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1 contar
v.1 to count.se pueden contar con los dedos de una mano you can count them on (the fingers of) one handPedro cuenta los goles Peter counts the goals.El aseo cuenta como algo importante Hygiene counts as something important.2 to count.cuenta también los gastos de desplazamiento count o include travel costs toosomos 57 sin contar a los niños there are 57 of us, not counting the children3 to count.sabe contar hasta diez she can count to ten4 to count.aquí no cuento para nada I count for nothing herelo que cuenta es… what matters is…5 to tell.cuéntame, ¿cómo te va la vida? tell me, how are things?Ricardo le cuenta historias al grupo Richard tells the group stories.Le conté I told him [her].6 to consider, to repute, to judge.María cuenta su actitud Mary considers his attitude.* * *(o changes to ue in stressed syllables)Present IndicativePresent SubjunctiveImperative* * *verb1) to count2) tell•* * *1. VT1) (=calcular) [+ objetos, números, puntos] to count; [+ dinero] to count, count up2) (=relatar) to tell¿qué les voy a contar que ustedes no sepan? — what can I tell you that you don't already know?
el paro está peor y la corrupción, ¿qué le voy a contar? — unemployment has got worse and as for corruption, what can I say?
si pierdo el trabajo, ya me contarás de qué vamos a vivir — you tell me what we'll live on if I lose my job
¿y a mí qué me cuentas? — so what?
¡a mi me lo vas a contar! — you're telling me! *, tell me about it! *
se cuenta que... — it is said that...
- ¡una obra que ni te cuento!3) (=tener la edad de)4) (=incluir) to countseis en total, sin contarme a mí — six altogether, not counting me
1.500 sin contar las propinas — 1,500, excluding tips, 1,500, not counting tips
5) (=tener en cuenta) to remember, bear in mindcuenta que es más fuerte que tú — remember o don't forget he's stronger than you are
2. VI1) (Mat) to countparar de contar * —
hay dos sillas, una mesa y para ya de contar — there are two chairs, a table, and that's it
2) (=relatar) to tellojalá tengas suerte con la entrevista de trabajo, ya me contarás — I hope the job interview goes well, I look forward to hearing all about it
- cuenta y no acaba de hablar3) (=importar, valer) to count•
contar por dos, los domingos una hora cuenta por dos — on Sundays one hour counts as two4)•
contar con —a) (=confiar en) to count oncuenta conmigo — you can rely o count on me
b) (=tener presente)tienes que contar con el mal estado de la carretera — you have to take into account o remember the bad state of the road
cuenta con que es más fuerte que tú — bear in mind o remember he's stronger than you are
sin contar con que... — leaving aside the fact that...
c) (=incluir) to count inlo siento, pero para eso no cuentes conmigo — I'm sorry but you can count me out of that
no contéis con nosotros para el viernes, estaremos ocupados — don't expect us on Friday, we'll be busy
d) (=tener) to haveel polideportivo cuenta con una piscina olímpica — the sports centre has o boasts an Olympic-size swimming pool
una democracia que tan solo cuenta con dieciséis años de existencia — a democracy that has only existed for sixteen years
3.See:* * *1.verbo transitivo1) <dinero/votos/dís> to count2)a) ( incluir) to countb) ( tener)contaba ya veinte años — (frml o liter) she was then twenty years old
3) <cuento/chiste/secreto> to tella mí me lo vas a contar! — (fam) you're telling me!
¿y a a mí qué me cuentas? — what's that to do with me?
¿qué cuentas (de nuevo)? — (fam) how're things? (colloq)
2.cuenta la leyenda que... — the story goes that...
contar vi1) (Mat) to counthay cuatro tiendas... y para de contar — there are four stores and that's it
2) (importar, valer) to count¿este trabajo cuenta para la nota final? — does this piece of work count toward(s) the final grade?
ella no cuenta para nada — what she says (o thinks etc) doesn't count for anything
3) contar con<persona/ayuda/discreción> to count on, rely oncuento contigo para la fiesta — I'm counting o relying on you being at the party
yo me opongo, así es que no cuentes conmigo — I'm against it, so you can count me out
eso contando con que... — assuming that...
sin contar con que... — without taking into account that...
4) ( prever) to expect5) (frml) ( tener) to have3.contarse v prona) (frml) ( estar incluido)contarse entre algo: se cuenta entre los pocos que tienen acceso she is numbered among the few who have access (frml); me cuento entre sus partidarios I count myself as one of their supporters; su nombre se cuenta entre los finalistas her name figures o appears among the finalists; su novela se cuenta entre las mejores — his novel is among the best
b)¿qué te cuentas? — how's it going? (colloq)
* * *= count, relate, tally, count, tell out into, narrate, number, count out, hip.Ex. To ease the cataloguer's job and save him the trouble of counting characters, DOBIS/LIBIS uses a special function.Ex. This article relates what happened to the records of the German era after the colony became a mandate under the British administration and after the attainment of independence.Ex. The statistic programs have been designed to make it possible to extract, tally, and print statistical information from the journal.Ex. People must be made to feel that they and their ideas count.Ex. The finished paper was sorted for imperfections and told out into quires and reams for sale.Ex. The inmates satisfied their need for reading by smuggling in Polish books, or else narrating stories from memory.Ex. I would therefore like to give a blanket thankyou to everyone who has talked or written to me in my research and they must now number thousands rather than hundreds.Ex. At midnight, one pirate arose, opened the chest, and counted out the gold pieces into five even piles.Ex. He was aghast after having been hipped to the fact there are hookers on the Internet.----* contando = counting.* contar Algo a Alguien = let + Nombre + in on.* contar chismes de Alguien = tell + tales out of school about + Alguien.* contar con = hold, count on, have at + Posesivo + disposal, bank on, set + your watch by.* contar con Alguien = count + Pronombre + in.* contar con apoyo para = have + support for.* contar con el apoyo de Alguien = have + Nombre + behind + Pronombre.* contar con el apoyo necesario para = have + the power behind to.* contar con el visto bueno = meet with + approval.* contar con la aprobación = meet with + approval.* contar con la colaboración de = enjoy + cooperation with.* contar con la cooperación de = enjoy + cooperation with.* contar con + Posesivo + aprobación = meet + Posesivo + approval.* contar con + Posesivo + visto bueno = meet + Posesivo + approval.* contar de = tell of.* contar dinero = count + money.* contar en confianza = confide.* contar experiencias = tell + tales.* contar historias = tell + tales.* contar la experiencia = relate + experience, recount + experience.* contar las ideas a Alguien = run + ideas + past + Pronombre.* contarle las penas a Alguien = sob + Posesivo + heart out to.* contar para nada = count + for nothing.* contar + Posesivo + propia vida y milagros = spill + Posesivo + guts.* contar todo sobre = give + Nombre + the lowdown on.* contar una anécdota = tell + story.* contar una historia = spin + a yarn, weave + a tale, narrate + story, weave + story.* contar un cuento = tell + story.* cuenta la leyenda que = legend has it that, as legend goes.* dinero contante y sonante = readies, the ready.* entre ellos contamos con los siguientes = numbered amongst these are.* no contar = be out of the picture.* no contar con = leave + Nombre + out of the picture, drop + Nombre + out of the picture.* no contar con la aprobación = frown on/upon.* poder contar con = be there for + Pronombre.* que se cuentan por millones = numbered in millions.* según cuenta la leyenda = legend has it that, as legend goes.* sin contar = not including, excluding.* sin contar con = in the absence of.* visión contada por una persona de adentro = insider's look, insider's perspective.* volver a contar = recount, retell.* * *1.verbo transitivo1) <dinero/votos/dís> to count2)a) ( incluir) to countb) ( tener)contaba ya veinte años — (frml o liter) she was then twenty years old
3) <cuento/chiste/secreto> to tella mí me lo vas a contar! — (fam) you're telling me!
¿y a a mí qué me cuentas? — what's that to do with me?
¿qué cuentas (de nuevo)? — (fam) how're things? (colloq)
2.cuenta la leyenda que... — the story goes that...
contar vi1) (Mat) to counthay cuatro tiendas... y para de contar — there are four stores and that's it
2) (importar, valer) to count¿este trabajo cuenta para la nota final? — does this piece of work count toward(s) the final grade?
ella no cuenta para nada — what she says (o thinks etc) doesn't count for anything
3) contar con<persona/ayuda/discreción> to count on, rely oncuento contigo para la fiesta — I'm counting o relying on you being at the party
yo me opongo, así es que no cuentes conmigo — I'm against it, so you can count me out
eso contando con que... — assuming that...
sin contar con que... — without taking into account that...
4) ( prever) to expect5) (frml) ( tener) to have3.contarse v prona) (frml) ( estar incluido)contarse entre algo: se cuenta entre los pocos que tienen acceso she is numbered among the few who have access (frml); me cuento entre sus partidarios I count myself as one of their supporters; su nombre se cuenta entre los finalistas her name figures o appears among the finalists; su novela se cuenta entre las mejores — his novel is among the best
b)¿qué te cuentas? — how's it going? (colloq)
* * *= count, relate, tally, count, tell out into, narrate, number, count out, hip.Ex: To ease the cataloguer's job and save him the trouble of counting characters, DOBIS/LIBIS uses a special function.
Ex: This article relates what happened to the records of the German era after the colony became a mandate under the British administration and after the attainment of independence.Ex: The statistic programs have been designed to make it possible to extract, tally, and print statistical information from the journal.Ex: People must be made to feel that they and their ideas count.Ex: The finished paper was sorted for imperfections and told out into quires and reams for sale.Ex: The inmates satisfied their need for reading by smuggling in Polish books, or else narrating stories from memory.Ex: I would therefore like to give a blanket thankyou to everyone who has talked or written to me in my research and they must now number thousands rather than hundreds.Ex: At midnight, one pirate arose, opened the chest, and counted out the gold pieces into five even piles.Ex: He was aghast after having been hipped to the fact there are hookers on the Internet.* contando = counting.* contar Algo a Alguien = let + Nombre + in on.* contar chismes de Alguien = tell + tales out of school about + Alguien.* contar con = hold, count on, have at + Posesivo + disposal, bank on, set + your watch by.* contar con Alguien = count + Pronombre + in.* contar con apoyo para = have + support for.* contar con el apoyo de Alguien = have + Nombre + behind + Pronombre.* contar con el apoyo necesario para = have + the power behind to.* contar con el visto bueno = meet with + approval.* contar con la aprobación = meet with + approval.* contar con la colaboración de = enjoy + cooperation with.* contar con la cooperación de = enjoy + cooperation with.* contar con + Posesivo + aprobación = meet + Posesivo + approval.* contar con + Posesivo + visto bueno = meet + Posesivo + approval.* contar de = tell of.* contar dinero = count + money.* contar en confianza = confide.* contar experiencias = tell + tales.* contar historias = tell + tales.* contar la experiencia = relate + experience, recount + experience.* contar las ideas a Alguien = run + ideas + past + Pronombre.* contarle las penas a Alguien = sob + Posesivo + heart out to.* contar para nada = count + for nothing.* contar + Posesivo + propia vida y milagros = spill + Posesivo + guts.* contar todo sobre = give + Nombre + the lowdown on.* contar una anécdota = tell + story.* contar una historia = spin + a yarn, weave + a tale, narrate + story, weave + story.* contar un cuento = tell + story.* cuenta la leyenda que = legend has it that, as legend goes.* dinero contante y sonante = readies, the ready.* entre ellos contamos con los siguientes = numbered amongst these are.* no contar = be out of the picture.* no contar con = leave + Nombre + out of the picture, drop + Nombre + out of the picture.* no contar con la aprobación = frown on/upon.* poder contar con = be there for + Pronombre.* que se cuentan por millones = numbered in millions.* según cuenta la leyenda = legend has it that, as legend goes.* sin contar = not including, excluding.* sin contar con = in the absence of.* visión contada por una persona de adentro = insider's look, insider's perspective.* volver a contar = recount, retell.* * *vtA ‹dinero/votos› to count15 días a contar desde la fecha de notificación 15 days starting from the date of notificationestá contando los días que faltan para que llegues he's counting the days until you arriveB1 (incluir) to counta mí no me cuentes entre sus partidarios don't include me among his supporterslo cuento entre mis mejores amigos I consider him (to be) one of my best friendssin contar al profesor somos 22 there are 22 of us, not counting the teachery eso sin contar las horas extras and that's without taking overtime into account o without including overtime2la asociación cuenta ya medio siglo de vida ( frml); the association has now been in existence for half a century ( frml)Sentido II ‹cuento/chiste/secreto› to tellno se lo cuentes a nadie don't tell anyonecuéntame qué es de tu vida tell me what you've been doing o ( colloq) what you've been up to¡y a mí me lo vas a contar! ( fam); you're telling me! o don't I know! o tell me about it! ( colloq)abuelito, cuéntame un cuento grandpa, tell me a storyes una historia muy larga de contar it's a long story¡cuéntaselo a tu abuela! ( fam); go tell it to the marines! ( AmE colloq), come off it! ( BrE colloq)■ contarviA1 ( Mat) to countcuenta de diez en diez count in tenscuenta hasta 20 count (up) to 20cuatro tiendas, dos bares … y para de contar four stores, two bars and that's it2 (importar, valer) to countpara él lo único que cuenta es el dinero for him the only thing that counts is money o the only thing that matters to him is money¿este trabajo cuenta para la nota final? does this piece of work count toward(s) the final grade?este ejercicio cuenta por dos porque es muy largo this exercise counts as two because it's very longa efectos impositivos, estos ingresos no cuentan this does not count as taxable incomelo que cuenta es el gesto it's the thought that counts1 ‹persona/ayuda/discreción› to count on, rely on¿puedo contar con tu colaboración? can I count on your help?cuento contigo para la fiesta I'm counting o relying on you being at the partyno cuentes conmigo para mañana, tengo una cita con el médico don't expect me there tomorrow, I've got a doctor's appointmentyo me opongo, así es que no cuentes conmigo I'm against it, so you can count me out2 (prever) to expectno contaba con que hiciera tan mal tiempo I wasn't expecting the weather to be so bad, I hadn't bargained for o allowed for such bad weatherno habíamos contado con este contratiempo we hadn't expected o anticipated o ( colloq) we hadn't reckoned on this setbackel hotel cuenta con piscina, gimnasio y sauna the hotel has o is equipped with o offers o boasts a swimming pool, gym and saunano contamos con los elementos de juicio necesarios we do not have o possess the necessary knowledgelos sindicatos contarán con representación en este organismo the unions will be represented in this organization■ contarse1 ( frml) (estar incluido) contarse ENTRE algo:se cuenta entre los pocos que tienen acceso she is numbered among the few who have access ( frml), she is one of the few people who have accesssus partidarios, entre quienes me cuento their supporters, and I count myself as one of them o ( frml) their supporters, and I number myself among themsu nombre se cuenta entre los finalistas her name figures o appears among the finalistssu novela se cuenta entre las mejores del año his novel is among o is numbered among the year's best2* * *
contar ( conjugate contar) verbo transitivo
1 ‹dinero/votos/días› to count;
y eso sin contar las horas extras and that's without including overtime;
lo cuento entre mis amigos I consider him (to be) one of my friends
2 ‹cuento/chiste/secreto› to tell;
es muy largo de contar it's a long story;
¿qué cuentas (de nuevo)? (fam) how're things? (colloq)
verbo intransitivo
1 ( en general) to count;
¿este trabajo cuenta para la nota final? does this piece of work count toward(s) the final grade?;
ella no cuenta para nada what she says (o thinks etc) doesn't count for anything
2
◊ cuento contigo para la fiesta I'm counting o relying on you being at the party;
sin contar con que … without taking into account that …
contarse verbo pronominala) (frml) ( estar incluido):
su novela se cuenta entre las mejores his novel is among the bestb)◊ ¿qué te cuentas? how's it going? (colloq)
contar
I verbo transitivo
1 (un suceso, una historia) to tell
2 (numerar) to count
II verbo intransitivo to count
♦ Locuciones: contar con, (confiar en) to count on
(constar de) to have
' contar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
acostumbrar
- cacarear
- confiar
- cotillear
- cuento
- dada
- dado
- desahogarse
- guión
- lisamente
- película
- referir
- sin
- bola
- chisme
- chiste
- contabilizar
- esperar
- largo
- narración
- platicar
English:
allow for
- bank on
- bargain for
- bargain on
- count
- count on
- count out
- crack
- depend
- expect
- fib
- figure on
- foresee
- joke
- miscount
- narrate
- number
- plan on
- put
- reckon
- reckon on
- recount
- rely
- repeat
- report
- retell
- secret
- spin
- story
- tell
- untold
- bank
- boast
- command
- figure
- gossip
- plan
- re-count
- tale
- to
* * *♦ vt1. [enumerar] to count;contaron doscientos manifestantes en la marcha del domingo the number of demonstrators at Sunday's march was estimated at two hundred;se pueden contar con los dedos de una mano you can count them on (the fingers of) one hand2. [incluir] to count;cuenta también los gastos de desplazamiento count o include travel costs too;somos cincuenta y siete sin contar a los niños there are fifty-seven of us, not counting the children;la economía, sin contar el desempleo, parece recuperarse the economy, with the exception of the unemployment situation, seems to be recovering3. [narrar] to tell;no me cuentes el final don't tell me what happens;ya me contarás qué tal te va por la capital let me know how you get on in the capital;me han contado maravillas sobre ese restaurante I've heard great things about that restaurant;Fam¿qué cuentas? how are you doing?;¿qué me cuentas? ¡no me lo puedo creer! never! I can't believe it!;Famcuéntame, ¿cómo te va la vida? tell me, how are things?;Irónico¿me lo cuentas a mí? you're telling me!;Fam¡cuéntaselo a tu abuela! pull the other one!, come off it!;Famno me cuentes tu vida I don't want to hear your life story4. [tener una cantidad de]la población contaba mil habitantes the village had a thousand inhabitants;cuenta ya diez años she's ten years old now;el equipo cuenta ya dos victorias the team has already achieved two wins, the team already has two wins under its belt5. [considerar]a él lo cuento como uno más del grupo I consider o see him as just another member of the group;te contaba como una persona seria I thought you were a serious person;cuenta que la próxima semana estoy de vacaciones remember that I'm on holiday next week♦ vi1. [hacer cálculos] to count;sabe contar hasta diez she can count to ten;contar con los dedos to count on one's fingers;un perro, dos gatos y para de contar a dog, two cats and that's it2. [importar] to count;lo que cuenta es que te pongas bien the important thing is for you to get better, what matters is for you to get better;en esta casa no cuento para nada I count for nothing in this household;para él lo único que cuenta es ganar dinero the only thing that matters to him is making money;los dos peores resultados no cuentan para el resultado final the worst two scores aren't taken into account when calculating the final total;es tan fuerte que cuenta por dos he has the strength of two men3.contar con [confiar en] to count on, to rely on;es un buen amigo, siempre se puede contar con él he's a good friend, you can count on o rely on him;¡no cuentes con ellos! don't count on o rely on them!;no cuentes conmigo, no voy a venir don't expect me, I won't be coming;cuenta con ello, estaré allí para ayudarte I'll be there to help you, you can count on it, rest assured, I'll be there to help you4.contar con [tener, poseer] to have;cuenta con dos horas para hacerlo she has two hours to do it;las minorías contarán con representación en el nuevo parlamento minority parties will be represented in the new parliament5.contar con [tener en cuenta] to take into account;con esto no contaba I hadn't reckoned with that;no contaban con que se acabara la cerveza tan rápidamente they hadn't expected the beer to run out so quickly* * *I v/t1 count2 ( narrar) tell;¡a quién se lo vas a contar!, ¡me lo vas a contar a mí! you’re telling me!;¿qué (me) cuentas? what’s new?II v/i1 count2:contar con count on* * *contar {19} vt1) : to count2) : to tell3) : to includecontar vi1) : to count (up)2) : to matter, to be of concerneso no cuenta: that doesn't matter3)contar con : to rely on, to count on* * *contar vb1. (en general) to count3. (edad) to be -
2 libripens
lībrĭpens, pendis, m. [libra-pendo].I.One who weighed or counted out the pay to soldiers, a paymaster, Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 43: impubes libripens esse non potest, Ael. ap. Prisc. 892 P.—II.One who held the balance, as if to weigh out money, at nominal sales:adhibitis non minus quam V. testibus civibus Romanis puberibus, item libripende,
Gai. Inst. 1, § 113; Ulp. Fragm. 19, 3; cf. Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 43. -
3 compter
compter [kɔ̃te]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━➭ TABLE 11. <a. ( = calculer) to count• combien en avez-vous compté ? how many did you count?• 40 cm ? j'avais compté 30 40cm? I made it 30• on peut compter sur les doigts de la main ceux qui comprennent vraiment you can count on the fingers of one hand the people who really understandb. ( = prévoir) to reckonc. ( = inclure) to include• nous étions dix, sans compter le professeur there were ten of us, not counting the teacherd. ( = facturer) to charge fore. ( = prendre en considération) to take into account• il aurait dû venir, sans compter qu'il n'avait rien à faire he ought to have come, especially as he had nothing to dof. ( = classer) to consider• on compte ce livre parmi les meilleurs de l'année this book is considered among the best of the yearg. ( = avoir l'intention de) to intend to ; ( = s'attendre à) to expect to• j'y compte bien ! I should hope so!2. <a. ( = calculer) to countb. ( = être économe) to economize• dépenser sans compter ( = être dépensier) to spend extravagantly ; ( = donner généreusement) to give without counting the costc. ( = avoir de l'importance) to countd. ( = valoir) to counte. ( = figurer) compter parmi to rank amongf. (locutions)• cette loi prendra effet à compter du 30 septembre this law will take effect as from 30 September► compter avec ( = tenir compte de) to take account of• un nouveau parti avec lequel il faut compter a new party that has to be taken into account► compter sans* * *kɔ̃te
1.
1) ( dénombrer) to counton ne compte plus ses victoires — he/she has had countless victories
je ne compte plus les lettres anonymes que je reçois — I've lost count of the anonymous letters I have received
sans compter — [donner, dépenser] freely
2) ( évaluer)il faut compter environ 100 euros — you should reckon on GB ou count on paying about 100 euros
3) ( faire payer)4) ( inclure) to countje vous ai compté dans le nombre des participants — I've counted you as one of ou among the participants
5) ( projeter)6) ( s'attendre à)‘je vais t'aider’ - ‘j'y compte bien’ — ‘I'll help you’ - ‘I should hope so too’
2.
verbe intransitif1) ( dire les nombres) to count2) ( calculer) to count, to add upil sait très bien compter, il compte très bien — he's very good at counting
3) ( avoir de l'importance) to matter ( pour quelqu'un to somebody)c'est l'intention or le geste qui compte — it's the thought that counts
le salaire compte beaucoup dans le choix d'une carrière — pay is an important factor in the choice of a career
4) ( avoir une valeur) to countcompter double/triple — to count double/triple
5) ( figurer)compter au nombre de, compter parmi — to be counted among
6)compter avec — ( faire face) to reckon with [difficultés, concurrence]; ( ne pas oublier) to take [sb/sth] into account [personne, chose]
7)compter sans — ( négliger) not to take [sb/sth] into account [personne, chose]
8)compter sur — ( attendre) to count on [personne, aide]; (dépendre, faire confiance) to rely on [personne, ressource]; ( prévoir) to reckon on [somme, revenu]
vous pouvez compter sur moi, je vais m'en occuper — you can rely ou count on me, I'll see to it
ne compte pas sur moi — (pour venir, participer) count me out
je vais leur dire ce que j'en pense, tu peux compter là- dessus (colloq) or sur moi! — I'll tell them what I think, you can be sure of that!
quand il s'agit de faire des bêtises, on peut compter sur toi! — (colloq) hum trust you to do something silly!
3.
se compter verbe pronominalles faillites dans la région ne se comptent plus — there have been countless bankruptcies in the area
4.
à compter de locution prépositive as from
5.
sans compter que locution conjonctive ( en outre) and what is more; ( d'autant plus que) especially as* * *kɔ̃te1. vt1) (établir le nombre de) to count2) (= inclure, dans une liste) to includesans compter qch — not counting sth, not including sth
On sera dix-huit, sans compter les enfants. — There'll be eighteen of us, not counting the children.
3) (= facturer) to charge forIl n'a pas compté le deuxième café. — He didn't charge us for the second coffee.
4) (= avoir à son actif, comporter) to haveL'institut compte trois prix Nobel. — The institute has three Nobel prizewinners.
5) (prévoir: une certaine quantité, un certain temps) to allow, to reckon onIl faut compter environ deux heures. — You have to allow about two hours., You have to reckon on about two hours.
6) (= avoir l'intention de)Je compte bien réussir. — I fully intend to succeed.
Je compte partir début mai. — I intend to leave at the beginning of May.
2. vi1) (calculer) to countIl savait compter à l'âge de trois ans. — He could count when he was three years old.
à compter du 10 janvier COMMERCE — from 10 January, as from 10 January
2) (= être non négligeable) to count, to matterL'honnêteté, ça compte quand même. — Honesty counts after all.
3) (qu'on peut prendre en compte) to countÇa ne compte pas - il s'est fait aider. — That doesn't count - he had help.
4) (= figurer)compter parmi — to be among, to rank among
compter avec qch/qn — to reckon with sth/sb
compter sans qch/qn — to reckon without sth/sb
6)compter sur [personne] — to count on, to rely on, [aide] to count on
7) (= être économe) to watch every penny, to count the penniesPendant longtemps, il a fallu compter. — For a long time we had to watch every penny.
* * *compter verb table: aimerA vtr1 ( dénombrer) to count; compter les jours to count the days; ‘j'ai compté cinq coups à l'horloge’-‘j'en ai compté six’ ‘I counted five strokes of the clock’-‘I counted six’; ‘combien y a-t-il de bouteilles?’-‘j'en compte 24’ ‘how many bottles are there?’-‘I make it 24’; on compte deux millions de chômeurs/3 000 cas de malaria there is a total of two million unemployed/3,000 cases of malaria; une heure après le début de l'attaque on comptait déjà 40 morts an hour after the attack started 40 deaths had already been recorded; on ne compte plus ses victoires he/she has had countless victories; je ne compte plus les lettres anonymes que je reçois I've lost count of the anonymous letters I have received; j'ai compté qu'il y avait 52 fenêtres/500 euros I counted a total of 52 windows/500 euros; as-tu compté combien il reste d'œufs? have you counted how many eggs are left?;2 ( évaluer) compter une bouteille pour trois to allow a bottle between three people; pour aller à Caen il faut compter cinq heures you must allow five hours to get to Caen; il faut compter environ 100 euros you should reckon on GB ou count on paying about 100 euros; compter large/très large/trop large to allow plenty/more than enough/far too much; j'ai pris une tarte pour huit, je préfère compter large I got a tart for eight, I prefer to be on the safe side;3 ( faire payer) compter qch à qn to charge sb for sth; il m'a compté la livre à 1,71 euro he charged me 1.71 euros to the pound; il m'a compté 50 euros de déplacement he charged a 50 euro call-out fee;4 ( inclure) to count; je vous ai compté dans le nombre des participants I've counted you as one of ou among the participants; nous t'avons déjà compté pour le repas de la semaine prochaine we've already counted you (in) for the meal next week; as-tu compté la TVA? have you counted the VAT?; 2 000 euros par mois sans compter les primes 2,000 euros a month not counting bonuses; sans compter les soucis not to mention the worry; j'ai oublié de compter le col et la ceinture quand j'ai acheté le tissu I forgot to allow for the collar and the waistband when I bought the fabric; je le comptais au nombre de mes amis I counted him among my friends ou as a friend; s'il fallait compter le temps que j'y passe if I had to work out how much time I'm spending on it;5 ( avoir) to have [habitants, chômeurs, alliés]; to have [sth] to one's credit [victoire, succès]; notre club compte des gens célèbres our club has some well-known people among its members; un sportif qui compte de nombreuses victoires à son actif a sportsman who has many victories to his credit; il compte 15 ans de présence dans l'entreprise he has been with the company for 15 years;6 ( projeter) compter faire to intend to do; ‘comptez-vous y aller?’-‘j'y compte bien’ ‘do you intend to go?’-‘yes, I certainly do’; je compte m'acheter un ordinateur I'm hoping to buy myself a computer;7 ( s'attendre à) il comptait que je lui prête de l'argent he expected me to lend him some money; ‘je vais t'aider’-‘j'y compte bien’ ‘I'll help you’-‘I should hope so too’;8 ( donner avec parcimonie) il a toujours compté ses sous he has always watched the pennies; compter jusqu'au moindre centime to count every penny; sans compter [donner, dépenser] freely; se dépenser sans compter pour (la réussite de) qch to put everything one's got into sth.B vi1 ( dire les nombres) to count; compter jusqu'à 20 to count up to 20; il ne sait pas compter he can't count; il a trois ans mais il compte déjà bien he's three but he's already good at counting; compter sur ses doigts to count on one's fingers;2 ( calculer) to count, to add up; il sait très bien compter, il compte très bien he's very good at counting; cela fait 59 non pas 62, tu ne sais pas compter! that makes 59 not 62, you can't count!; compter sur ses doigts to work sums out on one's fingers;3 ( avoir de l'importance) [avis, diplôme, apparence] to matter (pour qn to sb); ce qui compte c'est qu'ils se sont réconciliés what matters is that they have made it up; c'est l'intention or le geste qui compte it's the thought that counts; 40 ans dans la même entreprise ça compte/ça commence à compter 40 years in the same company, that's quite something/it's beginning to add up; ça compte beaucoup pour moi it means a lot to me; je ne compte pas plus pour elle que son chien I mean no more to her than her dog; compter dans to be a factor in [réussite, échec]; le salaire compte beaucoup dans le choix d'une carrière pay is an important factor in the choice of a career; cela a beaucoup compté dans leur faillite it was a major factor in their bankruptcy; ça fait longtemps que je ne compte plus dans ta vie it's been a long time since I have meant anything to you; il connaît tout ce qui compte dans le milieu du cinéma he knows everybody who is anybody in film circles;4 ( avoir une valeur) [épreuve, faute] to count; compter double/triple to count double/triple; compter double/triple par rapport à to count for twice/three times as much as; ça ne compte pas, il a triché it doesn't count, he cheated; le dernier exercice ne compte pas dans le calcul de la note the last exercise isn't counted in the calculation of the grade; la lettre ‘y’ compte pour combien? how much is the letter ‘y’ worth?; la lettre ‘z’ compte pour combien de points? how many points is the letter ‘z’ worth?; une faute de grammaire compte pour quatre points four marks are deducted for a grammatical error;6 compter avec ( faire face) to reckon with [difficultés, concurrence, belle-mère]; ( ne pas oublier) to take [sb/sth] into account [personne, chose]; ( prévoir) to allow for [retard, supplément]; il doit compter avec les syndicats he has to reckon with the unions; il faut compter avec l'opinion publique one must take public opinion into account; il faut compter avec le brouillard dans cette région you should allow for fog in that area;7 compter sans ( négliger) to reckon without [risque, gêne]; ( oublier) not to take [sb/sth] into account [personne, chose]; c'était compter sans le brouillard that was without allowing for the fog; j'avais compté sans la TVA I hadn't taken the VAT into account;8 compter sur ( attendre) to count on [personne, aide]; (dépendre, faire confiance) to rely on [personne, ressource]; ( prévoir) to reckon on [somme, revenu]; vous pouvez compter sur moi, je viendrai you can count on me, I'll be there; tu peux compter sur ma présence you can count on me ou on my being there; vous pouvez compter sur moi, je vais m'en occuper you can rely ou count on me, I'll see to it; ne compte pas sur moi (pour venir, participer) count me out; ne compte pas sur moi pour payer tes dettes/faire la cuisine don't rely on me to pay your debts/do the cooking; ne compte pas sur eux pour le faire don't count on them to do it; le pays peut compter sur des stocks de vivres en provenance de… the country can count on stocks of food supplies coming from…; le pays peut compter sur ses réserves de blé the country can rely on its stock of wheat; je ne peux compter que sur moi-même I can only rely on myself; je leur ferai la commission, compte sur moi I'll give them the message, you can count on me; je vais leur dire ce que j'en pense, tu peux compter là-dessus○ or sur moi! I'll tell them what I think, you can be sure of that!; quand il s'agit de faire des bêtises, on peut compter sur toi○! iron trust you to do something silly!; compter sur la discrétion de qn to rely on sb's discretion; je compte dessus I'm counting ou relying on it.C se compter vpr leurs victoires se comptent par douzaines they have had dozens of victories; les défections se comptent par milliers there have been thousands of defections; leurs chansons à succès ne se comptent plus they've had countless hits; les faillites dans la région ne se comptent plus there have been countless bankruptcies in the area.D à compter de loc prép as from; réparations gratuites pendant 12 mois à compter de la date de vente free repairs for 12 months with effect from the date of sale.E sans compter que loc conj ( en outre) and what is more; ( d'autant plus que) especially as; c'est dangereux sans compter que ça pollue it's dangerous and what's more it causes pollution.compte là-dessus et bois de l'eau fraîche○ that'll be the day.[kɔ̃te] verbe transitif1. [dénombrer - objets, argent, personnes] to counton ne compte plus ses crimes she has committed countless ou innumerable crimesj'ai compté qu'il restait 200 euros dans la caisse according to my reckoning there are 200 euros left in the tillcompter les heures/jours [d'impatience] to be counting the hours/days2. [limiter] to count (out)a. [il va mourir] his days are numberedb. [pour accomplir quelque chose] he's running out of timeil ne comptait pas sa peine/ses efforts he spared no pains/effort3. [faire payer] to charge fornous ne vous compterons pas la pièce détachée we won't charge you ou there'll be no charge for the spare partle serveur nous a compté deux euros de trop the waiter has overcharged us by two euros, the waiter has charged us 15 francs too much4. [payer, verser] to pay6. [classer - dans une catégorie]compter quelque chose/quelqu'un parmi to count something/somebody among, to number something/somebody amongcompter quelqu'un/quelque chose pour: nous devons compter sa contribution pour quelque chose we must take some account of her contribution8. [avoir - membres, habitants] to havenous sommes heureux de vous compter parmi nous ce soir we're happy to have ou to welcome you among us tonightil compte beaucoup d'artistes au nombre de ou parmi ses amis he numbers many artists among his friends9. [s'attendre à] to expect10. [avoir l'intention de] to intendcompter faire quelque chose to intend to do something, to mean to do something, to plan to do something11. [prévoir] to allowil faut compter entre 14 et 20 euros pour un repas you have to allow between 14 and 20 euros for a mealje compte qu'il y a un bon quart d'heure de marche/une journée de travail I reckon there's a good quarter of an hour's walk/there's a day's workil faudra deux heures pour y aller, en comptant large it will take two hours to get there, at the most————————[kɔ̃te] verbe intransitifsi je compte bien, tu me dois 345 francs if I've counted right ou according to my calculations, you owe me 345 francstu as dû mal compter you must have got your calculations wrong, you must have miscalculated2. [limiter ses dépenses] to be careful (with money)ce qui compte, c'est ta santé/le résultat the important thing is your health/the end result40 ans d'ancienneté, ça compte! 40 years' service counts for something!je prendrai ma décision seule! — alors moi, je ne compte pas? I'll make my own decision! — so I don't count ou matter, then?tu as triché, ça ne compte pas you cheated, it doesn't countà l'examen, la philosophie ne compte presque pas philosophy is a very minor subject in the examcompter double/triple to count double/triplecompter pour quelque chose/rien to count for something/nothingquand il est invité à dîner, il compte pour trois! when he's invited to dinner he eats enough for three!4. [figurer]elle compte parmi les plus grands pianistes de sa génération she is one of the greatest pianists of her generation————————compter avec verbe plus prépositiondésormais, il faudra compter avec l'opposition from now on, the opposition will have to be reckoned with————————compter sans verbe plus préposition————————compter sur verbe plus préposition[faire confiance à] to count ou to rely ou to depend on (inseparable)[espérer - venue, collaboration, événement] to count on (inseparable)c'est quelqu'un sur qui tu peux compter he's/she's a reliable personne compte pas trop sur la chance don't count ou rely too much on luckje peux sortir demain soir? — n'y compte pas! can I go out tomorrow night? — don't count ou bank on it!il ne faut pas trop y compter don't count on it, I wouldn't count on itcompter sur quelqu'un/quelque chose pour: compte sur lui pour aller tout répéter au patron! you can rely on him to go and tell the boss everything!si c'est pour lui jouer un mauvais tour, ne comptez pas sur moi! if you want to play a dirty trick on him, you can count me out!————————se compter verbe pronominalses succès ne se comptent plus her successes are innumerable ou are past counting————————se compter verbe pronominal (emploi réfléchi)1. [s'estimer] to count ou to consider oneself2. [s'inclure dans un calcul] to count ou to include oneself————————à compter de locution prépositionnelleas from ou ofà compter du 7 mai as from ou of May 7thà compter de ce jour, nous ne nous sommes plus revus from that day on, we never saw each other again————————en comptant locution prépositionnelleil faut deux mètres de tissu en comptant l'ourlet you need two metres of material including ou if you include the hem————————sans compter locution adverbiale[généralementéreusement]donner sans compter to give generously ou without counting the cost————————sans compter locution prépositionnelle[sans inclure] not counting————————sans compter que locution conjonctiveil est trop tôt pour aller dormir, sans compter que je n'ai pas du tout sommeil it's too early to go to bed, quite apart from the fact that I'm not at all sleepy————————tout bien compté locution adverbiale -
4 numeratum
1.nŭmĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [numerus], to count, reckon, number (syn. recenseo).I.Lit.:B.si singulos numeremus in singulas (civitates),
Cic. Rep. 3, 4, 7: ea, si ex reis numeres, innumerabilia sunt;si ex rebus, modica,
id. de Or. 2, 32, 137:numerare per digitos,
Ov. F. 3, 123:votaque pro dominā vix numeranda facit,
that can hardly be counted, almost innumerable, Tib. 4, 4, 12:amores divūm numerare,
Verg. G. 4, 347:pecus,
id. E. 3, 34:viros,
Sil. 7, 51:milites,
Luc. 3, 285:aureos voce digitisque numerare,
Suet. Claud. 21:numera sestertia qumque omnibus in rebus—numerentur deinde labores,
Juv. 9, 41 sq.: numera senatum, said to the consul by a senator opposed to a bill, and who considered that there was not a quorum of senators present; like the phrase to demand a call of the House, Paul. ex Fest. p. 170 Müll.:ne quid ad senatum consule! aut numera,
Cic. Att. 5, 4, 2 Orell. N. cr.: posset rem impedire, si, ut numerarentur, postularet, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 2 (cf. also Plin. Pan. 76).—In law, of days granted for deliberation, etc.:continui dies numerantur,
Gai. Inst. 2, 173; cf.:tempus numeratur,
id. ib. 2, 172.—In partic., of money, to count out, pay out, pay:II.stipendium numerare militibus,
Cic. Pis. 36, 88:pecuniam de suo,
id. Att. 16, 16, A, § 5; id. Fl. 19, 44; Nep. Ep. 3, 6:talenta,
Suet. Caes. 4:aliquid usurae nomine,
id. ib. 42:alicui pensionem,
Liv. 29, 16:magnam pecuniam numerare,
Caes. B. C. 3, 3.— Absol., Plaut. As. Perioch. 4.—Trop.A.To reckon, number as one's own, i. e. to have, possess (rare):B.donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos,
Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 5:triumphos,
Juv. 6, 169:tum licet a Pico numeres genus,
id. 8, 131:veterani tricena aut supra stipendia numerantes,
Tac. A. 1, 35.—To account, reckon, esteem, consider as any thing.—With two acc.:B.Sulpicium accusatorem suum numerabat, non competitorem,
Cic. Mur. 24, 49:hos non numero consulares,
id. Fam. 12, 2, 3:stellas singulas numeras deos,
id. N. D. 3, 16, 40; id. Phil. 13, 4, 7:quae isti bona numerant,
id. Tusc. 5, 15, 44; cf.:sapientes cives, qualem me et esse et numerari volo,
id. Fam. 1, 9, 18:is prope alter Timarchides numerabatur,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 70, § 169:numerare aliquid beneficii loco,
id. Fam. 2, 6, 1:mors in beneficii parte (al. partem) numeretur,
id. Phil. 11, 1, 3:voluptatem nullo loco,
id. Fin. 2, 28, 90:aliquid in bonis,
id. Leg. 2, 5, 12; id. Fin. 1, 9, 31:aliquid in actis,
id. Phil. 1, 8, 19:Herennius in mediocribus oratoribus numeratus est,
id. Brut. 45, 166:aliquem in septem (sc. sapientibus),
id. Par. 1, 1, 8.—With inter:ipse honestissimus inter suos numerabatur,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 16:aliquem inter decemviros,
Liv. 3, 35, 3:quae jactura inter damna numerata non est,
Just. 2, 5, 11; Lact. 2, 12, 4; Val. Max. 1, 6, 11:numerabatur inter ostenta deminutus magistratuum numerus,
Tac. A. 12, 64; id. G. 29; id. Or. 12; Plin. Ep. 4, 15, 1; 5, 3, 6; Quint. 3, 7, 18 al.:inter amicos,
Ov. P. 4, 9, 35:aliquem post aliquem,
Tac. H. 1, 77:Thucydides numquam est numeratus orator,
Cic. Brut. 45, 166.—Hence, nŭmĕrātus, a, um, P. a., counted out, paid down:argentum,
Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 57; hence, in ready money, in cash:hic sunt quinque argenti lectae numeratae minae,
id. Ps. 4, 7, 50:duo talenta argenti numerata,
id. As. 1, 3, 41:(vendidit aedis) praesentariis Argenti minis numeratis,
id. Trin. 4, 3, 75:dos uxoris numerata,
Cic. Caecin. 4, 11:pecunia,
id. Fl. 32, 80.—Hence, subst.: nŭmĕrātum, i, n., ready money, cash: quae tua est suavitas nolles a me hoc tempore aestimationem accipere;nam numeratum, si cuperem, non haberem,
Cic. Fam. 5, 20, 9:ut numerato malim quam aestimatione,
id. Att 12, 25, 1; Liv. 36, 21 fin.; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 166: in numerato, in ready money:testamento edixit relinquere in numerato HS DC,
Plin. 33, 10, 47, § 135:proferre in numerato,
id. 33, 3, 17, § 55; Gai. Inst. 2, 196; 3, 141.— Hence,Trop.: in numerato habere, to have in readiness (a phrase of Augustus):2.dictum est de actore facile dicente ex tempore, ingenium eum in numerato habere,
Quint. 6, 3, 111; cf. Sen. Contr. 2, 13 fin.nŭmĕrō, adv., v. numerus fin. -
5 numero
1.nŭmĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [numerus], to count, reckon, number (syn. recenseo).I.Lit.:B.si singulos numeremus in singulas (civitates),
Cic. Rep. 3, 4, 7: ea, si ex reis numeres, innumerabilia sunt;si ex rebus, modica,
id. de Or. 2, 32, 137:numerare per digitos,
Ov. F. 3, 123:votaque pro dominā vix numeranda facit,
that can hardly be counted, almost innumerable, Tib. 4, 4, 12:amores divūm numerare,
Verg. G. 4, 347:pecus,
id. E. 3, 34:viros,
Sil. 7, 51:milites,
Luc. 3, 285:aureos voce digitisque numerare,
Suet. Claud. 21:numera sestertia qumque omnibus in rebus—numerentur deinde labores,
Juv. 9, 41 sq.: numera senatum, said to the consul by a senator opposed to a bill, and who considered that there was not a quorum of senators present; like the phrase to demand a call of the House, Paul. ex Fest. p. 170 Müll.:ne quid ad senatum consule! aut numera,
Cic. Att. 5, 4, 2 Orell. N. cr.: posset rem impedire, si, ut numerarentur, postularet, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 2 (cf. also Plin. Pan. 76).—In law, of days granted for deliberation, etc.:continui dies numerantur,
Gai. Inst. 2, 173; cf.:tempus numeratur,
id. ib. 2, 172.—In partic., of money, to count out, pay out, pay:II.stipendium numerare militibus,
Cic. Pis. 36, 88:pecuniam de suo,
id. Att. 16, 16, A, § 5; id. Fl. 19, 44; Nep. Ep. 3, 6:talenta,
Suet. Caes. 4:aliquid usurae nomine,
id. ib. 42:alicui pensionem,
Liv. 29, 16:magnam pecuniam numerare,
Caes. B. C. 3, 3.— Absol., Plaut. As. Perioch. 4.—Trop.A.To reckon, number as one's own, i. e. to have, possess (rare):B.donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos,
Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 5:triumphos,
Juv. 6, 169:tum licet a Pico numeres genus,
id. 8, 131:veterani tricena aut supra stipendia numerantes,
Tac. A. 1, 35.—To account, reckon, esteem, consider as any thing.—With two acc.:B.Sulpicium accusatorem suum numerabat, non competitorem,
Cic. Mur. 24, 49:hos non numero consulares,
id. Fam. 12, 2, 3:stellas singulas numeras deos,
id. N. D. 3, 16, 40; id. Phil. 13, 4, 7:quae isti bona numerant,
id. Tusc. 5, 15, 44; cf.:sapientes cives, qualem me et esse et numerari volo,
id. Fam. 1, 9, 18:is prope alter Timarchides numerabatur,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 70, § 169:numerare aliquid beneficii loco,
id. Fam. 2, 6, 1:mors in beneficii parte (al. partem) numeretur,
id. Phil. 11, 1, 3:voluptatem nullo loco,
id. Fin. 2, 28, 90:aliquid in bonis,
id. Leg. 2, 5, 12; id. Fin. 1, 9, 31:aliquid in actis,
id. Phil. 1, 8, 19:Herennius in mediocribus oratoribus numeratus est,
id. Brut. 45, 166:aliquem in septem (sc. sapientibus),
id. Par. 1, 1, 8.—With inter:ipse honestissimus inter suos numerabatur,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 16:aliquem inter decemviros,
Liv. 3, 35, 3:quae jactura inter damna numerata non est,
Just. 2, 5, 11; Lact. 2, 12, 4; Val. Max. 1, 6, 11:numerabatur inter ostenta deminutus magistratuum numerus,
Tac. A. 12, 64; id. G. 29; id. Or. 12; Plin. Ep. 4, 15, 1; 5, 3, 6; Quint. 3, 7, 18 al.:inter amicos,
Ov. P. 4, 9, 35:aliquem post aliquem,
Tac. H. 1, 77:Thucydides numquam est numeratus orator,
Cic. Brut. 45, 166.—Hence, nŭmĕrātus, a, um, P. a., counted out, paid down:argentum,
Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 57; hence, in ready money, in cash:hic sunt quinque argenti lectae numeratae minae,
id. Ps. 4, 7, 50:duo talenta argenti numerata,
id. As. 1, 3, 41:(vendidit aedis) praesentariis Argenti minis numeratis,
id. Trin. 4, 3, 75:dos uxoris numerata,
Cic. Caecin. 4, 11:pecunia,
id. Fl. 32, 80.—Hence, subst.: nŭmĕrātum, i, n., ready money, cash: quae tua est suavitas nolles a me hoc tempore aestimationem accipere;nam numeratum, si cuperem, non haberem,
Cic. Fam. 5, 20, 9:ut numerato malim quam aestimatione,
id. Att 12, 25, 1; Liv. 36, 21 fin.; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 166: in numerato, in ready money:testamento edixit relinquere in numerato HS DC,
Plin. 33, 10, 47, § 135:proferre in numerato,
id. 33, 3, 17, § 55; Gai. Inst. 2, 196; 3, 141.— Hence,Trop.: in numerato habere, to have in readiness (a phrase of Augustus):2.dictum est de actore facile dicente ex tempore, ingenium eum in numerato habere,
Quint. 6, 3, 111; cf. Sen. Contr. 2, 13 fin.nŭmĕrō, adv., v. numerus fin. -
6 aes
aes, aeris (often used in plur. nom. and acc.; abl. aeribus, Cato ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 27 Müll., and Lucr. 2, 636; gen. AERVM, Inscr. Orell. 3551), n. [cf. Germ. Eisen = iron, Erz = copper; Goth. aiz = copper, gold; Angl.Sax. ar, ær = ore, copper, brass; Eng. iron, ore; Lat. aurum; with the com. notion of brightness; cf. aurora, etc.].I.Any crude metal dug out of the earth, except gold and silver; esp.,a.Aes Cyprium, whence cuprum, copper: scoria aeris, copper dross or scoria, Plin. 34, 11, 24, § 107:b.aeris flos,
flowers of copper, id. 34, 11, 24, § 107:squama aeris,
scales of copper, Cels. 2, 12 init.:aes fundere,
Plin. 33, 5, 30, § 94:conflare et temperare,
id. 7, 56, 57, § 197:India neque aes neque plumbum habet,
id. 34, 17, 48, § 163:aurum et argentum et aes,
Vulg. Ex. 25, 3.—An alloy, for the most part of copper and tin, bronze (brass, an alloy of copper and zinc, was hardly known to the ancients. For their bronze coins the Greeks adhered to copper and tin till B.C. 400, after which they added lead. Silver is rare in Greek bronze coins. The Romans admitted lead into their bronze coins, but gradually reduced the quantity, and, under Calig., Nero, Vesp., and Domit., issued pure copper coins, and then reverted to the mixture of lead. In the bronze mirrors now existing, which are nearly all Etruscan, silver predominated to give a highly reflecting surface. The antique bronze had about 87 parts of copper to 13 of tin. An analysis of several objects has given the following centesimal parts: statua ex aere, Cic. Phil. 9, 6:II.simulacrum ex aere factum,
Plin. 34, 4, 9, § 15:valvas ex aere factitavere,
id. 34, 3, 7, § 13.—Hence:ducere aliquem ex aere,
to cast one's image in bronze, id. 7, 37, 38, § 125; and in the same sense poet.:ducere aera,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 240:aes Corinthium,
Plin. 34, 2, 3, §§ 5-8; v. Corinthius.—Meton.A.(Esp. in the poets.) For everything made or prepared from copper, bronze, etc. ( statues, tables of laws, money), and (as the ancients had the art of hardening and tempering copper and bronze) weapons, armor, utensils of husbandry: aes sonit, franguntur hastae, the trumpet sounds, Enn. ap. Non. 504, 32 (Trag. v. 213 Vahl.):B.Et prior aeris erat quam ferri cognitus usus: Aere solum terrae tractabant, aereque belli Miscebant fluctus et vulnera vasta serebant, etc.,
Lucr. 5, 1287:quae ille in aes incidit, in quo populi jussa perpetuasque leges esse voluit,
Cic. Phil. 1, 17; cf. id. Fam. 12, 1; Tac. A. 11, 14; 12, 53; id. H. 4, 40: aere ( with the trumpet, horn) ciere viros, Verg. A. 6, 165:non tuba directi, non aeris cornua flexi,
Ov. M. 1, 98 (hence also rectum aes, the tuba, in contr. with the crooked buccina, Juv. 2, 118); a brazen prow, Verg. A. 1, 35; the brazen age, Hor. Epod. 16, 64.—In plur.: aera, Cato ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 27 Müll.; Verg. A. 2, 734; Hor. C. 4, 8, 2 al.—Money: the first Roman money consisted of small rude masses of copper, called aes rude, Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 43; afterwards as coined:1.aes signatum,
Cic. Leg. 3, 3; Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 43;so aes alone: si aes habent, dant mercem,
Plaut. As. 1, 3, 49:ancilla aere suo empta,
Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 26: aes circumforaneum. borrowed from the brokers in the forum, Cic. Att. 2, 1: Hic meret aera liber Sosiis, earns them money, Hor. A. P. [p. 61] 345:gravis aere dextra,
Verg. E. 1, 36:effusum est aes tuum,
Vulg. Ez. 16, 36:neque in zona aes (tollerent),
ib. Maarc. 6, 8:etiam aureos nummos aes dicimus,
Dig. 50, 16, 159.—Hence,Aes alienum, lit. the money of another; hence, in reference to him who has it, the sum owed, a debt, Plaut. Curc. 3, 1, 2:2.habere aes alienum,
Cic. Fam. 5, 6:aes alienum amicorum suscipere,
to take upon one's self, id. Off. 2, 16:contrahere,
to run up, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8:facere,
id. Att. 13, 46:conflare,
Sall. C. 14, 2; 24, 3:in aes alienum incidere,
to fall into debt, Cic. Cat. 2, 9:in aere alieno esse,
to be in debt, id. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 6; so,aere alieno oppressum esse,
id. Font. 1; so Vulg. 1 Reg. 22, 2:laborare ex aere alieno,
Caes. B. C. 3, 22:liberare se aere alieno,
to get quit of, Cic. Att. 6, 2; so,aes alienum dissolvere,
id. Sull. 56:aere alieno exire,
to get out of, id. Phil. 11, 6.—In aere meo est, trop., he is, as it were, among my effects, he is my friend (only in the language of common conversation):* 3.in animo habui te in aere meo esse propter Lamiae nostri conjunctionem,
Cic. Fam. 13, 62; 15, 14.—Alicujus aeris esse, to be of some value, Gell. 18, 5.—* 4.In aere suo censeri, to be esteemed according to its own worth, Sen. Ep. 87.—C.Sometimes = as, the unit of the standard of money (cf. as); hence, aes grave, the old heary money (as weighed, not counted out):D.denis milibus aeris gravis reos condemnavit,
Liv. 5, 12:indicibus dena milia aeris gravis, quae tum divitiae habebantur, data,
id. 4, 60; so, aes alone and in the gen. sing., instead of assium:aeris miliens, triciens,
a hundred millions, three millions, Cic. Rep. 3, 10:qui milibus aeris quinquaginta census fuisset,
Liv. 24, 11.—Also for coins that are smaller than an as (quadrans, triens, etc.):nec pueri credunt, nisi qui nondum aere, i. e. quadrante, lavantur (those who bathed paid each a quadrans),
Juv. 2, 152 (cf.:dum tu quadrante lavatum Rex ibis,
Hor. S. 1, 3, 137).—Wages, pay.1.A soldier's pay = stipendium:2.negabant danda esse aera militibus,
Liv. 5, 4. And soon after: annua aera habes: annuam operam ede.— Hence in plur., = stipendia, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 33.—Reward, payment, in gen., Juv. 6, 125: nullum in bonis numero, quod ad aes exit, that has in view or aims at pay, reward, Sen. Ep. 88.—E.In plur.: aera, counters; hence also the items of a computed sum (for which, later, a sing. form aera, ae (q. v.), came into use): si aera singula probāsti, summam, quae ex his confecta sit, non probare? Cic. ap. Non. 3, 18. -
7 contare
1. v/t count2. v/i countcontare di fare qualcosa plan on doing something* * *contare v.tr.1 to count; (antiq.) to reckon: contare le teste, to count heads; contare gli invitati, to count the guests; non sa ancora contare, she can't count yet; contare sulle dita, to count on one's fingers; (fig.) to count on the fingers of one hand; gli onesti che conosco si contano sulle dita, the honest people I know can be counted on the fingers of one hand; conta fino a dieci prima di rispondere, count up to ten before you answer; conto le ore che mi restano prima di andare a casa, I'm counting the hours until I can go home (o I can't wait to go home); scusa, non ti ho contato, sorry, I didn't count you (o I left you out); saremo in sette senza contare Mark, there'll be seven of us, not counting Mark; è molto antipatica, senza contare le risposte che dà, she's most unpleasant, not to mention the answers she gives // Che disastro! Non si contano gli errori d'ortografia!, What a mess! There are countless spelling mistakes! // (sport) contare un pugile, to count a boxer out2 ( annoverare) to have: non conto molte conoscenze qui a Roma, I don't have many acquaintances here in Rome; conta molti anni d'esperienza in campo editoriale, he's had many years of experience in publishing houses // conta quindici anni di servizio in questa ditta, he's been (in service) with this firm for fifteen years // conta cinquant'anni ormai, she's turned fifty3 ( lesinare) to dole out: è un gran tirchio, conta anche i soldi del tram a suo figlio, he's a real miser, even the bus-fare money to his son is doled out4 (fam.) ( raccontare) to tell*: contare balle, frottole, to tell stories, lies; No?! Ma cosa mi conti?!, Really?!, What's that you're telling me?!; contala a chi vuoi, ma non al sottoscritto, you can tell that to anybody else, but not to me // me ne hanno contate delle belle sul suo conto, I've heard some juicy gossip about him5 ( sperare) to expect; to reckon; to trust: contavo che mi avrebbe scritto, I expected him to write to me (o I reckoned he'd write to me); conto di sentirti presto, I expect (o I trust) to hear from you soon; conto di partire domani, I reckon I'll be leaving tomorrow; cosa conti di fare?, what do you reckon you'll do (o plan to do)?◆ v. intr.1 ( valere) to mean*; to count; to matter: anche pochi euro contano, even a few euros count (o every single penny counts o matters); il successo conta molto per lui, success means a lot to him; ciò che conta non è vincere, what counts (o matters) is not (the) winning; questi contributi conteranno per la vostra pensione, these contributions will count towards your pension // e, ciò che più conta,..., and, what's more... // le parole contano meno dei fatti, actions speak louder than words // conta più la pratica che la grammatica, (prov.) knowledge without practice makes but half an artist2 ( fare assegnamento) to count; to depend; to rely; to reckon: non possono contare su uno stipendio fisso, they can't count on a regular salary; non si può contare su di lui, you can't depend (o count) on him; contavamo sul suo aiuto, we were relying upon his help (o him helping us).* * *[kon'tare]1. vt1) (calcolare, enumerare) to countli ho contati, sono quindici — I've counted them, there are fifteen
le telefonate non si contavano più — I (o you ecc) couldn't keep count of the telephone calls
ha i giorni contati; ha le ore contate — his days are numbered
amici così si contano sulla punta delle dita — you can count the number of friends like that on the fingers of one hand
2) (considerare) to include, count (in), considersenza contare — (senza includere) not counting, (senza parlare di) not to mention
eravamo in dieci, senza contare i professori — there were ten of us, not counting the teachers
contare di fare qc — to intend to do sth, to think of
3) (fam : raccontare) to tell1) (calcolare) to count2)contare su qn/qc — to count on sb/sth, rely on sb/sth3) (avere importanza) to count, matter, be of importance* * *[kon'tare] 1.verbo transitivo1) (calcolare) to count [persone, parole, errori, punti, oggetti]contare uno a uno — to count out [soldi, carte]
2) (includere) to count9 persone contando i bambini — 9 people, counting the children o children included
contando Sara, senza contare Sara saremo in sei — including Sara, not including Sara we'll be six
3) (avere, annoverare) to have* [abitanti, alleati]il reggimento contava 1.000 uomini — the regiment numbered 1,000 men
si contano 8.000 disoccupati — there is a total of 8,000 unemployed
4) (progettare)contare di fare — to figure o count on doing
5) colloq. (dire, raccontare) to tell*2.contare balle — to tell fibs, to fib
1) (calcolare) to countcontare sulle dita, a mente — to count on one's fingers, in one's head
2) (pronunciare i numeri) to count3) (essere importante) to matter (per qcn. to sb.)4) (avere valore) [prova, errore] to countcontare su — to count (up)on [persona, aiuto]
contare su qcn. per fare — to depend o rely on sb. to do
gli dirò cosa ne penso, puoi contarci! — I'll tell them what I think, you can be sure of that!
ci conto — I'm counting o relying on it
non ci contare! — don't bank o count on it!
••contare qcs. sulla punta delle dita, sulle dita di una mano — to count sth. on the fingers of one hand
* * *contare/kon'tare/ [1]1 (calcolare) to count [persone, parole, errori, punti, oggetti]; contare uno a uno to count out [soldi, carte]; le sue vittorie non si contano più she has had countless victories2 (includere) to count; 9 persone contando i bambini 9 people, counting the children o children included; contando Sara, senza contare Sara saremo in sei including Sara, not including Sara we'll be six; non avevo contato l'IVA I hadn't taken the VAT into account; senza contare le preoccupazioni not to mention the worry3 (avere, annoverare) to have* [abitanti, alleati]; il reggimento contava 1.000 uomini the regiment numbered 1,000 men; si contano 8.000 disoccupati there is a total of 8,000 unemployed4 (progettare) contare di fare to figure o count on doing; conti di andarci? do you intend to go? conto di arrivare a Londra per mezzogiorno I reckon to reach London by midday5 colloq. (dire, raccontare) to tell*; contala giusta! a likely tale! contare balle to tell fibs, to fib(aus. avere)1 (calcolare) to count; contare sulle dita, a mente to count on one's fingers, in one's head2 (pronunciare i numeri) to count; contare fino a 50 to count (up) to 503 (essere importante) to matter (per qcn. to sb.); quel che conta è che what matters is that; tutto il mio lavoro non conta nulla all my work counts for nothing; è il pensiero che conta it's the thought that counts; lui non conta niente per me he means nothing to me; è veramente una che conta she's somebody; tutte le persone che contano everybody who is anybody4 (avere valore) [prova, errore] to count5 (fare affidamento) contare su to count (up)on [persona, aiuto]; contare su qcn. per fare to depend o rely on sb. to do; puoi contare su di me! you can rely on me! ci puoi contare! you can depend on it! gli dirò cosa ne penso, puoi contarci! I'll tell them what I think, you can be sure of that! ci conto I'm counting o relying on it; non ci contare! don't bank o count on it!contare le pecore to count sheep; contare qcs. sulla punta delle dita, sulle dita di una mano to count sth. on the fingers of one hand. -
8 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, 714-1140The 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, 1140-1385Two 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 inPortugal (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, 1385-1580The 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, 1580-1640Despite 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, 1640-1822Foreign 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 theChurch (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, 1822-1910During 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, 1910-26Portugal'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), 1926-74During 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, 1974-76Following 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 untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After 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. -
9 tiritar
v.to shiver.* * ** * *verb* * *VI1) [de frío, miedo] to shiver (de with)2) ** * *verbo intransitivo to shiver, tremble* * *= shiver, tremble, quiver.Ex. I shivered with the intensity of my desire to do this wondrous thing myself.Ex. The organization was trembling on the brink of financial disaster, and only the journal, American Documentation, was holding it together.Ex. With blood trickling from his mouth, his glazed eyes staring up at the ring lights, and his left foot quivering, the Swede was counted out.* * *verbo intransitivo to shiver, tremble* * *= shiver, tremble, quiver.Ex: I shivered with the intensity of my desire to do this wondrous thing myself.
Ex: The organization was trembling on the brink of financial disaster, and only the journal, American Documentation, was holding it together.Ex: With blood trickling from his mouth, his glazed eyes staring up at the ring lights, and his left foot quivering, the Swede was counted out.* * *tiritar [A1 ]vito shiver, trembleestaba tiritando de frío she was shivering o trembling with colddejar algo tiritando ( Esp fam): la boda me ha dejado la cuenta tiritando the wedding has left me with hardly any money in the bank o ( colloq) has nearly cleaned me out* * *
tiritar ( conjugate tiritar) verbo intransitivo
to shiver, tremble;
tiritar verbo intransitivo to shiver [de, with]
' tiritar' also found in these entries:
English:
shiver
* * *tiritar vito shiver (de with);Famdejar algo tiritando: has dejado la botella tiritando you haven't left much of that bottle* * *v/i shiver* * *tiritar vi: to shiver, to tremble* * *tiritar vb to shiver -
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I Präp.1. bei Zeitdauer: till, until; bis heute so far, to date; betont: to this day; bis dato förm. to date allg.; bis jetzt up to now; so far; bis jetzt noch nicht not (as) yet; ich habe bis jetzt nichts gehört I haven’t heard anything yet ( oder so far); bis dahin until then; (in der Zwischenzeit) in the meantime; siehe auch 2; bis auf weiteres for the present; Amtsspr. until further notice; bis in die Nacht into the night; bis spät in die Nacht until the early ( oder wee) hours; die Sonne schien bis zum Sonntag the sun shone (up) until Sunday; bis zum späten Nachmittag till late in the afternoon; bis vor einigen Jahren until a few years ago; bis Ende Mai habe ich zu tun I’m busy until the end of May, Am. auch I’m busy through May; bis zum Ende (right) to the end; bis wann wird es dauern? how long will it last?; mit Datum: in der Zeit vom... bis... between... and...; von morgens acht bis abends sechs from eight in the morning until six at night; von Montag bis Freitag Monday to (Am. auch through) Friday; bis einschließlich / ausschließlich up to and including / not including; bis morgen / Montag / bald! see you tomorrow / (on) Monday / soon; bis dann / später / gleich! umg. see you then ( oder later) / later / in a moment2. (bis spätestens) by; mit Verbkonstruktion: by the time...; bis er zurückkommt, ist es schon dunkel by the time he gets back, it will be dark; es muss bis Freitag eingereicht werden it has to be handed in by Friday; bis wann ist es fertig? when will it be ready by?; bis wann hast du Zeit? how much time have you got?; bis wann willst du es wieder haben? when do you want it back by?; bis ( spätestens) morgen weiß ich Bescheid I’ll know for definite (Am. sure) by tomorrow (at the latest); die Fotos sind bis frühestens übermorgen fertig the photos will be ready the day after tomorrow at the earliest; ich bin noch bis sechs Uhr im Büro I’ll be at work until six o’clock; bis Ende April ist er wieder zurück he will be back by the end of April; alle bis... eingegangenen Bewerbungen all applications received by ( oder before)...; er hätte bis jetzt da sein müssen he should have been there by now; bis dahin werden wir fertig sein etc. by then, by that time3. räumlich: to, up to, as far as; fährt der Bus bis Glasgow? does this bus go to Glasgow?; bis hierher up to here; bis hierher und nicht weiter auch fig. this far and no further; bis dahin as far as that ( oder there); bis dahin ist es nicht weit that’s not far; bis wohin? how far?; bis ans Knie up to one’s knees; Kleid: down to the knee; von hier bis New York from here to New York; wie weit ist es noch bis nach Innsbruck? how far is it to Innsbruck?, how far have we got to go (before we get) to Innsbruck?; weiterlesen bis Seite zwölf continue to read to page twelve; bis vor das Haus fahren drive up to the front door of the house, drive (right) up to the house; er folgte mir bis ins Hotelfoyer he followed me (right) into the lobby of the hotel ( nicht weiter: as far as the lobby of the hotel); der Blick reicht bis weit ins Tal the view stretches right into the valley; der Ball flog bis hinter den Zaun the ball went over the fence; hier 1, oben etc.4. Zahlenangabe: bis zu 100 Mann up to..., as many as...; bis zu 9 Meter hoch up to..., as high as...; bis 20 zählen count (up) to 20; Kinder bis zwölf Jahre children up to the age of twelve oder up to twelve years of age; bis auf das letzte Stück down to the last bit (Kuchen etc.: piece)5. bis aufs Höchste to the utmost; bis ins Kleinste down to the last detail; bis zur Tollkühnheit to the point of rashness; bis zum Überdruss ad nauseam; bis auf die Haut nass werden be soaked to the skin; Bewusstlosigkeit etc.6. (mit Ausnahme von) bis auf except, with the exception of; alle bis auf einen all except ( oder but) one; bis auf drei sind alle gekommen all except three have come; letzt... 1, 4II Konj.1. till, until; (bis spätestens) by the time; es wird eine Zeitlang dauern, bis er es merkt it will take a while for him to find out ( oder before he finds out); er kommt nicht, bis ich ihn rufe he won’t come until ( oder unless) I call him; du gehst nicht, bis du aufgeräumt hast you’re not going until ( oder before) you’ve tidied (Am. cleaned) up; bis dass der Tod euch scheidet until death do you part; bis ich das gefunden habe! verärgert: if I don’t find it soon!, by the time I find it...!2. zwischen Zahladjektiven: to; 7 bis 10 Tage from 7 to 10 days, between 7 and 10 days; 5 bis 6 Wagen 5 to 6 cars3. heiter bis wolkig / sonnig bis leicht bedeckt im Wetterbericht: generally fine, cloudy in places / sunny with light cloud cover; die Tendenz war lustlos bis verhalten an der Börse: the tendency was slack to cautious* * *until (Präp.); to (Präp.); by (Präp.); unto (Präp.); as far as (Präp.); till (Präp.)* * *bịs I [bɪs]adv (MUS)bis, twice II [bɪs]1. PRÄPOSITION (+acc)1) zeitlich until; (= bis spätestens) byIm Sinne von bis spätestens wird bis meist mit by übersetzt.bis 5 Uhr mache ich Hausaufgaben, und dann... — I do my homework until 5 o'clock, and then...
das muss bis Ende Mai warten — that will have to wait until or till the end of May
ich kann nur ( noch) bis nächste Woche warten — I can only wait until next week, no longer
er ist bis gegen 5 Uhr noch da — he'll be there (up) until or till about 5 o'clock
bis zum Schluss war unklar, wie der Prozess ausgehen würde — the outcome of the trial was in doubt right up to the end
es dauert mindestens/höchstens bis nächste Woche — it will take until next week at the very least/most
bis jetzt hat er nichts gesagt — up to now or so far he has said nothing
bis spätestens Montag darfst du es behalten — you can keep it until Monday, no longer
die Wäsche ist frühestens bis nächsten Montag fertig — the laundry won't be ready until or before next Monday at the earliest
dieser Brauch hat sich bis ins 19. Jahrhundert gehalten — this custom continued into the 19th century
bis in den Sommer/die Nacht hinein — into the summer/night
bis 5 Uhr kann ich das unmöglich machen/gemacht haben — I can't possibly do it/get it done by 5 o'clock
das sollte bis zum nächsten Sommer fertig sein — it should be finished by next summer
das hätte eigentlich bis jetzt fertig sein müssen — that should really have been finished by now
Montag bis Freitag — Monday to or through (US) Friday
bis einschließlich 5. Mai — up to and including 5th May
bis ausschließlich 5. Mai — up to but not including 5th May
bis bald/später/morgen! — see you soon/later/tomorrow!
bis wann bleibt ihr hier? — how long are you staying here?
sie geht bis auf Weiteres auf die Schule in der Kantstraße — for the time being, she'll continue going to the school on Kantstraße
bis dahin hatte sie noch nie etwas von Schröder gehört — up to then she hadn't heard anything about Schröder
bis dahin ist noch viel Zeit — that's still a long time off
bis dahin bin ich alt und grau — I'll be old and grey (Brit) or gray (US) by then
bis dann! — see you then!diams; von... bis... from... to or till or through (US)...; (mit Uhrzeiten) from... till or to...
vom 10. Mai bis 12. Oktober — from 10th May until 12th October
vom 10. Mai bis einschließlich 12. Oktober — from 10th May until 12th October inclusive
bis durch/über/unter — right through/over/under
ich fahre nur bis München — I'm only going to Munich or as far as Munich
bis ins Letzte or Kleinste — down to the smallest detail
er hat alles bis ins Kleinste ausgearbeitet — he's worked everything out down to the smallest detail
bis wo/wohin? — how far?
bis wohin ist Ihnen der Mann gefolgt? — how far did the man follow you?
wie weit ist es zum nächsten Supermarkt? – bis dorthin sind es nur 5 km — how far is the nearest supermarket? – it's only 5km (away)
bis hierher hast du ja recht gehabt — so or this far you've been right
bis hierher und nicht weiter (lit, fig) — this far and no further
ich gehe bis hierher, aber nicht weiter — I'll go as far as that, but no further
bis einschließlich Kapitel 3 — up to the end of chapter 3
3) mit Maßangaben up toKinder bis sechs Jahre, bis sechs Jahre alte Kinder — children up to the age of six
4) andere Wendungendiams; bis zu (= bis zu einer oberen Grenze von) up to; (= bis zu einer unteren Grenze von) (down) toTotschlag wird mit Gefängnis bis zu 8 Jahren bestraft — manslaughter is punishable by up to 8 years imprisonment
es sind alle gekommen, bis auf Sandra — they all came, except Sandra
das Schiff ging unter und sie ertranken alle, bis auf den letzten Mann — the ship sank and every single one of them drowned
2. BINDEWORT1) beiordnend to2) unterordnend zeitlich until, till; (= nicht später als) by the timeich warte noch, bis es dunkel wird — I'll wait until or till it gets dark
bis es dunkel wird, möchte ich zu Hause sein — I want to get home before it gets dark
das muss gemacht sein, bis ich nach Hause komme — it must be done by the time I come home
du gehst hier nicht weg, bis das (nicht) gemacht ist — you're not leaving until or before it's done
3) = sobald Aus inf whengleich bis er kommt — the moment he comes (inf), as soon as he comes
* * *1) (to the place or point mentioned: We walked as far as the lake.) as far as2) (as far, or as much, as: He counted up to 100; Up to now, the work has been easy.) up to3) (to the time of or when: I'll wait till six o'clock; Go on till you reach the station.) till4) (as far as: His story is a lie from beginning to end.) to5) (until: Did you stay to the end of the concert?) to6) (to the time of or when: He was here until one o'clock; I won't know until I get a letter from him.) until* * *[bɪs]\bis anhin SCHWEIZ up to now\bis bald/gleich see you soon/in a little while [or a minute]\bis dahin/dann by then\bis dann! till then!\bis dahin bin ich alt und grau! I'll be old and grey by then!\bis dahin war alles gut gegangen until then everything had gone welldas Angebot läuft noch \bis einschließlich 15.Oktober the offer runs up to and including October 15ich habe noch \bis einschließlich Dienstag Urlaub I am on holidays until Wednesday\bis jetzt up to now, so far; (spätestens jetzt) by now\bis jetzt haben wir 200.000 Ausgaben verkauft up to now [or so far] we've sold 200,000 copies\bis jetzt ist noch alles ruhig so far everything is still quietdas hätte \bis jetzt erledigt sein sollen that should have been done by now\bis jetzt noch nicht not yetirgendwelche Beschwerden? — nein, \bis jetzt jedenfalls noch nicht! any complaints? — no, nothing so far anyway\bis Montag/morgen/nächste Woche/später till Monday/tomorrow/next week/later\bis Montag/morgen/nächste Woche fertig sein müssen to have to be ready by Monday/tomorrow/next monthdann bis später/Montag! see you later/on Monday!\bis spätestens... by... at the latester bleibt \bis spätestens Freitag he is going to stay until Friday at the latestder Text muss \bis spätestens Montag fertig sein the text hast to be ready by Monday at the latest\bis [gegen] 8 Uhr until [about] 8 o' clock\bis wann until when\bis wann gilt der Fahrplan? when is the timetable valid till?, how long is the timetable valid?\bis wann weiß ich, ob Sie das Angebot annehmen? [by] when will I know, whether you're going to accept the offer?\bis wann bleibst du? how long are you staying [for]?\bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt up to this time\bis spät in die Nacht long into the night\bis in die frühen Morgenstunden until the early hours [of the morning]▪ von... [an] \bis... from... until...von Montag \bis Samstag from Monday to Saturday, Monday through Saturday AMich bin von heute [an] \bis einschließlich Mittwoch auf einer Tagung I'm at a meeting from today until the end of Wednesday [or until Wednesday inclusive]\bis zu dieser Stunde habe ich davon nichts gewusst! I knew nothing about it until nowdas Projekt dürfte \bis zum Jahresende abgeschlossen sein the project should be finished by [or before] the end of the yearsie war \bis zum 17. Lebensjahr im Internat she was at boarding school until she was 17jetzt sind es nur noch zwei Stunden \bis nach Hause it's only another two hours until we get homeder Zug geht nur \bis Wertheim the train's only going as far as Wertheimjdn von oben \bis unten mustern to look sb up and downer musterte ihn von oben \bis unten he looked him up and downder Hof geht genau \bis dahinten hin the yard runs right through to the back\bis dahin/dorthin [up] to there\bis dorthin sind es nur 3 Kilometer it's only 3 kilometres theresiehst du die Sandbank? wir schwimmen \bis dahin can you see the sandbank? we'll swim out to there\bis dahin/hierhin [o hierher] up to that/this point\bis dahin kenne ich den Film I know the film up to that point\bis hierher und nicht weiter as far as here [or up to here] and no furtherbis wohin können Sie mich mitnehmen? where can you take me to?, how far can you take me?\bis wohin sind wir in der letzten Stunde gekommen? where did we get to [or how far did we get] in the last lesson?der Rock ging ihr \bis ans Knie the skirt reached down to her knees3. (bei Zahlenangaben) up todie Tagestemperaturen steigen \bis 30°C daytime temperatures rise to 30°Cich zähle \bis drei I'll count [up] to threeKinder \bis 6 Jahre children up to [the age of] 6wir erwarten \bis zu 100 Personen we expect as many as 100 peopledie Pflanze kann \bis zu 2 Metern hoch wachsen the plant can grow as high as 2 metresJugendliche \bis zu 18 Jahren adolescents up to [the age of] 184. (mit Ausnahme von)▪ \bis auf jdn/etw down to sb/sthII. konj1. (beiordnend) to400 \bis 500 Gramm Schinken 400 to 500 grams of ham5 \bis 10 Tage from 5 to [or between 5 and] 10 daysdas Wetter morgen: bewölkt \bis bedeckt und strichweise leichter Regen the weather for tomorrow: cloudy or overcast with light rain in placesich möchte mit meiner Entscheidung warten, \bis ich mehr Informationen habe I'd like to wait with my decision until I've got more information\bis es dunkel wird, möchte ich zu Hause sein I want to be home by the time it gets darkich warte noch, \bis es dunkel wird I'll wait until it gets dark\bis die Hausaufgaben gemacht sind, geht ihr nicht raus! you're not going out until your homework's done!* * *1.1) (zeitlich) until; till; (die ganze Zeit über und bis zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt) up to; up until; up till; (nicht später als) byich muss bis fünf Uhr warten — I have to wait until or till five o'clock
bis gestern glaubte ich... — [up] until yesterday I had thought...
von Dienstag bis Donnerstag — from Tuesday to Thursday; Tuesday through Thursday (Amer.)
von sechs bis sieben [Uhr] — from six until or till seven [o'clock]
bis Ende März ist er zurück/verreist — he'll be back by/away until the end of March
bis wann dauert das Konzert? — till or until when does the concert go on?
bis dann/gleich/später/morgen/nachher! — see you then/in a while/later/tomorrow/later!
2) (räumlich, fig.) todieser Zug fährt nur bis Offenburg — this train only goes to or as far as Offenburg
nur bis Seite 100 — only up to or as far as page 100
bis 5 000 Euro — up to 5,000 euros
2.Kinder bis 6 Jahre — children up to the age of six or up to six years of age
1)Städte bis zu 50 000 Einwohnern — towns of up to 50,000 inhabitants
2)3.bis auf — (einschließlich) down to; (mit Ausnahme von) except for
1) (nebenordnend) to* * *A. präp1. bei Zeitdauer: till, until;bis jetzt up to now; so far;bis jetzt noch nicht not (as) yet;ich habe bis jetzt nichts gehört I haven’t heard anything yet ( oder so far);bis auf weiteres for the present; ADMIN until further notice;bis in die Nacht into the night;bis spät in die Nacht until the early ( oder wee) hours;die Sonne schien bis zum Sonntag the sun shone (up) until Sunday;bis zum späten Nachmittag till late in the afternoon;bis vor einigen Jahren until a few years ago;bis Ende Mai habe ich zu tun I’m busy until the end of May, US auch I’m busy through May;bis zum Ende (right) to the end;bis wann wird es dauern? how long will it last?; mit Datum:in der Zeit vom … bis … between … and …;von morgens acht bis abends sechs from eight in the morning until six at night;von Montag bis Freitag Monday to (US auch through) Friday;bis einschließlich/ausschließlich up to and including/not including;bis morgen/Montag/bald! see you tomorrow/(on) Monday/soon;bis er zurückkommt, ist es schon dunkel by the time he gets back, it will be dark;es muss bis Freitag eingereicht werden it has to be handed in by Friday;bis wann ist es fertig? when will it be ready by?;bis wann hast du Zeit? how much time have you got?;bis wann willst du es wieder haben? when do you want it back by?;bis (spätestens) morgen weiß ich Bescheid I’ll know for definite (US sure) by tomorrow (at the latest);die Fotos sind bis frühestens übermorgen fertig the photos will be ready the day after tomorrow at the earliest;ich bin noch bis sechs Uhr im Büro I’ll be at work until six o’clock;bis Ende April ist er wieder zurück he will be back by the end of April;alle bis … eingegangenen Bewerbungen all applications received by ( oder before) …;er hätte bis jetzt da sein müssen he should have been there by now;bis dahin werden wir fertig sein etc by then, by that time3. räumlich: to, up to, as far as;fährt der Bus bis Glasgow? does this bus go to Glasgow?;bis hierher up to here;bis hierher und nicht weiter auch fig this far and no further;bis dahin ist es nicht weit that’s not far;bis wohin? how far?;bis ans Knie up to one’s knees; Kleid: down to the knee;von hier bis New York from here to New York;wie weit ist es noch bis nach Innsbruck? how far is it to Innsbruck?, how far have we got to go (before we get) to Innsbruck?;weiterlesen bis Seite zwölf continue to read to page twelve;bis vor das Haus fahren drive up to the front door of the house, drive (right) up to the house;er folgte mir bis ins Hotelfoyer he followed me (right) into the lobby of the hotel ( nicht weiter: as far as the lobby of the hotel);der Blick reicht bis weit ins Tal the view stretches right into the valley;4. Zahlenangabe:hoch up to …, as high as …;bis 20 zählen count (up) to 20;Kinder bis zwölf Jahre children up to the age of twelve oder up to twelve years of age;bis auf das letzte Stück down to the last bit (Kuchen etc: piece)5.bis aufs Höchste to the utmost;bis ins Kleinste down to the last detail;bis zur Tollkühnheit to the point of rashness;bis zum Überdruss ad nauseam;bis auf except, with the exception of;alle bis auf einen all except ( oder but) one;B. konj1. till, until; (bis spätestens) by the time;es wird eine Zeitlang dauern, bis er es merkt it will take a while for him to find out ( oder before he finds out);du gehst nicht, bis du aufgeräumt hast you’re not going until ( oder before) you’ve tidied (US cleaned) up;bis dass der Tod euch scheidet until death do you part;bis ich das gefunden habe! verärgert: if I don’t find it soon!, by the time I find it …!2. zwischen Zahladjektiven: to;7 bis 10 Tage from 7 to 10 days, between 7 and 10 days;5 bis 6 Wagen 5 to 6 cars3.heiter bis wolkig/sonnig bis leicht bedeckt im Wetterbericht: generally fine, cloudy in places/sunny with light cloud cover;die Tendenz war lustlos bis verhalten an der Börse: the tendency was slack to cautious* * *1.1) (zeitlich) until; till; (die ganze Zeit über und bis zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt) up to; up until; up till; (nicht später als) byich muss bis fünf Uhr warten — I have to wait until or till five o'clock
bis gestern glaubte ich... — [up] until yesterday I had thought...
von Dienstag bis Donnerstag — from Tuesday to Thursday; Tuesday through Thursday (Amer.)
von sechs bis sieben [Uhr] — from six until or till seven [o'clock]
bis Ende März ist er zurück/verreist — he'll be back by/away until the end of March
bis wann dauert das Konzert? — till or until when does the concert go on?
bis dann/gleich/später/morgen/nachher! — see you then/in a while/later/tomorrow/later!
2) (räumlich, fig.) todieser Zug fährt nur bis Offenburg — this train only goes to or as far as Offenburg
nur bis Seite 100 — only up to or as far as page 100
bis 5 000 Euro — up to 5,000 euros
2.Kinder bis 6 Jahre — children up to the age of six or up to six years of age
1)Städte bis zu 50 000 Einwohnern — towns of up to 50,000 inhabitants
2)3.bis auf — (einschließlich) down to; (mit Ausnahme von) except for
1) (nebenordnend) to* * *(dass) konj.until conj. (zu) konj.till conj. konj.till conj.unless conj. präp.as far as prep.by prep.until conj. -
11 רבי
רבי, רָבָה, רָבֶה(b. h.) to be much, many; to grow, increase. Yoma 87b עונותינו רָבוּוכ׳ our sins are too many to be counted. Gen. R. s. 34 אצא ואהי פרה ורָבֶהוכ׳ I may go out (of the ark) and be multiplying and increasing for curse. Bekh.44b דםר׳ שחיןר׳ if the blood is allowed to increase (if bleeding is neglected), skin disease will develop; מי רגלים רָבִיןוכ׳ if one allows the urine to increase (through neglect) Sabb.33b בעון … צרות רָבוֹתוכ׳ for the sin of obscene talk troubles increase, and new evil decrees come Num. R. s. 11, v. פָּרָה II. Gen. R. s. 48 הכתבר׳וכ׳, v. כְּתָב Sot.47b משרבו … בדיןר׳וכ׳ when the whisperers in court (secret influences) increased, the anger (of God) against Israel increased. Snh.97a העזות תִּרְבֶּה impudence shall be large. Y.Yeb.IV, 6a bot., v. אל״ף; a. fr.Gen. R. s. 98 (play on בן פרת, Gen. 49:22) בן פירות רָבִיתָה ‘a child of fruits (through interpreting Pharaohs dream about the ears of corn) thou didst grow (to high office); בן פרות רביתה יוסף ‘a child of cows (through interpreting the dream about cows) thou didst grow; בן פורת (יוסף) רָבִיתָ יוסף ‘a child of growth, thou didst grow tall (so as to protect Rachel from Esaus sight; v. Gen. R. s. 78); Yalk. ib. 133 (read:) בן פורת יוסף פָּרִיתָ רבית יוסף. Pi. רִיבָּה 1) to increase, do much, do more. Gen. R. s. 34 ר׳ בטהורים יותרוכ׳ ordered a larger number of the clean animals to be taken into the ark than of the unclean. Tosef.Dem.IV, 12 ר׳ בעיר ולאר׳ במדינה if one offers a large quantity for sale, while none is offered in the country. Ib. 13 כל שר׳ לו מותר wherever one has a large quantity for sale, it is permitted (to buy of him); a. fr.Men.89a ר׳ שמןוכ׳, v. רְבִיכָה. 2) (hermeneutics) to use an additional word for the purpose of intimating something not otherwise included; to argue from an additional word or from a generalization in the Biblical text; to widen the scope of a law; to include. Ib. אם אתה מְרַבֶּהוכ׳ if thou wert to argue an entire day on the intimation of an increase lying in the words bashshemen (Lev. 6:14; 7:12), I should not listen to thee; Zeb.82a; Nidd.72b. Shebu.26a, v. מָעַט. Ib. 27a מדאצטריך או לְרַבּוֹתוכ׳ as the word אוֹ (Lev. 5:4) is needed for the inclusion of vows for the benefit of others. Pes.22b, v. אֵת. Snh.60b יכול שאני מְרַבֶּהוכ׳ you might think that I must include ; a. v. fr.(Yalk. Ex. 348 ר׳ כלוכ׳, v. רִיקֵן.Gen. R. s. 85 (ref. to Gen. 38:29) זה רִבָּה על כל הפריצים ממך יעמודו (not יעמוד) this event implies (the prophecy) that all conquerors shall rise from thee (Perez); Yalk. ib. 145. 3) to lend or borrow on usury (רִבִּית); to make a profit. Sifra Bhar, ch. VI, Par. 5; B. Mets.V, 1 (expl. תַּרְבִּית) המְרַבֶּה בפירות he who makes a profit on lending provisions. Tosef. ib. IV, 2 מְרַבִּין על השכר ואין מרביןוכ׳ you may make a profit on renting (lending money to the money-changer merely for exhibition), but you dare not make a profit on a sale (of land as security for a loan). B. Mets.V, 2 מרבין … ואין מרביןוכ׳ you may make a profit by a reduction of rent on account of payment in advance, but you dare not make a profit by increasing the price of an object sold on account of postponed payment; a. e. Hif. הִרְבָּה to cause increase; to strengthen; to do much. Ber.17a, v. מָעַט. Ab. I, 17 וכל המַרְבֶּה דבריםוכ׳ he that talks much brings about sin. Ib. II, 7 מרבה בשרוכ׳ making much flesh (indulging in eating) makes much food for worms; מרבה צרקהוכ׳ he that does much charity, does much for peace. Ber.40a מפרין ומרבין, v. פָּרָה II. Ib. 64a ת״ח מַרְבִּיםוכ׳ scholars advance peace in the world; a. fr.B. Bath.11b בני מבוי … שמרבה עליהן את הדרך the neighbors may prevent him, because he increases the use of the way too much for them (causes many people to step upon their ground); Tosef. ib. I, 4; Y. ib. II, 13b bot. דו יכיל מימר … והן מרבין עלינווכ׳ he may say to him, they go and come, ask for thee and cannot find thee, and thus they use the way too frequently for us. Nithpa. נִתְרַבָּה to be increased; with בגדים, to be clothed with the larger number of garments designated for the high priest, v. מְרוּבֶּה. Yoma 5a נ׳ שבעה if he wore the high priestly garments during the entire week of inauguration; נ׳ יום אחד if he wore them only one day. -
12 רבה
רבי, רָבָה, רָבֶה(b. h.) to be much, many; to grow, increase. Yoma 87b עונותינו רָבוּוכ׳ our sins are too many to be counted. Gen. R. s. 34 אצא ואהי פרה ורָבֶהוכ׳ I may go out (of the ark) and be multiplying and increasing for curse. Bekh.44b דםר׳ שחיןר׳ if the blood is allowed to increase (if bleeding is neglected), skin disease will develop; מי רגלים רָבִיןוכ׳ if one allows the urine to increase (through neglect) Sabb.33b בעון … צרות רָבוֹתוכ׳ for the sin of obscene talk troubles increase, and new evil decrees come Num. R. s. 11, v. פָּרָה II. Gen. R. s. 48 הכתבר׳וכ׳, v. כְּתָב Sot.47b משרבו … בדיןר׳וכ׳ when the whisperers in court (secret influences) increased, the anger (of God) against Israel increased. Snh.97a העזות תִּרְבֶּה impudence shall be large. Y.Yeb.IV, 6a bot., v. אל״ף; a. fr.Gen. R. s. 98 (play on בן פרת, Gen. 49:22) בן פירות רָבִיתָה ‘a child of fruits (through interpreting Pharaohs dream about the ears of corn) thou didst grow (to high office); בן פרות רביתה יוסף ‘a child of cows (through interpreting the dream about cows) thou didst grow; בן פורת (יוסף) רָבִיתָ יוסף ‘a child of growth, thou didst grow tall (so as to protect Rachel from Esaus sight; v. Gen. R. s. 78); Yalk. ib. 133 (read:) בן פורת יוסף פָּרִיתָ רבית יוסף. Pi. רִיבָּה 1) to increase, do much, do more. Gen. R. s. 34 ר׳ בטהורים יותרוכ׳ ordered a larger number of the clean animals to be taken into the ark than of the unclean. Tosef.Dem.IV, 12 ר׳ בעיר ולאר׳ במדינה if one offers a large quantity for sale, while none is offered in the country. Ib. 13 כל שר׳ לו מותר wherever one has a large quantity for sale, it is permitted (to buy of him); a. fr.Men.89a ר׳ שמןוכ׳, v. רְבִיכָה. 2) (hermeneutics) to use an additional word for the purpose of intimating something not otherwise included; to argue from an additional word or from a generalization in the Biblical text; to widen the scope of a law; to include. Ib. אם אתה מְרַבֶּהוכ׳ if thou wert to argue an entire day on the intimation of an increase lying in the words bashshemen (Lev. 6:14; 7:12), I should not listen to thee; Zeb.82a; Nidd.72b. Shebu.26a, v. מָעַט. Ib. 27a מדאצטריך או לְרַבּוֹתוכ׳ as the word אוֹ (Lev. 5:4) is needed for the inclusion of vows for the benefit of others. Pes.22b, v. אֵת. Snh.60b יכול שאני מְרַבֶּהוכ׳ you might think that I must include ; a. v. fr.(Yalk. Ex. 348 ר׳ כלוכ׳, v. רִיקֵן.Gen. R. s. 85 (ref. to Gen. 38:29) זה רִבָּה על כל הפריצים ממך יעמודו (not יעמוד) this event implies (the prophecy) that all conquerors shall rise from thee (Perez); Yalk. ib. 145. 3) to lend or borrow on usury (רִבִּית); to make a profit. Sifra Bhar, ch. VI, Par. 5; B. Mets.V, 1 (expl. תַּרְבִּית) המְרַבֶּה בפירות he who makes a profit on lending provisions. Tosef. ib. IV, 2 מְרַבִּין על השכר ואין מרביןוכ׳ you may make a profit on renting (lending money to the money-changer merely for exhibition), but you dare not make a profit on a sale (of land as security for a loan). B. Mets.V, 2 מרבין … ואין מרביןוכ׳ you may make a profit by a reduction of rent on account of payment in advance, but you dare not make a profit by increasing the price of an object sold on account of postponed payment; a. e. Hif. הִרְבָּה to cause increase; to strengthen; to do much. Ber.17a, v. מָעַט. Ab. I, 17 וכל המַרְבֶּה דבריםוכ׳ he that talks much brings about sin. Ib. II, 7 מרבה בשרוכ׳ making much flesh (indulging in eating) makes much food for worms; מרבה צרקהוכ׳ he that does much charity, does much for peace. Ber.40a מפרין ומרבין, v. פָּרָה II. Ib. 64a ת״ח מַרְבִּיםוכ׳ scholars advance peace in the world; a. fr.B. Bath.11b בני מבוי … שמרבה עליהן את הדרך the neighbors may prevent him, because he increases the use of the way too much for them (causes many people to step upon their ground); Tosef. ib. I, 4; Y. ib. II, 13b bot. דו יכיל מימר … והן מרבין עלינווכ׳ he may say to him, they go and come, ask for thee and cannot find thee, and thus they use the way too frequently for us. Nithpa. נִתְרַבָּה to be increased; with בגדים, to be clothed with the larger number of garments designated for the high priest, v. מְרוּבֶּה. Yoma 5a נ׳ שבעה if he wore the high priestly garments during the entire week of inauguration; נ׳ יום אחד if he wore them only one day. -
13 רָבָה
רבי, רָבָה, רָבֶה(b. h.) to be much, many; to grow, increase. Yoma 87b עונותינו רָבוּוכ׳ our sins are too many to be counted. Gen. R. s. 34 אצא ואהי פרה ורָבֶהוכ׳ I may go out (of the ark) and be multiplying and increasing for curse. Bekh.44b דםר׳ שחיןר׳ if the blood is allowed to increase (if bleeding is neglected), skin disease will develop; מי רגלים רָבִיןוכ׳ if one allows the urine to increase (through neglect) Sabb.33b בעון … צרות רָבוֹתוכ׳ for the sin of obscene talk troubles increase, and new evil decrees come Num. R. s. 11, v. פָּרָה II. Gen. R. s. 48 הכתבר׳וכ׳, v. כְּתָב Sot.47b משרבו … בדיןר׳וכ׳ when the whisperers in court (secret influences) increased, the anger (of God) against Israel increased. Snh.97a העזות תִּרְבֶּה impudence shall be large. Y.Yeb.IV, 6a bot., v. אל״ף; a. fr.Gen. R. s. 98 (play on בן פרת, Gen. 49:22) בן פירות רָבִיתָה ‘a child of fruits (through interpreting Pharaohs dream about the ears of corn) thou didst grow (to high office); בן פרות רביתה יוסף ‘a child of cows (through interpreting the dream about cows) thou didst grow; בן פורת (יוסף) רָבִיתָ יוסף ‘a child of growth, thou didst grow tall (so as to protect Rachel from Esaus sight; v. Gen. R. s. 78); Yalk. ib. 133 (read:) בן פורת יוסף פָּרִיתָ רבית יוסף. Pi. רִיבָּה 1) to increase, do much, do more. Gen. R. s. 34 ר׳ בטהורים יותרוכ׳ ordered a larger number of the clean animals to be taken into the ark than of the unclean. Tosef.Dem.IV, 12 ר׳ בעיר ולאר׳ במדינה if one offers a large quantity for sale, while none is offered in the country. Ib. 13 כל שר׳ לו מותר wherever one has a large quantity for sale, it is permitted (to buy of him); a. fr.Men.89a ר׳ שמןוכ׳, v. רְבִיכָה. 2) (hermeneutics) to use an additional word for the purpose of intimating something not otherwise included; to argue from an additional word or from a generalization in the Biblical text; to widen the scope of a law; to include. Ib. אם אתה מְרַבֶּהוכ׳ if thou wert to argue an entire day on the intimation of an increase lying in the words bashshemen (Lev. 6:14; 7:12), I should not listen to thee; Zeb.82a; Nidd.72b. Shebu.26a, v. מָעַט. Ib. 27a מדאצטריך או לְרַבּוֹתוכ׳ as the word אוֹ (Lev. 5:4) is needed for the inclusion of vows for the benefit of others. Pes.22b, v. אֵת. Snh.60b יכול שאני מְרַבֶּהוכ׳ you might think that I must include ; a. v. fr.(Yalk. Ex. 348 ר׳ כלוכ׳, v. רִיקֵן.Gen. R. s. 85 (ref. to Gen. 38:29) זה רִבָּה על כל הפריצים ממך יעמודו (not יעמוד) this event implies (the prophecy) that all conquerors shall rise from thee (Perez); Yalk. ib. 145. 3) to lend or borrow on usury (רִבִּית); to make a profit. Sifra Bhar, ch. VI, Par. 5; B. Mets.V, 1 (expl. תַּרְבִּית) המְרַבֶּה בפירות he who makes a profit on lending provisions. Tosef. ib. IV, 2 מְרַבִּין על השכר ואין מרביןוכ׳ you may make a profit on renting (lending money to the money-changer merely for exhibition), but you dare not make a profit on a sale (of land as security for a loan). B. Mets.V, 2 מרבין … ואין מרביןוכ׳ you may make a profit by a reduction of rent on account of payment in advance, but you dare not make a profit by increasing the price of an object sold on account of postponed payment; a. e. Hif. הִרְבָּה to cause increase; to strengthen; to do much. Ber.17a, v. מָעַט. Ab. I, 17 וכל המַרְבֶּה דבריםוכ׳ he that talks much brings about sin. Ib. II, 7 מרבה בשרוכ׳ making much flesh (indulging in eating) makes much food for worms; מרבה צרקהוכ׳ he that does much charity, does much for peace. Ber.40a מפרין ומרבין, v. פָּרָה II. Ib. 64a ת״ח מַרְבִּיםוכ׳ scholars advance peace in the world; a. fr.B. Bath.11b בני מבוי … שמרבה עליהן את הדרך the neighbors may prevent him, because he increases the use of the way too much for them (causes many people to step upon their ground); Tosef. ib. I, 4; Y. ib. II, 13b bot. דו יכיל מימר … והן מרבין עלינווכ׳ he may say to him, they go and come, ask for thee and cannot find thee, and thus they use the way too frequently for us. Nithpa. נִתְרַבָּה to be increased; with בגדים, to be clothed with the larger number of garments designated for the high priest, v. מְרוּבֶּה. Yoma 5a נ׳ שבעה if he wore the high priestly garments during the entire week of inauguration; נ׳ יום אחד if he wore them only one day. -
14 רָבֶה
רבי, רָבָה, רָבֶה(b. h.) to be much, many; to grow, increase. Yoma 87b עונותינו רָבוּוכ׳ our sins are too many to be counted. Gen. R. s. 34 אצא ואהי פרה ורָבֶהוכ׳ I may go out (of the ark) and be multiplying and increasing for curse. Bekh.44b דםר׳ שחיןר׳ if the blood is allowed to increase (if bleeding is neglected), skin disease will develop; מי רגלים רָבִיןוכ׳ if one allows the urine to increase (through neglect) Sabb.33b בעון … צרות רָבוֹתוכ׳ for the sin of obscene talk troubles increase, and new evil decrees come Num. R. s. 11, v. פָּרָה II. Gen. R. s. 48 הכתבר׳וכ׳, v. כְּתָב Sot.47b משרבו … בדיןר׳וכ׳ when the whisperers in court (secret influences) increased, the anger (of God) against Israel increased. Snh.97a העזות תִּרְבֶּה impudence shall be large. Y.Yeb.IV, 6a bot., v. אל״ף; a. fr.Gen. R. s. 98 (play on בן פרת, Gen. 49:22) בן פירות רָבִיתָה ‘a child of fruits (through interpreting Pharaohs dream about the ears of corn) thou didst grow (to high office); בן פרות רביתה יוסף ‘a child of cows (through interpreting the dream about cows) thou didst grow; בן פורת (יוסף) רָבִיתָ יוסף ‘a child of growth, thou didst grow tall (so as to protect Rachel from Esaus sight; v. Gen. R. s. 78); Yalk. ib. 133 (read:) בן פורת יוסף פָּרִיתָ רבית יוסף. Pi. רִיבָּה 1) to increase, do much, do more. Gen. R. s. 34 ר׳ בטהורים יותרוכ׳ ordered a larger number of the clean animals to be taken into the ark than of the unclean. Tosef.Dem.IV, 12 ר׳ בעיר ולאר׳ במדינה if one offers a large quantity for sale, while none is offered in the country. Ib. 13 כל שר׳ לו מותר wherever one has a large quantity for sale, it is permitted (to buy of him); a. fr.Men.89a ר׳ שמןוכ׳, v. רְבִיכָה. 2) (hermeneutics) to use an additional word for the purpose of intimating something not otherwise included; to argue from an additional word or from a generalization in the Biblical text; to widen the scope of a law; to include. Ib. אם אתה מְרַבֶּהוכ׳ if thou wert to argue an entire day on the intimation of an increase lying in the words bashshemen (Lev. 6:14; 7:12), I should not listen to thee; Zeb.82a; Nidd.72b. Shebu.26a, v. מָעַט. Ib. 27a מדאצטריך או לְרַבּוֹתוכ׳ as the word אוֹ (Lev. 5:4) is needed for the inclusion of vows for the benefit of others. Pes.22b, v. אֵת. Snh.60b יכול שאני מְרַבֶּהוכ׳ you might think that I must include ; a. v. fr.(Yalk. Ex. 348 ר׳ כלוכ׳, v. רִיקֵן.Gen. R. s. 85 (ref. to Gen. 38:29) זה רִבָּה על כל הפריצים ממך יעמודו (not יעמוד) this event implies (the prophecy) that all conquerors shall rise from thee (Perez); Yalk. ib. 145. 3) to lend or borrow on usury (רִבִּית); to make a profit. Sifra Bhar, ch. VI, Par. 5; B. Mets.V, 1 (expl. תַּרְבִּית) המְרַבֶּה בפירות he who makes a profit on lending provisions. Tosef. ib. IV, 2 מְרַבִּין על השכר ואין מרביןוכ׳ you may make a profit on renting (lending money to the money-changer merely for exhibition), but you dare not make a profit on a sale (of land as security for a loan). B. Mets.V, 2 מרבין … ואין מרביןוכ׳ you may make a profit by a reduction of rent on account of payment in advance, but you dare not make a profit by increasing the price of an object sold on account of postponed payment; a. e. Hif. הִרְבָּה to cause increase; to strengthen; to do much. Ber.17a, v. מָעַט. Ab. I, 17 וכל המַרְבֶּה דבריםוכ׳ he that talks much brings about sin. Ib. II, 7 מרבה בשרוכ׳ making much flesh (indulging in eating) makes much food for worms; מרבה צרקהוכ׳ he that does much charity, does much for peace. Ber.40a מפרין ומרבין, v. פָּרָה II. Ib. 64a ת״ח מַרְבִּיםוכ׳ scholars advance peace in the world; a. fr.B. Bath.11b בני מבוי … שמרבה עליהן את הדרך the neighbors may prevent him, because he increases the use of the way too much for them (causes many people to step upon their ground); Tosef. ib. I, 4; Y. ib. II, 13b bot. דו יכיל מימר … והן מרבין עלינווכ׳ he may say to him, they go and come, ask for thee and cannot find thee, and thus they use the way too frequently for us. Nithpa. נִתְרַבָּה to be increased; with בגדים, to be clothed with the larger number of garments designated for the high priest, v. מְרוּבֶּה. Yoma 5a נ׳ שבעה if he wore the high priestly garments during the entire week of inauguration; נ׳ יום אחד if he wore them only one day. -
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compte [kɔ̃t]━━━━━━━━━2. compounds━━━━━━━━━1. <a. ( = calcul) faire le compte des erreurs to count the mistakes• comment as-tu fait ton compte pour arriver si tard ? how did you manage to get here so late?b. ( = nombre exact) right number• j'ai ajouté 15 € pour faire le compte I've added 15 euros to make up the full amount• être laissé pour compte [personne] to be left by the wayside• pourriez-vous me faire mon compte ? would you make out my bill?g. ( = dû) il y a trouvé son compte he did well out of ith. ( = explication) demander des comptes à qn to ask sb for an explanation• rendre des comptes à qn to explain o.s. to sbi. (locutions)► se rendre compte de qch/que ( = réaliser) to realize sth/that• est-ce que tu te rends compte de ce que tu dis ? do you realize what you are saying?• il a osé dire ça, tu te rends compte ! he dared say that - can you believe it!► tenir compte de qn/qch to take sb/sth into account• il n'a pas tenu compte de nos avertissements he didn't take any notice of our warnings► compte tenu de considering► sur le compte de ( = à propos de) about• on m'en a raconté de belles sur son compte ! I was told a few interesting stories about him!• mettre qch sur le compte de qch ( = attribuer à) to put sth down to sth2. <• faire le compte rendu d'une réunion to give an account of a meeting ► compte sur livret deposit account* * *kɔ̃t
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nom masculin1) ( calcul) countfaire le compte de quelque chose — to work out [dépenses, recettes]; to count (up) [personnes, objets]
comment fais-tu ton compte pour faire...? — fig how do you manage to do...?
au bout du compte — ( pour constater) in the end
tout compte fait — ( tout bien considéré) all things considered; ( en fait) when all is said and done
en fin de compte — ( pour conclure) at the end of the day
tout compte fait or en fin de compte, c'est lui qui avait raison — when all is said and done, he was right
le compte y est — ( en argent) that's the right amount; (en objets, personnes) all present and correct
le compte n'y est pas, il n'y a pas le compte — ( en argent) that's not the right amount; (en objets, personnes) that's not the right number
il a son compte — (colloq) ( battu ou tué) he's done for (colloq); ( ivre) he's had a drop too much
nous avons eu notre compte d'ennuis — fig we've had more than our fair share of problems
à ce compte-là — ( dans ces conditions) in that case
3) ( considération)prendre quelque chose en compte, tenir compte de quelque chose — to take something into account
4) ( intérêt personnel)être or travailler à son compte — to be self-employed
se mettre or s'installler or s'établir à son compte — to set up one's own business
5) ( en comptabilité) account6) Finance accountcompte bancaire or en banque — bank account
j'ai un compte chez un libraire — I have an account with a bookshop GB ou bookstore
mettre quelque chose sur le compte de quelqu'un — lit to charge something to somebody's account; fig to put something down to somebody
8) ( somme à payer)9) (explication, rapport)rendre compte de quelque chose à quelqu'un — ( rapporter) to give an account of something to somebody; ( justifier) to account for something to somebody
rendre des comptes à quelqu'un — [responsable] to be answerable to somebody
10) ( notion nette)se rendre compte de — ( être conscient) to realize; ( remarquer) to notice
11) ( sujet)
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à bon compte locution adverbiale lit ( à peu de frais) [acheter] cheap; [acquérir, voyager] cheaply; fig ( sans difficulté) the easy wayPhrasal Verbs:* * *kɔ̃t1. nm1) (= total, montant) count, numberLe compte des bulletins de vote prendra du temps. — It will take time to count the voting slips.
Le compte est bon. — That's the right amount.
2) (bancaire) accountJ'ai déposé le chèque sur mon compte. — I've paid the cheque into my account.
3) (chez un commerçant) accountMettez-le sur mon compte. — Charge it to my account.
à ce compte-là (= dans ce cas) — in that case, (= à ce train-là) at that rate
à bon compte; s'en tirer à bon compte — to get off lightly
rendre compte de qch (= relater) — to give an account of sth, (en assumant une responsabilité) to account for sth
rendre compte de qch à qn (= relater) — to give sb an account of sth, (en assumant une responsabilité) to account to sb for sth
tenir compte de [fait, circonstances] — to take into account, [conseils] to take notice of
Ils ont tenu compte de mon expérience. — They took my experience into account.
Il n'a pas tenu compte de mes conseils. — He took no notice of my advice.
sur le compte de qn (= à son sujet) — about sb
mettre qch sur le compte de qn (= le rendre responsable) — to put sth down to sb
en fin de compte fig — when all is said and done, at the end of the day
Le voyage ne s'est pas mal passé, en fin de compte. — The journey wasn't bad, all things considered.
avoir son compte fig * — to have had it *
régler un compte (= s'acquitter de qch) — to settle an account, (= se venger) to get one's own back
2. comptes nmpl1) (comptabilité) accounts, booksfaire les comptes — to do the accounts, to do the books
* * *A nm1 ( calcul) count; faire le compte de qch to work out [dépenses, recettes]; to count (up) [personnes, objets]; si je fais le compte de ce qu'il me doit if I work out what he owes me; le compte est bon that works out right; j'ai fait le compte des chocolats qui restaient I counted up how many chocolates were left; tenir le compte de qch to keep count of sth; elle tient un compte précis de ses heures supplémentaires she keeps an exact count of her extra hours; comment fais-tu ton compte pour faire…? fig how do you manage to do…?; au bout du compte ( pour constater) in the end; tout compte fait ( tout bien considéré) all things considered; ( en fait) when all is said and done; en fin de compte ( pour conclure) at the end of the day; tout compte fait or en fin de compte, c'est lui qui avait raison when all is said and done, HE was right;2 ( résultat) ( d'argent) amount; (d'objets, heures, de personnes) number; le compte y est ( en argent) that's the right amount; (en objets, personnes) all present and correct; le compte n'y est pas, il n'y a pas le compte ( en argent) that's not the right amount; (en objets, personnes) that's not the right number; il y a 28 élèves, le compte y est/n'y est pas there are 28 pupils, everybody's here/somebody's missing ou ( plusieurs personnes) some are missing; il devrait rester 15 pots de confiture, le compte n'y est pas there should be 15 jars of jam left, but they're not all there; faire le compte ( en argent) to come to the right amount; (en personnes, objets) to come to the right number; voici 20 euros, cela devrait faire le compte here's 20 euros, that should be about right; même si chacun ajoute 3 euros cela ne fera pas le compte even if everybody puts in another 3 euros, it still won't come to the right amount; avoir son compte d'heures de sommeil to get the right amount of sleep; il a son compte○ (battu, tué) he's done for○; ( ivre) he's had a drop too much; nous avons eu notre compte d'ennuis fig we've had more than our fair share of problems; à ce compte-là ( dans ces conditions) in that case;3 ( considération) prendre qch en compte, tenir compte de qch to take sth into account; compte tenu de considering;4 ( intérêt personnel) être à son compte to be self-employed; travailler à son compte to work for oneself; se mettre or s'installler or s'établir à son compte to set up one's own business; reprendre un commerce à son compte to take over a business in one's own name; prendre des jours de congé à son compte to take a few days off without pay ou to take a few days' unpaid leave; pour le compte de qn on behalf of sb; y trouver son compte to get something out of it; ils ont abandonné l'enquête, beaucoup ont dû y trouver leur compte they abandoned the enquiry GB ou inquiry US, that must have suited a lot of people; faire le compte de qn† to benefit sb; les livres publiés à compte d'auteur books published at the author's expense;5 Compta account; passer or mettre en compte to place [sth] to account [somme]; être en compte avec qn to have money matters to settle with sb; faire ses comptes [commerçant, ménagère] to do one's accounts; tenir les comptes [commerçant, ménagère, comptable] to keep the accounts; c'est moi qui tiens les comptes à la maison I keep the household accounts; ⇒ ami, ligne;6 Fin account; compte bancaire or en banque bank account; compte gelé/sans mouvement frozen/dormant account; avoir un compte dans une banque to have an account with a bank; avoir un compte en Suisse to have a Swiss bank account; avoir 1 000 euros sur son compte to have 1,000 euros in one's account; verser de l'argent or faire un versement sur un compte to pay money into an account; retirer de l'argent de son compte to withdraw (some) money from one's account; un compte au nom de… an account in the name of…;7 Comm ( ardoise) account; j'ai un compte chez un libraire I have an account with a bookshop GB ou bookstore; mettre qch sur le compte de qn lit to charge sth to sb's account; fig to put sth down to sb; il l'a mis sur le compte de la fatigue he put it down to tiredness;8 ( somme à payer) voilà votre compte here's your money; demander son compte à qn to hand in one's notice to sb; donner son compte à qn to give sb notice; recevoir son compte ( être payé) to be paid; ( être renvoyé) to be given one's notice;9 (explication, rapport) rendre compte de qch à qn ( rapporter) to give an account of sth to sb; ( justifier) to account for sth to sb; je n'ai pas à te rendre compte de mes actions I don't have to account for my actions to you; rendre des comptes à qn [responsable] to be answerable to sb; je n'ai pas de comptes à te rendre I don't have to answer to you; demander des comptes à qn to ask for an explanation from sb;10 ( notion nette) se rendre compte de ( être conscient) to realize; ( remarquer) to notice; il ne s'est pas rendu compte du mal qu'il avait fait he didn't realize the harm he had done; tout cela s'est passé si vite que je ne me suis rendu compte de rien it all happened so quickly that I didn't realize what was going on; tu ne te rends pas compte que c'est dangereux! don't you realize how dangerous it is?; je ne me suis pas rendu compte de l'heure I didn't notice the time; se rendre compte de la difficulté d'une tâche to realize how difficult a job is; je ne me suis jamais rendu compte que I never realized that;11 ( sujet) sur le compte de qn about sb; je ne sais rien sur leur compte I don't know anything about them;B à bon compte loc adv lit ( à peu de frais) [acheter] cheap; [acquérir, voyager] cheaply; fig ( sans difficulté) the easy way; avoir qch à bon compte to get sth cheap; étudiant qui a obtenu son diplôme à bon compte student who got his degree the easy way; s'en tirer à bon compte to get off lightly; s'en tirer à bon compte avec un bras cassé to get off (lightly) with a broken arm.compte d'affectation Compta appropriation account; compte d'amortissement Compta depreciation account; compte de bilan Compta balance sheet; compte bloqué Fin blocked account; compte chèques Fin current account GB, checking account US; compte chèque postal, CCP Fin, Postes post office account; compte client Compta accounts receivable; Fin customer account; compte courant Fin = compte chèques; compte de dépôt Fin deposit account; compte d'épargne Fin savings account; compte d'épargne logement, CEL Fin savings account entitling depositor to cheap mortgage; compte d'exploitation Compta trading account; compte fournisseurs Compta accounts payable, payables US; compte joint Fin joint account; compte sur livret Fin savings account; compte numéroté Fin numbered account; compte de pertes et profits Compta profit and loss account; ce livre a disparu! encore un à mettre au compte des pertes et profits! fig the book has disappeared! another one we can say goodbye to!; compte à rebours countdown; le compte à rebours de la campagne est commencé fig the run-up to the elections has started; compte rémunéré Fin interest-bearing (current GB ou checking US) account; compte de résultat Compta profit and loss account; compte de situation = compte de bilan; compte de soutien Admin, Fin state support fund (à for); compte à vue = compte chèques; comptes d'apothicaire complicated calculations.[kɔ̃t] nom masculinA.[CALCUL, SOMME CALCULÉE]1. [opération] countinga. [personnes] to count (up)b. [dépenses] to add upquand on fait le compte... when you reckon it all up...2. [résultat] (sum) totalje vous remercie, monsieur, le compte est bon ou y est! thank you sir, that's right!a. [personnes] they're not all here ou there, some are missingb. [dépenses] it doesn't add upcomment fais-tu ton compte pour te tromper à chaque fois/pour que tout le monde soit mécontent? how do you manage to get it wrong every time/manage it so (that) nobody's satisfied?3. [avantage]j'y trouve mon compte I do well out of it, it works out well for meil n'y trouvait pas son compte, alors il est partia. [il ne gagnait pas assez d'argent] he wasn't doing well enough out of it, so he leftb. [dans une relation] he wasn't getting what he wanted out of it, so he left4. [dû]avoir son compte (de) to have more than one's fair share ou more than enough (of)je n'ai pas mon compte de sommeil I don't get all the sleep I need ou enough sleepil a déjà son compte (familier) [il a beaucoup bu] he's had quite enough to drink already, he's had a skinfulb. (familier, figuré & familier) to give somebody a piece of one's mindrégler ses comptes [mettre en ordre ses affaires] to put one's affairs in ordera. [le payer] to settle up with somebodyb. [se venger] to settle a score with somebodyB.[DANS LE DOMAINE FINANCIER ET COMMERCIAL]1. [de dépôt, de crédit] accountfaites-moi ou préparez-moi le compte may I have the bill, please?3. [bilan]C.[LOCUTIONS]1. [argent]a. [magasin] to take over in one's own nameb. [idée, écrit] to adoptêtre ou travailler à son compte to be self-employedil est à son compte he's his own boss, he's set up on his owna. [recette] to credit a sumb. [dépense] to debit a sumnous sommes en compte, vous me réglerez tout à la fin as we're doing business together, you may pay me in full at the end2. [explication, compréhension]demander des comptes à quelqu'un to ask somebody for an explanation of something, to ask somebody to account for somethingrendre des comptes (à quelqu'un) to give ou to offer (somebody) an explanationa. [s'en expliquer] to justify something to somebodyb. [faire un rapport] to give an account of something to somebodydevoir des comptes à quelqu'un to be responsible ou accountable to somebodyprendre quelque chose en compte [prendre en considération] to take something into account ou considerationte rends-tu compte de ce que tu fais? do you realize ou really understand what you're doing?on lui a collé une étiquette dans le dos mais il ne s'en est pas rendu compte somebody stuck a label on his back but he didn't noticetenir compte de quelque chose to take account of something, to take something into accountelle n'a pas tenu compte de mes conseils she took no notice of ou ignored my advicecompte tenu de in view ou in the light of————————comptes nom masculin plurielfaire/tenir les comptes to do/to keep the accounts————————à bon compte locution adverbialea. [sans frais] to manage to avoid paying a fortuneb. [sans conséquences graves] to get off lightly————————à ce compte locution adverbiale,à ce compte-là locution adverbiale[selon ce raisonnement] looking at it ou taking it that way————————pour compte locution adverbiale————————pour le compte locution adverbialepour le compte de locution prépositionnelleelle travaille pour le compte d'une grande société she works for a large firm, she freelances for a large firm————————pour mon compte locution adverbiale,pour son compteetc. locution adverbialefor my/his etc. part, as for me/him etc.————————sur le compte de locution prépositionnelle2. (locution)tout compte fait locution adverbiale,tous comptes faits locution adverbiale -
16 META
* * *(met; mat, mátum; metinn), v.1) to estimate, value; ef þeir kynni m. sik, if they could value themselves rightly, not puff themselves up; m. e-t mikils, lítils, einskis, to attach great, little, no value to; make much, little, nothing of; munu þín orð hér um einskis metin, thy words will be counted for naught;2) m. e-t fjár (kaups, etc.), to put a money-value on, to charge for (aldri mat hann fjár lækning sína); m. e-t við e-n, to name a price to one for a thing; met þú við mik rekkjubúnaðinn, tell me the price of the bed-furniture; ok vil ek eigi m. við þik ( I will not charge you anything), heldr vil ek, at þú þiggir skikkjuna; to leave it to another to decide; allir mátu við Erling atkvæði um skírsluna, they all left it to E. to decide about the ordeal; við Þorkel met ek at fá þá hluti til, er hafa þarf, I leave it to Th. to provide the necessary things;3) refl., metast til e-s, to be reckoned as, counted for (bað þá gera þá smíð, er til afbragðs mætist); m. e-t við, to contend about; ef þeir metast eiða við, if there is a contest about taking the oaths.* * *mat, mátu, metinn: imperat. met (mettu); pret. subj. mæti seems not to occur, but a weak metti (from metja) is used, Fas. ii. 464: with neg. suff., pret. matkat ek, Fbr. (in a verse): in mod. usage a weak pret. matti, mattist, mettist is often used, eg mattist um við hann, ef eg metti það nokkurs, and the like; þeir möttust um hin efstu sæti, N. T., and the like: [Ulf. mitan = μετρειν; A. S. metan; Engl. mete; O. H. G. mezan; Germ. messen: Swed. mäta.]B. To tax, value, absol. or with acc.; ef þeir kynni meta sik, if they would value themselves rightly, not puff themselves up, Fms. viii. 40; hón mat sik eigi minna heldr en hón mat konunginn, Sks. 461: metaph., þá á eigi at meta kviðburð þeirra, their verdict is void, Grág. i. 54.2. with gen. of the price; meta mikils, lítils, to value at much, little; mátu menn þat mikils, er Rútr hafði sett leysingjann niðr á úleyfðri jörðu Höskuldar, Ld. 102; konungr mat þá mikils, valued them much, Eg. 73; munu þín orð hér um einskis metin, thy words will he counted for naught, Sturl. iii. 1393. to value money, charge for, the price in gen.; synjat er þá fars ef leigu er metið, Grág. ii. 268; engi skal meta kaups leg at kirkju eða líksöng, K. Á. 72; mörgum veitti Rafn smíðir sínar ok alldri mat hann þær fjár, Bs. i. 645; aldrei mat hann fjár lækning sína, 643; meta eigi leigu, D. I. i. 320.4. meta e-t við e-n, to charge one; met þú við mik rekkju-búnaðinn, Eb. 256; þeir spurðu hversu dýrt vera skyldi, hann kvaðsk ekki meta mundu við konung en bað þá hafa ef þeir vildi, Fb. i. 333: hafði Björn falat þessa skikkju ok var af metinn, out-bidden, 577: to mete a thing out to one, to leave a thing to another to do: ætla ek at vér skylim ekki við aðra meta (= metask á við aðra) at skipta höggum við Ólaf ef vér komumk í færi um þat, i. e. we will do it ourselves, Ó. H. 214; allir mátu við Erling atkvæði um skírsluna, they all put to E. to decide about the ordeal, Fb. 11. 195; flestir munu hér meta svör við Þorleif, Sturl. iii. 139; en við Þorkel met ek, at fá þá hluti til er hafa þarf, but I will leave it to Th. to provide the necessary things, Þorf. Karl. 378; þetta höfuð mundi eigi við aðra meta at mæla eptir hann, ef þess þyrfti við, Eb. 126; en allir mátu við Fjölni þvíat hann var þeirra vitrastr ok mest virðr, Fms. xi. 64.II. reflex., þá á lands-drottinn í lóðinni svá mikit sem húsit metzk. Gþl. 330; sem hús metzk, 333; þá smíð er til afbragðs mettisk, Fas. ii. 464; sakir er til brautgangs mætti metask, Ld. 52.2. recipr., metask við, to contend; ef þeir metask eiða við þá skulu þeir hluta með sér, if there be a confest about taking the oaths they shall draw lots, Grág. i. 9; en ef goðarnir metask þat við, hvárr þeirra skal fá honum ok skal …, 33:—metask um e-t, to contend who is to be the first; síðan gengu þeir at dyrrunum ok möttusk þeir um hverr fyrst skyldi inn ganga, Þorst. hv. 43 (Ed. möttust from a paper MS.)3. part., hann var vel metinn ( esteemed) hvar sem hann kom, Ld. 100, Nj. 7. -
17 licz|yć
impf Ⅰ vt 1. (rachować) to count- liczyć na kalkulatorze to add up with a. on a calculator- liczyła przychody na kalkulatorze she added up the takings on a calculator- liczyć (coś) na palcach to count (sth) on one’s fingers- liczyć w pamięci to count in one’s head, to do mental arithmetic ⇒ policzyć2. (dodawać) to count [pieniądze, uczniów, kalorie]- liczyć obecnych to count the people a. those present, to do a headcount- liczyć głosy/wpływy to count (up) the votes/the takings ⇒ policzyć3. (mierzyć) to calculate, to work out [czas, odległość] (w czymś in sth)- zużycie benzyny liczone w milach z galona/litrach na 100 km petrol consumption computed in miles per gallon/litres per 100 kilometres- już liczę godziny do jego przyjścia I’m already counting the hours until he comes, I’m already counting the hours till his arrival- liczył czas, jaki pozostał do wyborów he was counting down to the elections ⇒ obliczyć4. (wliczać) to count- licząc od jutra counting from tomorrow- nie licząc not counting, not including- było nas dwadzieścia osób, nie licząc dzieci there were twenty of us, not counting the children5. Sport to count out [boksera] ⇒ wyliczyć Ⅱ vi 1. (wymieniać liczby w kolejności) to count- liczyć od tyłu to count backwards, to count down in reverse order- liczyć od 1 do 10 to count from 1 to 10- mój syn umie liczyć do stu my son can count (up) to a hundred- on nie umie jeszcze liczyć he can’t a. hasn’t learnt to count yet- liczyć na głos to count out loud ⇒ policzyć2. (składać się) to have- dom liczy sześć pięter the house has six storeys a. is six storeys high- miasto liczy sześć tysięcy mieszkańców the city has six thousand inhabitants- budynek liczy sobie ponad sto lat the building is over a hundred years old- grupa liczyła 20 osób there were twenty people in the group- akta sprawy liczyły 240 tomów the case documentation amounted to 240 volumes3. (żądać zapłaty) to charge- liczył 30 złotych za godzinę/za kilogram he charged 30 zlotys an hour/for a a. per kilogram- liczą sobie dużo za usługi they charge high prices a. a lot for their services ⇒ policzyć4. (spodziewać się) to count- liczyć na kogoś/na coś to count a. rely a. depend on sb/sth- liczyć na szczęście to count on one’s luck- liczył, że wkrótce wróci do zdrowia he was hoping to get well soon- liczę, że nie będzie padać I’m counting on it not raining- nie liczyłem, że przyjdzie I wasn’t counting on him coming, I didn’t reckon he would come- liczyć na czyjeś wsparcie to count on sb’s support- czy mogę liczyć na twoją pomoc/dyskrecję? can I count on your help/discretion?, can I count on you to help me/to be discreet?- możesz liczyć na serdeczne przyjęcie you can be sure of a warm welcome- możesz na mnie liczyć you can rely a. count on me- nie można na niego liczyć he can’t be relied on, you can’t count on him- nie liczyłbym na to I wouldn’t count a. bank on it- mogę liczyć tylko na siebie I can only rely on myselfⅢ liczyć się 1. (być liczonym) to count, to be counted- liczyć się podwójnie to count double- urlop liczy mi się od środy my leave runs from Wednesday- okres bez pracy nie liczy ci się do emerytury periods of unemployment won’t count towards your pension2. (mieć znaczenie) to matter- liczące się firmy major companies- nasza drużyna liczyła się na mistrzostwach świata our team was a force to be reckoned with in the world championships- ten błąd się nie liczy this mistake doesn’t count a. matter- liczy się jakość quality is what counts- liczy się każda minuta every minute counts- liczy się to, że pamiętałeś o moich urodzinach what matters a. counts is that you’ve remembered my birthday- liczą się czyny, nie słowa it’s not words but deeds that count3. (brać pod uwagę) to take into account- musisz liczyć się z tym, że będzie padać you have to take into account that it may rain- nie liczyć się z czyimś zdaniem to ignore sb’s opinion- nie liczyć się z innymi to show no consideration for others, to be inconsiderate towards others■ lekko licząc at a conservative estimate- z grubsza licząc at a rough estimate, roughly speaking- liczyć (się) na setki, miliony to run into hundreds, millions- ofiary można liczyć na tysiące the casualties run into thousands- liczba palących w tym kraju liczy się już na miliony the number of smokers in this country already runs into millions- liczyć się z (każdym) groszem a. z pieniędzmi to count a. watch every penny- nigdy nie liczył się z pieniędzmi he’s never been one to worry about money, he’s always been careless with money- liczyć się z czasem to make every second count- liczyć się ze słowami to keep a civil tongue- licz się ze słowami! watch your tongue!, mind what you’re saying!- liczyć sobie dziesięć lat to be ten years of age a. old- liczyła sobie nie więcej niż dwadzieścia lat she was no more than twenty (years old)- liczyć sobie pół metra (wysokości/wzrostu/długości) to be half a metre high/tall/long- ryba liczyła sobie ze 20 centymetrów the fish was about 20 cm long a. in length- liczyć sobie 10 kg to weigh 10 kilogramsThe New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > licz|yć
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18 FOOL
• Arguing with a fool shows there are two - Дурак, кто с дураком свяжется (Д)• As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks - Дурни думкой богатеют (Д)• Children and fools cannot lie - Глупый да малый всегда правду говорят (Г)• Children and fools have merry lives - Дураком на свете жить - ни о чем не тужить (Д)• Children and fools speak (tell) the truth - Глупый да малый всегда правду говорят (Г)• Dreams give wings to fools - Дурни думкой богатеют (Д)• Drunken man will get sober, but a fool will never get wise (A) - Пьяница проспится, а дурак - никогда (П)• Drunks sober up, fools remain fools - Пьяница проспится, а дурак - никогда (П)• Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise - Молчи - за умного сойдешь (M)• Every fool wants to give advice - Умный любит учиться, а дурак учить (У)• Every man has a fool in (up) his sleeve - Безумье и на мудрого бывает (Б), И на Машку бывает промашка (И), И на старуху бывает проруха (И), На всякого мудреца довольно простоты (H)• Fool always finds a bigger fool to praise him (A) - Дурак дурака хвалит (Д)• Fool always finds another fool (А) - Дураку всегда компания найдется (Д)• Fool always rushes to the fore (А) - Глупый ищет большого места (Г), Дурак времени не знает (Д)• Fool and his gold are soon parted (A) - У дурака в горсти дыра (У)• Fool and his money are soon parted (A) - Нет в голове, нет и в мошне (H), Счастье без ума - дырявая сума (C), У дурака в горсти дыра (У)• Fool can ask more questions in a minute than a wise man can answer in an hour (A) - На всякого дурака ума не напасешься (H)• Fool can ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years (A) - На всякого дурака ума не напасешься (H)• Fool can ask questions that wise men cannot answer (A) - На всякого дурака ума не напасешься (H)• Fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool (The) - Умный любит учиться, а дурак учить (У)• Fool is born every minute (A) - Дуракам счету нет (Д), На наш век дураков хватит (H)• Fool is he who deals with a fool - Дурак, кто с дураком свяжется (Д)• Fool is he who deals with other fools (A) - Дурак, кто с дураком свяжется (Д)• Fool is known by his conversation (speech) (A) - Дурак сам скажется (Д), Осла знать по ушам, медведя - по когтям, а дурака - по речам (O)• Fool is known by his laughing (A) - Дурак сам скажется (Д), Смех без причины - признак дурачины (C)• Fool is wise in his own conceit (A) - Умный любит учиться, а дурак учить (У), Я не дурак - сказал дурак (Я)• Fool may ask more questions /in an hour/ than a wise man can answer /in seven years/ (A) - На всякого дурака ума не напасешься (H)• Fool may give a wise man counsel (А) - Дурак врет, врет, да и правду скажет (Д), Иной раз и дурак молвит слово в лад (H)• Fool may sometimes speak to the purpose (A) - Дурак врет, врет, да и правду скажет (Д), Иной раз и дурак молвит слово в лад (И)• Fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out (A) - Глупый поп свенчает, умному не развенчать (Г), Дурак кинет в воду камень, а десять умных не вынут (Д)• Fools and bairns should not see half - done work (things half - done) - Дуракам полработы не показывают (Д)• Fools and children cannot lie - У дурака что на уме, то и на языке (У)• Fools and children speak (tell) the truth - У дурака что на уме, то и на языке (У)• Fools and madmen speak the truth - У дурака что на уме, то и на языке (У)• Fools are born not made - Дурак не дурак, а от роду так (Д), Дураков не сеют, не жнут - сами родятся (Д)• Fools are fain of nothing - Дурни думкой богатеют (Д)• Fools are lucky - Дуракам везет (Д)• Fool's bolt is soon shot (A) - Дурак сам скажется (Д)• Fool's bolt may sometimes hit the mark (A) - Дурак врет, врет, да и правду скажет (Д), Иной раз и дурак молвит слово в лад (И)• Fools build houses and wise men buy them - Дурак дом построил, а умный купил (Д)• Fools build houses for wise men to live in - Дурак дом построил, а умный купил (Д)• Fools cannot hold their tongues - У дурака язык впереди ног бежит (У)• Fools do more hurt in this world than rascals (The) - Простота хуже воровства (П)• Fools for luck - Дуракам везет (Д)• Fools go in crowds - Дуракам счету нет (Д), Дураку всегда компания найдется (Д)• Fools grow of themselves without sowing or planting - Дураков не сеют, не жнут - сами родятся (Д)• Fools grow without watering - Дураков не сеют, не жнут - сами родятся (Д)• Fools have fortune - Дурак спит, а счастье в головах лежит (Д)• Fool's head never grows white (A) - Дураком на свете жить - ни о чем не тужить (Д)• Fools lade the water, and wise men catch the fish - Дурак дом построил, а умный купил (Д)• Fools live poor to die rich - Шуба висит, а тело дрожит (Ш)• Fools make feasts and wise men eat them - Дурак дом построил, а умный купил (Д), Медведь пляшет, а поводырь деньги берет (M)• Fools multiply folly - Глупость заразительна (Г)• Fool's name appears everywhere (is seen in many places) (A) - Глупый ищет большого места (Г)• Fools' names and fools' faces are always seen in public places - Глупый ищет большого места (Г)• Fools need no passport - Дурак сам скажется (Д)• Fools never prosper - Нет в голове, нет и в мошне (H), Счастье без ума - дырявая сума (C), У дурака в горсти дыра (У)• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread - Дуракам закон не писан (Д)• Fools set stools for wise folks to stumble - Глупый поп свенчает, умному не развенчать (Г), Дурак кинет в воду камень, а десять умных не вынут (Д)• Fools set stools for wise men to fall over (to stumble) - Глупый поп свенчает, умному не развенчать (Г), Дурак кинет в воду камень, а десять умных не вынут (Д)• Fools tie knots, and wise men loosen (loose) them - Глупый поп свенчает, умному не развенчать (Г), Дурак кинет в воду камень, а десять умных не вынут (Д)• Fool's tongue runs before his wit (A) - У дурака язык впереди ног бежит (У)• Fool talks when he should be listening (A) - Дурак времени не знает (Д)• Fool talks while a wise man thinks (A) - Глупый болтает, а умный думает (Г)• Fools will be fools /still/ - Дурака учить, что мертвого лечить (Д), Дурак дураком останется (Д), Дураком родился - дураком и помрешь (Д), Пьяница проспится, а дурак - никогда (П)• Fool when he is silent is counted wise (A) - Молчи - за умного сойдешь (M)• Fortune favo(u)rs fools - Дуракам везет (Д), Дурак спит, а счастье в головах лежит (Д)• God sends fortune to fools - Дуракам везет (Д)• Half a fool, half a knave - Дурак-дурак, а себе на уме (K)• He is not the fool that the fool is but he that with the fool deals - Дурак, кто с дураком свяжется (Д)• He who is born a fool is never cured - Дураком родился - дураком и помрешь (Д)• If all fools wore feathers, we should seem a flock of geese - Дуракам счету нет (Д)• If all fools wore white caps, we'd all look like (we should seem a flock of) geese - Дуракам счету нет (Д), На наш век дураков хватит (H)• If every fool held a bauble, fuel would be dear - Дуракам счету нет (Д)• If you argue with a fool, that makes two fools arguing - Дурак, кто с дураком свяжется (Д)• If you want the truth, go to a child or a fool - Глупый да малый всегда правду говорят (Г)• It's a trifle that makes fools laugh - Дураку все смех на уме (Д), Смех без причины - признак дурачины (C)• It takes a fool to know a fool - Рыбак рыбака видит издалека (P)• Let a fool hold his tongue, and he can pass for a sage - Молчи - за умного сойдешь (M)• Live a fool, die a fool - Дураком родился - дураком и помрешь (Д)• Never joke with a fool - С дураками не шутят (C)• Never show a fool half - done job - Дуракам полработы не показывают (Д)• No man is always a fool, but every man is sometimes - И на старуху бывает проруха (И)• Older the fool, the worse he is (The) - Старые дураки глупее молодых (C)• Old fool is worse than a young fool (An) - Старые дураки глупее молодых (C)• Once a fool, always a fool - Дурак не дурак, а от роду так (Д), Дураком родился - дураком и помрешь (Д)• One fool makes a hundred (many) - Глупость заразительна (Г)• One fool praises another - Дурак дурака хвалит (Д)• Only fools and horses work - От работы кони дохнут (O), Работа дураков любит (P)• Send a fool to France and he'll come a fool back - Ворона за море летала, а умнее не стала (B)• Send a fool to the market, and a fool he'll return - Ворона за море летала, а умнее не стала (B), Каков поехал, таков и приехал (K), Осла хоть в Париж, а он все будет рыж (O)• There is no fool like an (to the) old fool - Седина в голову, а бес в ребро (C), Старые дураки глупее молодых (C)• When a fool has bethought himself, the market's over - После поры не точат топоры (П), После свадьбы в барабаны не бьют (П), Спустя лето в лес по малину не ходят (C)• When a fool has made up his mind, the market has gone by - После поры не точат топоры (П), После свадьбы в барабаны не бьют (П), Спустя лето в лес по малину не ходят (C)• When a fool made up his mind, the market's over - После поры не точат топоры (П), После свадьбы в барабаны не бьют (П), Спустя лето в лес по малину не ходят (C)• Wise men have their mouth in their heart, fools their heart in their mouth - Глупый болтает, а умный думает (Г), Дурак кричит, умный молчит (Д)• Wise men silent, fools talk - Глупый болтает, а умный думает (Г), Дурак кричит, умный молчит (Д)• Wise seek wisdom; the fool has found it (The) - Умный любит учиться, а дурак учить (У)• World is full of fools (The) - Дуракам счету нет (Д), На наш век дураков хватит (H)• You can fool an old horse once, but you can't fool him twice - 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19 счет
(счёт)муж.1) counting, reckoning, calculationбез счета — countless, without number
для ровного счета — to make it even, to round it off
2) (в бухгалтерии) accountна счет кого-л. — on smb.'s account
корреспондентский счет — ( мелкого банка в крупном) correspondent account
открывать счет — to open an account, to set up an account for smb.; to open the scoring спорт
3) account, billплатить по счету — to settle the account, to book out
предъявлять счет — to present a claim to smb., to present a bill to smb.
4) спорт scoreравный счет — ( в теннисе) deuce, deuce game; ( голосов избирателей или очков в игре) tie
5) муз. time••быть на хорошем счету — (у кого-л.) to be in good standing with smb., to have a good reputation
в конечном счете, в последнем счете — ultimately, in the end, finally, in the long run, in the final analysis
в счет — against, towards
гамбургский счет — honest rating, objective rating
за свой (собственный) счет, на свой счет — at one's own expense, out of one's own pocket
за счет — (кого-л./чего-л.) at the expense (of); owing to, thanks to, due to (по причине, из-за)
за чужой счет, на чужой счет — at someone else's expense, at the expense of others
на счет — (кого-л./чего-л.) at the expense (of); about, concerning, referring to, on one's account (по поводу, по отношению к)
на этот счет — in this respect, as for this
не в счет, не идти в счет — not counted, it doesn't count
относить за счет, относить на счет — to attribute smth. to
покончить (все) счеты — (с кем-л./чем-л.) to sever all ties with smb.
принимать на свой счет — to take smth. personally
ровным счетом — exactly, no more than ( точно); absolutely nothing, not a (single) thing ( ничего)
сбрасывать со счета, скидывать со счета, снимать со счета, сбрасывать со счетов, скидывать со счетов, снимать со счетов — to discount smth., to dismiss, to write off, to ignore; no longer take into account, disregard
сводить счеты — to get even with smb., to get back at smb., to pay smb. Back
прохаживаться/проезжаться на счет — разг. to make fun of smb.
у него счету нет (кого-л./чего-л.) — he has lots (of)
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В СЧЁТ чего PrepP Invar Prep the resulting PrepP is adv1. (some money, goods etc are given or received) as part of (eventual full payment for some item, full reimbursement for s.o. 's work, settlement of a debt etc): againsttoward to be applied against (toward) to be counted toward.Вот 20 рублей в счёт платы за магнитофон. Here's twenty rubles toward the tape recorder.Он (старый Хабуг) сказал, что отделяет Харлампо тридцать коз в счёт его будущей работы (Искандер 5). ( context transl) Не (old Khabug) said that he would set Harlampo up with thirty goats, to be repaid with future work (5a).2. (some work is done, action is carried out etc) as part of or contributing to (a larger obligation, plan, design etc that is yet to be fulfilled)toward.План на этот год мы уже выполнили, сейчас работаем в счет будущего года. We've already fulfilled this year's plan-now we're working toward next year's.(Маленькие изуверы с командирскими нашивками на рукавах) били всех и всякого по поводу и без повода, в счет будущего, авансом, для острастки (Максимов 2). ( context transl) They (the little fanatics with officers' badges on their sleeves) would beat up anyone with and without reason, as an advance on future punishment and for sheer intimidation (2a).
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