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it is somewhat complicated

  • 1 COMPLICATED: SOMEWHAT COMPLICATED

    [A]
    CONTORTULUS (-A -UM)

    English-Latin dictionary > COMPLICATED: SOMEWHAT COMPLICATED

  • 2 somewhat

    adverb (rather; a little: He is somewhat sad; The news puzzled me somewhat.) nokså, ganske, litt, noe
    litt
    --------
    noe
    I
    adv. \/ˈsʌmwɒt\/
    noe, litt, ganske, temmelig
    more than somewhat ( hverdagslig) ikke så rent lite
    II
    determ. \/ˈsʌmwɒt\/
    ( litterært) noe, en del, litt, temmelig, ganske

    English-Norwegian dictionary > somewhat

  • 3 COMPLICATED

    [A]
    DIFFICILIS (-E)
    NODOSUS (-A -UM)
    PERPLEXUS (-A -UM)
    PERPLICATUS (-A -UM)
    INVOLUTUS (-A -UM)
    COMPLICATUS (-A -UM)
    CONPLICATUS (-A -UM)
    CONTORTIPLICATUS (-A -UM)
    - SOMEWHAT COMPLICATED
    - VERY COMPLICATED

    English-Latin dictionary > COMPLICATED

  • 4 contortulus

        contortulus adj. dim.    [contortus], somewhat perverse: conclusiunculae.
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    contortula, contortulum ADJ
    somewhat complicated/intricate

    Latin-English dictionary > contortulus

  • 5 требования осложняются тем, что

    Требования осложняются тем, что-- The requirement is somewhat complicated as the crude oil is transported through pipelines.

    Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > требования осложняются тем, что

  • 6 contortulus

    contortŭlus, a, um, adj. dim. [contortus], somewhat complicated or intricate:

    contortulis quibusdam ac minutis conclusiunculis,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 18, 42.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > contortulus

  • 7 rather

    adverb
    1) (by preference) lieber

    he wanted to appear witty rather than brainyer wollte lieber geistreich als klug erscheinen

    rather than accept bribes, he decided to resign — ehe er sich bestechen ließ, trat er lieber zurück

    2) (somewhat) ziemlich [gut, gelangweilt, unvorsichtig, nett, warm]

    I rather think that... — ich bin ziemlich sicher, dass...

    be rather better/more complicated than expected — um einiges besser/komplizierter sein als erwartet

    it is rather too early — ich fürchte, es ist zu früh

    I rather like beans/him — ich esse Bohnen ganz gern/ich mag ihn recht gern

    3) (more truly) vielmehr

    or rather — beziehungsweise; [oder] genauer gesagt

    he was careless rather than wickeder war eher nachlässig als böswillig

    * * *
    1) (to a certain extent; slightly; a little: He's rather nice; That's a rather silly question / rather a silly question; I've eaten rather more than I should have.) ziemlich
    2) (more willingly; preferably: I'd rather do it now than later; Can we do it now rather than tomorrow?; I'd rather not do it at all; I would/had rather you didn't do that; Wouldn't you rather have this one?; I'd resign rather than do that.) lieber
    3) (more exactly; more correctly: He agreed, or rather he didn't disagree; One could say he was foolish rather than wicked.) besser gesagt
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    ra·ther
    [ˈrɑ:ðəʳ, AM ˈræðɚ]
    I. adv inv
    1. (somewhat) ziemlich
    it's \rather cold/difficult es ist ziemlich kalt/schwer
    I've \rather foolishly lost their address ich habe dummerweise ihre Adresse verlegt
    I \rather doubt... ich bin nicht ganz sicher, ob...
    to be \rather more expensive than sb was expecting um einiges teurer sein als erwartet
    2. (very) ziemlich, recht
    I was \rather pleased to be invited to the wedding ich war hocherfreut darüber, dass ich zur Hochzeit eingeladen war
    he's \rather a nice man er ist ziemlich nett
    it's \rather a shame that... es ist wirklich schade, dass...
    to be \rather ill ziemlich krank sein
    3. (on the contrary) eher
    no, I'm not tired — \rather the opposite in fact nein, ich bin nicht müde — ganz im Gegenteil
    4. (in preference to)
    I'd like to stay at home this evening \rather than going out ich möchte heute Abend lieber zu Hause bleiben und nicht ausgehen
    I've got to have two teeth out next week — \rather you than me mir werden nächste Woche zwei Zähne gezogen — besser dir als mir
    5. (more exactly) genauer [o besser] gesagt
    he's my sister's friend really, \rather than mine eigentlich ist er der Freund meiner Schwester, und nicht so sehr meiner
    II. interj esp BRIT ( dated) na klar [doch] fam
    * * *
    ['rAːðə(r)]
    adv
    1) (= for preference) lieber

    rather than wait, he went away — er ging lieber, als dass er wartete

    I would rather you came yourself — mir wäre es lieber, Sie kämen selbst

    2) (= more accurately) vielmehr

    he is, or rather was, a soldier — er ist, beziehungsweise or vielmehr war, Soldat

    a car, or rather an old banger — ein Auto, genauer gesagt eine alte Kiste

    3) (= to a considerable degree) ziemlich; (= somewhat, slightly) etwas

    it's rather more difficult than you think — es ist um einiges schwieriger, als du denkst

    it's rather too difficult for me —

    she's rather an idiot/a killjoy — sie ist reichlich doof/ein richtiger Spielverderber

    I've rather got the impression... —

    rather! (inf)und ob! (inf), klar! (inf)

    * * *
    rather [ˈrɑːðə(r); US besonders ˈræ-]
    A adv
    1. ziemlich, recht:
    rather a success ein ziemlicher Erfolg;
    I would rather think that … ich würde denken, dass …
    2. lieber, eher:
    rather good than bad eher gut als schlecht;
    green rather than blue mehr oder eher grün als blau;
    from reason rather than from love eher oder mehr aus Vernunftgründen als aus Liebe;
    I’d rather not lieber nicht;
    I would rather not do it ich möchte es lieber oder eigentlich nicht tun;
    I would ( oder had) much rather (not) go ich möchte viel lieber (nicht) gehen
    3. ( or rather oder) vielmehr, eigentlich:
    her dream or, rather, her idol ihr Traum oder, besser gesagt, ihr Idol;
    the contrary is rather to be supposed vielmehr ist das Gegenteil anzunehmen;
    the rather that … um so mehr, da …
    B int besonders Br umg na klar!, und ob!
    * * *
    adverb
    1) (by preference) lieber

    rather than accept bribes, he decided to resign — ehe er sich bestechen ließ, trat er lieber zurück

    2) (somewhat) ziemlich [gut, gelangweilt, unvorsichtig, nett, warm]

    I rather think that... — ich bin ziemlich sicher, dass...

    be rather better/more complicated than expected — um einiges besser/komplizierter sein als erwartet

    it is rather too early — ich fürchte, es ist zu früh

    I rather like beans/him — ich esse Bohnen ganz gern/ich mag ihn recht gern

    3) (more truly) vielmehr

    or rather — beziehungsweise; [oder] genauer gesagt

    * * *
    adv.
    eher adv.
    eigentlich adv.
    ungefähr adv.
    vielmehr adv.
    ziemlich adv.

    English-german dictionary > rather

  • 8 desigual

    adj.
    1 different (diferente).
    2 changeable.
    3 unequal, irregular, different, asymmetric.
    4 rough, uneven, up-and-down.
    * * *
    1 (gen) unequal, uneven
    2 (diferente) different, unequal
    3 (irregular) uneven, irregular
    4 (no liso) uneven, rough
    5 (variable) changeable
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=diferente) different

    los ciudadanos reciben un trato desigual — people are treated differently, people are not treated equally o the same

    2) [lucha, batalla] unequal
    3) (=irregular) [terreno, calidad] uneven; [letra] erratic
    4) (=variable) [tiempo] changeable; [carácter] unpredictable
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( diferente)
    b) ( desequilibrado) < lucha> unequal; < fuerzas> unevenly-matched
    2) ( irregular) <terreno/superficie> uneven; < letra> uneven, irregular; < calidad> variable, varying (before n); < rendimiento> inconsistent, erratic
    * * *
    = patchy [patchier -comp., patchiest -sup.], uneven, unequal, asymmetric, inequal, inequitable, spotty, ragged, asymmetrical, craggy [craggier -comp., craggiest -sup.], lumpy [lumpier -comp., lumpiest -sup.], unbalanced, imbalanced.
    Ex. The retrospective bibliographic control mechanism is somewhat patchy but there are some large scale works.
    Ex. Not surprisingly this can lead to gaps in coverage, and uneven coverage of subjects.
    Ex. However, problems arose as a result of combining headings of unequal importance and the multiplicity of languages involved.
    Ex. These graphs are represented in the form of similarity matrices which are asymmetric.
    Ex. Statistics show the inequal geographical distribution of these libraries, with 74% of university libraries to be found in the north and central regions, while only 26% are found in the south.
    Ex. Librarianship is an occupation dominated by women and subject to inequitable compensation.
    Ex. Enforcement of library policies is spotty at best.
    Ex. Even in more mainstream publishing, despite the ubiquity of word processors, which can so easily produce justified text, ragged right margins are becoming more common, even fashionable.
    Ex. MPEG is more expensive and complicated but more powerful and better suited to asymmetrical applications such as CD-ROM data bases.
    Ex. This is a series of meditative poems in which the author chronicles an encounter with the craggy Atlantic coastline of Brittany.
    Ex. Between 9 and 12 months, lumpy or chopped foods, such as vegetables, meats, or cottage cheese, may be introduced.
    Ex. Another problem with the main classes is that are unbalanced.
    Ex. The article includes two great maps, which show regions in which there may be a danger of imbalanced markets.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( diferente)
    b) ( desequilibrado) < lucha> unequal; < fuerzas> unevenly-matched
    2) ( irregular) <terreno/superficie> uneven; < letra> uneven, irregular; < calidad> variable, varying (before n); < rendimiento> inconsistent, erratic
    * * *
    = patchy [patchier -comp., patchiest -sup.], uneven, unequal, asymmetric, inequal, inequitable, spotty, ragged, asymmetrical, craggy [craggier -comp., craggiest -sup.], lumpy [lumpier -comp., lumpiest -sup.], unbalanced, imbalanced.

    Ex: The retrospective bibliographic control mechanism is somewhat patchy but there are some large scale works.

    Ex: Not surprisingly this can lead to gaps in coverage, and uneven coverage of subjects.
    Ex: However, problems arose as a result of combining headings of unequal importance and the multiplicity of languages involved.
    Ex: These graphs are represented in the form of similarity matrices which are asymmetric.
    Ex: Statistics show the inequal geographical distribution of these libraries, with 74% of university libraries to be found in the north and central regions, while only 26% are found in the south.
    Ex: Librarianship is an occupation dominated by women and subject to inequitable compensation.
    Ex: Enforcement of library policies is spotty at best.
    Ex: Even in more mainstream publishing, despite the ubiquity of word processors, which can so easily produce justified text, ragged right margins are becoming more common, even fashionable.
    Ex: MPEG is more expensive and complicated but more powerful and better suited to asymmetrical applications such as CD-ROM data bases.
    Ex: This is a series of meditative poems in which the author chronicles an encounter with the craggy Atlantic coastline of Brittany.
    Ex: Between 9 and 12 months, lumpy or chopped foods, such as vegetables, meats, or cottage cheese, may be introduced.
    Ex: Another problem with the main classes is that are unbalanced.
    Ex: The article includes two great maps, which show regions in which there may be a danger of imbalanced markets.

    * * *
    A
    1
    (diferente): las mangas me quedaron desiguales one sleeve turned out longer ( o wider etc) than the other
    reciben un trato muy desigual they are treated very differently
    2 (desequilibrado) ‹lucha› unequal; ‹fuerzas› unevenly-matched
    B (irregular) ‹terreno/superficie› uneven; ‹letra› uneven, irregular; ‹calidad› variable, varying ( before n)
    su rendimiento ha sido desigual his performance has been variable o irregular o inconsistent
    * * *

    desigual adjetivo
    1

    las mangas quedaron desiguales one sleeve turned out longer (o wider etc) than the other


    fuerzas unevenly-matched
    2 ( irregular) ‹terreno/superficie uneven;
    letra uneven, irregular;
    calidad variable, varying ( before n);
    rendimiento inconsistent, erratic
    desigual adjetivo
    1 (irregular, poco igualado) uneven
    2 (descompensado) unequal
    3 (variable, cambiante) changeable
    ' desigual' also found in these entries:
    English:
    irregular
    - patchy
    - ragged
    - rough
    - unequal
    - variable
    - bumpy
    - erratic
    - mixed
    - one
    - uneven
    * * *
    1. [diferente] different;
    recibieron un trato desigual they weren't treated the same, they were treated differently;
    un triángulo de lados desiguales a triangle with unequal sides
    2. [irregular] [terreno, superficie] uneven;
    [alumno, actuación] inconsistent, erratic;
    su filmografía es de desigual calidad his movies o Br films are of varying quality;
    ha publicado varias novelas con desigual fortuna he has published several novels, with mixed results
    3. [poco equilibrado] [lucha, competición] unequal;
    [fuerzas, rivales] unevenly matched
    4. [variable] [tiempo] changeable;
    [temperaturas] variable; [persona, humor] changeable
    * * *
    adj
    1 reparto unequal
    2 terreno uneven, irregular
    * * *
    1) : unequal
    2) disparejo: uneven
    * * *
    1. (distinto) different
    2. (combate) unequal
    3. (tiempo, carácter) changeable
    4. (superficie, terreno) uneven

    Spanish-English dictionary > desigual

  • 9 Artificial Intelligence

       In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)
       Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)
       Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....
       When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)
       4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually
       Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)
       What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)
       The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)
       9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form
       The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)
       There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:
        Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."
        Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)
       Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)
       Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)
       The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)
        14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation
       It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)
       We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.
       Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.
       Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.
    ... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)
       Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)
        16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts
       Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)
       Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System
       Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence
       The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.
       The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)
       The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....
       AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)
        21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions
       In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)
       Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)
       Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)
       The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

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  • 10 if

    if
    1) (in the event that; on condition that: He will have to go into hospital if his illness gets any worse; I'll only stay if you can stay too.) si
    2) (supposing that: If he were to come along now, we would be in trouble.) si, en el caso de que
    3) (whenever: If I sneeze, my nose bleeds.) si, cada vez que, siempre que
    4) (although: They are happy, if poor.) a pesar de, aunque
    5) (whether: I don't know if I can come or not.) si
    if conj
    1. si
    if it rains, we'll stay at home si llueve, nos quedaremos en casa
    2. cuando / siempre que
    if I were you yo en tu lugar / yo que tú
    if I were you, I'd go home yo en tu lugar, me iría a casa
    if only ojalá / si
    if only I knew his name! ¡ojalá supiera cómo se llama!
    if
    tr[ɪf]
    if it rains, we'll stay at home si llueve, nos quedaremos en casa
    if anyone phones, I'm out si llama alguien, no estoy
    if she should arrive... si llegase...
    if my mother were here, she'd know what to do si estuviera mi madre, sabría qué hacer
    what would you do if you won the lottery? ¿qué harías si ganaras la lotería?
    if you hadn't gone to bed so late, you wouldn't be so tired si no te hubieras acostado tan tarde, no estarías tan cansado
    if you'd studied harder, you would have passed the exam si hubieras estudiado más, habrías aprobado el examen
    if you heat water to 100 degrees, it boils si calientas el agua a 100 grados, hierve
    if you're not sure about anything, don't hesitate to ask si no estás seguro de algo, no dudes en preguntar
    do you know if she got the job? ¿sabes si consiguió el trabajo?
    I'm sorry if I woke you siento haberte despertado, perdona que te haya despertado
    do you mind if I open the window? ¿te importa que abra la ventana?
    4 (but) aunque, pero
    it's good, if a little slow at times es bueno pero algo lento a veces
    well, if it isn't Jimmy Jazz! vaya, ¡pero si es Jimmy Jazz!
    if she passes - and it's a big if... suponiendo que apruebe - y ya es suponer...
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    if and when si y cuando
    if any en caso de que..., si es que...
    there were very few mistakes, if any había muy pocos errores, si es que había alguno
    if anything más bien, en todo caso
    she's no better, if anything, she's worse no está mejor, en todo caso está peor
    if ever si alguna vez
    if I were you yo que tú, yo en tu lugar
    if not si no
    if only (present or future time) ¡ojalá!, ¡si al menos! 2 (past events) si
    if only I'd known si lo hubiera sabido, de haberlo sabido
    if only you'd told me! ¡si me lo hubieras dicho!, ¡habérmelo dicho!
    if only it were Friday ¡ojalá fuese viernes!
    come to the wedding, if only to please your mother ven a la boda, aunque sólo sea para complacer a tu madre
    if so de ser así, si así fuese
    it's not as if... / it isn't as if... no es que...
    if ['ɪf] conj
    1) : si
    I would do it if I could: lo haría si pudiera
    if so: si es así
    as if: como si
    if I were you: yo que tú
    2) whether: si
    I don't know if they're ready: no sé si están listos
    3) though: aunque, si bien
    it's pretty, if somewhat old-fashioned: es lindo aunque algo anticuado
    if
    adv.
    como adv.
    conj.
    cuando conj.
    si conj.
    n.
    duda s.f.
    hipótesis s.f.

    I ɪf
    1)

    if you're good, I'll read you a story — si te portas bien, te leeré un cuento

    if I were you, I wouldn't do it it — yo en tu lugar or yo que tú, no lo haría

    b)

    if not: they were undernourished, if not (yet) actually starving estaban desnutridos, si bien no se estaban muriendo de inanición; she was very offhand, if not downright rude — estuvo muy brusca, por no decir verdaderamente grosera

    c)
    d)

    if only: if only she could have seen him! — si lo pudiera haber visto!

    e)

    if so — (as linker) si es así, de ser así

    2) ( whether) si
    3) ( though) aunque, si bien

    it's a good plot, if a complicated one — es un buen argumento, aunque complicado or si bien es complicado

    4)

    if you'll all follow me, please — síganme, por favor, ¿quieren seguirme, por favor?

    b) ( indicating surprise) (with neg)

    well, if it isn't Mike Britton! — pero si es Mike Britton!


    II
    [ɪf]
    1. CONJ

    if you ask me — en lo que a mí se refiere

    if you had come earlier, you would have seen him — si hubieras venido antes, le habrías visto

    if I had known I would have told you — de haberlo sabido te lo habría dicho, si lo sé te lo digo *

    if it hadn't been for you we would have all died — de no ser or de no haber sido por ti hubiéramos muerto todos

    you can go if you likepuedes ir si quieres

    if necessary — si es necesario, si hace falta

    if I were you I would go to Spain — yo que tú iría a España, yo en tu lugar iría a España

    if it weren't for him, we wouldn't be in this mess! — ¡si estamos metidos en este lío, es por él! *, ¡no estaríamos metidos en este lío de no ser por él! *

    if and when she comes — si (en efecto) viene, en el caso de que venga

    2) (=whenever) si, cuando

    if she wants any help she asks mesi or cuando necesita ayuda me la pide

    if it was fine we went out for a walksi or cuando hacía buen tiempo dábamos un paseo

    3) (=although) aunque, si bien

    it's a nice film if rather long — es una buena película, aunque or si bien algo larga

    I will do it, even if it is difficult — lo haré, aunque me resulte difícil

    I'll finish it if or even if it takes me all day — lo terminaré aunque me lleve todo el día

    I couldn't eat it if I triedaunque me lo propusiera no lo podría comer

    4) (=whether) si

    he asked me if I had eaten — me preguntó si había comido

    I don't know if he's here — no sé si está aquí

    I wonder if it's true — me pregunto si es or será verdad

    if anything this one is better — hasta creo que este es mejor, este es mejor si cabe

    it's no bigger than our last house, if anything, it's even smaller — no es más grande que nuestra última casa si acaso, es incluso más pequeña

    I think you should paint it blue, if anything — en todo caso or si acaso, yo lo pintaría de azul

    as if — como si

    it isn't as if we were rich — no es que seamos precisamente ricos, no es que seamos ricos que digamos

    if at all, they aren't paid enough, if (they are paid) at all — les pagan poco, eso cuando les pagan

    change it to red, if at all — en todo caso or si acaso, cámbialo a rojo

    if it isn't old Garfield! — ¡pero si es el bueno de Garfield!, ¡hombre, Garfield, tú por aquí!

    if notsi no

    are you coming? if not, I'll go with Mark — ¿vienes? si no, iré con Mark

    if only I had known! — ¡de haberlo sabido!

    if only I could! — ¡ojalá pudiera!

    if only we had a car! — ¡ojalá tuviéramos coche!, ¡quién tuviera coche!

    I'll come, if only to see him — voy, aunque solo sea para verlo

    I'll try to be there, if only for a few minutes — trataré de estar allí, aunque solo sea unos minutos

    if so — si es así, de ser así

    are you coming? if so, I'll wait — ¿vienes? si es así or de ser así te espero; see as; see even 2., 4)

    2.
    N

    that's or it's a big if — es un gran pero

    there are a lot of ifs and butshay muchas dudas sin resolver

    IF
    Indicative/Subjunctive after "si"
    Si can be followed by both the {indicative} and the {subjunctive}. The {indicative} describes facts and likely situations; the {subjunctive} describes remote or hypothetical situations.
    Indicative Use si + ((present indicative)) to translate if + ((present)) in English:
    If you go on overeating, you'll get fat Si sigues comiendo tanto, vas a engordar
    Don't do it if you don't want to No lo hagas si no quieres NOTE: Don't use si with the ((present subjunctive)).
    Subjunctive Use si + ((imperfect subjunctive)) to translate if + ((past)) for remote or uncertain possibilities and hypotheses:
    If we won the lottery, we would never have to work again Si nos tocase or tocara la lotería, no tendríamos que trabajar nunca más
    What would you do if I weren't here? ¿Qué harías si yo no estuviese or estuviera aquí? ► Use si + ((pluperfect subjunctive)) (= hubiera or hubiese + ((past participle))) to translate if + had + ((past participle)):
    If Paula hadn't lost her ticket, she would have left today Si Paula no hubiera or hubiese perdido el billete, habría salido hoy Alternatively, instead of a clause with si, you can often use de ( no) haber + ((past participle)):
    If Paula hadn't lost her ticket, she would have left today De no haber perdido Paula el billete, habría salido hoy For further uses and examples, see main entry
    * * *

    I [ɪf]
    1)

    if you're good, I'll read you a story — si te portas bien, te leeré un cuento

    if I were you, I wouldn't do it it — yo en tu lugar or yo que tú, no lo haría

    b)

    if not: they were undernourished, if not (yet) actually starving estaban desnutridos, si bien no se estaban muriendo de inanición; she was very offhand, if not downright rude — estuvo muy brusca, por no decir verdaderamente grosera

    c)
    d)

    if only: if only she could have seen him! — si lo pudiera haber visto!

    e)

    if so — (as linker) si es así, de ser así

    2) ( whether) si
    3) ( though) aunque, si bien

    it's a good plot, if a complicated one — es un buen argumento, aunque complicado or si bien es complicado

    4)

    if you'll all follow me, please — síganme, por favor, ¿quieren seguirme, por favor?

    b) ( indicating surprise) (with neg)

    well, if it isn't Mike Britton! — pero si es Mike Britton!


    II

    English-spanish dictionary > if

  • 11 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 12 вычисление

    (см. также результат) calculation, calculating, computation, evaluation
    Более точное вычисление показывает, что... - A more exact calculation shows that...
    Более тщательные вычисления, проделанные Смитом [1], дают... - A more accurate calculation by Smith [1] gives...
    Вычисления были выполнены... - The calculations were performed (by)...
    Вычисления вручную имеют тот недостаток, что... - Hand calculations have the disadvantage that...
    Вычисления показали, что... - Computations have shown that...
    Вычисления слегка упрощаются, если... - The computational work simplifies somewhat if...
    Вычисления, в основном, являются такими же, как... - The calculations are essentially the same as...
    Читателю предоставляется проделать это простое вычисление в деталях. - The details of this straightforward computation are left to the reader.
    Довольно громоздкое вычисление показывает, что... - A somewhat lengthy computation shows that...
    Довольно простые вычисления показывают, что... - A rather easy calculation shows that...
    Затем небольшое вычисление, использующее лемму 3, приводит к тому, что... - Then a little calculation using Lemma 3 yields that...
    Намеченные выше вычисления показывают, что... - The calculations outlined above show that...
    Однако при вычислении величины W мы должны принять во внимание тот факт, что... - In computing W, however, we must take into account the fact that...
    Остальная часть леммы 2 следует из весьма простых вычислений. - The rest of Lemma 2 follows by a very easy calculation.
    Подобные вычисления выявляют, что... - Similar computations reveal that...
    Подобные решения наиболее полезны для вычисления... - Such solutions are most useful for calculating...
    Подробные вычисления затрудняются вследствие проблем, возникающих из... - Detailed calculations are beset with difficulties arising from...
    Пример послужит для демонстрации выполнения этого вычисления. - An example will serve to show how the calculation is carried out.
    Реальные вычисления, однако, показывают, что... - Actual computations show, however, that...
    Смит [1] предложил метод вычисления... - Smith [1] has proposed a method of calculating...
    Стандартные вычисления показывают, что... - A routine calculation shows that...
    Таким образом, наша задача сводится к вычислению... - Our problem becomes, therefore, one of evaluating...
    Только что проделанные вычисления показывают нам, что... - The result just calculated shows us that...
    Точное вычисление выражения (10) было бы трудным. - A precise evaluation of (10) would be difficult.
    Уравнение (4) часто используется как базис для вычислений... - Equation (4) is often used as a basis for the calculation of...
    Формальные вычисления показывают, что... - A formal calculation shows that...
    Чтобы упростить вычисления, введем... - То simplify the computations, we introduce...
    Эти вычисления слегка усложняются вследствие... - The calculations are made slightly more complicated by...
    Это уравнение может быть использовано для вычисления амплитуды... - This equation can be used to calculate the magnitude of...

    Русско-английский словарь научного общения > вычисление

  • 13 рассмотрение

    Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > рассмотрение

  • 14 взгляд

    view, glance, point of view, look
    Бросим краткий взгляд на... - Let us look briefly at...
    Важно иметь реальный взгляд на... - It is essential to have a realistic view of...
    Возможно, что полезно бросить взгляд на... - It is probably useful to look at...
    Давайте бросим взгляд на... - Let us take a look at...
    На первый взгляд кажется, что... - At first sight it appears that...
    На первый взгляд это кажется безнадежно сложным. - At first sight this seems hopelessly complicated.
    На первый взгляд могло бы показаться, что... - At first sight, it might appear that...
    На первый взгляд это могло бы показаться несколько странным, потому что... - At first sight this may seem somewhat surprising because...
    Принятый в данной книге взгляд состоит в том, что... - The viewpoint adopted in this book is that...
    С первого взгляда могло бы показаться, что... - It would seem at first sight that...
    С первого взгляда мы могли бы ожидать... - At first sight we might expect...
    Эта статья предлагает новый взгляд на... - This paper provides a new viewpoint on...
    Эти результаты также поддерживают тот взгляд, что... - The results also lend support to the view that...

    Русско-английский словарь научного общения > взгляд

  • 15 доказательство

    proof (of), demonstration (of), argument, evidence (for)
    Альтернативное доказательство может быть получено (путем, на пути)... - An alternate proof may be obtained by...
    Альтернативное доказательство оставлено в качестве упражнения 1.3. - An alternative proof is left to Exercise 1.3.
    Безо всяких доказательств мы просто утверждаем, что... - Without going into any proofs, we simply state that...
    Более простое прямое доказательство было дано Смитом [1]. Мы следуем его методу. - A simpler direct proof was given by Smith [1], whose method we follow here.
    В качестве упражнения мы оставляем читателю доказательство, что... - It is left as an exercise for the reader to show that...
    Вдобавок, это доказательство можно слегка упростить... - Incidentally, this proof can be made somewhat simpler by...
    Дадим формальное доказательство (этого). - The formal proof is as follows.
    Данное доказательство использует метод математической индукции по п. - The proof is by induction on n.
    Данное доказательство существенно основывается на нашем предположении, что... - The proof rests fundamentally on our assumption that...
    Для доказательства второго утверждения (теоремы) мы выписываем... - То prove part (ii), we write...
    Для нашего доказательства удобно использовать... - For our proof it is convenient to use...
    Доказательство (теоремы) довольно длинное, поэтому мы разобьем его на несколько шагов. - The proof is rather long, so we shall break it up into several steps.
    Доказательство (этого факта, этой теоремы и т. п.) простое, и потому мы оставляем его читателю. - The proof is simple; we leave it to the reader.
    Доказательство леммы закончено (= завершено). - The proof of the lemma is finished; This proves the lemma.
    Доказательство не закончено до тех пор, пока мы не... - The proof is not complete until we...
    Доказательство обратного утверждения уже было проведено. - The proof of the converse has already been given.
    Доказательство проводится методом индукции по п. - The proof is by induction on n.
    Доказательство проводится от противного. - The argument is by reductio ad absurdum.
    Доказательство следует почти немедленно из определения... - The proof is almost immediate from the definition of...
    Доказательство становится неверным, если... - The proof breaks down if...
    Доказательство теоремы завершено. - This completes the proof; The theorem is proved; QED
    Доказательство этого легкое (= несложное). - The proof is easy.
    Доказательство этого факта подобно доказательству теоремы 2. - This proof is similar to the proof of Theorem 2.
    Другое доказательство намечено в упражнении 2. - An alternative proof is outlined in Exercise 2.
    Его доказательство является достаточно элементарным. - The proof is quite elementary.
    Затем мы переключаем наше внимание на доказательство того, что... - We turn our attention next to proving that...
    Затем нам нужно будет одно особое доказательство, чтобы продемонстрировать, что... - We will then need a special argument to show that...
    Здесь мы уже подошли к чисто геометрическому доказательству... - Here we have arrived at a purely geometrical proof of...
    Имеются все доказательства того, что... - There is every indication that...
    Метод доказательства аналогичен методу, использованному Бляшке [3]. - The proof method is analogous to the method used by Blashke [3].
    Мы можем дать простое доказательство этой теоремы следующим образом. - We can give a simple proof of this theorem as follows.
    Мы накопили ряд убедительных доказательств того, что... - We have amassed a convincing body of evidence that...
    Мы начинаем доказательство с... - We begin the proof by...
    Мы начинаем с доказательства двух лемм. - We begin by proving two lemmas.
    Мы опускаем весьма громоздкое доказательство данной теоремы. - We omit the rather lengthy proof of this theorem.
    Мы опустим доказательство этого утверждения. - We will omit the proof of this statement.
    Мы оставляем читателю доказательство противоположного утверждения. - We leave the converse proof to the reader.
    Мы оставляем читателю дополнить детали (доказательства). - The details are left to the reader,
    Мы примем этот важный факт без доказательства. - We shall accept this important fact without proof.
    Мы рассуждаем так же, как при доказательстве теоремы 1. (= Мы полностью повторяем рассуждения из доказательства теоремы 1. ) - We argue exactly as in the proof of Theorem 1.
    Наш первый шаг состоит в доказательстве, что... - Our first task is to prove...
    Наше доказательство, в основном, повторяет доказательство леммы 2 из [1]. - Our proof follows along the lines of Lemma 2 of [1].
    Небольшое изменение этого доказательства показывает, что... - A minor modification of the proof shows that...
    Нет никаких экспериментальных доказательств, показывающих, что... - There is no experimental evidence to indicate that...
    Однако (его/ее) доказательство не является настолько простым, как можно было бы подумать (= вообразить). - The proof, however, is not as easy as one might think.
    Однако доказательство данной гипотезы сложное, потому что... - However, proof of this hypothesis is difficult because...
    Однако имеется огромное множество доказательств (= свидетельств) того, что... - But there is a great deal of evidence that...
    (= предоставляется) читателю. - The remainder of the proof is left to the reader.
    Остальная часть доказательства проводится уже более или менее просто. - The rest of the proof is now more or less straightforward.
    В работе Смита [1] приведено доказательство при менее ограничительных условиях. - For a proof under less restrictive conditions, see Smith [1].
    Перед тем как мы сможем завершить доказательство, мы должны... - Before we can complete the proof, we must...
    Полученное противоречие завершает доказательство. - This contradiction completes the proof.
    Предшествующее доказательство принадлежит лорду Рэлею [1]. - The foregoing proof is due to Lord Rayleigh [1].
    Приведем более полное доказательство, данное Гильбертом [2]. - A fuller proof, given by Hilbert [2], is as follows.
    Простейшее доказательство базируется на идее, что... - The simplest proof rests on the concept of...
    Простое и прямое доказательство может быть получено... - A simple and direct proof can be obtained by...
    Разобьем доказательство на два шага (= две части). - We shall divide the proof into two steps.
    С целью экономии места мы опускаем доказательство... - We omit the proof in order to save space; For reasons of space we omit the proof of...
    Сейчас имеется огромное количество доказательств того, что... - There is now overwhelming evidence that...
    Следующее доказательство является небольшой модификацией доказательства, данного Смитом [1]. - The following proof is a slight modification of that given by Smith [1].
    Смит [1] дал общее доказательство того, что... - Smith [1] has given a general proof that...
    Сформулируем без доказательства следующую теорему относительно... - We state without proof the following theorem concerning...
    Теперь займемся доказательством этой теоремы. - We now come to the proof of the theorem.
    Теперь мы приведем пропущенные детали доказательства. - We now proceed to fill in the details; We shall now fill in the details.
    Убедительное доказательство этого утверждения предоставлено Смитом [1]. - Convincing proof of this statement is furnished by Smith [1].
    Центральной частью доказательства является то, что... - The crux of the proof is that...
    Чтобы завершить доказательство, мы... - In order to finish the proof, we...; Finally, we...
    Чтобы завершить доказательство, мы выпишем... - For the remainder of the proof we write...
    Чтобы завершить доказательство, нам остается показать, что... - То complete the proof, we need to demonstrate that...
    Чтобы закончить доказательство, мы... - In order to complete the proof, we...
    Элегантное доказательство, которое мы здесь приводим, в основном принадлежит Гильберту. - The elegant proof we give is essentially due to Hilbert.
    Это доказательство легко изменить для того, чтобы показать, что... - The proof is easily adapted to show that...
    Это доказательство основывается на факте, что... - The proof is based on the fact that...
    Это доказательство почти идентично доказательству последней теоремы. - The proof is almost identical with that of the last theorem.
    Это доказательство слишком сложное, чтобы приводить его здесь. - The proof is too complicated to give here.
    Это приводит к противоречию, и следовательно, доказательство закончено. - This gives a contradiction, and the proof is complete.
    Этот метод доказательства весьма оригинален. - The method of proof is quite ingenious.
    Этот метод доказательства довольно общий и применим к... - The method of proof is quite general and applies to...
    Этот факт был отмечен без доказательства в главе 4. - This fact was noted without proof in Chapter 4.

    Русско-английский словарь научного общения > доказательство

  • 16 метод

    method, process, procedure, approach, technique, practice, tool, strategy
    Безо всяких изменений данный метод подходит для... - The method lends itself readily to...
    Более подходящим методом является... - A better technique is to...
    Более прямой метод получения величины F рассматривается в главе 9. - A more direct procedure for obtaining F is considered in Chapter 9.
    Более подходящим методом является определение... - A more satisfactory method is to establish...
    Большинство из этих более продвинутых методов требует... - Most of these more advanced methods require...
    Были предложены несколько методов. - Several techniques have been suggested.
    Было довольно нелегко разработать метод для... - It was fairly difficult to develop a method for...
    Было довольно сложно разработать метод для... - It was quite difficult to develop a method for...
    Было легко разработать метод для... - It was easy to develop a method for...
    Было относительно легко (= просто) разработать метод для... - It was relatively easy to develop a method for... (not easy on an absolute scale, but less challenging than other tasks)
    Было почти невозможно разработать метод для... - It was almost impossible to develop a method for... (so hard that we nearly failed)
    В альтернативном методе мы вычисляем... - In the alternative method we calculate...
    В данной главе мы представим метод для... - In this chapter, we shall formulate the procedure for...
    В данном приближенном методе существенно... - In this approximation procedure it is essential to...
    В качестве примера применения описанного выше метода мы показываем, что... - As an example of the method described above we show that...
    В недавние годы этот метод был улучшен посредством использования (чего-л). - In recent years the subject has been enriched by the use of...
    В основном мы следуем методу... - In essence we follow the procedure of...
    В последние годы несколько авторов отказались от этого метода. - Several authors have, in recent years, departed from this procedure.
    В своих основных чертах это был метод, использовавшийся Смитом [1]. - In essence, this was the method employed by Smith [1].
    В соответствии с методом, намеченным в Главе 1, мы... - In accordance with the method outlined in Chapter 1, we...
    В этой главе мы даем эффективный метод... - In this chapter we give an efficient method for...
    Вместо этого давайте разработаем (один) общий метод, посредством которого... - Instead, let us develop a general method whereby...
    Во многих случаях необходимо обращаться за помощью к приближенным методам. - In many cases it is necessary to resort to approximate methods.
    Возможно, безопасно применить метод... к... - It is probably safe to apply the method of... to...
    Возможно, наилучшим методом является... - Perhaps the best approach is to...
    Все вышеупомянутые методы не применимы для малых х. - The foregoing methods all fail for small x.
    Второй метод вывода уравнения (1) формулируется следующим образом. - A second method of obtaining (1) is as follows.
    Второй метод точно согласуется с... - The latter method agrees precisely with...
    Вышеуказанным методом обнаружено (= найдено), что... - By the above method it is found that...
    Геометрически метод состоит в следующем. - Geometrically, the procedure is as follows.
    Главное преимущество данного метода заключается в том, что... - The chief advantage of the method is that...
    Главным преимуществом данного метода является его общность. - The principal advantage of the method is its generality.
    Главным преимуществом данного метода по сравнению с традиционными является то, что... - The major advantage of this procedure over the traditional method is that...
    Главным преимуществом данного метода является его простота. - The principal virtue of the method is its simplicity.
    Далее, в данном методе заранее предполагается, что... - Further, the method presupposes...
    Данное свойство является основой одного метода нахождения... - This property provides one method of determining...
    Данный метод был предложен в статье [1]. - The method was suggested by Smith, et al. [1].
    Данный метод намного точнее, чем... - The present method is much more precise than...
    Данный метод не применим для/в... - The method does not apply to...
    Данный метод невозможно применить, когда/ если... - The method is not applicable when...
    Данный метод одинаково успешно можно применять к... - The method can equally well be applied to...
    Данный метод особенно подходит в случае, когда... - The method is particularly appropriate when...
    Данный метод позволяет... - The method enables one to...
    Данный метод позволяет исследователю... - The method allows an investigator to...
    Данный метод применим к широкому классу (в широком классе)... - The method is applicable to a large class of...
    Данный метод прост и довольно интересен, однако... - This method is simple and quite interesting, but...
    Данный отчет описывает новый метод... - This report describes a new method of...
    Данным методом можно решить ряд важных практических задач. - This method enables us to solve several problems of practical importance.
    Детали этого метода можно найти в [1]. - Details of the method can be found in Smith [1].
    Для... можно применить несколько методов. - Several methods are available for...
    Для получения... был использован ряд методов. - A number of methods have been used to obtain...
    Для преодоления этой трудности был разработан один метод. - One method has been advanced for overcoming this difficulty.
    Должны быть развиты методы для измерения... - Methods should be developed for measuring...
    Достоинство этого метода состоит в том, что... - The advantage of the method is that...
    Другим недостатком этого метода является то, что... - The other disadvantage of this procedure is that...; Another disadvantage of this procedure is that...
    Его метод доказательства весьма оригинален. - The method of proof is quite ingenious.
    Единственный доступный нам в настоящее время метод - это... - The only method available to us so far is...
    Единственным известным недостатком этого метода является то, что... - The only known disadvantage of this procedure is that...
    Еще одним методом является... - Still another approach is to...
    Здесь рассматривается (один) общий метод получения этих решений. - A general method of obtaining these solutions is considered here.
    Важность наших методов состоит в том, что они будут давать... - The significance of our methods is that they will yield...
    Значительно более удобный метод состоит в том, что... - A far more convenient approach is to...
    Имеются два обычно используемых метода для... - There are two commonly used methods for...
    Имеются три метода решения такой задачи. - There are three ways of attacking such a problem.
    Интересным альтернативным методом является следующий. - An interesting alternative procedure is as follows.
    Используя данный метод, следует помнить, что... - In using this method it is well to remember that...
    Используя любой подобный метод, необходимо (помнить и т. п.)... - With any method such as this it is necessary to...
    Используя этот метод, они нашли, что... - Using the method, they found that...; Using the method, they learned that...; Using the method, they determined that...; Using the method, they discovered that...
    Используя этот новый метод, мы можем... - By this new method it will be possible to...
    Итак, мы наметим несколько методов, которые могут использоваться для того, чтобы... - We therefore outline some procedures which can be used to...
    К сожалению, этот метод оказался неприменим. - Unfortunately, the method was not applicable; The method, unfortunately, was not applicable.
    К счастью, имеется один простой и подходящий для этого метод. - Fortunately, there is a simple technique available for doing this.
    Каков недостаток этого метода? - What is the disadvantage of this procedure?
    Каковы преимущества данного метода? - What are the advantages of this procedure?
    Конечно, это могло бы быть следствием неподходящих методов. - Of course, this could reflect the use of inappropriate methods.
    Конечно, этот метод не всегда применим. - Of course, this method will not always work.
    Коротко, мы будем интересоваться методами, которые... - In short, we will inquire into the ways in which...
    Кратко опишем метод для его оценки. - A method for estimating this will be given shortly.
    Метод... должен быть применен к/в... - The method of... should apply to...
    Метод... мог бы быть надежно применен для... - The method of... could safely be applied to,..
    Метод анализа, намеченный в предыдущем абзаце, показывает... - The method of analysis outlined in the last paragraph shows...
    Метод может использоваться для оценки... - The method can be used to estimate...
    Метод обладает очевидным преимуществом... - The method possesses the obvious advantage of...
    Метод основывается на принципе, что... - This method is based on the principle that...
    Метод перестает быть достаточно точным, если... - The method ceases to be reasonably accurate if...
    Метод состоит в следующем. - The procedure is as follows.
    Метод состоит из двух шагов. - The approach is in two steps.
    Метод требует от пользователя обеспечить... - The method requires the user to provide...
    Метод, который здесь описывается, требует... - The method to be described here involves...
    Метод, который мы описали, в общем случае не подходит для... - The procedure we have described is not, in general, suitable for...
    Метод, приведенный в этом параграфе, подобным образом может быть применен к... - The method of sections may be applied in a similar way to...
    Метод, с помощью которой это было получено, известен как... - The technique by which this is achieved is known as...
    Методы, которые мы рассмотрели, позволяют нам... - The methods we have considered enable us to...
    Можно использовать множество методов. Например,... - A variety of methods may be employed, e. g.,...
    Можно ожидать, что метод обеспечит нахождение по меньшей мере одного корня. - The method can be expected to provide at least one root.
    Мы будем придерживаться этого метода. - We shall follow this method.
    Мы ввели широкий класс методов решения... - We have introduced a wide range of procedures for solving...
    Мы можем обратить метод и вывести, что... - We can reverse the process and deduce that...
    Мы наметим в общих чертах метод, основанный на... - We will outline a procedure based on...
    Мы откладываем обсуждение подобных методов до параграфа 5. - We defer the discussion of such methods to Section 5.
    Мы принимаем полностью отличный от данного метод. - We adopt an entirely different method.
    Мы проиллюстрируем данный метод для случая... - We shall illustrate the procedure for the case of...
    Мы считаем, что метод... можно применять к/в... - We believe that the method of... is applicable to...
    Мы увидим, что эти методы могут использоваться лишь тогда, когда... - It will be observed that these methods are only applicable when...
    Мы упоминаем лишь два таких метода... - We mention only two such methods of...
    На данный метод часто ссылаются как на... - This process is often referred to as...
    На самом деле оба метода используются на практике. - Both methods are in fact used in practice.
    На сегодняшний день важность этого метода заключается в том, что... - For the present, the significance of this process lies in the fact that...
    Наиболее важным преимуществом данного метода является то, что... - The primary advantage of this procedure is that...
    Наиболее просто следовать этому методу в случае... - The procedure is most simply followed for the case of...
    Наиболее часто используемые методы перечислены ниже:... - The methods that are most often used follow:...
    Наиболее широко используемые методы основываются на... - The techniques most widely used are based on...
    Наиболее широко используемый метод это тот, что был введен Смитом [1]. - The method most commonly employed is that introduced by Smith [1].
    Наш метод будет весьма существенно отличаться от данного. - Our procedure will be quite different from this.
    Нашей основной целью является описание систематических методов для... - Our first concern is to describe systematic methods for...
    Не существует систематического метода определения... - There is no systematic way of determining...
    Недостатком данного метода является то, что он требует... - The disadvantage of this procedure is that it requires...
    Недостаток этого метода можно видеть... - The flaw in this approach can be seen by...
    Несколько методов анализа были введены с помощью... - Several methods of analysis are introduced by means of...
    Ни один из этих методов не требует... - Neither of these methods requires...
    Ниже описываются два подобных метода. - Two such methods are described below.
    Обнаружилось, что данный метод (здесь) не приложим. - It turned out that the method was not applicable.
    Обнаружилось, что данный метод успешно используется в широкой области... - The method is found to be successful on a wide range of...
    Обычно считают, что Смит [1] положил начало этому методу. - Smith [1] is usually credited with originating this method.
    Обычным методом является измерение... - A common procedure is to measure...
    Один такой несколько искусственный метод занимается... - One such trick is concerned with...
    Одна элегантная версия данного метода использует... - An elegant version of this method employs...
    Однако данный метод требует предварительного знания... - However, this method presupposes a knowledge of...
    Однако лучше всего ввести этот метод, рассматривая... - However, the method is best introduced by considering...
    Однако метод может не сработать даже при отсутствии... - However, the procedure may fail even in the absence of...
    Однако мы воспользуемся здесь более общим методом, разработанным Воровичем [1]. - But we shall follow here a more general method due to Vorovich [1].
    Однако мы легко можем разработать метод для... - We can, however, easily devise a means for...
    Однако решения все еще могут быть получены при помощи чисто численных методов. - Solutions can still be obtained, however, by resorting to purely numerical methods.
    Однако существует стандартный метод работы с... - However, there is a standard method of dealing with...
    Однако этот метод не работает, будучи примененным к... - This approach, however, breaks down when applied to...
    Однако этот метод совершенно не удовлетворяет нашим целям. - This procedure, however, falls far short of our goal.
    Одним из преимуществ этого метода является то, что... - One advantage of this procedure is that...
    Одним общим недостатком данного метода является наличие... - One common drawback of this method is the presence of...
    Оказывается, данный метод первоначально появился в работах Смита [1]. - The method appears to have originated in the works of Smith [1].
    Описанная выше процедура представляет один строгий метод... - The procedure described above represents a rigorous method of...
    Описанный выше метод может быть использован для построения... - The procedure described above can be used to construct...
    Описанный здесь метод всегда приводит... - The procedure described here always yields...
    Основной слабостью метода является... - The main weakness of the method is...
    Отличительным преимуществом данного метода является то, что... - A distinct advantage of the procedure is that...
    Отличный от вышеупомянутого метод был предложен Джонсом [1]. - A different method has been given by Jones [1].
    Перед этим не имелось общепризнанного метода... - Prior to this, there was no generally accepted method of...
    Подобные методы могут использоваться в более сложных ситуациях. - Similar methods may be employed in more complicated cases.
    Подобный метод был рассмотрен Смитом [1], который... - Such a procedure has been considered by Smith [1], who...
    Подобный метод может быть принят, когда... - A similar method may be adopted when...
    Подобный метод применяется к/в... - A similar method applies to...
    Пользуясь такими методами, мы можем избежать... - By such expediencies we can avoid...
    Потенциальное преимущество данного метода состоит в том, что... - A potential advantage of this procedure lies in the fact that...
    Поэтому мы применяем слегка модифицированный метод. - We therefore adopt a slightly different method.
    Предпочтительным, однако, является метод... - The preferred method, however, is to...
    Преимущество этого метода заключается в том, что... - The advantage of this method lies in the fact that...
    Преимущество этого метода, следовательно, состоит в том, что он обеспечивает простой... - The advantage < this procedure, therefore, is that it provides a simple...
    Применение данного метода ограничено... - The application of this method is confined to...
    Применение данного метода показывает... - An application of this process shows...
    Применение данного специального метода оправдано (чем-л). - The adoption of this particular method is justified by...
    Проиллюстрируем общий метод, рассматривая... - We illustrate the general method by considering...
    Рассматриваемые до сих пор методы касаются... - The methods considered so far have been concerned with...
    Результаты всех этих методов согласуются с... - The results of all these methods are consistent with...
    Решающим недостатком этого метода является то, что... - The crucial disadvantage of this procedure is that...
    С другой стороны, этот метод даст... - On the other hand, this method will give...
    Открытие Смита сделало возможным новый метод... - Smith's discovery made possible a new method of...
    Самым простым из таких методов является (метод)... - The simplest such method is...
    Следовательно, необходимо развить общий метод для... - It is, therefore, necessary to devise a general method for...
    Следует подчеркнуть, что этот метод должен использоваться только если... - It is to be emphasized that this method should be used only; if...
    Следует уделить внимание методам... - Attention should be given to methods of...
    Следующее рассуждение иллюстрирует метод... - The following treatment illustrates the method of...
    Следующим недостатком этого метода является то, что... - A further disadvantage of this procedure is that...
    Смит [lj обнаружил метод для... - Smith [1] discovered a method for...
    Смит [1] предложил метод вычисления... - Smith [l] has proposed a method of calculating...
    Смит [1] применил этот метод к... - Smith [1] has applied this method to.,.
    Стандартным методом является следующий. - The standard procedure is as follows.
    Таким образом, мы имеем метод, который позволяет... - Thus we have a method which yields...
    Тем не менее, развитые нами методы обеспечивают основу для... - However, the methods we have developed provide a basis for...
    Теперь мы (полностью) готовы использовать методы, разработанные во втором параграфе. - We are now ready to use the methods of Section 2.
    Теперь мы обсудим систематические методы, которые f можно использовать в/ при... - We now discuss systematic methods which can be applied to...
    Теперь мы применим метод Римана, чтобы... - We now apply Riemann's method in order to...
    Только что описанный метод известен как... - The procedure we have described is known as...
    Тот же метод можно применять в/к... - The same method may be applied to...
    Удобным методом достижения необходимой цели является... - A convenient way to accomplish this is to...
    Усовершенствованные экспериментальные методы сделали возможным... - Refined experimental methods have made it possible to...
    Фундаментальным преимуществом этого метода является то, что... - A fundamental advantage of this procedure is that...
    Хотя этот метод и несколько необычен, он справедлив (= работает) как и любой из известных методов. - Although this method is somewhat unorthodox, it is as valid as any of the more familiar methods.
    Центральной идеей, на которой основывался подход Смита [1], была... - The essential idea behind Smith's approach was that...
    Чтобы воспользоваться преимуществами данного метода, необходимо... - In order to take advantage of this procedure, one must...
    Чтобы проиллюстрировать применение метода, мы... - То illustrate the process we...
    Эдисон изобрел новый метод для... - Edison invented a new method for...
    Эдисон обдумывал новый метод для... - Edison devised a new method for...
    Эти методы вводятся в следующем параграфе. - These methods are introduced in the next section.
    Эти методы весьма громоздки. - These processes are tedious.
    Эти методы настолько чувствительны, что... - These methods are so sensitive that...
    Эти методы нельзя применять в случае, когда... - These methods are not applicable in the case of...
    Эти методы очень чувствительны к малым изменениям в... - These methods are very sensitive to small changes in...
    Эти методы получают своих сторонников, так как... - These methods attract proponents because...
    Этим методом (= На этом пути) мы можем получить (вывести и т. п.)... - In this way we can arrive at...
    Это будет объяснено примерами, когда мы будем изучать метод... - This point will be clarified by examples when we study the method of...
    Это известный метод, принятый во многих работах... - This is a familiar procedure, undertaken in many studies of...
    Это иллюстрирует важный метод... - This illustrates an important method of...
    Это можно увидеть двумя методами. - This can be seen in two ways.
    Это несущественный недостаток метода, поскольку... - This is not a serious defect of the method because...
    Это приводит к полезным методам обращения с... - This leads to useful ways of dealing with...
    Это простой метод, который можно проиллюстрировать, рассматривая... - This is a simple procedure which can be illustrated by considering...
    Этот метод аналогичен использованному в... - The procedure is similar to that used in...
    Этот метод был описан Смитом [1]. - The method has been described by Smith [1].
    Этот метод был последовательно доведен до полной эффективности Смитом [3]. - This method was subsequently brought to full fruition by Smith [3].
    Этот метод вполне очевиден. - This procedure is quite straightforward.
    Этот метод доказательства довольно общий и применим к... - The method of proof is quite general and applies to...
    Этот метод известен как... - The procedure is known as...
    Этот метод имеет следующие недостатки. - The procedure has the following disadvantages.
    Этот метод интересен по следующей причине. - This method is of interest for the following reason.
    Этот метод легко адаптируется к/ для... - This procedure is readily adaptable to...
    Этот метод легко понять, замечая, что... - The process is easily understood by noting that...
    Этот метод лучше всего иллюстрируется примером. - The procedure is best illustrated by an example.
    Этот метод наиболее успешен в случае, когда он применяется в... - The method is most successful when applied to...
    Этот метод очевидным образом может быть распространен на (случай)... - This process can clearly be extended to...
    Этот метод принимается, поскольку... - This approach is adopted because...
    Этот метод являлся стандартным в течение многих лет. Несмотря на более новые разработки он будет использоваться и далее. - This approach has been standard for many years, and will continue to be of great use regardless of newer developments.
    Этот технически простой метод действительно требует... - This technically simple method does require...

    Русско-английский словарь научного общения > метод

  • 17 первый

    (см. также первоначальный, оригинальный) first, early, pioneered
    В качестве первого приближения давайте возьмем... - For our first approximation, let us take...
    В первом приближении мы должны ожидать... - То а first approximation we should expect... (
    В первом приближении мы могли бы рассматривать... - То a first approximation we may regard...
    В первую очередь это связано с... - It is associated primarily with...
    Во-первых заметим, что нет необходимости... - Our first observation is that there is no need to...
    Во-первых, мы хотели бы выразить нашу благодарность... - Firstly, we wish to express our thanks to...
    Во-первых, понятно, что... - First, it is clear that...
    Во-первых, ясно, что... - In the first place, it is clear that...
    Гильберт был первым, кто доказал, что... - Hilbert was the first to prove that...
    Используя три первые условия из (24), мы находим... - Using the first three conditions (24), we find...
    Мы проделаем это в несколько шагов, первым из которых является... - We carry this out in several stages, the first of which is...
    На первый взгляд кажется, что... - At first sight it appears that...
    На первый взгляд это кажется безнадежно сложным. - At first sight this seems hopelessly complicated.
    На первый взгляд, это могло бы показаться несколько странным (= удивительным), потому что... - At first sight this may seem somewhat surprising because...
    Первая (= начальная, основополагающая) работа в этом направлении была выполнена Смитом [1], который... - The initial work in this direction was performed by Smith [1], who...
    Первое и наиболее важное - это... - First and foremost,...
    Первый из этих вопросов влечет... - The first of these questions involves...
    Первым для исследования был выбран... - The first to be investigated was...
    Первым и самым простым из этих случаев является... - The first of these, and the simplest, is...
    С первого взгляда могло бы показаться, что... - It would seem at first sight that...
    С первого взгляда мы могли бы ожидать... - At first sight we might expect...
    Смит [lj был первым, кто... - Smith [1] appears to have been the first to...
    Только первая из этих двух проблем будет рассмотрена здесь нами. - Only the first of these two problems will concern us here.
    Чтобы доказать (эту) теорему, во-первых, предположим, что... - То prove the theorem, suppose first that...
    Это доказывает первое утверждение. - This proves the first assertion.

    Русско-английский словарь научного общения > первый

  • 18 факт

    (см. также данные, результат, вариант, версия, случай) fact, case, one point
    Благодаря этому факту усиленно напрашивается, что... - This fact strongly suggests that...
    В свете всех этих фактов становится естественным (вычислить и т. п.)... - In view of all these facts it becomes natural to...
    В связи с тем фактом, что..., очевидно, что это невозможно. - This is obviously impossible in light of the fact that...
    В этом параграфе мы устанавливаем основные факты относительно... - In this section we establish the basic facts about...
    Важность этого факта станет понятна после того, как мы обсудим... - The importance of this fact will become clear when we discuss...
    Внимание читателя привлекается к тому факту, что... - The reader's attention is drawn to the fact that...
    Вряд ли необходимо еще подчеркивать тот факт, что... - It is hardly necessary to stress the fact that...
    Данная теория также объясняет тот факт, что... - This theory also explains the fact that...
    Данное утверждение интуитивно очевидно, если исходить из факта, что... - The proposition is intuitively obvious from the fact that...
    Данный подход должен быть изменен так, чтобы он учитывал факт, что... - The approach must be modified to accommodate the fact that...
    Добавьте к этому тот факт, что... - Add to this the fact that...
    Его принципиальная важность заключается в том факте, что... - Its principal importance lies ultimately in the fact that...
    Задача усложняется тем фактом, что... - The problem is complicated by the fact that...
    Замечательным фактом является то, что... - It is a remarkable fact that...
    Замечательным фактом является, что... - It is a remarkable fact that...
    Здесь принимается во внимание тот факт, что... - This takes account of the fact that...
    Зная этот набор фактов, мы понимаем, что... - With this framework before us, we realize that...
    Из этого факта, совместно с (1), вытекает, что... - This fact, taken together with (1), implies that...
    Интересным и полезным фактом является то, что... - The interesting and useful fact is that...
    Исключительным фактом является то, что... - It is an extraordinary fact that...
    Мы используем этот факт в дальнейшем. - We shall make use of this fact later.
    Мы можем использовать преимущество, предоставляемое этим фактом, чтобы... - We can take advantage of this fact to...
    Мы можем объяснить этот факт тем, что... - We can explain this fact by...
    Мы привлекаем внимание к факту, что... - We call attention to the fact that...
    Мы примем этот важный факт без доказательства. - We shall accept this important fact without proof.
    На некоторое время мы пренебрегаем тем фактом, что... - We neglect, for the time being, the fact that...
    На этом этапе мы хотим привлечь внимание к тому факту, что... - At this point, we wish to call attention to the fact that...
    На этом этапе необходимо указать очень важный факт. - At this stage a very important fact must be pointed out.
    Наиболее важным является тот факт, что... - Most important is the fact that...
    Нам всем (хорошо) известен тот факт, что... - We are all familiar with the fact that...
    Некоторые из этих проблем возникают из того факта, что... - Some of the problems arise from the fact that...
    Немедленным следствием предыдущего результата является тот факт, что... - An immediate corollary of the above result is the fact that...
    Необходимо заметить, что в той же мере важным является тот факт, что... - But equally important, one should notice, is the fact that...
    Неожиданным фактом является то, что... - An unexpected fact is that...
    Однако имеет смысл использовать факт, что... - But the sensible thing is to use the fact that...
    Однако при вычислении величины W мы должны принять во внимание тот факт, что... - In computing W, however, we must take into account the fact that...
    Очевидно, что этот ответ обязан быть следствием факта, что... - The answer must obviously be sought in the fact that...
    Подтверждение такой точки зрения вытекает из того факта, что... - Confirmation of this view is found in the fact that...
    Позднее нам будут необходимы несколько фактов относительно... - Later on we shall need certain facts about...
    Полезно помнить следующий факт:... - A useful result to remember is that...
    Поразительным фактом является то, что... - A striking fact is that...
    Предыдущие примеры иллюстрируют общий факт, что... - The preceding examples illustrate the general fact that...
    Причиной этого является факт, что... - The reason for this lies in the fact that...
    Простейшим объяснением всех этих фактов является... - The simplest explanation for these facts is...
    Рассмотрим некоторые важные факты относительно... - Let us review some important facts regarding...
    Следует уделить внимание тому факту, что... - Attention should be paid to the fact that...
    Таким образом, мы возвращаемся к факту, что... - We thus recover the fact that...
    Твердо установленным фактом является, что... - It is a well-established result that...
    Тот факт, что..., ничего не говорит о... - The fact that... says nothing about...
    Тривиальным фактом здесь является... - It is a trivial observation that...
    Тщательное сравнение затрудняется тем фактом, что... - Careful comparison is somewhat hampered by the fact that...
    Учитывая эти факты, мы можем... - Taking these facts into account, we can...
    Фактом чрезвычайной важности является то, что... - This is a fact of tremendous importance to...
    Фундаментальным фактом является то, что каждый... - It is a fundamental fact that every...
    Чтобы сделать это, мы используем тот факт, что... - То do this, we make use of the fact that...
    Чтобы учесть данный факт, Максвелл предположил, что... - То account for this fact, Maxwell supposed that...
    Экспериментально обнаружено, что... - It is found, as an experimental fact, that...
    Эти важные факты можно подытожить следующим образом. - The relevant facts may be summarized as follows.
    Эти факты могут быть объяснены, если... - These facts can be explained if...
    Эти факты позволяют нам... - These facts allow us to...
    Это выливается в не что иное как простое переформулирование факта, что... - This amounts to no more than a restatement of the fact that...
    Это иллюстрирует тот факт, что... - This illustrates the fact that...
    Это могло бы показаться довольно неопределенным в свете того факта, что... - This may seem rather pointless in light of the fact that...
    Это могло бы показаться парадоксальным в свете факта, что... - This may appear to be paradoxical in view of the fact that...
    Это необходимое следствие того факта, что... - This is a necessary consequence of the fact that...
    Это очевидным образом вытекает из того факта, что... - This is clearly borne out by the fact that...
    Это предположение игнорирует тот факт, что... - The assumption ignores the fact that...
    Это происходит вследствие того факта, что... - This arises from the fact that...
    Это просто другой способ выражения того факта, что... - This is just another way of expressing the fact that...
    Это просто последствие того факта, что... - This is simply a consequence of the fact that...
    Это связано с тем фактом, что... - This is connected with the fact that...
    Это следует из нашего обсуждения соотношения (4), а также из того факта, что... - This follows from our discussion of (4) and the fact that...
    Это совершенно очевидно следует из того факта, что... - This is at once obvious from the fact that...
    Это соответствует тому факту, что... - This corresponds to the fact that...
    Это справедливо, несмотря на тот факт, что... - This is so despite the fact that...
    Этот пример иллюстрирует основной факт, что... - This example illustrates the general fact that...
    Этот результат более или менее ожидаем, если исходить из факта, что... - This result is more or less to be expected from the fact that...
    Этот результат было необходимо ожидать, исходя из факта, что... - This result was to be expected from the fact that...
    Этот результат согласуется с тем фактом, что... - This result is in agreement with the fact that...
    Этот факт был отмечен без доказательства в главе 4. - This fact was noted without proof in Chapter 4.
    Является интересным тот факт, что... - It is an interesting fact that...

    Русско-английский словарь научного общения > факт

  • 19 express

    1. I
    what do you want to express? что вы хотите сказать?;
    2. III
    express smth.
    1) express one's wish (one's opinion, one's mind, one's thoughts, one's beliefs, the truth, a principle. one's regret, one's gratitude, one's appreciation of smth., one's refusal, etc.) высказывать /выражать/ свое (по)желание и т.д.; I don't know how to express it я не знаю, как это выразить; I don't know how to express my meaning не знаю, как сформулировать /выразить/ свою мысль; words can't express it этого не выразить словами; express one's feelings /one's sentiment/ (one's joy, one's sorrow, etc.) выражать свои чувства и т.д.; а face that expresses nothing лицо, которое ничего не выражает /лишенное всякого выражения/; his face expressed energy его лицо дышало энергией
    2) the sign (the symbol, etc.) expresses addition (multiplication, the relation between x and y, etc.) этот знак и т.д. обозначает сложение и т.д.
    3. IV
    express smth. in some manner express smth. eloquently (precisely, lucidly, vaguely, frankly, publicly, repeatedly, grimly, poetically, etc.) красноречиво и т.д. выражать что-л. /высказываться по поводу чего-л./; it is too complicated to express verbally это слишком сложно и не поддается словесному выражению; это настолько сложно, что словами не передашь; he expressed his ideas strongly он настойчиво выражал /высказывал/ свои мысли; she expressed her wishes somewhat arrogantly она высказала свои пожелания в довольно наглой форме
    4. XI
    be expressed by smth. it cannot be expressed by words этого не выразить словами
    5. XVIII
    1) express oneself I don't know how to express myself я не знаю, как это лучше сказать /выразить словами/; express oneself in smth. he expressed himself in his letters в письмах он изливал [свою] душу; children express themselves in play дети выражают себя в играх; express oneself in some manner express oneself clearly (very vaguely, fluently, crudely. coherently, calmly and judicially, etc.) ясно и т.д. выражать свой мысли; express oneself in some manner on smth. express oneself strongly (carefully, clearly and forcibly, very positively, officially, etc.) on the subject резко и т.д. высказываться по данному вопросу; express oneself in some language express oneself in good English (in one's own language, correctly in German, etc.) объясняться /говорить/ на хорошем английском языке и т.д.; I have difficulty expressing myself in Russian мне трудно объясняться по-русски
    2) express oneself for (against, etc.) smth. express oneself strongly for /in favour of/ peace settlement (against his nomination, etc.) выступать в защиту мирного урегулирования и т.д.
    6. XXI1
    express smth. by smth. express smth. by words (by a look, by gesture, by an euphemism, etc.) выражать что-л. словами и т.д.; express smth. in smth. express smth. in good English (in French, in one's own tongue, etc.) выражать /высказывать/ что-л. на хорошем английском языке и т.д.; how do you express it in English? как это выразить /сказать/ по-английски?; express smth. in a few words (in the medium of words) выразить что-л. в нескольких словах (при помощи слов); express smth. at smth. express one's joy at the good news (one's deep regret at his untimely death, one's condolences at her bereavement, etc.) выражать /высказывать/ радость по поводу доброй вести и т.д.; express smth. with /to /smb. express sympathy with the husband (one's heartfelt thanks to smb., etc.) выражать сочувствие мужу и т.д.; express smth. on smth. I cannot express thoughts on paper я не умею выражать свои мысли на бумаге
    7. XXII
    express smth. by doing smth. express one's anger by shouting (one's joy by cheering, one's sympathy by applauding, etc.) выражать свой гнев в крике и т.д.
    8. XXV
    express how... (what..., etc.) I cannot express how grateful I am to you (how grateful I am for your help, how much I appreciate your help, what I feel, etc.) я не могу выразить [словами], как я вам признателен и т.д.

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > express

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