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  • 101 surendetté

    surendetté, e [syʀɑ̃dete]
    adjective
    * * *
    surendettée syʀɑ̃dete adjectif [personne, pays] deeply in debt (après n); [entreprise] overextended
    * * *
    syʀɑ̃dete surendetté, -e
    1. adj
    (personne, entreprise) overburdened with debt, deeply in debt, (pays) with a heavy debt burden
    2. nm/f
    (= pays) country with a heavy debt burden, (= personne) person deeply in debt
    * * *
    surendetté, surendettée adj [personne, pays] deeply in debt ( après n); [entreprise] overextended.
    ( féminin surendettée) [syrɑ̃dɛte] adjectif
    heavily ou deeply indebted

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > surendetté

  • 102 sich

    abkühlen, sich
    (Konjunktur) to cool off.
    abmelden, sich
    to notify one’s departure.
    absprechen, sich
    to come to an arrangement, to agree;
    sich mit seinen Mitarbeitern absprechen to consult with one’s fellow workers;
    Schadenersatz absprechen to disallow damages.
    abwechseln, sich
    to take turns, to alternate;
    jährlich abwechseln (Vorsitz) to rotate every year;
    in Schichten abwechseln to rotate shifts.
    aneignen, sich
    to acquire, to appropriate, to adopt;
    sich Geld aneignen to embezzle funds, to misappropriate (convert) money;
    sich einen Namen aneignen to adopt a name.
    auspendeln, sich
    (Zinssätze) to stabilize at a certain level.
    auswirken, sich
    to bear upon, to take effect;
    sich auf das Betriebsergebnis auswirken to come through into the results;
    sich kostenmäßig auswirken to make a showing on costs;
    sich in einer Preiserhöhung auswirken to result in a price increase;
    sich schnell auswirken (Investitionen) to pick up quickly;
    sich ungünstig auswirken to have an unfavo(u)rable effect;
    sich voll auswirken to be in full swing;
    sich als Vorteil auswirken to turn out to be an advantage.
    behaupten, sich
    to stand one’s ground, (Kurse) to hold their ground, to keep its head, to keep (remain) steady, to remain firm;
    sich gut behaupten (Wechselkurs) to hold fairly steady;
    weiterhin hohe Kurse behaupten to continue to rule high;
    seine Rechte behaupten to safeguard one’s rights;
    sich am Schluss behaupten oder leicht abschwächen (Börse) to close steady to slightly lower;
    sich in seiner Stellung behaupten to hold one’s position;
    seine Stellung im technologischen Wettbewerb behaupten to keep up in the technology race.
    behauptend, sich
    (Preis) steady.
    behelfen, sich
    to make shift, to manage, to resort to expedients;
    sich ohne Sekretärin behelfen to do without the services of a secretary.
    belaufen, sich
    to come (mount up, run) to, to reach, to rise, to run into, to make;
    sich auf 10.000 Euro belaufen to foot up (figure out) to euro 10,000 debts;
    sich auf das Doppelte des Voranschlags belaufen to come to double the estimate;
    insgesamt belaufen to aggregate, to total;
    sich ungefähr belaufen to come near to.
    bereichern, sich
    to line one’s pockets, to make one’s pile;
    sich an Kinderarbeit bereichern to exploit child labo(u)r;
    sich öffentlich bereichern to enrich o. s. from public office.
    beruhigen, sich
    (Börse) to settle down, (politische Lage) to become stable, to ease;
    Gläubiger mit einer Ratenzahlung beruhigen to put off a dun with an instal(l)ment.
    bewegen, sich
    (Preise) to range (vary) from... to...;
    sich abwärts bewegen to be on the downgrade (skids, US);
    sich fast einheitlich um die 20% bewegen to cluster around the 20 per cent mark;
    sich entsprechend der Preisindexziffern bewegen to move in sympathy with the index figures of prices.
    bewerben, sich
    to apply for, to stand as a candidate for (Br.), to run, to [run as a] candidate, to seek, to go up (Br.), (um Lieferungen) to make a bid for, to tender, (um einen Preis) to compete for;
    sich um ein Amt bewerben to run (stand) for an office (US);
    sich um einen Auftrag bewerben to make a tender;
    sich persönlich bewerben to make a personal application;
    sich um eine Stelle (Stellung) bewerben to apply (run) for a position, to put in for a post (job, fam.), to compete for a job.
    bewähren, sich
    (Artikel) to stand the strain (test);
    sich nicht bewähren to prove a failure.
    drehen, sich
    (Börse) to turn;
    sich um ein Thema drehen to run on a subject.
    durchschlagen, sich
    to shift for a living;
    kostenmäßig durchschlagen to make a showing on cost;
    auf die Ladenverkaufspreise durchschlagen to work through to prices in the shops;
    direkt auf die Preise durchschlagen to feed straight through into the prices.
    eignen, sich
    to qualify, to be suitable (qualified);
    sich als Kapitalanlage eignen to be suitable for investment.
    einbürgern, sich
    to become established;
    teilweise einbürgern to denizen;
    wieder einbürgern to repatriate.
    einigen, sich
    to agree, to come to terms, to settle an issue (Br.);
    sich über die Bedingungen einigen to agree upon the terms;
    sich mit seinen Gläubigern einigen to compound with one’s creditors;
    sich auf die Gründung einer Gesellschaft einigen to agree to form a company;
    sich gütlich einigen to settle a matter amicably, to come to an amicable arrangement;
    sich auf einen bestimmten Preis einigen to agree on a certain price;
    sich vergleichsweise einigen to reach a settlement.
    einmischen, sich
    to intervene, to interfere, to meddle, to barge in (fam.);
    sich in die Angelegenheiten eines Nachbarlandes einmischen to intervene in the affairs of a neighbo(u)ring country;
    sich unaufgefordert (ungefragt) einmischen to meddle.
    einpendeln, sich
    (Kurse) to even out, to settle down.
    einschiffen, sich
    to embark, to get (go) aboard, to join one’s ship, to go on board, to [take] ship.
    einwählen, sich
    (Computer) to plug into.
    emporarbeiten, sich
    to work one’s way up, to win one’s way from poverty.
    entschließen, sich
    to determine, to decide, to make up one’s mind, to resolve;
    sich zu einem Kauf entschließen to decide on buying.
    ereignen, sich
    to occur, to happen, to take place.
    erholen, sich
    to recreate, to convalesce, to recuperate, to pick up, (Industrie) to be reviving, (Kurse) to look (pick, prick) up, to recover, to revive, to rally, to rise, to improve, (Markt) to improve, (sich schadlos halten) to make up for one’s losses, to repay (reimburse, recoup) o. s.;
    sich bei jem. erholen to draw (reimburse o. s.) upon s. o.;
    sich von einem geschäftlichen Fehlschlag erholen to recover from a business setback;
    sich beim Giranten erholen to have recourse to the endorser of a note;
    sich von den Nachwirkungen des Krieges erholen to recover from the effects of the war;
    sich bei den Schlusskursen erholen to be improving at the close;
    sich schnell erholen (Kurse) to brisk up;
    sich wieder erholen (Kurse) to be picking up again, to experience a recovery;
    sich finanziell wieder erholen to recover financially (one’s strength), to recuperate;
    sich für eine Zahlung erholen to cover o. s.
    etablieren, sich
    to establish o. s., to set up shop for o. s., to start a business.
    festigen, sich
    to consolidate, (Börse, Kurse, Preise) to [become] firm, to steady, to stiffen, to strengthen, to harden, to stabilize;
    Dollarkurs festigen to strengthen the dollar price;
    seine Stellung festigen to strengthen one’s position, to solidify one’s place;
    Währung festigen to stabilize the currency;
    sich erneut im Vergleich mit anderen harten Währungen festigen to strengthen again against other major currencies;
    Wechselkurse festigen to stabilize exchange rates.
    freizeichnen, sich
    to contract out, to exempt o. s. from a liability.
    gesundschrumpfen, sich
    to shrink to profitable size;
    sich gesundstoßen to make a packet (fam.).
    heraufarbeiten, sich
    to work one’s way (o. s.) up (o. s. into a good position).
    herauskristallisieren, sich
    to crystallize, to take shape;
    sich herausmachen (Firma) to make good progress;
    sein Kapital herausnehmen to withdraw one’s capital;
    Gehälter aus dem Preisindexsystem herausnehmen to disindex salaries from the price index;
    Geld aus jem. herauspressen to squeeze money out of s. o.;
    weitere Steuern aus dem Volk herauspressen to screw more taxes out of the people;
    Gewinne aus einem fallenden und überbesetzten Markt herausprügeln müssen to be forced to slug it out in a slumping and overcrowded market;
    Geld herausrücken to cough up (US sl.), to fork out (sl.);
    Zahlungen herausschieben to postpone payment;
    herausschinden to eke out;
    Geld aus jem. herausschinden to extract money from s. o.;
    zusätzliche Urlaubswoche herausschinden to wangle an extra week’s holiday;
    Geld aus einer Sache herausschlagen to get one’s money’s worth;
    allerlei Vorteile herausschlagen to gain all kinds of advantages;
    Unfähige herausschmeißen to weed out the incompetents;
    heraussetzen (Mieter) to evict, to eject, to turn out.
    herausstellen, sich
    to turn out, to prove;
    besonders herausstellen (Presse) to feature (US coll.), to highlight (US);
    sich als Fälschung herausstellen to prove to be a forgery;
    groß herausstellen to give a build-up;
    sich als sehr hoch herausstellen (Kosten) to come rather high;
    sich als missglückt herausstellen (Anlage) to turn sour;
    sich als Vorteil herausstellen to turn out to be an advantage.
    hinschleppen, sich
    to drag on.
    konkretisieren, sich
    (Forderung) to crystallize.
    konstituieren, sich
    (parl.) to assemble;
    Ausschuss konstituieren to appoint a committee;
    sich als eingetragene Gesellschaft konstituieren to form themselves into a registered corporation.
    kreuzen, sich
    to intersect, (Interessen) to clash, to run counter, (Straße) to cross.
    kristallisieren, sich
    to crystallize.
    kräftigen, sich
    (Kurs) to improve, to recover, (Markt) to strengthen;
    Dollarkurs kräftigen to strengthen the dollar price.
    lebensversichern, sich
    to assure one’s life with a company (Br.);
    sich für 20.000 L lebensversichern to insure (assure, Br.) o. s. for L 20,000;
    sich gegenseitig lebensversichern to insure one’s own life for the benefit of the other;
    seine Schlüsselkräfte lebensversichern to take out life policies on one’s key man.
    liieren, sich
    (Gesellschafter) to unite, to join, to associate, to become a partner.
    massieren, sich
    (Aufträge) to pile up.
    niederlassen, sich
    to set up for o. s., to take up one’s abode (domicile, residence), to locate, (Wohnsitz) to settle down;
    sich als Anwalt niederlassen to settle down in the practice of law;
    sich als Arzt niederlassen to put up (hang out) one’s shingle;
    sich als Buchhändler niederlassen to establish o. s. (set up business) as a bookseller;
    sich für dauernd niederlassen to settle down for good;
    sich geschäftlich niederlassen to establish o. s. as a businessman, to set up for o. s., to set up shop, to set o. s. up in business;
    sich im Hauptgeschäftsviertel niederlassen to fix one’s residence in the city;
    sich widerrechtlich niederlassen to abate.
    rentieren, sich
    to pay [its way (for costs)], to pay well, to bring a return, (Betrieb) to be profitable, (Ware) to leave a margin;
    sich gut rentieren to yield good profits;
    sich nicht rentieren not to be worthwhile;
    sich noch rentieren to break even;
    sich gerade noch rentieren to wash its face (Br. sl.);
    sich in zehn Jahren rentieren to pay its way in ten years.
    stabilisieren, sich
    to become stable;
    Preise stabilisieren to stabilize (peg) prices.
    treffen, sich
    to meet, to gather, to assemble;
    Abkommen treffen to come to an agreement (terms);
    Anordnungen treffen to prescribe;
    Auslese treffen to cull;
    Buchung treffen to pass (effect) an entry;
    Freigabeverfügungen für die Wirtschaftshilfe treffen to loosen its grip on the economic-aid purse strings;
    auf Öl treffen to strike oil;
    Steuerzahler heftig treffen to clobber the taxpayers;
    Übereinkommen treffen to compact;
    Übereinkunft treffen to come to an arrangement;
    Verabredung treffen to make (fix) an appointment;
    Verbraucher unmittelbar treffen to fall directly onto the consumer;
    vorläufige Vereinbarung treffen to make a provisional arrangement;
    Vorbereitungen (Vorkehrungen) treffen to make preparations;
    Vorsichtsmaßregeln treffen to take precautionary measures.
    unterordnen, sich
    to subordinate o. s.
    verausgaben, sich
    to spend beyond one’s means, to run short of money.
    verbürgen, sich
    to [a]vouch, to undertake, to warrant, to guarantee, to stand surety, to bail;
    sich für einen Bericht verbürgen to warrant a report;
    sich für jds. Ehrlichkeit und Zuverlässigkeit verbürgen to warrant s. o. an honest and reliable person;
    sich für eine Schuld verbürgen to answer for a debt;
    sich für jds. Zahlungsfähigkeit verbürgen to vouch for s. one's ability to pay.
    verkalkulieren, sich
    to miscalculate, to overshoot.
    vermehren, sich
    to multiply;
    sein Vermögen vermehren to enlarge one’s fortune;
    Zahlungsmittelumlauf vermehren to expand the currency.
    verschulden, sich
    to run into debt, to take on debts, to involve o. s. (get into) debt, to outrun the constable (Br.), to run up a score (Br.);
    sich kurzfristig erheblich verschulden to borrow heavily on a short-term basis;
    sich erneut verschulden to run into debt again;
    sich total verschulden (Staat) to plunge into debt;
    sich ungewöhnlich verschulden to go into debt at a record chip (US).
    verschätzen, sich
    to be out in one’s calculation[s] (estimate).
    verspekulieren, sich
    to lose money by bad investment.
    verspäten, sich
    (Schiff, Zug) to be overdue (behind schedule, US).
    versteifen, sich
    (Markt) to tighten [up].
    verzweigen, sich
    to branch out.
    zurückhalten, sich
    to keep a low profile, (Börse) to stay on the sidelines, (Verbraucher) to hold back, to resist;
    Aktien in Erwartung von Kurssteigerungen zurückhalten to hold stocks for a rise;
    Informationsmaterial zurückhalten to hold back information;
    Mittel zurückhalten to bottle up funds;
    sich mit der Verwirklichung geplanter Kapazitätsausweitungen zurückhalten to hold back on bringing in planned new capacity;
    restliche Ware zurückhalten to hold over the rest of the goods;
    Waren unberechtigt zurückhalten to wrongfully detain goods.
    zurückmelden, sich
    to report one’s return;
    sich vom Urlaub zurückmelden to report back from leave (one’s return).
    zusammenschließen, sich
    to amalgamate, to merge, to combine, to consolidate (US), (pol.) to unite, to fuse;
    Arbeiter in einer Gewerkschaft zusammenschließen to unite workers in a trade union;
    Firmen (Gesellschaften) zusammenschließen to consolidate business companies;
    sich zu einem Kartell zusammenschließen to join a cartel;
    sich in einem großen Unternehmen zusammenschließen to merge into one large organization;
    sich zu einem Verein zusammenschließen to club.
    ändern, sich
    to vary;
    Eintragung ändern to rectify (alter) an entry;
    nachträglich ändern (Wechsel) to alter materially;
    zweckentsprechend ändern to adapt.
    überschneiden, sich
    to overlap, to intersect, (Ereignisse) to clash;
    sich mit einem anderen Termin überschneiden to clash with another date.

    Business german-english dictionary > sich

  • 103 drink

    drɪŋk
    1. сущ.
    1) а) питье;
    напиток weak drink ≈ слабый напиток to fix a drink, make a drink, mix a drinkприготовить напиток ardent drink, potent drink, stiff drink, strong drinkкрепкий напиток, спиртной напиток fizzy drinkгазированный напиток soft drinksбезалкогольные напитки still drink ≈ нешипучий напиток Syn: beverage б) алкогольный напиток He poured himself a drink. ≈ Он налил себе стаканчик спиртного.
    2) а) глоток, стакан I asked for a drink of water. ≈ Я попросил стакан воды. to toss off a drink ≈ выпить залпом, выпить одним глотком б) доза лекарства One of the men came back with two drinks for the calf. ≈ Один из людей вернулся с двойной дозой лекарства для теленка.
    3) склонность к спиртному, пьянство, алкоголизм to be on the drink ≈ быть в запое He eventually died of drink. ≈ В конце концов он умер от пьянства. in drink ≈ в пьяном виде, пьяный to take to drinkстать пьяницей
    4) амер.;
    разг. водный простор, море( употребляется всегда с определенным артиклем) to fall into the drinkпадать за борт the big drink
    2. гл.;
    прош. вр. - drank, прич. прош. вр. - drunk
    1) а) пить to drink offвыпить много жидкости I always drink tea from a glass. ≈ Я всегда пью чай из стакана. John drank off a whole litre of beer all at once. ≈ Джон выпил не сходя с места целый литр пива. to drink the waters ≈ пить воды (лечиться на водах, на курорте) Syn: imbibe б) перен. впитывать, всасывать, поглощать The soil that had drunk the blood of his warriors. ≈ Земля, которая впитала кровь своих солдат. I drank in the land-wind with an enjoyment verging on intoxication. ≈ Я вдыхал воздух, приносимый с земли, с восторгом, доходящим до безумия. I stopped for a while to drink in the beauty of the scene. ≈ Я немного постоял, чтобы вобрать в себя красоту пейзажа. Syn: suck
    2., absorb
    2) выпить, глотнуть (содержимое стакана, бутылки и т. п.) ;
    тж. перен. отпить, испить to drink the cup of joy (sorrow) ≈ пить из чаши радости (печали)
    3) а) пить, пьянствовать to drink oneself drunk ≈ напиться to drink oneself sleepy ≈ напиться и заснуть to drink oneself to deathупиться до потери сознания to drink oneself into incoherence ≈ упиться до невменяемости He drank himself into oblivion. ≈ Он напился до невменяемого состояния. drink like a fish Syn: tipple I
    2. б) разг. снабжать выпивкой, напаивать He could not feed us, only lodge and drink us. ≈ Он не мог нас кормить, только давал нам пристанище и снабжал выпивкой.
    4) пропивать (тж. drink away, drink up) They drank every cent. ≈ Они пропивали каждый цент.
    5) поднимать тост, пить ( за кого-л.) I'll drink your good health. ≈ Я пью за Ваше здоровье. Syn: toast II
    2., pledge
    2. ∙ drink away drink down drink dry drink in drink off drink to drink up питье - food and * пища /еда/ и питье - to have a * напиться напиток - soft *s безалкогольные напитки - strong * спиртной напиток - it made a bearable * это был вполне сносный напиток спиртной напиток - long * стакан пива, сидра;
    стакан виски с содовой - short * аперитив - to have a * at the bar пропустить стаканчик в баре - to stand smb. a * поставить кому-л. стаканчик, угостить кого-л. - to take to * пристраститься к спиртному;
    запить состояние опьянения - in * пьяный;
    в пьяном виде - to be in /the worse for, under the influence of/ drink быть в пьяном виде, захмелеть запой;
    пьянство, алкоголизм - the * question вопрос об алкоголизме - to be on the * пить запоем, пить горькую;
    пьянствовать, не просыхать - to die of * умереть от пьянства - to drive smb. to * довести кого-л. до алкоголизма глоток - * of water глоток воды (сленг) водный простор;
    океан;
    "лужа" - the big * (американизм) Атлантический океан;
    река Миссисипи - the D. Ла-Манш - to cross the * пересечь океан /море/ - to fall into the * упасть в воду;
    свалиться за борт пить - to * a glass dry выпить до дна, осушить стакан - to * air жадно глотать воздух - to * deep сделать большой глоток - fit to * пить можно - what will you have to *? что вы будете пить? - I could * the sea dry я умираю от жажды выпивать;
    пить, пьянствовать - to * hard /deep, heavily/ пить запоем, сильно пить, пьянствовать;
    пить мертвую, пить беспробудно /до бесчувствия, до потери сознания/ - to take to *ing запить, пристраститься к спиртному напаивать, подпаивать - to * smb. drunk напоить /подпоить/ кого-л. - to * oneself drunk напиться пьяным - to * oneself into debt залезть в долги из-за пьянства (тж. to) пить (за кого-л., за что-л.) ;
    провозглашать тост - to * (to) the host выпить за хозяина - to * (a toast) to smb. выпить за кого-л. - to * success to smb., to * to smb.'s success выпить за чьи-л. успехи испить;
    отведать, хлебнуть, испытать - to * the cup of suffering испить чашу страданий - to * the cup of joy пить из чаши радости всасывать, впитывать (часто * up, * in) - to * up moisture впитывать влагу( о растении) пропивать (тж. * away) - to * (away) one's earnings пропить все, что заработал иметь вкус, букет - to * flat быть безвкусным /пресным/ "идти" (о спиртном) - this wine *s well after a year это вино приобретает приятный вкус /хорошо пьется, хорошо идет/ после того, как постоит год > to * it упиться, нагрузиться;
    нализаться, надраться, наклюкаться > to * smb. under the table напоить кого-л. до бесчувствия /до положения риз/;
    напоить кого-л. допьяна;
    "перепить" кого-л. > to * like a fish пить как сапожник ~ склонность к спиртному, пьянство;
    in drink в пьяном виде, пьяный;
    to be on the drink пить запоем;
    to take to drink стать пьяницей the big ~ амер. шутл. Атлантический океан the big ~ амер. шутл. река Миссисипи drink вдыхать( воздух) ;
    drink down выпить залпом;
    drink in жадно впитывать;
    упиваться( красотой и т. п.) ;
    drink off = drink down;
    drink to пить за здоровье, за процветание ~ впитывать (влагу;
    о растениях) ~ глоток;
    стакан (вина, воды) ;
    to have a drink выпить;
    попить, напиться ~ пить, пьянствовать;
    to drink the health (of smb.) пить за (чье-л.) здоровье ~ (drank;
    drunk) пить, выпить ~ питье;
    напиток;
    soft drinks безалкогольные напитки ~ склонность к спиртному, пьянство;
    in drink в пьяном виде, пьяный;
    to be on the drink пить запоем;
    to take to drink стать пьяницей ~ спиртной напиток (тж. ardent drink, strong drink) the ~ разг. море;
    to fall into drink падать за борт to ~ brotherhood выпить на брудершафт;
    to drink hard, to drink heavily, to drink like a fish сильно пьянствовать to ~ deep сделать большой глоток to ~ deep сильно пьянствовать drink вдыхать (воздух) ;
    drink down выпить залпом;
    drink in жадно впитывать;
    упиваться( красотой и т. п.) ;
    drink off = drink down;
    drink to пить за здоровье, за процветание drink вдыхать (воздух) ;
    drink down выпить залпом;
    drink in жадно впитывать;
    упиваться (красотой и т. п.) ;
    drink off = drink down;
    drink to пить за здоровье, за процветание ~ up = drink down to ~ brotherhood выпить на брудершафт;
    to drink hard, to drink heavily, to drink like a fish сильно пьянствовать to ~ brotherhood выпить на брудершафт;
    to drink hard, to drink heavily, to drink like a fish сильно пьянствовать drink вдыхать (воздух) ;
    drink down выпить залпом;
    drink in жадно впитывать;
    упиваться (красотой и т. п.) ;
    drink off = drink down;
    drink to пить за здоровье, за процветание to ~ brotherhood выпить на брудершафт;
    to drink hard, to drink heavily, to drink like a fish сильно пьянствовать drink вдыхать (воздух) ;
    drink down выпить залпом;
    drink in жадно впитывать;
    упиваться (красотой и т. п.) ;
    drink off = drink down;
    drink to пить за здоровье, за процветание off: ~ указывает на завершение действия: to pay off выплатить (до конца) ;
    to drink off выпить (до дна) ~ пить, пьянствовать;
    to drink the health (of smb.) пить за (чье-л.) здоровье drink вдыхать (воздух) ;
    drink down выпить залпом;
    drink in жадно впитывать;
    упиваться (красотой и т. п.) ;
    drink off = drink down;
    drink to пить за здоровье, за процветание ~ up = drink down ~ up выпить до дна;
    I could drink the sea dry меня мучит жажда, я очень хочу пить the ~ разг. море;
    to fall into drink падать за борт ~ глоток;
    стакан (вина, воды) ;
    to have a drink выпить;
    попить, напиться ~ up выпить до дна;
    I could drink the sea dry меня мучит жажда, я очень хочу пить ~ склонность к спиртному, пьянство;
    in drink в пьяном виде, пьяный;
    to be on the drink пить запоем;
    to take to drink стать пьяницей long ~ of water амер. разг. человек очень высокого роста ~ питье;
    напиток;
    soft drinks безалкогольные напитки ~ склонность к спиртному, пьянство;
    in drink в пьяном виде, пьяный;
    to be on the drink пить запоем;
    to take to drink стать пьяницей

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > drink

  • 104 hochverschuldet

    hoch|ver|schul|det [-fɛɐʃʊldət]
    adj
    See:
    hoch
    * * *
    Adjektiv (präd. getrennt geschrieben) heavily or deep in debt postpos
    * * *
    * * *
    Adjektiv (präd. getrennt geschrieben) heavily or deep in debt postpos

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > hochverschuldet

  • 105 stürzen

    I v/i (ist gestürzt)
    1. fall; in die Tiefe: plunge, plummet; ins Wasser: dive, plunge; schwer stürzen have a bad ( oder heavy) fall; ( bewusstlos) zu Boden stürzen fall to the ground (unconscious), collapse; vom Fahrrad stürzen fall off one’s bicycle; aus dem Fenster stürzen fall out of the window; aus den Augen stürzen Tränen: stream from s.o.’s eyes; ins Meer stürzen Flugzeug: plunge ( oder dive) into the sea
    2. WIRTS., Kurse, Preise: fall ( oder drop) sharply, tumble; Temperatur: drop sharply, plunge
    3. POL., Regierung etc.: fall; Minister: be removed from office; der Minister stürzte über diesen Skandal auch this scandal brought about ( oder led to) the minister’s downfall
    4. Gelände: drop; in die Tiefe stürzen Abhang etc.: drop sheer, plunge down; die Felsen stürzen dort 100 Meter in die Tiefe the cliffs have a sheer drop of 100 met|res (Am. -ers) at that point
    5. (rennen) rush, dash; ins Zimmer stürzen auch burst into the room; in jemandes Arme stürzen fall ( oder fling o.s.) into s.o.’s arms
    II v/t (hat)
    1. (stoßen) throw; jemanden / etw. aus dem Fenster / von der Brücke stürzen throw s.o. / s.th. out of the window / from ( oder off) the bridge; jemanden ins Elend etc. stürzen plunge s.o. into misery etc.; Verderben
    2. (umkippen) turn upside down; (Pudding etc.) turn out of the mo(u)ld ( oder tin); Nicht stürzen! Kistenaufschrift: this side up
    3. (Regierung etc.) bring down, bring about the downfall of; durch Gewalt: overthrow
    III v/refl (hat)
    1. sich ins Wasser stürzen plunge into the water; sich vor einen Zug stürzen throw o.s. in front of a train; sich aus dem Fenster stürzen plunge ( oder fling o.s.) out of the window; sich in Unkosten stürzen go to great expense, spare no expense; er hat sich nicht gerade in geistige Unkosten gestürzt he didn’t exactly strain his grey matter; sich in die Arbeit stürzen throw o.s. into ( oder immerse o.s. in) one’s work; sich ins Nachtleben stürzen umg. abandon o.s. to the pleasures of nightlife; Unglück, Verderben etc.
    2. sich stürzen auf (+ Akk) (jemanden) rush to(wards); aggressiv: rush at; (herfallen über) auch Raubkatze: pounce on; Raubvogel: swoop down on; umg., fig. (ein Buffet etc.) fall upon, attack; sich aufeinander stürzen fall upon each other; sich auf die Süßigkeiten stürzen umg. pounce on ( oder attack) the sweets; sich auf die Geschenke stürzen umg. fall upon the presents
    * * *
    (der Macht entheben) to overthrow; to subvert; to topple; to bring down;
    (fallen) to plunge; to fall; to slump; to drop;
    (herunterwerfen) to topple; to throw;
    (rennen) to rush;
    sich stürzen
    to plunge; to pounce
    * * *
    stụ̈r|zen ['ʃtʏrtsn]
    1. vi aux sein
    1) (= fallen) to fall (von from, off); (geh = steil abfallen) to plunge; (= hervorstürzen) to stream

    vom Pferd stürzen — to fall off a/one's horse

    er ist schwer or heftig/unglücklich gestürzt — he had a heavy/bad fall

    2) (fig = abgesetzt werden) to fall
    3) (= rennen) to rush, to dash
    2. vt
    1) (= werfen) to fling, to hurl

    jdn/etw in eine Krise stürzen — to plunge sb/sth into a crisis

    2) (= kippen) to turn upside down; Pudding to turn out

    "nicht stürzen!" — "this side up"

    3) (= absetzen) Regierung, Minister to bring down; (durch Coup) to overthrow; König to depose
    3. vr

    sich zu Tode stürzen — to fall to one's death; (absichtlich) to jump to one's death

    sich auf jdn/etw stürzen — to pounce on sb/sth; auf Essen to fall on sth; auf Zeitung etc to grab sth; auf den Feind to attack sb/sth

    sich ins Unglück/Verderben stürzen — to plunge headlong into disaster/ruin

    * * *
    1) (to cause to fall: The storm brought all the trees down.) bring down
    2) (to force one's way noisily (through, into): He crashed through the undergrowth.) crash
    3) (to move with speed and violence: A man dashed into a shop.) dash
    4) (to rush: He flung out of the house.) fling
    5) (to (cause to) fall heavily: He pitched forward.) pitch
    6) ((of a heavy weight) to fall or drop swiftly: The rock plummeted to the bottom of the cliff.) plummet
    7) (to (make someone or something) hurry or go quickly: He rushed into the room; She rushed him to the doctor.) rush
    8) (to (cause to) fall, especially in a helpless or confused way: She tumbled down the stairs; The box suddenly tumbled off the top of the wardrobe.) tumble
    * * *
    stür·zen
    [ˈʃtʏrtsn̩]
    I. vi Hilfsverb: sein
    ich wäre fast gestürzt I nearly fell [down [or over]]
    schwer \stürzen to fall heavily
    [aus [o von] etw] \stürzen to fall [out of [or from] [or off] sth]
    vom Dach/Tisch/Fahrrad/Pferd \stürzen to fall off the roof/table/bicycle/horse
    zu Boden \stürzen to fall to the ground; (heftiger) to crash to the ground
    2. POL
    [über etw akk] \stürzen Regierung to fall [or collapse] [over sth]; Mensch to be forced to resign [over sth]
    [irgendwohin [o irgendwoher]] \stürzen to rush [or dash] [somewhere]
    wohin ist der denn so eilig gestürzt? where did he rush [or dash] off to in such a hurry?
    ins Zimmer \stürzen to burst into the room
    II. vt Hilfsverb: haben
    jdn/sich [aus etw dat/vor etw akk] \stürzen to throw [or hurl] sb/oneself [out of [or from] [or off]/in front of sth]
    jdn/etw \stürzen to bring sb/sth down; Minister to make sb resign; Diktator to overthrow sb; Regierung to topple sb/sth; (mit Gewalt) to overthrow sb/sth
    etw \stürzen to turn sth upside down
    den Kuchen \stürzen to turn out the cake
    etw \stürzen to turn sth upside down [or over]
    „[bitte] nicht \stürzen!“ “this way [or side] up!”
    III. vr
    sich akk [auf jdn] \stürzen to pounce [on sb]
    sich akk [auf etw akk] \stürzen to fall on sth
    die Gäste stürzten sich aufs kalte Büfett the guests fell on the cold buffet
    sich akk [in etw akk] \stürzen to plunge into sth
    sich akk in Schulden \stürzen to plunge into debt
    sich akk in Unkosten \stürzen to go to great expense; s.a. Unglück, Verderben, Vergnügen
    * * *
    1.
    intransitives Verb; mit sein
    1) fall (aus, von from); (in die Tiefe) plunge; plummet
    2) (fig.) <temperature, exchange rate, etc.> drop [sharply]; < prices> tumble; < government> fall, collapse
    3) (laufen) rush; dash
    4) (fließen) stream; pour
    2.

    sich auf jemanden/etwas stürzen — (auch fig.) pounce on somebody/something

    sich aus dem Fenster stürzenhurl oneself or leap out of the window

    sich in etwas (Akk.) stürzen — throw oneself or plunge into something

    3.
    1) throw; (mit Wucht) hurl
    2) (umdrehen) upturn, turn upside-down <mould, pot, box, glass, cup>; turn out <pudding, cake, etc.>
    3) (des Amtes entheben) oust < person> [from office]; (gewaltsam) overthrow, topple <leader, government>
    * * *
    A. v/i (ist gestürzt)
    1. fall; in die Tiefe: plunge, plummet; ins Wasser: dive, plunge;
    schwer stürzen have a bad ( oder heavy) fall;
    (bewusstlos) zu Boden stürzen fall to the ground (unconscious), collapse;
    vom Fahrrad stürzen fall off one’s bicycle;
    aus dem Fenster stürzen fall out of the window;
    aus den Augen stürzen Tränen: stream from sb’s eyes;
    ins Meer stürzen Flugzeug: plunge ( oder dive) into the sea
    2. WIRTSCH, Kurse, Preise: fall ( oder drop) sharply, tumble; Temperatur: drop sharply, plunge
    3. POL, Regierung etc: fall; Minister: be removed from office;
    der Minister stürzte über diesen Skandal auch this scandal brought about ( oder led to) the minister’s downfall
    4. Gelände: drop;
    in die Tiefe stürzen Abhang etc: drop sheer, plunge down;
    die Felsen stürzen dort 100 Meter in die Tiefe the cliffs have a sheer drop of 100 metres (US -ers) at that point
    5. (rennen) rush, dash;
    ins Zimmer stürzen auch burst into the room;
    in jemandes Arme stürzen fall ( oder fling o.s.) into sb’s arms
    B. v/t (hat)
    1. (stoßen) throw;
    jemanden/etwas aus dem Fenster/von der Brücke stürzen throw sb/sth out of the window/from ( oder off) the bridge;
    stürzen plunge sb into misery etc; Verderben
    2. (umkippen) turn upside down; (Pudding etc) turn out of the mo(u)ld ( oder tin);
    Nicht stürzen! Kistenaufschrift: this side up
    3. (Regierung etc) bring down, bring about the downfall of; durch Gewalt: overthrow
    C. v/r (hat)
    1.
    sich ins Wasser stürzen plunge into the water;
    sich vor einen Zug stürzen throw o.s. in front of a train;
    sich aus dem Fenster stürzen plunge ( oder fling o.s.) out of the window;
    sich in Unkosten stürzen go to great expense, spare no expense;
    er hat sich nicht gerade in geistige Unkosten gestürzt he didn’t exactly strain his grey matter;
    sich in die Arbeit stürzen throw o.s. into ( oder immerse o.s. in) one’s work;
    sich ins Nachtleben stürzen umg abandon o.s. to the pleasures of nightlife; Unglück, Verderben etc
    2.
    sich stürzen auf (+akk) (jemanden) rush to(wards); aggressiv: rush at; (herfallen über) auch Raubkatze: pounce on; Raubvogel: swoop down on; umg, fig (ein Buffet etc) fall upon, attack;
    sich aufeinander stürzen fall upon each other;
    sich auf die Süßigkeiten stürzen umg pounce on ( oder attack) the sweets;
    sich auf die Geschenke stürzen umg fall upon the presents
    * * *
    1.
    intransitives Verb; mit sein
    1) fall (aus, von from); (in die Tiefe) plunge; plummet
    2) (fig.) <temperature, exchange rate, etc.> drop [sharply]; < prices> tumble; < government> fall, collapse
    3) (laufen) rush; dash
    4) (fließen) stream; pour
    2.

    sich auf jemanden/etwas stürzen — (auch fig.) pounce on somebody/something

    sich aus dem Fenster stürzenhurl oneself or leap out of the window

    sich in etwas (Akk.) stürzen — throw oneself or plunge into something

    3.
    1) throw; (mit Wucht) hurl
    2) (umdrehen) upturn, turn upside-down <mould, pot, box, glass, cup>; turn out <pudding, cake, etc.>
    3) (des Amtes entheben) oust < person> [from office]; (gewaltsam) overthrow, topple <leader, government>
    * * *
    v.
    to fall v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: fell, fallen)
    to fall off v.
    to overthrow v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: overthrew, overthrown)
    to overturn v.
    to precipitate v.
    to rush v.
    to topple v.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > stürzen

  • 106 perdonar una deuda

    (v.) = write-off + debt
    Ex. For the poorest and heavily indebted countries, creditors need to drastically reduce or write-off the debts in order to make more resources available for investment.
    * * *
    (v.) = write-off + debt

    Ex: For the poorest and heavily indebted countries, creditors need to drastically reduce or write-off the debts in order to make more resources available for investment.

    Spanish-English dictionary > perdonar una deuda

  • 107 sink

    I [sɪŋk]
    1) (in kitchen) lavello m., acquaio m., lavandino m.; (in bathroom) lavabo m., lavandino m.
    2) (cesspit) pozzo m. nero; fig. cloaca f.
    3) (anche sinkhole) geol. dolina f. a inghiottitoio
    II 1. [sɪŋk]
    verbo transitivo (pass. sank; p.pass. sunk)
    1) affondare [ ship]
    2) (bore) perforare [ oilwell]; scavare [ foundations]
    3) (embed) conficcare [ post] ( into in)

    to sink one's teeth into — affondare i denti in [ sandwich]

    4) BE colloq. buttare giù [ drink]
    5) sport mandare, mettere in buca [ billiard ball]; fare [ putt]
    6) (destroy) [ scandal] fare crollare [ party]

    to sink money into sth. — investire denaro in qcs

    2.
    verbo intransitivo (pass. sank; p.pass. sunk)
    1) (fail to float) [ship, object, person] affondare

    to sink without a tracefig. [idea, project etc.] cadere nell'oblio

    2) (drop to lower level) [ sun] calare, tramontare; [ cake] abbassarsi; [pressure, water level, production] abbassarsi, calare
    3) (subside) [building, wall] crollare

    to sink into — [ person] affondare in [ mud]; [ country] cadere in [ anarchy]; [ celebrity] cadere in [ obscurity]

    to sink under the weight of — [ shelf] piegarsi sotto il peso di [ boxes]; [person, company] crollare sotto il peso di [ debt]

    * * *
    [siŋk] 1. past tense - sank; verb
    1) (to (cause to) go down below the surface of water etc: The torpedo sank the battleship immediately; The ship sank in deep water.) affondare
    2) (to go down or become lower (slowly): The sun sank slowly behind the hills; Her voice sank to a whisper.) calare, scendere; tramontare
    3) (to (cause to) go deeply (into something): The ink sank into the paper; He sank his teeth into an apple.) penetrare, filtrare
    4) ((of one's spirits etc) to become depressed or less hopeful: My heart sinks when I think of the difficulties ahead.) (deprimersi)
    5) (to invest (money): He sank all his savings in the business.) investire
    2. noun
    (a kind of basin with a drain and a water supply connected to it: He washed the dishes in the sink.) lavandino, lavello, lavabo
    - be sunk
    - sink in
    * * *
    I [sɪŋk]
    1) (in kitchen) lavello m., acquaio m., lavandino m.; (in bathroom) lavabo m., lavandino m.
    2) (cesspit) pozzo m. nero; fig. cloaca f.
    3) (anche sinkhole) geol. dolina f. a inghiottitoio
    II 1. [sɪŋk]
    verbo transitivo (pass. sank; p.pass. sunk)
    1) affondare [ ship]
    2) (bore) perforare [ oilwell]; scavare [ foundations]
    3) (embed) conficcare [ post] ( into in)

    to sink one's teeth into — affondare i denti in [ sandwich]

    4) BE colloq. buttare giù [ drink]
    5) sport mandare, mettere in buca [ billiard ball]; fare [ putt]
    6) (destroy) [ scandal] fare crollare [ party]

    to sink money into sth. — investire denaro in qcs

    2.
    verbo intransitivo (pass. sank; p.pass. sunk)
    1) (fail to float) [ship, object, person] affondare

    to sink without a tracefig. [idea, project etc.] cadere nell'oblio

    2) (drop to lower level) [ sun] calare, tramontare; [ cake] abbassarsi; [pressure, water level, production] abbassarsi, calare
    3) (subside) [building, wall] crollare

    to sink into — [ person] affondare in [ mud]; [ country] cadere in [ anarchy]; [ celebrity] cadere in [ obscurity]

    to sink under the weight of — [ shelf] piegarsi sotto il peso di [ boxes]; [person, company] crollare sotto il peso di [ debt]

    English-Italian dictionary > sink

  • 108 делать долги

    Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > делать долги

  • 109 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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  • 110 hoch

    n; -s, -s
    1. (Hochruf) cheers Pl. ( auf + Akk oder + Dat for); ein Hoch auf jemanden ausbringen give three cheers for s.o.; ein Hoch dem Zufall, der dich hergeführt hat! thank goodness you happened to come along!
    2. Stand: high, peak; ... hat ein vorläufiges Hoch erreicht... has reached a temporary high,... has peaked temporarily
    3. MET. high(-pressure area)
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    das Hoch
    (Wetter) anticyclone; high-pressure area; high
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    [hoːx]
    nt -s, -s
    1)

    (= Ruf) ein (dreifaches) Hóch für or auf jdn ausbringen — to give three cheers for sb

    ein Hóch dem Brautpaar — a toast to the bride and groom

    2) (MET fig) high
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    1) (at, from, or reaching up to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: a high mountain; a high dive; a dive from the high diving-board.) high
    2) (having a particular height: This building is about 20 metres high; My horse is fifteen hands high.) high
    3) (great; large; considerable: The car was travelling at high speed; He has a high opinion of her work; They charge high prices; high hopes; The child has a high fever/temperature.) high
    4) (noble; good: high ideals.) high
    5) ((of sounds) at or towards the top of a (musical) range: a high note.) high
    6) ((of voices) like a child's voice (rather than like a man's): He still speaks in a high voice.) high
    7) (having great value: Aces and kings are high cards.) high
    8) (very; very much: highly delighted; highly paid; I value the book highly.) highly
    9) (with approval: He thinks/speaks very highly of you.) highly
    10) (at, or to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: The plane was flying high in the sky; He'll rise high in his profession.) high
    11) ((of sounds, voices etc) high, sharp: a high-pitched, childish voice.) high-pitched
    12) (very high: a lofty building.) lofty
    14) (of a musical note, raised a semitone; too high in pitch: F sharp; That last note was sharp.) sharp
    15) up
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    Hoch1
    <-s, -s>
    [ho:x]
    nt cheer
    ein dreifaches \Hoch dem glücklichen Brautpaar three cheers for the happy couple
    ein \Hoch auf jdn ausbringen to give sb a cheer
    Hoch2
    <-s, -s>
    [ho:x]
    nt METEO high
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    das; Hochs, Hochs
    1) (Hochruf)

    ein [dreifaches] Hoch auf jemanden ausbringen — give three cheers for somebody

    2) (Met.) high
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    hoch; höher, am höchsten
    A. adj
    1. räumlich: high; Gestalt, Baum, Haus etc: tall; Leiter etc: long; Schnee, Wasser etc: deep;
    ein zwei Meter hoher Zaun a two-metre (US -er)-high fence;
    hohe Schuhe (mit hohen Absätzen) (high) heels;
    hoher Seegang heavy ( oder rough) seas;
    der hohe Norden fig the far north;
    die Hohe Tatra GEOG the High Tatra;
    die Hohen Tauern GEOG the High Tauern; fig Kante, Ross
    2. Ton, Stimme etc: high;
    zu hoch MUS sharp;
    das hohe C top C
    3. Druck, Einkommen, Fieber, Miete, Preis, Temperatur, Tempo etc: high; Einkommen, Profit, Verlust: auch big; Lotteriegewinn: big; Betrag, Menge, Summe: large; Alter, Gewicht, Tempo: great; Gewicht, Strafe: heavy; Strafe, Verlust etc: auch severe;
    ein hohes Alter erreichen auch live to be very old ( oder to a ripe old age);
    trotz seines hohen Alters despite his (advanced oder great) age, despite his advanced years;
    in hohem Maße highly, greatly;
    das ist eine hohe Zeit bei Rennen etc: (langsam) that’s a slow time;
    es ist hohe Zeit (es eilt) it’s high time
    4. fig (schwierig):
    das ist mir zu hoch umg, fig (zu schwierig) that’s above my head ( oder beyond me);
    seine Rede war zu hoch für sie umg, fig he was talking over their heads
    5. Geburt, Politik, Posten etc: high; Geburt: auch noble; Rang: auch superior; Diplomatie, Politik: auch high-level; Beamter, Offizier: high-ranking, senior; Besuch, Feiertag, Jubiläum etc: important;
    hoher Adel nobility, in GB auch peerage;
    hoher Gast distinguished guest, VIP;
    hohes Gericht high court; Anrede: Your Lordship (US Your Honor), Members of the Jury;
    der Hohe Priester the high priest;
    der hohe Herr umg, iron the great lord;
    Hoch und Niedrig (Arm und Reich) high and low; Haus, Tier
    6. Ehre, Konzentration: great; Anspruch, Meinung etc: high; Favorit: hot;
    eine hohe Meinung haben von think very highly of; Ansehen, Lied, Schule
    7. (auf Höhepunkt):
    in hoher Blüte stehen be in full bloom; künstlerische Bewegung: be at its height;
    das hohe Mittelalter the High Middle Ages;
    es ist hoher Sommer it is high summer
    B. adv
    1. (Ggs niedrig) high;
    hoch oben high up; (weit) a long way up;
    hoch oben im Norden far up in the north;
    hoch über dem Boden/der Stadt high above the ground/town;
    ein hoch beladener Wagen a heavily-laden cart;
    hoch fliegen (weit oben) fly high (up);
    3000 m hoch fliegen fly at a height of 3000 m;
    hoch gelegen high-up, high up in the mountains;
    hoch liegen Ort: be situated high up; Schnee: be deep;
    die Sonne steht hoch (am Himmel) the sun is high (in the sky);
    zwei Treppen hoch wohnen live on the second (US third) floor, live two floors up;
    den Kopf/die Nase hoch tragen fig hold one’s head up high/go around with one’s nose in the air;
    wer hoch steigt, wird tief fallen sprichw the higher you climb, the further you have to fall; fig hergehen, hinauswollen
    2. (nach oben) up;
    hoch aufragen tower (up), soar;
    Hände hoch! hands up!;
    Kopf hoch! chin up!
    3. Tonlage: high;
    zu hoch singen/spielen sing/play sharp
    4. bezahlen, dotiert, versichern etc: highly; besteuert, verlieren: heavily; gewinnen: by a large margin;
    hoch dosiert in large doses;
    hoch in den Achtzigern sein be well into one’s eighties;
    zu hoch einschätzen overestimate, overrate;
    das ist zu hoch gegriffen (überschätzt) that’s a bit high; (übertrieben) that’s an exaggeration;
    spielen play (for) high (stakes) (auch fig);
    hoch verschuldet heavily ( oder deep) in debt
    5. in Wendungen mit Adjektiven wie angesehen, geachtet, geehrt, industrialisiert, kompliziert, motiviert, qualifiziert, spezialisiert etc: highly; beglückt: very; (überaus, äußerst) auch extremely;
    hoch beansprucht Person: … on whom great demands are made; Bauteil etc: heavily used;
    hoch entwickelt highly developed, sophisticated; Technik etc: auch very advanced;
    hoch gespannt fig Erwartungen: great, high; Pläne: ambitious;
    hoch radioaktiv highly radioactiv ( oder contaminated);
    hoch konzentriert Zuhörer etc: highly concentrated; lesen etc: with great concentration, very concentratedly; auch hochkonzentriert, hochstehend;
    hoch technisiert sophisticated; high-tech …;
    hoch und heilig versprechen promise solemnly, swear; hochleben
    6. in Wendungen mit Verben: highly, greatly;
    hoch achten greatly respect, hold in high esteem;
    jemandem etwas hoch anrechnen respect sb for (doing) sth;
    er rechnet dir das hoch an auch that really impressed him umg;
    jemanden hoch schätzen regard sb highly
    7. umg:
    drei Mann hoch three of them ( oder us, you);
    8. MATH:
    drei hoch zwei/drei three squared/cubed, three to the power of two/three;
    vier hoch fünf four to the power of five ( oder fifth power);
    das ist doch Schwachsinn hoch drei! umg that’s totally stupid!; höher, höchst…
    hoch… im v auch auf…, hinauf…
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    das; Hochs, Hochs

    ein [dreifaches] Hoch auf jemanden ausbringen — give three cheers for somebody

    2) (Met.) high
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    nur sing. n.
    high n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > hoch

  • 111 hoch;

    höher, am höchsten
    I Adj.
    1. räumlich: high; Gestalt, Baum, Haus etc.: tall; Leiter etc.: long; Schnee, Wasser etc: deep; ein zwei Meter hoher Zaun a two-met|re (Am. -er)-high fence; hohe Schuhe (mit hohen Absätzen) (high) heels; hoher Seegang heavy ( oder rough) seas; der hohe Norden fig. the far north; die Hohe Tatra GEOG. the High Tatra; die Hohen Tauern GEOG. the High Tauern; fig. Kante, Ross
    2. Ton, Stimme etc.: high; zu hoch MUS. sharp; das hohe C top C
    3. Druck, Einkommen, Fieber, Miete, Preis, Temperatur, Tempo etc.: high; Einkommen, Profit, Verlust: auch big; Lotteriegewinn: big; Betrag, Menge, Summe: large; Alter, Gewicht, Tempo: great; Gewicht, Strafe: heavy; Strafe, Verlust etc.: auch severe; ein hohes Alter erreichen auch live to be very old ( oder to a ripe old age); trotz seines hohen Alters despite his (advanced oder great) age, despite his advanced years; in hohem Maße highly, greatly; das ist eine hohe Zeit bei Rennen etc.: (langsam) that’s a slow time; es ist hohe Zeit (es eilt) it’s high time
    4. fig. (schwierig): das ist mir zu hoch umg., fig. (zu schwierig) that’s above my head ( oder beyond me); seine Rede war zu hoch für sie umg., fig. he was talking over their heads
    5. Geburt, Politik, Posten etc.: high; Geburt: auch noble; Rang: auch superior; Diplomatie, Politik: auch high-level; Beamter, Offizier: high-ranking, senior; Besuch, Feiertag, Jubiläum etc.: important; hoher Adel nobility, in GB auch peerage; hoher Gast distinguished guest, VIP; hohes Gericht high court; Anrede: Your Lordship (Am. Your Honor), Members of the Jury; der Hohe Priester the high priest; der hohe Herr umg., iro. the great lord; Hoch und Niedrig (Arm und Reich) high and low; Haus, Tier
    6. Ehre, Konzentration: great; Anspruch, Meinung etc.: high; Favorit: hot; eine hohe Meinung haben von think very highly of; Ansehen, Lied, Schule
    7. (auf Höhepunkt): in hoher Blüte stehen be in full bloom; künstlerische Bewegung: be at its height; das hohe Mittelalter the High Middle Ages; es ist hoher Sommer it is high summer
    II Adv.
    1. (Ggs. niedrig) high; hoch oben high up; (weit) a long way up; hoch oben im Norden far up in the north; hoch über dem Boden / der Stadt high above the ground / town; ein hoch beladener Wagen a heavily-laden cart; hoch fliegen (weit oben) fly high (up); 3000 m hoch fliegen fly at a height of 3000 m; hoch gelegen high-up, high up in the mountains; hoch liegen Ort: be situated high up; Schnee: be deep; die Sonne steht hoch ( am Himmel) the sun is high (in the sky); zwei Treppen hoch wohnen live on the second (Am. third) floor, live two floors up; hoch gewachsen tall; den Kopf / die Nase hoch tragen fig. hold one’s head up high / go around with one’s nose in the air; wer hoch steigt, wird tief fallen Sprichw. the higher you climb, the further you have to fall; fig. hergehen, hinauswollen
    2. (nach oben) up; hoch aufgeschossen lanky; hoch aufragen tower (up), soar; Hände hoch! hands up!; Kopf hoch! chin up!
    3. Tonlage: high; zu hoch singen / spielen sing / play sharp
    4. bezahlen, dotiert, versichern etc.: highly; besteuert, verlieren: heavily; gewinnen: by a large margin; hoch dosiert in large doses; hoch in den Achtzigern sein be well into one’s eighties; zu hoch einschätzen overestimate, overrate; das ist zu hoch gegriffen (überschätzt) that’s a bit high; (übertrieben) that’s an exaggeration; hoch pokern oder spielen play (for) high (stakes) (auch fig.); hoch verschuldet heavily ( oder deep) in debt
    5. in Wendungen mit Adjektiven wie angesehen, geachtet, geehrt, industrialisiert, konzentriert, motiviert, qualifiziert, spezialisiert, willkommen, zivilisiert etc.: highly; beglückt, erfreut, zufrieden: very; (überaus, äußerst) auch extremely; hoch beansprucht Person:... on whom great demands are made; Bauteil etc.: heavily used; hoch dekorierter Offizier highly-decorated officer; hoch empfindlich Instrument, Material: highly sensitive; Gleichgewicht: extremely delicate; Film: high-speed..., fast; umg. Person: hypersensitive; (leicht reizbar) auch very touchy; hoch entwickelt highly developed, sophisticated; Technik etc.: auch very advanced; hoch favorisiert sein be a great favo(u)rite; hoch gespannt fig. Erwartungen: great, high; Pläne: ambitious; hoch gestecktes Ziel ambitious aim; hoch gestellt high-ranking; hoch konzentrierte Säure highly-concentrated acid; qualitativ hoch stehende Erzeugnisse products of superior quality; hoch stehende Persönlichkeit leading figure, distinguished personality, VIP; hoch technisiert sophisticated; high-tech...; hoch und heilig versprechen promise solemnly, swear; hochleben
    6. in Wendungen mit Verben: highly, greatly; hoch achten greatly respect, hold in high esteem; jemandem etw. hoch anrechnen respect s.o. for (doing) s.th.; er rechnet dir das hoch an auch that really impressed him umg.; jemanden hoch schätzen regard s.o. highly
    7. umg: drei Mann hoch three of them ( oder us, you); wenn es hoch kommt at (the) most, at best
    8. MATH.: drei hoch zwei / drei three squared / cubed, three to the power of two / three; vier hoch fünf four to the power of five ( oder fifth power); das ist doch Schwachsinn hoch drei! umg. that’s totally stupid!; höher, höchst...

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > hoch;

  • 112 charge

    1. I
    1) the troops (the brigade, the cavalry, etc.) charged войска и т. д. пошли в атаку
    2) the battery needs charging батарейку нужно зарядить, батарейка села
    2. II
    charge unexpectedly ( fiercely /furiously, violently/, etc.) пойти в неожиданную и т. д. атаку; our player charged again and again наш игрок предпринимал все вовью атаки
    2)
    charge heavily (exorbitantly, double, extravagantly, unscrupulously, etc.) назначать /просить, запрашивать/ высокую и т. д. цену; взимать высокую и т. д. плату; you charge too high [for this] вы [за это] заломили слишком много
    3. III
    1) charge smth. charge a gun (an accumulator, an electric battery, etc.), заряжать ружье и т. д.
    2) charge smth. charge 5 dollars (I rouble, a 4% commission, etc.) назначать /просить, взимать/ пять долларов и т. д.; what commission would you -? сколько вы возьмете комиссионных?
    3) charge smth. charge a necklace (a dress, a dinner, etc.) записывать в долг покупку ожерелья и т. д.; I always -all my purchases я всегда покупаю в кредит
    4) charge smb., smth. charge the enemy (the enemy troops, etc.) атаковать противника и т. д., завязать бой с противником и т. д; charge the enemy positions атаковать позиции противника
    4. IV
    1) charge smb. in some manner charge smb. falsely (calumniously, groundlessly, etc.) предъявлять кому-л. ложное и т. д. обвинение
    2) charge smb. in some manner charge smb. violently (unreasonably, heavily, vehemently, sword in hand, etc.) яростно и т. д. атаковать кого-л.
    3) charge smth. in some manner charge a cart (a boat, a ship, a lorry, etc.) heavily (excessively, to the full, etc.) тяжело и т. д. нагрузить телегу и т. д.
    5. V
    charge smth. smth., charge one pound a yard (a penny a throw, three shillings a dozen, etc.) брать /просить/ по одному фунту за ярд и т. д.; how much do you charge an hour? сколько вы берете за час?; charge smb. smth. charge smb. a high price (the lowest price, too much, etc.) запрашивать с кого-л. /назначать кому-л./ высокую и т. д. цену; we are charging you the old prices мы берем с вас no старым ценам
    6. XI
    1) be charged in some manner the lorry (the cart, etc.) was charged to the full (to excess, heavily, etc.) грузовик был нагружен до самого верха и т. д.; be charged with with. soldiers came back charged with booty солдаты вернулись, нагруженные добычей
    2) be charged with smth. be charged with moisture (with electricity, etc.) быть насыщенным влагой и т. д.; the air was charged with steam в воздухе стоял пар; the atmosphere was charged with suspense /tension/ атмосфера была очень напряженной; the atmosphere there was charged with fear там царил страх
    3) be charged in some manner he was falsely (groundlessly, etc.) charged его ложно и т. д. обвинили, ему было предъявлено ложное и т. д. обвинение; be charged with smth. what 'is the prisoner charged with? в чем обвиняется заключенный?
    4) be charged smth. the company should be charged only your travelling expenses компания должна оплачивать только ваши дорожные расходы; be charged on smth. storage will be charged on each piece of baggage remaining at the station ever 24 hours за каждое место багажа, оставленного на хранение на вокзале на срок свыше двадцати четырех часов, будет взиматься плата
    7. XVI
    1) charge at smb. charge at the спешу (at the standing man, etc.) нападать /набрасываться/ на /атаковать/ противника и т. д.; the bull (the wounded lion, the stranger, etc.) charged at me suddenly бык и т. д. внезапно (на)бросился на меня; charge across (into, etc.) smth. the bull charged across the field (into the forest, etc.) бык бросился бежать по полю и т. д.
    2) charge at smth. charge at L 300 a year (at five shillings a yard, at $ 8 an hour, etc.) брать /просить/ триста фунтов в год и т. д.; charge by smth. charge by weight (by bulk, etc.) взимать плату по весу и т. д, charge by the hour взимать почасовую плату
    8. XXI1
    1) charge smb. with (on) smth. charge the enemy with fixed bayonets атаковать противника примкнутыми штыками; charge the enemy with violence яростно атаковать противника; charge the enemy on horseback завязать конный бой
    2) charge smth. with smth. charge a gun with blank cartridges (the cannon with powder and ball, etc.) заряжать ружье холостыми патронами и т. д.; charge water with carbon dioxide газировать воду
    3) charge smth., smb. with smth. charge a boat with a load нагружать лодку; charge one's shoulders with a sack of corn взвалить на плечи мешок зерна; charge mules with hampers навьючить на мула плетеные корзины; charge a table with dishes заставить стол посудой; charge the stomach with [indigestible] food набить желудок [тяжелой] пищей; charge one's speech with commonplace phrases (with proverbs, etc.) пересыпать свой речь банальными выражениями и т. д. charge one's memory with facts (with useful information, etc.) загружать память фактами и т. д. charge one's memory with trifles забивать голову /память/ всякими пустяками; charge smb. with reproaches ( with insults, with praise, with honours, etc.) осыпать кого-л. упреками и т. д.
    4) charge smth. for smth. charge a fee for one's service (L 1 for the book, commission for the sale, etc.) назначать /просить, взимать/ плату за обслуживание и т. д.; charge too much (nothing) for smth. запросить очень много (ничего не взять) за что-л.; what /how much/ do they charge for a car by the day (for a call, for a room, etc.)? сколько стоит день проката автомобиля и т. д.?
    5) charge smb. with smth. charge smb. with a crime (with offences of every imaginable kind, with delinquency, with various defects, with dishonesty, with carelessness, with complicity, with assault and battery, with murder. with treason, etc.) обвинять кого-л. в преступлении и т. д; charge smth. to smb. charge a crime (treason, a calamity, an accident, etc.) to smb. приписывать преступление и т. д. кому-л.
    6) charge smth. to smb., smth. charge the expense to the firm (a thing bought to the customer, the sum to his account, the payment of smth. to the public debt, the fare on the bill, etc.) записывать /относить/ расходы за счет фирмы и т. д.
    7) charge smb. with smth. charge the pupils with a task (the boy with a duty, him with an office, the agent with an important commission, etc.) дать ученикам задание и т. д., charge a governess with the education of children (a man with the superintendence of a building, etc.) поручить гувернантке воспитание детей и т. д; charge these people with heavy responsibilities возлагать на этих людей большую ответственность
    9. XXII
    1) charge smb. with doing smth. charge a burglar with having stolen the jewels (a student with neglecting his duty, a man with having done smth., etc.) обвинять грабителя в краже драгоценностей и т. д.' the policeman charged him with driving a car while under the influence of alcohol полицейский обвинял его в том, что он вел машину в нетрезвом виде
    2) charge smth. for doing smth. charge a fee for performing an operation назначать плату за операцию; charge L 40 for teaching the children ($ 3 for running errands, etc.) просить 40 фунтов за обучение детей и т. д.; how much do you charge for cleaning a coat? сколько вы берете за чистку пальто?, сколько стоит почистить пальто?

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > charge

  • 113 deep

    di:p
    1. прил.
    1) а) глубокий;
    настолько-то глубокий The well was forty feet deep ≈ Колодец был глубиной 40 футов His wound was deep. ≈ У него была глубокая рана. The lawyer was always engaged six deep whenever I called to see him. ≈ К адвокату всегда стояла очередь в шесть человек, когда бы я не приходил. knee-deep deep in the forest deep end б) погруженный в воду на столько-то в) таинственный;
    трудный для понимания A deep book for deep people. ≈ Ученая книга для ученых людей. deep language
    2) а) перен. глубокий, серьезный, продуманный, не поверхностный A man of deep learning. ≈ Человек глубоких знаний. Syn: penetrating, profound б) перен. глубокий, сильный John's feelings were too deep for words. ≈ Чувства Джона были слишком сильны, чтобы их можно было выразить в словах. deep delight в) насыщенный, темный, густой( о краске, цвете) Deeper and deeper grew the colour of the sun. ≈ Солнце становилось все краснее и краснее. г) на высоком, высшем уровне чего-л. But then the deep eclipse came on. ≈ Но тут началось полное затмение. It was now deep night. ≈ Был самый разгар ночи, была тьма хоть глаза коли. my deep regret deep in debt deep mourning deep sleep deep secret ∙ Syn: profound
    3) погруженный во что-л., поглощенный, занятый чем-л. He passed the next night in deep study. ≈ Следующую ночь он провел с головой погрузившись в занятия. deep in thought deep in meditation
    4) низкий( о звуке) He possesses a very fine deep voice. ≈ У него очень чистый низкий голос. Syn: grave, full-toned, resonantdeep waters go to the deep end deep pocketбогатство, состоятельность
    2. сущ.
    1) а) глубокое место, глубина;
    открытое море, глубоководные части моря Till we were quite out of the deep, and in full sight of the land. ≈ Пока мы не покинули глубокие воды и не оказались в видимости берега. б) бездна, пропасть And thunder through the sapphire deeps. ≈ Гром в сапфирных глубинах (о небе) That boundless deep of space. ≈ Бесконечная бездна пространства. Syn: abyss в) поэт. море, океан (часто также с определенным артиклем) Barks to cross the dark blue deep. ≈ Корабли, намеревающиеся пересечь темное, голубое море. Syn: ocean, main г) пещера, яма;
    долина A prophet who in a deep of cliff the fates doth chant. ≈ Предсказатель, поющий в скальной расселине о судьбах мира. Syn: pit, cavity, valley
    2) глубины мысли;
    поэт. самое сокровенное From the human spirit's deepest deep. ≈ Их сокровенных глубин человеческой души.
    3) мор. меры глубины в саженях, не отмеченные на лоте (на 20-саженном лоте это 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, и 19 сажени)
    3. нареч.
    1) глубоко His hands were stuck deep into pockets of his breeches. ≈ Он стоял, глубоко засунув руки в карманы. dig deep deep into the night lie deep deep-fish Syn: deeply Still waters run deep ≈ посл. В тихом омуте черти водятся (ближе "тот кто молчит, скрывает многое").
    2) сильно, серьезно They drank deep of the French wine. ≈ Они выпили изрядно французского вина. Syn: profoundly, intensely, earnestly, heavily
    3) низко( о звуке, голосе) A hundred dogs bayed deep and strong. ≈ Слышался низкий и мощный лай своры в сотню собак.
    4. гл. редк. становиться глубже, становиться глубоким;
    расширяться глубь, глубина - the unfathomed *s неизведанные /неизмеренные/ глубины океана - the * of space безграничность пространства - the *s of knowledge (образное) глубины знаний углубление, впадина;
    глубокое место - the Boston * Бостонская впадина - ocean * океанская впадина pl фбиссальные глубины (более 5500 м) (the *) море, океан;
    пучина - the great /mighty/ * бездонная синь - the azure * лазурный океан - in the cradle of the * в колыбели моря - to commit a body to the * предавать тело( умершего) морской пучине (книжное) бездна, пропасть (эмоционально-усилительно) время наиболее полного проявления чего-л. - in the * of winter в разгар зимы - in the * of night глубокой ночью, в глухую полночь( риторически) непостижимое, вечная тайна( морское) расстояние между двумя отметками лотлиня (горное) уклон, наклонная выработка глубокий - * river глубокая река - * wrinkles глубокие морщины - * grass высокая трава - as * as well глубокий как колодец;
    очень глубокий - * greenhouse (сельскохозяйственное) земляная теплица имеющий определенную глубину, глубиной в - a mile * глубиной в одну милю - a lot 30 feet wide and 100 feet * участок в 30 футов шириной и в 100 футов длиной - soldiers four rows * солдаты, построившиеся в четыре шеренги широкий;
    имеющий большую толщину - * shelf широкая полка) - * forest большой лес - * border широкая пограничная полоса - her thighs were * and white бедра у нее были округлые /полные/ и белые находящийся на большой глубине, глубинный - * dive ныряние на глубину;
    (спортивное) глубокий вход в воду - * bow глубокий поклон - * spring of water глубинный источник (in) покрытый толстым слоем (чего-л.), находящийся под( чем-л.) - lanes * in snow дорожки, засыпанные толстым слоем снега (in) находящийся или расположенный в глубине, далеко от (чего-л.) - a house * in the valley домик, стоящий глубоко в долине - * in industrial England в самом сердце промышленной Англии (in) погруженный, увлеченный, поглощенный - * in peace безмятежно спокойный - * in reading погруженный /ушедший с головой/ в чтение - * in a novel увлеченный романом - * in a map углубившийся в изучение карты - * in love по уши влюбленный - * in debt кругом в долгах - * in difficulties вконец запутавшийся сильный, крепкий - * in the chest широкогрудый, с широкой грудью серьезный, глубокий;
    фундаментальный, основательный - * theoretician глубокий теоретик - * study фундаментальное исследование;
    серьезные познания - * argument веский аргумент /довод/ - * problem сложная /серьезная/ проблема - * politician прозорливый политик - * designs далеко идущие планы сложный;
    непостижимый;
    таинственный - * mystery /secret/ непостижимая загадка /тайна/ - * game /play/ сложная игра - to play a * game вести сложную игру - too * for words невыразимый сложный;
    глубинный - the *er causes of the social unrest глубинные причины общественного недовольства интенсивный;
    сильный, глубокий - * breath /sigh/ глубокий вздох - * impression глубокое впечатление - * influence сильное влияние - * curse крепкое ругательство - * sleep глубокий /крепкий/ сон полный, совершенный, абсолютный - * gloom глубокий мрак - * night глухая ночь - * stillness /глубокая/ тишина;
    безмолвие глубоко укоренившийся;
    заядлый, завзятый - * drinking беспробудное пьянство - * drinker пропойца - * enemies заклятые враги тяжелый;
    серьезный;
    мучительный - * disgrace несмываемый позор - * sin страшный /смертный/ грех - * wrongs страшная несправедливость насыщенный, темный, густой (о краске, цвете) - * colour густой цвет - * blue темно-синий цвет низкий, полный, грудного тембра (о звуке, голосе) - * sound низкий звук - * groan глухой стон - * bass бас профундо (устаревшее) грязный;
    непролазный;
    непроходимый( о дорогах) (разговорное) хитрый, ловкий (медицина) подкожный - * therapy глубокая рентгенотерапия( психологическое) подсознательный( - deep) как компонент сложных слов: стоящий в столько-то рядов;
    погрузившийся на столько-то - police were three-deep полиция стояла в три ряда - knee-deep in mud по колено в грязи > a * one продувная бестия, тертый калач > * pocket богатство, состоятельность > to be in * waters быть в затруднительном положении > to go (in) off the * end, to go off at the * end взволноваться, разозлиться;
    рисковать, действовать сгоряча /необдуманно/;
    не узнавши броду, соваться в воду глубоко;
    в глубине - to lie * лежать /залегать/ на большой глубине - to dig * рыть глубоко;
    докапываться - to stick one's hands * into one's pockets засунуть руки глубоко в карманы - the harpoon sank * into the flesh гарпун вошел глубоко в тело (животного) - magma in moving from * in the earth магма подымается из земных недр глубоко - to lie * лежать глубоко, иметь глубокие корни( о причинах и т. п.) - to go * into the subject углубиться в изучение предмета - to sink * into the mind запасть в душу;
    глубоко запечатлеться - the difference goes *er различия лежат (еще) глубже /имеют (более) глубокие корни/ на большом удалении( от чего-л.) - * in the mountains высоко в горах;
    в самом сердце гор - his eyes are * in his head у него глубоко посаженные глаза до момента наиболее полного проявления (чего-л.) - * into the winter до глубокой зимы - to read * into the night зачитаться до глубокой ночи - to sit * into the night засидеться допоздна очень, весьма;
    сильно, много - to drink * сделать большой глоток;
    сильно пить, пить запоем - he had drunk * of the pleasures of life он сполна вкусил жизненных удовольствий - to play * круто играть deep: ~ in thought, ~ in meditation( глубоко) задумавшийся, погруженный в размышления ~ бездна, пропасть ~ глубокий;
    deep water большая глубина;
    deep sleep глубокий сон;
    to my deep regret к моему глубокому сожалению ~ глубоко;
    deep in one's mind в глубине души;
    to dig deep рыть глубоко;
    перен. докапываться;
    deep into the night до глубокой ночи ~ глубокое место ~ (the ~) поэт. море, океан ~ насыщенный, темный, густой (о краске, цвете) ~ низкий (о звуке) ;
    a deep one тонкая бестия;
    to draw up five (six) deep воен. строить(ся) в пять( шесть) рядов;
    deep pocket богатство, состоятельность ~ погруженный (во что-л.) ;
    поглощенный (чем-л.) ;
    занятый (чем-л) ~ самое сокровенное ~ серьезный, не поверхностный;
    deep knowledge серьезные, глубокие знания ~ сильный, глубокий;
    deep feelings глубокие чувства;
    deep delight огромное наслаждение ~ таинственный, труднопостигаемый ~ сильный, глубокий;
    deep feelings глубокие чувства;
    deep delight огромное наслаждение ~ сильный, глубокий;
    deep feelings глубокие чувства;
    deep delight огромное наслаждение ~ in a book (in a map) погруженный, ушедший с головой в книгу (в изучение карты) ~ in debt по уши в долгу deep: ~ in thought, ~ in meditation (глубоко) задумавшийся, погруженный в размышления ~ глубоко;
    deep in one's mind в глубине души;
    to dig deep рыть глубоко;
    перен. докапываться;
    deep into the night до глубокой ночи mind: ~ дух (душа) ;
    mind's eye духовное око, мысленный взгляд;
    deep in one's mind (глубоко) в душе deep: ~ in thought, ~ in meditation (глубоко) задумавшийся, погруженный в размышления ~ глубоко;
    deep in one's mind в глубине души;
    to dig deep рыть глубоко;
    перен. докапываться;
    deep into the night до глубокой ночи ~ серьезный, не поверхностный;
    deep knowledge серьезные, глубокие знания ~ низкий (о звуке) ;
    a deep one тонкая бестия;
    to draw up five (six) deep воен. строить(ся) в пять (шесть) рядов;
    deep pocket богатство, состоятельность ~ низкий (о звуке) ;
    a deep one тонкая бестия;
    to draw up five (six) deep воен. строить(ся) в пять (шесть) рядов;
    deep pocket богатство, состоятельность pocket: ~ перен. деньги;
    empty pockets безденежье;
    deep pocket богатство ~ глубокий;
    deep water большая глубина;
    deep sleep глубокий сон;
    to my deep regret к моему глубокому сожалению ~ глубокий;
    deep water большая глубина;
    deep sleep глубокий сон;
    to my deep regret к моему глубокому сожалению ~ глубоко;
    deep in one's mind в глубине души;
    to dig deep рыть глубоко;
    перен. докапываться;
    deep into the night до глубокой ночи ~ низкий (о звуке) ;
    a deep one тонкая бестия;
    to draw up five (six) deep воен. строить(ся) в пять (шесть) рядов;
    deep pocket богатство, состоятельность to keep (smth.) a ~ secret хранить( что-л.) в строгой тайне ~ глубокий;
    deep water большая глубина;
    deep sleep глубокий сон;
    to my deep regret к моему глубокому сожалению still waters run ~ посл. = в тихом омуте черти водятся

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > deep

  • 114 zadłuż|yć

    pf — zadłuż|ać impf vt zadłużyć majątek to mortgage one’s assets
    - poważnie zadłużone przedsiębiorstwo/państwo a debt-laden a. heavily indebted company/country
    - jest zadłużony (w banku) na sumę 5000 dolarów he’s in debt (to the bank) to the tune of $5,000 pot.
    zadłużyć sięzadłużać się to run up a debt

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > zadłuż|yć

  • 115 press

    1. I
    time (the matter, work, etc.) presses время и т.д. не ждет; have you any business that presses? есть у вас какие-л. срочные /неотложные/ дела?; nothing remains that presses ничего срочного нет
    2. II
    1) press somewhere press forward (upward, westward, etc.) [упорно] продвигаться вперед и т.д.; the crowd pressed forward толпа двинулась вперед
    3. III
    1) press smth. press the button (the knob, the lever, etc.) нажимать [на] кнопку и т.д.; press smb.'s hand пожать /сжать/ чью-л. руку; press smb.'s toe наступить кому-л. на ногу; press the trigger спустить /нажать/ курок
    2) press smth., smb. press grapes (berries, etc.) давить виноград и т.д.; press hay (beef, cotton, fish, etc.) прессовать сено и т.д.; press flowers засушивать цветы (для гербария); don't press me you all не давите вы все на меня
    3) press smth. press clothes (smb.'s suit, one's shirt, one's trousers, etc.) гладить /утюжить/ одежду и т.д.
    4) press smth., smb. press the matter (the point, the question, etc.) добиваться немедленного решения дела /ответа по делу/ и т.д., настаивать на немедленном решении дела /ответа по делу/ и т.д.; I wouldn't press the matter any further if I were you на вашем месте я бы на этом больше не настаивал; press the new method настойчиво внедрять новый метод; press the argument доказывать правильность своих доводов; press one's advantage использовать свои преимущества; press an attack развивать наступление; press one's opponent теснить противника, вести решительное наступление на противника
    5) press smth., smb. press smb.'s departure (smb.'s flight, smb.'s escape, etc.) торопить кого-л. с отъездом и т.д.; it is no good pressing him, he doesn't like to be hurried нет смысла добиваться от него немедленного ответа, он не любит, когда его торопят
    4. IV
    1) press smth., smb. in some manner press smth., smb. vigorously (forcibly, desperately, cautiously, etc.) энергично и т.д. давить /нажимать на/ что-л., кого-л.; he warmly (tenderly, affectionately, passionately, etc.) pressed my hand он тепле и т.д. пожал мне руку; be careful, you are pressing me too hard осторожнее, ты меня раздавишь; the crowd pressed me back толпа оттеснила меня назад; press the two plates together плотно прижимать две пластинки друг к другу
    2) press smb. in some manner press the troops forward спешно двинуть войска вперед; press the enemy hard неотступно теснить противника; poverty pressed him hard он жил в большой нужде
    5. VI
    press smth. to some state press the pastry thin and flat тонко раскатывать тесто
    6. VII
    press smb. to do smth. press smb. to retire (one's guest to stay all night, him to act, him to make a reform, etc.) настойчиво уговаривать /убеждать/ кого-л. выйти в отставку и т.д.; he pressed his horse to go faster он все время подгонял /понукал/ лошадь
    7. XI
    1) be pressed all his things have been pressed ace его вещи были выглажены
    2) be pressed in (against, etc.) smb., smth. I was pressed in the crowd меня сдавили /сжали/ в толпе; I was pressed against the wall меня прижали к стене
    3) be pressed from with. wine is pressed from grapes вино жмут из винограда
    4) be pressed in same manner be very much pressed быть в крайне затруднительном положении; our opponents were hard pressed ваши соперники были в трудном положении; be pressed by smth., smb. be pressed by need (by want, by necessity, by hunger, etc.) быть доведённым до крайности нуждой и т.д.; he was pressed by problems on all sides на него навалилось множество всяких проблем; he was pressed by his creditors его преследовали /на него наседали/ кредиторы; be pressed with smth. he was pressed with work у него был завал работы; be pressed for smth. be pressed for time (for money, for space, etc.) остро ощущать нехватку /недостаток/ времени и т.д.; they are very much pressed for funds они испытывают серьезные финансовые затруднения; when pressed for reason, he explained that... когда от него потребовали объяснения, он сказал, что...; be pressed to do smth. be pressed to answer (to come back, etc.) быть вынужденным отвечать и т.д.
    8. XII
    get (have) smth. pressed where can I get my suit pressed? куда можно отдать отутюжить /выгладить/ костюм?: please have my things pressed я хочу, чтобы погладили мои вещи
    9. XVI
    1) press on smth. press on a pen (on a pencil, on these buttons, etc.) нажимать на перо и т.д.; the bone was pressing on a nerve кость давила на нерв; press against /to/ smth., smb. press against the gates (against the wall, against the barrier, etc.) давить /нажимать, напирать/ на ворота и т.д., press against him прижаться к нему; the child pressed close to his mother ребенок тесно прижался к матери; his face pressed close to the window он прижался лицом к окну; press against each other а) толкаться, теснить друг друга: б) жаться друг к другу
    2) press round smb., smth. press round the singer (round the tent, etc.) толпиться вокруг певицы и т.д., со всех сторон обступить певицу и т.д.; press into smth. press into the yard (into the street, into the theatre, etc.) протискиваться во двор и т.д.
    3) press (up)on smb., smth. press heavily on smb. [очень] тяготить кого-л.: debts press heavily on me меня угнетают [мои] бесчисленные долги; these duties did not press heavily on his time эти обязанности не отнимали у него много времени; these troubles (adverse circumstances, etc.) press upon his mind он все время думает об этих неприятностях и т.д., эти неприятности и т.д. не выходят у него из головы
    4) press for smth. book. press for a serious consideration (for a solution, for larger grants for education, for a decision, for reform, etc.) настоятельно добиваться серьезного разбора /рассмотрения/ и т.д.; I must press for an answer я вынужден требовать ответа
    10. XXI1
    1) press smth. with smth. press smth. with a stone (with a paperweight, etc.) прижать /придавить/ что-л. камнем и т.д.; press smth. in smth. press smth. in one's hands сжимать что-л. в руках; press flowers in the leaves of a book засушивать цветы в книге; press smth., smb. against smth. press one's hand against one's forehead прижать руку ко лбу; press smb. against a fence (against a wall, against a tree, etc.) прижимать кого-л. к заберу и т.д.; press smb., smth. to smth. press the baby to one's breast (the picture to one's heart, one's hands to one's sides, etc.) прижимать ребенка к груди и т.д.; press a kiss to smb.'s lips поцеловать кого-л. в губы; press smth. on smth. press a label on a trunk (a stamp on an envelope, a picture on a paper, etc.) приклеить /наклеить/ этикетку на чемодан и т.д.
    2) press smb., smth. into smth. press smb. into a cell (into a narrow passage, into a hole, into a building, etc.) загнать кого-л. в камеру и т.д.; the crowd pressed him into the comer толпа оттеснила его в угол; press a cork into a bottle загнать пробку в бутылку
    3) press smth. out of /from/ smth. press oil out of the seeds (all the juice from a lemon, etc.) выжимать масло из семян и т.д.
    4) press smb. for smth. press smb. for an answer (for a debt, for money, for a decision, for a reform, etc.) настоятельно требовать от кого-л. ответа и т.д.; press smb. with smth. press smb. with questions требовать от кого-л. немедленных ответов на [многочисленные] вопросы; press smth. on smb., smth. press money (a gift, a favour, etc.) on smb. настойчиво предлагать /навязывать/ кому-л. деньги и т.д.; press wine and food on a guest усиленно угощать гостя /предлагать гостю вино и еду/; press these facts on the notice of the public настойчиво привлекать внимание общественности к этим фактам; press smth. into smth. press science into service поставить науку на службу обществу

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > press

  • 116 влезать в долги

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > влезать в долги

  • 117 contraer

    v.
    1 to contract.
    La máquina contrajo las palancas The machine contracted the levers.
    Ella contrajo un servicio She contracted=agreed to a service.
    Ella contrajo todos sus músculos She contracted all her muscles.
    Las gotas contrajeron sus pupilas The drops contracted her pupils.
    2 to acquire (vicio, costumbre).
    3 to catch.
    Contraje paperas hace un mes I caught the mumps a month ago.
    4 to incur in, to fall into.
    Contrajo una deuda tremenda She incurred in an enormous debt.
    5 to shorten, to abbreviate, to abridge, to condense.
    Contraje tu ensayo por estética I shortened your essay for aesthetics.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ TRAER], like link=traer traer
    1 (encoger) to contract
    2 (enfermedad) to catch
    3 (deuda) to contract, incur; (hábito) to pick up
    4 LINGÚÍSTICA to contract
    1 (encogerse) to contract
    \
    contraer obligaciones to enter into obligations
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ enfermedad] to contract frm, catch
    2) [+ compromiso] to make, take on; [+ obligación] to take on, contract frm; [+ deuda, crédito] to incur, contract frm

    contrajo parentesco con la familia realfrm she married into the royal family

    3) [+ costumbre] to get into, acquire frm
    4) [+ músculo, nervio] to contract
    5) [+ metal, objeto] to cause to contract
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) (frml)
    a) < enfermedad> to contract (frml), to catch
    b) <obligación/deudas> to contract (frml); < compromiso> to make

    contrajo matrimonio con doña Eva Sáenzhe married o (frml) contracted (a) marriage with Eva Sáenz

    2)
    a) < músculo> to contract, tighten; <facciones/cara> to contort
    b) <metal/material> to cause... to contract
    2.
    contraerse v pron to contract
    * * *
    = contract, crick.
    Ex. In the face of emergencies, breadth of vision tends to contract, narrowing the range of responses.
    Ex. The crescent-shaped blowhole lies just in front of a crease in the neck, giving the impression that dolphin forever has its head cricked upwards.
    ----
    * contraer multa = incur + fine.
    * contraer un acuerdo = contract + agreement.
    * contraer una enfermedad = contract + disease.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) (frml)
    a) < enfermedad> to contract (frml), to catch
    b) <obligación/deudas> to contract (frml); < compromiso> to make

    contrajo matrimonio con doña Eva Sáenzhe married o (frml) contracted (a) marriage with Eva Sáenz

    2)
    a) < músculo> to contract, tighten; <facciones/cara> to contort
    b) <metal/material> to cause... to contract
    2.
    contraerse v pron to contract
    * * *
    = contract, crick.

    Ex: In the face of emergencies, breadth of vision tends to contract, narrowing the range of responses.

    Ex: The crescent-shaped blowhole lies just in front of a crease in the neck, giving the impression that dolphin forever has its head cricked upwards.
    * contraer multa = incur + fine.
    * contraer un acuerdo = contract + agreement.
    * contraer una enfermedad = contract + disease.

    * * *
    vt
    A ( frml)
    1 ‹enfermedad› to contract ( frml), to catch
    2 ‹obligación› to contract ( frml); ‹deudas› to contract ( frml), to incur
    contraer un compromiso to make a commitment
    3 ‹matrimonio›
    a la edad de 30 años contrajo matrimonio con doña Eva Sáenz at the age of 30 he married o ( frml) contracted (a) marriage with Eva Sáenz
    al casarse contrajo parentesco con la familia más rica de la localidad he married into the wealthiest family in the area
    B
    1 ‹músculo› to contract, tighten, tauten; ‹facciones› to contort
    con la cara contraída en una mueca de dolor his face contorted into a grimace of pain, his face screwed up with pain
    el miedo le contraía las entrañas his stomach muscles contracted o tightened with fear
    2 ‹metal/material› to cause … to contract, make … contract
    1 «músculo» to contract
    sintió contraerse el corazón ante tan triste espectáculo he felt his heart contract at that pitiful sight ( liter)
    2 ( Fís) «metal/material/cuerpo» to contract
    * * *

    contraer ( conjugate contraer) verbo transitivo
    1 (frml)
    a) enfermedad to contract (frml), to catch

    b)obligación/deudas to contract (frml);

    compromiso to make;

    2

    facciones/cara to contort
    b)metal/materialto cause … to contract

    contraerse verbo pronominal
    to contract
    contraer verbo transitivo
    1 to contract
    2 (enfermedad) to catch
    3 frml contraer matrimonio, to marry [con, -]
    ' contraer' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    matrimonio
    - crispar
    - deuda
    - enfermedad
    English:
    contract
    - debt
    - develop
    - incur
    - contort
    - heavily
    - risk
    - under
    * * *
    vt
    1. [enfermedad] to catch, to contract
    2. [vicio, costumbre, deuda, obligación] to acquire
    3.
    contraer matrimonio (con) to get married (to)
    4. [material] to cause to contract
    5. [músculo] to contract
    6. Informát [subdirectorios] to collapse
    * * *
    <part contraido> v/t
    1 contract
    2 músculo tighten
    3
    :
    * * *
    contraer {81} vt
    1) : to contract (a disease)
    2) : to establish by contract
    contraer matrimonio: to get married
    3) : to tighten, to contract
    * * *
    contraer vb (enfermedad) to catch [pt. & pp. caught]

    Spanish-English dictionary > contraer

  • 118 coperto

    "covered;
    Gedeckt;
    revestido"
    * * *
    1. past part vedere coprire
    2. adj covered (di with)
    cielo overcast, cloudy
    3. m cover, shelter
    prezzo cover charge
    essere al coperto be under cover, be sheltered
    * * *
    coperto1 agg.
    1 ( riparato) covered, sheltered: passaggio coperto, covered passage (o way); campo da tennis coperto, indoor (tennis) court; piscina coperta, indoor (swimming-)pool; carrozza coperta, closed carriage // (comm.): essere coperto, to be covered; assegno coperto, covered (o certified) cheque
    2 ( cosparso) covered, clad: i campi erano completamente coperti di neve, the fields were completely covered in (o with) snow; cime di montagna coperte di neve, snow-clad mountain tops; coperto di sudore, covered with sweat
    3 ( di cielo) overcast, cloudy: domani cielo coperto su tutto il paese, tomorrow it will be generally cloudy over the whole country
    4 ( vestito) clothed, clad: non sei troppo coperto?, aren't you too heavily clothed?; erano ben coperti perché faceva freddo, they were warmly clad (o well wrapped up) because it was cold
    5 ( nascosto) concealed, hidden; ( segreto) secret; (mil.) masked: minacce coperte, veiled (o hidden) threats; giocare a carte coperte, to play without showing one's cards (o hand); uomo con il viso coperto, masked man // (mil.): batteria coperta, masked battery; nemico coperto, covert enemy
    s.m. ( luogo riparato) cover, shelter: al coperto, under cover; mettere, mettersi al coperto dalla pioggia, to shelter (o to take shelter) from the rain; mettersi al coperto, to take cover (o to get under cover).
    coperto2 s.m.
    1 ( posto a tavola) place; (fam.) knife and fork; ( nei ristoranti) cover: una tavola di otto coperti, a table laid for eight; quanti coperti hai messo?, how many places (o covers) have you laid?; svelto, metti un altro coperto, quick, lay another place
    2 ( prezzo) cover charge.
    * * *
    [ko'pɛrto] coperto (-a)
    1. pp
    See:
    2. agg
    (gen) Assicurazione covered, (luogo: riparato) sheltered, (piscina, campo da tennis) indoor attr, (cielo) overcast
    3. sm
    1)

    al coperto — under cover, indoors

    in caso di pioggia la festa si svolgerà al coperto — if it rains, the party will be held indoors

    * * *
    [ko'pɛrto] 1. 2.
    1) (ricoperto) covered (di in)

    coperto di medaglie, di onori — fig. loaded o showered with medals, honours

    2) (interno) [piscina, campo da tennis] indoor, covered; [mercato, stadio] covered; [ passaggio] covered, enclosed; (chiuso) [ vettura] covered
    4) (nascosto) hidden, concealed; [ carta da gioco] face down; fig. (velato) [ minaccia] veiled
    5) meteor. [cielo, tempo] overcast, clouded, cloudy
    6) econ. [ assegno] covered
    7) (assicurato) covered
    3.
    sostantivo maschile
    1) (accessori per il pasto) cover, place setting

    aggiungere un copertoto set another o lay an extra place

    2) comm. (al ristorante) cover charge
    3) al coperto [ giocare] indoors
    * * *
    coperto
    /ko'pεrto/
     →  coprire
     1 (ricoperto) covered (di in); coperto di medaglie, di onori fig. loaded o showered with medals, honours; coperto di debiti debt-laden
     2 (interno) [piscina, campo da tennis] indoor, covered; [mercato, stadio] covered; [ passaggio] covered, enclosed; (chiuso) [ vettura] covered
     3 (vestito) sono troppo coperto I've got too many clothes on
     4 (nascosto) hidden, concealed; [ carta da gioco] face down; fig. (velato) [ minaccia] veiled
     5 meteor. [cielo, tempo] overcast, clouded, cloudy
     6 econ. [ assegno] covered
     7 (assicurato) covered
    III sostantivo m.
     1 (accessori per il pasto) cover, place setting; mettere in tavola quattro -i to lay the table for four; aggiungere un coperto to set another o lay an extra place; una tavola per sei -i a table set o laid for six
     2 comm. (al ristorante) cover charge
     3 al coperto [ giocare] indoors; mettersi al coperto to take cover.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > coperto

  • 119 heavy

    ['hevɪ] 1.
    1) [person, load, bag] pesante; mil. ind. [ machinery] pesante, grosso; [ artillery] pesante

    to make sth. heavier — appesantire qcs.

    2) (thick) [fabric, coat] pesante; [shoes, frame] grosso, pesante; [ line] spesso, pesante; [ features] pesante
    3) fig. (weighty) [movement, step, legs] pesante, appesantito; [irony, responsibility, blow] pesante; [ sigh] profondo

    with a heavy heart — con il cuore gonfio, a malincuore

    4) (abundant) [traffic, gunfire] intenso; [ bleeding] copioso

    to be a heavy drinker, smoker — essere un forte bevitore, un accanito fumatore

    to be heavy on — [ machine] consumare una grande quantità di [ fuel]

    5) (severe) [loss, debt] pesante; [ attack] intenso; [prison sentence, fine] severo; [ criticism] pesante, forte; [ cold] forte

    heavy fighting — lotta intensa, violenta

    6) (strong) [ perfume] forte; [ accent] pronunciato, forte
    7) meteor. [ rain] forte; [ frost] intenso; [ fog] fitto; [ snow] abbondante; [ sky] coperto, minaccioso
    8) gastr. [meal, food] pesante
    9) (busy) [ timetable] intenso, pieno
    10) (difficult, serious) [book, film, lecture] pesante, impegnativo
    2. 3.
    nome colloq. (bodyguard) gorilla m.
    * * *
    ['hevi]
    1) (having great weight; difficult to lift or carry: a heavy parcel.) pesante
    2) (having a particular weight: I wonder how heavy our little baby is.) pesante
    3) (of very great amount, force etc: heavy rain; a heavy blow; The ship capsized in the heavy seas; heavy taxes.) forte; violento
    4) (doing something to a great extent: He's a heavy smoker/drinker.) grande, accanito
    5) (dark and dull; looking or feeling stormy: a heavy sky/atmosphere.) pesante
    6) (difficult to read, do, understand etc: Books on philosophy are too heavy for me.) pesante
    7) ((of food) hard to digest: rather heavy pastry.) pesante
    8) (noisy and clumsy: heavy footsteps.) pesante
    - heaviness
    - heavy-duty
    - heavy industry
    - heavyweight
    - heavy going
    - a heavy heart
    - make heavy weather of
    * * *
    ['hevɪ] 1.
    1) [person, load, bag] pesante; mil. ind. [ machinery] pesante, grosso; [ artillery] pesante

    to make sth. heavier — appesantire qcs.

    2) (thick) [fabric, coat] pesante; [shoes, frame] grosso, pesante; [ line] spesso, pesante; [ features] pesante
    3) fig. (weighty) [movement, step, legs] pesante, appesantito; [irony, responsibility, blow] pesante; [ sigh] profondo

    with a heavy heart — con il cuore gonfio, a malincuore

    4) (abundant) [traffic, gunfire] intenso; [ bleeding] copioso

    to be a heavy drinker, smoker — essere un forte bevitore, un accanito fumatore

    to be heavy on — [ machine] consumare una grande quantità di [ fuel]

    5) (severe) [loss, debt] pesante; [ attack] intenso; [prison sentence, fine] severo; [ criticism] pesante, forte; [ cold] forte

    heavy fighting — lotta intensa, violenta

    6) (strong) [ perfume] forte; [ accent] pronunciato, forte
    7) meteor. [ rain] forte; [ frost] intenso; [ fog] fitto; [ snow] abbondante; [ sky] coperto, minaccioso
    8) gastr. [meal, food] pesante
    9) (busy) [ timetable] intenso, pieno
    10) (difficult, serious) [book, film, lecture] pesante, impegnativo
    2. 3.
    nome colloq. (bodyguard) gorilla m.

    English-Italian dictionary > heavy

  • 120 indebted

    predicative adjective

    be/feel deeply indebted to somebody — tief in jemandes Schuld (Dat.) stehen (geh.)

    he was indebted to a friend for this informationer verdankte einem Freund diese Information

    be [much] indebted to somebody for something — jemandem für etwas [sehr] verbunden sein (geh.) od. zu Dank verpflichtet sein

    * * *
    [in'detid]
    ((with to) having reason to be grateful to: I am indebted to you for your help.) zu Dank verpflichtet
    - academic.ru/37550/indebtedness">indebtedness
    * * *
    in·debt·ed
    [ɪnˈdetɪd, AM -t̬ɪd]
    adj pred
    1. (obliged) [zu Dank] verpflichtet
    to be \indebted to sb for sth jdm für etw akk dankbar sein
    2. (having debt) verschuldet
    to be deeply [or heavily] \indebted hoch verschuldet sein, [tief] in den roten Zahlen stehen fam
    * * *
    [In'detɪd]
    adj

    to be indebted to sb for sth — jdm für etw (zu Dank) verpflichtet sein, für etw in jds Schuld (dat) stehen

    he's obviously greatly indebted to Matisse/Steinbeck — er hat offensichtlich Matisse/Steinbeck viel zu verdanken

    thank you very much, I am most indebted to you — vielen Dank, ich stehe zutiefst in Ihrer Schuld (geh)

    I was indebted to them for £3,000 — ich schuldete ihnen £ 3000, ich war bei ihnen mit £ 3000 verschuldet

    * * *
    indebted [ınˈdetıd] adj
    1. WIRTSCH verschuldet (to an akk, bei):
    be indebted to Schulden haben bei, jemandem Geld schulden
    2. (zu Dank) verpflichtet ( to sb jemandem):
    I am greatly indebted to you for ich bin Ihnen zu großem Dank verpflichtet für, ich stehe tief in Ihrer Schuld wegen
    * * *
    predicative adjective

    be/feel deeply indebted to somebody — tief in jemandes Schuld (Dat.) stehen (geh.)

    be [much] indebted to somebody for something — jemandem für etwas [sehr] verbunden sein (geh.) od. zu Dank verpflichtet sein

    * * *
    adj.
    verschuldet adj.

    English-german dictionary > indebted

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