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1 too

tu:
adverb

1) (to a greater extent, or more, than is required, desirable or suitable: He's too fat for his clothes; I'm not feeling too well.) demasiado

2) (in addition; also; as well: My husband likes cycling, and I do, too.) también

too adv

1. también

can I come too? ¿puedo ir yo también?

2. demasiado

she eats too much come demasiado

it's too hot hace demasiado calor

too

tr[tʊː]

adverb

1 (excessively) demasiado

■ too slow demasiado lento

■ too big demasiado grande

2 (also) también

■ can I come too? ¿puedo ir también?

■ me too yo también

3 (besides) además

4 (very) muy

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

too many demasiados,-as

too much demasiado,-a

all too / only too demasiado,-a

I should think so too! ¡era lo menos que podía hacer!

about time too ya era hora

to be too much for somebody ser demasiado para alguien

too ['tu:] adv

1) also: también

2) excessively: demasiado

it's too hot in here: aquí hace demasiado calor

too

adv.

• demasiado adv.

• muy adv.

• sobradamente adv.

• sobrado adv.

• también adv.

tuː
adverb

1)

a) ( excessively) demasiado

there were too many people/cars — había demasiada gente/demasiados coches

four mistakes? that's four too many — ¿cuatro faltas? son cuatro faltas de más

these shoes are too big/small for me — estos zapatos me quedan grandes/pequeños

that's too difficult for her to understand — es demasiado difícil para que lo entienda

b) (in phrases)

I know that all o only too well — eso bien que lo sé

all o only too often — muy a menudo, con mucha frecuencia

2)

a) ( as well) también

b) ( emphatic)

he apologized - I should think so too! — se disculpó - era lo menos que podía hacer!

quite right too! — bien hecho!

3) ( very) muy

I'm not too sure — no estoy muy seguro

he didn't seem too keen on the idea — no parecía gustarle mucho la idea

[tuː]
ADV
1) (=excessively) demasiado

it's too easy — es demasiado fácil

it's too sweet — está demasiado or muy dulce

it's too heavy for me to lift — es demasiado pesado para que yo lo levante

it's too hot to drink — está demasiado caliente para beberlo

it's not too difficult — no es muy difícil

• too bad! — ¡mala suerte!, ¡qué le vamos a hacer!, ¡ni modo! (Mex)

• it's too early for that — es (muy) temprano para eso

• it's too good to be true — no puede ser

• I'm not too keen on the idea — la idea no me hace gracia que digamos

• too many — demasiados

too many difficulties — demasiadas dificultades

• too much — demasiado

too much jam — demasiada mermelada f

he talks too much — habla demasiado

you gave me a dollar too much — me dio un dólar de más

that's too much by half — de eso sobra la mitad

don't make too much of it — no le des mucha importancia

it was all too much for her — [emotion] era demasiado para ella, era más de lo que pudo soportar; [work] estaba agobiada por tanto trabajo

it's too much for me to cope with — yo no puedo con tanto

his rudeness is too much — su descortesía es intolerable

it's too much! * — (=fantastic) ¡qué demasiado! *, ¡esto es demasiado!; (=excessive) esto pasa de la raya, esto pasa de castaño oscuro

• too often — con demasiada frecuencia, muy a menudo

• too right! * —

• too true! — ¡muy bien dicho!, ¡y cómo!

2) (=also) también; (=moreover) además

I went too — yo fui también

I speak French and Japanese too — hablo francés y también japonés

not only that, he's blind too! — no solo eso, ¡además es ciego!

she is, too! — ¡y tanto que lo es!

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[tuː]
adverb

1)

a) ( excessively) demasiado

there were too many people/cars — había demasiada gente/demasiados coches

four mistakes? that's four too many — ¿cuatro faltas? son cuatro faltas de más

these shoes are too big/small for me — estos zapatos me quedan grandes/pequeños

that's too difficult for her to understand — es demasiado difícil para que lo entienda

b) (in phrases)

I know that all o only too well — eso bien que lo sé

all o only too often — muy a menudo, con mucha frecuencia

2)

a) ( as well) también

b) ( emphatic)

he apologized - I should think so too! — se disculpó - era lo menos que podía hacer!

quite right too! — bien hecho!

3) ( very) muy

I'm not too sure — no estoy muy seguro

he didn't seem too keen on the idea — no parecía gustarle mucho la idea

English-spanish dictionary > too
2 handle

1. noun
1) (part held) [Hand]griff, der; (of bag etc.) [Trag]griff, der; (of knife, chisel) Heft, das; Griff, der; (of axe, brush, comb, broom, saucepan) Stiel, der; (of handbag) Bügel, der; (of door) Klinke, die; (of bucket, watering can, cup, jug) Henkel, der; (of pump) Schwengel, der

fly off the handle — (fig. coll.) an die Decke gehen (ugs.)

2) (coll.): (title) Titel, der
2. transitive verb
1) (touch, feel) anfassen

‘Fragile! Handle with care!’ — "Vorsicht! Zerbrechlich!"

2) (deal with) umgehen mit [Person, Tier, Situation]; führen [Verhandlung]; erledigen [Korrespondenz, Telefonat usw.]; (cope with) fertigwerden od. zurechtkommen mit [Person, Tier, Situation]

3) (control) handhaben [Fahrzeug, Flugzeug]

4) (process, transport) umschlagen [Fracht]

Heathrow handles x passengers per year — in Heathrow werden pro Jahr x Passagiere abgefertigt

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['hændl] 1. noun
(the part of an object by which it may be held or grasped: I've broken the handle off this cup; You've got to turn the handle in order to open the door.) der Griff
2. verb
1) (to touch or hold with the hand: Please wash your hands before handling food.) anfassen

2) (to control, manage or deal with: He'll never make a good teacher - he doesn't know how to handle children.) umgehen mit

3) (to buy or sell; to deal in: I'm afraid we do not handle such goods in this shop.) handeln mit

4) (to treat in a particular way: Never handle animals roughly.) behandeln

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han·dle

[ˈhændl̩]

I. n

1. (handgrip) Griff m; of a pot, basket Henkel m; of a door Klinke f, Schnalle f ÖSTERR; of a handbag Bügel m; of a broom, comb Stiel m; of a pump Schwengel m

to turn a [door] \handle eine [Tür]klinke hinunterdrücken

2. ( fig: pretext) Vorwand m

to serve as a \handle for sth als Vorwand für etw akk dienen

3. ( fam: title) [Adels]titel m; (posh name) hochtrabender Name pej; (nickname) Beiname m

he is knighted and has a \handle to his name er ist zum Ritter geschlagen worden und trägt [o hat] einen [Adels]titel

his meanness earned him a \handle to his name sein Geiz brachte ihm einen Beinamen ein

4. AM (on CB radio) Code m

5. COMPUT (in programming) Dateinummer f, Handle m fachspr

6. COMPUT (in a GUI) Anfasser m fachspr

7.

▶ to fly off the \handle ( fam) hochgehen fig fam

▶ to get a \handle on sth (get under control) etw in den Griff bekommen; (gain understanding of) einen Zugang zu etw dat finden

II. vt

1. (feel, grasp)

▪ to \handle sth etw anfassen

“\handle with care” „Vorsicht, zerbrechlich!“

“\handle with care, glass!” „Vorsicht, Glas!“

2. (move, transport)

▪ to \handle sth etw befördern [o transportieren

3.

▪ to \handle sth (work on, process) etw bearbeiten; (be in charge of) für etw akk zuständig sein

to \handle sb's affairs sich um jds Angelegenheiten kümmern

to \handle sb's business jds Geschäfte führen

to \handle luggage Gepäck abfertigen

4.

▪ to \handle sth (manage) etw bewältigen; (sort out) etw regeln

can you \handle it alone? schaffst du das alleine?

I'll \handle this ich mach das schon

to \handle a problem (cope with) mit einem Problem fertigwerden; (sort out) ein Problem regeln

5. (treat, deal with) mit etw umgehen

▪ to \handle sb mit jdm umgehen

he was \handled with great tact er wurde sehr taktvoll behandelt

I find it hard to \handle this subject ich kann nur sehr schwer mit diesem Thema umgehen

I just didn't know how to \handle the situation ich wusste einfach nicht, wie ich mich in dieser Situation verhalten sollte [o wie ich mit der Situation umgehen sollte]

I find him hard to \handle ich komme nur schwer mit ihm zurecht

6. (discuss, write about)

▪ to \handle sth etw behandeln, sich akk mit etw dat befassen

this writer \handles the subject of pornography very sensitively dieser Autor geht sehr behutsam mit dem Thema Pornografie um

7.

▪ to \handle sth (use) mit etw dat umgehen; (operate) etw handhaben

have you ever \handled a gun before? hattest du jemals eine Pistole in der Hand?

to \handle a machine eine Maschine bedienen

to \handle a car/motorbike safely sicher Auto/Motorrad fahren, ein Fahrzeug fahren

to be able to \handle sth mit etw dat umgehen können

8. esp BRIT (buy and sell)

▪ to \handle sth mit etw dat handeln

we only \handle cosmetics which have not been tested on animals wir führen nur Kosmetik[artikel] ohne Tierversuche [o tierversuchsfreie Kosmetik

III. vi + adv sich handhaben lassen

this car \handles really well dieser Wagen fährt sich wirklich gut

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['hndl]
1. n

1) Griff m; (of door) Klinke f, Griff m; (esp of broom, saucepan) Stiel m; (esp of basket, bucket, casserole, cup, jug etc) Henkel m; (of handbag) Griff m, Bügel m; (of pump) Schwengel m; (of car = starting handle) (Anlass- or Start)kurbel f

to fly off the handle (inf) — an die Decke gehen (inf)

to have/get a handle on sth (inf) — etw im Griff haben/in den Griff bekommen

2) (fig: pretext) Handhabe f

3) (inf) Titel m

to have a handle to one's name — ein "von und zu" sein (inf)

2. vt

1) (= touch, use hands on) anfassen, berühren; (FTBL) ball mit der Hand berühren

be careful how you handle that — gehen Sie vorsichtig damit um

please do not handle the goods — Waren bitte nicht berühren

"handle with care" — "Vorsicht - zerbrechlich"; "Vorsicht Glas/Blumen" etc

2) (= deal with) person, animal, plant, tool, weapon, machine, words, numbers, money etc umgehen mit; economy handhaben; legal or financial matters erledigen; legal case handhaben, bearbeiten; applicant, matter, problem sich befassen mit; material for essay etc bearbeiten, verarbeiten; (= tackle) problem, interview etc anfassen, anpacken; (= succeed in coping with) child, drunk, situation, problem, emergency fertig werden mit; (= resolve) matter erledigen; (= control) vehicle, plane, ship steuern

how would you handle the situation? — wie würden Sie sich in der Situation verhalten?

you have to handle this situation very carefully — in dieser Situation müssen Sie sehr behutsam vorgehen

you didn't handle the situation very well — du bist mit der Situation nicht gut fertig geworden

you have to handle these people very carefully — Sie müssen mit diesen Leuten sehr vorsichtig umgehen

a car that is easy to handle — ein Auto, das leicht zu fahren or zu steuern ist

I can't handle pressure — ich komme unter Druck nicht zurecht

six children are too much for one woman to handle — mit sechs Kindern kann eine Frau allein nicht fertig werden

there's a salesman at the door – I'll handle him — ein Vertreter ist an der Tür – ich werde ihn abfertigen

you keep quiet, I'll handle this — sei still, lass mich mal machen

or defense (US) — der Angeklagte beschloss, seine eigene Verteidigung zu übernehmen

who's handling the publicity for this? —

could you handle these interviews for me? — könnten Sie diese Interviews für mich machen?

3) (COMM) types of goods, items handeln mit or in (+dat); orders bearbeiten; prescriptions ausführen; shares, securities handeln; financial affairs besorgen

airport workers refused to handle goods for Uganda — die Flughafenarbeiter weigerten sich, Waren nach Uganda abzufertigen

we handle tax problems for several big companies — wir bearbeiten die Steuerangelegenheiten mehrerer großer Firmen

the millionaire has several secretaries to handle his business —

this department handles all the export business — diese Abteilung bearbeitet den gesamten Export

3. vi
(ship, plane) sich steuern lassen; (car, motorbike) sich fahren or lenken lassen; (gun) sich handhaben lassen
how does the car handle? — wie fährt sich der Wagen?

4. vr

he handles himself well in a fight — er kann sich in einer Schlägerei behaupten

they observed how the applicant handled himself — sie beobachteten, wie der Bewerber sich verhielt

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handle [ˈhændl]

A s

1. a) (Hand)Griff m

b) Stiel m, Heft n

c) Henkel m (am Topf etc)

d) Klinke f, Drücker m (einer Tür)

e) Kurbel f

f) Schwengel m (einer Pumpe):

handle of the face hum Nase f;

handle to sb’s name umg Titel m;

fly off the handle umg hochgehen, aufbrausen, wütend werden

2. fig Handhabe f ( against gegen), Angriffspunkt m, -fläche f:

give sb a handle jemandem eine Angriffsfläche bieten

3. fig Vorwand m:

serve as a handle als Vorwand dienen

4. get (to have) a handle on sth US fig etwas in den Griff bekommen (im Griff haben)

B v/t

1. berühren, befühlen, anfassen, in Berührung kommen mit:

handle the ball (Fußball) ein Handspiel begehen

2. Werkzeuge etc handhaben, (geschickt) gebrauchen, hantieren oder umgehen mit, eine Maschine bedienen:

handle with care behutsam umgehen mit

3. a) ein Thema etc behandeln, eine Sache auch handhaben

b) etwas erledigen, durchführen, abwickeln

c) mit etwas oder jemandem fertig werden, etwas deichseln umg:

I can handle it (him) damit (mit ihm) werde ich fertig

4. jemanden behandeln, umgehen mit, anfassen: → kid glove

5. Tiere

a) betreuen

b) dressieren oder abrichten (u. vorführen)

6. a) einen Boxer trainieren

b) einen Boxer betreuen, sekundieren (dat)

7. sich beschäftigen mit

8. Güter befördern, weiterleiten

9. WIRTSCH Handel treiben mit, handeln mit

C v/i

1. sich leicht etc handhaben lassen:

the car handles well on bends der Wagen liegt gut in der Kurve

2. sich weich etc anfühlen

3. “Glass - handle with care!” „Vorsicht, Glas!“

4. Fußball: ein Handspiel begehen

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1. noun
1) (part held) [Hand]griff, der; (of bag etc.) [Trag]griff, der; (of knife, chisel) Heft, das; Griff, der; (of axe, brush, comb, broom, saucepan) Stiel, der; (of handbag) Bügel, der; (of door) Klinke, die; (of bucket, watering can, cup, jug) Henkel, der; (of pump) Schwengel, der

fly off the handle — (fig. coll.) an die Decke gehen (ugs.)

2) (coll.): (title) Titel, der
2. transitive verb
1) (touch, feel) anfassen

‘Fragile! Handle with care!’ — "Vorsicht! Zerbrechlich!"

2) (deal with) umgehen mit [Person, Tier, Situation]; führen [Verhandlung]; erledigen [Korrespondenz, Telefonat usw.]; (cope with) fertigwerden od. zurechtkommen mit [Person, Tier, Situation]

3) (control) handhaben [Fahrzeug, Flugzeug]

4) (process, transport) umschlagen [Fracht]

Heathrow handles x passengers per year — in Heathrow werden pro Jahr x Passagiere abgefertigt

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n.

Griff -e m.

Henkel - m.

Klinke -n f.

Stiel -e m. v.

anfassen v.

bedienen v.

behandeln v.

handhaben v.

verarbeiten v.

English-german dictionary > handle
3 сладить

совер.;
разг.
1) см. слаживать
2) (с кем-л./чем-л.) cope (with) ;
manage, bring round

сов. разг.
1. (вн.) arrange( smth.) ;

2. (с тв.;
справиться) manage (smth.), handle (smb., smth.) ;
cope (with) ;
мне с ним не ~ I can`t manage him;
I can`t cope with him;
мне с этим не ~ it is too much for me.

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > сладить
4 If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen

Общая лексика: Если у тебя кишка тонка, не путайся под ногами у других (Don't persist with a task if the pressure of it is too much for you. The implication being that, if you can't cope, you should leave the work)

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
5 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.

    Contemporary Portugal

   Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.

   The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.

   Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.

   Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).

   All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.

   The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.

   After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.

   Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.

   Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.

   From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.

   Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.

   In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.

   An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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6 get

get

❢ This much-used verb has no multi-purpose equivalent in French and therefore is very often translated by choosing a synonym: to get lunch = to prepare lunch = préparer le déjeuner. get is used in many idiomatic expressions ( to get something off one's chest etc) and translations will be found in the appropriate entry (chest etc). This is also true of offensive comments ( get stuffed etc) where the appropriate entry would be stuff. Remember that when get is used to express the idea that a job is done not by you but by somebody else ( to get a room painted etc) faire is used in French followed by an infinitive ( faire repeindre une pièce etc). When get has the meaning of become and is followed by an adjective (to get rich/drunk etc) devenir is sometimes useful but check the appropriate entry (rich, drunk etc) as a single verb often suffices ( s'enrichir, s'enivrer etc). For examples and further uses of get see the entry below.

A vtr ( p prés - tt- ; prét got ; pp got, gotten US)

1 ( receive) recevoir [letter, school report, grant] ; recevoir, percevoir [salary, pension] ; TV, Radio capter [channel, programme] ; did you get much for it? est-ce que tu en as tiré beaucoup d'argent? ; what did you get for your car? combien as-tu revendu ta voiture? ; we get a lot of rain il pleut beaucoup ici ; our garden gets a lot of sun notre jardin est bien ensoleillé ; we get a lot of tourists nous avons beaucoup de touristes ; you get lots of attachments with this cleaner il y a beaucoup d'accessoires fournis avec cet aspirateur ; you get what you pay for il faut y mettre le prix ; he's getting help with his science il se fait aider en sciences ;

2 ( inherit) to get sth from sb lit hériter qch de qn [article, money] ; fig tenir qch de qn [trait, feature] ;

3 ( obtain) ( by applying) obtenir [permission, divorce, custody, licence] ; trouver [job] ; ( by contacting) trouver [plumber, accountant] ; appeler [taxi] ; ( by buying) acheter [food item, clothing] (from chez) ; avoir [theatre seat, ticket] ; to get something for nothing/at a discount avoir qch gratuitement/avec une réduction ; to get sb sth, to get sth for sb ( by buying) acheter qch à qn ; I'll get sth to eat at the airport je mangerai qch à l'aéroport ;

4 ( subscribe to) acheter [newspaper] ;

5 ( acquire) se faire [reputation] ; he got his money in oil il s'est fait de l'argent dans le pétrole ;

6 ( achieve) obtenir [grade, mark, answer] ; he got it right ( of calculation) il a obtenu le bon résultat ; ( of answer) il a répondu juste ; how many do I need to get? ( when scoring) il me faut combien? ; he's got four more points to get il faut encore qu'il obtienne quatre points ;

7 ( fetch) chercher [object, person, help] ; go and get a chair/Mr Matthews va chercher une chaise/M. Matthews ; to get sb sth, to get sth for sb aller chercher qch pour qn ; get her a chair va lui chercher une chaise ; can I get you your coat? est-ce que je peux vous apporter votre manteau? ;

8 (manoeuvre, move) to get sb/sth upstairs/downstairs faire monter/descendre qn/qch ; a car to me is just something to get me from A to B pour moi une voiture ne sert qu'à aller de A à B ; I'll get them there somehow je les ferai parvenir d'une façon ou d'une autre ; can you get between the truck and the wall? est-ce que tu peux te glisser entre le camion et le mur? ;

9 ( help progress) is this discussion getting us anywhere? est-ce que cette discussion est bien utile? ; I listened to him and where has it got me? je l'ai écouté mais à quoi ça m'a avancé? ; this is getting us nowhere ça ne nous avance à rien ; where will that get you? à quoi ça t'avancera? ;

10 ( contact) did you manage to get Harry on the phone? tu as réussi à avoir Harry au téléphone? ;

11 ( deal with) I'll get it ( of phone) je réponds ; ( of doorbell) j'y vais ;

12 ( prepare) préparer [breakfast, lunch etc] ;

13 ( take hold of) attraper [person] (by à) ; I've got you, don't worry je te tiens, ne t'inquiète pas ; to get sth from ou off prendre qch sur [shelf, table] ; to get sth from ou out of prendre qch dans [drawer, cupboard] ;

14 ○ ( oblige to give) to get sth from ou out of sb faire sortir qch à qn [money] ; fig obtenir qch de qn [truth] ;

15 ○ ( catch) gen arrêter [escapee] ; got you! gen je t'ai eu! ; ( caught in act) vu! ; a shark got him un requin l'a eu ; when I get you, you won't find it so funny quand tu auras affaire ○ à moi, tu trouveras ça moins drôle ;

16 Med attraper [disease] ; he got the measles from his sister sa sœur lui a passé la rougeole ;

17 ( use as transport) prendre [bus, train] ;

18 ( have) to have got avoir [object, money, friend etc] ; I've got a headache/bad back j'ai mal à la tête/au dos ;

19 ( start to have) to get (hold of) the idea ou impression that se mettre dans la tête que ;

20 ( suffer) to get a surprise être surpris ; to get a shock avoir un choc ; to get a bang on the head recevoir un coup sur la tête ;

21 ( be given as punishment) prendre [five years etc] ; avoir [fine] ; to get (a) detention être collé ○ ;

22 ( hit) to get sb/sth with toucher qn/qch avec [stone, arrow, ball] ; got it! ( of target) touché! ; the arrow got him in the heel la flèche l'a touché au talon ;

23 (understand, hear) comprendre ; I didn't get what you said/his last name je n'ai pas compris ce que tu as dit/son nom de famille ; did you get it? tu as compris? ; now let me get this right… alors si je comprends bien… ; ‘where did you hear that?’-‘I got it from Paul’ ‘où est-ce que tu as entendu ça?’-‘c'est Paul qui me l'a dit’ ; get this! he was arrested this morning tiens-toi bien! il a été arrêté ce matin ;

24 ○ (annoy, affect) what gets me is… ce qui m'agace c'est que… ; what really got me was… ce que je n'aimais pas c'était… ;

25 (learn, learn of) to get to do ○ finir par faire ; to get to like sb finir par apprécier qn ; how did you get to know ou hear of our organization? comment avez-vous entendu parler de notre organisation? ; we got to know them last year on a fait leur connaissance l'année dernière ;

26 ( have opportunity) to get to do avoir l'occasion de faire ; do you get to use the computer? est-ce que tu as l'occasion d'utiliser l'ordinateur? ; it's not fair, I never get to drive the tractor ce n'est pas juste, on ne me laisse jamais conduire le tracteur ; when do we get to eat the cake? quand est-ce qu'on va pouvoir manger le gâteau? ;

27 ( start) to get (to be) commencer à devenir ; he's getting to be proficient ou an expert il commence à devenir expert ; it got to be quite unpleasant ça a commencé à devenir plutôt désagréable ; he's getting to be a big boy now c'est un grand garçon maintenant ; to get to doing ○ commencer à faire ; we got to talking/dreaming about the holidays on a commencé à parler/rêver des vacances ; then I got to thinking that puis je me suis dit que ; we'll have to get going il va falloir y aller ;

28 ( must) to have got to do devoir faire [homework, chore] ; it's got to be done il faut le faire ; you've got to realize that il faut que tu te rendes compte que ; if I've got to go, I will s'il faut que j'y aille, j'irai ; there's got to be a reason il doit y avoir une raison ;

29 ( persuade) to get sb to do demander à qn de faire ; I got her to talk about her problems j'ai réussi à la faire parler de ses problèmes ; did you get anything out of her? est-ce que tu as réussi à la faire parler? ;

30 ( have somebody do) to get sth done faire faire qch ; to get the car repaired/valeted faire réparer/nettoyer la voiture ; to get one's hair cut se faire couper les cheveux ; how do you ever get anything done? comment est-ce que tu arrives à travailler? ;

31 ( cause) to get the car going faire démarrer la voiture ; to get the dishes washed faire la vaisselle ; this won't get the dishes washed! la vaisselle ne se fera pas toute seule! ; to get sb pregnant ○ mettre qn enceinte ○ ; as hot/cold as you can get it aussi chaud/froid que possible ; to get one's socks wet mouiller ses chaussettes ; to get one's finger trapped se coincer le doigt.

B vi ( p prés - tt- ; prét got ; pp got, gotten US)

1 ( become) devenir [suspicious, rich, old] ; how lucky/stupid can you get! il y en a qui ont de la chance/qui sont vraiment stupides! ; it's getting late il se fait tard ; how did he get like that? comment est-ce qu'il en est arrivé là? ;

2 ( forming passive) to get (oneself) killed/trapped se faire tuer/coincer ; to get hurt être blessé ;

3 ( become involved in) to get into ○ ( as hobby) se mettre à [astrology etc] ; ( as job) commencer dans [teaching, publishing] ; fig to get into a fight se battre ;

4 ( arrive) to get there arriver ; to get to the airport/Switzerland arriver à l'aéroport/en Suisse ; to get (up) to the top ( of hill etc) arriver au sommet ; how did your coat get here? comment est-ce que ton manteau est arrivé là? ; how did you get here? ( by what miracle) comment est-ce que tu es arrivé là? ; ( by what means) comment est-ce que tu es venu? ; where did you get to? où est-ce que tu étais passé? ; we've got to page 5 nous en sommes à la page 5 ;

5 ( progress) it got to 7 o'clock il était plus de 7 heures ; I'd got as far as underlining the title j'en étais à souligner le titre ; I'm getting nowhere with this essay je n'avance pas dans ma dissertation ; are you getting anywhere with your investigation? est-ce que votre enquête avance? ; now we're getting somewhere ( making progress) on avance vraiment ; ( receiving fresh lead) voilà quelque chose d'intéressant ; it's a slow process but we're getting there c'est un processus lent, mais on avance ; it's not perfect yet but we're getting there ce n'est pas encore parfait mais on avance ;

6 ○ ( put on) to get into mettre [pyjamas, overalls].

Idioms

get ○ ! fiche-moi le camp ○ ! ; get along with you ○ ! ne sois pas ridicule! ; get away with you ○ ! arrête de raconter n'importe quoi ○ ! ; get her ○ ! regarde-moi ça! ; get him ○ in that hat! regarde-le avec ce chapeau! ; he got his ○ ( was killed) il a cassé sa pipe ○ ; I'll get you ○ for that je vais te le faire payer ○ ; I'm getting there je progresse ; it gets me right here! tu vas me faire pleurer! ; I've/he's got it bad ○ je suis/il est vraiment mordu ; I've got it je sais ; to get above oneself commencer à avoir la grosse tête ○ ; to get it together ○ se ressaisir ; to get it up ● bander ●, avoir une érection ; to get one's in ○ US prendre sa revanche ; to tell sb where to get off envoyer qn promener ; to get with it ○ se mettre dans le coup ○ ; what's got into her/them? qu'est-ce qui lui/leur a pris? ; where does he get off ○ ? pour qui se prend-il? ; you've got me there! alors là tu me poses une colle ○ !

Phrasal verbs

■ get about

1 ( manage to move) se déplacer (by doing en faisant) ; she doesn't get about very well now elle a du mal à se déplacer maintenant ;

2 ( travel) voyager, se déplacer ; do you get about much in your job? vous voyagez beaucoup pour votre travail? ; he gets about a bit ( travels) il voyage pas mal ; ( knows people) il connaît du monde ;

3 ( be spread) [news] se répandre ; [rumour] courir, se répandre ; it got about that la nouvelle s'est répandue que, le bruit a couru que.

■ get across:

▶ get across

1 ( pass to other side) traverser ;

2 ( be communicated) [message] passer ;

▶ get across [sth] ( cross) traverser [river, road etc] ;

▶ get [sth] across

1 ( transport) how will we get it across? (over stream, gap etc) comment est-ce qu'on le/la fera passer de l'autre côté? ; I'll get a copy across to you (in separate office, building etc) je vous en ferai parvenir un exemplaire ;

2 ( communicate) faire passer [message, meaning] (to à) ;

▶ get across [sb] ○ US ( annoy) se mettre [qn] à dos ○ [person].

■ get ahead

1 ( make progress) [person] progresser ; to get ahead of prendre de l'avance sur [competitor] ;

2 ( go too fast) let's not get ahead of ourselves n'anticipons pas.

■ get along

1 ( progress) how's the project getting along? comment est-ce que le projet se présente? ; how are you getting along? ( in job) comment ça se passe? ; ( to sick or old person) comment ça va? ; ( in school subject) comment est-ce que ça se passe? ;

2 ( cope) s'en sortir ; we can't get along without a computer/him on ne s'en sortira pas sans ordinateur/lui ;

3 ( be suited as friends) bien s'entendre (with avec) ;

4 (go) I must be getting along il faut que j'y aille.

■ get around:

▶ get around

1 (move, spread) = get about ;

2 to get around to doing: she'll get around to visiting us eventually elle va bien finir par venir nous voir ; I must get around to reading his article il faut vraiment que je lise son article ; I haven't got around to it yet je n'ai pas encore eu le temps de m'en occuper ;

▶ get around [sth] ( circumvent) contourner [problem, law] ; there's no getting around it il n'y a rien à faire.

■ get at ○:

▶ get at [sb /sth]

1 ( reach) atteindre [object] ; arriver jusqu'à [person] ; fig découvrir [truth] ; let me get at her ( in anger) laissez-moi lui régler son compte ○ ;

2 ( spoil) the ants have got at the sugar les fourmis ont attaqué le sucre ;

3 ( criticize) être après [person] ;

4 ( intimidate) intimider [witness] ;

5 ( insinuate) what are you getting at? où est-ce que tu veux en venir?

■ get away:

▶ get away

1 ( leave) partir ;

2 ( escape) [person] s'échapper ; the fish got away le poisson s'est échappé ;

3 fig ( escape unpunished) to get away with a crime échapper à la justice ; you'll never get away with it! tu ne vas pas t'en tirer comme ça! ; he mustn't be allowed to get away with it il ne faut pas qu'il s'en tire à si bon compte ; she can get away with bright colours elle peut se permettre de porter des couleurs vives ;

▶ get [sb/sth] away ( for break) emmener [qn] se changer les idées ; to get sb away from a bad influence tenir qn à l'écart d'une mauvaise influence ; to get sth away from sb retirer qch à qn [weapon, dangerous object].

■ get away from:

▶ get away from [sth]

1 ( leave) quitter [town] ; I must get away from here ou this place! il faut que je parte d'ici! ; ‘get away from it all’ ( in advert) ‘évadez-vous de votre quotidien’ ;

2 fig ( deny) nier [fact] ; there's no getting away from it on ne peut pas le nier ;

3 fig ( leave behind) abandonner [practice, method] ;

▶ get away from [sb] lit, fig échapper à.

■ get back:

▶ get back

1 ( return) gen rentrer ; ( after short time) revenir ; when we get back à notre retour ;

2 ( move backwards) reculer ; get back! reculez! ;

3 ( take revenge) to get back at se venger de [aggressor] ;

▶ get back to [sth]

1 ( return to) rentrer à [house, city] ; revenir à [office, centre, point] ; we got back to Belgium nous sommes rentrés en Belgique ; when we get back to London à notre retour à Londres ;

2 ( return to former condition) revenir à [teaching, publishing] ; to get back to sleep se rendormir ; to get back to normal redevenir normal ;

3 ( return to earlier stage) revenir à [main topic, former point] ; to get back to your problem,… pour en revenir à votre problème,… ;

▶ get back to [sb]

1 ( return to) revenir à [group, person] ;

2 ( on telephone) I'll get right back to you je vous rappelle tout de suite ;

▶ get [sb/sth] back

1 ( return) ( personally) ramener [object, person] ; ( by post etc) renvoyer ; Sport ( in tennis etc) renvoyer [ball] ; when they got him back to his cell quand ils l'ont ramené dans sa cellule ;

2 ( regain) récupérer [lost object, loaned item] ; fig reprendre [strength] ; she got her money back elle a été remboursée ; she got her old job back on lui a redonné son travail ; he got his girlfriend back il s'est remis avec sa petite amie ○.

■ get behind:

▶ get behind ( delayed) prendre du retard ;

▶ get behind [sth] se mettre derrière [hedge, sofa etc].

■ get by

1 ( pass) passer ;

2 ( survive) se débrouiller (on, with avec) ; we'll never get by without him/them nous ne nous en sortirons jamais sans lui/eux.

■ get down:

▶ get down

1 ( descend) descendre (from, out of de) ;

2 ( leave table) quitter la table ;

3 ( lower oneself) ( to floor) se coucher ; ( to crouching position) se baisser ; to get down on one's knees s'agenouiller ; to get down to ( descend to reach) arriver à [lower level etc] ; atteindre [trapped person etc] ; ( apply oneself to) se mettre à [work] ; to get down to the pupils' level fig se mettre à la portée des élèves ; let's get down to business parlons affaires ; when you get right down to it quand on regarde d'un peu plus près ; to get down to doing se mettre à faire ;

▶ get down [sth] descendre [slope] ; if we get down the mountain alive si nous arrivons vivants en bas de la montagne ; when we got down the hill quand nous nous sommes retrouvés en bas de la colline ;

▶ get [sth] down, get down [sth]

1 ( from height) descendre [book, jar etc] ;

2 ( swallow) avaler [medicine, pill] ;

3 ( record) noter [speech, dictation] ;

▶ get [sb] down

1 ( from height) faire descendre [person] ;

2 ○ ( depress) déprimer [person].

■ get in:

▶ get in

1 lit ( to building) entrer ; ( to vehicle) monter ;

2 fig ( participate) to get in on réussir à s'introduire dans [project, scheme] ; to get in on the deal ○ faire partie du coup ;

3 ( return home) rentrer ;

4 ( arrive at destination) [train, coach] arriver ;

5 ( penetrate) [water, sunlight] pénétrer ;

6 Pol [Labour, Tories etc] passer ; [candidate] être élu ;

7 Sch, Univ [applicant] être admis ;

8 ( associate) to get in with se mettre bien avec [person] ; he's got in with a bad crowd il traîne avec des gens peu recommandables ;

▶ get [sth] in, get in [sth]

1 ( buy in) acheter [supplies] ;

2 ( fit into space) I can't get the drawer in je n'arrive pas à faire rentrer le tiroir ;

3 Agric ( harvest) rentrer [crop] ;

4 Hort ( plant) planter [bulbs etc] ;

5 (deliver, hand in) rendre [essay, competition entry] ;

6 ( include) (in article, book) placer [section, remark, anecdote] ; he got in a few punches il a distribué quelques coups ;

7 ( fit into schedule) faire [tennis, golf] ; I'll try to get in a bit of tennis ○ j'essayerai de faire un peu de tennis ;

▶ get [sb] in faire entrer [person].

■ get into:

▶ get into [sth]

1 ( enter) entrer dans [building] ; monter dans [vehicle] ;

2 ( be admitted) ( as member) devenir membre de [club] ; ( as student) être admis à [school, university] ; I didn't know what I was getting into fig je ne savais pas dans quoi je m'embarquais ;

3 ( squeeze into) rentrer dans [garment, size] ; ⇒ debt, habit, trouble ;

▶ get [sb/sth] into faire entrer [qn/qch] dans [good school, building, room, space].

■ get off:

▶ get off

1 ( from bus etc) descendre (at à) ;

2 ( start on journey) partir ;

3 ( leave work) finir ;

4 ○ ( escape punishment) s'en tirer (with avec) ;

5 to get off to partir pour [destination] ; did they get off to school OK? est-ce qu'ils sont partis sans problèmes pour l'école? ; ( make headway) to get off to a good/poor start prendre un bon/mauvais départ ; to get off to sleep s'endormir ; to get off on doing ○ péj ( get buzz from) prendre plaisir à faire ; to get off with, GB rencontrer, ramasser ○ pej [person] ;

▶ get off [sth]

1 ( climb down from) descendre de [wall, ledge] ;

2 ( alight from) descendre de [bus etc] ;

3 ( remove oneself from) get off my nice clean floor/the grass ne marche pas sur mon sol tout propre/la pelouse ;

4 fig ( depart from) s'écarter de [subject] ;

▶ get off ○ [sb] ( leave hold) get off me! lâche-moi! ;

▶ get [sb/sth] off

1 ( lift down) descendre [object] ; faire descendre [person] ;

2 ( dispatch) envoyer [parcel, letter, person] ; I've got the children off to school j'ai envoyé les enfants à l'école ;

3 ( remove) enlever [stain] ;

4 ○ ( send to sleep) endormir [baby].

■ get on:

▶ get on

1 ( climb aboard) monter (at à) ;

2 ( work) get on a bit faster/more sensibly travaille un peu plus vite/plus sérieusement ;

3 ( continue with work) let's get on! continuons! ;

4 GB ( like each other) bien s'entendre ;

5 ( fare) how did you get on? comment est-ce que ça s'est passé? ;

6 ( cope) how are you getting on? comment est-ce que tu t'en sors? ;

7 GB ( approach) he's getting on for 40 il approche des quarante ans ; it's getting on for midnight il est presque minuit ; there are getting on for 80 people ○ il y a presque 80 personnes ;

8 ( grow late) time's getting on le temps passe ;

9 ( grow old) to be getting on a bit commencer à vieillir ;

▶ get on [sth] ( board) monter dans [vehicle] ;

▶ get [sth] on, get on [sth] ( put on) mettre [boots, clothing] ; monter [tyre] ; mettre [lid, tap washer etc].

■ get onto:

▶ get onto [sth]

1 ( board) monter dans [vehicle] ;

2 ( be appointed) être nommé à [Board] ;

3 ( start to discuss) arriver à parler de [topic, subject] ;

4 GB ( contact) contacter ; I'll get on to the authorities je contacterai les autorités.

■ get on with:

▶ get on with [sth] ( continue to do) to get on with one's work/with preparing the meal continuer à travailler/à préparer le repas ; let's get on with the job! au travail! ;

▶ get on with [sb] GB s'entendre avec [person].

■ get out:

▶ get out

1 ( exit) sortir (through, by par) ; get out and don't come back! va-t'en et ne reviens pas! ; they'll never get out alive ils ne s'en sortiront jamais vivants ;

2 ( make social outing) sortir ; you should get out more tu devrais sortir plus ;

3 (resign, leave) partir ;

4 ( alight) descendre ;

5 ( be let out) [prisoner] être libéré ; he gets out on the 8th il sera libéré le 8 ;

6 ( leak) [news] être révélé ;

▶ get [sth] out, get out [sth]

1 ( bring out) sortir [handkerchief, ID card] ;

2 ( extract) retirer [cork, stuck object] ; extraire [tooth] ;

3 ( erase) enlever [stain] ;

4 ( take on loan) emprunter [library book] ;

5 ( produce) sortir [plans, product] ;

6 ( utter) I couldn't get the words out les mots ne voulaient pas sortir ;

7 ( solve) faire [puzzle] ;

▶ get [sb] out ( release) faire libérer [prisoner] ; to get sb out of sth ( free from detention) ( personally) libérer qn de qch ; ( by persuasion) faire libérer qn de qch [prisoner] ; to get sth out of sth ( bring out) sortir qch de qch [handkerchief etc] ; ( find and remove) récupérer qch dans qch [required object, stuck object] ; I can't get it out of my mind je ne peux pas l'effacer de mon esprit.

■ get out of:

▶ get out of [sth]

1 ( exit from) sortir de [building, bed] ;

2 ( alight from) descendre de [vehicle] ;

3 ( leave at end of) sortir de [meeting] ;

4 ( be freed from) être libéré de [prison] ;

5 ( withdraw from) quitter [organization] ; échapper à [responsibilities] ; he's got out of oil ○ ( as investment) il a vendu toutes ses actions dans le pétrole ;

6 ( avoid doing) s'arranger pour ne pas aller à [appointment, meeting] ; I'll try to get out of it j'essaierai de me libérer ; I accepted the invitation and now I can't get out of it j'ai accepté l'invitation et maintenant je ne peux pas me défiler ○ ; to get out of doing s'arranger pour ne pas faire ;

7 ( no longer do) perdre [habit] ;

8 ( gain from) what do you get out of your job? qu'est-ce que ton travail t'apporte? ; what will you get out of it? qu'est-ce que vous en retirerez?

■ get over:

▶ get over ( cross) passer ;

▶ get over [sth]

1 ( cross) traverser [bridge, stream] ;

2 ( recover from) se remettre de [illness, shock] ; to get over the fact that se remettre du fait que ; I can't get over it ( in amazement) je n'en reviens pas ; I couldn't get over how she looked ça m'a fait un choc de la voir comme ça ; I can't get over how you've grown je n'en reviens pas de ce que tu as grandi ;

3 ( surmount) surmonter [problem] ; to get sth over with en finir avec qch ; let's get it over with finissons-en ;

4 ( stop loving) oublier ; she never got over him elle ne l'a jamais oublié ;

▶ get [sb/sth] over

1 ( cause to cross) faire passer [injured person, object] ; faire passer [qn/ qch] au-dessus de [bridge, wall etc] ;

2 ( cause to arrive) get the plumber over here at once faites venir tout de suite le plombier ;

3 ( communicate) faire passer [message].

■ get round GB:

▶ get round = get around ;

▶ get round [sth] = get around [sth] ;

▶ get round ○ [sb] persuader [qn], avoir [qn] au sentiment ○ ; can't you get round him? est-ce que tu ne peux pas le persuader? ; she easily gets round her father elle fait tout ce qu'elle veut de son père.

■ get through:

▶ get through

1 ( squeeze through) passer ;

2 Telecom to get through to sb avoir qn au téléphone ; I couldn't get through je n'ai pas réussi à l'avoir ;

3 to get through to ( communicate with) convaincre [person] ;

4 ( arrive) [news, supplies] arriver ;

5 ( survive) s'en sortir (by doing en faisant) ;

6 Sch, Univ [examinee] réussir ;

▶ get through [sth]

1 ( make way through) traverser [checkpoint, mud] ;

2 ( reach end of) terminer [book, revision] ; finir [meal, task] ; [actor] finir [performance] ;

3 ( survive mentally) I thought I'd never get through the week j'ai cru que je ne tiendrais pas la semaine ;

4 ( complete successfully) [candidate, competitor] réussir à [exam, qualifying round] ; I got through the interview l'entretien s'est bien passé ;

5 (consume, use) manger [supply of food] ; boire [supply of drink] ; dépenser [money] ; I get through two notebooks a week il me faut or j'use deux carnets par semaine ;

▶ get [sb/sth] through

1 ( squeeze through) faire passer [car, object, person] ;

2 ( help to endure) [pills, encouragement, strength of character] aider [qn] à continuer ; her advice/these pills got me through the day ses conseils/ces comprimés m'ont aidé à tenir le coup ○ ;

3 ( help through frontier etc) faire passer [person, imported goods] ;

4 Sch, Univ ( help to pass) permettre à [qn] de réussir [candidate] ;

5 Pol faire passer [bill].

■ get together:

▶ get together ( assemble) se réunir (about, over pour discuter de) ;

▶ get [sb/sth] together, get together [sb/sth]

1 ( assemble) réunir [different people, groups] ;

2 ( accumulate) réunir [money] ; rassembler [food parcels, truckload] ;

3 ( form) former [company, action group].

■ get under:

▶ get under passer en-dessous ;

▶ get under [sth] passer sous [barrier, floorboards etc].

■ get up:

▶ get up

1 (from bed, chair etc) se lever (from de) ; get up off the grass! ne reste pas sur l'herbe! ;

2 (on horse, ledge etc) monter ; how did you get up there? comment est-ce que tu es monté là-haut? ;

3 Meteorol [storm] se préparer ; [wind] se lever ;

4 to get up to ( reach) arriver à [page, upper floor] ; what did you get up to? fig ( sth enjoyable) qu'est-ce que tu as fait de beau? ; ( sth mischievous) qu'est-ce que tu as fabriqué ○ ? ;

▶ get up [sth]

1 arriver en haut de [hill, ladder] ;

2 ( increase) augmenter [speed] ;

3 (start, muster) former [group] ; faire [petition] ; obtenir [support, sympathy] ;

▶ get [sth] up organiser ;

▶ get [oneself] up ○ in mettre [outfit].

Big English-French dictionary > get
7 system

'sistəm
noun

1) (an arrangement of many parts that work together: a railway system; the solar system; the digestive system.) sistema

2) (a person's body: Take a walk every day - it's good for the system!) organismo

3) (a way of organizing something according to certain ideas, principles etc: a system of government/education.) sistema

4) (a plan or method: What is your system for washing the dishes?) método

5) (the quality of being efficient and methodical: Your work lacks system.) organización, sistema, método

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- systematic
- systematically

system n sistema

system

tr['sɪstəm]

noun

1 (gen) sistema nombre masculino

■ she bought a stereo system se compró un equipo de estéreo

2 (body) cuerpo, organismo

■ too much fat is not good for the system el exceso de grasa no es bueno para el organismo

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

all systems go! ¡todo bien!

to get something out of one's system desahogarse

systems analysis análisis nombre masculino de sistemas

systems analyst analista nombre masulino o femenino de sistemas

system ['sɪstəm] n

1) method: sistema m, método m

2) apparatus: sistema m, instalación f, aparato m

electrical system: instalación eléctrica

digestive system: aparato digestivo

3) body: organismo m, cuerpo m

diseases that affect the whole system: enfermedades que afectan el organismo entero

4) network: red f

system

n.

• constitución s.f.

• mecanismo s.m.

• método s.m.

• red s.f.

• régimen s.m.

• sistema s.m.

'sɪstəm
noun

1)

a) u c ( ordered structure) sistema m, método m

b) c ( procedure) sistema m

filing/classification system — sistema de archivo/clasificación

c) c ( organizational whole) sistema m

the prison system — el sistema penitenciario

2) c

a) (technical, mechanical) sistema m

all systems go! — todo bien!

b) ( Comput) sistema m

c) ( Audio) equipo m (de sonido or audio)

3) c

a) (Anat, Physiol)

the digestive system — el aparato digestivo

the nervous system — el sistema nervioso

b) ( body) cuerpo m, organismo m

my system can't cope with so much food — mi cuerpo or mi organismo no puede con tanta comida

to get somebody/something out of one's system: it took me years to get her out of my system me llevó años olvidarla or sacármela de la cabeza; I had to say it; I needed to get it out of my system — se lo tuve que decir; me tenía que desahogar

4) c

a) ( form of government) sistema m

b) (establishment, status quo)

the system — el sistema

he tried to beat the system — intentó burlar el sistema

5) c ( for gambling) fórmula f, martingala f (CS)

['sɪstǝm]
1. N

1) (=method) sistema m

new teaching systems — nuevos sistemas or métodos de enseñanza

2) (Pol, Sociol) (=organization) sistema m

a political/economic/social system — un sistema político/económico/social

3) (Math, Sci) (=principles) sistema m

binary/decimal/metric system — sistema m binario/decimal/métrico

4) (Elec, Comput, Mech) sistema m

the system's down again — el sistema no funciona otra vez

5) (=network) sistema m, red f

transport system — sistema m or red f de transportes

6) (=order) método m

he lacks system — carece de método

7) (Med) (=organism) organismo m, cuerpo m

the nervous/immune system — el sistema nervioso/inmunitario

the digestive system — el aparato digestivo

it was quite a shock to the system — (fig) fue un buen golpe para el organismo

- get sth out of one's system

8)

the system — (=the establishment) el sistema

to beat the system — burlar el sistema

9) (=classification) sistema m

a chronological system — un sistema cronológico

10) (Astron) sistema m

solar system — sistema m solar

2.

CPD

system disk N — disco m del sistema

system operator N — (Comput) operador(a) m / f de sistemas

system requirements NPL — requisitos mpl de configuración

systems analysis N — análisis m inv de sistemas

systems analyst N — (Comput) analista mf de sistemas

systems engineer N — (Comput) ingeniero(-a) m / f de sistemas

systems engineering N — ingeniería f de sistemas

systems integrator N — (=business) integrador m de sistemas; (=person) integrador(a) m / f de sistemas

systems programmer N — programador(a) m / f de sistemas

systems software N — software m del sistema

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['sɪstəm]
noun

1)

a) u c ( ordered structure) sistema m, método m

b) c ( procedure) sistema m

filing/classification system — sistema de archivo/clasificación

c) c ( organizational whole) sistema m

the prison system — el sistema penitenciario

2) c

a) (technical, mechanical) sistema m

all systems go! — todo bien!

b) ( Comput) sistema m

c) ( Audio) equipo m (de sonido or audio)

3) c

a) (Anat, Physiol)

the digestive system — el aparato digestivo

the nervous system — el sistema nervioso

b) ( body) cuerpo m, organismo m

my system can't cope with so much food — mi cuerpo or mi organismo no puede con tanta comida

to get somebody/something out of one's system: it took me years to get her out of my system me llevó años olvidarla or sacármela de la cabeza; I had to say it; I needed to get it out of my system — se lo tuve que decir; me tenía que desahogar

4) c

a) ( form of government) sistema m

b) (establishment, status quo)

the system — el sistema

he tried to beat the system — intentó burlar el sistema

5) c ( for gambling) fórmula f, martingala f (CS)

English-spanish dictionary > system
8 hand

hand [hænd]

main ⇒ 1 (a)-(c), 1 (g) aiguille ⇒ 1 (h) écriture ⇒ 1 (i) paume ⇒ 1 (j) ouvrier ⇒ 1 (k) passer ⇒ 2 donner ⇒ 2

1 noun

(a) Anatomy (of person) main f;

∎ to hold sb's hand tenir la main de qn;

∎ I held her hand je lui ai tenu la main;

∎ figurative she's asked me to go along and hold her hand elle m'a demandé de l'accompagner pour lui donner du courage;

∎ to hold hands se tenir par la main;

∎ to take sb's hand, to take sb by the hand prendre qn par la main, prendre la main de qn;

∎ to lead sb by the hand conduire qn par la main;

∎ he writes with his left hand il écrit de la main gauche;

∎ to put one's hands over one's eyes se couvrir les yeux de ses mains;

∎ to be on one's hands and knees être à quatre pattes;

∎ figurative to go down on one's hands and knees se mettre à genoux ou à plat ventre;

∎ to be good with one's hands être adroit de ses mains;

∎ my hands are full j'ai les mains occupées ou prises;

∎ figurative to have one's hands full avoir beaucoup à faire, avoir du pain sur la planche;

∎ I've got my hands full trying to cope as it is j'ai déjà assez à faire comme ça;

∎ to lay one's hands on sth (find) mettre la main sur qch;

∎ to get or to lay one's hands on sth (obtain) dénicher qch;

∎ to lay hands on sb faire violence à qn;

∎ figurative just wait till I get or lay my hands on her! attends un peu que je l'attrape!;

∎ to lift or to raise a hand to sb lever la main sur qn;

∎ figurative he never lifts a hand to help il ne lève jamais le petit doigt pour aider;

∎ hands off! bas les pattes!, pas touche!;

∎ hands off the unions/education system! pas touche aux syndicats/au système éducatif!;

∎ he can't keep his hands to himself il a la main baladeuse;

∎ I only have one pair of hands! je n'ai que deux mains!;

∎ look - no hands! (cyclist) sans les mains!;

∎ take your hands off me! ne me touche pas!;

∎ (put your) hands up! les mains en l'air!, haut les mains!;

∎ School hands up anyone who knows the answer que ceux qui connaissent la réponse lèvent le doigt ou la main;

∎ hands up all those who agree que ceux qui sont d'accord lèvent la main;

∎ to tie sb's hands attacher les mains de qn;

∎ they tied my hands behind my back ils m'ont lié ou attaché les mains dans le dos;

∎ I could do it with one hand tied behind my back je pourrais le faire sans aucun effort ou les doigts dans le nez;

∎ figurative my hands are tied j'ai les mains liées;

∎ figurative to sit on one's hands (applaud half-heartedly) applaudir sans enthousiasme; (do nothing) ne rien faire;

∎ to ask for sb's hand in marriage demander la main de qn, demander qn en mariage;

∎ at hand, near or close at hand (about to happen) proche; (nearby) à proximité;

∎ the hour is at hand l'heure est proche;

∎ to suffer at the hands of sb souffrir aux mains ou dans les mains de qn;

∎ to pass sth from hand to hand faire passer qch de mains en mains;

∎ hand in hand la main dans la main;

∎ figurative to go hand in hand (with sth) aller de pair (avec qch);

∎ to be hand in glove with sb travailler en étroite collaboration avec qn;

∎ to make money hand over fist gagner un argent fou;

∎ British familiar she doesn't do a hand's turn elle n'en fiche pas une;

∎ to live from hand to mouth tirer le diable par la queue;

∎ figurative to win hands down gagner haut la main;

∎ to beat sb hands down battre qn à plates couture(s);

∎ proverb many hands make light work = à beaucoup d'ouvriers la tâche devient aisée;

∎ on the one hand... but on the other hand... (used in the same sentence) d'un côté... mais de l'autre...;

∎ on the other hand (when beginning new sentence) d'un autre côté

(b) (assistance)

∎ to give sb a hand (with sth) donner un coup de main à qn;

∎ to lend a hand mettre la main à la pâte;

∎ do you need a hand (with that)? as-tu besoin d'un coup de main?

(c) (control, management)

∎ to need a firm hand avoir besoin d'être sérieusement pris en main;

∎ to rule with a firm hand diriger avec de la poigne;

∎ to take sb/sth in hand prendre qn/qch en main;

∎ to be out of hand (dog, child) ne rien écouter;

∎ to get out of hand (dog, child) devenir indocile; (meeting, situation) échapper à tout contrôle;

∎ the garden is getting out of hand le jardin à l'air d'une vraie jungle;

∎ to change hands (company, restaurant etc) changer de propriétaire;

∎ it's out of my hands cela ne m'appartient plus, ce n'est plus ma responsabilité ou de mon ressort;

∎ the matter is in the hands of the headmaster la question relève maintenant ou est maintenant du ressort du principal;

∎ I have put the matter in the hands of a lawyer j'ai confié l'affaire à un avocat;

∎ the answer lies in your own hands la solution est entre tes mains;

∎ to have too much time on one's hands avoir trop de temps à soi;

∎ to have sb/sth on one's hands avoir qn/qch sur les bras;

∎ now that that's off my hands à présent que je suis débarrassé de cela;

∎ it's out of my hands je ne peux (plus) rien y faire;

∎ to fall into the hands of the enemy tomber entre les mains de l'ennemi;

∎ to fall into the wrong hands (information, secret etc) tomber en de mauvaises mains;

∎ in the wrong hands this knowledge could be very dangerous si elles tombaient aux mains de personnes malintentionnées, ces connaissances pourraient être très dangereuses;

∎ in the right hands en de bonnes mains;

∎ to be in good or safe hands être en de bonnes mains;

∎ can I leave this in your hands? puis-je te demander de t'en occuper?;

∎ it leaves too much power in the hands of the police cela laisse trop de pouvoir à la police;

∎ to give sb a free hand donner carte blanche à qn;

∎ to take matters into one's own hands prendre les choses en main

(d) (applause)

∎ to give sb a (big) hand applaudir qn (bien fort)

(e) (influence, involvement)

∎ to have a hand in sth avoir quelque chose à voir dans qch, être impliqué dans qch;

∎ I had no hand in it je n'avais rien à voir là-dedans, je n'y étais pour rien;

∎ I see or detect your hand in this j'y vois ta marque

(f) (skill, ability)

∎ to have a light hand with pastry réussir une pâte légère;

∎ she can turn her hand to anything elle peut tout faire;

∎ to keep one's hand in garder la main;

∎ I was never much of a hand at it je n'ai jamais été très doué pour cela;

∎ to try one's hand at sth s'essayer à qch

(g) (in cards → cards held) main f, jeu m; (→ round, game) partie f; (→ player) joueur(euse) m,f;

∎ to have a good hand avoir du jeu;

∎ first/fourth hand (player) premie(ère) m,f/dernier(ère) m,f en cartes;

∎ figurative to show or to reveal one's hand dévoiler son jeu;

∎ figurative to throw in one's hand jeter l'éponge

(h) (of clock, watch) aiguille f; (of signpost, barometer) indicateur m;

∎ the little hand is pointing to three la petite aiguille est sur le trois

(i) (handwriting) écriture f;

∎ to have a good hand avoir une belle écriture

(j) (measurement of horse) paume f;

∎ a horse fifteen hands high un cheval de quinze paumes

(k) (worker) ouvrier(ère) m,f; (on ship) homme m, membre m de l'équipage;

∎ the ship was lost with all hands le navire a sombré corps et biens;

∎ old hand expert m, vieux m de la vieille;

∎ to be an old hand at sth avoir une vaste expérience de qch;

∎ also figurative all hands to the pump tout le monde à la rescousse

(l) (of bananas) régime m;

∎ hand of pork jambonneau m

2 transitive verb

passer, donner;

∎ to hand sth to sb, to hand sb sth passer ou donner qch à qn;

∎ to hand sb a letter/telegram remettre une lettre/un télégramme à qn;

∎ figurative to hand sth to sb on a plate apporter à qn qch sur un plateau;

∎ you've got to hand it to him chapeau!;

∎ figurative you have to hand it to her, she IS a good mother c'est une bonne mère, il faut lui accorder cela

3 by hand adverb

(written) à la main; (made, knitted, sewn) (à la) main;

∎ to wash sth by hand laver qch à la main;

∎ to send sth by hand faire porter qch;

∎ by hand (written on envelope) en ville;

∎ to rear an animal by hand élever un animal au biberon

4 in hand adverb

(a) (available → money) disponible; (→ time) devant soi;

∎ British do we have any time in hand? avons-nous du temps devant nous?

(b) (being dealt with) en cours;

∎ the matter is in hand on s'occupe de l'affaire;

∎ I have the situation well in hand j'ai la situation bien en main;

∎ to return to the matter in hand revenir à ses moutons;

∎ keep your mind on the job in hand concentre-toi sur l'affaire en cours

5 on hand adjective

(person) disponible

6 out of hand adverb

(immediately) sur-le-champ

7 to hand adverb

(letter, information etc) sous la main;

∎ use what comes to hand prends ce que tu as sous la main;

∎ he took the first one that came to hand il a pris le premier qui lui est tombé sous la main;

∎ the first excuse to hand le premier prétexte venu

►► hand baggage (UNCOUNT) bagages mpl à main;

hand controls commandes fpl manuelles;

hand cream crème f pour les mains;

Military hand grenade grenade f à main;

hand lotion lotion f pour les mains;

hand luggage (UNCOUNT) bagages mpl à main;

hand microphone micro m portatif;

Theatre hand puppet marionnette f;

hand signal signal m de la main;

∎ hand signals only (on vehicle) = indique que les clignotants d'un véhicule ne fonctionnent pas;

hand towel serviette f, essuie-mains m inv

➲ hand around separable transitive verb

(distribute) distribuer

➲ hand back separable transitive verb

(return) rapporter, rendre;

∎ she handed me back the bottle elle m'a repassé la bouteille;

∎ Radio & Television I now hand you back to the studio/Jon Snow je rends maintenant l'antenne au studio/à Jon Snow

➲ hand down separable transitive verb

(a) (pass, give from high place) passer, donner;

∎ hand me down the hammer passe-moi ou donne-moi le marteau (qui est là-haut)

(b) (heirloom, story) transmettre;

∎ the necklace/property has been handed down from mother to daughter for six generations le collier est transmis/la propriété est transmise de mère en fille depuis six générations;

∎ all her clothes had been handed down from her older sisters tous ses vêtements venaient de ses sœurs aînées

(c) Law (decision, sentence) annoncer; (judgment) rendre;

∎ American to hand down the budget annoncer le budget

➲ hand in separable transitive verb

(return, surrender → book) rendre; (→ ticket) remettre; (→ exam paper) rendre, remettre; (something found → to authorities, police etc) déposer, remettre;

∎ to hand in one's resignation donner ou remettre sa démission, demissioner

➲ hand off separable transitive verb

Sport (in rugby) raffûter

➲ hand on separable transitive verb

(a) (give to someone else) passer;

∎ to hand sth on to sb passer qch à qn

(b) = hand down (b)

➲ hand out separable transitive verb

(distribute) distribuer;

∎ we hand out 200 free meals a day nous servons 200 repas gratuits par jour;

∎ he's very good at handing out advice il est très fort pour ce qui est de distribuer des conseils;

∎ he's fond of handing it out, but can't take it (criticism) il se permet de critiquer les autres mais il déteste qu'on le critique;

∎ the French boxer handed out a lot of punishment le boxeur français a frappé à coups redoublés

➲ hand over

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (pass, give → object) passer, donner;

∎ Radio & Television we now hand you over to the weather man/Bill Smith in Moscow nous passons maintenant l'antenne à notre météorologue/Bill Smith à Moscou;

∎ Telecommunications I'm handing him over now je te le passe tout de suite

(b) (surrender → weapons, hostage) remettre; (→ criminal) livrer; (→ power, authority) transmettre; Law (→ property) céder;

∎ he was handed over to the French police il a été livré à la ou aux mains de la police française;

∎ hand it over! donne!

2 intransitive verb

∎ to hand over to (government minister, chairman etc) passer le pouvoir à; (in meeting) donner la parole à; Telecommunications passer ou donner le combiné à

➲ hand round separable transitive verb

(distribute) distribuer

➲ hand up separable transitive verb

(pass, give from low place) passer, donner;

∎ hand me up the hammer passe-moi ou donne-moi le marteau (qui est là en bas)

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9 look

look

A n

1 ( glance) coup m d'œil ; to have ou take a look at sth ( briefly) jeter un coup d'œil à or sur qch ; ( closely) examiner qch ; to have ou take a good look at examiner [qch] soigneusement [car, contract, patient] ; regarder [qch] de près [suspect, photo] ; I didn't get a good look at the thief je n'ai pas bien vu le voleur ; to have a look inside/behind sth regarder à l'intérieur de/derrière qch ; to have a look round faire un tour de [house, town] ; I had a quick look round ( in town) j'ai fait un petit tour ; ( in shop) j'ai jeté un coup d'œil ; to have a look round the shops faire le tour des magasins ; to have a look through ( peer) regarder dans [telescope] ; regarder par [crack, window] ; ( scan) chercher dans [archives, files] ; parcourir [essay, report] ; she took one look at him and screamed elle l'a regardé et s'est mise à crier ; I took one look at him and knew that he was ill j'ai tout de suite vu qu'il était malade ; let's have a look at that grazed knee voyons ce genou écorché ; to take a long hard look at sth fig étudier sérieusement qch ;

2 ( search) to have a look chercher ; to have a look for sth chercher qch ; I've had several looks j'ai regardé or cherché plusieurs fois ; I had a good look in the attic j'ai bien cherché dans le grenier ;

3 ( expression) regard m ; a look of fear/anger un regard rempli de terreur/de colère ; a look of sadness un regard triste ; to give sb a kind/pitying look regarder qn avec bonté/pitié ; he gave me a look of sheer hatred il m'a lancé or jeté un regard de pure haine ; did you see the look he gave me? tu as vu le regard qu'il m'a jeté? ; she gave me such a look! elle m'a jeté un de ces regards! ; he got some odd ou funny looks on l'a regardé d'un drôle d'air ; I don't like the look on his face ou in his eye je n'aime pas son air ; you could tell from the look on his face that à sa tête ○ on voyait que ; to give sb a dirty/evil look regarder qn d'un sale œil/d'un air méchant ;

4 ( appearance) ( of person) air m ; (of building, car, design, scenery) aspect m ; to have a look of weariness/sadness about one avoir l'air abattu/triste ; the car has a dated look la voiture ne fait pas très moderne ; she has a look of her father about her elle a quelque chose de son père ; to have the look of a military man/seasoned traveller avoir l'allure d'un militaire/d'un voyageur expérimenté ; I like the look of it ça a l'air bien ; I like the look of the new computer/car j'aime bien la ligne du nouvel ordinateur/de la nouvelle voiture ; I like the look of him il a l'air sympa ○, il a une bonne tête ○ ; I don't like the look of him il ne m'inspire pas confiance ; I don't like the look of the weather le ciel n'annonce rien de bon ; I don't like the look of that rash ces rougeurs m'inquiètent ; by the look(s) of him he must be about 40 à le voir on lui donnerait la quarantaine ; by the look(s) of the barometer à en juger par le baromètre ;

5 ( style) look ○ m, style m ; the look for the 90's le look des années 90.

B looks npl he's got the looks, but can he act? il a le physique, mais sait-il jouer? ; looks aren't everything il n'y a pas que la beauté qui compte ; to keep one's looks rester beau/belle ; he's losing his looks il n'est pas aussi beau qu'autrefois ; you can't go ou judge by looks alone il ne faut pas se fier aux apparences.

C vtr

1 (gaze, stare) regarder ; look what he's done! regarde ce qu'il a fait! ; look how/where… regarde comment/où… ; to look sb in the eye/in the face regarder qn dans les yeux/en face ; to look sb up and down ( appraisingly) regarder qn de haut en bas ; ( critically) toiser qn des pieds à la tête ; to look one's last on jeter un dernier regard sur [house, view] ; look what arrived this morning regarde ce qui est arrivé ce matin ; look who it is! regarde qui voilà! ; look who's just walked in! regarde qui vient d'arriver! ; now look what you've done! regarde ce que tu as fait! ; look what time it starts! tu as vu à quelle heure ça commence! ;

2 ( appear) to look one's age faire son âge ; to look one's best être à son avantage ; she still looks the same elle n'a pas changé ; to look an idiot ou a fool avoir l'air ridicule ; it won't look good if you refuse ça sera mal vu si tu refuses ; he doesn't look himself today il n'a pas l'air dans son assiette aujourd'hui.

D vi

1 regarder (into dans ; over par-dessus) ; to look and see who's at the door regarder qui est à la porte ; to look and see what's on TV regarder ce qu'il y a à la télé ; to look at sb/sth regarder qn/qch ; to look away détourner le regard or les yeux ; to look in at the window regarder (à l'intérieur) par la fenêtre ; to look out of ou through the window regarder par la fenêtre ; to look the other way lit regarder ailleurs ; fig fermer les yeux ; to look up and down the street regarder partout dans la rue ; I didn't know where to look fig je ne savais plus où me mettre ; ( in shop) I'm just looking je ne fais que regarder ;

2 ( search) chercher, regarder ; to look down parcourir [list] ; to look for sth chercher qch ; a group of youths looking for trouble une bande de jeunes qui cherchent la bagarre ; are you looking for a smack in the mouth ○ ? tu veux mon poing sur la figure ○ ? ;

3 (appear, seem) avoir l'air, paraître ; he looks happy il a l'air heureux, il paraît heureux ; it's nice to see you looking happy ça fait plaisir de te voir heureux ; you look hot/cold tu as l'air d'avoir chaud/froid ; he doesn't look French il n'a pas l'air français, il ne fait pas français ; he looks young for his age il fait or il paraît jeune pour son âge ; she's 40 but she doesn't look it elle a 40 ans mais elle ne les fait pas ; he looks about 50 il doit avoir la cinquantaine ; that dress makes you look younger cette robe te rajeunit ; how do I look? comment me trouves-tu? ; you look well tu as bonne mine ; you don't look well tu as mauvaise mine ; you look good in that hat ce chapeau te va bien ; you look good enough to eat! tu es mignon à croquer ○ ! ; that cake looks good ce gâteau a l'air bon ; the picture will look good in the study le tableau ira bien dans le bureau ; how does my tie look? comment est ma cravate? ; it doesn't look straight il n'est pas droit, il est de travers ; it doesn't look right ça ne va pas ; how does it look to you? qu'est-ce que tu en penses? ; it looks OK to me ça m'a l'air d'aller ; does the meat look cooked to you? est-ce que tu crois que la viande est cuite? ; things are looking good les choses se présentent bien ; things aren't looking too good ça ne va pas très bien ; it looks to me as if ou though j'ai l'impression que ; this looks to me like the right street j'ai l'impression que c'est la bonne rue ; it looks as if ou though it will rain/snow on dirait qu'il va pleuvoir/neiger ; it looks likely that il semble probable que (+ subj) ; it looks certain that il semble certain que (+ indic) ; he looks to be the strongest il semble être le plus fort ; it looks to be a question of time/money ça a l'air d'être une question de temps/d'argent ;

4 to look like sb/sth ressembler à qn/qch ; it doesn't look anything like a Picasso! ça ne ressemble absolument pas à un Picasso! ; that photograph doesn't look like you ou looks nothing like you on ne te reconnaît pas du tout sur cette photo ; what does she look like? comment est-elle? ; what does the house look like? comment est la maison? ; it looks like being funny/interesting cela promet d'être amusant/intéressant ; you look like being the only man there il y a de fortes chances pour que tu sois le seul homme présent ; she looks like being the first to finish il y a de fortes chances pour qu'elle soit la première à finir ; it looks like he's dying tout porte à croire qu'il est mourant ; it looks like rain/snow on dirait qu'il va pleuvoir/neiger ; it certainly looks like it ça en a tout l'air ; ‘are you having trouble?’ ‘what does it look like?’ iron ‘tu as des ennuis?’ ‘à ton avis?’ iron ; what does it look like to you? murder? qu'en pensez-vous? c'est un meurtre? ; it looks like cancer to me je pense que c'est un cancer ; you look like you could do with a drink/bath j'ai l'impression qu'un verre d'alcool/un bain ne te ferait pas de mal ;

5 ( also look here) écoute ; look, this is ridiculous écoute, c'est ridicule ; look, it wasn't my fault écoute, ce n'était pas ma faute ; look here, I'm in no mood for jokes écoute-moi bien, je ne suis pas d'humeur à plaisanter ;

6 ( be oriented) to look north/south [house, room] être orienté au nord/sud.

E - looking (dans composés) serious/distinguished-looking [person] à l'air sérieux/distingué ; dubious/sinister-looking [place, object] à l'aspect douteux/sinistre ; he's not bad-looking il n'est pas mal.

Idiom

if looks could kill, I'd be dead by now il/elle/etc m'a fusillé du regard.

Phrasal verbs

■ look about = look around.

■ look after:

▶ look after [sb/sth]

1 ( care for) soigner [patient, sick animal] ; garder [child] ; s'occuper de [customer, guest] ; s'occuper de [animal, plant] ; entretenir [car, equipment] ; prendre soin de [belongings, toys] ; he's being looked after by his grand-parents ce sont ses grand-parents qui le gardent ; these books have been well looked after on a pris soin de ces livres ; to look after sb's needs satisfaire les besoins de qn ;

2 ( be responsible for) s'occuper de [administration, finances, business, shop] ; surveiller [class, schoolchildren] ; to look after sb's interests veiller aux intérêts de qn ; look after my luggage, I'll be back in a minute! surveille mes bagages, je reviens tout de suite! ;

▶ look after oneself

1 ( cope) she's too frail to look after herself elle est trop fragile pour se débrouiller toute seule ; I'm old enough to look after myself je suis assez grand pour me débrouiller tout seul ;

2 ( be careful) safe journey, and look after yourself bon voyage, sois prudent!

■ look ahead lit regarder devant soi ; fig regarder vers l'avenir ; we must look ahead to the future now nous devons penser à l'avenir maintenant ; she's looking ahead to the next Olympics elle se prépare pour les prochains jeux Olympiques ; and now, looking ahead to tomorrow's programmes Radio, TV et maintenant, un aperçu des émissions de demain.

■ look around:

▶ look around

1 ( turn around) se retourner ;

2 ( glance around) regarder autour de soi ; to look around at one's friends/ colleagues fig passer en revue ses amis/collègues ;

3 ( search) chercher ; to look around for sb/sth chercher qn/qch ;

4 (visit, examine) (in building, town) faire un tour ; ( in room) jeter un coup d'œil ;

▶ look around [sth] visiter [church, town] ; faire le tour de [room] ; they spent the morning looking around London/the shops ils ont passé la matinée à visiter Londres/à faire les magasins.

■ look at:

▶ look at [sth]

1 gen regarder ; ( briefly) jeter un coup d'œil sur ; look at the state of you! regarde un peu de quoi tu as l'air! ; just look at the state of this room! regarde un peu l'état de cette pièce! ; look at this coat/book! regarde-moi ○ ce manteau/ce livre! ; just look at this! regarde-moi ça ○ ! ; you'd never guess, to look at her à la voir on ne devinerait jamais ; he's/it's not much to look at il/ça ne paie pas de mine ;

2 ( examine) vérifier [equipment] ; [doctor] examiner [patient, wound] ; [workman] jeter un coup d'œil à [car, plumbing] ; étudier [problem, implications, effects, ways, offer, options] ; you should get that wound looked at tu devrais faire examiner cette blessure (par le médecin) ;

3 (see, view) voir [life, events, situation] ; envisager [problem] ; try and look at it my way essaie de voir les choses de mon point de vue ; his way of looking at things sa façon de voir les choses ; look at it this way, if he offers, I won't refuse écoute, s'il me fait une proposition, je ne la refuserai pas ; that's how I look at it c'est comme ça que je vois les choses ; the problem needs to be looked at from all angles il faut envisager ce problème sous tous ses aspects ; you can't be too careful, look at Tom! il faut être très prudent, regarde ce qui est arrivé à Tom! ;

4 ( face) to be looking at [firm] être au bord de [bankruptcy, collapse] ; [criminal] risquer [life sentence, fine] ; you're looking at major repairs here dites-vous bien qu'il s'agit ici de réparations importantes ; you're looking at a bill for about 3,000 dollars ça va vous coûter aux alentours de 3 000 dollars.

■ look back:

▶ look back

1 ( turn around) se retourner ; to look back at sb/sth se retourner pour regarder qn/qch ;

2 (reflect, reminisce) let's look back to the year 1964 revenons à l'année 1964 ; if we look back to the 19th century si l'on considère le dix-neuvième siècle ; since then she's never looked back depuis tout s'est très bien passé pour elle ; to look back on se tourner sur [past] ; repenser à [experience] ; faire le bilan de [career, marriage] ; looking back on it, I think I made the right decision rétrospectivement, je pense que j'ai pris la bonne décision.

■ look down:

▶ look down (with modesty, shame) baisser les yeux ; ( from a height) regarder en bas ; from the hilltop she looked down on the city elle regardait la ville du haut de la colline ;

▶ look down on [sb/sth]

1 ( despise) mépriser [person, lifestyle] ;

2 ( dominate) [fortress, tower] dominer [town, valley].

■ look for:

▶ look for [sb/sth] ( search for) chercher qn/qch ;

▶ look for [sth] ( expect) attendre [commitment, co-operation, result, reward] (from de) ; what I'm looking for from you is a guarantee ce que j'attends de vous c'est une garantie ; what do you look for in a new recruit? qu'est-ce que vous attendez d'une nouvelle recrue?

■ look forward: to look forward to [sth] attendre [qch] avec impatience ; I was so looking forward to it j'attendais ça avec tant d'impatience, je m'en faisais une telle joie ; she's looking forward to going on holiday elle a hâte de partir en vacances ; I'm not looking forward to the interview/party la perspective de l'entretien/la fête ne me réjouit pas ; I look forward to hearing from you ( writing to a friend) j'espère avoir bientôt de tes nouvelles ; ( in formal correspondence) dans l'attente de votre réponse.

■ look in

1 ( pay a visit) passer ; I'll look in again tomorrow je repasserai demain ; to look in on passer voir [person, class, rehearsals] ; look in on the baby and check she's still asleep va voir si le bébé dort ;

2 ( watch TV) if there are any viewers looking in who want more details, please contact us les téléspectateurs qui désirent obtenir plus de renseignements peuvent nous contacter.

■ look into:

▶ look into [sth] examiner, étudier [matter, possibility, problem] ; examiner [accounts, background] ; enquêter sur [death, disappearance, theft].

■ look on:

▶ look on [crowd, spectators] regarder ; we looked on admiringly as she danced nous l'avons regardée danser avec admiration ; I was forced to look on as the house was ransacked j'ai été forcé d'assister au pillage de la maison ;

▶ look on [sb/sth] considérer [person, event etc] (as comme ; with avec) ; we look on him as a son nous le considérons comme notre fils ; I look on it as a privilege je considère que c'est un privilège.

■ look onto:

▶ look onto [sth] [house, room] donner sur [sea, garden, street].

■ look out:

▶ look out ( take care) faire attention (for à) ; ( be wary) se méfier (for de) ; you must look out for snakes faites attention aux serpents ; look out for motorists turning out of side roads méfiez-vous des automobilistes qui débouchent des petites routes ; look out! attention! ;

▶ look out for [sb/sth] guetter [person] ; être à l'affût de [new recruits, talent] ; être à la recherche de [apartment, book] ; guetter l'apparition de [signs, symptoms] ; repérer [cases, examples] ; être à l'affût de [bargain, special offer] ;

▶ look out for [oneself] se débrouiller tout seul, s'occuper de soi ;

▶ look out over [sth] [window, balcony] donner sur [sea, park].

■ look over:

▶ look [sb] over passer [qn] en revue [new recruits, troops] ;

▶ look [sth] over examiner [car, equipment] ; [vet] examiner [animal] ; get an expert to look the car over before you buy it fais examiner la voiture par un spécialiste avant de l'acheter ;

▶ look over [sth]

1 ( read) ( in detail) examiner [document, contract] ; ( rapidly) parcourir [essay, lines, notes] ; jeter un coup d'œil sur, parcourir [document, report] ; I'll get Rose to look it over quickly je demanderai à Rose d'y jeter un petit coup d'œil ;

2 ( visit) visiter [factory, gardens, house].

■ look round

1 ( look behind one) se retourner ; she looked round to see who it was elle s'est retournée pour voir qui c'était ;

2 ( look about) regarder autour de soi ; I'm just looking round ( in shop) je ne fais que regarder ; we're looking round for a new house nous cherchons une nouvelle maison ;

▶ look round [sth] visiter [town, building].

■ look through:

▶ look through [sth]

1 ( read) consulter [archive, material, files] ; parcourir [essay, list, script, report, notes] ; ( scan idly) feuilleter [book, magazine] ;

2 ( search) fouiller dans [belongings, drawers, briefcase] ; I caught him looking through my diary je l'ai trouvé en train de lire mon journal intime ; try looking through that pile of papers regarde dans cette pile de papiers ;

▶ look through [sb] faire semblant de ne pas voir [person].

■ look to:

▶ look to [sb/sth]

1 ( rely on) compter sur qn/qch (for pour ; to do pour faire) ; they look to him for leadership ils comptent sur lui pour les diriger ;

2 ( turn to) se tourner vers [future] ; he looked to his friends for support il s'est tourné vers ses amis pour qu'ils le soutiennent ;

▶ look to [sth] ( pay attention) veiller à [defences, interests] ;

▶ look to do ( expect) espérer faire ; we're looking to break even/make a profit nous espérons rentrer dans nos frais/faire des bénéfices.

■ look up:

▶ look up

1 ( raise one's eyes) lever les yeux (from de) ;

2 ( raise one's head) lever la tête ; to look up at the clouds/tree-tops regarder les nuages/le sommet des arbres ;

3 ( improve) [business, prospects] aller mieux ; [conditions, situation] s'améliorer ; [property market] reprendre ; things are looking up for us les choses s'arrangent pour nous ;

▶ look up [sth] regarder à l'intérieur de [chimney] ; to look up sb's skirt regarder sous la jupe de qn ;

▶ look [sb/sth] up, look up [sb/sth]

1 ( check in book) chercher [address, phone number, price, word] (in dans) ; look his number up in the phone book cherche son numéro de téléphone dans l'annuaire ;

2 ( visit) passer voir [acquaintance, friend] ; look me up if you're ever in New York passez me voir or faites-moi signe si jamais vous vous trouvez à New York ;

▶ look up to [sb] admirer [person].

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10 can

§ (could) შეძლება

§ კონსერვი, დაკონსერვება

§

1 ქილა (შუშისა ან თუნუქისა)

2 დაკონსერვება (დააკონსერვებს)

my granny cans cucumbers ბებიაჩემი კიტრს აკონსერვებს

3 (could) შეიძლება (შეძლებს)

I could not come მოსვლა ვერ შევძელი // ვერ მოვედი

I can do it ამის გაკეთება შემიძლია

4 ცოდნა (იცის)

he can play the piano ფორტეპიანოზე დაკვრა იცის

can you swim? ცურვა იცი? (იცი ცურვა?)

I can’t call it to mind ვერ ვიხსენებ

he can't be bought მოუსყიდველი/უანგარო კაცია

can I borrow your car for a day? ერთი დღით მანქანას ხომ არ მათხოვებ?

the jerry-can blew up კანისტრა აფეთქდა

we couldn't get through to her ვერ დავუკავშირდით

he can get blood out of a stone ქვას წყალს გამოადენს

I can't bend ვერ ვიკუზები // წელში ვერ ვიხრები

I assume that you can do it ვფიქრობ, რომ ამას შეძლებ

can I be of any assistance to you? შემიძლია რითიმე დაგეხმაროთ?

you can`t appreciate English poetry ინგლისურ პოეზიას ვერ შეაფასებ

I can’t go anywhere ვერსად ვერ დავდივარ

I’ll do anything I can რაც შემიძლია, ყველაფერს გავაკეთებ

anybody can do it ეს ყველას / ნებისმიერ ადამიანს შეუძლია

can`t see anybody here აქ ვერავის ვხედავ

I can`t answer for his mistakes მის შეცდომებზე პასუხს ვერ ვაგებ

he alone can do it ამის გაკეთება მხოლოდ მას შეუძლია

I can offer you no hope იმედს ვერ მოგცემ

you can't kill people offhandedly ხალხის ასე უცერემონიოდ ხოცვა არ შეიძლება

where can I obtain this book? სად შეიძლება ვიშოვო / შევიძინო ეს წიგნი?

I can't come for obvious reasons გასაგები მიზეზების გამო ვერ მოვალ

●●I'll come as soon as I possibly can როგორც კი შევძლებ, მაშინვე მოვალ

I can't possibly do it ამას მაინცდამაინც ვერ ვიზამ / ვერ გავაკეთებ

I can't see prospect of success წარმატების იმედი არ ჩანს

can you prove it to me? შეგიძლია დამიმტკიცო?

I can't put it into words სიტყვებით ვერ გამოვხატავ

I can't put my feelings into words ჩემს გრძნობებს სიტყვებით ვერ გამოვხატავ

you can't put that across me ამაში ვერ მომატყუებ

she can twist him round her little finger §1 თავის ნებაზე ატარებს

she can twist him round her little finger §2 როგორც უნდა ისე ატრიალებს

I can put you up for night შემიძლია ღამე ჩემთან გაგათევინო

I can't put up with that ამას მე არ მოვითმენ // ამას ვერ შევურიგდები

you can't kid me! ვერ მომატყუებ! / ვერ გამაცურებ!

it can't last long ეს დიდხანს ვერ გაგრძელდება

you can't laugh it off ამას ხუმრობაში ვერ გაატარებ

it's not a serious mistake, we can let it pass ეს სერიოზული შეცდომა არაა, შეიძლება ყურადღება არ მივაქციოთ

we can't rule this possibility out ამ შესაძლებლობას ვერ გამოვრიცხავთ

I can't afford to run a car მანქანის შენახვა გამიჭირდება

I can't overrule the order არ შემიძლია ბრძანებას არ დავემორჩილო

I can't put this writer on a par with Tolstoy ამ მწერალს ტოლსტოის გვერდით ვერ დავაყენებ

where can I park? მანქანა სად დავაყენო?

they can't be parted მათი ერთმანეთისაგან დაშორება არ შეიძლება

he can easily pass for a foreigner იოლად მიიჩნეევნ უცხოელად

pending his arrival we can't do anything მის ჩამოსვლამდე ვერაფერს გავაკეთებთ

I can't bear this person ამ პიროვნებას ვერ ვიტან

can I pick your brains on this matter? რას მირჩევ ამ საქმეში?

I can't place his knowledge higher than mine მის ცოდნას ჩემს ცოდნაზე მაღლა ვერ დავაყენებ

you can't please everybody ყველას გულს ვერ მოიგებ

you can rely on his word შეგიძლია მის სიტყვას დაენდო

you can rely on him შეგიძლია ენდო

that can be remedied ამის გამოსწორება შეიძლება // ამას ეშველება

I can't remember his name მისი სახელი არ მახსენდება / მაგონდება

some Georgian idioms cannot be rendered into English ზოგი ქართული იდიომი ინგლისურად არ ითარგმნება

you can't reproach me with anything ვერაფერს მისაყვედურებ

human beings can't reproduce lost limbs ადამიანს დაკარგული კიდურები არ აღუდგება

lizards can reproduce their tails ხვლიკს დაკარგული ბოლო / კუდი ისევ ეზრდება

you can set your mind at rest შეგიძლია დამშვიდდე

the matter cannot rest here ამ საქმის ასე მიტოვება არ შეიძლება

slavery cannot be resurrected მონობის აღდგენა შეუძლებელია

I can't risk it ამას ვერ გავბედავ / გავრისკავ

nobody can rival his knowledge ცოდნაში ვერავინ შეეცილება

I can’t reach that branch იმ ტოტს ვერ ვწვდები

as far as the eye can reach რამდენადაც თვალი გასწვდება

where can I reach you? სად გნახო? // სად იქნები, რომ გნახო?

●●this sentence can be read in different ways ამ წინადადების შინაარსის გაგება სხვადასხვაგვარად შეიძლება

he can read music ნოტები იცის

I can read him like a book მაგას მოხარშულს ვიცნობ

can you read anything into what he says? გესმის რამე მისი ნათქვამიდან?

these two methods can’t be reconciled ამ ორი მეთოდის შეთავსება შეუძლებელია

can you smell (sniff) gas? გაზის სუნს გრძნობ?

can you spare me a few minutes? შეგიძლია რამდენიმე წუთი დამითმო?

●●can you spare me $10 ათ დოლარს ხომ არ მასესხებ?

she can't spell ორთოგრაფიული შეცდომებით წერს

I can't imagine why! ვერ წარმომიდგენია, რატომ!

as near as I can recall რამდენადაც მახსოვს

she can neither sing nor dance ვერც მღერის და არც ცეკვა იცის

he can't do it, nor can we ამას ვერც ის აკეთებს და ვერც ჩვენ

I can tell you nothing ვერაფერს გეტყვი

you can go nowhere ვერსად ვერ წახვალ

I wonder how you can stand it! მიკვირს, ამას როგორ ითმენ!

they can't be judged by our standards მათ ჩვენი საზომით ვერ განვსჯით

one can safely say that… შეიძლება დამშვიდებით ითქვას, რომ

I can't make out this scrawl ამ ნაჯღაბნს ვერ ვკითხულობ

he can't see beyond the end of his nose თავის ცხვირის იქეთ ვერაფერს ვერ ხედავს

as far as I can see რამდენადაც მესმის

I can't make sense of what he said მისი ნათქვამიდან აზრი ვერ გამოვიტანე

can I be of any service to you? რითი შემიძლია გემსახუროთ?

●●you can't shift him! მაგას ადგილიდან ვერ დაძრავ! (მისი სიზარმაცის გამო)

I can't stand her მას ვერ ვიტან

can you steer a boat? იცი ნავის მართვა?

I can't walk a step further ერთი ნაბიჯის გადადგმაც კი აღარ შემიძლია

●●I can't subscribe to that idea ამ იდეას ვერ გავიზიარებ

how can you suffer such insolence? ასეთ თავხედობას როგორ იტან? / ითმენ?

I can't suffer the pain any longer ამ ტკივილს ვეღარ ვითმენ / ვეღარ ვიტან

you can trust him with this job შეგიძლია ეს საქმე მიანდო

you can't trust a word he says მისი არც ერთი სიტყვა არ არის დასაჯერებელი

I can't think where he tucks it away! ნეტავი ამდენის სად ჩადის

I can't make her come მოსვლას ვერ დავაძალებ

she's very strange. I can't make her out უცნაურია, ვერაფერი გავუგე

no one can match him in telling lies ტყუილებში ვერავინ სჯობნის // ბადალი არა ჰყავს

you can't mean it! ნუთუ ამას სერიოზულად ამბობ? / აპირებ?

can I take a message? რა გადავცე? / ხომ არაფერი გადავცე? (ტელეფონზე საუბრისას)

I can't get her out of my mind თავიდან ვერ ამოვიგდე

he can go if he is so minded თუ უნდა, წავიდეს

you can do it through an agent შეგიძლია ეს აგენტის საშუალებით გააკეთო

I can't tolerate heat / his impudence სიცხეს / მის თავხედობას ვერ ვიტან

he tossed the empty can away ცარიელი ქილა მოისროლა

the police can't touch him now ახლა მას პოლიცია ვეღარ მისწვდება

I can't touch that shelf იმ თაროს ვერ ვწვდები

you can touch him for tax evasion შეგიძლია გადასახადის გადახდისაგან თავის არიდებისათვის უჩივლო / დაასჯევინო

you can't transmute iron into gold რკინას ოქროდ ვერ აქცევ

my car can hold seven people ჩემს მანქანაში შვიდი კაცი ეტევა

we can't hold him at home სახლში ვერ ვაჩერებთ (სულ სადღაც გარბის)

when I have a cold, I can't taste anything როცა გაციებული ვარ გემოს ვერ ვგრძნობ.

you can get in touch with him by telephone შეგიძლია ტელეფონით დაუკავშირდე

you can tell at once he is a teacher აშკარად ეტყობა, რომ მასწავლებელია

I can't tell margarine from butter მარგარინსა და კარაქს ერთმანეთისგან ვერ ვარჩევ

I can tell him by his voice მას ხმაზე ვცნობ

how can I tell? მე რა ვიცი?

I can't thank you enough არ ვიცი მადლობა როგორ გამოვხატო

I can't do that much ამდენს ვერ გავაკეთებ

I can't think clearly now ახლა კარგად ვერ ვაზროვნებ

I can't think where he might be ვერ წარმომიდგენია, სად იქნება

I can't think of her name მისი სახელი არ მახსენდება

I can't do this much ამდენის გაკეთება არ შემიძლია

you can see it through the glasses ბინოკლით დაინახავ

he can do no wrong მას ბოროტების ქმნა არ შეუძლია

a young teacher can't handle such a large class ახალგაზრდა მასწავლებელი ასეთ დიდ ჯგუფს ვერ მოუვლის / ვერ გაუძლებს

he can't handle this work ამ სამუშაოს ვერ მოერევა

he can handle a tractor ტრაქტორზე მუშაობა შეუძლია

we can hardly ask him უხერხულია, რომ ვთხოვოთ

you can have it your own way რაც გინდა, ის გიქნია!

I can't have that! ამას მე ვერ დავუშვებ!

I can't hear a thing სულ არაფერი მესმის

can I be of any help? შემიძლია რითიმე დაგეხმარო?

it can't be helped ამას არაფერი ეშველება

help 3 (cannot help doing sth) თავის ვერ შეკავება

I can't help thinking about it ამ აზრს ვერ ვიცილებ // არ შემიძლია ამაზე არ ვიფიქრო

don't spend more than you can help საჭიროზე მეტი არ დახარჯო!

I can't help if it rains რა ჩემი ბრალია, თუ გაწვიმდა?

in what way can I help you? რითი შემიძლია დაგეხმარო?

I can't carry heavy weights სიმძიმეს ვერ ვატარებ

I go to the picture whenever I can როცა შესაძლებლობა მაქვს კინოში დავდივარ.

the question is whether he can be believed საკითხავია, შეიძლება თუ არა მას ადვუჯეროთ

I don't agree that it can't be solved არ გეთანხმებით, რომ ის გადაუწყვეტელია;

this is a man without whom we can't go there ეს ის კაცია, რომლის გარეშეც იქ ვერ წავალთ

I can't understand why he is late; არ მესმის რატომ იგვიანებს;

I can't do anything with him მას ვერაფერი მოვუხერხე

the trouble with him is you can't rely on him უბედურება ისაა, რომ ვერ ენდობი

can you work this machine? ამ დაზგაზე მუშაობა შეგიძლია // ამ დაზგას ვერ აამუშავებ?

I can't work out this algebra problem ეს ალგებრული ამოცანა ვერ ამომიხსნია

you can't go wrong with him მასთან არ დაიკარგები / არ გაგიჭირდება

there can be no justification for this ამას არავითარი გამართლება არა აქვს

my child can't walk yet ჩემი ბავშვი ჯერ ვერ დადის//ჩემს ბავშვს ჯერ ფეხი არ აუდგამს;

we can supply all your wants შეგვიძლია ყველა თქვენი მოთხოვნილება დავაკმაყოფილოთ;

I can't get warm ვერ გავთბი

I can't wash this stain off my shirt ეს ლაქა პერანგს ვერ მოვაცილე;

can I fix you a drink? დაგალევინო რამე?

it is more than flesh and blood can stand ამას ადამიანი / მოკვდავი ვერ აიტანს

he can fly any plane ნებისმიერი თვითმფრინავის მართვა შეუძლია

I can't follow when you speak so fast როცა სწრაფად ლაპარაკობ, ვერ ვიგებ

it can be done in the following way ეს შეიძლება შემდეგნაირად გაკეთდეს

you can's fool me ვერ მომატყუებ!

I'll do all I can for you შენთვის ყველაფერს გავაკეთებ

can I do anything for you? რითი შემიძლია გემსახურო?

she can't read English books yet ინგლისურ წიგნებს ჯერ ვერ კითხულობს

you can't smoke in the theater თეატრში თამბაქოს მოწევა არ იქნება / არ შეიძლება / აკრძალულია

you never can tell what he will do next ვინ იცის, შემდეგ რას იზამს

can't you do it by yourself? ამას მარტო / სხვისი დახმარების გარეშე ვერ გააკეთებ?

he can't take a joke ხუმრობას ვერ იგებს

as far as I can judge რამდენადაც შემიძლია განვსაჯო

I can't figure that man out ამ კაცს ვერაფერი გავუგე

I can't find my pen ჩემს კალამს ვერ ვპოულობ

a man who cannot distinguish between red and green is called colour-blind ადამიანს, რომელიც წითელსა და მწვანეს ვერ არჩევს დალტონიკს უწოდებენ

can you do without cigarettes? უსიგარეტოდ გაძლებ?

nothing can equal her beauty მის სილამაზეს ვერაფერი შეედრება

nothing can excuse your laziness საკუთარ სიზარმაცეს ვერაფრით გაამართლებ / სიზარმაცეს გამართლება არა აქვს

some people cannot exhibit their emotions ზოგი თავის ემოციებს ვერ ამჟღავნებს

we can't exist without water უწყლოდ ვერ ვიარსებებთ

I can't eat fat ქონიანს ვერ ვჭამ

can I ask a favor of you? ერთ თხოვნას ვერ შემისრულებ?

the child can't feed himself yet ბავშვი ჯერ თვითონ ვერ ჭამს

your enemy can't get at you here აქ მტერი ვერ მოგწვდება

you can't get away from me ვერსად წამიხვალ!

nothing can daunt him ვერაფრით შეაშინებ

can you decipher her scrawl? მის ნაჯღაბნს არჩევ?

you can depend on him შეგიზლია ენდო / დაეყრდნო

a submarine can be detected by radar წყალქვეშა ნავის მიგნება რადარით შეიძლება

early detection of cancer can save a life კიბოს დროული აღმოჩენით შეიძლება სიცოცხლე შენარჩუნებულ იქნეს

it can be done in different ways ამის გაკეთება სხვადასხვაგვარად შეიძლება

he can't differentiate a hen from a rooster კრუხსა და მამალს ერთმანეთისაგან ვერ არჩევს

can you direct me to the hotel? სასტუმრომდე ხომ ვერ მიმასწავლით გზას?

the fortress can be seen from a distance of 10 kilometers ციხე ათი კილომეტრის მანძილიდან ჩანს

one can't be too careful სიფრთხილეს თავი არ სტკივა

can you cash me this cheque (check)? ამ ჩეკს ვერ გამინაღდებთ?

I can't go any farther გზას ვეღარ გავაგრძელებ // ამის იქით ვერ წავალ

I can't say with certainty that... არ შემიძლია დანამდვილებით ვთქვა, რომ…

I can't face satsivi any more საცივი ისე მომყირჭდა, ვეღარ ვუყურებ

I can't see it clearly ნათლად ვერ ვხედავ

so far as I know / can see რამდენადაც ვიცი / გამეგება

I can't go beyond my commission ჩემს უფლებამოსილებას ვერ გადავაჭარბებ

I can't guarantee fine weather tomorrow ხვალ კარგ ამინდს ვერ დაგპირდები

how can I face her? თვალებში როგორ შევხედო?

it can't be compared with… ვერ შეედრება // შედარება შეუძლებელია

I cannot conceive how he did such a foolish thing ვერ გამიგია / ჩემამდე არ დადის ასეთი სისულელე როგორ მოუვიდა

I can't conceive of anything worse ამაზე უარესი ვერაფერი წარმომიდგენია

can you make the clock go? ამ საათს ვერ აამუშავებ?

where can I contact you? სად დაგიკავშირდე?

can't is a contracted form of 'cannot' can't' 'cannot'-ის შემოკლებული ფორმაა

we can't gainsay his honesty მის პატიოსნებას არ უარვყოფთ

can you cope? გაართმევ თავს?

how can we gauge his reaction to this fact? ამ ამბავზე მისი რეაქცია როგორ განვსაზღვროთ?

I can't countenance such behavior ასეთ ქცევას ვერ მოვიწონებ

only an expert can date this old statue ამ ძველი ქანდაკების დათარღება მხოლოდ ექსპერტს შეუძლია

I can't get along on my salary ხელფასი არ მყოფნის

we can't get around the law კანონს გვერდს ვერ ავუვლით / ვერ ავუქცევთ

I cannot allow you that ამის უფლებას ვერ მოგცემ

I can`t abide cats კატებს ვერ ვიტან

English-Georgian dictionary > can

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