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  • 121 Historical Portugal

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 During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.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

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  • 122 more

    ❢ When used to modify an adjective or an adverb to form the comparative more is very often translated by plus: more expensive = plus cher/chère ; more beautiful = plus beau/belle ; more easily = plus facilement ; more regularly = plus régulièrement. For examples and further uses see A 1 below.
    When used as a quantifier to indicate a greater amount or quantity of something more is very often translated by plus de: more money/cars/people = plus d'argent/de voitures/de gens. For examples and further uses see B 1 below.
    A adv
    1 ( comparative) it's more serious than we thought/you think c'est plus grave que nous ne pensions/vous ne pensez ; the more intelligent (child) of the two (l'enfant) le plus intelligent des deux ; he's no more honest than his sister il n'est pas plus honnête que sa sœur ; the more developed countries les pays plus développés ;
    2 ( to a greater extent) plus, davantage ; you must work/sleep/rest more il faut que tu travailles/dormes/te reposes davantage ; he sleeps/talks more than I do il dort/parle plus que moi ; you can't paint any more than I can, you can no more paint than I can tu ne sais pas plus peindre que moi ; the more you think of it, the harder it will seem plus tu y penseras, plus ça te paraîtra dur ; he is (all) the more determined/angry because il est d'autant plus déterminé/en colère que ;
    3 ( longer) I don't work there any more je n'y travaille plus ; I couldn't continue any more je ne pouvais pas continuer plus longtemps ; she is no more littér elle n'est plus ;
    4 ( again) once/twice more une fois/deux fois de plus, encore une fois/deux fois ; he's back once more il est de nouveau de retour ;
    5 ( rather) more surprised than angry plus étonné que fâché ; he's more a mechanic than an engineer il est plus mécanicien qu'ingénieur ; it's more a question of organization than of money c'est plus une question d'organisation que d'argent.
    B quantif more cars than people plus de voitures que de gens ; more eggs than milk plus d'œufs que de lait ; more cars than expected/before plus de voitures que prévu/qu'avant ; some more books encore quelques livres ; a little/lot more wine un peu/beaucoup plus de vin ; more bread encore un peu de pain ; there's no more bread il n'y a plus de pain ; have some more beer! reprenez de la bière ; have you any more questions/problems? avez-vous d'autres questions/problèmes? ; we've no more time nous n'avons plus le temps ; nothing more rien de plus ; something more autre chose, quelque chose d'autre.
    C pron
    1 ( larger amount or number) plus ; it costs more than the other one il/elle coûte plus cher que l'autre ; he eats more than you il mange plus que toi ; the children take up more of my time les enfants prennent une plus grande partie de mon temps ; many were disappointed, more were angry beaucoup de gens ont été déçus, un plus grand nombre étaient fâchés ; we'd like to see more of you nous voudrions te voir plus souvent ;
    2 ( additional amount) davantage ; ( additional number) plus ; tell me more (about it) dis-m'en davantage ; I need more of them il m'en faut plus ; I need more of it il m'en faut davantage ; we found several/a few more (of them) in the house nous en avons trouvé plusieurs/quelques autres dans la maison ; I can't tell you any more je ne peux pas t'en dire plus ; have you heard any more from your sister? as-tu d'autres nouvelles de ta sœur? ; I have nothing more to say je n'ai rien à ajouter ; in Mexico, of which more later… au Mexique, dont nous reparlerons plus tard… ; let's ou we'll say no more about it n'en parlons plus.
    D more and more det phr, adv phr de plus en plus ; more and more work/time de plus en plus de travail/de temps ; to work/sleep more and more travailler/dormir de plus en plus ; more and more regularly de plus en plus régulièrement.
    E more or less adv phr plus ou moins.
    F more so adv phr encore plus ; in York, and even more so in Oxford à York et encore plus à Oxford ; it is very interesting, made (even) more so because c'est très intéressant, d'autant plus que ; he is just as active as her, if not more so ou or even more so il est aussi actif qu'elle, si ce n'est plus ; (all) the more so because… d'autant plus que… ; they are all disappointed, none more so than Mr Lowe ils sont tous déçus, en particulier M. Lowe ; no more so than usual/the others pas plus que d'habitude/les autres.
    1 ( greater amount or number) plus de ; more than 20 people/£50 plus de 20 personnes/50 livres sterling ; more than half plus de la moitié ; more than enough plus qu'assez ;
    2 ( extremely) more than generous/happy plus que généreux/ravi ; the cheque more than covered the cost le chèque a amplement couvert les frais ; you more than fulfilled your obligations tu as fait plus que remplir tes obligations.
    she's nothing more (nor less) than a thief, she's a thief, neither more nor less c'est une voleuse, ni plus ni moins ; he's nothing ou no ou not much more than a servant ce n'est qu'un serviteur ; and what is more… et qui plus est… ; there's more where that came from ce n'est qu'un début.

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  • 123 ahí

    adv.
    there.
    * * *
    1 there, in that place
    \
    de ahí que hence, therefore
    por ahí (lugar) round there 2 (aproximadamente) more or less
    * * *
    adv.
    * * *
    ADV
    1) [en un lugar] there

    ¿Nina, estás ahí? — Nina, are you there?

    • ahí abajo — down there

    • ahí arriba — up there

    • ahí dentro — in there, inside

    • ahí fuera — out there, outside

    • ahí mero Méx —

    • ahí mismo — right there

    • ahí no más — LAm right (near) here

    • por ahí — [indicando dirección] that way; [indicando posición] over there

    hoy podemos ir a cenar por ahí — we can go out for dinner tonight, we can eat out tonight

    ¿no dicen por ahí que vivimos en un país libre? — don't they say we live in a free country?

    por ahí se le ocurre llamar — Cono Sur he might think to phone

    • ahí tiene — there you are

    • ¡ahí va!, ahí va el balón, ¡cógelo! — there goes the ball, catch it!

    ¡ahí va, qué bonito! — wow, it's lovely!

    ¡ahí va, no me había dado cuenta de que eras tú! — well well! I didn't realise it was you

    ahí donde lo ves, come más que tú y yo juntos — believe it or not he eats more than you and me put together

    2) [en una situación]

    ¡ahí está el problema! — that's the problem!

    ahí está, por ejemplo, el caso de Luis — there's the case of Luis, for example

    ahí estaba yo, con casi cincuenta años, y todavía soltero — there was I, about to turn fifty, and still a bachelor

    -¿está mejor tu mujer? -ahí anda o LAm ahí va — "is your wife better?" - "she's doing all right"

    ¡hombre, haber empezado por ahí! — why didn't you say so before!

    • de ahí — that's why

    de ahí las quejas de los inquilinos — that's why the tenants are complaining, hence the tenants' complaints frm

    de ahí se deduce que... — from that it follows that...

    • hasta ahí, hasta ahí llego yo — I can work that much out for myself

    bueno, hasta ahí de acuerdo — well, I agree with you up to there o that point

    ¡hasta ahí podíamos llegar! — what a nerve!, that's the limit!, can you credit it!

    • he ahí el dilema — that's the dilemma, there you have the dilemma

    • ahí sí que LAm —

    si hubiéramos ido más rápido, ahí sí que nos matamos — if we'd gone any faster, we'd definitely have been killed

    3) [en el tiempo]

    • ahí mismo LAm —

    • ahí no más — Chile there and then

    • a partir de ahí — from then on

    * * *
    1)
    a) ( en el espacio) there

    ahí está/viene — there he is/here he comes

    ahí arriba/abajo — up/down there

    ahí mismo or (AmL) nomás o (Méx) mero — right o just there

    debe estar como a 200 pesetas - sí, por ahí anda — it must be about 200 pesetas - yes, that's about right

    ahí sí que — (AmL)

    de ahí a que: de ahí a que venga es otra cosa — whether or not he actually comes is another matter

    2)
    b)

    de ahí que — (+ subj)

    3) ( en el tiempo) then

    ahí es cuando... — that's when...

    4) (AmL) ( más o menos)

    ¿cómo sigue tu abuelo? - ahí anda — how's your grandfather getting on? - oh, so-so

    * * *
    Ex. The ASLIB handbook of special library and information work discusses literature searching techniques and the role of literature guides therein.
    ----
    * ahí está el problema = herein lies the rub, there's the rub.
    * ahí está la dificultad = herein lies the rub, there's the rub.
    * andar por ahí = go + (a)round, be out and about, get out and about.
    * de ahí = therefrom.
    * de ahí que = hence.
    * en algún lugar (de por ahí) = somewhere out there.
    * ir por ahí = go + (a)round, be out and about, get out and about.
    * no quedarse ahí = there + be + more to it than that.
    * por ahí = out there.
    * sueltos por ahí = hanging about.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( en el espacio) there

    ahí está/viene — there he is/here he comes

    ahí arriba/abajo — up/down there

    ahí mismo or (AmL) nomás o (Méx) mero — right o just there

    debe estar como a 200 pesetas - sí, por ahí anda — it must be about 200 pesetas - yes, that's about right

    ahí sí que — (AmL)

    de ahí a que: de ahí a que venga es otra cosa — whether or not he actually comes is another matter

    2)
    b)

    de ahí que — (+ subj)

    3) ( en el tiempo) then

    ahí es cuando... — that's when...

    4) (AmL) ( más o menos)

    ¿cómo sigue tu abuelo? - ahí anda — how's your grandfather getting on? - oh, so-so

    * * *

    Ex: The ASLIB handbook of special library and information work discusses literature searching techniques and the role of literature guides therein.

    * ahí está el problema = herein lies the rub, there's the rub.
    * ahí está la dificultad = herein lies the rub, there's the rub.
    * andar por ahí = go + (a)round, be out and about, get out and about.
    * de ahí = therefrom.
    * de ahí que = hence.
    * en algún lugar (de por ahí) = somewhere out there.
    * ir por ahí = go + (a)round, be out and about, get out and about.
    * no quedarse ahí = there + be + more to it than that.
    * por ahí = out there.
    * sueltos por ahí = hanging about.

    * * *
    A
    ¿qué tienes ahí? what have you got there?
    ¿y Juan? — ahí está/viene where's Juan? — there he is/here he comes now
    ahí arriba/abajo up/down there
    ¡bájate de ahí! get down from there!
    no, ahí no, allí no, not there, (over) there
    está ahí nomás or no más, a la vuelta ( AmL); it's only just around the corner
    lo dejé ahí mismo or ( Méx) ahí mero I left it right o just there
    para egoísta ahí tienes a tu primo if we're talking about selfishness you need look no further than your cousin
    2 ( en locs):
    por ahí somewhere
    he debido dejarlo por ahí I must have left it somewhere
    siempre anda por ahí she's always out somewhere
    por ahí hay quien dice que … there are those who say that …
    debe estar como a 2 euros — sí, por ahí anda it must be about 2 euros — yes, that's about right o yes, round about that
    tendrá unos 35 años o por ahí he must be 35 or so, he must be around 35
    por ahí se le da por venir ( RPl); he may decide to come
    ahí sí que ( AmL): ahí sí que me cogiste or ( RPl) agarraste or ( Chi) pillaste you've really got me there! ( colloq)
    ahí me/se las den todas ( fam); I/he couldn't care less o couldn't give a damn ( colloq)
    no estar ni ahí ( Chi fam): no estoy ni ahí (no me importa) I couldn't care less ( colloq) (no me interesa) it leaves me cold ( colloq)
    nada1 pron A. (↑ nada (1))
    B
    1
    (refiriéndose a un lugar figurado): ahí está el truco that's the secret, that's where the secret lies
    de ahí a la drogadicción sólo hay un paso from there it's just a short step to becoming a drug addict
    de ahí a decir que es excelente hay un buen trecho there's a big difference between that and saying it's excellent
    hasta ahí llego yo (al resolver un problema) I worked that much out myself; (al negarse a hacer algo) that's as far as I'm prepared to go
    hasta por ahí no más (CS): mi paciencia llega hasta por ahí no más there's a limit to my patience, my patience only goes so far
    es generoso hasta por ahí no más he's only generous up to a point
    2
    de ahí hence
    de ahí la importancia de esta reunión hence the importance of this meeting
    de ahí que (+ subj) that is why
    de ahí que haya perdido popularidad that is why her popularity has declined
    de ahí en adelante from then on, from that time o point on
    ahí es cuando debió decírselo, no después that's when he should have told her, not later
    ahí cambié de táctica then o at that point I changed my tactics
    ahí mismo there and then
    D
    ( AmL) (más o menos): ¿cómo sigue tu abuelo? — ahí anda how's your grandfather getting on? — oh, so-so
    * * *

     

    ahí adverbio
    1

    ◊ ahí está/viene there he is/here he comes;

    ahí arriba/abajo up/down there;
    ahí mismo or (AmL) nomás or (Méx) mero right o just there
    b)


    debe estar por ahí it must be around somewhere;
    fue a dar una vuelta por ahí she went off for a walk;
    se fue por ahí she went that way;
    yo he estado por ahí I've been around there;
    tendrá unos 35 años o por ahí he must be 35 or thereabouts
    2

    ◊ ahí está el truco/problema that's the secret/problem;

    de ahí a la drogadicción solo hay un paso from there it's just a short step to becoming a drug addict;
    hasta ahí llego yo that's as far as I'm prepared to go
    b)


    de ahí mi sorpresa hence my surprise;
    de ahí que hayan fracasado that is why they failed;
    de ahí a que venga es otra cosa whether or not he actually comes is another matter
    3 ( en el tiempo) then;

    ahí mismo there and then
    ahí adverbio there: está ahí, it's there
    ponlo por ahí, put it over there
    ahí tienes, here you are
    tiene cincuenta años o por ahí, he's fifty or thereabouts
    ve por ahí, go that way
    de ahí, hence
    de ahí que, so
    ' ahí' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alguien
    - anda
    - andar
    - apestosa
    - apestoso
    - arriba
    - biruji
    - crisma
    - detrás
    - ir
    - hostia
    - lado
    - le
    - los
    - mañana
    - media
    - medio
    - pregonar
    - quienquiera
    - quitarse
    - Tiro
    - yo
    - agarrar
    - apartar
    - bien
    - brazo
    - colgar
    - cuidar
    - dentro
    - izquierda
    - mover
    - parado
    - poner
    - por
    - quedar
    - quitar
    - recordar
    - salir
    English:
    hand up
    - hence
    - hustle
    - leave
    - loose
    - mooch
    - nobody
    - peace
    - rest
    - rub
    - stand about
    - stand around
    - stay
    - there
    - thereabout
    - thereabouts
    - tissue
    - around
    - d'
    - flash
    - go
    - hand
    - happen
    - lucky
    - out of
    - reason
    - swear
    - way
    * * *
    ahí adv
    1. [lugar determinado] there;
    ahí arriba/abajo up/down there;
    desde ahí no se ve nada you can't see anything from there;
    ponlo ahí put it over there;
    vino por ahí he came that way;
    ¡ahí están! there they are!;
    ¡ahí tienes! here o there you are!;
    ahí vienen los niños here o there come the children;
    ahí mismo right there;
    déjalo ahí mismo leave it (over) there;
    Am
    ahí nomás right over there
    2. [lugar indeterminado]
    ahí es donde te equivocas that's where you are mistaken;
    la solución está ahí that's where the solution lies;
    de ahí a la fama hay muy poco it's not far to go from there to being famous;
    de ahí a llamarle tonto hay poca distancia there's little difference between saying that and calling him stupid;
    las llaves están por ahí the keys are around there somewhere;
    está por ahí [en lugar indeterminado] she's around (somewhere);
    [en la calle] she's out;
    se ha ido a pasear por ahí she's gone out for a walk;
    Fam
    andar por ahí con los amigos to hang out with one's friends;
    andan por ahí diciendo tonterías they're going around talking nonsense;
    por ahí [aproximadamente eso] something like that;
    ¿te costó 10 euros? – por ahí, por ahí it cost you 10 euros, did it? – yes, somewhere around that o more or less;
    por ahí va la cosa you're not too far wrong;
    por ahí no paso that's one thing I'm not prepared to do;
    Am
    ¡ahí está! (you) see!;
    todavía no me contestaron – ahí está, yo te dije they still haven't answered – (you) see, I told you so;
    CAm, Méx Fam
    ¡ahí muere! forget it!;
    ¡ahí es nada!: subió al Everest sin oxígeno, ¡ahí es nada! guess what, he only climbed Everest without any oxygen!;
    ha vendido ya dos millones, ¡ahí es nada! she's sold two million already, not bad, eh?;
    Fam
    ¿cómo estás? - Andes, Carib, RP [m5] ahí o CAm, Méx [m5] ahí nomás how are you? – so-so;
    ahí le duele: a pesar de su éxito, la crítica sigue sin aceptarlo, ¡ahí le duele! frustratingly for him, he still hasn't achieved critical acclaim despite his success;
    ¡ahí me las den todas! I couldn't care less!;
    Méx Fam
    ahí se va (it's no) big deal;
    Méx Fam
    hacer algo al ahí se va to do sth any old how
    3.
    de ahí que [por eso] and consequently;
    es un mandón, de ahí que no lo aguante nadie he's very bossy, that's why nobody likes him;
    de ahí su enfado that's why she was so angry
    4. [momento] then;
    de ahí en adelante from then on;
    ahí me di cuenta de que estaba mintiendo that was when I realized he was lying
    * * *
    adv there;
    ahí mismo right there;
    está por ahí it’s (somewhere) over there; dando direcciones it’s that way;
    irse por ahí go out;
    por ahí voy that’s what I’m getting at;
    ahí me las den todas fam I couldn’t o
    could care less, Br
    I couldn’t care less;
    ¡ahí va! fam there you go! fam ;
    de ahí que that is why
    * * *
    ahí adv
    1) : there
    ahí está: there it is
    2)
    por ahí : somewhere, thereabouts
    3)
    de ahí que : with the result that, so that
    * * *
    ahí adv there

    Spanish-English dictionary > ahí

  • 124 one

    [wʌn] n
    1) ( number) Eins f;
    \one is the smallest whole number Eins ist die kleinste ganze Zahl;
    the front door bore a big brass \one auf der Eingangstür war eine große Eins in Kupfer;
    one/ two/ three hundred/ million/thousand and \one ein/zwei/drei Hundert/Millionen/Tausend und eins
    2) (size of garment, merchandise) Größe eins;
    little Jackie's wearing \ones now die kleine Jackie trägt jetzt Größe eins adj
    1) ( not two) ein(e, er, es);
    we have two daughters and \one son wir haben zwei Töchter und einen Sohn;
    she'll be \one year old tomorrow sie wird morgen ein Jahr alt;
    \one hundred/ million/ thousand einhundert/eine Million/eintausend;
    \one third/ fifth ein Drittel/Fünftel nt
    2) ( one of a number) ein(e, er/es);
    a glass tube closed at \one end ein Glasröhrchen ist an einem Ende verschlossen;
    he can't tell \one wine from another er kennt die Weine nicht auseinander
    3) ( single) einzige(r, s);
    her \one concern is to save her daughter ihre einzige Sorge ist, ihre Tochter zu retten;
    not \one man kein Mensch;
    to have just \one thought nur einen [einzigen] Gedanken haben;
    all \one sth nur in einer/einem etw;
    I think we should paint the bedroom all \one colour ich denke, wir sollten das Schlafzimmer nur in einer Farbe streichen;
    the \one sth der/die/das eine etw;
    do you think five of us will manage to squeeze into the \one car? glaubst du, wir fünf können uns in dieses eine Auto quetschen?;
    there's too much data to fit onto just the \one disk das sind zu viele Daten für nur eine Diskette;
    the \one and only sth der/die/das einzige...;
    the title of his \one and only book der Titel seines einzigen Buchs;
    the \one and only sb der/die einzigartige...;
    the \one and only Muhammad Ali der einzigartige Muhammad Ali;
    ladies and gentlemen, the \one and only David Copperfield! meine Damen und Herren, der einzigartige David Copperfield!
    4) ( only)
    the \one sb/ sth die/die/das einzige;
    he's the \one person you can rely on in an emergency er ist die einzige Person, auf die man sich im Notfall verlassen kann;
    (this is the \one type of computer that is easy to use for people who aren't experts) das ist der einzige Computer, den Laien einfach verwenden können
    I'd like to go skiing \one Christmas ich möchte irgendwann zu Weihnachten Skifahren gehen;
    we must have a drink together \one evening wir müssen irgendwann am Abend was trinken gehen;
    \one night we stayed up talking till dawn einen Abend plauderten wir bis zum Morgengrauen;
    \one afternoon in late October einen Nachmittag Ende Oktober;
    \one day ( in the past) irgendwann;
    we first met each other \one day in the park wir trafen uns das erste Mal im Park;
    one \one a boy started teasing Grady irgendwann begann der Junge Grady zu ärgern;
    ( in the future) irgendwann;
    why don't we meet for lunch \one day next week? warum treffen wir uns nicht nächste Woche irgendwann zum Mittagessen?;
    I'd like to go to Berlin again \one day ich möchte irgendwann wieder nach Berlin fahren;
    from \one minute to the next von einer Minute auf die andere;
    \one moment... the next [moment]... einmal... im nächsten [Moment];
    \one moment he says he loves me, the next moment he's asking for a divorce einmal sagt er, er liebt mich, und im nächsten Moment will er die Scheidung
    6) (form: a certain person) ein gewisser, eine gewisse;
    her solicitor is \one John Wintersgill ihr Anwalt ist ein gewisser John Wintersgill
    7) ( esp Am);
    (emph fam: noteworthy) ein(e);
    to be \one sb/ sth;
    his mother is \one generous woman meine Mutter ist eine großzügige Frau;
    that's \one big ice-cream you've got there du hast aber ein großes Eis;
    it was \one hell of a shock to find out I'd lost my job es war ein Riesenschock für mich, dass ich den Job verloren hatte;
    he was \one hell of a snappy dresser er war immer todschick gekleidet
    8) ( identical) ein(e);
    all types of training meet \one common standard alle Trainingsarten folgen einem gemeinsamen Standard;
    \one and the same ein und derselbe/dieselbe/dasselbe;
    the two things are \one and the same diese beiden Dinge sind ein und dasselbe;
    to be \one ( form a unity) vereint sein;
    as husband and wife we are now \one als Mann und Frau sind sie nun vereint
    9) ( one year old) eins, ein Jahr;
    little Jimmy's \one today der kleine Jimmy wird heute eins [o ein Jahr alt]; ( one o'clock) eins, ein Uhr;
    it's half past \one es ist halb zwei;
    we'll meet at \one in the pub wir treffen uns um eins im Pub
    PHRASES:
    a hundred [or million] [or thousand] and \one ( very many) hunderttausend;
    I can't stand around chatting - I've got a hundred and \one things to do this morning ich kann nicht hier herumstehen und tratschen - ich muss am Vormittag hunderttausend Dinge erledigen;
    \one thing and another ( fam) alles gemeinsam;
    what with \one thing and another she hadn't had much sleep recently da alles zusammenkam, bekam sie in letzter Zeit nicht sehr viel Schlaf;
    \one way or another [or the other] ( for or against) für oder gegen;
    there is no evidence \one way or the other about the effectiveness of the drug es gibt keinerlei Beweise über die Wirksamkeit oder Unwirksamkeit des Medikaments;
    ( any possible way) irgendwie;
    the bills have to be paid \one way or another die Rechnungen müssen irgendwie bezahlt werden;
    ( an unstated way) irgendwie;
    everyone at the party was related in one way or another auf der Party waren alle irgendwie miteinander verwandt pron
    1) ( single item) eine(r, s);
    four parcels came this morning, but only \one was for Mark heute Morgen kamen vier Pakete, aber nur eines war für Mark;
    which cake would you like? - the \one at the front welchen Kuchen möchten Sie? - den vorderen;
    I'd rather eat French croissants than English \ones ich esse lieber französische Croissants als englische;
    do you want \one? möchtest du eine/einen/eines?;
    \one or another [or the other] eine oder die andere, einer oder der andere, eines oder das andere;
    (not all instances fall neatly into \one or another of these categories) nicht alle Vorkommnisse fallen genau in eine dieser Kategorien;
    \one of sth eine(r, s) von etw dat + superl adj eine(r, s) der;
    electronics is \one of his hobbies die Elektronik ist eines seiner Hobbys;
    PolyGram is \one of the [world's] largest record companies PolyGram ist eine der führenden Plattenfirmen [der Welt];
    Luxembourg is \one of the [world's] smallest countries Luxemburg ist eines der kleinsten Länder [der Welt];
    Paula's had another \one of her crazy ideas Paula hatte noch eine ihrer verrückten Ideen;
    \one of many eine(r, s) von vielen;
    our organization is just \one of many charities unsere Organisation ist nur eine von vielen wohltätigen Vereinigungen;
    not a single \one kein einziger, keine einzige, kein einziges;
    this/that \one diese(r, s);
    which one do you want? - that \one, please! welche(n) möchten Sie? - diese(n) bitte!;
    these \ones were all made in Japan diese wurden alle in Japan hergestellt
    2) ( single person) eine(r);
    two could live as cheaply as \one zwei könnten so billig wie eine(r) leben;
    the \one der, die, das;
    Chris is the \one with curly brown hair Chris ist der/die mit den lockigen braunen Haaren;
    one's loved \ones ( one's family) jds Geliebte;
    my friends and loved \ones meine Freunde und meine Geliebten;
    to be \one to do sth jd sein, der etw tut;
    I've always been active and never really been \one to sit around doing nothing du warst immer sehr aktiv und bist nie wirklich untätig herumgesessen;
    to not [or never] be \one to say no to sth nie zu etw dat nein sagen können;
    he's never \one to say no to a curry er kann bei einem Curry nie nein sagen;
    to be [a] \one for sth ( fam) ein Fan einer S. gen sein;
    Jack's always been \one for the ladies Jack stand immer auf Frauen;
    I've never really been \one for football ich war nie ein wirklicher Fußballfan;
    to not be much of a \one for sth ( fam) etw nicht besonders mögen;
    I'm not much of a \one for chocolate ich mag Schokolade nicht besonders;
    to be [a] \one for doing sth ( fam) etw gerne machen;
    she was never a \one for playing hockey sie spielte nie gerne Hockey;
    to be a great \one for doing sth ( fam) gut darin sein, etw zu tun;
    he's a great \one for telling other people what to do er ist gut darin, anderen Leuten zu sagen, was sie machen sollen;
    to be \one that...;
    he's always been \one that enjoys good food ihm hat gutes Essen schon immer geschmeckt;
    to not be \one who... nicht zu denen gehören, die...;
    you're not usually \one who complains about the service in a restaurant du zählst nicht zu denen, die sich über das Service in einem Restaurant beschweren;
    such a \one ( someone remarkable)
    you never saw such a \one for figures er kann wirklich gut mit Zahlen umgehen;
    \one and all ( liter) alle;
    the news of his resignation came as a surprise to \one and all die Nachricht von seinem Rücktritt kam für alle überraschend;
    well done \one and all! gut gemacht, ihr alle!;
    like \one + pp
    Viv was running around like \one possessed before the presentation Viv lief vor der Präsentation wie besessen herum;
    \one of you/ them/us eine(r,) von euch/Ihnen/ihnen/uns;
    the money was here this morning so \one of you must have taken it das Geld war diesen Morgen hier; einer von euch muss es genommen haben;
    \one of our daughters has just got married eine unserer Töchter hat gerade geheiratet;
    \one of... + superl eine(r, s) der...;
    Luxembourg is \one of the [world's] smallest countries Luxemburg ist eines der kleinsten Länder [der Welt];
    \one of many eine(r, s) von vielen
    3) ( used in comparisons) eine(r, s);
    you may have \one or the other, but not both du kannst nur eines davon haben, nicht beide;
    crime and freedom are inseparable - you can't have \one without the other Verbrechen und Freiheit sind untrennbar verbunden - man kann nicht eines ohne das andere bekommen
    4) ((dated) form: any person) man;
    \one has an obligation to \one's friends man hat Verpflichtungen seinen Freunden gegenüber;
    (\one must admire him for his willingness) man muss ihn für seinen Willen bewundern
    5) (form: I, we) ich, wir;
    \one gets the impression that he is ahead ich glaube, er ist vorne;
    \one has to do \one's best ich muss mein [o wir müssen unser] Bestes geben
    6) ( question) Frage f;
    what's the capital of Zaire? - oh, that's a difficult \one wie heißt die Hauptstadt von Zaire? - das ist eine schwierige Frage
    7) (fam: alcoholic drink) Getränk nt;
    this \one's on me! diese Runde geht auf mich!;
    a cool \one after a day on the water ein kühles Getränk nach einem Tag am Wasser
    8) (fam: joke, story) Witz m;
    that was a good \one! der ist gut!;
    the \one about sb/ sth der [Witz] von jdm/etw;
    did I tell you the \one about the blind beggar? habe ich dir den [Witz] von dem blinden Bettler erzählt?
    9) (Brit, Aus) ((dated) fam: sb who is lacking respect, rude, or amusing)
    to be a \one eine(r) sein
    PHRASES:
    \one of the family zur Familie gehören;
    \one of a kind zur Spitze gehören;
    in the world of ballet she was certainly \one of a kind as a dancer in der Welt des Ballet zählte sie sicher zu den besten Tänzerinnen;
    \one at a time ( separately) eine nach der anderen, einer/eines nach dem anderen;
    don't gobble them up all at once - eat them \one at a time schling nicht alle auf einmal hinunter - iss sie langsam;
    \one or two ( fam) ein paar;
    I've only had \one or two cigarettes in my whole life ich habe nur ein paar Zigaretten in meinem ganzen Leben geraucht; ( hum)
    I hear you've collected over 1,000 autographs! - well, I do have \one or two ich habe gehört, du hast über 1.000 Autogramme gesammelt! - na ja, ich habe ein paar;
    in \ones and twos in geringer Zahl;
    we expected a flood of applications for the job, but we're only receiving them in \ones and twos wir erwarteten eine Flut von Bewerbungen, aber wir haben nur ein paar wenige bekommen;
    to land [or sock] sb \one [on the jaw] ( fam) jdm eine stecken [o schmieren] ( fam)
    \one after another [or the other] ( following one another in quick succession) eine nach der anderen, einer/eines nach dem anderen;
    \one after another the buses drew up die Busse kamen einer nach dem anderen;
    as \one ( form) einer Meinung;
    we have discussed the matter fully and are as \one on our decision wir haben die Angelegenheit gründlich erörtert und sind bei der Entscheidung einer Meinung;
    to be at \one with sb ( form) mit jdm einer Meinung sein;
    to be at \one with sth ( form) eins mit etw dat sein;
    they were completely at \one with their environment sie leben mit ihrer Umwelt völlig in Harmonie;
    \one by \one (separately and in succession, singly) nacheinander;
    sb for \one jd seinerseits;
    I for \one am getting a little sick of writing about it ich meinerseits habe es ein wenig satt, darüber zu schreiben;
    in \one ( in one draught) in einem Zug;
    she downed her whisky in \one sie trank ihren Whisky in einem Zug;
    to get sth in \one (fam: guess correctly at once) etw sofort erraten;
    so are you saying she's leaving him? - yep, got it in \one du sagst also, dass sie ihn verlässt? - ja, du hast es kapiert;
    [all] in \one [alles] in einem;
    with this model you get a radio, CD player and cassette deck [all] in \one dieses Modell enthält Radio, CD-Player und Kassettendeck in einem;
    to be/get \one up on sb jdn übertrumpfen;
    he's always trying to get \one up on his brother er versucht immer, seinen Bruder zu übertrumpfen;
    to be all \one to sb Chinesisch für jdn sein ( fam)
    Greek and Hebrew are all \one to me Griechisch und Hebräisch sind Chinesisch für mich

    English-German students dictionary > one

  • 125 œil

    pl yeux œj, jø nom masculin
    1) Anatomie eye

    ouvrir un œil — lit to open one eye

    ouvrir l'œil — fig to keep one's eyes open

    ouvrir les yeux à quelqu'un — fig to open somebody's eyes

    fermer les yeux — lit to shut one's eyes

    fermer les yeux sur quelque chose — fig to turn a blind eye to something

    faire quelque chose les yeux fermés — ( très facilement) to be able to do something with one's eyes closed

    acheter quelque chose les yeux fermés — ( avec confiance) to buy something with complete confidence

    il faut l'avoir à l'œil — you have to keep an eye on him/her

    jeter un œil à or sur quelque chose — to have a quick look at something

    sans lever les yeux — [parler, répondre] without looking up; [travailler] without a break

    être agréable à l'œil — to be easy on the eye (colloq) ou nice to look at

    coup d'œil — ( regard rapide) glance; ( vue) view

    yeux de cochon — piggy eyes; obéir, taper

    des yeux rieurs/tristes — laughing/sad eyes

    d'un œil méfiant — with a suspicious look, suspiciously

    à mes yeux, il a tort — in my opinion he's wrong

    à leurs yeux, c'était un échec — in their eyes it was a failure

    3) (boucle, trou) gén eye; ( dans une porte) peephole
    •
    Phrasal Verbs:
    ••

    mon œil! — (colloq) ( marquant l'incrédulité) my eye (colloq), my foot (colloq)

    à l'œil — (colloq) [manger, voyager] for nothing, for free (colloq)

    dévorer quelque chose/quelqu'un des yeux — to gaze longingly at something/somebody

    tourner de l'œil — (colloq) to faint

    cela me sort par les yeux — (colloq) I've had it up to here (colloq)

    * * *
    œj, jø
    yeux pl nm
    1) eye

    Elle a les yeux verts. — She has green eyes.

    J'ai quelque chose dans l'œil. — I've got something in my eye.

    œil pour œil, dent pour dent — an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

    Je n'ai pas fermé l'œil de la nuit. — I didn't get a wink of sleep.

    fermer les yeux sur qch fig — to close one's eyes to sth, to turn a blind eye to sth

    Il l'a vu de ses propres yeux. — He saw it with his own eyes.

    Il a l'œil vif. — He has a lively expression.

    2) (= point de vue)

    Il est entré à l'œil. — He got in for free.

    * * *
    1 Anat eye; avoir les yeux cernés to have shadows ou rings under one's eyes; enfant aux yeux verts child with green eyes; avoir de bons yeux to have good eyesight ou eyes; ouvrir un œil lit to open one eye; ouvrir l'œil fig to keep one's eyes open; ouvrir les yeux à qn fig to open sb's eyes; ouvrez grand les yeux! open your eyes wide!; fermer les yeux lit to shut one's eyes; fermer les yeux sur qch fig to turn a blind eye to sth; fermer les yeux à qn ( à un mort) to close sb's eyes; faire qch les yeux fermés ( très facilement) to be able to do sth with one's eyes closed; acheter qch les yeux fermés ( avec confiance) to buy sth with complete confidence; je n'ai pas fermé l'œil (de la nuit) I haven't slept a wink; il faut l'avoir à l'œil or le tenir à l'œil you have to keep an eye on him; avoir l'œil à tout to keep an eye on everything; cligner des yeux to blink; visible à l'œil nu visible to the naked eye; voir qch de ses propres yeux to see sth with one's own eyes; cela s'est passé sous mes yeux it happened before my very eyes; je n'en crois pas mes yeux I can't believe my eyes; chercher qch des yeux to look around for sth; il l'a suivie des yeux his eyes followed her; ne regarder qch que d'un œil to be half-watching sth; jeter un œil à or sur qch to have a quick look at sth; elle avait l'œil rivé sur la pendule her eyes were riveted on the clock; n'avoir d'yeux que pour qn to have eyes only for sb; sans lever les yeux [parler, répondre] without looking up; [travailler] without a break; lever les yeux vers/sur qch to look up toward(s)/at sth; je l'ai sous les yeux I have it in front of me; mes yeux sont tombés sur qch my eyes lit ou fell on sth; faire qch aux yeux de tous to do sth in public; les yeux dans les yeux gazing into each other's eyes; être agréable à l'œil to be easy on the eye○ ou nice to look at; coup d'œil ( regard rapide) glance; ( vue) view; jeter un coup d'œil à qch to glance at sth; jette un coup d'œil pour voir s'il dort have a quick look to see if he is asleep; cela vaut le coup d'œil it's worth seeing; avoir le coup d'œil to have a good eye; yeux de biche doe eyes; yeux de braise sparkling dark eyes; yeux de chat eyes like a cat; yeux de cochon piggy eyes; ⇒ dent, doigt, loin, merlan, paille, taper;
    2 ( exprimant des sentiments) eye; des yeux rieurs/tristes laughing/sad eyes; avoir l'œil fourbe to have a shifty look; avoir l'œil vif to have an intelligent look in one's eye ; elle le regardait d'un œil amusé she was looking at him with amusement in her eye; d'un œil compatissant with a look of compassion; d'un œil méfiant with a suspicious look, suspiciously; d'un œil inquiet anxiously; d'un œil jaloux jealously; d'un œil distrait absent-mindedly; d'un œil attentif attentively; d'un œil critique critically; d'un œil froid coldly; regarder qch d'un œil neuf to see sth in a new light; voir qch d'un œil défavorable or d'un mauvais œil to take a dim view of sth; il ne voyait pas ça d'un bon œil he took a dim view of it; sous l'œil vigilant de under the watchful eye of; voir qn avec les yeux de l'amour to look at sb with the eyes of love; à mes yeux, il a tort in my opinion he's wrong; à leurs yeux, c'était un échec in their eyes it was a failure; voir qch d'un autre œil to take a different view of sth;
    3 (boucle, trou) gén eye; ( dans une porte) peephole;
    4 Imprim face;
    5 Culin ( de bouillon) bead of fat; ( de pomme de terre) eye;
    6 Météo eye;
    7 Hort bud. ⇒ paille, quatre.
    œil composé Zool compound eye; œil électrique electric eye; œil à facettes = œil composé; œil magique magic eye; œil poché black eye; œil de verre glass eye.
    mon œil○! ( marquant l'incrédulité) my eye○, my foot○; à l'œil○ [manger, être logé, voyager] for nothing, for free○; faire les gros yeux à qn to glare at sb; faire les yeux ronds to look surprised; manger or dévorer qch/qn des yeux to gaze longingly at sth/sb; faire de l'œil à qn to make eyes at sb; faire les yeux doux à qn to make (sheep's) eyes at sb; tourner de l'œil○ to faint, to keel over; cela me sort par les yeux○ I've had it up to here○; elle avait les yeux qui lui sortaient de la tête she was absolutely fuming; il ne l'a pas fait pour tes beaux yeux○ he didn't do it for your sake ou just to please you; être tout yeux tout oreilles to be very attentive; avoir bon pied bon œil to be as fit as a fiddle; sauter aux yeux to be obvious; avoir l'œil américain to have a keen eye; avoir le mauvais œil to be jinxed○.
    [ɶj] ( pluriel yeux [jø] ou œils) nom masculin
    j'ai le soleil dans les yeux the sun's in ou I've got the sun in my eyes
    avoir les yeux verts/marron to have green/brown eyes
    je l'ai vu, de mes yeux vu, je l'ai vu de mes propres yeux I saw it with my own eyes
    faire ou ouvrir des yeux ronds to stare wide-eyed
    œil artificiel/de verre artificial/glass eye
    généreux, mon œil! generous, my foot!
    b. (figuré) to look (all) puffy-eyed ou puffy round the eyes
    avoir un œil qui dit zut (familier) ou merde (très familier) à l'autre (humoristique) , avoir les yeux qui se croisent les bras (familier, humoristique, familier & humoristique) , avoir un œil à Paris et l'autre à Pontoise to have a squint, to be cross-eyed, to be boss-eyed (UK)
    2. [vision] sight, eyesight
    3. [regard]
    ne me fais pas ces yeux-là! don't look ou stare at me like that!
    lever les yeux sur quelque chose/quelqu'un to look up at something/somebody
    sans lever les yeux de son livre without looking up ou raising her eyes from her book
    a. [pour regarder] to look up at the sky
    b. [par exaspération] to raise one's eyes heavenwards
    sous les yeux de, sous l'œil de (littéraire) under the eye ou gaze of
    sous l'œil amusé/jaloux de son frère under the amused/jealous gaze of her brother
    4. [expression, air] look
    elle est arrivée, l'œil méchant ou mauvais she arrived, with a nasty look on her face ou looking like trouble
    il m'a regardé d'un œil noir/furieux he gave me a black/furious look
    a. (familier) [pour aguicher] to give somebody the eye, to make eyes at somebody
    b. [en signe de connivence] to wink knowingly at somebody
    faire les yeux doux ou des yeux de velours à quelqu'un to make sheep's eyes at somebody
    5. [vigilance]
    avoir l'œil sur quelqu'un, avoir ou tenir quelqu'un à l'œil to keep an eye ou a close watch on somebody
    toi, je t'ai à l'œil! I've got my eye on you!
    6. [état d'esprit, avis]
    voir quelque chose d'un bon/mauvais œil to look favourably/unfavourably upon something
    considérer ou voir quelque chose d'un œil critique to look critically at something
    il voit avec les yeux de la foi/de l'amour he sees things through the eyes of a believer/of love
    aux yeux de tous, il passait pour fou he was regarded by everyone as being a madman
    7. [trou - dans une porte] Judas hole ; [ - au théâtre] peep hole ; [ - d'une aiguille, d'un marteau] eye
    NAUTIQUE [d'un filin] grommet, eye
    MÉTÉOROLOGIE [d'un cyclone] eye, centre
    yeux nom masculin pluriel
    1. (familier & humoristique) [lunettes] glasses, specs (UK)
    ————————
    à l'œil locution adverbiale

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > œil

  • 126 mood

    noun
    1) (state of mind) Stimmung, die

    there was a [general] mood of optimism — es herrschte allgemeiner Optimismus

    be in a good/bad mood — [bei] guter/schlechter Laune sein

    be in a serious/pensive mood — ernst/nachdenklich gestimmt sein

    be in no mood for joking — nicht zum Scherzen aufgelegt sein

    2) (fit of melancholy or bad temper) Verstimmung, die; schlechte Laune

    have one's moods — [seine] Launen haben

    * * *
    [mu:d]
    (the state of a person's feelings, temper, mind etc at a particular time: What kind of mood is she in?; I'm in a bad mood today.) die Stimmung
    - academic.ru/47897/moody">moody
    - moodily
    - moodiness
    * * *
    mood1
    [mu:d]
    n Laune f, Stimmung f
    ▪ to be in no \mood to do sth ( form) keine Anstalten machen, etw zu tun
    in a bad/good \mood in schlechter/guter Stimmung, gut/schlecht gelaunt
    the public \mood die allgemeine Stimmung
    to be in a talkative \mood zum Erzählen aufgelegt [o gesprächig] sein
    sb is in one of his/her \moods jd hat wieder einmal seine/ihre Launen
    ▪ not to be in the \mood to do sth zu etw dat keine Lust haben [o nicht aufgelegt sein]
    as the \mood takes sb wie es jdm einfällt [o in den Sinn kommt]
    he'll cooperate or not, as the \mood takes him mal ist er kooperativ, mal nicht, je nach Lust und Laune
    mood2
    [mu:d]
    n LING Aussageweise f, Modus m fachspr
    subjunctive \mood Konjunktiv m
    * * *
    I [muːd]
    n
    1) (of party, town etc) Stimmung f; (of one person) Laune f, Stimmung f

    he was in a good/bad/foul mood — er hatte gute/schlechte/eine fürchterliche Laune, er war gut/schlecht/fürchterlich gelaunt

    to be in a cheerful mood — gut aufgelegt sein

    to be in a festive/forgiving mood — feierlich/versöhnlich gestimmt sein

    in one of his crazy or mad moods — aus einer plötzlichen Laune heraus, in einer seiner Anwandlungen

    to be in the mood to do sth — dazu aufgelegt sein, etw zu tun

    to be in no mood to do sth — nicht in der Stimmung sein, etw zu tun

    I'm not in the mood for work or to work —

    I'm not in the mood for this type of music — ich bin nicht in der Stimmung für diese Musik

    I'm not in the mood — ich bin nicht dazu aufgelegt; (to do sth also) ich habe keine Lust; (for music etc also) ich bin nicht in der richtigen Stimmung

    2) (= bad mood) schlechte Laune

    he's in one of his moods —

    II
    n (GRAM)
    Modus m
    * * *
    mood1 [muːd] s
    1. Stimmung f ( auch KUNST), Laune f:
    be in the ( in no oder out of the) mood to do sth (nicht) dazu aufgelegt sein, etwas zu tun, (keine) Lust haben, etwas zu tun;
    be in the mood to work zur Arbeit aufgelegt sein;
    be in the mood for sth zu etwas aufgelegt sein;
    be in the right mood in der richtigen Stimmung sein;
    be in a good (bad) mood gute (schlechte) Laune haben, gut (schlecht) aufgelegt sein;
    be in no giving mood nicht in Geberlaune sein;
    I’m in no laughing mood mir ist nicht nach oder zum Lachen zumute;
    what’s his mood today? wie ist er heute aufgelegt?;
    his moods change very quickly er ist sehr launenhaft;
    change of mood, mood change, US a. mood swing Stimmungsumschwung m;
    mood music stimmungsvolle Musik
    2. be in a mood schlechte Laune haben, schlecht aufgelegt sein;
    he’s in one of his moods again er hat wieder einmal schlechte Laune
    mood2 [muːd] s
    1. LING Modus m, Aussageweise f
    2. MUS Tonart f
    * * *
    noun
    1) (state of mind) Stimmung, die

    there was a [general] mood of optimism — es herrschte allgemeiner Optimismus

    be in a good/bad mood — [bei] guter/schlechter Laune sein

    be in a serious/pensive mood — ernst/nachdenklich gestimmt sein

    2) (fit of melancholy or bad temper) Verstimmung, die; schlechte Laune

    have one's moods — [seine] Launen haben

    * * *
    n.
    Stimmung -n f.

    English-german dictionary > mood

  • 127 mood

    mu:d
    (the state of a person's feelings, temper, mind etc at a particular time: What kind of mood is she in?; I'm in a bad mood today.) humor
    - moodily
    - moodiness
    mood n humor
    tr[mʊːd]
    1 SMALLLINGUISTICS/SMALL modo
    ————————
    tr[mʊːd]
    3 (atmosphere) atmósfera, ambiente nombre masculino
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to be in a good/bad mood estar de buen/mal humor
    to be in no mood for something no estar para algo
    to be in the mood for something tener ganas de algo, estar de humor para algo
    mood ['mu:d] n
    : humor m
    to be in a good mood: estar de buen humor
    to be in the mood for: tener ganas de
    to be in no mood for: no estar para
    n.
    • capricho s.m.
    • humor s.m.
    • modo s.m.
    muːd
    1)
    a) ( state of mind) humor m

    to be in a good/bad mood — estar* de buen humor/de mal humor or de mal genio

    as the mood takes him — según de qué humor esté, según le dé (la vena) (fam)

    I'm not in the mood for jokes/dancing — no estoy (de humor) para chistes/no tengo ganas de bailar

    she's in a mood o in one of her moods — está or anda de mal humor

    b) ( atmosphere) atmósfera f, clima m
    2) ( Ling) modo m

    I
    [muːd]
    N (Ling) modo m
    II [muːd]
    1.
    N humor m

    that depends on his mood — eso es según el or depende del humor que tenga

    to be in the mood for sth/to do sth — tener ganas de algo/de hacer algo, estar de humor para algo/para hacer algo

    are you in a mood for chess? — ¿te apetece una partida de ajedrez?, ¿quieres jugar al ajedrez?

    I'm not in the mood — no tengo ganas, no me apetece

    • he's in a bit of a mood — está de mal humor

    • to be in a bad mood — estar de mal humor

    • to be in a forgiving mood — estar dispuesto a perdonar

    • to be in a generous mood — sentirse generoso

    • to be in a good mood — estar de buen humor

    • he has moods — (angry) tiene arranques de cólera; (gloomy) tiene sus rachas de melancolía

    • I'm in no mood to argue — no tengo ganas de discutir, no estoy (de humor) para discutir

    to be in no laughing mood or in no mood for laughing — no tener ganas de reír

    • she's in one of her moods — está de malas, está con un humor de perros

    • to be in an ugly mood — [person] estar de muy mal humor; [crowd] tener los ánimos muy exaltados or encendidos

    2.
    CPD

    mood disorder N — trastorno m del humor

    mood music N — música f de fondo or de ambiente

    mood swing N — cambio m de humor

    * * *
    [muːd]
    1)
    a) ( state of mind) humor m

    to be in a good/bad mood — estar* de buen humor/de mal humor or de mal genio

    as the mood takes him — según de qué humor esté, según le dé (la vena) (fam)

    I'm not in the mood for jokes/dancing — no estoy (de humor) para chistes/no tengo ganas de bailar

    she's in a mood o in one of her moods — está or anda de mal humor

    b) ( atmosphere) atmósfera f, clima m
    2) ( Ling) modo m

    English-spanish dictionary > mood

  • 128 friend

    noun
    1) Freund, der/Freundin, die

    be friends with somebody — mit jemandem befreundet sein

    make friends [with somebody] — [mit jemandem] Freundschaft schließen

    a friend in need is a friend indeed — (prov.) Freunde in der Not gehn hundert od. tausend auf ein Lot (Spr.)

    2)
    * * *
    [frend]
    1) (someone who knows and likes another person very well: He is my best friend.) der/die Freund/-in
    2) (a person who acts in a friendly and generous way to people etc he or she does not know: a friend to animals.) der/die Freund/-in
    •
    - academic.ru/29501/friendless">friendless
    - friendly
    - friendship
    - make friends with
    - make friends
    * * *
    [frend]
    n Quäker(in) m(f)
    the Society of \Friends die Gemeinschaft der Quäker [o Gesellschaft der Freunde]
    * * *
    [frend]
    n
    1) Freund(in) m(f); (less intimate) Bekannte(r) mf

    to become or make friends with sb — sich mit jdm anfreunden, mit jdm Freundschaft schließen

    to make a friend of sb — sich (dat) jdn zum Freund machen

    he makes friends easily —

    she's a friend of mine — sie ist eine Freundin/eine Bekannte von mir

    he's no friend of mine — er ist nicht mein Freund

    to be friends with sb — mit jdm befreundet sein, jds Freund(in) sein

    be a friend — sei so lieb

    we're just ( good) friends — da ist nichts, wir sind nur gut befreundet

    friend — mein verehrter (Herr) Kollege, meine verehrte (Frau) Kollegin

    2) (= helper, supporter) Freund(in) m(f)

    he's a friend of the arts —

    3) (REL)
    * * *
    friend [frend]
    A s
    1. Freund(in):
    friend at court einflussreicher Freund;
    be friends with sb mit jemandem befreundet sein;
    must you quarrel all the time? can’t you be friends? könnt ihr euch nicht vertragen?;
    be best friends with sb eng mit jemandem befreundet sein;
    they are best friends again sie sind wieder die besten Freunde;
    make a friend einen Freund gewinnen;
    make a friend of sb sich jemanden zum Freund machen;
    make ( oder become) friends with sich anfreunden mit, Freundschaft schließen mit;
    let’s make friends again komm, vertragen wir uns wieder!;
    a friend in need is a friend indeed (Sprichwort) der wahre Freund zeigt sich erst in der Not
    2. Bekannte(r) m/f(m)
    3. a) Helfer(in), Freund(in):
    b) Förderer m, Förderin f:
    c) Befürworter(in):
    4. (Herr m) Kollege m, (Frau f) Kollegin f:
    my honourable friend PARL Br mein Herr Kollege oder Vorredner;
    my learned friend JUR Br mein verehrter Herr Kollege
    5. JUR → next friend
    6. Friend Quäker m: → society 4
    7. umg Freund(in), Schatz m
    B v/t poet jemandem helfen
    * * *
    noun
    1) Freund, der/Freundin, die

    make friends [with somebody] — [mit jemandem] Freundschaft schließen

    a friend in need is a friend indeed — (prov.) Freunde in der Not gehn hundert od. tausend auf ein Lot (Spr.)

    2)
    * * *
    n.
    Freund -e m.
    Freundin -nen f.

    English-german dictionary > friend

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