brand: lo tildó de cobarde, he branded him a coward
    ' tildar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    tachar
    English:
    brand
    * * *
    tildar vt
    tildar a alguien de algo to brand o call sb sth;
    le tildaron de colaboracionista she was branded a collaborator
    * * *
    v/t
    :
    tildar a alguien de fig brand s.o. as
    * * *
    tildar vt
    tildar de : to brand as, to call
    lo tildaron de traidor: they branded him as a traitor

    Spanish-English dictionary > tildar

  • 7 guardia

    f.
    la vieja guardia the old guard
    guardia Civil Civil Guard, = armed Spanish police force who patrol rural areas and highways, guard public buildings in cities and police borders and coasts
    2 watch, guard (vigilancia).
    en guardia on guard
    montar (la) guardia to mount guard
    aflojar o bajar la guardia to lower o drop one's guard
    3 duty (turno).
    estar de guardia to be on duty
    f. & m.
    1 policeman, (f) policewoman (person).
    guardia civil civil guard
    guardia municipal (local) policeman, f. (local) policewoman
    guardia de seguridad security guard
    guardia de tráfico traffic policeman, f. traffic policewoman
    2 guard, guardsman, watchman.
    3 safeguard, protection, defense, defence.
    * * *
    1 (vigilancia) watch, lookout
    2 (servicio) duty, call
    3 (tropa) guard
    1 (hombre) policeman; (mujer) policewoman
    \
    bajar la guardia to lower one's guard
    estar de guardia (doctor) to be on duty, be on call 2 (soldado) to be on guard duty 3 (marino) to be on watch
    estar en guardia to be on guard
    mantener la guardia to keep watch
    montar la guardia to mount guard
    ponerse en guardia to put oneself on one's guard
    farmacia de guardia duty chemist's
    guardia civil Civil Guard
    guardia de asalto assault guard
    guardia de corps Royal Guard
    guardia de tráfico (hombre) traffic policeman 2 (mujer) traffic policewoman
    guardia urbano,-a (hombre) policeman 2 (mujer) policewoman
    médico de guardia doctor on duty
    * * *
    noun mf.
    2) policeman / policewoman
    * * *
    1.
    SMF (=policía) policeman/policewoman; (Mil) guardsman

    guardia civil — civil guard, police corps with responsibilities outside towns or cities

    guardia de tráfico — traffic policeman/policewoman

    guardia forestal — (forest) ranger, warden

    guardia municipal, guardia urbano/a — police officer ( of the city or town police)

    guardias de asalto — riot police; (Mil) shock troops

    2. SF
    1) (=vigilancia)

    • estar de guardia — [empleado, enfermero, médico] to be on duty; [soldado] to be on sentry duty, be on guard duty; (Náut) to be on watch

    médico de guardia — doctor on duty, duty doctor

    oficial de guardia — officer on duty, duty officer

    puesto de guardia — (Mil) guard post, sentry box

    • hacer guardia — [médico, empleado] to be on duty; [soldado] to do guard duty, do sentry duty

    • montar guardia — to stand guard

    montar la guardia — (=empezarla) to mount guard

    • relevar la guardia — to change guard

    - poner a algn en guardia contra algo
    farmacia, juzgado
    2) (tb: turno de guardia) [de médico, enfermera] shift; [de soldado] duty session
    3) (Esgrima) (=posición) guard, garde

    estar en guardia — to be on guard, be en garde

    4) (=cuerpo) (Mil) guard

    guardia de honor — guard of honour, guard of honor (EEUU)

    guardia municipal — city police, town police

    Guardia Nacional — Nic, Pan National Guard, Army

    guardia pretoriana — ( Hist) Praetorian Guard; pey corps of bodyguards

    guardia urbana — city police, town police

    GUARDIA CIVIL The Guardia Civil, commonly referred to as la Benemérita, is the oldest of Spain's various police forces. A paramilitary force like the French Gendarmerie, it was set up in 1844 to combat banditry in rural areas, but was also used as an instrument of repression in the cities. Under Franco it was resented by many as an oppressive, reactionary force, and was especially hated in the Basque Country. With the return of democracy, Franco's despised Policía Armada were reformed as the Policía Nacional, and the present-day role of the Guardia Civil was redefined. They are mainly stationed in rural areas, and their duties include policing highways and frontiers and taking part in anti-terrorist operations. Their traditional tunics and capes have been replaced by a green uniform, and the famous black patent-leather three-cornered hats are now reserved for ceremonial occasions.
    See:
    * * *
    I
    1)

    estar de guardia — soldado to be on guard duty; médico to be on duty o call; empleado to be on duty; marino to be on watch

    montaban or hacían guardia frente al palacio — they were standing guard in front of the palace

    bajar la guardia — to lower one's guard

    con la guardia baja — with one's guard down

    estar en guardia — to be on one's guard

    poner en guardia a alguien — to warn somebody

    ponerse en guardia: se han puesto en guardia contra posibles fraudes — they are on the alert for fraud

    2) ( cuerpo militar) guard
    •
    II
    (m) policeman; (f) policewoman
    * * *
    = guard, patrolman, watch.
    Ex. This article reports on the results of a survey measuring student library users' perception of the effectiveness of using guards in the library.
    Ex. Arabs who played a role in the Holocaust included those who personally took part in the persecution of Jews, and patrolmen who tracked down Jewish escapees from forced labor camps.
    Ex. During his watch, the US economy as well as the global monetary situation have been thrown into a precarious situation.
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    * bajar la guardia = lower + Posesivo + guard.
    * cambio de la guardia = changing of the guard.
    * de guardia = on duty, duty + Profesión, on standby, on call.
    * de la vieja guardia = old-style.
    * estar en guardia = be on guard (against), be on + Posesivo + guard.
    * farmacia de guardia = emergency pharmacy.
    * guardia de honor = guard of honour.
    * guardia del alba = morning watch.
    * guardia de seguridad = security guard.
    * Guardia Nacional, la = National Guard, the.
    * poner a Alguien en guardia = put + Nombre + on + Posesivo + guard.
    * relevo de la guardia = changing of the guard.
    * servicio en la Guardia Nacional = National Guard duty.
    * turno de guardia = guard duty.
    * vieja guardia, la = old guard, the.
    * * *
    I
    1)

    estar de guardia — soldado to be on guard duty; médico to be on duty o call; empleado to be on duty; marino to be on watch

    montaban or hacían guardia frente al palacio — they were standing guard in front of the palace

    bajar la guardia — to lower one's guard

    con la guardia baja — with one's guard down

    estar en guardia — to be on one's guard

    poner en guardia a alguien — to warn somebody

    ponerse en guardia: se han puesto en guardia contra posibles fraudes — they are on the alert for fraud

    2) ( cuerpo militar) guard
    •
    II
    (m) policeman; (f) policewoman
    * * *
    = guard, patrolman, watch.

    Ex: This article reports on the results of a survey measuring student library users' perception of the effectiveness of using guards in the library.

    Ex: Arabs who played a role in the Holocaust included those who personally took part in the persecution of Jews, and patrolmen who tracked down Jewish escapees from forced labor camps.
    Ex: During his watch, the US economy as well as the global monetary situation have been thrown into a precarious situation.
    * bajar la guardia = lower + Posesivo + guard.
    * cambio de la guardia = changing of the guard.
    * de guardia = on duty, duty + Profesión, on standby, on call.
    * de la vieja guardia = old-style.
    * estar en guardia = be on guard (against), be on + Posesivo + guard.
    * farmacia de guardia = emergency pharmacy.
    * guardia de honor = guard of honour.
    * guardia del alba = morning watch.
    * guardia de seguridad = security guard.
    * Guardia Nacional, la = National Guard, the.
    * poner a Alguien en guardia = put + Nombre + on + Posesivo + guard.
    * relevo de la guardia = changing of the guard.
    * servicio en la Guardia Nacional = National Guard duty.
    * turno de guardia = guard duty.
    * vieja guardia, la = old guard, the.

    * * *
    A
    1
    (vigilancia): estar de guardia «soldado» to be on guard duty;
    «médico» to be on duty o call; «empleado» to be on duty; «marino» to be on watch
    la farmacia de guardia the duty pharmacy o ( BrE) chemist
    montaban guardia frente al palacio they were standing guard in front of the palace
    bajar la guardia (en boxeo) to lower one's guard; (descuidarse) to lower one's guard; (ceder) to let up, slacken in one's efforts
    con la guardia baja with one's guard down
    estar en guardia to be on one's guard
    hacerle la guardia a algn (CS); to keep a lookout o an eye out for sb
    poner a algn/ponerse en guardia: me puso en guardia contra los peligros de la expedición she warned me of the dangers of the expedition
    se han puesto en guardia contra posibles fraudes they are on the alert o on their guard against possible frauds
    prestar or hacer guardia «soldado» to do guard duty;
    «marino» to be on watch; «médico» to be on duty o call
    3
    (en esgrima): en guardia on guard, en garde
    cambio de guardia changing of the guard
    relevar la guardia to relieve the guard
    hacer la guardia ( Chi); to do military service
    Compuestos:
    feminine Civil Guard Guardia Civil (↑ guardia a1)
    feminine coastguard service
    feminine guard of honor
    feminine mounted guard, horse guard
    ● guardia municipal or urbana
    feminine royal guard
    feminine Swiss Guard
    ( masculine) police officer, policeman; ( feminine) police officer, policewoman
    Compuestos:
    masculine and feminine security guard
    masculine and feminine, ( masculine) traffic policeman; ( feminine) traffic policewoman
    masculine and feminine security guard
    ● guardia municipal or urbano
    masculine ( Esp) speed bump, sleeping policeman ( BrE)
    * * *

     

    guardia sustantivo femenino
    1
    a) ( vigilancia):



    [ médico] to be on duty o call;
    [ empleado] to be on duty;
    [ marino] to be on watch;

    poner en guardia a algn to warn sb
    b) ( en esgrima):


    2 ( cuerpo militar) guard;

    Gguardia Civil Civil Guard;
    guardia municipal or urbana police ( mainly involved in traffic duties)
    3
    ◊ guardia sustantivo masculino y femenino (sustantivo masculino) policeman;


    (sustantivo femenino) policewoman
    guardia
    I sustantivo femenino
    1 (custodia, vigilancia) watch: montaba guardia bajo su ventana, he kept watch under her window
    2 (cuerpo armado) guard: pertenece a la Guardia Real, he's in the Royal Guard
    3 (turno de servicio) duty
    Mil guard duty: mañana estaré de guardia, I'll be on guard duty tomorrow
    farmacia de guardia, GB duty chemist, US pharmacy on duty
    II mf (hombre) policeman
    (mujer) policewoman
    ♦ Locuciones: bajar la guardia, to lower one's guard
    poner en guardia, to be on guard
    juzgado de guardia, police court
    ' guardia' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    juzgado
    - alerta
    - caseta
    - casilla
    - civil
    - farmacia
    - pitar
    - porra
    - reforzar
    - relevar
    English:
    before
    - call
    - coastguard
    - constable
    - duty
    - duty chemist
    - guard
    - lookout
    - watch
    - speed
    - standby
    - while
    * * *
    ♦ nf
    1. [conjunto de personas] guard;
    la vieja guardia the old guard;
    el cambio de guardia the changing of the guard
    Guardia Civil Civil Guard, = armed Spanish police force who patrol rural areas and highways, guard public buildings in cities and police borders and coasts;
    guardia costera coastguard service;
    guardia fronteriza border guard;
    guardia de honor guard of honour;
    la guardia municipal the local police;
    Guardia Nacional National Guard;
    guardia pretoriana Hist Praetorian Guard;
    Fig phalanx of bodyguards;
    guardia real royal guard;
    la Guardia Suiza the Swiss Guard;
    la guardia urbana the local police
    2. [vigilancia] watch, guard;
    también Fig
    aflojar o [m5] bajar la guardia to lower o drop one's guard;
    de guardia on guard;
    me quedé de guardia toda la noche I stayed up watching all night;
    ¡en guardia! en garde!;
    hacer guardia to stand guard;
    montar (la) guardia to mount guard;
    poner a alguien en guardia to put sb on their guard;
    ponerse en guardia [en boxeo] to raise one's guard
    3. [turno] shift;
    este mes hice cinco guardias [médico] I've done five shifts this month;
    [soldado] I've done five turns at guard duty this month;
    le atenderá el médico de guardia the doctor on duty o duty doctor will see you;
    estar de guardia [médico] to be on duty o call;
    [farmacia] to be open 24 hours [on a given day]
    ♦ nmf
    1. [agente] policeman, f policewoman
    guardia civil civil guard;
    guardia municipal (local) policeman, f (local) policewoman;
    guardia de tráfico traffic policeman, f traffic policewoman;
    guardia urbano (local) policeman, f (local) policewoman
    2. [centinela] guard
    guardia jurado security guard;
    guardia de seguridad security guard
    * * *
    I f
    1 guard;
    bajar la guardia fig lower one’s guard;
    poner a alguien en guardia put s.o. on their guard;
    la vieja guardia fig the old guard
    2
    :
    de guardia on duty
    II m/f
    1 MIL guard
    2 ( policía) police officer
    * * *
    1) : guard, defense
    2) : guard duty, watch
    3)
    en guardia : on guard
    guardia nmf
    1) : sentry, guardsman, guard
    2) : police officer, policeman m, policewoman f
    * * *
    1. (cuerpo) guard
    2. (policía) policeman [pl. policemen] / policewoman [pl. policewomen]
    Se refiere al cuerpo de policía; una mujer policía se llama policewoman [pl. policewomen]
    guardia urbano policeman [pl. policemen]

    Spanish-English dictionary > guardia

  • 8 suffire

    suffire [syfiʀ]
    ➭ TABLE 37
    1. intransitive verb
       a. ( = être assez) [somme, durée, quantité] to be enough
    • un rien suffirait pour or à bouleverser nos plans it would only take the smallest thing to upset our plans
    • ça suffit ! (agacé) that's enough!
       b. ( = satisfaire) suffire à [+ besoins] to meet ; [+ personne] to be enough for
    • il suffit de s'inscrire or que vous vous inscriviez pour devenir membre all you have to do to become a member is sign up
    • il suffit d'une fois: on n'est jamais trop prudent once is enough - you can never be too careful
    3. reflexive verb
    * * *
    syfiʀ
    1.
    verbe intransitif ( être suffisant) [somme, durée, quantité] to be enough

    un rien suffit à or pour le mettre en colère — it only takes the slightest thing to make him lose his temper


    2.
    se suffire verbe pronominal

    se suffire (à soi-même) — [personne, pays] to be self-sufficient


    3.
    verbe impersonnel

    il suffit que je sorte sans parapluie pour qu'il pleuve! — every time I go out without my umbrella, it's guaranteed to rain

    ça suffit (comme ça)!, il suffit! — (dated) that's enough!

    il ne leur a pas suffi de nous cambrioler, il a fallu qu'ils saccagent la maison — they weren't satisfied with burgling GB ou burglarizing US us, they had to wreck the house as well

    ••

    à chaque jour suffit sa peine — Proverbe sufficient unto the day (is the evil thereof)

    * * *
    syfiʀ vi
    1) (= être assez) to be enough

    ça suffit! — that's enough!, that'll do!

    Tiens, voilà deux euros. Ça te suffit? — Here's 2 euros. Is that enough for you?

    Cela suffit pour les irriter. — It's enough to annoy them.

    Cela suffit pour qu'ils se fâchent. — It's enough for them to get angry.

    il suffit d'une négligence pour que... — it only takes one act of carelessness for...

    il suffit qu'on oublie pour que... — one only needs to forget for...

    2) (= satisfaire)

    cela lui suffit — he's content with this, this is enough for him

    * * *
    suffire verb table: suffire
    A vi ( être suffisant) [somme, durée, quantité] to be enough; quelques gouttes suffisent a few drops are enough; j'y suis allé une fois, ça m'a suffi! I went there once, and that was enough!; il est plein de bonne volonté mais ça ne suffit pas he's very willing but that's not enough; ma retraite suffit à mes besoins my pension is enough to cover my needs; un échec a suffi à or pour la décourager one setback was enough to put her off; un radiateur suffit à or pour chauffer la pièce one radiator is enough ou sufficient to heat the room; deux heures sufffisent amplement pour faire le trajet two hours is ample time ou is easily enough for the journey; un rien suffit à or pour le mettre en colère it only takes the slightest thing to make him lose his temper; dix minutes lui ont suffi pour réparer la télévision it only took him ten minutes to repair the television set.
    B se suffire vpr se suffire (à soi-même) [personne, pays] to be self-sufficient; pas besoin de longues explications, le film se suffit à lui-même there's no need for long explanations, the film speaks for itself.
    C v impers
    1 ( être très simple) il suffit de faire qch all you have to do is do sth; il suffit de qch all you need is sth; il suffit d'ajouter de l'eau et c'est prêt! all you have to do is add some water and it's ready!, just add some water and it's ready!; c'est un réactionnaire, il suffit de lire son livre pour s'en rendre compte he's a reactionary, you only have to read his book to realize that; il te suffit de dire un mot pour qu'elle revienne you only have to say one word and she'll come back; il suffit d'un coup de téléphone pour annuler son abonnement it only takes one phone call to cancel your subscription; il suffit qu'elle y aille all she has to do is go there;
    2 ( être suffisant) il suffit d'une lampe pour éclairer la pièce one lamp is enough or sufficient to light the room; il suffirait d'un peu de pluie pour sauver la récolte a little rain would be enough to save the crop; il suffit d'un rien pour qu'il rougisse/s'énerve it only takes the slightest thing to make him blush/lose his temper; il suffit d'une seconde d'inattention pour qu'un accident se produise it only takes a second's carelessness to cause an accident; il lui a suffi de dix minutes pour réparer la télévision it only took him ten minutes to repair the television set; il suffirait d'un rien pour tout faire rater it would only take the slightest thing to ruin everything;
    3 ( notion de cause à effet) il suffit que je sorte sans parapluie pour qu'il pleuve! every time I go out without my umbrella, it's guaranteed to rain; il suffit qu'elle ouvre la bouche pour dire une bêtise every time she opens her mouth she says something stupid;
    4 ( être satisfaisant) ça suffit (comme ça)!, il suffit†! that's enough!; il ne leur a pas suffi de nous cambrioler, il a fallu qu'ils saccagent la maison they weren't satisfied with burgling GB ou burglarizing US us, they had to wreck the house as well.
    à chaque jour suffit sa peine Prov sufficient unto the day (is the evil thereof).
    [syfir] verbe intransitif
    1. [en quantité] to be enough, to be sufficient, to suffice (soutenu)
    une cuillerée, ça te suffit? is one spoonful enough for you?
    je ne lui rendrai plus service, cette expérience m'a suffi I won't help her again, I've learned my lesson
    2. [en qualité] to be (good) enough
    parler ne suffit pas, il faut agir words aren't enough, we must act
    pas besoin de tralala, un sandwich me suffit there's no need for anything fancy, a sandwich will do
    ————————
    se suffire verbe pronominal (emploi réciproque)
    ————————
    se suffire verbe pronominal intransitif
    a. [matériellement] to be self-sufficient

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  • 9 Carlota Joaquina, Queen

    (1775-1830)
       Daughter of King Carlos IV of Spain, born in Aranjuez, Spain, and married at the tender age of 10 to João, son and heir of Queen Maria I. When Dom José, the eldest son of Queen Maria I died in 1788, Carlota Joaquina, who had become an unpopular Spaniard living in alien Portugal, was named princess-heiress. Always in conflict with her well-meaning but indecisive husband, João, Carlota became the leader of an extreme reactionary court party and was frequently in conflict with her more malleable husband. When the royal family fled to Brazil in 1808 to escape the French army of invasion, she accompanied them and remained in Brazil until she returned to Portugal with her husband in 1821.
       From that time on, Carlota Joaquina was never far from the center of political conflicts and controversy, as the Portuguese political system was caught in the grip of a violent struggle between the forces of constitutionalism and absolutism. After returning from Brazil, she refused to swear allegiance to the new constitution presented to her husband, King João VI, and was placed under house arrest. She was a power behind the throne of her son, Miguel, as he proclaimed himself an absolutist king, threw out the constitution, and prepared to rule the country in 1828. Before the civil war called " The War of the Brothers" (Miguel vs. Pedro, both her sons) was concluded with Pedro's military victory in 1834, Carlota Joaquina died and thus did not have to witness Miguel's defeat and permanent exile.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Carlota Joaquina, Queen

  • 10 Pedro IV, king

    (also Emperor Pedro I of Brazil)
    (1798-1834)
       The first emperor of Brazil and restorer of the liberal, constitutional monarchy, as well as of the throne of his daughter, Queen Maria II. Born in Queluz Palace, the second son of the regent João VI and Queen Carlota Joaquina, Pedro at age nine accompanied his parents and the remainder of the Braganza royal family to Brazil, fleeing the French invasion of Portugal in late 1807. Raised and educated in Brazil, following the return of his father to Portugal, Pedro declared the independence of Brazil from Portugal in the famous "cry of Ipiranga," on 7 September 1822. As Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, he ruled that fledgling nation-state-empire from 1822 to 1831, when he abdicated in favor of his son Pedro, and then went to Portugal and the Azores.
       Pedro's absolutist brother, Dom Miguel, following the death of their father João VI in 1826, had broken his word on defending Portugal's constitution and had carried out an absolutist counterrevolution, which was supported by his reactionary mother Carlota Joaquina. Pedro's daughter, Queen Maria II, who was too young to assume the duties of monarch of Portugal, had lost her throne to King Miguel, in effect, and Pedro spent the remainder of his life restoring the constitutional monarchy and his young daughter to the throne of Portugal. In the 1832-34 War of the Brothers, Pedro IV's armed forces triumphed over those of Dom Miguel and the latter fled to exile in Austria. Exhausted from the effort, Pedro died on 24 September 1834, and was buried in Lisbon. In 1972, his remains were moved to Ipiranga, Brazil.

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  • 11 Ч-161

    ВОТ (ВОН) ОНО ЧТО! coll Interj these forms only fixed WO
    used to express surprise, amazement, sudden understanding etc
    so that's it!
    so that's what (how) it is! so thatfc (this is) what itfs all about! so that's what happened! (now) I see (understand, get it)! (in limited contexts) how about that! really! so that's why... so that's where s.o. got sth. (why s.o. did sth. etc).
    ...(Я) сказал, что ни с кем не общаюсь и нигде не бываю. «...Но вы же были на художественной выставке и там смотрели абстрактные картины». Ах, вот оно что! Хотя это была выставка совершенно официальная и никто не предупреждал, что ходить на неё не надо, но как советский человек я должен был понимать, что на абстрактные картины лучше все-таки не смотреть (Войнович 1). I said that I didn't associate with anyone and didn't go anywhere. "...You've been to an art exhibit, and you looked at abstr act paintings." Oh, so that was it! Even though that exhibit had been entirely official, and no one had warned me not to go there, as a good Soviet I should have known that, no matter what, it's best to avoid looking at abstr act paintings (1a).
    Вот оно что! Письмо не дошло до адресата, потому что в адресе ошибка! So that's what happened! The letter didn't get to the addressee because there was a mistake in the address!
    Конференция, старая лошадь, новые сады, бюллетени и лаванда, овечки с паспортами. Ах, вот оно что! Какой-то французский реакционный префект выслал этих колхозников из Франции, не постеснявшись заявить публично, что они поселились в районе, где интересы национальной обороны требуют повышенной бдительности (Войнович 1). A conference, an old horse, new orchards, bulletins and lavender, sheep with passports. Ah, now I see! Some reactionary French prefect deported those kolkhozniks from France and was not ashamed to state publicly that they had settled in an area where national defense interests required increased vigilance (1a).
    «Оказывается, когда пьёшь вниз головой, быстро хмелеешь. Хмель сразу же стекает в голову» - «Ах, вот оно что», - сказал Объедало и успокоился (Искандер 5). "When you drink head down, it turns out, you get tipsy fast. The tipsiness runs straight to your head." "Really?" Trencherman said, mollified (5a).
    Саяпин:)...Без жены он, сам знаешь, ни шагу. (Зилов:) А он жену вчера на юг отправил. (Саяпин:) Вот оно что. То-то загулял мужик... (Вампилов 5). (S.:)...You know he doesn't make a move without his wife. (Z.:) But he sent her off to the south yesterday. (S.:) So that's why the guy is cutting loose... (5b).

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  • 12 что ни есть

    I
    [NP; subj or obj; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ it is inconsequential what; anything, regardless of what it might be:
    - anything, it doesn't matter what;
    - anything that's available <handy etc>;
    - [only when всё is stated or implied] anything and everything;
    - anything in the world.
         ♦ "Что тебе дать поесть?" - "Что ни на есть, лишь бы побыстрее". "What shall I get you to eat?" "Anything at all, as long as it's quick."
         ♦ Ноздрев во многих отношениях был многосторонний человек... В ту же минуту он предлагал вам ехать куда угодно, хоть на край света, войти в какое хотите предприятие, менять всё, что ни есть, на всё, что хотите (Гоголь 3). Nozdryov was a man of great versatility in many way s.... In the same breath he would offer to go with you anywhere you liked, even to the ends of the earth, to become your partner in any enterprise you might choose, to exchange anything in the world for anything you like (3a).
    II
    • (самый) ЧТО НИ (НА) ЕСТЬ coll
    [intensif Particle; usu. preceded by самый; foll. by NP or AdjP; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ used to express that s.o. or sth. exhibits the highest or most extreme degree possible (of the characteristic named) or represents the ultimate example (of the type, group etc named):
    - the most <the worst etc>...you can imagine <imaginable, in the world, you've ever seen, you've ever set eyes on, that ever existed etc>;
    - a...if ever there was one;
    - [in limited contexts] s.o. < sth.> couldn't be (a) more...
         ♦...Через год, в мае, было подано от имени его сыновей (он, конечно, об этом не знал) прошение, в самом что ни на есть пышном, душещипательном стиле... (Набоков 1). A year later, in May, a petition was submitted in his sons' names (he, of course, knew nothing of this), in the most florid and tear-jerking style imaginable (1a).
         ♦ Самая что ни на есть пытка и с питьём и с оправкой (Марченко 1). It's the worst kind of torture you can imagine, both with the dnnking and the toilet (1a).
         ♦ "Покажи тебе самую что ни есть раскрасавицу - ты даже глазом не поведёшь. Потому что биотоки отрицательные подключат" (Айтматов 2). "You could be shown the most ravishing creature you've ever set eyes on and you'll not even bat an eyelid. This will be because the bio-currents will cut out this feeling" (2a).
         ♦ "Ну, а теперь, друзья-товарищи и граждане-враги, - говорит Дзюба, - нехай выступает перед нами самая что ни на есть реакционная шкура мракобесья..." (Алешковский 1). "Now, comrade-friends and citizen-enemies," said Dziuba, "we're going to hear a speech by the most reactionary obscurantist asshole who ever existed..." (1a).
         ♦ Упомянули Антона. Я сказал, что он самый что ни на есть русский, глубинный русский... (Зиновьев 2). [context transl] Anton's name was mentioned. I said that he was the most Russian of Russians, profoundly Russian... (2a).

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  • 13 что ни на есть

    I
    [NP; subj or obj; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ it is inconsequential what; anything, regardless of what it might be:
    - anything, it doesn't matter what;
    - anything that's available <handy etc>;
    - [only when всё is stated or implied] anything and everything;
    - anything in the world.
         ♦ "Что тебе дать поесть?" - "Что ни на есть, лишь бы побыстрее". "What shall I get you to eat?" "Anything at all, as long as it's quick."
         ♦ Ноздрев во многих отношениях был многосторонний человек... В ту же минуту он предлагал вам ехать куда угодно, хоть на край света, войти в какое хотите предприятие, менять всё, что ни есть, на всё, что хотите (Гоголь 3). Nozdryov was a man of great versatility in many way s.... In the same breath he would offer to go with you anywhere you liked, even to the ends of the earth, to become your partner in any enterprise you might choose, to exchange anything in the world for anything you like (3a).
    II
    • (самый) ЧТО НИ (НА) ЕСТЬ coll
    [intensif Particle; usu. preceded by самый; foll. by NP or AdjP; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ used to express that s.o. or sth. exhibits the highest or most extreme degree possible (of the characteristic named) or represents the ultimate example (of the type, group etc named):
    - the most <the worst etc>...you can imagine <imaginable, in the world, you've ever seen, you've ever set eyes on, that ever existed etc>;
    - a...if ever there was one;
    - [in limited contexts] s.o. < sth.> couldn't be (a) more...
         ♦...Через год, в мае, было подано от имени его сыновей (он, конечно, об этом не знал) прошение, в самом что ни на есть пышном, душещипательном стиле... (Набоков 1). A year later, in May, a petition was submitted in his sons' names (he, of course, knew nothing of this), in the most florid and tear-jerking style imaginable (1a).
         ♦ Самая что ни на есть пытка и с питьём и с оправкой (Марченко 1). It's the worst kind of torture you can imagine, both with the dnnking and the toilet (1a).
         ♦ "Покажи тебе самую что ни есть раскрасавицу - ты даже глазом не поведёшь. Потому что биотоки отрицательные подключат" (Айтматов 2). "You could be shown the most ravishing creature you've ever set eyes on and you'll not even bat an eyelid. This will be because the bio-currents will cut out this feeling" (2a).
         ♦ "Ну, а теперь, друзья-товарищи и граждане-враги, - говорит Дзюба, - нехай выступает перед нами самая что ни на есть реакционная шкура мракобесья..." (Алешковский 1). "Now, comrade-friends and citizen-enemies," said Dziuba, "we're going to hear a speech by the most reactionary obscurantist asshole who ever existed..." (1a).
         ♦ Упомянули Антона. Я сказал, что он самый что ни на есть русский, глубинный русский... (Зиновьев 2). [context transl] Anton's name was mentioned. I said that he was the most Russian of Russians, profoundly Russian... (2a).

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  • 14 вон оно что!

    • ВОТ < ВОН> ОНО ЧТО! coll
    [Interj; these forms only; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ used to express surprise, amazement, sudden understanding etc:
    - so that's it!;
    - so that's what < how> it is!;
    - so that's < this is> what it's all about!;
    - so that's what happened!;
    - (now) I see <understand, get it>!;
    - [in limited contexts] how about that!;
    - really!;
    - so that's why...;
    - so that's where s.o. got sth. <why s.o. did sth. etc>.
         ♦...[ Я] сказал, что ни с кем не общаюсь и нигде не бываю. "...Но вы же были на художественной выставке и там смотрели абстрактные картины". Ах, вот оно что! Хотя это была выставка совершенно официальная и никто не предупреждал, что ходить на неё не надо, но как советский человек я должен был понимать, что на абстрактные картины лучше все-таки не смотреть (Войнович 1). I said that I didn't associate with anyone and didn't go anywhere. "...You've been to an art exhibit, and you looked at abstract paintings." Oh, so that was it! Even though that exhibit had been entirely official, and no one had warned me not to go there, as a good Soviet I should have known that, no matter what, it's best to avoid looking at abstract paintings (1a).
         ♦ Вот оно что! Письмо не дошло до адресата, потому что в адресе ошибка! So that's what happened! The letter didn't get to the addressee because there was a mistake in the address!
         ♦ Конференция, старая лошадь, новые сады, бюллетени и лаванда, овечки с паспортами. Ах, вот оно что! Какой-то французский реакционный префект выслал этих колхозников из Франции, не постеснявшись заявить публично, что они поселились в районе, где интересы национальной обороны требуют повышенной бдительности (Войнович 1). A conference, an old horse, new orchards, bulletins and lavender, sheep with passports. Ah, now I see! Some reactionary French prefect deported those kolkhozniks from France and was not ashamed to state publicly that they had settled in an area where national defense interests required increased vigilance (1a).
         ♦ "Оказывается, когда пьёшь вниз головой, быстро хмелеешь. Хмель сразу же стекает в голову" - "Ах, вот оно что", - сказал Объедало и успокоился (Искандер 5). "When you drink head down, it turns out, you get tipsy fast. The tipsiness runs straight to your head." "Really?" Trencherman said, mollified (5a).
         ♦ [Саяпин:]...Без жены он, сам знаешь, ни шагу. [Зилов:] А он жену вчера на юг отправил. [Саяпин:] Вот оно что. То-то загулял мужик... (Вампилов 5). [S.:]... You know he doesn't make a move without his wife. [Z.:] But he sent her off to the south yesterday. [S.:] So that's why the guy is cutting loose... (5b).

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  • 15 вот оно что!

    • ВОТ < ВОН> ОНО ЧТО! coll
    [Interj; these forms only; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ used to express surprise, amazement, sudden understanding etc:
    - so that's it!;
    - so that's what < how> it is!;
    - so that's < this is> what it's all about!;
    - so that's what happened!;
    - (now) I see <understand, get it>!;
    - [in limited contexts] how about that!;
    - really!;
    - so that's why...;
    - so that's where s.o. got sth. <why s.o. did sth. etc>.
         ♦...[ Я] сказал, что ни с кем не общаюсь и нигде не бываю. "...Но вы же были на художественной выставке и там смотрели абстрактные картины". Ах, вот оно что! Хотя это была выставка совершенно официальная и никто не предупреждал, что ходить на неё не надо, но как советский человек я должен был понимать, что на абстрактные картины лучше все-таки не смотреть (Войнович 1). I said that I didn't associate with anyone and didn't go anywhere. "...You've been to an art exhibit, and you looked at abstract paintings." Oh, so that was it! Even though that exhibit had been entirely official, and no one had warned me not to go there, as a good Soviet I should have known that, no matter what, it's best to avoid looking at abstract paintings (1a).
         ♦ Вот оно что! Письмо не дошло до адресата, потому что в адресе ошибка! So that's what happened! The letter didn't get to the addressee because there was a mistake in the address!
         ♦ Конференция, старая лошадь, новые сады, бюллетени и лаванда, овечки с паспортами. Ах, вот оно что! Какой-то французский реакционный префект выслал этих колхозников из Франции, не постеснявшись заявить публично, что они поселились в районе, где интересы национальной обороны требуют повышенной бдительности (Войнович 1). A conference, an old horse, new orchards, bulletins and lavender, sheep with passports. Ah, now I see! Some reactionary French prefect deported those kolkhozniks from France and was not ashamed to state publicly that they had settled in an area where national defense interests required increased vigilance (1a).
         ♦ "Оказывается, когда пьёшь вниз головой, быстро хмелеешь. Хмель сразу же стекает в голову" - "Ах, вот оно что", - сказал Объедало и успокоился (Искандер 5). "When you drink head down, it turns out, you get tipsy fast. The tipsiness runs straight to your head." "Really?" Trencherman said, mollified (5a).
         ♦ [Саяпин:]...Без жены он, сам знаешь, ни шагу. [Зилов:] А он жену вчера на юг отправил. [Саяпин:] Вот оно что. То-то загулял мужик... (Вампилов 5). [S.:]... You know he doesn't make a move without his wife. [Z.:] But he sent her off to the south yesterday. [S.:] So that's why the guy is cutting loose... (5b).

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  • 16 Е-23

    (самый) ЧТО НИ (НА) ЕСТЬ2 coll (intensif Particle usu. preceded by самый foil. by NP or AdjP fixed WO
    used to express that s.o. or sth. exhibits the highest or most extreme degree possible (of the characteristic named) or represents the ultimate example (of the type, group etc named)
    the most (the worst etc)...you can imagine (imaginable, in the world, you've ever seen, you've ever set eyes on, that ever existed etc)
    a...if ever there was one
    (in limited contexts) s.o. sth. couldn't be (a) more......Через год, в мае, было подано от имени его сыновей (он, конечно, об этом не знал) прошение, в самом что ни на есть пышном, душещипательном стиле... (Набоков 1). A year later, in May, a petition was submitted in his sons' names (he, of course, knew nothing of this), in the most florid and tear-jerking style imaginable (1a).
    Самая что ни на есть пытка и с питьём и с оправкой (Марченко 1). It's the worst kind of torture you can imagine, both with the drinking and the toilet (1a).
    Покажи тебе самую что ни есть раскрасавицу - ты даже глазом не поведёшь. Потому что биотоки отрицательные подключат» (Айтматов 2). "You could be shown the most ravishing creature you've ever set eyes on and you'll not even bat an eyelid. This will be because the bio-currents will cut out this feeling" (2a).
    «Ну, а теперь, друзья-товарищи и граждане-враги, - говорит Дзюба, - нехай выступает перед нами самая что ни на есть реакционная шкура мракобесья...» (Алешковский 1). "Now, comrade-friends and citizen-enemies," said Dziuba, "we're going to hear a speech by the most reactionary obscurantist asshole who ever existed..." (1a).
    Упомянули Антона. Я сказал, что он самый что ни на есть русский, глубинный русский... (Зиновьев 2). ( context transl) Anton's name was mentioned. I said that he was the most Russian of Russians, profoundly Russian... (2a).

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