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  • 121 one

    [wʌn]
    all in one все вместе; to be made one пожениться, повенчаться; I for one что касается меня the great ones of the earth великие мира сего; a one (for smth.) разг. энтузиаст (в каком-л.) деле; at one в согласии; заодно one неопределенный, какой-то; at one time I lived in Moscow одно время (прежде) я жил в Москве; one fine morning в одно прекрасное утро all in one все вместе; to be made one пожениться, повенчаться; I for one что касается меня one единый; to cry out with one voice единодушно воскликнуть; one and undivided единый и неделимый the great ones and the little ones большие и малые; my little one дитя мое (в обращении) the great ones of the earth великие мира сего; a one (for smth.) разг. энтузиаст (в каком-л.) деле; at one в согласии; заодно one употр. как словозаместитель в знач. "человек": he is the one I mean он тот самый (человек), которого я имею в виду; the little ones дети one употр. как словозаместитель во избежание повторения ранее упомянутого существительного: I am through with this book, will you let me have another one? я кончил эту книгу, не дадите ли вы мне другую? all in one все вместе; to be made one пожениться, повенчаться; I for one что касается меня one pron indef. некто, некий, кто-то; I showed the ring to one Jones я показал кольцо некоему Джонсу; one came running кто-то вбежал if one wants a thing done one had best do it himself если хочешь, чтобы дело было сделано, сделай его сам one must observe the rules нужно соблюдать правила; in the year one очень давно; = при царе Горохе one один, одиночка; one by one поодиночке; they came by ones and twos приходили по одному и по двое; it is difficult to tell one from the other трудно отличить одного от другого the great ones and the little ones большие и малые; my little one дитя мое (в обращении) no one никто one pron indef. употр. в неопределенно-личных предложениях: one never knows what may happen никогда не знаешь, что может случиться one единица, число один; write down two ones напишите две единицы one единственный; there is only one way to do it есть единственный способ это сделать one единый; to cry out with one voice единодушно воскликнуть; one and undivided единый и неделимый one употр. как словозаместитель в знач. "человек": he is the one I mean он тот самый (человек), которого я имею в виду; the little ones дети one употр. как словозаместитель во избежание повторения ранее упомянутого существительного: I am through with this book, will you let me have another one? я кончил эту книгу, не дадите ли вы мне другую? one pron indef. некто, некий, кто-то; I showed the ring to one Jones я показал кольцо некоему Джонсу; one came running кто-то вбежал one неопределенный, какой-то; at one time I lived in Moscow одно время (прежде) я жил в Москве; one fine morning в одно прекрасное утро one num. card. номер один, первый; Room one комната номер один; volume one первый том one один, одиночка; one by one поодиночке; they came by ones and twos приходили по одному и по двое; it is difficult to tell one from the other трудно отличить одного от другого one num. card. один; one hundred сто, сотня; one in a thousand один на тысячу; редкостный one одинаковый, такой же; to remain for ever one оставаться всегда самим собой the great ones of the earth великие мира сего; a one (for smth.) разг. энтузиаст (в каком-л.) деле; at one в согласии; заодно 'un: 'un разг. см. one one единый; to cry out with one voice единодушно воскликнуть; one and undivided единый и неделимый one один, одиночка; one by one поодиночке; they came by ones and twos приходили по одному и по двое; it is difficult to tell one from the other трудно отличить одного от другого one pron indef. некто, некий, кто-то; I showed the ring to one Jones я показал кольцо некоему Джонсу; one came running кто-то вбежал one неопределенный, какой-то; at one time I lived in Moscow одно время (прежде) я жил в Москве; one fine morning в одно прекрасное утро one num. card. один; one hundred сто, сотня; one in a thousand один на тысячу; редкостный one num. card. I'll meet you at one я встречу тебя в час; Pete will be one in a month Питу через месяц исполнится год; one too many слишком много; one or two немного, несколько one num. card. один; one hundred сто, сотня; one in a thousand один на тысячу; редкостный thousand: one тысяча; one in a thousand один на тысячу, исключительный one must observe the rules нужно соблюдать правила; in the year one очень давно; = при царе Горохе one pron indef. употр. в неопределенно-личных предложениях: one never knows what may happen никогда не знаешь, что может случиться one num. card. I'll meet you at one я встречу тебя в час; Pete will be one in a month Питу через месяц исполнится год; one too many слишком много; one or two немного, несколько one num. card. I'll meet you at one я встречу тебя в час; Pete will be one in a month Питу через месяц исполнится год; one too many слишком много; one or two немного, несколько one up (down) (to smb.) одно очко (один гол и т. п.) (в чью-л. (не в чью-л.) пользу) one num. card. I'll meet you at one я встречу тебя в час; Pete will be one in a month Питу через месяц исполнится год; one too many слишком много; one or two немного, несколько one одинаковый, такой же; to remain for ever one оставаться всегда самим собой one num. card. номер один, первый; Room one комната номер один; volume one первый том square one точка отсчета one единственный; there is only one way to do it есть единственный способ это сделать one один, одиночка; one by one поодиночке; they came by ones and twos приходили по одному и по двое; it is difficult to tell one from the other трудно отличить одного от другого one num. card. номер один, первый; Room one комната номер один; volume one первый том one употр. как словозаместитель во избежание повторения ранее упомянутого существительного: I am through with this book, will you let me have another one? я кончил эту книгу, не дадите ли вы мне другую? one единица, число один; write down two ones напишите две единицы

    English-Russian short dictionary > one

  • 122 past

    1. adjective
    1) (just finished: the past year.) pasado
    2) (over, finished or ended, of an earlier time than the present: The time for discussion is past.) pasado
    3) ((of the tense of a verb) indicating action in the past: In `He did it', the verb is in the past tense.) pasado

    2. preposition
    1) (up to and beyond; by: He ran past me.) por delante de
    2) (after: It's past six o'clock.) pasadas

    3. adverb
    (up to and beyond (a particular place, person etc): The soldiers marched past.) por delante (de)

    4. noun
    1) (a person's earlier life or career, especially if secret or not respectable: He never spoke about his past.) pasado
    2) (the past tense: a verb in the past.) pasado
    past1 adj último
    past2 adv
    past3 n pasado
    past4 prep
    1.
    2. y
    3. más de
    it's past nine o'clock son las nueve pasadas / son más de las nueve
    tr[pɑːst]
    1 (gone by in time) pasado,-a; (former) anterior
    2 (gone by recently) último,-a
    3 (finished, over) acabado,-a, terminado,-a
    4 SMALLLINGUISTICS/SMALL pasado,-a
    the past tense el pasado, el pretérito
    in the past en el pasado, antes, antiguamente
    2 (of person) pasado; (of place) historia
    1 (farther than, beyond) más allá de; (by the side of) por (delante de)
    3 (older than) más de
    I wouldn't put it past him no me extrañaría que lo hiciera, no me extraña tratándose de él
    1
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    in times past antaño, antiguamente
    to be a past master at something ser experto,-a en algo
    to be past it estar para el arrastre, estar muy carroza
    the past / the past tense el pasado, el pretérito
    past ['pæst] adv
    : por delante
    he drove past: pasamos en coche
    past adj
    1) ago: hace
    10 years past: hace 10 años
    2) last: último
    the past few months: los últimos meses
    3) bygone: pasado
    in past times: en tiempos pasados
    4) : pasado (en gramática)
    past n
    : pasado m
    past prep
    1) by: por, por delante de
    he ran past the house: pasó por la casa corriendo
    2) beyond: más allá de
    just past the corner: un poco más allá de la esquina
    we went past the exit: pasamos la salida
    3) after: despúes de
    past noon: después del mediodía
    half past two: las dos y media
    n.
    imperfecto s.m.
    pretérito s.m.
    adj.
    acabado, -a adj.
    pasado, -a adj.
    último, -a adj.
    adv.
    atrás adv.
    más allá adv.
    n.
    antecedentes s.m.pl.
    historia s.f.
    pasado s.m.
    pretérito s.m.
    prep.
    después de prep.

    I pæst, pɑːst
    1)
    a) ( former) anterior; < life> pasado; ( old) antiguo

    she knew from past experience that... — sabía por experiencia que...

    in times past — (liter) antaño (liter), años ha (liter), antiguamente

    b) ( most recent) <week/month/year> último
    c) (finished, gone) (pred)

    what's past is past — lo pasado, pasado

    2) ( Ling)

    the past tense — el pasado, el pretérito


    II
    1)
    a) u ( former times) pasado m

    in the past, women... — antes or antiguamente or en otros tiempos las mujeres...

    that's all in the past — eso forma parte del pasado, eso ya es historia

    b) c ( of person) pasado m; ( of place) historia f
    2) u ( Ling) pasado m, pretérito m

    III
    1)
    b) ( beyond)

    how did you get past the guard? — ¿cómo hiciste para que el guardia te dejara pasar?

    2)
    a) ( after) (esp BrE)

    it's ten past six/half past two — son las seis y diez/las dos y media

    once you get past 40... — después de los 40..., una vez pasados los 40...

    I'm past the age/stage when... — ya he pasado la edad/superado la etapa en que...

    3) (outside, beyond)

    to be past -ing: I'm past caring ya no me importa; I wouldn't put it past her no me extrañaría que lo hiciera, la creo muy capaz de hacerlo; to be past it (colloq): they think everyone over 40 is past it — piensan que cualquiera que tenga más de 40 ya está para el arrastre (fam) or para cuarteles de invierno


    IV

    to fly/cycle/drive past — pasar volando/en bicicleta/en coche

    b) ( giving time) (esp BrE)
    [pɑːst]
    1. ADV

    the days flew past — los días pasaron volando

    to march past — desfilar

    to run/ rush past — pasar corriendo/precipitadamente

    2. PREP
    a) (=passing by) por delante de
    b) (=beyond) más allá de

    first you have to get past a fierce dog — antes de entrar vas a tener que vértelas con un perro fiero

    she just pushed past me — pasó pegándome un empujón

    to run past sb — pasar a algn corriendo

    quarter/half past four — las cuatro y cuarto/media

    3) (=beyond the limits of)

    it's past beliefes increíble

    it's past endurancees intolerable

    - be past it
    3. ADJ
    1) (=previous) [occasion] anterior

    past experience tells me not to trust him — sé por experiencia que no debo fiarme de él

    I'm not interested in his past lifeno me interesa su pasado

    in past yearsen años anteriores

    2) (=former) antiguo

    past president of... — antiguo presidente de..., ex presidente de...

    3) (=most recent, last) último

    what has happened over the past week/year? — ¿qué ha pasado en la última semana/el último año?

    4) (=over)

    all that is past now — todo eso ya ha pasado, todo eso ya ha quedado atrás

    what's past is past — lo pasado, pasado (está)

    for some time past — de un tiempo a esta parte

    in times past — antiguamente, antaño liter

    4. N
    1) (=past times)

    in the past it was considered bad manners to... — antes or antiguamente se consideraba de mala educación hacer...

    you're living in the past — estás viviendo en el pasado

    it's a thing of the past — pertenece a la historia

    2) [of person] pasado m; [of place] historia f
    3) (Ling) pasado m, pretérito m
    5.
    CPD

    past master N (Brit)

    - be a past master at

    past participle N — (Ling) participio m pasado or pasivo

    past perfect N — (Ling) pluscuamperfecto m

    past tense N — (Ling) (tiempo m) pasado m

    * * *

    I [pæst, pɑːst]
    1)
    a) ( former) anterior; < life> pasado; ( old) antiguo

    she knew from past experience that... — sabía por experiencia que...

    in times past — (liter) antaño (liter), años ha (liter), antiguamente

    b) ( most recent) <week/month/year> último
    c) (finished, gone) (pred)

    what's past is past — lo pasado, pasado

    2) ( Ling)

    the past tense — el pasado, el pretérito


    II
    1)
    a) u ( former times) pasado m

    in the past, women... — antes or antiguamente or en otros tiempos las mujeres...

    that's all in the past — eso forma parte del pasado, eso ya es historia

    b) c ( of person) pasado m; ( of place) historia f
    2) u ( Ling) pasado m, pretérito m

    III
    1)
    b) ( beyond)

    how did you get past the guard? — ¿cómo hiciste para que el guardia te dejara pasar?

    2)
    a) ( after) (esp BrE)

    it's ten past six/half past two — son las seis y diez/las dos y media

    once you get past 40... — después de los 40..., una vez pasados los 40...

    I'm past the age/stage when... — ya he pasado la edad/superado la etapa en que...

    3) (outside, beyond)

    to be past -ing: I'm past caring ya no me importa; I wouldn't put it past her no me extrañaría que lo hiciera, la creo muy capaz de hacerlo; to be past it (colloq): they think everyone over 40 is past it — piensan que cualquiera que tenga más de 40 ya está para el arrastre (fam) or para cuarteles de invierno


    IV

    to fly/cycle/drive past — pasar volando/en bicicleta/en coche

    b) ( giving time) (esp BrE)

    English-spanish dictionary > past

  • 123 that

    1. ðæt plural - those; adjective
    (used to indicate a person, thing etc spoken of before, not close to the speaker, already known to the speaker and listener etc: Don't take this book - take that one; At that time, I was living in Italy; When are you going to return those books?) ese, esa, esos, esas; aquel, aquella, aquellos, aquellas

    2. pronoun
    (used to indicate a thing etc, or (in plural or with the verb be) person or people, spoken of before, not close to the speaker, already known to the speaker and listener etc: What is that you've got in your hand?; Who is that?; That is the Prime Minister; Those present at the concert included the composer and his wife.) ese, esa, esos, esas; aquel, aquella, aquellos, aquellas

    3. ðət, ðæt relative pronoun
    (used to refer to a person, thing etc mentioned in a preceding clause in order to distinguish it from others: Where is the parcel that arrived this morning?; Who is the man (that) you were talking to?)

    4. ðət, ðæt conjunction
    1) ((often omitted) used to report what has been said etc or to introduce other clauses giving facts, reasons, results etc: I know (that) you didn't do it; I was surprised (that) he had gone.) que
    2) (used to introduce expressions of sorrow, wishes etc: That I should be accused of murder!; Oh, that I were with her now!) y pensar que; ojalá

    5.
    adverb
    (so; to such an extent: I didn't realize she was that ill.) tan
    - that's that
    that1 adj ese / aquel
    who lives in that house? ¿quién vive en esa casa?
    did you bring that book? ¿has traído aquel libro?
    what are those boys doing? ¿qué están haciendo aquellos chicos?
    that2 adv tan
    that3 conj que
    that4 pron
    1. ése / aquél
    2. eso
    tr[ðæt ʊnstressed ðət]
    1 ese, esa (remote) aquel, aquella
    how much is that dress? ¿cuánto vale ese vestido?
    what was that noise? ¿qué ha sido ese ruido?
    have you got that record I lent you? ¿tienes aquel disco que te dejé?
    1 ése nombre masculino, ésa (remote) aquél nombre masculino, aquélla
    who's that? ¿quién es ése/ésa?
    this is mine, that is yours éste es mío, aquél es tuyo
    2 (indefinite) eso; (remote) aquello
    what's that? ¿qué es eso?
    where did you get that? ¿dónde has comprado eso?
    4 (with preposition) que, el/la que, el/la cual
    1 que
    2 ¡ojalá!
    1 familiar tan, tanto,-a, tantos,-as
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    and all that y todo eso
    like that así, de aquella manera
    that is to say es decir
    that's it (that's all) eso es todo 2 (that's right) eso es 3 (that's enough) se acabó
    that's life así es la vida
    that's more like it ¡ahora!, ¡así me gusta!
    that's right así es
    that's that ya está, se acabó
    who's that? (on 'phone) ¿quién es?, ¿quién eres?
    that ['ðæt] adv, (in negative constructions) : tan
    it's not that expensive: no es tan caro
    not that much: no tanto
    that adj, pl those : ese, esa, aquel, aquella
    do you see those children?: ¿ves a aquellos niños?
    that conj & pron
    : que
    he said that he was afraid: dijo que tenía miedo
    the book that he wrote: el libro que escribió
    that pron, pl those ['ðo:z]
    1) : ése, ésa, eso
    that's my father: ése es mi padre
    those are the ones he likes: ésos son los que le gustan
    what's that?: ¿qué es eso?
    2) (referring to more distant objects or time) : aquél, aquélla, aquello
    those are maples and these are elms: aquéllos son arces y éstos son olmos
    that came to an end: aquello se acabó
    adj.
    esa adj.
    ese adj.
    adj.dem.
    aquel adj.dem.
    adv.
    como adv.
    tan adv.
    conj.
    ese conj.
    para que conj.
    que conj.
    pron.
    aquello pron.
    aquél pron.
    el cual pron.
    ese pron.
    eso pron.
    que pron.
    quien pron.
    tanto pron.
    pron.dem.neut.
    aquello pron.dem.neut.

    I ðæt
    1) (pl those) ( demonstrative) ése, ésa; (neuter) eso

    those — ésos, ésas; (to refer to something more distant, to the remote past) aquél, aquélla; (neuter) aquello

    those — aquéllos, aquéllas [According to the Real Academia Española the accent can be omitted when there is no ambiguity]

    what's that? — ¿qué es eso?

    who's that over there? — quién es ése/ésa?

    those are $20 and those over there $21.50 — ésos cuestan 20 dólares y aquéllos de allá 21,50

    who's that, please? — ( on telephone) ¿con quién hablo, por favor?

    that's impossible/wonderful! — es imposible/maravilloso!

    is that so? — no me digas!, ¿ah, sí?

    don't talk like that! — no hables así!, no digas eso!

    eat it up now, that's a good girl! — vamos, cómetelo todo así me gusta!

    come on, it's not as bad as all that — vamos, que no es para tanto

    at that — ( moreover) además; ( thereupon)

    at that they all burst out laughingal oír (or ver etc) eso, todos se echaron a reír

    he has enormous power and wealth, but is still unhappy for all that — tiene mucho poder y muchas riquezas, pero aún así es infeliz

    that is: we're all going, all the adults, that is vamos todos, es decir, todos los adultos; you're welcome to come along, that is, if you'd like to encantados de que vengas, siempre que quieras venir, claro; that's it!: that's it for today eso es todo por hoy; is that it? - no, there's another bag to come ¿ya está? - no, todavía falta otra bolsa; now lift your left arm: that's it! ahora levanta el brazo izquierdo eso es! or ahí está!; that's it: I've had enough! se acabó! ya no aguanto más!; that's that: you're not going and that's that! — no vas y no hay más que hablar or y se acabó

    3) ðət, strong form ðæt ( relative) que

    it wasn't Helen (that) you saw — no fue a Helen a quien viste, no fue a Helen que viste (AmL)


    II ðæt
    adjective (pl those) ese, esa

    those — esos, esas; (to refer to something more distant, to the remote past) aquel, aquella

    those — aquellos, aquellas

    do you know that boy/girl? — ¿conoces a ese chico/esa chica?

    I prefer that one — prefiero ése/ésa


    III ðət, strong form ðæt

    she said (that)... — dijo que...

    it's not that I mind what he does but... — no es que me importe lo que hace, pero...

    they died that others might live — (liter) murieron para que otros pudieran vivir


    IV ðæt
    adverb tan

    ten thirty? that late already? — ¿las diez y media? ¿ya es tan tarde?

    I'm not that interested, really — la verdad es que no me interesa tanto

    (strong form) [ðæt] (weak form) [ˌdǝt] (pl those) Those is treated as a separate entry.
    1. DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVE
    1) [+ objects/people]
    You can generally use ese etc when pointing to something near the person you are speaking to. Use aquel etc for something which is distant from both of you: (nearer) ese m, esa f ; (more remote) aquel m, aquella f

    that car is much better value than that sports model at the end — ese coche está mejor de precio que aquel modelo deportivo que hay al final

    that wretched dog! — ¡ese maldito perro!

    what about that cheque? — ¿y el cheque ese?

    I only met her that oncela vi solamente aquella vez

    that one — ese(-a), ése(-a); (more remote) aquel(la), aquél(la)

    In the past the standard spelling for [ese/esa] and [aquel/aquella] used as pronouns (as when they are used to translate [that one]) was with an accent ([ése/ésa] and [aquél/aquélla]). Nowadays the [Real Academia Española] advises that the accented forms are only required where there might otherwise be confusion with the adjectives [este/esta] and [aquel/aquella].
    2) [+ event, year, month]

    Aquel is used to refer to a time in the distant past. Use if you mention a concrete date, month, year {etc">ese:

    do you remember that holiday we had in Holland? — ¿te acuerdas de aquellas vacaciones que pasamos en Holanda?

    1992? I can't remember where we holidayed that year — ¿1992? no recuerdo dónde pasamos las vacaciones ese año

    May? we can't come that month because we'll be moving house — ¿en mayo? no podemos venir ese mes porque nos estaremos mudando de casa

    2.
    DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN
    The pronoun that ( one) is translated by ese and aquel (masc), esa and aquella (fem) and eso and aquello (neuter). You can generally use ese etc when pointing to something near the person you are speaking to. Use aquel etc for something which is distant from both of you. Note that in the past the standard spelling for the masculine and feminine pronouns was with an accent (ése/ésa and aquél/aquélla). Nowadays the Real Academia Española advises that the accented forms are only required where there might otherwise be confusion with the adjectives ese/esa and aquel/aquella. Neuter pronouns never carry an accent. (nearer) ese m, esa f, ése m, ésa f, eso (neuter) ; (more remote) aquel(la) m / f, aquél(la) m / f, aquello (neuter)

    who's that? — ¿quién es ese?

    what is that? — ¿qué es eso?, ¿eso qué es?

    is that you, Paul? — ¿eres tú, Paul?

    £5? it must have cost more than that — ¿5 libras? debe haber costado más (que eso)

    that's true — eso es verdad, es cierto (esp LAm)

    that's odd! — ¡qué raro!, ¡qué cosa más rara!

    1988? that was the year you graduated, wasn't it? — ¿1988? ese fue el año en que acabaste la carrera, ¿no es así?

    "will he come?" - "that he will!" — -¿vendrá? -¡ya lo creo!

    after that — después de eso

    bees and wasps and all that — abejas, avispas y cosas así

    is that all? — ¿eso es todo?, ¿nada más?

    and it was broken at that — y además estaba roto

    what do you mean by that? — ¿qué quieres decir con eso?

    if it comes to that — en tal caso, si llegamos a eso

    it will cost 20 dollars, if that — costará 20 dólares, si es que llega

    that is(=ie) es decir...

    that's it, we've finished — ya está, hemos terminado

    that's it! she can find her own gardener! — ¡se acabó! ¡que se busque un jardinero por su cuenta!

    that of — el/la de

    that is to say — es decir...

    why worry about that which may never happen? — frm ¿por qué preocuparse por aquello que or por lo que puede que nunca vaya a pasar?

    with that — con eso

    3. RELATIVE PRONOUN
    Unlike that, the Spanish relative cannot be omitted.
    1) que

    fool that I am! — ¡tonto que soy!

    If the that clause ends in a preposition, you can either translate that as que (usually preceded by the definite article) or as article + cual/cuales. Use the second option particularly in formal language or after long prepositions or prepositional phrases:

    the box that I put it in — la caja donde lo puse, la caja en la que or en la cual lo puse

    4. ADVERB
    1) (=so) tan

    it's about that big (with gesture) es más o menos así de grande

    cheer up! it isn't that bad — ¡ánimo! ¡no es para tanto!

    that many frogs — tantas ranas

    that much money — tanto dinero

    2) * (=so very) tan

    it was that cold! — ¡hacía tanto frío!

    5. CONJUNCTION
    Unlike that, que cannot be omitted.
    1) after verb que

    he said that... — dijo que...

    Translate as de que in phrases like the idea/belief/hope that:

    any hope that they might have survived was fading — toda esperanza de que hubiesen sobrevivido se estaba desvaneciendo

    the idea that we can profit from their labour — la idea de que podemos aprovecharnos de su trabajo

    ..., not that I want to, of course —..., no es que yo quiera, por supuesto

    oh that we could! — ¡ojalá pudiéramos!, ¡ojalá!

    If the that clause is the subject of another verb it is usual to translate that as el que rather than que especially if it starts the sentence:

    that he did not know surprised me — (el) que no lo supiera me extrañó, me extrañó (el) que no lo supiera

    In these cases the verb which follows will be in the subjunctive:

    that he should behave like this is incredible — (el) que se comporte así es increíble, es increíble que se comporte así

    would
    4) (=in order that) para que + subjun
    5)

    in that — en el sentido de que

    * * *

    I [ðæt]
    1) (pl those) ( demonstrative) ése, ésa; (neuter) eso

    those — ésos, ésas; (to refer to something more distant, to the remote past) aquél, aquélla; (neuter) aquello

    those — aquéllos, aquéllas [According to the Real Academia Española the accent can be omitted when there is no ambiguity]

    what's that? — ¿qué es eso?

    who's that over there? — quién es ése/ésa?

    those are $20 and those over there $21.50 — ésos cuestan 20 dólares y aquéllos de allá 21,50

    who's that, please? — ( on telephone) ¿con quién hablo, por favor?

    that's impossible/wonderful! — es imposible/maravilloso!

    is that so? — no me digas!, ¿ah, sí?

    don't talk like that! — no hables así!, no digas eso!

    eat it up now, that's a good girl! — vamos, cómetelo todo así me gusta!

    come on, it's not as bad as all that — vamos, que no es para tanto

    at that — ( moreover) además; ( thereupon)

    at that they all burst out laughingal oír (or ver etc) eso, todos se echaron a reír

    he has enormous power and wealth, but is still unhappy for all that — tiene mucho poder y muchas riquezas, pero aún así es infeliz

    that is: we're all going, all the adults, that is vamos todos, es decir, todos los adultos; you're welcome to come along, that is, if you'd like to encantados de que vengas, siempre que quieras venir, claro; that's it!: that's it for today eso es todo por hoy; is that it? - no, there's another bag to come ¿ya está? - no, todavía falta otra bolsa; now lift your left arm: that's it! ahora levanta el brazo izquierdo eso es! or ahí está!; that's it: I've had enough! se acabó! ya no aguanto más!; that's that: you're not going and that's that! — no vas y no hay más que hablar or y se acabó

    3) [ðət], strong form [ðæt] ( relative) que

    it wasn't Helen (that) you saw — no fue a Helen a quien viste, no fue a Helen que viste (AmL)


    II [ðæt]
    adjective (pl those) ese, esa

    those — esos, esas; (to refer to something more distant, to the remote past) aquel, aquella

    those — aquellos, aquellas

    do you know that boy/girl? — ¿conoces a ese chico/esa chica?

    I prefer that one — prefiero ése/ésa


    III [ðət], strong form [ðæt]

    she said (that)... — dijo que...

    it's not that I mind what he does but... — no es que me importe lo que hace, pero...

    they died that others might live — (liter) murieron para que otros pudieran vivir


    IV [ðæt]
    adverb tan

    ten thirty? that late already? — ¿las diez y media? ¿ya es tan tarde?

    I'm not that interested, really — la verdad es que no me interesa tanto

    English-spanish dictionary > that

  • 124 date

    I noun
    (Bot.) Dattel, die
    II 1. noun
    1) Datum, das; (on coin etc.) Jahreszahl, die

    date of birth — Geburtsdatum, das

    2) (coll.): (appointment) Verabredung, die

    have/make a date with somebody — mit jemandem verabredet sein/sich mit jemandem verabreden

    go [out] on a date with somebody — mit jemandem ausgehen

    3) (Amer. coll.): (person) Freund, der/Freundin, die
    4)

    be out of date — altmodisch sein; (expired) nicht mehr gültig sein

    to datebis heute. See also up to 4) 1) t 5)

    2. transitive verb
    2) (coll): (make seem old) alt machen
    3. intransitive verb
    1)

    date back to/date from a certain time — aus einer bestimmten Zeit stammen

    2) (coll.): (become out of date) aus der Mode kommen
    * * *
    I 1. [deit] noun
    1) ((a statement on a letter etc giving) the day of the month, the month and year: I can't read the date on this letter.) das Datum
    2) (the day and month and/or the year in which something happened or is going to happen: What is your date of birth?) das Datum
    3) (an appointment or engagement, especially a social one with a member of the opposite sex: He asked her for a date.) die Verabredung
    2. verb
    1) (to have or put a date on: This letter isn't dated.) datieren
    2) ((with from or back) to belong to; to have been made, written etc at (a certain time): Their quarrel dates back to last year.) zurückgehen auf
    3) (to become obviously old-fashioned: His books haven't dated much.) veralten
    - academic.ru/18499/dated">dated
    - dateline
    - out of date
    - to date
    - up to date
    II [deit] noun
    (the brown, sticky fruit of the date palm, a kind of tree growing in the tropics.) die Dattel
    * * *
    date1
    [deɪt]
    I. n
    1. (calendar day) Datum nt
    do you know what today's \date is? weißt du, welches Datum wir heute haben?
    closing \date letzter Termin
    at an early \date früh, frühzeitig
    expiry [or AM expiration] \date Verfallsdatum nt, ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ meist Ablaufdatum nt
    \date of acquisition Erwerbszeitpunkt m, Anschaffungszeitpunkt m
    \date of expiration Verfalltag m, Verfallzeit f
    \date of issue Ausstell[ungs]datum nt; STOCKEX Emissionszeitpunkt m
    \date of maturity Verfalltag m, Verfallzeit f
    \date of receipt COMM Eingangsdatum nt, Empfangsdatum nt
    to be in \date food das Verfallsdatum [o ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ meist Ablaufdatum] noch nicht haben, noch haltbar sein
    out of \date überholt, nicht mehr aktuell
    to be out of \date food das Verfallsdatum [o ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ meist Ablaufdatum] haben
    to \date bis jetzt/heute
    up to \date technology auf dem neuesten Stand, SCHWEIZ a. à jour; fashion, style, slang zeitgemäß, SCHWEIZ a. à jour
    interest to \date FIN Zinsen pl bis auf den heutigen Tag
    3. (on coins) Jahreszahl f
    4. (business appointment) Termin m, Verabredung f
    it's a \date! abgemacht!
    to make a \date sich akk verabreden
    shall we make it a \date? sollen wir es festhalten?
    5. (booked performance) Aufführungstermin m
    6. (social appointment) Verabredung f; (romantic appointment) Rendezvous nt
    a hot \date ( fam) ein heißes Date sl
    to go out on a \date ausgehen
    to have a \date with sb mit jdm verabredet sein, mit jdm abgemacht haben SCHWEIZ
    7. (person) Begleitung f
    a hot \date ( fam) ein heißer Typ/eine heiße Frau fam
    to find [or get] a \date einen Partner [o Begleiter] /eine Partnerin [o Begleiterin] finden
    II. vt
    1. (have relationship)
    to \date sb mit jdm gehen fam
    2. (establish the age of)
    to \date sth etw datieren
    the expert \dated the pipe at 1862 der Experte datierte die Pfeife auf das Jahr 1862
    3. (reveal the age of)
    to \date sb jdn altersmäßig verraten
    you went to Beach Boys concerts? that sure \dates you! du warst auf den Konzerten der Beach Boys? daran merkt man, wie alt du bist!
    to \date sth etw datieren
    in reply to your letter \dated November 2nd,... unter Bezugnahme auf Ihren Brief vom 2. November... form; FIN
    to \date a cheque forward einen Scheck vordatieren
    III. vi
    1. (have a relationship) miteinander gehen fam
    we think our daughter is still too young to \date AM wir denken, unsere Tochter ist noch zu jung, um einen Freund zu haben
    2. (go back to)
    to \date from [or back to] sth style auf etw akk zurückgehen; tradition von etw dat herrühren, aus etw dat stammen
    3. (show its age) veraltet wirken; (go out of fashion) aus der Mode kommen
    date2
    [deɪt]
    n Dattel f
    * * *
    I [deɪt]
    n
    (= fruit) Dattel f; (= tree) Dattelpalme f II
    1. n
    1) (= time of event) Datum nt; (= historical date) Geschichts- or Jahreszahl f; (for appointment) Termin m

    what's the date today? — der Wievielte ist heute?, welches Datum haben wir heute?

    to fix or set a date ( for sth) — einen Termin (für etw) festsetzen

    to date — bis heute, bis dato (form, dated)

    the band's UK tour dates are:... — die Band tritt an den folgenden Daten in Großbritannien auf:...

    2) (on coins, medals etc) Jahreszahl f
    3) (= appointment) Verabredung f; (with girlfriend etc) Rendezvous nt

    his date didn't show up — diejenige, mit der er ausgehen wollte, hat ihn versetzt (inf)

    I've got a lunch date today (with friend)ich habe mich heute zum Mittagessen verabredet; (on business) ich muss heute Mittag an einem Arbeitsessen teilnehmen

    2. vt
    1) (= put date on) mit dem Datum versehen; letter etc also datieren
    2) (= establish age of) work of art etc datieren
    3) (= take out) girlfriend etc ausgehen mit; (regularly) gehen mit (inf)
    3. vi
    1)

    to date fromzurückgehen auf (+acc); (antique etc) stammen aus

    2) (= become old-fashioned) veralten
    3) (= have boyfriend etc) einen Freund/eine Freundin haben; (couple) miteinander gehen

    he didn't date much when he was at schoolin seiner Schulzeit ging er nur selten mit Mädchen aus

    * * *
    date1 [deıt] s BOT
    1. Dattel f
    2. Dattelpalme f
    date2 [deıt]
    A s
    1. Datum n, Tag m:
    what is the date today? der Wievielte ist heute?, welches Datum haben wir heute?;
    the “Times” of today’s date obs die heutige „Times“;
    the letter has no date on it der Brief ist undatiert
    2. Datum n, Zeit(punkt) f(m):
    of recent date neu(eren Datums), modern;
    at an early date (möglichst) bald
    3. Zeit(raum) f(m), Epoche f:
    of Roman date aus der Römerzeit
    4. Datum n, Datums-(u. Orts)angabe f (auf Briefen etc):
    date as per postmark Datum des Poststempels;
    date of invoice Rechnungsdatum
    5. WIRTSCH, JUR Tag m, Termin m:
    date of delivery Liefertermin;
    date of maturity Fälligkeits-, Verfallstag;
    fix a date einen Termin festsetzen
    6. WIRTSCH
    a) Ausstellungstag m (eines Wechsels)
    b) Frist f, Sicht f, Ziel n:
    at a long date auf lange Sicht
    7. Date n, Verabredung f, Rendezvous n, Treffen n:
    have a date with sb mit jemandem verabredet sein;
    have a dinner date zum Essen verabredet sein;
    make a date sich verabreden
    8. Date n (jemand, mit dem man verabredet ist):
    who is your date? mit wem bist du verabredet?
    9. heutiges Datum, heutiger Tag:
    four weeks after date heute in vier Wochen;
    to date bis heute, bis auf den heutigen Tag
    10. neuester Stand:
    a) veraltet, überholt,
    b) abgelaufen, verfallen;
    a) veralten,
    b) ablaufen, verfallen;
    up to date zeitgemäß, modern;
    be up to date auf dem Laufenden sein (on über akk);
    bring up to date jemanden über den neuesten Stand informieren (on gen), Zahlen etc auf den neuesten Stand bringen, aktualisieren;
    bring sb up to date on the news jemanden über die neuesten Nachrichten informieren; up-to-date
    11. pl Lebensdaten pl
    B v/t
    1. datieren:
    the letter is dated July 3rd der Brief datiert oder trägt das Datum vom 3. Juli;
    date ahead ( oder forward) voraus-, vordatieren;
    date back zurückdatieren
    2. ein Datum oder eine Zeit oder eine Frist festsetzen oder angeben für
    3. herleiten ( from aus oder von)
    4. als überholt oder veraltet kennzeichnen
    5. einer bestimmten Zeit oder Epoche zuordnen
    6. a) sich verabreden mit
    b) ausgehen mit, (regelmäßig) gehen mit umg
    C v/i
    1. datieren, datiert sein ( beide:
    from von)
    2. date from ( oder back to) stammen oder sich herleiten aus, seinen Ursprung haben oder entstanden sein in (dat)
    3. date back to bis in eine Zeit zurückreichen, auf eine Zeit zurückgehen
    4. veralten, sich überleben
    5. miteinander gehen umg
    d. abk
    1. date
    3. day
    5. denarius, denarii pl, = penny, pence pl
    6. PHYS density
    7. died
    8. US dime
    s.a. abk
    2. sine anno, without year ( without year oder date) o. J.
    * * *
    I noun
    (Bot.) Dattel, die
    II 1. noun
    1) Datum, das; (on coin etc.) Jahreszahl, die

    date of birth — Geburtsdatum, das

    2) (coll.): (appointment) Verabredung, die

    have/make a date with somebody — mit jemandem verabredet sein/sich mit jemandem verabreden

    go [out] on a date with somebody — mit jemandem ausgehen

    3) (Amer. coll.): (person) Freund, der/Freundin, die
    4)

    be out of date — altmodisch sein; (expired) nicht mehr gültig sein

    to date — bis heute. See also up to 4) 1) t 5)

    2. transitive verb
    2) (coll): (make seem old) alt machen
    3. intransitive verb
    1)

    date back to/date from a certain time — aus einer bestimmten Zeit stammen

    2) (coll.): (become out of date) aus der Mode kommen
    * * *
    n.
    Dattel -n f.
    Datum Daten n.
    Termin -e m.
    Verabredung f.
    Zeitangabe f.
    Zeitpunkt m. v.
    bis heute ausdr.
    datieren v.

    English-german dictionary > date

  • 125 day

    noun
    1) Tag, der

    all day [long] — den ganzen Tag [lang]

    take all day(fig.) eine Ewigkeit brauchen

    all day and every day — tagaus, tagein

    to this day, from that day to this — bis zum heutigen Tag

    for two days — zwei Tage [lang]

    what's the day or what day is it today? — welcher Tag ist heute?

    in a day/two days — (within) in od. an einem Tag/in zwei Tagen

    [on] the day after/before — am Tag danach/davor

    [the] next/[on] the following/[on] the previous day — am nächsten/folgenden/vorhergehenden Tag

    the day before yesterday/after tomorrow — vorgestern/übermorgen

    from this/that day [on] — von heute an/von diesem Tag an

    one of these [fine] days — eines [schönen] Tages

    some day — eines Tages; irgendwann einmal

    day by day, from day to day — von Tag zu Tag

    day in day out — tagaus, tagein

    call it a day(end work) Feierabend machen; (more generally) Schluss machen

    at the end of the day(fig.) letzten Endes

    it's not my day — ich habe [heute] einen schlechten Tag

    2) in sing. or pl. (period)

    in the days when... — zu der Zeit, als...

    in those days — damals; zu jener Zeit

    have seen/known better days — bessere Tage gesehen/gekannt haben

    in one's day — zu seiner Zeit; (during lifetime) in seinem Leben

    every dog has its dayjeder hat einmal seine Chance

    it has had its dayes hat ausgedient (ugs.)

    3) (victory)

    win or carry the day — den Sieg davontragen

    * * *
    [dei] 1. noun
    1) (the period from sunrise to sunset: She worked all day; The days are warm but the nights are cold.) der Tag
    2) (a part of this period eg that part spent at work: How long is your working day?; The school day ends at 3 o'clock; I see him every day.) der Tag
    3) (the period of twenty-four hours from one midnight to the next: How many days are in the month of September?) der Tag
    4) ((often in plural) the period of, or of the greatest activity, influence, strength etc of (something or someone): in my grandfather's day; in the days of steam-power.) die Tage (pl.)
    - academic.ru/18551/daybreak">daybreak
    - day-dream 2. verb
    She often day-dreams.) mit offenen Augen träumen
    - daylight
    - day school
    - daytime
    - call it a day
    - day by day
    - day in
    - day out
    - make someone's day
    - one day
    - some day
    - the other day
    * * *
    [deɪ]
    n
    1. (24 hours) Tag m
    my birthday is ten \days from now heute in zehn Tagen habe ich Geburtstag
    what a \day! was für ein Tag!
    you're forty if you're a \day ( fam) du bist mindestens vierzig [Jahre alt]
    you don't look a \day over forty Sie sehen kein bisschen älter als vierzig aus
    we're expecting the response any \day now die Antwort kann jetzt jeden Tag kommen
    today is not my \day heute ist nicht mein Tag
    today of all \days ausgerechnet heute
    for a few \days auf ein paar Tage, für einige Tage
    in a few \days[' time] in einigen [o in ein paar] Tagen
    from one \day to the next (suddenly) von heute auf morgen; (in advance) im Voraus
    from one \day to the other von einem Tag auf den anderen
    one \day eines Tages
    to be one of those \days einer dieser unglückseligen Tage sein
    the other \day neulich, vor einigen Tagen
    some \day irgendwann [einmal]
    \day in, \day out tagaus, tagein
    from this \day forth von heute an
    from that \day on[wards] von dem Tag an
    the \day after tomorrow übermorgen
    the \day before yesterday vorgestern
    \day after \day Tag für Tag, tagtäglich
    \day by \day Tag für Tag
    by the \day von Tag zu Tag
    from \day to \day von Tag zu Tag
    to the \day auf den Tag genau
    to this \day bis heute
    these \days (recently) in letzter Zeit; (nowadays) heutzutage, heute; (at the moment) zurzeit
    one of these \days eines Tages; (soon) demnächst [einmal]; (some time or other) irgendwann [einmal]
    2. ECON (work period) Tag m
    he works three \days on, two \days off er arbeitet drei Tage und hat dann zwei Tage frei
    I have a full \day tomorrow morgen ist mein Tag randvoll mit Terminen, morgen habe ich einen anstrengenden Tag
    working \day Arbeitstag m
    all \day den ganzen Tag
    to work an eight-hour \day acht Stunden am Tag arbeiten
    to take a \day off einen Tag freinehmen
    3. (not night) Tag m
    all \day [long] den ganzen Tag [über [o lang]]
    \day and night Tag und Nacht
    a sunny/wet \day ein sonniger/regnerischer Tag
    by \day tagsüber, während des Tages
    4. (former time) Zeit f
    those were the \days das waren noch Zeiten
    to have seen better \days schon bessere Tage [o Zeiten] gesehen haben
    in the old \days früher
    in the good old \days in der guten alten Zeit
    to have had one's \day seine [beste] Zeit gehabt haben
    in the \days before/of/when... zur Zeit vor/des/, als...
    in those \days damals
    in/since sb's \day zu/seit jds Zeit
    things have quite changed since my \day seit meiner Zeit hat sich einiges verändert
    in my younger/student \days... als ich noch jung/Student war,...
    5. no pl (present)
    in this \day and age heutzutage
    of the \day Tages-
    the news of the \day die Tagesnachrichten [o Nachrichten von heute
    6. (life)
    sb's \days pl jds Leben nt
    her \days are numbered ihre Tage sind gezählt
    to end one's \days in poverty sein Leben [o geh seine Tage] in Armut beschließen
    in all my [born] \days in meinem ganzen Leben
    until my/her dying \day bis an mein/ihr Lebensende
    7. (special date) Tag m
    \day of Atonement [jüdisches] Versöhnungsfest
    the \day of Judg[e]ment der Jüngste Tag
    8.
    any \day jederzeit
    I can beat you any \day! ( fam) dich kann ich jederzeit schlagen!
    back in the \day AM (sl) in der Vergangenheit
    the big \day der große Tag
    to call it a \day Schluss machen [für heute]
    to carry [or win] the \day den Sieg davontragen geh
    at the end of the \day (in the final analysis) letzten Endes; (finally, eventually) schließlich, zum Schluss
    to make sb's \day jds Tag retten
    to name the \day den Hochzeitstermin festsetzen, den Tag der Hochzeit festlegen
    to be like night and \day wie Tag und Nacht sein
    sb's \days [as sth] are numbered jds Tage [als etw] sind gezählt
    from \day one von Anfang an, vom ersten Tag an
    to pass the time of \day plaudern, SÜDD, ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ a. plauschen
    that will be the \day! ( fam) das möchte ich zu gern[e] einmal erleben! fam
    to be all in a \day's work zum Alltag gehören
    * * *
    [deɪ]
    n
    1) Tag m

    it will arrive any day nowes muss jeden Tag kommen

    what day is it today? — welcher Tag ist heute?, was haben wir heute?

    the day after/before, the following/previous day — am Tag danach/zuvor, am (darauf)folgenden/vorhergehenden Tag

    one day we went swimming, and the next... — einen Tag gingen wir schwimmen, und den nächsten...

    one of these days — irgendwann (einmal), eines Tages

    day in, day out — tagein, tagaus

    day after day — Tag für Tag, tagtäglich

    day by day — jeden Tag, täglich

    to work day and night —

    have a nice day! — viel Spaß!; ( esp US, said by storekeeper etc ) schönen Tag noch!

    did you have a good day at the office? —

    to have a good/bad day — einen guten/schlechten Tag haben

    what a day! (terrible)so ein fürchterlicher Tag!; (lovely) so ein herrlicher Tag!

    on a wet/dry day — an einem regnerischen/trockenen Tag

    to work an eight-hour day — einen Achtstundentag haben, acht Stunden am Tag arbeiten

    See:
    → make
    2)

    (period of time: often pl) these days — heute, heutzutage

    in days to come — künftig, in künftigen Zeiten or Tagen (geh)

    in Queen Victoria's day, in the days of Queen Victoria — zu Königin Viktorias Zeiten

    it's early days yet —

    he/this material has seen better days — er/dieser Stoff hat (auch) schon bessere Zeiten or Tage gesehen

    3)

    (with poss adj = lifetime, best time) famous in her day — in ihrer Zeit berühmt

    4) no pl

    (= contest, battle) to win or carry the day — den Sieg bringen

    to lose/save the day — den Kampf verlieren/retten

    * * *
    day [deı] s
    1. Tag m (Ggs Nacht):
    it is broad day es ist heller Tag;
    before day vor Tagesanbruch;
    (as) clear as day
    a) taghell,
    b) auch (as) plain as day fig sonnenklar;
    good day! bes obs guten Tag!
    2. Tag m (Zeitraum):
    three days from London drei Tage(reisen) von London entfernt;
    one-day eintägig;
    work a four-day week vier Tage in der Woche arbeiten;
    five-day week Fünftagewoche f;
    open 7 days per week täglich geöffnet;
    I haven’t got all day umg ich hab nicht den ganzen Tag Zeit;
    (as) happy as the day is long wunschlos glücklich;
    (as) merry as the day is long quietschvergnügt umg; honest A 1, respite A 1, rest1 A 2
    3. (bestimmter) Tag:
    till the day of his death bis zu seinem Todestag;
    since the day dot umg seit einer Ewigkeit;
    first day at ( oder of) school erster Schultag; departure 1 b, New Year’s Day, etc
    4. Empfangs-, Besuchstag m
    5. a) (festgesetzter) Tag, Termin m:
    day of delivery Liefertermin, -tag;
    keep one’s day obs pünktlich sein
    b) SPORT Spieltag m
    6. meist pl (Lebens)Zeit f, Zeiten pl, Tage pl:
    in my young days in meinen Jugendtagen;
    in those days in jenen Tagen, damals;
    in the days of old vorzeiten, in alten Zeiten, einst;
    end one’s days seine Tage beschließen, sterben;
    all the days of one’s life sein ganzes Leben lang;
    a) das Tanzen habe ich aufgegeben,
    b) mit dem Tanzen geht es bei mir nicht mehr
    7. meist pl (beste) Zeit (des Lebens), Glanzzeit f:
    in our day zu unserer Zeit;
    every dog has his day (Sprichwort) jedem lacht einmal das Glück;
    have had one’s day sich überlebt haben, am Ende sein;
    he has had his day seine beste Zeit ist vorüber;
    the machine has had its day die Maschine hat ausgedient;
    those were the days! das waren noch Zeiten!
    8. ARCH Öffnung f, Lichte f (eines Fensters etc)
    9. Bergbau: Tag mBesondere Redewendungen: day after day Tag für Tag;
    a) tags darauf, am nächsten oder folgenden Tag,
    b) der nächste Tag;
    (day and) day about einen um den andern Tag, jeden zweiten Tag;
    day and night Tag und Nacht arbeiten etc;
    any day jeden Tag;
    any day (of the week) umg jederzeit;
    a) tags zuvor,
    b) der vorhergehende Tag;
    it was days before he came es vergingen oder es dauerte Tage, ehe er kam;
    by day, during the day bei Tag(e);
    a) tageweise,
    b) im Tagelohn arbeiten;
    day by day (tag)täglich, Tag für Tag, jeden Tag wieder;
    call it a day umg (für heute) Schluss machen;
    let’s call it a day! Feierabend!, Schluss für heute!;
    a) den Sieg davontragen,
    b) fig die Oberhand gewinnen;
    lose the day den Kampf verlieren;
    fall on evil days ins Unglück geraten;
    a) von Tag zu Tag, zusehends,
    b) von einem Tag zum anderen;
    day in, day out tagaus, tagein; immerfort;
    ask sb the time of day jemanden nach der Uhrzeit fragen;
    give sb the time of day jemandem guten Tag sagen;
    know the time of day wissen, was die Glocke geschlagen hat; Bescheid wissen;
    live for the day sorglos in den Tag hinein leben;
    that made my day umg damit war der Tag für mich gerettet;
    save the day die Lage retten;
    (in) these days, in this day and age heutzutage;
    one of these (fine) days demnächst, nächstens (einmal), eines schönen Tages;
    a) heute in einer Woche,
    b) heute vor einer Woche;
    to this day bis auf den heutigen Tag;
    to a day auf den Tag genau
    d. abk
    1. date
    3. day
    5. denarius, denarii pl, = penny, pence pl
    6. PHYS density
    7. died
    8. US dime
    * * *
    noun
    1) Tag, der

    all day [long] — den ganzen Tag [lang]

    take all day(fig.) eine Ewigkeit brauchen

    all day and every day — tagaus, tagein

    to this day, from that day to this — bis zum heutigen Tag

    for two days — zwei Tage [lang]

    what's the day or what day is it today? — welcher Tag ist heute?

    in a day/two days — (within) in od. an einem Tag/in zwei Tagen

    [on] the day after/before — am Tag danach/davor

    [the] next/[on] the following/[on] the previous day — am nächsten/folgenden/vorhergehenden Tag

    the day before yesterday/after tomorrow — vorgestern/übermorgen

    from this/that day [on] — von heute an/von diesem Tag an

    one of these [fine] days — eines [schönen] Tages

    some day — eines Tages; irgendwann einmal

    day by day, from day to day — von Tag zu Tag

    day in day out — tagaus, tagein

    call it a day (end work) Feierabend machen; (more generally) Schluss machen

    at the end of the day(fig.) letzten Endes

    it's not my day — ich habe [heute] einen schlechten Tag

    2) in sing. or pl. (period)

    in the days when... — zu der Zeit, als...

    in those days — damals; zu jener Zeit

    have seen/known better days — bessere Tage gesehen/gekannt haben

    in one's day — zu seiner Zeit; (during lifetime) in seinem Leben

    win or carry the day — den Sieg davontragen

    * * *
    n.
    Tag -e m.

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  • 126 first

    1. adjective
    erst...; (for the first time ever) Erst[aufführung, -besteigung]; (of an artist's first achievement) Erstlings[film, -roman, -stück, -werk]

    he was first to arriveer kam als erster an

    for the [very] first time — zum [aller]ersten Mal

    the first twodie ersten beiden od. zwei

    come in first(win race) [das Rennen] gewinnen

    head/feet first — mit dem Kopf/den Füßen zuerst od. voran

    first thing in the morning — gleich frühmorgens; (coll.): (tomorrow) gleich morgen früh

    first things first(coll.) eins nach dem anderen

    he's always [the] first to help — er ist immer als erster zur Stelle, wenn Hilfe benötigt wird

    2. adverb
    1) (before anyone else) zuerst; als erster/erste [sprechen, ankommen]; (before anything else) an erster Stelle [stehen, kommen]; (when listing): (firstly) zuerst; als erstes

    ladies first! — Ladys first!; den Damen der Vortritt!

    you [go] first — (as invitation) Sie haben den Vortritt; bitte nach Ihnen

    first come first served — wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst (Spr.)

    say first one thing and then anothererst so und dann wieder so sagen (ugs.)

    2) (beforehand) vorher

    ... but first we must... —... aber zuerst od. erst müssen wir...

    3) (for the first time) zum ersten Mal; das erste Mal; erstmals [bekannt geben, sich durchsetzen]
    4) (in preference) eher; lieber
    5)

    first of all — zuerst; (in importance) vor allem

    first and foremost(basically) zunächst einmal

    3. noun
    1)

    the first(in sequence) der/die/das erste; (in rank) der/die/das Erste

    be the first to arrive — als erster/erste ankommen

    2)

    at first — zuerst; anfangs

    3) (day)

    the first [of the month] — der Erste [des Monats]

    * * *
    [fə:st] 1. adjective, adverb
    (before all others in place, time or rank: the first person to arrive; The boy spoke first.) erst, zuerst
    2. adverb
    (before doing anything else: `Shall we eat now?' `Wash your hands first!) zuerst
    3. noun
    (the person, animal etc that does something before any other person, animal etc: the first to arrive.) der/die/das Erste
    - academic.ru/27554/firstly">firstly
    - first aid
    - first-born
    - first-class
    - first-hand
    - first-rate
    - at first
    - at first hand
    - first and foremost
    - first of all
    * * *
    [fɜ:st, AM fɜ:rst]
    adj attr, inv AM
    \First baby/cat Baby nt/Katze f des Präsidenten
    the \First couple der Präsident und die First Lady
    the \First marriage die Ehe des Präsidenten
    * * *
    [fɜːst]
    1. adj
    erste(r, s)

    or in line (US)er war der Erste in der Schlange

    I'm first, I've been waiting longer than you — ich bin zuerst an der Reihe, ich warte schon länger als Sie

    the first time I saw her... — als ich sie zum ersten Mal sah,...

    is it your first time?machst du das zum ersten Mal?

    in first place (Sport etc)

    in the first placezunächst or erstens einmal

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

    2. adv
    1) zuerst; (= before all the others) arrive, leave als erste(r, s)

    first, take three eggs — zuerst or als Erstes nehme man drei Eier

    first come first served (prov) — wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst (Prov)

    on a first come first served basis — nach dem Prinzip "wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst"

    ladies first — Ladies first!, den Damen der Vortritt

    you ( go) first — nach Ihnen

    he says first one thing then another —

    before he says anything I want to get in first with a few comments — bevor er irgendetwas sagt, möchte ich einige Bemerkungen anbringen

    what comes first in your order of priorities? —

    but, darling, you know you always come first — aber, mein Schatz, du weißt doch, dass du bei mir immer an erster Stelle stehst

    he always puts his job firstseine Arbeit kommt bei ihm immer vor allen anderen Dingen

    2) (= before all else) als Erstes, zunächst; (in listing) erstens

    first (of all) I'm going for a swim —

    why can't I? – well, first of all or first off (inf) it's not yours and secondly... —, it's not yours and secondly... warum denn nicht? – nun, zunächst or erstens einmal gehört es nicht dir und zweitens...

    first and foremost, he is a writer — zuallererst ist er Schriftsteller

    3) (= for the first time) zum ersten Mal, das erste Mal

    when this model was first introduced — zu Anfang or zuerst, als das Modell herauskam

    when it first became known that... — als erstmals bekannt wurde, dass...

    this work was first performed/published in 1997 — dieses Werk wurde 1997 uraufgeführt/erstveröffentlicht

    4) (= before in time) (zu)erst

    I must finish this firstich muss das erst fertig machen

    think first before you sign anything — überlegen Sie es sich, bevor Sie etwas unterschreiben

    5) (in preference) eher, lieber
    6) (NAUT, RAIL)
    3. n
    1)

    the first — der/die/das Erste

    he was among the ( very) first to arrive — er war unter den Ersten or Allerersten, die ankamen

    he was the first home/to finish — er war als Erster zu Hause/fertig; (in race)

    she wore a blouse and a skirt, but the first was too tight and the second too baggy — sie trug eine Bluse und einen Rock, aber erstere war zu eng und letzterer zu weit

    2)

    the first he knew about it was when he saw it in the paperer hat erst davon erfahren, als er es in der Zeitung las

    3)

    at first — zuerst, zunächst

    4) (Brit UNIV) Eins f, Note f "Eins"

    he got a first —

    5)
    6) (AUT)

    first ( gear) — der erste (Gang)

    in firstim ersten (Gang)

    7) (US BASEBALL) erstes Base or Mal → also sixth
    See:
    → also sixth
    * * *
    first [fɜːst; US fɜrst]
    A adj (adv firstly)
    1. erst(er, e, es):
    first edition Erstausgabe f;
    first film Erst(lings)film m;
    a) aus erster Hand,
    b) direkt;
    first letter Anfangsbuchstabe m;
    first novel Erstlingsroman m;
    first thing (in the morning) (morgens) als Allererstes;
    that’s the first thing I’ve heard about it das ist das Erste, was ich davon höre;
    put first things first Dringendem den Vorrang geben;
    he does not know the first thing about it er hat keine blasse Ahnung davon;
    he doesn’t know the first thing about me er weiß überhaupt nichts von mir; base1 A 10, bid1 A 1, blush B 4, installment1 1, offender 1, place A 17, prize1 A 2, rehearsal 1, release B 4, showing 3, sight A 2, view B
    2. fig erst(er, e, es):
    a) best(er, e, es), bedeutendst(er, e, es)
    b) erstklassig, -rangig:
    first cabin Kabine f erster Klasse;
    the first men in the country die führenden Persönlichkeiten des Landes;
    first officer SCHIFF Erster Offizier; fiddle A 1, water C 10
    B adv
    1. zuerst, voran:
    go first vorangehen; foot A 1, head Bes Redew, heel1 Bes Redew
    2. zum ersten Mal: meet A 2
    3. eher, lieber: hang B 4
    4. umg auch first off (zu)erst (einmal):
    first off, let’s see where … schauen wir doch erst einmal, wo …
    5. zuerst, als erst(er, e, es), an erster Stelle:
    come in ( oder finish) first SPORT als Erster durchs Ziel gehen, Erster werden;
    first come, first served (Sprichwort) wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst;
    first or last früher oder später, über kurz oder lang;
    a) vor allen Dingen,
    b) im großen Ganzen;
    first of all vor allen Dingen, zu allererst, in erster Linie; foremost B a
    C s
    1. (der, die, das) Erste oder (fig) Beste:
    be first among equals Primus inter pares sein
    2. Anfang m:
    from the (very) first von (allem) Anfang an;
    from first to last durchweg, von A bis Z;
    at first im oder am Anfang, anfangs, (zu)erst, zunächst, im ersten Moment
    3. MUS erste Stimme
    4. AUTO (der) erste Gang
    5. (der) (Monats)Erste:
    the first of June der 1. Juni
    6. first of exchange WIRTSCH Primawechsel m
    7. pl WIRTSCH Ware(n) f(pl) erster Qualität oder Wahl, die erste Wahl
    8. UNIV Br first class 3
    9. umg BAHN etc (die) erste Klasse
    * * *
    1. adjective
    erst...; (for the first time ever) Erst[aufführung, -besteigung]; (of an artist's first achievement) Erstlings[film, -roman, -stück, -werk]

    for the [very] first time — zum [aller]ersten Mal

    come in first (win race) [das Rennen] gewinnen

    head/feet first — mit dem Kopf/den Füßen zuerst od. voran

    first thing in the morning — gleich frühmorgens; (coll.): (tomorrow) gleich morgen früh

    first things first(coll.) eins nach dem anderen

    he's always [the] first to help — er ist immer als erster zur Stelle, wenn Hilfe benötigt wird

    2. adverb
    1) (before anyone else) zuerst; als erster/erste [sprechen, ankommen]; (before anything else) an erster Stelle [stehen, kommen]; (when listing): (firstly) zuerst; als erstes

    ladies first! — Ladys first!; den Damen der Vortritt!

    you [go] first — (as invitation) Sie haben den Vortritt; bitte nach Ihnen

    first come first served — wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst (Spr.)

    2) (beforehand) vorher

    ... but first we must... —... aber zuerst od. erst müssen wir...

    3) (for the first time) zum ersten Mal; das erste Mal; erstmals [bekannt geben, sich durchsetzen]
    4) (in preference) eher; lieber
    5)

    first of all — zuerst; (in importance) vor allem

    first and foremost (basically) zunächst einmal

    3. noun
    1)

    the first (in sequence) der/die/das erste; (in rank) der/die/das Erste

    be the first to arrive — als erster/erste ankommen

    2)

    at first — zuerst; anfangs

    the first [of the month] — der Erste [des Monats]

    * * *
    adj.
    erst adj.
    erstens adj.
    erster adj.
    erstes adj.
    frühest adj.
    zuerst adj.
    zunächst adj.

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  • 127 period

    1. noun
    1) (distinct portion of history or life) Periode, die; Zeit, die

    the Classical / Romantic / Renaissance period — die Klassik/Romantik/Renaissance

    of the period(of the time under discussion) der damaligen Zeit

    2) (any portion of time) Zeitraum, der; Zeitspanne, die

    over a period [of time] — über einen längeren Zeitraum

    showers and bright periods(Meteorol.) Schauer und Aufheiterungen

    3) (Sch.) Stunde, die
    4) (occurrence of menstruation) Periode, die; Regel[blutung], die

    have her/a period — ihre Periode od. Regel od. (ugs. verhüll.) Tage haben

    5) (punctuation mark) Punkt, der
    6) (appended to statement)

    we can't pay higher wages, period — wir können keine höheren Löhne zahlen, da ist nichts zu machen

    7) (Geol.) Periode, die
    2. adjective
    zeitgenössisch [Tracht, Kostüm]; Zeit[roman, -stück]; antik [Möbel]
    * * *
    ['piəriəd] 1. noun
    1) (any length of time: a period of three days; a period of waiting.) die Zeitspanne
    2) (a stage in the Earth's development, an artist's development, in history etc: the Pleistocene period; the modern period.) das Zeitalter
    3) (the punctuation mark (.), put at the end of a sentence; a full stop.)), put at the end of a sentence; a full stop.der Punkt
    2. adjective
    (of furniture, costumes etc) of or from the same or appropriate time in history; antique or very old: period costumes; His house is full of period furniture (=antique furniture). zeitgeschichtlich, Stil...
    - academic.ru/54621/periodic">periodic
    - periodically
    - periodical
    3. adjective
    (see periodic.)
    * * *
    pe·ri·od
    [ˈpɪəriəd, AM ˈpɪr-]
    I. n
    1. (length of time) Zeitspanne f, Zeitraum m, Periode f
    he was unemployed for a long \period [of time] er war lange [Zeit] arbeitslos
    \period of gestation Schwangerschaftsdauer f
    \period of grace Nachfrist f
    for a \period of three months für die Dauer von drei Monaten
    \periods of sun sonnige Abschnitte
    trial \period Probezeit f
    during [or in] [or over] a \period of ten years in einem [o über einen] Zeitraum von zehn Jahren
    within the agreed \period innerhalb der festgelegten Frist
    a fixed \period eine festgelegte Frist
    2. (lesson) Stunde f
    what have you got [in] third \period? was hast du in der dritten Stunde?
    3. (time in life, history, development) Zeit f; (distinct time) Zeitabschnitt m, Periode f geh; (phase) Phase f
    incubation \period Inkubationszeit f
    \period of office Amtszeit f
    colonial \period Kolonialzeit f
    Dali's surrealistic \period Dalis surrealistische Periode
    the Victorian \period das viktorianische Zeitalter
    of the \period der damaligen Zeit
    4. GEOL Periode f geh
    Precambrian \period Präkambrium nt fachspr
    5. ( fam: menstruation) Periode f
    she missed her \period ihre Periode ist ausgeblieben
    to get/have one's \period seine Periode bekommen/haben
    6. AM LING ( also fig: full stop) Punkt m a. fig
    you are not getting into the team, \period! du kommst nicht in die Mannschaft, Punkt, aus!
    II. n modifier
    1. (of an earlier period) chair, clothing, vase historisch; (set in an earlier period) drama, novel historisch
    2. (concerning menstruation) cramps, days Menstruations-
    \period pain Menstruationsschmerzen pl
    * * *
    ['pIərɪəd]
    n
    1) (= length of time) Zeit f; (= age, epoch) Zeitalter nt, Epoche f; (GEOL) Periode f

    for a period of eight weeks/two hours — für eine (Zeit)dauer or einen Zeitraum von acht Wochen/zwei Stunden

    at that period (of my life) — zu diesem Zeitpunkt (in meinem Leben)

    2) (SCH) (Schul)stunde f
    3) (form of sentence) Periode f; (esp US = full stop) Punkt m

    I'm not going period! (esp US) — ich gehe nicht, Schluss or und damit basta (inf)!

    4) (= menstruation) Periode f, Monatsblutung f, Tage pl (inf)
    5) (CHEM) Periode f
    * * *
    period [ˈpıərıəd]
    A s
    1. Periode f, Zyklus m, regelmäßige Wiederkehr
    2. Periode f, Zeit(dauer) f, -raum m, -spanne f, Frist f:
    period of appeal Berufungsfrist;
    period of exposure FOTO Belichtungszeit;
    period of incubation MED Inkubationszeit;
    period of office Amtsdauer f;
    period of pressure SPORT Drangperiode;
    period of recession WIRTSCH Rezessionsphase f;
    period of validity Gültigkeitsdauer f;
    the Reformation period die Reformationszeit;
    for a period für einige Zeit;
    for a period of für die Dauer von; observation A 1, probation 3, remand B 1 b
    3. a) Zeit(alter) f(n): glacial 2, etc
    b) (das) gegenwärtige Zeitalter, (die) Gegenwart:
    the fashion of the period die augenblickliche Mode;
    a girl of the period ein modernes Mädchen
    4. ASTRON Umlaufzeit f
    5. SCHULE (Unterrichts)Stunde f
    6. SPORT Spielabschnitt m, z. B. Eishockey: Drittel n
    7. ELEK, PHYS Periode f, Schwingdauer f
    8. MATH Periode f (wiederkehrende Gruppe von Ziffern im Dezimalbruch)
    9. MUS ( besonders Achttakt)Periode f
    10. PHYSIOL Periode f (der Frau): miss2 A 1
    11. (Sprech)Pause f, Absatz m
    12. LING
    a) besonders US Punkt m
    b) Gliedersatz m, Satzgefüge n
    c) allg wohlgefügter Satz
    B adj
    a) zeitgeschichtlich, -genössisch, historisch, Zeit…
    b) Stil…:
    a period play ein Zeitstück n;
    period furniture Stilmöbel pl;
    period house Haus n im Zeitstil;
    period dress historisches Kostüm
    per. abk
    2. person Pers.
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) (distinct portion of history or life) Periode, die; Zeit, die

    the Classical / Romantic / Renaissance period — die Klassik/Romantik/Renaissance

    2) (any portion of time) Zeitraum, der; Zeitspanne, die

    over a period [of time] — über einen längeren Zeitraum

    showers and bright periods(Meteorol.) Schauer und Aufheiterungen

    3) (Sch.) Stunde, die
    4) (occurrence of menstruation) Periode, die; Regel[blutung], die

    have her/a period — ihre Periode od. Regel od. (ugs. verhüll.) Tage haben

    5) (punctuation mark) Punkt, der

    we can't pay higher wages, period — wir können keine höheren Löhne zahlen, da ist nichts zu machen

    7) (Geol.) Periode, die
    2. adjective
    zeitgenössisch [Tracht, Kostüm]; Zeit[roman, -stück]; antik [Möbel]
    * * *
    Punkt -e (Satzzeichen) m. (of time) n.
    Zeitabschnitt m. (school) n.
    Unterrichtsstunde f. n.
    Frist -en f.
    Periode -n (Mathematik) f.
    Periode -n f.
    Schwingungszeit f.
    Zeitraum -¨e m.

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  • 128 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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